The Try on Daily Bulletin The World’s Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vining, Editor 5p Per Copy _TRYON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1946 [Est. 1-31-28] Published Daily Except [Vol. 19—No. 131] _ Saturday and, Sunday _ Entered as second-class matter august 20, 1928, at the postoffice _AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 Weather Tuesday: High 83, low 56. . . POSTPONED: The Metho dist Picnic scheduled for this af ternoon. Dr. MicCall says it looks as if it would be raining. AGRICULTURE: Sheriff W. D. Hines was giving out samples of delicious peaches Tuesday. He said they were grown by his brother near Inman. The name of them was Brackett. They were not large but had an excellent flavor. We don’t know whether his brother has any to sell or whether he is .gelling peach trees. Anyway the $3ke I tasted was free of worms Jflk other defects. The only thing ^Red was cream and sugar .... POLITICS: There is a rumor that the women of the community are considering a woman candidate for council next year in order to see if something can’t be done to keep the streets cleaner all the time. There is little use in that. The main trouble now is a lack of unskilled labor willing to work. The town just doesn’t have enough money to hire laborers to pick up paper and trash during the day They do a good job every morning in cleaning Trade Street and even wash it with water. So, if there is any woman considering running -Continued on Back Page_ POLK COUNTY HISTORY By Sadie S. Patton (Chapter XVII) The Supreme Court, in the case of Mills Versus Williams, further says: “The said act of assembly was repealed at the session of 1848. It is further agreed that a majority of the people of Polk County were opposed to the pas sage of the repealing act. On the above statement of facts it is contended by the plaintiff that the defendant, being no longer sheriff of Polk County, after the act went into operation which had repealed the act establishing it, his arrest was not authorized, and, therefore, a trespass. On the oth er hand, it is contended by the defendant that the repealing act was unconstitutional and void, and therefore he was sheriff of Polk County at the time of arresting the plaintiff, and well justified therein by virtue of the writ aforesaid. And it was further agreed, that, if the repealing act be constitu tional, there is to be judgment for the plaintiff of six pense and costs of suit; if otherwise, then the plaintiff is to have judgment of nonsuit. And His Honor being of opinion that the repealing act was constitutional, gave judgment against the defendant, accordingly, for six pence and costs.” On appeal to the Supreme court, the decision of the lower court was affirmed. The opinion sets out one point of interest which may have had important bearing on why the suit against Mills was first in .stituted when it says: “It was ingeniously argued, that, -Continued on Page Four_

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view