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C?unt' um fer line ? POLK COUNTY? The Gateway of Western North Carolina FIVE CENTS PER COPY Tryon, N. CM October 16, 1924 $1.50 a Year L iShevil/e, kcnville Route I Open AH Th0 Way Lton, Ky., Kiwanis Celebrate Eg Opening.? Will Bring IditionBl Motorists to Tryon. [official opening of the L Highway. Route A from Lgo to Florida through iville. North Carolina, or l&nooga , Tennessee, will e occasion of a celebration , held at Lexington, Ken ? under the auspices of a of Kiwanis clubs of jcky and Tennessee, on flber 15. 1 H2 4, /according L Charles O'Connor of Die, engineer in charge Instruction. L constructoin of the im ht connecting1 stretchesof I through hitherto impassa Luntain regions of the [is said to be the most ex Je piece of cooperative construction and fin the history of Ameri ray I in funds for construction in counties which could not ? the road were raised by Eis clubs in Kentucky, gsee. and North Carolina, gasoline tax agreed to by !wners of gasoline stations highway, and by con tians from various civic uotor associations, and in isls in those states, and in jties of Chicago, Detroit, fcrton. having members of these nations contribute their ibor and securing other rt Mlf the usual wage prolific mile for con I subject to dbe- ^is moun cucumber almost I curing of gherkins Is ? - d that of cucumbers, B#1 J States Department of A| &Q lis ^een found that thesfc, ^t.y-breadtly to the act| en jaotorist cent brine, mail,w' st ifles of\UDd of salt IttVic 0 Floridat? m?st satisfy' ^ lers throu^rras pictdie^ ad historic part of the 1 States little known to Hjority of morists. They lecome familiar with the is blue grass stock farms ?tacky, places made fam i the Revolutionary and wars, the famous * Grove ton and Vanderbilt estate Seville, where the handi in woodwork and textiles ttracted interest all over ?rid, Berea College and features in the Cumber ttd Blue Ridge MountaiD ry. wtions are that thous ? motorists will travel Me in November i and ter. and that many of follow the Appala Highway south through ?*>linas is a fore gone Eon. IVANDERRILT IS Imber of n. c board por Morrison has an PC the appointment of ?Edith vanderbiit of Ashe b a member of the North P Board of Agriculture IW the late A. Cannon, Person county. Mrs. py who has been ex F engaged in farming F110^, is the first woman r* position of this kind f Rate. u I tod Mrs. W. H. Hawkins !?iing the week in Savan- j *?> visiting their daugh" jks. Henry Green, and Fitzpatrick. JjWard and A. L. Hill ; J" to Greenville Monday ; % looked after busi-l otters. ? ?UU H. Pruden of *'? ffl., was in Tryon last W while here enjoyed a visit with his old A. S. Buckius. Mr. Rk Credit Manager in Pjtaale department of rj "Field Company in p having held this posi psven years. Mr. Buck. r tas been ill the great the summer, attend Pjh Services Sunday P tor the first time in p Months, and his many ktf ^ryon are overjoyed improvement in hi? rt^rrs- J- Terry Wood> tf?- Holcombe, and Miss of Greer, S. C.? '^0n visitors Wednes FREE! To Paid Up Subscribers - :.:v ! - f;" ? ? -? -Hit- ? I ?. ? 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 develop ment of Polk County. Free Fxamination Furnished By State in Tubercular Cases Tuberculosis is like a house on fire and it can only be put out when discovered early. One should not wait to be examined until he has symptons of ad vanced tuberculosis. Any one of the symptoms of tuberculo sis should make a person sus picious of the disease. If you have any of the symptoms of the trouble go to your phy sician at once and have a thorough physical examination. If he is doubtfulabout the con dition of your lungs see a chest specialist. For those who cannot afford to go to a private specialist the North Carolina Sanatorium, Sanatorium, N. C., offers a free physical examination provided yju write the superintendent for an appointment. Persons who come without an appoint ment, expecting to be examin ed, will have to be charged for the examination- Since the ex amination takes about an hour Jthe doctors may be be busy they cannot make the examina tion at all unless you write for an engagement; but there is no red tape about it. To get a free examination all you need to do is to write the superin tendent : "Please give me a date for a free examination." Four Thousand Attend Tri-Township Fair Crowds From All Over Country Celebrate Poik County's Biggest Day The Tri-Township Fair held at Mimosa, Friday October 10th, proved, to be the most entertain ing and instructive demonstra