Show facts fact from franklin EDITOR JOURNAL I 1 pen you a few words from franklin cold weather isI is breaking up and t today oda y it is warm and sunshiny oy with the snow melting very fast and the roads wet and muddy the travel ing is not very good neither lor for sleighs or wagons A franklin is booming we have another blacksmith chop in town and soon boon we ave will have a millinery store and a creamery the property of the oneida mercantile union monson brothers saw mill will soon be running that is 18 if uncle sam will nill let them times are dull and money scarce except with those w who ho are around trying to buy horned stock for less than they are worth hay is very scarce and stock in a bad fix there is is nothing for them to eat and there is toa much banow in the mountains to turn them out sheep owners are in a bad fix and the stores are not doin doing as well as they did awhile back produce is most all sold and people have bothin no nothing thin to trade hope brother Broth tir hicks or some other prophetic brother will have a heart and give us a change 0 of weather then we will have some hope of a change of business for the better As I 1 paid faid in the commencement franklin Yr franklin anklin is booming yes bloomin booming g in in casualties why only 1 last ast monday our worthy merchant mr 2 W V T L webster fr was very nearly sent to kin kingdom kindom dom come As be was plodding aloni along 0 between the union and hill brothers stores it happened thata that a horse was tied to a telegraph pole meditating on oil the I 1 possibility of living a little longer 0 without hay when mr webster was passing a behind the horse the meditating brute siw saw that there was no hay coining and he very suddenly threw his ears back and his s heels flew oat and mr webster f found 0 u nd himself on his back in the mud parties ran to him and picked him up in an unconscious alons i mate late lie he soon recovered buti but I 1 tell you his color co was changed and well it might bo be for it was a narrow escape from sudden death the horse looked as innocent as a billy copt at a revival meeting on the same day a fire broke out in mrs martha nases house about noon mrs nash was sick in bell bed and her children all out but the youngest you haest a little girl A young girl giri nho was doing housework house bouse work was in the kitchen she went to a breall clothes closet and opened the door when smoke and flame burst out soon the house was all ablaze it happened that there was a water meeting in town and a food many people was gathered when the word came to them that mrs nases house was on fire they all rushed as fast as horses could tak take them ethem and arriving z at the file they fought man manfully f u lly with the foe and finally conquered it they saved one part of the house but the roof will wing a and nd upper floor ot of the other was destroyed As soon as the fire was out a couple of hanks and carl smith started a subscription list to help to replace the house and today a number of men are at work and will soon han hae a it up A good many have donated very liberally and great credit is due the promoters of the action an and 1 those who responded to the worthy call brother anasis and sister nash cannot express ex press their gratitude in words but pay may god bi bless sa all that have given a helping ini hand there was wag a little loss in ill tiie the childrens childr cud ClOt clothing biDo also in some of the furniture which was wag broken up albo stoves but they are thankful that a part of the hue hu e was saved lion hon joseph monson is in town on bus business ineis ile he looks fat but I 1 do not know how saucy he be ii ia put but when your humble servant met him and had a heart hearty v grasp of the hand the fatness was there but lit no DO sauce gaile e with it will write more very shortly ell frankiln Franl clin march 25 1897 |