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PULL FOR FOREST CITY Vol. IV —No. 38 MR. B. E. ROACH SEVERELY INJURED; STRUCK BY AUTO Sustains Broken Collar Bone, Dislocated Should-, er and Severe Bruises and Cuts - Resting Well. Struck -lown by a passing a,u ,mobile, Mr. B. E. Roach of iffside, was severely injured at )out 0 o'clock Tuesday morning front of the residence of his vie, Mr. Sim Duncan, at Spin ,le. He was dragged about fif ■en feet and was unconscious hen picked up. Upon cxamina nn it was found that he had sustained a broken collar bone, dislocated shoulder and severe bruises and cuts. He was imme diately taken into the home 01 >uncan and given every at n. Later he was removed hospital at Rutherfordton. Roach, with a party of r r .as on his way to the _ at Rutherfordton, he being a member of "the Haynes Band, which was to render music for the occasion. He had stopped to see his uncle, Mr. Duncan. Upon getting out of the machine he saw a car approaching from the rear and remained upon the running board of his car. Step ping down, he was struck by a. car driven by Bruner Yelton com ing in the direction of Forest City. It is said that Yelton did ail within his power to stop his car and that the accident was un avoidable. Mr. Roaeh did not see the ap proaching car and neverr knew what struck him, as he was ren dered unconscious. Great excitement prevailed fol lowing the accident and the dis tressing news went abroad that Mr. Roach was killed. This re port was current in Forest City for some time, amd caused univer sal distress. Great relief came with the message from the hos pital that he would recover, al though severely injured. He rested well Tuesday night and The news came yesterday that he wes getting along s.s well as could be expected. Mr. Roach is one of the most popular men in the county, as was attested by the hundreds to cr.U at the hospital following the accident. He has charge of the Haynes Memorial building at Cliffside and is also editor of the Cliffside News. Everybody knows and loves Broadus Roach and he has the prayers of all for a speedy recovery. MRS. DEAD Henrietta, July 3,—Mrs. Sarah L. Mooney died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. G. Allen*.Thurs day, June 22. She had been sick about six months. The funeral services were conducted by lie v. W. T_ Tate and interment was at First Broad church. Mrs. Mooney was a devoted wife, an effection ate mother and a good neighbor. She was 75 years old and is surviv ed by her JtcusbaAd, Mr. E. D. Mooney and the following chil dren: Mrs. M. G. Allen, Mrs. E. W. Panther, Mrs. J. W. Keller, of Kannapolis; Mrs. J. D. Mooney, of Caroleen; J. M. Mooney, of Ferry; M. 0. Mooney, of Rutherfordton. The sympathy of the entire com ma lity goes out to the aged hus band and sorrowing loved ones. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Forest City, R-2, July 3.—The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. liarijii met with them Sunday, June 25th, in honor of Mr. Har v'ii s Hth birthday and Mrs. Har riil s 70th birth anniversary. Nine children, 57 grand-children and 10 great grand-children and a large number of friends and relatives enjoyed the day to the utmost, v'ver ICO were present. Both re ceived many nice presents. Rev. W. T. Tate and family, of Caro leen; Rev. C. D. Barton and fam ily, of Henrietta, were present. from Henrietta, Shelby, if fside, Alexander, Caroleen, For est City and other places . -re present. A bountiful dinner was spread to the delight of all. The ■lay was enjoyed by all who were fortunate enough to be present. FOREST CITY COURIER IF COUNTESS LOSES THEN SHE WINS WINNERS IN SECOND PRIMARY JVlcFarland, HaTr island Nanney Returned Victors in Sa.tu*dav?s - 'Contest. ' Tl%e second primary passed off quietly last Saturday and there was considerable falling off in the vote. The results were as Jo llows: Representative. J. E. McFaiiand ...1434 T. J. Wilkins 977 County -Commissioner W. G. Harris 1276 >C. M. Holland 1097 Board of Education W, W. Nanney IS2I J. M. Gaiter)" 1 ...IQI6 ELLENBORO NEWS July 3. —Misses Edna and Thel ma Stfoggins, >of Rutherfordton, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Byers last week. Bom, to Mr. and Mrs, C. H. Blanton, on Tuesday last, a fine koy. Miss Mary Martin si>ent last week in Shelby- visiting her .sis ter, Mrs. Leverith. The choir from Dobbins' church sang ax Ellenbc-ro Sunday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. M. Z. Wright had as their guest 'for the week-end Mr. OduG Horton, of Monroe. The "Ellenboro baseball team Won a game from Cliffside Satur day. The score WJIS 6-8. Mr. and Mrs, J- P. Stockton spent Sunday with Mrs. Stockton's parents near Moocesboro. Mrs. N. E. Blanton returned home from Charlotte yesterday, where she Avas visiting her son, Mr f B. B. Blanton. Miss Billie Doggelt and Lois Martin, of Gowpens, S. C., spent the week-end with Miss Inez Dog gett. RESIGNS AS MANAGER OF LUMBER FIRM Mr. R. K. Hollifield has resign ed as manager of the Hollifield- Champion Lumber Co., his resig nation to take effect at an early date. Mr. Hollifield has been with the firm for about fifteen years, and the business has shown a steady