Rutherford
County Offers
Unequalled
Opportunities To
Manufacturers
and Others
VOL. XIII —No. 35.
1055 orOURNEWS
jk CHICAGOAN
\ last weeks news
A 'jfW REVIEWED BY ,
rip." A STRANGER
!. "IP \% IN THE
t m. "m. windv
IMPS
Ch i-ago. 111., June 2.—W'hen Don
}l:irqui> set the "Old Soak" to the.
of writing a "History of the
World" that amiable character start
el hchronicle by asserting that
OUI in -rest in the past centered a
bout v it the people of the ancient
o- vs " t and what they drunk." I
mi myself in disagreement with
"Old Soak," in that what people
ar.d what they drink concerns me
very little. But as I read The Cour
ier each week and reflect on the
happenings in and about Forest City,
what tlv>se who live in its columns
say am! think, holds me fast.
The Courier is always interesting,
and 'tis easy to understand why its
readers renew their subscriptions
with unbroken regularity. Each issue
of this good paper brings to me the
power to read the thoughts of the
people of Forest City, and even to
hear what they say as they meet
on the streets or the country roads,
or as they gather happily in groups
for pleasure or for the performance
of useful service. As I read last weeks
paper, there came to my ears ever
so many important things.
At the commencement exercises
during which the graduating class of j
the Clitfside High school were hand- !
eel diplomas, the young folks said
very little, outside of those who re
cited well practiced essays during
the program. But they thought r Q&-
the future. So did the fathers and
mothers in the audience; but they
could not help think of the past a
little, too. Then, when the exercises
were over, the young folks indulged
in much conversation, some frivo
lous, some serious. The fathers, just
as proud as the mothers, although
they try to hide the fact, talked to
their boyhood chums and recounted
the prank's they played on teachers
when they were students. But. they,
too, were thirling of the future and j
what lite migfit hold in store for the
graduates.
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sung at the Rutherford County sing
ing convention held at Sulphur
•M'lings Baptist church the report of
v.hieh was published in last week's
paper. Words are human sounds. Such j
music is divine in its origin. The |
hymn sung by a mortal to his Lord j
man.
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Over to the Rev. and Mrs. J. N.
' now residence, in Salem and the
' ames Butler home in Providence,'
our scribes say, went many folks!
>°m these parts to take a peek at the j
'ttle babies who now fill such im- j
P 1 rant places in these happy homes.!
>n t you just hear snatches of the j
conversation? "Does the little darl i
,n K cat and sleep well?". .. "What|
j u te little hands and feet." "Town'tj
>e l ( »ng until the baby's teething,'
ar * ( l that's when you'll have your J
ti»ubles. ■'... "Yes, you know the:
* u 'dy, when he was little, cried for j
' even teen and one half days without,
a stop. trying to cut one tooth; but;
'•t-'ht now he's so happy he doesn't }
'. Um 10 care whether he has a i
ln his mouth."
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Not only did Rev. J. N. Snow ■
the hearts of those who listen-;
)( ( ' ' r,s exhortations, but. all who j
.. *'f ia ' St Week ' s paper know of his I
11 ■ fervent words of the preach-j
1 "'! ihe "Amens" of his congre-j
were on my ears as T read last!
s paper. And they told me!
- 1!"us men and vomen turning j
f; Pleasure of this world and
• !i the life that is yet to come, j
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!| ong the readers of this column!
->ve been indulgent enough to '
vn this far, there may be
o would like to hear me. read
I ne Courier over the radio
'giit. I plan to do that in the
' , J ■ iture; and you can hurry that
FOREST CITY COURIER
FOREST CITY—-"ONE OF JHE TEN BEST PLANNEDAND MOST BEAU TI CI TIE s .NTH EU S, a}' U. S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SuSvE^
WORLD WAR DEAD
ARE HONORED
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Graves Decorated Saturday by
Legion Posts—Memorial
Services Held Sunday
Evening.
Annual memorial services for
Rutherford County's World War
I uead were held Sunday evening at
.eight o'clock at the First Baptist
J church. On Saturday, the Willis
Towery Post, American Legion, of
oresc City, and The Fred Williams
Post, of Rutherfordton, decorated
the graves of the deceased soldiers.
Each post was responsible for the
graves in seven of the county's town
! i ships.
Mr. W. L. Brown, commander of
i the Willis Towery Post, American
j Legion, presided at the services Sun
j day evening. A large number were
j in attendance, and the services wer?
j opened with the singing of "Ameri
ca," Dr. W. A. Ayers led in prayer,
after which Capt. T. T. Long read
the list of Rutherford County's
World War dead, including therein
the name of Roy Nanney, whose
funeral was held a few hours pre
vious. Mrs. E. A. Millican recited in
a beautiful manner the poem "For
get Not the Fields." A hymn, "God
jof our Fathers, Known of Old," was
sung by the congregation. An ap
propriate musical selection, prepared
especially for the occasion, was sung
by the Spindale Quartette, compos
ed of Messrs G. B. Howard, D. C.
