ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE
AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
(Ergen JBatlg bulletin
(The World's Smallest Daily Newspaper)
Vol. 11. Est. 1-31-28
Tryon Girl Prince
In College Play
|Ciss Lois Avant. student at
“Siiredith college, Raleigh, and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A.
Avant, played the part of the
“Prince” in the fairy story of
“Cinderella and the Prince” at
the 13th annual May Day festival
at M'eredith college on Saturday.
Mjay 7th. The colorful pageant
based on the familiar fairy story
was presented at 4:30 by the
students in the physical education
department under the direction of
Mrs. Gertrude Royster Sorrell.
Courtiers to the “Prince” were
Miss M&rjorie Thomas of Quincey.
Fla., and MSss MJary Belle Bullock
of Wilmington.
Kiwanis Official
Here Tuesday
J. T. Pritchett of
Carolinas Kiwanis district,
division one, will make an official
visit to the Tryon club on Tues
day at 1 p. m.. at Hotel Tryon.
Headlines—
Spanish Insurgents making mad
dash to conquer Madrid govern
ment troops.
Plymouth, Mass., citizens shock
ed over paint smeared on Plymouth
Rock by some vandals.
Japanese report a victory in
North China.
Music of Lehar, the Vienese di
rector, will be heard tonight at
9 o’clock over NBC. Richard Crooks
v'ill be on the Firestone program
at 7:30.
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TRYON, N C., MONDAY, MAY 9, 1938
Our London Letter
April 27th London. W. 1.
Dear Mr Vining,
You must forgive me for not
writing sooner, (though why you
should I can’t imagine.) The fact
is. spring has entered into my
soul, and whenever my better self
leans towards the writing table,
my springier self leans towards
the great outdoors where leap
the lambs and tender rabbits!
This month has been untable in
Europe for a general feeling of
much needed bonhomie. True, the
Spaniards still slaughter one an
other. a strange thing I think of
when one is lying on a warm violet
scented bank looking up at the
sun. '
With Italy however, and with
Ireland, we have signed pacts,
and although pacts nowadays ap
pear to be of no more value than
rins, they generate a certain calm.
For one thing it is a relief to
look at the papers, which have re
turned to their policy of bathing
belles and burglaries, instead of
being greeted of a morning with
terrifying headlines of a bellicose
aspect, which curdled the very
milk in one’s coffee.
We have experienced a wonder
ful spring, but needless to say,
it has got above itself, and is
now no longer wonderful, but
disastrous. No rain has fallen for
ten weeks, but there have been
frosts and cold winds, so that
everything, to judge from the
farmers is nipped or otherwise
blightedi It is a new thing to
hear of English parsons praying
for rain, and one can only pre
sume, from the results, that they
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