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Subscribe for The COURIER. —Only SI.OO per year in County VOL. X—No. 30 DR. A. C DUNCAN AT HEAD OF KXK. IN NORTH CAROLINA Local Man Appointed Grand Dragon of State to Succeed Judge Henry Grady. , At the state convention of the Ku Klux Klan held in Winston-Salem .ast Friday Dr. A. C. Duncan was ap pointed Grand Dragon of the state of North Carolina. His iappointment was enthusiastically and unanimous ly accepted by the delegates. Dr. Duncan is to be congratulated for having this high honor bestowed up on him and the people of Ruther ford county and especially Forest City should feel very proud that one ? oi her citizens is the recipient of this distinction. Dr. Duncan has been very active in local-civic enterprises, always will ing and anxious to lend a hand to anything that added to the progress and welfare of his community. EV- Duncan served at Great Titan of the Third Province under Judge A. Grady, and is the first Grand Dragon for North Carolina since the resignation of Judge Grady several months agq, the Klan affairs during this time being handled by an Imperial representative. The State office was moved hers Tuesday from Charlotte. Mr. W. A. Braievogel secretary to the Grand Dragon has moved from Charlotte into an apartment on West Main straet. The new Grand Dragon ap pears very enthusiastic and opti 'roistic about the future of the Klan. * • WOMAN'S CLUB A general meeting of the Woman's club of Forest City was held in the Kiwanis hall on Friday afternoon,! April 13, 1928, at 4 o'clock, for the! purpose of electing officers. The fol lowing names were submitted by the nominating committee for election: Mrs. A. W. Falvey, president. Mrs. C. H. Verner, first vice president Mrs: W. C. Bostic, 3econd vice wk - risident. - Miss Viola Randall, treasurer. iiss Margaret Young, recording secretary. - Mrs. Terry Moore, corresponding sjbcfetary. Miss Margaret Bostic, auditor. . Mrs. D. H. Sutton, club reporter. ' These officers were unanimously ' elected by the club. At this meeting a motion was made and carried that the secretary's books be closed July 1, and positively Jfco person then residing in Forest City be admitted into the club after that dkte. MRS. CARL HUNTLEY, Recording secretary. * * # i F ' The executive board of the Wo man's club met at the home of the president,' Mrs. A. W- Falvey on I Tuesday afternoon, April 24-1928 for' the purpose of appointing the de-, jaartmental chairmen. The following! were appointed for the-year 1928-29: j Literary chairman, Mrs. Hoyle El liott; music chairman, R. R. f Howes; dramatic chairman, Mrs. : #ohn Dalton; civic chairman, Mrs. E. O. Thomas; welfare association chair man, Mrs. G. C. McDaniel. Meeting of the general club will be held at an early date at which time we will hear the report from )the delegates to the Women's? Fed , eration which convenes in High Point. N. C., Mjay 1-4, will appreciate a full attendance of the club as there will be very important business to come up at this time, let me urge that every member who desires to re main in the club for next year to bring your general club due?, also new members to join and p?»7 dues at this meeting, so watch the paper for notice of this general meeting. MRS. A. W. FAI/VEY, President. * * * literary Division No. 1 will meet Thursday afternoon, May 3, at the of Mrs. John McMurry, at 4 o'clock. The hostess will be Mes dames John McMurry, G. P. Reid, W. L. Horn and Frank R. Wilkins. Subject: The Short Story of Today. » ♦ » Literary Club No. 2 Literary Club Number 2, will ► FOREST CITY COURIER MRS. J. HARRILL DIED SUNDAY Funeral Services Held Mon day for Victim of Dread ed White Fiague Mrs. Julius Harrill, aged 35, died at her home on West Main street Sunday at 11:45 a. m., following an illness of thirty-seven months. She was stricken with tuberculosis, which brought about her,death. Rev. M. F. Moores, pastor of the local Methodist church, conducted the funeral service at the home Mon day afternoon at 3:30. Interment was in the Cool Springs cemetery. Mrs. Harrill is survived by her hus band, Mr. Julius Harrill, one son, Julius, Jr., aged nine years old; one sister, Miss Charity Holbert, of Rutherfordton; two brothers, Messrs. Pink Holbert, of Forest City, and 1 Ben Holbert, of Asheville. Mrs. Harrill before her marriage was Miss Kansas Elizabeth Holbert. She was a member of the Methodist church of East Flat Rock, her for mer home, and had been a consecrat ed member since about eighteen years of . age. Mrs. Harrill was taken ill more than three years ago and since that time had been confined to her bed continuously. Interment was in Cool Springs cemetery. The following acted as pallbearers: Messrs. Charles Flack, Will