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VOL. XII— No. 2.
HON. A. J. MAXWELL
WILL BE COUNTY
CLUB SPEAKER
October Meeting Will be Held
a t Henrietta —Commission-
er of Revenue, of Raleigh
Will Address Meeting
Spindale, Oct. 14.—Hon. A. J.
Maxwell, Commissioner of Revenue,
of Raleigh, and former chairman of
the State Corporation Commission,
will be the speaker at the October
'meeting of the Rutherford County
Club, which will be held in the Com
munity House, at Henrietta, next
Friday, beginning at one 'oclock.
Mr. Maxwell is recognized as one of
the outstanding men in the state,
as an executive, and also as a speak
er. He will have a vital message for
all members of the Club. His long
period of public office in North
Carolina has kept him in close touch
with the affairs of the state, and he
is well qualified to speak-on any
subject regarding North Carolina
from first hand information and ex
perience.
All members of the Club are urg
ed to be prlsent. Anyone who wish
es to attend this luncheon, who is
not a member of the Club, will be
welcomed. However, non-members
should notify the secretary, Clar
ence Griffin, so that reservations
for plates may be made.
MISSBEATRICE
HAWKINS BRIDE
OF MR. B. VICK
Prominent Young Couple Wed
ded in Haynes Memorial
Baptist Church at Avon
dale Sunday.
Avondale, Oct. 14. —A simple but
beautiful and impressive wedding
was solemnized at the Haynes Mem
orial Baptist Church, of Avondale,
last Sunday morning at eleven
o'clock when Miss Beatrice Haw
kins became the bride of Mr. Bing
ham Vick. Just at the close of the
Sunday school the bridal party ar
rived. First to enter the church were
the musicians, Messrs. Howard Haw
kins, brother of the bride, and Mr.
B. E. Roach, both of Cliffside. Mr.
Hawkins sang "Just For You"
accompanied b t y Mr. Roach. Then
as the strains of Lohengrin's "Wed
ding March began Rev. A. T.
Stoudenmire, pastor of the Haynes
Memorial Baptist church entered.
He was followed by Miss Ruby Smith
of Avondale, maid of honor on the
arm of Mr. Albert Cobb, of Char
lotte, who was best man. Then the
bride and groom entered together
taking their place before a beauti
ful altar of gold and green. Golden
rod in beautiful baskets tied with
gold and rainbow tulle and trailing
ivy forming a beautiful background.
The ring ceremony was used and
during the ceremony Mr. Roach
played "To a Wild Rose," by Mc-
Dowell. The wedding march by Men
delssohn was used for the recession
al.
After the ceremony the bridal
party went to the home of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S.
Hawkins where a bountiful repast
was served.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Hawkins, of Avon
dale, and graduated from Cliffside
High school and then .taking a
business course after the completion
of which she held a position in Char
lotte where the romance began af
ter meeting Mr. Vick who is a splen
did young business man of Atlanta,
Ga., where they will make their home
after the bridal tour.
I here were several out of town
guests present for the wedding.
We have heiped the farmers for
- years by handling more country
produce than any store in the coun
ty. Horn's.
FOREST CITY COURIER
FOREST CITY—"ONE OF THE TEN BEST PL £ AND MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIJBS IN THE U. S. A." U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SURVEY.
To Address County LiiF rriday
HON A. J. MAXWELL.
Saturday Biggest Trade Day
In History of Forest City
City Visited By Thousands
Who Came From Every
Section of Rutherford
and Adjoining
Counties.
Last Saturday was a red letter
day in the history of Forest City,
the streets being thronged with the
largest crowd ever gathered in the
Rutherford county metropolis. "Un
cle Johnny" Long, oldest inhabitant,
and many others are agreed # that
Forest City had its largest crowd
Saturday; and there was no special
event to attract the visitors. They
came for many reasons, most not
able of which is Forest City's reputa
tion of being a good place in which
to trade, the excellent parking facil
ities, the central location and other
reasons too numerous to mention. It
might also be well to add here that
our merchants deserve much credit
for bringing visitors to the city by
their reasonable charges, large stocks
and their up-to-date methods of
advertising. They have the goods and
don't hesitate to "tell the world"
what they have and at what price.
