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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 (Ergon ißatlg lc per COPY (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) lc PER copy Seth M. Vining, Editor Vol. 13. Est. 1-31-28 CURB REPOimB How do you feel when you open a letter and find an unexpected check for $25? That’s what hap pened to Miss Sara Rion on Tues day when she opened a Chamber of Commerce letter from an in quirer in San Diego, California. The lady in California had written the Chamber of Commerce a few weeks ago, asking for information about Tryon and this section. Miss Rion wrote such an interesting letter about this section that the California correspondent wrote a letter of thanks and enclosed the $25 check to be used for the flood sufferers in North Carolina. She wants more information about weather and is planning to here .... The State De partment of Conservation and De velopment at Raleigh sends a copy all Us inquiries to the Cham bers of Commerce all over the s'ate, and the Chambers of Com merce follow uo the inquiries with local information. Miss Rion goes over this list and selects the names of people thought to be interested in this community and sends them literature of Tryon and hotels and inns, also a conv of the Tryon Dad'' Bulletin. Each applicant to the State fo r information is there fore flooded with literature from comjnunities all over the tsate. It is interesting to note that with all that competition with reading mat ter from other communities Tryon Continued on Page Three. $1.50 Year In the Carolina* THURSDAY, AUG. 22, 1940 TRYON, N. C., Polk Superior Court Has Busy Session The trial of L. R. Wells, Arthur Suber, Hattie Smith, of Tryon and Cleveland Rice of Spartanburg, all colored, charged with the burning of the Tryon colored school build ing on the morning of June 6th, was begun Wednesday. The trial is expected to last through Thurs day. Rice, Smith and Stuber have re mained in the county jail since their arrest several days after the fire, and Wells, principal of the burned structure has been free under bond of $5,000. This bond was required of each of the four defendants, with only Wells post ing it. Prior to this case, the court, with Judge Bobbitt of Charlotte presiding, has disposed of the fol lowing indictments: James Scruggs, larceny, four months; Charlie Cady, violation prohibition law, six months or SSO and costs; Hicks Hodge, driving drunk, 60 days or SSO and costs; Roy Peace, driving drunk, 60 days or SSO fine and costs; Wilburn Blackwell, driving drunk, 60 days or SSO and costs; Henry Flynn, driving drunk, 60 day s or SSO and costs: Charlie Van Patton, driv ing drunk, 60 days or SSO and cor ■ r >; Frank H. Green, driving drunk, 60 days or SSO fine and eosts; C. J. Price, driving drunk, 60 days or SSO and costs; Howard Ruff, driving drunk, (second of fense), three months on road; Zack Sain, violation of prohibition law, six months on road; Floyd Bruce, driving drunk, 60 days or SSO and costs; Johns Pack, as sault with intent to kill, two years Continued on Back Page
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