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AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS) MARCH 3, 1879
THE TRYON DAILY BULLETIN
The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor.
Vol. 15. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C„ TUESDAY, FEB. 3, 1942
TIRE RATIONING REPORT
Report of the Polk County Tire
Rationing Board at the end of the
month of January 31, 1942:
>4k?rires and tubes issued, at meet
up of board, January 30, 1942
Robert Foster, Mill Spring,
2 passenger car tubes; Howard
Ruff, Mill Spring, 2 truck tires
and 2 tubes; J. M. McGuinn, Mill
Spring, 1 truck tire; R. L. Farth
ing, Tryon, 2 tires and 2 tubes,
(obsolete) ; W. J. Screven, Tryon,
4 tubes (obsolete); G. A. Gil
bert, Columbus, 1 truck tire and
1 tube; R. H. Prince, Route 1,
Chesnee, S. C., 2 truck tires and
2 tubes; Gaither Johnson, Saluda,
1 passenger car tire and tube;
B. A. Whitesides, Mill Spring, 1
truck tire; Myrtle Mae Pearl,
Tryon, 1 passenger car tire; S.
B. Edwards, Sir., Tryon, 2 tires
and 2 tubes (obsolete).
The following is q monthly re
port which the Tire Rationing
Board of Polk County sent to the
chairman of the Polk County Civi-
Defense Council and tc the
SttKe Tire Rationing Administra
tor Theodore S. Johnson:
1. The quota received for Polk
County for the month of January
is as follows —truck tires, 21,
tubes 18; passenger car tires, 7,
tubes 6.
2. Number of applications, 26.
3. Number of application dis
approved (a) outs'de classifica
tion, 3; (b) over qu'da, rone.
4. Number of certificates issued
durine month, 39.
5. Number of tires and tubes
authorized to be purchased: Truck
tires 10, tubes 12; passenger tires,
7. tubes 7; obsolete tires 9, tubes
12.
6. Number of foreign certificates
issued, none.
$2.00 PER YEAR
MRS. MAUDE McFARLAND
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Mrs. Maude Newman McFar
land, 56, widow of R. F. McFar
land, former sheriff of Polk coun
ty, died at her home on Monday
evening at 6 o’clock. She had been
in declining health several months.
Mrs. McFarland was a native of
Polk county. Surviving are five
children, John W. of Detroit, Rob
ert S., Clerk of Polk County
Superior Court, Columbus, Mrs.
Joe C. 'White of Maiden, Miss
Mary Elizabeth and William
“Bill” McFarland at home; her
mother, Mrs. J. W. Newman, Co
lumbus; two sisters, Mrs. Noah
Daniel of Landrum, S. C., and
Mrs. John L. Smith, Gaffney, S.
C.; one brother, Ed Newman, of
Columbus, and three grandchil
dren.
She was a member of the Co
lumbus Presbyterian church.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon
at tKb First Baptist church in Co
lumbus. Interment will be in the
Presbyterian cemetery in Colum
bus. The Rev. D. M. McGeachy,
will officiate, assisted by the Rev.
Dr. G. V. Tilley.
BE A BOOK BUDDY
A local committee for Polk
County has been formed for the
Victory Book Campaign. This
campaign is national in scope and
is sponsored by the American Red
Cross, the United Service Organi
zation and the American Library
Association. The object of the
campaign is to collect gifts of
books for our soldiers, sailors and
marines in forts, camps, posts,
stations and ships.
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