Rutherford
County Offers
Unequalled
Opportunities To
M anuf acturer s
and Others
VOL. XII—No. 11.
CONTRACT LET
FOR COMPLETION
OF ROUTE NO. 19
Fifteen Bidders on Project
From Rutherford Line to
Marion at Tuesday's
Session.
Raleigh, Dec. 18. —Low bids open
ed Tuesday on seven highway con
struction projects, contracts for
which are expected to be let by the
State Highway Commission at its
regular meeting today (Wednesday)
total $735,687.00.
This is the largest figure in re
cent months' prices on work, accord
ing to John D. Waldrop, state high
way engineer, belief being that they
had gone lower in recent months
than was profitable to the contrac
tors. An average of eight or ten bids
were submitted on each project,
Tuesday, fifteen bidding on the Mc-
Dowell County project.
Among the projects for which bids
were called for Tuesday is the Mc-
Dowell county project, Route No. 19
from the Rutherford-McDowell line
to Marion, a distance of 11.24 miles.
The contract for building the road
was let to Lee J. Smith, of Asheville,
for $79,077.20; and the contract for
bridges, and structures on this route
was awarded to Hobbs-Peabody Con
truction Company, of Charlotte, for
$44,578.25.
CLIFFSIDE MAN
SLASHES THROAT
John McDaniel Is Now In Ser
ious Condition At Ruther
ford Hospital.
Rutherfordton, Dec. 18.—John
McDaniel, 50, of Cliffside, attempte
ed to take his own life at his home
Sunday afternoon by cutting his
throat with a razor, it is reported. He
was rushed to the Rutherford Hos
pital and was some better Wednesday
It took 10 stitches to sew up thegash.
Had he cut a little deeper death
would have resulted instantly it is
declared. *
111 health and financial troubles
are the cause of his act it is under
stood. His wife has been an invalid,
bedfast, for the past 20 years while
his health has been failing for some
time. He is the father of five children
and is the son of Lee W. McDaniel,
of the Uree section, this county. His
parents have been feeble for several
years. #
It was reported at the Ruther
ford hospital Wednesday that he
may recover but will likely
never be able to do any more active
work.
PRESBYTERIAN NOTES.
Sunday school at Forest City Pres
byterian church Sunday at 10 a. m.
Preaching at 7:30 p. m. The public
is cordially invited to attend each
service.
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" 'Taint no sense worrying 'bout
what to git fer Christmas. Jest visit
PIGGLY WIGGLY and wait on yo-sef
Honey dey's got everthin' good to
eat. And, my, how much you do git
fer you'ah money."
FOREST COT COURIER
FOREST CITY—"ONE OF THE TEN BEST PLANNED AND MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES IN S. A." U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SURVEY.
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AN %rHERFORD COUNTY
DR. T.E. BROWNE TO
SPEAK AT POTATO
GROWERS BANQUET
Director of Vocational Educa
tion to Be Principal Speak-
At Ellenboro Thursday
Evening.
Ellenboro, Dec. 16.—Dr. T. E.
Browne, of Raleigh, who is director
for Vocational Education within the
state of North Carolina, will make
the principal address at the sweet
potato growers' banquet to be held
at Ellenboro, Thursday evening, when
the shareholders for the Ellenboro
Sweet Potato Storage Company will
banquet themselves in the agricul
tural room of the Ellenboro school
on a menu calling for sweet potatoes
to be served in each course of the
banquet.
Profesor Clyde A. Erwin, Ruther
ford county superintendent of schools
who has within the past five years
placed four departments of voca
tional agriculture in four of the high
schools of the county, will be present
and will introduce Dr. Browne. J. M.
Osteen, district supervisor, of Troy,
N. C., is another of the special in
vited guests. He will also make a
short address.
Dr. Browne is an interesting and
forceful speaker. In addition to being
the director for vocational education
he is director for N. C. State Sum
mer School. He addressed the Ruth
erford County Club on one of his
previous trips tb Rutherford county.
The home department of the El
lenboro school, directed by Miss Bar
bara Osborne, the teacher, will pre
pare and serve the banquet as one
of their school projects for the year.
This will give the girls real practice
in meal preparation and serving.
With much of the food donated
by the sweet potato growers the ban
quet will come at a very low cost per
plate. All of the sweet potatoes,
chickens, eggs and milk f will be
brought fresh from the sweet potato
houses and the farms of the growers.
Real string music, the kind the far
mers like, will be fm*nished by a lo
cal string band.