tion of the . resources of Polk County and the surrounding section eyer before staged. By ten o'clock the grounds were packed with people from Saluda, Columbus, Landrum, Tryon, and other outlying com munities, and during Jthe day, approximately four thousand people from many points viewed the splendid exhibits and partic ipated in the fun. The mercantile establishments did themselves proud on their displays, the home and farm ex hibits were splendidly arranged, other odd and unique exhibits attracted attention.. Basket-ball, fiddling, footraces and other amusments featured the day. A list of prize winners will be given in our next issue. Taken all in all it was the one big day in Polk county, and Chas. J. Lynch, Bill Stearns and Miss Mae Irene Flentye, the executive officers of the Tri Township Fair Association are to be congratulated on the splen did way in which every part of programme was carried through. The committees served loyally and a true spirit of cooperation permeated the atmosphe're. Everybody went home feeling that the day had indeed been well spent, and many were ex pressing the opinion that the next fair at Mimosa should be ar three day affair. . Saluda, Landrum, Columbus, and Tryon closed up for the day and practically every resident of the four towns visited the fair. . ; Mr. Goodman, representing the Department of Agriculture, stated that the Tri-Township Fair not only had the largest crowd in attendance at any com munity fair in Western North Carolina, but also had the finest lot of exhibits. A. J. Humphries of Sandy Plains Tells Why He'd Rather Live In Polk County Than Any Other Place on Earth i . ? Resident For Fifteen Years, He Has Never Lost His Enthus iasm Over Possibilities of Section. One reason is that I honestly believe some of the best people in the world live in this county. I have been living in Polk fif teen years, and I cannot recall ever having asked but one man for an accommodation and fail ed to get it. We have men and w(6men right here in Polk coun ty whom no power in the right ? to whom death in its most dreadful form would be less dreaded than transgression of the inward law of universal justice and love. Another reason is: Polk Coun ty soil will grow as near every thing as any other place on the globe. It is a calm, quiet, peaceful county in 4 which to live; away from the noise of the city, and, when beheld with religious eye, what a temple for the worship of the Almighty! The earth is spread out before us, reposing amid the desola tion of winter, or clad in the verdure of spring in the beauty of summer ? or loaded with autumnal fruit ? opening to all The Proposed Ship and Waterway Bill From The Viewpoint Of The Skeptic The North Carolina State Ship and Waterway Commis sion is spendding a lot of money and time in its effort to sell the advantages of Wil mington to the people of the' state as a possible port of en tr\Ve have no bone to pick with the Commission andwewantto see Wilmington developed as much as possible but it certain ly doesn't strike us as fair to ask the State of North Caro-j lina to sink eight and half mil-i lions in a project which exper-i ience has proven a futile fal-: lacy* . u ^ Sea-ports cannot v be made overnight. They are the result of natural and unchanging causes. Millions have been lost by individuals, corporations municipalities and states in an effort to build artificial shipp ing centers. Brunswick, Ga., backed millions of eastern money ex pended a million and a quarter dollars on port terminals. Bos ton capital financed the build ing 1 of the Birmingham, and tapping Atlanta the leading jobbing center of the south. The stock of the A..B. & A goes begging today, while the expensive terminals lie rotting in the sunshine along the . Marshes of Glynn. The Southern Railway dump-, ed nearly a million dollars in- ! to terminal improvements in Charleston- With coal dump ing facilities to handle a million tons annually the demand from ocean going vessels has never exceeded 150,000 tons. Charleston voted a bond issue of twenty million to further supplement the efforts to ere- ? ate a great port in the Ca.ro linas. far it has not in the least affected the bunkering business of Norfork* where, some twenty million tons are loaded annually or for that matter influenced the coast wise or export trade. , Mobile and New Orleans have state owned terminals. Both are logically located to do con siderable export business in grain, cotton and lumber. sacola and Jacksonville nave fine railway terminals and yet none of the four have succeed ed in