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X ? 'I Tryon, N. C., August 21, 1924 ?% ' ?;.'%/ PRICE SCts. $1.50 a Year y Lake Resort Project " Feasible Acconftg To Experts {rowers Exchange Ships J -sand Delawares to fin 1 -Every Basket Bearing Utfor>PolkJounty SCSbUan Z US Jn to a NEWS repres the other day. H up in Tryon, wiU go j build a lake large 'Vto offer swimming and I'll guarantee to sell 'f'Ld building lots near development- Fully Ave J5 Spartanburg people 5be glad to own summer 15 Trj-on, provided you Ed offer the usual summer amusements. Wny L'tyou do it? L NEWS ' representative & wise and said little, ju been a resident of Try to a comparatively short lie wasn't very well post the possibilities of a lake jpment. at the earliest opportun he sought Charles J. ^ who had at various been mentioned in con on with a proposed de pent of that character * about it, Charley? can done?" is grey eyes underneath rgy brows twinkled, and a d grin spread over the face :h is classically Hiberian. can be done ? and will be i, some day. Climb in . my I'll show you the possi ies. The hustling and Jve dealer in Tryon real .2 suggested taking Mrs. or along. Knowing that a keen eye for a we heartilp^ _ and the three of us rofledj the Appalachian Highway rds Landrum. w to the right a ^ few south of town we skirted J- LeMort vineyard, pass the Gault place, and entered valley of the Pacolet. Mr. :h pointed out the peculiar i in the mountain through h the river forced ? its way le lowlands. "A dam that gorge, and we have our lake. It would :h for miles back up the ley to the paved highway wiing to Columbus. At the irrowest point it would be three hundred and fifty mis wide and at the widest veral thousand. It would set a gem in the surrounding Hs and afford ample room motor-boat racing, sculling, wing and 'canoeing- Stocked ith game fish it would draw tylers from all over the coun l The hills around it afford 'fendid resort hotel locations, ? beautiful building sites, weers have stated that it the most feasible lake pro in Western North Caro ** and can be built at a lower J* than any similar develop * course I'd like to see it go jNugh. In my opinion it JWa mean the making of h k s a year roun^ resort. .. ? have the scenery and we need the lake to v e ?ur attractions complete. ?isve the lake' hotd8 J?^,much would it take to 2nl deal" we Queried toX* "Approximately HJ? as a starter. That r?handle the erection of dw ?P?unding dam, cover the httti inundated, and ^ e proposition on a "sound Not ?.real development." HtocL t t0 SU?k 0U? ADer J . to a piece of fothaf .lable at the ban^ ^Dlv 0 insi^nificiant sum, we titude ,^umed a dignified at ^can,w.wis^ed some bloat might see the P08" Jtoppuil We saw them fc. LvnnU' a short stay at Chs beautiful home, ^ntedmeLMrs- Lynch' 80* exarni . his bird dogs ^s collection of bv iv proc^eded toward x ? ?ld valley road uches (the highway Gordon Gibbs Prize Winner in Farm Club Story Contest Mill Spring Youth Wins First Prize ?Dorothy Corwith, of Saluda, A Close Second. Nine Others Get Honorable Mention The boys and girls of Polk County -who made the Farm Club trip are an enthusiastic bunch, and their decriptive stories of the excursion are so good that the judges have had p hard time making a deci sion regarding their relative merits but finally awarded first prize to Gordon Gibbs of Mill Spring $nd the second prize tc Dorothy Corwith of Saluda. Prize stories with pictures of the winners will be run in the Polk County News. The following Polk County girls and boys deserve honor able mention as 'their stories were all exceptionally weU writtpn GORDON GIBBS, Mill Springs, FIRST PRIZE. DOROTHY CORWITH, Sal uda, N. C. Second Prize. Ruby Giles, Green's Creek. Fae Gibbs, Mill Springs. Cleo Jeanette Watson, Mel vin Hill. Ruby Tallant, Columbus. Thelma L. Hague, Fox Moun tain. Eunice Cloud Columbus. Grace Waldrop, lull, Spring Evelyn Cole, Melvin HilL Brvon Lancaster, Green's Gordon Gibbs, will receive THREE DOLLARS in cash, a years subscription to the Polk County News and the South ern Planter. Miss Dorothy fCorwith will receive TWO DOLLARS in cash, a years subscription to thePolk County News and the Southern Planter. The others receiving honora ble mention will be given the Southern Planter for one year ? NOTICE The Tryon School will open for the session of 1924-1925 on September 1. All pupils are re quested to to gather in the au ditoiuum at the schoolhouse by nine Vclock on that date. W. A. SCHILLETTER, Prin at Lynn. Mr. Lynch from time to time stopped the car to point out tlje splendid views, the bends in the land which would be embraced in the lake, and thoroughly sold us the entire proposition. The posibilities are there. It would . MAKE TRYON? it would tend to to develop resort hotels al] through this section, and it would help everybody living in Polk County. What we lack is the necessary $300,000. Who ^vill be first to subscribe for a \ {reasonable amount of stock ? Don't all speak at once! Did I hear Broadus Ballenger say 'Ten thousand ?"