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RUTHERFORD COUNTY'S BIGGEST AND BEST NEWSPAPER VOL. VII—No. 37 MRS. B. P. FOSTER PASSES FRIDAY Auto Thieves Arrested In Geor gia—Locals and Personals From County Seat. Rutherfordton, June 23. —Mrs. B. P. Foster, died at her home at Mills Springs on Friday, June 19, after an illness of more than a year having been treated at a Sanatarium in Asheville where everything possible was done to restore health, but with out avail. Mrs. Etta Foster was reared in Rutherfordton, a daughter of the late L. E. Powers and Mrs. Powers. She was married in 1901 to Mr. B. P. Foster, who is with the Blue Ridge Power Company near Mills Springs. She was a devoted mother and wife, a christian since her early girlhood and faithful to the duties of her home and church so long as she was phy sically permitted to attend. She ex pressed her resignation to the will of her Heavenly Father and requested that her body might be brought to Rutherfordton and that her last long sleep might be near the scenes of her happy childhood. The funeral was conducted from the Methodist church Saturday afternoon, her pas tor, Rev. J. 0. Ervin, conducting the service, assisted by Rev. M. A. Adams of the Baptist church. Mrs. Foster is survived by her hus band and four daughters, of Mills Springs. In addition to her husband and children Mrs. Foster is survived by her mother, Mrs. L. E. Powers, three sisters and two brothers as fol lows: Mrs. Kate Webb and Miss Wil lard Powers, Mr. Lewis Powers, of Rutherfordton, Mr. E. A. Powers of Charlotte and Mrs. W. M. Cooper, of New Orleans, the latter was unable to attend the funeral. Relatives from a distance attend ing the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Reese and daughters, of Greer, S. C.; Mr. M. P. Foster and Miss Caro Foster, of Marietta, S. C.; Mrs. J. W. McDaniel, of Henrietta; Mrs. B. B. Butler, of Harris, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Hawkins of Cliffside; Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Hawkins of Cliffside; Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Powers, of Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Biggerstaff, Mrs. Baxter Biggerstaff and Miss Nora Biggerstaff of Bostic. • • ■ Crawford Bradley, Jim Bradley and Fred Patterson were arrested in Gainesville, Ga., and Sheriff Hardin, John Anderson and Howard Yelton left Sunday afternoon, to identify stolen car and goods taken from Mr. Bennett's store on the same night Yelton's car was missed. They brought the boys back and they were given a hearing before the Recorder Tuesday and remanded to jail under bond of SI,OOO each until criminal court in October. Yelton recovered his car which was taken from Wash burn's service station about 11 o'- clock at night. A number of articles of clothing, handkerchiefs, etc., in addition to three hundred pennies with about $15.00 in dimes and nickels and some other change was found in the possession of the boys and corresponded with what Mr. Ben nett had in the store. m m n Miss Gladys Perry, of Mosco, Idaho arrived last week and began her of fice duties on Monday with Mrs. Mc- Brayer, recently resigned as County Home Agent, to assist her for a short while. Miss Perry comes highly recom mended, is an accomplished young woman and well fitted for the work, the advantage of which has been demonstrated, within the past few years, in the improvement shown in various parts of the county—homes made more attractive, housework in its many phases made easier and re sults more satisfactory. Miss Perry has come with a dtesire to make her instruction worth while, not to a few but to every one thru out the county and with your co-op eration this will be accomplished. She will soon have her schedule arranged and published, and this is your invi tation to be present at the meeting nearest your home. Do not wait for your neighbor to call you and remind you, but remember that you are ex pected and do not forget the date. You will learn something for which you will be thankful. The itinerary will be published next week. FOREST CITY COURIER MR. CALDWELL DIES AT HOME IN CHERRYVILLE Mr. Caldwell, father of our towns man, Mr. J. E. Caldwell, died in Cherryville, Thursday, June 18th, with heart failure and infirmities due to old age. He was about seventy five years old. He had been in bad health for