having freight rates low-; ered from points in the sojitn and middle west. The reduction of freight rate., won't amount to much practic ally. Wilmington as we see it stands to benefit nj^tenally at the expense of other sec-( tions of the state. # If the demand existed for in- 1 creased terminal facilities in Wilmington, if. ocean going traffic was crying for a new port development along the Cape Fear, capitalists would not bfe lacking to finance the, can spend1 eightmiffioM^^obuJd i - of us the treasures of our Mak ers's goodness, and ministering subsistence and comfort to every person in Polk. Still another reason is that, when I have become despon dent, I can walk out on my| back porch and behold Polk County's beautiful, - blue, | smokey mountains ' pointing heavenward, toward their Mak er, and then and there is indeli bly stamped with a deeper im press than ever before upon my mind the great fact that there is a God. The fourth reason I had rath er live in Polk County than any other place on earth is that, it has an abundant supply of water. It not only has plenty,; but as good as can be found any where. And, Oh! what a pleas ure in the summer time, to take a ride thru the mountains, and stop occasionally where those sparkling fountains bubble up from the mountains's base, and quench our thirst with this precious essence of life, pure, goes ? and where the cargoes will come from in competition with Norfolk arijd Savannah is, something of a mystery to us. As a matter of pride Carolina | might spend that eight and a! half millions. As a cold blood-] ed business proposition North Carolina will do well to let it alone. 4 ?* ? Our highway system is still incomplete. Frank Page says I it will take fifteen millions to finish it as originally outlined. The resources of the state will stand for only so much drain age. Eight and a half millions spent to develop Wilmington, means that the highway sys tem will have to wait. The total deficit of the State Treasury was approximately i six millions at the end of the past year. It will probaby be two millions more than that at the end of the current year. Is it a sound policy for North] Carolinians to go to the polls and vote for an expenditure of eight and a half millions to help Wilmington, an isolated city of the south-eastern sec tion of the state regain some thing of its old time prestige as a shipping center-^a pres-, tige established in the day* ' when North Carolina led the country in the production of naval stores, and when practic ally every bale of cotton grown in the Carolinas went by water to Eastern manufacturing cen ters . . . conditions which do not now exist and will never again exist ? Let's finish the highway sys tem first. Then if we have( money to shoot at the sky ? why build a sea-port if North Carolina wants it ? build it, if we MUST, but don't expect it to lower freight ratesfor^nland lower towns and cities, and don't expect it to ever rival Norfolk, Savannah or Balti more in maritime importance. Anyone who tries to convince you that it is possible is simply talking through his hat? IT CANT BE DONE o When Duncan Sisters Struck Cicero Thing& Began To Buzz Never Sock a Lady on the Snout? She Might Be An Actorine, Every small town policemen young or old clip this story and pin it in his bonnet along with reward notices and his list ofj bootlegging suspects. The| philosophy of the story is plain ( to see. "Never sock a lady on the snoot, she might be an actress". Now there was a traffic man on a corner in Cicero, which is a little freckle on the subur ban map of Chicago, who sock ed a lady on the nose and about everything that could happen has happened. The lady turned out to be an actress. And be tween the managers there s the devil to pay and no pitch hot. The Duncan sisters . iers, squawkers and ?abbers_in| cold, health-giving water. And every where this Polk County water is a thing of beauty. In the green glades and grassy dell, where the o'possum and raccoon wander, and where the child loves to play. Down, low down in the deepest valleys, where the fountains murmur, and the rills sing; and high up on he mountain tops where the naked granite glitters like gold in the sun; there God Himself brews it; and every where it is diffusing life, vigor4, happiness, and beyond a doubt to my mind, is the purest emblem of the water of life of which, if a man drink, he shall never thirst." | I could go on enumerating Polk County's advantanges over the second best place on earth to live, but time and space forbids any more at present. There are