E FOREST CITY COURIER MI
PUBLISHED IN THE BUSIEST, BEST, BIGGEST AND FASTEST GROWING CITY IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY
ZI v ' 94 FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MARCH 30, 1922 .
VOL. IV. —No. 24. bl.oO per year, in Advance
ll REORGANIZE
BOARD OF TRADE
fecial Meeting Called for Tonight
(Wednesday) March 29— Meet in
Directors' Room, Farmers Bank
& Trust Co.
The Courier has been requested
announce a meeting to be held
the Farmers Bank & Trust
mpany building tonight (Wed
_,iay), March 30, for the pur
,se of reorganizing the Board of
Trade. A large attendance is ur
ntly requested.
Many other matters of impor
tance will come up at the meeting
-onight, prominently among which
~ the matter of hard surface
j uads, erection oi C. C. & 0. de
,t and the removal of the Sea
card depot to the crossing of
- ie National Highway.
Again we impress upon our
ivaders the importance of the
meeting and urge every one to
attend.
IYSTERY CLOCK AT
I3ERS BANK & TRVSyXb.
el clock, recently installed
the farmers Bank & Trust Co.,
which is hung just above the tell
er's window, iias aroused unusual
interest and caused no end of con
jectures as to the means by which
it is run. All that is visible are
the hands of the clock, which are
of bronzed wood and the figures
I to 12 in gold letters to which the
hour and minute hands point. The
hands are suspended by a chain.
Over the hands, is a suggestive
sentence, "Time to start an ac
count," and under it the words,
'No clock works'. No electricity.
No air control. No mercury." A
card placed" under these words
reads, "What makes it go? Old
Father Time guards the clock J
while we guard your deposits.
•'pen an account today."
Those who don't understand how
the clock works are invited to ask
the man inside. To those who in
[tiire, the man inside gives a little
ookiet which explains just how
the clock works—if you can un
derstand it.
i AROLEEN CHAPTER OFFICERS
Caroleen Chapter, No. 126, O. E.
S., held a public installation of |
-rl'icers on the night of March j
22nd., with Rev. John S. Wood i
associate Grand Patron, of the
Grand Chapter of N. C., as in
stalling officer.
The following officers were in
stalled for the ensuing year:
Worthy Matron —Sister Minnie
Allen.
Worthy Patron —Bro. B. A. Stal-1
naker.
Associate Matron—Sister Am
mie Wilson.
Secretary—Bro. C. C. Wilson.
Treasurer—Bro. J. H. Francis.
Conductress—Sister Daisy Ro- :
berson.
Associate Conductress—S istei
Carrie Robinson.
Chaplain—Bro. U. Iv. Allen.
Marshal—Sister Carrie Hughes. !
Organist—Sister Abie Long.
Adah —Sister Florence Queen.
Ruth—Sister Elmira Stalnaker. !
Esther—Sister Mary Head.
Martha—Sister Maud Smith.
Electra—Sister Ona Francis.
Warder—Bro. R. M. Queen.
Sentenel—Bro. E. C. Dobbins.
Several short talks were made,'
v aich were enjoyed by all present. I
:aTreshmerits were served during I
social hour, which was enjoyed 1
lj y visitors and members alike. 1
KILLED BY NEGRO WOMAN
N. B. Hoard, who was con
with the City Market 'here
me time, and a son-in-law
•J. W. Smith, w T as killed by
xl shot fired by a negro wo
nan in Greenville, S. C., last week.
Mr. Hoard, it is said, had gone to
the residence of the woman to
collect a small debt. The first shot
shot struck him in the face, and
II e died from the injury on Fri
day, after lingering two days. The
burial took place Saturday at
Greenville.
HELPING BUILD
SUNNY FLORIDA
Splendid Biographical Sketch of
Our Fellow Townsman. Mr. J. F.
Alexander, Taken From the
Tourist Nevrs cf Florida.
His many friends —and that in
cludes every one of his large ac
quaintance—Nvill very much ap
preciate the following tribute paid
to our fellow townsman, Mr. J. F.
Alexander, by the Tourist News,
published at St. Petersburg, Fla.:
J. F. Alexander was born and
raised on a farm near Forest City,
N. C. His early memories are
mostly of the strict economy nec
essitated by his father's fortune
having been swept away by the
Civil War. The school days that
could be spared from hard work
were spent in a little country
school house and finished with a
full course in the city nigh. The
hard, unremitting toil in his fath
er's sawmill, with an old-time up
right saw capable of cutting only
5000 feet a day, was never thought
ox u* f -h e beginning of an annual
"cut" of-U&gen times as many
million feet. ' ' *" >r
The first mill owned by Mr. Al
exander was a "circular" saw sup
posed to cut 8,000 feet a day, but
6,000 would come nearer 1 > the
actual output. After a long time
; another mill was added, then an
other, and another, until now he
and his associates own about a
hundred and thirty mills, from
which they ship out annually from
eighty to a hundred million feet
of finished lumber and "dimension
cut." It is almost unbelievable
that this could be accomplished in
twenty-five years, but it has been
and the story is not neariy fin
ished, either. They own large cot
ton planations, with gins and
mills, capable of a tremendous
output.
