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COLUMBUS.
jliss Eula Jackson has returned to
school after being absent for two
weeks.
- Mrs. E- W. S. Cobb, and children
ale on an extended visit to her father
near Winston Salem.
Mr. Ernest McMurray left Sunday to
enter enter school at Chapel Hill.
Miss Bertha Pendergast was in
Tryon Saturday.
Rev. McCoin of Rutherfordton and
Miss Clara Morris of Union - Mills
were here Sunday night speaking in
behalf of the seventy-five million Bap
tist campaign.
Mr. Edwin Constance who is
stationed at Hampton Roads Va., was
home on a few day's pass last week.
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ABOLEinE.
We are sorry to learn that J. C.
Davis is on the sick list this week.
Miss Callie Calvert, of Fingerville,
is spending the week here with rela
tives and friends.
Mrs. Z. M. and Carrie Walker spent
Sunday afternon with Mrs. C. W.
Davis. ' ;
Mr. Jack Scoggins spent Sunday
with J. A. Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mines returned
home one day last week from Cam
pobello, where they have been visit
ing relatives.
Mr. M. F. Wilkins made a business
trip to Rutherfordton Monday last.
Mr. J. M. Davis made a business
trip to Landrum, Monday, last.
Mrs. Sarah Hayes, aged 81; years
picked 93 pounds of cotton one day
last week. K-" 'f ; " 1 V .
Let everybody be at :the;Fair Jiif
week, and everybody carryj something
to exhibit. f
HILLCREST.
Mr. Earle Head spent the week-end
with his sister, Mrs. M. A. Smalley.
Mrs. Carrie Hickman and daughter
Miss Margaret Hunter, . spent the
week-end at Morganton.
Mr. and Mrs. -ML Georgion Misses
Lucy and Mattie Abrams and Mr":
IJirshall Abrams motored to Ashe-,
ville Friday.
Mrs. Finleywf Marion is visiting
her mother, Mrs. Owensby.
Rev. R. N. Hunter spent several
days with relatives in Charlotte and
.vicinity, last week, bringing his little
daughter,. Rachel, home with him.
A pleasant innovation in this neigh
borhood is the weekly community
ngmg recently instituted at Hillcrest
school.
SILTER CREEK.
Mr. Zach Searcy was not present
w the singing at Silver Creek, Sun
day. There were many disappointed
because of his absence, although we
had some good singing. Rev T. W.
Arledge, of , Sandy Springs conducted
semces in the morning. .
' Mr- C E. Justice, of JRutherford
:0n "-ade a business trip up to his
fanns one day last week.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Zach Searcy
0n last Thursday, a boy.
Miss Alice Arledge" of Saluda,
sPent the past-week with relatives in
lh,s section
Messrs Will Foster and Joe Page
ere visitors at Mountain View farm,
Saturday night.
Mrs. William Green and daughter,
mnic, spent last week-end with rel
atls at Warrior mountain.
toh fiVG more and we hope
l Wltnessing the greatest Fair we
iumbever had in Polk county at c"
. - ' LYNN
Ba!t-R' N- Pratt, pastor of the
Ptist church, and Rev. A. S. Cald
chu',Pstor of the Presbyterian
lay J1 f this Ptece, both have regu
ft standing appointments, and by
have gement the Lynn" -people
htgTv p?eaching every Sunday
in? t, Ahere being no church" build
use'd f S?01 building is still being
s ht and a11 Mnd f ser'
adequatU the accommodations are in-
Popie f and keePs a great , many
Jt iS u u01? attenbng the services.
De adont r . u tnax some Plan, may
Pted m a very short tim by
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OIIER THE COUNTY
which the church building now start
ed may be finished.:
W. J. Ballard, who was in the fa
mous 30th Division, is in attendance
at. the reunion .at Greenville, this
week.
. IVs only a few days till the Fair
Are you ready? The Fair will be
just, what the people make it.
Rev. W. M. Sheltbn, pastor of the
M, E. church of MillxSpring, was the
guest of Mr. R. D. Gray, principal
of our school, last Saturday night
John T. Panther and P. N. Hood,
will, go this week to the Green River
Association, as delegates from the
Baptist church at this place. The As
sociation meets with the Camp Creek
church, Rutherford county, N.-C.
r A new arrival at the home of - Mr.
and Mrs. D. E. Ballard a few days
ago. It was a boy; No. 2 congratu
lations. V
And for fear we forget a new arri
val at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Mally Thompson. It was a girl (No.
