The Tryon Daily Bulletin
The World's Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vining, Editor.
5c PER COPY TRYON, N. C. THURSDAY, JAN. 25TH, 1945
Eat. 1-31-28
Published Daily Except
Saturday and Sunday
Vol. 17—No. 227
ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE
AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF, CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
Erskine Estate Donates
Land To Local Club
At the annual meeting of the
«on Golf and Tennis Club,
jjierly the Country Club, a let
was read from Ralph C. Ers
kine, speaking for the Erskir.e
Estate, donating a wooded fringe
of land surrounding the golf
links. The donation of this extr*>
acreage will assure beautiful woods
around the golf course for the fu
ture, and “the generosity of the
Erskine family in contributing
this land to the community is ap
preciated by all” was expressed
at the annual meeting. Reports
showed that other friends of the
club had made considerable im
provements on the club house and
grounds and that the greens were
in the best shape ever. The mem
bership committee reported 12 new
members for the year, and the
tournament committee has plans
underway for contesfk during the
year.
^rf£hree new directors were elected
^^Htucceed F. P. Bacon, George
I^Wick, Jr., and K. A. Bowen,
whose terms expired. They were
R. H. Brady, E. C. Prather end
Wm. M. Spivey. Directors hold
ing over are Nelson Jackson, Jr.,
Daniel P. Mitchell, 'fnntgomerv
Whaling, L. M. Cunningham, M. B.
Flynn, Chas. H. Conrad. 'Officers
were elected for 1945 as follows:
Nelson Jackson. Jr., president;
Montgomery Whaling, vice-presi
dent; R. L. Dick, secretary-treas
urer.
Dr. A. J. Jervey will be in charge
of the Rotary club program Friday
at 1 p. m„ at 0?k Hall hotel. The
guest speaker will be Andrew H.
Green, pr'ominent retired Detroit
business man.
DAVID HEALD PASSES
David Heald, member ot the
Polk County War Price and Ra
il oning Board, died suddenly Wed
nesday from a stroke which seized
him about noon in the post office.
Friends, who were near, took him
at once to the hospital where, in
spite of prompt medical care, he
shortly lost consciousness and pass
ed onward in the late afternoon.
The funeral service, at the
Church of the Holy Cross on Fri
day at 4 o’clock, will be conducted
by the Rector, the Rev. Joseph R.
Clair and the Reverend George
Farrand Taylor. The- pallbearers
will be E. W. Raynolds, George
A. Cathey, C. D. Stevens, W. E.
Sassoon, Dr. Allen Jervey, Dr.
John Preston, Harold W. Crandall,
and Thomas B. Main. Interment
will be at Mt. Auburn Cemetery,
Boston, Mass., in the family plot.
Mr. Heald was born in Wat’r
ton, Mass., in 1882. After gradu
ation from Harvard University he
worked in the Harvard Library.
In the last war he served in the
Executive Offices of the Air Force.
After the war he entered business
with the well-known Travel Ag
ents, Raymond and Whitcomb. He
married Nancy Adams of Boston
in 1925. Retiring from business
in 1940, two years later he and
Mrs. Heald moved here. Shortly
afterward Mr. Heald volunteered
for service on the Polk County
War Price and Rationing Board,
of which he has been chairman
of the Gasoline Panel for the past
two years.
A friend commenting on Mr.
Heald’s sudden death said: “Mr.
Heald was greatly beloved by the
devoted friends he had attracted
to himselT through his quiet, gentle
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