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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 Tryon Daily Bulletin (USPS 643-360) is
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year by the Tryon Daily Bulletin. Inc. 106 N. Trade
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Vol. 65 - No. 110
The beautiful holiday weekend
weather: Thursday, high 85,
low 68, hum. 70 percent; Fri
day, high 88, low 70, hunt. 65
percent and .91 inches of rain;
Saturday, high 89, low 67,
hunt. -10 percent; and Sunday,
high 88, low 62, and hunt. 60
percent.
The Upstairs art gallery has
no board of directors, no offi
cers, no budget and no pro
grams. The non-profit organi
zation which operates the art
exhibit space at 409 North
Trade Street will reorganize
itself starling with a meeting
Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 at
The Upstairs gallery.
"Today, The Upstairs is sit
ting unused. It is ready and
waiting for people with initia
tive," the meeting announce
ment reads. "There is no set
agenda. There will be no meet
ing chairman. It will be up to
those present to elect, from
among themselves, the leader
ship of the group. If you are a
past member of The Upstairs,
please come. If you have never
been a member, you are very
welcome."
What's happening:
The FENCE Herb Workshop
will meet today at 10:30 a.m. at
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Printed in the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
TRYON. N.C. 28782
'Kiss Me Kate'
And Shakespeare
Although Brush Up Your
Shakespeare is one of the songs
in Kiss Me Kate, auditions for
which arc being held at TFAC
Friday evening, July 10 and
Saturday afternoon, July 11,
Debbie Goode, who is directing
the presentation for Tryon Little
Theater, says that a knowledge
neither of Shakespeare in gen
eral nor of The Taming of the
Shrew in particular is a prere
quisite for those interested in
auditioning for one of the many
roles in the musical comedy.
Kiss Me Kate is the story of a
recently-divorced actor and
actress who are paired as the
leads in a touring revival of
Shakespeare's lively comedy,
The Taming of the Shrew, and
whose backstage bickerings
gradually increase as carry-
overs into real life from the
shrewish and woman tamer
roles they play on stage.
The play-within-a-play
device utilized in Kiss Me Kate
is not new in theatrical history,
though it's not often that
playwrights have been auda
cious enough to fall back upon
Shakespeare in using it.
In fact, Shakespeare himself
has a play-within-a-play going
on in his original version of The
Taming of the Shrew. As the
Stratford laureate has it, the
stonny story of Petruchio's civ
ilizing the rambunctious Kathe
rine is being performed by
touring players before a country
tinker, Christopher Sly, and his
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TUESDAY, JULY 7,1992
Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Btomeley
Married 72 Years
Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Blomcley
of Columbus received a
plaque recently for their
church family in celebration of
their 72nd wedding anniversary.
The Blomeley's were married
on June 19, 1920. They are
members of the Tryon
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
-Community Reporter
Saturday Night
Music In The Park
Wanda Lu Greene will be
performing her own blend of
original and country acoustic
folk on Saturday, July 11 at 8
p.m. at the Bandstand with her
big voice, guitar picking and
wide ranging repertoire.
Saturday Night Music in the
Park is free to the public and is
sponsored by the Stearns Park
Committee and the Town of
Columbus.
16 Pages Today
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Elects Officers
The Polk County Unit of the
N.C. Retired School Personnel
met and elected officers for the
next two years: president, Wcs-
sye Jackson; vice president,
Elizabeth Correll; sec., Martha
Ashley; treas., Margaret Mize.
The meeting dates for the year
will be on the following Mon
days: Sept. 14th, Nov. 9th, Feb.
8, 1993; and May 10, 1993.
These committee chairman
have been appointed:
Budget and finance, Margaret
Mize; by-laws, and constitu
tion, Elmo Neal; necrology.
Beryl Miller; historical, Evelyn
Petty; community service,
informative and protective ser
vice, Polly Scruggs, Frances
Pittman, health care, Phyliss
Rutledge; legislative, Dorothy
Jackson; membership, Cathe
rine Feagan; program, Elizabeth
Correll; retirement planning.
Sally Jo Carter; publicity, Edna
Leonard, callers, Harriet and
Catherine Spivey.
-Community Reporter
Meets July 31st
Piedmont Prospecting Assoc
iation monthly meeting is on
Friday, July 31st at 7:30 p.m. at
the Rutherford County Arts
Council Building 2 W. Main
St., Forest City, N.C.
There will be a Keenee Eng.
Rep. on hand to demonstrate
equipment and answer any
questions. For more information
call Lloyd Nanney at
704-287-2545 between 5 and 8
p.m. Public is invited.
-Community Reporter