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Vol. IV—No. 40
HENRIETTA MILLS
TEAM GETS A
FLYING START
Defeats Kings Mountain,
After Having Lost First
Contest— Building a
Great Team.
Careleen, July 18.—The Henriet
ta Mills team drove Allen from
+v>e mound in the first inning-, a
home run by Martin starting the
fireworks. Snagg Onnand, who
Hieved him, was wild and ineffec
tive. Kings Mountain quit the
field in their half of the sixth in
> ziiiig because of a close decision at
third. _ A
Henrietta Mills 4 5 0
Kings Mountain 4 o
Hilton and Arnold; Alien, dr
mond and Lowe.
The newly organized Hennet.a
Mills team got off to a flying
start last week, winning the first
two games it played and showing
this section they have n bunch
of ball players worthy of recogni
tion. , , -
They defeated Avon dale m a
slug-fWi Friday and won a beauti
ful pitchers' battle Saturday from
Cliffside, Hilton, former Hornet
pitcher, striking out 17 and giving
up only four hits.
Claude Arnold, former Colum
bia backstop, is manager. Hilton,
Simmons and Vassey compose the
pitching staff. The infielders are
McCorder, Hawkins, Inman and
McCall. Martin, Mabry and Hunt
ley w'ili play the outfield.
Henrietta intends to have one
of the strongest amateur teams in
the state. They played their first
real game Monday, being defeated
by Kings Mountain 7-3.
Henrietta Mills would like to
meet any fast amateur team in a
radius of 100 miles. If you want
a real game get in touch with G.
C. Hardin, of Caroleen, N. C.
FLORENCE MILLS NEWS
Eighteen pupils passed the ex
amination of the First Division of
the New Convention Normal Man
ual, under the able teaching of
Miss Mary Sue Hunt, at the Flor
ence Baptist church recently. The
other two divisions will be taught
by Rev. C. C. Matheney and Mr.
Stevens, assisted by Miss Hilliard,
in the near future.
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Mrs. Jay Hardin is seriously ill.
we regret to report.
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Rev. H. C. Sisk is attending the
Annual Camp Meeting of the Miss
ionary Methodist Church of Am
erica convening at Rutherfordton
this week. Rev. Sisk, who is
President of the Society, reports
much interest.
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Mrs. John M. Collins and daugh
ters, Miss Louana and Mrs. James
Paris, are spending some time at
the bedside of the former's grand
daughter, and the latter's niece
-ittle Lois Hardin, who is serious
ly ill.
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Beginning Monday night of this
week, the Florence Mills will op
a large portion of its ma
chinery day and night for sev
eral months.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lox Hardin have
"loved to t orest City from Shelby,
nn - iiav e secured employment in
the Florence Mills.
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- tev - C- J. Goforth and family,
cl near Chesnee, were recent visi
tors here.
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nn ie Walker and family
or Shelby, attended religious ser
>~es at Hillsville church Sundav.
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~ 1 °}L ave a hearty invitation to
Study The Bible Class," to
•neet at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
eorge Wright, this week, Friday
evening at 7:45, o'clock. "Search
the scriptures for in them ye
think y e have eternal life, and
"ley are they which testify of me.'
—Jesus.
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Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Harris and
ri n r were visiting in South
recently*,
xwo acres of good improved pas
w°rth more than i:.i av-
ge 25 acre pasture of the coun
_ B - B - Ooggett sells Fords.
FOREST CITY COURIER
This is the latest in footwear —a
modification of the Russian boot
The new footwear is seen only on
the flapper, who in summer time,
simplv most have something to take
the place of the unlatched overshoes.
WOMAN MAIL CARRIER
MAKING GOOD
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Writing of notable visitors 't
the meeting of rural mail carriers
at Shelby, the Highlander says:
Another notable visitor was Mrs.
Annie Chapman, R. F. D. carrier
at Morven, N. C. —one of the few
women carriers in the Stat..-. She
is the widow of Dr. G. M- Chap
man, who formerly lived near
Sunshine, Rutherford, county.
has four sons, the oldest of whom
is in college, and she says a
month for working two and three
quarter hours a day beats teach
ing "hollow." Mrs. Chapman is an
enthusiastic R. F. D. woman and
is very popular in the association.
She is always sent as a delegate
to the national convention, the
next one being held September
17th, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Mrs. unapman is the daughter
of Dr. Ford, of Hickory. She_ is
well known in this county, having
taught school at Lattimore and
Belwood.
