MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPERS -- MISC. LOCAL AFFAIRS, JUNE 1891

LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, June 3, 1891 - Vol. VI, No. 11

- L.H. Burch, of Athens, Ga., is in our county now. 

- Dr. Ed. Webb of Clarkesville, was registered at the Franklin House last
week. 

- E.H. Hunt, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was registered at the Franklin House
Saturday. 

- McClure and Morgan were released from jail yesterday, having served their
sentence of one month. 

- J.L. Humphreys, of Jonesboro, and D.K. Staley, of Knoxville, Tenn., were in
town Monday. 

- Mrs. Addie Hicks, a widow lady living about three miles from town died last
Friday morning of la grippe. 

- Jesse Gregory, a one-armed and one-eyed Confederate soldier, has walked
33,024 miles and carried the U.S. mails within the last six years, and is
still able to walk his thirty miles a day. 

- Rev. Otis L. Jordan, traveling agent for the Western North Carolina
Methodist, was in our town from Saturday till Tuesday, and preached to an
attentive congregation at the Methodist church Sunday night. 

- Our "devil" bought an outfit of fishing tackle last Friday and headed for
the mountains, so if our readers don't get the PRESS on time this week, they
may know that the "devil" is handling angle-worms instead of types. 

- Mrs. James K. Gray, the mother of the late Lieut. Gov. J.L. Robinson, whose
home is on Ellijay, has been spending a few days among her many friends in
Franklin, after returning from a visit to her sister, Mrs. B.K. Dickey, of
Cherokee county. 

- Some boys named Monteit, in Hamburg, Jackson county, a few days ago shot
another boy named Henson out of a tree, he falling about forty feet. The
Monteiths did not know Henson had climbed into the tree to a crow's nest, but
mistook his black hair for a crow and fired.  It is thought Henson will
recover.  

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