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It's a Long, Long Way to perfection in any calling, but here's a doctor whose picture should adorn the Hall of Fame. He stopped the nurse and ask ed her how the fellow was get ting aleng that he fixed up with mule glands. "The opera tion was a success, Doctor," she said, "he KICKED himself to death." You'll not "kick" if you select the things that go to make up a meal, at our store. All that you need do is choose, from our stock, the things you want. We have done the se lecting of quality for you. Jones Grocery Co. Forest City, N. C. G. C. KING M. J. HARRILL J. A. WILKIE CYCLONE AUCTION COMPANY GENERAL REAL ESTATE Auction Sales a Specialty FOREST CITY, N. C. Time Is Passing And with it your opportunity to forge ahead. What financial progress are you making as time passes? Have you a sav ings account at our bank showing an in creased balance with growing interest credits? The days to come need to be pro f vided for. Care for your money now, and J.t will care for you later. Rutherford County Bank & Trust Co. RUTHERFORDTON UNION MILLS SPINDALE TRY OUR CLASSIFIED COLUMN FOR RESULTS DEATH CLAIMS MRS. MAGGIE WILKINS Funeral Services Held at Flor ence Baptist Church June 22nd Funeral services were held at the Florence Baptist church Friday, June 22, at 2:00 o'clock for Mrs. Maggie Wilkins, age 50 years, 10 months and 23 days, who died at her home on Church street Thursday morning, June 21, at 10:15 o'clock. Revs. Z. D. Harrill, C. C. Matheny and H. C. Sisk officiated and interment was made in Cool Springs cemetery. The deceased is survived by her mother, one brother and a host of friends. She had been in ill health for er a year, but only in bed for a week. The many beautiful flowers were carried by ten members of the Woman's Missionary society of which she was a faithful member. She was a member of the Flor ence Baptist church, a good woman and had been a widow for five years. LEWIS HOME DESTROYED The home of Mr. E. A. Lewis of Alexander Mills, was destroyed by fire Thursday afternoon, June 21. The house was owned by Mr. A. A. Abernethy of Alexander. There was no insurance. The loss is estimated to be SI,OOO. Mrs. Lewis, who is a cripple had a narrow escape. The origin of the fire is unknown. MORRIS-LAUGHRIDGE Mr. Hicks Morris was married in Gaffney, S. C., last week to Miss Beatrice Laughridge. Both are from Forest City and have the con gratulations of their many friends. THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1928. VETERANS GET PENSIONS State Auditor Baxter Durham has notified the Davis-Dickerson - Mills Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy that the following Con federate veterans have been recent ly placed on the State Pension Roll and will get checks in June of $182.50 each: Messrs. J. H. Craw ford, Isaac Hollifield, K. J. Carpen ter, Littlejohn Kennedy and J. L. Wright. All veterans on the State pension roll now get $1 per day. INTERESTING AND OTHERWISE (CLARENCE GRIFFIN) Progress' of Mail Service Good mail service today is the rule rather than the exception. The slight est delay in the mail or a mistake by a postal employee is a signal for a 'dressing down' of the entire postal system. Today's efficient service is not the result of chance, and has not always been with us. It is within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant that weeks elapsed between the time of mailing a letter in New York and the date of its receipt here. Many people who have not yet liv ed their allotted span of three score and ten years can remember the old stage coach as it bumped its way in to Forest City from Charlotte, headed for Asheville, while the memory of the oldest inhabitant can recall the shrill notes of 'Uncle' Levi Hamil ton's bugle as he came down the crooked turnpike from Rutherford ton headed for Shelby. 'Uncle' Levi, a trusted old ante-bellum negro, would drive his coach into Burnt Chimney around four o'clock each morning. Before entering town he would sound his bugle lustily as a sig nal for the postmaster to have ready the outgoing mail. Strange as it may seem today, the present postal system has not been with us many years. It was not until 1848 that the United States Govern ment used stamps, and the R. F. D. routes were not inaugurated until a few years before the Spanish-Ameri can war. Prior to the coming of the rail roads the mail was carried over dim trails on horseback, packed in sad dlebags. This mail was gathered at central points and riders carried it to various distributing centers over the state. Over some sections of the state, which were served by roads suited for carriages the mail was transported by stage coach. Before the advent of the rural free delivery routes and the present ef ficient system of transporting the mails, every community center or 'Company' had a postoffice. The county was not, until 1868, divided into townships, but into 'companies instead. These postoffices each serv ed all patrons within a given area, just as a school now serves all pa trons within a district. In 1850, the population of Ruth erford county was 13,550. The coun ty embraced all the territory now within its present bounds and Polk county as well, since that county was not formed until two years later. Fourteen postoffices served this area. It is interesting now to look at the old postal directory for 1850 which gave Rutherford county's postoffices as follows: Buck Shoals, Chimney Rock, Golden Valley, Green Hill, Hicksville, Island Ford, Logans Store, Montfords Cove, Pickn«y, Rutherfordton, Sandy Plains, Webb Ford, Tryon and White Oak. From 1850 to 1860 the population of the county dropped to 11,573, due partly to the formation of Polk county from its borders. Yet in 1860 the county had twenty-one postof fices. Buck Shoals, Montfords Cove, Tryon, White Oak and Pickney had been dropped from the above list and Brittain, Butler, Cedar