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VOL. X—No. 20
CHAMPIONSHIP'
TITLE GOES TO
FOREST CITY
High School Basketball Team
Defeats Lattimore for Group
Seven Championship.
Shelby, Feb. 20.—The Forest City
''Golden Tornado" blew through the
fast Lattimore five here Friday
night, to win the championship of
seven. The score was 33 to
19.
The "count was six all at the end
the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Forest City
scored twelve points while Latti
more could score only a free throw.
Forest City was leading 18 to 7 at
the half.
Lattimore outscored Poorest City in
the third quarter by getting six
points to four for Forest City. Forest
City was leading 22 to 23 at the
end of the third period.
V. Weathers, Lattimore's flashy
center led the attack with ten points.
There was no outstanding star for
Forest City because of their splendid
team work.
Line up:
Forest City (33) Lattimore (19)
Blanton (6) —.R.F. Weath's, P. (4)
Biggerstaff (9) L.F. Weath's, R. (4)
Moss ( 8) C Weath's, V. (10)
McKiethian (4) R.G. Mauuey (1)
Laughridge (6) L.G. Harrill
Referee: Hahn. (Marion.)
OLD TIME MUSICIANS
AT BOILING SPRINGS
Music lovers, and especially those
who are lovers of the old time
music—the music that brings back
the memories of the Yesterdays—
will have a rare privilege Saturday
wight, March the 3rd, when the best
old time musicians will compete at
Boiling Springs with their various
Instruments. This contest will be
the biggest contest of its kind ever
staged in this section since the mu
sicians will represent the tiest old
time musicians of North and South
Carolina. The contest is being spon
sored by the Men's Bible Class of
Boiling Springs. All musicians are
invited to compete.
SMITHS' GROVE
Forest City, R-3.—Feb. 20.—-Rev.
W. B. Craig, of Union Mills, filled
his regular appointment at Smiths'
Grove Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Grady Bridges spent Sunday
afternoon with Mr. Mrs. W. L.
m Crowd er.
Miss Pinkie Fortenberry spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mfs. W. H. Al
len.
• Miss Pearl and Mary Elizabeth
Crowder entertained a few of their
friends to a party last Satuday night.
Every one present reported a nice
time.
Messrs Fred, a\id Charles Carpen
ter and Miss Vena Carpenter, of
Spindale, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr. N and Mrs. Roland Smith,
Misses RutlTand Lucy Crowder spent
.Sunday afternoon with Misses Annie
Mae and Ethel Andrew.
Mr. Frazier Smith has been ill for
several weeks. We hope he will
soon be well again.
Mr. W. H. Allen has been ill for
several days, but is better at this
writting.
Mr. Forrest Fortenberry "was
the dinner guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Smith Sunday.
Mr. Forrest Fortenberry has been
ill for several days after having
some teeth pulled. All of his
friends are hoping he will soon re
cover.
HOME TOWN THOUGHTS
It does not do much good to'offer
bargains in a store, if people are not
induced 1 by advertising to come and
look at those values.
A job is not likely to be profitable
in a city, unless business is profitable
there. When you support home town
business by buying goods at home,
you help make your job pay well.
The way to make a town grow,
is to make it so attractive and full
of advantages that people want to
live there.
FOREST CITY COURIER
CELEBRATES GOLDEN *
* WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Rutherfordton, Feb. 20.—Mr. and
Mrs. G. M. Freeman, of the Mt. i
Vernon section, celebrated their gol
den wedding Wednesday, February
15, when most of their eight chil
dren and a number of grand- chil-'
dreti met at the old home plac/» for ;
the day. " Mr. Freeman is 75 year • 1
of age while Mrs. Freeman is r .>. '
Both are well and active and are ?
two of Rutherford's best citizens. •
SUPERIOR COURT
HAS ADJOURNED
! Docket Almost Cleared of Civil
| Cases During Two Weeks
I Session.
Rutherfordton, Feb. 20. The
spring term of Superior court for
trial of civil cases adjourned here
Friday, after being in session two
weeks. Judge P. A. McElroy, of
Marshall, who presided during this
term of court, made a profound im
pression on all officials and others
interested. From the very first day
until the last Judge M,cElroy's busi
ness-like manner and precision in
befdre the speedily dispatching cases
coming before the court won the in
stant approval of all. When court
adjourned Friday practically all of
the cases on the court docket had
been handled. A number of tases
were continued.
The more important cases that
were disposed of since last week's
issue of The Courier follows:
G. W. Hodge vs. Jack Henson,
judgment set aside.
Re: Will of A. H. McDaniel, con
sent judgment. Judgment was that
Lucretia McDaniel should have life
time interest in all real estate and
personal property, and at her death
one-fourth of same should go to the
heirs of A. H. McDaniel and three
fourths to heirs of Mrs. Lucretia
McDaniel.