only a few of the many reasons why I rather live in Polk County, North Carolina than any place on earth. A- J. Humphries, . . Sandy Plains, N. C. the language of their trade, which is to say that they dance, sing and carry on a rattling [line of comic patter. It is re j ported that they once danced with the prince of Wales in [London ? not both of them to gether, but one at a time- They have been up and down the line of American and European theaters for some seasons and they know the value of having their portraits on pag? one . of the American press next to pure reading matter. One night not long ago they and some friends were fooling along through Cicero in their automobile. Rosetta was seized by a noble idea. She would transgress some minor princi ple of traffic deportment and get herself slammed into the local clink. Her press agent would notify all the city editors and the Duncan sisters would celebrate a day or two on page one. They ran slightly past the original period. Rosetta probably had a vague idea somewhere in the anterior recesses of her pretty little dome or noodle, a recollection of the grand publicity that Bebe Daniels, the movie queen, got that time out in Hollywood when she^was riding along with her mother and Jack Demsey and chanced to bear down on the gas pedal. A motor cop came along and flagged them down. Jack wanted to kid him out of it, but Ma Daniels ex claimed: "Jack, you . sap!" or something like that, "for heavens's sake, don't ruin a grand publicity gag. Let them pinch her and let's get to the judge and beg him to give her ten days. It will put her in every paper in the country." Rosetta, as has been remark ed, probably had some such notion as that. Perhaps she hoped to get at least five days in the Cicero cooler *So she ran past the traffic signal and was arrested..* However, Rosetta seems to have msiconducted herself dur ing the arrest for there was a terrific row, a blurr of bobbed hair, flying fists, kicking pumps and rolled-down silk stockings all mixed up with- blue uni forms and 'nickled badges as big as the moon. Rosetta em erged in the attitude of a per ishing gladiator with crimson on her nose and lips. Some thought it was lip rouge smear ed there. She said it was blood. She had _ her pictures taken with bandages on her nose and mouth. Rosetta brought charges of felonious assault against four of the Keystone cops on the Cicero police force. The press agent and the manager of the show are about to sue the town of Cicero for damages suffered by the show through the tem portary absence of Rosetta. And Rosetta herself is talking of suing Cicero for personal damages. Rosetta says she in curred >>not only the broken snoot or beezer, but a few fractures of the ribs and , various other injuries general- 1 Iceberg Lettuce To Be Extensively Grown In Western North Carolina Ready Market in Asheville, Char lotte, Greensboro and Winston. Salem. ANOTHER MONEY CROP. Western North Carolina is awakening to its agricultural possibilities. The proposed production on a large scale of Iceberg lettuce at a time when the supply is scarce and the demand good, means, if successful, another money crop for the farmer of this section. Polk county farmers have con clusively proven that high grade Iceberg lettuce can be grown in the state and there is no reason why Western North Carolina grown head lettuce cannot supply markets now de pending on a Pacific coast state for this commodity, when cli mate and soil of the two sec tions are equally favorable to the industry. However well organized the Pacific state growers may be, there is no. excuse for the farmer of this section permit ting California lettuce to Stlf? ply Asheville, Greensboro, Win ston-Salem and home markets when there is a handicap of 3, 000 miles for the California growers. The plan of the district agent to undertake extensively the growing of head lettuce in Western North Carolina may introduce a new feature in farming in this section. Lettuce properly grown re quires a steady supply of water. A drought during the early growing period would prove disastrous. The new in dustry may result in the in troduction here of irrigation Simple but adequate systems of irrigation in the mountain counties could be established with little cost and labor. LOCALS / Misg Cora Fisher of Hender sonville, who has been nurs fng Mrs. W. J. Gaines is now visiting her mother and sister in Tryon. F. P. Bacon has returned from a business trip to Phila delphia and New York in the interests of the Southern Mer cerizing Company. Miss Marie , McGown was among the Spartanburg visit ors to the Tri-Township Fair last Friday. While here she was the guest of friends. The sad news came from La Mesa, Calif, of the death there of Mrs. G. H. Palmer, of Well ington, Ohio. Mrs. Palmer and daughters, Miss Ria and Miss Sarah, are well beloved in Try on where they spent several winters ago. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Morris were in Asheville Sunday spending the day with Mrs. Morris' mother, Mrs. Schartle. Colby Streadwick who has spent the past season in Hen dersonville, has returned to Tryon to spend the winter with home folks. Mrs. H. E. Beane of Taylors ville, is in Tryon visiting her father. G. G. Weaver. ly described in the ambulance summaries under the heading ing of "contusions and abra sions." Taking the adventure one vTay and another, you might say it was highly successful Rosetta and her show have enough damage suits in pros pect to keep her in good publi jcity for a year. NOTICE Owing to trouble wi{h the linotype machine which balked when badly needed, -necessitating the importa tion of skilled mechanics" from Asheville the NEWS had to be set by hand this week, and a lot of local i;ems of interest had to be omitted. We hope to have the machine in first class condition for the next issue and will try to preveut a repetition of the trouble. Forty Thousand Apples From Mountain Section Exhibited at Charlotte Ten Growers From Henderson, Bra combe, Haywood, Polk, CaldweN and Wltes Counties Display Many Varieties. The apple industry in West em North Carolina was given a decided boost in Charlotte, where a commendable apple industry was presented in con nection with the Made-in Carolina' exposition from Sep tember 22 to October 4. Forty thousand apples, sup plied by 10 fruit growers of this section of the state, made up the exhibit. The orchards represented are in Henderson, Buncombe, Haywood, Polk, Caldwell and Wilkes counties. The varieties included: Sta men, Delicious, Rome Beauty, Jonathan, King David, Grimes Golden, Winter Banana, Buck ingham, Bonum, Northern Spy, Virginia Beauty, Dula Beauty, and York Imperial- \ The main purpose of the ex hibit was to advertise the fruit of this section. Many of the crates were sold and orders taken for shipments. Some of the apples exhibited were ship ped to Florida Chicago and to the eastern states. -0 BREVARD ANIMALS WIN CHAMPIONSHIP HONORS Three bull championships were won in the Tennessee State Fair at Nashville recent ly by the Engadine blue ribbon prize winners of R. W. Ever ett, of Transylvania county. Engadine Romper, a bull rais ed at Brevard, took the highest prize on grand championship, Mr. Everett also won the junior championship on females, En gadine Devegoet winning this distinction. This is the first time a North Carolina herd has taken these ho was at the Tetf-^ nessee State Fair, it is claimed. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Myers have returned to their home in Sarasota, Fla., after spending two months in Tryon, While here Mr. Myers purchased lots in the Valley, and will build a residence in the near future. Tom Moore, one of Polk Coun ty's well known sportmen. has a possum dog which holds the record so far this season. He treed two o'possums one night last week by himself within an hour. \ " Mr. L. A. Avant is back home from Charlotte where he under went on operation in a Charlotte hospital. Mr. Avant is still quite feeble from his illness, but his friends wish for him a speedy recovery. * - Willam Remmick who is at sending Bingham Military Acad emy near Asheville, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Remmick at the Wilson apartments. Mrs. Arnold Williams was a SpartanSurg visitor Monday. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Milliken and childen left Friday after noon for Enfield to attend the wedding of Mr. Milliken's sister, Miss Mary1 Ellen. It was a church wedding, and Mrs. Milli ken was Matron of Honor. Mr. Milliken, being the only brother, gave the bride away. Mrs. Lawrence S. Presson came Friday from China Grove, and spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. W. J. Gaines. Mrs. Gaines, who has been very ill the past few weeks, was car ried to the Tryon Hospital Tues day morning for special treat ment, ai.ci Germany friendshope for her a speedy recovery. ; j Mrs. Hurst, who spent 'last winter in Tryon and has many friends her^ris spending the week witly^Rh Miss Annie Rav enal. r Mr. and Mrs. Chas. J. Lynch motored to Spartanburg Tues [^ay.
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