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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 (Erjjmt JSatljj (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) Vol. 11. Est. 1-31-28 John Early News has been received here of the death of John Early, at the yl- S. Public Health Service Hos pital at Carville, La., where he had gone for treatment of leprosy. Mr. Early is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Early of Tryon. He became noted for his fight to improve the conditions of lepers, and worked hard for government hospitals. He invaded the halls of congress and the departments of health until he got action. He was also the author of a booklet, “The 14th Chapter of the Strange Case of John Early, the Leper.” this book he presented the unfair and inhuman treatment of lepers, and tried to show that the disease i s net as communicable as the many venereal diseases which at that time were allowed to spread with out any government protection to the public. Dr. Robert Olesen in a statement from Washington yester day backs up the statement by say |Vig that leprosy is one of the Iffeast communicable diseases known to medicine. Mr. Early was a conscientious citizen and often preached on Sunday afternoons at the vacant lot where the Sinclair Station is now located. The deceas ed was a Spanish-American War veteran, and he contacted his strange disease while in the Philip pine Islands. Besides his Parents, ' is survived by his widow and two children; three brothers and one sister. 7 TT Austria rushes troops back to block Nazis in Styria. Province in virtual state of siege as result of uprising threat. Hundreds are under arrest. Removal of Hitler’s key man in Vienna cabinet is an ticipated. TRYON, N C., TUESDAY, MARCH 1. 1938 “CURB” REPORTER Friends in Tryon have received news of the birth of Edith Endicott McMillan, on Friday, February 25, at Concord, Mass., to Mr. and Mrs. John E. McMillan. The McMillans have a home in Gillette Woods . . . Mildred Seydell, prominent news paper columnist of the Atlanta Georgian read the Anniversary Edition of the Bulletin and wrote a column about Tryon and says that to visit Tryon makes one want to go back there but after reading what Margaret Culkin Banning fays about it she would crave to g 0 there even though she had never ’sited Tryon. Miss Seydell also mentions some thrilling moments in New York as the guest of Mrs. W. A. Dobbyn when Mr. Dobbyn ’"as secretary to Vincent Astor. She also reproduced Virginia Graham’s poem on Tryon and Dr. ' quotation ajxiut the old Roman. Similis, who upon retiring went to the country to live. At his death seven years later, he had on his tombstone: “Here I ; es Similis, who reckoned many years of age but lived only seven”. . . . Mrs. W. W. Deupree of ’temphis, Tenn., sister of Mrs. " rarHs Williams of Mill Farm, has just heard of the Anniversary Edition and has written for a copy. 7 'he thinks Tryon an attractive "lace in many ways . . . Judge Wilson Warlick is a candidate for re-election .... Senator Baily Continued on Back Page
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