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TOWH SE FAIRMOUHT.
FAIREST OF THE FAIR
Its Beautiful Situation and Pleasant
Surroundings.
LAUDABLE LOVE OF LEARNING
Animates The Spirit of the
People There.
PEOPLE PROSPEROUS AND HAPPY
Anti Everything is Agreeable anti Inviting
Among That Public Spirited and
Hospitable Yeomanry.
Fairmount is situated eighteen
miles from any railroad, contains
three churches and about 300 inhabi
tants.
Some object to the distance from
the railroad, but many more patron
ize the school on account of that facts
It renders going home often trouble
some to boarders but that is another
advantage. A telephone line con
necting with Calhoun, the capital of
Gordon county, is no>v under process
of construction. This with daily
mails from three directions make
communication by telegraph and
otherwise quite easy.
A well of the purest and clearest
of free stone water stands within a
few feet of the college building.
At the approaching commencement
the Masonswill lay the corner stone
of the “J. W. Stanton Memorial Hall’’
to be erected by the grateful sons
and daughters of one of the best citi
zens of Gordon county or North
Georgia has ever had.
They do this in honor of their
father, John W. Stanton, lately
deceased.
FAIRMOUNT COLLEGE.
This school, founded by Revs. B.
H. Trammell, H. J. Adams and
others, is situated is the well known
Saliquoy Valley in the eastern portion
of Gordon County, Georgia.
It is in the midst of preparation
for its commencement. During the
present college year 319 pupils have
been enrolled. More than one hun
dred and twenty live of these are
over the public school age and about
seventy-five of them are boarders.
Tiie commencement in 1895 was pro
nounced by intelligent men as unu
sually successful considering the age
of the school.
No prompting is allowed on the
stage and yet there was scarcely a
failure. This year the enthusiasm is
equally great and we have every
assurance of an improvement on lass
year.
We have a building of neat design
and commodious apartments. There
is ample class and study room for four
hundred students, the college it
situated in a beautiful grove of oaks on
a small eminence sloping every way
from the building thus making the
sanitary surroundings as nearly per
fect as can be found.
A small apparatus for teaching
chemistry, natural philosophy, etc ,
is owned by the college. In addition,
maps, both relief and on Mercator's
plan hang o i every wall. The college
is out of debt and owns a good
piano, three hundred and fifty dollars
worth of desks, and a campus of
nine acres of valuable land.
Tuition and board are phenome
nally light, thus bringing higher edu
cation within the reach of the com
mon people.
REV J. A SHARP, A. 8., PRES
ONE OF THE ABLEST AND MOST ENER
GETIC MEN OF THE COUNTRY.
President Sharp was born in Chero
kee county, Georgia. It was his honor
and fortune to a farmer's boy. An
honor and a fortune it was —for most
of our greatest men were farmers
boys schooled to that muscle and
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REV. J. A. SHARP.
brain developing work, the laborous
hardships of which are life's boys’
blessings in rough disguise. This de
veloped the unflagging energy, daunt
less perseverance and high moral pur
poses which in an eminent degree
have shown forth in the earnest and
zealous life of Professor Sharp.
Until twenty three years of age all
the oportunities which he had for an
education were the old field school
houses, which are so often entwined
in tiie early memories of our great
heroes of America.
In 1888 he went to the well known
Emory College from which lie was
graduated in 1892. While in college
his extraordinary ability and diligent
perseverance w <s recognized by being
honored as the champion debater
twice, and served one year as local
editor, and another year as editor in
chief of the Emory Phoenix.
