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VOL. Xl-No. 23
ANNUAL OLDER
BOYS' CONFERENCE
OPENS FRIDAY
v mher of Outstanding Speak-
NU £ to Appear on Program
~ of Fifth Annual
Conference
Plans for the Fifth Annual Ruth
cl,„;d County Older Boys' Confer
ee are complete.
The complete program for the ses
sion follows:
" Friday night, banquet at Central
kjo-h school. Toastmaster, Mr. B. D.
fclson. Greetings from Rutherford- ]
(i ~ l Edwards; response by
Tales'Z. Flack; Address of wel-
Le to boys, Superintendent Clyde
f E rwin. Dr. W. W. Peele, pastor
I the First Methodist church, of
rLrlotte, and one of the state's out.
Ending ministers will deliver the
principal address.
The organization meeting will be
held at the First Baptist church Fri
dav afternoon, beginning at 4 o clock.
p ro f W. R. Eaves will preside over
this sesssion.
Mr. Ray Carpenter* graduate stu
dent of Duke Universlcy, of Durham,
will be the principal speaker for Sat
urday morning's session.
Saturday afternoon will be devoted
athletics. Mr. J. E. Berry, super
intendent of the Spindale House, will
have charge of the athletic program.i
\ll athletic events will be held at the
Central high playground.
Mr. Allen Frew, junior of David
son College, will deliver the message
Saturday night. He is an outstand
ing college student and will have a
message of vital importance to all
boys. Mr. W. W. Nanney, of Ruther
fordton, will preside over this session.
The session Sunday afternoon will
close the conference. Mr. J. H. Hill
(1! be the presiding officer at this
ssion.
Harry Clark, of Furman Univers
ity, will be the speaker at the Sun
day afternoon session.
All sessions of the conference will
be held in the First Baptist church
except the banquet. The entire pro
gram has been arranged with the ob
ject in view of making it a boys meet
ing to the fullest extent.
The slogan for the conference is
"seeking The Great Endeavor." All
boys twelve years or over are cord
ially invited to be present, at one or
all sessions of the conference. All
sessions are free to the boys except
the banquet, which will cost one dol
lar per plate. All boys organizations,
scout troops, athletics associations,
etc., are urged to send one official
delegate for each eight boys, or a
fraction thereof, registered. Howev
er. all boys over twelve years of age
are urged to attend, whether del
egates or not.
There will be room Friday and
Saturday nights and Sunday after
noon for spectators, arid anyone wish
ing to attend the conference and hear
the addresses are invited to do so.
IRS. CARL HUNTLEY
CITY LIBRARIAN
Selected at General Meeting of
Womans' Club Monday
Evening Other Bus
iness Disposed Of
A general meeting of the Womans'
Club was held Monday night in the j
City Hall for the purpose of electing
a librarian. Every person interested
the library movement, whether or
n °t a member of the club, was in
v'ted to attend this meeting. Mrs.
Carl Huntley was elected to serve
the public as librarian and many
other matters relative to the library
discussed.
Anrouncement of large donations
°f popular fiction by Mrs. Coleman
and Mrs. Barber was received with
ni uch pleasure. Mrs. Falvey, presid
es at this meeting, read the nomi
nating committee chose to nominate
officers for 1929-'3O at this time.
Also the club voted to give a do
nation to help send flowers to sol
diers in Oteen Hospital Easter.
Vigero makes lawns, flowers and
shrubbery grow. All sizes in stock
at Farmers Hardware Co.
FOREST CITY COURIER
FOREST CITY "ONE OF THE TEN BEST PL. 3 > AND MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES IN THE U. S. A." U. S. DE PARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE STTRypv
Ruth
Ruth Roland, heroine of many
movie serials, married Ben Bard at
Los Angeles. Miss Roland quit the
movies some time ago and made a
fortune in real estate. She may come
back to the screen.