growth under his man agement. It is said that the stockholders have always been paid handsome dividends and that the business prospered even dur ing severe business depressions. Mr. Hollifield is a lumber man of experience and is a contractor and estimator of more than ordinary ability. He yet fully de cided upon his nekt business ven ture, but will probably enter the lumber business here. He has, however, retained his interest in the Hollifield-Champion Co. Mr. H. B. Doggett, a member of the firm, will take over the man agerial reins of this prosperous company. It wiM be good news to his many friends to know that Mr. Hollifield will continue his resi dence in Forest City. PUBLISHED IN THE BUSIEST, BEST, BIGGEST AND FASTEST GROWING CITY IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY News dispatches from the French capital report that the Countess de Maupas, formerly Consuelo Mor gan, daughter of Henry Hays Mor gan, U S Trade Commissioner to Belgium and now Consul Genera? at Brussels, is seeding divorce, at the same time her husband, Count Jea de Maupas D& Juglari is suing,, for divorce in the Paris courts. FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY JULY 6, 1922 WORKING HARD FOR THE EXTRA C. C. & 0. TRAIN Chamber of Commerce Re ceiving Great Support In Movement For Better Railroad Connections. The fetters sent out by the Forest City Chamber of Commerce proposing that a train. be r,ut on at Marion Junction to make con nection at Spartanburg, has met with instant approval by all the parties to whom the letters were sent. Especially -encouraging- is the offers of backing from the j Chambers of Commerce of the : cities of Spartanburg, Charlotte and AsheviJle. This proposal of the Forest City Chamber of Com merce, if carried into effect, means the shortest, most direct and quickest route between Wil mington, Raleigh, Charlotte and A-sheville, and the connections made at Spartanburg >are the best L r\er yet proponed. L also mean> much to Spartanburg in bringing "trade to that thriving city. A letter tfrsm Mr. E. B. -Walk er, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce at Spartanburg, says: "I am deeply interested in the proposition made by the Forest City Chamber of Commerce. The matter wHI be taken up at our Board of Directors' meeting Wed nesday night (July 5), and we hope to shortly afterwards be in a position tfeo take difinite action/' An encouraging letter was re ceived from Mr. Chas. A. Webb, vice president and treasurer of the Ashe v., lie 'Cinzert. Mr. Webh says: "I am very much interested in the suggestion made by you about putting on a gasoline motor car from Marion to Spartanburg over the C. C. & O. "This -arrangement would, in a way, solve the proposition which, we have Iseen contending- for for a long time. We have been try ing for two years to get the Southern give us connection at Marion wsrth train No. 36, and have failed to do so. "I wil* be pleased to co-operate in every way possible." Mr.. R. O. Self, clerk to the Cor poration Commission, writes thai the matter has been taken up with the C. C. & 0. paople. Mr. Self also writes that the Commission has also taken up with the C. C. & O. people the matter concerning the erection of a new depot at Forest City. No response has as yet been received from the railroad in regard to either oi .these m attests. Mr. E. W. Long, Division Pas senger Agent of the Seaboard, writes from Charlotte that he is asking his people to look into the situation, and says that he vill be very glad to co-operate witii the C.t. & 0. people in the mat tier. . . Mr. Hugh F. Little, writing from Marion, says: "I have yours of the 28th with reference to the additional train to be put on the C. C. & O. I will be glad to help get this through, in any way that I can." There is no definite news to give out in regard to the matter, as the C. C. & 0. people have not as yet signified just what steps, they will take in regard to put ting on the train at Marion. How ever, with the strong backing that the proposition carries, we ffiil to see how they can ignore the wishes of the people of the various cities ►backing the movement. The inauguration of this service means much to all concerned, and the C. C. & O. people will surely take steps at an early date to carry out the plans as laid down by the Forest City Chamber of Commerce. | PATRIOTIC BOY The Fouth was a memorable day in the family of Attorney R. R. Blanton of this city. The stork, feeling that something should be done in commemoration of the great day, flew over Mr. Blanton s home and left a fine boy. ihat this youngster will be 100 per cent American goes without saying. Proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof. Thousands praise Tanlac. So will you, i Reinhardt Drug Co, ROUND HILL ACADEMY WILL ' OPEN AUGUST 22 Catalogues Out Showing Successful Term and Bright Prospects—Other Union Mills News. Union Mills, July 3. —The cata-1 logues and announcements for the 23rd annual session ?f Round Hill, Academy were received from the press last week. The catalogues are attractively bound and neatly printed, and are illustrated with cuts of the school buildings, fac ulty, graduating class, Glee