2 again); we congratulate.
The teachers of the Lynn school
gave a bpx supper and voting contest
at the school house, Saturday night.
Rev. Mr. Shelton," of Mill Spring was
present and, made an interesting talk
in the interest of the Lynn school and
education in general. In addition to
the boxes , sold, the ladies of the Bet
terment ' Association sold cake and
lemonade. Miss Mamie Durham, of
Tryon, won the cake in the contest.
The receipts amounted to $63.01 and
will be used by the school trustees ot
purchase some equipment for the
school. All present report a good
time. - i
Miss Gladys Smith, of Columbus,
haenaddfid fto the,, staff of , teach
ersthe Irynn schooirfi''
The Odd Fellows Hall has been se
cured temporariy for some of the
classes of the school.
Several of our young people at
tended . some of the meetings of the
Chautauqua at Tryon, last week.
A little child of T. A. Ravan was
quite badly burned a few days ago,
but is fast improving.
Mrs. Dewey Lewis left last Sunday
morning to join her husband at Wil
mington, N. .C, where they will make
their present home.
Well, it's dry, dry, dry, and cool
cool nights but my what a fine time
for gathering the hay.
W. F. Swann is wielding the paint
brush on the new annex of the school
building
A new roof is being put on the
teachers' dormitory this week.
MELYIM HILL.
Cotton picking is in full swing
now, and the indications are that the
crop will open and be gathered sooner
this year than usual.
Mrs. Ada Waldrop went Sunday to
visit her mother Mrs. Morris of
Clif sides who is quite sick.
A number of the Melvin Hill church
members attended the business meet
ing of a committee at Mill Creek last
Saturday.
Mrs. Jesse Jones is spending some
time at the home of her husband's
parents at Brooklyn.
Mir. Elzie Horn who recently re
turned from Detroit, was in this town
Saturday.
The debate here last Saturday night
was quite entertaining, and was
more or less instructive. The . sub
ject was Resolved thr.t war is more
destructive than Intemperance. -The
negative won the the decision. " y
Elder Miller preached a very inter
esting sermon here Sunday night on
the subiect of our conversations and
how we use our tongues; and we are
sure that everyone present felt that
ho needed a stronger bridle for his
tongue than he had ever had before.
Mr S. S. Lawter made a business
trip to Spartanburg, Monday.
Miss Roddy, of Green River,, attend
ed Sunday school here. Sunday.
Mr and Mrs. Toney, of Sandy
Plains, made a short visit to relatives
here, recently. -
Air- and Mrs. Joe Morris, of Hen
rietta, were in Melvin Hill, Sunday.
Wp have been having a tew cooi
nights lately, but no frost as yet..
Success and good luck to the
NEWS and its editor.
TRYON, N. C FRIDAY, OCTOBER: 3, 1919.
THE CHPUA
This county has- just completed'
Chautauqua that has probably done a!
much for the community as anything'
in the past years. . It has demonstrat
ed to all : of us that anything with
merit and an upliftin- tone will meet
with -great favor in this section and'
that in every man's soul in this sec
tion is a yearning foreknowledge. A
circus can come for one day and draw
a large crowd largely because a crowd
is expected to gather and many peo
ple want to be in a crowd, but this
Chautauqua came for three days with
six performances and drew f larger
crowds with every succeeding-; day.
The music , was enjoyed but the
real drawing was made by the speak
ers who had a message in forceful
language that we wished to hear. All
of us may not have what we general
ly understand as education but all of
us nave a aesire to Jive better, for
our own sakes, for our children,, or
for the community, and it was this
chance to hear men and women tell
us the methods and results of educa
tion that we came in such large
crowds to learn. ,
Colonel Gerhart gave us a master
ful lecture on education, showing
what it meant and its purpose. - The
Chautaujua director gave us two lec
tures showing the need of education
and its results. Miss Lambert spoke
one afternoon on : home-making and
community spirit and showed us the
benefit to be derived from co-operation
in everything we do. She show
ed us how dependent we are on the
jrwin6 ywyie ox ims secxion ana their
proper development both in school and
at home and how much the ' future,
depends on the proper training of
our children. Miss Maltby, a Red
Cross nurse, explained in plain lan
guage the prevention of disease and
the home care of the ; sick.She ' ; jfe
Tustrated tohe amusement and in
struction of all how to prevent a
child f ronr sucking its thumb. It
was just such simple instruction that
taught the value of a Chautauqua
every year in this county. The
crowds that came every day to this
tent showed how anxious and rea"dy
we are to learn something that will
benefit, our home living and our com
munity life. ;
Every psrformance had as a part of
it's program music and comedy
enouqrh to entertain all and lend va
riety. None of us will forget Soon
the recitation by Miss Agnes about
the little boy who found the pie in
his mother's pantry and. wrestled
with his conscience for some time as
to whether or not it was wrong - to
take a piece. He argued that aunt
Mabel said the preacher was not go
ing to heaven and the preacher said
vhat no one else was going there so
he reckoned it would be a lonesome
place anyway and that he might just
as well take the pie. - .