KIWANIANS HOST
TO LOCAL CAGERS
Cool Springs Basketball Play
ers Are Guests of Kiwanis
Club Monday -
The Forest City Kiwanis Club was
host to the high school basketball
team at their regular weekly meet
ing Monday evening.
Coach E. V. Seitz and ten of the
boys of the squad were the guests.
Dr. A. C. Duncan, who is always in
terested in the high school athletic
clubs, made a short talk, which was
responded to by Fred Blanton, for
the team. He was followed by Coach
Seitz, who spoke briefly of the ac
complishments of the team and its
successful season.
Upon motion of John Dalton the
club voted unanimously to assist in
sponsoring the city library along with
the Womans' Club.
CARLISLE M'RORIE
TAKEN BY DEATH
Young Son of Prominent Ruth
erfordton Attorney Pass
ed Tuesday Night
Rutherfordton, March 13. —Car-
lisle Mcßorie, aged 23, died here
Tuesday night at the home of his par
ents, Attorney and Mrs. W. C. Mc-
Rorie after an illness of more than
a year. Funeral services were held
at the Rutherfordton Methodist
church Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock with his pastor, Dr. W. R.
Ware, in charge, assisted by Dr. M.
F. Moores of Forest City, and inter
ment followed in the Rutherfordton
cemetery.
The deceased is survived by his
parents,#three sisters, Mrs. John W.
Dalton, Forest City; Margaret and
Wilma Mcßorie at -home and five
brohers: Robert Mcßorie, student
of Central high school; Cyrus Mc-
Rorie, student at Duke University,
Durham, and George, Theodore and
Warren Mcßorie at honie. Carlisle at
tended the local schools, Oak Ridge
Institute 1925-26 and State College,
Raleigh, the fall of 1927. He work
ed with the State highway commis
sion for one year.
He became ill in the fall of 1927
and spent 10 weeks at Hot, Springs,
Ark., last summer. Later he spent
seven weeks under the care of a
specialist at Richmond, Va. He was
formerly a member of the varsity
basketball squad of Central high
school and was a member of the
Alpha Bamma Rho fraternity at
State College. He was an active
member of the Methodist church
and was held in high esteem by a
wide circle of friends and relatives.
WILLIAM BROWN, AGED 58
DIED WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Spindale, March 12.—Mr. William
Brown, aged 58 years, died at his
home in the Stonecutter section here
Wednesday night. He had been ill
only a short time.
Funeral services were held at Mar
ion Thursday afternoon, followed by
interment in the Marion cemetery.
He was an empioyee of the Stone
cutter Mill until illness forced him to
retire a few weeks ago. He is sur
vived by a widow and several chil
dren.
PUBLISHED I £ | E INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
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FORES | u , NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1929
COUNTY CLUB TO
MEET FRIDAY IN
RUTHERFORDTON
Dr. W. W. Peele Will Be The
Principal Speaker at The
March Meeting of The
Club
Rutherfordton, March 12.—The
March meeting of The Rutherford
County Club will be held in the Lan
tern Tea Room, opposite the court
house, in Rutherfordton on Friday,
beginning at 1 o'clock.
Dr. W. Walter Peele, pastor of
the First Methodist church, of Char
lotte, will deliver the principal ad
dress. His subject will be "Good Cit
izenship." Dr. Peele is one of the
state's most noted ministers, a
speaker of ability and his message
will be of vital importance. He will
also deliver the principal address at
the Older Boys' Conference banqtiet
at Central high school Friday night.
Miss Lela Morris, director of mus
ic at Central high school, will fur
nish several musical selections dur
ing the dinner hour.
All members who expect to attend
this luncheon are requested to have
their cards in not later than Thurs
day night. The meeting is open to
the public. Anyone desiring to at
tend is requested to notify the Lan
tern Tea Room not later than Thurs
day in order that a plate may be re
served for them.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
OPERETTA TUESDAY
■
Large Number of Children to
Take Part in "Fairies are
Really Truly"
"
The primary grades of the Forest
City grammar school will give an
operetta "Fairies are Really Truly," ,
I Tuesday night, March 19 at the!
