Unusual hot and dry weather has damaged most all crops except cotton, which is doing fine.
A Mr. Eastburn of Iowa has visited his place here which he has recently purchased. This is a part of the R.C. Jackson place.
North Carolina has furnished all other states with settlers. Now the tide has changed and they are all coming back to the best old state in the Union.
Mr. Valley of Hendersonville was in this section a few days ago looking after his timber interests.
It is reported that the woods are full of ginseng and other herb hunters, Pea Ridge and Henderson County and even South Carolina are represented, I’m informed. One man says he knows five different parties, and it is likely he will get some payback in the shape of witness fees for the herbs stolen off his place.
C.C. Jones and family motored to Hendersonville Saturday.
Earl Head is nearing the completion of a new stone dwelling on his place. It is 36 by 24, two stories high and stone taken from a quarry of fine rock on his place.
The timely efforts of Jesse Case saved Mr. Scott’s sawmill and lumber from being burned Saturday.
Dock Pace has added goats to (his) stock and timber farm, we hear.
From page 4 of the Polk County News, Tryon, N.C., Thursday, August 21, 1924
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