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fJHE FRANKLIN PRESS Friday, June 27, 1924 CLIPPINGS FROM AN OLD PAPER Interesting Bits of History Gathered From Copies of Papers Published in Years Now Gone By. The following items are clipped from The Franklin Press for April 2i, 1890. At that time the. paper was published by Mr. V. A. Curtis who was publisher of the Press until his death in 1910. . The' dogwood blooms decorate the J' hillsides now. Mr. X. ' L. ' Whit:ombe, of Kllijay, gave us a call last Saturday.. ' v', , Dr. W. H. Higgins was made happy last Thursday by the arrival of a tine boy. . ' Mr. A. S. Bryson spent a few days at home durng the past week and left Monday. Messrs. V. W. and J. N. Zachary of- Brevard, were, at the Allman House. Thursday night. Mr.' H. H. Webb left' Monday morning for Asheville oh a combined business and pleasure trip. Prof, Wm. Beai, of Murphy, spent Sunday night in Franklin. He was on his way to' Webster court. W. J. Jenkins, Esq., of West's Mill called in to see us last Saturday and talked of natters in general. Mr. A. P. Munday returned from Aquone last Friday, and we are glad to note that he is greatly mpfoved in health. A telegram received here from Bryson City Tuesday evening stated: "11. G. Trotter's store and contents, on Alarka, were burned this morn- S. J. May, Esq., of Briartown, spent two days in town last week and called iii to see us. He is one of our clever Republican subscribers and a man of progressive ideas of business. Mr. Ralph Beal .came over from Murphy last Saturday., and returned Monday with his two sisters, Misses Anna and Mary, who have been .spending several weeks in Macon visiting friends and relatives. Their little cousin, asther Morgan, returned with them for a visit' of several months. ' Died, in Sugarfork. township, last Tuesday of bronchial trouble and la grippe, Mrs. Mary Arnold, wife of Wm. Arnold, aged 72 years. She was buried at Sugarfork Baptist church yesterday. " Teir.pcrate Ben Franklin. The iui,.i(l th'it can confuse Poor K:;!sar.r -,i;:dy bu;::i;rmis plea for It nipunuii'c ' with advocacy of prohi bi'ii.ii is lit:!'' likely to rejoice in ir.M'iic subtleties; yet it may well consider a ccrt.tin anecdote of-Frank-linV life in ' England, if only as-u paralytic tries calisthenics. .During a visit in 'a country house the com pany at dinner found a fly in a de canter i of Madeira fresh from the cask. Reminded of the popular be lief that a tfy thus sepulchred would come t o: life when placed in the sun the ever-curious philosopher took it to a fountain in the garden and placed it on the sun-baked marble. To the delight of all,, it revived and somewhat unsteadily crawled away. Did Dr. Franklin admonish his fellow-guests ; that except for its soaking in wine, Musca dbmestica would not have been disgraced by the conduct of its many legs? Not he, His imagination kindled in a spirit of emulation. He remarked that no fate could beTkindlier than to be pickled for a century or two in sound wine and then to wake up in a sunlit' garden to the tune of splashing water and look., abroad upon a new and better world. If Dr. franklin were to walk forth today. from his butt of Madeira, un doubtedly lie would', be staggered. But it would not be altogether be cause his bones had been pickled in alcohol. For his kite and key we could give him electric light, the tele graph, the telephone, wireless. For Bushnell's "submerged boat" of 1775 we could give him. the submarine. For James Rumsey's steamboat (which in 1736 Washington looked to 'as mak ing navigation possible beyond the Alleghanies and which Franklin shrewdly scorned) we -could give him the railway and the transatlantic liner. Then .we could show him the aeroplane, ,-urpassing all credulity of sober minds. Doubtless his knees would give way, but his mind would remain constant. But when we pro ceeded to take away his butt of Ma deira and present him with prohibi tion, it is to b" feared that the seat of reason would totter, more helpless ly than the eighteenth century. fly on the' margin of the fountain. Ex. , '. Piety and Puritans. Piety is indifferent whether she en ters a the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The puritans forgot this, and thrust beauty out of the meeting house and slammed the door in her face. James Russell Lowell. YQU.-P-AY' FOR m Why not get the best that can be put into it?, If you buy Beechnut . Del Monte Gold Bar Silver Bar , Sweet Violet Campbell's White House Maxwell House You get the Best. For the best groceries and quick delivery, call A SLOAN BROS, & CO , . Phone 85 "... . Where Quality and Price Reign Corrected. A zealous but untrained reformer had obtained permission' to speak at the county jail. ."Brothers," he pleaded with them, "lose no time in turning to the path way of righteousness. Remember we are here today and gone tomorrow."' Gloomy voice from the rear:, "I've got eighteen years here yet." -H ii - R. L. SMART General Merchandise LIVE STOCK OTTO, N. C Buy tan bark, pulp wood, chick ens, eggs and other produce. See Me For Bargains. Tour Ear! While Other Merchants are Yelling . SLACK BUS! Bill Cunningham is putting on EXTRA HELP and buying heavier than ever before. And you don't have to go out into the brush to find the reason. My policy of selling for CASH, of accepting the short profit and turning my money every three months, of passing the saving to my customers when I make a good buy, of meetirtg the price, quality for quality, of every cata logue house on earth, in a word, of giving the people of Macon County unequalled BARGAINS in every line of merchandise, has built up a patronage that trades with Bill Cunningham good and hard times alike and has found the dollar contains more cents of buying power than it ever before had in any store in Macon County. Ask the man who trades here he will show you a great light. . ' . - ; ' I am now in the Northern markets buying the BIGGEST STOCK of GENERAL MERCHAN DISE ever brought to Franklin. This will consist mainly of Fall and Winter Goods, but will con- tain fill-ins of all mv summer lines. And in the meantime, to make room for the STUPENDOUS jULK of merchandise that is coming, my . clerks have orders to SELL YOU GOODS AT YOUR OWN PRICE Drop in the next time you are in town and see that they do that very thing. And particularlv I want to call vour attention to FRUIT JARS AND WHITE SUGAR As Sandy Munday used to say, Fve "shaded the price" on both of these articles, and I can fix you up at a big saving. The boys will treat you right while I am away. Drop in and make em come across. THE CASH STORE - FilAiiLl i C. BILL CU1IB1 y A mm . it
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