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Vol. 13. Est. 1-31-28
SCOUT CAMP ENJOYING
RECORD SEASON
Officials of the Piedmont Boy
Scout Camp announce that the
| , amp is enjoying its record at
tendance in the history of the camp
and in spite of constant enlarge
ment it is not possible to accom
modate all who wish to attend.
Last week and this week the camp
has had an overflow group with
more than 200 enrolled.
Troops in camp this week include
Troops 4,7, 9 and 25 Gastonia;
Trooy 1 Smyre; Troop 1 Ranlo;
Troop 1 Stony Point; Troop 3
Shelby; Troop 1 Ruthtrford Col
lege and Troops 2, 3 and 4 of
Lincolnton. Among the various
Troop leaders at the camp are Rev.
Huss of Stony Point, Rev. Hunni
cutt of Gastonia and Ennis At
kins of the advertising staff of
the Gastonia Daily Gazette.
Scout Marion Edwards of Troop
1 of Tryon is attending the camp
this week as a member of the
vCamp Service Troop.
E. DANIELS
News has been received here of
the death of John Evans Daniels
at 8:30 this morning in an Atlan
ta, Ga., hospital. Funeral arrange
ments will be announced later by
the Petty Funeral Home in Land
rum. Mr. Daniels was a son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. John
Daniels of Landrum and was a
brother of Noah, Walter and Joe
Daniels of Landrum.
Os the 100,000.000 tulip bulbs
shipped into the United States each
year, the Netherlands was respon
sible for 98,500,000, so a new in
dustry may be created in this
country thru necessity.
TRYON, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1940
Margaret Culkin Banning To
Begin Weekly NBC Series
Miargaret Culkin Banning, cele
brated novelist, short story wri
ter, lecturer and civic leader, who
has a winter- home in Tryon, has
initiated a series of radio broad
casts, “Margaret Banning Speaks.”
The first of these talks was car
ried yesterday afternoon at 2
o’clock over Radio Station WISE
over the NBC. Mrs. Banning’s
topic next Thursday, July 4, will
be “Conscription of Youth”. On
July 11 she will speak on “Women
in the Home Face the World
Situation.”
Speaking as a woman who has
lived in a town in whose affairs
she has always taken an active
part, Mirs. Banning’s program will
take the. form of practical essays.
“I still live and vote in Duluth”,
she says. “There I keep my res
ponsibilities. I work on local com
mittees and on the library board
and have memberships in alto
gether too many things. Duluth
is headquarters and where I feel
native.”
A distinguished member of 38
organizations, Miargaret Culkin
Banning’s enthusiasm has taken
her into many fields of civic acti
vity and writing, in addition to
her novels and short stories. Two
magazine articles have recently
received wide acclaim.
Her broadcasts will cover the
almost unlimited range of her in
terests and these are best explain
ed bv her statement: “I like being '
a citizen, and a writer, end a
mother, in that order. I like or
dering a good dinner and arrang
ing flowers and buying new
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