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Subscribe For The Courier, Only SI.OO per year in County OL. X—No. 22 KIUSiC MEMORY CONTEST TO BE HERE APRIL 21 Schools of the State to Stage Contest in Music at Cool Springs. The State Music Memory Contest ror Town Schools .will be held in Forest City, April 21, at 11 o'clock, t the High School auditorium. Every school in the state is en -itled to enter two contestants from ■>he elementary school and two con testants from the Tiig'h school. No district contests, will be held this 'ear. All schools competing must send in -Their number of contestants who are io enter the state final contest to the music chairman by April 14. A list of questions on "the appreci ation course'* will be sent schools ,pon request, at an early date. •, .ble Columbia phonograph nd a loving cup will be awarded the vinnlng schools. Special certificates will be pre sented to each contestant, in the state ont^st. All contestants will be entertamee ;,y the Woman's Club of Forest • n it y. The foregoing announcemeni -hould be of much interest to everj one in Forest City. It is indeed t: orivilege to have the opportunity tt participate in this Music Memoij Contest, and parents who have ehil Iren eligible should see that they en :er it immediately, and thus gair -he advantage derived from starting early. Only twenty-three children in ou; school entered the contest last yeai there should be at least fifty, thi: year- Through the efforts of our Dis trict Music Chairman, Mrs. R. W Minish, the state contest will be hel here, and let us hope that the chil dren of Forest City will evince a much enthusiasm over this, as the: do in other school activities. As a special incentive, a prize o five dollars has been offered, by ai interested citizen, to the boy or gir in High School, who wins in the pre liminary contest and a similar prizi will he given to the winning con testant in the Grammar grades. The presentation of this contes will be under the able supervisioi of our capable music supervisor Miss Mary Wilder, and our effieien teacher of piano, Miss Katherin Goggans. The following list of composition has been carefully selected bearinj in mind the needs of the fourth yea of music menlory work, and at th same time with a view of offerinj beginners in the work material which they can interpret to their en joy men t and benefit. In the following list the first is thi composition, second item is th source of the composition, the. thiri is the name of the composer and thi last item in the nationality of thi composer. Largo, New World Symphony Dvorak, Bohemian. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Liszt Hungarian. Amaryllis, Old French Rende French. Minute in G, Paderewski, Polish. Music Box, Liadow, Russian. O Vermeland, Thou Lovely, Swed ish folk song, Swedish. Andante Cantabile, String Quar t.et, Tschaikowsky, Russian. Emperor Quartet, Haydn, Aus trian. .Gavette, Beethoven, German. Minuet, Bach, German. Stars and Stripes Forever., Sousa American. Wedding March, Lohengrin, Wag ner, German. Wedding March. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendelssohn, Ger man. Le Cygne, Saint-Saens, French. Moment Musical, Schubert, Aus trian. Dar.se Arab. Nutcracker Suite Tschaikow sky, Russian. Dans-* Chtnoise, Nutcracker Suite T c-h; ikowsky. Russian. Danse des Miritons, Nutcrackei Svite, Tschaikowsky, Russian. Triumph March', Aida. \ erd; Italian. Blue Danube Waltz, Strauss, Aus trian. From an Indian Lodge. Indiai FOREST CITY COURIER HENRIETTA MAN i DIED THURSDAY I t j # ! j Harlow Brindle Succumbs to ! Appendicitis Operation at Hospital. (Special to The Courier.) Henrietta, March s.—Mr. Harlow i ! Brindle died at the Rutherford hos- J ' : pital last Thursday night. He had ' ' | been operated on for appendicitis a j "'few days before. When it was: learned that he was dead the whole j ".community was saddened for he j 1 ' was loved and respected by all who i " ; knew him. In all the relations of | ' I life he was a most exemplary young , 5 : man. Upon the death of his father! isome years ago Harlow gave up high j 1 school where he was making a splen- ! 