PULL
FOR
FOREST
CITY
YOL. IV— NO. 18.
SUNDAY MEETINGS
TO CLOSE FEB. 19
Silly Sunday Has Had Wonderful
Crowds and Accomplished Great
Results— Many Go From Forest
City.
Next Sunday, Feb. 19th, will be
the last day of the Billy Sunday
meeting- in Spartanburg-. Forest
BILLY SUNDAY
City has been well represented
each week. In addition to those
making- the trip in cars the ex
cursion on Feb. 2nd carried 233
passengers from Forest City, and
when the train arrived in Spartan
burg there were 358 on board. The
special train for the railroad men
of the C., C. & 0., Feb. 4, carried
HOO passengers* 27 tickets being
sold here.
As Mr. Sunday says, the people j
seem to be more anxious to hear j
the gospel than they are to 'at- j
tend grand opera, a well known
circus or the countv fair. Surely, j
we are getting better.
COURIER WELL REPRESENTED
The Forest City Courier is grow
ing- in circulation by leaps and
, bounds and it is very heartening
f to us, who have come to this
county with a firm determination
to give the people a county paper
of which they may well be proud.
\lt is fortunate, indeed, that we
/ kave secured two such well known
' gentlemen as Messrs. W. A. Har
rill, the Ellenboro merchant, and
Mr. A. 0. Harrill, the Watkins
Man, of Route 2, Ellenboro, as
representatives and agents for
the Courier. The Courier gives
all the news of that section and
everybody should be a subscriber
to the paper. Leave orders with
either of these gentlemen for your
subscriptions. The management is
sparing no expense to make the
Courier a good paper and wants
°very householder in the county
to be a subscriber. When you
tap the paper you help the county,
help the paper we will add to the
paper and our best endeavor will
to build up the whole county.
WILL WED PRINCESS
' S n nCW P°. rtrait oi Vis
mar-v p sce es » . who is engaged to
1 rmcess Mary, of England.
FOREST GITY COURIER
SITE FOR NEW
SCHOOL BUILDING
Selected by School Board Last
Tuesday and Work Already Be
gun—To Be Magnificent Struc
ture.
Forest City is to have a magni
ficent new school building located
on the King property, and known
as the "new site" in the discussions
which have pi-eceded the selection
of a site for the new structure.
Considerable interest has been
manifested in the selecting of a
site for the new building by our
citizens, some wanting it erected
on the grounds where the present
school buildings, are located, and
others wanting to get a new loca
tion. Two mass meetings were
held, one at the bank last Thurs
day night and another at the
school, building on Monday night-.
A pretty spirited fight was put by
those in favor of the two sites*.
However, the site has now been
selected, and all should pull for a
stronger and better school for our
little city. Forest City bids fair
to grow at a fast rate and nothing
will prove of more benefit to the
town than a good school located
in fitting quarters.
Following a meeting of the
School Board Tuesday, the board
and the architect and contractor
went over the old school site. Af
ter taking- measurements, it was
found by the architect that it
would be impossible to locate the
new building on the old grounds
without tearing down the small
brick building- and placing the
new building against the old
structure. It is said that they
looked upon the old grounds with
absolute disfavor as a fitting- place
to locate the new building-.
Following their visit to the old
rd and the
architect and contractor visited
the new site —the King property.
After viewing the plot, it was
unanimously agreed by the school
board and the other gentlemen
that it was an ideal site for the
new building.
After the decision of the board
for the new site, the contractor
immediately got busy and staked
off the grounds for the new build
ing. Material is now on itsi way
here and work will begin at once.
It is said that they will be ready
for the laying of brick within
three weeks. The building is to
be completed by Sept. 1, and is to
cost $74,700.
It is reported that there is a
lot of chicken stealing going on
in Forest City, and the owners
are getting tired of this petty
thievery and are going to take
steps to stop it. Forewarned is
forearmed. If this petty thievery
does not stop there is going tr> be
some arrests made.
We specialize on cleaning and
pressing ladies' ajvarel. The Ser
vice Shop.
Raymond Hensley, the 13 year
old Boiling Springs student who
made such a great sucess at both
race path and in his studies, will
preach at Bostic Baptist church
Sunday night, Feb: 19,' at 7 o'clock.
There is a difference when you
hav§ your clothes cleaned and
pressed at the Service Shop.
COMMANDERY INITIATION
Initiation of candidates in For
est City's new commandery took
place in the lodge rooms here last
Friday night. There were four
teen dandidates for the degrees.
Past Eminent Commander Wm. H.
Peeps, of Charlotte, presided, as
sisted by Mr. W. J. Roach, of Gas
tonia Commandery. Following the
conferring of the Red Cross de
gree, a banquet was held at
Reese's Cafe. After this followed
the conferring of the Knight of
Malta and Temple degrees.
