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BOX HOLDER Rural Route No. ONE ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 fflje ffirgon Bail]} jHuMtrt le per copy (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) lc per copy Seth M. Vininc, Editor $1.50 Year In the Carolinas Vol. 13. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N C., TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 1940 Officers Elected For Country Club \The annual meeting of the Try- Wri Country club was held on Mon day night at Oak Hall hotel. Reports of the various committees and officers showing the achieve ments of the club were read and approved, and plans were discussed for an interesting program of events the coming season. Officers elected were as follows: President B. L. Ballenger; vice-president, E. C. Rowe; secretary-treasurer, Bax ter Haynes. Mr. Rowe succeeds Nelson Jackson, Jr., who resigned as vice-president. The board of directors including the officers are as follows: F. P. Bacon, C. N. Sayre, J. C. Kimberly, M. B. Flynn, C. H. Conrad, Nelson Jackson, Jr, After the meeting E. A. Emmer mann, Jr., manager of Oak Hall served coffee and cakes. Rites Will Be Held At Morganton Morganton, Feb. 26. Funeral services for the Rev. W. A. Newell 65, pastor of the First Methodist church here and for many years identified with churches in the Western North Carolina Miethodist conference, will be held at the church here Wednesday morning at 11 o’c’ock. Interment will be at Boger’s Chapel, bevhood church of Mir. Newell in Cabarrus county. Mr. Newell died here Monday morning at 10 o’clock in Grace hos pital where he had been ill with Please Turn To Back Page Polk Farmer Is Killed When He Falls In Well Tryon, Feb. 28.—Thomas E. Bush, 57, Polk county farmer, was killed early Monday morning when he crashed to the bottom of a 50- foot well at his home. The body was recovered at 8 o’clock, approximately four hours after he fell. Dr. John Z. Preston, Polk County coroner, who made an investigation, said no inquest would be held. The coroner said that Mt. Bush suffered a fracture of the skull, possibly a broken neck, and other injuries sufficient to cause death. Neighbors, summoned by mem bers of the family, obtained a well digger’s windlass and lowered B. B. Scoggins into the well. He fastened a rope to the body and it was brought to the surface. The Bush home is in the lower part of Polk County. Members of the sheriff’s depart ment said they learned that Mr. Bush arose shortly before 4 a. m., and started fires in the fireplace and the kitchen stove as usual. Mrs. Bush, starting to prepare breakfast, left the kitchen for a moment, During her absence, Mr. Bush walked to the rear porch where the well is located. Mrs. Bush said that, from the room where she was, she heard the top of the well box open and a moment later the sound made by Mjr. Bush as he crashed to the bottom of the well. Mr. Bush, who had been a promi nent farmer of this county for a number of years, had been in ill health for some time. The bodv was taken to the Black- Continued on Back Page ,
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