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VOL. IX—NO. 6
KU KLUX TO HOLD THANKSGIVING
FESTIVAL HERE NEXT THURSDAY
About One Thousand Klansmen From Twenty-Nine Counties
to Gather Here in Magnificent .Celebration. Judge
Henry A. Grady to Make An Address.
The local Ku Klux Klan is all set
for the big Thanksgiving festival to
be held here next Thursday. From
all indications this will be one of the
biggest meetings of any kind ever
held in this county. It is estimated
that about 1,000 Klansmen will be
here that day, delegations coming
from twenty-nine counties of Western
North Carolina, which are as follows:
Alleghany, Alexander, Ashe, Avery,
Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cataw
ba, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Gas
ton, Graham, Haywood, Henderson,
Jackson, Lincoln, Macon, Madison,
McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Ruther
ford, Swain, Surry, Transylvania,
Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancy. The
citizens of Forest City and Ruther
ford county as well as members of
the local Klan should feel honored
that Forest City was chosen as the
place to hold this festival, as there
will be many prominent men here
from the above named counties.
The Program
The following program has been
announced by the Program Commit
tee of the local Klan:
2 P. M.—Presentation of Flag and
Bible to Cool Springs High school,
in front of the sehool building.
Acceptance of Flag and Bible by
Prof. J. W. Eaks, Superintendent of
Township schools.
Following this there will be an in
termission to allow Klansmen to at
tend the football game, played by
Cool Springs High school vs. Marion
High school at 2:45 p.m.
4:30 P. M.—Address by Judge
Henry A. Grady, Grand Dragon of
North Carolina, from balcony of Cy
etane Auction building.
5:30 P. M.—A barbecue supper
will be given the visiting Klansmen
fcy the local Klan.
7:30 P. M.—Klan parade.
8:00 P. M.—Public naturalization
•f candidates to membership in this
•vder at the High school ball park.
Ifce public is very cordially invited
tp be present at the ball park at this
time and see some of the impressive
w»rk of this order.
9:30 P. M.—Burning of large fiery
Gross.
ALEXANDER SCHOOLS
SENIORS TO GIVE PLAY
"Till End of the Lane," a very
Ugh class play,, will be presented by
Ifee faculty arid Senior class of the
Alexander Schools, Inc., at 8 p. m.,
)f®vember 20. The cast will be played
by the following:
Jim Denver—Will Young.
Harry Sanders —Fred Buchanan.
Pa Randal —Prof. W. E. Sweatt.
Hired Man —(Bud) Atlee Buch
anan.
Messenger Boy—Chester Wise.
Coral Randal (daughter of Pa
Randal) —Rose Johnson.
Ma Randal, (wife of Pa Randal)
—Miss Mattie Price.
Ellen Seabright (modern flapper)
—Miss Ruth Meares.
Martha (servant of
the Randal's)—-Miss Ouida Geiger.
Bessie Reed (an orphan)— Kat
hleen Lennon.
Mrs, Kate Sanders —Miss Florence
Reed.
The play is being presented to de
fray the expenses of the school
paper. Admission 25 and 35 cents.
TO OPEN CAFE
Mr. J. C. Johnson, "Old Reliable"
Cafe man, will open about Saturday
in the brick building west of Court
ney's on Main street. He and "Aunt
Sally" have many friends and are
experts in their line. "He says he will
make a specialty of fish and oysters,
and is ready -now to take your
Thanksgiving orders.
FOREST CIT COURIER
FOOTBALL CLASSIC
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Forest City and Rutherford ton
to Meet on Local Grounds—
Large Crowd Expected.
Forest City and Rutherfordton
will clash in their first annual foot
ball game Friday, November 19, at
3:30 o'clock, on the Forest City bat
tle ground. These ancient rivals have
never met before in football except
in a practice game early in the
season, which resulted in a scoreless
tie. Their contests in other sports,
however, have always been marked
by the keenest competition, and it is
expected that each team will play its
best game of the season. Compara
tive scores would seem to give Forest
City the edge, but comparative
scores mean nothing when these two
teams meet. Considerable color will
be added to the game as it is ex
pected that the student bodies of
each school will be present to cheer
their teams to victory. It is prob
able that a number of the other
schools of the county will be on the
side lines when the whistle blows
for the first kick-off. While of
course Forest City and Rutherford
ton will turn out in large numbers
to witness the contest. Coaches are
driving their teams hard in an effort
to have smooth running machines.
Forest City was idle last Friday,
while Rutherfordton was playing
Fallston.
Forest City will play Marion the
last game of the season here on
Thanksgiving .day at 2 p. m. This
game will probably be the best game
of the season. Plan now to see a
real football game, Thursday, No
vember 25th.
GIGANTIC SALE
CLOSES NOV. 20TH
Cliffside Mills Store and
Haynes Store No. 1 Have
Successful Selling
Event.