Mr. Alexander is at the head of
the Alexander Manufacturing Com
pany, making 30,000 pounds of cot
ton yarns a week. He is also in
terested in a long list of banks,
including the Central National of
this city, of which he is a direc
tor. His large loan and realty in
terests here are but an expression
of his affection for and interest
in the city that cancelled his home
doctor's indefinite engagement,
j That was nine years ago. Thein
j comparable climate, clean social
; atmosphere, and the restfulness
of the green-bench spirit .with the
assisance of undeniable opportuni
ty, were the winning factors in
turning the overflow of profits this
way.
The Alexander Hotel, with its
electric sign perched high in the
darkness of the night; Grove
Heights, one of the city's fine sub
divisions; the ownership in up
wards of five hundered feet of in
i side Ceneral avenue frontage, and
! the vast amount of buying and
' building, made possible by loans,
I are expressive of his faith in the
I future of the city that makes ac
complishment attractive.
Born of true Southern parent
j age and direct Colonial ancestry,
three of the latter having signed
I the Declaration of Independence,
: the family history is interesting
indeed. The father fought for the j
Confederate cause and, while in
Florida to care for a dying rela-j
| tive, served in the war against the I
' Seminole Indians. The years of
j "reconstruction," too, would add
; interesting pages. Mr. Alexander!
i was too busy for the luxury of
| serious courtship until since com- ;
. ing here for the well-earned vaca-1
I tions. In 1915 he was married to
Miss Kathleen Young, the daugh-j
ter of a prominent physician in 1
[Forest City, N. C. They and their,
two children enjoy winter-sum-1
mer life at the Alexander ami
"Bob's" "Home of Good Eats."
j PAINTING OF NE W HIGH
SCHOOL BUILDING LET
Mr. J. A. Webb, of Hickory, N.
C., has been awarded the contract
j for the painting of the new For-1
jest City High School building.;
j Mr. Webb makes a specialty of;
handling large painting jobs and
the highest class of work.
! LOCAL MAN MAKING GOOD IN FLORIDA !
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J. F. ALEXANDER
MRS. M. K. FARLEY
WINS THE Sf; PRIZE
After considt. d : rtion
'ofrftkfc P aiL the judges rn the
| "Miss Spe Word" contest, Mrs.
M. R. Earley, Forest City, was
| adjudged the Wflner and given
| the $5 prize. There w f - r e over
I hundred answers to the 'ivntesL,
and many were finely gotten n>
and with all the mis-spelled words (
i spelled correctly. The winner was
' given the prize on the neatness
' and orderly manner in which her j
papers were turned in. The win
j ing papers have been placed in
the show window at J. M. Price
; & Son's store, where all are in
vited to call and see them. The
contest proved of immense inter
est to all the readers of the Cour
| ier, and thousands worked out the
mis-spelled words just for the fun
of the thing, and did not en
ter the contest. As an advertis
ing page, it was one of the best
ever put on in the county.
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HONOR ROLL.
! For sixth month of Forest City
public schools:
! 1-A Grade—Claude Haynes, Bun
yan Jones.
. I 1-B Grade —Gwendolyn Proctor,
Hicks Hill, Jack Cooper, Bertha
Baynard, Hull Jones.
1-C Grade— Annie Moore, Eve
lyn Morehead, Myra Morris, Boyce
Covington, Jr., Mary F. Harrill,
Farmer Thomas, Robert Jackson.
i 1-D Grade—l. T. D. Philbeek,
Charlotte Davis.
2-A Grade —Guy Vess, George
Avant, Onieda Leonhardt, Virginia
Magness, Howard Magness, Ernest
Champion.
I 2-B Grade—Dorothy Green, Alice
P'letcher, Paul Hamrick, Zulema
Tolieson, Worth Daniel, Bostic
Jones, John Blanton. Hilda Settle
myre, Billie Avant.
i 3-A Grade —No report,
j 3-13 Grade —Alice Owens, Sarah
Bridges, Evelyn Jones, George
Laughter, Kathrine Moore.
*-C Grade —No report.
1 4-A Grade —Ruby Early, Blan
dena Doggett, James Moss.