2 | did record and secured a position in ! ? the clotliroom where he was soon ; promotedto second hand; when the ; - Martel Mills bought the Henrietta 1 s Mills he was promoted to the posi- i | lion of cloth room overseer at Chero- | h keo .Falls, S. C. He was quiet and | unassuming and stood high in the : regard of his employers. Unselfish ness, a virtue so woefully lacking in e the lives of many, seemed to be the cutstanding virtue in the life ot Har , low Brindle. The funeral service Saturday afternoon by Rev. W. T. , Tate and Rev. R. N. Childress. The crowd that ever attended a y ; funeral here was present. Mr. Brin a idle was 28 years old. He is survived ibv his wile who was Miss Geitiude i Sorgie, one child, his mother and ' one brother, Henry Brindle, two sis- I iters, Mrs. Deck Jones and Miss Ruby n i Brindle. To his loved ones he left g ! the rich heritage of a blameless life and the blessed assurance that he II ■ was not afraid to die for he knew on whom he had believed. He was * :buried beside his father in High i 5 _ , Shoals cemetery. Many and beauti j ful were the floral designs sent and d ! the young girls of the Intermediate 1_ B. Y. P. U., of which Mr. Brindle is!had been leader, served as flower ,y j girls. Music was in charge of Hen rietta choir. ,f | Honorary pall-bearers were the n ■ deacons of the church: L. P. Ham rl I rick, H. M. Norman, J. L. Hamrick, a_ ;N. J. James, B. B. Smart, C. M. ;e ; Harrill, W. S. Moore, C. F. Weese. 1 . Active pallbearers were young friends of Mr. Brindle, Ernest Gil 3t;lespie, R. M. Wilson, Howard West, n : Claude McMahan, Cy Bradley, J. H.. r . ' Bone, Wade Hughes, Zonie Eastep. it ; ie Mrs. T. J. Moss and mother, Mrs. I. N. Miller, of Harris, were shop py; ping in town one day last week. lg [ Rev. E. O. Cole held quarterly ir I conference at Caroleen Sunday af |teraoo>n and preached in the Metho o- dist church here Sunday night. 1 Mr. LF. Fogartie, of Asheville T . district manager of the Business Men's Insurance Company of Greensboro, spent Monday night here ie as guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Mahaffee ie The Woman's Missionary Society IV met with Mrs. Romeo Hicks Monday afternoon. Plans were made for the White sale which they will put on soon. t The comedy "Cyclone Sally" in three acts was s iven by the Caro » e'em eatery school at the nigh school building Saturday night was attended by a large and appreciative audience. Muchpraise was heard, on |_ : all sides, of the manner in which each one in the play acted his or her r _ part. LAKE LURE WOMAN'S CLUB i I Lake Lure, March s.—The Lake ! Lure Woman's Club was entertained t 'at Bat Cave in the Dorcas Club ' ; rooms of the Episcopal church, j Thursday afternoon. Miss Jennie Fields and Mrs. Iludggins, of Rock- L . ? '.wood Inn, were hostesses. After the j •_ business meeting a delightful social | hour was enjoyed. Delicious refresh- ] incuts were served. Mrs. Thomas Turner and Mrs. Ben Freeman as- ! sisted in serving. i , , Mrs. Carl Freeman and Mrs. Frank j (Ynn>n will entertain the Woman's i • 5 .i 1 > ;»t |-he next meeting in April, j r Suite-. MacDowell, American. Love Song. Indian Suite. Mac- j i. ; Dowell, American. : Waltz, Faust. Gounod, French. 1 Gavotte, Mignon. Thomas, French, j j Hallelujah Choi us. The Messiah,' n Kan'de), German. PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FO ,ST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY FOREST CITY. NORTH CAROLE MARCH 8, 1928 Forest City's Representative at Interstate Historical Ball [ % Asheville, N. C., March 5. —Wide- ■ I spread interest has been created by the wealth of rare costumes worn at the recent interstate historical costume ball held at the Kenilworth Inn. Two thousand attended and voted it the outstanding social event of the year. Society girls from sixty cities of nine states