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VOL. IX—NO 32.
COOL SPRINGS COMMENCEMENT
WILL BE HELD MAY 22 TO 24
School is Rounding Out Best Session in Its History—Dr. H. N.
Snyder to Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon and Dr. R. H.
Wright Will Make Literary Address.
The Cool Springs Township Schools are rounding out the
best session in their history. This year's graduating class is the
largest ever turned out from the local high school. Much ef
fort has been put forth to give the people of this town and sur
rounding communities one of the best commencement programs
in the history of the school.
Commencement exercises will be held Sunday, May 22, and
continue through to Tuesday evening, May 24. The complete
program follows:
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
Sunday Night, 8:00 P. M.
Violin Solo—Mr. A. M. Glickman.
A Hymn—By the Congregation—"Come Thou Almighty King".
Prayer—Dr. M. F. Moores.
Anthem—Kipling's Recessional —The Choir.
Scripture Reading—Dr. W. A. Ayers.
Solo—Mrs. A. M. Glickman —"O Divine Redeemer."
Sermon—Dr. H. N. Snyder, President of Wofford College.
A. Hymn—By the Congregation—"How Firm a Foundation."
Closing Prayer—Dr. Geo. R. Gillespie.
Monday Night, 8:00 P. M.
Class Day Exercises:
Reece Harrill .*_ Class President
Sara Ruth Doggett 1 Vice President
Evelyn Blanton Secretary
Tuesday Morning, 10:30 A. M.
Declamation and Reading Contests:
Mae Hill .... ._*. Gypsy Flower Girl
Erzell Horn The Littlest Rebel
Ailene Padgett The Soul of the Violin
Lilah Gordon King _ Aunt Jerushy Visits the( City
Wyman Wood 1 Character
Robert King An Old Actor's Story
Forest Hunt Americanism
William Ayers The Return of Regulus
Tuesday Evening, 8:00 P. M.
Invocation—
Sweetheart—Male Quartette.
Welcome, Pretty Primrose Flower—Glee Club.
Address—Dr. R. H. Wright, President, East Carolina Teachers'
College.
Presentation of Medals—Charles C. Erwin.
Delivery of Diplomas—J. W. Eakes.
FOURTH OF JULY
CELEBRATION AT
THE FAIR GROUNDS
County Fair Association Plan
ning Huge Celebration—
Prespect for 1927 Fair
Encouraging
Spindale, May 17.—At a meeting
of the Board of Directors and of
ficials of the Rutherford County
Fair Association Wednesday at the
office building here plans for Ruth
erford County's biggest Fair were
discussed. Mr. Charles Z. Flack, was
elected general manager of the Fair
in addition to president.
An elaborate Fourth of July cele
bration is being planned, which will
be held at the Fair ground. Tenta
tive plans are to hold an' all-day pro
gram and also have a program on the
night of the Fourth. A picnic din
ner will be served, and a speaker of
note will be present and address the
crowd.
Athletic contests will be held some
time during the day, as well as a
number of other contests. A commit
tee consisting of Messrs. G. W. Rol
lins, chairman; J. F. Weather, R. E.
Price, O. C. Erwin, J. O. Williams,
Dr. A. C. Duncan, F. E. Patton, and
2. O. Jenkins were appointed to ar
range the program for the celebra
tion. This committee are now work
ing out the details of the celebra
tion, and the program will be an
nounced later. The management
hopes to make this event the greatest
ever staged in the county.
A premium list committee was ap
pointed and is composed of Messrs.
F. E. Patton, chairman, O. J. Hol
ler, B. G. Moore and Miss Laura
Howard. This committee will begin
work at an early date compiling the
premium list for the 1927 Fair.
The officials are laying elaborate
plans for the greatest fair in the
history of the county. More interest
is being manifested than ever be-
fore, and all committees and officials
functioning and planning and
FOREST CITY COURIER
POPULAR BANKER TO
ENTER NEW LINE OF WORK
r* "kMI 1 : rewifoa 1
His many friends here will be sor
ry to learn that Mr. J. E. Furr, as
sistant cashier ">f-the Farmers Bank,
has resigned and expects to leave the
city about June 1. Mr. Furr will take
a position as manager of a Gulf dis
tributing station at Greenville, N. C.,
with a handsome salary and the pros
pects of an interest in the business.
