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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 TRV ON, N. C., TUESDAY, OCT. 17, 1939
Large Crowd Sees Movies
Os Tryon and Camp
A motion picture view of Lake
iSLanier and the Boy Scout camp
✓from an airplane were among
the many new scenes in the new
colored motion pictures of the local
camp life and activities shown by
Scout Executive R. M. Schiele at
the Parish House Monday evening
to a large crowd of Scouts and
visitors attending the first fall
session of the Polk county Boy
Scout Court of Honor.
The chairman, Dr. C. Arthur
Lincoln, presided over the Court
and the following men served on
the court with him: Scout Execu
tive R. M. Schiele, Manager K. A.
Bowen of the Duke Power Co., Rev.
David M. McGeachy, Lawrence
Mazzanovich, the artist, Major W.
A. Schilletter, Council Vice-Presi
dent Nelson Jackson, Jr., Coach
M. B. Caldwel, Rev. B. G. Henry,
and Acting Postmaster, G. I. Hen
jderson.
W Two Tryon boys, Jimmy Jack
son and Bill Derby, passed their
final tests for the Eagle rank and
at the next Court of Honor on
November 20th, they will be joined
by Lock McGeachy and George
Cooksey who also have passed their
Eagle tests, and the four Scouts
will be presented at the same time
for their Eagle awards.
The meeting opened with prayer
by Rev. B. G. Henry followed with
the repeating of the Stout Oath.
Announcements were made and
then the work of the Court went
forward as follows:
Tenderfoot Rank: Edwin Crom
er, Bobby Bishop, Nathan Moore,
Tom Cooksey and Brock Henry,
.s Continued on Back Page
Metcalfe Succumbs
To Auto Injuries
Toy W. (Tobe) Metcalfe, 29-
year-old Landrum, S. C., youth
died Monday evening at 5:15 at
St. Luke’s hospital here from in
juries received when he was struck
by an auto late Saturday night on
the Spartanburg-Asheville highway
one mile south of Tryon in Green
ville county. He suffered multiple
fractures of legs, arms and a
crushed skull, and died without
regaining consciousness.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at 4:30 p. m., at the
Oak Grove Baptist church in upper
Greenville county. The Rev. M. W.
Lever and Rev. Broadus Ballew will
officiate.
The deceased, son of the late
George and Mollie Plumley Met
calfe, is survived by two brothers,
Henry and Virgil, both of Land
rum, and four sisters, Mirs. Lulu
Ballew, Mrs. Mattie Shields and
Mrs. Hattie Center all of of Lan
drum, and Mrs. Mamie Lyda of
Hickory, N. C.
Active pallbearers will be Frank
Dodd, Floyd Wolfe, Otis Hooker,
Walter Pack, Roy Mbrris and Huey
Foster. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
Sidney Mull, 35-year-old Los
Angeles, Calif., and Columbus, N.
C., man who was taken into cus
tody as the driver of the car that
hit Mletcalfe, remains in the Greer,
S. C., jail. Coroner J. C. McCoy
of Greenville, stated that an in
quest into Metcalfe’s death would
be held later this week or early
next week.