Owens, R. K. Hollifield, G. D. Horn, J. B. Mears, and C. E. Hunt ley POULTRY CAR COMING The Seaboard Railway will run another poultry car in the county on the following dates, says Mr. F. E. Patton, county agent: At Ruther fordton, May 14; at Ellenboro, May 15. Watch next week's paper for further announcements. BOY SCOUT COURT OF HONOR HERE TUESDAY The Rutherford County Boy Scout Court of Honor was held in the Ki wanis hall here Tuesday evening at 7:30. Merit badges were awarded to Ralph Barnes, Rutherfordton, Bookbinding; Donald Tate, Cliffisde, leatherwork, masonry; Billy Hill and Walter Gregg, Spindale, cooking and handicraft; Charles Duncan, Spindale, personal and public health; C&rl Bridges, Cliffside, masonry. John Williford of Rutherfordton, ap peared and presented necessary certi ficates for veteran scout badge. Gil bert Monfredo and Chai-les Duncan, of Spindale, applied for Star Rank. Members constituting the court of honor were: F. C. Kinzie, chairman; R. M. Schiele, Rev. W. L. Lathan, O. C. Erwin, Z. O. Jenkins, B. L. Smith, J. H. Hill, W. L. Stallings, C. P. Parks, L. W. Jones and Clarence Griffin. Immediately after ihe court of honor a meeting of the county exec utive committee was held, at which time matters of importance to the committee were discussed. MEET WITH MRS. GILLESPIE The Woman's Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church met at the home of Mrs. G. R. Gillespie, Tues day, May 1, at 4 o'clock. Before the program they were favored with two beautiful solos, "Pardoning Grace" and "On the Cross of Calvary," by Mr. Upson, who will be with the Stephen's evanglistic party later in the sum mer. The subject of the program was "Looking Back Over the Year of For eign Mission Study." After the pro gram and business session the hos tess, assisted by her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ephlin, and Miss Ruth Gillespie, served a salad course with hot coffee. Mrs. Geo. R. Gillespie visited over the week-end in Gastonia with her husband and the McLendon party. Mr. Gillespie returned to Forest City Tuesday night on business concerning the coming evangelistic campaign in Rutherford county this summer. meet with Mrs. D. H. Sutton Thurs day (today) at 4 p. m. Mesdames Jones, Coleman and Harris will be joint hostesses. All members are urged to be present. PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CltY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY FOREST CITY. NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1928 wKL H :^HHH Jm pIM Wm I|j BllllL fifflllfcr JK# J^Wl«wg| MUSICALE FOR GUESTS OF MR. AND MRS. T. R. PADGETT Mrs. Hague Padgett and Mrs. John Carpenter gave a beautiful musicale on Friday evening in honor vf the Mesdames Jones, Masters and the charming house guests of Mrs. T. R. Padgett. The home of Mrs. Padgett was decorated in masses of spring flowers and pesented an of spring flowers and presented an all together charming effect. About enjoyed a varied program by some of the talented members of Forest City Society. The first number of which was Lack's Impromptu Ma zourka by Mrs. R. W. Minish. J3he played the brilliant composition with Rightful finish and expression. Miss Margaret Bostic gave three reading, "Home" by Guest, a Chi nese version of Jonah and the Whale, and Husbands. Miss Bostic read beautifully and responded to an en thusiastic encore. Mrs. A. B. Glick man, accompanied by Miss Goggans, then sang a beautiful selection in her usual charming and artistic manner. Mrs. D. H. Sutton read three poems of her own, "The Raindrop Prelude," "The Beiishie" and "The Ballad Singers," as an encore she read "The Rantin Laddie." Mrs. R. R. Howes played the Bridal chorus from Lohen grin with splendjid expression and finish, Miss Goggins played "Grand Polka de Concert" giving a most brilliant execution of this difficult composition. When encored en thusiastically, she asked Miss Mary Ayers to respond 1 for her and Miss Ayers gave a delightful interpreta tion of ""Sundown." Then Mrs. Jones, one of the honor guests, read a difficult monologue "A Tele phone Romance." Mrs. Jones is an artist of excellent training and abil ity and her reading was most en thusiastically received. She re sponded to an encore with "The Day is Done" accompanied by Mrs. Minish, who played softly, and with much expression, Meditation. The closing number on the program was Mrs. Norris, always the delight of Forest City. She sang Mc- Dowells, "To a Wild Rose" and re sponded graciously to an encore, Mrs. Minish also accompanied her. At the close of the program, the hostess, assisted by Misses Sudie and Margaret Young served a delicious ice course. MR. E. S. HENSLEY DEAD Mr. E. S. Hensley, of Rutherford ton, died at his home there Saturday night after a short illness. The