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The World's Smallest Daily Newspaper, Seth M. Vining, Editor.
Vol. 15. Est. 1-31-28
TRYON; N, C.,
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9, 1942
CURB REPORTER
Weather Tuesday: Low 33, high
36, rain .20 . . . Sunday is get
ting closer. If you care to en
tertain soldiers Sunday in your
home please makes reservations
with Mrs. F. P. Bacon right |
away . . . LOST: keys in folder. !
Finder please return to Bulletin
office . . . Tryon Boy Scout Troop ;
No 1, will meet Thursday night
at 7 o’clock at the school ....
POSTPONED: The Service Men’s
club party scheduled for Friday
night has been postponed on ac
count of the death of Mayor Mis
sildine .... Mr. and Mrs. Amos
Pritchard of Mill Spring Route
are parents of a daughter
VPn early this morning at St.
Luke’s hospital . . . December 15,
is last day to get Sugar Ration
ing Book . . . Mrs. H. W. Cruse
of “Waelhyll” has gone to spend
the holidays with her son, Donald
Cruse, and his family at Engle
wood, New Jersey . . . Fort Bragg
recruiting and induction station
reports that Miss Margaret Eliza
beth Simms of Tryon has received
orders to report to the Woman’s
Army Auxiliary Corps Training
Center at Daytona Beach, Fla.,
for active duty effective, Dec.
12th . . . County Accountant W.
Y. Wilkins, Jr., states that Janu
ary 1 to 31st is tax listing time
in Polk County. Official dates
and places wiil be announced
later.
Mayor Missildine Passes
Mayor E. E. Missildine of Try
on, died suddenly early this morn
ing: at his home on Godshaw Hill
after a few weeks’ illness.
Funeral services will be held at
the Erskine Memorial Congrega
tional church at 3 p. m., with Dr.
C. Arthur Lincoln, pastor, offi
ciating. (The date had not been
decided at press time pending a
message from relatives.)
The pallbearers will be K. A.
Bowen, C. H. Helms, R. O. An
drews, George A. Cathey, W. C.
Ward and C. W. Ballenger.
Acting Mayor W. S. Green has
requested all stores and business
houses of the community to close
during the time of funeral services.
Ernest Ellwood Missildine was
born June 1, 1873 at Lebanon, Mo.,
the youngest child of Alfred H,
and Anna Stuart Missildine. At
the age of six he moved with
his parents to Charleston, S. C.,
where he received his early edu
cation. He was graduated from
Rollins college in 1895 and came
to Tryon shortly afterwards to
teach school. In 1896 he went in
to partnership with the late Dr.
Earle Grady in the operation of
the pharmacy, but bought him
out two years later and had op
erated the business continuously
until the time of his death.
In January 1940 the South
eastern Drug Journal of Atlanta
honored Dr. Missildine with his
picture on front page and with
an outline of his achievements.
It said, “He is a druggist North
Carolina points to with pride, a
man whose chief interest outside
of his business has been the de
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