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Gen. Streight died May 27, 1892, and his widow, Mrs. Lovina Streight, died June 5, 1910.
*Summarized from J. P. Dunn's "Indiana and Indianans," v. 2, ps. 571-2.
ROUND TABLE CLUB .- A litera- ry organization founded Dec. 21, 1860, on "The Hill" (probably the home of Col. Nicholas J. Bayard), with Henry A. Gartrell president
`and George Trippe Stovall secretary, and the fol- lowing other members: Misses Flor- ida Bayard, Mary Billups, Ellen and Martha Cooley, Mary Cothran, Eddie Magruder, Sallie Park, Laura and Mary Smith, Annie Jeffers and Ellen Stovall, and Messrs. I. H. Branham, Melville Dwinell, Geo. C. and Chas. B. Norton, Wm. L. Skidmore, Henry A. Smith and W. H. Jeffers.
SARDIS VOLUNTEERS. - This Civil War company was formed at Sar- dis Presbyterian church, Coosa, May 9, 1861, and was mustered into the service at Lynchburg, Va., June 11, 1861, by Major Clag. The following muster roll was completed Dec. 25, 1894, by Curtis Green, of Oglesby, Tex., a member who still survives; and was authenticated by a survivor :
Officers-
Captain-John R. Hart.
First Lieut .- Alfred F. Bate. Second Lieut .- Wm. W. Tutt. Third Lieut .- J. D. Bouchillon. First Sergt .- John R. Lay.
IVY LEDBETTER LEE, former Roman, now New Yorker, publicity director of the Stand- ard Oil Co. and the Georgia Ry. & Power Co.
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Second Sergt .- G. W. Mathis. Third Sergt .- C. C. Williamson. Fourth Sergt .- Wm. D. Moore. First Corp .- Jno. P. Fleming. Second Corp .- Isaac P. Smith. Third Corp .- J. H. Williamson. Fourth Corp .- Robt. N. Hays. Musicians-David W'. Guthrie, Jno. L. Guthrie.
Privates-
Leonard N. Austin William Davis
Jasper Barkley William D'Boice John W. Berryhill John H. Doogan
Martin Bolt Joseph A. Duke
James E. Buford William C. Duke
John W. Buford Henry Dutton
Robert Burnes Henry W. Fisher
Henry H. Burns Thomas Ford
Richard Carey James A. Frazier
Frank Carder Robert N. Frazier
William A. Carder Trustman Frazier Louis Carpenter William N. Frazier Curtis Green
Asbury Chapman
James A. Coffer
Lee Green
William H. Griffin
Martin V. Collins
Johnson S. Griswel G. A. Hall
Jos. A. D. Comer Tom M. Hall
A. S. Cone Waddy J. Hall
Geo. B. Crawford William J. Hall Hugh S. Davidson Harrison Hamilton John Davis William Hardin
THOS. W. LIPSCOMB, leading member of the Rome bar, who was probably the youngest mayor Rome ever had.
William H. H. Hay William B. Nelms James D. Holcomb David C. Neyman William Holder Joseph K. Neyman Samuel North William M. Husky G. W. Pilgrim
P. J. Huckaby
Wm. I. M. James Isaac Pilgrim
Wm. H. Johnson Wm. M. Pilgrim
Wm. R. Johnson William Pledger George King J. A. Powell Draton L. Rains
Jo Lay
German M. Lester Garrett Robinson Thomas F. Love Thos. S. Robinson
John T. Lowry Andrew J. Rose
William Lumpkin David A. Self
Jo Mathis
Archa Shirey Enoch P. Shirey
J. S. McCollaugh Abe McGee
Henry B. Smith
Robert Mckenzie John F. Smith
James C. Millican
John A. Smith
Thomas Millican James Studard
George Minix Henry Walker
Nathan S. Moore Joseph W. West
James R. Murdock Wm. H. Williams David Neely John R. Wood
Wm. H. H. Wright
Recruits-
Richard Bailey Sam Martin
James Barkley John Medlock
G. R. A. Brison Newton Murdock
Benj. F. Bryan Jake Neyman
A. J. Collins
William Owens
J. J. Comer
Newton Pelt Garrison Perry
N. B. Ford John Robinson
Adolphus Furr
James Sheridan
Walter Furr
Green Smith
John Hall
A. M. Vann Dave Vann
Quince Harbour
D. D. Vann
Henry Huffman W. K. Vann
Vestal Johnson
D. A. Williamson
N. W. Kincade Isaac Williamson
Z. T. Lawrence John L. Williamson Robert Wood
Frank Luster
Thomas Wood
Dr. J. W. Farell, assistant surgeon.