'school auditorium, beginning at 7:45. j
» !
J The date for the operetta was post- '
I .
jponed from Friday night, March 15 j
|to Tuesday March 19, in order not j
to conflict with the Older Boys Con- |
i . }
1 ference.
| Virginia and Howard Magness and
; Lilah Gordon King will have parts in !
the program between acts.
I
The characters for the operetta are
as follows:
Dotty, Eugenia Harrill; Teddy, Ted
Huntley; Fairy Queen, Ola Pearl
'Houser; Runaway Fairy, Helen Cald- ;
j well.
Queen attendants: James Pruette, ;
Billy Harrill, Ernest Robinson, Jr.,;
Thomas Byrd.
j Chariot attendants: Charles Moore,
James Moore, Boyd Early, Forrest
Long, George A. Leathers.
1 Rainbow Fairies: Frances Dorsey,
Irene Greene, Rena Gordon, Margar
et Bell, Sara Hamrick, Virginia Hill,
Florence Walker, Eleanor White.
Sunshine Fairies: Kathryn King,
Statha Gilliam, Marjorie Philbeck,'
Treva Lowrance, Madelyne Scruggs,
Gladys Reinhardt, Pauline McMurry,
Ruth Harrill, Frances Digh, Ruby
Price. i
I
Dewdrop Fairies: Madge Watkins,
Mary Lonie Hardin, Mary Sue Ham- j
rick, Bernice Dorsey, Irene Monteith, I
Virginia Searcy, Modine Montieth,!
Lois Harrill, Henrietta Price, Agnes .
Price. I
Dream Fairies: Gloria Price, Madge
Allen, Nancy Freeman, Madge Whis
nant, Frances Gillespie, Elizabeth
Harrill, Geraldine Horn, Trilby Hew- |
itt. j
! Evening Breezes: M. W. Harris, J.
C. Ellen, Max Duncan, Billy Harrill,
David Gillespie, Howard Carpenter,
Sevil Horn, Loran Edington, Jr.,
Robert McFadden, Jr.:, Thomas
Moore, Billy Gibson, Teal Davis.
Daisies: Kathryn Blanton, Nell (
Abernethy, Virginia Morris, Margue- j
rite Bodie, Gladys Allen, Elizabeth!
Sanders, Mabel Sanders, Lavinia
Haynes, Myrtle Morrow, Lillian
White, Ronell Hamrick, Garnet Dog
gett.
ROOTED FERNS and rose bushes at
10c each at D. M. Stall's 10c Store.
CITY LIBRARY
RECEIVING FINE
i SUPPORT HERE
More Than $300.00 in Cash
knd Number of Books and
Magazines Donated
to Date
Forest City is responding to the
appeal for the city library with char
acteristic energy and progressive
spirit. Every organization in N town,
the business firms, and many private
citizens have made donations. On
Tuesday evening the committee re
ported $300.00 and 56 standard books
already collected. Mrs. Carl Huntley
has been elected librarian and all
the committees are at work getting
plans perfected.
The Literary Department of the
Womans' Club gave a book shower at
( which a number of new books of fic
tion were liven. The Dramatic De
partment is giving a book shower at
their regular meeting on Thursday
night. Mrs. Huntley is at work on
plans for a book party, and shower,
for the younger people. The books
given have been of an exceptionally
| good quality and the interest shown
jby all the citizens is most gratify
ing.
The various womans' organizations
in the churches and civic groups are
donating subscriptions to magazines.
The circles of the missionary socie
ties, the divisions of the Woman's
Club and the other groups of organ
ized women are making it possible
for the library to open with an ex
cellent list of standard magazines on
the racks.