some time. Mr. Caldwell was a retired busi ness man. He war buried Friday at Cherryville in the Lutheran cemetery. He was a member of the Baptist church. He leaves a wife and four daugh ters, as follows: Mrs. C. E. McCur ry, Cherryville, Mrs. C. P. White head, Cherryville, Mrs. Max Bridges, SpartanburgMrs. Nelson, Texas; two sons/ Messrs J. B. Caldwell, of Cherryville and J. E. Caldwell, of Forest City. BUSINESS HOUSES TO HAVE HALF HOLIDAY Will Close Thursday Afternoon During Months Of July and August. The business men of Forest City have this week signed an agreement to close their places of business on Thursday afternoon during the months of July and August, the agreement going into effect on Thursday, July 2. The move has been well considered and is in line with other towns and cities in this section. It will give proprietors and clerks alike a short interval for rest and recreation —and cause no incon venience when the public gejts accus tomed to the innovation. The Courier is one of the very few business houses not to sign the agree ment. The nature of the newspaper business forbids closing at this time. Courier employees, however, have al ways had a half-holiday each week, taking Saturday afternoon for the purpose, although-the office is kept open for convenience of friends and customers. Those to sign for closing are as follows:: "We, the undersigned business houses of Forest City, agree to close our places of business at noon on Thursdays each week during months of July and August, 1925 that our employees may have a half holiday. "Peoples Drug Store, Fanners Bank & Trust Co., Forest City Building & Loan Association, C. C. Moore & Co., Forest City Motor Co., Jones Grocery Co., J. C.. Harrill, Flack Hardware Co., The Leader Store, The W. R. Harrill Co., The Fair Store, Courtney's 5 to SI.OO Store, Bern hardt Drug Co., Horn's Cash Store, Harrill's Market, Marks Shoe Shop, P. N. Long, P. D. Harrill, City Bar ber Shop, J. H. Crawfordj H. D. Phillips, National Bank of Forest City, Dr. R. R. Howes, J. W. San ders, T. C. Whisnant & Son, B. B. Doggeit, S. Moss, T. J. Moss, Reuben Mcßrayer, City Pressing Club, Moss Furniture Co., Padgett & King, M. Gordon, F. B. Harrill, Dalton Bros., John Thomas, J. M. Price & Son, Watkin's Grocery, M. H. Hewitt, Far mer's Hdw. Co., A. & W. Motor Co., Efird's Store, W. G. Magness, Cyclone is. /CJion Co., G. B. Harrill, Mrs. A. C. Jones, Dr. F. R. Wilkins, Sinkoe's Dept. Store." MRS. JENNIE JUSTUS DEAD Mrs. Jennie Justus, of Hot Springs, N. C., died there Saturday at 3:20 p. m. The cause of her death was cancer. She is the sister of our fel low townsman, Mr. W. L. Brown. Mrs. Justus leaves eight children. Her husband preceded her to the grave four years ago. She was forty four years of age. The advertisement in this issue calling attention to the removal of the B. Z. McDonald store should have been signed B. Z. McDonald & Son. These gentlemen have recently mov ed their store to new quarters near the Seaboard depot, on national high way and call attention through The Courier to the removal and also to the large line of general merchandise and feed stuff handled by them. Read their ad in another column. PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY A CORRECTION FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE RESIDENCE BURNS AT SANDY MUSH Pretty Home Occupied By Mr. J. E. Ferree Goes Up In Flames. Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed the pretty home occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ferree, at Sandy Mush, Tuesday night. Flames were discovered issuing from the roof by autoists passing along the highway and the alarm given. Mr. and Mrs. Ferree had gone to Bostic and the house was unoccupied. Neighbors hastily gathered and did yeoman work ijn removing | furniture, etc., from the doomed building, but were able to save only a very few things. The Forest City fire department answered a hurry call and were soon on the scene, doing good work in saving nearby buildings. The storeroom of Mr. Ferree and also that of A. V. Hamrick, besides a garage, were threatened with the flames. Good work upon the part of neighbors and the fire department helped by the fortunate circumstances of the wind blowing in a favorable direction, enabled the saving of all surrounding property. Mr. Ferree is a merchant at Sandy Mush, occupying