I The Courier
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VOL. IX—NO. 33
FORTY STUDENTS
ARE MEMBERS OF
THE SENIOR CLASS
Dr. R. H. Wright Brings Inspir
ing Message to Graduat
ing Class. Dr. H. N.
Snyder Delivers
Sermon
(By M rs. Maude Minish Sutton)
Commencement week in Forest
City has been featured by beautiful
weather and an abundance of Spring
flowers. The exercises began on Fri
day evening with a recital by the pu
pils of Miss Goggans at the high
school auditorium. The stage was a
bower of loveliness and the program
was all nature music. The lovely
dresses of the girls and the floral
arrangement of the stage fitted the
elaborate program and created an
atmosphere of "early morning spring
time freshness" that was truly de
lightful. The pupils on the program
all performed their parts well and
showed a great deal of progress.
The stage decoration were in charge
of Mesdames R. E. Biggerstaff,
Spurgeon Moss, and Flay Weathers
and Miss Mayme Martin:
Dr. Snyder Delivers Sermon
Sunday evening at 8 o'clock the
commencement sermon was preached
by Dr. H. N. Snyder, president of
Wofford College. The big auditorium
of the Cool Springs High School was
filled with a capacity audience and i
the sermon was one of the best that
a Forest City audience has ever
heard. The music by the combined
choirs of the Forest City
was typical of the splendid music
that these choirs always give. It
consisted of a violin solo by Mr. A.
M. Glickman. This was an unusually
beautiful number. Mr. Glickman, with
. perfect command of his instrument is
an artist that always delights a Forest
City audience. The entire congrega
tion sang, "Come Thou Almighty
King," then Dr. M. F. Moores pro
nounced the invocation, the choir
sang Kipling's Recessional, Dr. W. A.
Ayers read a selection from the
Bible, Mrs. A. M. Glickman sang a
beautiful solo, "O Divine Redeemer."
After the sermon the congregation
sang "How Firm a Foundation," and
Dr. Geo. R. Gillespie led the clos
ing prayer.
Dr. Snyder's sermon, addressed to
the graduating class who filled the
front seats, was a most inspiring
message. He talked especially to the
, young folks and told them first, that
he believed that times were growing
steadily better all the time. Jle based
this belief on the fact that young
folks today are better than they have
ever been. He said man was like a
beautiful house which he once saw,
in which the entire attic was made
into a beautiful living room full of ;
FOREST CITY GIRL
IS PRIZE WINNER
Miss Ruth Reid Wins Third
Prize in Nation-Wide
Essay Contest
The following announcement was
made in Tuesday's Charlotte Observ
er, under an Atlanta, Ga., date line:
"The commission on inter-racial co
operation announced today that
George M. Clarke, of Cleburne, Tex
as, won first prize in the commis
sion's nation-wide contest among
high school students for the best es
say on the subject "Negro Progress
Since the Civil War." First prize was
SSO, while second prize of S3O went
to Robert A. Armistead, also of Cle
burne, and third prize of S2O to
Ruth Elliott Reid, of Forest City,
N. C."
Miss Reid is the daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. G. P. Reid, of this city. She
will graduate from the Cool Springs
high school this year. She is one of
the outstanding members of the
senior class. She won the Carpenter
Essay medal in the county-wide es
say-oration contest held in
March. She is the senior class prophet,
and a model all-round student.
FOREST CITY COURIER
big- windows each of which framed a
lovely view. In this room the owner
of the house kept his best loved
books, his most beautiful pictures and
entertained his closest friends. There,
he said, these friends could be with
the persons they loved and with God,
away from the crowd, the bustle and
speed of life. He told the seniors that
life in the top story was the best
life. He stressed the joy to be found
in intellectual development and in
spiritual growth.
He said that if you looked at a
picture of pre-historic man his body
was like that of a man's today, but
his head was shaped very differently.
The change in the structure of the
head is from the eyebrows to the
hair, the top story. He showed how
the growth of man's brain had made
this difference. Like the house he
saw, the brain of man is in three
• stories and only the top story counts.
To fill that top story with the best
that the world can give is the only
ambition worth while. To do this,
you must do the best you know, do
the best people expect and do the
best God expects. Mold your life
along the lines of the only perfect
life, that of Christ.
Class Day
Monday evening at 8 o'clock the
Senior class presented a clever and
interesting class day program. This
program was in the form of a pos
sible class reunion in May, 1957. The
place was supposed to be the home
of U. S. Senator Agnes Davis, and
the boys had presumed that the mil-
I itant spirit of the girls would have
succeeded, by that time, in placing
them all in position of great import
ance while the boys would "revert
to their natural state" and care for
the homes. The girls appeared as
judges, generals, ranchers, aviators
and all kinds of professionals. The
boys as "pretty little butterflies,"
maids, cooks, Misses and other fem
inine occupations. Very clever acting
was done by Wm. Biggerstaff and
Pierce Hyder, as "maids" in the
home of Senator Davis, by Reece Haiv.
rill as the Senator's "pretty frivolous j
husband," by Evelyn Blanton, Agnes
Davis and Alice Holmes. The history
! was read by Ena May Lyda, the will,
! by Frank Griffin and two pretty mus
! ical numbers on the program were a
j duet by Mary Meares and Ruby
; Moore and a solo by Alba Padgett,
both of these were accompanied by
i Eunice Hollifield. Between acts a
I very pretty gypsy dance was put on
| by eight of the senior girls.
