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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTES AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 8, 1879 frgmt ißatljj jiuMn lc per copy (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) lc pee COPT Seth M. Vining, Editor $1.50 Year in the Carolines Vol. 13. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1, 1941 Merchants Meet Tonight AH merchants and service sta tion operators are asked to meet .tonight at 8 o’clock at Mlsslldine’s whall to discuss plans for forming ®a merchants association and other business matters «of interest to retail merchants. B. I* Ballen ger will preside, r, - —1 Tax Listing Begins Tax listing aUover Polk Coun ty will begin on Thursday morn ing. In Tryon township the list ing wiH be in charge of Mrs. B. E. Samples, assisted by Mrs. Julia Brock. From January 2 to 9 taxes may be listed in Tryon at the Old Town Hall on Mlaple street. For two days, 10th and 11th at Story’s store, Lynn; on the 13th and 14th at Davenport’s store, Soumerco; and from the 15th to 31st back in Tryon again at the old town hall. Other tax listings according to township been announced. Rogers Leaves Sunday Carroll P. Rogers leaves on Sunday for Raleigh where he will represent Polk County in the State Legislature. Mr. Rogers is a vet eran legislator having represented Polk County twice and Henderson County once. He is already a member of this year’s inaugural committee chosen to help make plans for Governor Broughton’s inauguration. Reports from Albania state that the Greeks have driven the Italians away from Klisura and stopped an Italian tank attack. Save the Wild Flowers Editor of The Citizen-Times: The voice from Tryon, in Sun day’s Citizen, Peoples’ Forum, la menting the wanton destruction of our mountain laurel—their roots being converted into smoking-pipe bowls—must have appealed to every lover of nature in Western North Carolina. Only a few days before, it will be recalled, the death knell of the dogwood was sounded—again for pipe bowls; “only the older (more beautiful) trees being suitable!” With the possible exception of the rhododendron, the mountain laured and the dogwood are the most treasured flowers in our mountains —highly to be valued, even practically. For, sentiment aside, our wild flowers are a busi ness asset —especially to a coun try that stresses, with pardonable pride, greatest variety of flora ip America. The use of trees for lumber, wood products, fuel, etc., is an economic necessity. While we ac cept this, is it not highly signifi cant that the federal government has a well established, nation wide forest and park conservation program—the one for-wood conser vation, the other, for the preser vation of natural beauty? I think my greatest civic pride in Western North Carolina is that, during a residence here of 40 years, nearly two- millions of acres of land have been set aside for the regulated use and enjoy ment of the people of this country. This vast area includes the Great Smokies, the Unakas, the Nanta- Please Turn To Back Page
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