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Show Franklin Objects Seriously. She Isn't very large, that's true, but being a county seat, and boasting of a college, several factories, flour mills, railways, interurbans and her lately acquired Masonic home, Franklin feels that she is not a town to be passed lightly by, in fact, she knows her importance, im-portance, and thought that everyone in the state realized it until she was taken down a bit lately. During the big conference of the Methodist churches held recently in the town a meeting of the Indianapolis presbytery was in session at the same time at Hopewell, a country church In a prosperous pros-perous farming community a few miles out. One of the Presbyterian delegates, on leaving the train joined in the throng headed for the Methodist Method-ist church. When it came to registering, regis-tering, some of his inquiries caused someone to suggest that probably he was In the wrong place, and he asked innocently: "Isn't this Hopewell?" "No, this Is Franklin," was the proud reply. Indianapolis News. |