Mr. Furr came to Forest City Jan
uary 1, 1925, as assistant cashier of
the National Bank. After the merger,
he continued with the Farmers Bank
in th£ same capacity. He has made
a splendid record in banking circles
and is a young man of promising fu
ture. Starting his banking career at
Stanfield, he has made steady pro
gress and developed unusual ability
and efficiency. He expects to go
to Greenville about June 1. His suc
cessor has not yet been appointed.
The Farmers Bank and Trust Com
pany will close Friday, to observe
the Mecklenburg Declaration of In
dependence. The Industrial Bank will
also be closed on that day.
taking care of the small details which
are so essential to the success of the
Fair.
J. E. FURR
BANK CLOSES FRIDAY
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY'
FOREST Cm, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927
THE MISSISSIPPI
RELIEF FUND NOW
TOTALS $817.59
Rutherford County Trebels
Amount Asked for by Red
Cross to Alleviate
Suffering
Rutherfordton, May 17.—Ruth
erford County was asked some weeks
ago for $250.00 by the Red Cross
to assist in taking care of the Mis
sissippi Flood sufferers. The response
has been generous. Miss Virginia
Grayson, county treasurer of the Re
lief Fund, states that to date a total
of $817.59 has been donated by the
people of Rutherford as follows:
Previously reported, May 12._5368.90
Mr. W. 0. Watkins, Ruther
fordton . 3.00
Mr. B. B. Doggett, Forest
City 5.00
Baptist Church, Rutherfoud
ton 7.00
Mrs. C. F. Williams, Ruther
fordton 1.00
Mr. W. L. Mcßrayer, Forest
City 1.00
Miss Ruth Whitener, Forest
City 1.00
| Mr. E. L. Roberts, Forest City 1.00
Mr. H. F. Little, Forest City 1.00
Daughters of the Confeder
acy, Rutherfordton 5.00
Mrs. Homer A. Biggerstaff,
Spindale 1.50
Mrs. Carrie Wilkins, Spindale 5.00
Mr. Grant Allen, Union Mills 1.00
Miss Ola Lovelace, Ruther
fordton 1.00
Mr. C. B. Elliott 1.00
Mrs. C. B. Elliott 1.0C 1
The O. G. Club, Rutherford
ton 16.50
Busy Bazaar, Rutherfordton 20.00
Pleasant Grove Methodist
Church 10.00
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church 21.13
Gilkey Methodist Church and
Sunday School 13.14
Gilkey Methodist Bible Class 5.00
Methodist Church and S. S.
Forest City 100.00
Mrs. B. E. Harrill, Treasurer
T. E. L. Sunday School,
Forest City 17.00
President Womans Auxiliary,
Chimney Rock 5.00
Mr. H. C. Carson 1.00
Mr. J. M. Killian, Rutherford
ton 5.00
Mr. J. P. Stockton, Ruther
fordton 1.00
Mr. W. S. Moore, Forest City 10.00
Cliffside Baptist Church 89.42
Methodist Church and S. S.
Rutherfordton 4.00
Lodge of Knights of Pythias,
Forest City 66.00
Mr. W. H. Harris, Rutherford
ton 1.00
Methodist Episcopal Church,
Caroleen 24.00
Methodist Episcopal Church,
Henrietta 4.00
/ I 1
TOTAL $817.59
Headquarters for picnic supplies.
Courtney's Ten Cent Store.
Don't You Want to Help?
Here is a typical group of Mississippi flood victims—a family of
white tenants—driven to the levee from the lowland*. They are
awaitin£.,the arrival of a Red Cross relief boat to take them to a
camp on the highlands. The Red Cross is still asking for funds.
