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Tryon. North Carolina, 28782
Established January 31, 1928
THE WORLD'S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
Member: North Carolina Press Assn.
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Seth M. Vining, Jr., Editor and Manager
The Bulletin Is published
Dally except Sat. and Sun.
106 N. Trade St., P. O. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Cerollna
10 Pages Today
Vol. 54 - No. 96
Weather Friday: high 84, low
71; Saturday: high 88, low 69, rain
.58; Sunday: high 93, low 70.
Monday morning there was a
delightful cool breeze, but the
weatherman said it would be hot.
It isn't even summer yet by the
calendar, but it sure has felt like
it.
The midwest is battered by
lightning, floods and tornadoes.
The United Methodist
Conference at Lake Junaluska
assigned Rev. Carroll Flack of
New Hope to the Marion Circuit
and the Rev. Davis Wyant will be
pastor of the New Hope Church.
Sunday's Spartanburg Herald-
Journal had a picture and article
on the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Michael Kale — “Kale's Castle is
Impossible Dream come True."
Dr. Kale's “impossible dream”
came true in a home with 8,500
square feet of living space built
on 23 acres near Landrum.
David Cromer of Tryon has
been re-elected treasurer of the
trustees of the Vagabond School
of the Drama, which operates the
Flat Rock Playhouse, the state
theater of North Carolina
Managing director of the
Vagabond School is Robin
Farquhar, who last January took
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TRYON, N. C. 28782
A New Arrival
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Thompson
of Tryon are parents of a
daughter, Jennie Marie, born
June 12th at St. Luke's Hospital.
Paternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Thompson, Jr. of
Tryon.
Maternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Sims of Inman,
S.C.
Shoot Eagles
Two eagles were shot at the
Tryon Country Club on Tuesday.
June 9th. The first one was shot
on hole No. 1 by Inky Cloud. She
used her driver, 7 wood and sank
the putt for her eagle three. On
the next hole Margaret Hannon
followed with an eagle of her own
as she hit two 7-woods and
chipped in with a pitching wedge
for her 3. Completing the
foursome were Dot Geratdeau
and Gladys Vining.
The Tuesday event was blind
bogey for the Ladies Golf weekly
event. The winners were Betty
Green, Polly Olsen, Helen Inman,
Helen Bensler, Evelyn
Burrelson, Peg Placak and Inky
Cloud.
Blanton-Laughter
Reunion Sunday
The Blanton-Laughter Reunion
will be held Sunday, June 21 at
Coopers Gap Community
Building. Everyone bring a
picnic basket. Dinner will be
served at 1 p m.
TUESDAY. JUNE 16,1981
Sheriff’s Report
During the month of May the
Polk County Sheriff’s Dept,
escorted 4 funerals, had one trip
to Broughton Hospital and
serving the following warrants:
1 drunk and disruptive, 2
possession of marijuana, 1
manufacturing marijuana, 1
larceny, 11 worthless checks, 4
driving under the influence, 1
search warrant, 1 resisting
arrest, 1 notice on hearing on
claim and delivery order, 18
magistrate summons, 2 juvenile
summons, 173 subpeonas, 1
parking violation, 1 unauthorized
use of vehicle, 2 fugitive
warrants, 3 order of forfeiture on
appearance bonds, 4 execution on
property, 1 failure to pay
restitution, 1 driving after license
revoked, 1 return of service, 1
failure to pay fine, 5 for selling
intoxicating liquor without a
permit, 1 assault on officer.
Public Hearing
There will be a Public Hearing
to discuss amendments to the
Three Year Area Plan on Aging
for Region C on Thursday, June
18, 1981 at 2 p.m. in the
conference room of Isothermal
Planning and Development
Commission, Rutherfordton,
North Carolina.
Tri-County Softball
(Men
Wednesday
7—Lowry at Burgess
8—Tryon Federal at Cooper’s
Price 10c Per Copy
Landrum Mills’
25th Anniversary
The Landrum Plant of Bigelow
Sanford is celebrating its Silver
Anniversary. There will be an
Open House Saturday from 2 to 6
p.m. at the mill.
Bigelow-Sanford is the oldest
and one of the largest carpet
companies in America. It all
started in 1825 when Alexander
Wright traveled to Scotland,
bought fifty hand looms and hired
weavers to operate them,
returning with them to Medway,
Mass, to set up the Medway Co.,
which manufactured Ingrain
carpet, a weave now long since
forgotten. A few years later he
hired Erastus Brigham Bigelow
to develop a power ingrain loom,
Bigelow having previously
invented looms to make
suspender webbing and coach
lace.
Bigelow, born in 1814 was the
genius of the carpet industry. He
succeeded in applying power to
not only the ingrain loom, but
Brussells and Jacquard looms as
well and by the time of his death
in 1879, had more than 60 patents
to his name. In 1838 he set up his
own comapny in Clinton, Mass.,
leaving Wright’s company which
had amalgamated with the
Lowell Mfg in 1828, but in 1899
the Bigelow and Lowell
companies amalgamated.
In 1914 Bigelow and Hartford
Carpet Co. amalgamated to
become Bigelow-Hartford
In 1929, on the eve of the
depression the company
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