MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPERS -- LOCAL AFFAIRS, JAN 1893b

LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, Jan. 18, 1893 - Vol.
VII, No. 14

 - !!!!!

 - O-o-o-o-o- !!

 - Cold weather! 

 - This past week has been a hard one. 

 - The PRESS has not said it this spell.

 - Several sleighs were on the streets Monday. 

 - The Road Congress inects in Raleigh tomorrow. 

 - The days have commenced to get longer at both ends. 

 - When the weather gets below zero it is too low to associate with. 

 - The mail carriers have had a hard time of it during the past week. 

 - The ground was covered with several inches of snow last Thursday
morning. 

 - Mr. J.G. Siler has added a mill for grinding cow feed to his plant
near town. 

 - The Hayesville TIMES has gone under, and the late editor is in
another State. 

 - The boys have been indulding in some awkward amateur skating on
Siler's mill pond. 

 - The Grand Lodge last week issued a dispensation for a new masonic
lodge at Dillsboro. 

 - We hope there will be no more weddings till next July if the weather
is affected by them.

 - W.T. Potts will sell you goods cheap for cash or good barter. 

 - Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Daniels returned from Eastern North Carolina last
Thursday evening. 

 - Mr. Sam L. Rogers left for Georgia Wednesday with a few head of
horses and mules for market. 

 - Sheriff C.T. Roane and Mr. T.S. Munday came across Nantahala
mountain from Aquone last Saturday in the snow storm. 

 - We learn that Gov. Hold has appointed Hon. K. Elias as delegate to
the State Public Road Congress to meet in Raleigh tomorrow. 

 - Mr. Wm. J. Neville, Rabun county's popular and efficient School
Commissioner, spent last Thursday night with Mr. J.S Sloan and family. 

 - Charlie, son of Dr. J.M. Candler, of Dillsboro, had the misfortune
to get his leg broke while coasting down hill on the snow last
Wednesday. 

 - The PRESS office has received a new "Hero" paper cutter from the
Buffalo Newspaper Advertising Agency as a premium, worth $80. It works
finely. 

 - A special from Highlands last Saturday stated "The weather is
hellish up here, thermometer 10 below zero". We thought the weather was
reaching toward the extreme. 

 - The many friends of Capt. Wm. J. Neville, of Walhalla, SC, will
regret to learn that he was striken with paralysis on Sunday evening,
8th inst. His left side was paralyzed. 

 - Mr. R.Q. McCracken, of Haywood county, came over last week for the
purpose of buying some beef cattle. He left on horseback at 4 o'clock
Monday morning for Dillsboro, notwithstanding the deep snow and
especially cold weather. 

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