MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPERS -- MISC. LOCAL AFFAIRS, SEPT 1891 A

LOCAL AFFAIRS PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, Sept. 23, 1891 - Vol. VI, No. 27

- A few days ago, Mr. Zeb Waldroop killed on upper Nantahala thirty-four
rattlesnakes - four large ones and thirty young ones. 

- Dr. and Mrs. B.B. Lenoir, of Lenoir's Tenn., will arrive in Franklin this
week on a short visit to their son, Mr. W.B. Lenoir. 

- Mr. Will C. Brittain, of Dillsboro, came over Saturday and spent Sunday in
Franklin, he and his sister, Miss Launa, returning Monday. 

- Mr. Douglas Rankin started a small canning factory this summer and has put
up about two thousand cans of peaches and tomatoes.  He expects to enlarge his
business next year. 

- Mr. J.E. Angel brought to the PRESS office this week a pair of the finest
peaches we have ever seen. They are of the Scott's October variety, weigh
three-quarters of a pound each and literally melt in the mouth. 

- Mr. N.G. Allman has vacated the store building on the hotel property
recently sold to Bishop Lyman and the Franklin Furniture Company has the
contract to paint, put in doors and windows and fix it up for a school
building. 

- Mr. W.B. Lenoir, editor of the MONROE DEMOCRAT, Sweetwater, Tenn., and Mr.
E.H. Hugher, of Baltimore, are taking in the mountains of Western North
Carolina on horseback. They are these guests this week of Mr. W.B. Lenoir. 

- We regret to hear of the death of B.W. Justus, Esq., of the lower edge of
the county, which took place on Wednesday of last week of pneumonia fever. Mr.
Justus was a promising young man, 27 years of age, and a Justice of the Peace
for Macon County. 

- Miss Ida Scruggs of Rabun Gap, Ga., is spending a week visiting the family
of the editor while her school is taking fodder vacation. Miss Ida was one of
the brightest students of the Young Harris Institute, Metyeire, Ga., last
year, especially in the languages. 

- Mr. R.L. Porter has bought of Mr. John B. Cunningham his home place on the
east side of the river and Mr. Cunningham has bought of Mr. Porter the house
known as the Jesse Robinson house, near Mrs. P.C. Gaston's. Mr. Cunningham has
had his house repaired, his yard graded and a very neat picket fence put in
front and move into it yesterday. 

- CLAYTON, RABUN Co., GA -- September 21 -- Mr. E.M. Rogers, of Blairsville,
Ga., committed suicide last Saturday night by taking poison of some kind. He
had threatened on Saturday evening that he intended to kill himself, but as he
was drinking some no one seemed to give any attention to the threats. Sunday
morning he was found in a sitting posture on the steps of the court house
dead.  He was about 35 years of age and unmarried, and no cause is assigned
for the rash deed.  

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