A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . ower and theirbaby, and Mrs. B. S. Lester, motherof Edith Lester and of Mr. Browersfirst wife. Tis said Woodrow and Ellen Louchose the back of the wagon that theymight dangle their feet behind, andaway went the future president of theUnited States and the future FirstLady of the Land, caring little wheth-er school kept or law business wereremunerative or not. After bumping along country roadsfor an hour and a half they arrivedat the picnic ground
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . ower and theirbaby, and Mrs. B. S. Lester, motherof Edith Lester and of Mr. Browersfirst wife. Tis said Woodrow and Ellen Louchose the back of the wagon that theymight dangle their feet behind, andaway went the future president of theUnited States and the future FirstLady of the Land, caring little wheth-er school kept or law business wereremunerative or not. After bumping along country roadsfor an hour and a half they arrivedat the picnic ground. The lisping ofthe gentle waters and the droning ofthe bees in a nearby field of wild flow-ers furnished the systematic tremolofor the young lawyers love sonata, andsoon they strayed off from the time came and all were sum-moned to the well-filled baskets. Allsave two were ravenously hungry aftera session of romping and two were industriously search-ing for four-leaf closers on the pasturegreensward; playing Love-me; loveme not with flower petals; blowingthe downy tops off dandelion stems. I wonder where Ellie Lou and. A. THEW H. BROWER. Woodrow can be? asked Mrs. Brower,as if aware of nothing. I know, piped one of the chil-dren; hes over there cutting a hearton a beech tree! The preliminaries were all disposedof that day and feivent resolutionsmade if not promises exacted. Thefates which had been cruel to Romesmiled upon the dilemma of the youngAtlanta lawyer. A freshet in 1881 andswept away the first East Rome bridge(over the Etowah at Second Avenue).The river separated Woodrow and El-len Lou, so the former borrowed a bat-teau built personally by Col. Brower,and they not only crossed, but paddledup and down. We hear much ofPresident Wilsons famous typewriter,and of how he would put on his oldgray sweater of his Princeton days andpeck away at it on the George Wash-ington; League of Nations dopeground out on the high seas, as well asGay Paree and Washi
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