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

LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, May 13, 1891 - Vol. VI, #8

- George Tilson was in town this week. 

- Mr. W.R. Johnston is at home on a short visit. 

- Workmen are remodelling the belfry on the Methodist church. 

- The Jolly Tramp is the latest from Judge's Library, and jolly it is. 

- Rev. J.A. Deal left yesterday to attend the Episcopal Convention at
Asheville. 

- Misses Jessie Rogers and Nora Welch, two of Waynesville's most charming
belles, are visiting in Franklin. 

- Jr. Jesse S. Moore left Monday for a business trip South, to be gone some
time. The good wishes of the PRESS go with him. 

- The annual commencement exercises of the Cullowhee High School begin today.
Rev. J.H. Weaver is to preach the commencement sermon. 

- Last Sunday as Rev. James Bristol Co., was going to church his horse became
frightened at an umbrella and ran away, doing considerable damage to his
buggy. 

- We were gratified to have Mr. T. Baxter White, of Highlands, spend a night
with us while attending court last week. Mr. White is a very intelligent and
good citizen of the "Gem of the Mountains."

- The Franklin High School Nine and the Burningtown Rough and Ready Nine will
have a match game of baseball near Iotla Ford, four miles below Franklin, next
Friday afternoon, to which all are invited. 

- A light frost on the morning of the 6th and a heavier one of the 7th did a
great amount of injury in some places to potatoes, peaches, apples and beans.
It is feared that the fruit crops are ruined and early wheat slightly damaged
in places. 

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