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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.
106 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Phone 859-9151
Vol. 63 - No. 200
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
18 Pages Today
TRYON, N. C. 2«782
THURSDAY. NOV. 15,1990
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The weather Tuesday: high
71, low 39, hum. 62 percent.
Robert Dedmondt, Tryon's
official weather reported, is
home from the hospital after
suffering a heart attack last
weekend.
The Habitat Auction at the
Habitat Resale Store in
Landrum will be held
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Lunch will be available.
Betty Jean Steinshouer will
bring her nationally
acclaimed one-woman
portrayal of Pulitzer Prize
winning author Willa Cather
to the Polk County Public
Library Sunday, Nov. 18 at
2:30 p.m. Cather wrote in the
early part of this century,
powerfully capturing the
establishment of a human
community on the frontier.
The women’s Fellowship of
the Congregational Church is
holding a tour of the home of
Eleanor and Kay Doelling,
possibly the stie of the
greatest private collection of
antique dolls anywhere. There
are over 1,000 dolls from 50 to
200 years old.
The tours will be held
Friday, November 30 and
Continued On Back Page
Tryon Rotary Club
Meets Monday
Steve Hill, site manager of
the Thomas Wolfe Memorial
in Asheville will speak about
Thomas Wolfe and related
history of Asheville including
railroad development in
western North Carolina.
Hill is a native of Asheville.
He graduated from Mars Hill
College in 1978 and began
working for the North
Carolina Department of
Cultural Resources and the
Thomas Wolfe Memorial. —
Reporter
Who Did It?
Will the person who gave the
Stony Knoll Community
Library the beautiful sign,
please call 894-8526 or write
Stony Knoll Community
Library, Inc., P.O. Box 95,
Mill Spring, N.C. 28756, giving
your name and address?
Thank you,
Della H. Jackson
Librarian
Landrum Interact
The Landrum High School
Interact Club is sponsoring a
bake sale on Saturday,
November 17 at the Bi-Lo
Grocery Store in Landrum.
The sale is to raise money for
the club’s Christmas project.
All items at the bake sale will
be baked by the club
members. The sale lasts from
9a.m. to 1 p.m.
Foreign Mission Study
Dr. Edward Mann of’
Gardner Webb College,
Boiling Springs, N.C. will
teach the Foreign Mission
Study at Columbus Baptist
Church on Nov. 18 at 6 p.m.
There will be a covered dish
dinner at six, followed by the
study, “Baptist Ministries in
the Arab World.”
Dr. Mann was a missionary
to Brazil, as director of
Evangelism and Missions for
the central and western region
of Brazil for the Brazilian
Baptist Home Mission Board
in 1978-1989.
Dr. Mann has pastored
churches in Texas and
Georgia. He is presently
teaching at Gardner Webb
College.
He was named to
Outstanding Young Men of
America • in 1987 and 1988 also
top Scholars in Ministry in
1987 by Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary.
Baptist women and men
from area churches are
invited to come and hear and
meet Dr. Mann. — Reporter
Ruritan Club
Organizing In
Mill Spring
The Mill Spring Community
is in the process of organizing
a Ruritan Club.
Ruritan is interested in
community service. There
will be a charter membership
meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at
the Mill Spring School.
W.W. Johnson, national
membership chairman, will
be the speaker.
All interested are welcome
to attend. For more
information 894-3199, Pat
Keneipp.
Keenagers Meet
The Keenagers will meet
Wednesday, November 28, at
11:00 a.m. at the Landrum
United Methodist Church.
Sharon Fields-McCormick,
Executive Director of the
Mental Health Association of
the Piedmont will be the guest
speaker. A light lunch will be
served. — Reporter
Beautification
Meeting
The Beautification and
Appearance Commission will
meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.
20, in the conference room of
the Agriculture Extension
Building. — Reporter