Newspapers / Forest City Courier (Forest … / Aug. 13, 1925, edition 1 / Page 3
Part of Forest City Courier (Forest City, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
WILLARD ♦Battery Service pjaik wSmmM&h Every battery requires differ ent handling and slightly dif ferent charging. You want the most and the best battery serv ice ; therefore see that the RE CHARGING is properly done by one who understands all types. We do. We have a new eight-hour bat tery charger. It's the only one in town. We are prepared to do GENERAL REPAIRS In addition to Battery Work. GIVE US A TRIAL We handle GAS, OIL AND ACCESSORIES Forest City Battery Service «*» King Street, Phone 1-6-3 FOREST CITY, N. C. X COURTNEY & HIGHTOWER ♦ J Funeral Directors and Em- £ ♦ balmers. t ♦ + East Avondale, N. C. £ Located in Wells Bros. Store. + ♦ t ♦ All Calls Responded to % Promptly—Day or Night. ♦ ♦ £ Hearse Service Rendered ♦ Promptlv. ■ "5 £ DR. G. L. HOLLAR t £ Rectal Specialist and Genito-Urirsary Diseases PiU;s treated and cured with ■» out pain, knife, chloroform, or & * loss of time. £ £ Treated With Electric • ♦ ♦ Need'e. ▼ «J | ~▼ T 1 1 riiCkcry every Vv edno3clay, * day and Sunday. J ♦ 10-tf ♦ Thursday, Friday, Salur- % * HICKORY, N. C. | msr TH* •1 - . w. .-L-J:-. -r-!i —' - O . i M , m •j/Sf -j wl Cc.&i£|J f i am Suffered f "My back and head p'.. 1 ache, and I had to go to bed," £$ says Mrs. W. L. Ennis, of Worthville, Ky. "I just could tdp not stay up, for I would cramp and suffer so. I was very Jjva nervous. My children would raj 'get on my nerves.' It wasn't mk JjgJ a pleasure for me to try to go ggj anywhere, I felt so bad. "My mother had taken (Z2 J CARDUI I For Female Troubles j| at one time, so she insisted 8»j jffif that I try it. I took four bot- jV5£ ties of Cardul, and if one fZg should see me now they * yYi wouldn't think I had ever \4L been sick. Ku "I have gained twenty £s9 ra pounds, and my cheeks are «RJ % rosy. I feel just fine. lam regular and haven't the pain. ftfin "Life is a pleasure. I can vjk S do my work with ease. I jra give Cardul the praise." Cardui has relieved many Sfifl vZk thousands of caseß of pain and rag By female trouble, and should ggj Take Cardui. yjk At All Druggists' WA REAL ROMANCE IN STORY OF HOW RUTHERFORD COUNTY GOT MAGNIFICENT HOSPITAL Rutherfordton, N. C., Aug. 3.—Dr. and Mrs. Henry Norris, owners of the Rutherford hospital, have given the institution, including the build ings and equipment, their magnificent home and 200 acres of fine farm and park land, in the edge of this city, to Rutherford county to be used for hospital purposes in perpetuity. In cluded in the gift is the SIOO,OOO supply of radium, presented to the hospital some years ago by J. C. Plonk, capitalist of Hickory, this state. Dr. Norris is not retiring from the practice of medicine and sur gery, and hopes to continue with the hospital for a good many years to come, but it has been the purpose of himself and Mrs. Norris for some years to present the hospital to the county at their death, and they final ly decided to do so while still living, so there might be no doubt about it. The deeds have been signed and re corded and the property formally transferred. Dr. and Mrs. Norris will continue to reside on the hospital grounds, but they no longer own the hospital nor the surrounding prop erty. The story of the gift, and the causes leading up to it, reads like a romance. There has never been any thing like it, so far as anybody here knows. Life Of Service Dr. Norris is a native of Phila delphia, and comes of a family of noted physicians and surgeons. His father and several of his uncles were eminent in their profession, and he inherited all their talents and love of a life of service. After he gradu ated from medical college his talents were quickly recognized, and he was made an instructor in surgery in one of the leading Philadelphia medical colleges, with the assurance of a full professorship later on. Mrs. Norris, before her marriage, was Miss Edith Wheeler. She belonged to a wealthy and socially prominent Pennsylvania family. After her graduation from Bryan Mawr, instead of taking up so ciety, she decided to become a nurse and entered one of the nurses' train ing schools and in due time received her diploma. Soon afterward she met young Dr. Norris and they fell in love and were married. Dr. Norris did not like teaching, nor did he like city life. He had a brilliant prospect, and success was already assured him, but it was not attractive. For one thing he did not like teaching. He was not satisfied. Suaresr.e Occision About this time he and Mrs. Norris paid a visit to the home of the late Frank Coxe, in his clay a leading citizen of Rutherford county. They were charmed with the climate a:id the people, and were loath to return to their home. One day .Or. Norris said to hi? wife, "Let's settle here and open a hospital and spend our lives right here." She liked the idea and the decision was quickly made. Their friends and relatives in Philadelphia were astounded. They could noc underhand why the young phvsician and his gifted w. .e, blessed in every way and with a successful carat; r assured, would want to give :t all up and bury themselves in a lit tle mountain town in Norcfc. Carolin .. Their persuasions were unavailing, however. Not only did Dr. Nir ris persist in his plans, but he in duced bis brother-in-law, Dr. M. H. Biggs, to come with him. This was twenty years ago. Dr. and Mrs. Nor ris and Dr. and Mrs. Biggs came to Rutherford, bought an old school building and remodeled it, and have been here ever since. The old school building has been torn away and new buildings, including a model nurses' home, have been built, and the Ruth erford hospital today is recognized as one of the best, if not the best, in the South. The buildings and grounds and equipment are worth from $250,- 000 to $500,000. And it has all been given to Rutherford county. Hard Sledding It was hard sledding at first and the hospital lost money for sev eral years. But gradually the people got to know and understand Dr. Nor ris and his associates, and they got to know and understand the people, and mutual confidence and love de veloped. It was not long until the people of Rutherfordton and sur rounding country came to realize that in Drs. Norris and Biggs they had two of the most skilled surgeons in the South, and not only skilled sur geons but great men both in heart and intellect and very fine all-round citizenship. They had come to Ruth erfordton to live and be of and among the people and to be of serv ice. The fame of the hospital and its work began to grow and its suc cess was assured. For a good many years now Dr. Norris and his associ ates have had all the work they could do, patients coming from all the sur rounding country. Worthy Helpmeet. Much of the success of the hos pital has been due to Mrs. Norris who has worked as hard and faith fully as her gifted husband and brother-in-law. Born to wealth and social prominence, she has devoted most of her life to hospital work, serving as nurse and doing any kind of work to keep the hospital running smoothly and to comfort and care for patients who were housed there. Her comfortable and tastily furnished home, hard by the hospital building, has been run smoothly at all times, and she has reared four splendid chil dren, but her chief interest , has been in the hospital and its care. She has been an ideal helpmeet for her hus band. Supply Of Radium. Some years ago Mrs. J. C. Plonk, wife of a cotton manufacturer at Hickory, was a sufferer from can cer and was treated in the Ruther ford hospital. After her death Mr. Plonk called on Dr. Norris one* day and said, "Doctor, you are doing a great work here, but your hospital would be better equipped if you had a supply of radium. I have been making some inquiries as to the cost of it, and here is a check for SIOO,- 000. I think this will fit you up, but if it doesn't let me know and I will provide some more money." The radium was installed as quickly as possible, and the Rutherford hospital now has a larger supply of radium than any other hospital in the south. There is no way of computing the good that it has done, and will do. And it was this gift of radium that put Dr. and Mrs. Norris to thinking about the operation of the hospital after they had passed away. "The radium was given to me outright," said Dr. Norris to this correspondent yesterday, "but I know that Mr. Plonkjntended that it should be used for the public good. I got to thinking about what might happen if Mrs. Norris and myself should die without making a will or otherwise disposing of it. In such an event, I saw my administrators or executors would have to sell the hos pital and the radium and divide the proceeds among our heirs, and we did not want this done. The radium was ours in trust, and we felt that we had to safeguard the future use of it. So we discussed various plans and finally hit upon cne which seemed best, iind we have put it into execu tion. And that is all there is to it." Deeded to County. Dr. and Mrs. Norris have deeded the hospital buildings and equip ment and the grounds to the Phil adelphia Trust Company, which wili hoid the property as trustee. A board of trustees has been named, which will be self-perpetuating, and the hos pital will be operated by a staff, as at present, the staff to also be sel perpetuating. The hospital will al ways be operated as at present, charging those who are able to pay for their care and treatment, Lui no person of Rutherford county will ever be turned away for lack of funds. This has been Dr. Morris' policy ever since he opened the hos pital. For the last twenty years he has eared for an average of five char ity patients every day. He ha> been forced, of course, to limit charity pa tients to residents of Rutherford county, since he could not, of course, care for all the charity cases of the state of North Carolina. Plan Endowment. Not only have Dr. and Mrs. Nor ris given this magnificent hospital and equipment to Rutherford county, but they are planning an endowment fund which will insure its perpetuity and also insure a staff of the best men in the medical and surgical pro fessions. Dr. Norris has already had the promise of several gifts for this purpose, one of which at least will be quite substantial. This trust com pany in Philadelphia will receive and hold all gifts of this kind, and Dr. Norris is confident that in the course of time there will be here a much larger hospital