Immediately after his graduation
he was tendered the democratic nomi
nation for representative of Cherokee
county, but feeling a higher and no
bler mission he forsook the path of
worldly ambition declined the honor
and opportunity and chose the minis
try. He then accepted the principal
ship of Stilesboro High School, and in
11894 entered the Methodist ministry,
joining the conference at Rome, and
was then elected president of the
Fairmount college. These bare facts
show the presence of a strong deter
mination, a high moral purpose, an
indefatigable energy, a diligent ap
plication, a steady perseverance, and
a marked ability. Preaching at sev
eral appointments outside of his work
of building up Fairmount college to
its present excellence and unusual
success bespeaks volumes of eulogy
for him. May he and the college con
I tinue to prosper in their good work of
; ennobling and brightening the world
. and may every section of our commu
nity have men and institutions as
' creditable.
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U. J. MITCHELL ROGERS.
PROFESSOR OF MENTAL AND MORAL
SCIENCE.
This young and polished gentleman
entered upon his earthly career in
Quitman, Ga., in 1875. In his boy
hood days he attended the public
schools of the town After finishing
the work there he taught one year at
Oostanaula in 1892. Then he attended
Mercer University for two years, was
a member of the Ciceronian society
which at one time he represented as
champion orator. He held several
smaller positions. He was a member
of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon frater
nity. Afterwards he completed a
course in the Louisville college of
Pharmacy and now intends to make
medicine a profession. Professor
Rogers is a cultured, dignified, refined,
courteous and Christian gentle
man with the record that he has
made, for one so young, we are
assured of his more than ordinary
ability, perseverance and aspiration.
Such young men have laurels, honor
and position before them.
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PROF. C. L. ANTHONY.
PROFESFOR OF PENMANSHIP AND BUSINESS
DEPARTMENT
Professor Anthony was born in Bar
tow county, Georgia, in 1872. At the
age of nineteen he began teaching in
the public schools of his county and
had marked success. After two years
teaching he went to South Carolina
and received a complete course in
bookkeeping, plain and ornamental
penmanship.
Asa penman he has few superiors,
and one who sees the large framed
drawing of his that hangs in the
chapel of the college will think that
he is surely equal to best. He is a very
pleasant, polite and unassuming gen
tleman, and true to his duty and his
work.
PROF. GEORGE S. FULTON.
ONE OF THE BEST MATHEMATICIANS IN
GEORGIA.
Professor Fulton is a middle aged
man of a long career of successful
experience in teaching. He was
educated at Emory and Henry college,
Virginia, and at the Kentucky Uni
versity, and is a first honor graduate.
He is one of the best mathematicians
in this section of the country, having
made that a special study and is fill
ing the position with much credit to
himself and the institution
Professor Fulton has never hap
pened with the bad luck of finding
himself married, and as he does not
anticipate such, we do give his picture.
It is a wise idea, for as good looking
a man as he is would, if his picture
were given in this leap year, have too
many proposals from the army of
“perpetual young lady’’ teachers
He is a good nattired man, kind and
considerate to all. He has been with
the college from its beginning.
TIIE HOME TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MAY 26 1896.
P. L. STANTON.
LECTURER ON ANCIENT AND MODERN
HISTORY.
Was born in Whitfield county,
Georgia, June 23, 1848, came to Gor
don county, 1873, where he worked on
his father’s farm and W’ent to the
country school, alternately, until he
was 21 years old, then going to
Atlanta where for more than three
years he worked as salesman, book
keeper, and in business for himself,
also taking a course ii: the Southern
Business University. In Atlanta he
made nearly all the money used in
finishing his education.
January, 1873, he entered Emory
college, Oxford, Georgia. Spent one
and a half years there, then two years
at Emory and Henry college, Emory,
Va., where he graduated in the A. B.
course, June, 1876. From the same
college he received the A. M. degree
in 1889. The year after his graduat ion
lie had charge of the Masonic High
School, at Spring Place, Ga.
In 1865 he was converted and joined
the M. E. church, South, was 1 censed
to preach in Virginia, in 1875, taken
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on trial into the North Georgia con
ference, December 1877, and served
four circuits during the next five
years, was then transferred to the
Denver conference, where he was for
eight years in New Mexico and Col
orado, pastor, serving four stations,
and presiding elder for two years.
