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TRYON m Holmes and son return ee, 'Wednesday, fromejorge- K'n' 1' T1 i3onn nttendeda meet" r 1 l icv, r p'nurth Liberty Loan chairmen 'MjX-:rh this week. y x Jackson and daughter M- : u ' .;n Thursday, where left w r t of friends for 1i-lll'VIIla -- ml T guests oi 1., LI Grady and son leave to- Kane .til-3- - ... 41 v- - . T . . I m day for woousty, , .-TV- r man will be placed in mill- ing hool. MissOntauiv, - : - 'tpr Mrs. Greenwood, of Boston; herSs of Mrs. Waterhouse at the ?V loll" cottage. V" Lelia O'Reily has returned Tvvon for an indefinite stay. Miss tjk "s from New York. She is lo- te(Ut Koraima. wVmll. Miss Ravenels, all relatives, now at Miss Ravenel's house. Mrs. Lnpl who has been here a month, left nr ajni"f)'v"i virried. Wednesday, aeptemoer 1 1 rt j 1 lSth viiintt. ot bneioy, in. to J3"'l:i;. i?nndall. of Lvnn Mi .LIllIC J - 1 jlr. James Leonard has 25 or 30 . V.i 1 t l 1 tj li I . hi0oded Knoae isiaau rveu puiieis coiiintr anA ...uw.li he is VlVTO II VUO filing) tlU I vill dispose of them at a very reason able pi"'cc- We are ordered to send the NEWS Mr" Bernice Sharp, at Fort Hua luca Arizona. Mrs. Sharp is the ..jfe of Capt. Sharp, and both she and thp Captain possess many warm admirers' in little old Tryon. Miss Madeline Oliveros isnow hold . ' o"verv important .position in the of Steam Engineering in Bureau H-oiViin?ton, u..u.f navmg ennsiea in -vp Naval Reserve for a term of four veais. tongraLuiaiiuiiii iu iviiss vju veros. Polk county exceeded the estimate as to the number who would register under the recent call. Our estimated number was 822, while the numW lettering was 882. Mr. W. B. 'n is busily engaged in mailing out, the is busily engaged in mailing out tne questionnaires. Mr. Billy Gray left Tryon, Monday, for Parlin New Jersey, to take a po sition under Capt. Novak,-representative of the U. S. Army at the Dupont powder works at that place. Physi cal disability alone prevented the vounff man from more active service in tne nem. A letter received by" Tryon friends announces that Miss Emily Smith has enlisted for four years as yeowoman in the U. S. Navy. Miss Smith is the daughter of Mrs. W. A. Smith, well known in Tryon, and having friends here. Miss Emily is many but 19 les of vpars old. but evidently comes good, genuine American stock. Quite a fair sized crowd assembled at the school house auditorium, Wed nesday night, to hear patriotic ad dresses in the interest of the War Savings Statnp" drive." Judged Webb and Murphv and Hon. J. L. Spainhour made some able and well received ad dresses. At the close of the speaking pledges were asked for, and about S2.7UO.OO were secured in that man ner. The editor and wife acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to repre sent Polk county at a "United War Work Campaign" meeting, but were unable to attend. We are up to our eyes in war work just now, and not able to take up any additional lines, but our heart goes out in syntpathy to the brave, patriotic people "who are engaged in all works of that nature, and wish them God-speed in their un dertakings. The poultry meeting at the school house last Monday was not as well at tended as should have been. Farmers are very busy in their fields, and this coupled with the fact that it was opening day of superior court kept many country people away. Those who did attend, however, were the gainers, as many topics of vital im portance to poultry keepers were dis cussed, and much valuable informa tion was gained. Mr. Edwin Lindsey who has been in attendance at the officers' training camp at Plattsburg, N. Y., has been ordered to report at Camp Zachary Taylor on .September 26th, for duty in heavy artillery service. It is but natural to suspect that' the young man has been awarded a commission, and will enter active training for duty ''over there." His friends in Tryon, find that includes everybody, would be neatly surprised if he had "hot come "t as well as they think he has. Mrs, U. G. Speed arrived last week to look after her estate here and to dispose of its live stock. She was jvithin a block or two of the Federal building when it was dynamited by the I. W. W's. in revenge for the con yiction of Haywood. She got caught ln the rush at the railroad station of people anxious to leave the city for W of further violence. She reports traveling as very disagreeable on ac unt of the crowds and the uncer tainty of securing drawing room and steeping accommodations, even after they are engaged and paid for. mi-. -Merrick left Washington on Saturday, intending to motor to Try- - -rv nine distance irom tne ty jtol hp was found unconscious in the "oad, where in some way unknown he "fln been thrown from his