It is by their generous support of
the home town newspaper and other
advertising media that they attract
the visitors.
There is no way to give an accu
rate statement of the exact number
of visitors in Forest City Saturday.
The idea can best be gathered from
the official statement of the new
Piggly Wiggly management that the
number of registered visitors in their
store was exactly 6,797. The prize
winners and other information is
given in their ad in today's Courier.
Horn's Cash Store, one of the
city's Oldest and largest establish
ments, had the biggest cash trade in
the thirty-two years of their exis
tence. No big sale, no prizes, no
particular effort —just a normal
trade day with them. This is given
because it is a record. In fact, every
merchant reported a big day and our
two excellent theatres both report
big attendance.
Now here is another record, or a
near record: The Farmers Bank re
ports deposits for Saturday at over
one-quarter million dollars.
Many conservative business men
tell The Courier that, weather be
ing good, they expect to see another
PUBLISHED I S INTERE ST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
FORI c 3 Y. NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1929
MANY ATTEND
COLFAX FAIR
Large Number of Exhibits—
Splendid Program Given—
Several Hundred People
Attend Fair.
Ellenboro, Oct. 14.—With state
ments from many of the 2,000 or
more people who attended the Col
fax Fair at Ellenboro last Friday and
Saturday, to the effect that many
of the departments were as good as
you see at county fairs, the fair was
truly successful and went ahead of
all expectations from the officers of
the fair and people living in Colfax
i township and Rutherford County.
Both local and people who came from
a distance gave high praise to the
slightly less than 1,000 articles ex
hibited in five basement rooms of
the Ellenboro school which was us
ed for an exhibit hall.
Prof. Erwin Speaks.
On Saturday afternoon Clyde A.
Erwin, Rutherford County Superin
tendent of schools, spoke to a large
audience in the school auditorium on
the value of a prosperous agricul
ture and on the influence that a
vocational agricultural department
in a school has on influencing a bet
ter and a more prosperous agricul
ture.' He was introduced by Profes
sor Curtis Price who heads the El
lenboro school this year. Professor
Price also introduced Mr. J. M. Os
teen, District Agricultural Supervi
sor, who spoke ahead of Mr. Erwin.
Mr. Osteen told of the work of vo
cational agriculture as it is now be
ing taught in 116 schools within the
state, and then reviewed the success
es of the vocational agricultural ag
ricultural department in the Ellen
boro school. He spoke in the place,
of Roy H. Thomas, State Supervisor
for Vocational Agriculture, from Ral
eigh who could not be present.
Just before the speaking Miss
Rogers' "Kitchen Orchestra" played
several selections on their amusing
instruments. In the school auditor
ium on the same afternoon came the
school musical contest for. both the
grade and high school students.
Evelyn Tedder and Rebecca Harrill
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I
record breaking crow.d in Forest
City next Saturday.
• The latch-string hangs outside.
Come!
CITY WELCOMES
GASTONIA DRUM
AND BUGLE CORPS
American Legion Organiza
tion, of Gastonia, Gives
Street Parade and Con
cert Here Monday
. -v Evening.
The Gastonia Drum and Bugle
Corps, an organization composed of
forty-one members, was in Forest
City Monday evening, gave a street
parade and followed this with a
concert on the public square. The
visit of the Gastonia musical corps
was part of the local legion post's
program for boosting the approach
ing Armistice Day celebration.
The Drum and Bugle Corps is
composed of the Gastonia American
Legion post No. 23. Mr. Dameron
Williams is conductor of the organ
ization.
At seven o'clock the musicians, at
tired in their brilliant uniforms of
red and gren, assembled on the east
end of the plaza and paraded down
the street in flashy military forma
tion, and came to a halt in front of
Kiwanis headquarters, where they
gave a twenty minutes concert,
j which /was witnessed and listened
; to by an attentive audience of sev
eral hundred people.