Twenty men of Tryon this past sea
son had the courage to guarantee the
amount necessary 'to bring this Chau
tauqua to this county and their fore
sight and efforts at success have been
appreciated by all. For next year
the following citizens of this county
have asked to be guarantors and
with the addition of three more names
the total list of forty nams will , be
complete and we will again
have a ckautauqua for a three-day
season with a complete change -; of
program.
B. L. Ballenger
C. W. Morgan
F. P. Bacon.
Eugene Brownlee
J. T. Green
J.' A. Steelman
J. B. Hester
A. F. Corbin
W. B. Stone
J. M. Early
J. C. Fisher
F. S. Wilcox
A. L. Hill V
G. H. Holmes
Mrs. J. W. Kenned,
Nelson Jackson, Ji
R. O. Andrews
J F. Black
W H Stearns
W.'C: Ward
J. N. Jackson
W. W. Creasman
Dwight Smith
C. Bush
G. F. Stone
w. f. Little
Louis A. Avant
W. F. Swann .
H. N. Bowne
T. W. Ballew "
W. Y. Wilkins
Earle Grady
Wl B. Wigel
C. W. Ballenger
Chas. ! J. Lynch
W. T. Lindsey
"Bully." -
The" word "bully" as a familiar term
of address was employed In the time
of Shakespeare and no doubt was old
even then. : In the sense of praise
worthy, excellent as, "That was a bully
dinner," It is used both by Americans
and by British subjects. . : a -vr
TRYON
i Mjss Mary Lindsey visited Spartan
burg friends, Tuesday, v
?r,C4JLynch went to: Columbia,
S..C.on business Monday. . ;
4: --V v ; Nelson ; Jackson : transacted
biness int Asheville, Tuesday. . ,
, Mr. E. J. Bradley, of Fishtop, was
in- Tryon on bWness Tuesday. f
Mr. C. 3v-Ballenger is transacting
business in Atlanta, Ga., "this week; -Mrs.-
A. HerYord, of Baltimore,. Md.
isvisiting MrsChas. J. . Lynch at
Riverside. j s-'-X'S.S? ; "
:"'Miss Morley : and Miss Snow are
spending twd or- three weeks, in' Spartanburg.-
. ,
JWaverly Hester left Sunday to at-'
tend - school at State Unversity ; at
Chapel Hill : : ' : ' ' ?
. Miss Beach and her. sisters. Mrs.
iW?
Warner and Mrs. Ball, spent Monday
m ;AshevillA - '
j Don't forget the Polk County Fair
at Columbus next Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday. .
1 Elmo Caldwell left,: Sunday for
Nashville, Tenn., to attend the Van-
derbilt University.
Miss Loraine St6ne'will "leave
Tuesday next for Chicago, where she
will visit relatives.
? iKarl Kelly and George Smith at
tenaea me reunion oiN the 30 Div. at
Greenville, this week.
; Mr F.' P. - Bacon returned home
Saturday from a business trip to New
York and Philadelphia.
Mr. G. P. Bollman and bride, of
Pittsburg Pa., are spending ' a few
days in Tryon at Oak Hall.
: Mrs. J. T. Williams and sister, Miss
Clara Pue, and Miss Loraine Stone
spent Tuesday in Spartanburg.
t Mrs. E. L. Anderson, and little son
Ned, are spending, the winter in Try-
with her mother, Mrs. Lyon.
Mr. C. S. Corwin, who has " Veen
spending the summer in New York,
returned to Tryon, Saturday last.
Dr. W. W. Gray and son, Lieut.
John Gray, attended the reunion of
the 30th Division at Greenville, this
week.
Mr. George Claxton and family,
who have been residing in Tryon for
the past year, moved' to Spartanburg,
Monday.
. FOR SALE: Ford Touring Car in
good condition (looks and mechanic
ally) will sell reasonable. Write or
call L. C. Pace, Saluda, N C.