funeral services were held Monday at 11 o'clock at High Shoals Mr. Hensley was formerly a resident of Henrietta, where he was well known. TTo leaves a family. Grand Dragon of North Carolina* AMOS C. DUNCAN HOME FURNISHING EXPERT COMING Miss Helen Estabrook, state house furnishing specialist, will be in the county May 10th- and 11th for the purpose of home visiting. Any body who would like to have her ser vices is ask to notify Miss Laura Howard and get an appointment. This will be Miss Estabrook's last visit until October. If anybody is contemptlating any refurnishing, they are urged to make an appoint ment as soon as possible. . Miss Estabrook will give two dem onstrations on the making of slip covers and anybody interested is in vited to attend either of these meet ings. The first will be at the home i " Mrs. J. D. Link, of Forest City, . Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The other will be at the home of Mrs. J. D. Link, Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, May 12. Mr. G. P. Moore,livell known young farmer of near this city,* brought to this office this week a bunch of wheat which has been headed and which is probably the earliest in the county. This wheat was sown Oct ober sth. Mr. Moore says his whole crop of four acres was all headed the first of this week and will be ready for the reaper by the last of May. Mr. W. G. Magness, the - well known piano • man, has moved into the new storeroom, between Blan ton's Cafe and the Buck store, where he will have larger space for the dis play of his fine new line of pianos. Mr. Magness has just gotten in a carload of pianos, player pianos and Baby Grands, and is also selling Brunswick Phonographs and records and Atwater-Kent radios and sup plies. He invites his friends to call and see him in his new location. For this week-end I will have the biggest bargains ever offered in Forest City, when I will display $3.75 and $5.00 hats on my bargain table at SI.OO each. Ladies, d'on't fail to embrace this opportunity of saving money. The hatS are wonderful values and the styles and materials are the very best. Mrs. E. E. Mc- Curry. Rev. J. S. Wood will leave this week-end as a delegate to attend - Grand Chapter and Commandery of North Carolina, at Durham, N. C. EARLY WHEAT IN NEW QUARTERS BARGAIN TABLE • SIIPT.C.A.ERWIN ADDRESSES CLUB Makes Interesting Talk on Schools to Forest City Ki wanians Monday Evening. The speaker of the evening at the regular weekly luncheon at the Ki wanis club Monday was County Supt. of Schools Clyde A. Erwin. Mr. Er win has often appeared before this body and has always brought an in teresting message. He is always a welcome visitor and has a host of warm friends here in Forest City. • Mr. Erwin talked on "Schools," the subject dearest to his heart and that one on which he is best post ed, and brought an interesting mes sage, one in which the Kiwanians are vitally interested. Mr. Erwin opened, after having ex pressed his pleasure at being pres ent at the meeting, by telling of the work in his office during his term of two and a half years, of the prog ress of the schools and the many im provements in teachers, rating and everything in connection with the educational program of the county. He made a most favorable impression i with his statement that his compensa tion had not been in dollars and "ents but in knowledge of duty well done in fitting our bo|ys and girls for their life's work. "We should aIL be interested in their careers as they will soon be doing our work," said the speaker, as he discussed the many improvements in our school system. I He disclosed that he was in favor of the longer term for rural schools and also favors consolidaMon when ever that can be accomplished to ad vantage. Some of the interesting high lights garnered from a batch.of interesting statistics, disclosed that there is now a total enrollment in the public schools of 11,048; build ings have a value of $1,400,000; 21 white schools; 81 trucks. An interesting point brought out by Mr. Erwin was the fact that there has, as yet, been no fatality in the carrying of the thousands of children in the trucks over the coun ty. Truly, a remarkable record. It was also disclosed that boys have proven to be safer drivers than the men who have been employed in this work. * It will also be a matter of pride to know that the present account'ng | system of the schools, perfected by Mr. Erwin, has been* copied bj twenty-one other counties of the state, and that the operating expo - ses are the lowest of any count/ in j North Carolina. While some may [think that the tax rate is high, the ! county is the second lowest in the ! district. ]Vliv Erwin also brought out the fact that rural schools suffer grear. damage from