than at present, with an endowment sufficient to provide for all needs. "In order to do the best work we must have the best of equipment and the best of men in charge," he said, "and in order to have these we must have money. I am not sure the hospital will ever make enough money to provide the salaries we must offer in order to get the most skilled men, so it seems to me that an endowment will be necessary, and I am planning for this now." Radium in Trust. The radium given by Mr. Plonk will be handled in a somewhat dif ferent way. Dr. Norris has made a THE FOREST CITY COURIER deed of trust of it to the Union Na tional Bank of Charlotte, with the proviso that if the Rutherford hos pital should ever be abandoned, or be used for other than hospital pur poses, the radium is to be given to some other meritorious hospital in North Carolina, to be selected by the directors of the Charlotte bank, and held and used for the public good. The radium is not used for charity work exclusively. Those who are able to pay for its benefits are expected to do so, but no patient has ever been denied the use of it because of lack of money, and the continuance of this policy is provided for in the deed of trust to the bank. It is worth a great deal to this section of the south to have such an ample supply of radium so close at hand, and to be within the reach of the poorest and neediest, as well as the wealthy and the well to-do. The life of radium is estimat ed at 170 years, and Dr. Norris and Mr. Plonk have assured the people of this section an ample supply of radium for more than a century and a half. As stated, Dr. and Mrs. Norris are not ready to retire, and they have no notion of doing so in the near future. They are still in the prime of life. Dr. Norris celebrated his 50th birthday only a few weeks ago, and he looks younger. He is as full of life and vivacity as when he first came to Rutherfordton twenty years ago. He is kept busy at the hospital, and in answering profession al calls to neighboring cities and towns, and finds time for many other interests. He is an active member of the North Carolina State Medical So ciety and rarely misses a meeting. He has been an active member of the North Carolina National Guard, and organized and commanded a field hos pital unit on the Mexican border. A little later he was one of the early volunteers for the world war, and veterans of the Thirtieth division will remember him with affection as ranking medical officer of that fa mous organization at Camp Sevier and during the campaign in France. "Mr. Plonk's gift of the radium to us made it obligatory that we pass it on for the public good," said Dr. Norris, "and when we got to thinking about this we decided to include the hospital and the equip ment as well. The people of Ruther ford county have been good to us. We have learned to love them; there are no better people on earth. We have tried to serve them, and we want the hospital to keep on serving them after we are gone. We have tried to provide for this in the deed of trust that we have made. We owe it to them, for they have helped us make the hospital what it is. It is quite as much theirs as ours. We will have enough for our children when we leave them, and our sense of duty has directed us to dispose of the hospital and the radium as we have." To Be 1 Hens. As stated, D v . and Mrs! Norris have no thought of leaving Ruth erfordton now or in the near fu ture. They plan to go or. living and working here, with occasional and perhaps more frequent vacations as j the years go by, but Rutherfordton and the hospital will always be their home and their interests will be here Q.S long as they live. They are sur rounded with efficient and zealous help. One of the leading Philadel phia medical college sends every year one. of its brightest graduates who wants to do postgraduate work, th" college giving full credit for work done under Dr. Norris the same as if the v. ork were done in the Philadel phia hospital. This indicates Dr. I Norristanding in his profession. Dr. Norri;' brother-in-law is actively as sociated in the work of the hospital, though having no proprietary interest in it. He, too, will continue his work l^re; in fact, there will be no change in the hospital or its manage ment now that the deed of trust has gone into effect. People Pleased. The people of Rutherfordton have just learned of the magnifi cent gift of Dr. and Mrs. Norris. They are amazed by it, but a good many of them are not much sur prised. "It is just like Dr. Norris," said a leading citizen today. "He is one of the finest men in the world, and one of the biggest hearted. I have never known him to refuse any request for help, or to do a small thing of any kind. The doctors say he Is the greatest surgeon they have ever known, and Rutherford county regards him as her greatest citizen. He was not very well liked at first, but that was before people got to know him, but now if a stranger wants to put himself in danger in Ruth erford county just let him say something against Dr. Norris. That would bring on a fight quicker than anything that I know of." Dr. Norris has been offered flat tering inducements to go to other Still in Prime of Life. For Public Good. | cities since he has