Transferred from Infantry to Cav- alry Battalion, Smith's Legion, Parti- zan Rangers, 1862, under command of Col. J. I. Smith and Adjutant Edward R. Hardin: Jno. R. Hart, Lieut .- Col .; B. F. Brown, Major; B. F. Chastain, Adjutant; A. F. Bale, Capt. Co. C.
Sixth Ga. Cavalry, organized in 1863; John R. Hart, Col .; Cicero Fain, Lieut .- Col .; Alfred F. Bale, Major; J. W. Farell, assistant surgeon; John R. Lay, Capt. Co. G; First Lieut., W. I. M. James, Second Lieut. G. W. Mathis, Third Lieut. Wmn. J. Hall. when war closed.
SINGERS AND MUSICIANS OF ROME .- The following incomplete list is furnished by one of them:
James M. Collins
Wm. G. Collins
James Davis
Barney Hall
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First Baptist Church: Miss Beulah Cunyus, Miss Elizabeth Betts (Mrs. Robt. Wyatt), Henry Arnold, Mrs. Taul B. White, Miss Helen Knox Spain, J. Glover
McGhee, Miss Frances Brown, Miss Sarah Glover, Wm. Mc- Williams.
First Presbyterian: Mrs. Frederic E. Vaissiere and Edward R. Leyburn, Jr. (organist) ; Miss Inez Ebling, Thos. E. Clemmons, Tom Rawls, Miss Mir- iam Reynolds (organist and soloist).
First Methodist: Chas. J. Warner, Mrs. Paul Nixon (Edith Allen), Mrs. Leon Covington, Pierce McGhee, Mrs. Wm. O. Tarpley (organist), Walter and Battey Coker, Miss Helen Rhodes, Miss Mary Julia Woodruff.
St. Peter's Episcopal: Mrs. Geo. P. Weathers, Mrs. Jno. M. Proctor, Mrs. Geo. T. Watts, Miss Mary Veal, Mrs. Howard Hull (organist), Mrs. Felton Jones.
First Christian: T. L. Bagley, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Barton, Mrs. Thos. E. Edwards, Mrs. B. F. Archer, Chas. Schnedl, Mrs. Jno. H. Wood, Mrs. J. C. Thedford, Mrs. Jno. Howell, Mrs. Roy Burkhalter and G. F. Winfrey.
Christian Science: Mrs. Henry Stewart (soloist), D. W. Milliken (or- ganist).
Among the "informals" who sing a good deal, but usually outside of the churches, might be mentioned Joe Pat- ton, Fred and Cyril Hull, Felton Mitch- ell and Arthur West. Mr. West is also an accomplished 'cellist.
Rome is essentially a musical town, and talent is being developed that will no doubt some day be heard wherever music is in demand. The Music Lovers' Clubs, under the capable direction of Mrs. Frederic E. Vaissiere, Mrs. Wm. P. Harbin, Miss Lula Warner and oth- ers, have greatly stimulated the in- terest in things musical; and Mrs. Vaissiere's capabilities have been twice recognized through her elevation to the presidency of the State Federated Musical Clubs, a position she now holds.
In the spring of 1922 the First Meth- odist church, Rev. Wallace Rogers, pastor, started Sunday evening orches- tral concerts under the direction of Miss Helen Rhodes.
Community singing in the parks, led by Miss Helen Knox Spain, has caused Romans to lift up their voices in soulful rhapsodies.
An interesting group of players is the "Nixon Trio." Paul Nixon, the 'cellist, is the composer of a beautiful
and popular song entitled "Your Pic- ture," dedicated to Miss Edith Allen, now his wife. His mother, Mrs. E. S. Nixon, is the pianist of the three, and his sister, Mrs. Lucia Nixon Mckay, plays the violin, and also teaches it capably. Mrs. Paul Nixon teaches piano. The Nixons came from Nash- ville, Tenn. Paul belongs in a musical center like New York and will no doubt be called there, so his friends declare.
A younger group are "The Three Musical Harbins." William and Lester, sons of Dr. and Mrs. Wm. P. Harbin, who play the violin and the 'cello, respectively, and Rosa Harbin, daugh- ter of Dr. and Mrs. Robt. M. Harbin, who is quite an accomplished young pianist.
