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Poultry Raisers
Hot Supply Demand
gp Urge* Far?ers t0
i M<
- cut gather
Je More Poultry
r^"kers 8,ate Co1
?& V. Kaupp head
poultry ? "f the Col
0j station
Intention i >?>'?<> ot the
of t "? Paltry >n
"% tiii- State. Dr.
h pointed ''in 'hat the
fifprmliK'inc only $18,
lworIh <?' poufory pro
(pfich vear and this is not
b for'the.riootis of North
u Xo eggs and poultry
[,e imported into the
ffj,en com! it ioiis are so
bje to producing these
ts at hoiih and bankers
jjeJp encouraging the
^nts for more- and bet
;try.
^hatcheries tor supply
ktild chicks could be es
L successfully in North
stated Dr. Kaupp,
(jjioney nuw sent out of
ate couKI bo used for
eggs from the farmers
in those hatcheries and
J chicks turned out for
? of both rural and urban
pS.
said further. "We need
v poultry associations
fcndardizing the farm
7 for standardizing and
ng eggs and table fowls,
ulling birds and for ' ship
in carlots the surplus
from the farms. The
rs occupy a strategic pos
I in this state-wide poultry
opment scheme"" and -can
lif they only would."
;et ready for
PUBLIC INSPECTION
HE CITIZENS
OF TJRYQN.
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I are hereby notified that
?posed City Budget for
al year at meeting of
of Commissioners as of
4th. 1923, is on file in the
of the Town Clerk,
fal adoption is proposed at
regular meeting of the
of Commissioners Sept.
^ou are invited to ex
' and make any objection
you may have to said
on.
GREEN, EDNA JONES
Mayor. Town Clerk.
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taber Co. Wins
Nk County Jail Bid
'tracts were Jet this week
? new polk County jail
I. to be erected to replace
fesent structure at Colum
,Jnfe contracts were let to
% Lumber Company of
J?ttt>viHe, Virginia, the
Jflg to be erected at a cost
[Proximately $35,000.
,new j^il building will be
?rones high constructed of
and vvil! contain 16 cells
carters for the county
' h will be modern in
J!5!'1'1'1 and thoroughly
^th'"U(?hout.
jP/! ( >1 ? ' of Asheville is
p tfci'i or the new build
u .on.?trtivtion work will
1 ^ once.
CoU'MHI'S BAPTIST
L ,. CHURCH
fftfr !'Ver-v 2nd> 3rd>
C\UnfJays at 11 o'clock.
er> Sunday night.
S. A. STROUP,
Pastor.
te' M TO HAVE"
days sale
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retail *""s Vl^ }je observed
? Frifi n' l,an^ Spart-.
week'1" tUi(! Satur^ay of
t wiH offer a
le on H^ains t0 stimulate
ar Davvf^'i two days* The
emu ll'l'a *ias received
Wfernt ?f c. c.
L9: h,1!5n of the Re
ce an(j Camber of Com
retajLv., l% ppected that
will partiV the City ^ener"
Pdr>-icjpate.
Forest Wardens for
County Appointed
Appointment of the countV
and township forest wardens
for Polk County were announc
ed today by C. I. Peterson, dis
trict warden of Western North
Carolina.
C. N. Howes was appointed
county warden, and will have
supervision of the county forest
area assisted by the following
newly appointed township
wardens :
W. Claton Pace, Saluda; John
T. Smith, Columbus; J. M. Mc
Guinn, Cooper Gap; H. E.
Thompson, White Oak; 0. C.
Feagan, Green's Creek; and Lit
Durham, Try on.
In the event of necessity, each
township warden may appoint
as many deputy wardens as the
situation demands.
The plan for forest protec
tion and conservation was map
ped out under the v supervision
of the North Carolina Geologi
cal and economic survey.
Polk county will contribute
from county funds in its share
of the expense of maintaining,
this department.
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POLK COUNTY JOHNS
TO GATHER ANNUALLY
Thursday, August 16, was
John's Day at the County
Court House at Columbus when
about fifty Johns of Polk Coun
ty including a few from Spar
tanburg County gathered to
gether at the invitation of John
D. Weaver of Green's Creek.
The occasion was known as
John's Picnic and only those
fortunate enough in their in
fancy to have been named John
were permitted to take any
active part in the festivities of
the day. ,
Speeches, singing and gener
al jollification were the orders
for the -day. A quartet of
Johns sang for the assembly.
Johns fn>m all parts of the coun
ty and visiting Johns from
across the State line made
short speeches. A John made
the address of the occasion, as
well as another who welcomed
the Johns.
