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Forest City Day, Oct 30-31 Bargains premiums VOL. XIV— No. 4* forest City Days-Friday and Saturday AIF: PAGEANT !' ARMISTICE DAY ( - i Cow ict With Noted Flyers Signed Monday for Pei-for- xn nces at Rutherfordton November llth. i Rut: rfordton, Oct 27.—An air will be a feature of the big Vnr/. e Celebration here Novem ber 11*' which is being sponsored by -he : , :-l post of the American Le-1 rion h the assistance of other' * . 1 organizations in the county. The committee Monday afternoon j closed a contract with Col. J. J. i Gradv of the Charlotte airport to. have four planes here on Armistice j day. Colonel Grady has had 22 years experience in aviation and has been an aviator in three different wars, I The Balkan War, Mexican Border! troubles and the World War. He has been shot f.t time and again and was; once sentenced to be shot at sunrise | as a spy m Europe during the Bal kan war. * C(-. Grady will bring four planes! I r the celebration. One will be a five passenger cabin plane with 240 horsepower motor, Fairchild' make, weighing 3.600 pounds. This} plane will have hsat, plush seats and passengers in it are as comfortable I as in a modern puHman CST. Anoth er plane to be here Nov. 10th an.i 11th will be an Eagle Rock three passenger plane; another plane to} k seen here will "be :a one passenger plane, besides the pilot, weighing only 560 pounds. Col. Grady will fly his famous Great Lakes Trainer which broke the world's record az the recent air Taces in Charlotte. This will be a stunt plane arid Col. Gradv will do all "kinds of daredevil j stunts m the air, including spins, loop th? loop, barrel rolls, etc. At 4:30 p. m. on the 11th a parachute jump will be made from trie latter j plane by Jimmie Batrich who will go up about 300*8 feet in the air in a plane and jump out in a parachute. This will be a new stunt for this sec-; tion and is expected to draw thou sands here for the celebration from! all adjoining counties. Thb rive passenger caVin plane h?.s j a Wright Whirlwind engine, the same j kind ef engine that Col. Chas. Linii bergt used in his first flight acrosi the Atlantic ocean. The landing field will be on High way nineteen two males isorth tz the town ne-ar Gold Hill colored church. Col. Grady was highly pleased with j the landing field as it is large and accessible to the public, being on an j excellent highway. All planes and pilots are insured.' They are all Government licensed plant- and are absolutely safe. Col. fit'v has never had an accident of a serious nature and duraig his peace i time flying has never even punt- j tur( a lire on his plane. Col. Grady J n aln:ost all over the world, j mad- trips with Lindbergh-, her lifted aviators and has j wide experience. He will take engens here on Nov. 10-h h. at a most reasonable price, i He i coming 'merely to further th? j f aviation and to prove io lie that flying can be done swift. Col. Grady will fly o one day this week to try • e of his planes, preparatory jg celebration on Nov. j j A FINE GIRL. • i and Mrs. J. F. Gray are re- j over the arrival of a fine. - m Oct. 26th. j ■ { . lot of aluminum ware err- , -ale at Courtney's Ten Cent;^ lor Forest City Days, Friday! Saturday. ! i — * i William Butler, of Fort; visited his father, Mr. J. L.J] itr, Sunday. '3 fire going to sell 1,000 pounds, i jcolate drops Friday and Sat-; • y at 10c pound, Courtney'? Ten ' e nt fttore, , i FOREST CITY COURIER FOREST CITY ONE OF THE TEN BEST PLANNED AND MOST RFATTTTFTTT PTTTF*? T\T *7 ZZ~ — AJNIJ MUBI BEAUTIFUL CITIES IN \ u. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SURVEY. CENTRAL COLLEGE QUARTET COMING HERE SUNDAY j i The Central College Quartet, of j Central, S. C., will be present Sun day morning at the home-coming day j exercises of the Wesleyan Metho dist church, instead of at the after noon services, as recorded elsewhere in this issue. This change was made at the last moment, in order to enable ■ this quartet to fill an engagement in j Asheville in the afternoon. Prof. Ves's, ©f Central, S. C., will be in charge of the service. ! DISTRICT WELFARE | OFFICIALS MEET! ! Mr. S. F. Mauney, of Marion, | Elected President at Ruth fordton Session Thursday ' S Rutherfordton, Oct. 27.—C0-op— j eration of all local agencies with • welfare officials to meet the challenge of hard times was the theme of the Western District 'Welfare j tion in its annual -conference here last Thursday. Mrs. W. T. Bosf, state commis sioner of charities and public wel . fare, read a message from Governor j Gardner in which the executive urged churches, schools and all agencies to co-operate to help the unemployed and needy this winter. The governor painted out thai every man has a right labor for his daily bread. Dr. Harry Crane of Chapel Hill j iwad a papier on crime and law pro cedure, prepared by Albert Coates, who was unable to attend. The paper traced the growth of criminal procedure "-and' 'Stated that negroes and poor whites get the death pen- j alty today while the wealthy escape j it. I S. F. "Mauney of Marion, superin-! tendent of welfare in McDowell | county, was elected president to suc ceed Mrs. Cantrell while Mrs. R. W. Wall of N-ewland was re-elected sec-! !retary of the conference. j j 'Resolutions pledging hearty sup- j | port to Governor Gardner and the j | state council for unemployment and | relief were adopted. i j Eskridge Speaker i At Bank Gathering; I j Hickory, Oct. 26.