A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . sedof W. F. Ayer, mayor, and W. H. Ad-kins, W. W. Seay, A. W. Walton, H. , W. T. Smith. Jack King, Wright and H. D. Hill. In 1889, Messrs. J. C. Printup, M. , John J. Seay and John were elected to succeed , Walton, Smith and was Mayor-elect Moores firstservice and his election was somewhatof a surprise, as he defeated J. , who was at that time con-sidered one of the strongest men i
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . sedof W. F. Ayer, mayor, and W. H. Ad-kins, W. W. Seay, A. W. Walton, H. , W. T. Smith. Jack King, Wright and H. D. Hill. In 1889, Messrs. J. C. Printup, M. , John J. Seay and John were elected to succeed , Walton, Smith and was Mayor-elect Moores firstservice and his election was somewhatof a surprise, as he defeated J. , who was at that time con-sidered one of the strongest men in theFourth Ward. While serving in thiscouncil, Mr. Moore demonstrated hisbackbone, if we may so express it,by standing single handed by themayor in fining the violators of theprohibition law, where the entire coun-cil was against him. H. D. Hill hadprevious to this time resigned fromthe council and J. K. Williamson waselected to succeed him. The election of 1890 was very excit-ing, the candidates for mayor beingMessrs. A. W. Walton and W. W. Fifth Ward had just been admit-ted and added enthusiasm to the race. Encyclopedic Section 399. AT SAM GRAHAMS BARBECUE, 20 YEARS AGO. Among the merrymakers can be seen Oscar McWilliams, John Graham, Rob Rounsa-ville, Reuben Towers, Laurie Cothran, Mortimer Griffin, Ed. Maddox, Rob Yancey, BoilingSullivan, Mel Gammon, Rob Graves, Walter Cothran, John C. Reese, Wm. A. Wright, J. Seay, Moses Wright, Dr. T. R. Garlington, Foster Graham, Wilson Hardy andHorace Johnson. Walton was elected with the entireticket and the council this year stood: Mayor, A. W. Walton; councilmen,J. C. Printup, J. R. Cantrell, M. , S. M. Knox, John J. Seay, King, jQhn D. Moore, J. W. M. M. Pepper and D. Turnerwere elected to represent the FifthWard. In 1891 C. W. Underwood, Steele, J. L. Camp, C. W. Morrisand T. J. McCaffrey were the council-men elected. In 1893, Mayor King and his ticketwere elected, defeating May
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