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OVER ONE MILLION
INCREASE IN ROME
In Manufacturing Industries and Busi
ness Concerns.
A FINE SHOWING FOR THE IEAR
How the Hill City Thrives and
Prospers.
THROUGH THE PRIDE OF ITS PEOPLE
No Other City In the State of Georgia Can
Put Forth a Better Showing Than
This Particular Sec.ion.
Over one million increase ! Just think
of it, all in one year, and that the hard
est year this country ever saw at that.
But figures do not lie, and the facts in
the case stand out like knots on a log.
Since December 1, 1894, in spite of
the dull times, improvements have been
built up in and around Rome aggregating
more than ten hundred thousand dollars 1
First comes the southern branch of
the Massachusetts cotton ml.ls, that will
cost $700,000 and are well on the way
toward completion. These mills increase
the population of Rome several thous
and people, occupying from 100 to 200
new homes. The handsome government
building is nearing completion at a cost
of $50,000.
Southern railroad ticket office reopened
in the Armstrong.
Long distance telephone between Rome
and Atlanta.
St. Peter’s church, a noble structure,
is being completed at a cost of several
thousand dollars raised by the women of
Rome.
Thos. Fahy has finished and moved
into an elegant brick store, one of the
handsomest business houses in north
Georgia.
J. Sam Veal has moved his book store
into a beautiful brick building.
The new Merchants bank has opened
with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO.
The Yancy block has been remodeled
and occupied by the Terhune-Nixon
Company, and the new firm of Paiks,
Brannon & Co.
Loeb’s mills have been completed and
have had a successful season.
k H. D. Hill and C. I. Graves are in the
■Hill block, which has been remodeled.
I The Noble block has been remodeled
|for Antognoli’s Star candy factory and
■Kane & Co. with their new dry goods
Btore. But here is a list of new enter
■»rises since Dec. 1, 1894:
cotton mills.
Peel’s church nearly completed.
building.
Fahy, business house.
Veal, book store.
MMIH's corn mills.
Hill, building raised.
'' block, remodelled.
Nevin, residence.
Bros., remodelled.
block, remodelled.
Frank Woodruff, residence remodelled.
Robert Cantrell, residence built.
Horry Wimpee, residence built.
W. M. Johnston, residence built.
T. J. Wooten, residence built.
L. W. Wright, residence built.
Joe B. Patton, enlarged factory.
O’Neill Manufacturing Co., enlarged.
Rome Cotton Mills, increased.
Among the new business concerns
established are:
J. A. Gammon & Co., dry goods.
Hanks & Co., furniture.
Rhudy & Co., furniture.
Lillard & Co., commission.
8. D. Camp & Co., grocers.
Dyer & Daniel, crockery.
Holmes & Co., grocers.
Keeley Institute.
F. A. Johnson & Co., drugs.
Fred Hanson, plumber.
Mrs. Hines, grocers.
T. J. Morris, grocer.
E. M. Deal, liquors.
J. R. Clemmons, liquors.
A. Dougherty, liquors.
Pat Allen, insurance.
Rome Loan and Investment Co.
W. M. Tumlin. insurance.
Rome Steam Laundry,
C C. Stuff regen, baker.
C. F. Beyseigel, grocer.
Tribune job office.
Bunnell’s Bazaar.
L. G. Todd, grocer.
Ralph Dille, book store.
Missing Link shoe store.
J. W. Wood, barber.
The suburbs have shown a correspond
ing increase. Here are some of them:
EAST ROME.
The Arlington reopened on October 1
with Miles A. Estes., manager,
The Methodist church has been com
pleted. Rev. A. A. Tilley is an untiring
worker. He leaves nothing undone that
pertains to the interest of his church and
people. His church has increased in
interest and membership wonderfully
since he has been pastor. The Home
Mission society is doing good. Mrs.
McKenzie is president and Mrs. Allen is
secretary-treasurer. Ernest McKenzie is
president of the Epworth League, which
maintains great interest. The Loyal
Legion, under the direction of Mrs.
McKenzie is doing good work for tem
perance. The Sunday school, under the
superintendence of Dr. Bruce Harris, is
growing in interest.
Mrs. L. D. A. Felton opened her
school with a very good attendance,
which will improve.
Miss Lula Wa.ner opened her school at
the East Rome seminary in September.