Cliffside, Nov. 17.—Mr. L. P. Coe,
clever Kelly salesman, is being con
gratulated upon all sides for the
success of the big sales at Cliffside
Mills Store and Haynes Store No.
1, which will come to a close next
Saturday. Mr. Roach and Mr. Wilson,
managers of the stores, are also com
ing in for a large share of praise for
the success of the sale.
There have been tremendous bar
gains offered and the people have not
been slow in reaping the benefits of
the reductions made in price. From
now on to the close of the sale, large
crowds will throng the two stores
daily.
The management has been unstint
ed in its advertising appropriations
and is not disappointed at the re
sults. A large share goes to The
Courier for placing the news of the
great sale before its many readers.
The girls basketball team of the
Cool Springs High school will play
the Y. W. A. team of Cliffside Fri
day night at * Cool Springs High
school at 8 o'clock. As this is the
first home game of the season we
are expecting a large crowd to at
tend. The girls have already played
two games, one with Cliffside, the
other with Tryon. They won both
games. The Cliffside girls were de
feated by four points and are out
for revenge. Come out and see the
girts in action.
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST i •OR EST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
BASKETBALL
FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOV. 18, 1926.
COURT ADJOURNS
AFTER BUSY SESSION
Large Number of Criminal
Cases Disposed of During
The Term.
Rutherfordton, Nov. 17.—After a
very busy session criminal court
adjourned Friday. Proceedings since
the last issue of The Courier are as
follows:
Nol pros with leave taken in the
following cases: G. H. Blanton,
charged with forcible trespass. Millie
Davis, charged with prostitution.
Peel Kennedy, charged with dispos
ing of mortgaged property. John,
Lee and Burgan Bradley, charged
with storebreaking. Bradford Wilson,
Albert Steadman and A. M. Wald
rop, charged with storebreaking and
larceny. Garrison Wilson, charged
with violation of liquor law.
A true bill was not found in the
following cases: L. B. Scruggs, charg
ed with larceny. Gary Hames, trans
porting. David Hill, Wells Eaves and
James Brown, assault with criminal
intent. Arthur Waldrop, use of auto
without owner's consent.
The following the jury find not
guilty: Paul Cooper, charged with
reckless driving. F. E. Blackwell,
Turlington act. Gary Hames and
Pink Gosey, Turlington act. Clint
Honeycutt, Turlington act. Beth For
ney, assault with deadly weapon. A.
A. Williams, manslaughter. Sum
mie Humphries, liquor case.
C. A. Goode, false pretense, cost
and suspended judgment.
Claude Wilson, pleads guilty, as
sault with deadly weapon, fine and
cost.
Quinn Kendrick, transporting, fine
and cost.
Darnell Morrow, prostitution, fine
and cost.
Daisy Martin and L. A. Wright,
fornication and adultery, fine and
cost.
Charley Green, forgery, fine and
cost.
The following were sent to the
roads: ./
Haywood McDowell, larceny of car
six months.
Burt Cash, larceny of chickens,
four months.
Darias Flack C. C. W., forty days.
Ben Elliott, larceny of car, six
months.
Lee Bradley, larceny, four months
and 15 days.
Texas Red, storebreaking, twelve
months. ...
Carrie Byers, 'assault. Failing to
pay cost she was sentenced to jail
for four months.
B. D. Powell, fine and cost.
David Arrowood and Earl Burgess,
liquor case. The court finding that
these young boys are not yet 20
years of age suspended sentence is
given them to take affect when it
is found that they have violated the
laws of the state. Cost to be paid at
this time.
Divorce granted: Velma Smith vs.
Chas. Smith; Inez Thompson vs. D.
B. Thompson; Dennis Miller vs. Ju
lia Miller; Eva Kiser vs. Henry Ri
ser; Elsie Hood vs. Cornelius Hood;
A. W. Harris vs. Jettie Harris; Mel
donia Harris vs C. W. Harris.
Compromise judgment: Mrs. Es
telle Bridges vs. C. C. & O. Ry. for
the death of her husband. Plaintiff
to recover SI,BOO and the cost of the
action.
W. C. Bostic, et al, trustees Bap
tist church, Forest City, vs. Ranie
Harrill et al. Judgment for the plain
tiff.
W. L. Silvers vs. G. J. Moore, judg
ment for the plaintiff in the sum of
$l5O and the cost of the action.
"ANNUAL BAZAAR
The Kathleen-Alexander Mission
ary Society of the Methodist church,
will have their annual bazaar on Fri
day and Saturday, November 19 and
20, in the old National Bank build
ing. A bountiful collection of fancy
work and other things too numerous
to mention, that will make lovely
Christmas gifts will be for sale. The
ladies will also serve sandwiches,
coffee and oysters. They will also
have cakes and salads to sell you for
your Sunday dinner. Help the good
cause by patronizing these ladies at
this two-day sale.
