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Subscribe For The Courier, Only SI.OO per year in County VOL. X—NO. 15 HON. 0. MAX GARDNER ADDRESSES RUTHERFORD COUNTY CLUB TUESDAY January Meeting Is Held At The Spindale House With Good Attendance Spindale. Jan. 18. —The January tiny ft" the Rutherford County h:b. which was held at the Spindale _ise Tuesday noon, was well at •nded. Sixty-four plates were serv , : l>v thi ladies of the Spindale Bap : ~t Church. At the opening of the business ses > on. M:'. Charles Haynes made a , ~port for the committee on the Black Bear Trail. The trail is being mark ed through this county, largely Through the efforts of this commit tee. Mr. N. C. Harris made a report for the telephone committee, and :he Club adopted resolutions rela rive t" the county telephone system,; v hich will be forwarded to Mr. [organ B. Spier. Mr. James G. K. McClure intro . .iced Mr. George Evans, of Asheville, -'.eld representative of the Farmers' i-Vk-rution. who made a few remarks, j The following committees were j : ipointed by the chair: program com mittee: Messrs. Z. O. Jenkins, chair-J ian; C. F. Cline, Clyde A. Erwin. Membership committee: Messrs. F. I. Barber, chairman, K. S. Tanner, W.; H Payne. Grievance: Messrs. J. R. j Moore, chairman, Grover Harrill, S. i C. Gettys. Nomination [committee:] Messrs. M. L. Edwards, chairman, S. j E. Elmore and J. W. Matheny. Following this Mr. L. B. Morse j introduced Hon. O. Max Gardner, j who spoke in part as follows: "The European farmer thinks in small areas. He is stolid, conserva tive, efficient, thrifty and patient citizen. He knows the science of the -t-asons and the rewards of intelli gent labor. He loves the soil with; a passion almost filial in its devotion, j He might neglect his family but) wouldn't ever mistreat or abuse his j .-acred soil. He naturally nurses his J land to keep it warm. His growing j crops seem to bow to him in grateful' appreciation, because he never al lows them to go hungry. He knows little about our vast acreages or shameful waste or hit-or-miss meth ods, or modern machinery, but he i.» a practical chemist when it comes t"> understanding the food value of fertilizers. He is an artistic expert in -"il preparations and a successful merchant in conserving and market ing his crops. He would starve if he practiced the American methods of, marketing and waste. "He cultivates a small plat of J rom three to five acres, and makes a j iving on it. He expects but little i and gets it and saves it. He is more j particular with his twigs than we re with our forests. He knows noth ing about waste or idle land. The European peasant rarely moves from j the small farm on which he was born,! : nil this accounts for his deep attach- j en: to the soil. ''The French Revolution broke up t..■ large estates of France, and most j the rural lands in that country | l i e now owned by the small farmers, ■no are the strength, character and nope of France. Lloyd George and tne World War, working in combi nation, have accomplished the same results in England. The estates of Great Britain are being rapidly brok en up and are falling into the own ership of former tenants. The British government is aiding in this regen eration by means of long term loans, rhis peaceful revolution is one of the most interesting and amazing ex-! periments in European sociology and agricultural economics today. One of the big reasons for the success of Cleveland county's agriculture is that we have no large farms. "It will probably be a hundred years before the American farmer will be compelled to cultivate his " r, i! with the same intensiveness as does the European farmer. Ex perience teaches us that the size of a farm is generally determined by he density of the population in which it is located. The largest farms are invariably found in those localities where land is most sparse [y settled; and the smallest, most intensely cultivated and productive farms are found in that territory where the population is densest. I ; nmk we have a population of 65 FORESTCITY COURIER A PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST C? ,D RUTHERFOPD COUNTY 'ANNIVERSARY NIGHT AT KIWANIS CLUB i 4 Monday evening's program at the j Kiwanis club was in celebration of j the thirteenth anniversary of Ki- I wanis, with Prof. A. C. Finch in ! charge of the program. : Dr. G. R. Gillespie also made re port of his visit to the district trus | tees' meeting, held at Sedgefield Inn [last week. i people to the square mile in North i Carolina, while Belgium has a popu lation of around 1100. ; ''ln my judgment, we could pro- Iduce