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'' “CURB” REPORTER
So busy working on the Tenth
Anniversary of the Tryon Daily
Bulletin the reporter forgot one of
the most important anniversaries
in Tryon. Today is the S'eventh
birthday of the Tryon Bank &
Trust Company, which opened for
business on January 17, 1931. It
started with $25,000 capital. With
in two weeks deposits brought total
resources up to $68,097.29. Four
years later they were $370,579.84.
Last week they were $533,729.69.
This excellent growth is a tribute
to executive vice-president Julian
B. Hester, and to the other officers
and directors named in Saturday’s
Bulletin .... Christmas greeting
just received from Eugene Turner
from somewhere in China. Not be
/ng able to read Chinese I can’t
♦tell where it was mailed
Isn't this a nice spring day!
Visited tea room at the Tryon
Country club Sunday afternoon
—Nice place. Delicious food. Beau
tiful setting. Unique
SIOO,OOO fire damaged McLellan’s
dime store in Spartanburg Sunday.
Four others neai’by also suffered.
.... Chinese reported turning
back Japs at o ne point .. . Socialist
Leon Blum organizing a new
French cabinet . . . Former Sheriff
and Tax Collector W. Y. Wilkins
said the other day that he would be
a candidate for sheriff in the
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TRYON. N C., MONDAY, JAN. 17, 1938
At Kiwanis Tuesday
Dr. J. H. Boldridge of Landrum,
prominent retired Baptist minister
and father-in-law of the Landrum
Methodist minister, will be the
guest speaker at the Tryon Ki
wanis club on Tuesday at 1 p. m.,
at Hotel Tryon. Hoyt O. Prince
will be in charge of the program.
To Charleston
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Flynn will
leave Thursday for Charleston, S.
C., to join Lord and Lady Astor
enroute from Florida. Lady As
tor had planned to visit her sister
in Tryon but it is necessary for
her to go on to Virginia to visit
her brother, Colonel Langhorne
and her aunt. Lord Astor will
return with Mr. and Mrs. Flynn on
Saturday for a visit at Little Or
chard.
“Best Citizen”
Miss Elizabeth Landrum, of
Landrum, a Senior in Coker col
lege, Hartsville, and president of
the student body of that school
was recently distinguished by her
classmates in her election as the
representative of her class to ap
vear in the American College Year
Bool' as the “Best Citizen”. Miss
Landrum is prominent in all stu
dent activities at Coker, and was
chosen by the faculty this year as
one of five Coker students to ap
pear in Who’s Who in American
Colleges and Universities.
The Tryon Boy Stouts will not
meet tonight as scheduled.