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Vol. 11. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., MONDAY. OCT. 3, 1938
Sanitary Ratings
County Sanitary Officer B. A.
Buff, inspected the Polk county
hotels and cases during the month
of September and graded them as
I follows:
* Thousand Pines Inn 9|28 97.0
Sunnydale * 9128 94.0
Mimosa Inn..—. 927 93.%
Glenwood Case - 927 93.%
Oak Hall Hotel 928 93.0
Circle Inn 928 92.%
Hotel Tryon 928 90.%
Faye's Sandwich Shop 929 90.0
Black’s Sand. Shop _9 27 88.%
Cowan’s Sand. Shop 928 84.0
The Wagon Wheel 927 83-0
Shields’ Case 927 74.%
Lucky Tavern 929 70.%
KIWANIS TUESDAY
C. M. Howes will be in charge
of the Tryon Kiwanis club pro
gram on Tuesday at 1 p. m.. at
Hotel Tryon.
“CURB’’ REPORTER
Mrs. Ralph Hickox, renewing her
subscription from Bedford, N. Y.
says that she likes the Curb Re
porter but asks why the quotation
marks on “CURB”. When the ed
itor first wrote Curb Reporter last
year he put quotation marks
around it to help distinguish it i
from Cub Reporter, a title well-|
known to all. He didn’t know
that quotation marks were still j
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Letters—
Bridgehampton, L. I-, N. Y.
Dear Mr. Vining:
A few days ago I heard from
Tryon that some of my friends
were wondering if I’d gone with
the wind of the recent hurricane.
It might be safe to say that I
had not.
We took a terrific beating but
had no fatalities in this village.
About 30 persons were killed, most
ly by drowning, in nearby villages.
M<ost of them died near Westhamp
ton about 20 miles west of hero
where a sudden hurricane tidal
wave washed over a four mile
stretch of beach thickly strewn
with houses. There were only 17
out of about 200 standing after
it was all over. All were summer
homes and most of them vacant at
the time. Here the tide rose about
10 feet higher than normal ami
came inland a mile or more in
some places. I suppose about 1,500
trees went down in this village.
I know one man who lost 56 on
about a three acre place. The
house whefe I live lost three chim
neys and the crash of one brought
down a good part of the ceiling
of my room a few minutes after
I had been in it. The village is
still without street lights and only
about half the houses have elec
tricity or phones. But all roads
are open although many sidewalks
remain blocked.
I am sending by separate mail
a copy of this week’s Bridge
hampton News which has my hur
ricane story reprinted from last
week. I also am responsible for
most of the storm notes and the
“driftwood” column. The editor
and I were quite busy the past
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