ii. rounty First, Sec ^ ; | and all the g'jilT GROW? The Polk Cou An Independent Weekly Published in an inde dendent part of these United States. 20 PAGES v \X1 No. 4 POLK COUNTY ? The Gateway of Western North Carolina Five Cents Per Copy Tryon, N. C., September 17, 1925 $1.50 a Year Brothers Buy Morris Island miotic Spot In Charleston Harbor Which Will Be Developed As Resort DH3PIZ3' on Which Made Splendid Showing in Sale of Lake !t Pi ""'I|S *e!op Property in Little Switzerland y v ? v ? ? 1 """""O """ W~*W ' p[0-.jfty Will Push Charleston Development During Winter " Many Oilers From all Parts of Country. May De n 1 ?- I ?? i ? ? ?? brothers who so ?f fectively handled the selling of Lake r the Tryon Development Company have been tendered ? iters from several sections of the country where big de It r way and the need for a highly efficient selling organ Thirty five affairs from seven states have been tender 05 Course In Jijw High School Enough Pupils Enroll gfgsted Persons Invited to Com Jiiate With Prof . Schilleter Supt. of Schools > hool sees need of a AM'i'pmg, typewriting, ' j . Hike on putting this | r.irriculum in the We are in hopes of our town people :..k:ng a course of this j .n set as many as I >:iulents to take this ... vo it free of charge. I pvrsi-n. regardless of . ih.it they are in will ..keeping and typewrit : .t line opportunity to people of the com- ! .. valuable course. . the community who take thi9 couise please to Mr. Schilletter, Zu-.va of our schools. ? O ? thousand Quit Mianspolis to Join Gorilla Land Boomsrs I. MalropaliS Loses Twenty-Five ton Ready Cash When Large Part s?Tiila!;an Undertakes *o Close the :j:j Bubble. Atljnta also Hit; Tryon and other sur ry are no different . -x in 47 other states y f wondering what is . ;tcome of the Flor w .. are swept away. a'u sides t0 every movement now go If you want to 8e* , cind get it right banker will be the .!?. to. , - 0 '-?j CHUTE GIVEN B\ o TRYON SCHOOL ??'?ave shoot that wal ?. try graces by th< Association has . ii k used daily by th< lainly a pleasure tc i youngsters enjoy lie .Shoot. certainly thankfu > for their kind gift n re Tryon peopl* -.t need of exercis* 1 and help ir6 t( playground. '?iuils of equipment, to give us a pieo They are thoroughly sold on the possibilities of the mountain country of Western North Carolina and are at present figuring on a development entailing the selling of some thousand acres in the Little Switzerland sec tion where Thomas Dixon, author of "The Clansman" has decided to lo cate his artists colony. During the winter months the Eiseles will work in Charleston ac cording to reports from that city which say: "The real estate boom which has spread throughout the South Atlan tic states reached Charleston when the promoters of the Lake Lanier pro ject, at Tryon, N. C. purchased Mor ris Island just across th^ river from this city and announced that the now nearly barren island would be turned into one of the most exclusive resi dential beach resorts on the South Atlantic seaboard. A year-round beach hotel with ap proximately 150 rooms to be erected immediately upon completion of the drivewayg and hard surfaced roads, erection of dozens of fine homes^ light, heat and power connection with Charleston are only a few of the plans so far divulged by the new owners, Lewis and C. M. Eisele, promoters of th0 Lake Lanier project and William P^oor, one of the opera- ( tives of the Francis Marion hotel of this city. No effort will be Jiiade to promote sales until the island has been laid out and all work competed, It was stated by the promoters. Landscape Gardners are now on their way here and will commence work at once. C. M. and Lewis Eisele have made many friends not only in Tryon but all over Western North ^rolina and it is hoped that their interests in South Carolina will not altogether deprive the Land of the Sky of the continued use of a selling organiza tion which has so far broken all ex isting records in North Carolina. ? William Foor of the Foor-Robinson i Company is also well known here as ! his concern operates the Vanderbilt in Asheville, The^Charlotte in Char lotte and other well known hotels throughout the Piedmont. American Made Engines v \ Puff Up Mountains of Foreign Countries Mexico Invest Heavily in American Made Rolling Stock for Rehabil- ! itation of Railways A railroad locomotive, believe^ Samuel Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works is a mis sionary of peace and prosperity wherever it goes. One day while In Mexico City trying to sell General I Obregon, then President, a consign ment of these "missionaries" he ' found that Obregon admitted the need of locomoticss but had no mon ey to pay for them. The interview j of the first day was ended by Obre J gon's request, "Come back tomorrow afed I'll have a proposition for you." When Vauclain returned tlje next day he wa8 tendered this proposition: "You loan me a million dollars with which to get the railroads started and I'll buy five million dollars' worth of equipment-? on credit. The locomo tive manufacturer blinked and then said, "I'll go you fifty-fifty" and he I loaned Mexico a half million dollars and booked a tw0 million and a dollar order. So; up and down anfl across the lands of our quarrelsome | neighbor on the south, American j made locomotives are puffing / their ' preachment of peace^ industry and co-operation. Other men may sell rifles, cannon and powder that will spit destruction and revenge but tese things must eventually bend t0 the influence of Vauclain's hard working "missionaries". ?