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Volunie XX VI II No. 37. , Tryon, N. C., May, 10 1923 , 1 $2.00 a Year *
Church Conference
Well Attended
Deletes Enjoy Hospitality
0f Tryon During Three
Day Session.
The sixth annual meeting of j
the 'Conference of the Congre
gational churches of the Caroli
nas held here this week was ad
journed Tuesday noon after
d^e davs ?f continuous ses
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The conference was well at
t ended by pastors and laymen
from both North and South
Carolina. Roll call Monday
nior'ninjr at the nine otclock ses
sion following devotional ser
vice showed an attendance of
35 visiting delegates.
The conference opened Sun
day morning with an address to
the Bible school by Professor
Keener.
The welcoming address to
the visiting delegates was made
by E. E. Missildine at the de
votional service.
The business session of the
meeting began Monday morn
ing with the completion of old
business and the election of of
ficers as follows: Moderator,
Rev. J. K. Higginbotham ;
Scribe. E. L. Wehrenberg; as
sistant Moderator, W. H.
Trainum: delegate to the
National Council, J. K. Higgin
botham.
A delightful ride up the Pac
olet valley to Saluda, back to
Columbus and winding up with
a tour of inspection of the new
school building was held Mon
day afternoon under ideal
I weather conditions.
The visiting delegates ex
pressed themselves as being de
lighted with Tryon and its en
vironmenis. Every effort was
made to assure the comfort and
pleasant sojourn of the visitors
during their stay here by the
various members of the church.
Clergy Honor
Saluda Pastor
The Rev. M. C. Lunsford, for
merly of Key West, Florida,
has recently taken up his duties
with i he Baptist church in Sa
luda. '
At the time of Rev. Luns
tord's retirement from the Bap
tist church of Key West, the
Ministerial Alliance of .Key
West paid him a high tribute in
resolutions passed by that
body. Mr. Lunsford was pres
ident of the Alliance for sev
eral years.
He came to Saluda bringing
his wife and neice 'and imme
diately assumed his new duties
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Tryon Boy Marries.
On Sunday morning of April
amid ferns and flowers
tastefully arranged at the resi
dent* of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Cast '>n. 115 Montgomery St.,
(lafFm-y. S. C., in the presence
01 relatives of the immediate
families, their youngest and
m'*t attractive daughter, Viola
Montgomery, and Dewey Chris
topher Owens, eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Owens, of Tryon
u'"!'e happily married, the ring
ceremony being performed by
i..e bride's pastor, Rev. R. C.
Orandberry of the First Bap
t's'- Church of Gaffney.
Among the out:of- town
quests were Miss Minnie B
Owens. sister of the groom,
Mr. Marvin D. Edwards, Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Pentuff, and lit
son, Master William.
-Mr. and Mrs. Owens left at
1 amid showers of rice and
\ earliest congratulations, for a
nappy married life, accom
panied by Miss Minnie B.
Owens and Mr. Marvin D. Ed
wards, motoring to Tryon,
-^ortn. Carolina where they will
enjoy the peace and quite of
'he mountains. ^
Hie many presents received
show the high esteem in which
the bride is held by her many
friends.
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The Former Easier Picking,
r-an pick out your fools by their
Hu**tioii!. and wise men by their *n
Bostom Transcript.
New Board Takes
Over Town Reins
New Mayor and Commis
sioners Take Office Un
der Favorable Con
ditions.
MAYOR
W. S. Green
COMMISSIONERS
? P. G. Morrfo
W. C. Ward
H. W. White
Election Day has come and
gone and a new group of men
have assumed the administra
tive duties.
W. S. Green led in the May
oralty race with 247 votes to
R. M. McCown's 116. ?
P. G. Morris polled the high
est vote on the Commissioners
ticket with a total of 342. H.
W. White polled 256 votes; W.
C. Ward; 194; G. E. Bell 156;
and W. J. Gaines, 137.
The final returns were given !
out at the Town Hall at 8
o'clock Tuesday night. A
crowd of men had collected
about the building peering in
the windows, talking and
laughing as the returns were ;
counted and given out from I
time to time. It became ap
parent some little time before
the final ballot was tallied that j
W. S. Green was elected Mayor.
Speculation among the crowd
as jto the Commissioners ran
high up to the last minute ex
cept for tfie1 two high can
didates, P. G. Morris and H. W. 1
White.
Following the announcement
of the final returns post mor
tems were held in store en- j
trances up and down Trade
Street.
The new Board can do much
during its term. CofKJition's
ar^ in its favor to a great ex
tent for the up-building of the i
town and for its development. I
Mayor F. P. Bacon, Commiss- (
ioners T. W. Ballew, W. W.