Other players, most of whom have been teaching some time, include Misses Debby Moses and Clara Shahan, piano; Margaret Wilkerson (pupil of Geo. Friar Lindner), violin and piano; Mrs. H. B. Goff, violin, and Miss Amelia Berry, piano.
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SPRINGS IN FLOYD COUNTY .- (Partial list)-There are four things that are primarily necessary to life and comfort. The first is air, the sec- ond water, the third food and the fourth clothing. It is easy to under- stand, therefore, that the Indian tribes laid great store by bubbling springs
E. PIERCE M'GHEE.
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of water when they settled in North- west Georgia. When the Ridges drove their stakes in the fertile soil of Ridge Valley, where the Rush place is sit- uated, a spring boiled forth its refresh- ing product nearby; and when Major Ridge removed to the Oostanaula Riv. er, nearer Rome, he still had the use of Reece's Spring, near the city pump- ing station, and his son, John, re- moved to three miles north of Rome, where the spring was called "Tantata- nara" (Running Waters). Likewise, the Belgian Colony, more than 50 years later, chose some of the best oases in the countryside. Today picnic parties claim them, and as long as they flow clear, cold and pure they will attract man, bird and beast. Here are some of the better known springs:
Booz's, at Boozville.
Barnett's, at Lindale.
Howel Spring, one mile from north- ern city limits on Kingston Road.
Morrison's Camp Ground Spring, eight miles north, on Kingston Road, is the chief headwater of Dykes' Creek. It flows 10,000,000 gallons daily, the largest in the county, and is said to be as high as the top of the old water tower at Rome.
Carlier Springs (perhaps ten, close
DR. LOUIS MATHIEU EDOUARD BERCK- MANS, native Belgian and accomplished vic- linist, who lived on Mt. Alto.
together), on the Carlier Springs Road, two miles east of Rome.
LeHardy Spring, on the J. Paul Cooper place in East Rome.
Lovers' Leap Spring, on the N., C. & St. L. railroad and Etowah River near the Southern railway bridge and a rocky bluff, one mile east of Rome.
Silver Creek Springs, part of head water of Silver Creek, seven miles southeast of Rome on the Atlanta Di- vision of the Southern railway. (Wood- row Wilson once took his first wife to this spot on a picnic).
Shorter Spring, Alabama Road, op- posite the Shorter place and on land owned by Shorter College.
Lytle Spring (formerly the Jonas King Spring), near the Anchor Duck Mill on East Main Street, South Rome, opposite the W. W. Woodruff home. (This spring, once in Lytle Park, was covered over and piped down to Silver Creek to make way for the mill's resi- dence development) .
Floyd Springs, some twelve miles north of Rome and west of Turkey Mountain.
Crystal Springs, twelve miles north- west of Rome on the Summerville Road.
Sand Springs, midway between Rome and the northeastern end of Lavender Mountain.
Rice's Spring, on the Alabama Road about five miles west of Rome.
DeSoto Park Spring (formerly Mob- ley), Cave Spring Road two miles south of Rome.
Harbour's Spring (radio active), six miles north of Rome near the Oosta- naula River.
Burwell Spring, which rises in North Rome and forms Burwell Creek, which empties into the Oostanaula a quarter of a mile above the court house.
"Glen Alto," Dr. Jno. F. Lawrence's radio-active mineral spring, on a gen- tle slope near the southwestern ex- tremity of Mt. Alto, a mile west of the Coosa River Road. This site lends itself naturally to an extensive devel- opment, a start toward which has been made in the erection of a number of cottages for the use of summer so- journers.
Cave Spring, located at the town of that name sixteen miles southwest of Rome, and which flows into Little Ce- dar Creek and then into Big Cedar Creek and then into the Coosa River near the Alabama line. This spring is the second largest in the county
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CLYDE MOORE SHROPSHIRE, native Ro- man, once Speaker of the Tennessee House, candidate for governor of Tennessee.
and one of the most beautiful any- where. It is smaller than the City Park Spring at Huntsville, Ala., but in its natural effects surpasses it. The flow from this spring is 3,444,846 gal- lons every 24 hours, or 143,535 gal- lons per hour. The fall is considera- ble and a ram lifts enough water 100 feet to a concrete reservoir on the overhanging cliff
to supply Cave Spring with water at practically no cost.