Cole, T. O. Hendrix and J. W. Starnes
Dr. Ayers next presented Rev. J. W.
Hoyle, Jr., pastor of the Rutherford
ton Methodist, church, who delivered
j the memorial message. After the
prayer by Mr. Hoyle, the Spindale
quartette sung the words to "Taps",
and at the conclusion "Taps" was
played by a bugler as benedictio
Flowers were placed Sa f , on
■ sixty graves of World War veterans j
who are buried in Rutherford coun
ty.
JUNE ISSUE OF RADIO
BULLETIN PUBLISHED
The June issue of The Amateur
Radio Bulletin, published by Messrs
Arval Alcock, Theodore Alcock and
George Tate, was mailed out last
week. This issue has been enlarged,
| both in dimensions and number of
pages. An editorial page, news and
notes on amateur radio work, and ?.
feature on telegraph technique are
among the outstanding features of
this month's issue. A splendid line
of advertising is carried, represent
ing a number of states. The maga
ine is well gotten up, and reflects
! great credit on the sponsors. It is
j printed monthly by The Forest City
Courier.
W. M. S. MEETING.
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The regular business session of i
{the Woman's Missionary Society of I
i the First Baptist church will meet j
j Wednesday p. m., June, 10th at 3:00
' o'clock in the choir room. Every,
I # j
! member urged to attend as impor
tant matters are to be discussed. j
.THE COURIER NEWS
EDITOR HONORED j
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Clarenjce Griffin, The Courier!,
I News Editor and County Historian, •
i is listed in the 1931 edition of "Who's j
W'.io in American Genealogy," aj j
publication of the Institute of Amer- j,
.ican Genealogy, of Chicago, 111. This,.
• publication, issued at intervals of! 1
several years, carries biographical -
sketches of those whose work in his-! \
torical and genealogical research in ■ ]
I the United States and Canada is 
; outstanding and of merit. j
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FLAT ROCK SWIMMING |
POOL TO OPEN FRIDAY
h
The Flat Rock Swimming Pool will 1
open Friday. Those who furnish their t
! suits may swim in the pool free Fri- «
day. Many new improvements have (
been made at the pool. }
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date along if you'll just sit down *
now and write me a letter telling me
that you'd enjoy hearing the voice j 1
of "Chicagoan" coming out of your j
receiving set. Send your letters to i i
The Courier and it will be forwarded !
to me. 1
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931.
FOREST CITY HAS MANY
ADVANTAGES TO OFFER
The City Beautiful in the Carolinas; Nestling High in the
Appalachians; Populated by a Rugged, Honest Peo
ple; Invites New Industries.
It has been said and is still true
that Forest City, North Carolina,
nestling serenely in the foot-hills of
the Appalachian ranges, is "one of
the best planned and most beautiful
cities in the United States,"'so stat
ed and so substantiated by the Unit
ed States Bureau of Agriculture,
and let us, the good citizens of
section tell you that this statement,
is in no wise exaggerated.
Forest City r North Carolina, is th?
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iiiGaL.&nd logical center for both the
manufacturer and as a home center;
it is so situated geographically and
topographically that it invites the
attention and commands the care
ful and scrutinizing consideration of
all those who are interested in the
industrial and commercial pursuits
of the day, who desire to locate in
a community where all advantages
are available and at the same time
offers health, owing to its high alti
tude, and promises you all the natur
al and made advantages of modern
day business and commercial life.
Good homes, a good God fearing,
honest and substantial citizenry; ideal
factory sites for the manufactory;
three trunk line railroads—Seaboard
Air Line. Southern Railway and the
C. C. & O.; ample electric power for
manufacturing and light purposes
and domestic use; an abundance of
pure water capable of taking care of
many manufacturing plants; ade
quate churches with most modern
structures; good schools, graded and
presided over by competent teachers;
hard surfaced roads leading in all
directions of the state and into our
border states; surrounded by a rich
and fertile farming community which
is productive of cotton, grains, po
tatoes, etc., while trucking and dairy
ing and poultry afford good
conies and are becoming a popular
avocation in this section of North
Carolina.