? and F. P. Bacon. "Twenty five" ? ? and and? who said "A hundred thousand?" IT CAN BE DONE! Serious ly speaking, don't you believe it would be the best invest ment Tryon property owners ever made? You have seen other developments of like character made possible through united effort. The residents of Rutherford count ty, , fclone, subscribed f fnore than $800, 00<) /towards Dr. Morse's Chimney Rock devel opmeijt- If you interest out side capital, you. must show them that you too are Interest ed in the proposition, and that you are willing to demonstrate that willingness with a check book. ' \ ; \ .< ?; * . . . ? ? Items of Local Interest About Tryon People and Their Friends . ? Jsn ? ? Mrs. Banks who lives on Mel rose Circle, is in Spartanburg. S, C. this week the guest . of friends. Mrs. (jr. C. Clark and daugh ter of Lake City, S. C., are vis iting Mrg. Clark's mother, M!rs S. E. Watson. Wm. Stewart, Chief Petty Of ficer U. S. N., who is in the re cruiting service, arrived in Try on Wednesday and will be in Tryon a week. Mr. Stewart was here in June, and several Polk county lads enlisted for the service. Mrs. H. P. Tassin, of Alex andra, La. and Miss Anna Ellis of New Orleans are guests ofj Mrs. M. V. Bush. On Wednesday, August 13th at four o'clock, ( Mrs. James Moore entertained a happy party of little girls in honor of the 12th birthday of her daughter Florence. The after noon was spent playing games and informal refreshments were served. Seventeen young girls enjoyed Florence's birth day party, and the out of town guests were Kathleen Brown and Julia Crawley of Greenville and Louise Andrews of Flat Rock. * J- W. Brown is the new Superintendent of the Mill Spring School and Mrs. Brown will act as correspondent for< the Polk County News from that, point and will give the News readers interesting in week. folrmation Concerning $hat community every week. t Miss Callie Shoford, of Asho ville has been spending the past week in Tryon with her niece, Mrs. James Lankford. Meredith and little JMary France Lankford are spending two weeks in Asheville with relatives. C. S. Green of Columbia, S. C. spent the week end in Tryon with Mrs. Green and son, Cle land W. C. Ward of the Southern Mercerizing Company left Sun day for Philadelphia and New York to spend a week or ten days, looking after , business matters. Mrs. W. C. Ward motored to Spartanburg Sunday for a vis it with her sister, Mrs. W. E. Walters. Miss Elizabeth Kinloch who has been visiting relatives |in Spring Lake, N- J., returned home last week. Mrs. Buckner of Asheville is making an indefinite visit in Tryon with her mother, Mrs. P. G. Morris. Little Edna Walters of Spar tanburg, is in Tryon this week visiting her cousin Alene Ward. Rev. Burnett, Rector of the Tryon Episcopal Church, ihas returned home after!1 a two weeks vacation spent in New York and other points. Owing to an unprecedented rush of wefrk at THHE NEWS job plant, work on the loca1 Telephone Directory, has been held up, but is now going for ward rapidly. An addition to the printing force in the job de partment will assure prompt delivery of wqrk in the future. Anumber of young people enjoyed a moonlight picnic on the lawn at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Jackson last Friday evening. Guests; were Misses Katie Wingo, Gertrude Sayre, Vera Boman, Clemmie Hammett, Myrtle Pace, Edna Jones, Grace Holbert, Hattie, Mary Ethel, Lea, Nelle Jane, and Alva Jackson, Messrs iW. T- and Bryson Hammett, Wil liam Sayre, Robert Foster, Frank, Ray, and Cager Jack son, Archie Feagan, Lewis Po teat, Carland Ramsey, Joseph Daniel, and Mr. Roe. Z. B. ? Waters, who has a splendid farm and orchard on Melrose Mountain ww market ing some delicr * plum* ? Tryon Saturday. Mr. W4Mf| is one of the pioneers of this section, having resided here when the site of Tryon was in the wilderness. He cut cord wood for the Southern Railway when that road was beginning