GIVE THE OTHER FELLOW A
CHANCE
Human nature is pretty much
alike the world over. We are all
disposed to be more or less intol
erant of the other fellow's views
or think that he is wrong if his
views do not happen to agree with
ours. Much injustice is practiced
daily because we won't concede
that somebody else who differs
with us has not the same right to
his opinion a we have l to ours. We
get to the place, many of us,
where we think that simply be
cause we believe a thing is right
it naturally follows that it is so.
Any mistaken idea on any subject
belongs to the other fellow 7 . And
this "other felow" thinks the same
of us, whether he is judging our
views on religion, politics, busi
ness,, education, or what not.
It is well enough to have decid
ed convictions on any subject, but
we should remember that the Lord
did not make us all alike or in
tend that we should look at things
from the same viewpoint. We
should try to school ourselves in
charity and tolerance.
BOSTIC R. 2 NEWS
July 17—The farmers in our
section are very busy laying by
their crops. We have been hav
ing plenty of rain of late and
vegetation is looking good.
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There was an ice cream supper
at Mr. Ed Melton's last Saturday
night. Many were present and
enjoyed the occasion.
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Mrs. Mary Owens, of High Point
is spending several days with rel
atives and friends in this commu
nity.
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Protracted meeting is to begin
at Walls and Salem next Sunday.
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Success to the Courier and its
many readers.
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FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY JULY 20, 1922
| Reconstruction Days |
I hi Rutherford County f
f "i Rutherford county the recov
ti. from the effects of the war
was . low but steady. The cruel
war was at last over, the darker
days of the Reconstruction passed j
heavily but stressfully; the South j
began to recover from the ruin
wrought by the aw T ful struggle
and its aftermath. The men who 1
had followed Lee in Virginia or j
suffered in the trenches, around
Petersburg and Richmond now en
tered heartily into the task of re
building the waste places. Some
of the soldier boys who had been
( wounded, or held in prison, did
nob get back to their homes until
the latter part of 18G5. When they
did return they too began the
work. The war was over, it is
true, but the battles of peace, no
less stern and unrelenting-, had to
be fought; and the manhood of
Rutherford, that had heard with
[out fear the whistling bullets and
| n the glimmer of bayonets, did
| not hesitate to do their part,
i Rutherford was in the gloom of
i'i (eat; but it needed development,
i he four years of war had arrest
v u the march of progress in al
most every line of industry. There
was no enterprise in agriculture,
no manufacturing, no lumbering*
no banking- and none of the other
iines of business now being so
successfully conducted in \ee
county. The red hand of war had
blasted every important indus* y
and stagnation was F-tfdkino'
abroad.
But the heroes of the trendies
were no less brave in home de
velopment than they had been on
the battlefield, with no less cour
age, in the piping times of peace,
thr-m they had displayed on a hun
dred fields of carnage. The boys
who had gone out to battle with
enthusiasm in 1861 and returned
in 18* : o, un.conquered but. over
whelmed, entered with zeal into
the task of development. With in
dustry and enterprise eharact'.-i"-
istic of a people determined to suc
ceed, the county began to emerge
from its stupor and put on new
life.
Gloom and disaster, however al
most as bad as the storm of wan
was just ahead. With the advent
of peace and the freedom of the
negro, grave feelings of uneasiness
became apparent as to the status i
of the freedrnan and his political
affiliations.
During the war the county had
been represented in the General
Assembly as follows:
1860: House of Representatives,
Champion T. N. Davis, Berryman
H. Padgett.
1862: Senate, M. O. Dickerson;
House of Representatives, A. R.
Bryant, J. B. Carpenter.
1864: Senate, Wm. J. T. Miller;
House of Representatives, A. R.
Bryant, James L. Carson.
For the years of 1865-66 C. L.
Harris w r as elected to the Senate.
In 1865 Nathan Scoggin and J. M.
Hamilton were chosen to represent
the county in the House, and
Nathan Scoggin w-as re-elected and
with G. W. Logan took their seats
in 1866. To represent Rutherford
in the convention of 1865, called
to rescind the ordinances of seces
sion and ratify the emancipation
of the slaves Geo. W. Logan and
C. L. Harris were chosen.
In this time of stress and un
easiness, all eyes were focused:
upon the Federal Congress, anx
iously awaiting action by that body
regarding the restoration of the
state to its position as a member
of the Union. It was not until
1867 that Congress decided defin
itely upon a policy for the seced
ed states. In Marcjp. of that year
the first of the Reconstruction
HOMEY PHILOSOPmCgPI^
Here was young Jim Jones just went into his back garden to
see how his grape vines were coming along, and every one of
them was dead —not a leaf in sight. He was sure he had doped
the whole thing out so he would have a wonderful grape juice
crop this year. He got the finest vines, planted them with the
greatest care, and then gave them a dose of manure he was sure
would make them come up great; In the winter months he dug
around them, and gave them more manure to keep them going
through the cold spell. "Burned up," remarked old Jake when
he saw them. "Ain't nothin' better'n manure, but too much kills.
