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Seth M. Vining. Editor
Vol. 26—No. 6 TKYONTn. C. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9 1953
Curb Reporter
Weather Friday: High 48, low
38, rain .37; Rel. Hum. 94; Satur
day high 55, low 41, rain 1.19,
Rel Hum. 73; Sunday high 56,
low 40, rain .09, Rel. Hum. 35 . . .
Clare Luce has been nominated
ambassador to Italy . . . Tryon
Women’s Bridge Tournament at.
the Country Club will be held on
Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 1:30 p. m.
. . . . Tryon Kiwanis Club will
meet Tuesday at 1 p. m., at Oak
Hall with Seth Vining Jr., in
cnui-ge oi tne program . . . The
March of Dimes program on Trade
Street Saturday collected $236.61
with the line of dimes, dollars and
checks laid down on the sidewalk.
Leonard Porter is chairman of the
county campaign. Miss Jane Brown
is treasurer.In publishing
a picture of F. C. Penney on his
103rd birthday, The Asheville
Times had on the same page an
other picture of Tryon: a flower
scene in front of Mrs. E. Pue
Williams’ Circle Inn, showing
spring flowers in bloom. Mrs. Wil
liams said she had in bloom now
jonquils, iris, breath of spring,
Japonicas, spirea, January jas
mine and other flowers. JeflF L.
Nelson Masonic Lodge will meet
tonight at 7:30 in Tryon . . . Con
gregational men meet tonight at
7 to hear Rev. Frank E. Ratzell.
lhe Hester-Wilkins Circle of
the First Baptist Church will meet
Tuesday at 3:30 with Mrs. W. Y.
Wilkins Sr. The program will be
in charge of Mrs. W. H. Brock.
Col. and Mrs. Hugh P. Avent
of Greenville, S. C., were the
week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Sowards. Col. Avent graduat
ed in President Eisenhower’s class
at West Point.
! W. W. BALLARD
Funeral services for William
Woodward Ballard, 88, who died
Friday evening at his home in
Lynn, were held Sunday at 2:30
p. m., at the Pacolet Baptist
I Church, Lynn, with the Revs. Fin
ley Orr, Ralph Banning and Geo.
A. Roberts officiating. Interment
was in Tryon cemetery.
Mr. Ballard was a native of
i Buncombe County, but had made
j his home here for the past 46
years. He was a retired hosWv
null foreman. He had served as
a deacon in the Baptist Church
and a Sunday school teacher for
many years.
The deceased is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. B. L. Hensley of
Weaverville and Mis. Alta Law
rence of Lynn; thre» sons, Ar
thur Ballard of Weaverville; Jay,
of Flat Rock and Artis Ballard
of Lynn.
McFarland Funeral Home was
in charge of arrangements.
HORACE L. DAWSON
Horace Lathrop Dawson, 67,
passed away suddenly and peace
fully early Monday morning, Feb.
9th, at h>s home in Tryon.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete pertdmg the arrival of
relatives. Services will be held
at the Episcopal Church of the
Holy Cross, probably Wednesday,
with the Rev. Charles L. McGav
ern officiating.
Mr. Dawson was born in Colum
bus. Ohio, October 1885. At an
early age he moved to Evanston,
111., and lived there until 1980
when he took his familv to Wash
ington, D. C., and was head of the
firm of Ferry, & J^awson Trade As
sociation Executives. He and Mrs.
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