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FOREST CITY COURIER Published Every Thursday -in the interest of Forest City and Ruther ford County. Entered Aug. 22, 1918, at th* post office at Forest City, N. C., as second class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. \ C. E. ALCOCK Editor and Owner CLARENCE GRIFFIN—.News Editor MRS. C. E. ALCOCK—Society Editor ARVAL ALCOCK Advertising a. H. HOUSER Job Dept. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One year 51-00 Six months -50 $1 .50 per year outside of Rutherford County. ADVEBTISING RATES Display, per column Inch 30c Reading Notices, per liie 10c Classified Column lc per word THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929 NO EASY MONEY Many of our friends here in Forest City have without doubt watched the dizzy gyrations of the stock market during the past few months. Maybe some of them have played with a little. If so we hope that they got out in time. The law of gravitation applies to more than material objects. What goes up must come down on the stock market as well as on the base ball diamond. One day the stock market gives one visions and dreams of abundant weklth and protracted leisure. The next day they may demonstrate how easy it is to plunge from affluence to poverty. We trust that the record of the past few months of speculation has taught a lesson to the American peo ple. We hope that it is realized that few there are who can find a ca/eer of speculation profitable. We trust that the belief will become common that for most people wealth must be earned. Our nation is today strewn with the graves and corpses of the financial hopes of those who have caught the speculative fever. The best advice we can give to our readers is this: "Before you invest have your banker investigate." ENCOURAGEMENT Sometimes when hard luck seems to shadow your path, when sickness in the family wipes out your person al savings, when business reverses destroy your present ~ comfort and stand as almost insurmountable ob stacles to future success don't get discouraged. Don't so to speak, throw up the sponge, don't conclude that life, and hope and ambition are all illusions. Louis Pasteur, the greatest hero of all times in the war against dis ease, suffered from a stroke of para lysis when he was comparatively young. While almost a helpless crip ple he made most of his greatest dis coveries into the cause and cure of disease. When Ludwig Von Beeth oven's genius as a composer was just beginning to ripen he lost his hear ing. Most of his greatest symphonies and other compositions were created, long after the world, to him had be come a place of eternal silence. Joseph Conrad, nearer our own time, left the sea, his only means of liveli hood, a broken man physically, and turning to literature as a way of supporting his family made for him self a place among the immortals. It is well to read biography occa sionally if for no othef reason than to learn of the handicaps that op pressed most men and women of genius. It helps one over those pperiods of despondency which assail every normal man and woman. It makes our little miseries and mis fortunes seem insignificant. A COMMUNITY INVENTORY The old year is just finished. The coming twelve months that we shall designate as 1929 steps into the spot light. We give a hand to the old for the good things he has brought to all of us. We await with hopeful ex pectations the performance of this new actor upon the stage of time. The worker figures that this is a good time to hit the boss for the raise he is expecting, and the mer chants, farmers, bankers and busi ness men in all lines start the job of taking inventory and making plans for the future. As stockholders of the fine little corporation known as Forest City it is fitting and proper that we do likewise—that we establish a bal ance sheet showing our community assets and liabilities, and seek if we can to increase or develop that col umn of assets. Let us first take our liabilities. What's the matter with Forest City? The unthinking booster may answer "nothing" but he is wrong, for Forest City is a community of im perfect human beings, and it is suf fering from that common community ailment briefly diagnosed as human nature. We have too many citizens, as all communities have, who believe in commun.t-y boosting so long as nothing but talk is required. When the time comes to roll up their sleeves and tackle a hard job they become conspicuous by their ab sence. We have too many people who are confirmed pessimists, who believe that nothing can be done to build up the community in spite of the fact that community spirit, the will to achievement, and the exer cise of a little imagination have created thousands of fine cities where nothing but forests and prairies existed less than a century ago. We also have a few too many hopeless individualists, people whose intentions may be good but who haven't yet learned that notable ac complishment is usually the result of unity of