FUNERAL HELD FOR
MRS. RATCHFORD
Mrs. Annie Reid Ratchford
Dies in Durham—Funeral
At Rutherfordton.
Rutherfordton, Dec. 18.—Mrs. An
nie Reid Ratchford, 24, youngest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Reid
of this place and wife of Professor
Ben. V. Ratchford, instructor at Duke
University, Durham, died early Tues
day morning at McPherson Hospital
following a brief illness. She was
critically ill for only a day but had
been under the care of a physician
about a week. „
Funeral services were held at the
Rutherfordton Presbyterian church
Wednesday morning, at 11 o'clock,
and interment was in the Rutherford
ton cemetery. Her death was a shock
to her many friends here ancl over
the state. She leaves her husband,
parents, four brothers, Guy G. Reid,
Charlotte, Lewis Reid, teacher at
Spray; Jay and Volney Reid, at
Rutherfordton, and three sisters, Mrs.
J. M. Boyd, Goldsboro, Mrs. E. L.
Ervin, Los Angeles, Cal., who will be
unable to attend the funeral, and
Miss Dixie Reid, member of the fac
ulty of East Carolina Teachers' Col
lege, Greenville, N. C.
She was a member of the First
Presbyterian church of Durham and
was married* December 24, 1928. She
is a graduate of the North Carolina
college for Women, Greensboro, and
was a well-known teacher prior* to
her marriage. She was one of Ruth
erfordton's most popular young la
dies. Her former pastor, the Rev. F.
B. Rankin, of Mt. Holly, was among
those who conducted the funeral
here.
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Oscar Jeter Mooneyham, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. 0. J. Mooneyham,
of Henrietta, who has been chosen mascot of the Senior Class of the Hen
rietta-Caroleen High School.
COUNTY ADOPTS
AN AGRICULTURAL
PROGRAM FOR '3O
Meeting of Farmers and Busi
ness Men Held Tuesday *o
Outline Farm Program.
Rutherfordton, Dec. 18.—More
than forty leading farmers, business
men and women gathered in the
court house here Tuesday in an all
day session to formulate an agricul
tural program for Rutherford coun
ty. Among those present from out of
the county, who are vitally interest
ed in the state's agricultural situa
tion, were: Prof. John W. Goodman,
Raleigh, district agricultural agent;
H. R. Niswonger, of Raleigh, state
horticulturist; R. L. Stone, county
agent of Burks county, and J. R.
Sams, county agent-at-large.
O. J. Holler, Rutherford county's
Master farmer, acted as secretary
of the meeting. The purpose of the
meeting was explained, and the re
presentatives present opened a dis
cussion on best varieties of agricul
tural products to grow in Rutherfor J
county. Before adopting any certain
variety, or varieties, of corn it was
decided to carry out some variety
tests in various localities of the
county in order to obtain a better
knowledge of just what variety a
mong several suggested tavduld be
best adapted to the county.
Coker No. 5 cotton was adopted
as the best variety suitable for grow
ing in this county, and the state fer
tilizer recommendations advised.
The meeting advised the growing
of Porto Rico sweet potatoes, set 12,
inches in row, fertilized with 12-2-6
fertilizer, 600 pounds pier acre.
The state recommendations for
vegetables was adopted.
The meeting also recommended
that 100 hens be kept on each farm,
fed a balanced ration and plenty of
pure water.
In the opinion of the committee
all meats used in the county should
be grown on the farms of Ruther
ford. They recommended that on
farms where four cows are kept for
butter fat, one brood sow should be
kept and skimmed milk fed to sow
and pigs to be grown out and sold
for pork; or hens substituted foj
sow.
Four cows were recommended for
each farm for butter fat production.
All roughage should be grown at
home, also as much of concentrates
as possible should be grown on farm.
Two tons of legume hay was recom
mended for each cow, and one-half
acre of alfalfa. Recommendations
MASCOT
STEPHENS PARTY
TO CLIFFSIDE
IN JANUARY
Will Move Tabernacle From
Spindale to Cliffside—Six
Weeks Meeting to Open
January the 12th.
Rev. George T. Stephens and
party will return to the county and
will conduct a six weeks service at
Cliffside, beginning about January
12, according to an announcement
made at the closing service at Spin
dale Friday evening.
The tabernacle at Spindale will
be wrecked January 3, and taken to
Cliffside and rebuilt. The tabernacle
will be erected near the high school
building in Cliffside, with ample
parking space nearby, and within
easy reach of Cliffside, Caroleen,
Henrietta, Avondale and people of
the surronding communities.
