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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 fflif ®rmnt ;@atlu (The Smallest Daily Newspaper In The World) Vol. 9, Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1936 W. S. Green Elected Democratic Head W. S. Green of Tryon was elec- SA ted chairman of the Polk County |/ Democratic Executive committe at a committee meeting on Monday. He succeeds R. M. Hall of Saluda who resigned. Dr. Green has been active in politics and business for many years. He is a former mayor of Tryon and a former state sen ator of Wyoming. Mr. Hall has been chairman for the past sev eral years and has devoted a great deal of time and thought in the in terest of the party. He is now the chairman of the County Board of Education. Foster on School B’d J. Robert Foster, Mill Spring mer chant and former County tax col lector, was appointed a member of the County School Board on Mon day to succeed Henry Thompson °f Mill Spring who had resigned. Grapes for Roosevelt A basket of grapes for President Roosevelt is being made up in Try on and will be presented to him in Asheville during his visit to Western North Carolina Wednes day and Thursday. Last Sunday Nelson Jackson, Jr. bought a big basket of Tryon grapes and pre sented them to the Los Angeles California Junior baseball players who were enroute home from Spar- ' tanburg where they lost to the Hub City the Little World Series. These little courtesies make last i ing impressions of community i good will and hospitality. Mayor to Charlotte Mayor E. E. Missildine of Try on has been invited by Mayor Ben E. Douglas of Charlotte to attend the Green Pastures rally as one of the distinguished guests of the city who will greet President Roosevelt when he delivei’s what is believed will be his final address in the south before the election in November. Chairman George E. Bell of the Tryon Democratic pre cinct will also attend the meeting, he having been appointed a marsh al for the event. Charlotte is ex pecting 100,000 people from seven states for the celebration. Body Recovered At Lake Lanier Basin The body of a man which Coro ner George W. McCoy of Green vil]e county said had been identi fied as that of J. Grady Gunter of Spartanburg was found Monday iin the northern part of Lake La nier near Tryon. The body was found floating at the Third basin by L. M. Pearson, Johnny Lyles and Harold Leach of Spartanburg who were on a boating trip around the Jake. The body had been in the water four or five days. There was no water in his lungs and is thought that the man had died of a heart stroke and fell into the lake after he had died. Gunter had relatives living near the lake but they had not seen him recently and it is possible that he may have died on way to visit them. Gunter was a former employee of the Southern Railway.
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