Meet your friends at the Fair next
week. They will be there and you
ought to be there with them. Let's
all go and make it one big get togeth
er event. It will do you good.
F OK SALE Between two and
three tons Soy Bean, hay; well cured
and in first-class condition. Can be
seen at M?ss Carer's barn in Paco
let valley. Miss F. Hudson.
Mr. J. B. Cleveland, of Spartanburg
accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland and
Misses Nellie and Amelia Scriven,
were guests of Mr. W. J. Scriven
out on Route 1 , Tuesday.
The big event of the year for Polk
county will take place on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of next week
We refer to the Polk County Fair.
Prepare to. attend and meet your
friends. They wil be there so ought
you. !
Rev. H. N. Bowne, Dean of the Con
vocation of Waynesville, attended i
very enthusiastic meeting of the Con
vocation at Brevard last Tuesday and
Wednesday, in the interests of the
Nation-Wide campaign of the5 Epis
copal church.
Rev. H. N. Bowne and Miss Ruth
Bowne left for New York on Monday
to be gone about a week or ten days.
Mrs. Bowne , accompanied them as
far as Spartanburg. Mr. Bowne has
"been summoned as one of the witness
es in the Ferris will case. The hear
ing is to take place in White Plains,
N. Y., on Oct. 6th.
One of several Tryon visitors in
Saluda, says . it is worth the journey
weekly to have dealings with the
postoffice. The purchaser of a postal
card or one cent stamp is "greeted as
though he were a guest, not a custo
mer and his mail handed him as gra
ciously as if he Were being decorated
for distinguished services.
After a busy but pleasant summer
in central and eastern Massachusetts,
Miss Edith Thurston spent several
days in town this week. Her. mother
J stead of reopening her school in Try-
POLK CHITY WHO: HflfJE BEP1EIE11I
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Edited by J. R. Samt, County Agent.
LAST WORD BEFORE THE FAIR.
Before, this issue reaches the far
mers all the community fairs will be
over. Saluda is already over and
Columbus, Mali' Spring and Sunny
View will be a matter of history this
week. :rr; : "
Next . week, yednesday the 8th
Thursday the 9th and Friday the 10th
will be the Polk County Fair at : Co
lumbus. Mr. Swann and Miss Fien
tye, of-Xynn, may be seen - at any
time from now till the Fair is on rel
ative to registration of exhibits. They
will be at Columbus the first day of
the Fair especially to register all ex
hibits. Mr. Ed. D. Weaver, Bun
combe county's efficient County Agent
will judge the Fair, on the 9th,' as he
must judge at another fair on the
loth.., - ;
Now the Polkf County Fairisjwlmt
Polk county farmers and ftusiriesjs
men: make it; tnerefore itbehooves
every farmer to!cbme and Bring'some
thingthat has been produced' On their
farm, whether it possesses high, qual
ity or not. Bring it along and show
the- willingness to . co-operate with
your neighbors in a good, work.
There is nothing quiet so helpful in
developing a comunity as the conT
munity fair. Then in order to de
velop; the county, let. all these com
munities, and' the people from, all sec
tions df the county attend th& county
fair and bring; something . to help
make it a success. It i& a "sorry"
fellow . who will come to the fair and
hang around and say of exhibits,
"Well, I left much better stuff, than
that at (home." If you think you have
on, this season, she will . assist her
eoui fifes' Sarah ThStonoMIai
vana, in conducting that lady's English-speaking
school in a suburb of
the Cuban capital. Mrs. Thurston
will accompany her daughter. The
Cuban-American lady became favor
ably known to the residents of Tryon,
on her visit to her relatives here last
winter. She gave at the Lanier Club
a v,y interesting and informing talk
on xe in Cuba. While their many
friends made during their long resi
dence, will regret their absence, they
can but congratulate them on what
seems to be a very favorable and for
tunate, business operation, as well as
a chance to enjoy a semi-tropical
winter.
TO THE PEOPLE
I am called to New York as witness
to testamentary capacity of the late
Mrs. Fefris, whose will is being con
tested. As this is a jury trial, al
though set for the 6th inst, the de
lays of the law are sucn that I may
be disapointed in not getting back to
Polk County in time for our County
Fair. T
I hope that every officer and every
one interested in the development of
this grand mountain country will aid
in making this County Fair a Great
success. Come on the 8th and help
to get ready, come on the 9th and
have a good time and come on the
10th and elect officers for the coming
year.
