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AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OP CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
THE TOOK DULY BI1LLETIK
The World’s Smallest daily er. Seth M. Vining, Editor
(Vol. 23—No. 240)
TRYON , MONDAY,
JANUARY 8, 1951
Weather Friday: High 60, low
29, rel. hum. 53; Saturday high
63, low 20, rel. hum. 72; Sunday
high 55, low 36, ra n .28, rel. hum.
72 . . . Un'ted Nations continue
retreat in Korea ....
•Miss Iris Jackson has returned
from Asheville where she attend
ed the three day victory celebra
tion of the First Baptist Church
which paid c^f the mortgage on its
building. Many noted Baptist lead
ers throughout the state were pres
ent including Dr. E. Gibson Davis,
a former pastor. Miss Jackson is
a former member of tihe church,
and her sister, Mrs. F. H. Snipes,
of Knoxville, Tenn., a former
church secretary when Dr. Powell
was pastor, also came over for the
celebration.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Wil
liams, formerly of New York and
New Canaan, Conn., who bought
the Hope Washburn house, have
moved in and are making Tryon
the;r permanent home.
Tryon High School boys and
girls play Chesnee in Tryon Tues
day night at 7:30.
Columbus plays Chesnee Town
Teams tonight at Chesnee.
In the Tryon High games with
Landrum Friday, Landrum girls
won 34-14 and Tryon boys won
55-28. Ann P’ttman was high for
the girls and Bob Ramsey for
the boys.
HAROLD P. ERSKINE
Harold Perry Erskine, 71, of
New York and Tryon, sculptor and
architect, passed away Friday,
January 5th at Lenox Hill Hos
pital, New York City, after sever
al months illness.
Mr. Erskine was born in Racine,
Wis., in 1879. He was graduated
from Williams College and the
Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris,
and studied at the Columbia Uni
versity School of Fine Arts.
Of the various distinguished or
ganizations to which he belonged
the two dearest to his heart were
the Delta Psi Fraternity, and the
Century Club of New York.
While still a young1 student he
designed the Congregational
Church of Tryon. In 1936 he won
an award in competition for a
facade of polychrome sculpture for
the Dry Dock Savings Bank. His
work included a portrait bust of
Carl Akeley in the American Mu
seum of Natural History; the
Walter J. Travis Memorial at the
Garden City Golf Club; a war me
morial for the St. Anthony Club,
the Wilton Merle-Smith Memorial
for the Central Presbyterian
Church in New York City; the
Founders Memorial of the National
Chi Psi Fratern;ty in Ann Arbor,
Mich. Mr. Erskine also did num
erous portrait and garden sculp
tures. He formerly was a member
of the firm of Hazzard, Erskine &
Bladgen, New York City architects.
A big-game hunter, Mr. Erskine
oresented many of h’s African tro
nhies to the American Museum of
Natural History, as well as the
lifesize bust of the late Mr. Akeley,
African explorer and naturalist,
which he made in 1924 and ex
hibited in the Natfonal Academy
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