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SOME.. PROGRESSIVE ROMANS:
MEN OF REPUTATION
Who Are Making Their Mark In Public
Affairs.
SELF MADE SONS OF THE SOIL
Whose Examples Are Worthy
of Commendation.
THEY ARE ALL MEN OF MERIT
Something About Their Attainments and
the Splendid Records That Thry
Are Adding to History..
Q£ the many attorneys who practice at
the Rome bar no one possesses a more
technical and true education in legal lore
than Mr. Harper Hamilton. Blessed
with a discriminating mind, keen and
just, with no trace of prejudice, he has
“'een given a good literary education and
highest in law that the country
ftffft -ds. One of Rome’s prominent law-
J ers X as asked: “If you had to quickly
proposition in law without re-
ur ]j], rarv what lawyer's
op ’“w°VX d y° u Beek? ”
Harp f m ilton.„ was the quick
rep y. 1 jj g an d
his knowle«HgßL r »
, nd , ?°\ is this true, that he
knows the he a i so has t ’ he happy
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HARPER HAMILTON.
faculty of presenting it in the clearest’
form. In all of his practice he has
proven this.
He was born and raised in Floyd
county, and here among his people he is
constantly adding to his reputation and
the number of his friends. M odest and
unassuming to a fault he seeks rather to
hide than to show his many high quali
ties—those qualities that cause those who
know him best to love him most. A
frank, open disposition has made him
many friends, and his name stands today
.among those who are most thought of in
the array of Floyd county citizens.
Bright and brainy, fair and unpreju
diced, frank and generous,clear-thinking
and open-hearted, it is only right that
Harper Hamilton should be known
among Ronje’s leading attorneys, best
citizens and most popular sons.
A "ELF MADE MAN.
Mr. John C* Foster, Member of ths Board
of Roads and lieverue.
Among the many influential citizens of
Floyd county who are indebted to no
especial faxor of fortune for their posi
tion and influence, none stand higher
than Mr. John C. Foster, who is now a
valuable member of the Board of Com
missioners of Roads and Revenue of
Floyd county, holding the position of its
honored chairman.
Mr. Foster is a son of Judge R. 8.
Foster, formerly of Abbeville, 8. C., and
was born December Sth, 1852, in Floyd
county, eight miles below Rome on the
Coosa river. He spent his boyhood there
Jwiirlbh.
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3. C FOSTER.
until eigne years ot age, wnen his iatiier
removed to Chattooga county, where lie
was raised on a farm and received a
common school education. .
In 1871 he gave up farming and with
his brother, Mr. K. R. Foster, opened
business in the country in Chattooga
county, where he remained one year and
then removed to Rome, where he en
gaged in merchandising until 1874.
In that year he moved to Foster’s
Mill, and with his brother, Col. W. G.
Foster, bought the property then known
as the Thomas’ Mills, where he has since
resided. •
On May 20th, 1877, he wedded Miss
Maggie Evins, the daughter of the late
Mr. Isaac Evins. In 1888 he became a
methber of the Missionary Baptist
church, was baptised by Rev. C. E.
Wright and since then has been
sistent and useful member of thecKurch.
In 1787 he was elected a member of
the Floyd County Board of Commission
ers of Roads and Revenues, and in 1893
•was re-elected to the same position. As
chairman of the Board, he has been in
'Btruiiiental in inaugurating many reforms
and has largely assisted in keeping the
affairs of the county up to their present
satisfactory standard. He is a man of
splendid energy and public spiritedness,
and is never weary in well doing in mj#f
ters of public interest and benefit.
A BORN LE4DKB.
Mr. J. A. Glover, who Represent* the
Fourth In Council.
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f MR. J. A. GLOVER.
The junior member from the Fourth
Ward is Mr. J. A. Glover, a born busi
ness leader, and one of the most promi
nent merchants in Rome.
His native home in Cherokee county,
Alabama, whence the city of, Rome has
drawn so freely for some of her, best citi
zenship and from there he entered the
confederate service as a private in the
sixth Georgia cavalry in 1863. Soon after
the war he removed to Rome and in 1867
secured employment as a salesman in a
grocery house.
