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VOL. XI—No. 51.
THE GREEN RIVER
ASSOCIATION TO
MEET OCTOBER 3
Eighty-Ninth Annual Session
To Convene at Mt. Ver
non Church.
Forest City, R-3, Sept. 24.—The
eighty-ninth annual session of the
Green River Baptist Association will
meet with Mt. Vernon Baptist church
on Thursday, October 3, and Friday
October 4, 1929. There will be a
night session on Thursday.
The program will open on October
3 and run through October 4, as fol
lows: Thursday, Oct. 3, 10 to 10:4S
a. m., enrollment and organization;
10:45 to 11:15 a. m., discussion of
ministerial relief and annuity by W.
G. Scoggin. This will be followed by
the introductory sermon by the Rev.
Charles B. Trammell, pastor of the
Mill Spring and Columbus Baptist
church. Lunch will follow on the
church grounds.
In the afternoon the Rev. E. B.
Jenkins, pastor of the First Baptist
church, of Rutherfordton, will con
duct the devotional from 1 to 1:10
o'clock. From 1:10 to 1:40 o'clock
Mrs. W. T. Morgan, of Marion, will
discuss woman's work; from 1:40 to
2:20 o'clock the Rev. D. J. Hunt will
report on Sunday schools: from 2:20
to 2:50 o'clock W. G. Wilson will
discuss the Baptist Young People's
Union work, which will be followed
by a discussion of the orphanage by
Dr. E. B. Dilliard. Miscellaneous
business and recess will follow.
The night session will open at 7:30
o'clock with the devotional in charge
of Miss Esther Gibbs. From 7:45
to 8:20 o'clock R. E. Price will talk
on "Law and Order." This will be
followed by a sermon by some out
standing visitors, probably from the
State Mission Board, at Raleigh.
Friday morning, October, 4 the ses
sion will open at 9 o'clock with the
Rev. C. C. Grogan of Union Mills in
charge of the opening exercises. This
will be followed by the reading of
the minutes and miscellaneous busi
ness. From 9:30 to 10 o'clock the
Rev. C. L. Taylor will discuss religi
ous literature; from 10 to 10:30
o'clock Professor W. E. Sweatt, Sup
erintendent of Alexander schools,
Inc., will discuss "Christian Educa
tion," which will be followed by a
discussion of hospitals by the Rev.
A. P. Sorrels of Gilkey, moderator
last year of the Association. From 11
to 11:30 o'clock the Rev. E. B. Jen
kins will make a report of the exe
cutive committee, which will be fol
lowed by a discussion of the unified
program by the Rev. Charles B.
Trammel. Lunch will be served on the
church lawn.
In the afternoon the Rev. E. P.
White will have charge of the devo
tional exercise; the Rev. E. B. Jen
kins will discuss state missions; the
Rev. M. L. Buchanan, home missions,
and the Rev. P. D. Mangun,
of Marion, foreign missions. The Rev.
J. M. Brown will give the history and
obituaries.
The matter of dividing the as
sociation will be an important item
to discuss. %
Frances Ledbetter
Contest Winner
Frances Ledbetter, of the Cool
Springs High school, Forest City,
is one of the eight high school stu
dents who will be awarded third
prize in the state-wide safety essay
contest, conducted by the Highway
Education Board.
Gladys Shore of Winston-Salem,
won first prize, and Lucile Vick, of
Wilson, won second prize. There
were eight third prize winners. The
third prize is $5.00 in cash and a
bronze medal.*
While the contest is conducted by
the Highway Education Board, the
prizes are given by the. National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce.
The Highway Education Board has
been conducting these essay con
tests in every state of the Union for
the past eight years. The contest m
North Carolina is conducted in co
operation with the state superinten
dent of public instruction.
FOREST CITY COURIER
FOREST CITY—"ONE OF THE TEN BEST PLANNED AND MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES IN THE U. S. A." U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SURVEY.
Negro Section County
Fair To Be Separate
As the Rutherford County Negro
fair will be held simultaneously with
the Rutherford County Fair, Octo
ber 22-26, reports are current over
the county that negroes will be ac
corded the same privileges as the
white people, says Mr. F. E. Patton,
county agent. He states that this is
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a mistake, as the negroes will have
a separate exhibit tent, and will re
ceive the same treatment as they
have always received during the week
of the Rutherford County Fair. A
tent, 60x40 feet, will be placed ori the
northwest side of the fair ground
to house the exhibits of the negroes.
A separate gate will also be used by
them for admittance to the fair
ground, and all restrictions of past
fairs will be in effect this year.
BAPTIST REVIVAL
CLOSES SUNDAY
Dr. J. M. Haymore Will Close
Meeting at First Baptist
Church Sunday
Evening.
