COUNTY OPPOSES
AL SMITH FOR
PRESIDENT
Majority pf Anti-Smith Dele
gates Selected at Precinct
Meetings Saturday
The Rutherford county democratic
precinct meetings were held in the
various voting precincts last Satur
day afternoon. All of the meetings
were well attended and much interest
manifested. Apparently the Ruther
ford county delegation to the con
vention is decidedly anti-Smith.
Of the twenty-three delegates
from the Rutherfordton precinct,
selected Saturday, ten are reported
for A 1 Smith, while the others ap
pear to oppose him. The Spin dale
precinct is reported as opposed to
Smith, while practically of the moun
tain and outlying precincts selected
anti-Smith delegates. The precincts
of High Shoals township elected a
fkir majority of anti-Smith men.
No resolutions were offered or dis
cussed by any of the precincts, and
all of the county's delegates were
uninstructed.
The delegates selected Saturday
from the various precincts, will meet
in Rutherfordton on Saturday, June
9, at 11 a. m. at the court house,
and will select fifty-five delegates
from the county to attend the state
Democratic convention in Raleigh
June 12.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many friends
for their many acts of kindness and
their loving help and assistance fol
lowing the sudden death of our be
loved husband and father, also»for
the many beautiful flowers sent us.
May God's richest blessing be on you
all.
Mrs. T. D. Walker and Children.
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TEXTILE LEAGUE
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W. L.
4 0
3 1
2 3
0 5
Ellenboro
Avondale
Caroleen
Cliffside
Results, Saturday May 26
At Cliffside:
Ellenboro 6; Cliffside 4.
At Caroleen:
Avondale won over Caroleen.
Games Next Saturday
Cliffside at Avondale.
Caroleen at Ellenboro.
CENTRAL HIGH
SCHOOL CLOSES
Senior Class Composed of
Twenty - Nine Students —
District Enrollment in
Excess of 1,800
Rutherfordton, May 28. —The
commencement exercises of Ruther
fordton-Spindale high school was held
on Wednesday, Thursday and' Friday
of last week.
The program opened Wednesday
evening at 8 o'clock with the com
mencement sermon, which was de
livered by Rev. H. G. Hardin.
Thursday morning, at 10 o'clock
certificates of promotion to the high
school were given the students of the
seventh grades of the Rutherford
ton and Spindale elementary schools.
The senior play, "Adam's Apple,"
a comedy in three acts, was given by
the class Thursday evening at 8
o'clock. Nine members of the class,
six boys and three girls, took part
in the play.
The debate was held Friday morn
ing at 10 o'clock. The topic debated
was the McNary-Haugen Farm Re
lief bill. Following the debate the
attendance and Red Cross certificates
were presented to a large class.
Class day exercises were held Fri
day afternoon at 3 o'clock. The pro
gram came to a close Friday evening,
W. H. Frazier, president of
Queens College, 'of Charlotte, de
livered the address to the senior class
at this time. The awarding of medals
followed. Superintendent Clyde Er
win presented diplomas to the ten
members of the recent teacher train
ing class. The presentation of di-
THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928
THE DEMOCRATIC
PRIMARY TO BE
HELD SATURDAY
Pet.
.1000
.750
. 400
.000
Candidates for Various Offices
Ready for Battle of Bal
lots June 2
The Democratic state and county
primaries will be held Saturday. The
state ticket is the shortest put out
in years, there being only three or
four offices contested.
The county ticket follows:
For Senate
(yote for one)
R. E. Price, Amos R. Beam.
For House Representatives
' (Vote for one)
Willie M. Jones, George Bigger
. staff, Thos. J. Moss.
For Recorder
(Vote for one)
J. D. Smith, Oscar J. Mooneyham,
J. N. Jones, John P. Beam.
Solicitor, Recorders Court
(Vote for one)
j Stover P. Dunagan, R. R. Blan
r ton.
For Sheriff
(Vote for one)
R. Lander Pruett, Horace. B. Dog
gett, W. C. Hardin, Wayne Bridges.
For Coroner
(Vote for one)
C C. C. Kiser, W. C. Hightower, Dr.
] J. C. Twitty.
For County Commissioner
(Vote for three)
R. E. L. Freeman, Harden H.
Tucker, W. G. Harris, Clarence Grif
l fin, A. B. Price, C. M. Walker, B. E.
Gold, J. F. Groves, J. P r Jones, A.
