From Days Gone By Sept. 19, 1912

September 19, 1912.

    The Fall term of Warthen College opened with bright prospects. All members of the faculty were present, and they are second to none in the State. Classes have been organized and the teachers are at work in earnest, and will strive to make 1912-13, the most successful years of the school. The enrollment of pupils was between two and three hundred, the first week. Mrs. Boland is in charge of the dormitory with about twenty boarding pupils. One of our nicest young men who owns an automobile, seeing some of the young lady teachers going to college through mud and rain remarked, "If they would just smile, I would gladly carry them in my automobile". We have a sneaking notion that if he had carried them, they would have smiled.

   The private school taught by Miss Bessie Martin at the Fulford house on Valley Street, opened Wednesday morning with a good attendance. Miss Myra Daley has gone to Nashville, Tenn. where she will be a pupil of Belmont College. Professor W. L. Bryan having decided to make law his profession, left Monday for Athens to attend the law school at the State University.

   Mr. Paul E. Bryan who recently returned to Yale College will leave the 25th sailing from New York on the steamer "Cincinnatti" to Hamburg Germany, and from there he will go as an English exchange teacher to Stettin, where he will teach English at Bismark, Oberrealschule. This is quite a compiment to Mr. Bryan, who is on of Wrightsville's best and brainist young men; and his friends all in the "home land" wish him Bon Voyage.

   Mr. R. J. Moore of Hawkinsville is here adjusting the machinery of H. C. Moores Gin. Mr. G. D. Hugeley, assistant State Banker Examiner, of Atlanta, was in the city this week, paying his respects to the banks. Mr. T. G. Holt of Waycross, formally one of Wrightsville's most prominent merchants, was circulating among his old friends here this week.

   Mrs. J. B. Griner was called to Baxley Monday by the illness of her daughter, Mrs. D. D. Gilmore of that place. Mrs. Lewis Davis has been critically ill at her home in this city for the past week, but is now somewhat better. Sheriff Davis was quite sick during the past week, not able to attend court, and his deputies Messers. Jim and Jonah Davis were kept busy waiting on the court.

   Mr. & Mrs. J. N. Daniel announced the engagement of their daughter, Edith and Dr. Romanus R. Douglas, the marriage to take place in October at their home near Tennille. Miss Daniel is from one of the most prominent of Washington County families. Dr. Douglas was reared in Wrightsville, son of ex-senator John A. Douglas.

   The Will of the late Mrs. A. N. Brown, of this city, which was contested by her two sisters, Mrs. Warthen and Mrs. Baker, and her brother, Mr. Stanley Kittrell, has been settled and dismissed by the court. Messers. Hines and Stephens, council for the contestants, offered to compromise, which was accepted by J. L. Kent, council for the defense, and R. L. Kent, executor of the Will, in which was granted Mrs. Warthen a stipulated amount as compensation for services rendered her sister, Mrs. Brown, during the latter's late illness. Mrs. Warthen has withdrawn her caveat, and Executor Kent will probate the Will at once. The Baptist people will in the near future begin the erection of the "Brown Memorial Baptist Church", for which purpose the Will of Mrs. Brown bequeathed something over ten thousand dollars.

    It is good that the street lights are in working order again, for there are some dangerous holes about town, particularly that one on the sidewalk in the rear of the Brinson Drug Store. We only have two legs, and it would be bad to have the bark knocked off one of them, or worse to have it broken.