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The World's Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor.
Vol. 15. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1942
HILTON—MOORE
Miss Margaret Louise Moore,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Moore of Tryon, became the bride
First Lieutenant Thomas L.
^Hilton, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
T. L. Hilton of Greenville, S. C.,
in a ceremony Tuesday evening,
September. 1st, at 8:30 o’clock
-at the Post Chapel, Ellington
Field, Texas.
Chaplain Johnson officiated.
The bride wore a suit of aqua
marine with brown accessories.
Her flowers were a corsage of
orchids.
The bride’s only attendant was
Miss Jessie Byers of Wilmington
and Tryon, who was dressed in a
suit of dusty nose with brown ac
cessories. The bridegroom had as
his best man, Lieutenant H. L.
Loe-an.
The couple left immediately af
ter the ceremony for a wedding
trip to Mexico, after which they
will make their home in Houston,
..JsSexas.
Dr. Bomar, Saluda Supply
Dr. E. E. Bomar of Landrum
who supplied the Campobello, S.
C., Baptist church for seven fruit
ful months ending first Sunday
in August, is now engaged in
supplying the Saluda Baptist
church until a resident minister is
secured. Dr. Bomar has announc
ed as his topic for next Sunday
morning, “The New Birth.”
Tryon Post Office starts closing
Saturday afternoons this week. It
will close Monday for Labor Day.
Get your stamps Saturday morn
ing or wait until Tuesday.
REV. D. J. PARTEE
Rev. Daniel J. Partee, promi
nent Tryon colored citizen, district
official of the Negro Masonic
Grand Lodge of North Carolina
and an ordained minister of the
Baptist church, passed away Wed
nesday morning about 11:15 at
St. Luke’s hosptial after an ill
ness of about two weeks. He had
been in declining health for sev
eral months. Partee was a native
of Hendersonville but had made
his home in Tryon for over 20
years. He conducted a public
transfer service, and was janitor
for Jackson & Jackson and worked
for Blue Ridge Weavers for the
past 15 years. During part of
that time he carried the mail for
the government between the post
office and railroad station. One of
his former employers said: “A
j faithful and trusted servant has
passed on.”
Partee is survived by his wife,
Alberta Partee, and five children:
Bertha, Lillie, Howard, Boyce, all
out-of-the-state, and Waiter of
Tryon. Bertha, who lives in
Chicago will arrive home Satur
day.
Funeral services for the deceas
ed will be held in Hendersonville
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 at the
Star Bethel Baptist church. The
body will, remain in Tryon at the
McFarland Funeral Home until
Saturday afternoon.
Miss Clara Edwards, who has
been in St. Luke’s hospital for
treatment of wounds received in
> a fall from a horse last week,
I has recovered sufficiently to leave
the hospital.