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BIG FIREWORKS
AT COUNTY FAIR
OCTOBER 6-10
Huce Fireworks Demonstration
4 to Be Put on Daily By
The Ohio Fire
works Co.
Announcement was made today by
Secretary Elmore that an elaborate
fireworks show has been contracted
for to be presented in con
tion with the Rutherford County
Fair to be held October 6-10.
The contract for the fireworks dis
play has been awarded to the Ohio
Display Fireworks Company of Cleve
land, Ohio. This company makes a
specialty of presenting mammoth
night fireworks shows.
Further announcements will be
made shortly concerning the fire
works program in detail.
A special fireworks expert will be
sent here to look after the entire fire
works program that is to be shown
m connection with the County
Fair. Word to this effect was re
ceived here today from the Ohio Dis
nlay Fireworks Company which was
awarded the contract gi presenting
the mammoth show.
An entire change of program each
night was also promised by the Com
pany. An abundance of 1926 fire
works creations is the promise of the
company.
Secretary Elmore stated today that
with the weather man playing no
tricks, the biggest crowd that has ever
been seen at an outdoor performance,
during the history of the county will
be present at the gigantic fireworks
exhibition, which will take place each
night of the fair except Saturday.
"Young folks, old folks, everybody
come, come along to the fireworks
show and have a lot of fun. ' this will
be the slogan on the lips of everyone
on the evening that the Fair Associ
ation has arranged to have the giant
fireworks show begin October 6.
It surely wilj be fun for everyone.
Little Johnny will be tickled to death
when the bombs explode with a roar
that nearly makes one deaf. Mom
and Grandpop will be highly pleased
and entertained by the rare color
beauty and realistic affect of the
stupendously large floral numbers
that are included in the program.
This is only one of the big features
of the County Fair. Remember the
dates October 6-10.
REVIVAL AT FOREST
CITY M. E. CHURCH
Next Sunday morning at eleven
o'clock the pastor, Dr. W. R. Ware,
will begin a series of services. It is
earnestly desired that these services
will result in a gracious revival of
religion. Each day there will be ser
vice at 10 A. M., and 7:30 P. M.
Everybody is cordially invited. You
will be assured of good singing and
earnest, evangelical preaching. We
give special and fraternal invitation
to all the pastors in town and com
munity to be with us as often and
as regularly as possible.
Rev. Clifton Ervin, of Rutherford
ton, will have charge of the singing.
When you have heard Mr. Ervin once
you will want to hear him again. The
paster will, by God's help, do the
preaching.
Rev. J. Chalmus Grose will preach
in the absence of the pastor at Pleas
ant Grove church next Sunday morn
ing at 11 o'clock. Mr. Grose is a
ministerial student at Duke Univer
sity. He expects to return to this
institution in a few days to complete
his studies. He is a fine young man.
Give him a large and prayerful hear
ing next Sunday.
WARNS AGAINST
WASTE 0F WATER
City Manager Webb has asked The
Courier to warn the public against
needless waste of water and says that
conservation must be practiced until
we get much needed rains.
There must be no washing of cars,
sprinkling of lawns or gardens or oth
er waste of water. Police have been
instructed to watch for offenders and
those caught breaking the rule will
suffer the penalty of having their
water cut off, according to order of
the board of commissioners.
FOREST CITY COURIER
YOUNG MAN IS
KILLED BY TRAIN
SATURDAY NIGHT
Rufus Miller, of Lockhart, S. C.
Mangied By Train in Bos
tic Yards When Thrown
Under Box Car.
A very distressing accident, occur
ring Saturday night, at Bostic yards,
claimed the life of Rufus Miller, 18
years old, of Lockhart, S. C. Rufus
had been visiting a relative, James
Milftr, of Caroleen. Saturday after
noon they walked from Caroleen to
Bostic, as Rufus was planning re
turning home on the evening C. C.
& O. train. While waiting for the
train, about 9:00 p. m., he was lean
ing against a box car. The C. C. &
O. freight was shifting on the yard
and coupled to the car against which
young Miller was standing, throwing
him under the wheels, dragging him
about four car lengths before Mr.
