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/ h0ik County First, Sec opd, Last and all the time. WATCH it grow? An Indepenc Published ii pendent . United Si 20 PAGES POLK COUNTY? The Gateway of Western North Carolina FIVE CENTS PER d folunie XXX No. 7 Tryon, N. C., September 4, 1924 $1.60 bor Day Blowout a Big Success IS. Senator Smith From South Carolina Speaks on "The New Order in the Old South/' HAY OR BAILEY ACTS HOST lines Hyde Pratt Talks of * resent and Future Possibilities of Section . SEX SMITH -S.C , the hospitable and at Sa ,,,v at the top ofthe Blue mi ?" her gala attire and grated Lubor Day in big U? ?,ie Monday. citizens were Bn6b',t t ftLeOld Sol com to Effuse tbe Alpine chill M le ridges the atreeta were TJ d with' people from all orer together with a Ubera. .pricing from other parta of Uncle ^t\eTtMW the twelve piece j4?? orchestra got busy and thlu. ?? hum The dazzling cos ves of Saluda's summer visitors mingled freely with the more sub 5 drab of the back country pec pie but everyone wa^ happy showed It visibly and audibly. Gathering on the grounds of the Charles Hotel the audienc listened with respect to addresses by prom lMm men from both CarOlinas, In cluding U. S. Senator E. D. Smi o! South Carolina, Dr. H. N. Snyder, president of Wofford College, rib Warden of Raleigh, Dr. James Hyde Pratt of Asheville and Wert m North Carolina, Inc. and Charles 0. Hearon, Spartanburg a leading publisher and a member of the South Carolina Highway Com mission. Senator Smith, an orator of mark ed ability, stressed the Importance o highway development In the up building of the state and nation, and asserted that North Carolina had reason to be proud of its accom plishments along that line. j Saluda is known all over South Carolina. Many of our people spend their summers l^ere, and in other resort cities of "The Land of the Sky". We have noted the rapid progress of the past decade with great interest, and we believe that Western North Carolina is destined to become the playground for ?U i America. You have every. natO**l| advantage, >you have the determina tion and civic pride necessary to capitalize those advantages, 01 eourse this section will go ahead, tt must!" Dr. James Hyde PTatt, explained (he work of his own organization tnd told of the immense amount of valuable publicity the entire West ern part of the State had been able to secure through organized effort on the part of the twenty -five coun ties which hold memberships. "When I first came to Saludaf the Appalachian Highway was consid ered the wildest sort of a plan Folks said it couldn't be built. But you DID build it, . just as you will hard surface it through to the South Carolina line when you are really *old on the importance of doing just that" Pratt stated that Saluda need ed a first class resort hotel and with ^ right kind of management they could get it Dr. H. N. Snyder, President of Wofford College pointed out the achievements of the section during the past thirty years, and en thuBed over the future possibilities. G. Warden, of Raliegh Joined in the procession and spread hlmselt royally In his attempt to tot-talk and out-boost the other takers. Mr. Warden is a poultry specialist from the State Extension Service. Charles 0. Hearon, who himself a lot of time in Saluda, and 0WDs a near that place, talked of the importance of finishing the Ppalachian Highway through from "endersonviUe to the Carolina line, told of what South Carolina had flone ana was doing in its attempt J ?wal the record of the Old North as a road buildeiv Polk County News Largest and Livest Weekly Paper South of Mason and . 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 yea f." This subscription is paid by this paper as a part of its program to help the agricultural de v e 1 o p - ment of Polk County. Sunday Services at Tryon Churches Congregational Church Of Christ Rev. Joseph L. Dantels, D. D. L. L. D., Pastor Emiritus Rev. Will O'Neill, Minister Church School 10 A. M. Nelson Jackson Jr. Supt. A graded school with classes for all. Morning worship 11 A.M. Y. P. S. C. E 3.P.M. Wednesday The Quiet Hour 4 P. M. Everybody welcome and visitors in the city are especial ly invited to worship with us. episcopal" church 4 Rev. C. P. Burnett, rector Sunday Service: Holy Communion ; 7:30 Sunday School v, 10:00 j Morning Prayer and sermon 11:00 Friday 5 P. M. Litany and in tercessions for the sick. CATHOLIC CHURCH St. John's Church Cor. Melrose Ave and Lanier St. MASS ? Sunday 9 A. M. REV. J. A. MANLEY, Rector. TRYON BAPTIST CHURCH Thomas L. Justice, D. D. Pas tor. Regular services each Sunday 11 A. M. and at 8P. M., Special Music Evening Services Sabbath School at 10 A. M. Public Cordially Invited chards and farms of sections finish ed the day. Mayor Bailey of Saluda acted as host to the assemblage and wore his customary smile. Visitors who came from far away points to enjoy a real old fashion Tar Heel Holiday retuned to their ire homes very mnoh lm South Carolina City To South Of Us An Industrial Leader Located at the top of the Pied mont Plateau within sight of the Blue Ridge mountains, and adranta geously situated where the New York-Atlanta main lines, rail and highway, cross the routes that con-1 nect Charleston and the sea with Asheville and the middle north, Spar tanburg, South Carolina, is one of the fastest growing