Club, Class in Sunday School Pedagogy, Volunteer band, etc. A few of the 'outstanding £ea tfcta-es of the past session, which was a very successful one, as i'oriefly mentioned in the preface t-Lo the catalogues were the secur ing of a new athletic field, which will be completed. before opening the new session, enrollment, of three ministerial students and four volunteers for missions, -con version of 21 students; enrollment of 116 students; the winning of 25 diplomas from the Home Mis sion Board and the graduation of 10 regular students. The faculty, trustees, pupils, r dl alike, lace the future with tJiie confidence that "The best -is yet to be." All the members of the faculty last year have been retained with the exception of Miss E lit abet n Shackelford, of Eden, Miss., wh:> resigned to take special work at the University of Chicago. Her successor will %e announced soon. One new menifeer has been added to the faculty for next year in the person of Miss Florence Reed Miss Reed is a graduate of Mere dith College, a teacher of several years' experience, and has won an enviable reputation as a student; and instructor. These in addition to Prof. M. L. Skaggs, the able principal, and Misses Ethel bark er, Josejrihine Lathrop and Ethel Elmore, make -up a very capable corps of teachers, and one that is second to none isi any similar in stitution frf learning. The fall term lOpens Tuesday, August 22, 1922. The outlook for a successful year with a large at tendance was never more encour aging, Judging fnom the unusual large number of requests for room reservations, the earning year will break all farmer records in the number of boarding students that will be in attend ancei. The B. Y. P. U. training school conducted at Round Hill church last week by Mr. West, one of the workers of the Baptist State Board, closed Thursday night. A large per cent of the members of the local B. Y. P. U. took the training. All who successfully pass the examination given at thr final 1 session Thursday night will be awarded the B. Y. P- U. dip loma. , At the handsome home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Morris the mem bers of the Philathea and Baraca classes of the Baptist Sunday school were delightfully entertain ed on last Saturday evening. Many interesting games were played during the evening. De licious refreshments were served Rev. J. P. Hornbuckle, Gil key, will preach at the Union Mills Presbyterian church next Sunday night, July 9, at 8 o'clock. A small vote was cast here in the primary Saturday. McFar land, Harris, and Nanney led the ticket here with large majorities. Camp Creek was a Gallert strong hold, in the first primary and in proportion to the number of votes cast went equally as strong for McFarland last Saturday. Mr. Grant Allen, carrier on Route 2 from Union Mills, accom panied by Mrs. Allen and children left today for Shelby to attend the State meeting of the rural letter carriers, which convenes in Shelby July 4th. Mr. Allen is sec retary of the county organization of rural letter carriers. There will be no celebration in Union Mills July 4th. Many peo ple from here will attend the big celebration in Rutherfordton. Messrs. Frank Gofortn » and Lewis Koon, and Misses Annie Lewis and Eleanor Sparks spent the day Friday very pleasantly at Chimney Rock. Prof. M. L. Ska/ggs, principal of Round Hill Academy, left Friday for his home at Pennington Gap, READY FOR RACE AGAINST HUSBAND v./ 1 Latest photograph of Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, wife of the former governor of Texas who was im« peached. At hubby's bequest she sought to enter the Democratic pri maries in the race for the Unite 4 States Senate. If "Gov. Jimmy" was found ineligible, it was agreed the wife should be "it" in place of the "stormy petrol.'* Va., to spenvl p, sliOit \acation, Mr. Skaggs is given a month's va cation each year but he expects to be absent from his duties here only about two weeks. Miss Esther Buchanan is spend ing- severali days at Aitapass and Bakersville visiting relatives. In a bail game here Saturday afternoon between Union Mills and Rutherfordton. The visitors won by the score of 10 to 6.. Mr. Will Morris and daughter. Mrs. Elliott, of Nealsville, spent the week-end here with tht; for mer's brother, Mr. J. D. Morris. Mr. J. W. Nanney continues very ill at his home near Union Mills. Mr. Nanney has been sick for sev eral months, and only slight hope is entertained for his recovery. Rev. M. L. Buchanan, pastor of Round Hill, Mt. Vernon and Mt. Creek churches since April, 1920, has resigned the field to take up evangelistic work with the Home Board. Mr. Buchanan's resigna tion takes effect Oct. 1, at which time he will enter upon his new work. He will* continue to make his home in Union Mills. Rural Policeman L. W. A. Thomason captured about ten gal lons of malt which was concealed under a grape arbor in the garden of Milns Butler, who resides about five miles east of Union Mills, last Thursday morning. Butler was arrested and given a hearing before Magistrate J. Worth Mor gan Thursday afternoon.. He was placed under a SSOO bond in de fault of which, he was carried to Rutherfordton and lodged in jail. It