participat- Jed. Many of the costumes depicting I American historical events were originals more than a hundred years old. Others were duplicates of dresses worn two centuries back. An outstanding example is the costume worn by Miss Dorothy Bos tk of Forest City, N. C. She repre sented Mary Philips, the dame of Philip's Tavern, to whom it is claim led George Washington proposed and i HOLLY SPRINGS NEWS' 1 * 1 Harris, R-l, March 5. —On ac ' count of the bad weather and much j sickness in our eommuniy, there was | not many people at Sunday School i Sunday morning. ' Many people in our section have j j measles at present. We hope for ithem a speedy recovery, i On last Tuesday afternoon, Mrs.. ! Mary Snyder was buried at Holly j fSprings,. A large crowd was pres jent. . Mrs. Snyder was a good wo-j ' man. and has been a member of the i i church for several years. She was J la real mother and grandmother to j Jail her children. j \ Rev. A. G. Melton and five other, preachers had charge of the funeral ; services. Little Ruby Robbins was the din- j ner guest at her grandfathei and grandmother Robbin's t riday. Rev. Bill Hardin has smallpox at present. We hope for him a speedy ; recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Solon Ledford are all | smiles, it's a boy. [ Mrs. Rosa Splawn visited ner j brother Jim at Valley Falls, last; J week. COLLINS-JOHNSON WEDDING i ; Announcements reading as fol-! ! lows have been received here: ! r . W. O. Johnson announces the j j marriage of his daughter, Louise to j ' William Co'lins o'-'> Monday, I'eb-, ' i uary the twenty-seventh. Inman. ; I South Carolina. j ' fhe above announcement will '- j 'if interest in the city where Mrs.. I - ; Iv. a wide circle of friends. ■ j Mr. Collins is the son of Mr. and' : Mrs. J. L. Collins of Forest C ity.; | Mr. and Mrs. Collins will make their, (home for the present in Sarasota, j ' F la., where Mr. Collins is a member; of the Sarasota ball club. i 1 1 i was rejected. She was the reigning ; belle of the Revolutionary period. ! Miss Bostic wore a costume of i green taffeta with a shaped band about the bottom of lavender taffeta. Large hand-tinted flowers were ap | pliqued at intervals about the very •i full distended skirt. The bodice j was very tight and pointed in front i with a low, square decoletege. ; Flowers adorned the left shoulder. | Bows of gold ribbon were arranged tat intervals down the front of the ; pointed satin vest. A petticoat of ! pink satin with cream lace ruffles, i draped up in front and held with a [gold bow, showed beneath the laven j der draperies. She wore a three-corn j ered green velvet hat, oer which was I draped a large circular veil of green ' lace with pink lace border. ! FLOYD'S CREEK NEWS t j Forest City, R-l, March (s. —Rev. j JA. G. Melton delivered a splendid 'sermon at Floyd's Creek Sunday ' morning, which was enjoyed by a I good sized audience. Immediately j j after the preaching service a short • funeral service was h'eld for the j infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Craw- 1 ; ford Vickers. Mr. W. S. Tate and family were . ; dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. | ' Edwards Sunday. I Mrs. Moree Trfylor and son, Jessie, ; 1 spent Sunday* at Mr. Gordon loms. i ' Mrs. Forney Wall and two sons, i 'Mr. Gordon and Robert Lee spent the week-end with Mrs.. Wall's mother, Mrs. White, near Goodes Creek. I. Miss Ethel White spent Sunday! with Misses Irene and Elora Scruggs. : • Mr. and Mrs. Grover Riddle, of' : Spindale, spent the week-end with , Mrs. Riddles' parents, Mr. and Mrs. , I Henry Sorgge. Several from our community at-j tended the funeral of Mr. Harlow] ; Brindle which was held at Henrietta i i Baptist church Saturday afternoon, j Mrs. Brindle has the sympathy of ■, the community in her bereavement j as she was reared in our community, ( being the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. : Henry Sorgee. i WOMANS' CLUB The Dramatic club will .r.eet witn Mrs. John DalU>n on eve ning (today) at 8 p. m. All mem bers who have not yet paid their dues are urged to come prepared to !: at this meeting. We buy Larro dairy feed by the car. it makes your cow give more milk. At Horn's. LATEST NEWS 1 FROM CAROLEEN! i Baily-Melton Wedding W. j M. U. Meets—Play Given j At Central High—Lo cals and Personals. V Caroleen, March 5.