effort. Among our assets we may list hun dreds of opportunities that can be developed by means of united effort. We may well call attention to the fact that industry is rapidly changing locations in this country because the chemist and scientist is constantly finding new sources of raw material and opening up new markets. This tendency or trend means opportunity to the community whose citizens are alert to new possibilities. Futher more, we may well cite the fact that we have as fine a body of citizens here as one can find anywhere on the face of the globe—that while they possess the faults common to human beings universally they also have the virtues that characterize people everywhere. And above all else we have a fine, friendly, hospitable city, attractive, to visitors, and pleasant to its resi dents. There may be larger cities, there may be more enterprising com munities, but there are none where one may enjoy greater comfort and happiness, where his children may have greater opportunities, where associations with one's fellow men may be qi\ a more friendly and hu man basis. REV. AND MRS. JOE SINCLAIR TO LOCATE IN FOREST CITY Rev. and Mrs. Joe Sinclair, who are teaching in the Eastern part of the State, at Ashe, spent the holi days in the county with friends and relatives. They will be located in the county, in their new home in Forest City, after March 15, 1929. Rev. Sinclair will be open for church or school work in the coun ty next year. He attended the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at Fort Worth, Texas, while Mrs. Sinclair attended the training school at the same institu tion, also attended Baylor Univers ity at Waco, Texas. LATTIMORE HIGH GIRL DIES CHRISTMAS DAY Lattimore, Dec. 31. —Miss Ostine Wright, a popular student of the Lattimore high school died Christ mas day at the home of her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wright in the Rehobeth section. Pneumonia developed following an attack of in fluenza. Miss Wright was just 17 years of age. Funeral services were conducted Wednesdry afternoon, December 26, at 2 o'clock at Rehobeth church, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Williams con ducting the services. Six of the Lat timore school boys served as pall bearers while her cousins carried the beautiful floral displays that cov ered her new made-mound. She was the daughter of Mrs. Pearl Wright Cogdell. Prof. Lawton Blanton, principal of the school stated at the funeral that she was undoubtedly one of the brightest pupils he had ever taught. MRS. WILLIS PHILBECK DIED CHRISTMAS DAY Bostic, R-2, Dec. 31.—Mrs. Wil lis Philbeck died Christmas day at her home near Washburn school and was buried Wednesday, Dec. 26, at Union church in Cleveland coun ty. She was about 65 years of age and leaves a husband and a large number of friends and relatives. She was a good woman and was held in high esteem in the community. She formerly lived in Cleveland county. THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929 GRAND OPENING ROMINA THEATRE FOREST CITY, N. C. t THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929 7:30 P. M. J - • " :i Program PRESENTATION EXERCISES Address: Mr. C. D. Hughes, Representing Mr. W. H. Haynes, Owner, introducing Mr. C. O. Kuester, Charlotte, N. C. who presents the theatre to Forest City. - . ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES . By: Mr. Chas. Flack, Mayor, * Forest City, N. C. Mr. Clyde A. Erwin, Superintendent of Education, Rutherford County. GOOD FELLOWS MUSIC MAKERS » Sopranos Contraltos Mary Sims Sloan Johnsie Jamison Neal Joan Gottheimer Vera Reid Grace Kohn Johnston Emily Cullum Gertrude Gower Rachael Summerow Rozzelle Tenors Basses Earl Rasor , William Clegg Monroe C. M. Hassell Ralph Urey Joe Overmeyer Will Neal Ernest Cullum John O'Daniel C. O. Brown, Director Elsie Stokes Moseley at the Piano 1. OPENING CHORUS (a) "Your Land, My Land," from "My Maryland" Romberg (b) "Hallelujah" From "Hit the Deck" 2. "Ten Little Miles From Town" Sims Sloan and Chorus 3. Selections from "The Serenade" T Herbert Good Fellows Club Quartet 4. "Off to Philadelphia in the Morning" Old Irish Will Neal and Chorus 5. "I Told the Daffodil" - Friend Grace Kohn Johnston and Chorus 6. "Yankee Doodle Boy" Geo. M. Cohen Earl Rasor and Chorus 7. "The Message of the Violets" From "The Prince of Pilsen" Gertrude Gower and Chorus 8. Remarks on "The Evils of Modern Society" , . Paul Whitlock 9. "Brown October Ale" Sullivan William Clegg Monroe and Chorus 10. "Jerusalem Morn" Padgett Good Fellows Club Quartet 11. "The Winter's Song" 1 Bullard The Male Chorus 1 12. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Negro Spiritual - - - Emily Cullum 13. Sextette —From the Opera "Lucia" Donizette The Chorus 14. "Italian Street Song" J From "Naughty Marietta" Joan Gottheimer and Chorus 15. Grand Finale By the Entire Company Accompaniments by The Good Fellows Orchestra This program followed by presentation of the beautiful picture, "Ramona." Full program found elsewhere in this paper. MR. J. W. McMURRY, OF BOILING SPRINGS, DEAD Bostic, R-2, Dec. 31.