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VOL VIII—NO. 43.
MORROW & TATE
STORE BURNED
AT ALEXANDER
Loss Qn Stock and Building
Estimated at $13,60*0;
Insurance, $6,000.
Alexander Aug. 2.—Sunday night j
between 8 and 9 o'clock, the people :
of Alexander were greatly alarmed
by a prolonged ringing of the mill
bell, and by a constant cry, "fire,
fire." On ascertaining the truthful
ness of the alarm a fire well under
way was discovered in the store of
Morrow & Tate. When the first no
tice of the fire was given by resident
■neighbors, the fire was so tar ad
vanced in its destructive course that
nothing could be done to stop it.
However, the fire engines from For
est City, and Rutherfordton were
called to prevent other buildings
burning, but they did not come.
Two buildings, a dwelling house and
a feed house, within 16 feet of the
store was miraculously saved. Chemi
cals were brought from the mill and
used on the adjacent houses, and a
great deal of water was used also,
thus preventing their catching fire.
The best and probable cause of the
fire was lightning. The building used
electric lights, and it is believed that
a faulty wiring of the electric wires
caused a flame which set the house
on fire. The total loss of the stock of
goods and building was estimated at
$f3,600. The building and stock of
goods were insured for $6,000. The
tickets and account book were saved
as Mr. Tate had them at his home,
but all the invoices were lost in the
fire. Mr. Tate will continue in the
mercantile business and will use his
feed house which was saved, for a
temporary store house.
The general impression is that the
mill business of the Alexander Man
ufacturing Company is considerably
better than it has been.
The Harris reunion will be held at
the home of Mr. Thomas Harris, on
August 6. The relatives are mostly
from Cherokee and Cleveland coun
ties, and requested to be present with
well filled baskets.
Rev. C. C. Matheny has gone to
First Board church to assist the pas
tor of that church in a revival. His
wife and little daughter, Alice, will
spend the week in Mooresboro, visit
ing relatives while Mr. Matheny is
away.
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Champion, Mr.
ar ; d Mrs. D. B. Randall, visited Mrs.
Sarah Allen, near Mt. Vernon, Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Allen motored
to Cramerton, Sunday to visit
friends.
Mr. M. C. Phillips has added a
Good Gulf gasoline tank to his cafe
for the convenience and accomoda
lion of the people of Alexander and
all users of gasoline.
The Southern trayn near Char
lotte ran over a Ford truck a few
days ago with six girls in it and
killed four of them and seriously
injured the other two. One of the
injured girls is expected to die from
injuries received in the wreck.
Mr. R. H. Owens and Mr. Clyde
M. Hester will leave Tuesday af
ternoon of this week for Wallace
ville, S. C., where they expect to
engage in the saw mill business for
a few months.
3be Bill Neal and Mr. Jay Hicks
ran together in their cars Sunday
night and injured Mrs. L. R. Cham
pion, who was with Mr. Neal, but
she was not seriously hurt, and is
now up and going again.
Mrs. C. C. Hicks and children re
turned home Sunday after a 'long
visit to Kannapolis, and other places.
The Alexander baseball team
played Buffalo Saturday and won by
the score of 13 to 4.
Men, please do not forget to come
to the Men's Bible Class next Sun
day morning at 10 o'clock. The young
men are invited to attend Mr. Dob
bins' class every Sunday morning.
Rev. H. C. Hester, principal of
the North Greenville Baptist Acade
my, will preach at the Alexander
Baptist church, next morn
ing, at 11 o'clock and Sunday even
ing at 7:30 o'clock. All the people
FOREST CITY COURIER
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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOR EST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
With His Father
The body of Robert Todd Lincoln
83, last of President Abraham Lin
coln's immediate family, will soon
be placed in the Lincoln tomb, near
that of his illustrious father, at
•Springfield, 111. He passed away
while asleep in nis summer home
at Manchester, Vt., last week.
