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AT TRYON. N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS. MARCH 3, 1879
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Vol. 12. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N C., THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1939
Mrs. Leroy Williams
Mrs. L. R. Williams, 60, died this
morning at 11:30 at the hospital
several days illness.
Funeral services will be held in
Hendersonville on Sunday. The
deceased is survived by her hus
band and three children, two sons,
Burley and Duford Williams, of
Tryon and one daughter, M*rs.
James Littlefield of Landrum, S.
C., also several grandchildren. Mrs.
Williams was before her marriage
Miss Toonie Garren of Henderson
ville. She had made her home
in Tryon for the past 26 years.
Girl Scouts Need
Camp Cabin
Tryon Girl Scouts need a small
cabin for overnight camping on
Lake Lanier. Anyone having an
extra lot on Lake Lanier suitable
\for this purpose can help the work
v of the local organization consider
ably by donating a lot or leasing
it for a reasonable sum to the
local committee of which Mrs. John
Washburn is chairman. When the
lot is obtained plana can be made
for obtaining material with which
to build the cabin. Anyone hav
ing suitable lumber, logs, cement,
windows, doors, etc., may notify
Mrs. Washburn or other members
of the committee: Mirs. D. C.
Brundage. Mrs. F. W. Sprague,
Mrs. W. A. Schilletter, Mrs. Seth
M. Vining.
Roosevelt calls on Democrats who
disagree with present policies to
‘‘subordinate their prejudices” or
get our of the party.
J. H. Perkins Writes
Os South America
; The following interesting letter
j from J. H. Perkins, chairman of
! the board of the National City
j Bank of New York City, who has
! a home in Tryon will be of inter
est to all Bulletin readers through
out the world:
M]y dear Seth Vining:
Thinking that perhaps your
! regular correspondent at Osorno,
i Chili, is sick I have decided to
j take his place for tonight and send
l in a few words.
j Mrs. Perkins and I have seen so
| many interesting things on this
J South American trip that I am
! tempted to talk about them all,
I but neither my space nor yours
! permit, so I send a word about two
| places which I believe would be of
j special interest to the Tryonite
i because they both go in for moun
j tains, streams and forests.
The first is Brazil, and as
I Brazil is somewhat larger than the
i U. S. and we were there ten days
| I can only report on a little piece
| of it; but what I saw was lovely
| beyond words. The harbor of Rio
! de Janeiro is admitted to be the
j most beautiful in the world and as
!we approached it at six in the
) morning it lived up to its reputa
i tion. We came in under the great
| Sugar Loaf Mountain which goes
jup about 2,000 feet right out
J of the sea and there just beyond
! it was the city backed by great
mountains and fronted by miles of
the most beautiful, beaches. One
of the mountains which rises about,
twenty-five hundred feet tact of
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