NORTH ROME.
The depot has been repainted and re
modelled out and out. W. M. Fisher
and J. S. Quarles are in charge and are
making things hum,
Walter Perkins has completed a beau
tiful residence on Forsyth street.
Bud Sharp has opened up a hustling
grocery business on Main street.
F. M. Astwalt and C. A, Rawlins have
added to the new enterprises of North
Rome this fall.
Work on the new Methodist church
will be resumed in a few weeks -
The Parsonage Aid Society is a very
valuable adjunct to the Methodist
church. Mrs. Ophelia Jenkins is presi
dent and Mrs. Fannie D. Clement secre
tary.
The Dorcas Society is doing good
work. Mrs. Beatrice Treadaway is presi
dent and T. E. Clement secretary. It
meets twice a month.
The Baptist church is in a very flour
ishing condition. New seats have been
put in. The membership has increased
wonderfully this summer. The member
ship has increased wonderfully this sum
mer. The Missionary society, presided
over by Mrs. J. J Reece, is doing good
work. The Sunday school, under Jesse
Farmer’s superintendency, is prospering.
Miss Bessie Williams’ private school at
the academy is open. Miss Bessie is a
first-class teacher, and she has a splendid
school.
FIFTH WARD.
Hugh Given has done some much
needed word on Butler and Main streets.
He has put down 1,300 feet of curbing
and s2O feet of sewer- piping on Butler
street. He has also put 600 or 800 feet of
curbing on Main street.
Mr. Wooten has completed an ele
gant residence on Pennington avenue.
There two new resident houses on
Main street, near Lytle’s spring—one
erected by John Wright, the other by
Lee Hare.
Miss Bessie Neely has a very interest
ing private school on Main street near
the fire house.
The literary society is in a very flour
ishing condition, with W. 8. Simmons
as president.
The South Rome Methodist church is
in a very prosperous condition under the
most careful and studious pastorate of
Rev. C. M. Verdell. W. S. Simmons is
superintendent of the Sunday school,
which is a most interesting one, with 145
members. This church keeps up the
good old fashioned class meeting, which
meets every Sunday afternoon at 4
o’clock. There is talk of building a
church nearer the business part of town.
The Presbyterian church isin a flour
ishing condition with a full membership.
D. A. Miller is superintendent of the
Sunday school, which is xery interesting
FOURTH WARD,
W. J. Gordon has completed two very
handsome dwellings on Avenue C.
A notable improvement m this part of
Rome is the handsome new residence of
T. J. Moody, at 718 Fifth avenue.
Mr. T. J. Moody opened up a fancy
and family grocery business at 301 Fifth
avenue on April 1. He is doing a flour
ishing business.
The Second Baptist church is in a qery
flourishing condition. Rev. Mr. Hudson
is an earnest workor and has tne interests
ot his church and people ever at heart.
The Ladies’ Missionary society, with
Mrs. Hudson as president, is doing good
work. Merritt Allen, as superintendent,
is making an interesting Sunday school.
The Little helpers, under the direction of
Miss Mary Franks must not be fergotten.
Ducy McCloud is'president, and Eula
Kendrick is secretary of this valuable
and interesting society.
The Methodist church, with Rev. C.
V. Weathers pastor, is prospering as
never before. The membership is in
creasing and its societies are all interest
ing and well conducted. The Sunday
school is a very interesting one, with J.
B. Hill superintendent. Its membership
numbers 250. The Epworth League is
one of the most interesting in town.
W. L. Lanham is president and J. F.
Higgins secretary. They have a weekly
choir exercise. A great many improve
ments have been made at the pa.sonage.
The Home Missionary society, under
the direction of Miss Clara W illiams, is
doing much good. The Parsonage Aid
Society is an indispensable auxiliary of
the church.
OUR FOREST AREA.
Many Different Varieties of Valuable Tim
ber Trees.
Among the thousands of forest area
included within the boundaries of Floyd
county, there are twenty-five ar thirty
varietses of valuable wood and timber,
including nearly every species known in
the Southern states.
Oak and pine predominate, the former
entering largely into the manufacture of
the finest of furniture and most durable
of wagons and other vehicles and farm
utensils. The pine includes the world
famed yellow pine so extensively used in
the inside finish of buildings as well as
in the finer grades of furniture.
