MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPERS -- HIGHLANDS ITEMS, MAR 1891

HIGHLANDS ITEMS (Local Affairs) PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, MAR. 11, 1891
- Vol. V, No. 51

- The Highlands Horticultural Society has been formed with Dr. O'Farrell as
President and J.B Smith as Corresponding Secretary. A goodly number have
joined and it starts off under flattering prospects. At the last meeting, J.B.
Smith read an elaborate and instructive paper on the scab on fruit trees. Mr.
Smith also read a letter from W.F. Massey, President N.C. Agricultural
Experiment Station, who expressed his willingnesses to address the society at
some future day. 

- Miss Laura G. Kibbee is teaching elocution in Florence, S.C.

- Highlands has suffered some inconvenience from high water. 

- A new bridge is to be built at once over the Chatooga river, which divides
South Carolina and Georgia. Our people have subscribed. Mr. Rideout subscribed
a liberal amount and wrote against his name, 'Given out of charity to a State
not able to build it's own bridges."

- Miss Girtie Cobb has gone to Atlanta to study music at the Washington
Seminary. She will give most of her attention to the piano. 

- Dr. Eugene M. Aaron is visiting his father and mother. He has just returned
from Jamaica, where he has been spending a few months. He delivered a course
of lectures at Kingston which were highly prized.  The University of Jamaica
conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.  he is the son of Prof.
Chas. E. Aaron.  Prof. Aaron is the gentleman referred to in these items last
summer, who had taken up his residence here, from Philadelphia where he had
spent twenty years teaching. 

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