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Seth M. Vining, Editor
24—No. 266 TRYP „.Vd.. THURSDAY, SEPT. 27, 1951
Our congratulations to Mr. and
Mrs. P. P. Patton on their 37th
wedding anniversary tomorrow. It
is also Mrs. Patton’s birthday.
She came to Tryon today to auto
graph the few remaining histor
ies left for sale at the Chamber
of Commerce office . . . Plans
have been. completed for the wed
ding of Miss Marie Arrowood and
Mr. Walter Fortune which will
take place Saturday afternoon at
4 o’clock at the Tryon Second
Baptist Church with the Rev.
Robert A. Brooks officiating . . .
Parcel post rate increases will be
come effective Monday. The in
crease will be about a fourth more
than present nrices . . . This is
National Dog Week and many
grocery stores are advertising dog
foods. Tobi, the black cocker owned
by Dr. and Mrs. George F. Taylor
is recuperating from an illness
at the Taylor hospital in Hen
dersonville . . . . Tonight is the
| night of the duplicate bridge tout
f nament at Oak Hall hotel and Fri
t day night at the same place the
i annual meeting of the Tryon Cham
| ber of Commerce lyill be held.
I SALUDA NEWS LETTER
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Davis of
Mount Holly were guests' of the
Rev. and Mrs. Earl Hanself last
week-end. Rev. Mr. Hansell is in
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MRS. E. B. ALLEN KILLED
AT RAILROAD CROSSING
Mrs. E. B. Allen, 80, of Kell
Apartments, Tryon, was killed this
morning by the westbound pas
senger train at the Trade Street
crossing near the depot.
The MtFariand Funeral Home
has the body awaiting information
from relatives.
mrs. Alien naa peen aown town
doing her morning shopping*and
was enroute home when hit by the
train. The railroad signal bell
was ringing constantly, but a lQcal
freight train was in front of the
depot w\th all indication that the
freight was causing the bell to
ring and she probably had no idea
another train was coming from her
left. She was killed instantly.
Mrs. Allen, the widow of a
prominent Congregational minis
ter, had made her home in Tryon
for the past two winter seasons
at the Kell Apartments. Prom
June to September she lived in her
summer home at Beulah, Michigan,
where members of her family visit
ed her.
The deceased is survived by
lour daughters and two sops, as
follows: Mrs. Harold Gray. Inter
locked Mich.; Mrs. Max Haswell,
Saline Valley Farms, Saline,
Mich.; Mrs. Lawrence Schauffler,
32 Curtis Place, Fredonia, N. Y.;
Mrs. Donald S. Bourne, 614 State
St., Osage, Iowa; Donald C. Allen,
327 Burns Sft. S. E., Washington,
D. C., and Robert Allen of Ohio.
Mrs. Allen’s father, the Rev.
O. S. Bryant, was pastor of the
Congregational Church in Tryon
many years ago. Since her return
to the community she was a faith
ful attendant at the church and
Sunday school and was interested
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