CURB REPORTER CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE plete the buildings at Harmon Field. One of the buildings is al ready showing a small upstairs for dressing rooms and beneath them on the first floor showers for the participants in athletic events. .... When celebrities come to Tryon the Bulletin reporters let them alone to go into obscurity if they want to but with movie stars, musicians,- sports leaders, etc., it is different. They em ploy managers and publicity agents to beep their names and personalities before the public. it they would lose busi %*Aess and their career soon come to an end. So when John Line berger of Asheville and Ed Snow den, Jeannette MacDonald’s busi ness manager, stopped by the Bulletin office to get some old Bulletins for Miss MacDonald’s party, the Curb Reporter took down the names of the people in the party and planned to send them copies of the paper, but af ter the party left for Spartanburg depot to meet Miss MacDonald and bring her back thru Tryon to Asheville, the Curb Reporter had an hour in which to get the paper printed, so he called Baxter Haynes in Spartanburg to contact John Lineberger at the depot there and make arrangements for the MacDonald party to slow up thru Tryon, blowing warn horns at the railroad and stopping at Missildine’s. In the meantime Highway Patrolman Robert Miller met the party at the State line and escorted it in to Tryon where the news of their arrival had just been printed. It was red hot news. All the visitors Were given copies of the Bulletin with their names in them. Miss MacDonald and her husband, Gene Raymond, smiled and bowed to the waving hands from Trade Street ers who had heard of the ap proaching arrival. Everyone says Miss MacDonald is as pretty as advertised, and the ladies were all interested in Gene Raymond. On Monday night they were guests of Mrs. Ann Ayres of New York who is spending the winter at Shadowlawn on Hendersonville road. Miss MacDonald sings to night at Asheville Auditorium. How fast transportation has in creased. On Sunday afternoon she sang on the Coca-Cola program in New York and in less than 24 hours was in Tryon .... Time moves on, and the Horse Show will be here next month, on April 23rd. You can send your check for the Harmon Field buildings to C. J. Lynch ... Mrs. T. P. Clarke, postmaster at Columbus, is a patient at St. Luke’s hospital. The Bulletin—6 months sl. Drink to Your Health From CHILDHOOD TO old age MILK is nature’s nearest per fect food. You can afford +o drink plenty of it because it pays dividends in added health and zest for living. Pasteurized Milk is safe. . For early morning delivery phone 149 Kalmia Dairu

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