business and social centers in the south. Including suburbs* Spartanburg has a population of more' than 40, 000. The city is 875 feet above sea-level, possesses a wonderful climate and has an abundance of pure water. Spartanburg is the largest cotton manufacturing, shipping and dis tributing section in the south. It ranks first in the state, second In the south and sixth in the United States in its textile industries. Thirty banking institutions are located in Spartanburg County, with Combined resources of nearly $20, 000, 000 and yearly deposits of more than $12^000,000. Spartanburg has three fist class hotels, and a number of smaller, but well equipped hostler Two large municipal parki with ample playground facilities in eluding swimming pools, tennis courts, dancing pavilions and motor drives, ofTer unusual recreational op portunities. The annual output of the manufac turing enterprises in Spartanburg la valued at more than $30,000^000. Besides cotton Industries, . the city has large lumber and fertilizer plants, planing mills, cotton seed oil mills and ginneries. Spartanburg is one of fifty richest counties agriculturally in the Unltetf States field and farm products be ing valued at $15,000,000 for the year 1923. Spartanburg leads the state in the production of cotton and corn. Spartanburg has commission form of government. Its health record fine protection offered by the police and fire departments, streets utili ties and conveniences of life rank with any city of similar size in the country. Its schools, parks? play grounds, churches, libraries, thea^ tres^ newspapers and moral atmo? phere do not suffer one whit by comparison with any other section. Wide, smoothly paved streets, with a profusion of beautiful shade trees, wonderful residential sections and above all that truly "homelike" at mosphere which one meets on all sides, tend to make Spartanburg an ideal community. Spartanburg is the southern home of Lockwood, Greene and Co., na tionally known engineers and archi tects and the new $5,000,000 Pacific Mills and Bleachery, the largest In the south, and which is but a unit of a gigantic plant which will ulti mately cost $20^000,000, The Southern Railway repair shops at Hayne, in process of erec tion, will cost more than $2,500, 000^ employ from 1,200 to 2^000 skilled workmen andd will have an annual payroll of $2,000^000. Extension of the city water-works system by the erection of a new water supply plant which will cost $1,350^000, is now underway. Con stantly growing, wiih many new fam ilies and industries to serve, the Spartanburg Waterworks Commis* sion has realized that city's present system is inadequate. Wofford College for men and Con verse College for women two well known Institutions of learning, are located in Spartanburg. Other edu cational schools of high order to be found here include Wofford Fitting Schoo^ Textile Industrial Institute and the State School for the Deaf and Blind at Cedar Springs. Famous Blue Ridge summer re sorts are within an hour or two of driving over beautiful roads ? Tryon, Saluda, Kanuga, Brevard, Hender sonville, Pisgah Forest and Chim ney Rock. And a little further on are located Biltmore, Asheville, Mount Mitchell and Black Mountain. Twelve miles south of Spartanburg is Glenn Springs, visited for a cent ury for its health giving waters. Twelve miles east is Cowpens bat tle ground where Morgan defeated the "Bloody" Tarleton. Northwest is King's Mountain where Colonial troops turned the British and sent them on their way toward final sur render at Yorktown. i peal Happenings A party composed of Mrs. Spencer Ball, Mrs. Warner, Mrs. Foster, Misi Beach, Miss Oliver and Miss Pitkins of Tryon, were guests at Kenilworth Inn Asheville, last week. C. S. Ford^ who holds a position with the Asheville County Club, and is recognized as an expert golf play er and authority on the game, spent the week end in Tryon' with friends. Clerk of Cdurt, H. H. Carson, who has been convalescing at the Tryon Hospital since his serious accident a few weeks &goj was atye to leave Mmm had j that an ampution would be neces sary, and his many friends are glad he escaped. Ward Averlll left Monday for Rome, Ga., where he will enter Berry School for three years. Every one wishes Ward the success that if sure to come to him, as he is a good student and very ambitious. Louise Lane who has been visiting relatives in Tryon and Saluda for two months, has returned to her home in Tarboro, N. C. Me teal f of friends a few days last week. She joined her father in Spartanburg and had a very pleasant visit here with him. Mrs. Carl Underwood and daugh ter of Spartanburg, and Mrs. Lewis Underwood and daughter of Lynn, have been visiting Mrs. W. C. Ward this week. F. H. Shipp of Newbern has been employed at Missildine's pharmacy to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Howard Harrison. Mr. Shipp is courteous and accom modating, is a splendid appearing young man, and is falling into line with his new work. /.