GOOD FELLOWSHIP
AT RUTHERFORDTON
Kiwanis Club Has District
Governor C. Felix Harvey,
Present Forest City
Represented.
Rutherfordton, Aug. 2. The
Rutherfordton Kiwanis Club was
highly honored on the evening of
July 29 in having as its guest C.
Felix Harvey, governor of the Caro
lina district. He was introduced as
the finest example of the spirit and
purposes of Kiwanis and was heartily
received by the large number of local
Kiwanians and a delegation from
the Forest City Club.
In beginning his speech, Governor
Harvey paid his respects to Colonel
Eltinge Elmore, Lake Lure, and the
Isothermal Hotel. He said: "Colonel
Elmore is the finest representative
ever in Kiwanis." He provoked a
hearty la#ugh with statement of Col
onel Elmore's famous telegram on the
occasion of his going duck hunting
and finding himself too thinly clad.
It follows: "SOS BVD PDQ COD."
Governor Harvey's address spark
led with humorous stories. It took
on local color when he told of being
with Fred Hamrick at the Montreal
convention. He stated that Fred went
into a book store and called for light
reading.
The clerk suggested „ "The Ken
tucky Cardinal."
Fred said, "I'm not interested in
ecclesiastical discussions; I want
something light."
"It is not ecclesiastical in its na
ture; its abput a bird."
"I'm not interested in his private
life either," replied Fred.
Kiwanis was defined as a "de
veloper of men," "a modern day ap
plication of the Golden Rule," and
as "service of heart and hand."
Taken acristically, Kiwanis was made
to read:
r
K—is for kindness of heart.
I—is imagination and inspiration.
W—is work.
A—is ambition. '
N—is nobility of character.
I—is idealism.
S—is success.
The governor said that membership
in Kiwanis makes men better church
members, better fathers, better bus
iness and professional men. He
stated that Kiwanis evolves through
the stomach, the head, the hand, and
the heart. "Men join to enjoy the
luncheon once a week; later they see
Kiwanis as an organization of fine
principles and ideals; later they lend
their assistance in the carrying out
of the purposes of the organization;
and finally they become thoroughly
imbued with it and its work and find
in it an outlet for their best im
pulses."
Further, he said that Kiwanis
stands for fellowship—love of man
(Continued on Page Eight)
of Alexander are requested to be
present.
The Alexander B. Y. P. U. will
have a social at the school house,
next Saturday evening, beginning at
7:30 o'clock, all senior members are
invited to be present.
FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLI NA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1926
CITY BARBER SHOP
CHANGES ITS NAME
IN NEW LOCATION
Has Removed to Handsome
New Quarters in the Old
Farmers Bank Building.
The City Barber Shop this week
removed to its elegant new quarters
in the old Farmers Bank building, on
Depot street, just opposite the Peo
ples Drug Store, and henceforth will
be known as G. M. Padgett's Barber
Shop. The City Barber Shop, con
ducted for the past five years by Mr.
G. M. Padgett, has enjoyed a splen
did patronage and a reputation sec
ond to none for first-class tonsorial
work. Mr. Padgett is a man of fine
business ability, competent and ener
getic, and has built up a fine trade.
This increasing patronage made it
necessary for him to seek larger and
more modern quarters, and this has
been brought about by moving into
the handsome new quarters pro
vided by the Farmers Bank. The
equipment throughout has been re
newed and now the barber shop has
the very latest chairs and appliances
known to the tonsorial art. It is a
hobby with Mr. Padgett to employ
only the very best talent and his bar
bers are always at the head of their
profession and withal politeness and
courtesy is the very foundation of
his shop. Mr. Padgett thoroughly
subscribes to the old adage that
cleanliness is next to Godliness and
has the new shop strictly up-to-date
in sanitary efficiency and the strict
est modern methods of cleanliness.