W. T. LINDSEY President
Polk County Fair.
MOUNTAIN VIEW.
Several from this section visited
Seleanor Jackson, of Mill Spring
route 1, Monday We are informed
that she is very ill.
Mr. J. T. Ruppe spent Friday and
Saturday nights at Mr. H. H. Mc-
Crains'.
Mr Holbert Jackson, of Hender-
sonville, attended preaching services
here, Sunday.
Messrs. Furman Jackson, JayCorn,
Oscar McCrain, Miss Mary Ann
Bradley and Mrs., Sallie McCrain
motored through this section Mon
day. iWe suppose they were on their
way to Rutherfordton.
Several attended prayer service at
Mr. H. H. McCrain's, Saturday night.
Glad to note that the painting of
Mountain View church is finished
and is looking a great deal better.
Misses Carrie Jackson, Alice Mc
Crain, Messrs. Hobart Jackson and
Henry Garrett attended the singing
at Silver Creek Sunday afternoon.
All report a nice itme.
$2.00 A YEAR.
the best stuff in the county, have the
courage to bring it and set it right up
by the other fellow's and see which is :
best. If you are - in doubt as ta?"
whether' yburs is: best, ' then bring- it -along
and help out by showing the .:
best vnn Vinvp TTio kncV.,,-
the county should attend the Fair 'in v
order that they may,' become better .
acquainted withlthe farmer an "vice li
tions may be cultivated. ' -
J. R. SAMS, County Agent.
Brief Farm Topics to Think About. ,
. This is the Fair season all over the:;
country and- should be a season of ?
thankfulness and rejoicing. - -
'It you do not have the best of v- j
erything to bring to the Fair: brin .
the best of everything you "have: and
perhaps you will have' the best o"
something. X '
DON'T GROTTriW. fiMTTP.: tjttv-
YOUR TEETH. WHEN THE STORM
jv . su hi i a x u U HARD, AND
HELP THE OTHER FELLOW; AND
SEE HOW THE SUN WttLL SHINE
OUT. "
Speak well of your town, your com
munity and your neighbor; or get,
out and find a" place where you can.
TTucai, sowing ume is near, at hand...
xiwviuiig- uut me Dest recieaned
seed,vtreated for smut, and plant only
in a CnnH smT mall niuniiJ .1 U.:
o-" nvn uicyaxcu. ill. LUO
proper time, about Oct. 15th to- 28th ;
I and expect a good crop to follow.
EDUCATIONAL RALLEY
The public school officials in 'Polk"
County are laboring under many dis
advantages because of conditions over
which they have no control. Con
siderable adverse criticism has been
and is yet being made regarding ed
ucational conditions in this county.
There are none who relize more fully
than the educational officials that the
public schools in Polk County are not
doing what they should do for the
people of the county. But there are
questions that 'come up for the con-
sideration of the Board of Education
that the general public know nothing
about, and therefore are unable to in
telligently either criticise or help the
educational forces in the county.
On the second Saturday in Noyem- -ber
there will be held at Columbus,
N. C beginning at 10:30 o'clock an
EDUCATIONAL RALLY in which'
all the people of the county whatever
may be their calling or occupation
are asked to take an active, part. A
better knowledge of the conditions
that are confronting us in the work of
education will make it possible for all '
the forces in the county to work to
gether Jiarmoniously and effectively. ,
Let me urge that every teacher in
the county of whatever name or order
be present at this meeting, and that
you come with a contribution for the
better organization of the school work
Every committeeman is urged to be
present and discuss the educational
situation from his standpoint. The
preachers, the lawyers, the doctors,
the editors, and business men are
cordially and earnestly asked to be
present at this meeting and to take an
active part in the discussions. And
last but not least every man and wo
man who has any interest in the ed
ucational welfare of Polk County are
earnestly requested to attend this
meeting and take an active Dart in
the work which means- so much to the
welfare of Polk County. " .
EL W S. Cobb County Supt.
PEARIDGE.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Gosnell nent
several days last week with relatives -near
Spartanburg. ,
Arthur Thompson left Sundav af
ternoon for Greenville, S. C to at
tend the reunion of the 30th Division.
Miss Mae Philips is visitincr at Mr.
John Reed's this week.
'Mr. Ralph . Edwards, Misses Iva
Gosnell and Bessie Thompson were
tcallers at Mr. N. E. Williams Sim,
day afternoon. '
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Moore anent
Saturday night at Mrs, E. Taylor!,
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