G. Randall, J. W. Beason, A. W.
Deck, G. E. Morgan.
Township Offices
For constable, High Shoals Town
ship: T. H. Early, G. D. Rollins, Roy
e L. Ensley, A. R. Wall. •
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* IN MEMORIAM *
* *
|T * Mrs. C. M. Harrill *
* * * * * * * * * *
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A baby so wondrous and fair
With sparkling eyes and' golden hair
Was slipped by an angel and car
ried away,
As the pale shadows of the night
slipped into day.
Sybil's little spirit was wafted
Away on wings of love,
i To Jesus who had need of her above,
j He wanted her tender, pure in heart,
i In heaven, to take an angel's part.
No loving human hand could heal her
disease,
But Jesus said "come, I will give you
ease.
She could not tell us where or just
how,
But we know she is well and happy
now.
Look up, she is dancing round the
heavenly throne,
I Fairer, even more beautiful than we
have known.
See her radiant light shining from
heaven afar,
iTo guide us on, as homeward star.
Weep not mother and father do not
meditate.
Sybil is safe, shut within the golden
gate,
Where angel's will kiss each tear into
a smile,
Till you shall meet again your loving
child.
HEARSAY
Absolute knowledge have I none,
But my wife's sister's washerwoman's
son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a laborer on the street
That he had a letter just last week
Written in the finest Greek
From a Chinese cooley in "Tim
buck-too-,"
Who said the niggers in Cuba knew
Of a colored man in a Texas town
Who got it straight from a circus
1 clown
That a man in the Klondike heard
• the news
From a bunch of South American
Jews
Who knew of a swell society female
rake
Whose bootlegger's lawyer would un
' dertake
To prove by her husband's sister's
; man
That A 1 Smith and the short ballot
gang
Would get licked to a frazzle by the \
Ku Klux Klan. J
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plomas and special certificates was ■
made by Prof. B. L. Smith. \
Twenty-nine members compose J
this year's senior class. The total en- ■
rollment for the district for the year ■
was in excess of 1,800 students. "1
THE OLD COMP
There is a bird that is just about
extinct in the United States, and
whose passing is the cause of real re
gret to the most of the newspaper
fraternity.
We refer to that now very rare
specimen—"the old comp."
„ Comp is short for compositor, and
compositor is the technical name for
the man whose trade was setting
type by hand. "Sticking type" we
used to call it.
The old comp was anywhere from
thirty-five to seventy-five years
old, and had worked at the trade
from the time he was fourteen. His
education had been gained in the
printing office, and he had worked
in at least a dozen states and on
somewhere from twenty to one hun
dred newspapers. He was personal
ly acquainted with most of the great
editors, and he was familiar with pol-
We are carrying a full line of parts for Model T Ford cars,
and shall continue to give our customers service in the future, as in
the past.
itics, state and national, for the past
20 years.
He was an authority on spelling,
and you made a wrong quotation
from Shakespeare in an editorial he
always corrected it when he "set up"
the article. If you disputed his ac
curacy he would pull an old leather
bound volume of the Bard of Avon
and show you just where you were
wrong. He would also tell you how
different actors interpreted that pas
sage, and state his preference, and
give a good reason for it.
He knew history by heart, and ge
ography he had acquired by wander
ing over the country.
He would recite poetry by the
yard, and Eugene Field was usually
his favorite.
He swore worse than any trooper
he ever met, he chewed tobacco, and
smoked a villanious clay pipe, and he
was very far from a prohibitionist.
He would fight, with his fists if
\ears of Service
in
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even longer at very small up-keep expense.
The cost of Model T parts and of necessary labor is
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New fenders, for instance, cost from $3.50 to $5 each,
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necessary, for the honor of the paper
on which he was employed, and the
editor and "boss" was his personal
friend, but he could transfer his al
legiance over night and fight just as
hard for the rival sheet if he chang
ed employers. He was a Republican
one day and a Democrat the next. Re
ligiously, he was decidedly liberal,
and could quote Scripture in defense
of any position he chose to assume.
He used the most abominable gram
mar most of the time, but could drop
into the polished language of Addi
son if occasion required. He scorned
worldly wealth, but was about as
honest as the next fellow.
The linotype machine killed him
off rapidly. He couldn't learn to
run it and didn't care much, any
how.
There are only a few specimens
left and they are rapidly passing in
to the great beyond.
Peace to their ashes. —Exchange.