the storeroom and residence nearby, belonging to Mr. Summey Matheny. The latter car ried insurance to the amount of sl,- 000, about one-fourth of the loss. Mr. Ferree carried insurance to the amount of S6OO, consequently suf fering a severe loss on household goods. The origin of the fire is a mys tery, but the surmise is that defec tive wiring caused the ignition of the building. Flames gained rapid' head way and were beyond control when discovered. Mr. and Mrs. Ferree hastened home when learning of the fire, but arrived only to find their pretty home destroyed. FLORENCE MILL NEWS Mrs. Russell Nanney is very ill at this writing. Rev. Hill Riser and Rev. Loss Ep ley have been on the sick list, but are improving now. Mr. McClure Joknson and family visited in Spindale Sunday. The Senior B. T. P. U. *of the Florence Baptist church will give an ice cream supper at the home of Mrs. Myrtle and Miss Nannie Jackson Sat urday night. Mrs. Dock Williams, of Henderson ville, is the house guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. T. Jackson, this week. Mrs. Tim Johnson spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Street. Mr. and Mrs. Loyd! Jackson spent the day very pleasantly at the home of Mr. Adam Street Sunday. Mr. Glen Deck was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Freeman Tues day. The tent meeting is still in prog ress and will continue until Sunday night. Rev. Willard Godfrey, of Spindale, filled the pulpit Monday night. He preached an able sermon. His subject was the second coming of Christ. The death angel visited the home of Mr. Fletcher Hardin last Friday at 2:00 p. m., and claimed as its own his wife, Mrs. Nora Hardin. She was 39 years old and a member of the Baptist church of Caroleen. Mrs. Hardin was a devoted wife and faith ful mother. She leaves a husband and six children; four brothers and a large number of friends to mourn her loss. Funeral services was con ducted Saturday at Pleasant Grove church by Rev. H. C. Sisk. Her body was laid to rest in Pleasant Grove cemetery. POPULAR Y. W. C. A. WORKER Miss Eutha Neighbors arrived here Sunday to join a party of friends en route to Lake Junaluska to attend the Southern Y. W. C. A. Conference being held June 20 to July 4th. Miss Neighbors is a popular Y. W. C. A. worker and its a pleasure to have her numbered with our Spartanburg dele gation.—The Spartanburg Herald. The many friends of Mr. A. H. Mc- Daniel will be pleased to know that he is improving. HARRILL-MICHAEL WEDDING TUESDAY Popular Young Couple Married At Bostic—Leaves Soon For Visit in Mississippi. Bostic, June 17.—A wedding of in terest to a large number of Ruther ford county people occurred last Tuesday morning at 9:00 o'clock, when Miss Margaret Harrill became the bride of Prof. J. G. Michael. The wedding ceremony was held at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Mat tie Harrill, of Bostic. Rev. J. 0. Er vin, pastor of the Rutherfordton Methodist church, performed the ceremony in the presence of a few intimate friends of the popular young couple. Mrs. Michael, the daughter of Mrs. Mattie Harrill, is an attractive young woman of charming personal ity. Prof. Michael has been superinten dent of the Bostic public school for the past five years. Immediately after the wedding ceremony the young couple left for Asheville and after their return from there will be absent for some time visiting relatives in Mississippi. SERVICE STATION OPENS The B. & M. Service Station open ed next to Doggett's garage this week. When the building is fully com pleted, at an early date, Beam & Mc- Murry will have a barber shop, of fice and garage for their U-Drive-lt system. KIWANIS FARMERS NIGHT Quite a number of farmers were guests of the Kiwanis Club Monday night. R. E. Lawrence, County Agent in Cleveland, made an interest ing address. His talk on the storage and curing of sweet potatoes should result in an awakened interest in this matter in our county. STATE LINE NEWS Gaffney, R-9, June 22. —Mrs. Cyn thia Moore, widow of Calvin Moore, died Friday afternoon at five o'clock at her home near State Line. She was seventy-six years of age. Her death was caused by paralysis. For sev eral days her nourishment was tak en through the nose. The interment took place at State Line Baptist church, Saturday eve ning, Rev. Huntley, of Chesnee Bap tist church, conducting