James Miller, who was standing a
short distance away, succeeded in at
tracting the engineer's attention and
having him to bring the train to a
stop. The jar of the cars coupling
over-balanced young Miller, throwing
him under the wheels, which cut off
both arms and injured one shoulder
considerably. Dragging him farther
down the track both legs were sev
ered from his body. . After removing
him from the tracks, Dr. Bostic was
summoned, but could give very little
aid, owing to the great extent of his
injuries. He remained conscious un
til about 11 p. rn., during which time
he gave instructions as to where he
should be sent. He died on the yard
about II o'clock. Hovis and Keeter,
undertakers of Rutherfordton. remov
ed the body to their establishment
early Sunday morning and carried it
to his home in Lockhart. S. C. Mon
day.
Little was learned oi his family
other than his mother died about six
months ago, and that his father and
other relatives reside in Lockhart. He
was unmarried.
COUNTY CLUB TO
MEET SEPT. 15
Regular Monthly Meeting To
Be Held In Kiwanis HalL
Forest 'City—Excellent
Program Arranged.
The September meeting of the
Rutherford County Club will be held
in the local Kiwanis HalL Tuesday,
September 15th at 1 p. m.
The program, as arranged, will be
along the lines of knowing Ruther
ford county better.
Several speakers will be present,
among them will be Prof. W. R. Hill,
who will tell of the educational prog
ress of Rutherford county for the
past five, or more, years.
Mr. O. C. Erwin will discuss the
Recorder's court and the county fair
activities.
Mr. F. E. Patton, county demon
stration agent, will talk on the agri
cultural growth of the county, while
Miss Gladys Perry, county home
agent, will teil of her work in the
county.
The program committee announces
that another possible feature will be
special music for the occasion.
All are urged to attend.
LEADER STORE
ENLARGING SPACE
Mr. Jack Michalove, popular man
ager of the Leader Store, is having
his store building enlarged. Forty
feet of space is being added in the
rear, while the entire store room is
being remodeled. Increasing business
makes the addition of more room nec
essary, says Mr. MichaTove.
* NOTICE TO HIGH
* SCHOOL STUDENTS *
* All new high schoofi stii
* dents and last year's sev
* enth grade are requested
* to meet at the Forest City *
* Grammar Grade School *
* Friday, Sept. 11, at 3:30 *
* p. m., to make out their *
* schedule of work.
**********
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1925
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Our County Fair Will Be Held Oct. 6-10. Everybody Will Be There. There'll Be So;
Spirited Races. Too.
CITIZENS ASKED TO PRAY FOR RAIN
Methodist Ministers 5 Association Calls For Day
Of Prayer On September 12.
I am asked by the Methodist Min
isters Association of Rutherford
County to make the request and to
announce to all the citizens of our
county that a day of prayer be and
is called for Saturday, September
12th.
My dear fellow-citizens, let us of
any and all denominations, of every
race, class and creed open our eyes
to the conditions as they are and let
us call our people together at our
churches, our mills or our places of
business at 10 to 11 o'clock a. m.,
or from 3 to 4 o'clock p. m., to have
an hour of repenting, of confession
and of faithful, earnest prayer that
God of our fathers, the God of Eli
jah, may have mercy upon us and
let fall upon our parched land show
ers of refreshing rain.
Let us further request and an
nounce that if before the day and
hour appointed for prayer, a kind
Providence should visit us with re
freshing showers we meet at the same
appointed hour for songs and prayers
of thanksgiving to God, the giver of
a:l goo£ things.
Sent. 8, 1925.
J. 0. ERVIN.
A Personal Word to AU.
First of all, lest some stranger or
misguided one should say: "Ho is in
his dotage; he is old-fashioned and
out of date, or he is pessimistic," I
want to mark all of that and any
such like with the stamp of ignor
ance or falsehood, and to announce
to all strangers that I am a strong,
fast-running, high-jumping man of
middle life, and am red-headed (not
gray), warm-hearted, bounding and
bouncing, ready to fight the devil and
all his gang. Ready to go over the
top or to die, if need be, in the
trenches in defense of the church of
God and for the things which make
for righteousness and for clean and
noble living.
Under this preamble or preface, let
me say we are living in a fast and
an awful day when passion and pride
and love for worldly and sinful pleas
ure is the order of the day and the
established custom of the hour for
seven days in the week and twenty
four hours in the day.
