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AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
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Vol. 25—No. 85 TRYON, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 28TH 1952
Weather Tuesday: High 84, low
GO, Rel. Hum. 43 . . . It’s still
nice and cool. . . . Charlotte Ob
server vacation section today had
a full page on the opportunities
in Tryon and area for summer
vacation. A large picture of Pear
son’s Falls, Lake Lanier and the
Country Club illustrated the pages
and a story by Graves Taylor told
what the pictures didn’t . . . To
night at 7 o’clock the Masons will
have their annual picnic supper
at Harmon Field. At 8 o’clock at
the Tryon High School Dr. Paul
A. Reid, president of W. C. T. C.,
Klpege, Cullowhee, will deliver the
^Kimencement address . . . Thurs
day night duplicate bridge tour
nament at Oak Hall at 7:45 . . .
Saturday International Golf Tour
nament Day will be observed at
Tryon Country Club. Life Maga
zine has telegraphed Pro Ted Fox
to send it the tournament sheet by
airmail no later than June 4th.
A snecial award will be presented
by Andrew Heiskell, Life Publish
nn to w’nners in the National Con
test. The results will be broad
r>oc*4- tiie following Saturdav over
CBS ... At the Tryon Country
Club Satundav all members who
vnrh to will plav golf in the tour
nament and enioy a picnic supper
around 6 o’clock. Chairman James
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REPORT OF LIBRARIAN,
MAY 1, 1951 - MAY 1, 1952
The Lanier Club is fortunate in
its Presidents and in those whom
they choose as co-workers. The
preparation and presentation of
these new By-Laws is an import
ant achievement for the year
1951-52, for it gives the club a
secure legal standing 'and a sound
financial backing. It is a “golden
event ’ in this, the 62nd year of
the history of the Lanier Club.
To more fully appreciate its
growth let’s look at its beginning.
Three occupants of a little red
octagonal house said to one an
other, “Why cannot there be a
weekly social or intellectual gath
ering of the women of the village,
with the object of starting a town
library?’’ There were only 23 or
24 houses in all of Tryon—but just
before the end of 1889, there was
born a sudden enthusiasm which
resulted in the Lanier Club as it
stands today. The club was inaug
urated January 1st, 1890, to “meet
for mutual improvement and to
procure a library for the town.’’
The first program consisted of
foreign news and the reading- of
a letter from Mrs. Sidney Lanier,
and related facts about the poet’s
life and death at the home of
Mrs. L. N. Wilcox. During the win
ter the plays of “Julius Caesar”
and “Anthony and Cleopatra’’
were • read, with members taking
the different parts; also the his
tory of Julius Caesar was studied
and the lectures of Cicero and
Marcus Aurelius. Members were
now paying a fee of 15c quarterly
and an entertainment was planned.
This was Madame Tussaud’s Wax
Works and Tableaux of the Na
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