ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE
AT TRYON, N. Q. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
THE TRYON DAILY BULLETIN
lc per copy (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) lc per copy
Ruth M. Vining. Editor $1.50 Year in the Carolinas
Vol. 14. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1, 1941
Federation Building New
Retail Grocery Store
An attractive addition to the
jTryon warehouse of the Farmers
V Federation is now under con
struction. It is a part brick veneer
retail grocery department with a
floor space 34 by 21 feet. It will
join the present warehouse at the
back. Sometime ago the Federa
tion improved the front of the
warehouse property by building
an attractive rock wall and level
ing the ground. Manager Fred
Swann plans further improve
ments to the warehouse yards
along the railroad track and in
the back of the building. The
Federation has offered its spaciaus
parking lot to out-of-town shop
pers during the day, and to any
one attending the movies at night.
DUTCH GARDEN CLOSED
.BY COURT ORDER
* Judge J. Will Pless, Jr., pre
siding in Rutherford county sup
erior court at Rutherfordton Tues
day signed an order closing Hop’s
Dutch Garden in Pacolet valley
near Tryon.
Country Day School
Opened On Monday
The Tryon Country Day School
opened on Monday with an enroll
ment of 25 pupils. The school
has been growing in attendance
each year. The faculty now con
sists "of Miss Hope Washburn,
Mrs. D. C. Brunaage, Mrs. K. A.
Bowen, Mrs. William St. Julien
Jervey and Mrs. John Preston.
The weather for Tuesday was
81 high and 62 low .... This is
National Newspaper Week. By
coincidence I was the speaker at
the Kiwanis club dh Tuesday and
in my excitement I left the ma
jor part of talk at the office and
didn’t find it out until just be
fore being introduced by the
chairman. Fortunately I had on
hand a few copies of a variety
of newspapers which I passed
around for inspection. This caus
ed comment and enabled me to
kill the time allotted. One of the
papers was the first copy of The
Tryon Daily Bulletin printed on
January 31, 1928, another was
a copy of The Polk County News
of October 16, 1895, containing
historical data on Tryon and the
County. The other papers were
from different parts of the coun
try and England. Last week Dr.
W. S. Green gave an interesting
talk on Polk County of approxi
mately 50 years ago. The copy
of The Polk County News had
articles on the prominent people
cf that day. A picture of F. M.
Stearns was a feature of the front
page, and one of Dr. J. C. Ken
worthy, who built the original
house now occupied by Melrose
Lodge. None of the present build
ings on Trade street were built at
that time. The Rotary, Kiwanis
and civic clubs all over the na-
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