car. He v'&s taken to a hospital "at Washing l0l. His , face waS terribly bruised an(1 cut, but as soon as his wounds Were dressed he determined to come j"1 by train. He wired his,brother-in-jfv. John Landrum, of Greenville,. S. L to meet him there which he did, jnd accompanied him lo Tryon. As s wife is just out of a hospital at nevrlle he refrained from startling 5jet" by a telegram, and her sister, M''s. Landrum came up f ram Green 'Ie to prepare iier mind 'k for "lifer "usband's arrival and disaster. Mr. ll(jved to be seriously hurt. Columbus seems to be having a rrio. opoly on excitement this week. It ;as reported in Tryon, Thursday, jnat Capt. Henry, the military official who presecuted the two soldiers mix ?d up in the breaking in of Skyuka, jaa become involved in a controversy vith Jailer Smith, and that Smith wnt before the grand jury and had the Captain indicted for slander and placed under bond; that Henry in re turn threatens to; have Smith arrest--'m Jntfeniig With a commission ed officer; orhe U.S. armyin thrtfis cbarge of his dutfrj whicK.js a very senous-offence with Uncle SamWe hope peace will soon be declared and a treaty entered into whereby Cap tain Henry will be returned to mili tary duty and Mr. Smith allowed to enjoy the 'life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" guaranteed him hv thp constitution of the United States, and -1 . , - - v-. kJWV.O. dill ..ijiwi uxttve captain is oner his lfe and sword in defense. w. s. S STAMP SALES , Tryon merchants havesold the fol lowing amounts of War Savings since last report: E. E. Missildine $235.00 Ballenger Co 100.OO TV ' Wllhams 16.50 John Orr 4 00 Total $391.00 W. S. 8. JUNIOR DEPARTMENT OF FAIR. The Juniors of Polk county regret to hear of the illness of Supt. Cobb, who had hoped to tell them of the ihnlt btamps to be earned as nrem- iiiTno' -fsw Vi . DnlT. i... ti Wi "1C 1 "in- vuuiity rair. 1 he teachers nf w o vju uic Planning to organize War Savings So- cieties and compete for the prizes of fered by Mr. B. L. Ballenger, Coun ty Chairman. The rural schools will not compete with Tryon, Saluda -or Columbus or Greens Creek, in this contest. A. F. Corbin, Supt. of Junior De partment advises all boys and girls to write to Secretary Copeland at once for entry blanks, and prepare to fatten chickens, sow in Red Cross and make lots of entries Oct 9th. w. s. s. JOHN R, EARLY HERE John R. Early, the escaped leper, arrived in Tryon last night. He stop ped off here to visit relatives. The Mayor was at once told of his arrival, and Dr. Grady. Quarantine officer went to see him. Early told Dr. Gra dy that he made his escape fi-om Washington by crawling through the wire tence surrounding the quaran tine grounds; from there he went to Alexandria, Va., where he took the Southern railroad train for Spartan burg, and from that place to Tryon., it transpires that Early has not been a' patient of the U. S. government but was held in quarantine by the District of Columbia, and has been under their care for ten years past. When told of his arrival here Wash ington replied that as Early was a citizen of North Carolina this state would have to take care of him and ,ney did not want lnn returned to Washington? Mayor Missildine has placed the matter before the North Carolina State Board of Health for instructions. - Early is closely quarantined here, but for that matter it is hardly thought he would " make any attempt to escape anyway. w. s. s. THE LIMIT CLUB. Such is the title of all persons who subscribe and pledge themselves to buy $1,000 worth of War Savings Stamps. Tryon, so far has made a good start on the proposition, the fol lowing named parties agreeing to take $1,000 worth of the, Stamps: Mr. J. N. Jackson, ( ' Mrs. J. N. Jackson; 1 :-f Mr. Nelson Jackson, Miss Genevive Jackson, JMr. J. Ly Jacksoitj Mr. E. Ei Missildine, The Ballenger Co., N The Bank of Tryon, Mr. F. P. Bacon, Mrs. F. P. Bacon, Mr. C. W. Ballenger, Mrs. C. Wt Ballenger, The Peoples Bank & Trust Co., Wilkins & Co., Miss Martha Jackson. J. H. Paris, Dr. Earle Grady, Mrs. J. W. Kennedy, Mrs. Fanny Ricks, Mr. W. T. Hammett, Dr. W. T. Head, J. C. Powell. W. J. Scriven, W. B. Stone, Mr. Head, Mr. Blackwood. w. s. s. MRS. LOUISA M. SWAIL. A triumphant life was closed on Thursday when Mrs. Louisa M. Swail left this phase of existence after eip-htv-eicht vears erperience of its joys and its sorrows. Having found all the long way interesting and profitable, she had faith to believe that that which was to come would not be less interesting or less profit able. Mrs. Swail was a part of the cour- .1 a 11 1.1 3 age, tne intelligence, me goun uieci, of a great age. Born in Hartford, Conn., in 1830, the daughter of a Methodist minister, life was