Vann's Valley is also well supplied with springs. One is Cress Spring, on Wm. S. Gibbons' place on the Cave Spring Road. This takes its name from the water cress that carpets the marsh where the spring has its source. The flow has been confined in a race and a wheel installed by an enterpris- ing farmer who has developed about one horsepower, enough to furnish electric power for all the needs of his nearby dwelling. Yancey's and Jones' Springs are also in the valley.
Spout Spring, located between Fos- ter's Mill and Cave Spring, was once owned by Prof. Wesley O. Connor. This is a stream as big as a man's arm which leaps out of a rock and falls several feet and disappears into
WILLIAM SMITH, pioneer who led the Jack- son County delegation in their pilgrimage to the Cherokee Nation.
the ground. It is about a mile from Foster's Mill.
At Black's Bluff, three miles down the Coosa River south of Rome, is a spring that issues from rock, snakes its way under the road and appears again as a spring within 40 feet of the river. A spring at the southern end of the bluff is a favorite site for barbecues.
The headwater spring of Spring Creek is eight miles east of Rome on the Chulio Road.
The headwater spring of Little Dry Creek is located at the foot of Laven- der Mountain on its southwestern side.
Everett Spring is in the extreme northern end of Floyd County, in a highly artistic setting of gray moun- tains and little valleys.
Wet weather springs can be found on both sides of Mt. Alto, half way to the valleys.
TOWER CLOCK .- Located on Tow- er Hill, southeast corner of Fifth Ave- nue and East Second Street, on city property which also includes the Neely Grammar School. Mrs. Naomi P. Bale ("Grandma Georgy") was authority
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for the following statements, made in 1921:
"The water tower was built by John W. Noble for the city at a cost of $107,000. The clock was made by the Howard Clock Co., of Boston, Mass., and with the bell cost $1,200. J. E. Veal placed the clock on the tower in 1871 and was timekeeper for five years; T. S. Wood kept time five years; M. D. McOsker, ten years; Clip Wil- liamson, twelve years; R. V. Allen is now responsible for correct time."
For many years the tower served the city with water pumped from the sta- tion on the Etowah River at Fourth Avenue, but the water now comes from the Ft. Jackson station, and the tower is no longer used. The tower is nearly 100 feet high and affords a command- ing view of the surrounding country. It is the first thing people see from all directions on approaching Rome. Several couples, seeking romance, have been married near its top.
In April, 1922, E. R. Fishburne, the jeweler and watch repairer, was named timekeeper to succeed R. V. Allen. *
VALLEYS OF FLOYD COUNTY. -Kieffer Lindsey, County Engineer, furnishes the following information :
WILSON MOORE HARDY, former newspaper man, now banker, who has contributed much to the upbuilding of the Hill City.
Big Texas, runs northeast and south- west ten miles, from Fouche to Crys- tal Springs, with Simms' Mountain marking its upper border and Rock Mountain its lower, separating it from Little Texas Valley. It is bisected by Heath Creek.
Little Texas, runs generally par- allel to Big Texas, but at its south- western end bends northward around Rock Mountain to Fouche, and etends to Armuchee, twelve miles. It is bi- sected by Lavender Creek. Lavender Mountain to the southeast separates it from the Flat Woods.
Ridge, named after Major Ridge, the Indian chief, extends twelve miles, from Rome northeast to Plainville, Gordon County. Armstrong Mountain forms one of its outer edges. It is bisected by the Southern railway.
Vann's, named after David Vann, the Indian sub-chief, extends south- westward from Six Mile Station to Cave Spring, ten miles. It is bisect- ed by the Southern railway and at its Cave Spring end is broken by Lit- tle Cedar Creek.
The valleys of the Coosa, Etowah and Oostanaula follow the courses of those streams, but are usually not shown on the maps.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, editor and orator, who established The Tribune of Rome in 1887 and was head of it three years.
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YOUNG MEN'S LIBRARY ASSO- CIATION .- The Carnegie Library of Rome is an outgrowth of an associa- tion formed Feb. 10, 1879, in the law office of Wright & Featherston, with the following Romans present: Rev. Clem- ent A. Evans, Rev. G. A. Nunnally, Jno. J. Black, Robt. T. Hargrove, T. L. Robinson, Dr. J. B. S. Holmes, E. A. Williams, Max Meyerhardt, R. A. Denny, R. T. Baker, Dr. E. P. Love- lace, J. G. Yeiser, Hugh B. Parks, Junius F. Hillyer, Jno. R. Towers, Jr., Park Harper, Walker W. Brookes, Freeman Shropshire, C. L. Omberg, Sam C. Caldwell, H. S. Garlington, C. N. Featherston, C. A. Thornwell and Dr. R. I. Hampton. More than $100 was subscribed by those present to start the movement.