Plants are like humans. Grapes most of all — when
they have tu light, a;ui don't get rich food too easy."
acts were passed, organising North
and South Carolina into a military
district with Gen. E. R. Canby as
military governor with headquar- j
ters at Charleston. In the same
year Congress passed the four
teenth Amendment, which confer
red the franchise upon the negro
men of the South, and, by the
same statue, withdrew it from
thousands of white men, who had
taken part in the late war.
By this Reconstruction act more
than 1,100 negro men became leg
alized citizens'of Rutherford coun
ty and cast their vote for the
first time in 1868. In that year
the number of votes cast in this
county were as follows: Repub
lican, 1,678; Democratic 688. This
vote, compared with that of 1856,
shows a startling increase. In that
year the vote was as follows: Dem
ocrats, 560; Whigs, 407. There wa ;,
! therefore, an increase in 1868 oi
■ 1,399, at least 3-4 of which was
j negro vote. The white voters, \-
[ is apparent found themselves ■ove.*-
j whelmed with this avalanche of
j negro votes and an evil day con
[ sequently dawned.
The government of the county
| fell entirely into the hands of the
| negroes and their confederates,
| the carpetbaggers and scalawag*,
i This domination continued until
1888 when the alien government
was completely overthrown and
the native white people again re
sumed control. During that period
of political stagnation from i ■
to !SSB the county had, neverthe
less, made decided advances in ma
terial prosperity, and in the quiet
years that followed the spirit of
God brooded over her rivers,
plains and mountains, and brought
peace §nd. prosperity to the trou
bled land. Her lands were tilled
again, the wheels of mills and fac
tories were set whirring, and new
business enterprises offered to the
laboring man opportunities to earn
a fair living, andßutherford coun
ty, sharing with her sister coun
ties in the broad Southland the
prosperity for which her children
for many weary, painful years had
so bravely and manfully striven,
sees the dawn of a new day,
bright with the promise of a hap
py future for her sons and daugh
ters.
CLARENCE GRIFFIN,
Spindale, N. C.
OLD LAND GRANT IS
EXHIBITED, DATED 1769
In is a frame in the Cleveland
Bank and Trust company there is
an old land grant from George
Third, of England, conveying the
farm now owned by Mrs. Stough
Hopper and Mrs. Alice Eskridge.
The original deed or land grant
is dated May 7th, 1767, and reads
as follows: "George Third, by the
grace of God, ruler of Great Brit
tain, France and Ireland, King de
fender of the faith, etc. To all
whom these presents shall come,
Greeting: Know ye, that we, for
and in consideration of the rents
and duties herein received have
given, granted and by these pres
ents, of us, our heirs, successors,
give and grant unto William Sims,
a tract of land containing 600
acres lying and being in the
county of Tryon in our province
of North Carolina on both sides
of small branch of Broad river,
etc." Here follows a brief descrip
tion of the boundaries, but very
indefinite because land was ol
very little value in those days and
slight variations were of no con
sequence. The old land grant is
in a fine state of preservation con
sidering its age.—Cleveland Star.
THE KAISER
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A new and most recent picture
! of William HohenzoHem, former
kaiser, taken at his retreat at
Doorn. Holland. The former war
lord nas aged considerably sine*
the war, as may be noted.
COURIER HAS TROUBLE
'
I 1 lie Courier is not up to stand
. aixi. this wee k and a good many
I news items have been left out and
I others curtailed, on account of us
j having trouble with the iinograph
imachine. The heating apparatus
j went on a rampage, and after be -
jing down for some time, was fin
a'ly fixed by that master mechanic
; and clever gentleman, JJr. John
i Poole. We are under lasting ob
! ligations to Mr. Poole for his good
.work, which enabled us to get the
machine started yesterday after
noon
AGED WOMAN PASSES
AWAY AT LATTIMORE
Latimore, July 16—This com
munity was saddened by the death
j of Mrs. Mary McKee who died last
[Friday, July 7. She leaves five
' children, G. A. McKee, S. L. McKee
and Mrs. W. J. Greene, of Latti
more R-l, Mrs James Green, of
Polkville, and Mrs. B. Blanton, of
: Hillis, 24 grandchildren and a
great number of relatives and
friends to mourn her death
She had been an active and
faithful member of Rehobeth
Methodist church for a quarter of
a century or more. The funeral
took place at Rehobeth Saturday
afternoon July Bth at 2 o'clock,
Rev. Mr. Cordell conducting the
j services.