—A marriage! that came as a surprise to their many friends was that of Miss Ola Mae Bailey and Mr. Robert Melton, both of this place. The wedding took place in Gaffney, S. C'., last Saturday, j March .'J. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bailey, while the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P>. J. Melton. They will make their' home with the groom's parents at present. i Black Bear Service Station j 31 r. Clyde Mahaffec has begun construction of an up-to-date filling | station on his premises on highway No. -07, near the new home of Prof. A. C. Loxelace, to be known as The B.:;ck Bear Service Station. Mr. Joe Randall, contractor and merchant of Care ken has the contract for the ' of the structure, which is to be of solid brick construction, one office and accessories room, a Ladies and Gents rest room. The well known i and dependable Texaco Products will be hmdled exclusively, in connection » [with a full line of tubes, tires and all. auto accessories, candies, drinks, j and cigarettes. The station will be • completed about April Ist and will be in active charge of Mr. Walter I Mahaffee. W. M. U. Meets Thi Alda Grayson Circle of the Baptist W. M. U. held their regular "meeting with Mrs. T. 11. Ferree Mon ' day night, a very interesting meeting being enjoyed. Mrs. O. A. Lynch had 'charge of the program, which was a study and observance of the W. M. U. i Ruby anniversary. Mrs. R. N. Cliil ■ dress discussed interestingly some ol the accomplishments and great work of the W. M. U. in the past. Mrs . Lynch and Mrs. Higgins gave helpfu talk. The regular business was tran i sacted and at the close of the pro , gram and business hour, special sen tence prayers for Mrs. Ferree, whe » is in bad health, was offered by • number present. The society will meet in April witl Mrs. T. C. Smith, The members pre . sent for the meeting were: Mrs. R .j P. Early, Mrs. Ruby Lynch, Mrs ; !B. T. "Hawkins, Mrs. Marlow Haw jkins, Mrs. A. F. Mitchell, Mrs. C. E {Sparks, Mrs. Urcilla Lynch, Mrs ( Archie Robertson, Mrs. T. C. Smith IMrs. M. A. Higgins, Mrs. T. H. For ree. Mrs. Nellie Dobbins, Misses Mar 1 garet and Ella Lynch, Ora Smart ! Minnie Harrill, Pearl Mitchell, Ethe | Elron, Edith Lynch, and Mavis Ro bertson, Mrs. I'. N. Childress ant Mrs. Jim Early. Mr. N. S. Harris, of Valley Falls j S. C., has accepted a position in the I grocery department at Caroleer ! Store. Mr. Harris has been connect !ed with the Martel AI ills for some time having been an employee in the 'company store at Valley Falls. Mr i Harris recently married Miss Annie Bell Chapman, of Henrietta, X. ('. , Mrs. Mary Hamrick was operated on at the Rutherford Hospital last ; ' hui.-day for appendicitis. The op !eration was succesfsul and she is do ing nicely, her many friends are glad to know. Rev. and Mrs. R. N. Childress, Mrs. ' W. S. Moore, and Miss Frances Rey i nolds, of . Henrietta, are attending 'the W. M. U. Convention being held lin Asheville this week, j Miss Belle Wilkie, of the Oak ; Grove section, visited at the home ! of Mrs. R. C. Randall for a few days ] last week. i Miss Ethel Price, of Forest City, I spent the week end here with Mr. and Mrs. Vance Price, j " : -s Alda Smith spent the week 'end in Ruthecfordton, visiting Misses j Ruth and Margaret Walker. ( The day of prayer to be observed ior Missions which was to have been • held ;:t the Baptist church fnurs dav. wiil be observed Friday the fol lowing day, March !■. insteau >i Thursday, 8. The same program and plan vMI b ' : rried out and dinner j-- .-' hed in the dining hall . -e\. The regular meeting 'of the Ilarrilltown W. M. U., to be !hM -.