-W. L ? '? V - ? E. R. McCoy, and advertising sales man of Charlotte, was in Tryon Fri day, a guest of H. A. Shannon. Mrs. Elizabeth P. Williams arrived home Monday after a most enjoy* ble summer vacation spent at her old home with her mother, Mrs. Cor nelia Pue, in Bel Air, Md. From that point Mrs. Williams visited rel atives in Baltimore, New York, and Atlantic City. She was accompan* 1 led home by her children, Pinckney 1 and Cornelia who spent the summer l with their grandmother. Also Miss : Hannah Heyward, an old friend of I Baltimore. i ______ A little girl named Mary Evelyn j came to make her home with Dr. and Mrs. B. B. Bishop, Monday, Sept, ; 1. Mary Evelyn weighed nine pounds, and both mother and little girl are doing nicely. i Mr. and E. H. Sisk and little son Hoke, of GaBtonia, N. C., were the wg^Qtatfl guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. M^Srmick. j Miss Lucy Moore will leave next week for Demorest Ga., where she will attend Piedmont High SchooL . Mrs. C. S. Jex, Mrs. C. Abbott, and Miss Marie Huse of Chicago, motor ed to tryon last week, and were guests of the Misses Uchtmann. Dixon Line CAN YOUBEAT IT? Eight Page Picture Section, Four Pages of Comics, Eight Pages of News. No Increase in Sub scription Price and Southern Planter Free to Every Paid Up Subscriber. - This is the first Issue of the Polk County News isk its new form, and we have every reason to believe that and large clientelle of readers both in and out of Polk County will realise that at last the NEWS has graduat ed from the minor league ranks and blossomed out as a real newspaper covering all of the section in which residents of this community are directly Interested. The first weekly paper in we state to issue an eight page PIC TORIAL SECTION with regularity, the (our page comic has been added because the management believes it will be appreciated by readers young and old. The news features will be increased, and the change in size allows ample room (or corres pondence from all over the county. Editorially the NEWs is Inde pendent. Catering to no political (action, it will at all times, give every public official a square deal regardless of party affiliations. While it won't use a sledge-ham mer to drive tacks it has that usetul tool in storage and it can be dili gently wielded when the occasion demands it Believing that a boost beats a knock every day in the week and Sundays too, the NEWS stands first and (oremost (or the intensive de velopment of Polk County along ag ricultural, industrial, commercial and resort lines. Every worth while attempt to pro mote the better interests of the towns, villages and (arms o( Polk County will receive its hearty sup portaijd Cooperation. Good roads are essential to that development and the NEWS believes that North Carolina cannot go too far in thai direction. Giving its readers twenty pages of live news, feature stories, photo graphs and advertising each week (or |1.50 per year The NEWS must have the solid support ot the busi ness interests o( the county and sec tion. Advertisers expect results and every reader- of the paper car help build the NEWS by telling merchants whe/e they saw their ad vertising. Much money goes out ot Polk County. It's ^ natural to do a cer tain amount o( shopping in the near by cities. Knowing that such is the case, the NEWS is running a shop ping guide (or Spartanburg, Hen dersonville and Asheville. Wher you are in those cities patronize our advertisers and tell them about 1L Such cooperation wllr enable us to give you the best weekly paper south of the Mason-Dixon line, and such a publication will be one of the best advertisements Polk County ever had. Capital seeking new locations in variably seek three essential (actors in a community's growth. Ample banking 'accomodations adequate transportation (acilities, and live publicity channels. Polk County Is well supplied with strong banks, the Southern serves It 1 here Are Smiles That Make U^Wonder a"*v *iaiaJ County aid Promoting CHAS. J. President of sociation to Make The ;o be the biggest nent and Lhe year if the Charles J. Lynch through. After actlre three townships B. L. Ballenger Chamber of special meeting night in order Bociation its support "Anything that helps every one lenger," aq-1 the merce can b in every Fair a take executive to hare a full the meeting. Mr. Sams, Padgett Smith up enthusiasm t townships and it Green's Creek, Mill Spring their own Fairs will send to Mimosa tor ber loth. Basket-ball tests a > fiddlers contest, and many other features will the crowds, while three townships putting on a feed] the cravings of man in Polk expanse. . Nothing will effort to make Trfl biggest and best of Polk County, from Cooper's should attend. TH rier, and Charley been associated i won't be this timet that! Cooperation and I will put the N way and it remain! the other fellow and pnt our shot to make it a he can be done? KIWANIS CI. UBS ] TRY T< Asserting that interest in polit many abuses clesy the Kii making an active ?] out the full yotiBj country at the co "This campaign' Johnson, president all citizens to ezj the entire people of the present lep tage would certail from the radical i "There is no pi campaign, and no ed to carry it on. 1250 Klwanis Cli States will work \ munlties purely ?eloping much ni Hon. Jak^ Newc address Polk Cou the Court House noon September is known to nearly County haying be< to this section brother, Rer. W. well, ?n4 coitni make railways t*j any point easily 1 news will atuj world what Polk-| hopes to do and M yon ar? - er, send i'u yc ere in bmiint goods in Folk! Pie what the adi The pei longs to 1 Citizen. break.
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