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THE SICK ... (Unavoidably omitted last week) Angel CUnlc Roy Arnold, o f Franklin, ad mitted for surgery. Hubert West, of Franklin, ad mitted for surgery. Miss Louise Jones, of Cowee. underwent surgery last Tuesday. Master Harold Ammons, of Ellljay, admitted for treatment. Orady Franks, of Franklin, underwent surgery Thursday. Mrs. Maude Talley, of High lands, underwent surgery Mon day. Mrs. Lou Davenport, of Frank lin and Shooting Creek, admit ted for treatment. Orady Cowart, of Prentiss, ad mitted for treatment. Mrs. Hattle Oreenwood, Frank lin. Route 1, admitted I or treat ment. Ronald Elliott, of Franklin and Robbinsville, admitted for Eur gery. Mrs. Maude Tallent. or 3ur~ lngtown, discharged to her home after treatment.' Robert Davis, of FrsnUlln, ac mitted for surgery. Mrs. Lesa Gibson, o 2 Franklin, admitted for treatment ]* SPECIAL a. _ ' because it's n Premium Flavor Coffee! Mrs. Bonnie Williams, of Frank- 1 Un. admitted (or treatment. |i Miss Thelma Tallent, of Frank- < Un and Gastonia. underwent sur gery Sunday. Hubert Pen'.and. of Scaly, ad mitted fo- treatment. Paul ? Gibson, of Cu'.lasaja, au \ mitted for surgery. Angel Hospital Mrs. Ccne Ray ( .iek, oi Franklin, ?.cule I, has been dis charged as improved following treatment. Sam W. Higdon. of Franklin has been discharged as improved j following treatment. Miss Patricia Ann Gibson, of Franklin, Route 4, is a patient for treatment. Mrs. Raymond Nelson Brittian, I of Franklin. Route 3, has been discharged as improved following surgery. Roy J. Collier, of Franklin, ! Route 1. is Improving following surgery. Mrs. Floyd Crane, of Hlghlans. Is improving following surgery. Weaver Shope, of Franklin. Is a | patient for treatment. I James Alex McCoy, of Franklin, Route 5, is improving following | surgery. Mrs. Sherman M. Hedden, of Franklin. Route 2, is improving following surgery. Highlands Community Hospital Eb Bumgarner is receiving med- , ical treatment. , W. S. Davis is receiving medical ? treatment. , Geological authorities have con- [ firmed that Michigan's upper peninsula has the oldest coal In the world, aged about 500 million years. This depoist lies just north of Iron River and is reputedly : millions of years older than ony other deposit. FISHING TACKLE THAT WILL CATCH THE FISH A Complete Selection From FLIES To MOTORS and LICENSES See Us For All Needs Western Auto Associate Store Franklin, N. C. settle for a 1949 engine in our new 1955 truck! The most important engine advancement in years is revolutionizing truck power! It's short-stroke design. Make sure you get it in your new truck . . . iQOKMQ&i me hooo/ V. Cheek the i pacifications I If the stroke short as, or shorter than the bore? it's a short - stroke engine. Reduced piston travel cuts friction. Piston rings last up to 53% longer. Gas savings up to one gallon in seven! uts friction, j ONLY FORD gives you a modern Short Stroke engine, V-8 or Six, in every truck! Ford's got four Short Stroke V-8's and a Short Stroke Six . . . with engineering refinements resulting from five billion miles of service! Why settle for an outdated long-stroke engine? A short-stroke engine gives you more for your money now? and protects your truck's ultimate trade-in value, too! fall us now! Ford Tr||>je Economy Trucks AfO/VMK MAKERS FOG 'SS CONLEY MOTOR COMPANY Phone 69 Franklin, N. C Slagle Tells Incidents Of Early Days Here "One of the grandest deeds :ver performed in Macon County was what William Siler did for Indians living in the Cartooge :haye-Wayah area, at the time c? the removal of the Indians to the West", A. B. 'Burt i Slagle told the Franklin Rotary club at its meeting Wednesday night of last week. Mr. Siler deeded them land, so that, when the time came for their removal, they had a legal right to stay. A government representative urged them to go West with the other Indians, and finally appeal ed to the chief, whose English name was Jim Peckerwood. Mr Slagle said. Jim listened in silence to the government man's long, flowery harangue. When it was finished, the old Indian replied: "In sight of these mountains I have lived; in sight of these mountains I will die. My speech is ended." Discussing other local history. Mr. Slagle told of the early sur veys. First, only the valleys were surveyed. Later, an entrytaker's office was established, and "then there was a mess". He said some pieces of land were "three-deep in grants, while adjoining areas of 100 acres or more were never granted". The first plan was to build the county seat on the Watauga plains, about where Walter Gib son lives, but the present loe<i tion was finally selected. Before the establishment of a county government here in 1829 all legal business of local resi dents had to be transacted in Hay wood County. Mr. Slagle recalled an incident of his boyhood, when Dr. C. I). Smith, local minister and author of a Brief History of Macon Coun ty, broke his leg, while in the Black Gap section, and how Mr Slagle's father, Charles W. Slagle. and Albert Bryson brought the injured man to Franklin in a horse-drawn hack. The original courthouse here. Mr. Slagle said, was built by Co'.. David Coleman for $3800. The pre sent one. started in 1881, cost $10,500 ? for a part of which sum the county had to give th builders notes. The new buil "' was formally accepted Jap.u? 29. 1883. "Old Dr. Lyle" is sak to have placed a quart bo'tli of whiskey somewhere in the wall" the speaker related. Franklin's first bank was '?> lished in 1903. with a capita of S10.000. Mr. Slagle recalled George A. Jones was president and J. G. Silcr cashier. That same year the liatior t . pensary here was voted ou . prohibition adopted. The first train to ent.r tut county 'from the south i *.vrs a work train, owing the counr.i line May 9, 1306. The T? V.iiai. Falls lire v.a ; completed li, ? . v year. The Methodise church i : what is now the Franklin T, for operation a= a subsci.; school. The first principal was the Rev. Prank Siler. Mr. Slagle pointed out that one room in his camp is made of logs from the house in which Weimar Siler, father of four brothers ?h? were among the county's first set tlers. lived, near the Maxwell School site. The logs are now at. least 130 years old. In concluding his tallc on the county's history, Mr. Slagle passed around, for members to see, &. knife said to have been carried in his boot by Capt.. William Add ington during the Civil War. According to the Sport Pishing Institute of Washington. D. C. 'more pounds of fish per sport fisherman are caught in the ocean waters of southeastern North Carolina than in any other coast al region of the United States." 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