FIFTY & 100 YEARS AGO CONTINUED
Monday, Oct. 26, 1970 College course offered in horse shoeing
RENO, Nev. ( AP) A University of Nevada at Reno instructor says the hardest thing his students will have to learn in his classes is how to avoid getting kicked.
Ray W. Sylvester, 75, will teach a class in horse shoeing at the university’s general extension office beginning Nov. 2.
“The hardest thing in shoeing a horse is to keep them from getting kicked,” Sylvester says adding that if handled right, “the horse won’t fuss.”
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1970 New York Brass scheduled here
The New York Brass Quintet has been engaged by the Rome Community Concert Association for the third performance of the group’s 1970- 71 season, to appear at the City Auditorium on March 9.
Already announced are the first two concerts with the widely known “Men of Song” quartet appearing on Nov. 3 and the two- piano team of Ferrante and Teicher scheduled for a Sunday matinee on Jan. 24.
The chances are good, according to concert association president William Towers III, that a fourth performance for the season may be scheduled. An announcement regarding such a possible fourth performance will be made within a few weeks.
Thursday, Oct. 29, 1970 Chieftains site boasts Georgia’s biggest oak
Georgia’s largest white oak tree has been located in the front yard of the historical 200- year- old
Chieftains Home near the Celanese Corp. plant in Rome.
The giant tree has a circumference of 18 feet, 8 inches, is 197 feet tall and has a crowd spread of 100 feet. According to David McClain, area forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, the tree replaced the state champion from Whitfield County.
McClain stated it did not, however, replace the national champion white oak tree located in Maryland. This huge tree has a circumference of 27 feet, 8 inches, is 95 feet tall and has an enormous crown spread of 165 feet.
Mrs. William E. Johnson, president of the Rome Junior Service League, and Prof. Patrick Garrow of Shorter College, met with Forester McClain to discuss the care of the oak tree. Prof. Garrow is excavating the site for Indian artifacts while Mrs. Johnson’s organization is heading a drive to restore the site to its original state.
Under the leadership of Mrs. Barry Wright
Jr., chairman of the Junior League’s Historical Preservation Committee, the home is slated to become a museum tying in past and present history of Rome and Floyd County. The oak tree will prove to be a drawing card and will compliment the museum itself according to those involved in the project.
McClain asks that Floyd Countians who know of any species of large trees to contact the Floyd Forestry Unit and enter them in the state’s big tree contest.
100 years ago as presented in the October 1920 editions of the Rome Tribune- Herald
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With a net score of 146 for 36 holes, Frank Weems won the President’s Cup at the Coosa Country Club golf tournament.
Mr. Weems played a consistent game, and was five strokes ahead of his nearest competitor, A. B. Utter, whose score was 151. The third man was F. R. Maddox, with 152. The tournament brought forth some very good golf, and the results showed how accurately the handicapped had been done, as Mr. Weems with 15 was one of the high handicap men, as was Mr. Utter with 13, while Mr. Maddox was low handicap man.
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News that military movements have been going on secretly in East Prussia involving the advance of a considerable number of German troops with canons and machine guns into Lithuania reached the foreign office in Paris through the inter- allied mission.
The government of East Prussia explains that the movements are normal, but the French are suspicious of a possible move to support Lithuania against the Poles.
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Dirt has been broken for the foundation of a big, new steam laundry building to be erected just off 1st Street in Old Town near the Garden Street mill gate in Lindale.
It will be across from the present small laundry building.
This new laundry is to be equipped completely for turning out completed laundry work, such as laundered shirts and collars and everything that goes into a regular steam laundry and to dry cleaning plants. The present laundry, erected about three years ago, was built originally as a wet wash laundry, that is, work was only washed and the customers had to do their own drying and ironing. Later a dryer was added and worked turned out ready to be ironed, but now work can be turned out either ironed or unironed. The new building is to be rushed to completion.