As the result of an orderly primary election, following a good-natured, quiet in the extreme campaign, the following were elected to City Council Tuesday a half century ago: T.B. Broach, P.J. Mullin, L.F. McKoy, J.W. Keown, F.H. Vandiver, F.W. Copeland and W.L. Daniel. They were to serve for a term of two years.
Mr. Vandiver was first elected to City Council in 1897, and had been on it ever since with the exception of three terms.
Despite Tuesday’s being election day, not a single arrest was made by the police.
H.C. Morris received a building permit for a six-room house, one and a half stories on East Ninth Street to cost $1,800. … City Council voted to have Avenue B macadamized, using the rock from Avenue A, which was being paved. … City Attorney Meyerhardt was instructed to prepare an ordinance so that in the future all city convicts who needed chastising could be whipped at the stockade and not brought to the station house as the law currently required. … If weather permitted, the new fire hall in East Rome would be completed by the coming week. … Mrs. W. M. Henry and Miss Minnie Cleghorn had bought the Moreland place on Sixth Avenue. … “It is folly to shut up the cows and let the chickens run at large,” said a Rome lady, who claimed that chickens were just as destructive and uncleanly as cows, planned to offer to the new City Council a suggestion that it pass an ordinance prohibiting the running at large of chickens. …
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Romans read that the suffragettes reached Washington Saturday fifty years ago after a 17-day march from New York. They blocked traffic in their triumphant march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the tune of clamorous applause and were holding meetings and making speeches at theaters. … It was formally announced in Washington that the income tax was now a part of the Constitution of the United States this week in 1913. … The House of Representatives agreed to the Senate amendment to the bill creating in government a department of labor to be supervised by a cabinet official. This was to increase the cabinet to 10 if signed by Taft. … Harry K. Thaw, confined at Matteawan Hospital after his conviction in the murder of Stanford white over Evelyn Nesbitt, refused to testify before the committee investigating the alleged bribery attempts by his attorneys to release him. …
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The Lindale Rifles were preparing for the time of their lives when they attended the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson on March 4 a half century ago. Little Floyd (Skinny) Pilcher was to go with them as mascot and he was being outfitted with a uniform. … A telegram received by Mrs. W.D. Hoyt from her niece, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, stated that places were prepared and tickets laid aside for the inauguration for herself and Miss Battie Shropshire. … The Southern Railway was offering a special rate for the round trip tickets from Rome to Washington for the inauguration at $19.35, and round trip tickets for a party of 25 or more at $12.90. … Many Romans were planning to attend the event in Washington and were leaving on the Sunday trains. …
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