5c PER COPY $2.00 PER YEAR SNTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFIC0 AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3 1879 THE TEM DM) lllllEW The World’8 Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor. Vol. 15. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON; N. C„ TUESDAY, NOV. 24, 1942 .1 CURB REPORTER Weather Monday: Low 45, high 58, rain .68 .... We are thank ful that the war news gets bet ter and better. Dakar and all Frenc-h West Africa joins the Allies under French Admiral Darlan with support of 15,000,000 more people, 50,000 soldiers, tanks, planes, ships, submarines, etc. . . . The Russians are driving the Germans back and have killed or captured over 40,000 . . . Women policemen will direct traffic in Asheville beginning Dec. 1 . . . . Major W. A. Schilletter, former commanding officer of the induc tion station at Fort Jackson has been promoted to Lieutenant-Col onel in charge of the reception center at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Col (jmL Schilletter was formerly sup j^Bendent of the Tryon-Saluda scnool district and a former presi dent of the Tryon Rotary club. . . . . This is National Women At War Week and the Polk County committee headed by Mrs. F. P. Bacon is urging the women of the county to invest their savings in War Bonds with which to buy guns, tanks and planes to beat the Axis .... Roy Fisher of Missildine’s leaves December 3 to be inducted in the army. Richard McClure is now in the army air corps in California . . . New Bul letin subscriptions entered for Pvt. Paul Kuykendall, hospital ward 3, Fort Jackson, S. C.; Cpl. Continued on Back Page_ TRYON SCHOOL DISTRICT HOLIDAYS ARE GIVEN Tryon schools will suspend work Tuesday afternoon for Thanks giving, reopening Monday, Novem ber 30th. The Christmas holidays will be gin Friday afternoon, December [ 18th, and school will start again [ January 4th. Three days are being allotted for the Thanksgiving holidays in order to save as much fuel as possible during the winter months. All holidays as customary will be made up at the end of the spring semester. Tryon Peaches In Egypt Capt. Alan W. Holmes, nephew of G. H. Holmes of Tryon, now with the Army in Egypt, wrote his mother recently that he had a can cf peaches the other day marked: “PEACHES-Packed. and ; Donated by the Association for War Relief, Tryon, North Caro lina.” Everyone who had a part in growing victory gardens and in helping to pack the food for War Relief will be interested in knowing that some of their labor was not in vain. HARRELL—FORREST Joseph Gennett Forrest, U. S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. ! Forrest of Saluda is engaged to marry Miss Frankie Harrell. The wedding to take place in Wash ington, D. C., at an early date. Mr. Forrest is now stationed at Port Hueneme, California. The bride is a daughter of John E. Harrell .formerly of Henderson ville, now of Washington.

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