The revival meeting which has
been going on at the First Baptist
church for the past two weeks, will
come to a close Sunday evening. Dr.
J. M. Haymore, of Georgia, one of
the leading evangelists of the South,
has charge of the services, and he
has been delivering some great ser
mons at both the morning and even
ing services.
Beginning with the Thursday
morning service, Dr. Haymore will
speak on the following subjects for
the remainder of the meeting:
Thursday 9:00 A. M.—"God Is
Calling For Volunteers."
Thursday 7:30 P. M.—"What
Wait I For."
Friday 9:00 A. M.—"Behold The
Man."
Friday 7:30 P. M.—"The Choice
Of Moses."
Saturday 9:00 A. M.—"Heaven."
Saturday 7:30 P. M.—"Repen
tance."
Sunday 11:00 A. M.—"The Love
Of God."
Sunday 7:30 P. M.—"What Shall
It Profit A Man?"
Everyone, regardless of denomina
tion, is urged to attend these last
few services of the revival. Especial
ly are those who are not members
of any church invited. While thus
far in the meeting only a few have
been converted it is hoped that be
fore the revival closes a great many
will accept Christ.
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. JAMES SHEHAN
Forest City Woman Succumbs
to Illness Saturday—
Funeral Monday.
Mrs. Mary Willie aged
49, wife of James Shehan, of Forest
City, died at her home here Satur
day evening at 7 o'clock. Funeral
services were held Monday morning
at 11 o'clock, at Rutherfordton, with
Rev. Hill Kiser in charge. Interment
was in the Rutherfordton cemetery.
Mrs. Shehan is survived by her
husband and eight children, Eugene,
Cora, Arthur, Maggie, Henry, Ethel,
Robert and Charles Shehan. Her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Miller, preced
ed her to the grave several years
ago, also two children. She leaves no
brothers or sisters.
She was a member of the Episco
pal church, of Rutherfordton.
Flower bearers were: Mesdames
Delia Koone, Pink Holbert, George
Corn, Wash Harris, L. C. Coney, G.
V. Frye, Annie White, B. H. PriSfe,
Robert Sisk, Edgar Turner, Will
Mask and Miss Irene McArthur.
A 1927 model Chevrolet coupe,
belonging to R. L. Jones and Son, was
stolen from the streets in Spartan
burg, S. C., Saturday night about
9:30 o'clock.
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
CAR STOLEN.
FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929
J. WORTH MORGAN
HEADS SUNDAY
SCHOOL UNION
Miles Hampton and O. J. Hol
ler Vice-Presidents—Miss
Nannie Newsome Sec
retary.
Union Mills, Sept. 23.—At the clos
ing session of the Rutherford Coun
ty Sunday School Convention, held
here Saturday and Sunday, Mr. J.
Worth Morgan, of Forest City, was
elected president of the Association
for 1929-30; Messrs. Miles Hampton
and O. J. Holler, vice-presidents, and
Miss Nannie Newsome, of Union
Mills, secretary.
The banner for the largest attend
ance wept to the Britain Presbyter
ian Sunday school. The invitation of
Round Hill Baptist church, of Union
Mills, to hold the 1930 session of
the convention there was accepted
by a unanimous vote.
The convention, which was held
under the auspices of the North Car
olina Sunday School Association,
convened Saturday evening in the
Union Mills Presbyterian church at
eight o'clock. Several items of busi
ness was considered, and Miss Daisy
Magee, of Raleigh, gave an address
at this session.
The Sunday morning session open
ed at 10:30 with devotional led by
James Smart, followed by a discus
sion on Sunday school work by Miss
Nannie Newsome and Miss Daisy
Magee.
The speakers for the afternoon
session were: R. E. Price, and Miss
Daisy Magee. Devotional was by Rev.
R. T. Baker.
Each session was well attended,
there being a number of Sunday
school representatives from all sec
tions of the county, representing the
Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian
churches.
Cotton Growers
To Meet At Harris
Harris, Sept. 24.—A meeting of
the growers of Coker 5 cotton seed
will be held at the Harris School
Thursday night of this week, for the
purpose of setting ginning days for
these seed, to prevent them from
mixing at the gin. A free moving
picture will be shown at the end of
the meeting, and everyone interested
is invited to be present, whether
they grow this variety of cotton or
not.
A FINE GIRL.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Moore are
receiving congratulations over the
arrival of lovely little daughter,
Mary Beth Moore, born Monday,
'September 23.
Cool Springs High Football Team
To Play Hendersonville Friday
Hendersonville at their --\ home
ground will be harder to beat than
Hendersonville at our home field. This
will make it necessary for just as
many of our loyal fans to go "along
with the team Friday to be the
backing for them as is possible.
Hendersonville has a good team, that
is, we hear this from their camps.
