Mr. Lanham Revisited: Jan. 7, 1926

Rome gets a mushy snowstorm

Yesterday’s warm, spring-like weather was just an illusion, as today was cloudy with a cold rain that changed to snow by night. The snow fell on Rome, Georgia until 8 p.m., leaving “everything lovely and white. But soon began to melt,” Mr. Lanham wrote.

They had gotten their furnace worked on just in time. The repairs had been completed the day before, i…