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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 Biiih (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) '■c PER COPY Seth M. Vining, Editor Vol. 13. Est.. 1-31-28 SOFEBALL NEWS The Bushwhacker s defeated the Landrum Sluggers 15 to 2 on Mon day at Harmon Field and thus eliminated the Landrum team f rom further championship com petition. Only three teams are l.;ft to compete, the Landrum Browns, the Bushwhackers and Soumerco. This afternoon the Land lum Browns and the Soumerco team will play. On next Monday the Bushwhackers and Soumerco will play two best out of three. The Bushwhackers are having to wait the rest of this week as some ts their players are on the regular Adams-Mlllis team which is fin ishing up in Asheville this week end, battling for the Industrial League championship. On Thurs day the All Stars of Landrum and All Stars of Try on will play soft ball at Harmon Field. This will be added feature in the closing i days of softball, and to break the gap in the wait on the champion o ship series which will be resumed * on Monday. TENNIS MATCHES Matches played over the week end: Frank McFarland d e seated “Doodlp” Martin 5-7: 6-0: 6-3. Allan Calhoun defeated Marcus Caldwell 6-2: 7-9: 6-3. Bill Byers defaulted to Sam Caldwell; John Vollmer defaulted to Marcus Nash; Howard Black welder defaulted to Seth Vining; Jessie Byers defaulted t 0 Ruth Lockhart. Eda Cawthray defeated Polly Wall 9-7: 8-6. Tryon Town Council meets to night. TUESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1940 TRYON, N, C., CURB REPORTER Miss Alva Jackson’s little niece, Mlartha Jane Snipes, hearing about the flood in Western North Caro lina asked, “Don’t they have a rainbow at Asheville?” .... The M'arshall Miadisonian had to be published at Newport, Tenn., last week. It consisted of one sheet printed on both sides. The editor says: “We once wrote that Mar-, shall needed some attraction to bring tourists, but we wrote with out consideration, for we have since discovered that a thing may attract tourists in droves, and still he highly undesirable. Everyone, his family, acquaintances, flocked to Marshall last week to view the mess we were in, and we learned that tourists are not always a blessing” As a result of the flood Marshall is to get a new depot as the other one was dam aged bevond repair. The Madison ian says: “While on the subject of the flood, why can’t something con structive be done to prevent future disastrous floods such as the one from which we have just suffered. If it is impossible to prevent them entirely, we might do something which would at least mitigate their intensity. One man suggests that the power dam above the depot caused much of the damage, by deflecting the high waters and turning them down Main Street. It would be a matter of great ex pense and labor to move that dam Continued On Back Page 1c PER COPY $1.50 Year In the Carolinas
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