ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE
AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
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Vol. 14. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1941
Officers Capture Still
And Two Moonshiners
Deputy Sheriffs Amos Foster
and Ken Melton made a raid in
...the Pea Ridge section of Polk
on Wednesday afternoon
captured an 85 gallon steam
er moonshine still and about 1,000
gallons of mash which was ready
to be made into whiskey. Two
white men, Mack Davis and Lum
Mathis were arrested at the still
and charged with operating it.
MacKenzies Building Here
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent MacKen
zie of Detroit, who bought the
George Pack farm last year in
Columbus township, have arrived
in Tryon and are making plans
now to build their permanent home
on the farm near here.
Buys Lake Property
Broadus R. Littlejohn, promi
.&ient Spartanburg business man
Vjjypas purchased the Bacon cottage
on Lake Lanier from the Richards
Realty Co., thru E. Perry Man
ville and plans to spend his
summers in Tryon. Improvements
are being made on the property
now.
Baseball Here Saturday
Adams-Millis and Canton will
play Saturday afternoon in Try
on at Adams-Millis ball park.
Canton and Adams-Millis are tied
for second place in the Industrial
League. Adams-Millis has won
the past three out cf five games
played.
$1.50 Year in the Caroliuas
The April issue of Esquire has
a three page story including an
illustration of Zoltan Hecht’s
paintings of New York City which
have been purchased by the Car
negie Foundation. Mr. Hecht, a
native of Hungary, who married
into the prominent Pringle fam
ily of South Carol na, conducted
a New Age school at Saluda, N.
C., from 1925 to 1934. Harry
S'alpeter, the author, writes:
“Hecht was to discover in him
self a great aptitude for promo
tion and salesmanship. This grew
out oi a desire to make generally
known the various forms in which
the art impulses of these hill
people of North Carolina had
found expression. He bought a
summer home at Saluda, North
Carolina, in which, subsequently,
he established a summer school
for visitors, for the creative in
dulging of idle hours . . He built
a kiln to enable those of his stu
dents who were interested to shape
and glaze pottery, while he him
self built figurines, and he en
couraged others in making lino
leum blocks, as well as oil paint
ings and water colors .... To this
practically impromptu school came
natives from seven counties round
about, offering their handiwork
and handicraft, their furniture,
their rugs and carvings. He was
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