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From: "Libby Nations" <>
Subject: The Franklin Press, Aug. 22, 1880
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:07:41 -0600


TOM MCCOY is in town

BUD BRYSON is home on a visit.

REV. W.S.P. BRYAN , a presbyterian form Asheville,
has been in town about a week.

MR. W.P;. SILER, of Dallas, Texas, is in Franklin on
a visit to his mother, MRS. M.I. SILER.

MISS L.C.LUTHER has our thanks for a basket of
fine horse apples brought to our office yesterday.

MR. WILLIAM REESE, who lives six miles from town,
had a chicken hatehed on the 11th inst. with four will
developed legs.

We are sorry to hear of the death of little Inez, daughter
of MR. and MRS. W.A. MCCONNELL, of Mt. Airy, Ga.

MR. H.H. HEATON, of Cashier's Valley, is in town and
has made arrangements to enter six or eight children
at the Franklin High School.

DR. and MRS.B.B. LENOIR, of Tennessee, arrived
at the JOHN SILER homestead a few days ago and
will spend several weeks among friends here.

It is with regret that we chronicle the death, on Monday
night, of the youngest child of DR. and MRS. A.C.
BRABSON, a boy two and a half years old.

MESSERS. W.W. and L.J. ZACHARY, of Transylvania,
arrived in town Tuesday - the former on a short visit and
latter to re-enter the Franklin High School.

Smith's Bridge comes to the front again with another
rattlesnake killing. JACK OWENS and others last
week discovered a den and killed 53 rattlesnakes
and pilots

We regret being absent Monday when our office was
favored with a call from our brother quill-driver, MR.
W.B. LENOIR, editor of the Sweetwater Democrat.

Timber has been prepared and hauled to the spot to
put a new bridge across Tennessee river about six
miles south of Franklin, near the MATT DAVES and
TOM VANHOOK farms, a much needed improvement.

MR. LAWRENCE MOORE, son of our clever DR. JOHN
J. MOORE, arrived in town a few days ago from
Eastman College at Poughkepsie, NY, and expects
to remain a few weeks' here before returning to his home
in Texas.

MR. and MRS. F.S. JOHNSTON and MR. MACK
ALLEN and MISS JOHNNY SILER took a trip to Highlands
last saturday, returning Monday. They were delighted
with Highlands, as is every one who visits the place, and
they say the town if flushed with visitors.

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