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- Forest City Courier Published Every Thursday by The Courier Pub. Co., in the interest of Forest City and Rutherford County. Entered at the Postoffice at Forest City, N. C., as second class matter. C. E. ALCOCK Editor ADVERTISING RATES Display, per column inch— 30c Reading Notice, per line 10c Classified Column lc per word SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One year -- $1.50 Six months Three months ——- 50 THURSDAY, DEC. 9, 1926 BUSINESS IS GOOD Some one has said that business has been dull in Forest City. Mebbe so. But let's see: Nearly all the mer chants report a good business, with many shoppers coming from a long distance. One store recently sold a big bill to some parties from Marion, and many others are coming from equally as long distance. And then listen to this: In October local build ing permits amounted to $8,600, and in November the figures climbed to $12,700. Not so bad, eh? COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE FOR SPINDALE RESIDENTS Spindale, Dec. 6.—Plans are now under way to have a mammoth Chist mas tree at the Spindale House, dur ing Christmas week. Tentative plans are to have it on Thursday. The large cedar tree in front of the build ing will be used, and a community program will be given. The plans call for cooperation of merchants and mills, and everything points to a event. It is possible that the Spindale Band will furnish music for the program, al though that body has not yet decid ed on the question. "COPS" THE COP'S CAR Policeman M. E. Fox was in Shelby on business Wednesday night. Park ing his Ford roadster, he went about his business, but found his car gone when he got ready for the return trip to this city. Some nervy thief to steal a policeman's car, but he ev idently makes no distinction. SOMETHING NEW and wonder ful—the famous Resurrection Plants Only 10c at the Gift Shop. Also many handsome hand-painted ar ticles appropriate for Christmas gifts. Call at the Palace Barber Shop and see the many novelties. CHRISTMAS CHEER GET READY FOR GIVING! Make Others Happy!! COME TO COURTNEY'S For Christmas Post Cards and— Christmas Tree Decorations and— Gift Dressings ALL KINDS OF TOYS For The Kiddies I that will both instruct and amuse them Juit Received a Big Line Of DOLLS For The Girls VERY LOW IN PRICE Here You Will Find a Large Assortment of FINE CANDIES PURE AND WHOLESOME In Bulk and in Christmas Boxes Our Goods are High in Quality and Low in Price COURTNEY'S 5-10 and 25c Store STORE PIRATES DEFEAT SPINDALE "Y" The Spindale "Y" basketball team went down in defeat before the ag gressive Florence Pirates at the Spin dale House Spindale, in a turbulent game of basketball Wednesday eve ning. Dgtfis, center for the Pirates, was at his very best and never lost an opportunity to put one through the basket. The lighter Spindale team put up a game, sporty fight, and sub after sub was run in to stem the fast running-up scores, but with lit tle avail until the last half. The attendance at this game was the largest of the season, practically every available space in the gym be ing occupied by spectators. ' ! ,—————*— COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY ELECTS NEW OFFICERS Rutherfordton, Dec. 7.—A meet ing of Rutherford County Medical j Society was held at Iso-Thermal i Hotel, Tuesday. An excellent lunch eon was served, followed by an in teresting program. Officers were elected to serve the society during 1927, as follows: President, Dr. W. T. Head, of Campobello, S. C.; vice-president, Dr. J. F. Hunt, of Spindale; secretary and treasurer, Dr. W. C. Bostic, of For est City; delegates to North Carolina State Medical Meeting, Dr. C. F. Gold; alternate delegate, Dr. R. H. Crawford; censor, Dr. G. P. Reid, of Forest City. MRS. M. L. MARTIN DEAD Ellenboro, Dec. B.—Mrs. Martin L. Martin died Tuesday morning of heart trouble at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Coffield, of this place, where she made her home with her daughter. Funeral services were held at the home Wednsday afternoon at two o'clock, with her pastor, Rev. 0. C. Huston, of the Ellenboro Presby terian church in charge and interment was at 3o'clock at Hopewell Method ist church by the side of her husband. A large crowd of sorrowing friends and relatives attended. The deceased was 67 years of age and is survived by four daughters and two sons: Mesdames M. S. Leverett, Shelby; 0. R. Coffield, Ellenboro; A. H. Horton and A. E. King, Hamlet, and Messrs. A. C. Martin, Lawrence ville, Va., and R. E. Martin, Ellen- I ;oro. Her husband died several year s ago Mrs. Martin was a good woman and will be missed in the home, church and community. She was a good neighbor and a devoted Chris tian. FAMILY BAND Those who are laboring under the delusion that the present generation alone is responsible for the Jazz Age would do well to study this picture, says the Conn Music Center, Elkhart. Ind. Here five generations are pictured In harmony. It shows Mrs. Sarah Jane Hewitt of Los Angeles, eighty six years of age, drawing harmony from one saxophone, while two more and a clarinet are held In reserve. Her "little boy" Frauk, a mere lad of sixty-seven, is playing the cornet Her granddaughter, Mrs. A. 6. Wag ner, forty-one, holds still another saxo phone while her great-granddaughter, Mrs. J. Effinger, Jr„ twenty, Is playing second cornet. Great-great-grandson Jack Effinger, Jr., is doing his best with the drqms. Needless to say, there are no lull moments In the homes of the Hewitt- Effinger clan. WE HAVE PLENTY of wool yarn. Only 25c per ounce. Mrs. E. E. Mc- Curry. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and Cosmopolitan for December, "Smart Set" for January, "Country Gentle man" and Ladies Home Companion for December, Saturday Evening Post every week—at Booth's Varie ty Shoppe, East Main street, No. 20 Highway, Forest City, 9-lt BUY A FORD—The only automo bile made that is priced as cheap as cotton.—B. B. Doggett. THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, DEC. 9, 1926 Washington's Early Adventures Now Assuming New Significance By HENRY BOTSFORD aFTER well nigh a century and three-quarters a new interest has recently been aroused in the earliest military adven tures of George Washington. When barely twenty-one years old, in 1753, Washington was sent by Gov ernor Dinwiddie of Virginia into the far northwestern wilderness—that is, northwestern Pennsylvania—to warn the French that they must cease their efforts to occupy that region. Recent researches have given a new histori cal significance to that expedition, during which Washington, always reckless of his personal safety, had one of his narrow escapes from death at the hands of a treacherous Indian guide. The French at that time occupied Canada and claimed the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. Though the fringe of English speaking colonies along the Atlantic contained the chief Euro poan population, France maintained sovereignty over most of North Amer ica's area. They were apparently de termined to occupy north westeta- Pennsylvania, partly because it was known even then to be rich in petro leum. Region's Wealth Knewn Pioneers and missionaries, Eng lish, French, German and Dutch, had all reported to their governments that the petroleum was of great po tential value. There is, however, no reason to believe that Washington knew of its existence or value until his adventure of 1753. Then he learn? Ed that the oil had long been used by the Indians and the pioneering whites for fuel and light, for medicine and in making war paint. Washington was so much impressed with its possibili ties that he later became owner of a large area of oil-bearing lands. Al though the petroleum industry in its modern form was then undreamed of, Washington was so sure that a for tune resided in his oil-bearing lands that in his will he listed them as his most valuable holdings. In the prop erty schedule attached to the will he wrote: "This tract was taken up by Gen eral Lewis and myself on account of the bituminous spring which it con tains, of so inflammable a nature as to burn as freely as spirits and as nearly difficult to extinguish." The Will of Washington Some historians declare that in an earlier will Washington dedicated this "burning spring" to the public. At any rate, it had passed from his own ership before his death. He sold this tract for $200,000, but, suspecting it might revert to his estate under a mortgage, he warned his heirs that should it do so it would be worth much more than the IZOC.000. : Although Washington's first knowl edge of petroleum was gained Within a few miles of the place where the first oil well in the world was drilled, that first well was not opened-until one hundred and six years later, 1859. In that year Edwin Laurentine Drake bored the first well, just south of Titusville, Pennsylvania, and really started the modern petroleum indus try. A Development Wonder Today the American industry is the major part of the world's oil business. Americans are directing oil develop ments all over the world. It is all part of the huge problem: to make sure that the tomorrows shall see America's requirements met. Every decade the production of petroleum has doubled. Science and techni cal progress have met all demands. Foreign investment and development are in the nature of Insurance for the future. Is the dayß of Drake and the indus try's beginnings petroleum's value lay in lubricants and kerosene. The age of machinery was only begin witli its insatiate demand for 1 cants, while kerosene, though the b illuminant ever known, was danger ous because poor refining left gasoline that was liable to explode. It is diffi cult nowadays, when the world is be ing combed for more petroleum to make more gasoline, to realize that i gasoline was once a nuisance and a menace. The internal combustion en gine created the demand for gasoline, now the primary product of petro leum. The demands of millions of mo tor cars increasing constantly, inven tion and chemistry were set at work by the captains of the industry to make the barrel of petroleum turn out a larger and larger proportion of gas oline. This was done by the cracking process, through which every year now sees a larger proportion of crude oil turned into