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Annual Meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce
iYonight at 7:30
The annual meeting of the
Tryon Chamber of Commerce will
be held tonight at 7:30 o’clock
at Missildine’s Hall. President K.
A. Bowen is eager for a large
attendance as an indication of the
interest of citizens in the progress
of the community. Reports, elec
tion of officers, and discussion of
community affairs will be the or
der of business.
Wilson At Rotary
County Agent J. A. Wilson will
be the guest speaker at the Tryon
Rotary club on Fridav at 1 p. m.
at Sunny dale Log Cabin. The
-nrcgram will be in charge of R. C.
Burnett.
$1.50 Year In the Carolina^
THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1940
TRYON, N. C.,
W. N. G. Agricultural
Fair Awards Will Be
1,000 Or More
Approximately $1,500.00 in cash
premiums will be be awarded to
exhibitors at the first annual Wes
tern North Carolina Agricultural
and Industrial Fair, to be held
in Hendersonville September 17-
21, inclusive, copies of the pre
mium list, announcing more than
1,000 awards, show.
The premium list, copies of which
have been sent to farm leaders in
this county, shows that there will
be thirteen departments in the
first fair, with emphasis tnis year
heavily on the agricultuial phase
of the life of the Mountain
country.
The departments, in order with
directors and superintendents, re
spectively, are: Agriculture. E. D.
Mitchell and A. ML Foster; hor
ticulture, W. B. Hodges and H.
A. Corriher; Harry L. Nettles and
Mrs. R. P. Freeze; Women’s di
vision, Mis s Anna C. Rowe; cloth
ing and mountain craft, Miss Peg
gy Phelps and Miss Rowe; live
stock, George Wallis and Otto
Brookshire; 4-H calf club; swine,
John Hudeens, Jr., and J. Dan
Earle; milk goats, Louis Albea;
fat baby beef show, Mr. Wallis;
poultry, Lawrence H. McKay;
apiary, J. W. Plain, and farm
machinery and tractors, William
Francis.
Cash premiums will be awarded
in all except the apiary and farm
machinery department-: and rib
bons will be awarded in a 1 ! de
partments, inc ] uding the last two.
Indications this week were that
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