—Confidence m j the financial institutions of "North; ('Carolina was expressed here Friday j jby Gurney P. Hood, commissioner iof banks, who assured a represen-j ! tative gathering of group nine, of | i the North Carolina association, that j not a single state bank is now con- j sklered in danger of closing. Mere than two hundred repres-, sentatives from the banks of Burke. 1 Cleveland, Gaston, Lin-! i coin, Mecklenburg, and Rutherford j I counties attending a banquet ar ranged by Sterling Menviies? Hick ory, chairman of the group. Fol-j | lowing the meeting the visitors I were guests of Mr. Menzies at a | night football game between Le noir-Rhyne and King colleges. Robert M. Hanes, of Winston- Sal em, President of the State asso ciation, made the principal address,; urging all bank's to affiliate in Na tional Credit corporation No. 5 now being formed, and thus join with ( President Hoover in perfecting the | c National Credit corporation for the I- melting of frozen assets. Represen-j tatives from many banks that have j not already committed their . insti-M tutions to the plan volunteered to 1t urge their directors to take action j immediately. Other speakers whoj addressed the group included For- r rest Eskridge, Shelby; E. E. Jones, t Charlotte; Allen H. Sims, Gastonia; c and Paul Brown, Raleigh, secretary. r of the state' association. 0 New officers elected were: J. W. ,• Hawthor»e, Charlotte, president ; E. j L. Fox, Hickory, vice president;) h Roger V. Duvall, Charlotte, seer?' j tary-treasurer. I Mr. X F. Womble, of Davidson, > v is here on business this week. jL PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND 1 %MFORD COUNTY FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, 1 FOREST CITY DAYS j | GLORIOUS DAYS i If there was ever a time in the history of this section that the buying public needed "For- I est City Days" such as the met*- t chants of this city have planned for Friday and Saturday, it is right now. These profit-sharing a sales always have an appeal, j but the need for such is great- j er at this time than ever be fore. Who cares what they pay for an article, so long as money j is rolling in as fast as it did some months back, but those money-rolling-in-days seemed to have passed for the time be ing, and they have left the buy ing public in the throes of dis- ' tress. The splendid merchants ' j in this city, who are trying to j ( even up things and give th* 3 ! buyer all the relief possible, are Ito be commended for their fore sight and also their magnani- I mity in meeting the present I emergency by conceiving and } putting into effect "Forest City j Days", which are full of bar gains for those who buy here Friday and Saturday. MR. JAMES T. LEWIS DIED TUESDAY Progressive and Widely Known ; Citizen of Mt. Vernon Com munity Passes at Age of 78 Years. t Forest City, R-3, Oct. 28.- T -Mr. James T. .Lewis, aged 78, j known farmer, died at his home in jthe Mt. Vernon community Tuesday I morning at four o'clock. He suffered ! a stroke of paralysis a week ago, from which he never recovered. Funeral services were held Wed nesday morning at eleven o'clock at ! Mountain Creek Baptist church. A ! large number were in attendance at i the funeral, filling the church to its ! capacity. Interment 'took place in j the church cemetery, i Mr. Lewis is survived by five cnil | dren, Messrs. F. O. and J. M. Lewis, lof near the home place; Mrs. Willie i Ross, of Forest City, R-3; Mrs. • Minnie W T ilson, of Shelby and !.Mrs. Ida Monteith, of Durham, also ! a number of grandchildren. Two j ; brothers and two sisters survive, J and are Mr. J. P. Lewis of Ruther - fordton, and Mr. W T . E. Lewis, of j Forest City, R-2; Mrs. William White . of near Rutherfordton and Mrs. W T . J I H. McEntire. of Uree. j Mr. Lewis had been married three) | timas. No children were born to the J ' second and third union. I Mr. Lewis was a progressive farm er, arid widely known over the entire county. A few years ago he was a can didate for sheriff of Rutherford: county, on the Republican ticket, and j lost only by small margin. He wa-= a faithful member of the Mt. Verron Baptist church, where; he joined a number of years ago.; ■ — i \ BAPTIST REVIVAL CLOSES. i i I j The revival at the Baptist church ; closed last Wednesday night. Forty j ( or more additions were made to the j church. Twenty-eight were immersed i Thursday night by Dr. W T . A. Ayers. j' Dr. Zeno Wall, of Shelby, preached j - during the revivaj, which opened Oc- j 3 tober 11th. For 21 years, J. Williams of H?,r-j£ nett county has had perfect satisfnc- j tion from a hydraulic ram. The ony j cost in all this time has been in re- J c tiewing a pipe line which had rusted! ( jut. j $ —.