Timm DAILY IDLLHM
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Vol. 26—No %~7 "TRYON, N. C. TUESDAY,“^JOV. 17TH, 1953
Seth M. Vininff? Editor
Published Daily Except
(Est.,(yy8)_Saturday and Sunday_(5c Per Copy)
ENTERED , j* SECOND CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE
_AT. g, ON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
CURB ^PORTER
Weather M ^iy: High 79, low
47, Rel. Hum. ft ,
Open House Wednesday
All this week is “Know Your
Bank Week” and people are invited
to visit the Tryon Bank & Trust
Co., anytime to see it, but on
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
the entire personnel will stop
work and play host to all tjieir
friends and all the visitors in the
community who wish to come to see
the bank and to meet the personnel,
and to partake of refreshments.
It will be a period of social fel
lowship, an opportunity to meet
friends and to see one of the most
important institutions in the
country.
W. C. Ward, vice president and
treasurer of the Southern Mer
cerkinz Co., and prominent civic
and business leader for many
years, is president of the bank;
John G. Landrum Jr., who was
brought up in banking is the execu
tixe vice president of the Tryon
h**»k; James R. Gibson is cashier.
Other members of the personnel
include Miss Alva Jackson, Mrs.
E. E. Miller, Troy Morris, Mrs.
button B«nt.<?on. Mrs. Calvin Pace,
Miss Max Dedmondt, Miss Bernice
Wilson, Miss Evelyn Burrell. The
directors include the officers, and
R. O. Andrews, J. T. Arledge, R.
H. Brady, R. E. Brantley—men
with a variety of successful busi
ness experience.
The bank's growth has been
phenomenal.' but modest executive
John Landrum, who is proud of
the record of the bank, attributes
the growth to the remarkable peo
ple of this section.
The resources of the bank now
_Continued on Back Paae_
Ada V. (Dedmondt) Brown
Mrs. Ada V. Brown, 68, died
Sunday morning at a hospital
at Newberry, S. C., following a
stroke four months ago.
. Mrs. Brown was a native of
Rutherford County, a daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. E. W.
j Dedmondt of Columbus,
j Funeral services will be held
! today (Tuesday) afternoon at
j 3:30, with interment at Rosemont
cemetery in Newberry.
Mrs. Brown's husband died at
Camp Lee, Va., during World
War I. Prior to that she lived in
Columbus. After her husband’s
death she moved to Newberry.
She is survived bv the follow
ino- children: Mrs. Nellie Se°soT»>s,
Atlanta, Ga ; Mrs. F. D. Bodie,
i Joanna, S- C. * Mrs. Jam°s Green,
j Kinards. S. C., David O- Brown
.and Selwvn BrowrTof Newberrv.
Two sisters. Mrs. W. A. Or
mand of ^olumbu*: Mrs. J. L.
Furr of Clinton. S. C. • typ broth
er®, Georw c. T>edmondt o* Try
on and E. Von Dedmondt of New
berry, S. C.__
I IKED PONDER LETTER
Miss Mac Irene Flentve of La
i O^anore, Til., former Polk County
Welfare Evecotive, read with in
• terest the letteV written to the
TToro° Pvionrl’v Hub by Ray Pond
er of Mill Soring who i* in Korea.
She write*. “T srnit the cooy
of the Bulletin which contained
the letter from the Mill Soring
man about clothing ■for Korean**,
to the American Relief for Korea.
I harnoned to he writme to *ham
and thoutrht that statement, from
a *o\di“r on thQ snot mi edit be «*ood
fidv#rtisioment for them ... I eue*s
,w’ folks will miss the Bowens a
lot.”