Following the interesting and
entertaining features of the
day, it was decided to make the
occasion an annual one. By
unanimous vote it was decided
to form a Johns Club, whereup
on John D. Weaver was unan
imously elected president and
John Burgess, secretary. The
next meeting of the John's
Club is scheduled for August
16, 1924 one year hence.
The pass word adopted for
the club is "John 3:16. The
badge is a peice of white ribbon
worn on the lapel of coat, on the
suspender or on the overall
apron and is only to be worn up
on the occasion of each annual
meeting.
POPULAR DRIVER DIES
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Many Try on visitors who
have been accustomed to driv
ing about the mountains be
hind Charlie Mills, colored,
will : -egret to learn 6f his
recent! death.
"OM Charlie" has for many
seasons been in constant de
mand by the annual visitors in
Tryon on account of his ability
as a songster and story teller of
repute. Mills invariably en
tertained his patrons with old
time negro songs and regaled
them with stories and incidents
of his own life and of the moun
tain history.
Thus passes another of the
old timecharacters of TryonJ
whose death will be regretted
by citizen and tourist alike.
A little thing like a ditch
properly surveyed and graded
meant an improvement worth
several thousand dollars to one
eastern Carolina farmer. This
farmer had been troubled with
water on his land for several
years and wanted to pay the
county agent for the help
given when the ditch was seen
to work properly.
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TRYON BAPTIST CHURCH.
Services each Sunday morn
ing at 11 o'clock.
Tryon Graded School
Opens Monday Sept. 10
Pupils to Assemble at New
School Building Friday,
Sept. 7.
The Tryon Graded School' will
open its 1923-24 session with
the assembly of all pupils and
teachers on Friday, September
7 in the new schoolbuilding.
Pupils will gather in auditor
ium and will be assigned their
rooms. According to the an
nouncement no formal classes
will be held on the opening
day. which is to be devoted to
arranging classes, assigning
class rooms and Msting the
pupils of the various classes
with the books for the Fall
term of school.
W. A. Schilleter, newly
elected principal of the Tryon
School will /arrive next week.
Professor Schilleter has been
connected with the * grade
school system of Buffalo, S. C.,
and comes as principal of the
local school with the highest
recommendations.
Two new teachers have been
added to faculty, Mrs. Allen J.
Jervey and Miss Lea Jackson,
both of Tryon. Practically all
of the faculty of last year will
return again this Fall.
It is expected that well over
300 pupils will be enrolled for
the coming term.
The school will open formally
with all classes in session on
Monday, September 10, al
though all pupils are expected
to report for assignment of
classes and books on the pre-*
ceding Friday.
Plans for the formal dedica
tion of the building hav^ been
somewhat delayed due flrthe
fact that not all of theHgtiip
ment has arrived. It ijEiully
expected that the new tSpding
will be in readiness by day
school opens.
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PARENTS URGED TO
REMEMBER CLINIC
The people of Polk County
?re strongly urged to bear in
mind the Tonsil and Adenoid
Clinic to be held beginniqg
next Tuesday at Columbus?.
Children between the ages
of 6 and 12 years inclusive will
be operated on for the removal
of diseased tonsils and
adenoids in a fully equipt em
ergency hospital under the
auspicies of the State Board of
Health, represented by Miss B.
Dunn and a corp of physicians
and nurses.
A limited number of needy
cases will receive free treat
ment where needed.
Parents are urged to send or
bring their children for ex
amination and treatment.
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Sunday Services at
Tryon Churches
THE METHODIST AND
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCHES OF TRYON.
Sunday School at 10:00 A.
M., P. G. Morris, Superinten- 1
dent.
Reverend Fikes preaches on
1st and 3rd Sunday mornings
at 11:00 A. M., and 2nd and
3rd Sundays at 7:80 P. M.
Reverend Yaadell preaches
on, the 2nd and 4th Sundays at
11:00 A. M., and 1st and 8rd
Sundays at 7 :30 P. M.
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The Presbyterian Church of
Tryon.
Services next Sunday at 11:00
o'clock at the Methodist Church
The Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper administered at this
hour ? All are invited to worship
with us.
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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.
Christain Endeavor 8:00 p.m.
Alice Andrews, President. f
Bible Study, Wednesday,
8: p. m.
Southern Increases
freight Equipment
Additional Cars and Engines
Ordered to Handle
. f Volume.