Pine for ordinal y building purposes is
abundant and cheap, requiring asm ill
outlay te put it into marketable shape.
Large quantities of both these valuable
woods are annually shipped to distant
markets.
There are six varieties of oaks, red,
white, chestnut, black, water, post, and
two varieties of pine 1 -the long and shoit
leaf. In addition to these there is an
abundance oj poplar, ash, hickory, elm,
maple, walnut, ironwood, sugar berry,
sycamore, sweet gum, black gum, dog
wood, nersimmon, sassafras, willow,
wild cherry, red bud, wahoo, and cedar.
Many of these exist in such large quan
tities as to be utilized in the various use
ful and paying industries.
Take it all in all the three natural re
sources of Floyd county; minerals, water
power, and timber, constitute one of the
greatest attractions of this wonderful
section. Now is the time of all times
for those with capital to invest and with
.energy and enterprise sufficient to direct
J f heir investments, to come and win, as
lands will never be as cheap in the
boundaries of Floyd county as they are
today.
TRADE EDITION—SOME TRIBUNE. DECEMBER, 1895.
CREST OF THE RIDGE
In a Land Where Plenty Reigns
Supreme.
ITS BUSINESS AND LOCATION
Enterprises That Would Suc
ceed In the Town,
A FLOURISHING COUNTRY SIDE
Genial Climate, Productive Soil, Honest and
God Fearing People and Many
Other Blessings.
In a description to the outside world
of the fertile plateau of Sand Mountain,
as well as its prosperous towns, mention
should be made of the thriving little
town of Boaz and its surrounding coun
try. Although this little town has. as yet
but a few hundred inhabitants, it is now,
as it has been for some time past, one of
the most thriving places and best trading
points in Nortn Eastern Alabama. Not
only so, but it gives evidences now of
entering on a newer and more rapid de
velopment, commensuate with its excel
lent advantages. It lies only about five
miles to the South of Albertville on the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Lou's
railroad, and is surrounded by a country
very similar, and equal in fertility, to
the Albertville section. The surface is
sometimes slightly rolling, and again
easily undulating, stretching out into
long swells very beautiful and pleasing
to the eye. There is also a great deal of
excellent timber around Boaz, the many
fine patches of woodland adding much to
the attractiveness of this section.
SOIL AND PRODUCTION.
The soil surrounding Boaz and for
many miles out consists partly of red, and
partly of rich sandy gray, and is exceed
ingly fertile and productive. Cotton and
corn have heretofore been the great sta
ples, but it is succeptible to cultivation
to a great variety of crops, and the farm
ers are beginning to see the advantage
here of diversified farming. Bermuda
and other varieties of grasses grow luxu
riantly here, and stock-raising could be
made a very profitable business. Fine
water for both stock and domestic pur
poses may be had at easy depths, rang
ing from twenty to fifty feet. The reason
that more attention has not been given to
stock-raising and diversified farming, has
been owing to the fact that the farmers
have had but very limited means, coupled
also with a lack of experience. A great
improvement, however, is now taking
place, and in a few years this fine sec
tion will be made to show a fuller measr
ure of its great possibilities and its supe
rior advantages.
The soil here, like that around Albert
ville, is peculiarly adapted to the grow
ing of vegetables and fruits. Almost every
kind of fruit known to the temperate and
semi-tropical climates does splendidly
here: such, for instances, as apples, pears,
peaches, figs, cherries, plums, as also all
kinds and varieties of the smaller fruits.
There is no section of the United States,
perhaps, where such fruit as blackberries,
strawberries etc., grow more prolifically
or reach a finer quality than in this por
tion of Sand Mountain, tributary to the
town of Boaz. The same can be
said of vegetables of every descrition. If
some enterprising individual or company
should establish a canning factory here,
it would unquestionably prove a great
success.
INDUSTRIES THAT WOULD PAY IN BOAZ.
Aside from a canning factory there are
many other industries that would prove
profitable here. Among these may be
'mentioned, a furniture factory, spoke and
handle factory, chair factory, tannery,
buggy and carriage works, etc. A bank
would also pay well here.
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
Boaz has the advantage of good school
and church privileges. There are sev
eral religious denominations represented
here, some of which have good comforta
ble buildings.