The library committee feel that
they are particularly fortunate in
securing the services of Mrs. Carl
Huntley as librarian. Mrs. Huntley
was graduated from the School of
Obrary Methods at Winthorp Col
lege and she is unusually well fitted
by training and inclination for the
difficult work of cataloguing, classi
fying and taking care of the books.
Mrs. Huntley is at work with all the
! committees and she reels that the re
sults so far are very gratifying.
WILL TESTIFY IN
UNUSUAL TANGLE
Chief C. R. Price and Joe
Waters to Testify In -
Joyce Case
Chief of Police Chas. R. Price and
Joe Waters left Sunday for Trenton,
N. J., where they will be star wit
| nesses in the trial of William Joyce,
j alias Walter E. Morris, of Wt>odbury,
I N. J., who will be tried for using the
| mails for the purpose of inciting and
j plotting to commit murder, and using
a fictitious name in the mails,
j The case will be tried in the Unit
ed States Circuit Court at Trenton,
N. J. The case opened Tuesday.
! The principal witnesses against
| Joyce will be Chief Price and Joe
Waters, of Forest City, Postal Inspec
tor W. S. Brown, of Bridgeton, N.
J., and the postmaster at Paulsboro,
N. J.
William Joyce, alias Walter E.
Morris, was arrested by the postal au
' thorities, after a shrewd trick had
been played upon him by Chief of
Police Chas. R. Price, assisted by
! Postoffice Inspector W. S. Brown,
of Bridgeton, N. J.
j Joyce, it is alleged, wrote to Joe
Water of this city, in the attempt
to hire him to go to New Jersey to
kill a man for him. Waters turned
the letter over to Chief Price, who
after getting in touch with Federal
'officers, wrote to Joyce several times
about the price he wanted to pay and
the time he wanted this man killed,
signing Joe Waters' name to the let
ters. In this manner sufficient evi
dence was secured against Joyce to
cause his arrest.
—
OPERETTA MARCH 22
i An operetta, "The Maid and the
Golden Slipper," will be given by the
high school boys and girls at Cool
Springs high school on the evening
of March 22. Students from all of
the schools of the township will par
ticipate in this operetta.
in Business Here
ijfPal
LEE STEIN
Popular merchant who will start
new department store in Forest City
following the closing out of the
Sinkoe stock.
SINKOE'S CLOSING
OUT; MR. STEIN TO
OPEN STORE HER!
Big Closing Out Sale Begins
Friday Morning—Mr. Lee
Stein Will Open in Same
Building Soon
As announced in The Courier last
week, Sinkoe's Department Store is
quitting business in Forest City, in
order that the owners may devote
their time to stock buying- and reduce
their chain of stores. In order to
carry out their closing out program
Sinkoe's this week announces a great
going out of business sale which
j promises to be the biggest in the his
jtory of the county. The mammoth
| stocks have been re-arranged for
'quick choosing and buying, an un
usually large force of sales people
have been employed and all arrange
ments are being completed for the
opening of this grand sale Friday
• morning. This sale is of such mag
nitude, the bargains are so pronoun
ced, that it is expected that people
will come here from every section
of the county and from adjoining
counties to participate in the bargain
feast. All the new spring merchan
dise is included in this sale at going
out of business, prices and there will
i be bargains on every counter and all
j over the store on every item carried
jjn their large stocks. Mr. Sinkoe
i has given instructions to not spare
Jthe pruning knife in paring prices
: for the sale. He does not want to
j move any goods, and therefore has
issued instructions to price every
thing in the house in a way to make
ithem go and go fast. The Courier
carries an attractive two-paga adver
tisement in this issue telling all the
particulars of the sale and mention
ing items and prices. Your imme
; diate attention is directed to this ad.
It will pay you to read every line in
"\t. Tell your neighbors and friends
] of this big sale.
