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wm w PRICE 5 Cts. POLK COUNTY-The Gateway of Western North Carolina Tryon, N. C., August 14, 1924 $1.50 a Year ^Tfor Stills Through High ar Hills In Cooper Gap Township fs vigilant Aides Introduce . Editor to Moonshiner's \ the Tall Uncut Timber Top 0' the World. L "Face" Thompson, with 1 has been working over Wutie9; ,.ng t0 reduce the man " Jf moonshine to a minimum "ure ?nps of his bailwick, and t"c con tiroe he has threatened ? TZ editor o? the NEWS border that he might see an ^ HI1 in all its glory Ljay morning, the editor had t Which took him to comm. tsing around for news he Is Lynn smith, the husky laut from the Sixth Infantry ? cultivating a farm near Co 1 and spending his spare time ??' sheriff "Fate" Thompson ue blockaders. doing, LvnnT" we casual jnauired. A ' ?Sheriff Thompson. Constant, and -ere over in Cooper's Gap yester- j .and got the biggest copper itill L saw", he said. "The plant,! I bidden in the hills had evident- ? operating on a big scale for , flths Guess they were getting: # to move it when we ran in on -Nobody home' but we smashed a lot of equipment and destroyed ; [eir supplies. Still had a capacity [ over one hundred gallons." "Then why in thunder didn't you j a picture of it! IVe been want- j one ever since I came to North : jDlina", said the editor. "Want one bad enough to go get j r " j Bare do!" Then trot home and get our pic- 1 tre machine. Constant and I have' , hot tip, and we are going over to ! ring one in this afternoon. Better ing along your artillery and wear ots ? lots of rat^e snakes in the! Us." We explained the situation to :es, and he rolled out his Roamer aranteed to step the limit, and be- ! tore we realized it we had* jumped to our khakis, donned our war int, and grabbed a fresh film pack, lot forgetting an ample supply of i ?Camels. Sikes straightened the I ?Roamer out. and slid into Columbus! putting on all six. Smith and Constant were waiting; but we had to satisfy the inner man before heading for the hills, and Mrs. Smith is an honest-to-goodness cook. She set before us hungry ! fellows a real boiled dinner, with buttermilk and apple pie. It sure was good! After dinner we embarked in one ?f the "ten million" variety of motor w and chugged along toward Mill Spring, crossing Green River at the >ite of the Blue Ridge Power Com pany's huge development, and out on toe Cooper Gap road Finally the Ford swung to the left; 'd we headed straight for a break ? tie hills. Parking the buzz wagon 41 toe home of a friendly farmer, we looked over uur smoke poles, tight ened our belts, and hiked for the &U uncut. t-P a wooded ravine we sneaked, jj^ing of the old days in the I B ds when Colonel Hare had us 8iag elusive rateros up and down . ? Tbe cognon grass was lack but blackberry bushes made 8 loo<1 substitute. The dull thump 0 *?od on wood, the sound of creak axle coming down wind ? and ? and Constant were off like e trained pointers on the scent of aJlos* lying covey. puffl 6 edit0r hung on 40 their heels JVike a porP?ise perhaps, but J/?6 is best to keep up with the Pocession. The noise stopped, and CroucJled in the underbrush list Q11 a5. Watching, waiting. But the Q 4had slipped the net. twn >1 teriDg here ant* there, the 1?^ usky Hmbs of the law finally a fi . a forty gallon still hidden in creek Ffty yards ^elow on was aKWe f?Und the 8tin 8tand* lt of J )andoned. and with litUe sign A"cent operation. ^r!!l0Priating the hand-made cop berry ' aiQer- we hid it in a near by search aQ<* procee(*ed with the other ah m*le away we *?und an boxes, b D(loned still stand, with lye ^ngrrels* sugar sacks, empty epu|Pment and otller moonshine ^mtiantg Salore" Smelling ? the uavy ^ nf mash the ex Volunteered the inform at Qie plant had been out Kings Mountain To Celebrate Victory Over Ferguson's Men King's Mountain, is planning its annual celebration of the anniversary of Ferguson's smashing defeat by North Carolina farmers back in the stirring days of 1780. C. E. Carpenter is head of King's Mountain celebration committee and it is planned to bring both presidential and gubernatorial candidates to the celebration on October 7th in order to pull the crowds As many Polk County people are lineal decendents of men who shouldered their squirrel rifles to march forth against Ferguson in the days when this country was young, the announcement of the coming celebration should arouse con siderable local interest. TRYON BAPTIST CHURCH Thomas L. Justice, D. D. Pas tor.4 Regular services each Sunday . 