|mB ROILED AWlMAW TO -REFLECT MILADY* OlARACTEttlSTiCS ? WlDEfi 9LBCVES VWD vwea 'VMTS> (jp for CLARENCE ? TUE ESKIMO ENVELOPE? _ ^"^TOcAsrciL Interesting Spots In Out-of-The Places Peopled By Primitive Who Made Polk Way Americans County Possible Coloriis Residents of Mountain Farms Lineal Descendants of Carolina's When Bonnie Bruce Charlie Lost the Fight at English Names Predominate in Rugged Hills and ists Who Emigrated to The Cuilodsn Scotch Irish and galleys of Polk County "L.itt,le journeys to the homes of the great" wa8 a series of Intimate sketches written by Elbert Hubbard which added to the "Fra's" fame and helped to keep alive the flame of his glorious personality. Ever since the first azaleas burst into fire along the ridges, and the dogwood cast it8 flakey 'petals in soft falling snow, the Editor, his "pardner" and Maggie Sue Edwards a8 "Official Pilot of the Pig-Trails" have made an effort to spend every week end, making other "Little visits to the Homes of the Great". There is not a lot of danger that any sketches, had they been written, would have contributed any to our fame. And we have never 'been ac cused of having any "glorious per sonality" to be kept alive; but while people here in town were wondering where "The Shannon Outfit" w*e putting off to come Saturday noon, the individual members of it were getting acquainted with the moun tains of Polk County^ and with the people who dwell therein. And it is of their dwelling^ oftimes humble; and it is of these people, toil-worn in many instances, and drooped with the weight of years, that we love to call "Great" ? these Anglo-Saxons of proud lineage who " have preserved lor North Carolina the prestige of having the purest Wood of any state in the Union. We have, -in these excursions, delv ed from the heart of Dark Corners over the South line, to the upper most reaches of Cooper Gap and Pea Ridge. We have spent nights out where the slapping of the paddle wheels and the dripping water of some ancient mill buried deep in the woods, was most wonderous music in contrast to the mechanical chug of the presses that day by day din In our e&rs until sometimes they be come a roaring Inferno. Or would if they kept busy enough, which they don't. We have attended divine services at the little churches that dot the county. Have hlended untuneful ' voices In all-day singings. We have broken bread with the people of the countryside, and everywhere have we found that ripe wholesouled hospital ity encountered in such lavish abun dance in only one other section ? that of the old, Sun-kissed and wave washed, East'n sho' o' Ma'ylund. As to the relations of our paper with our county friends ? we ponder again over the Word where it tells that a prophet is not without honor save *in his own country. Occas sional we do hear good words that ring true. More often we hear ad verse criticism, | if not about the paper then about ourselves because we live in the manner intended by our Creator for our personal and individ ual needs. Out over the county, however, we find the farm folk either reading the NEWS from kiver to kiver, or else waiting for the coming of the mail! car. Some have told us it was hard to wait until Saturday came ? the day that carries the NEWS to the) out of the way places. We havel i " been told different times by Tryon folk that we run too much news from "out in the sticks" but they cannol appreciate how these folk, cut ofr from the rest of the world by mouni tain roadg which the state has never seen fit to improve ? yearn for some word, for the recital of eventg goinj; on from day td day of which they aro so far apart. | And having been thither and yon on our provious week end excursions! last Saturday noon we pointed the snoot of our hill-billy up toward Spj cer's Cove, fabled in song and storv as the old settlers can tell when tal en in reminiscent mood. It is such a different matter to sit lazily on ones front gallery, as, look ing out over (that chain whose sort outlines are lost in a misty halo of purple and mauve and pale orchid, your rocking chair softly fa'ls into 'a rythm while one unconsciously voices over and over again the lines ? "These Be The Mountains Th^t Comfort Me ? " Vastly different, I say, from fight ing these same mountains with your brakes and clutch and the good Lord and Henry Ford knows what else. So different, I repeat, from looki^rg down from a trail where your two eff wheels hang" over the edge; down, into the fertile valiey zig-zagged by fences, dotted with orchard trees, cleft by a winding stream that has its source in the home water supply ? the