Mr. Lanham Revisited: July 30, 1926

News from the two Romes

It was a cloudy and cool morning in Rome, Georgia and everything was “wet and bedraggled” in Mr. Lanham’s garden. He found a few buds to cut to decorate the Lanham & Sons store on Broad Street. The rain continued off and on all day and “Business was very, very dull,” he wrote.

He got in some exercise at the YMCA, playing volleyball, then gathered up his …