11 A. M. and at 8 P. M. Special Music Evening Services Sabbath School at 10 A. M. Public Cordially Invited ARRIVALS AT OAK HALL Recent arrivals at Oak Hall since last week are : L. S. Whit man, Cincinnati, Mrs. A. H. Walker, St- Augustine, Fla., Mrs. W- L. Richie, Wash. D. C., Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L. Little, Boston, Mass. Wm. G. Stigler, Cincinatti, O. of commission for a week at least We got some pictures of the plant ?s ifstood. Smith and Constant pos ing as "shiners" for our benefit. OfT again, up the hill and down dale we sped, through thicket and bush, across branches bearing mute evidence of the shiners recent oper ations, but without success. Winded, scratched, demoralised, the editor posted himself atop a stump while the two deputies cir cled a possible hiding place. The woods were uncannily still. Nothing moved ? not a leaf stirred. Straining our ears to catch a sound of the "still hunters" we sat, alert and keyed up for whatever might happen. Thud! A cracking of leaves, a SCurry? the editor snapped to 'ten shun, and grasping a life preserver swung into action ready to do or die, or get from there as conditions might warrant A big grey squirrel wrinkled his nose, stuck out his paws, and mat ing a running jump, lit half way up a rugged pine. The editor breathed easier. Lynn whistled from a nearby copse and we joined him. Constant had circled around the hills and just as we pounded up a heavily wooded slope he raised up from the brush like a ghost in the night. Taktf it from us, that boy can navi gate the hills as easily as his^ old ship navigated the seven seas. Joining forces, we trailed down creek until we came to a cabin m the hills. Friendly folks they were! too, for they insisted on lending us their dipper that we might get a drink from a nearby spring. Having road John Fox's stories of the Kentucky hills, we half expected to see the barrel ot a Winchester thirty-some-odd poked throug chinks, but these were ^nlly peacful folks who took no Interest In the doings of "revenooers or | "blockaders". PW ! Retrieving the captured sti I sought the Ford, and attaching the trophy to the fender we stepped on [the gas and Ut for the county seat 1 Enroute. we noted many knowing grins, and the Quizzical expressions ' which seemed to denote wisdom of the shiner and bis hab ltat. One lookeron expressed It about right? "Yuh got a cold "un, didn't yuh, boys?" It was a cold 'un right enough, but the editor got bls pictuxes, bUst ers, scratches, and chlggers^ Tired but thoroughly saUsded^ e to get back to the Uttle nouw the hollow and assure Mrs. Editor that he was "still" Peking, and not held captive by a Bleeder King In the fastness of the High Hllta. To The Citizens And Taxpayers Of Tryon t \ ^ You are hereby notified that a copy of the proposed Annual Appropriation Ordinance for the . Fiscal year beginning June 1st, 1924, for the Tpwn of Tryon is on file at the Town Clerk's office for ' your inspection. It is proposed tolinally adopt this Ordinance at the regular meeting of the Board of Commis sioners on the first Monday in September. The public is invited to inspect this Proposed Town Budget and appear at this meeting and make such protests as it deems proper, or else said Ordinance will be adopted. W. S. Green, Mayor Items of Local Interest About Tryon People and Their Friends Mrs. T. J. Kennedy who has been visiting her sifter, Mrs M. C. Hunter in Marion, b- U, returned home Tuesday. Miss Mary Louise of the Meredith College, Raleigh, N- C-, is a visitor* the home . of Mrs. Florenc Averill on Whitney Ave Miss Clyde Metcalf who J sDending the summer in bpar tanburg" spent the weekend* Try on with her aunt, Mrs. w. C Ward* Miss Delia Plumley who lives about three miles from Tryon, was in town Friday with some fine apples which she marketed. Mr. George Russell Agassis, grandson of the famous natw alist who with his wife na just been elected as one of the Covering body of Harvard Un iversity., <t ? Mrs. Ball, her sister Miss Reach and her aunt, airs, Warner, are spending the sum mer at "Armored Pmes. Miss Ferdenand Poppe has re turned from Asheville where she has been attending summer school. This schw.1 hold^ a session every year in Asn^ ville and is very popular with [he 'teachers of North Carolina. as? .m-s* v^t t? ? cousin, Mrs. J. B._ , , ^11 a Moselv had been in Asheviue, a guest at Grove Park Inn and her visit to Tryon was on her return trip home. Last Saturday, whUe a buM of bananas was being Com " \ L,i?rr?ntl?? Sum size,' sprang : from the bite of a tarantula, while very hidin, Pte. ?? this dangerous spider. Dr. Louis Fuldner has been ^fweek. These' peaches are of the Elberta vanety. and ar the finest sPf' FuWner an ex S K?it i.'a hS splendid grapes.whichwill marketable within a short tim Cletad ? "ig1 spend the mother who summer wrth hi wmiaing is a guest