Two thousand rebuilt box
cars with steel underframes
will be turned out of Southern
Railway System shops during
the next few months. The un
derframes will be fabricated in
Birmingham by the Virginia
Bridge and Iron Company and
work of applying them and of
rebuilding the cars will be done
in the Southern's own shops
throughout the South. -v
The cars to be rebuilt are of
all-wood construction and had
been set aside for retirement.
Their return to service as
modern stee* underfram'e cars,
equal in every respect to new
cars and suitable for handling
any lading, will mean a sub
stantial addition to the South
ern's freight carrying equip
ment.
The rebuilt cars will be in ad
dition to 9,000 new box cars,
purchased : by the Southern
during 1922 and 1923, of which
over 6,000 are already in ser
vice and the remainder are con
tracted for delivery in time for
the- movement of fall business.
The Southern will also soon re
receive 66 locomotives, 4,865
coal> cars and 200 stock cars
which were purchased in the
Spring.
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CLUB ENCAMPMENT
The Polk County Boys and
Girls Club emcampment at Co
lumbus has meet with decided
success according to J. R. Sams,
county agent.
Approximately sixty boys and
girte gathered togethered from
all parts of the county this
week in response to a call made
by the people in the vicinity of
the camp to entertain the boys
and girls and citizens through
out the county gave material
assistance in making it a suc
cess.
Today, two school trucks are
scheduled to take the entire
camp to Chimey Rock by way
of Rutherfordton and return by
way of Hendersonville, Saluda
and Tryon to Columbus. The
trip was to start at 8 :30 o'clock,
arriving on their return
journey in Tryon at about 5
o'clock where refreshments are
to be served by the business
men.
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PROGRAM OF 1NTESEST
AT SCHOOL FRIDAY
All parents, Sunday School'
teachers, and others interested
in child welfare work are cor
dially invited to attend a
meeting to be held Friday
evening at 8:15 o'clock at the
Old School Building in connec
tion with the Daily Vacation
Bible, School held in Tryon this
summer.
An interesting program has
been arranged which will in
clude beside talks on the work
being done by the school and
its influence on communities, a
pageant "AnychilcJ>\ an ad
dress by Dr. Waller of Wofford
College, on "Religious Educa
tion" and several readings by
Mrs. Robert E. Peattie.
The public are urged to at
tend this meeting in order
that it may learn more of the
splendid work that is being
carried on by the Vacation
School.
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Notice of Adminstration.
Notice is hereby given that I
have this day qualified as ad
ministrator on the estate of W.
A. Mill Sr., deceased late of
Polk County, this is to notify
all persons to present , their
claims to me against said
estate within one year from
date of this notice, or the same
will be pleaded at bar recovepr.
Any person or persons in
debted to said estate wil^make
prompt payment to me. This
16th, July 1923.
JOHN R. BURGESS
Adminstrafcor of W. A. Mills
Sr. deceased >
Beautiful Tribute to
W. N. C. Mountains
The beauties of the Appalach
ian highway were set forth in
the accompanying article pub
lished recently in the Columbia
State under the head of "Little
Journeys at Home" signed by E.
T. H. S.
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In the midst of the Flat Rock
settlement the road forks. To
the right, one following the
Dixie highway toward Green
ville, passing close along the
I shores of Lake Summit, man's
new mirror for the mountains,
down the Winding Stair, # past
the spring of old Joel Poinsett,
out through Wild wood Park,
evidence of the spirit of hu
manity that marks Southern
textile development and then,
thrrough valley and over hills,
until suddenly one sees the
crescent of tall stacks that
marks the textile center of the
new industrial South. I fol
lowed the turn to the left,
which is the Applachian high
way. Just beyond the Flat
Rock station it leaves the great
plateau and plunges suddenly
into broken mountain down to
where Green river hurries
through, a narrow gorge
rapids, pools and white falls ?
on Us swift journey to the
Cove.
Leaving the river the road
climbs quite as suddenly as it
descended, over the ridge ofZir
conia, coming into the quaint
resort of Saluda, scattered
through virgin forest growth
over a dozen sharp hilltops.
Here is probably the last resort
where one may still lack wealth
with perfect grace and dignity
and where the term "cottage"
retains all its pristine simplicity
and charm.
Cars now whirl down the
mountain from Saluda over - a
new highway that twists
through the gorge of, Melrose,
passes tetweeii dose-set cliff*
of rock and by tumbling tor
rents that are the upper Paco
let, entering abruptly into a
quiet, leyel valley. I was fortu
nate in recently having had aft
opportunity to escape from
speed and gasoline and in
tramping leisurely down the
mountain by another road.
