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Established January 31, 1928
THE WORLD’S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
Founded Jan. 31.1928 by Seth M. Vining
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Jeffrey A. Byrd. Editor and Publisher
The Bulletin Is published
Dally except Sat. and Sun.
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Tryon. N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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16 Pages Today
Vol. 62 — No 243
TRYON, N. C. 28782
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17.1990
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Weather Monday: high 67. low
33, hum. 60%.
The retail empire of Campeau
Corp , retreated into bankruptcy
court Monday, in one of the
largest financial collapses in
American history. It involves
Rich’s. Burdines. Jordan Marsh,
Bloomingdale’s and other well-
known chains.
The Soviet Union declared a
state of emergency in parts of
Azerbaijan Monday night and
ordered army, navy and KGB
security forces to help contain
ethnic hostilities that officials
portrayed as verging on civil
war.
Thursday at 8 p m “Pretty
Polly” will be at the Tryon Fine
Arts Center.
Thursday at 7:30 pm. The
Friendship Council welcomes the
public to the meeting at Roseland
Community Center where Karen
Rindge will speak of her stay at
Zimbabwe University
Pine Crest Inn will never be the
same again The family of Mrs
Stanislas Czetwertynski, all 60 of
them, had a great time in helping
Mrs Czetwertynski celebrate her
90th birthday over the weekend
It was the first time in 30 years
that all of them had been
together All family members
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A New Arrival
Mike and Beverly Rollins of
Campobello, S.C. are parents of a
son, Michael Zeke, born January
12th at Mary Black Memorial
Hospital in Spartanburg, S.C. He
weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces. He
has a brother, Mark, who is 14
months old.
The maternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Russell Stott of
Columbus
The paternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Rollins of
Landrum, S.C
The maternal great-
grandparents are Mr and Mrs.
B.C. Stott of Columbus.
Gun Club
Meets Thurs.
The Polk County Gub Club will
meet Thursday. January 18th at
7:30 p m. at the Tryon Town Hall.
Polk County
Little League
The Polk County Little League
and Senior League will hold its
"kick off” meeting for the 1990
season this Saturday, January
20th. The meeting will be held in
the Woodman of the World Lodge
above the tag office in Columbus
and will begin at 4 p m.
This is an open meeting to
anyone interested in supporting
and helping our kids (ages 9-15)
participating in the 1990 baseball
season. (Volunteers are badly
needed!)
Sunny View’s
Teacher Of The Year
Joyce Jackson
Joyce Jackson, a veteran sixth
grade teacher at Sunny View
Elementary School, has been
named by her fellow faculty
members as Sunny View's
“Teacher of the Year.”
A graduate of Gardner-Webb
College, Mrs. Jackson earned her
master’s degree in Middle
Grades Education at
Appalachian State University.
She began teaching at Sunny
View nearly twenty years ago.
with a combined seventh and
eighth grade class. When those
grades were shifted to Polk
Central, she taught a combined
class of third and fourth graders
For the past fifteen and one/half
years she has taught sixth
graders, an assignment she
enjoys because it keeps her on
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Discovering Columbus
with Homar A. Jones
The County Commissioners
had a problem. The belfry atop
the courthouse was in bad need of
a paint job, but there was no long
line of applicants seeking the job.
There wasn’t even one applicant.
Eighteen years of age when the
Civil War began, Charles Page,
of New York, joined the Union
Army and fought his way through
the South. Whether he took part
in Stoneman’s Raid, was one of
the soldiers who camped on the
courthouse grounds, or billeted
briefly in Chevalier House is not
known. After the war Charles
returned to New York, married
and had a son. Somewhere in the
recesses of his mind there must
have lingered some pleasing
memories of the South
After the death of his wife.
Charles loaded a covered wagon
with household furnishings,
including a mahogany desk, two
wash stand type tables and the
family Bible, and he and his son
Herman headed South. They
arrived in Columbus and took up
lodgings at Chevalier House
Charles was a skilled carpenter
and painter. Records show that
he did much work for the county
— repairing the buildings, and
laying and keeping in good shape
the plank sidewalks and the
bridges at the street crossings.
In the 1840’s the idea of plank
roads surfaced, and in the 1850's
the building of plank roads took
second place only to railroads. A
plank road was constructed by
allowing a graded bed to settle
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