The pall bearers and flower
! girls were grandchildren of the
deceased, and the many beautiful
i flowers showed the love and high
esteem of all who knew her.
WEST END NEWS
Mr. C. L. Williamson, has been
very sick for the past week.
recovery seems very slow. His
many friends wish for him a
speedy recovery.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Williamson,
spent the day at Chimney Rock
Sunday.
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Miss Flora Marks has returned
from a week's visit to her friend,
Miss Ida Long of Rutherfordton,
route four.
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Miss Rossie Edwards, after
spending a week with her sister.
Mrs. Vance Gilbert, has returned
to her home in Melvin Hill.
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Mr. Alfred Withrow is at home
for a few days. He reports a good
business selling maps in Gaston
county.
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Mr. J. P. Hardin visited Chero
kee Sunday.
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Mr. P. H. Groce and family, of
Spindale, visited Mr. G. W. Long-
Sunday.
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Mr Tom Gilliam yisited his
father at Chester, S. C„ last week.
He says the boll weevil is very
destructive in the section.
$1.50 per year, in Advance
COUNTY WIDE
EXCURSION TO BE
HELD NEXT WEEK
Hope to Have Large Crowd
Go With Agent Thrash
On Visit Over County.
Farmers and business men and
all who are interested in red clov
er. alfalfa, better cows and better
; farming- in the county are urged
jto join with the crowd and go on
; the county tour with County
! Agent Thrash on Tuesday, July
25th.
Especially should the farmers
go on the tour. Some of the
j county's best farms will be visited
and the trip will prove very pro
fitable to all.
The following is the schedule
for the day:
; Rutherford ton, leave 7:30 a. m.
E. L. Parton's Farm 8:15
O. J. Hollar's Farm 9:00
! Frank Tate's Farm 9:30
James Watson's Farm .... 9:45
; W. L. Lon's Farm 10:15
■ Sunshine Farm 10:45
Beaty Harrill's Farm 11:00
j A. L. Green's Farm 11:30
T. C. Spurlin's Farm 12:00
Cliffside Dairy 12:15
(Irover Haynes' Farm
| V. V. Fortune, Mgr 2:00
J. C. Powell's Farm 2:45
J. D. Link's Farm 3:30
: L. C. Ellington's Farm 4:15
! For further information write
| County Agent L. D. Thrash, Ruth
erford ton.
EFIRD'S PICNIC
All work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy." Efird has just
i closed one of the most successful
j sales they have ever had. In ap
preciation of the faithful services
of the force, Mr. P. T. Reinhardt,
j the popular and genial manager,
: had planned an outing- for them
land several invited friends. The
j party left yesterday at 3 o'clock
l for Cold Creek, near Chimney
Rock, where they enjoyed a
! fish fry and everything else that
lis good to eat. Several good fish
i ermen in charge of Mr. J. C.
j Scruggs spent the morning at
.Cold Creek catching fish and get
; ting everything ready. The em-
I ployees and their friends included
! Misses Nellie Champion, Jeanne
Moss, Robbie Biggerstaff, Ruth
! Scruggs, Mary and Kate Long,
Ethel Cowan, Ellie Huntley, Fan
nie King; Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Scruggs, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Mc-
Daniel, Mr. and Mrs. Buford Flack,
Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Johnson, Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Long, Mrs. Ida
Blanton; Messrs. P. T. Reinhardt,
Walter Moore, Martin Mauney,
Chailes Flack, Spurgeon Moss,
Clyde Sanders, Paul and Max Wat
son
MRS. BARBER ENTERS CON
TEST
Mr. A. O. Dalton, representing
the Asheville Citizen, has been in
town several days working for a
contest for the Citizen. Mrs. F.
I. Barber has been appointed one
of the contestants in this section,
which is known as section 4. No
woman in town has ever given her
service more willingly and cheer
fully for all kinds of public ser
vice than Mrs. Barber, all without
one cent of compensation. It is
up to the public to stand by her
in this contest, the first time she
has ever asked a favor of the peo
ple of Forest City. Two hundred
copies of the Citizen are being
distributed free each day for two
weeks. These, with the circular
letter sent out, will explain the
contest. Six automobiles will be
given as prizes. I* is hoped that
Mrs. Barber will secure one of
them.
MEET AT GREEN HILL
There will be a meeting of the
Parent-Teachers Association at
Green Hill consolidated school,
Friday, July 21st, all day. All par
ents are urged to attend, ihe
road will be worked out in front
of the building. Picnic dinner on
the grounds. The general good of
the school will be discussed and
plans made for next session. Miss
Eva Logan and others will be
present and speak. Every patron
of the school should be present.
Bring your tools to work the roa
with and a basket of dinner. Tell
your neighbors about it, and Je
all come.
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