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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
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p[0-.jfty Will Push Charleston Development During Winter
" Many Oilers From all Parts of Country. May De
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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.
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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 ..<? road that 40,000
? . ; <vidy gone to that
:? ; : .a u a polls and vicinity,
. . the last winter about
?uken trom lndianap
Florida.
i.v.re is. a real basis
. bourn. The state has
'i . s, fur from fully de
K place of resort and
: and horticulture.
have suddenly
*;,s'ion-wide publicity,
? .. here in Florida ha8
. ? us pricey and those
y and sold iB time
? i deal of money.
.vise, well-Informed
?Mill holding on their
.ad at an early date.
. limit somewhere.
? rt.SOrt business Id
r thing than it is
tLy thousand more
. . d in productive
and developing itf
. r,:' the real estate the
irantically endeav
al be valuable. But
such sudden boom*
i -j- crush soon comes
:> 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.
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'-?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 ?
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for CLARENCE ?
TUE ESKIMO ENVELOPE?
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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.
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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.
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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.