Creasman, C. N. Sayer hand !
over the reins with the town in 1
excellent condition. The out- !
standing features of the out- I
going Board are, paved streets
and sidewalks, and the investi
gation and recommendation of
the water supply increase ques
tion. The new streets have
been kept clean at a mimimum
cost. During their adminis
tration' the police records have
shown a very clean and safe
community with a small per
centage of arrests on minor
charges. Building and land sales
have broken previous records
and present indications point to
newly established records for |
the new Board.
Two serious questions await j
the incoming Board, the ad- j
recommendation's, and the im- |
option of the water supply
mediate safeguarding of the
two downtown railroad cross
ings. '
Mayor Green and the new
Commissioners were sworn into
office by Mayor F. P. Bacon yes
terday afternoon at 4 o'clock in
the offices of the Southern Mer
cerizing Compapny. Members
of the new and old Boards will
be the guests of ex-Mayor F. P.
Bacon at Oak Hall, Friday
evening.
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Reelect School
Board to Office
The Tryon Graded School
District Commission was re
elected to office in the Tuessday
election. The board is as fol
lows, A. L. Hill, J. Nelson Jack
son, Jr., James Lankford.
This commission during its
term of office has accom
plished a great deal in the de
velopment of the school system.
The Tryon Graded School is one
of the best faculty equipt
schools in this part of the coun
try. With the completion
of the new School Building
Tryon's school system will com
pare favorably with that of far
llarger cities than this one.
The Citizens of Tryon in re
electing the present Board
show their appreciation of the
Boards endeavors.
The two outstanding features
of the Better Tryon program of
the outgoing administration:
? 1. Paved streets and sidewalks. ?
2 Survey and investigation of |
ihe water situation together with
recommendations for increasing ^
Tryon 's present supply.
The two essential features of
the Better Tryon program for the f
I entering administration: |
1 Carry out the recommenda- i
tions to alleviate the water short- ?
age. i
' 2 Eliminate the present dan
ger of the two downtown railway
crossings. 9
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Leonard Goes to
Rutherfordton
Mr. R. Leonard, golf profes
sional who his been with the
Tryon Country Club for eight
years took charge of the goi?*
course at the Country Club
May 1st. Mr. Leonard is a
Native of London, England.
He has been in the golf busi
ness for 25 years. He .is an ;
expert golf teacher.
It will be* remembered that
the Country Club is at the
Young place between here and j
Forest City. The formal open
ingof the club will be June 9th. j
A tournament will be played
then, also July~4th. The Tro
phies will be awarded to win
ners up in all flights.
There will also be trap shoot
ing and tennis courts in ad
dition to golf at the Country
Club. Mr. Leonard Will be here
permanent after May 8.
A nine hole course with a
yardage of 3200 and built in
the professional type, making
it very sporty for the average
player, also if played the short
way is an interesting course
"for beginners.
The club is fortunate in
securing Mr. Leonard to teach
and look after things. He
built up one of the best courses
at Tryon in the country. He
is liked by all tourists and
makes good everywhere he
goes. ? Rutherfordton Sun.
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It takes 3,630 tomatoes
plants, set three by four feet
apart, to plant an acre. Do
you have your supply ready,
ask the home demonstration
workers of the State College
and Department of Agricul
ture.
News to Move to
New Quarters
The Town Hall Will Be the New Home
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of the Polk County News.
The Polk County News wiil be
gin moving Friday from its present -
location to its new quarters in the
Town Hall on Maple street.
Arrangements were completed
recently that enables the News to
lease the Town Hall for office and
press room.
The addition of new machinery
to the News plant in recent months
has crowded its present quarters.
With plans about completed for a
bigger and better News it was
found advisable to seek a roomier
building to allow for plant expan- .
sion..
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Power Officials
to Meet in June
Eight States to be Repre
sented in Water Power
Conference at Ashe
ville.
At the second meeting of the
Southern Appalachian Water
Power Conference, to be held at
Asheville, June 25-27, there
will be in attendence repres
sentatives of the eight States
of North and South Carolina,
Virginia, West Virginia, Geor
gia, Tenneesee, Alabama, and
Mississippi Included in the
personnel of delegates will be
outstanding figures in public
utility companies, public ser
vice commission, State Geo
logical and conservation work,
engineers, bankers and indus
trials. ' What Water power
has come to mean in this
great development area is
shown by the fact that fifteen
twenty producers who will be
represented already are con
veying over their lines more
than a million hydro-electric
horse power. The Conference
will serve to bring together in
to a common interest and plan
for future development a dis
trict in which there exists the
greatest interconnected net
work of high tension transmis
sion lines east of the Rocky
Mountains.
