ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFIC*
AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3,1879
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Vol. 10, Est. 1-31-28
Polk Red Cross
Reaches $1,602.77
Chairman C. Arthur Lincoln re
ported Monday that the total col
lections received by the Polk Coun
ty Chapter of the American Red
Cross for flood sufferers so far
was over $1,500.00. Today noon
the treasurer, James B. Hester,
reported additional donations from
all over the county that sent the
contributions to $1,602.78. The
employees of Katterman - Mitchell
Silk Mill at Columbusi contributed
$34.25; a $7 collection also came
in Saturday from Columbus. The
Green Creek Baptist church sent
in $13.25 and the Green Creek
Ba p t ist Woman’s Missionary
Union sent in $7.50, a total of
$20.70. Saluda sent in $23.00.
Never before has the nation been
so touched by a disaster. The net
receipts from the moving picture
on Sunday afternoon have not been
turned fn.
to Broadcast
To Scouts Feb. 12
Gastonia, N. C., Feb. 6.—Word
has just been received at the head
quarter's of the Piedmont Council
here to the effect that the Hon.
Clyde R. Hoey, Governor of the
State of North Carolina, will speak
to the Boy Scouts of the State
over station WBT on Friday night,
February 12th, at 6:45 o’clock in
commemorating the 27th brithday
of the founding of the Boy Scout
movement in America.
TRYON, N. C., TUESDAY, FEB. 9, 1937
Bridgeman Is Being
Held by Polk Sheriff
Columbus, Feb. 8. Thomas
Bridgeman, 45, of Polk county,
was taken into custody on Sunday
by Sheriff W. D. Hines pending
the completion of an investiga
tion into the case involving the
burning of a house and injuries
.to Thomas Lawter, 75.
Bridgeman was taken into cus
tody following his dismissal from
St. Luke’s hospital, Tryon, where
he received treatment for injuries
suffered at the time Lawter’s home
was burned on Monday night,
January 25.
Lawter, who suffered a fractur
ed skull, remains unconscious at
St. Luke’s hospital. His condition
is reported to be very serious.
Lawter and Bridgeman were
found in an unconscious condition
near the burned home by Pink
McAbee, a neighbor, who was at
tracted by the blazing house. The
house was three miles northeast
of here. Lawter was found lying
at the edge of the yard and
Bridgeman near the highway,
about 75 yards from the house. —
Asheville Citizen.
HEADLINES
Senator Johnson and Borah
unite to fight President Roosevelt’s
plan to reorganize Federal Court
system.
Floods and cold weather strike
Pacific coast states. Hundreds of
acres of orchard land suffering and
20 families are flooded out below
Los Angeles. Weather 12 below
zero near Denver where two men
lost their lives.