ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT _'HH ,'OST OFFICE
AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
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Vol. 11. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON; N C., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 1939
Kiwanis Committees
Are Announced
At a recent meeting of the Tryon
Kiwanis club, Persident Hoyt O.
Prince announced the appointment
of the following committees for
the year 1939:
Agriculture, J .A. Wilson; At
tendance, B. B. Bishop, Jr.; Boys’
and Girls’ Work, J. E. Brownlee;
Business Standards, L. P. Bar
nette; Classification, Herbert But
ler; Finance, J. N. Jackson; House,
C. J. Lynch; Inter-Club Relations,
C. Arthur Lincoln; Kiwanis Edu
cation, C. P. Rogers; Laws and
Regulations, Seth Mw Vining; Mem
bership, R. H. Brady; Mhsic, L.
A. Avant; Program, C. M. Eargle;
Public Affiairs, Tom Costa; Pub
licity, M. B. Flynn; Reception, K.
A. Bowen; Under-Privileged Child,
J. E. Derby.
In his annual report of the
club’s activities the secretary list
ed among the club’s accomplish
ments the distribution of 65
Christmas baskets of food and
fruit to needy families all over the
county; the raising of $250 to deco
rate Trade street with lighted
Christmas trees; the appropriation
of SSO for rural extension work
such as paying expenses of 4-H
club boys and girls to their annual
camps and entertaining the farm
ers on their tour with refresh
ments and prizes for various con
tests and by having farmers attend
the club meeting from time to time.
The club also continued its ser
vice of lending two wheel chairs
to temporary invalids. And watch
ed with interest its growing chain
of pigs given to 4-H boys all over
this section. The programs were
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A card just received from Char
lie Lynch at Havana, Cuba, says
“‘Flew over. Am still high” . . .
Thanks to Capt. Morris A. Bryan
for a copy of the Sunday Miami
News with a rotogravure section
of the Tennessee-Oklahoma play
ers, etc. . . . Roy Shelley’s hqbby
now is training a Tennessee horse,
named Spot to do stunts in an 18
foot ring back of Hotel Tryon.
Spot is already doing nearly every
thing but talk. ,He counts his
age by striking the ground with
his foot, will shake “hands,” turn
round and round on a small plat
form, jump four hurdles within
the small 18-foot ring and shake
his head to and fro for “NO” and
move it up and down for “YES.”
Roy is planning to have him ready
for a performance at the Horse
Show in April .... President K.
A. Bowen of St. Luke’s Hospital
Association is eager to have all
pledges paid up "’When the annual
roll call is read out soon . . . .Try
on and Sunny View schools split
their doubleheader before Christ
mas but both teams are confident
of victory tonight at the Tryon
gym .... And now the ladies are
going to invade the Bowling
League quarters today for Tryon’s
newest form of indoor recreation.
. ... It is still springtime in
Tryon. Weatherman Creasman
said the other day that he never
made comments on his reports to
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