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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS l/lATTER AUGUST 20, .1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON. N. C.. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 ffife QJrmnt 5 atlg Vol. 8 TRYON, N. C., FRIDAY, AUG. 23, 1935 Est. 1-31-28 FILLERS A man once asked how news papers always managed to make news and advertisements come out even every day. It is a problem sometimes with a new editor, but the experienced one always has some fillers on hand to make up the deficit in real news. Carl Goerch of the State says that run ning a small town newspaper is the most strenuous job he knows of, and that when he operated, a newspaper at Washington, N. C., he had to create a fictitious person, ‘‘Jacob R. Rapbottom” of Elizabeth City, to use as a filler from time to time when needed. When Jacob R. Rapbottom of Elizabeth City was a visitor in Washington it was just another personal mention and nobody paid any attention to it un til Mr. Ranbottom got to travelling •h great deal, and getting too ac tive in that section. He made com mencement addresses in schools just across the county line, or preached at a church in the lower end of the county, all of which was so indefinite that no one thought of disputing the statement. Editor Goerch had Rapbottom in auto ac cidents, he married him, had him join the National Guard, win priz es at the state fair and do many dther things when a filled was need ed to complete a column in the paper. An editor just has to be re sourceful at times; and that is what this editor is trying to be now. However, the truth is more interesting tha.n fiction, and a love flor people in general and a sym pjrthetic interest in their affairs will bring out delightful bits of news thab will make us all under- Continued on Paae Two BASEBALL Try on and Canton will play baseball at Harmon Field on Sat urday afternoon at 3:30. This will be the last home game for the league this season. Mrs. Baynard Dies Mrs. O. T. Baynard, sister of Mrs. W. S. Green, died Thursday evening at Hendersonville. The body will be sent home to St. Petersburg, Fla. Mrs. Baynard was formerly Miss Kansas Nelson of Mill Spring. Dr. Garter at Rotary Dr. Homer Carter, of Madison, Wisconsin, who was a delegate to the Rotary International conven tion in Mexico City this summer, ad Iressed the Tryon Rotary drib ■tcr’ay. Dr. Carter is a son-in-law of Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Keller. 100,000 people attended the funeral services for Will Rogers on Thursday afternoon at Los Angeles. There are no millionaires in Finland; neither are there any poor people, according to a< news article in the Christian Science Monitor. ] ItR! All Europe is getting ready for the war between Italy and Ethio pia. President Roosevelt today ap pointed a former governor of New HaimpsLire to head his security program.
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