George Hardin vs. J. T. Hardin
and Sarah Hardin, judgment for de
fendant.
J. S. Cannon vs; Henrietta Mills.
Plaintiff sued defendant for SIO,OOO
for alleged injuries sustained while
employed by defendant. Judgment
of court is that plaintiff recover
nothing.
B. F. Ledbetter vs. Paul Nix. Judg
ment for $160.00 in favor of Led
better.
Mr. Oscar J. Mooneyham was
sworn in as a member of the bar in
Rutherford county.
Several cases were continued,
while a number were non-suited.
"GOLDEN TORNADO "
HAS GOOD RECORD
Local High School Cagers Have
Won Fourteen Games.
The Golden Tornado of Forest
City has blown hard this season and
only three opponents out of seven
teen withstood the rushing winds. If
the Tornado gains momentum as it
goes on its path of destruction it
will sweep away all the opponents
from the Mountains to the Sea. The
Tornado is working hard to keep the
good work going.
The following is a record of the
Tornado:
Forest City, 22; Lattimore, 29.
Forest City, 30; Fallston, 15.
Forest City, 49; Boiling Springs,
24.
Forest City, 46; Lattimore, 34..
Forest City, 39; Lincolnton, 15.
Forest City, 36; 'Boiling Springs
40.
Forest City, i 26; Rutherfordton,
24.
Forest City, 43; Hendersonville,
13.
Forest City, 32; Rutherfordton,
28!
Forest City, 37; Shelby, 32.
Forest City, 23; Hendersonville,
15.
Forest City, 33; Shelby, 22.
Forest City, 32; Candler, 37.
Forest City, 30; Lincolnton, 20.
Stale Elimination Games
Forest City, 45; Ellenboro, 18.
1 Forest City, 23; Rutherfordton 20.
Forest City, 33; Lattimore, 19.
j\ blue serge coat collar /s one
!of the best things in the world, it
seems, to stop dandruff.
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
FOREST CITY. NORTH CAROLINA FEBRUARY 23, 1928
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* Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, just after he landed at Lambert—St.
Louis Field, after completing his non-stop flight from Havana and com
pleting his "Good Will" tour Colonel Lindbergh has covered 40/500 mile?
>x the plans he affectionately calls "We," —or The Spirit of St. Louis.
F. SPAIN HOUR DISCUSSES
ELECTION OF AL SMITH
Writing in Monday's Charlotte Ob
server, Mr. J. F. Spainhour, of Mor
gantown, the following to say
about the nomination and election of
AI Smith:
I would like to see North Caro
lina go Democratic this FalJ by her
usual majority, but in my judgment
that will not be done if Al Smith is
nominated for the presidency. In
fact there is serious doubt about
North Carolina going Democratic at
all if that happens.
What is it that Al Smith has done
that commends him to the people of
North Carolina? He is a Roman
•Catholic. North Carolina is over
whelmingly Protestant. He is op
posed to the prohibition law. North
Carolina is strongly in favor of it.
He is opposed to the public school
system. . North Carolina is united
for it. Then why should we want
him? Is there nobody in harmony
with us that is fit to be President of
the United-States? - ...
Some say they are for him be
cause he cart be elected. But can he?
Is is possible that the Democratic
party would jeopardize its religious
liberty, its prohibition law, and its
public school system for the sake of
electing anybody President of the
United States? Surely we don't want
a Democratic President that badly.
We must judge of what A 1 Smith
would do for the United States by
what he has done and is doing for
New York. I have a Bulletin pub
lished in Albany, N. Y., the Capital
of the State, and the home of A 1
Smith, which says that since A 1
Smith has been Governor of New
York he has had the appointment of
21 judges to preside over the courts
of' the State, and that he selected
every one of them from the Catholic
"I'ch. Not a Protestant in the
: whole lot. The same publication
says he has done much to nullify the
j prohibition law.
And every one who is informed
knows that the Catholic Church has
always bitterly opposed a public
school system.
Pope Pius, the 9th, says education
' outside the Catholic Church is a
damnable heresy; that Church and
; State should be united and the Ro
man Catholic religion should be the
only religion of the State, and all
other modes of worship should be
excluded. A 1 Smith has done much
to bring this about in New York.
The publication referred to says
he made a speech in December, 1927,
;in which he said that there were
parts of the Constitution of the
i United States that he hated. Give
i him power and he will do for the
United States what he has done and
is doing for New York, and more.
-f The little sprinkle of Roman Catho
lics in North Carolina I suppose
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Long, of
j Wadesboro, announce the birth of a
daughter, Bobbie Marie, at the
Wadesboro Hospital Tuesday, Feb
ruary 14. Mrs. Long is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Clay,, of
' Spindale, and is a sister -of -Mrs.
Clarence Griffin, wife of the Courier
News Editor.
