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AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3.1579
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Vol. 10, Est. 1-31-28
Teachers Meet
The Polk county school teachers
association will meet on Saturday
morning, February 20, at Stearns
school, according to an announce
ment by County Superintendent P.
S. White.
Basketball Friday
The Tryon high squad of basket
ball players have their home en
gagement this Friday with the
teams from Green’s Creek. As
formerly the games with the visi
tors will be close and hard fought
from the first to the last. This
will be one of the best games of
the season and always draws a
large crowd. The girls start their
game at 7:30 and the boys at
8:15. Referee, Eargle; umpire,
Glover.
Polk In Henderson
The newly organized Garden
club in Hendersonville has for its
) first officers two former Polk
county citizens. The president is
Dr. Walter W. Carpenter, son of
Mrs. Lula Carpenter of Landrum.
He began his practice of dentistry
i t Mill Spring. The vice-presi
dent of the club is Mrs. J. E.
Shipman, sister of Clerk of court
John A. Arledge of Columbus.
Polk paves the way.
Closed Monday
The Tryon Post Office will be
closed all day on Monday, Feb.
22. There will be no rural mail
delivery and the general delivery
window will not be open at all
on Monday. The banks will also
be closed.
TRYON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1987
Editorial
A group of six Democrats of
Polk county have written to Sena
tor Bacon and Representative Mc-
Dowell strongly recommending
that NO LOCAL LAWS be pass
ed; but that our legislators lend
their best efforts to„obtain STATE
WIDE ELECTION LAW RE
FORMS as recommended by the
Democratic State Executive Com
mittee. If these l’ecommendations
are carried out it will mean that
the Absentee Ballot Law for Polk
county will not even be introduc
ed in the legislature. Senator
Bacon was elected on a ticket to
repeal the absentee ballot law and
received more votes than any
other candidate because the people
of this county wanted to get rid
of the Absentee Ballot law. Its
abuse by so called politicians in
stealing votes and stuffing the
ballot boxes has been a disgrace
to the county and to the Demo
cratic party. It is the concensus
of opinion among most Democrats
that the people who live in the
county should be the ones to de
cide on matters of local govern
ment and not those living else
where and that an absentee bal
lot is not necessary. Just what
course our representatives will
follow is not known. Mr. Mc
dowell of Polk has joined two other
representatives in introducing a
bill to increase the commissioners
of Madison county and appoint
Democrats in order to get a ma
jority over the duly elected Re
publicans in that county. Mr. Mc-
Dowell has already stated his
opposition to the repeal of the Ab
sentee Ballot Law for Polk coun-
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