—— 1 c Number three tin cans $4.00 per|t; riundred. Farmars Hardware Co. | a i Visit Courtney's Ten Cent Store j "riday and Saturday and note the s 1 window displays of Forest City S iays Specials. S OFFICERS BAFFLED IN ] MISSING MAN HUNT J Former Forest City Man Dis-! appears From Charlotte - Home. Charlotte, Oct. 28.—The disappear ance of H. F. Harrill, 50, local travel ing man, who left his home at 2321 East Seventh street Monday, Octo ber 19, presumably on a business trip, still had Charlotte police baff led Tuesday night. According to Inspector of Detec tives Frank Littlejohn, who is work ing on the case, Mr. Harrill with drew SIOO from a savings account at Forest City on the same day he left Charlotte and is reported to have gone from there to Spartanburg S. C. However, no trace of him has been found in the Palmetto city. No particular alarm was felt when Mr. Harrill, who is a representative of the Greensboro Reed and Loom company, first disappeared, but when several days passed without a com munication of any sort, the family notified police. Detectives traced Mr. Harrill to Shelby, where he went to see a brother, and from there to Forest City. Because of the fact that the miss ing man is known to have had a large sum of money on his person, great concern is felt here for his safety. Mr. Harrill is out of the city a great part of the time on business but had always made it a custom to regalarly return home on Friday nights. , ?Ir. Harrill is a native of Forest 7. where he resided until his re cent re^o^f s fd~''Charlotte. THE COURIER HAS A DELIGHTFUL WEEK-END TRIP The editor and wife, after hav i ing worked hard all summer with out rest or recreation, let up long enough to enjoy a delightful week end trip to Columbia, S. C., where we were guests of our good friends, i Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Haile, from! Friday to Sunday. Now, our readers may not know it, but Mr. Haile is our favorite pa per salesman, representing that great Southern house of Epes-Fitzgerald, with his headquarters in Columbia. ; Quite a lot of interesting things j were enjoyed in > Columbia — j true Southern hospitality of Mr. and i Mrs. Haile, a visit to the state fair i and to the different state institu- j tions, where the editor was lucky rnough to escape unscathed from (the "pen" and the Missus eluding, the attendants at the insane asylum; j an inspection of the capitol and j I beautiful grounds; rides through the j . • 1 l hustling and progressive city, a visit to Saluda dam; etc. Last and not least among our pleasures, was a J visit to the plant of the Epes-Fitz-; gerald Paper Co., which occupies a j mammoth warehouse on Gervais St. j There we had the pleasure of meet- i ing Mr. J. M. H. Fitzgerald, an of ficial of the company and an incom- j parable Southern gentleman, whose' hospitality and kindness will long remain a pleasant memory of our first visit to the South Carolina ' capital city. ] 1 Those visiting Mr. and Mrs. W.!. T. Epiev Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. 1 M. D. Taylor and family, Mr. and I, Mrs. Robert Connor and family, of ] Vein Mountain, Miss Louise Con-! nor and Mr. Wilbur Hudgins, of' Shelby. i ] __ ___ . rj Sheriff O. D. Barrs, of Catawba j county, in company with Deputy L j G .Allen, were in Forest City last' c Friday. They came to get Jake Lail, convict who escaped from the Ca-; t tawba county chain gang, and was 1 s arrested here by local officers. j .! Boys' 100 percent pure woo. j c sweaters, specially priced Friday and it Saturday at' Courtney's Ten Cent j c store. i c I Merchants Offer Many Bargains FIRE DESTROYS | TWO BUILDINGS Home of Mr. W. L. Laughter Burned Sunday Night— Tuesday Afternoon Fire Destroys Building. Sunday night, at eleven-thirty, a home belonging to Mr. W. L. Laugh-' ter, and located on Harmon street, was destroyed by fire, resulting in about $4,000 loss. The origin of the fire is unknown. The fire alarm was turned in. but when the trucks reach ed the scene the fire had gained such headway that nothing could be done to control it. Some furniture was | saved from the building. Mr. Laugh ter carried about $2,000 insurance. On Tuesday afternoon a small frame building, owned by Mrs. Mary Webb, and occupied by Mrs. Sallie Crotts, located near the old school property, was burned. The origin of the fire is not known. The loss was about S3OO, witji no insurance. The fire was not discovered until the house was a sheet of flame, and the ; fire trucks could do nothing toward | saving the building. Democrats Now Have Lead In House Washington, Oct. 23. —The Demo crats for the first time in thirteen years today outnumbered" the licans in the House. '** ~ The death yesterday of Representa tive Fletcher Hale of New Hamp shire, a Republican left the lineup of the House as follows: Democrats 214; Republicans 213; Farmer Laborite 1; vacancies 7. Not since November, 1018 when Woodrow Wilson appealed dramati i cally to the country for a return of a Democratic Congress and saw a Republican majority elected have the Democrats been in the ascend ancy, even temporarily. The present lineup, however, will not last until Congress convenes in December. I Five special elections have already | been set for November 3 to fill va j cancies caused by death. Two are j in districts normally Democratic and i three are usually Republican. Should they go as in the past, the House lineup would be divided, with each ! major party holding 216 votes. Rep I resentative Kvale of Minnesota, tVr j Farmer-Laborite, would retain the balance of power. The other two vacancies present j more difficulties, but Governor Lar | son, of New Jersey, has called a spe | cia! session of the legislature in nn i effort to supply another Republic r.~ 1 vote for House organization. ' Representative Ackerman, a Jersey Republican, died only la>t Sunday. Under the present law, a successor in that general Republican | district could not be seated until January. However, Larson will a c k the legislature to change the lav/ to permit an earlier election. The sudden death of Representa tive VHale will make it more diffi-j cult for New Hampshire to close the seventh House vacancy before : December 7. Chocolate cream drops, 10c pound, j Friday and Saturday. Courtney's; Ten Cent Store. I Our own economics. The world j can't have a revival of prosperity until there is some way to promote! trade between nations on a larre! j scale. i r i Tyrrell county sheep growers re- { ceived two cents a pound more for ' their wool by pooling and shipping j j cooperatively as compared with io- 1 , :al prices offered. ; , I ] 1 16 Pages 96 COLUMNS SI.OO Per Year in Advance FORTY STORES PARTICIPATING All Merchants Co-operating to Make Forest City's First Trade Event Biggest Ever Held. !' After weeks and weeks of prepara tion by the merchants of Forest City, everything: is now in readiness for one of the greatest sales events ever held in Rutherforc county. The big bargain event has been termed Forest City Days, Friday and Satur day, Oct. 30-31, On these two days the folks in the I ' ' j wide Forest City trade territory will have opportunity to buy at the grea + - est savings in twenty years. Every merchant in Forest City is co-operat , | ing with all his fellow merchants in j making it possible for you to buy more for your money than ever be fore. Every one will have some real 4 specials—and when we say specials, k we mean goods sold at and below , cost. Eviery merchant ?n the city co-operating means that some thirty or forty business men are going to give you the greatest array of bar gains ever before offered in Forest » City. Not only the specials, but every item in stock will be marked _ down for the special opportunity, j which has been designated Forest :[€Hy Days. ... The Very latest and best in new . merchandise has been stocked l»y - the merchants and their prices are i j being adjusted so that thousands of ! bargains will be offered to the puh .; lie. Forest Citv Davs will be made 'I % i successful by the retailers uniting .in one huge co-ordinated effort to | demonstrate Forest City's superior ity as a shopping center. This event [will undoubtedly establish a record : in value giving and give the public (every opportunity to purchase most j any commodity it may need, and at j reduced prices. H 4? l ; A glance through The Courier I will convice you that the Forest City merchants have prepared some real specials for Forest City Days. Tn their ads they tell you all about ' the great bargains offered, ar.d a persual of their different messages will convince you that you can save money by coming to Forest City, j Friday and Saturday. Read every one of the ads. Make up your shopping ! list leisurely at home, and then come in and enjoy the bargain feast. Your great savings will make you forget all about cheap cotton, and "jSend you home happy and content, d and very grateful to the Forest City merchants for their help in the time of stress. MCDOWELL COUNTY HAS THREE FOREST FIRES Marion, Oct. 27.—Forest fires are burning thru drought dried timber land in three sections of McDowell county, according to reports reach ing here today. j The biggest fire is in the Mont ford Cove section and is cutting a two-mile width swath aciross the mountainous country-ide. Although 10 men have been fighting the blaze it has raged on for several days un abated. On Box Creek in Brackett town ship and in the foothills of the Blue Ridge northwest of Marion smaller fires are burning. No efforts are be ing made to quell them, as it is hoped they will burn out before doing any serious damage. The present low price of corn per mitted 24 Craven county farmers t » make 'a profit from five cars of sold recently at $5.85 a huncirid pounds.
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