Puolished Daily Except
(Est. 1-31-28)Saturday and Sunday(Vol. 20—No. 148)
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 World38 Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vinmg, Editor
5c Per Copy, TRYON, N. C., TUESSDAY, SEPT. 9TH. 1947
Weather Monday: High 89, low
68, humidity 66 ... . There is
war in Greece, Korea, India, and
some other places .... The U. S.
Navy tested a. V-2 rocket fired
from ship’s deck Saturday. It
travelled a mile a second and ex
ploded in midair six miles away, j
No official comment. Enough |
rockets like that would make
Russia sit up and take notice . . .
Western North Carolina Fair at
Hendersonville under direction of j
SB. .Kelly began Monday for a
(c. $5,000 in prizes will be
,rded. Carnival, races, exhibits j
and all the usual attractions of a j
good fair are there. . . . President
Truman is pleased with his good
neighbor visit in Brazil. .He is j
enroute home on the battleship
Missouri .... North Carolina |
to spend $200,000 to advertise
opportunities of the state. The late
Irving Cobb once said that all this
state needed was a good press
agent. North Carolina will receive
over 2 million dollars from the
federal government for the school
lunch program . . . . The new
trash receptacles on Trade street
are making it easier to keep the
street cleaner. The street depart
ment has been busy the past few
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W. E. CHITWOOD
Williams Evans Chitwood, 90,
retired farmer of Polk County, died
at his home, Landrum Route 1,
Monday afternoon after a long ill
.ness.
Mr. Chitwood was born and rear
ed in Rutherford County, but he
had made his home in Polk Coun
ty for a number of years. He was
the son of the late Marshall and
Rossie Stroud Chitwood, and was a
member of the Hickory Grove Bao'
tist Church.
Mr. Chitwood’s first marriage
was to Miss Mary Hughes. Sur
viving from that union are: one
son, Marshall Chitwood; and one
daughter, Mrs. Amanda Barnett.
Mr. Chitwood’s second mairiage
was to Miss Corrie Etta Horn, who
survives. Also surviving from this
union are: & sons, Cleatus and
i Robert Chitwood; and 4 daughters,
Mrs. Alice Gilbert, Mrs. Agatha
Collins, Misses Ella and Ruth
Chitwood, all of Landrum Route 1.
Also surviving are 40 grandchil
dren, 37 great-grandchildren, and
9 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday at 3 at the Hickory
Grove Baptist Church, with the
Rev. A. T. Howard and the Rev.
M. C. Cheatwood officiating. Bur
ial will be in the church cemetery.
The following grandsons will
serve as pallbearers: Taft Ed
wards, Hubron Chitwood, Clifford
Collins, Floyd, Marshall and Leon
ard Barnett.
The following are asked to meet
at the church at 2:50 to serve as
honorary pallbearers: N. M. Bran
non, Ellis Kimbrell, Watt Green
way, John Willard, Jarvis and J.
C. Scott, Rueben Barnett and W.
B. McSwain.