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®rtmn ;@mio JBullriin (The Smallest Daily Newspaper In The World) Vol. 9, Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936 ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3,1879 FILLERS When news is short the editor has to resort to fillers or run the stock market on front page. Some people wonder why we print the stock market and others, telephone or come to the office before it is printed in order to get the infor mation quicker. A few don’t like our special long articles and many ethers buy extra copies because of them and send them to all parts of the world. A visitor in the office of the world’s smallest daily newspaper this morning was James S. “Speedy” Massenburg, Jr., of Oak Forest Plantation, Raleigh. He is nearly eight years old and will be in the third grade this fall. He is a guest in the home of Mrs. Walter Jones. The edtior showed him how the linotype machine worked and set his name “Speedy Massenburg” in type as a souvenir. Speedy looked at his name in mw tvpe and saw a proof of it, end then said, “I think it ought to be ‘James S. Massenburg, Jr’.” Such loyalty and pride could not be de nied and Speedy got a corrected 1'ne with his proper name, and •’"ith the addition of an ink pad he has alreadv begun to make a name for himself. A name means, a lot to some children. My little girl Fliz.abeth Anne, sometimes won’t answer when she is called “Libbv”, rnd John Ralph Moore wants the “Buddy” dropped from his name. Only a few people know John Byers. He has been called BHv Byers so long that he is thinking of changing his name to William Byers. Most all nicknames are Liven by friends as a mark of -Continued on Page TV•> Hims Velly Clever Chinee—Likee Uncle In China Eugene and Frank Turner, two young men who spent most of their lives in China and learned Chinese at the same time they were ac quiring English, gave a very in teresting program at the Tryon Rotary club today noon at Lake Lanier Inn. They described inter esting details of Chinese life, their entertainments, food, travel, and exhibited some beautiful Chinese needle work. They carried on a conversation in Chinese, gave a demonstration of a fight between two Chinese, and Frank Turner sang a song in Chinese. They answered a number of questions from interested Rotarians which brought out the facts that the Chinese are rapidly becoming like the West through education, and movies and that the social life life amnog the wealthy higher cl ess Chinese is the same as in this country. When asked if Chinese girls were pretty, Frank Turner pulled out of his pocket a number of pictures of beautiful Chinese girls who are movie ac tresses. Eugene Turner became an Eagle Scout while in China and told of the work done by the Boy Scouts of his troop. Both boys will attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this fall. A number of visitors enjoyed the program today. Tryon and Beacon baseball tesms of the Western Carolina In dxiftrial League will play baseball Saturday afternoon at Harmon Field at 3:30.
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