at Mrs. w SfijR St ? A^ssrtss-3sJ{ bungal0wdbearing thenaate "Dunwandnng wouiu ^ permanent reside hase a have decided to p where thefmay reside near their son g&d. K ? a^ Tryon will lose a va^ Mr highly respecte make Peattie has done mucn J** \ i during his resi t cham 5? b53?. *?? attracted much attention throughout the country. Mr. John Arledge of Hender sonville, N. C-, who was clerk of the Superor Court in Polk County for thirty years will act in place of H. H. Carson who suffered serious injury in a re cent automobile accident. Mrs. Paul Curran Smith and daughter Sylvia arrived from Glasford, 111 for an indefinite visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H- Doubleday. Mrs. Thos. L. Justice was in Landrum Sunday evening - to see her friends, Mrs. Anne Boone, and her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Thorne. Mrs- Boone, who is quite elderly, suffered three paralytic strokes last week, but showed decided improvement Sunday! Mrs. Boone's * jCryyn friends hope that sh^^Br re gain her usual health. Dr. R. W. Butler, a well known physician of Sarasota, Fla., was in Tryon the first of the week, and before he had been , here two hours had purchased I Lot No. 1 in The Lindsey subdi vision, and will soon begin the erection of a modern residence. Dr- Butler stated that he had in vestigated thoroughly the possi bilities of every resort town in | this section, and Tryon com ! pletely filled his expectations ! of what a town should be. C | J. Lynch acted as agent for the Lindsey estate in closing the | transaction. I Wm. G. Stigler, editor of the Cincinnati Star and a national ly known newspaper man and [writer, was in Tryon the first of the week, a guest of Oak Hall. Mrs. J. D. Pierce, with her son-in-law Henry Fisher, weite marketing some nice peaches and garden produce in Tryon Monday Tom Lynch, the accomo dating clerk at Missildine's Drug Store, had a holiday last week end which he enjoyed with his mother at Columbus. Mr. Fred Wolf and sister Mildred of North, S. C., spent a , few days with the Johnson family this week at the Strong | cottage. Miss Nan Bell and Miss Al berta Lipscomb returned to 'their home in Gaffney SundLay after spending a few days with Mrs. Brian Bell in the Kennedy j hou&e. T. T. Ballenger of Atlanta is in Tryon visiting his son, ! , Claude. Ballenger. Mr. Bal jengers friends are always glad to see him on the streets and to welcome each visit he makes to this jcity Mr. L. W. Lanford, from South Carolina near Campo bello, was in Tryon Friday. Mr. Lanford is one of the well known prosperous farmers of that section, and reports that the dry weather has stopped the depredations of the boll weevil to such extent that his outlook for a good crop is en couraging. Mr. Lanford was incidentally marketing some excellent water ground mea 'from corn raised on one of his plantations. Hendersonville Solidly Behind Move To Pave The Appalachian Highway To Line FREE! To Paid Up Subscribers Beginning Sept. first every paid up subscriber to the Polk County News will receive without ad ditional cost The South ern Planter, the oldest agricultural journal in America, twice every month for a year. This subscription is paid by this paper as a part of its program to help the agricultural de v e 1 o p - ment of Polk County. Federation Elects New Officers And Selects Directors At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Polk County Farmer's Federation held in the court-house at Columbus, Monday, August 11th, J. T. Waldrop was elected president; Frank Jackson, vice-president; and Mrs. J. T. Camp, secretary. The new Board of Directors consist of J. T. Waldrop, Frank Jackson, J. C- Davis, Walter Westbrook, C. M. Howes, Rev. R. N. Hunter, Mrs. J. R. Foster, and Mrs. J. T.* Camp The federation executives predict a year of prosperity and bespeak for the organiza tion the hearty cooperation of all good citizens of Polk Coun ty. 0 The Passing of Mary Stewart Cutting " Mary Stewart Cutting, Writ er of short stories, died~ Sun day, August 10th at her home in Orange, New Jersey, in her 74th. year. Mrs. Cutting was the widow of the late Charles Weed Cutting of Auburn, New York and the daughter of Gen eral Ulysses and Mary Stewart Doubleday. She is survived by her brother, Harold Doubleday of Tryon, a son, Ulysses Cut ting, and two daughters, Amy Cutting and Mary S. Cutting, who at present are making their home in England. Mrs. Cutting's stories contrib uted much to McClures maga zine in it's earlier years and later many of them appeared in book form: among 1 others, 'Little Stories of Married Life' "Refractory Husbands", "Some of Us Are Married", and "The Wayfarers". Mrs. Cutting was known and loved by people in all parts of the World. No act of charity or kindness was too great nor too small for her to perform for those with whom she came in contact. Such a spirit as hers cannot die but must live forever, a constant inspiration in the nlemory and the hearts of those who knew her W. W. G. Jr. o Again the delightful breezes and cool nights) of Tryon are proving an attraction for out of town visitors. * Miss Mary Mc Gowan, the charming hostess of the Williams boarding house has entertained the following guests the past week: Mrs. McLees of Greenwood, S. C.; Mrs- Marks and Miss Rice of Columbia, S. C.; Mr. Walker of Georgetown, S, C. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Conway Thompson of Spartanburg, who have been enjoying a long trip through the Western N. C mountains and came here from Asheville. Recent arrivals this week are Miss Mary Casey and Miss Margaret Casey of Cincinnati, Ohio. Recent Developments in Western North Carolina Make it Impera tive That Appalachian Hiway Be Paved Through to S. ,C. Line Says Secretary of Hendersonville Chamber of Commerce.* A. M. McWhlrter, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Henderson ville in a recent Interview with a NEWS representative asserted that Tryon and Saluda could count upon the active support of Henderson ville business men in their efforts to to have the Appalachian Highway paved through from Hendersonville to the South Carolina line. "The recent expansion of the Chimney Rock section, the construc tion of Lake Lure, the immense re sort developments now under way in Hendersonville itself, including the twenty million dollar development at Laurel Park which is being promot ed by New York and Florida capital ist ? make it imperative that the highway leading to Spartanburg, Columbia, Charleston and Miami be hard surfaced every food of the way to the state line "The South Carolina Highway Com mission has definitely promised to complete a hard surface highway to the line, via Spartanburg, and Frank Page, our own Commissioner has agreed to meet them there.'" "But why wait on our slower moving South Carolina neighbors? Why not rush the thing through and. thus force their hands : The only way to do things ? is to get out and do them, if the State Highway system hasn't the available money to con struct such a highway, at this parti cular tiine^ I candidly* believe that the proposition could be under written in Asheville, Henderson ville, Chimney Rock, Saluda . Tryon." "The resort hotel here is golngi through. Another is under way in Tryon, 1 am told. Lake Lure is being constructed and the Lynch proposition at Tryon, has the ap proval of engineering experts as the most logical location for a great lake development in the Blue Ridge. It is only a matter of a relatively shore time until the Tryon, Saluda, Hendersonville, Asheville section is ' better known than the famous White ; Mountain country of New Hamphlre, the Adirontjacks, or the Green Mountains of Vermont "Concerted action on the part of the resort cities of Western North Carolina can secure the paving of this artery of motor travel, and we should get together and see that it is done. "The Land of the Sky is to big for petty jealousy. We folks in Hendersonville want to see Tryon grow, we want to see Chimney Rock grow, we are as much interested in Brevard as the people in Brevard are interested in themselves, we want to see Asheville a city of a quarter million. We earnestly be lieve that our development has Just commenced. If we all pull to ! gether we can do it just as rapidly as the section around Los Angles was developed. Our climate is unexcelled. Bven the Californians admit it And we have advantages which far exceed anything Florida has to offer the in vestor. We must sell those adven tages to the great American public, lit can be done: "Good roads will help us do it, and % I sajk again, let's pave the Appalach ian Highway to the South Carolina line and do it while the Palmetto State commission is getting ready." Mr. McWhirter haa certainly proven well worth his salary to Hendersonville. He has worked day and night to help waken the in habitants to the immense possibili ties of the city in which they live; | he has labored faithfully to attract j outside capital to develop those possibilities, and now the work of I years is bearing fruit His effort in oehalf of tne Ap palachian Hichway will in the end arouse interest and secure direct ' action. Tryon, Saluda and all of Polk County Is with him ? until the q^joj japutfM pu? atnoq araoo bm.oo again' in the cool grey morning. Hop to it Mac, and COUNT ON POLK COUNTY'S SOLID SUP PORT. We want that hichway. too.
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