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AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
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'‘‘European Situation Holding Up
China Handicaps Spanish Court
Officials” sounds something like
a big newspaper headline, but in
reality it is a headline referring
to Tryon. The Harold Crandalls,
officials of the Spanish Court
Apartments here had planned to
open their new apartment building
within the next few days, but
spme special China ordered for the
apartments was held up in England
during the war preparations and
,will be a week later getting to
America. Just as soon as the
China arrives in this country an
nouncement of the formal opening
of the new apartments will be
made .... Our New York re
porter informs us that Mrs. Fred
erick Bowes of Tryon is register-
at the Hotel New Weston ....
llThe Walter Wests are now at
l>Boyce, Va. . . . Keith Arledge
at Angola, Ind., says the Bulletin
brings home to him the most of
anything he knows .... And!
Ruth McFiarland at Queens-Chi
cora college says it is like walk
ing tip Trade street and meeting
all your friends .... Tryon
Bank Bank & Trust Co., statement
the other day showed an increase
in resources of several thousand
dollars in a week’s time. A good
bank that’s giving good service
to this section . . . Thomas Carlyle
said: “The wealth of man is the
number of things he loves and
blesses, which he is loved and
blessed by.” ....
TRYON, N. C., FRIDAY, OCT. 14, 1938
On The Records:
Washington, Oct. 12.—George B.
Miller, retired businessman who
lived in Penfield, New York, near
Rochester, until several years ago
when he moved to Tryon, N. C., left
a net estate of $146,381, according
to a tax deposition filed yesterday
in surrogate’s court in Rochester.
A brother of Dr. Alvah Strong
Miller, Washington physician, he
died last April 26 in Tryon.
Gross value of the estate was
$200,668. Bulk of the estate was left
in trust, by which the widow, Mrs.
Katharine Wetmore Miller, re
ceives life use. Outright she in
herits $2,500 from the trust and
$8,812 representing the portion of
the estate not under the trust ar
rangements.—Charlotte Observer.
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News from Raleigh states that
the new Tryon theatre has been in
corporated by Samuel Bingham,
Russell Walcott and Samuel Bing
ham, Jr.
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Hendersonville, N. C-, Oct. 13.
Evidence that three persons who
drowned near here in September,
1936, were passengers in an over
loaded boat was presented in su
perior court today in the man
slaughter trial of Walter S. Mont
gomery, Spartanburg, S. C., tex
tile manufacturer.
The state charged that Mont
gomery, cruising in his larger boat,
caused the waves to strike a smaller
boat, capsizing it and resulting in
the deaths of Fate Blaek, Sr., 50,
Fate Black, Jr., 10, and Thomas
Martin, 26.
After a motion for non-suit was
overruled the defense produced
witnesses who quoted passengers
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