; 4-B Grade — Callie Deane,
Blanche Doggett, Katie Hardin.
| sth Grade—Roy Watkins, James j
| Thomas, Charles Ford, W. B.
Marks, Grace Jones, Bernice Ka
nipe, Horace Yelton.
6-A Grade—Agnes Davis, Earl
Huntley, Marie Huntley, Mary
■Jones, Mary Meares, Eva Owens,
j 6-B Grade—Alice Holmes, Sara
Ruth Doggett.
! 7th Grade—lvathryn Barber,
! Margaret Moore, Leo Padgett.
Ruth Doggett.
I Bth Grade—Alice Barber, Robert
Lee Harrill, Hilda McDonald, Hat
, tie Baynard.
j 9th Grade—Roland Morgan,
Wade Matheny, Flora Matheny,
Merle Hollifield.
10th Grade—Frank Biggerstaff,
Laura Mae Watson, Mattie Lee
Flack, Ruth Meares.
I 11th Grade—Ralph Biggerstaff,
: Louise Harrill, Helen Covington.
Rubber Heels for 10c a pair at
Peoples Electric Co.
A DEMOCRAT WANTS
LADIES TO TAKE PART
Since Spring- has opened up and
the birds have begun to sing the
politicians are gathering for the
Summer Primary, and of course
I the office seeker has begun to
| scratch his head. But the people
I should sit up and take notice and
| find out who is running and what
r they stand for. We believe that
w'6>.nen .should take an interest in
, our to help us to get
j good peopi£ i n oft ice and they
should have" ]leir Part in them.
As a Democrat u! > stands, for a
good clean party, x would sug
gest that a lady bo ' ce( l 011 °ur
ticket this year.
Mrs. Minnie Blanton, Forest
City,, would make us a Coun
ty Treasurer, and as she is one
of Rutherford County's best fam
ilies, who have always been fig'll
- for the good of Democracy, \\ e
would be glad to see her in JUic
Primary this year.
DEMOCRAT.
CLOSING AT HOLLIS
HIGH SCHOOL SUCCESSFUL
The four months' session of the
! Hollis high school came to a close
Friday, March 24, with appropriate
exercises. A two months' school
j will be taught later in the sum
j mer.
The address was delivered by
j Mr. Lawton Blanton, of the Pied
! Mont high school. Mr. Blanton
I was introduced by Sankey Blan
ton, a native of Hollis, who has
come into prominence as an ora
tor. He has already won four
medals, the last one being receiv
ed at Wake Forest College recent
ly. This was a state contest in
which 61 contestants took part.
He also received a scholarship to
Wake Forest College, and will en
ter school there next fall.
Mozele Gold received the Recit
er's Medal; her reading was:
"When the Moon Rose.''
Maynard Blanton received the
Declamation Medal. His subject:
"Spartacus to Gladiators."
Miss Annie Davis, of Green
River in Polk county, was award
ed the scholarship medal. Her
average for the year was 96.
A most tempting dinner, served
picnic fashion, was very much en
joyed.
The afternoon program was in
charge of the primary and gram
mar grades and consisted of songs,
recitations and short dialogues.
The children performed well their
parts and showed careful training
on the part of the teachers.
The teachers in charge of the
school the past session were Mr.
B. G. Weathers, Misses Alpha El
liott and E&telle Carpenter and
was one of the best sessions the
school has ever had.
After the exercises, the Parent-
Teachers' Association had a short
meeting and elected officers for
the coming year.
Everybody is talking about our
five and ten-cent department—that
is, everybody who has seen it.
Peoples Electric Co.
PAVED ROAD
SEEMS ASSURED
Plans Being Prepared by State
Highway Commission Corres
pondence on the Subject.
Rutherfordton, March 27. —Edi-
tor Courier: I am in receipt of
the following letter from Hon. :
Frank Page, Chairman of the
State Highway Commission:
"Raleigh, N. C., March 23, 1922.
I am in receipt of your letter of
the 20th with reference to the
road situation in Rutherford
county. We have ordered plans
to be prepared for the paving of
the road from Forest City to
Rutherfordton, and after bids are
received on this project we will
then be able to determine how
much additional paving we can
let on the extension of the road
w r est of Rutherfordton. I trust
that this meets with your ap
proval.
Yours very truly,
FRANK PAGE,
Chairman, State Highway Com
mission."
To that letter I replied as fol
lows:
"March 24, 1922.—H0n. Frank
Page, Chairman State Highway
Commission, Raleigh, N. C., Dear
| Mr. Page: I am this afternoon in
| receipt of your letter of the
23rd of March, regarding the road
situation in Rutherford county,
in which you write:
'We have ordered plans to be
' prepared for the paving of the
! road from Forest City to Ruther
| fordton, and after bids are re-
I ceived on this project we will!
then be able to determine how
J much additional paving we can let
| on the extension of the road west
of Rutherfordton.'
