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

LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, MAR. 11, 1891 - Vol. V, No. 51

- A big lot of Kentucky Clover Seeds at Jarrett's.

- Mr. J. Johnston has given his front fence a new coating of white. 

- Since the 1st day of last December there have been sixty-four rainy days. 

- Solicitor Geo. A. Jones returned home from his circuit last Wednesday
evening. 

- Messrs. S.H. Allison and Ed. England, of Clay county, were in town Tuesday. 

- We regret to learn that Mr. W.R. Stalleup is quite unwell with an attack of
la grippe. 

- Hon. Kope Elias wen over to Clay last Thursday on a business trip and
returned yesterday. 

- Charley Smith's new sign attracts attention. He disowns that part on the
bottom of the jug. 

- The high waters and bad roads prevented the arrival of mails on nearly all
the routes last Monday. 

- Mrs. R.H. Jarrett who has been quite sick more than a week, we are glad to
note is able to be out again. 

- Mr. W.T. Cabe bid off the contract to build the bridge across Tennessee
river at the mouth of Sugarfork at $109.50

- We are very sorry to learn that Mrs. W.H. Higdon and Mrs. Geo. A. Jones are
quite sick, but hope for their early recovery. 

- Mr. Henry Love who was so severely burned last Wednesday morning died Friday
morning after two days great suffering. 

- Mr. E.W. Hollies, of Brookville, Kansas, was in town Thursday. He is
travelling in the interest of the Congregationalists in building up schools
among the poor. 

- Hon. J. Frank Ray arrived home from the legislature last (Tuesday) night. He
had to walk fifteen miles from Balsam to Dillsboro on account of a slide on
the W.N.C.R.R.

- Mr. Geo. A Jones, like the rich man of old, is tearing down his old barn and
building a new one. We hope he is not actuated by the same motives and will
not meet the same fate of the rich man. 

- A.L. Dillard, Sheriff of Rabun county, Ga., was in town Monday. He informed
us that Thomas Wilburn and George Ball broke out of Clayton jail last Saturday
night, and made their escape. They were in jail for breaking into Mr. J.B.
Dillard's mill and stealing some meal in January. 

- Mr. E.N. Warner, of Michigan, called in to see us today. He has come south
for the benefit of his health and is stopping with Mr. Geo. A Jacobs, of
Cullasaja, for the present. He expresses himself as being quite well pleased
with our section. 

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