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THE TRYO» DAILY BULLETIN The World'8 Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vining, Editor 5c Per Copy._TRYON. N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1949 Published Daily Except (Est. 1-31-28)Saturday and Sunday(Vol. 22 •NTERBD AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, -No. 98) POSTOFFICI 1879 LIBBY LINES The members of the Tryon Coun try Club gave a tea Tuesday after noon in honor of Tom Rose, the re «g pro, and Roy Tjnsley, the pro. Dr. Alexander Dye on j If of the board of directors and members, presented Mr. Rose with a leather traveling bag in appreciation of the service Mr. Rose has given the club. Although | Tom Rose is a pro one doesn’t like to lose, he’s left us in good j hands. Mr. Tinsley is already i anxious to help us dubbers, and Mrs. Tinsley, who is taking an J active part in the club activities ; is on the look out for suitable | chairs, lamps, sofas, etc., to beau tify the reception room at the club house. If anyone, members^ or not, has any of the above to’ donate, call Mrs. Tinsley at the club—440. Canasta, a card game, seems to be the rage now. It’s a glorified gin rummy game and everyone seems to be playing it. Non bridge I payers particularly have taken ! ■■iking to it, but the bridge play- ; ers have stayed with bridge, with only an occasional canasta hand for variety. Mrs. A. W. Brintnall reports a very unusual canasta hand which was held in a three handed game this week, when a score of 2,900 was made; Canasta was easy for the winner in as much as he held the four black treys, thus often freezing the pack and preventing the other two from making canastas. Rev. George W. Hayward and J. S. Kell represented the Tryon Presbyterian Church at the Kings Mountain- Presbytery meeting at Belmont Tuesday. DOUBLE FUNERAL TODAY Funeral services for Mrs. Charlie Stokes and for her brother, Jim G9ode, who were slain early Tues day morning at their home on Tryon Route 1, will be held this afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Co lumbus Baptist Church with the Rev. Homer E. Bradey and Rev. C. C. Tucker officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Both are survived by one sister, Mrs. Massie Tucker, of Landrum Route 2. Mrs. Stokes is survived by her husband and two children, Mrs. E. S. Burnett Jr., and Ray Stokes, age 12. Petty Funeral Home will be in charge of. the services. At the inquest Tuesday Coroner James E. Johnson is ' quoted as saying that Mr. Goode evidently was shot at close range with a shot gun and Mrs. Stokes was shot with a small calibre pistol 5 times. The coroner’s jury composed of O. C. Feagan, D. J. Burnett, Britt Foster, Harold Davis, A. A. At kins and F. C. Jackson rendered a verdict that the deceased came to their deaths at hands of person or persons unknown, but recom mended that Charles Stokes be ap prehended and held. Sheriff W. D. Hines and his department began a search for Stokes as soon as the news of the deaths reached his office. Michael Gantt, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gantt, was a guest of young Ray Stokes in the Stokes home at the time of the tragedy. The young boys told the coroner’s jury that they were awakened about 5 a. m., by an argument between Mr. and Mrs. Stokes and they went back to sleep, -Continued on Book Po<7e_,__.
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