Early Days in Franklin County

Compiled by B.F. Hicks, this is a collection of articles and personal recollections of Franklin County from the turn of the century. In the Introduction, Mr. Hicks remarks: We are fortunate in having the complete files of the town's newspaper since its founding in 1909. In 1929, Col. Dan T. Bolin published a series of articles on Early Days in Franklin County. They are phenomenal. Col. Bolin was past sixty when he wrote the articles as a celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the organization of the county; he had a great recall and wrote with style. We have not changed the spelling of names as used in any of the articles. There are discrepancies in spellings, but people changed the spelling of their own names and we are not sure whether the spellings used by the authors are correct or not; the articles appear as originally type-set.

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