Think over it and see if you don't
think that it is our time to win from
them. Just how many games do
we have on record as having
won from them? We can put
a winner over this time if
we can get the right support. This is
one of the most important and one
of the most needed games on our
schedule; too, it is one of the few
games away from home. Lets show
that town that we are on the map in
football and in loyal support.
With one game tucked away we
are anxious to see what that line will
do against a better team, and we
also are anxious to see what that
fast backfield can do with them. The
KIWANIS CLUB
WILL SPONSOR
CELEBRATION
Five Appointed to Work With
Committees From Legion
Post on Plans for Arm
istice Day.
At a meeting of the Kiwanis Club
Monday a committee was appointed
from the Club to cooperate with the
American Legion committees in the
work of promoting the celebration
here November 11. The Kiwanis
Club also voted to sponsor the cele
bration, and be joinfTy responsible,
with the American Legion, for the
success of the parade.
The committee appointed consists
of the following Kiwanians: John
Dalton chairman; Dr. A. C. Duncan,
E. G. Abernethy, Prof. J. W. Eaks
and M. H. Hewitt.
The method to be used in spon
soring the celebration and putting
over the parade by the Kiwanis Club
has not yet been determined by the
committee appointed, but will be
worked out when a joint meeting of
American Legion and Kiwanis Club
committee are held.
Indications are tnat the celebra
tion on Armistice Day will be the
biggest event of its kind ever held
in Forest City. A number of com
mittees from the Legion post and
the Woman's Auxiliary are now hard
at work planning for the celebration.
It will be a county-wide event; and
thousands are expected here to wit
ness it on November lfth.
Presbyterial To
Meet At Spindale
Spindale, Sept. 24.—Delegates
of all the Presbyterian churches of
Cleveland, Polk and Rutherford
counties are expected to attend the
Fourth Group Conference, District
No. 2, of the Kings Mountain Presby
terial at Spindale Presbyterian church
Thursday. An interesting program
has been arranged. It will last all
day, with lunch at the church.
General Meeting^
Woman's Club
There will be a general meeting of
the Woman's Club in the High
school auditorium, Monday afternoon
September 30th, at 4 o'clock. It is
very important that all members be
present. A program will be given.
There will also be a lecture given by
Dr. W. C. Bostic, Sr., Forest City,
and Dr. C. F. Glenn, of the Ruther
ford hospital, on the subject of can
cer.
The public is cordially invited to
hear these lectures, which will be
given as the first part of the program
so that anyone desiring to leave be
fore the business of the club is taken
up may do so just after the lecture.
Chesnee game was 4n experiment
and there were many substitutes sent
.in to see what they would do under
fire. The most noticeable thing a
bout the game was with the constant
stream of subs going in and out no
effects on the scoring of the team
was noticed. This shows that we have
a team not consisting of eleven men,
but of many*more. Then the other
high lights were the brilliant runs
of F. Blanton and the nice broken
field run of T. Blanton. Nothing
could have looked better than the
nice wbrk of R. Hamrick, especially
"that clip." Poole at center did
splendid work for his first game at
that position, in fact the first whole
game he had ever played in. "Pig"
jWhitlock looked good in filling the
jmuch missed space made by the loss
of Captain Ford.
With a good spirit and regular
practice of the boys we should win
Friday. Come along and help us do
this. Then we will be on the road for
revenge on the next Friday, Nov.
4th to beat Shelby.
Dr. Ernest Branch
To Lecture Here
Member of State Health Board Will Speak
Friday Morning at 10:15 O'Clock
at Romina Theatre.
Cotton Market
Cotton was selling for 18c on the
local market at noon Wednesday,
according to the Forest City Seed
and Fertilizer Co. Cotton seed was
quoted at $30.00 per ton. This week's
rainy weather is general, and is hav
ing a tendency to boost the price of
cotton. At the same time some dam
age is reported to cotton in several
localities due to the continued rains.
SPINDALE NEWS
OF LATE INTEREST
Spindale Cash Hardware Co.,
Opens—Volly Ball Team
. Plays Game.
Spindale, Sept. 23.—Spindale's
latest business enterprise is the Spin
dale Cash Hardware Co. This firm
was recently purchased by Messrs.
W. R. Wells and T. M. Plonk, who
in turn sold one-third interest to
Mr. George C. McKinney, who is
managing the firm.
Mr. Wells is superintendent of the
Elmore Company here, and Mr.
Plonk is assistant treasurer of The
Elmore Company. Mr. McKinney was
at one time connected with this
firm, and has a wide experience in
the hardware business. This experi
ence will prove beneficial to the many
customers of the store. The store is
now open for business with a com
plete stock of general hardware.
Special orders will be made for cus
tomers if goods wanted are not in
stock.
