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Volume XXVIII No. 47
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' Tryon, N. C.^ July 19, 1923
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Turner Shoals Power
Project Progressing
two Hundred Men Employ
ed Much of Material Got
ten From Site.
Within the past three months
.ffliniatinv city has sprung up
in the u-nter part of Polk
County licnr Mill Spring,
jjonies warehouses, stores,
shops. a lumber mill, a stone
Jiuarrv. new roads and a popu
lation of approximately two
hundred people.
Construction work has begun
on the power project of the
Blue Ridge Power Company at
Turner Shoals.
Three miles from Mill Spring
the hills on either side of Green
giver narrow down to the river
forming a great basin on the
up-river side. Three months
ago the high hills on either side
of the river were heavily tim
bered and tilled with under
brush. Today these timbers
have been- made into the many
small houses that shelter the
jiabor crew who are bending
their efforts under capable
direction in harnessing the
mountain river. Eighteen
months from today the Green
River will be supplying power
to cotton mills and communities
scores of miles distant. And to
that end two hundred men are
clearing the hillsides, quarry
ing and crushing rock, amass
ing great piles of sand from the
river bottom for the concrete
(work on the Turner s Shoal
?Dam.
I Much of the material for the
?project will come from Polk
?County. An excellent stone
?quarry has been located within
la stone's throw of the dam,
Inear the right abutment. Sand
?of a good quality is being taken
?from the river bed below the
?site of the dam and will be car
ped to mixers over a narrow
Iguage railway. Timber for the
?concrete forms and for the
?any buildings necessary for
?the construction work have
Been cut and milled in the vicin
iity of the dam. Labor has been
?recruited where ever possible
prom the county. The major
ity of the food for the camp
?mess is bought in Polk County.
? With the heavy hauling that
?ill be necessary during the
?construction -a new road is be
fcmade to the camp. Work on
Pus road is being hastened as
?touch as possible and should be
?completed by the latter part of
?lie week.
? Six derricks are bieng con
ducted, with 100 foot booms.
Pne timber for these derricks
B^re shipped to the camp from
?fJorida. The booms will be
?aue Irom. two fifty foot
Pn&ths ofFlorida pine, two feet
Piuare It has been stated
?"at these timbers are the
Prgest that have ever been
? typed into Western North
j50{lna- Twenty four of these
U are t)ein? hauled over
Er? 50a(ls ^-v trucks and trail
|rs *0 the camp.
I Approximately $1,000,000
?u. e sPent in the erection of
?u It is expected that
Beli\ ^ant wiH be ready to
|jft ei IJ,i,ver within the next
?ew n.t0 e*krhteen months. A
Bef-n c?n^racts have already
?or n S1^le(l l>y rnill interests
|or Power from this plant.
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l0ung People Taking
I Interest in League
?ey. ' rj"" ^')worth League
?eetinr'Si re^u^ar devotional
f Wednesday even
ly renrlp^lfrveSting program
IWd Jjy ^ss Mamie
By a tfllL which was followed
?rhood i,v v C0h.ristian Brothe
? The p * s,?an.
havpVv?rt'1 Lea&ue meet
?his ve*)v . i n we^ attended
?Tarn^, anc* exceptional pro
been offered at
We have ul' The y?un? Peo
?rest jn H en an active in
? e makinuK organization and
?eavor to ? a successful en
H^hin of +ulci*ease the mem
? 1 01 the League.
Mill Spring School
Nearing Completion
School to Have About 200
Pupils This Year.
Construction work on the new
school building for Mill Spring
is being hastened in order to
have the building in readiness
for the opening of the school
term this fall, according to E.
W. S. Cobb, county ? school
superintendent.
The Mill Spring school will
'cost approximately $20,000. It
will be a two story brick
structure with six school rooms
and an auditorium with a seat
I ing capacity of about. 500.
. Last term the Mill Spring
school had about 110 pupils.
This term it is expected that
the attendance will be increased
| to about- 200 pupils. Six
i teachers will be maintained in
the new building with T. C.
Lingerfeldt superintendent.
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Payment on Capital
Stock Tax Due July 31
Returns and Payment of Oc
cupational Taxes Must be
Made to Avoid Penalties.
To avoid penalty, returns and
I payment must be made on or
before July 31, 1923, of the
miscellaneous occupational tax
! es, the special tobacco manu
facturers' tax and' the special
| tax on the the use of boats, pror
! vided for bv the Revenue Act of
1921.
Capital stock returns also
must be made on or before July
31st, payment being required
on 10 days notice and demand
by the collector.