Lindy Home Again
DAUGHTER BORN
.want this done; but do the Protest
jants of the State want it done?
i Before supporting Al Smith we
j should stop and think what the au
[ thority to separate Church and
j State cost us; and also what sacri
ifices were .made to obtain the right
jto worship God as we pleased, ac
' cording to the dictates of conscience.
I Are we willing t6 endanger these
•rights and privileges for the sake of
) electing a President? Surely the
good citizens of the State are not.
Of course the blockaders and boot
leggers, and all tha wet men of the
State are for Al Smith. He suits
them to a "T," but do the men and
women who have made North Caro
lina dry, and who are now making
North Carolina great, want him?
According to a circular letter sent
to The Winston-Salem Journal from
Catholic headquarters in Washing
ton City, the Catholic? want the
Methodist and Baptist denominftr
jtions, the Junior Order and some
I other organizations destroyed—want
them put out of existence.
I Methodist and Baptist de
nominations constitute, probably,
three-fourths of all the Christian
people of the State. Do they want
Al Smith for President? Surely
not.
It is admitted by the friends of
A 1 Smith that he is a Roman Catho
lic, and that he is opposed to the
! Eighteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States; but
«
they say he will have to take an oath
to support the Constitution as Gov
ernor of New York, but notwith
standing that all the 21 judges ap
pointed were Roman Catholics. And
; notwithstanding the oath he has
taken to support the Constitution he
I has in a large measure nullified the
j Eighteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution. Make him President and
he will do for all the States what he
has done and is doing for New York.
However honest a man is, he is not
apt to do much to enforce a law he
does not like, a law he thinks should
be repealed. We have examples of
this in North Carolina. Elect a wet
man to the office of sheriff, and he
will appoint wet deputies, and he and
all these deputies will take an oath
to enforce the law, But they will
seldom find a blockader or a boot
legger, even though the county may
have hundreds of them; and if they
should happen to have to arrest one,
they are often ready to go into court
and testify to his good character, and
some time go so far as to slip to the
judge, if the fellow has been con
victed, and ask him to be light on
him, that he is a mighty fine fel
tow. ,
A 1 Smith can in effect destroy the
I Eighteenth Amendment by the men
■appointed to enforce it.
I SINGING CONVENTION
j AT CONCORD FEB. 26
I *
1
Rostic. R-2, Feb. 20. A singing
{convention will be held at Concord
j Baptist church on Sunday afternoon,
{beginning at 2 o'clock. All churches
[who desires may send choirs and
•singers. The public in general is in
| vited to attend.
I Anyway, those New Year's reso
jlutions didn't do .any harm.
TO TAKE WEST POINT
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
; Frank Ward Eby, of Rutherford
i ton, has been designated as principal
! for entrance examinations to West
! Point March 6th,«according to a dis
. patch received from Washington
| Saturday. W. L. Morris, of Ashe-
I ville Route 5, and Arthur E. Eve,
, also of Asheville, have been design
• as first and second alternates re
• ?pectively. The appointments were
made by Hon. Zebulon Weaver,
congressman of the Tenth District.
STUDENTS FORM
THRIFT CLUB
Ellenboro Agricultural Stu
dents Organize Savings
Project.
Ellenboro, Feb. 20.—The students
of vocational agriculture in the El
lenboro High School met in the
classroom last Friday and organized
a thrift club with $604.15 on sav
ings accounts and $813.72 pro
ductively invested. Fourteen of the
students have saved and invested
$1,417.87, an average of $101.87
each according to financial records
of the club.
The thrift club project which is
being sponsored by the state organi
zation of students of Vocational
agriculture, known as the "Young
Tar Heel Farmers," has for its pur
pose the promotion of thrift among
its members. The club is controlled
by a group of officers after tha plan
of a bank.
Meetings of the club will be held
throughout the year, when bankers
and men who promote thrift will
probably be asked to speak on the
subject of saving.
No student will be allowed to be a
member of the clu'o unless he earns
and saves as much as $20.00 per
year.
MIDWAY NEWS
Forest City, R-3, Feb. 20.—Mrs.
Eva Austion, of Marion", spent last
WTeek withj her sister, Mrs. C. L.
Cash.
We are sorry to note that Miss
Ruby Price is confined to her bed
with measles.
Miss Dorothy Turner spent Satur
day afternoon with Miss Dorothy
Delehay.
Misses Aleen Philips, Evelyn and
Hazel Wells spent Friday afternoon
with Misses Rosalie and Evelyn
Thompson.
Mr. Johnnie Carver spent Sunday
afternoon with Mr. Guy Carver.
Mrs. Charles Hendric, of Shelby,
is spending the week with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Delehay.
Mrs. Lynch and Hugh Donald Mc-
Brayer spent Tuesday afternoon
with Mr. Ed Thompson Jr.
