Est. 1-31-28
Published Daily Except
Saturday' arid Sunday
Vol. 18—No. 136
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.
. 5c PER COPY TRYON, N. C. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1945
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CURB REPORTER
Weather Friday: High 88, low
55; Saturday high 86, low 56;
Sunday high 83, low 63 . . . The
world is full of tension now,
waiting for the expected Japanese
surrender. When it is officially an
nounced the Tryon fire siren will
go off. Two hours later the public
will assemble at Tryon Theatre
if it goes off before 5 p. m. If
the siren goes off after that time
the service will be held at the
First Baptist church where a pro
gram prepared by the Home
Friendly club will be presented
by the ministerial association and
Mayor F. P. Bacon. The merchants
wTere debating this morning as to
when and for how long they will
closed. Of course all of us could
Hst for several days without any
serious harm, but those of you
who must have something like
coffee had better be prepared. Buy
your needs today, because there
is ta_lk of being closed more than
a whole day; depends on when
the official announcement comes.
. . . We may snout and make
whoopee, but the fellows we want
to honor will not be able to see
it. Let’s clean up the town and
country roads in the meantime. That
will give them a good welcome
when they return. In their absence
they have thought only of the
good things about us. They have
bragged about their town and
county. “God’s Country” some of
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DR. EDSALL PASSED
AWAY ON SUNDAY
Dr. David Linn Edsall, who
has been a winter resident of
Tryon since 1935, when he and
( Mrs. Edsall built their home in
Gillette Woods, died Sunday, Aug.
12, at his home, 988 Memorial
Drive, in Cambridge, Mass., fol
lowing nine days of pneumonia.
Dr. Edsall was born in Hamburg,
N. J., on July 6, 1869. He gradu
ated from Princeton University
in the class of 1890, took his medi
cal degree at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1893, and has
been awarded the degree of Sc.D.
by Princeton and Harvard. He
was Professor of Therapeutics,
Pharmacology and Medicine, in the
University of Pennsylvania from
1907 to 1911, and Professor of
Preventive Medicine in Washing
ton University from 1911 to 1912.
In 1912, he was made Jackson
rrolessor ol unnicai ivieaicine at
Harvard University, and became
Dean of the Harvard Medical
School in 1918. In 1921, he was
appointed also to be the Dean of
the Harvard School of Public
Health. He held both of these
offices until he was made Emeri
tus Dean of both these schools.
From 1912 to 1923, Dr. Edsall
also served as Chief of Medical
Service in the Massachusetts Gen
eral Hospital in Boston, Mass.
He was a fellow of the Ameri
can Academy of Arts and Sci
ences, a member of the Association
of American Physicians; the
American Philosophical Society;
the National Research Council, and
other organizations, and for many
years was one of the Trustees of
the Rockefeller Foundation. Dur
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