MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPER ITEMS -- LOCAL AFFAIRS, DEC 1893a LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, Dec. 13, 1893 - Vol. VIII, No. 9 - Remember January 1st. - To whom does Bingo belong, anyhow? - Hon. Kope Elias returned to Asheville last Thursday. - Miss Allie Caler has a very serious attack of typhoid fever. - The new circuit preacher for Clayton circuit is W.L. Singleton. - Our wedding stationery is very nice boys, call in if you need any. - Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jno. O. Harrison on last Friday morning, a son. - A Mr. Lapham from Wilmington, Del., was in town the latter part of last week. - We are sorry to learn of the death of Mr. John Morrison, a prominent citizen of Cowee Township. - If the Confederate soldiers and windows will call on the Register of Deeds, they can get their pension checks. - Men pay for eating, pay for drink Pay, when they cut a caper; Yes, pay for everything on earth, Except their county paper. - Married Dec. 3, 1893, at the residence of M.A. Raby in Cowee Township by Rev. W.R. Rickman, J.E. Potts to Miss Isabel Raby. - Louie Love came in Thursday from the University at Chapel Hill. He is home for the holidays and expects to return after Christmas. - Rev. D.H. Comann informs us that Rev. Mr. Carver, our new preacher, will be in Franklin the last of this week, and that he has a wife and two children. - We learn that Mr. W.J. West arrived home Saturday evening from Oklahoma. He expects to return to the Territory after spending the holidays with his family. - The funeral of Mrs. Geo. A. Jones took place at 2 o'clock last Wednesday, the services being conducted by Dr. C.D. Smith. She was buried in the Methodist cemetery. - Rev. R.H. Parker, late of the Carolina conference, the new presiding elder of the Franklin district, was in the city last night on his way to his new field of work. -- ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. - The Commissioners of Jackson are advertising for scaled bids for building a new jail at Webster. The bids will be opened and considered at the regular meeting the first MOnday in February. - When a delinquent subscriber tells us he has no corn nor pork to sell to pay his subscription, and then brings corn and park in and sells to merchants, we think he ought to read the 5th chapter of The Acts. - Mr. D.E. Cunningham, of Asheville, who has been here several months building a dwelling for F.S. Johnston, Esq., left last Friday for his home. He is a good workman and has done a neat job here. - On Tuesday morning of last week the central part of the State had snow ranging from 7 inches deep at Hillsboro to 2 inches at Raleigh. We had no snow but the trees were heavily covered with hoar-frost. - Mr. A. Don Towns, of Albany, Ga., has been employed on the Cherokee Scout, and editor Meroney now proposes to visit the people of "different sections of the country and partake of the hospitality of the many friends of the Scout." - Messrs. Lee Barnard and Frank Williams arrived home from Kentucky last week to spend the holidays. They expect to return to the Land of Bourbon about the first of January. THey are lavish in their praises of Old Kentucky's specialty. - Rev. W.G. Mallonee was to have left yesterday for his new field of labor in Gaston county. Mr. Mallonee is a good worker and has done much good during his four years work on the Macon circuit, and many regret to know that he must leave Macon. - We were glad to learn Saturday that Miss Jennie Wood, who has been so severely afflicted for more than a year, was going very well and improving. Her life has been despaired of several times, and only a week before Saturday she was dangerously ill. - The Charlotte Chronicle says: Representative Crawford has prepared no amendment but reserves the right to offer them. He says his people are seriously affected by the putting of mica and kaolin on the free list. His only timber interest affected is poplar. - A handsome new hotel out the Higdon lot in place of the old store building would be an ornament to the town, a bonanza to the owner and a benefit to the whole community. It is a beautiful and convenient location for a first class hotel which could be filled with boarders during the summer and have many in winter. - Rev. D.H. Comann leaves us today for his work on the Canton circuit. For three years he has been with us, and during that time he has preached many good and very interesting sermons. He is a close Bible student and we congratulate the people of the Canton circuit in having so good a preacher to work for them during the next year. - Mr. R.A. Wood received letters giving further intelligence of the killing of his brother in New Orleans recently. He was chief of police at Forney, Tex., and had followed a man charged with murder to New Orleans to arrest him when he was shot by the man and died within one hour. The murderer is in jail. Mr. Wood also received the intelligence that his brother's wife was about to die, and a request to go to Forney at once. He left Monday for Texas. ------THE PREACHERS-------- Below we give the appointments of the preachers best known here, and those assigned to our immediate vicinity: Greensboro District -- J.H. Weaver, P.E. Franklin District -- R.H. Parker, P.E. Statesville St. -- J.C. Rowe Lenoir Station -- J.O. Shelly Franklin Station -- D.F. Carver Franklin Circuit -- T.B. Johnson Macon Circuit -- J.W. Bowman Canton Circuit -- D.H. Comann Webster Circuit -- T.B. McCurdy Hayesville Ct. -- A.W. Jacobs Murphy Station -- L.T. Cordell Bryson City St. -- T.T. Salyer Salisbury ST. -- W.H. Leith Bethel St. Asheville -- T.F. Marr Brevard Circuit -- E. Myers Shelby Station -- W.R. Barnett McAdensville Ct. -- W.G. Mallonee ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joanna Loops thefamilyorchard@earthlink.net ___________________________________________________________________