It is a good time to cry out with
the apostle, "Awake, thou that steep
est, and arise from the dead and
Christ shall give thee light."
It is time to rescue the holy sab
bath from the godless mob that it be
not a day of feasting and joy-riding
and picnicing and a free-for-all da/
\ RED LETTER DAYS
in revelling and dissipation. More
cars should be parked at the morn
ing and evening "hours of worship in
front of the church and fewer of
them in front of hotels, boarding
houses and out along the public high
ways at these hours.
When a pastor who is prayerfully
and honestly trying to lead his young
people out of the common place and
out of the merely ordinary and medi
ocre way of living into higher and
holier paths of service and to bigger
and better lives, I say when a pastor
has such desires and announces and
re-announces subjects for discussion
that seem to lead to this end and
when the hour for such services ar
rives to know that the very people
for whofn the message was prepared
are out joy-riding and feasting, sing
ing and picnicing and desecrating the
day of the Lord and turning their
backs upon that sacred institution —
the church of God which they have
sworn in the presence of God and
man to stand by and to support by
| their means and by their presence,
yes, may we hear it again, "Awake,
thou that sleepest, and arise from
the dead and Christ shall give thee
Slight."
Again, when it comes to pas.-; lhat
among our high school boys and
: girls and older ones, of course, that
there are only two forms of amuse
ment—one the inspiration of which
is the sex instinct, and the other the
heart of which is the gambling in
stinct. And when the children rush
into these hell-born and devil-directed
activities to dwarf and to kill out in
them the higher and holier God-given
instincts and impulses and we, as
parents, sit supinely and sinfully by
and allow or even go far enough,
as some mothers do, to encourage
such things, then it is time to cry
out with the repenting Psaimist,
"Have mercy upon me, 0 God, ac
cording to thy loving kindness, ac
cording unto the multitude of thy
tender mercies blot out all my tians
gressions. Against thee only have I
sinned and done this evil in thy
sight." Psalm 51.
J. O. EH YIN.
* * *
A Special Call to the People Of
Forest City:
Dr. Ware and Dr. Ayers request
their people and all others who will
do so to meet at the Methodist church
next Saturday morning at ten o'-
clock to jinite in prayer to God that
He may send rain upon our thirsty
community. The Methodist Ministers
By A. B. CRAPiN j
Conference issued sucli caU in their
meeting last Monday also.
Let the business men close their
| business for a few minutes and come
ito the church promptly at ten o'clock
i Saturday morning.
W. R. WARE
W. A. AYERS.
KIWANIS CLUB
HAS GOOD MEETING
Will Entertain Rutherford! Club
Next Monday Evening—
Kick On Telephone
Service.
Quite a good sized crowd was in
attendance at the meeting of the Ki
! wanis Club Monday evening. Two
j new members were received—Prof.
Sutton and Mr. Wm. S. Hartley. Sev
eral members who have dropped from
the club have indicated their desire
to become reinstated with the advent
of cooler weather.
It was decided to entertain the
Rutherlordton Club on next Monday
evening. This entertainment is due
them for beating the local baseball
team in a series of games. A large
crowd of visiting Kiwanians are ex
pected to be present.
Several talks were made in regard
to the inefficient telephone service
that Forest City is getting at present.
A resolution was passed ordering the
secretary to take the matter up with
[the local manager and ask for better
| service and a uicoker response when
calls are put in. ?Co blame is at
tached to the local manager, who is
doing his best, but the appeal is to
the Piedmont Company to provide the
manager with better equipment and
more experienced operators.
The matter of an appropriate mark
er for the grave of Lieut. McClellan,
Revolutionary war hero interred at
Brittain cemetery, was discussed and
passed to the educational committee,
to make report at the next meeting.
Mr. G. E. Morgan, popular county
commissioner, was a guest of the club ,
and invited the Kiwanians to meet
with them at the Mt. Vernon com
munity fair on Oct. 2. An effort is :
being made to put the Mt. Vernon
school on the accredited list, which
no doubt will be accomplished.
Rev. Geo. R. Gillespie was intro-!
duced and made a spirited short talk.