The stage decorations for this event
was extremely beautiful. The senior j
boys, under the direction of Mr.
Crowder, had built a fence for the
front of the stage and three pahels
of lattice for the back. All of this
was entwined with Dorothy Perkins
roses and two tall white pedestals
held bowls of daisies at the center
opening in the fence. At either end
of the stage was a large basket of
lilies. The effect was exquisite. In
fact, the decorations for all the ex
ercises have been unusually approp
riate and beautiful.
Reading and Declamation Contest
Tuesday morning at 10:30 a. m. the
reading and declamation contest was
held. Three boys and four girls con
tested for these medals. Mr. Erwin
presided and the program follows. 1
| —The Gypsy Flower Girl by May
Hill. 2—Americanism by Forest Hunt,
j 3—The Littlest Rebel by Ersell
I Horn. 4—The Return of Regulus by
Wm. Ayers. s—Aunt Jerushy Visits
the City, by Lilah Gordon King. 6
Character, by Wyman Wood. 7
The. Soul of the Violin by Aileen
Padgett. The winners were Wyman
Wood and Aileen Padgett. All the
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
Commencement Exercises Cool Springs High School Held This Week
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FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLI NA, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927.
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FACULTY—First row—Miss Juanita Minish, Miss Sara Bailey, Miss Katherine Brown, Mr.
S. M. Crowder. Second row—Mr. C. C. Erwin, principal; Mr. D. H. Sutton, Miss Princ-a Gaines.
Third row—Miss Mary Wilder, Mr. J. W. Eaks, superintendent; Miss Katherine Goggans. Fourth row
—Mrs. O. C. Turner, Miss Lillie Maude Bell, Miss Gladys Harrison, Miss Pauline Huggins.
contestants did extremely well and
showed splendid training. Both win
ners are from the Junior class.
Graduation Exercises
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Tuesday night at 8 o'clock the
; graduation exercises were held in the j
high school auditorium. The stage
was beautifully decorated and the j
people made a very striking picture. |
Dr. Geo. R. Gillespie made the open- j
| ing invocation which was followed
Iby two musical numbers, "Sweet- 1
1 heart" by the boys quartette and ■
"Welcome Pretty Primrose Flower" ,
by the glee club. Then Superintend- i
I ent Eaks presented County Superin-
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tendent Clyde Erwin who was to in
troduce the speaker of the evening, i
Mr. spoke briefly in his usual j
graceful manner. He congratulated
Cool Springs Township on its school
achievements, described the graduat
ing class as the flower of the town
ship and said there was no way to
estimate the value of the training
these young people Had received.
In introducing Dr. R. H. Wright,
president of East Carolina Teachers'
College, Mr. Erwin paid a high trib
ute to Dr. Wright as one of the
State's foremast educators. He said
there was no man in the state now,
rendei'ing greater service.
Dr. Wright's address was interest
ing, instructive and very forceful.
He held the complete attention of
the large audience every second of
his time. He first gave the origin of
the term commencement, then con
gratulated the seniors upon graduat
ing and announced his subject. Tax
ation. He discussed the universal na
ture of taxation,, how it concerns ev
ery citizen, gave its origin in tribute
money, told Christ's attitude toward
taxation, "Render unto Caesar the
things that are Caesar's" and said i
that this saying of Christ's establish
ed for man a satndard for all time.
Then he took up the uses of tax
money. Most taxes are used for com
munity development. We Jevy taxes
for schools. There are two kinds of
taxes every community must pay:
School tax or crime tax. The last leg
j islature appropriated in the same bill
$400,000 for the state penitentiary
and the same sum ror one of the
state's A-grade teachers' college. He
said that he had rather spend his
; money to send teachers to children
: than to support criminals. What is
' the reason North Carolina's crime bill
i is so large? The average age of our
! criminals is 26' years. Twenty years
ago they were six years old. What
! was the state doing for her children
1 twenty years ago? In many places
! there was no school. She is now
educating her citizens. One of our
| great judges said that of all the
' criminals he sentenced they were
| either entirely illiterate or did not
attend Sunday school. Education
would have saved 95 per cent of the
criminals now in prison.
He congratulated the township on
its magnificent progress and its
buildings. Then paid a tribute to
modern youth, showed hpw styles
are more sensible than they used to
be, how modern youth shows great
courage and daring, and said that
back in the heart of modern youth
burned the age old desire to make
the most out of their lives. He said
American boys in the world war and
Lindburgh in his flight last week,
showed the quality of modern youth.
He said that each year's crop of
graduates was better than the pre
ceding one.
Youth is clamoring for a chance to
get an education. We cannot educate
unless we put in each class room a
good teacher. A child is a little sav
age, but oh, the possibilities in every
child! Upon our progress in education
the future of the state depends.
