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Floyd
County News Clippings
Two Rome Boys Enter West Point
1911-02-15 Paper:
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun
"They are cousins
and are Nephews of J. N. King, of Floyd County"
Washington, D. C.,
Feb. 14. Clifford Barrington King, Jr.,
and James Newphew Caperton, of Rome, have
successfully passed entrance examinations for admission to the West Point Military Academy and will enter the institution
next month. The boys are first cousins and are nephews of J. N. King, a leading citizen of Rome. So far as
is known, it is the first case on record, where two Georgia boys so closely related by blood have entered
West Point in the same class. Clifford King, was appointed by Congressman Gordon Lee and James Caperton was named
by Senator Bacon. [Submitted by Pam Rathbone]
S.B. Sale, of Floyd county, will give
$5 to the mother exhibiting at the Rome fair the greatest number of her own sons, no less than twelve. Should two
or more enter equal numbers the money is to be equally divided among them.
Gaylor- Daniel
MARRIED IN ROME JAIL, ESCAPES PROSECTION - Rome, Ga., July 20 - A wedding
ceremony performed by Justice T.B. Broach in the office of the county jail last night put an end to the proceedings
instituted in federal court against the groom. Claude Gaylor, charged with violating the Mann white slave law. The bride, aged 36, twelve years the senior
of the groom, was Mrs. Ellie Daniel, a
widow with eight children, and a kinswoman of a wealthy and prominent family Rome family. A
federal agent was here yesterday to press the case against the pair, alleging that the man brought the woman here
from Alabama Sunday. The prosecutor was a brother in law of the bride, B.C.
Daniel, who withdrew the charges after the wedding ceremony was preformed.
[The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Georgia July 21, 1917 - submitted
by Shauna Williams]
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