won fame in his profession. One city offered to erect and equip a modern hos pital for him, but he declined the offer with thanks. He said simply that he had all the work that he could do at Rutherfordton, that he liked to live there, and saw no reason why he should move. But while he refused to move to a larg er town, people from larger towns have been coming to him in increas ing numbers each year. Like the Mayo brothers, famous surgeons of Minnesota, he has carved out a big career in a small place, and has dem onstrated that a man may be a big man, no matter where he lives. He is the biggest man in his profession in North Carolina at any rate and he is at the same time one of the sim plest and most easily approached. He is utterly without affectation or pre tense, intensely interested in every thing and everybody around him, giv ing freely of his time and talents and means to any worthy individual or cause, and enjoying iife hugely as he goes along. Achieve Happiness. "We have not made as much money here as we would have made if he had stayed in Philadel phia," he said, "'but we have been happier and we have done more good here than we could have done there. We were needed here, and there were many others in Phil adelphia who were ready to do the work we were doing. Here we have lived in the open, and we have not had to work so hard we could not en joy ourselves as we went along. Our friends said we were making a mis take in coming here, but we do not thing so. At any rate, we would not swap places with anybody in Phila delphia. We have lots of friends, we have been provided with all the mo ney we needed in order to do our work and provide for our simple wants, and what more could anybody ask?" That is his creed. No wonder his neighbors love him and that he and his family are happy. TRUSTEES SALE OF LAND Under and by virtue of the power j of sale contained in a certain deed of trust made and executed by A. F. Morrow and wife, Fannie Morrow, December 15, 1923, and recorded in Book W-14 at page 97 In the office of the Register of Deeds for Ruther ford County, N. C., and default hav ing been made in the payments of the indebtedness thereby secured and de mand having been made by the un dersigned upon the owners of said in debtedness, the undersigned trustee will on Saturday, the 15th day of September, 1925, offer, within the legal hours of sale in front of Ea Watkins' Grocery Store on the Pub lic Square in Forest City, N. C., for sale to the last and highest bidder or cash the following described parcel •»:* lot of land to wit: Lying and being in the town o~ Forest City, N. C., adjoining the 1 of Joe P. Hardin and other.; ai bounded as follows: Beginning on ■. stake on the West side ox Hill street, corner, of Lot Xo. 49 of the W. . Haynes sub-division and runs v.v' line of said lot South T'> 1-2, We 148 feet to a stake in Joe P. Hard in's line; thence with his line Nortl j 27, West 105 feet to a stake; thence i North 7G 1-2, East 100 feet to a stake; thence South IS. Eart 105 ' t to the beginning. Containing 1 house and lot. V. T. Davis, Trustee. This, the 10th day of August, 1925. A 1 A+ Kf READ CAREFULLY Why a man quit using a Fr :'d — I He died. B. B. Bcggett SAVE MONEY BY Buying Coal Now! Coal prices are sure to advance. Why not make a big saving by letting us put in your winter supply now? FINEST DOMESTIC COAL AT SUMMER PRICES. PHONE US NOW. FARMERS HARDWARE CO. Forest City, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1925 DRIVER GOT THE WORST A taxicab driver recently got the worst of a wordy bout. An old man with a .wheelbarrow wouldn't get out of the way, and the taxicab man shouted: "You ought to be wheeling a baby buggy." "And you ought to be in it," re plied the old man.—Edinburgh Scots man. NEW IDEA IN SEATING AR RANGEMENTS Every seat in the grandstand and bleachers was filled. No seats were obtainable after 9:30 o'clock in the morning. Hundreds of persons were turned down for seats.—The Pueblo Star-Jourr al. Going to build? Get your lime and cement from Flack Hardware Co., Forest City. 43-4t Dr. DAVID M. MORRISON OPTOMETRIST EYE SPECIALIST Forest .City, Tuesday and Friday. In office of Dr. Wilkins. Eyes ex amined, Glasses fitted and optical re pairs. TELEPHONE 73 35-tf Dr. RALPH R7I HOWES Dentist New Poole Building Telephone 15fi FOREST CITY, N. C. DR. C. S. McCALL Dentist New X-ftay Lady Assistant Office Over Farmers Bank DR. FRANK R. "WILKINS Dentist Next to P. 0., Forest City, N. C. Over Dalton Bros Store £ A Sweet Breath Sw I at M times J I I ||||| 1 /PI i;' After ?atir.£ or sacking 1 :> ! and" sv,-eetens the I vs th. Nerves ixrc socihcd. threat ?» y") refrc: ked. atwl t-tt bided. ' : - £» So casv to carry tfie little packed , Si: ' . |"J Cv/ 5 4 S 'V ' v- Wi*: 1* |j, -gj?ter etery TitscZf,s \ 1 Money bock without quest;o:i ~ \| if HUNT'S GUARANIKED 1 SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES /lu J p//(Hunt's Saive and Soap), fail in C 1 A t * le treatment of Itch, Eczema, £/j Ringworra.Tetteror other itch ing skin diseases. Try this treatment at our riek> REINHARDT DRUG CO.
Forest City Courier (Forest City, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 13, 1925, edition 1
3
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75