the present total of farm crops lof North Carolina on less than half [the land now in cultivation, if we were to farm as efficiently, as in telligently and as intensively as do the farmers of Belgium, Italy, Eng land. Holland and Germany. "\Ye have never been compelled to con- j centrate. We have too many broad acres. We have been content to j scratch the surface, and are still! resisting that economic law of pro ducing the same quantity and bet ter quality on fewer acres. "Since we have cleared our for ests, foolishly looking for "new ground," we do not seem to know what to do with our "old fields." We cleared up too much land and destroyed our forests before we learned that new ground was un necessary and was a nuisance. I saw in Italy land making forty-sev en bushels of wheat to the acre that was old land when Christ was born.* "Nothing reduces the value of a j tract of land more quickly than to abandon it. In order to avoid de preciating our acres, we blindly cul tivate or pretend to cultivate, pre tend to prepare and pretend to fer- j tilize thousands of acres because we j cannot bear to see it lying out and appearing to go to ruin. "It seems to me that one of the I biggest problems for North Car olina agriculture is the profitable dis covery of a use for the idle, waste and unnecessarily cultivated lands of the state. Of course it will take time and multiplied population to completely solve this problem, but the growing intelligence of our people, and the able leadership of our agricultural authorities, are making great progress in that di rection. Only a few years ago 1 North Carolina farmers were rely ing almost exclusively on cotton and | tobacco as money crops. It seemed impossible to interest them in any other profitable phase of agriculture. The farmer was not altogether to blame for this for the simple reason ! that he could not find a ready mark et except for cotton and tobacco. "We have not by any means reach ed an ideal situation, as we still send out of the state for millions of dol lars worth of products and by-pro ducts that we could easily raise at home; but it is encouraging to note the growing tendency in Qur state to utilize our waste and idle lands! for productive purposes, as reflected ; in the fact that in the year 1927 we shipped out of the state, for use in other states, 425 carloads of hogs,] in 1926, we shipped only 175 cars of hogs, 17,110 carloads of produce —of which 1677 cars were, peaches, 2203 strawberries, 1044 watermel ons,, 608 cantaloupes, 569 green peas, I 446 lettuce, 748 mixed vegetables, 752 sweet potatoes, 7502 Irish po tatoes. We also shipped fifty car i loads of beef cattle. But the great ! est gain came in poultry and hogs. .In 1926 we shipped a million, eight ! hundred thousand pounds of live poul- Stry, and in 1927 we shipped to North j ern and Eastern markets three million I pounds of poultry. In other words, ; we shipped in 1927 at least a thous- I and carloads of produce more than jwe did in 1926. "This is truly a startling and revolutionary statement, and every patriotic North Carolinian should pledge himself to the further exten sion and enlargement of this pro gressive agricultural program for the state." FOREST CITY. NORTH CAROLINA • JA* f 19. 192S y —_____________ A Large •£« ilv of Ellenboro R-3 m , 11111 H : ' BLcM m %■' ■ WssfcasS-M 1 Sssgs : M ?fcy jpra|9| v^H| \ BgJjL 1 ■ - |[MB| japing# ■ .. ' IWISF JIHiHK - M \ W v m mm HImHH r BWmm&•; li» ■ ■|| Ml N r # The above is the family of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Bridges, well known farmer of Ellenboro, Route o. Mrs. Polly Bridges, mother of Mr. Bridges, age about 77, sits at the left end of the front row. Next is Mr. and Mrs. WORK COMPLETED ON ROUND HILL BAPTIST CHURCH Church Takes A New Step Forward. New Officials Elected Union Mills, Jan. 17.—With the completion of the Round Hill Baptist church, it has taken a new step for ward. Rev. W. B. Craig, has been elected pastor temporarily to fill the vacancy left by the former pastor, M. L. Lennon, and Prof. W. E. Sweatt, elected superintendent of the Sunday school, and the reforma tion of the Intermediate B. Y. P. •U. making a total of three B. Y. P. U.'s in the church. The Sunday school is growing in attendance each Sunday, having 172 present last Sun day, the largest number in the his tory of the church. We look with pleasure to the influence of this old and established church, throughout the community. Prof. Edward Cole, of the Union Mills Consolidated Schools, will speak at the prayer meeting in the Round Hill Baptist church, Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Every