Creek, Coop ers Gap, Cuba, First Broad, Grassy Knob, High Shoals, Oak Springs, Ot ter Creek, Pattons Home and Suck Creek added as new postoffices. Ten years later, 1870, the county was served by sixteen offices. Butler, Cedar £reek, Hicksville, High Shoals, Island Ford and Suck Creek had been dropped from the list or consolidat ed with other offices, and Burnt Chimney was added to the list. The increased population of the county in 1880 made it necessary to almost double the number of of fices, there being twenty-four in the county that year. In 1890 the total had! crept up to 43, and in 1900 to 45. From that date to the present the number of offices have been de creasing, due to the rural free de livery service. The R. F. D. service was first put into operation in North Carolina on MISS HELEN WILSON WEDSROBERTBLAND Caroleen Man Claims Miss Wil son, of Nebo, For Bride Nebo, June 27.—A wedding mark ed with simplicity and beauty was that which took place Monday eve ning June 25, at 8:30 o'clock at the home of the bride, when Miss Helen Wilson of Nebo, became the bride of Mr. Robert Bland,' of Caroleen, N. C. The home was beautifully decorat ed with baskets of sweet peas, ferns and potted plants. • The improvised altar was-banked with rhododendron and on either side were tall white standards, bearing white candles with flickering glow, which lent fas cination to the attractiveness of the wedding scene. The vows were spok en under an arch of lovely lilies. Rev. H. E. Stimson, pastor of the bride, officiated, using the impressive ring ceremony. To the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march, played by Miss Helen Plant, cousin of the bride, the happy couple descended! the stairs and en tered the living room to the impro vised altar, preceded by the maid of honor, Miss Lottye Wilson, sister of the bride, the only attendant. During the ceremony soft music was played which added much to its impressiveness. Following the taking of the vows a reception was held. The bride's ta ble in the dining room was a picture of loveliness. The cover was of filet lace over pink, and bore four pink candles in silver holders. Bowls of sweet peas were attractively used'in the decorations. During the recep tion the bride cut the immense white wedding cake, and was followed by. the guests. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mrs. John L. Wilson and is pos sessed of great charm and talent. She was formerly a successful teacher of McDowell county but for the past October 23, 1896, with the establish ment of ttwo routes from China Grove, N. C. This branch of service was at first experimental and its adoption by the postoffice depart ment for all offices was slow. It was not until March 2, 1903 that the first route was established in this county. Tfris was R. F. D. 1, Ruther fordton, with Mr. Josephus Mode car rier. The R. F. D. service sounded the death knell of the numerous small community center postoffices. By 1910 the service had eliminated al most half of the offices in the coun ty, and, despite a heavy increase of the number of mail patrons by 1920 there were only twenty one offices in the county, while the number of R. F. D. routes had increased to twen ty. At present there are twenty-one offices in the county, and twenty two R. F. D. routes. i « The drink that has outgrown QMwm seasons J F m Once upon a time most P®°P^ e thought of.it yr If \ only as a hot-weather X rJ = # 7 drink. Then every / fj W J> body learned that it is / u ~ j good to pause and re / 0 J fresh yourself regard' / Q f less of weather, t * * t fj J That delicious taste / and cool after-sense of J| (t\ / refreshment have p m/wPkl JBf I made Coca-Cola the P \ } ) one B r eat drink, rain | E i or shine, hot days or i The new Coca-Cola ABC Book. | 1- 1 1_ +Jr beautifully illustrated in full color. A *=/ delight to children and grown-up* yT 7 alike. Write or, better •till, vWt our plant for your free copy. 8 millions COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. a day FOREST CITY, N. c. IT HAD TO BE GOOD TO GET WHERE IT IS few years has been a popular mem ber of the faculty of the Caroleen Schools. The groom is the son of Mrs. S. A. Bland, of Caroleen, and is a prominent business man of that town, having held a responsible posi tion with Henrietta-Caroleen Manu facturing Company for a number of years. The happy pair left by motor for Wrightsville Beach and other points in Eastern North Carolina. RELIEF FROM CURSE OF CONSTIPATION A Battle Creek physician says, 'Constipation is responsible for nore misery than any other cause." But immediate relief has been ound. A tablet called Rexall Ord erless has been discovered. This tablet attracts water* from the sys tem into the lazy, dry, evacuating bowel called the colon. The water oosens the dry food waste and causes a gentle, thorough, natural novement without forming a habit or ver increasing the dose. Stop suffering from constipation. Chew a Rexall Orderless at night. Jext day bright. Get 24 for 25c to ay at the nearest Rexall Drug 'tore. 26 ' tf Read The Courier classified ads. I INSURANCE m ——————— ——— J BROWN INSURANCE AOBttfOY V. L. BROW* V Bok BoOflnt ftJW^/VWWWUVWWVWUWWWWWWWUVWWWW DOUOS The Drug Store |opS|Mp' V2> °f Service and Quality We compound prescriptions efficiently and with the least possible loss of time. Also carry the purest and best grades of all drugs and remedies. Highest quality rubber goods and sick-bed accessories at the lowest possible prices. Give us a trial. Peoples Drug Store FOREST CITY, N. C. 6 6 6 Cures Chills and Fever, Intermittent, Remittentand Bilious Fever due to Malaria It kills the Germs Home Made Candy Get a box and you will know its quality Watch Our Windows Ice Cream, Fruits, Cand ies, Nuts. All kinds Sand wiches, Etc. , if THE CANDY KITCHEN John Thomas, Proprietor FOREST CITY, N. C.
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