PUBLISHED IN THE BUSIEST, BEST, BIGGEST AND FASTEST GROWING CITY IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY
STEALING CHICKENS
TO PREACH AT BOSTIC
FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY', 16, 1922
MURDERED MOVIE DIRECTOR HAD DAUGHTER
! y''. ''^ '. :%'^} t -'lfn illß 1 '>>* 11
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T»ic  murdcr at '
Laskj' movie studios, at his home in Hollywood, Calif., brought to ligM
a hidden chapter in his life. He had been married in 1901 and wjtt 32
father of a 19-year-old daughter who now lives .with her
mother in New York. The shooting of Taylor has brought many ortfn3 *
inent movie stars into the limelight. Pictures are of Tayloc* ffiTwM '
who divorced him and who is now Mrs. E. L. Robins, and .his 4aU£tu2S 1
Lower p ture shows the room in Taylor's Los Angeles from*
he was shut. Arrow indicates a desk from which. niTf IfMtjy •
written I>> Mabel Normand. famous movie starjf . ..•".'
FLORENCE MILLS NEWS.
The death angel came into the
house of Mrs. Anna Freeman Mon
day morning about 9 o'clock and
claimed as its victim, Mrs. Free
man's mother, Mrs. Susan Long.
Mrs,. Long was 78 years, one month
and eight days old, and a member
of Sandy Level Baptist church
from her youth. Two brothers,
two boys, one girl, and eight
grand-children survive. Her hus
band, two boys and one girl pre
ceded her to the great beyond.
The relatives have the sympathy of
the community.
A large number of our people
attended the revival meetings at
Spartanburg last week.
Those on the sick list are Mrs.
J. P. Waters, Mrs. Geo. Doggett,
Mrs. Ellie Morrow, Mrs*, Philips
Huntley, Mrs. Julia Fallison, and
little son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben F.
Huatley.
Born to, Mr. and Mrs. E. G.
Enloe last Friday, a boy, Hoyt.
Mrs. Mary Towery and daugh
ter, Georgia, spent Sunday in
Spindale.
Mr. and Mrs* D. S. Hardin spent
Saturday night and Sunday in
Cherokee county, S. C., visiting re
latives.
Sunday school at Welfare House
next Sunday at 2 p. m.; preaching
at 3 p. m., by Rev. Z. D. Harrill,
of Ellenboro.
Mrs Ethel Hardin and children
have returned from a week's visit
in Spartanburg.
Remember the mid-week Bible
class next Friday night at Mr. A.
W. Harris' home at 7:15.
WEAK ADVERTISING
The following was clipped from
a Baptist church paper and is re
printed for the benefit of local
merchants:
Herman Rosenfeld, advertising
manager for Sears, Roebuck & Co.,
is quoted by a newspaper as say
ing:
"We have a bureau whose duty
it is to read each week the coun
try newspapers from &11 over the
country. There is not a paper of
any consequence in our trade ter
ritory that our bureau does not
get. This bureau looks over these
papers and when we find a town
where the merchants are not ad-
in the local paper we im
mediately flood that territory with
our literature. It always brings
results far in excess of the same
effort put forth in territory where
the local merchants are using their
local papers.''
Many foreign countries sere
clamoring for Tahlac. Its fame
is world-wide. Reinhardt Drug Co.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
Prof. Raymond Peele is out this
week on laccount of sickness. Mrs.
Peele, of Durham, is here. She
will remain until Professor Peele
has recovered.
Miss Pearl Cornwe'.l, of the high
school faculty, is confined to her
room on account of
B. L. Smith is substituting for
her.
A mass meeting was held in the
school building Monday night to
discuss the question' of site for
the new building. A number of
speeches were made for and
against removal.
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The Parent-Teachers' Association
has an important meeting Wednes
day at 3 p. m. Preparations are
being made to attend the county
meeting Feb. 24.
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A very close and interesting
game of basket-ball was played on
the Forest City court Saturday be
tween Rutherfordton Junior and
Henrietta. The former won 16-14.
Forest City attached two more
victories to its string last week,
winning from Alexander 56-2 and
from Ellenboro 41-1.
*
Letter sent out from County
Superintendent's office: To Par
ent-Teachers' Associations and
communities interested therein:
Believing that the County l'arent-
Teachers' Associations can be mu
tually helpful by co-operation, the
Forest City association has asked
Prof. W. R. Hill to set aside -a
definite time in the teachers meet
ing, Feb. 24th, for the purpose of
organizing a County Council of
Harent-Teachers' Associations. He
has cheerfully clone so, believing
it to be for the best interest of
the schools of the county.
Mrs. Gariblildi, a former Presi
dent of the State Federation has
been secured to sfpeak at eleven
o'clock, Feb 24th. She •is very
heartily in favor of the movement
and says we will have the honor
of being the first county to or
ganize. We want each association
to select three delegates—one
teacher and two parents, and as
many representatives as you can
get to attend this meeting. Let
all teachers, who hhve no Parent-
Toachprs' Association urge citi
zens to attend. It is a forward
step for Rutherford county.
BENJ. L. SMITH,
MRS. S. N. WATSON',
MRS. J. T. WEATHERS,
Committee.
Some day you will own a Chevrolet
THE COURIER HAS
AUTOCASTER SERVICE
New Machine Installed This Week
Whereby We Are Enabled to
Make All kinds of Cuts for Il
lustrating the Papers
Ever striving for the best thiat
can be had to make the Courier
one of the best country papers in
the State, we have this week in
stalled the great Autocaster ser
vice. The casting machine arrived
Tuesday and some of the illustra
tions in this issue are made on
this wonderful little cut making
machine.