In 1869 he went into business for him
self as a member of the firm of Ford &
Glover which in 1876 became the firm of
Ford, Glover & Hight.
In 1886 the Simpson Grocery Co., was
established succeeding the former firm
and Mr. Glover has been one of the most
active leading spirits in that firm since
that time.
He has recently become largely inter
ested in the improvement of stock from
Rome to outside markets.
As a public ispirited citizen he has most
ably represented the Fourth Ward in
council and he is one of the best equipped
and most progressive citizens in North
Georgia.
A BRILLIANT CAREER.
That is Opening Before the Youngest Mem
ber From Floyd.
Os all the young men of Georgia who
are prominent in affairs of state, the fu
ture holds no .'bjjgjiter prospects than
those Tor Hot). Moses R. Wright, a worthy
son of that noble sire, Judge A. R.
Wright. Born and bred in Floyd county,
he is essentially a Georgian. His educa
tion began here, and he afterwards grad
uated at the University of Georgia. With
the exception of a few months in Tennes
see, he has never lived anywhere except
in Georgia, and in Floyd county.
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HON. MOSES R. WRIGHT.
Although still a young man he is recog
nized, and has been for some time, as one
of the very best and most successful law
yers of this section. He combines a thor
ough knowledge of legal principles, with
technical training, and on top of that has
inherited from his father an eloquent and
graceful delivery that puts him in the
front rank of speakers of the state. His
popularity before the people is shown by
his leading all candidates in the race for
the legislature, he now being one of
Floyd’s three representatives. Every
body in the county knows Mose Wright,
and not only have the people great ad
miration for his talents but they have a
positive affection for him, from his kind
ness of heart, uniform courtesy and good
will. The people feel that he is one of
them, a Floyd county boy from the fa
mous Flatwoods district and are proud of
his record and attainments realizing that
in them is the stuff that makes great men.
With his natural gifts, his education,
his honesty of purpose, his strong desire
to help the people, keen sense of justice
and right it is not strange that Mose
Wright’s name is such of suc
cess.
Mr. Wright’s first political office is that
of representative in he
lending the ticket at ‘ last election.
This was his first he had never
before consented to of his name.
The future holds ' for him in
Hiis life if he out accept. Should he
cTccline to do so these is no young attor
ney in aLLthie pection who can point to
the future-with mofe hope and build up
a praofice that iqay weft.be envied by
lawyers of muify more yeats in age and
TRADE EDITION—ROMtC TRIBUNE.
experience as his present practice is oge
•f which any lawyer at the bar might: be
proud.
-He brainy young Roman
whcjxflihope and expect to some day see
.ftCcupying a high position of state service
as is commensurate with his ability.
FHR TWENTY ONE YEARS.
®<r. William E Beyslegel las been In the
Clerk’s Office.
William E. Beysiegel, the present
clerk of Floyd county, has been in the
clerk’s office for twenty-one years, having
been connected with Mr. A. E. Ross from
1874 up to the death of the latter four
years ago, when he was elected to suc
ceed him. No better evidence of his
capability apd popularity could be de
sired than the fact that for twenty-one
■years he has been connected with the
office without spot, speck or blemish to
his fair reputation. He has been in his
new and roomy quarters since October,
1893, and there is not a better managed
office nor a better kept set of books in the
state. Messrs. Walter IL Ross, George
Beysiegel and Joe Jenkins are his record
ers, all faithful and competent, and he
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MR. WILLIAM E. BEYSIEGEL.
also employs a typewriter. Mr. Beysiegel
was born and raised at Demopolis, Ala.,
but has been a citizen of Rome for twen
ty five years, so that he is thoroughly
Georgiaized.
A PROGRESSIVE CITIZEN.
Mr. G. B. Holder, of the Board of Roads
and Revenues of F*oyd County.
There is no man in Floyd county who
has the interests of the public more at
heart than Mr. G. B. Holder, who has
recently been selected to the responsible
position of member of the commissioners'
os roads and revenues of Floyd county.