-'s. A. Lovelace's Wed nesday of this week, has also .been nos' polled until the foil . wing w-.' A. | The t hange in the date of these • iii '-tin* >is (»n account ' l l ii.wti*.* the convention in Asheville. IS ios c SI.OO Per Year in Advance FOREST CITY TO HAVE A CURB MARKET I Organization Perfected Mon day Evening—New Build ings to Be Erected March 20. Forest City is to have a curb mar ket, owning: to the good work of the iKiwr.nis Club. Pians were formu lated at a meeting 1 , attended by about fifty prominent farmers and their wives, held at the Kiwanis Club I 'looms here Monday night. The org anization is to be known as the Curb j Market Association, to be controlled 'by a chairman and board of direc | tors. The market is to be held in ia new building to be erected on Blan- j tv.:i «-treet, just back of the Forest iCi!y Motoi Co., on a l»»t furnished by Mr. J. 11. Thomas. The farmers have been asked t•» come to Forest City i t Tuesday, March 20, i> help |in th i-rection of the building and i their wives are to furnish a big pic j nie dinner for the workers. Prof. I). 11. Sutton and in boys and mem , i bers of the Kiwanis Club are also go i ing to help in the work. The occas- | ion is to be along the lin -s of the • old-fashioned "workings" of the old ' i en times, when neighbors and friends j I gathered together for a picnic and j the work of log rolling or th" build | ing of some new house, barn or other • structure. j At the meeting held Monday eve !' jning, organization was effected by 1 nominating Mrs. M. M. Young as "'temporary chairman, after which a " j permanent organization was perfeci led by electing a board of directors, a composed of the following seven "'members: Mrs. Claude Klmorc, Mrs. ' G. W. Rollins, W. K. Lewis, Mrs. W. 1 !L. Hunt, H C. Vickers, Geo. Hlan k j ton. Prof. D. 11. Sutton was chosen jas chairman and the county agents \ will also he members of the board. 1 i The curb market Ys assured and 1 will mean much to both town and '"jcounty. The meeting Monday night jwas an enthusiastic one and it was a j demonstrated that the curb market would be one of the best moves made 1 in our town in many years. It will l ~ be the means of providing a mar ket for the produce and prove a prof -5" j itable venture for both the town I, jand country people. s ; The Courier hopes and expects I j every one to come here on (he day ' designated, Tuesday, March 20. and t ._ i help the town brethren in the erec t i tion of the buildings. It will be ,i ! a great day for all concerned, and J. 'the mingling of town and county in f i j the work and the dinner will bring all into closer relationship that will »redound to the good of all, ! e ■ ; n TWO DEATHS AT JPIND ALE ' ' Spindale, March 7. —The two-year e old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John '• 1 Connor died at the home of its par e ents here Monday and was buried at 'Sugar Hill Tuesday, with Rev. M. M. di Huntley in charge of the* services, t ■ The child was recovering from a case i-. of liieaslr s when it was stricken with pneumonia which ended its life. ' Mr. John Mode, aged about sixty five, died at the home of his daugh ;ter, Mrs. J. C. England here Monday, "jFuneral services were conducted at ? Glen wood Tuesday afternoon with * i Rev. M. M. Huntley in charge of the ,service. c: " WILL GEE DEAD Will Gee, aged about thirty years, . ' died at his .home near Tanners' Grove Friday. He lived on Mr. : j Moore's land. He was a son of Mr. ; ; and Mrs. Will Gee, and was an ex * soldier. He had been ill sometime II with asthma and tuberculosis, which 'brought about his death. . '*■ C-ir straw h tt.- now sailing ! •• .".75. Don't i'i : thi ' bnr ' i •j Xl,e nlay "Cych t SaHy" £*ivon at * i -( ( ntrai High sci *»*» i building Sat . i urday evening was ;• -niendid succes . 11fc.:eh player '.roving him or Ir-i sell . lan actor or »;etr •of patr.i—ji.-.r abJ •! it v. The performance v. as an uproar -4* i • -!lolis comedy ami fv.i ■*' laugn- 1 >'" m 'au to finish.