Almost unknown to the
tour^t of the present, yet cer
tainly one of the most attrac
tive roads in all the South, is
this old Howard Gap road, lead
ing from a point near Saluda
down into South Carolina. It
was once the last lap in the long
trans-mountain trail from the
western slope, through Ashe
ville, across the Great Plateau
and then down into the coastal
plains. A few miles ? east of
Saluda it reaches the edge of
the mountains and begins its
swift, sinuous decent. For the
traveler there is little premoni
tion of what awaits him just
ahead. For a considerable dis
tance I had passed through a
rather broken region of low
wooded hills, the road following
a series of little creek bottoms
planted with meager patches of
corn and tobacco, that straggle
a short way up the steep hill
sides and then, discourged, give
place to woods. As I had seen
no large mountains or distant
vistas for so long a time, \ I be
gan to think that I had left the
high country and that these
rough, monotonous hills were
the beginnings of the Piedmont.
Then the last little valley nar
rowed quickly to a tiny glen, the
creek, that had long kept me
cheerfulf company, tumbled off
somewhere into nothingness
and silence and thick forest
closed in on either side of the
way, and emarald mantle drawn
by nature until the moment
when she shall reveal her full
glory. On my right the forest
thins with each step, blue ap
pears between the trees below
as well as above and, at my feet,
the world melts away into an
azure stillness. As I look down
into the pellucid abyss it gradu
ally unfolds itself into the pan
orama of another unsuspected
world spread out far below.
Woodland, farms villages, white
thread-like roads ? and beyond
these over flattened hills an un
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Orchard Tour Started
,7 For Fruit Growers
Prominent Horticulturists to
Address Orchard Men.
] fruit growers of this sec
tion are taking much interest
in the Orchard Tour to be held
Thursday August 30 under the
auspices of the Hendersonville
Chairiber of Commerce and the
State Division of Horticulture.
The tour will include visits to
a number of large and flourish
ing orchards of Henderson and
Polk County including the
orchard of H. P. Corwith near
Saluda.
The tour will start promptly
at 9:30 o'clock Thursday morn
ing, from the County Court
house in Hendersonville. Extra
automobiles will be on hand to
provide for those who do not
bring their own. All of the
fruit growers are urged to at
tend and to bring their fam
ilies, friends and a basket din
ner.
An interesting program has
been arranged for the day
which will . include practical
talks on fruit growing by men
prominent - in horticultural
work. Among these will be, H.
R. Niswonger, Extension Hor
ticulturalist of Western North
Carolina; H. P. Corwith of Sal
uda; Professor E. C. Aucter,
University of Maryland.
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N. C. CO-OP CAMPAIGN
MEETS WITH SUCCESS
Growing interest in the South
wide membership drive is
shown in reports received by
Homer H. B. Mask, Manager of
the Field Service Department
of the North Carolina Cotton
Growers Cooperative Associa
tion.
Reports from locals show 17fc
contracts signed during the
past week with a number of
loteals yet to report. Special ef
fort is bc^g made in Warren,
Cabarrus/Xleveland, Ruther
ford, Polk and Lincoln counties.
Arrangements have been made
for a county-wide drive in
Rowan with the assistance of
local leaders together with a
number of interested business
men. Field workers in the
North eastern district have
for a district drive. Manager
Mask confidently expects a
membership of thirty-five
thousand when the campaign
closes. _
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Greens Creek School
Building Started
Construction work was start
ed last Tuesday morning on the
new ten room school building
for Green's Creek community.
Brick, lumber and stone have
arrived for the new structure
which is being erected by W. J.
Gaines, contractor. The build
ing will be of sufficient capacity
to care for about 500 pupils
when completed. It will be
modern in every respect and
will be equipped with an audit
orium of ample seating capaci
ty.
It is expected that the new
school will be completed by
January 1, 1924.
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The Daily Vacation Bibte
School which closed its sumtoier
session for local children opened
its second session in this vicin
ity last week at the Red Shed at
the Southern Mercerizing Com
pany's plant for the /children
of that section and of Lynn.
A corp of six teachers is be
ing maintained under the sup
ervision of Miss Yarrow for the
work. Approximately 50
children have been enrolled in
the course and all of the sesions
are welt attended. The hours
for the school are from 7:30 to
9 o'clock each evening.
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Over $500 worth of produce
is sold each market day on the
curb market , established at
Greenville in Pitt County by
the farm agent, R. B. Reeves.
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Odd Pronunciation.
Says an exchange: "Ngoa, a wpat
African fruit, may b? imported Into
this country. It la pronounced pal
atable."? Boston Transcript