100 Years Ago

As presented in the November 1922 editions of the Rome Tribune-Herald

A motorcycle belonging for the time to J. K. Ballard, who is employed at the cigar counter at the General Forrest Hotel, was stolen from in front of the hotel, and a warrant was issued against W. M. Martin, visitor to the city, charging him with the theft.

It appears from the story told the police by Mr. Ballard that he had loaned Martin $20 on the motorcycle with the understanding that when the money was repaid the motorcycle was to be returned to Martin, but the latter apparently decided, the police say, to have the money and the motorcycle. Martin had only been here a few days and had met Ballard casually.

--In a general, promiscuous and badly mixed affair and affray at Lindale, the two wives of two husbands were tangled up with knives and a shotgun, the net result being that one of the wives was stabbed by the other wife and one of the husbands went after the husband of the stabber with a shotgun but was prevented from using it. Charlie Jett is under arrest for trying to use the shotgun and Annie Bell Chubb, who did the stabbing, is also under arrest. The arrests were made by Officers Bobo and Barron.

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In a letter to the Tribune-Herald, J. M. Lindsey of Crystal Springs, Floyd County, states that he has on his place there what he believes to be the largest tree in the county of its age. He writes that the tree is 40 inches in circumference at the ground and 34 feet across the top — an English walnut tree that bore its first crop this year — about a peck of walnuts. “Why don’t all farmers grow walnuts?” asks Mr. Lindsey in his letter.