the funeral service. A vast number of people paid their last tribute to Mrs. Moore who was a faithful and beloved mem ber of State Line church. Mrs. Moore had been twice wedded. She is survived by the following children of her first marriage: Sam W. Clary, of Gaffney; Mrs. M. M. Green, of Mooresboro, N. C.; and Mrs. G. L. Green, of Gaffney. The surviving children of the second mar riage are: Miss Leia Moore and P. B. Moore, of the State Line commu nity. NEW FILLING STATION NOW UNDER WAY One of Forest City's newest and most promising enterprises will soon be open. Mr. N. J. James is erecting a new $5,000 filling station on King street, that will be one of the most up-to-date stations of its kind in this section. He will handle the Gulf pro ducts exclusively. The building, when completed, will be a large, handsome brick building, with a la dies' rest room, toilets, and other con veniences. Mr. James expects to keep the station open day and night. A general line of automobile accessor ies will also be carried in stock. The building will be completed in about two weeks. Mr. James is contemplating erect ing another station on West Main street, possibly within the next thirty days. This station will also handle Gulf oils, and accessories and will probably remain open at night. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gibson on Friday, June 19th a fine boy, John Carson. Mother and son doing nice ly. READ CAREFULLY Why a man quit using a Ford— He died. B. B. Doggett FIRST COTTON BLOSSOM OF THE YEAR Mr. Lee R. Robbins, of the Sulphur Springs section, was a pleasant call er at this office Tuesday and brought in a cotton blossom, the first that we have seen this year. The blossom was from the farm of his father, Mr. J. M. Robbins, of Sulphur Springs. WESLEYAN MEETING PROVING VERY SUCCESSFUL Revival services at the Wesleyan Methodist church, conducted by Rev. S. I. Keeler, of Central, S. C., are continuing through this week, the third sii?ce the opening of the series. Rev. Keeler has ben very successful, having had a number of professions and additions to the church. CHANGES MADE IN F. C. OIL MILL CO. Annual Stockholders' Meeting Held Friday—Has Bright Future. At the annual meeting of stock holders of the Forest City Oil Mill Co., held Friday of last week, there were some changes made in the per sonnel of officers. A splendid report was made on the firm's business for the year just closed, it appearing that great headway had been made under the capable management of Manager J. H. Parks. The past cotton seed season was a prosperous one, while this summer the plant has done a thriving business in manufacturing ice and handling feed. Increased fa cilities will be added to properly care for the next cotton seed season. At the meeting Friday, Mr. J. L. Butler resigned as president, and Mr. J. W. Matheny was elected president and manager. This appointment is a good one, for Mr. Matheny is most excellently equipped in experience and judgment for his new duties. The company looks forward to wonderful strides under his capable manage ment. Mr. C. M. Holland was elected vice president, who with Mr. Matheny and Messrs J. W. Smith, W. T. Brown, W. C. Fairey and J. E. Lipscomb, compose the board of directors. BELL GETS PERMISSION TO ABSORB RUTHERFORD LINE Washington, June 18.—The inter state commerce commission has an nounced its approval of the purchase of the Rutherford County Telephone company by the Piedmont Telephone and Telegraph company, on the ground that it will "be of advantage to the persons to whom service is to be rendered in the public interests." The Piedmont is part of the Bell system. The Rutherford owns and op erates exchanges at Rutherford, For est City, Caroleen and Henrietta. The Piedmont pays $20,000 for the Ruth erford. The Rutherford Company was tak en over by a holding company, com posed of Messrs. K. S. Tanner, B. B. Doggett and J. H. Thomas sometime ago, with the intention of consolidat ing it with some larger company. Ow ing to the large 1 of "red tape" the transaction has been held up. The Bell Company will absorb the local company July Ist. BURN PAPA'S HAT The stork, in winging his passage over Forest City last Thursday paid a visit to the home of Mr. W. L. Brown, "Weinie," as the Kiwanians affectionately call him and left a bouncing, healthy eight-pound boy. Coming down to the B. & L. office the next morning, Mr. Brown let his friends know of the happy event. After congratulations, the crowd decided to celebrate the event, so struck upon the idea of burning pa pa's hat, which was done on the pub lic square amid much merriment. The youngster has been named Tom. That he may be a "chip off the old block" is the wish of many friends. THINKS COURIER WONDERFUL In writing from Itom, N. C., Mrs. Minor Chatman says, in renewing her subscription: "I trust that I will re ceive my paper regularly, as I think The Courier the most wonderful county paper I have ever taken." 