From Days Gone By Aug. 26, 1915

August 26, 1915.

    Rev. Reese Griffin has been elected acting president of Warthen College, and the Fall Term will open on Sept. 6 at 8:30am. Tuition for term ending Dec. 23rd is 1st, 2nd, 3rd grades, $8; 4th and 5th grades, $10; 6th and 7th grades, $12.50; collegiate department, $18.00.  Admission can be obtained at the Exchange Bank.

    Prof. T. M. Hicks has started a private school with tuition 5th grade and up, $3.00 per month paid in advance. Should there be any below that grade the fee will be $2.50. There will be two sessions per day. Mr. Y. Kim of Korea, a graduate from Emory College with distinction conducted services at the Methodist church.

    Ice cream and cake will be served on the 27th on the court house lawn by the ladies of the Civic League. Ice cream cones for children will be 5 cents, and cake and cream will be 10 cents.

    There has just been opened in Wrightsville in the brick building between the B & W Drug store, and Johnson's Ice Cream Parlor, formerly used by the Wrightsville Merchantile Co. for the displaying of farming implements, a place to be known as The Wrightsville Cotton Exchange. Mr. J. F. Renfroe, our former postmaster is the cotton weigher at the City Warehouse. Monroe Cook has accepted the new agency for the Troy Laundry Company of Macon. He will take in your laundry every Monday and Tuesday and return it the following Saturday morning. Mr. J. H. Rowland has added another industry to his various enterprises, that of a canning plant. He has some fine canned tomatoes in artistically labeled cans.

    Mrs. John Meeks and little child are both quite ill at their home on Belmont Ave. The little one has typhoid fever. Mrs. J. J. Harrison died at her home in Scott from a complication of diseases on the 24th. Her remains were taken to Davisboro to the family graveyard. She is survived by her husband and 4 children, and her father Mr. Joe Ivey.

    Rev. Jordan Norris, a primitive Baptist preacher and Confederate veteran, died near Adrian on the 19th after a 10 day illness at the age of 84. He had been in the ministry 52 years, during that time having served one church, Gumlog, for 36 consecutive years. He was a prominent Mason and survived by one brother, two sons, and five daughters, who are respectively, Dr. S. M. Norris, John and Jim Norris, Mrs. George Thigpen, Mrs. B. M. Pollette, Mrs. Chas. Carter, and Mrs. James Swain. Services and internment were at Bethsadia near Adrian.

    The 5 month old infant daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. V. Snell is the victim of a peculiar, and what may prove, fatal accident. The child has been troubled with difficult breathing since it was 2 weeks old, and has been treated for the malady. But a few days ago Mrs. Snell, with the aid of her brother who was visiting her, examined the baby's throat, and to her dismay a black enameled safety pin was located some distance down the childs throat. The pin was open and the point sticking deep in the side of the throat. Dr. Johnson was summoned, and with difficulty he extricated the pin and the child is doing as well as expected. The only solution of the accident is that the nurse, who attended the baby used only black enameled pins in her clothing and some way got into the childs throat.

    The dry goods store of Hayes Bros. was broken into one night last week and several hundred dollars taken. Entrance was through the glass front. The prowness of Marshal Jackson tracked and located the thieves on the E. W. Tanner place a few miles from town. The stolen goods were found in the possession of 3 or 4 negroes who were placed in jail. It was a bold but fruitless robbery.