Fw: From Days Gone By, Jan 4, 1912

January 4, 1912.
Warthen College will begin the spring term on Monday, the 8th. A new boiler has been put in position and everything will be in fine condition for the most succeesful term in the history of the school. There will be many new pupils from out of town this term. Prof. Charles E. Clarkson of Marshall, Missouri will be added to the college department and Miss Bridges of Roberta, Ga. has been added also. Two new courses will be added this year. A preparatory course to the study of piano, offered to the first four grades, and a class in the Tonic Sol Fa System, which will lead to sight singing. These courses will be the key to "a talent in music."A welcome service was held at the Christian Church by Rev. E. W. Pease, the pastor. The object was to extend a christian welcome to the new pastors who have come to Wrightsville. These are Rev. J. B. Holly of the Baptist Church; Rev. J. C. Griner of the Methodist Church and Rev. Bridges of the Wrightsville Circuit. Miss Bronnie May Tanner will enter Bessie Tift College at Forsyth. Miss Rosa Blackshear will teach at Cochran. Miss Maude Lou Sterling will teach at Doerun. Miss Sara Lovett,graduated LaGrange Female College and will teach music at Harrison. Miss Nevada Johnson will teach at Sylvania high school. At the home of the brides parents, Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Jackson at Harrison, Miss Bessie Jackson married Mr. Henry Wilson. Mr. Wilson is assistant agent in the W. & T. Railroad office at Wrightsville. Mr. Edward Hicks married Miss Belle Brown of Macon on Dec. 26th. Mr. Hicks is the brother of Mrs. Tom Snell and Misses Janiebell and Nookie Hicks of Wrightsville. The merchantile business of J. E. Page at Orianna, five miles below Adrian,
on the Wadley Southern Railroad, burned to the ground. Mr. Page lives just over the line in Montgomery County and is a progressive farmer and merchant. The fire was considered arson.
Preston Norris formaly announces his candidacy for Johnson County Clerk of Court in the white primary of 1912. Judge J. E. Burch announces as a candidate for the judgeship of the Dublin Circuit. He is a son-in-law of Judge A. F. Daley. Mrs. Jas M. Bryan and little son Ralph are much better from their case of pneumonia. Mrs. H. M. Smith has been in Atlanta visiting her ill husband at the private sanitarium there. Mrs. J. F. Norris is in Eastman at the bedside of her
daughter Mrs. W. Fitzgerald who has pneumonia. The death of William W. Anthony was a blow to Johnson County. He was stricken with pneumonia on Dec. 18th and died on the 23rd. He was the eldest son of Rev. J. D. Anthony and was 60 years old. He lived in Wrightsville over 30 years and was a long time Clerk of Court and member of the firm of D. G. Blount & Co. The funeral was held Christmas Day and he was buried in the Anthony burying ground in sight of his home "Glenwood" just outside of Wrightsville. A telegram was received by the city announcing the death of Capt. Richard L. Hicks who died on the 31st in Mexico where he had been to recuperate his health. "Dick" Hicks was a native of Johnson County. He was once editor of the Dublin Post, then went to Thomasville and then to Bainbridge, his late home, where he is survived by his wife and two daughters. Capt. Hicks was the youngest son of Major James Hicks, and a brother of Mrs. C. A. Moore and Mrs. Jane Snell. He served on the honorary escort at the funeral of Gen. Robert E. Lee. His remains were brought back to Bainbridge. "The eventful year of 1912 is now before us; the year 1911 has passed into history. We stand today between two eternities, the past and the future, upon the threshold of the old and the new, Janus-like face, two ways. Let us forget the past with all its wrongs and disappointments. This is a new year; begin it right; enter upon our work fully prepared in the right spirit, and with the proper conception of our duty." A. F. Ware, President, Warthen College.