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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 THE TRYON DAILY BULLETIN 5c COPY (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) Seth m. Vining. Editor Vcl. 14. Est. 1-31-28 RULES FOR PREVENTING FOREST FIRES Recent forest fires in Ruther ford county, said to have been by the carelessness of serve to show how neces- it is for everyone to be on guard. Six good rule to prevent fires are as follows: 1. MATCHES. Be sure your match is out. Break it in two before you throw it away. 2. TOBACCO. Be sure that pipe ashes and cigarette stubs are DEAD before you leave them. Never throw them into brush leaves, or needles. 3. MAKING CAMP. Before making a fire scrape away all in flammable material from a spot 5 feet in diameter. Dig a hole in the center and in it build your camp fire. Keep your fire small. Never build it against a tree or log. 4. Never break camp until your fire is out—DEAD OUT. fT\ 5. BRUSH BURNING. Never \Jarn brush or slash in windy weather, or while there is the slightest danger that the fire w ; U get away. 6. PUTTING OUT YOUR FIRE —stir the coals while soak ing them with water. Turn small sticks and drench both sides. Wet the ground around the fire. If you can’t get water, stir in dirt and tread it down until packed tight over and around the fire. Be sure the last spark is You never know what a little wind may do. Fire is the GREAT ENEMY of all forest life. E. G. Curtis, Conservation Committee, Tryon Garden Club. 51.50 Year in the Carolina* THURSDAY, OCT. 30, 1941 TRYON, N C., Negro School Building Begins On Friday The ground for the new Tryon Negro school building will be broken on Friday afternoon with appropriate ceremonies at 4 o’clock. District Superintendent M. B. Caldwell states that the program will include talks by Dr. Chas. G. Siewall of Tryon and District Supervisor Rea of Char lotte. The colored minister, Rev. C. R. White will give the invo cation. The colored principal, T. D. Tillman and members of the colored P.-T. A. and other colored citizens will be present. The work of excavating will be gin on Monday and officials esti mate that the building will be completed in five months. MARK A. FISHER Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2:30 at the Mountain Page Baptist church for Mark A. Fisher, 80, who passed away on Wednesday. The Rev. Mr. Kiser of the Saluda Baptist church officiat ed at the last rites. Mr. Fisher is survived by his widow, the former Miss Mary Pace of Saluda; two sons, D. R. and L. P. Fisher of Saluda, and one daughter, Mrs. 0. L. Robin son of Taylorsville, N. C., and two grandchildren. COTTON GINNING REPORT Census report shows that 2,891 bales of cotton were ginned in Polk County from the crop of 1941 prior to October 18th, as compared with 1,821 bales for the crop of 1940. 5c COPY
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