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The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor.
Vol. 18. Est. 1-31-28
TRYON, N. C., MONDAY, JAN. 25, 1943
I CURB REPORTER
it was springtime in the ther- j
mal belt during the weekend. Sat
urday temperature high was 68,
low 37; Sunday high 74, low 38.
. . . Miss Eloise LeBeau, renew
ing her subscription at Lansing,
Mich., writes, “I can’t see how it
is so warm there when it is so
extremely cold here. Save some
until next month when I hope to
be there.” .... Harry L. Eck
hart of Dallas, Texas, who spends
his summers at Saluda and plays
golf in Tryon and attends the
weekly meetings of the Rotary
club, has renewed his subscrip
tion. Representative W. H. McDon
ald was in the county for the
weekend and is having the Bulle
tin sent to him in Raleigh while
he is in the legislature. His ad
dress is 7165 Capitol Bldg., Ral
f it “Shorty”, as he is afection
i jr known to hundreds of Polk
County friends is the most “out
standing” member of the legisla
ture. He is six feet seven and
one-half inches tall. The Raleigh
News and Observer of January
22nd had a picture of him and the
shortest member, W. J. (Billy)
Arthur of Onslow County. He is
only 41 inches tall, a midget, 32 :
years old and publisher of his
county newspaper. He was form
erly cheer leader of the Univer
sity of North Carolina from which
he was graduated. The Raleigh
paper says of McDonald: “A na
tive of Forest City in Rutherford
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ANNUAL REPORT OF
POLK COUNTY RED CROSS
At the annual meeting of the
Polk County Chapter of the
American Red Cross which was
recently held, officers for the en
suing year were elected as follows:
Chairman, Arthur L a i d 1 e r
Jones; secretary, Miss Mae Irene
Flentye; treasurer, J. B. Hester;
chairman of home service, Mrs.
George Cathey; chairman of the
war fund drive, Charles G. Se
wall.
It was announced that the Red
Cross war fund campaign would
take place in March of this year,
the quotas for Polk county being
$1,900.00 for local work and
$3,300.00 for the war fund.
A few of the most interesting
items from the reports given at
the meeting will be of interest to
all the members fo the chapter.
Mrs. John Washburn reported for
the Junior Red Cross that $60.40
had been collected; 450 menu
covers had been made for the
Navy, while the chapter is now
engaged in making 450 utility bags
for sailors. Mrs. Bernard Sharp
report that the Red Cross work
room had completed 1,294 gar
ments, and 803 knitted articles.
109 persons have worked 21,517
hours in* the work room, while
more than 100 others have done
knitting at home. In the surgical
l dressings department, Mrs. Ber
tha B. Turck reported that 25,200
j surgical dressings had been com
pleted, and that 90,000 pieces of
gauze are now on hand for fur
ther work. 70 workers have done
1,937 hours of work since August
21st.
The report of the home service
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