The Spindale volley ball team lost
its first game of the season Satur
day night to the Spartan Mills team,
at Spartanburg, losing three games
out of four. The Spindale players
were Grose, Berry, Dotson, Tollson,
Smith and Barber.
Mr. G. B. Howard left last week
for Charlotte, where he entered the
Charlotte Sanatorium for treatment.
According to latest reports some im
provement is noted in his condition.
Mrs. Addie Nanney returned to
her home here last week after un
dergoing treatment in |a Spartan
burg Sanatorium for several weks.
MRS. J. C. MORGAN
DIED SATURDAY
Funeral Held Monday at Shiloh
Baptist Church for Harris
Woman.
Harris, Sept. 25. —Mrs. Fannie
Ledford, Morgan, wife of Mr. Ju
lius C. Morgan, of near Harris, died
Saturday night following a stroke
of paralysis. She was getting sup
per about six o'clock when she had
the Stroke and fell in the floor and
never regained consciousness. Her
death was a great shock to the com
munity, as she seemed well as usual
Saturday.
Funeral services and burial were
held at Shiloh Baptist church Mon
day afternoon at 2 o'clock with Revs.
D. J. Hunt and B. M. Hamrick in
charge. A large crowd of sorrowing
friends and relatives attended the
sad occasion.
The deceased was born March 5,
1872. She professed faith in Christ
and joined the church when eleven
years of age. She was a faithful
member of Holly Springs Baptist
church. She was married to Mr. J.
C. Morgan in January 1896. She is
the mother of eight children, four of
whom are living and four having
preceded her to £he grave.
The following children survive
with their father: Mrs. Carrie Allen,
near Harris; Messrs. John and Mem
ory Morgan of near Harris and
Charles at home. Two brothers,
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96 COLUMNS
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SI.OO Per Year in Advance
Dr. Ernest Branch of the State
Health Department has been lectur
ing in the schools of Rutherford
county this week. It was decided
Monday night of this week, at the
Kiwanis Club, to get Dr. Branch to
lectux-e to the adult people at the
Romina Theater Friday morning.
This lecture will be especially inter
esting to mothers who have young
children. will aid them in helping
prevent certain defects which would
be detrimental to the child. This lec
ture will last for only thirty minutes.
The hour of 10:15 was selected in
order that the mothers could attend
the revival services, hear the lecture
and get back home before eleven
o'clock. This will give them time to get
home to prepare the mid-day meal.
Dr. Branch will use slides made from
X-ray pictures and plaster models.
It is hoped that all mothers will take
advantage of this opportunity. All
people over fifteen years of age are
invited but it is especially for the
mothers since they will have the care
of the "children of the home.
The eye clinic was even a greater
success than any had hoped it to be.
Sixty three children of the Cool
Springs Township schools received a
thorough examination. Dr. 0. J.
of Charlotte, spent two and:
one half days doing the work. The
fathers and mothers are very grate
ful to Dr. Houses for this work. Also
Dr. Houser arranged for Dr. Wake
field of the American Optical Co.,
to be in Forest City to fit the child
ren with glasses. This made it pos
sible to get a thorough examination
and then be able to get glasses in
Forest City at wholesale price. Also
the Kiwanis Club and Dr. Duncan
wish to express Uheir appreciation
for the splendid work which Dr..
Houser did for the school children of
Forest City and Cool Springs Town
ship Schools.
The people of the Cool
Springs Township schools appreciate
Dr. Twitty making it possible to se
cure the service of Dr. Pigfoi-d. It
was regretted that Dr. Pigford could
not spend a year in Rutherford
county and be of service to all the
children of Cool Springs Township
and Rutherford county.
The City Library-
Receives New Books
During the past week a total of
thirteen new books were donated to
the City Library, according to the
announcement of the librarian, Mrs.
W. C. Huntley. The donations were
as follows: Mrs. F. E. Webb, three
books; Mrs. H. C. Duncan, five books
Robert Stalnaker, four books; H. Y.
Gold, one book.
These donations are appreciated
very much, says Mrs. Huntley. "The
library needs more fiction, also an
additional number of books for child
ren," said Mrs. Huntley, "and any
one who have any books they wish
to give please notify the librarian."
The library is still gaining in popular
ity, despite the opening of school.
Preacher Hurt In .
Fall From Car
Rutherfordton, Sept. 24. —The
Rev. T. M. Hester, well known Bap
tist minister, fell from an automo
bile while it was rounding a sharp
curve, between here and the Sea
board depot. The door came open.
Mr. Hester was thrown to the pave
ment. His right shoulder was dis
located and he received painful
bruises on his wrist, hip and back.
Messrs. Will and Solon Ledford and
two sisters, Misses Nancy and Mat
tie Ledford and a number of rela
tive and friends survive.