to her a serious matter. At the age of sixteen she was teaching one hundred and fifty little children in one room, receiving the large sum of five dollars a week, ot which when sne had er board she had but two dollars left, of which however she saved a part. All of her life she found the things of the mmd of superior interest, but so far from being a book worm, or even distinctly a student she was first and foremost a wife, mother, teacher. Her children were brought up to value supremely the best education to be had, their mother declaring while they were very young, that they should have college educations if the fflTnilv lived on bread and water. She had the satisfaction of seeing each one of the four -graduated from a col- Uor own interest in books contin ued to the last. Within a short time rtf tipr.-ffoathr she read Myer's General History with the interest shown by manv in the most exciting novel, and the last birthday present she desired was a good dictionary With all this intelligence, or per haps because of it, the first impres sion one had of. the. bright little lady was that- of 'pleasant woman who lived for others. , . o POLK COUNTY finds latest Variety of CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR :' .,t Chlcago.r-Chicago has pro duced' the-latest variety of "con scientious - objectorr and, as a result, John Taylor probably will not serve Uncle Sam overseas. John, who had been called for service, walked into a court room here and confessed to em bezzling more than $3,000 from x his employer during the last two r ron TT I t i i . jrcoia. xie saiu ne oojectea to going to the army with a black mark against him so he con fessed. He was held for the grand jury. . j BLUE GOWNS ARE BUSY Restoring Maimed Soldiers to Trades, Their Job. "Reconstruction Aids" Coax Wasted Muscles Back to Their Nor mal State. Washington. Teachers, nurses and healers too, are the "Blue Gowns" of the army medical corps, at work now in the hospitals of the United States and "over there." Reconstruction aids is their official name, but the cheery hue of their dis tinctive uniform already has .won a handier name for the special corps of seventy women whose membership treats and teaches among the maimed soldiers brought back from the battle front. Theirs is the work of coaxing back the wasted muscles and disused limbs of wounded men, and later by patient tutoring instilling deftness in new arts and vocations which the hos pital schools are planning for the re turned soldier. Most of, the "Blue Gowns" were re cruited from the instruction staffs of manual training schools and civilian hospitals. "Beside a table a young fellow in uniform was carving a conventional flower border on a wooden picture frame," says an official description of their work. "The design was his own and the work was his first piece. He was inclined to be clumsy because he was using his lert nana. a 'liiue Gown. wag rendy hi A . , rT , ' i to guide and advise comes adept in left-hand ed carving he is preparing for the time when he again will begin to draft, this time with his left hand. This mental concentration upon a new task is be lieved by doctors and psychologists to be a valuable antidote for discourage ment. "At the same open-air workshop one man was knitting a scarf. One group of men, temporarily crippled, were carving designs upon wooden blocks, and several were learning to weave up on hand looms." In the treatment rooms inside the "Blue Gowns" were guiding electrical appliances and administering the com plicated series of treatments that per feet the restoration work started by the surgeon at the front. BAKING PIES UNDER FIRE As heroic as the American1 soldiers in the trenches are the courageous Salvation Awny girls who are braving enemy fire day and night to bake pies and doughnuts for our fighting men. Many of the women are also aiding the wounded in huts established within rifle fire of "No Man's Land." This picture shows some of the undaunted workers making the kind "that moth er used to make," so that our men can enter battle with more pep and vim. TO HARVEST CLOVER SEED South Carolina Planter Invents Inge nious Machine That Does the Business. Greenville, 6. C An ingenious ma chine for harvesting clover seed has been perfected by J. It. Cannada, a pi oneer clover raiser near Greenville. Mr. Cannada -devised an exhaust fan mounted on a wagon driven oy a small gasoline engine. A mouthpiece connected with the fan is lowered over the cloverheads and the current of air lifts the seeds out and deposits them into a suitable receptacle. The ma chine is said to work perfectly. NEWS. TUYON, N. 0. E WARMEDALS-i lien rill v"urnn i nr.nu Red 75rfangte; Worker Wounderf bv Huh Machine Gun at Soiesons, Toul