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Vol. 12. Est. 1-31-24
Public Invited To Free
Movies At Honor Court
Beautiful colored motion pic
tures of the White Mountains in
Jp New Hampshire, and other scenes
in Vermont and Quebec taken last
summer by Scout Executive R. M.
Schiele will be one of the features
at the Polk County Boy Scout
Court of Honor tonight at the
Parish House. The public is in
vited to the Court of Honor and
to see the movies.
Four Boys Will Receive
Highest Scout Rank
Four Tryon Boy Stouts, Laugh
lin McGeachy, Bill Derby, James
Chapman Jackson and George
Dewey Cooksey 'will receive the
Eagle rank, the highest rank in
Scouting tonight at 7:30 at the
Parish House at the Polk County
Boy Scout Court of Honor which
will be presided over by Dr. C.
a Arthur Lincoln, chairman. The
Sjjf public is invited.
Mrs. Mary Shehan
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Shehan, 51, of Polk county were
conducted Sunday afternoon at the
Sandy Plains Presbyterian church
by the pastor, the Rev. A. T. Willis.
Mrs. Shehan, in ill health for a
number of years, died early Sun
day morning.
She is survived by her husband,
Lee Shehan, also of Polk county;
one sister, Mrs. Gazey Jones;
three brothers, Thomas and Onzo
Tessener of the Sandy Plains sec
tion of Polk county and William
Tessner of the Cooner’s Gap com
munity of Polk countv.
TRTi ON, N. C., MONDAY, NOV. 20, 1939
Maryville College Student
Wins Football Contest
In the Foot
ball Guessing Contest held last
week J. Tom Mize, of Landrum,
S l . C., a student at Maryville col
lege, Maryville, Tenn., won the first
prize, a pair of Jarman Shoes by
guessing 16 winners out of 20
games listed from all over the
United States. H. H. Thompson
and J. Frank Richardson are tied
for second place with 15 success
ful guesses out of 20. They will
draw, and the loser will automati
cally rece ve third prize. There
were 317 people entered in the
contest; and entry blanks came
from. Bulletin readers in several
states including Georgia Tech, At
lanta, Landrum, Spartanburg, In
man and Laurens in South Caro
lina, Maryville in Tennessee, Co
lumbus, Lynn. Saluda, Henderson
ville, Asheville, Forest City, Bur
lington, High Point, Banner Elk
and Tryon in this state.
Mize picked the following win
ners:
Duke over Carolina.
N. C. State over Furman.
Georgia-Tech over Alabama.
Auburn over L. S. U.
Holy Cros s over Carnegie Tech.
Nebraska over Pitt.
Missouri over Oklahoma.
Notre Dame over Northwestern.
Purdue and Winconsin TIE.
Texas over T. C. U.
Wash. State over Stanford.
Texas A&M over Rice.
Tennessee over Vanderbilt.
V. M. I. over Maryland.
Fordham over St. Mary’s.
Michigan over Penn U.
He lost in predicting N. Y. U.
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