The Revenue Act provides
that "every domestic corpora
tion shall pay annually a special
excise tax with respect to
| carrying on or doing business,
equivalent to $1 for each $1000
i of so much of the fair average
lvalue of its capital stock for the
preceding year ending June 30
as is in excess of $5,000. # In
estimating the value of capital
stock the surplus and undivid
; ed profits shall be included.
Every foreign corporation shall
'pay annually a special excise
| tax with respect to carrying on
or doing business in the United
j States, equivalent to $1 for
$1,000 of the average amount
| of capital employed in the
| transaction of its business in
the United States during the
preceding year ending June
30".
Every domestic corporation
Imust make a return on Form
1707 even though the law may
, indicate that it is Exempt From
i Tax. The question of exemp
1 tion is one for determination by
the Commissioner of Internal
| Revenue.
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Decrease in Typhoid
Throughout State
State Board Gives Advice
to Lower Typhoid Rate
Experience of the health of
j ficials have demonstrated that
| annually the typhoid rate, both
jcase and death, rises with the
| warm weather and the increase
I of house flies, considered the
i greatest factor in the trans
! mission of the germs of ty
phoid and other intestional
diseases. Each year for the
past ten years the typhoid rate
has been consistently lowered
in North Carolina until last
year the total number of deaths
for the first time since accurate
statistics have been kept,
dropped appreciably.
That the total may be de
creased this year the State
Board of Health is advising
against typhoid by taking three
doses of antityphoid vaccine at
intervals of one week ; the
cleaning-up of breeding places
of flies and the destruction of
these these dangerous, deadly
insects by taps, poison, and
swatting, and the screening of
houses to keep them out.
R. B. Wilson.
Ford Day to Feature
Spartanburg Picnic
Farmers of This Section Will
Assemble Friday for Big
Rally Day.
Great interest is centered in
! the County Wide Picnic and
Ford Day which will be held at
the County Fair Grounds in
Spartanburg all day Friday, j
July 20th to which all men, wo
men and children are cordially
invited.
All people traveling-in Fords
are urged to arrive in the ? city
before 8:45 and join a parade of
Ford cars whiclr will be formed
on East Main Street in the
vicinity of Converse College,
There are some 7,000 Fords iti
and around Spartanburg and it
is believed that thousands of
cars will be in the parade. A
feature of the parade is that
every Ford, no matter what its
condition, no matter how much
mud it carries, or how old, or
who is driving ? every Ford is
wanted and nobody knows who
is going to win a prize. The
parade will pass down East
Main to the Church street in
tersection, thence around the
Morgan Monument to Kennedy
Place, back into No#h Church
and on to the fair grounds.
Judges will be located along
Kennedy place and as all Fords
entered into the parade .will*
bear a conspicuous number, they
will be judged as they pass.
Nearly 50 prizes have already
been offered by the business
concerns of Spartanburg and
many others are expected to
follow and every Ford will have
a chance at some prize. Ernest
Burwell, Spartanburg Ford
Dealer has leased the Bijou
Theatre for Friday and a
feature of the day will be a 4
reel moving picture show at ther
Bijou which will show the great
Ford Plant where 69,000 men
are employed and how from cut
ting the trees and mining the
ore, 6,500 Fords are made daily.
The admission will be free to
Ford owners and their friends
with compliments of Mr. Bur
well.
The prizes will be announced
at the County Fair Grounds and
every parade entrant is in
structed to keep his or her num
ber.
The program at the County
Fair Grounds will include short
addresses by ex-Congressman
A. Frank Lever and Dr. N. E.
Winters, of Florence, who will
talk on subjects of practical
value to both the farmers itnd
merchants.
After the noon hour there
will be athletic contests for
young and old at the Fair
Grounds. There will be field
stunts under the direction of
George Simmons, Boys Work
secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
Competitive stunts will be
staged between townships re
presented.
A twenty-five piece brass band
will furnish music and a lot of
stunts are being arranged by
Coca-Cola Jackson and his com
mittee which assures a good
time for everybody.
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New Filling Station
Will Open Saturday.
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Ed Sample, formerly with the
Kilpin Motor Company will ppen
a new automobile filling station
next Saturday in the building
until recently occupied by the
Burns Feed Store on Trade
Street.
The new filling station will be
thoroughly equipped to take
care of motorists and their
needs. A ten gallon sight feed
pump is being- installed, oil,
gasoline, tires, tubes and auto
mobile accessories will be
handled.
The present building will be
remodeled to take care of the
new business and all construc
tion work should be completed
within the next two weeks.
Mr. Samples has had several
years experience in similar
work.
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TRYON BAPTIST CHURCH.
Services each Sunday morn
ing at 11 o'clock.
