ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE
AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
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Vol. 11. Est. 1-31-28
■“CURB” REPORTER
The Health Bulletin, published
by the North Carolina State Board
of Health in its August issue re
produced Dr. C. Arthur Lincoln’s
article on Health Service in Polk
county which appeared in The
Tryon Daily Bulletin .... Mrs.
A. J. Ropgy, a guest of the
Thomas Costas is a former prom
inent English actress who appear
ed under the name, Fannie Fields
in plays attended by the British
royalty .... In Ballenger’s ad
Monday the copy should have read
“Sanka and ‘sich’ like” are good
but they are not necessary if you
get Ballenger’s fresh parched
coffee which contains no rancid
oils. This coffee is parched and
ground the same day at the
Ballenger Co E. G. Balldw,
local representative of A Nash
Tailor-Made clothes sent a coby of
his advertisement in the Bulletin
to the home office and received a
letter from General Sales Manager
Long who was impressed with the
value of the Bulletin as an adver
tising medium, and promised to
send M|r. Ballew some pictures for
his ads .... The Baptist ladies
are working diligently to make
money for their church building
fund and are preparing a delicious
chicken supper to sell to the public
at Harmon Field on Thursday at
= 6:30. It will be a delightful gath
ering to which anyone in the com
munity would enjoy . . . MacDonald
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TRYON, N. C., TUESDAY AUGUST 30, 1938
Opens Dress Shop
Mrs. J. E. Brownlee has leaseu
one of the new buildings next to
Texaco Service Station and is
getting it ready for the opening
of her Style Shoppe on Saturday,
September 3rd. M;rs. Brownlee
has been to Baltimore and bought
the latest styles of dresses and
hats for the coming season. They
will be advertised this week in the
Bulletin for the opening on Sat
urday. Dressing booths, clothes
cabinets and display windows and
tables are now being installed and
the public will be invited to visit
the shop on Saturday.
Over Three Million
Spent Last Year
For State Needy
Polk county gets $7,666.15 com
bined Federal, State, and local
funds.
Residents of Polk county lart
yaer received a total of $7,666.15
from public assistance funds, in
cluding state, federal and local
expenditures to the aged needy
and dependent children. Needv
kged got $5,841.30 and dependent
children received $1,824.85 in the
county.
Eighty-one old people of Polk
county and 52 children living here
were listed on the state office rec
ords as having received payments
during the month of June, accord
ing to figures released this week
by J. A. Stewart, auditor of the
division of public assistance of the
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