Attorney C. 0. Ridings was call
ed upon for a short address, and he
told of the purpose of Monday
night's concert and meeting, and
spoke of the experience of the World
War. Following Mr. Ridings, Mr. M.
H. Hewitt spoke briefly. The text of
Mr. Riding's address follows:
Attorney Ridings Speech.
4 * Ladies' and gentlemen and fel
low-soldiers: To my mind, this is the
greatest meeting I have ever been
in or ever expect to be in, unless it
• be that meeting we expect to have
on November 11. It is a day when
we can call to our mind the past and
vision the future. It is a time when
we can get the spirit into our sys
tem and call up the memories •- of
the World War. We are meeting on
the 11th of November for the pur
pose of celebrating the greatest
event that ever happened in the en
tire world; to celebrate the Armis
tice which was signed, on the battfe
torn lands of foreign countries; when
every father and every mother were
upon their bended knees, either ac
tually or in spirit, praying that the
great bloody war that had existed
between U. S., France, England, et
al., combined against the German
Empire, were flinging forth their
bloody gauntlets and tearing the
hearts from the flower of our land.
Well do I remember ,during those
trying days, seeing the tears as they
trickled from mothers' cheeks. Well
do I remember when gray-haired
fathers as they shook hands with
soldiers, and behind that hand-shake,
you could feel the great power and
interest' they had in the World War,
and still farther back behind that
hand-shake, you could realize that
they too had sons on the battle fields
"of France, and it did them good to
shake hands with a soldier.
Pay Soldiers Tribute.
"It has only been about eleven
years since that war, and my speech
tonight is that we, as Americans,
will not forget the great sacrifices
that American soldiers made at that
time, and the reason of the meeting
which is to be had on November 11
is to keep the fires burning in each
American's heart that they may re
member and not forget the trying
times young men in khaki went thru
during the war. On November 11, I
hope and I believe that every
true- citizen of Rutherford county
and adjoining counties will gather
to pay tribute to the soldiers who
fought on Flanders Field, where the
song says that "if you break faith
with us, we will not sleep on Fland
ers Field." Will we ever forget
what the American soldiers did? No.
Then if we don't forget we w r ill
gather at Forest City on November
11 and do our part to keep burning
in the minds the great principles
that these soldiers went forth to war
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Expect Huge Crowd
Here Armistice Day
Ex-Governor Cameron Morrison Will Be
Speaker For the Occasion—Every Local
ity ol County to Be Represented
Makes Perfect Record
(Courtesy Charlotte Observer)
Sibyl Moore, daughter of Mrs. L.
L. Moore, of Bostic, has been a--
warded a gold medal for perfect
school attendance over a period of
five years. Sibyl, who is twelve years
old, entered high school at Cool
Springs this fall, and is setting out
to maintain her record of the past.
COUNTY FAIR TO
OPEN NEXT WEEK
Free Attractions Will Be Var
ied and Best Ever Shown
at Fair—Exhibits A
bove Standard.
The Rutherford County Fair will
be held next week at fair groundds,
near Spindale. Tuesday will be the
opening day, and the fair will con
tinue through Saturday.
Mr. F. E. Patton, secretary, has
spent much time and effort in se
curing the many attractions that
will appear on this year's program.
The exhibits are expected to be the
best of any previous year.
A new plan is being worked this
year, by which it is hoped that every
community and locality in the coun
ty will have an exhibit of some na
ture. The automobile show, housed
in a separate exhibit tent, will be a
feature of the fair.
On Tuesday all school children will
be admitted free. A football game
between Central High and Cliffside
will be played at 10:30 o'clock. At
one thirty o'clock a children's prog
ram will be given, which will consist
of a number of events and athletic
stunts. Hoagland's Hippodrome Acts
will be given in front of the grand
stand at 3:00 o'clock, and again ,at
7:30 o'clock, with fireworks at 8:30.