Vacation School for
Children at Library
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Wholesome Development of
Child Aim of School.
I The Vacation Play opened at
nine o'clock Tuesday morning
at the Library with a good num
ber of children and enthusiastic
| corps of teachers in charge,
and will continue for four
weeks.
The idea originated with Miss
Yarrow who is in Try on as
student summer worker for the
Congregational Church, and has
been |developed to include all
children in and near town re
gardles of denomination. They
would like to have it stressed
that the sole purpose is an in
teresting social morning with
sufficient games, stories, songs,
etc. to aid each child to more
wholesome development, phy
sically, mentally and spiritually.
The children are ' divided in
to groups, having, a definite
course of study, daily plans
of which will be strictly carried
out, the aim of the school being
to put this over in such an in
teresting way that they will
hardly realise that they are
learning co-operation, which is
the summer aim.
Those in charge are : Mrs.
Gotier, Miss Hudson, Mrs. Mc
Cormack, Mrs. Ward, Mrs.
Simms, Mrs. Clement,* Miss
Yarrow, Mr. Kinlock, Mr. Em
bry Smith. There will be a
small chaise of one dollar per
family for the entire time, this
money to be used to defray ex
penses such as scissors, paper,
crayolas, etc. The school ex
pects to be self supporting so
that no donations will be asked.
We are indeed fortunate to have
in Tryon at this particular time
one who is a leader in this kind
of work, and most intesested in
organizations, Mrs. Henry Mor
timer Stuckey. of Sumter, S. C.,
j Mrs. Stuckey is president of the
Associated Charities in her
! home town and a leader in all
progressive movements. She
is a musician of note and her
1 help in the school and in
j her recital for the benefit of the
school has been greatly appre
! ciated by those who are in
charge as well as those who
were fortunate enough to hear
her in recital.
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Recital at Church
Pieases Audience
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Mrs. Stufckey, Miss Jackson
and Dwight Smith.
Music lovers of Tryon took
; advantage last night of an ex
ceptional opportunity when Mrs.
i H. M. Stuckey of Sumter, S. C.,
(offered a splendid pipe organ
iand violin recital at the Con
gregational Church.
j Mrs. Stuckey is a gifted artist
and occupies a place in the fore
most rank amomg musicians of
the Southland. All of her
selections were well rendered,
and gave ample opportunity for
an appreciative assemplage to
enjoy her talent.
Mrs. Stuckey was assisted in
her programme by Miss Martha
Jackson, soloist. Tryon people
have had previous opportunity
to appreciate the well modulat
ed Voice of Miss Jackson who
sang upon several occasions in
local churches.
Dwight Smith offered several
readings, the selection of which
proved both interesting and en
tertaining. Mr. Smith has long
been popular in Western North
Carolina for his histrionic abil
ity, and has been in demand up
on' numerous occasions to read
before various clubs.
The recital was given for the
benefit of the Daily Vacation
Bible School which is being
conducted at Lanier Library.
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Congregational Church.
- W. A. Black, Misister.
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Nelson Jackson Jr. Supt. .
Public Worship at 11 a. m.
Christian Endeavor 7 :15 p.m.
Alice Andrews, President.
Bible Study, Wednesday,
8: p. m.
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Green's Creek to Have
New School Building
Ten Rooms ?nd Auditorium
Planned for Proposed
. Structure.
Contract bids for the new
school building prosposed for.
Greens Creek community were
announced this weeK. - The
Green's Creek school will be
erected at an apprd^imate cost
of $25,000.
The building is to be complete
in every detail and will * be
large enough to care for about
200 or more pupils, and It is to
be a ten room building with an
auditorium seating about 500
people.
Seven teachers will be main
tained under O. J. Zeigler,
superintendent. The high
school students of Green River,
New. Hope, Melvin HilL and
Sandy Plain will be consolidated
with those of Greens Creek as
well as the grade school pupils
of the community in the new
building.
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Two Million Advance On
Cotton By N. C. Co-op
Drive fdi* ? New Members
Started TIfrought State.
Raleigh. ? Checks aggregat
ing a total of $2,100,000.00
went out to the thirty-odd
thousand members of the
North Carolina Cotton Growers
Cooperative Association the
past week, according to General
Manager U. B. Blalock.
This was a fourth distribu
tion on the 135,000 bales of cot
ton received during the past
season and brought the total
advance up to 22c per pound,
basis middling, Mr. Blalock
states. Approximately $15,
000.00 has now been paid out to
the members.
Practically . all of the short
staple cotton has been sold,
thought there is quite a quant
ity yet to be delivered during
the month of July and August.