to push its way over the mountains, and used wood for engine fuel. In those early days Mr. Waters was offered the tract of land whereon stands stately Oak Hall, for twelve and one-half cents an acre. Great are the changes that have wrought since that time, and greater still are those that are on the way and which will come to Tryon in the next decade- , \ , Miss Edna Jones entertained a number of friends at the home of her sister, Mrs. T. A. Rippy Jast Saturday evening. The hours were passed in a pleasant informal manner and cooling refreshments Jwere served. S. W. Halliburton of Marion is announcing the sale of his farm through the columns of the POLK COUNTY NEWS. Which goes to show -that The News is recognized- as a thor ough advertising medium by out of town people as well as home folk. ? Mrs. Ella Hanna and daugh ter who have been sppending the summer with Mrs. Strong left for their home in Green ville last Saturday. WHO* WON The much advertised two ball foursome, in which Miss Yates a*Tryon visitor and Mr. Waver K Hester, were matched with ss Grady and Mr* Dean* mte played off Tuesday afternoon before a large and enthusiatk invisible gallery. Gallery reports say it was a closely fought match, Jbut of ficial reports of the final score seem to be very confusing. Mr. Hester says they won, while Miss Grady says that she and her able partner got them one down on the eighteen. It golfers could play eighteen holes, and not agree on score. What's the trouble? We can't get our hands on their score cards and the play ers seem to be very indignant when questioned. What would you suggest, a four-cornered duel, or an adding machine? o Ladies Auxilliary Guests of Mrs. Cobb The Ladies Auxilliary of the Presbyterian church held their regular meeting Monday after noon at the home of Mrs. E. W. S. Cobb- They had as their guests, members of the Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Sheffer of Tryon had charge df the program and gave a very interesting talk or the purposes of auxiliaries and their relation to church Mrs. Eelcher who is a Baptist Home Missionary on Sullivan's Island at Charleston, and !her daughter, Miss Lydia who are guests in the Sheffer home were additional gtUests< Mrs Belcher told in a very interest ing manner of her work and offered helpful suggestions to the organizations represented. Miss Lydia who is a member of the Students Volunteer Band, at Winthrop College, told of their work among college stud ents. After the program, Mrs. Cobb, assisted by her attrac tive daughters, and neice, Miss Kathrine Shore, served re freshments to the following: Mesdames Sheffer, Belcher, Blanton, Stroup, McMurry and Burgess and Misses Arledge, Hill, Jack, McChesney and Belcher* 4 , Outlook Club Entertains The Outlook Club held a most interesting meeting with Mrs. J- A. Feag&n, last Wednes day afternoon^ For sometime the Clqb has been making a Tryon Grown Grapes Bring High Prices On All Markets FREE! To Paid Up. Subscribers Beginning Sept. first " every paid up subscriber to the Polk County News will receive without ad ditional cost The South ern Planter, the oldest agricultural journal in America, twice every month for a year. This subscription is paid by this paper as a part of its program to help the agricultural" develop ment of Polk County. Rest Cottage Features Garage New Garage, General Store and M!il On Highway Near Lan&um Has Novel Features. Swim ming Pool to be an Add ed Attraction. i Our near neighbors to the South of us, are moving ahead rapidly and one of the more re cent additions to the trade ter ritory contingent to Tryon is he erection of a modern brick building by J. J. Gentry, form-! er probate judge of Spartan Ouw-Cwnty on Ws place just south "of the North Carolina^ iine. . Mr. Gentry who owns a splendid orchard, vineyard, and farm is constructing a large and commodious building where he will conduct a gener al merchandise business, an up-to-date filling station and garage, and a flour and grist mill. The garage will have storage accomodations for touring cars and loaded trucks, and carry a full line of accessories and sup plies. A rest cottage for ladies, and a smoking and rest room for men fitted with lavatories, sanitary toilets and attractive ly furnished will be among the unusual features of the new venture- 1 The groundds will be graded, and laid out in beautiful gar dens under the supervision of an experienced landcape gar-j dener, and if Mr. Gentry's plans carry through a small