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Q CURB REPORTER
Christmas is really in the air;
Postmaster Stearns said this morn
ing that the Tryon office mailed
out 8,644 pieces of mail on Wed
nesday . . . Rode with A1 Bowen
Tuesday night all over town view
ing the beautiful electrically light
ed Christmas trees in the yards
of various homes. One of the most
outstanding is the big holly tree
at the Congregational church,
decorated every year by Louis
Avant; Marvin Brendall on Mark
ham Road; Dick Burnett on Grady
Avenue; St. Luke’s hospital; Doug
las Blois and Julian Hester in
Gillette Woods, Bert Leonard in
the Valley, Mrs. Macdonald’s on
Laurel Avenue, Postmaster Stearns
on Melrose are among those having
beautiful trees. There are others
yrdmt I just saw these as we rode
f klong. Some trees were probably
' s *nriot lighted at the time we went
by. We only saw one at the hos
pital but Superintendent Edna Cal
vert said this morning that they
had three trees, one of them given
by an out-of-town friend. You will
enjoy making the rounds at night
during the holidays. Each night
you’ll find a new tree lighted . . . .
Charlie Lynch, who was formerly a
big Elk in South Carolina, still has
a lot of the Elk spirit in him at
Christmas time. Elks are noted for
their distribution of baskets and
joy at Christmas time to less for
tunates. Charlie is playing Santa
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THURSDAY, DEC. 22, 1938
TRYON, It C.,
Welfare Work In
Polk County
At a meeting of the Polk County
Council of Social Agencies held
in Missildine Hall last Tuesday
afternoon it was recommended that
the Helping Hand society assist
in the employment of Miss I. T.
Tyler as assistant to the Polk
County Superintendent of Public
Welfare, Miiss Rebecca Hoskins,
this coming year. Dr. John Z.
Preston, physician of the Polk
County Unit of the American
Women’s Hospitals reported that
he was holding six or seven free
clinics each month, the largest
number of cases being infant and
maternity, the next largest num
ber syphilis. In the clinics he is
assisted by Miss Irene Clark,
County Health nurse and by
nurses of S>t. Luke’s hospital as
needed. One clinic is held each
week at St. Luke hospital and
the others at the Katherine Beat
son Health House and at the Com
munity House at Cooper’s Gan.
Dr. H. C. Whims, County Health
Officer, stated that the County
Sanitarian had worked out plans
for a sewer system in Columbus.
He also said that he had found
231 school children who gave posi
tive reactions to the tuberculin
test. A clinic will be held for
two days at St. Luke’s hospital in
January for the children who need
X-Ray examination.
Miss Irene Clark reported that
a Christmas entertainment at Pea
Ridge sponsored by the American
Women’s Hospitals is planned for
Wednesday afternoon, December
28th, under the direction of Mrs.
Samuel Bingham, Jr., secretary
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