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The Tryon Daily Bulletin The World’s Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vining, Editor. 6c Per Copy TRYON, N. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 25TH, 1946 Published Daily Except [Est. 1-31-28]Saturday and Sunday[Vol. 19:—No. 105] ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICi _AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 Weather Monday: High 90, low 56. The middle of summer, and we have prfect sleeping nights. When the temperature drops below 60 a blanket is needed. . . Major Sharp spent last week on Tryon Mountain and enjoyed it immense ly. The altitude is over 3,000 feet. He says the thermometer reading never rose above 80 or dropped below 70, while he was there day or night. Niow that’s where the thermal belt was last week. We wonder what the year ’round record is. During that same period last in Tryon it was hotter in the t y M. but cooler at night . . . .An drews Furniture Co., advertised last week that they are agents for the Morgan Furniture Co., mahogany furniture; and Sunday’s Asheville Citizen-Times showed pictures of the mahogany logs be ing shipped from Mexico and Cen tral America to Western North Carolina where they are being sawed, treated and put into much needed furniture . . . Tryon Police Department has received com plaints from a number of citizens that somebody has been shooting with a .22 rifle in the town limits. This is against the law, and is dangerous. If a young boy has a -Continued on Back Page_ POLK COUNTY HISTORY By Sadie S, Patton (CHAP. XIII) Polk County is unique in that it was twice created by the Legis lature as a political division of North Carolina, and its history is, therefore, divided into two chap ters. The first of these was the on& which began in 1847, and covens its troublous and short-lived ex istence from the time it was created in 1847, until it was abolished by the Legislature of 1849. The Act, which was ratmeu m January, 1847, was entitled: “An Act to Lay Off and Estab lish a County by the Name of Polk,” which was as follows: “Whereas, the late Col. William Polk, of this State, was a meri torous officer in the Continental line during the War of the Revo lution, and in capacity of Major and Lieut.-Colonel, rendered dis tinguished services in the battles of Germantown, Brandywine and Eutaw, in all of which he was wounded; and whereas, this Gen eral Assembly is desirous of testi fying .their respect for his name by calling one of the counties by his name: Therefore. Section 1—Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of | North Carolina, and it is hereby I enacted by the authority of the same, That a new county by the name of Polk, be, and the same is hereby laid off and established of parts of Rutherford and Hen derson; (that portion of Hender son which originally belonged to Rutherford), beginning on the top ,of Sugar Loaf Mountain, at the Henderson comer, and running nearly east down to the ridge be -Continued on Page Two_
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