gasoline. High and Growing Demands Today well-nigh 2,500,000 barrels of petroleum are required every day to satisfy the demand for motor cars, tractors, trucks, buses, artificial gas plants and the innumerable by-prod ucts. Invention is constantly finding new uses, as enterprise just as con« stantly finds new supplies of petro leum. The wonderful and rather mys terious fluid has revolutionised social habits and industrial methods; yet it is only t*o-thirds of a century since the industry had its feeble beginning in the Pennsylvania oil country. This year the country will use about 750,000,000 barrels of petroleum. The country will use 700,000,000 gallons 0 f gasoline and will export 1,900,000 more. The production, processing and marketing of petroleum is probably second only to agriculture among American Industries. Roundly, 70 per cent of the world's petroleum industry is American. Ten billions of capital is invested in it— half the valuation of the national rail road system. It employs just about 1,000,000 people. The petroleum pipe line system, gridironing a good share of the country, aggregates about 85,- 000 miles. Petroleum revolutionized naval warfare by bringing in the oil burning ship; it is fast revolutionizing merchant marines in the same fash ion. Multiplication of motor cars, along with the special taxation of their gasoline, has made possible the modern highway system. A True Social Service Perhaps the most nearly revolution ary result of Drake's modernization of the petroleum industry is to be found in the change it has brought in the life of rural- America. It has carried the city to the country, the country to the city. It has, by making possi ble the cheap and quiek transporta tion that everybody nowadays en joys, enabled country and city to know and understand each other as they never did before. It has brought social and educational privileges to country dwellers that a few decades ago seemed absolutely denied to them. On the one hand it has en abled the cities to spread out into sub urban areas and the zone of country estates; on the other, it has enabled the people of the open country to have neighbors, society, church and school ! privileges, intimate acquaintance. It is a historic fact that the tendon- j cy toward division of interest and un- ; demanding between city and country i is the most serious internal menace to | the security of nations, to the integri-' ty of society. More than anything else, country ] and city need to know and understand each other and each other's prob- j Isms. The easy transportation, the i ready opportunity for association and acquaintance that have come with the Age of Petroleum have made pos sible, in this favored country at least, exactly this new intimacy and under standing. Vickrey Appeals for Million To Aid Armenian Quake Victims K :v 1 f" K jjj| C. V. VICKREY The Forest City Courier FOR One Dollar A lEAR Cotton has been selling low. therefore we are going to give a special offer of THE FOREST CITY COURIER One Year for Only ONE DOLLAR during the entire month of December. Don't miss this opportunity of getting your county paper at a reduced rate. Offer applies to new or renewal subscriptions within the county. MAIL US A DOLLAR TODAY The Courier, Forest City, IM. c lEtfIHUPa Do You Enjoy Shopping j @At the A&P stores it is always [ a pleasure, for the foods and [ household needs are of consist- j ent high quality, the managers' E one aim is to please you, and E the prices always spell savings i that are well worth having. CORN ' Crushed Wo2C " 10 c STRINGLESS BEANS N ° 2CAN 11' j PUMPKIN BRAND 2 £'.• 25' ASPARAGUS TIPS St.. L 35' | fATQIIP IONABRAND « OUNCE f/Vc * WllljUl Fine Quality Tomato BOTTLE 1U f COCOA ££> 25" ! — E . f AATC A&p Re « ttlar or Q Pkgs. OC e C HA 10 Quick Cooking O PALMOUVE SOAP 3 23 c \ 1 I RICH IN FULL DELICIOUS COFFEE FLAVOR! E RED CIRaE COFFEE " 44' I E a Atlantic franc | —s Forest City, N. C. ! MORE than a million dollars wiH; be required to meet the needs of earthquake victims in At \ menia, according to Charles V. Vtek ; rey, general secretary of the Near East Relief, in a nation wide appeal for the observance of International Golden Rule Sunday. This sum will be required to pro vide adequate medical attention, food, clothing and supplies to the thorn sands of families made homeless by the earthquake and to care for the nine thousand orphan wards of the re lief organization in the Caucasus ta til June, according to the appeal. Hundreds of villages have been lalfi waste and many of the huge orphan ages caring for the children fcsv* been rated. Otheis are unsafe for 004 until repairs can be made. MeanwhO* children and American relief worker** are living in tents in a region in whfck blizzards and heavy snowstorms frequent at this time of the year. Reports from the various village*! in the earthquake zone indicate thai! the inhabitants have been forced It construct rude dugouts under to protect themselves from the wfll winter weather. With shocks have continued intermittently for tvto weeks there has been considerab&i locs of life in these fragile dwellings.
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