Forest City, North Carolina, has
during the past decade more than
doubled its population and is con
tinuing to grow even through our
period of depression, this for the
reason that the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen and the local Kiwanis club
are alert to the present day situa
tion and leave nothing undone that
will enhance and further promote
the best, interests of the city and its
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people, and their activities are in no ;
small measure responsible for our
fast growth as an industrial and
commercial center, and in this review
edition of the Forest City Courier;
we wish to extend to both these civi" j
bodies our most hearty felicitations, •
feeling positive of the fact that if,
they continue their activities in the j
same directions, pursuing their mod
ern policies, Forest City and its good!
people, will continue to grow andj
prosper and will each day beconiij
bigger, better and brighter and thus j
each and every citizen will profit;
materially. ,
The City Fathers and the Kiwan-j
is club stand willing and ready to j
jointly co-operate with any individ-i
ual or firm who is seeking a new)
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A VIEW OF FOREST CITY'S Plfe %^UARE
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j location. Land sites will be provid- j
2 ed most liberally and our diverse units;
, .'for light, water and power will be
r. mutually arranged for so that noth-
P i ing of the extortion kind will be'
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| ( a burden upon the new (or old) in
vestor in Forest City.
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Not only will our Mayor and the
,jother members of the City Council
? j*\vagiis club welcome you to Forest
t jCity, but you will find a hearty greet
• ,,vvaits you by more than fouri
si-Hi .. \
? true to their city, their native state'
;jand to an undivided nation, asking'
1 j only those things which will help j
; f them to become more aggressive, ;
-'more prosperous and more diligent j
rj* in the interest of Forest City, Ruth-1
:}erford county and its good, honest, \
5 J sturdy citizens.
i j Good, pure mountain water is here |
>'in abundance; ample electrical faci-j
', lities are offered the manufacturer;!
•, building sites can be had for the j
■jasking; labor can be secured at nom-;
i inal wage scales; abundance of pow
|er (electrical and water) for the'
,} manufacturer; ample railroad faci-1
I; lities leading in all directions; whole-5
I' sale houses, good, substantial homes, J
I [an aggressive citizenry; hard surfac-,'
• 'ed roads, wide-awake business, c-om-j
' I mercial, professional and industrial I
' | men abide in Forest City. We are, j
' | truthfully stated, in the "Land of j
'•the Sky" in western North Carolina!
• and we want the world to know that |
'we are an industrious and progres
sive people, filled with the spirit of :
the times, destined and determined.
to become one of the leading manu
facturing centers of the South, and
in view thereof we invite all those
. seeking new locations, whether it be
but a mere individual, a family ot
an extensive manufacturing concern,
to get in touch with our City or
County Commissioners, or our local
i Kiwanis club, for information other
! than is given in this article.
I Forest City invites you hither.
Forest City and its people will glad- j
ly and willingly lend its co-operation
to any good citizen or manufacturer
who seeks information concerning
what we have to offer from an indus- •
trial, commercial or individual stand
point, and we have much to offer J
and proffer to those willing to come!
this way. Our climate is ideal, with j
an average temperature of 60 de-'.
grees. The country surrounding is'
thickly populated, with 2,000,000 j J
people within a radius of one hun-;
. dred miles.
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r Already Forest City possesses:
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, many textile industries, hosiery mills, -j
1 cotton seed oil mills, lumber mills, '■
i wood working plants, wholesale I
I houses, one of the largest weekly !
newspapers in the state—the Forest j (
■City Courier; a most representative*
| line of commercial enterprises of i'
i class that cannot be outdone in any J
j city in the state, professional men I
I of every class, and a people who are j
! ambitious, alert, willing, patriotic: *
J and in very way conductive to hig!i-' s
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1 class citizenship who are booster- J f
j for the "Home Town" and are ready i"
j.o cc-opiia.e in any move that will! 7
| DEATH CLAIMS
I BARNEY HARRILL
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j Funeral Held Sunday For Well
j Known Forest City Man—
Interment in Cool Springs
j Cemetery.
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j Mr. Barney Harrill, aged 54, died
■at his home here Saturday morning
; after a short illness. Funeral services
j were held Sunday afternoon at
• three o'clock, at the First Baptist
church, with Dr. W. A. Ayers in
j charge, and immediately after the
funeral service interment was in the
Cool Springs cemetery,
i Mr. Harrill was one of the well
known citizens of Forest City, and
; was a by trad?:
' Hfc is survived by a widow and sev
-1 eral children.
The beautiful floral offering was
i* in charge of the T. E. L. Class of
.'the First Baptist church, and were
I carried by Mesdames R. K. Holli-!
i field, J. L. Griffin, B. E. Hamrick. j
JG. C. Hill, George Poteat, Annie
(Ware, A. H. McDaniel, Emma Kirby,
J. B. Meares, G. M. Huntley and
!'C. E. Alcock.
ROBT. R.SUMMEY, OF
: ERLANGER. PASSES
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; Had Number of Connections in
Forest City and Ruther
ford County.
j Mr. Robert R. Summey, aged 46,
j died at his home in Erlanger Sun-!