72 COLUMNS $1.50 Per Year in Advance POPULAR COUPLE WED AT CLIFFSL * Miss Ruth Davis Becomes Bride of Mr. W. T. Bradford. Other News. (Special to The Courier) Cliffside, 'June 24.—Miss Ruth Davis and Mr. William Thomas "Brad ford were wedded at seven o'clock Tuesday evening at Suitsus Cottage. Dr. J. M. Garrison, pastor of the As sociate Reformed Presbyterian church, Kings Mountain, N. C., of ficiated. Miss Ruth Edwards, of Rutherfordton, played the wedding music. Just preceding the ceremony Miss Edwards played Humoresque. To the strains of Lohengrin's wed ding march the bride and groom en-» tered the living room and took their vows before a beautifully improvised altar of ferns, lighted tapers and lovely tulle bows, interspersed with Queen Anne Lace. During the -cere mony "To a Wild Rose" was played softly. * The bride was more attractive than usual in an ensemble suit of crepe faille combined with green and gold, with hat to match. She carried an arm bouquet of bride roses and val ley lillies. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Lillie I. Davis and the late Rev. J. P. Davis of Lincolnton. Through her charming personality she has won many friends in this section of the state. Mr. Bradford is a promising young man, formerly of Kihgs Moun tain, but at present connected with Cliffside Mills. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Bradford left for a trip to the western part of the state. On their return they will make their home at Cliffside. • m * Honoring Bride-Elecf A lovely party was given at SuitsuS Cottage Monday evening in honor of Miss Ruth Davis and Mr. Thomas Bradford whose marriage took place on Tuesday evening. Mrs. R. C. Hinkle and Miss Una Edwards re ceived the guests. Miss Margaret Chesser presided over the bride's reg-- ister. As soon as the guests had as sembled an interesting musical con test was held in which Dr. H. L. Rob ertson was the winner, receiving a lovely box of candy which he pre sented to the bride-to-be. Mr. C. L. Hamrick cut the booby. Next the guests were given a stick of chewing: gum and were asked to mould an an!- mal from it. Mr. A. T. Humphries captured this prize, having made a seal which needed only a breath of life to make it real. The guests then • followed the bride and groom-elect ♦ into the dining room and each one was asked to draw a ribbon from the. cake to which was tied a favor. After cutting of the wedding cake, ice • cream and salted nuts were served. * • • t Dr. C. H. Trowbridge, president ' of Weaver College, spoke at the Methodist church Sunday in the ab- ; sence of the pastor, Rev. M. W. Heckard. * Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wells, of * Spindale, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Shuford. Mr. Broadus Wilson, who spent the winter at St. Petersburg, Fla., has returned to Cliffside for the summer. Miss Alma Freeman of Mt. Ver non is visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. B. Wilson. Miss Margaret Chesser, Milliner the past season for Cliffside Mills Store, left Wednesday for her home at Eastern Shore, Va. BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS First Baptist church —William A. Ayers, pastor. Preaching by the pastor 11:00 a. m., and *8:00 p. m. Sunday School 9:45 a. m., Chas. Flack, Supt. The pastor's morning subject will be "The Blessing Missed By the Ab sentee." Evening subject, "Believing, Yet Not Confessing Christ." Special music has been arranged by Miss Goggans with a large choir par ticipated in by many of the ydunfj people. Mid-Week service Wednesday night, 8:00 o'clock. The services are short. . The church building has been made com fortable with fans. Public cordially invited. 12 Pages
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