MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPER ITEMS -- LOCAL AFFAIRS, MAY 1892

LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, May 25, 1892 - Vol. VII, No. 10

- Mrs. N.L. Barnard, of Iotla, is visiting friends in Buncombe [county NC]. 

- Mrs. Pierson and Mrs. Staub, of Highlands, were in town Friday. 

- The merchants of Franklin should form an anti-advertising society. 

- O.B. Coward, of Webster, NC, was at the Franklin House Sunday. 

- We have had several days of very cool weather during the past week. 

- There is a new girl in town and Rev. S.H. Harrington is the happy father. 

- W.W. Helm, of Newport, KY, dined at the Franklin House Monday. 

- There was considerable hail in different parts of the county Sunday evening.


- Leon W. Sensabaugh, of Strawberry Plains, Tenn., was in town Monday. 

- Messrs. R.H. Perry, A.E. and H.S. Probasco, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
registered at the Allman House from Saturday to Monday. 

- Judge J.C.L. Gudger, of Waynesville, was in town Thursday on business, and
made his headquarters at the Allman House. 

- Mrs. F.S. Johnston left Thursday to visit relatives in Georgia and will
remain six or seven weeks. In the meantime, Fred will be sad and lonely. 

- We acknowledge through the courtesy of Mr. Geo. H. Carpenter, an invitation
to attend the commencement exercises of the State University at Chapel Hill. 

- We had a pleasant call from two very handsome young ladies on Tuesday,
Misses Lucille Barnard and Addie Ray, who are attending the Franklin High
SChool.  It is pleasant to receive such calls. Hope they will come often and
stay longer. 

- Mr. W.A. Garland who is attending Wake Forest College has been awarded a $95
bycicle by the Pope Manufacturing Co., of Boston, Mass., for writing and
having published the best article in the State on "Good Roads." His subject
was "The Advantages of Good Roads."

- We are under obligations to Hon. Tom L. Johnson, of Ohio, for copies of
speeches delivered in the House of Representatives, containing those chapters
from Henry, George's book on Protection vs. Free Trade, which were
incorporated in the speeches, under the privilege to print. 

- We have heard some talk during the last week of building a fine new hotel in
town. The plans have been drawn and the matter is under consideration. We hope
it will take definite shape soon. No better investment could be made, and it
would give Franklin an impetus that would lend to other great improvements. 

- Capt. G.W. Graves, a retired army officer of England, spent a few days of
last week in our town, and made the PRESS office a pleasant call. The Capt. is
an intelligent, courteous gentleman and possesses the happy tact of impressing
one favorably upon first introduction, an impression  that grows with
acquaintance. He has purchased property at Murphy [Cherokee Co, NC] where he
has been residing since 1887, but on account of his position and financial
interests in England he has not taken out naturalization papers in America.
Henceforth the Capt. will be a reader of the PRESS.  

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