100 Years Ago
100 years ago as presented in the April 1921 editions of the Rome Tribune-herald
Forty-six gallons of apparently good corn whiskey were poured out and burned at the courthouse by Sheriff Wilson, upon order of Judge Nunnally of Floyd City Court, in the presence of a score of spectators. It had been captured or rather found not very far from Vanns Valley Baptist Church, near Six Mile Station in this county by the sheriff and Deputies Albea, Wright and Smith just a short time before.
There were no arrests and no one was found near the whiskey. It was in two kegs, a 30-gallon and a 16-gallon keg, the larger one painted a bright red. The kegs were lying in a ditch, uncovered. One of the deputy sheriffs had been informed that the whiskey was there and the officers simply went after it.
The presence of the whiskey, in such large quantity, and so public a location, is unexplained.
educational program, in addition to other service facilities.
Current enrollment is 164 with an average class size of 15 students. The Academy faculty totals 16, most of them with advance degrees.
as presented in the April 1921 editions of the Rome Tribuneherald
At least 28 bogus divorces and annulments are known to have been sold by Herbert F. Miller, who is being sought as the alleged operator of a “divorce mill” in Manhattan, New York, assistant district attorney Ferris announced.
The district attorney said the clerk employed by Miller has given further evidence and that indictment will be sought against Miller on charges of forgery in the second degree, perjury and the misdemeanor of practicing law in New York without being admitted to the bar.
The clerk told newspaper men that Miller had a staff of 10 girls to act as “core respondents” when fake divorces were framed up.
--Local interest in the awful story of the Jasper County negro murders was added here yesterday when it was learned that Hulan Williams, one of the men charged with complicity in the murder of 11 negroes, was a schoolmate of J.T. Davidson, of the Jervis-davidson Company, in the high school at Monticello, and that Dr. Gus Williams, a son of the chief figure in the sensational crime story, was a schoolmate of and graduated with doctors Harry Mull and Robert Maddox of Rome, at the Atlanta Medical Center.
--Fourty-two minutes after the theft of 42 watches from the Haigwood Jewelry Store on Fifth Avenue was reported to Police Chief Harris, the 42 watches were again in possession of Mr. Haigwood, and the young man who had stolen them was in custody.
It appears that he had broken a window in the front of the store during the night of the robbery and simply opened the door by turning the latch. The theft was not discovered until the store was opened early in the morning and the police were at once notified.
When Chief Harris and Officer Poole reached the store and learned that the combination of the safe containing the watches had been worked the chief at once classed the theft is an inside job. The only person under suspicion then was the thief — and nephew of Mr. Haigwood, residing in Birmingham, Ala., who had been here on a visit several weeks. He admitted the crime when he was taxed with it and told where he had placed the watches preparatory to leaving town. he had cashed them at a spot a few yards in the rear of the Stamps Warehouse near the depot of The Central of Georgia Railroad, convenient to the other depots and to where he intended to take a train. But the morning he was supposed to leave he had called at the Haigwood store to tell his uncle, the proprietor, goodbye.
The watches were recovered as stated and Mr. Haigwood declined to prosecute, so the young man was released and at once left for home.