one is kindly and cordially invited to be present. MRS, FRED SMART DIES AT HOSPITAL Forest City Woman Succumbs to Operation Performed Three Weeks Ago Mrs. Fred Smart died at the Rutherford Hospital Thursday night, as the result of an operation per formed three weeks previous. Fun eral services were held Saturday af ternoon at four .o'clock from the First Baptist church, with Dr. W. A. Ayers in charge of the service. Interment followed in Cool Springs cemetery. Mrs. Smart is survived by her hus .band, three children, Docia, Clara and Charles, all of Forest City; six sister, Mrs. Affie Hughes, Caroleen; Mrs. Daisy Medford, Shelby; Mrs. Essie Ellis, Mrs. Betty Curtis of Shelby; Mrs. Lela Reynolds, of Lin colnton; Miss Lula Bridges, of Shel by. Her father, Mr. D. B. Bridges, of Shelby, also survives, also two : brothers, Messrs. Pink Bridges, of I Shelby and Harvey Bridges, of Kings | Mountain. Mrs. Smart was thirty-eight years j of age. the family. There are thirty-six Bridges. This picture was made Christmas day at a family reunion at the Bridges home. There are thir teen children, eight married and five single. The youngest is sixteen years old. There has never been a death in HATCHERY TO RE OPEN SOON i ■ Mr. Paul Duncan Will Install 147,000 Capacity Incubator Here Next Week i ————— Mr. Paul Duncan, operator of the V», , Forest City Hatchery which was I burned two weeks ago, announces that he has a 47,000 egg-capacity in cubator on the way from the factory to Forest City, and that he will re open the Forest City Hatchery by January 25th. Mr. Duncan will locate his hatch ery in a large brick building direct ly at the rear of the Farmers Hard ware Company, which will be conven j ient and easily accessible to the pub j c - I The new plant will be a great im ; provement over the one destroyed j by fire. The old hatchery, located at [West End, was equipped with a 10,- I 000 capacity incubator. The new plant will have an incubator capable 'of taking care of 47,000 eggs, nearly j five times as large as the former j plant. The remainder of the equip i ment will be installed after placing i the incubator. BOSTIC WOMAN ! DIED THURSDAY 1 i i . Funeral For Mrs. M. L. Clem mer Held Saturday After- I noon I j Bostic, Jan. 17.—Mrs. Margaret : J. Cltmmer, aged seventy years, died jat the Clemmer homestead here i Thursday night, following an illness j of paralysis lasting about ten days. She had been in declining health about a year. Funeral services were held at Bostic Baptist church Saturday af ! ternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. I. D. j Harrill in charge of t*he service. Bur ! ial was at Concord Baptist church, ! immediately after the funeral serv ! ice. Mrs. Clemmer was born October | 1, 1857. She married the late M. L. | Clemmer August 9, 1877, and to j this union were born nine children, seven of whom are living as fol llows: Messrs. C. B. Clemmer, Kan 'napolis; C. H., of Claremont, N. C.; jL. M., of Monroe; Mrs. W. D. i Browne, of Cherryville, Mrs. E. E. j Smart, of Bostic; Miss Ned Clemmer, ( of Bostic. Nine grandchildren sur vive, also one sister, Mrs. S. Smart, members of the family, including! sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and j grand children. All were present | Christmas day. There are twelve! * i grand c hildren in the family. It is I one of the largest and best known j families in the county. SPINDALE BAND ' TO GIVE MINSTREL ! SATURDAY NIGHT i .Program to Open at 7:30 and Will Take Place of An nual Band Concert I ' Spindale, Jan. 16.—0n Saturday | evening, January 21, beginning at j 7:30 the Spindale Band will pre sent "The Jubilee Minstrels," a ! musical program in regular negro j minstrel style. The entire program j will be accompanied by a seven piece iorchestra. The preliminary program will open jat 7:30 with a conceit by the Spin- I dale Band, which will continue to J 8 o'clock. Following the band con ; cert the minstrel will be presented .in regular form with twenty-one ! members, six black face end men, so [ loists, harmonists, and chorus girls, j The program will consist of modern ! jazz, to the old time favorites. Jokes, ! clog-dancing fand the chorus girls 1 will each have a special feature act. The Blue Ridge Serenaders orchestra will accompany these numbers. The band program has "been espec , ially prepared for this number. This program takes the place of the an nual band concert, which has been eagerly anticipated each year since the" organization of the band. The characters in the minstrel will be some of the best in the county. Notably among them are Messrs. Go forth and