In private as well as public life Mr.
Holder’s career has been one ot energy
• and public spirifedness. As a member
'G. B. HOLDER.
of' the board'hftfi.as given astrong evi
dence of his. usefulness as a public Ser
vant of discrimination and ability.
Mr. Holder was born in Gwinnett
county, Georgia, Dec. 22, 1845, and en
tered the Confederate army March 6,
1863. in Leighton’s artillery, under Cap
tain Tyler Peeples, now editor of the
Gwinnett Herald. His career as a soldier
was brilliant, he having been mustered in
as a private and coming out as first lieu
tenant of his company when he surren
dered at Appomattox in 1865.
In December of that year he moved to
Floyd county where he has since resided
and is now engaged in farming and mer
chandising, at both of which vocations
he is making a fine success. At his place
of business in New Rome, he carries a
large stock of goods and enjoys a flour
ishing trade, and he owns extensive and
valuable farm lands in the neighborhood
of Rome. He is a man who stands very
high in the estimation of his fellow citi
zens and was chosen commissioner in
August of the present year.
ROME STOVE WORKS.
An Enterprise of Which the People of
R me are Justly Proud.
One of the largest manufacturing inter
ests of Rome are the Rome Stove Works.
This company was organized under the
present management since 1890.
Messrs. J. P. Bowie and C. Terhune
are the proprietors.
About fifty men are employed regularly
by the firm, with an average piy roll of
SSOO per week.
Their trade sales extend thoughout
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and
Alabama.
The firm are at present employing a
larger force of workmen than they ever
have before. The demand for stoves is
increasing, and they have good prospects
for a large trade the remainder of the
season.
FLORIDA;
Vfine Illustration of Real Generosity
and Remembrance
OF A PROMINENT RAILROAD MAN.
Mr. W. H. Carr.4l, Auditor of the Plant
System Extend* a Pr?*»iag Invitation
to Dr. J. M. Bosworth.
Not every man in the world is pos
sessed of that fine principle of generosity
which remembers and recalls a favor
after fifteen years have passed away.
But here is an instance in which the
beneficiary remembered the good ser-
dr. j. m. Bosworth.
vices of the benefactor and has taken a
very pleasant method of showing the
fact.
Fifteen years ago Mr. W. H. Carrolll,
auditor of the Plant system, one of the
biggest railroad organizations in the
South was treated for impaired hearing
by Dr. J. M. Bosworth, the well known
spicialist of this city.
During all these years since Mr. Car
101 l has treasured up the great good dene
im by Dr. Bosworth, and he has now
extended to him an invitation, in writ
ing, to travel over his entire system with
a view to selecting some prominent
point like Jacksonville or Tampa, as a
winter location.
Dr. Bosworth will be granted the priv
ilege of selecting any point which he
may deem most pleasant and profitable
and at which he can contribute most
largely to the alleviation of the diseases
of which he has made a snecial study.
Another reason outside of personal
feeling and friendship which induced
Mr. Carroll to make this generous offer
was that he might secure the services of
a man of such large ability and wide
reputation to locate somewhere within
the limits of the Plant system to treat
those from the North and West who
com? South for their health, and are
afflicted with such maladies as Dr. Bos
worth treats as a specialist? ' • *
After due consideration, Dr. Bosworth
has decided to accept the invitation and
will spend the months of January and
February in Florida looking over the
ground carefully, ho the gratification of
the people of Rome, however, this does
not mean that this esteemed gentleman
and successful physician will sever his
connection with Rome, among the peo
ple of which he is held in such high
estimation.
After his sojourn in Florida he will
return ;o this <itn, where he will retain
his present headquarters for the treat
ment of the ailing and unfortunate who
suffet from the distressing diseases in the
treatment of which he has become an
adept in his profession.
He has been located here, where his
fame had already proceeded him, for
about a year, and during that length of
time he has added to hissrlendid reputa
tion as a specialist in the treatment of
diseases of the eye, ear. nose and throat.