Every effort ip , being put
forth by the Association to
make final settlement with its
members before the new crop
comes in. It is very likely,
however, that they will be un
able to make a final settlement
on staple cotton at the same
time that the final distribu
tion is made on the short staple.
The managers of the Raleigh
office do not think it- wise to
force their stock of staple cot
ton on the present low market
and' do not believe they would
be serving the best0 interests of
the members who have staple
cotton in the Association.
It is very likely that a fifth
advance will be made to the
members before the v final dis
tribution checks are mailed.
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New Forest Warden
for W. N. C. District
C. J. Peterson Replaces C. H.
Burrage Who Resigned.
Carl I. Peterson, a graduate
in forestry of Pennsylvania
State College and until recently
with the United States Fores
try Service on the Santa Fe
National Forest as Forest As
sistant, has resigned his posi
tion with the government and
is now connected with the N. C.
Geological and Economic Sur
vey as District Forest Warden.
In addition to his experience in
the Federal Service Mr. Peter
son -during the War enlisted
and served with the 10th En
gineers (Forestry) Regiment,,
U. S. A., from July, 1917 until
March, 1919 for six months of
the time overseas.
Mr. Peterson, with head
quarters at Asheville, will take
over the work handled until re
cently by C. H. Burrage, who
resigned on April 23. The
mountain counties of the State
are being divided into two dis
tricts, in order to secure closer |
cooperation and greater eflW
cietity. Mr. Peterson will have
tehe southern district, his terri
tory embracing the twelve
counties south and west and in
cluding Madison, Buncombe
and Polk, all but three of which
are now co-operating in forest
protection work. r
Fanners to Attend
State Convention
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Prominent Speakers of
South to Address Three
Day Meeting.
t The annual farmers and farm
women's convention to be held
at the State College on July 31,
August, 1 and 2 will be one of the
most largely attended gather
ings in the twenty-one years of
its history, says J. M. Gray,
who is general secretary of the
organization this year.
Mr Gray, cooperating with
the officials of the College and
Department, with Dr. J. Y. Joy
ner of the Tobacco Association,
with Mrs. Lacey MacArthur,
President of the Women's sec
tion, has arranged a program
that will be both instructive
and entertaining.
The first day will be largely
devoted to the opening* exer
cises with talks by the ' officials
of the organization. Some in
teresting addresses will also be
made by visitors. C. I. Lewis,
Editor ofthe American Fruit
Grower will be one of the lead
ing speakers on that day. Dr.
R. Y. Winters will hold the an
nual meeting of the North
Carolina Seed Breeders As
sociation on Tuesday afternoon.
Wednesday, Aug. 1, is
Farmers' Business Day. Hon.
Asbury F. Lever, formerly of
tht Federal Farm Loan Board
will speak on this day. The en
tire program of the joint ses
sion will be devoted to financial
problems, marketing and other
business affairs of the Tarheel
farmer. '
Thursday, Aug. 2, is Boll
weevil Day.George A. Maloney
of the Delta Laboratory at Tal
lulah, La., will be a speaker on
this day. Practical farmers
and scientists who have heard
Mr. Maloney say that he pre
sents the matter of weevil
control in a clearer way than
any other speaker in the South.
Much time will be given to
problems effecting the rural
women of North Carolina. The
sessions and reports ? of the
Home Bureau Federation will
be of special interest in that
they will give reports from the
various counties of the State as
to jus^ what the women are do
ing along all lines. Home fur
nishing, helping out" the farm
income, beautifying the home
grounds, how to feed tjie family
and other items will be discuss
ed by some of the best farm
women in the State.
Time will also be given for
amusement and recreational
features. The night programs
will be set aside for this pur
pose
Mr. Gray states that no pro
gressive farmer in North Caro
lina can afford to miss this Con
vention and that plans should
be made now to attend. ' The
dates are July 31, August 1 and
2. The College furnishes rooms
in the dormitories free of
charge and meals will be pro
vided at 50 cents each. Guests
will have to bring their own
linen and toilet articles as
these are not furnished by the
College.
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Country Club Has New
Golf Professional
H. H. Dean Appointed 'Re- '
centfly. Club Popular
This Year.
H. H. Dean, formerly as
sistant professional . of the
Green Briar County Club,
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
was recently appointed as Golf
Professional of the Tryon Coun
try Club.
Mr. Dean came to Tryon high
ly recommended by officers of
the Green Briar Club. During
a recent visit to White Sulphur
Springs, Eugene Brownlee,
president of the Tryon club
had his attention called to the
ability of the new professional.
The Tryon Country Club has
had a most successful season
thus far this year. It has been
stated that a larger number
than ever heretofore have been
making use of. the couree which
is in excellent condition.
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