ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE
AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
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Vol. 11. Est. 1-31-28
“CURF" REPORTER
This is fair weather with fairs
in progress or preparations being
made for them. Polk County’s
Apple Show at Saluda is getting
to be a big event and Saluda is
making a name for herself
The Rutherford County Fair at
Rutherfordton this week is draw
ing crowds . . . .* The Cleveland
County Fair next week beginning
on Tuesday is one of the biggest
in the Southeast. Next on the
program will be the Spartanburg
Fair to which hundreds of Polk
county people go each year ....
This mystery radio control box at
Avant’s reminds me of the myster
ious new ways of lighting as
demonstrated at the lighting expo
sition put on by the Duke Power
\Company in Spartanburg last
week. Under certain conditions
a man carried around in his hand
a lighted electric lamp that was
not connected with any wires. A
demonstration also showed that
direct sun light had 10,000 candle
power, the light under a tree
1,000 candle power, on the shady
side of a budding 500 candle power,
inside a room next to window, 100
candle power, and farther away
into the room it diminishes to 5
candle power. Life is worth living
just to see what is going to happen
next. A life devoted to service
brings happiness and gives hap
piness . . . . Beecher said, “De-
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TRYON, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPT.
Columbus to Be Hosts
To K. M. Presbytery
By Geo. C. Dedmondt
The Columbus Presbyterian
church will be host to the Kings
Mountain Presbytery which will
meet next Tuesday, September 27,
for the regular meeting of that
body. About 75 to 80 ministers
and laymen will attend. Each
church is entitled to send one Elder
and its minister to these business
sessions of the Presbytery which
alternates its meetings among the
different churches. This Presby
tery is composed of the counties
from Gaston on the Southeast to
Polk on the Northwest end. Prom
inent churchmen of the Synod of
North Carolina in addition to those
of the local Presbytery will attend,
and services for the public will be
had at 11 a. m., and at 7:30 p.
m. There will also be a district
meeting of the ladies of the Aux
iliary in the afternoon.
WHO’S WHO
The Asheville Citizen this morn
ing reported that a preview of
the new Who’s Who of America had
84 Western North Carolina people
listed in it. Tryon was second to
Asheville in having the largest
number and even then either the
Citizen or Who’s Who left out a
good many that should be in there.
The Citizen reported the following:
George C. Aid, artist; Margaret
C. Banning, author; Raymond
Dodge, psychology; David L. Ed
sall, M. D.; Edward W. Frost,
lawyer; Anne B. Greene, author;
Clarence A. Lightner, lawyer;
Lawrence Mazzanovich, painter;
and Bishop Frank H. Touret.
23, 1938