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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 (Ergmt 1c PER COPY Vol. 12. EsL 1-31-28 Thru Pullman A through Pulhnan car from Tryon to Detroit will be run on dlunday, May 28th. The car will fm that day only. Anyone de iring through Pullman service to Detroit on that day should make reservations as soon .as possible. Rickman Gets 30 Years for Slaying Rutherfordton, May 18.—Clar ence Rickman, who was tried in Rutherford superior court this week for the first degree murder of his neighbor, Fred C. Wilson, was found guilty by -a jury Thurs day afternoon and Judge J. A. Rousseau sentenced him to serve 30 vears in prison. Wilson w*s shot and killed last January as he sat in his home with his wife and family Rickmon the state charged, fired a shotgun twice through a window of the home killing Wilson in i' pntly. ’ ‘ ] Defense attorneys sought to save Rickman by offering evidence that he was mentally defective. In pass ing sentence, Judge Rousseau said that he was convinced that “Rick man is of low mentality but that the defendant knows right from wrong.”—Asheville Citizen. Mrs. G. N. Howell Mrs Anna-Verah Howell, 79 wife of G. N. Howell of North Chatham, N. Y., died Thursday afternoon at St. Luke’s hospital after several months illness, follow ing a fall which broke her hip. The remains were taken North this afternoon for interment. (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) TRYON, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939 Loses Part of Train On Asheville Run Small articles are easily and often misplaced, but imagine the surprise of .a Southern railroad engineer Wednesday morning when he discovered that he had lost part of his train! The train was on the run be tween Spartanburg and Asheville, N. C.. when the engineer discov ered that about four of his freight cars and caboose were missing. The discovery was made at the outskirts of Campobello and the engineer quickly began backing up, not knowing where the missing oars were. The cars, with the flagman and conductor, who had been riding in the caboose, standing alongside, were found at Gramling. The two strandard trainmen stated that they had waved and yelled but that their means of loco motion had gone steadily up the grade, leaving them stranded in GramMng in the wee small hours of the morning, with the cars and caboose on the main line. In v estigation indicated that someone had uncoupled the cars from the main part of the train, closing the angle cock in order that the engine and cars hooked to it would keen going, the air brakes stooping the cars behind. The cars are equipped with air brakes that cause the train to stop automatically unless the angle cock ; s closed Spartanburg Herald. The Bulletin, 6 Months SI.OO. lc PER COPY
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