While the announcement of thi-s
j big sale and feast of bargains will
ibe most pleasing to the many Cour
! ier readers, the best and most satis
j fying announcement will be the good
• news that Mr. Lee Stein, popular
manager of Sinkoe's, and who in the
past few years has made hundreds
iof friends throughout this and ad
joining counties, has decided to re
main in Forest City, where he will
engage in business under the firm
name of Stein's Department Store
; following the conclusion of this clo
i sing out sale and after he has made
satisfactory and extensive improve
ments in the building he now occu
pies. It will create universal satis
faction to learn that this successful
and popular merchant is to continue
'his residence in Forest City.
Mr. Lee Stein came here with the
opening of Sinkoe's store several
1 years ago, and to his business ability
and his close application and keen
judement, coupled with his high
standard of character and his unfail
ing courtesy and friendly disposit
ion has been among the contributing
causes of his wonderful success in
16 Pages
96 COLUMNS
SI.OO Per Year in Advance
SUNDAY SCHOOL
TRAINING COURSE
BEGINS MARCH 17
Fifth Annual Training School
For Methodist .Workers
Opens Sunday at Alex
ander
The fifth annual Rutherford coun
ty standard training school for
Sunday school leaders opens at the
public school building in Alexander
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and
continues through March 22. This
training school is principally for
Methodist Sunday school workers, but
is open for any prospective church
workers, regardless of denomination.
Two courses, general and special
ization, of two subjects each will be
given. The general course subjects
include "The Spirit and Genius of
Methodism." and "Worship." The
first subject will be taught by Rev.
W. A. Newell, presiding elder of the
Gastonia district. The worship course
will be in charge of Mr. F. M. Will
iamson, who has for the past five
years been head of the Sunday school
work for the Methodist church in
Florida.
The specilization courses are "Pri
mary Pupil" and "Beginner Lesson
Materials and Methods:" Mrs. W. L.
Watson, executive secretary of the
Wesley Memorial Methodist church*
of High Point, will teach the first ,
course, and Mrs. O. V. Woosley, wife
of the General Superintendent of
Sunday school work in western North
Carolina, will teach the second course.
The school will be under the di
rection of Mr. 0. V. Woosley.
All sessions will begin at 7:30,
except Sunday afternoon.
Students attending the sessions of
the school regularly and doing all
assigned Tsjork will receive a certif
icate of credit in the standard train
if- . _
ing course. Seventy one units of
credit were given at the 1928 Sun
day school training course, and the
officials hope that more than a hun
dred units will be given this year.
DEATH CLAIMS
ALEXANDER WOMAN
Pneumonia Fatal to Mrs. Lissie
Skelton —Funeral Held in
Hartwell, Ga., Sun
day
Mrs. Lissie Skelton aged 68 years,
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. J. N. Dillishaw, at Alexander
Friday evening at 7:10 o'clock, af
ter suffering a short time with pneu
monia.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at Hartwell, Ga., in the
Sardis Baptist church, of that place,
with the pastor of that church in
charge. Interment was in the Sardis
church cemetery.
Mrs. Skelton was a native of Hart
well, Ga., but had made her home
with her daughter, Mrs. Dillishaw,
for about fifteen years. Her husband
preceded her to the grave a number
j of years ago. She 'is survived by one
, daughter, Mrs. Dillishaw, of Alex
ander; three brothers, of Hartwell,
Ga.; two sisters, Mrs. H. W. McCul
lough, of South Carolina and Mrs.
Sam Dillard, of Elberton, Ga.
Her body was shipped by express
to Hartwell, Ga., her old home. The
funeral service was held Sunday af
ternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Skelton
was a member of the Hartwell
church, and was one of its most con
sistent members.
Sh« was a kind and good mother
and will not only be missed by the
family but by her numerous friends
in the village.
building one of the strongest insti
tutions in the county.
Mr. Stein has always been in the
forefront in every movement for the
advancement of the city and the
county and has been liberal in his
support of every worthy cause. He
has further indentified himself with
| the city in that he has just lately
completed and occupied his hand
some new home on Arlington street.
His splendid family consists of his
wife and a boy .and girl.