Lindsay who have appeared here several times in the Community I Night programs. Many others who : have assisted in the community pro t grams will be on the minstrel pro j gram Saturday evening. I A small admission fee will be I charged, and the proceeds will go to ; the Spindale Band. | of Ellenboro; four brothers, Messrs. j Charles Holobaugh, Winston-Salem; ! Ernest, Tampa, Fla.; Baxter, of iGastonia; Walter H. of Mt. Holly. Mrs. Clemmer had been a resident in Bostic for about forty years and was loved by all who knew her. All j during her life she had been a con i secrated member of the Baptist j church, and took a leading part in its- work. She joined the Hickory ! Grove Baptist church in Gaston coun j ty, in early life. She later moved : her membership to Concord Baptist j church where she kept it until the j organization of the Bostic Baptist i church. Her husband preceded her to the grave several years ago. 12 Pag^es __ : 1 r= 72 COLUMNS SI.OO Per Year in Advance EVANGELISTIC j CAMPAIGN WILL j OPEN IN AUGUST ! ' | Stephens Campaign Has Been Postponed Until Early Fall During a recent visit of Evange- I list George T. Stephens, of High j Point, to Forest City, and after cor.- | ferences with representative minis j ters and men, it seems advisable tc all interests concerned, to postpone the Rutherford county evangelistic campaign, for li>2B, until the month ! of August, or early fall, thus avoid j ing conflict with any pre-arranged j plans or programs that would inter j fere with the fullest and heartiest j co-operation of all churches of all j denominations in the county.* Mr. Stephens has endeared himself j and his methods to all with whoir. ! he has come in contact and his stand : for whole-hearted co-operation on the j part of all the churches has seemed, jto all those with whom he has con ! ferred, to be most commendable and i the thing greatly to be desired. In view of these facts and remembering that the Lord Jesus has said, "He j who would be great among you, let j him first be your minister, and he 'who would be chief, let him be your (servant," the chairman of the con | templated movement herewith ex | presses his fullest approval of the j postponement and assures all c>n j cerned, that Mr. Stephens and party j will conduct such campaign at the | time when fullest co-operation can j be assured and secured. The general | committee appointed will please hold itself in individual readiness to meet sometime in the summer to perfect arrangements for the holding of such a county campaign. Thanking all those who have so faithfuUy and ardently supported the preliminary work in connection wkh the campaign and counting upon your continued support for the later iate I am, Sincerely and fraternally, GEO. R. GILLESPIE, Chairman. ' f - - -■ ■ ■ CONVERSE GLEE CLUB COMING FEBRUARY 6 The Forest City Kiwanis Club has decided to sponsor the Converse Col lege Glee Club, which is to give a j concert at the high school auditor | ium, February G, at 8:00 p. m. It is reported that Converse Col -1 i lege has a very splendid music de ' partment and a good program is as , sured. All muste lovers in Forest City and surrounding towns and communities are urged to keep this date in mind. All those who fail to > hear this .Glee Club will miss one of the best attractions in Ruther ford County. All those who like to see beautiful girls and hear sweet music, plan to be at the hiyh school auditorium Feb ruary 6. CENTRAL HIGH VS. COOL SPRINGS FRIDAY NIGHT The Central High School basket ball team of Rutherfordton will meet the Cool Springs High School basket ball team on the local court, Friday evening at 8 o'clock. This game promises to be of much interest since both schools have ev enly matched teams. The score last Friday night was 26-24 in favor of Forest City. From indications the next game will be as good as the one witnessed last Friday night. Both teams played a fast, clean game of ' basketball. An evidence of friend ship an 3 friendly rivalry were man | ifest throughout the game. All the lovers of basketball will have an op portunity to see a good game of i basketball, Friday night 8:00 p. m. !at the high school gymnasium at Forest City. . j i Mr. J. C. Harrill has moved his grocery store back to the Beachboard building, next door to The Courier. . i The many friends of the family j will be pleased to learn that J. M., j little son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. i Minish is showing improvement, after !an illness of pneumonia. Come in and see our new spring ' lace. Courtney's Ten Cent Store,
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