and Chateau Thierry Nerf York, August 25. Flat on hi back in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, W. A. Roberts, who has been awarded three French war medals for brarery in the fighting zones, is enjoying a well-earned rest, and is talking freely of almost anything but why the French government showered honors upon him. Mr. Roberts, a Y. M. C. A. j worker in France, had bestowed upon him the Croix de Guerre, the badge jot the Legion of Honor, and the Medal Mili Uire. He won them all in three months. Roberts was assistant auditor of the Michigan Central railroad before he was selected to be auditor of disburse ments for the Y. M. C. A. in. France, aad to handle more than a quarter of a million dollars a day. He left for orerseas service February 12. . was wounaea oy a rlun machine gun at Soissons, rescued a "Y" secretary amid a hail of bullets in the Toul seetor and was touched up by German marks manship again at Chateau Thierry. Y.rl.C.A. NEEDS MEN IN SOUTHERN CAMPS While Red Triangle Continues to Call for Overseas Workers, 1,000 Are Wanted for Home Service Atlanta, Oa., August 26. Men en dowed with the element of leadership are needed by the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. to serve in the camps of the Southeast. Dr.. W. W. Alexander, general re cruiting secretary for the War Per sonnel Board of the Y. M. C. A. War Work Council, declares that there is & pressing need for home service, and that this affords a splendid opportun ity to the man of middle age who is not able to go abroad nder the Red Triangle. 'The Y. M. C. A. &eds men for overseas service, or. course, out xoe home campa must not be forgotten," explained Dr. Alexander. "From now on until me nrsi. oi me year me Southeast must recruit 1,000 men for the home camps. This means that each state will be called upon tO fur nish 25 men per month per state to servo the soldiers in camps sueh as Gordon, Jackson, Wheeler and the others. The constant growth of the home . cantonments and the growing idemaad for th Y. M. C. A. work makes it necessary to recruit T' workers for this side." We Have the Right Prices AND Kind of Materials to do your building. Full stock Doors, Windows, Siding, flooring Ceiling, Shingles, Loths, Interior Finish and Moulding, Rough and Dressd Lumber- , Carry complete STOCK OF FEEDS HEARON LUMBER CO. SALUDA, N. C. WALTER JONES. ATTORNEY AT LAW Office up 8talrs In Jno. L. Jaokn Ct, Bld'fl. Is There An Electric Flat Iron In Your Home Price $5.00 30 Days free Trial Guaranteed or 10 Years ? 1RY0N ELECTRIC SERYICE COMPANY ri ..(?' Af furnace THRE ni UHUI UI1 H ' -9 AVE FUEL at . a bargain. Burns1 both, wood and coal. In guaranteed jg excellent condition. Much less than half price. Will heat half a dozen nrdinarv sized rooms. Can be seen FRANK WOOD'S SHOP. Think You live .in this county you believe in it you love it because it's yonr county. Are you willing for it to be listed as a SLACKER County? No! You are not. Then let's get right down to brass tacks and put it on the honor roll. Its quota in War Sav ings has not been reached; therefore we know you will pledge your full part to help remedy this con dition. There will be a wind-up war savings drive in this county during September. Canvassers, acting under authority of the Uni ted States Government will call upon you. You must pledge to buy every single War Savings Stamp you can to help save your county and your boys. Any further information will be cheerfully given you by Mr. B. L. Ballenger, County Chairman of Polk County War Savings Association. This Space Contributed by THE BALLENGER CO. Did You Ever Have a Dollar Work for YOU? Buy War Savings Stamps arid collect interest from the Government. $4.20 in vested now brings you $5.00 in 1923. PEOPLES BANK G. H. HOLMES President J. T, WALDROP Vice-Pres. TRYON, N. C. TRYON MOTOR Germany will not win if you do your duty. You should not only buy every, dollar's worth of War Savings Stamps possible, but should have your chil dren buy, and should ask all with whom you come in contact to buy. This space contributed to winning of the war by THE TRYON MOTOR CO. AGENTS FOR Tfl-iE WEBER WAGON. This Bank is for Peope who Want to Improve their Financial Condition. Will you let us serve you? A checking account is most convenient in the payment of bills. It is the safest receipt. A Savings account is the sure road to an eventual com petency. We solicit your account. CAROLINA DAVID C. BARROW W C ROBERTSON, Q. C. SONNER President Vice Presidents V Wo To REAL TRYON, E. at i it Over! I h TRUST CO. W. F. LITTLE Cashier STATE BANK. H. B.ANE Cashier Oimdsey l5.T:-.V;' . .v -n COMPANY ESTATE 4 )CCCO0CCC3SCS3'SCC3C3CCSSC3CCC3
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