vandalism during the closed period. It does seem that tb«* patrons of a district would more carefully guard this property, but there was certainly little regard given in the district in a certain section last year where 64 windows were broken in one schoolhouse. MEMORIAL DAY Memorial Day services will be held Sunday, May 6, at Pleasant Grove church. On Saturday, May 12, Memorial Day services will be held at Cool Springs cemetery at 2:30 p. m. NEW CHEVROLET COMPANY , Mr. H. C. Morris, a brother of Mr. Roy Morris of this city, who has been making his home at Belmont, has purchased the Moss Chevrolet agency in this city and is now in charge of this business. Mr. Mor ris is a fine young business man and is receiving a warm welcome to Forest City. He has rented the present quarters of the Forest City Motor Co., and expects to occupy the building August Ist, by which time the former firm expects to have its new home completed. Mr. J. C. Ellen, of Charlotte, and Mr. J. C. Powell will be with Mr. Morris as salesmen. The new firm is to be styled the Model Chevrolet Company and will occupy its present quarters pending the completion of the new building to be erected by 1 the Forest City Motor Co ' 16 Pages 96 COLUMNS SI.OO Per Year in Advance LOCAL CLUB OF YOUNG TAR HEEL FARMERS TO CAMP Cool Springs School Members to Go to White Lake on One Week's Trip in July. The Cool Springs chapter of young Tar Heel farmers will camp at White Lake a week in July. There is a camp there which is the i property of the young Tar Heel far mers of North Carolina and all the 1 chapters in the state will camp there at some time during the summer, Six chapters at a time. This camp will be a most delightful outing for the boys. There is to be a play ground director who will devote his entire time to sport and recreation. Theie is a central dining hall, assembly hall and cottages for the boys and White Lake is one of the most delightful • camp sites in the state. This camp ground was presented o the young Tar Heel farmers by j the Pharr Realty Company of Char j lotte and. through their generosity, every member of the 105 chapters in the state will have a chance to spend a week there. This trip will in clude a visit to the Williard Agricul , tural Experiment Station, ons of the J best in the south, and will mean , much to the boys. The group going from tho local school includes D. H. Sutton, agricul ture teacher, Wyman Wood, presi j dent of the local chapter and twen ity members. HENRIETTA NEWS (Special to The Courier.) Henrietta, May I.—Mrs. S. J. Asbury and Mrs. O. J. Mooneyham delightfully entertained the pupils of the 9th and 10 grades and a num ber of other guests last Monday eve ning at the community house. All had been invited to a "Tangle party" and warned not to get the time and date tangled. Promptly at 8 o'clock the merry young people gath ered on the porch and were ushered into the spacious room which wa3 tastefully decorated for the occaston. Punch was served by Misses Berta Lee High and Elizabeth Reid. Part ners were found by matching class colors. One from each grade form- I ing a partnership. Many amusing contests were untangled. The hard est, perhaps,, was untangling a mass of letters and arranging the lettei to spell the names of) the pupils. Prizes were won by Miss Jeanette Phillips and Eugene Holland of the 9th grade and Miss Pauline Kennedy and Jack Jolly of the tenth grade. Mr. 0.. J. Mooneyham made the phe sentation "speech." The leap year proposals which a number of the young ladies made were very amusing. Mrs. Mooney ham is grade mother of the 9tfi grade and Mrs. Asbury is the 10th grade mother. The hostesses served delic ious ice cream and wafers Mrs. ! Asbury gave a toast to the tenth grade and Russell Shytle made the response! A toast to the 9th grade by Mrs. Mooneyham was responded to by Sam McAbee. In behalf of '-he pupils Miss Berta Lee High spoke in appreciation of the happy occasion and thanked Mrs. Asbury and Mrs. Mooneyham for a most enjoyable evening. Mrs. B. E. Hughes entertained the third grade pupils and their teacher, Mrs. Buren Phillips Monday after noon at her home on Wisoman street. The occasion was Mrs. Hughes birthday and the children gave her a pair of silk hose. About forty chil dren gathered on the lawn and play ed many merry games. Mrs. Hughes is the third' grade mother and the children were delighted to be asked to her birthday party. Delicious re freshments were served the little folks and all wish Mrs. Hughes many more happy birthdays. Mr. W. S. Moore returned Monday from the Rutherford hospital where he underwent an operation for ap pendicitis. See the wonderful hats I am of fering at One Dollar. Mrs. E. E. McCurry.
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