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AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
THE TRYON DULY BULLETIN
The World’s Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vining, Editor
(Vol. 23—No. 186) TRYON, N. C.. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1950
CURB REPORTER
Weather Monday: High 75, low
60, rain .38 .... Tryon Demo
crats meet the candidates tonight
at 7:30 at the school. Public in
vited .... World Day of Prayer
at Tryon Methodist Church 11 a.
m., Wednesday . . . . A1 Jolson,
noted entertainer, died Monday
night in $an Francisco . . . Marvin
Edwards Jr., back in the Navy
enroute from Charleston to Hawaii
today ... Polk County History
books have arrived and are on
sale at Blue Ridge Weavers. Those
in Tryon who have already paid
can get them from Mrs. Thompson
at Chamber of Commerce. Formal
presentation program Friday night
at 7:30 at Columbus Court House.
Public invited . . . Graves Taylor
is scheduled to mention Tryon to
night at 6:55 over Spartanburg
Radio Station WDXY 100.5 or
WORD 1400 ....
A&P Manager Promoted
Andy Barton, manager of the
Tryon A&P Store for the past
several years has been promoted
to the Rutherfordton A&P Super
store. He took over his new du
ties Monday night. He has been
succeeded in Tryon by James Pack
of Campobello, S. C., who will
commute.
Mr. Pack has been with the
A&P for 9 years and is a former
manager of a Spartanburg branch
of the company. In his early days
before joining the A&P he sold
produce from his farm to Tryon
consumers.
Mr. Barton is the husband of
the former Marie Arledge and
they h&ve a baby son, Robert
Michael, who will move to Ruth
erfordton as soon as Mr. Barton
finds a suitable place.
Philip Wylie, Noted Author
Writes of Florida Storm
In Letter To Parents Here
A vivid description of some of
the damage done by the recent
Florida hurricane is given in the
following letter by Philip Wylie,
the author, to his parents, Dr. and
Mrs. Edmund M. Wylie of Tryon:
Dear Folks:
Don’t worry.
You should recall that we picked
the site for our house with hurri
cane-aforethought—that we used
an architect accustomed to the
problems' and a builder famed for
his skill.
With the result that, though
huge limbs were ripped off our
oaks, great trees upended all
around, lofty pines snapped in
two in the middle, and houses all
about unroofed, some caved in,
and so on, you couldn’t have told,
the next morning, that our house
had been through a blow, except
ing, of course, that the windows
were boarded up, and that the en
virons were littered with the
aforementioned branches and other
debris carried from near and far
to wind up on our roof or in our
yard. Shrubs, of course, took a
beating, but even most of those
could be set upright again and I
set them up and they are already
blooming again—after four days.
We had built before and besides
this was the sixth hurricane Ricky
and I had gone through. It was
a lulu. Damage will 4|un to
$20 millions or so. The whole place
looks like the outskirts of Hiro
shimo, after August 6, 1945. A
few were killed, about a hundred
hospitalized, and people are still
dying and getting hurt in- the
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