The Autocaster service contains
the following features, which
readers of the Courier will get
weekly:
A national current interest car
toon.
A comic strip and a character
comic.
Three to five last minute news
photographs, and special illustrat
ed feature matter and farm bu
reau features.
In addition to these features the
Autocaster sends, out an illustrat
ed ad section that is the be\t in
the world. Advertisers in the
Courier will be enabled to get il
lustrations of anything they may
carry in stock. We want our
friends to call on us When they
want any cut of any kind that
they may wish for their ads.
Writing of the use of pictures
in ads, J. T. Wilson, the noted au
thority, says:
"Pictures have been termed,
The Universal Langufege of the
Human Race.' So, in using pic
tures in advertisements, we are but
employing the oldest, simplest afid
most direct way of getting our
message across to. ail-readers,. _No
matter their nationality; their ed
ucation or their individual perspec
tive. Each individual who looks
at a picture interprets it to his
experiences. But each and every
one of them understand a picture
—as in no other form of communi
cation."
Some day you will own a Chevrolet
ADVERTISING WILL HELP RE
STORE NORMAL BUSINESS
By William H, Rankin
Advertising- is more necessary
today to Manufacturers and Re
tailers than ever before. It can
be used to help res.tore.the proper
balance of trade, produce more
work through emptying the deal
ers' shelves. The sooner any busi
ness —and especially the retail
business —price their present in
ventories so that the public will
rush in and buy, the sooner sales
men who now have goods to sell
will have an opportunity to get
real substantial orders from the
Retailers.
Orders from Retailers will help
the Manufacturers make up their
minds to help sell their goods to
the Consumer through advertising.
Such advertising—provided the
price and the quality of the mer
chandise are right—will help the
Retailer sell the Consumer at less
cost than through any other
means.
When you stop to consider that
an advertiser may use a National
or local newspaper campaign at a
cost of 1-10 of a cent per home
reached, you can readily under
stand why newspaper advertising
pays so well.
If advertising can be used to re
store proper buying by the Con
sumer —and I know it can if pro
perly used —then automatically the
unemployment problem will be
solved quickly.
So let us all set about to see
what we can do to help solve this
unemployment problem by getting
behind a "Every American build a
home" campaign—and fclso througn
our efforts to help the Retailers
clear their shelves through ener
getic' and persistent advertising
and Salesmanship.
Some day you will own a Chevrolet
$1.50 per year, in Advance
STATE GETS SUM
FROM ROSENWALD
Foundation Allots SBO,OOO to North
Carolina for Negro School
Houses to Be Built During
Year.
One hunJred negro school houses
will be built in North (larolina
during this year under the Rosen
wa!d fund, which has allotted SBO,-
000 to the state. Announcement
was made Wednesday by S. L.
Smith, of Nashville, Tenn., gener
al field agent for the fund estab
lished by Julius Rosenwald.
A total of $600,000 is being de
voted this year, he declared, to
the southern states. Oniy one
1 state, Mississippi, exceeds North
i Carolina in allotment.
The Rosenv.ald fund is expend
ed entirely through the state de
partments of education of the
spates where it operates for the
aid of negro schooi buildings.
North Carolina, he declared, is
leading all the southern states in
sit program for negro education
and when the present program of
general education is put across,
expressed tbe belief that no state
in the Union would stand &head
of North Carolina in its, education
al machinery.
REVIVAL SERVICES
A revivial meeting will begin at
the new Methodist church Sunday,
March 19, at 11 a. m. The pastor
will do the preaching with what
local help he has at his commfand.
Mrs. J. E. Comer and daughter,
Clara, of Asheville,. N. C., will be
in charge of the music. All who
know them from former service
here will appreciate their coming
again. A cordial invitation is ex
tended to the friends of the other
-chnrches --of town,- and-frH- un
saved of the community to come
and get what is there for you in
both preaching and song,
Sunday school at 9:45 Sunday
morning. Services beginning at 7
p. m. each evening. request
that much prayer be made for the
success of this meeting for the
salvation of many souls from sin.
CHESNEE QUARTETTE COMING
The Chesjiee quartette and oth-
er singers, under the direction of
Prof. T. R. Jones, will give a con
cert at the school auditorium on
Friday night at 7:30 p. m. A small
admission fee will be charged and
25 per cent of the proceeds will
go for the benefit of the school.
Prof. Jones is well known here,
where he formerly taught, and a
large crowd should turn out to
hear the quartette.
Garden seed, two packages for
sc. Farmers' Hardware Co.
Some day you will own a Chevrolet
NEW POPE
BpPIS
Cardinal Achilla Ratti, Arch-,
bishop of Milan, has been po
claimed Pope, taking the name ot,
Pius XT. His Holiness was born
in Italy, Oct. 12, 1858. He re
ceived the Red Hat as Cardina last
year. Previous he was Papal Nuncie
in Poland.
THE
CITY
WITH A
FUTURE