MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPERS -- LOCAL AFFAIRS, FEB 1893c

LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, Feb. 15, 1893 - Vol. VII, 
No. 18

- The weather has been on a tare.

- W.L. shope, of Asheville, is in town. 

- Mr. J.A. Franks, of Bryson City, was in town yesterday. 

- Messrs. A.S. Bryson and W.R. Johnston are home for a few days. 

- Born Saturday night, Feb. 11th, to Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Franks, a son. 

- For sale, my house and lot in Franklin. -- C.C. Smith

- P.P. Fletcher, of Sylva, spent a couple of days at the Allman House last
week. 

- A drummer has given the editor of the Scout a pocket-knife and he is
supremely happy. 

- One of the "oldest inhabitants" has fixed the date of the "Cold Saturday" as
Feb. 7th, 1835. 

- Mr. A.S. Bryson has received a pair of fine, thoroughbred Berkshire pigs, 3
months old, which are beauties. 

- W.P. Pullman, of Morristown, Tenn., and Chas. L. Sluder, of Asheville, were
at the Franklin House last week. 

- Married, at White-oak Flats, Feb. 7, 1893, Wm. Fouts, aged 83, and Mary
Anderson, aged 45, S.J. May, Esq., officiating. 

- There are numbers of families in Macon county who are entirely too poor to
take the PRESS and pay for it, yet support from two to six worthless dogs. 

- Rev. John S. Smiley, of Swain county, called on us Saturday and spent an
hour in pleasant conversation and enrolled his name on our subscription list. 

- Mr. Benj. Titsworth, of Tennessee, arrived Saturday evening on a visit to
his brother, Mr. M.M. Titsworth, who is very low with consumption at Mr. D.C.
Cunningham's. 

- Hugh A. Murrill has sold the Hickory Press and Carolinian to Col. Marcellus
E. Thornton, an old newspaper man, of Georgia. Col. Thornton took charge of
the paper this week. 

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