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IHK TKYOSI » SULIM ii The World’s Smallest daily Newspr ^ Seth M. Vining, Editor Vol. 2G—No. 92 TRYON, ^ TUESDAY, JUNE 9TH, 1953 Published, Daily Except f Est- iy$l-28] Saturday and Sunday [5c Per Copy] ENTERECr AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE _AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER TIIE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 TRYON TAXES REDDED The Tryon Town Commissioners reduced the town tax rate 25c at the regular meeting of the board on Monday night. The new rate will be $1.75 according to Mayor C. D. Stevens who made the an nouncement. The one hour parking area which prevails on Trade Street has been extended to Howard Street from Trade Street to the Methodist | church in that area between Pierce- I Wilson Motor Co. and the Toy | House. Burwell To Show Lions Club Pictures Of South America The Lions Club will meet Tues day night at 7:30 at Oak Hall Hotel with Henry Gilbert in, , charge of the program. The guest i speaker will be Ernest Burwell I who will show pictures of the trip I he made to South America and | West Indies. I Plamondon Rides Again I A. D. Plamondon III will ride j Saturday, June 13th, in the Royal-, ton Steeplechase at Indianapolis. He will ride “Storm On”. Two j weeks later, Saturday, June 27th, i at Arlington Park, Chicago, he ; will ride in the last race of the season. Mr. Plamondon has been very successful in races at Tryon, Nashville and Louisville. THRIFT Y MEETS TODAY The Thrift-y Garden Club of Landrum meets today at 3 :'30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Wade Staggs. Mrs. J. M. Hightower is co-hostess. Miss Sally McCown of Rocking ham is visiting her cousins, Mrs. R. M. McCown and Miss Lucile McCown on Grady Averiue. WHEN THE RAINS CAME Every now and then some one mentions the flood. They don’t mean the one Noah rode out in the ark. They refer to the 1916 flood in these parts. The other day Ermin Fox found among some of his books and papers an illustrated booklet on the subject printed in 19.17 by the Southern Railway Com pany and dedicated to the “Man on the Job” by President Fairfax Harrison. Pictures of the damage done to the railroad tracks between Tryon and Asheville are shown as well as scenes all over this area. Tracks washed away, houses floating down the rivers, debris and lumber piled against the depots, trestles hang ing across creeks and ravines without any support underneath. Several pictures of the damage at Melrose are shown. The total damage to property was estimated to be about $21,724,085. The speedy work of restoration received the commendation of newspapers and leading citizens throughout the South. in concluding: an editorial The Asheville Citizen of Aug. 6, 1917, said, “So we can not suppress the thought that out of catastrophe may yet come much good, in that the public in the future will have a closer and more kindly feeling for the Southern Railway, and certainly a higher spirit of appre ciation.” FREE GOLF LESSONS Pro Ted Fox of the Tryon Coun try Club stated Monday that he would give free golf lessons twice a week on Tuesdays and Thurs days from 9 a. in. to 10:30 a. m. The only cost to the women mem bers will be the caddy fee.
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