He is offering a corps of barbers
thoroughly schooled in the latest
fashions and methods of the ton
sorial art, and they are making a
specialty of ladies' woi'k, while the
men are in no wise neglected. In
speaking to The Courier, Mr. Padgett
said, after describing his latest ap
purtenances, "It is the cool shop with
a warm welcome."
Mr. Padgett has made many friends
since his residence in Forest City.
He is a man of the strictest integ
rity, fair and square in all his deal
ings and a man of the most pleasing
personality. He has built a splendid
business and his many friends are
proud, of his success. He is a native
of this county, being a son of the
late J. L. Padgett, and was reared
in the Sunshine section.
His friends are confident of his
continued success in his splendid
new quarters.
"A KENTUCKY BELLE,"
AT ALEXANDER SCHOOLS
Union Mills, Aug. 3.—"A Ken
tucky Belle," a fine comedy in three
acts, by T. Belle Chambers, will be
presented in the auditorium of the
Alexander Schools, Inc., formerly
the Round Hill Academy, by local
talent, on Saturday evening, August
8, at 8 p. m.
I This promises to be one of the
best plays ever given here and you
are cordially invited to attend. Ad
mission fee will be 25 cents and 35
cents, which will be donated to Round
Hill Baptist church.
The play is composed of the fol
lowing:
Misses Irene and « Cleo Barnes,
Daisy and Rose Johnson, Edna Allen,
Mary Sue Nanney, and Geneva
Coveny, and Messrs. Jones Smart,
Fred and Athlee Buchanan, Brooks
and Buck Coveny, Hudson Sparks,
and Frank Simpson.
SINKOE'S REMARKABLE OFFER
Along with the many other big
bargains offered by Sinkoe's Depart
ment Store in their sale beginning
tomorrow, they have put on a spe
cial of The Forest City Courier at
j one dollar per year, and urge their
' patrons to take advantage of this
bargain. The Courier sellls regu
larly at $1.50. You save 50 cents.
During Sinkoe's sale this offer of
one dollar will apply to renewal as
well as new subscriptions. If you
are not taking your county paper,
don't miss this opportunity. Pay at
the store or at this office, but get
your home paper.
BASEBALL
AT SPINDALE,
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
To Battle Greenville Y. M. C.
A. Fast Team-'"Bill" Col
lins To Pitch.
Spindale, Aug. 4.—Spindale is to
have two of the best baseball games
of the season, Friday and Saturday,
when the local team crosses bats with
Greenville Y. M. C. A.
The Greenville team is made up of
college and high school stars in and
around Greenville. The team is
managed by "Lolly" Grey, a former
big league player and one of the
smartest baseball men in the game.
He is the coach of the Greenville
high school team, which last year
won the South Carolina high school
and prep school championship. Their
pitchers will probably be Martin,
(Clemson College pitcher) and Hen
ry Huff, who only lost one game in
four years' pitching for Greenville
high. McManaway (Furman) will
catch. Buddy Laval, son of Billy
Laval, coach of Furman, is a star
at short-stop. Some others are Fay
onsky, of the University of Va.,
Mulligan, of the Springfield Y. M.
C. A. College, and Eskey, three-let
ter man of Clemson.
Spindale will have Bill Collins to
pitch either Friday or Saturday's
game. Collins is well known around
this section, and belongs to the
Spartanburg South Atlantic League
team. "Dink" Tomblin will pitch the
other game with Grose held in re
serve.
Spindale's lineup will be as follows:
Yelton C. F.; Williams L. F.; Tho
masson 3-B.; Setzer 2-B.; Nannel
1-B.; Watson R, F.; Corn C.; Rob
bins S. S.; Collins P.; Tomblin P.;
and Grose P.
Friday's game wlil be called at
4:30 p. m., and Saturday's at 3:30
p. m. Admission: Men 25c, ladies
and children 10c, and grandstand 10.
