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Noted Lecturer
yGoming To Try on
Four million adults, three mil
lion h ; gh-school students, and
probably a half million college
students have been inspired by the
addresses of Dr. Charles E. Barber,
lecturer and teacher or the prin
ciples of health and right living,
in the quarter century he has
devoted to this woi*k.
Dr. Barker is coming to Tryon
on March 13th to make three ad
dresses the first at the chapel
period at Tryon school; the sec
ond at the Rotary club at 1 p. m.,
at Sunnydale and the third at 8
p. m., at the Parish House. This
last will be a mass meeting to
which all the people of this sec
tion are invited. These meetings
are under the auspices of the
Tryon Rotary club and are free
-to all.
Dr. Barker Holds university de
grees as doctor of hygiene and
physcial culture. While William
Taft was president of
the United State, Dr. Barker spent
an hour a day with him, keeping
him fit for his job. Then began
his lecture work devoted to the
young people of the United States
and Canada and to their parents.
Millions of high-school students
and their mothers and fathers
have listened to his addresses on
the problems of youth and parent
hood.
Since going on the lecture plat
form he has delivered over 11,000
addresses.
Without any effort at preaching
and without any oratorical floui’-
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Countv Basketball
Games Tight Squeezes
Every community in Polk Coun
ty has a basketball team that is
a good match for any other team
in the County judging by the
scores and playing in the games
this year. Tryon high school boys
have won all their County games
but most of them have been by
very close margins.
In the County Tournament
started Wednesday at Tryon the
Tryon boys defeated Saluda by
the close score of 22-20 and Green
Creek girls defeated Columbus
girls 15 to 9.
At Green Creek on Thursday
night Sunny View girls defeated
Saluda girls 23 to 21, and the
Columbus boys defeated Green
Creek boys 19 to 17.
Tonight Friday at Staluda gym
the losing Saluda girls will play
the losing Stearns girls and the
winning Stearns boys will play
the Sunny View boys. The winner
of this boys’ contest will play
Tryon at Columbus on. Saturday
night; and the winning Green
Creek girls will play the winning
Sunny View girls.
Thursday’s games at Green
Creek with individual scores are
as follows:
Thursday’s games summary:
Saluda Girls (21) : Pace, B. 9;
Johnson ,A. 8; Forrest 4; Pace, R.
0; Thompson 0; Pace, M. 0.
Sunny View Girls (23): Ed
wards 4; Wilson 5; Ruff 14; Jack
son 0;, Williams, J. 0; Williams,
L. 0.
Stearns Boys (19): Arms 4;
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