VERDICT OF JURY
CLEARS MINISTER
Rev- Geo. Wood is Acquitted
By Jury After Desperate
Legal Battle.
Raleigh, Nov. 14.—Sunday morn
ing deliberations of the jury in Wake
superior court brought an acquittal
verdict for Rev. George Wood, Uni
versalist minister and Lenoir county
deputy sheriff after a two-day trial
on a charge of murder for the killing
of J. B. Vickers, of Charlotte, state
prison convict.
The jury took the case at 5:30
yesterday afternoon and shortly af
terwards it returned to the courtroom
to ask his honor to repeat the dis
tinctions between second degree
murder and manslaughter. Court
spectators then looked for a convic
tion of manslaughter, reports had a
majority of the jurors standing that
way, and attorneys for Wood hoped
for a mistrial at best. But as the
night wore on and no verdict came,
Judge Bond found the jury in a dead
lock and he sent it to bed.
This morning's deliberations
brought it quickly around to the de
defendant's side of the case and ver
dict of not guilty. Wood received the
verdict without emotion, but he
moved to the jury box anil shook
hands with each juror.
The minister and his counsel had
to fight their way through to an
acquittal against majority difficul
ties. The state had all the eye wit
nesses to the actual shooting on the
afternoon of August 31. The eye
witnesses, most of them women, all
contended that Wood shot the con
vict while the latter was holding
his hands aloft and crying out in
surrender. Wood had to rely upon
s
his own testimony, and that of a con
vict to support his claim that the
shooting happened when Vickers
grabbed for his gun.
But there was one weak spot in
the state's evidence. The state wit
nesses thought the gun was pointed
on a level. Physicians testimony
showed the fatal bullet veered down
and into the man's stomach at an
angle of nearly 45 degrees.
The state thought a~button might
have caused the ball to glance down
ward but the defense, which made
much of the point that a gun point
ed straight ahead will not send its
bullet downward, contended that
Vickers pushed the gun down when
he grabbed it.
The shooting, which cost Vickers
his life and Wood a desperate legal
fight occurred as the aftermath of
an attempt to escape by Vickers,
who was at the time being returned
by Wood to the state prison from
Spartanburg, S. C., where he had
been recaptured after a successful
break from a guard from the streets
of Charlotte two weeks earlier. He
was under sentence of 10 years for
murder, having been sent up from
Mecklenburg superior court early in
the year for slaying a man by the
name of Rogers.
"IN WALKED JIMMY"
"In Walked Jimmy," popular com
edy success, wiir be presented No
vember 18, on the local lyceum
course by a cast of well known
Broadway players.
"In Walked Jimmy," is the story
of one Jimmy who believed in the
power of a smile. Jimmy walked into
the Cinderella Soft Sole Baby Shoe
factory at a time when that organi
zation was submerged in gloom.
Business had fled. The employes had
all been fired, and the proprietor
was prepared to end it all. Darkness,
in fact, reigned supreme.
Then in walked Jimmy—and
smiled! That smile started something.
For behind it was all Jimmy's faith
in the Tightness of living and the
joy of good fellowship.
Soon Jimmy had all the members
of the Cinderella factiory smiling,
and he keeps them at it through a
series of exciting adventures. And
the reward for Jimmy, well, there is
a girl, and how Jimmy wins her,
makes a corking good love story.
The ladies of the Woman's Club
are sponsoring this play. Be at the
High school auditorium Thursday
evening of this week.
FARMERS MET WITH LOCAL
CLUB LAST MONDAY NICHT
Gather With Business Men For Discussion of Many Vital
Problems. Was Largely Attended and Should
Be Productive of Much Good.
SPECIAL TERM OF
COURT IN DECEMBER
Will Convene the First Monday
in December. Presiding
Judge Not Announced.
Rutherfordton, Nov. 18.—Jurors
for a special term of court were
drawn Tuesday. Owing to the con
gestion of the court docket it has
been decided to hold a special term,
beginning Monday, December 6th. It
is not yet known which judge will
be selected to preside at this ses
sion.
Jury List For First Week.
The following men were drawn
Tuesday for jury services for the
first week: Worth Geer, B. E. Roach,
S. Edwards, Baxter Wells, 0. R. Dun
can, Joe Allen, J. A. Hunecutt, C. B.
Harrill, S. R. Morgan, R. C. Ledbet
ter, Eruna Beam, W. F. Robinson, C.
W. Keeter, J. O. Scruggs, D. C. Hen
son, G. P. Moore, E. A. Smart, W.
J. Philbeck, J. P. Burnette, G. C.
Hamrick, J. E. Womack, Chas. Dog
gett, J. A. Rucker.
The jury for the second week of
court will be published in The
Courier next week.