CAROLINA MINSTRELS
TO GIVE TWO SHOWS
The Carolina Minstrels will be
given at the Rutherfordton elemen
tary school auditorium, Friday, Au
gust 6, at 8 p. m., and at Ellenboro
school auditorium, Saturday, August
7, at 8 p. m., under the auspices
of the Fred Williams Post, No. 75,
American Legion. At Ellenboro the
school will share the profits. Doors
open at 7:30 p. m. and the show will
"begin at 8 p. m. promptly. Admis
sion *it Rutherfordton will be 50
cents with 75 cents for reserved
seats. The reserved seats are on sale
at the Rexall Drug store.
Admission at Ellenboro will be:
children, 25 cents, adults 35 cents
and reserved seats, 50 cents.
Mr. Fred Rudisill, of the Rudisill
Producing Co., of Charlotte, is di
recting the minstrel. Mr. Rudisill has
had several years of successful ex
perience in the mipistrel business.
He always produces high class, clean
and most entertaining minstrels.
There will be new jokes, pretty cos
tumes, new and catchy songs, good
singing and dancing novelties galore
and last, but not least, pretty girls.
The show is a riot of fun from be
ginning to end. You are very
hard-hearted if it does not make you
laugh until your side hurts. The
oriental PsyCho-Analysist, Ali Delhi
of Persia will be on hand. You must
not miss his celebrated manifesta
tions of thought reading, better
known as mental transcendentalism.
This act alone is worth the price of
admission. All the local stars will be
in action. The awkward squad will
be a special feature.
Don't miss this, the best show of
the season. Remember the time and
place.
COUNTY S. S. CONVENTION
A splendid article covering fully
the County Sunday School Conven
tion at Caroleen, written by The
Courier's special fcorrespondent, is
crowded out this week, much to our
regret. Lock for this next week.
Tex*s Bride-to-Be |
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Dan Cupid knocks out Tex Rick
ard with blow to heart, will be the
news headlines shortly after Sept.
11th, when the premiere fight pro
rootor will wed Miss Maxine
Hodges of New York City, shown
here in photo.
CAFFNEY CONCERN
IS BRANCHING OUT
Establish Forest City Branch
Early In August.
I
Gaffney Ledger:
Carroll & Byers Company, Gaff
ney's largest mercantile firm, is mak
ing arrangements to open a branch
clothing store in Forest City, N. C.,
early in August. The Forest City
establishment will be under the
management of Claud A. Petty,
popular young Gaffney man, who has
been connected with the retail cloth
ing and dry goods department of the
company here for many years. A
large building, containing ? floor
and a half and besement on one of
the principal streets 01 Forest City
has been leased for a term of years.
The building is now occupied, but
will be vacated at the close of this
week, and Carroll & Byers Company
will secure possession immediately
thereafter.
Carroll & Byers Company oper
ates five stores in Gaffney. These
include the dry goods and depart
ment store on Limestone street, the
grocery store, hardware store, and
wholesale grocery, and the One Price
Cash Store on Granard street. The
Forest City establishment will be the
first out-of-town branch to be es
tablished by the company.
The Forest City store will be ar
ranged very similar to the local dry
goods department, according to com
pany officials, with one side being
devoted to men's wear, the opposite
to ladies' goods and notions, the
basement to sheetings and heavy
cloths, while the second floor will
contain ladies' underwear and ar
ticles of that type. Complete new
fixtures will be installed. A central
wrapping and cash station will be
near the middle of the building
where all parcels will be prepared for
delivery to customers.
•
. The stock of the Forest City store
will be confined to standard articles
of merchandise in the medium price
class, company officials said. Nei
ther extremely cheap, nor goods
selling higher than medium prices,
will be featured, but everything will
be of the nature that appeals to the
better class, conservative trade. No
credit will be extended, the store
operating on a strictly cash basis.