THE PLAYMAKERS
DELIGHT LARGE
AUDIENCE HERE
Carolina Playmakers Please
Discriminating Audience
With Three One Act
Plays Here Friday
The large and discriminating
audience that witnessed the Carolia
Playmakers at the high school aud
itorium on Friday evening saw a
highly finished and unique perform
ance. The young men and women
from Prof. Koch's class in dramatic
composition showed dramatic
talent of a high order, and the en
tire performance was very artistic.
The Playmaker's bill consisted of
three one act plays, "Lighted
Candles", "Quare Medicine", and
"The Marvelous Romance of Wen
Chun Chin". Each of these plays
had been written in English 31, the
course in playmaking that has
brought so much fame to the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
During the nine years that the
Playmakers have worked at Carolina
they have published two books, gone
on seventeen tours from Florida to
Washington and produced at least
one successful dramatist, Paul Green,
winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for
the best play produced in New York
during the current year, Mr. Green
has two plays appearing in New York
j now, "In Abraham's Bosom", the
| prize play, and "The Field God". It
j is easy to see from one performance
I of the playmakers why they have had
| such s , cess, their work showed earn
| cstness, sineerity and a remarkable
i grasp upon the elemental.
; The opening play "Lighted Candles"
was a tragedy of mountain life by
Margaret Bland, of Charlotte. The
tehnique of this play is the best of |
the three on this bill. There is not one I
wasted word in the play. Every line
is compact and real. The folk in the
play are extremely convincing and it
presents a slice of life that is packed
with intense suffering. It is elemen
tal, the very stuff of life itself in ev
ery second of the action. The act
ing in this play was superb. The
work of Frances Gray as "Effie" was
perfect in the minutest detail. Her
pantomine with its vivid portrayal
of desperate grief was an artistic
triumph. Hubert Heffner, always a
finished actor, was excellent as
"Brother Wakecaster."
Paul Green's first comedy "Quare
Medicine" was a play of Eastern
Carolina farm life. It is less appeal
ing than "Fixins," and his other trag
edies of the tenant farmers of the
lowlands, yet, even in this clever and
amusing comedy, so cpmic that it bor
ders on the burlesque, one feels the
pathos of this life that has so caught
the brilliant imagination of Paul
Green, and the characters all appeal
to one's sympathy with the mix
ture of tragedy and comedy that is
life itself. The folk in this play are
true and win the audience. Eral
Thompson and Hubert Heffner play
continued on page five)
REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA HERE
FOR FIVE DAY PROGRAM MAY 26-31
Will present Extraordinary Programs Covering Wide Range
of Subjects. Three Musical Companies Featured Along
With Nationally Known Lecturers.
The Redpath Chautauquas open
May 26, for a five day program.
The Chautauqua has been coming to
Forest City for a number of years
and the Chautauqua idea is growing
in popularity. Practically every city
and town in the United States have
an annual Chautauqua, at which time
the people come together under one
roof for a feast of entertainment,
education and inspiration. The pro
grams are always safe to attend
no one should have any hesitancy at
sending his wife or children to a
Chautauqua program for fear it
might be unfit or obscene. The pro
grams are always varied and suit
the needs and requirements of the
most exacting or fastidious natures.
We need the uplifting and re
fining entertainment such as is fur
nished by the Chautauqua. Season
tickets are only $2.50 for adults and
$1.25 for children. All citizens of
Forest City, and of Rutherford Coun
ty, for that matter, should immediate
ly secure a season ticket, and make
the Chautauqua a financial success
as well as a dramatic success. The
Chautauqua is not brought to Forest
City solely for the benefit of For
est City, b.ut it has become a county
institution. In* order to bring it here
it was necessary for leading business
men to guarantee a sale of approxi
mately 500 season tickets at $2.50.
Let the citizens of Forest City keep
the faith with these public-spirited
men and* back up the Chautauqua
with your presence at every perform
ance, if possible.