On Wednesday local horse and
mule racing will be attractions, at
1:30 o'clock, also a Charleston con
test for the negroes. Local horse
racing will also be seen again Thurs
day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.
On Friday and Saturday after
noons automobile races will be held,
at which time professional auto
racers will thrill the fair throngs as
they swing around the dirt tract in
front of the grandstand. Among the
racers will be J. B. Young, a form
er Rutherford county boy, who has
made several records on dirt tracks.
Hoagland's Hippodrome attrac
tions will be seen each afternoon
and evening before the grandstand.
This is the finest aggregation of free
acts ever given at the Rutherford
county faii\ Fireworks will be on pro
gram each night. Krause Greater
Shows will be on the midway during
the entire week of the fair. This
show is reputed to be one of the
cleanest shows on the road today.
The Spindale Band, under direc
tion of Mr. D. C. Cole, will furnish
music each afternoon and evening
during the week.
The poultry show will be in charge
of the Rutherford County Poultry
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108 COLUMNS
SI.OO Per Year in Advance
With the announcement that Hon.
Cameron Morrison will speak here
November 11, and other parts of the
program rounding into shape, indi
cations are that the Armistice Day
celebration will be one of the great
est occasions of its kind ever held
in Forest City. Much interest is be
ing showing in the celebration over
the entire couifty. Practically every
town and community will be repre
sented in the celebration, and will
have an active part on the program.
A band concert will open the day's
program with a concert at nine
o'clock. The parade, which is being
sponsored by the Legion and local
Kiwanis Club, will be a feature of
the day, and will be held from 10:30
to 11:30. Four prizes totaling $50.,
will be given for the best floats.
Hon. Cameron Morrison, of Char
lotte, former governor of North
Carolina, will speak at 11:30 to
12:30/ Luncheon will follow the
speaking. All ex-service men, their
wives and immediate families, will
be given a free basket luncheon. Ex
service men are requested to bring
a basket, also any other persons who
may wish are requested to donate
baskets luncheons.
Stunts will be held on the street
from 3 to 6 p. m., and at the same
time a football game will be played
at the high school gridiron. Prize
fights will be on the program from
| 6 to 8:30 p. m., followed with a
street dance from 8:30 to 12:00
midnight.
A meeting of the various commit
tes who have charge of the prepara
tions for the celebration will meet
in the city hall Thursday evening,,
for further discussion of plans for
Armistice day.
LEGION POST »i
EECTS OFFICERS
Officers for 1929-30 Selected
Thursday Evening at Meet
ing of Willis Towery
Post.
At a meeting of the Willis Towery
post, American Legion held here
Thursday night, the following of
ficers were elected to serve during
1929-30.
Post commander: Spurgeon Moss;
vice commanders M. D. Harrill, Buli
Grant; adjutant, Frank C. Dorsey;
finance officer, G. B. Harrill; ser
vice officer, Frank R. Wilkins; guar
dianship officer, C. O. Ridings; ser
geant-at-arms, Gulmer Yelton; chap
lain, T. T. Long; historian, W. L.
Brown; athletic officer, Broadus
Moore; Americanism officer, R. J.
Hicks; Membership officer, R. R.
Morris; publicity, E. L. Robertson.
All new members will be given
a membership button, who join the
post in the future.
A meeting of the Post will be held
in the City Hall Thursday evening
at which time the above officers will
be installed. A meeting of the Arm
istice Day committees will also be
held Thursday evening, and further
plans for the Armistice Day prog
ram made.
"Community Rage" pure Rio cof
fee, per pound 24c. Horn's Cash
Store.
Association. All poultry exhibits will
be judged Tuesday afternoon from
1 to 6 p. m. All other exhibits will
be judged Wednesday from 9 a. m.,
to 1 p. m.
The hog show will be in charge
of Mr. C. W. Mayfield. Mr. Mayfield
announces that arrangements have
been made this year to gwe every
exhibitor a premium of some nature,
regardless of whether he wins the
fair premiums or not.