Mr. Caldwell was elected president, Mr. Hillyer vice-president, Mr. Meyer- hardt secretary, and Mr. Denny treas- urer. R. T. Baker was elected libra- rian. Mr. Caldwell served two years; E. A. Williams was president from May to October, 1880, when he died; Mr. Hillyer filled the unexpired term and was re-elected; Mr. Black, A. R. Sullivan and J. A. Rounsaville held the position one year; and J. F. Shank- lin was serving his second year in 1888.
The original directors were Rev. G. A. Nunnally, M. A. Nevin, E. A. Wil- liams, J. R. Towers, Jr., J. G. Yeiser, Jno. J. Black and Dr. J. B. S. Holmes; and the directors in 1888 were J. F. Hillyer, R. A. Denny, Max Meyerhardt,
R. H. West, Mulford M. Pepper, M. A. Nevin, Morton R. Emmons, W. H. Adkins, C. A. Thornwell, J. A. Roun- saville and Jno. J. Black.
An account of 1888 says: "The courage of the projectors who dared to inaugurate this movement is already vindicated, and is a strong evidence that the interests of the young men of this community are not altogether ma- terial. The organization grew until there were 350 members and 14,000 books and pamphlets."
Here is mentioned the first "wom- an's auxiliary :"
"The most powerful auxiliary that has contributed to the success of the association has been the ever-ready hand of woman. Up to 1886 it has been the policy of the board to employ only male librarians, but that policy was then changed, and Miss Hallie Al- exander was elected librarian. The change was a happy one. She soon increased the circulation of books and the usefulness of the library by dem- onstrating that a librarian is not a mere 'keeper of books,' but is largely instrumental in stimulating and direct- ing the mental activities of a commu- nity. Miss Alexander resigned Sept. 1, 1887, and was succeeded by Miss Nellie Ayer, whose administration was rewarded by the same success. Miss Ayer died in August, 1888; she left upon the community the impress of a life devoted to duty. Miss Lilla Mor- rel, a young lady of splendid attain- ments, succeeded her."
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"DUCKS" MAKE MERRY IN WATER CARNIVAL.
The photographs show groups of Boy Scouts in their contests on Labor Day, September 5, 1921. These sports are held annually at the junction of the rivers, and are witnessed by thous- ands of people, principally from Myrtle Park, at the northern foot of Myrtle Hill cemetery. Near the top is the Boy Scout barge "Sequoyah" and elsewhere groups of the Eagle and Haw- thorne troops of Girl Scouts.
Miscellaneous
SCOUTS EXPLORE DEEP CAVE- Excitement a-plenty attended the all- day hike of Boy Scouts yesterday to the neighborhood of Black's Bluff and "the place where the Jaybird Jarred the Mountain." "The White Team" fought the "Red Team" for possession of the hilltop, conquered them and put them on the ladder's lower rung for the day. Cy- ril Hull, ambitious and daring young son of Howard Hull, of Shorter College, explored a wild and wooly cave, and James Glover, an incorrigible scout, col- lapsed after taking a strenuous part in the battle, the tug-of-war and two foot races.
W. M. Barnett, H. F. Joyner, and G. E. Bennett, the three flying parsons, were pretty well fagged out from the heart-breaking dose of hiking given them by the boys.
Eighty-two scouts lined up behind the colors at 9 o'clock at Broad and Third avenue. As soon as one of the scouts had run around the corner with a kodak they stepped off in column of fours across the South Rome bridge, leaving a lot of office boys and messen- ger boys with heavy hearts behind.
One little lad with a leg shorter than the other carried a cocoanut to feast upon. Others were laden with all kinds of grub and plastered with all varieties of cooking utensils as well as scout par- aphernalia. First hike that all the scouts of Rome had been invited to take together, and everybody was proud.