He was especially profuse in praises
of the merchants and citizens of the
city for their uniform courtesy and
noted particularly the spirit of co
operation and service manifest on all
sides. He thinks Forest City has a
wonderful future. Rev. Gillespie has
been warmly received on all sides and
is a valuable addition to our citizen
ship.
$1.50 Per Year In Advance
'POPULAR COUPLE
| ARE MARRIED AT
, RDTHERFORBTON
Wedding Of Miss Bertha Mc-
Rorie and Mr. John W. Dal
ton Takes Place at M. E.
Church Tuesday.
The First Methodist church of
Rutherfordton was the scene of a
loveiy wedding Tuesday afternoon at
four o'clock, when Miss Bertha Mc-
Rorie became the bride of Mr. John
W. Dalton of Forest City. Rev. J. O.
Ervin, pastor of the bride, officiated,
using the impressive ring ceremony.
The interior of the new church was
made more attractive by decorations,
the altar being a of artistically
arranged potted plants intermingled
with baskets of purple and white as
ters, tied with white tulle bows.
Prior to the ceremony Rev. Geo.
Clifton Ervin of Greensboro, with
Mrs. W. C. Logan, organist, sang,
"At Dawning'* and "Till Then." The
organist was gowned in orchid geor
gette and wearing a picture hat of
old rose velvet. The wedding party
entered to the strains of Lohengrin's
wedding march.
The ushers entered as follows: Dr.
F. Bobo Scruggs, of Cliff side, with
Mr. W. C. Mcßorie, Jr., and Mr. G.
C. Shuford, of Cliffside, with Mr.
Chas. Dalton. They were followed
by the bridesmaids, Misses Effie Dal
ton with Florence Edwards and Mar
tha Twitty of Asheville with Julia
Justice. In becoming costumes the
bridesmaids added much to the
beauty of the scene. Miss Dalton,
cousin of the groom, was strikingly
handsome in a dress of orchid geor
jgette. Miss Edwards wore a lovely
dress of pints georgette while Misses
Twitty and Justice wore dresses of
blue and yellow georgette, which em
phasized their girlish charms. All
j wore picture hats of black velvet
and carried huge of lavender
i and purple asters. Next came Miss
i Lois Jusiice, maid-of-honor, wearing
I a handsome dress of nile green geor
|gette with silver trimmings and large
jhat of black velvet carrying an arm
ful of lovely asters.
Master Warren McKorio, brother
of the bride, cunning in a Lord
Fauntleroy suit, entered bearing the
ring on a dainty silver tray. The
bride was very charming as she
marched down the aisle upon the arm
of her father, Attorney W. C. Mc-
Rorie, who gave her in marriage. She
was met at the altar by the groom,
who entered from the right with his
brother, Mr. George D. Dalton, best
The organist softly played, "To A
i Wild Rose" during the impressive
(ceremony. The bridal p?:rty left the
! church to the strains of Men
' delssohri's.
; The bride's dress was made of
J white georgette, with real lace crim
: mings. Her long flowing veil was ar
; ranged coronet fashion and caught
around the forehead with orange
: blossoms. She carried a huge ahow
!er bouquet of bride roses and lilies,
j of the valley.
The bride is the eldest daughter
i of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mcßorie. She
| has friends and schoolmates through
out the entire state who will be in
terested in her marriage. She is a
' graduate of the North Carolina Col
lege for Women, Greensboro, of ihe
j class of '24. She is charming and in
dustrious. She was a popular teach
er in the Henrietta schools last year.
The groom is the eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. H. Dalton, of near Forest
City. He is a native of Rutherford
county. He was educated at the Uni
versity of North Carolina and is now
manager of Dalton Bros. Department
Store of Forest City, a rising busi
ness firm. He is a member of the
Kiwanis Club of Forest City and is
a young man of sterling character
and public spirited. He is a most
promising young business man.
Immediately after the ceremony
the happy couple drove to Charlotte
where they caught a train for Wash
ington, D. C., Atlantic City and other
points to spend their honeymoon, aft
er which they will be at home cn Car
olina avenue, Forest City.
The many handsome and useful
gifts received by the couple bespeak
their popularity. The church was
overflowing with friends and rela
tives from all parts of Rutherford
county and adjoining sections to wit
ness the ceremony. They have the
best wishes of a host of friends.
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