5c PER COPY
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
The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor.
Vol. 15. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., THURS., FEB. 19, 1942
Farmers Federation
Meetings
Mv. and Mrs. J. William Can
trell of Green’s Creek township
were awarded first prize in the
farm progress contest sponsored
in Polk County by the Farmers
federation.
Announcement of the winners
was made Wednesday evening at
a banquet of the federation here.
Other winners in order were:
Mr. and. Mrs. Paul Wall, $25; Mr.
and Mrs. I). R. Feagan, S2O; Mr.
and Mrs. Harley Foy, sls; Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Gibbs, 10; anti Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Thompson, $5.
A housewarming program was
held in the afternoon at the re
modeled Tryon warehouse of the
federation. Preceding the program
there was a meeting of the Polk
county stockholders of the federa
tion. Talks were made by J. G. K.
M*"*Nure, president; the Rev. Du
/ Clarke, head of the relig
ious department; Guy M. Sales
general manager; Jack Gattis, of
the hatchery department; Bill
Brawley, head of the seed depart
ment, and Joe Wilson, county
farm agent.
The stockholders elected the fol
lowing county committee: C. M.
Howes, chairman; John Arledge,
Dudley C, Smith J. H. Gibbs,
John L. Bs>wn, John Weaver, and
Frank Jackson.
Fred Swann, Jr., manager of
the warehouse, was host at the
housewarming.
Rotary Meets Friday
The Rotary club on Friday will
be in charge cf James B. Hester,
at 11 p. m. at Sunnydale. The
chief speaker will be the Rev.
R. A. Ellis of Landrum.
$2.00 PER YEAR
Auto Tire Rationing
K. A. Bowen, chairman of the
Polk Tire Rationing Board has
received the following telegram
from State Administrator Theo
dore S. Johnson: “Will become ef
fective midnight February 18,
except that you are not author
ized to accept applications or is
sue certificates for retreaded or
recapped tires for other retread
ing or recapping services until
Feb. 23. In other words effective
from February 19, to Feb. 23,
there will be- no delivery of re
treaded and recapped tires. Cer
tificates for new tires will be is
sued until Feb. 23 under tire ra
tioning dated Dec. 30,
1941. Local rationing boards
should notify dealers that be
tween Feb. 19 and March 1, 1942
no camelback of any kind may
be used for retreading or recap
ping passenger type tires.”
Basketball Tourney
Here on Saturdays
A basketball tournament be
tween four teams: Adams-Millis,
Saluda*- Mills River and Tryon
town teams is scheduled to get
underway at 7:45 p. m. on Sat
urday night at the Tryon gym
when T*.yon town team and Ad
ams-Millis will open the contest
The second game will be played
same night between Mills-River
and Saluda. Entertainment is be
ing planned for the halves. It may
be negro tap dancing. The winners
of this Saturday’s contest will
play next Saturday, and the los
ers on the following Saturday.
A cup will be awarded the win
ning team.. After all expenses are
deducted the proceeds will be giv
en to the Red Cross.