While company officials have made
no statement to this effect, it is un
derstood if the Forest City venture
proves as successful as hoped it il
almost certain that other branches
will be opened in other cities in the
future. The stockholders, at a meet
ing in January, authorized the of
ficials to proceed with such a plan
as far as deemed advisable. After
considerable investigation of a num
ber of possible locations, Forest
City was chosen for the first branch.
Carroll & Byers Company is one
of the oldest, as well as the largest
mercantile firms in Gaffney. The
history of the concern goes back to
the days when Gaffney was a village,
and the growth of the business has
kept pace with the development of
this city.
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C. 0. RIDINGS
10 SPEAK ON
CHESTNUT HILLS
Band Concert and Speaking at
7:30 P. M., Wednesday,
August 4—Large Crowd
Expected.
Attorney C. 0. Ridings will deliver
an address on "Chestnut Hills,"
Wednesday, August 4, at 7:30 p. m.,
in front of the Cyclone Auction Co.
building on Main street. Mr. Ridings,
who is an entertaining speaker, will
have something of interest to tell
about Chestnut Hills, styled West
ern North Carolina's most beautiful
development, and give full details of
the lot sale to take place there on
Thursday of this week. He will ex
plain the allotment of the 39 lots
already sold and how the beautiful
Master Six Buick Sedan will be given
away. There will also be a band con
cert before and after the speaking.
A large crowd is expected and all
will be entertained.
The Cyclone Auction Co. an
nounces that the addresses will be
continued on each Tuesday and Fri
day # evenings, with a change in speak
ers for each occasion. They hope to.
get the noted author, Thos. Dixon,
for one of these meetings.
Today is the big day at Chestnut
Hills. A splendid picnic lunch will be
served free to the crowd consist
ing of lunches, watermelons and ice
cream. A large delegation is going
from Forest City and other points in
the county. The allotment of the lots
and the giving away of the Buick
Sedan will take place promptly at
3 o'clock p. m. Elsewhere in The
Courier is given a list of the lot
purchasers at Chestnut Hills. A page
ad also gives more particulars. Be
sure and read it, and make arrange
ments to be at Chestnut Hills be
fore noon today.
MR. CHAS. Z. FLACK HAS
BIG CONTRACT AT CHESTER
Mr. Chas. Z. Flack, local contrac
tor, who recently completed a big
job at Hickory, has been awarded
the contract for water and sewer ex
tension work at Chester, S. C. The
project is approximately estimated
at $50,000. Mr. Flack's many friends
here are congratulating him upon
successfully landing this big contract.
Mr. A. B. Stalnaker will be super
intendent of the construction work,
shich will start this week.
"BARNYARD GOLF"
Pitching quoits has become a popu
lar pastime with some of the Forest
City citizens and many are experts
in "barnyard golf," as it is termed
locally. There has been considerable
rivalry for the championship and this
honor has been a matter of dispute.
However, it's all settled now, boys,
for Horace Doggett drifted into The
Courier office Tuesday morning and
says that he and "Bill" Moore finally
claim the full championship. They
settled the mooted question by "lay
ing it all over" Andy McDaniel and
C. M. Roberson.
SURPRISE PARTY
Misses Ruby Moore and Elizabeth
Barber gave a surprise ♦party in
honor of Misses Alice and Katheryn
Barber at the home of the Misses
Barber on Friday evening, July 30.
Progressive rook was played. A
contest entitled "The Motor Ro
mance" was greatly enjoyed. Miss
Lynette McMurry and Mr. Harry
Grigg winning the prizes. A salad
course was served to the following:
Misses Lynette McMurry, Margaret
Greene, Mabel Rollins, Annie Lee
Big'gerstaff, Lucille Hanowell, of
Newport News, Va.; Ruby Moore,
Alice, Katheryn and Elizabeth Bar
ber. Messrs. Harry Grigg, Frank
Berry, Walter Wilson, S. M. Crow
der, of Ellenboro; Joe Watson, of
Bladenboro; Lloyd Lutz, Ed Wash
burn, and Charlie Mcßrayer, of
Shelby.