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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 ®f t ®r|wn mltj idin Vol. 8 TRYON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1935 Municipal Power Is Much Higher A report of the electric rate .survey by the Federal Power Com- Amission which was issued on July *l7 and covering 24 privately owned utilities and 68 municipal plants of North Carolina shows the South ern Public Utilities as having one of the lowest rates in the state. The municipal plant at Forest City has $1 minimum against our 80c. For 250 kilowatts Forest City charges $9.62; we get it for SB.IO. Shelby city plant is still higher with a minimum of $1.25 and $10.33 for 250 kilowatts. Way nesville has a minimum of $1.20 and $10.20 against our SB.IO for 250 kilowatts. We couldn’t find a single municipal plant that had a rate as low as the Duke Power Co., rate. We are fortunate in en joying lower domestic and residen tial rates and in addition get the tax revenue from the Duke Power Co., while other communities with miunicipal plants have to pay high er rates and get no taxes from plants. Then, too, we have better maintenance service than would be possible from a small municipal plant. Community Wealth Rector’s Laundry has just in stalled some more new machinery for putting on a better finish for wash suits. This is an addition to the new machinery for finish ing shirts. The purchase of this new machinery and the service it renders add to the material weath of the community. Men can now wear shirts and wash suits at least twice as long as when they were finished the old way and they will still look better. Dunwanderin Done wandering after visiting some of the most interesting places in the world, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns Peattie came to Tryon and found what they called “An Unspoiled Paradise’,, and named their home “Dunwanderin”. Those names tell much of their appreciation of Tryon. Mr. Peattie left us a few years ago, and the passing on Friday of Mrs. Peattie brought to a close an interesting and useful life. But her contributions to Tryon will live on in the spirit and activities of the people of this community. Unlike many outsiders who try to revolu tionize a place a<nd show how things are done elsewhere, she loved Tryon as it was —An Un spoiled Paradise. She was as salt that brought out the best flavo'* c of the community life. She didn i extol the virtues of foreign writ ers as much as she helped to crystalize the local atmosphere of Sidney Lanier, and her name and interest is forever linked with his on the monument at Lynn. As co founder of the Drama Fortnightly, and as president of the Garden club and Lanier club for a num ber of times she took a leading part in promoting the cultural life of the community. She loved Tryon, talked Tryon, wrote Tryon, and sowed seeds abroad that will bear fruit for us in the years to come. We owe a debt to the lasting in fluence of Elia W. Peattie.* Indicative of the good grain harvest in Cabarrus county this season, two new granaries with a capacity of between three and four thousand bushels each have been built within the past two weeks. Est.-1-31-28
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