—Funeral services for Mr. J. W. McMurry were held Sunday afternoon at Salem Methodist church, ilear Sunshine. Mr. McMurry, a highly respected citizen of the Boiling Springs sec tion, died about 3 o'clock Saturday morning, death resulting from pneumonia. The deceased had been a mem ber of the Methodist church for a half century and at Salem for something like 40 years. He was 71 years of age at the time of his death. Surviving are the widow and the following children: Mrs. J. .M. Congratulations Mr. Haynes For giving us such a handsome new theatre The Romina Is a credit to our city and county, and we wish for you complete success Gilbert's Studio Forest City, N. C. We furnished photo for making cut of the new Romina Theatre Gladden, Boiling Springs; Mrs. C. J. Watson, Forest City; Miss Flor ence McMurry, Boiling Springs; J. J. McMurry, of Asheville; G. P. McMurry, of Cliffside, and C. M. McMurry, of Texas. NOTICE STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING The Annual meeting of the stock holders of The Farmers Bank & Trust Company, Forest City, N. C., will be held in the Directors' room of the bank, Tuesday, January 8, 1929, at 3:00 p. m.; for the pur pose of electing directors and trans acting any other business that might come before the meeting. J. A. DENNIS, Cashier. YOUTH IS KILLED IN AUTO CRASH Lloyd C. Deviney Dies of In juries Received Saturday Morning When Car Overturns Rutherfordton, Dec. - 31. —Lloyd Clayton Deviney, 21, son of Mr. and i Mrs. W. Grant Deviney, prominent 'farmer and teacher of The Sunshine | community, Bostic, R-4, died at the ; Rutherford Hospital Saturday after noon at 5 o'clock of injuries received Saturday morning at 2 o'clock. Young Diveney was riding in a coupe with Robert Long of near Bostic, the 21-year-old son of Sam W. Long. | Long was driving when the car turn jed over on Highway No. 20 between Ellenboro and Forest City, near Con cord filling station. Long was un- Ihurt though his car was demolished. | Deviney was rushed to the hospital but never spoke again. He suffered concussion of the brain. The deceased was buried at Gilboa Methodist Church Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with the Rev. W. A. Barber of Spindale in charge. The church was filled to overflowing with sorrowing friends and relatives. He is survived by his parents, six brothers and five sisters, as follows: D. A. Deviney, of Spindale; Herman and Emory Deviney, of Rutherford ton; Charles of Berea, Ky.; Warren and Willard Deviney, at home; Mrs. Ed Melton, Rutherfordton; Mrs. Pierce Lookadoo, of Bostic, R-4; Misses Leona, Lois and Louise De viney, at home. He was a model young man and a former student of Central High school here. He had been making his home with his brother-in-law, Mr. Pierce Lookadoo, of Bostic, R-4. SHILOH NEWS Rutherfordton, R-l, Dec. 31.—Sev eral from Shiloh attended the sing ing convention at Adaville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Jones and chil dren, Beatrice, Boyd and James, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Gil !ford Ledbetter, at Spindale. Miss Carrie Mcßrayer of Oakland, i spent Saturday night with Miss Grace Mcßrayer. Misses Lela and Kate Smith and Mr. Leo Smith spent Saturday night with their aunt Mrs. Long, near Mount Vernon. Mr. Otis Jones and family, of Green Creek, Polk County, visited the former's brother, Mr. B. M. Jones ( last Saturday. Mr. J. L. Davis and family, of j Blackstone, Va., were called here | last Friday to attend the funeral of We take this opportunity to wish Mr. Haynes Success with his handsome new theatre The Romina C. G. Sumerlin Plastering and Stucco Ornamental Work a Specialty J Phone 101, Rutherfordt®n, N. C. i We did the plastering and tile work in the new Romina Theatre Mrs. Davis' father, Mr. M. R. Champ ion. Misses Ruth and Pauline Morrow spent two days with relatives in Sandy Mush last week. Mrs. Grady Cole has been very sick the past week, but is improv ing now. Messrs. Tim and Quay Spurlin left Sunday for Nashville, Tenn., where they will work a few months. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Morrow and children, of Sandy Mush, spent Christmas day at Mr. W. C. Mor row's. Miss Clara Smith spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hawk ins in Alexander last week. Farmers of Person County re cently purchased three cars of dolo mitic limestone for use under their tobacco crop next season. This ma terial helps to control sand drown in tobacco and gives increased yields of quality leaf. Success to you Mr. Haynes In the openiing of your handsome new theatre, The Romina which is a credit to the city and county After the show visit Blan ton's Cafe Where you will find the very best in service, cour teous treatme'nt £nd fair prices We are furnishing the ban quet given by the Kiwanis Club to Mr. Haynes and his guests on opening night, January 3.
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