FOREST CITY DEFEATS
OLD FORT TEAM
The Florence Pirates defeated the
Old Fort Basket ball team here last
Friday evening by a score of 18-65,
in their first game of the season. The
Florence Pirates showed~up very well
in this game and have a good season
ahead of them. The attendance was
very good.
PRIMARY GRADES
WILL GIVE PLAY
Interesting Event at Grammar
School Auditorium On
November 23rd.
A play will be given by the pri
mary grades of the Forest City gram
mar school at the Grammar school
auditorium, Tuesday evening, No
vember 23, at 7:30 p. m. This play
will consist of seenes appropriate to
the season of the year with the chil
dren of the first grade presenting
Thanksgiving parts. The program is
a miscellaneous program given by
the three grades. There will be a
small admission charge of 15 cents
for children and 25 cents for adults.
This money will be given to the
grades giving the play for buying
books for room libraries. This is the
first play of this kind to be given
here in two years and all parents are
urged to come out Tuesday night,
and see the small children put on a
good program. The teachers are
working hard to make it a great suc
cess and we are sure everybody who
comes will enjoy this play as much
as any you have ever seen.
Act 1 Grade 1.
Cantata, In Plymouth Town, Indian
Chiefs; Pilgrim Parade and Song, In
dian Parade; Song, Thanksgiving
Day; Reading, Advice to Polly; In
dian Lullaby, friends; Indian War
Dance.
Act 2—Grade 2.
Midgett Orchestra, Duet—"The
Quarrel."
Act 3 —Gradte 3.
Chorus "Thanksgiving Song;"
Reading—"A Boy and His Stomach."
Song—"Plumb Turkeys." Folk
Dance. Action Song—"Will You
Come and Play."
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Farmers -night at the Kiwanis
Club was a* complete success, despite
lowering clouds and rain, for our
farmer friends came in large num
bers to sit and dine with the business
men while experts discussed the
problems now confronting them.
The meeting was presided over by
Vice President J. M. Edwards, who
welcomed the visitors in a spirit of
fellowship and stated that they were
there for a round table discussion
of the farmers' problems. Mr. D. H.
Sutton had charge of the program.
After stating the object of the meet
ing, he called upon Mr. J. D. Link
for a short talk. Mr. Link after
stating that farming is one of the
greatest of businesses, went to the
heart of his subject by saying that
the farmer must have help, due to
the present price of cotton. He is of
the opinion that the cotton farmer
will almost have to be starved into
submitting to a curtailment of this
crop. There is entirely too much hay
and other things being shipped into
the county, according to the speak
er, who then went into a discussion
of the dairy cow. He urged the farm
ers to unite and pool their interests
learn diversification and predicted
a great future for this section, stat
ing that this is a state of golden op
portunity.
Among the experts present, all of
whom made inspiring talks, were Mr.
C. F. Parrish, poultry specialist, of
Raleigh; Mr. John W. Goodman, dis
trict agent demonstration work for
W. N. C.; Mr. J. D. Kelley, horticul
turist, Southern Railway Co.; Mi'. H.
R Niswonger, horticulturist, Ral
leigh After hearing these gentlemen
the farmers must have been con
vinced that the day for diversifica
tion has arrived and is their 6nly
salvation.
DurJng round taT3le discussion
many spirited short talks were made
and many interesting points were
brought out for the benefit of the
farmer. Practically every farmer
guest was called upon to talk and
nearly all responded. This meeting
together with the short, course given
Tuesday and Wednesday should
prove of much benefit to the farmers.
It also tends to cement the bonds
of friendship and mutual interests
of the farmer and the business men.
Possibly the first resultant good will
be the erection of a chicken hatch
ery and potato storage house in For
est City.
A silver loving cup, won by Ruth
| erford county at Swannanoa test
farm for attendance, was presented
to Mr. Plato Gettys, who accepted
in the name of the county.
The spice of the evening was fur
nished by Mr. R. W. Minish, who,
with Mrs. Minish at the piano, de
lighted the crowd with some jolly
singing. Two Kentucky visitors, Dr.
Leslie and Mr. Coleman, made short
talks in which they praised this sec
tion and told of farming conditions
in the Bluegrass state.
The Courier expects next week to
carry a complete summary of the
work during the short course for
farmers.
When it was determined by the
Kiwanis Club to give the farmers
night program Mr. J. H. Thomas,
on behalf of the Farmers Bank and
Trust Company, very generously of
fered to defray all expenses of the
supper. This strong bank has a vi
tal interest in the welfare of the
farmers and is, indeed, the farmer's
friend.
IN NEW QUARTERS
Mr. J. C. Harrill has moved his
grocery store from Broadway to the
Beachboard building on Main street,
next door to The Courier office. He
is rapidly getting in new stocks and
equipment and in position to better
serve his customers. He invites the
public to visit him in his new home.
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