He has brought light to the blind, hear
ing to the deaf, and has relieved troubles
of the throat and nasal passages that
threatened to result reriously, and in the
end fatally.
He has relieved many sufferers who
would otherwise have been doomed to
linger out their days in pain and misery,
and he has brought comfort and restora
tion to thosewho were suffering from the
discomforts, difficulties xnd inconven
ience of the loss of their natural facul
ties.
The people oj Rome will join in wish
ing Dr. Bosworth God-speed, wherever
he may go, and in whatever lines his lot
may be cast. They fully appreciate the
earnestness, zeal and ability, coupled with
long and successful experience of this
man, who literally and truly goes about
doing good.
Tne value and usefulness of sucha
man in any community are immeasurable
and were it a fact that there was any dan
ger of his severing his connection with
Rome and the people of this section for
good, there would be a very vigorous
protest, but as it is they are gratified at
this mark of esteem and favor coming
from the representative of one of the
richest and strongest corporations in the
South.
FAT ALLEN.
A Coming Young Man Who Deals In Insur
ance and L tans.
No man in his right mind can ignore
the importance of investing in insurance.
No business man can offord to take the
risk of fire himself, and it is equally
necssary for the individual to look after
those dependent upon him in case of
death, and himself in case of accsdent.
But there is more than oue way to insure.
There are first-class companies, and
companies that no man can afford to pat
ronize. Pat Allen, the insurance agent,
and who is there in Rome who does not
know Pat Allen? whose word is as good
as his bond, represents reliable, time
tried companies. Nothing would induce
BEST HOTEL IN ROME!
EVERYTHING NEW.
Electric Lights and Bells.
STABLE
The Central Hotel
RATES: $2.00 PER DAY.
Special Rates by the Week or Month.
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New Central Hotel,
Corner Broad St. and Fifth Ave., Rome, 6a.
■■■in.. N. M- GOMEZ, Proprietor J
BEST HOTEL IN ROME!
H. YANCEY & CO.
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HOME, Gr_A_. i
Fire, Life and Accident Insurance
Oldest Agency and most liberal companies. Prompt
and satisfactory settlements.
him to become associated with any other,
and that is why he is making such rapid
progress in his business. Those who
insure with, him know that their losses
pill be promptly paid. He pays special
attention to life and accident insurance,
and is giving the best of satisfaction in
every case.
In connection with his insurance busi
ness Mr, Allen represents several w’ell
known loan companies, and is in a posi
tion to make loans on long time and
easy payments. These two points are
important and farmers and others need
ing money should see Mr. Allen before
negotiating a loan.
Renting houses is also in Mr. Allen’s
line, and if you -want a house, or have
one to rent,- s6e him.He is a hustler in
his business, and a citizen that Rome
may well feel proud of. . . .
H YANCEY & CO.
The Oldest Insurance [Firm in the City of
Bome.'
In this edition of The Tribune will be
found the card of B. Yancey & Co, the
oldest insurance firm in the city. The
members of the firm are Hamilton Yan
cey, E. J. Moultrie and B G. Harris.
The company represents the oldest and
strongest companies in this country, and
Europe, and also the Southern Mutual,
of Athens, Ga., which on account of its
wonderful low rates is a leader. H Yan
cey & Co., have built up an enviable rep
utation in the insurance line, and now
enjey the full confidence of the people.
NEW CENTRAL HOTEL.
The New Central Take* the Lead With N.
M. Gomez at the Helm.
The place to get a square meal, a soft,
cleanly bed, and courteous attention in
Rome is at the New Central hotel.
It has been conducted under the per
sonal supervision of Mr. N. M. Gomez
for many years, and the fact .that . it is
headquarter for commercial travelers is
an assurance that it is the best and most
ably conducted hotel in Rome.
It is located at the corner of Fifth ave
nue and Main strert; is fully equipped
with electric lights, electric annunciators
large sample rooms, etc., and is in every
respect a first class n stely.
The rates are $2. Ki per day; special
rates by the week or months.
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