lake affording swimming* and aquatic . sports will be con-_ structed. v ' Mr. Gentry while a mem ber of the South Carolina bench, made many friends and acquaintances * all over the Caroljnas and if personal popu larity count for anything he should make a huge success of his new undertaking. He is al so prominent in Baptist church circles having done evangelical work for that denomination during the past years. Located directly on the Ap palachian Highway half way between Landrum and Tryon Mr. Gentry has a stragetlc ad vantage which should Insure a prosperous business both from tourists and residents of the immediate community* ;ipi 1 j - ? ? -i. ? study of North Carolina poets and writers as ' outlined in "Studies in Southern Litera ture" sent out by the Extension Division of the University of N. C. The program at this" meet ing on Henry Jerome Stockard and William Thorton Whitsett, brought to a close this interest ing study of our own beloved writers, and the Club wiJl now take up other phrases of South em Literature. At the conclu sion of the program the hostess assisted by her young daughter, Harriett, served v ice tea and home made cake. "Tryon grapes are the best grown anywhere," said Dr. Louis Fuldner, one of the lead ing spirits in the Tryon Fruit Exchange and an exper ienced grape producer- "Our Delawares are exceptionally de licous, the Niagaras, can't . be beaten for looks, and our Con cords are superb. While Con cords won't stand shipment well owing to their tendency to split the skins, they are a fine grape for local consump tion." 'Teaches? Yes I grew some peaches. Still have some com ing on and I never saw finer fruit anywhere. It was an ex ceptional year for peaches, and I've gathered an exceptional crop from the comparatively few trees on my place."' Dr. Fuldner has traveled all over the world and he knows good fruit when he sees it. A surgeon by profession he set tled in Tryon because of its clirtfiate and scenic attractions, and judging from the merry twinkle in his eye when he talks Tryon, he is pretty well satisfied with his choice. And his orchard and vineyard ia one of the best kept and culti vated garden spots in the Pacolet Valley. B. G- von Kahlden, president of the Tryon Fruit Exchange backed up Dr. Fuldner's statements in no uncertain manner. |'The possibilities of the section ' are practically unlimited from the grape growers viewpoint. We have always been able to market Tryon Grapes at fancy prices because we grow better grapes | than those produced elsewhere l and people are rapidly discov ering that fact. Once they get a taste of our Delawares land Niagaras nothing else will jcompletely satisfy them." Mr. van Kajdhen's Bella Vis ta Farm is widely known throughout this section as , a model of its kind. R. W. Early, secretary * and manager of the Tryon Fruit I Exchange is also enthusiastic ! about the possibilities in grape | culture in this section. "We j will ship ten carloads this year, I having a. total retail value of | about $35,000. We could have sold many more car loads had they been available- We are 'shipping the choicest varieties and the best fruit from those j varieties under the exchange label. We have established a reputation for procfucmg fancy grapes and we intend to main tain that reputation by seeing that every basket which leaves Tryon carrying our label, Is up to he highest standards of the trade. With shipments go ing into five 'states, every basket \ carrying a boost for / Tryon and for Tryon grapes., we believe that the demand * created will induce others tc come here and enter the grape growing business." .# Having , sampled Tryon grapes, the editor of the Polk County News echoes the senti ments of the grape growers when they say that Tryon Grapes are the best on earth, if there are better grapes grown anywhere, we have never tast ed them. COUNTRY CLUB. tr? r. 'At a Board of Directors meeting of the Tryon Country Club, it was decided to put off until early next Spring the fin ishing touches to the Club's Swimming Pool which has sc far has cost some $4500.00. It might be of interest to readers to learn that well over 300 paid admissions have been re ceived during the forty five days running, and this doesn't include any of the members of families of the present Club Membership or individual Pool Memberships. Elaborate plans , were laid down by the Direct ors for the co-Tipletion of the grounds aroimu the pool.
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