Mrs. Walter Daniel spent the
week-end at home.
PLAY AT FERRY FRIDAY
Ferry, Feb. 20.—A play "The Road
!to The City," will be given at the
| Ferry schoolhouse Friday evening,
February 24, beginning at 7:30
| o'clock. The cast of characters fol
low :
Jet Sanderson, Irene Scruggs; Tato
[Lee, Maebeth Scruggs; Lilly Mor
jton, Bertie Waldrop; Mrs. Sander
json, Elora Scruggs; Robert Darnell,
! Paul Tate; Jud Judkins, Jack Alex
ander; Richard James, Guy Scruggs;
IJohn James, Roy Scruggs; Duke,
' Virgil Scruggs.
Admission 10 and 25c.
D. L. Thompson, of Polkton, in
Anson county, says that the few hogs
which he raises each year for sale 'n
early spring and late summer helps
him a great deal. He sells his sur
plus corn to these animals and they
return him ready cash, when he
needs it most.
There were 198 persons at seven
• pruning demonstrations in Catawba
county recently. There is increased
, interest in apple growing in the
i county. One man has a six-acre
j orchard in which the trees are 25
, years of age, but he harvested some
800 bushels last year.
Section Two
SI.OO Per Year in Advance
LARGE BUILDING
j PROGRAM ON
IN SPINDALE
(Work on Streets Under Way
j New Buildings Being Erect
ed —— Methodists to Build
Sunday School Rooms.
Spindale, Feb. 20.—Considerable
; improvements are being made in
j Spindale at present. All street names
:are being posted; several streets are
| being re-surveyed and straightened,
and all are being improved with the
ultimate object of hardsurfacing
and topsoiling some of them with
the approach of Spring. Some few
new streets have been made. The
program of re-construction calls f .»r
1 the removal of several houses,
i notably on Pleasant street.
Mr. Vernon Yelton is construct
i ing a new home on Pleasant st/eei
i while work on the Baptist and Pies-
I byterian parsonages have began. Mr.
Hicks Hill is erecting a new six
room residence near Captain Smith's
home. The construction work on the
( Spencer Baptist church is going
forward rapidly, and it is expected
that it will be completed within a
! few weeks.
Plans for the erection of Meth
odist Sunday school rooms costing
appro*imately $15,000 are
considered. The Methodist chuieh
has long been inadequate to car.:
for the growing Sunday school, and
tor more than three years the grairi
mar school building, across the street
| from the church, has been used as
| class rooms for five classes. The
matter of building a Sunday school
addition to the church cai'ie up for
j consideration several months ago,
however nothing definite was cone
| until last .veek. A comn ittee has
j been appointed to secure plans and
estimates of cost of constructing the
building. Mr. O. V. Woosley, of
| Lexington, was in Spindale last week
.and was in conference with Messrs.
! G. B. Howard and F. C. Kinzie in
(reference to the work, and it L ex
! pected that construction work will
begin as soon as the project is ap
proved by the quarterly conference.
The Sunday school rooms will be
erected at the rear of the present
church, and will be so constructed
i that at a later date the present
j church may be i*emoved and a ne*.-
I brick structure erected instead
MOORESBORO NEWS
Mooresboro, R-l, Feb. 20. The
singing at High Shoals Sunday night
was "largely attended. There were
several fine quartets frorrt Cliff side
and the congregational singing was
unusualy good.
i r ihis community sympathizes with
Mr. George Jolly, in the death of his
brother, Mr. Richard Jolley, which
| occurred at his home near Mt.
I Pleasant, Thursday, after several
; weeks' illness with "flu." He was a
j fine christian man, having lived to
:be seventy-seven years of age. The
I funeral took place at Mt. Pleasant
| Friday afternoon, several from this
•community attended the funeral.
1 Mr. and Mrs. S. ft. Hames had as
• their week-end guest Mr. and Mrs.
J Stedman Haines and children, of
j Rutherfordton. '
Dr. Zeno WalJ, of Shelby, was the
• guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Robin
son Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. George .Bowen and
■ iittle son, of Alexander, spent Sun
jday with Mr. and Mrs. George Elam
' Greene.
; Miss Rae Robinson visited Miss
.Lillian Smith at Avondale Saturday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Plato Champion, and
daughter, Effie, spent Tuesday and
Wednesday with Mr. John Champion,
who still continues ill at his home in
Forest City.
Mr. Bill Curtis spent last wepk
with his daughter, Mrs. George Elam
Greene.
, Mrs. S. C. Robinson and daughters,
; Misses Gladys and Rae, spent Tues
day in Forest City, shopping.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Workers' Council will meet at
! High Shoals Thursday night. All
I the officers and teachers are urged
to be present.
*, When a man's pockets are empty he
,> can usually fill them by pocketing
hi-? pride.
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