"1 will state that this meets
■with my approval, and 1 trust
I that when this project has been
let you can arrange for paving
west of Rutherfordton to quite a
considerable extent, as to over
come the bad spots occasioned by
Inferior surface material.
"In providing for this paving
proj ec t from Forest City to Ruth
erford I trust that the Com
;mission arange that project
»! so that k will start at the C. C.
>| & O. underpay east Forest
i | City and in v e lud e the portion of
. the Highway \ vhi, ; !l runs through
the corporate lt ni its of the town
r of Forest City considerable
.(part of which is already paved
! I with concrete).
. | "Thanking 1 you for >' mr kind
5 letter, I am, with best #iS2i®s and
. kindest regards.,
Very truly yours,
S. GALLERT,"
I am sending you the foregoing
i copies of correspondence recently
. passing between myself and Chair
> man Page, for publication in your
- paper, so that the citizens of For
est City will know that at an
- early date there will be a hard
: surfaced road between Forest City
and Rutherfordton. While Mr.
; Page does not state so, I feel sure
: this project will bo built from
j the C. C. & O. Railroad, east of
i; Forest City, extend through
-'the corporate limits of the town
•j of Forest City, because, in my
j many conversations and numerous
[; letters to Mr. Page regarding the
-j building of a hard surface road,
i I have always mentioned the
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eastern terminus of that project
■ as that railroad crossing on the
Highway and have always includ
ed that portion of the Highway
i which passes through the corpor
ate limits of the town as a pari
lof the project. Until a very re
! cent period, Chairman Page has
always expressed himself as favor
able to first build a hard surface
on that part of the Highway west
-of Rutherfordton, and, now that
he has "ordered plans to be pre
pared" for the eastern end of the
j project, I feel sure that he will
! commence at the railroad and 1
build rfght through the town of
Forest City and on to the eastern
boundary of the Rutherfordton
pavement.
This is the first good news which
the State Highway Commission
ACCIDENT FATAL
FOR W. W. WALSH
Local Man Dies Following Colli
sion With Youth on Motorcycle
Body Brought Here.
The following- account of a dis
tressing accident, which occurred
in Charlotte Tuesday evening, in
which Mr. \V. \V. Walsh, local
man and son-in-law of Mr. H. L.
Hyder, received fatal injuries, is
taken from the Charlotte Obser
ver:
As a result of a fractured skull,
sustained when he was run over
by a motorcycle, driven by Ran
som McMahan, 17-year-old son of
B. R. McMahan, of 411 East Sixth
street, at the corner of Davidson
and Ninth streets at o:30 yester
day afternoon, \\ W.-Hifcltlsh, i
carpenter in the employ of Propst
Contracting company, died at St.
Peter's hospital at 7:20 last night.
He was 45 years of age. *■
Mr. Walsh, who had been in
Charlotte about two months work
ing on a construction job, was ap
parently going to his home at
the end of his day's work. As he
approached the corner of David
son and Ninth streets, he evident
ly saw the motorcycle coming up
Ninth street" toward Caldwell.
According to young McMahan,
both endeavored to dodge each
other and in attempting to do so,
each mistook the supposed inten
tion of the other and collided, re
sulting in Mr. Walsh being knock-
Jed down and both wheels passing
over his head.
Young McMahan immediately
went to a drug store and telephon
ed for Rogers' ambulance, at the
same time informing the police
department of the accident, ihe
! young man was taken to police
headquarters, where lie is heie,
pending an investigation, and Mr.
Walsh was rushed to St. Peter's
i hospital, w here he died later in
the evening. He never regained
consciousness.
• The deceased had resided in For
est City until he came Here a
; short while ago to work for t'ne
•'Propst company as a carpent-r.
- He is survived by a wife and two
- children in Forest City.
. j As there were no witnesses, oth
er than two small children and one
! w oman about two blocks aw ay,
i when the accident occurred, it is
i not known whethci a pieliininary
i hearing will be held in recorders
11court >r whether a coroner's in
quest will be the mectus oi deter
l mining whether or not McMahan
I was to blame fs£ tn' accident
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has given us as to state roads in
this county since the present
Commission was established, and
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I think it due the Commission to
have all the publicity possible to
be given to it. At the same time
the citizens of Forest City, who
have been so enthusiastically ask
ing for this project to be built,
| are to be congratulated upon its
early consummation. I firmly be
lieve that the project referred to
by Chairman Page will be let
within the next thirty days a.s it
cannot possibly take very lonx to
prepare the plans for it.
SOLOMON GALLZKT._