is reported that he later gave bond. Miss Virgie Nanney, of Okla homa, arrived here last week to spend some time in the county visiting relatives. Miss Nanney is a daughter of Mr. Anderson Nsn ney, who was born near Union Mills and who went west when a man. This is Miss Nan ney's first visit to her father's native State. She is a teacher iiT in the city schools of Alamosa, Colorado. MR. J. 31. CARVER DEAD Mr. J. M. Carver, prominent farmer of the Frog Level section, died at his home last Saturday af ter an illness of cancer of the stomach. Mr. Carver was about 45 years old, and is survived by his wife and several children. He was a son-in-law of Mr. A. C. Moore, Everybody had a good word for Mr. Carver, who was a man of many fine qualities. His death comes as .a great shock to his many friends. The funeral was conducted by the Rev. Parker Holmes at Pleas ant Grove last Sunday in the pres ence of a large concourse of friends and relatives. BREEDING-RORERSON Mr. Arvile Breeding and Miss Effie Dill Roberson were happily married Thursday, June 15th at the home of the bride s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Roberson, Rutherfordton R-3, by Rev. H. C. Culbreth. A large number of friends and relatives attended the wedding. Immediately after the ceremony a fruit supper was served. The' happy couple left on the Saturday following the ceremony for their future home in West Virginia. $1.50 per year, in Advance FOUND DEAD WITH BULLET HOLE IN HEAD C. S. Humphries, Suffering- From 111 Health and Over heating, Takes His Own Life. Going- into her yard at an early hour yesterday (Wednesday) morn ing-, Mrs. T. S. Humphries, who lives on Route 3, in the Pleasant Grove section, %*as shocked to find the dead body of her husband, with a bullet hole through his head. Mr. Humphries had evidently gone into the yard after 12 o'clock as the body gave evidence of life not having been extinct more than a few hours. Powder burns on the fingers and the presence of his 38 calibre pistol gave mute evidence of suicide. Mr. Humphries had been in bad health for some time, and only about ten days ago he was over heated in an oats field. He had great difficulty in getting sleep and rest at nights, and had been taking a sleeping potion to aid in getting his rest. It is presumed that he became worse on Tuesday night about 12 o'clock and went into the yard shortly afterward, where he fired the fatal shot. Only one shot was fired and the bullet went through •lis head, causing death instantly. The alarm was given when the body was found, and neighbors and friends gathered to aid the stricken family. Mr. Humphries was about 6*3 years old, and* is survived by his wife and two sons and two daugh ters, One daughter, Mrs. Burrel Bridges, lives as a neighbor, and the other, Mrs. Claude Wilson, re- ides at Henrietta. One son re sides at Converse, S. Cr~where he is thp cashier of a bank. The deceased was reared and married near Gaffney. He had 'ong resided in this county and was a Mason, having his member ship in the Forest City lodge. He was a member of the Smith's Grove Baptist church. Funeral arrangements had not been completed at the time of go ing to press. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION A number of friends and rela tives surprised Mrs. L. E. Powers Sunday, June 25, with a birthday dinner. She was 64 years old Sat urday. A most bountiful dinner was spread under the big tree's in the yard. By-gone days were dis cussed and the day was spent very pleasantly. Among the out-of-town people attending were Mrs. W. N. Davis* sister of Mrs. Powers; Miss Mary Neal and Mr. Sam Davis, Mrs. Robt. -Craig and "Aunt Jane" Baber, all of Gastonia. The latter being 82 years old and is hale and hearty. She is an aunt of Mrs. Powers. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Laughridge, Messrs. Wilbur, Joe and Fred Baber, Mrs. Ed Laugh ridge, and Mr. and Mrs. John R. McClurd, Shelby; Mrs. J. M. Laugh ridge and children, Marion, also Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Alley; Post master and Mrs. Baxter Bigger staff, Bostic; Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Hawkins, Cliffside; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McDaniel, Henrietta; Mrs. Bush Butler, of near Henrietta; Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Biggerstaff and daughter, Miss Nora, of Sun shine, and Mr. J. B. Long. Forest City. SMALL EGGS Mr. J. B. Trammel, Route 3, left two very small eggs at the Cour ier office Wednesday morning. The eggs are but very little larg er than bird eggs, but are the product of some very fine Rhode Island Red hens. As a usual thing the hens produce very large fine eggs. Mr. Trammel is the father of Mr. Charles Trammel, the well known young High School grad uate who has been a valuable con tributor to the Courier. He is a splendid writer and will spoil the making of a very fine newspaper man when he enters the ministry, which he plans tp do. The loss to the Fourth Estate, however, will be the gain of the church, and the Courier predicts that he will make a great preacher—the most nobJe calling of man. 8 PAGES, 48 COLUMNS
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