The first program will be given
MAKING GREAT RECORD
IN INSURANCE BUSINESS
A. D. MILLS
Mr. A. D. Mills, hustling repre
sentative of the New .York Life In
surance Co., has just returned from
a trip to Virginia Beach, where four
delightful days were spent with other
agents of the company who had won
the free trip by producing a certain
amount of new business in a given
length of time. Mr. Mills had writ
ten and delivered $104,000 from
January Ist to March 31st.
Mr. Mills has won five trips and
was also awarded a special gold em
bossed rate book by the New York
Life Co. He has been special rep
resentative of the company for Ruth
erford county for the past 18 months
and has written over $300,000 in
surance.
A CORRECTION
To err is human and printers are
no exception to the rule. Last week
an error in the ad of Drs. Palmer
and Hodgins came about by the prin
ters mistaking a note to the book
keeper as copy for their ad. The
reference to debts in the ad was
only meant for this office in charg
ing up the advertising for the firm.
Table oil cloth, 2ST ceiits per yard.
Courtney's Ten Cent Store.
SI.OO per Year in Advance
Thursday, May 26 at 3:00 o'clock.
Other programs, over the five days,
will be given as follows: Thursday
evening, Friday, and Saturday morn
ings and evenings, Monday morning,
afternoon and evening, Tuesday
morning, afternoon and evening.
These programs cover a wide range
of topics, from the Cashford Concert,
a distinctive musical organization
presenting notable instrumental se
lections; Vierra's Hawaiians, featur
ing enchanting Hawaiian melodies;
The Chimes of Brittany, a musical
production featured by Metropolitan
Singers; The Patsy, a witty sparkling
Broadway Comedy in three acts; mag
ical and ventriloquist acts by Al
Baker; lectures by L. M. Stearnes on
Shakespeare, and Wherahiko Rawei
on the South Sea Islands as well as
a number of other features Will be
given under the Chautauqua tent dur
| ing the five day program here.
Annie Dickie Olesen, notable as the
first woman nominee for the United
States Senate, is also on the pro
gram for a lecture. She will use as
her subject "Opportunity," which has
made her famous throughout half of
the nation.
The Arcadia Novelty Company are
on the program for first afternoon
and night and this popular novely
company will present two delightful,
varied entertainments.
"The Old Town in a New World"
is the subject of a delightful and
inspirational lecture that will be giv
en by Charles H. Plattenburg, nation
ally - known editor and humorist.
Get ready to attend, and don't miss
a performance.
MAY MEETING OF
THE COUNTY CLIIB
HELD IN CLIFFSIDE
Eighty Members Attend Lunch
eon at Haynes Memorial
Building Tuesday
Cliffside, May 17.—The May meet
ing of the Rutherford County Club,
held here today, was largely at-
tended, about eighty members being
present. The domestic science class,
of the Cliffside school, served the
luncheon. Several fine vocal selec-
tions were given by a male quartette
from the school glee club
A report from the committee 6n
telephone rates was given. Attorney
Fred D. Hamrick stated that suitable
resolutions had -been sent to Mr.
Spier, manager of the local system,
protesting against the proposed sta
tion to station charge, but no reply
had been received from him. S. E. El
more and K. S. Tanner discussed the
proposition briefly, and was follow
ed by Mr. J. B. Lattimore, who told
of the situation in Cleveland county.
Superintendent Clyde Erwin intro
duced the speaker of the day, Dr. A.
M. Traywick, of Wofford College.
Dr. Traywick brought an inspiring
thoughtful message, using as his sub
ject "Adult Education and Thinking."
Mr. G. W. Rollins told of the
Fourth of July celebration that is
being planned, which will be held at
the county Fair Ground. Mr. R. E.
Price spoke for Dr. Twitty, announc
ing the Typhoid and smallpox clinics
which will be held at an early date.
Four new members, Dr. J. M. All
hands, Mr. D. C. Whitaker, ' Dr.
Harry Robinson, of Cliffside, and Mr.
C. F. Walker, of Bostic, were accept
ed into membership.
At the close of the luncheon each
member was given a souvenir, which
was a large Turkish towel, made by
the Cliffside Mills.
Peerless paint, the better kind. 10c
and 25c cans. Courtney's Ten Cent
Store.
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