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CURB REPORTER _Continued from Page One ley Mize will remain with the new owners who will operate a Ford office there. No formal an nouncement has been made . . . . Jack Blackwell and Dean Shields, who operate The Electric Shop are moving their equipment to Jackson’s building upstairs, be cause Goodyear’s and Betty Sturgis are taking the Electric Shop build ing this week. This is the time of changes. Let us look forward to a happier and prosperous New Year for everybody ... Mrs. Ethel Loveland has arrived at her Saluda home from an ex tended stay in Illinois. Mr. Ralph C. Erskine, of Tryon, writes me: “I am engaged in a project of editing “The Book of Tryon,” a collection of pictures dating back as far as possible, also some brief word sketches of matter of his toric interest It happened that I was delving into the first use of the name Tryon, as a place, and found that the post office at Saluda had antedated any use of the name for a town by almost 50 years. “I was much interested in a ouotation in our Tryon Bulletin of your contribution in The Spar tanburg Herald, about the first Trvon post office.” I have known Saluda rather intimately, only about 33 years, Hut in the early days of our wan derings over the hills up there, I was told that what was then the home of Mr. Berry Thompson, afterwards the home of Ed Thomp son, located on the old Howard, Gan Road, about a quarter of a mile east cf Friendship Baptist Church, was the site of the first Trvon post office. That old building was purchased as it stood, in .rather recent years, and removed from the site I have heard that Carter Brown of Tryon, was interested in restoring the building, either at Tryon, or in Michigan. If that is true, it is possible Mr. Brown has some of the original Tryon post office build ing. When the Howard Gap Road was rebuilt, from Howard Gap to ward Saluda, about 20 years ago, it was relocated, so that the site of the Old Thompson place is not now on the Howard Gap Road as we know it today, but is on the Holbert Gove Road. That portion of the Holbert Cove Road, between the junction with the Green River Cove Road, and the Old Thompson place, is a por tion of the original Howard Gap Road, the main trail between South Carolina and Tennessee, over which were driven droves of turkeys, hogs and muls, and the Berry Th-’^jp son place was one of the li^ar stepping places on that rout^md was the location of the “First Try on Post Office.”—C. 0. Hearon in The Spartanburg Herald. Mrs. Clifford McDonald News has been received in Tryon of the death of Mrs. Clifford Mc Donald at Detroit on Christmas Day, following a long illness. She was a daughter-in-law of Mrs. Fred J. McDonald and the late Mr. McDonald of Tryon. She is survived by her husband and sev eral children. Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Good year have moved into the Presby terian manse formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McDonald. The McDonalds h&ve moved,~j:nto their new home. Mr ancj^i's. Charles Souther have purSBsed the Brown house, located near the Baptist Church, formerly occupied by the Goodyears. Mrs. Ben Milling of Laurens, S. C., has purchased the Souther home near the hospital entrance. Extra Bulletins 5c each at Office. K
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