ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICB
AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
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Vol. 13. Est. 1-31-28
150 Greenville Citizens
Visited Tryon Wednesday
A goodwill delegation of 150 citi-
Bfens of Greenville, S. C. making
one day round trip Goodwill
tour to Greer, Landrum, Tryon,
Saluda, Hendersonville and back
to Greenville, visited Tryon on Wed
nesday afternoon about 4:30 o'clock
A Tryon delegation headed by
Mayor E. E. M&ssildine. President
K. A. Bowen of the Chamber of
Commerce and Playground Com
missioner C. J. Lynch, met the
tour at Sunnydale Log Cabin where
the long train of cars was escorted
by Patrolman Miller and Chief
Hague Kiser who met the party
at the South Carolina line.
The visiting guests were served
The Home Ice Plant’s ice cold wat
ermelons. There were a large num
ber of ladies in the party and two
of them, Mrs. Mahon and Mrs.
McCullough made responses to the
from the Tryon com-
Knittee.
' The Greenville delegation was
headed by Mayor and Mrs. C. Fred
McCullough, Mjaj. G. Heyward Ma
hon, Jr., president of the Cham
ber of Commerce, and Mrs. Mahon,
L. M. Glenn. Hewlett Sullivan an i
others. The Greenville Municipal
band of about 28 pieces, directed
by L. T. Batson played at Sunny
dale before the watermelon was
served.
The Greenville News of today
had a long story and several pic
tures about the tour. One picture
showed Mayor M&ssildine eating
watermelon surrounded by Town
Commissioners K. B. White, R. 0.
Andrews, Town Manager C. H.
Helms and some Greenville officials.
$1.50 Year In the Carolina^
TRYON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1940
Softball News
John W. Cowan, Tryon merchant
is sponsoring a Soumerco softball
team in a double-header contest this
afternoon at Harmon Field. The
first game will be played with the
Bushwhackers and the second with
Landrum Browns. The “Browns
is a second Landrum softball
team formed to take the place of
Adams-Millis in the Softball
league. This game will be played
around 6 o’clock immediately af
ter the first game between Soumer
co and Bushwhackers.
CURB REPORTER
With the biggest rain in history
for Tryon the community just feels
clean and fresh. There was no flood
damage reported except to places
on the streets and road where cul
verts just couldn’t take it. . . . .
Some people have corns on theif
toes, but Mrs. Dora Foster had
toes on her corn the other day
when she bought a freak roasting
ear from a peddler. When it was
cooked the ear looked just like a
hand or foot with five fingers or
toes. It was just one of those
tricks nature plays once in a
while .... The British and Ger
mans are still fighting in the air.
Anthony Eden declares that Eng
land will carry the war to Ger
many. The Germans say they are
outfighting the English . . . Ashe-
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