,day. He had been ill two years, and'
: had undergone treatment at Johns
Hopkins hospital, in Baltimore, f>r
a peculiar nervous ailment. Funer
' al services were held Tuesday at the
Methodist church in Erlanger, and in
terment followed in the Gatfney
cemetery at Gaffney, S. C.
Mr. Summey is survived by his
widow and four children, and the
following brothers and sisters: Mrs-
J. W. McKinney, Forest City; Miss
Kate Summey, Forest City; E. G.;
Summey, of near Ellenboro; L. M.
and S. A. Summey, of Alexander;
T. A. Summey, of Gastonia.
Mr. Summey was a charter mem
ber of the Erlanger Methodist church,
and was a steward in the church at ;
the time of his death.
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MISS RUTH DOGGETT
GRADUATES AT BRENAU
Gainesville, Ga . June 2.—Miss
Ruth Doggett, daughter of Mr. and* "
Mrs. B. B. Doggett, of Forest City.
received the A. B. Degree fiom ,
Brsnau college Conservatory, Gain?s
ville, Ga., last Monday morning,
June 1, at the graduating exercises
held in the college auditorium. The
Baccalaureate address was by Dr.
William F. Ogburn. Professor of
Sociology at the University of Chi
cago. j
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Eyelet batiste, all colors,'
Courtney's Ten Cent Store. i
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help us become the garden spot of the \
?outh, and this can be accomplished
by a united citizenry joining hands j
for the betterment of the commu-;}
nity in which they live. t
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16 Pages
96 COLUMNS
SI.OO Per Year in Advance
COOL SPRINGS
i TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS
j HAD RECORD YEAR
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A Short Resume of Accomp
lishments of Local School
f° r Year Just Closed—A
Splendid Record.
| Cool Springs Township schools
j have just closed the most successful
year in the history of the schools.
'The word successful! indicates thai;
the attendance, the quality of work,
■ the number of promotions, and tht*
achievement of the pupils have been
better than ever this year. The num
! tei" of promotions and the grades.
made on the ; ote Lests agrees with
, the above, stammer, t.
. ,
•j The average daily attendance bus
ied on the membership ranged from
j86.5'/ to 98.6%. The average for
5 all the schools in the township aver
! aged 95.1'*. r l his splendid atten
dance shows two things: first, the
parents were interested in the wei
j fare of the pupils; second, the qual'-
Ity of the work was good. It takes
1 interested pairons and capable teach
j ers working together in order to
j have a good school system.
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Promotions.
The promotions in percentage
i ranged from 80 r /c to 92'. This rec
i ord is unusually good when the meth
jod of figuring the percentage is
> understood. The pupils who had en
tered school this year and had not
moved out oi the district were count
ed on the membership. The average
jfor all the schools ranged around
•89%. This means that 89% of a'l
; pupils belonging to school, that is,
all pupils in Cool. Springs Township
on May 22nd were counted. A num
.pupils dropped out of sch-nJi
!to farm and engage in other kinds
of work. If only the pupils who were
actually in school had been used in
figuring the promotions, the percent
would have been much greater,
i State Exams, for Seventh Grade.
This year the State Department
of Education gave the seventh grade
in all the schools an examination. It
was gratifying to know that all four
elementary schools in Cool Springs
Township ranked far above the av
erage of the state. This examination
shows that the seventh grade pupils
are ready for high school work. The
efficiency of the schools in the aca
demic subjects can be measured in
a large way by attendance, the num
ber of promotions, and the ability
of the pupils to do the work in the
next higher grade. The elementary
and high school grade up extra god
along these lines.
School Band.
The School Band was organized
this year. The local school system
has all the departments of a mod
ern up-to-date school system. The
boys and girls have an opportunity
equal to any high school in the state.
The band was the last department
that the school lacked. The school
band will give a public concert with
in a few weeks. An announcement
will be made in next issue of The
Courier about the concert.
Honor Students.
The following boys and girls made
an average of over 90% during the
four years in high school. This is ?.
distinction that very few pupils are
able to make:
Von King, Guy Vess, Pauline Er
win and John Blanton.
Teachers Attending Summer School.
Many of the teachers of Co"l
Springs Township school will attend
summer school this summer. The
state will not increase the salary
the next two years. Also the depart-'
ment of education notified the super
intendents and principals that it
would not be necessary to go to sum
mer school since the increments
stopped for two years. However, a
bout twenty-five percent of the teach
ers will attend summer school in or
der to prepare themselves better
for next year's work.
Parent-Teacher Association.
The Parent-Teacher association
rendered a valuable service to the
schools during the past session. Tha
association accomplished many things
but the outstanding piece of work
was that of feeding, clothing, and
furnishing books to a number of
boys and girls. This made our at
tsnclancs show up better. If thes?
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