Two miles from the Bluff sealed or- ders were opened and the troopsmen told where lay the objective point. The bunch were divided, pathfinders and signalmen were sent ahead to recon- noiter, and the scouts followed trails that existed and made trails that did not. By their more favorable detour the Whites beat the Reds to the hill peak and thus became the defenders when their wild Indian rivals hove into sight. The game was to hold a sham- battle and score on points. Arm bands snatched off counted so many dead scouts. A scout taken along with his arm band and brought into camp was a prisoner. The Whites won with a margin of seven scout prisoners and deceased, when-
"Object ahead, sir!" (from a look- out).
"Can you make it out?" (from Scout Executive Bennett.)
"Object is a cave, sir."
Discipline suffered as the 82 scouts and three officials gathered around a depression in the earth pretty well cov- ered with brush. Below the face of the bluff the Coosa wound in a silver thread toward the Alabama line.
"Who'll volunteer to explore?"
"DeSoto's my name!" exclaimed Scout Cyril Hull in true cavalier style.
The rope had been bought of the Nixon Hardware Co. at the outset and it looked to be 100 feet long; a conser- vative estimate put it at 75. In a jiffy the rope had been secured about Cyril's waist just below his palpitating heart, and after the opposite end had been tied to a tree and a dozen scouts, re-in- forced by 70 more, had seized the rope, Cyril was shoved into the aperture. They fed him rope until none was left. "Gimme more rope," signaled the scout in the scouts' own peculiar way.
"You're at the end of it," signaled back the boys out in the day-light. Cy- ril cut into the side of the cave with his hatchet, shot a flood of light down- ward with his flash-light, and kicked against the sides as he dangled, when suddenly, without warning, somebody shouted from quarter of a mile below,
"Get out of that cave!"
The boys had begun to pull Cyril out already and just as his posteriority ap- peared at the opening, followed by his hair and hatchet, a farmer rushed up waving his arms.
"Snakes down thar, and blind fish," he said.
The boys threw the brush back and beat it to the camp, since it was time for chow. They prepared a fine dinner, stayed until after dark and lit up the campfires, on which they cooked sup- per, consisting of hot dogs and toasted marshmallows. The boy with one leg shorter than it really ought to be did not eat anything hot; he was too busy gnawing away at his cold cocoanut.
About 6:30 o'clock the scouts stum- bled down the mountain side and came home, voting the day the best ever spent, and wanting very much to go again without waiting a life-time. James Glover had entirely recovered from his collapse and finished strong .- Dec. 12, 1920.
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ACTIVITIES AMONG THE BOY AND GIRL SCOUTS OF ROME.
A well-kept Boy Scout tent; Frank Holbrook's Steamer "Annie H."; Scout leaders and Rome troops ready for a hike; Scouts competing at Hamilton Field; Eagle Troop of Girl Scouts on steps of Carnegie Library. The same natural beauties and advantages that at- tracted the Indians of "Cherokee Georgia" now make scouting a fruitful pastime.
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SCOUT WORK BOOMING-In mak- ing my 1920 and first report to the Cherokee Council I beg to submit the following: Upon our arrival Sept. 15, to take charge of the work of the Boy Scouts in Floyd county under the Cher- okee Council, we found four regularly organized troops with 85 registered scouts. Troop No. 4, which had previ- ously been registered, had disbanded during the summer because the scout- master moved from the city. This troup, however, had only six registered scouts.
Seven new troops have been organiz- ed, and seven scoutmasters and four assistant scoutmasters have been com- missioned as leaders of these new troops. The total number of additional scouts that have been registered, includ- ing leaders, is 161. Only four scouts have dropped out of scouting since Sept. 15, which leaves a total of 250 regis- tered leaders and scouts now under the council.
The following are the troops regis- tered in Floyd county :
Old Troops: Lindale, No. 1, Rev. G. W. Ridley, scoutmaster; Rome, No. 1, Rev. W. M. Barnett, scoutmaster, W. F. Mosteller, assistant; No. 2, Ed L. King, scoutmaster, H. L. Lanham, as- sistant; No. 3, W. J. Marshall, scout- master, Marion Cole, assistant.
New Troops: Rome, No. 4, Dr. Carl Betts, scoutmaster, Percy Landers, as- sistant; No. 5, Gordon Ezzell, scout- master; No. 6, Rev. H. F. Joyner, scout- master; No. 7, R. B. Combs, scoutmas- ter, J. C. Henson, assistant; No. 8, Wm. J. Carey, scoutmaster; No. 9, A. L. Stein, scoutmaster, Philip Friedman, assistant; No. 10, A. C. Taylor, scout- master, C. A. Townes, assistant.
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