THE THTOH DAM BlILMI
The World's Smallest daily Newspaper.Seth M. Vining, Editor
Vol. 25—No. 289 TRYON, N. C. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2. 19Ki>
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POSTOFFICE
1879
Weather Monday: High 46, low I
21, Rel. Hum. 44 . . . It’s raining
rain now. All over this section
filling reservoirs . . . General
Eisenhower has completed his cab- j
inet. Sinclair Weeks of Boston,
will be Secretary of Commerce
and Martin P. Durkin of Chicago,
a labor leader who voted for
Stevenson, has been named Sec
retary of Labor . . . Adolfo Ruiz
Continues was inaugurated presi
dent of Mexico Monday . . . Cor
rection: The Landrum General In
surance Agency is opening TODAY
instead of day mentioned in Mon
«’s Bulletin . . . Orlando, form
Italian leader, last of the Big
r with Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd
George, Clemenceau, died Monday.
.... The United Nations adopted
India’s plan to end Korean War !
by vote of 53 to 5 . . . President j
John McGuinn of the Lions Club
stated that Miss Irene Paulus, j
Tryon and Polk County winner
of the Voice of Democracy contest
will speak today, Tuesday, Dec
ember 2nd, at 1:45 over Radio
Station WBBO, Forest City. She
will be introduced by Mr. Mc
Guinn.
Miss Eleanor Reppert of Tryon
is a patient at St. Luke’s Hos
pital. Patients discharged include
Mrs. Azalee Solesbee of Landrum.
Former Landrum Men To
Be Honored By Furman
The Rev. Archie Ellis, president
of the North Carolina State Bap
tist Convention, pastor of the
Salisbury First! Baptist Church
and formerly pastor of the Land
rum First Baptist Church (his
first church), will be given the
honorary degree of doctor of divin
ity at the spring commencement
of Furman University, his alma
mater. The degree of L.L.D. will
also be awarded to Mark F. Haw
thorne, superintendent of the An
derson, S. C., city schools and
formerly superintendent of the
Landrum public schools. Mr. Haw
thorne was at Landrum several
years, was a leader in church and
civic affairs. Since leaving Land
rum he has served as Rotary
District -Governor, trustee of Coker
College and leader in other edu
cational affairs.
WIT T IAM HANNON
William Henry Hannon, 62, died
Tuesday morning at 4 o’clock, fol
lowing a stroke at his home Sun
day. Ud until that time he had been
in good health.
Funeral services will be announc
ed by Woodward Funeral Home
of Soartanburg. The date is de
pending upon the arrival of a son,
Herbert Lee Hannon, at Officers
Candidate School, San Antonio,
Texas.
The deceased is survived bv his
widow, the former Mable Black,
and 10 children as follows: William
Marion Hannon, LaGuardia Air
port, New York; Miss Marvelle,
teacher at Sanford, N. C.; Noble
Hannon, teacher at Wilkesboro;
Mrs. Aurelia Perry, Tryon; Mrs.
Eli§ha (Mable) Camp, Tryon; Ed
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