The last year his distrinct included
nearly all of the conference, he trav
eling 17,000 miles, nearly all of it in
his work, and not a little of it on foot.
Was then transferred to the Los
Angeles conference, and for one year
was presiding elder, and xvas then
transferred back to Georgia and since
that time has been S. S. agent for the
conference, besides much of the time
haying the care of a sick father and
doing the work he has done in the
college.
.He has traveled extensively over
the West mostly in tiie work for tiie
church, also much in Mexico, and one
tour of 28,000 miles, mostly in
the old country, including a
walking tour of Palestine. He
has written much in the re
ligious press, especially for the
children, lias published one book,
“Echoes from Foreign Shores,” and
has several manuscripts on hand at
present.
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MISS MINNIE D. FULLER.
ASSISTANT OF PRIMARY DEPARTMENT,
FAIRMOUNT COLLEGE.
Miss Minnie I). Fuller was born
Jan. 31, 1873, and was reared near
Calhoun, Ga.
During tiie summer of 1889 she pro
fessed religion and united herself
with tiie Baptist church. Her early
life was spent in school at Austin Fe
male Seminary, and in 1893 she grad
uated with first honor at Calhoun
Collegiate Institute.
She lias had five years experience
as a successful teacher. In 1895 she
was elected assistant teacher of tiie
primary department in Fairmount
college.
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MRS J. A. SHARP.
PRINCIPAL OF PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
Mrs. Sharp was born in 1866 in the
beautiful little city of Marietta. Her
bright ambitious mind, early thirst
for knowledge, was amply fed by the
old Marietta Female college from
which she was graduated at the age
of seventeen with first honor. Still
not satisfied she took a post graduate
course one year longer. Her skillful
efficiency for primary work is shown
by the fact that she had special train
ing in the work by Madame Ricall, of
New York city, author of Appleton’s
charts. Her first experience teaching
was at the Rhineheart Normal college,
[ Walesea, another Methodist college
that for ten years has done incalcula
ble good for that section of the
country.
I After leaving there she taught
four years in the Etowah Military
Institute of Canton, Ga., another
excellent school of high grade. She
then continued her chosen work with
four terms in the Stilesboro school.
At present united in strength, sym
pathy and love with the energetic
and worthy president of Fairmount
college, she is still brightening her
bright record as one of the ablest
primary teachers in this country and
demonstrating the fact that a man
and woman with congenial minds
and like purposes can more efficiently
and more pleasantly carry out their
life work when united love has given
them the additional strength of
sympathy and cheer.
GERMANY IS GROWING.
Latest Census Shown a Remarkable In
crease In Population.
Germany takes a census population
every five years, and tiie results of that
taken last year, just made public, have
caused much surprise and gratification,
for they show, notwithstanding com
plaints cf agricultural and manufactur
ing depression, that the population lias
increased more rapidly than in any five
years’ period since the foundation of
the empire, being 52,244,503 last De
cember, an increase of 2,316,027, or
1.14 per cent per year.
These figures and other items cf in
terest culled from the census tables are
furnished the department of state by
United States Commercial Agent Thom
as Moore at Weimar, and lie says that
a striking illustration of the increase in
population is afforded by a comparison
witli the French census, which shows
that the increase of population in
France in tiie same five years’ period
was but 124,000. In this disparity the
Germans see a reason for t lie entertain
ment of a less warlike feeling by cer
tain classes in France, which therefore
tends to insure tiie peace of Europe.
Silver Lining to a Dark Cloud.
It is reported that in two minutes
from the time theccllision alarm av.«.ke
the slumbi ring crew Gil the Columbia
when the Wyanoke ran into her every
man was at his station, tiie boats wore
nitumed and lowered and nt their work
c.f rescue. It is such admirable disci
pline as this that assures tiie American
peojilc that their splendid new warships
arc in good hands.—Boston Journal
W. P. SIMPSON, Pres. I. I). FORI), Vice-Pres. T. J. SIMPSON, Cashier
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