spring without which, ttyis country would have never been sst tied. We discern the home itse half hidden in a clump of tulip pop lars or barricaded ? a kick back fro early day raids with Indians ? huge boulders. It Is a cabin squared logs, mud chinked with huge chimney of field stone and win dows, like friendly eyes, that alws beckon one hither. In many hon es one still finds the spinning wheel ? the loom and carder, and oftimes I lie black and savory dutch oven. We passed such place8 Saturday. We looked down from heights and we looked up trom valleys. We crossed If, m |by of a ys broiling streams that hai been re plenished from the much needed rain that we of Tryon have failed to lure. We pulled in second up a road that showed no sign of tire track, after wards learning that trucks had been the only motor vehicle^ to cover it previous to oar path finding, for many many months. We stopped be cause thj road played out, under a wide-spreading Japanese walnut tree at the old Sherrill Melton place, now owned and occupied by E. L. Mc Dade and family. One feels lost in the primitive environm?nt of hill and valley, copse and running stream ? one feels suddenly snatched back to , the Far-away and^Long-ago of histor ic lore until a roaring overhead ' ca'ls the attention to the most mod ern of all Dame Shipman's prophesys ? Ships that in the air do fly," which with a great flourish preens its wide stretching 'wings and lands on Sugar boat Mountain back of this dwelling. An hour or so of rest and refresh ments of walnuts from the big tree, and Virginia Beautieg from the or chard and our voyage of discovery was res lmed. Another stretch of rough sledding a neighborly chat ?vith Mother Dimsdale) with a pleas uut visit to S ab Lynch's which in cluded a friend'y raid on snrne cen tury-old pear trees, and we bethought ourselves ajjout our caup, turning a deaf ear to these splendid families irgent invitation to supper and bed. We sought a camping place at the old Whiteside Mill, but the clear purling brook that cascaded down the rocks last March and turned the waterwheel had found meantime an ignominious end in a dammed up puddJe where naked urchins disport ed. Mr. and Mrs. Whiteside were away on a long trip to the middle west, and it was getting late. And this story is getting long ? too long, for the space allotted me. Let imagination supply the rest A I chance meeting and wonderful visit with Low Ownesby ? dying embers and the fragrant smell of ham what am ? spreading blankets-night. Then came the stars, screech owls, whip poorwi'ls, baying of hounds, hunters training their pup-dogs, invigorating breezes ? Tryon a hiillion miles away ? the NEWS OFFICE non existant ? dear Lord, a day tike the one Just spent brings us close to You! A skeeter! Swat SLEEP! \ We didn't go to church Sunday ? for sometime during the star-Ht ? l night there came to me a fragment? "These are the things I cafl divine ? . Rich brown earthy and Btorm tossed trees " Greens Creek Meeting Of County Club Develops Organized Opposition To Tax Revision Plan Outlined By Club ResideBt of Banner Farming Section Oppose Changes Recommended -By Committee and Do Not Want Revaluation of Taxable Property in Pott County. Large Crowd Present. Paul Wager cf State V University Addresses Audience The regular monthly meeting of the Polk County Club at Greens Creek School, held Tuesday evening brought out a record breaking crowd practically all of the land owners of the southern township being present, with a large attendance from Coiumbus, Saluda, Tryon and the other townships and a scattering of visitors interested in the work of the Club in its effort to foster cooperation between farmers and busines8 men. A ' An attractive lunch-eon served on ' the atage of the auditorium preceded the usual program. W. S. Green Mayor of Tryon wag requested to read the resolution tendered by the Taxation Committee, which he did. Paul Wager, of the University of North Carolina commended the res olutions and stated that they were intelligently and capably framed. Representatives from the Green's Greek section immediately protesttd the adoption and a batUe royal en sued. Motions made to table the resolutions were made. Mayor j Green offered to withdraw the report j if these motions were also with drawn,. Unable to attend because of busi ness afiairs, the Editor hasn't receiv ed a verbatim report of the pick ceedings and will not be able to get such a report in time for publication. ^Taxeg must be equalized in lJolk County if it is to grow into a really prosperous community and the far mers of the section should be equal y interested with the busines8 men in an equalization and revaluation plan such a8 presented by the committee. Factionism shouldn't exist. One for aU and all for one will make Polk County a great farming section and the proper exploitation of its scenic advantage* will establish a ready market for the products of those farm*. If the town^ps wage^ war against each other, riduody "gets anywhere. Cooperation counts and unlesg co operation can be established the Polk County Club cannot