MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPER ITEMS -- HIGHLANDS ITEMS, FEB 1893

HIGHLANDS ITEMS (Local Affairs) PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, Feb.
15, 1893 - Vol. VII, No. 18

HIGHLANDS, MACON CO., NC

The songs of the beautiful birds herald the approach of spring. 

The English sparrows drive away our song birds. Let the boys shoot
them, they make a fine pot-pie. 

Mr. Harbison, the quondam editor of the Mountain Eagle, is traveling
establishing agencies for libraries, music instruments, etc., for a
large firm. His headquarters are at Highlands. Rumor has it that he has
also a dear interest in Highlands. 

Henry Stewart, Jr., is spending the winter at Brooklyn, NY. 

S.T. Kelsey, Jr., proposes soon to take the road for a tobacco house in
Pittsburg. 

Dr. Hartzell and wife, of Cincinnati, have been to the Flats, looking
over the settlement. It is reported he put out some feelers to see how
he could purchase land, with a view of starting a large school. 

The Flats is a most beautiful country, well watered and timbered.  We
remember Dr. Brabson speaking to us in 1876, about the beauty and
desireability of the tract of country known as the Flats of Middle
Creek. It appears that the fame of its beauty has reached the ears of
those that are afar off. The impression got out, that the school was
wanted for the white youth of Western Carolina. 

It would be a shrewd thing for the people of the FLats to let him
select a hundred acres, and make him a present of it. This would proce
another inducement for a railroad through the Rabun Gap. 

Mr. Warren Munger has come from York state to pay his son, William
Munger, a long visit. Mr. munger is a retired locomotive engineer. He
learned about an engine while running a standard in New York. He then
went to Chicago and went into the employ of the Great Western Railroad
Co., working for two years in the round house. He was then given an
engine, where he run as an engineer for eighteen years, leaving the road
when his eye sight failed. He says it takes nerve to be an engineer. He
never got hurt, but has jumped from his engine several times. He says an
engineer must make time. At nigh he has had his head-light go out, and
he has run long distances in the darkness, because of not time to
relight. He has a brother who is a conductor, who has been on the road
for twenty-five years; and another brother, who runs as engineer many
years, but who retired to a farm in Illinois, for which he paid ten
thousand dollars. Mr. Munger says he loves the exciting life of an
engineer, and would be on the rails now if he had good eye sight. He
says to get a position one must stick to one road. He tired for four
years before he got the stationary engine to run. 

BX.

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