There is an excellent public school in
Boaz of which A. E. Dorman is princi
pal. Besides Prof. Dorman, there are
two other competent teachers. The en
rollment here reaches 180 pupils. The
building is very commodious and well
equipped and those who may locate in
this little town, will have for their chil
dren the best educational advantages.
PRICES OF LAND.
Good unimproved land can be obtained
here at from $3 to $8 an acre, and im
proved, from $lO to sls, owing to loca
tion and improvements. Those who may
be seeking to locate in the South, where
they may enjoy the benefits of a fine cli
mate, good social people, an excellent
soil and newly developing industries,
will find no place superior to Boaz and
the fertile lands surrounding it.
It may be of interest to those at a dis
stance, to learn something regarding the
leading citizens of Boaz, especially those
who have been doing most for this
town, and who, in any move for its ad
vancement, will doubtless take a foremost
place in the year to come. Os these
mention should be first made of.
A PROSPEROUS FIRM.
W. S. Bobo, of the firm of Bobo &
Hunt. Mr. Bobo is a native of Georgia,
born in Franklin county, 1866. One
year later, however, he was brought by
his parents to this county. His father,
who was a prominent farmer in Franklin
county, Gi., died when the subject of
this sketch was but eight years old. Be
ing left with no advantages, as yet, of an
education he made his way, as best he
could and was finally enabled to attend
the Walnut Grove College, fifteen miles
West of Boaz, graduating with honor
from the business department of that in
stitution. His first venture in business
life was made at Reed Brake, in this
county, where he opened a mercantile
establishment.
Desiring to see more of the world, he
sold out his business after an experience
of one year, and entered in a considera
ble tour, traveling extensively over the
West. On returning from his trip with
a mind enlarged by observation and ex
perience, he again engaged in the mer
cantile business, locating in Boaz and
forming an association with A. J. Hunt,
his present partner. Although starting on
somewhat limited means, the business
was a success from its first inception, and
adding to their stock from time to time,
they now have one of the largest mercan
tile houses in this section. This trade is
extensive and rapidly increasing, farmers
coming to their store from a distance of
thirty miles. Too much can not be said
in praise of those who, with no advan
tages, and no assistance from others,
achieve success through their own un
aided efforts. Mr. Bobo was doubtless
as a boy what he is as a man —a character
strong in purpose, full of energy and
with the noble impulses which lead un
erringly to a life of honor and integrity.
Although of a very genial native, it does
not take the observer long to detect in
his character a strong reserve force and
an indomitable will. He is very cordirl
to strangers, liberal to public enterprises,
and has gained for himself a host of ad
mirers in this section. Mr. Bobo belongs
to the Masons and the I. O. O. F. and
stands high in both orders.
He is happily married, his wife being
formerly Miss Hannah M. Murdoch, of
Marshall county, Alabama, a highly cul
tured and estimable lady. They have
three nice children. Mr. Bobo his a very
comfortable home in Boaz.
Mr. Hunt the junior member of the
firm of Bobo & Hunt is also one of the
prominet citizens of Boaz. The writer
regrets to say that, through some inad
vertence, the data concerning Mr. Hunt
and his interests were lost or mislaid and
that no extended notice of him can there
fore be made.
W. L. NOEL, M. D.
Dr. Noel is a leading physician of Boaz
and has been established in practice in
this county since 1769.
He is a native of Troup county, Ga.,
and received the advantage of a good
common school education, afterwards
studying mectibine under Dr. Henry
Shelton, of Fayett county, Ga. He has a
nice family here, and enjoys an extensive
and growing practice.
CENTRAL CITY HOTEL.
Mention should be made of the Central
City hotel and of the genial proprietor,
Mr. G, M. E. Mann.
It is really a very fine hostilry for this
city and although only SI.OO a day house
as good accommodations can be obtained
here as at any of the $2 a day houses. It
is very cosy and home-like and one is
provided here with every convenience
and eomfort.
Mr. Mann, as also his wife, was born in
Rockdale county, Ga., receiving the ad
vantage of a good training in the com
mon schools. He came to Boaz in 1885
and was for awhile engaged in mercantile
business. He also occupied for a time
the position of postmaster here. Mr.
Mann enjoys the distinction of being the
first settler here. He has now accumu
lated valuable property - in this town and
is prospering in life, surrounded by a
happy little family. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Mann look after the comfort of their
guests, end those coming to Boaz should
not fail to make this their headquarters
while stopping in the town.
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