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Build good school houses, transport
the children and give them teachers
who know how to teach, then this
will be a great state.
Dr. Wright closed his address with
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, a most inspiring message to the
! seniors. He described some gardens in
the Organ mountains at Rio De Ja
nerio. At the bottom people plant
shrubs in gardens, 1000 feet higher
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are still more beautiful garden, 1000
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feet higher up is a narrow gorge 2000
feet deep and a hard climb to the
top. When you make that climb the
view is the most beautiful in the
world. He begged the graduates not
to stop in the pleasure gardens, but
to climb on to the life work each
could do best.
The medals were then presented by
Mr. Charles C. Erwin. The reading
medal given by the Farmers Bank &
Trust Co., went to Aileen Padgett. A
ten dollar gold piece for the best
declamation, given by Dr. and Mrs.
A. C. Duncan, was presented to Wy
man Wood. The medals for the best
all round student, given by Mr. and
Mrs. R. E. Biggerstaff in memory of
their son, was presented to Agnes
Davis. The scholarship prize of fifty
dollars, giv€n by Mrs. J. F. Alexander
in memory of Mr. Alexander was won
by Sara Ruth Doggett. Three gold
medals given by the County Board of
Education to students who have had
a 5-year record of perfect attendance
went to Wallace Long, Gladys Long
and Ruth Reid. The typists prizes
were as follows: Gold medal for best
2-year's record, Mary Meares,; a gold j
medal for speed went to Sara Ruth j
Doggett, silver medals were won by.
Nell Searcy, Evelyn Blanton and
Gladys Dalton. The Dr. Young mem- |
orial medal for the best debater was i
won by Evelyn Blanton.
Mr. Eaks • then presented the di- \
plomas. His message to the seniors
was brief but very forceful. He j
told them they had gone through'
school in order to do more efficient j
work, and they must continue to let
| the sunlight of truth penetrate every
i corner of their lives. 1
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CHAUTAUQUA
TO OPEN HERE
TODAY-THURSDAY
Everything in Readiness for
Five Days of High-Class
Entertainment Splen
did Program
Redpath's chautauqua, always eag
erly looked for and thoroughly en
joyed, is with us again, the opening
number to be given this afternoon
(Thursday), and to continue for
five days. The tent has been pitched
on the lot back of the Forest City
Motor Co., and a good first-day at
tendance is anticipated, with increas
ing interest throughout the five big
days of wholesome entertainment.
The best first-day program ever
presented by the Redpath Chautau
qua will be given by the Arcadia
Novelty Company this afternoon.
This organization is one of the best
woman's musical companies on the
chautauqua platform. The members
of the company are Miss Dyer, pian
ist, reader and directress; Miss Lair
dre, trombonist; Miss Andrus, violin
ist, and Miss Sperry, xylophonist.
These young ladies are artists and of
fer a program of classical, semi
! classical and popular numbers. This
company is always welcomed every
where, not only for their musical
ability, but for their graciousness, as
well. Be sure and see this splendid
first-day program, which pleases not
only the ear but also the eye.
Mr. Charles H. Plattenburg, noted
lecturer, humorist and editor, will
give a lecture on the opening night,
which is a message to every individ
ual in Rutherford county. His sub
ject is "The Old Town in a New
World." He presents his subject in
a forceful, but humorous and very
interesting way.
Mr. A. H. McClain, Jr., advance
representative, and Miss Nelle Pol
lard Dahnke, field representative for
the Redpath Bureau, have been in
Forest City for the past week pav
ing the way for the chautauqua pro
gram. Miss Dahnke has been working
with the ladies of the Woman's Club,
organizing sales forces which are cov
ering every section of the town and
county in a thorough canvass. Both
these young people are Tennesseans
and are alumni of the University of
Tennessee. They have made many
friends in Forest City and have done
great work in promoting the chau
tauqua.
Also in passing, we want to con
gratulate the ladies of the Woman's
Club for their great work in placing
the pledge cards and other duties in
connection with bringing to Forest
City this high class entertainment.
PROCEEDINGS OF
! CIVIL COURT
Several Cases Disposed of Since
Convening of Court Mon
day Morning
Rutherfordton, May 25.—Civil
court convened here Monday morning
with Judge John M. Oglesby presid-
I ing. The following cases were dispos
jed of Monday and Tuesday:
I Hyder Whitesides vs. Clement-
Dunavant Co., judgment for plaintiff
in sum of $75.00.
McConnon Co. vs. Charles Marsh,
(deceased), W. S. Moss, J. B. Long,
W. C. Blanton, for consent judgment.
Defendants agree to pay $250.00 and
costs.
C. L. Harrill vs. Howard Hollifield.
Compromise judgment, defendant to
pay costs.
Wright-Bachman Lumber Co., vs.
Citizens Bank and Trust Co., admin
istrator of Solomon Gallert. Compro
mise. Plaintiff recovers by agree
ment $1125.00 and costs.
M. C. Flack vs. Mary Flack, di
vorce granted.
V. L. Cox vs. H. M. Cox, divorce
granted.
Bob Richardson vs. Mattie Richard
son, divorce granted.