One of the most important
problems the Conference will
be called on to consider will be
that of the interchange of pow
er between the various com
panies in the several States,
this involving not only econom
ical ana engineering but legal
and industrial aspects. The
possibilities of such under
standing and preparation was
vividly illustrated last summer
and in the years of the great
drought of 1921, when an
agreement was effected where
by the Alabama Power Com
pany drrerted the power of the
Gorges steam plant near Mus
cle Shoals, sending it to the
Georgia Railway and Power
company, which in turn trans
mitted an equal amount of cur
rent to the Southern Power
Company,' It in turn tranmit
ed the power received to the
Carolina Light and Power Com
pany for the use of its custom
ers in Raleigh and neighboring
sections. This operation made
up a ' transfer of power over
inter-connected lines of annrox
imately one thousand miles, a
longer distance than such a ser
vice had ever been realized up
1 011 in this county, and probably
in the world. Understanding
and agreement upon this char
acter of essential development
is emphasized at the present
time by the circumstance that
many states are engaged in
water power legislation, some
of them proposing a tax upon
the^xport of power.
Another difficult but highly
important question to be dis
cussed will be that of establish
ment of central steam plants to
supplemept hydro-electric sta
tions. Preferably these plants
would be placed near deposits
and located on streams afford
ing a suitable sqpply of water
for purposes of condensation.
The steam plant at the coal
mine is the most practical sug
gestion yet brought forward to
meet the impending national
fuel crisis and will be from now
on more and more in the public
eye and receive more and more
and capital. In this connection,
the only known site in North
Carolina which fulfils the re
quirments is in the first stage
of development by the Caro
lina Light and Power Company,
which is building near Moncure
15,000 k. w. unit
The plant is located on the
Cape Fear River and near the
Deep River coal fields, which
have been found by a recent
survey to be far more exten
sive and to produce a much
better grade of coal than was
heretofore supposed.
The conference will also con
sider an expansion of activities
to include departments con
cerned with public relations,
power companies, regulatory
Saluda Has New
Movie Theatre
Latest Equipment Installed
at Princess Theatre. -Pic
tures Daily After June 1.
Saluda boasts one of the
finest equipt moving picture
houses between Asheville and
Spartanburg in the new thea
tre opened last month, the Prin
cess Theatre owned and operat
ed by Dr. G- R. Little, brother
of Mr. W. F. Little of Tryon.
The building in which the
Princess Theatre is located has
been completely renovated.
The theatre has a permanent
seating capacity of 400 with
folding chairs space for an ad
ditional hundred.
Modern and complete in every
respect from the two latest and
most up to date projectors in
the fire proof booth down to
the new silver ecreen, Mr. Lit
tle assures the public that only
the best^pictures obtainable will
run.
The projector booth is com
plete in every detail, two Pow
ers 6 B projectors being in
stalled assuring the patrons of
no waits between reels and ?
clear non flickering picture
each night with the reels he
has booked.
A Fotoplay combination and
18 peice orchestra has been in
stalled with all of the up to
date features placed on similar
outfits in the best theaters of
this country. The tone of the
instrument is sweet and clear
and well worth the admission
to hear.
Among the bookings for
early appearance are Dinty for
Saturday night of this week
and Robin Hood for next
month.
Ofter "June first, shows will
rijn continuously from 4 o'clock
in the afternoon until 10:30
o'clock every day with one hour
and forty five minute pro
grams.
For the remainder of May
show nights will be Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday nights
at 8 o'clock.
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Holy Land Subject
of Church Lecture
Mrs. George Day Williams,
. Missionary in Jerusalem
Gives Interesting
Pageant.
Scenes depicting .the costumes
and characteristics of the
natives of the Holy Land were
presented to an audience at the
Congregational Church Tues
day night by Mrs. George Day
of Shoddy, Tennessee.
Mrs. Day spent ten years as
a Missionary in and about the
city of Jerusalem during which
time as evidenced by her lec
ture .she became thoroughly
familiar with the characteris
tics and habits of the natives'
of the Holy Land.
The costumes presented in
the pageant were brought by
Mrs. Day to this country from
Jerusalem and lent much in-,
terest to a most delightful and
instructive entertainment.
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Kffoet of Mind en Matter,
?xdtiag motion picture? a&4
mim th? temperatures o i audience!
to rlie and result* in the throwing off
of bodftr heat. Soaae Ifcoattoo lower
fee heat supplj as tbe aet a?proacboe
Ike ellaiax.
bodies and the general public,
and departments for compiling
and disseminating information
as to natural resources, includ
ing water powers, minerals,
forests, etc., available for the
use of prospective industries
contemplanting establishment
of plants or business in the
region.
The executive committee, of
which Joseph Hyde Pratt,
Director of the North Carolina
Geological and Economic Sur
vey, is ex-officio chairman as
president of the Conference,
will meet on M&y 12 for the
preparation of a detailed pro
gram.