accomplish the things it has set out to do. It was founded on a spirit of coopera tion and must continue in that spirit or fail in its mission. Next week we shall 11111 a detailed report of the proceedings .not ob tainable this week in time for us to go to press. Greeng Creek is an important and wealthy part of Polk County, peopled ! with progressive and able farmers and once they catch the idea of unit ed cooperation through the activities of the Polk County Club many more of them wUl he found on its member ship roll. o ? ? ? - Preachers Thought Radio Broadcasting Would Cut Church Attendance Such Ftvs Proven Groundless During Period Sermons Hive Been Broadcasts Throughout the Country "When churches first began broad casting their services by radio," says a religious piblication, "some fearfu. souls were apprehensive lest such a procedure would have a tendency to keep people from church." But a Btory comes from London which seem to prove that such fears were ground less and that radio, in fact, wa8 ful filling the admonition of the Great Teacher: "Go out into the highways and the hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my hou?e may be filled." The incident happened in the "littl church around the cornerr a Bmall surburban public^iouse which serves local tradesmen and other as a kind of a club. The occasion was the lervice broadcast from one of London's largest churches. When the chime of the bell began the land lord, who is a radio enthusiast, placed a loud speaker on the table in the saloon bar and uwitcbed on the instrument. As the s iv.ca proceed- j ed glasses were set down, pipes went out, and the hymns, prayers and ser mon were listened to in profound si lence to the end. One of the little company, when he reached home, sur prised the family with the jubilant i declaration that he had been to church. When they openly express ed their incredulity, he entered into an explanation and added that he Bhould start going to church regularly each Sunday ? Womens Guild of Church Will Stage Musical Program Wednesday John Weaver, Greens Creek Fiddler and Other Artists on Program Which is bell Arranged There will be an entertainment ^iven by the Women's Guild of Holy vJross Episcopal Church Wednesday evening, at S:30 o'clock, September 30th, at Parish House. The Admis sion will be 50 and 25 cents. An in teresting program is to be presented, the performers being Mrs. Inez Heb bert, Danseuse, Mr. Hammet Smith, Banjos and Mr. John Weaver^ fiddle. These artists are to0 well known ior formal introduction, Mrs. Heb bert for her beautiful classic and toe .dancing a8 well as her readings. Mr. Smith for his skill and technique wlt^ that old-timey, mirth provoking in strument, and Mr. Weaver aside irom being locally famous for his ini mitable selections, recently played, jy invitation, f r the Okeh Record people at A aevilie. Therefore a ioPlendi(] treat is promised. o Old Type Count!? Dostor Fast Disappear, ng As * Specialists injnase - True Friend .0 Hjnunity old Tim? Phy sician Labored For Love Instead of Money. Made Friends Wdich Really counted Many American cities and towns have recently adopted the custom of xioiding newspaper voting contests to select the most useful citizen in their .espective neighborhoods, a very in cresting and commendable custom. Not long ago the little town of Mont gomery, Ohio, held such a contest, and *he medal was unanimously pin ned upon the oldest country doctor in the county. He has practiced for 47 years in the little town, and is still carrying on. He worked to save human life when there* were no hospitalg and no fast means of transportation. He travel ed roads on which his buggy wheels mired t0 the hubs; he sat beneath a smoky kerosene lamp watching the spa/k of life ebb and flow, and if the worst came his hand soothed mem bers of stricken fami'y and steeled chem for tne dark hours on ahead, tie had no bookkeeper to rash out a cold, inrormal bill a'roost ibefore the h.:arse had returned from the cem? tary. Thousands of ministrations were performed by this good Samari tan for which never received a ctnt ? but he lives in the hearts of the people and has been voted the most useful man in his county. We have such type8 around Tryon, men whose lives have \been dedicated :o helping humanity, rich or poor. , A new school of practitioners has taken their place, but in the hearts of the people the old country doctor can never be replaced. To him the med al will always be rewarded^ because to him it will alway8 be due. AMERICAN MONTE CARLO IN BAHAMA To take advantage of the horde of pleasure-mad spenders who are now riding the c of the Florida land boom pla... .. j being pushed to com plete an American Monte Carlo, to be promoted on the Bahama Islands, just off the coast of Florida. Ameri can capitalists, it i8 understood, with the consent of the English Govern ment, are financing the big pleasure, spirts and gamling resort of the six islands of the Bahama group. T'\ project calls for aeroplane passen^ ' service between Florida and the is lands, the trip to be made in forty minutes.