At first the committee on arrange
ments considered using the Cliffside
Baptist church, but since as many,
or more, people are expected to at
tend the services at Cliffside than
did at Spindale this plan was dis
carded, and the committee secured
an option on the tabernacle, and will
move it there.
Due to the great distance from
Spindale to the towns in the lower
portion of the county, attendance
from those localities was limited.
The tabernacle will be in close pro
imixty to several thousand peopla
and prospects for a rich revival har
vest is even greater than has been
experienced during the past six
weeks.
Mrs. B. H. Haney Dies
In Philadelphia
Mrs. B. H. Haney died at her
home in Philadelphia last Friday.
Her body was returned to Forest
City where funeral services and in
terment took place. She was a daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Graham Lynch,
of Forest City, and has been making
her home in Philadelphia for some
time.
J were made for organizing pure breTl
; swine and calf clubs.
| Bearded Fulcaster wheat was a-
I dopted as being best adapted to bot-
J torn soils of the county, and purple
j straw or blue straw wheat for up
i land.
THE STEPHENS
REVIVAL CLOSED
FRIDAY EVENING
Over 1,000 Converts and Re
consecrations During Six
Weeks Services at Tab
ernacle.
Spindale, Dec. 16.—The Stephens .
tabernacle services closed here Fri- !
day evening, after six weeks of ser- 1
vices. The meeting began on Novem- j
ber 3. Mr. G. B. Howard, general j
chairman of the evangelistical cam- i
paign in this county, reports that a i
record of more than 900 conversions j
and reconsecrations was made, and j
that there were many converts and |
reconsecrations of which no record!
was made. A conservative estimate is
that a thousand or more people were i
(inverted or reconsecrated for ser-1
vice during the six weeks of the tab- \
ernacle services.
Thousands attended the services of J
last week. On Tuesday evening the
huge tabernacle was packed to the
doors, with people coming from all
sections of the county to hear Mr.
Stephens' great message on "Life
Beyond the Grave." This message
was among the best delivered by
him during the six week. In a clear,
concise manner Mr. Stephens brought
to his large audience an explanation
o'f many questions often asked about
life after death. He gave Biblical
proof on all assertions made by him
on the subject. After the sermon ap
proximately one hundred remained
for the after services.
The attendance on Wednesday
evening was not as great as on Tues
day evening. On Thursday night Mr.
Stephens spoke on "The Unpardon
able Sin." The tabernacle was again
filled to capacity. Mr. and Mrs. Car
ter, of Gastonia, were noticed by Mr.
Stephens and each was called to the
platform where they spoke briefly.
Walter Sherrill, of Statesville, also
spoke briefly.
On the closing evening, Friday,
Mr. Stephens took occasion to thank
each individual who had helped in
the services, the newspapers and oth
ers. About three thousand were pre
sent for the services. After the pre
liminaries Mr. Stephens brought a
great msssage on "Christian Amuse
ments." During this service Mr. and
Mrs. Powell Lee who have had charge
of the music, also made short talks.
During the six weeks meeting more
than 100,000 people attended ser
vices at the tabernacle.
RECORDER'S COURT
IDLE FRIDAY
No Fines Collected Friday—
Attribute Improvement to
Stephens Revival.
Rutherfordton, Dec. 16.—For the
first time in many years, Rutherford
county did not get one cent from the
county recorder's court in fees or
fines Friday. The court was opened
Friday morning as usual, and the
cases called out. No trials of any
consequences was on docket .for the
day, and as a result not one cent was
collected in fines or fees.
Many are attributing the almost
miraculous change to the effects of
the Stephens revival, which closed
last week. There has been a gradual
decline in the number of cases com
ing before the recorder for trial for
three weeks.
According to one county official,
Rutherford county could well afford
to employ the Stephens Evangelis
tic party for full time service in this
county, pay them out of the county
funds appropriated to operate the
courts and still experience a big sav
ing of money annually, to say noth
ing of the results to be secured from
the tabernacle services.
A FINE GIRL.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Grayson, Dec. 9th, a fine girl. Mr.
Grayson is a popular clerk in the
local postoffice.
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132 COLUMNS
SI.OO Per Year in Advance
LOCAL CHURCHES
GAVE CHRISTMAS
CANTATAS SUNDAY
Excellent Musical Programs
Rendered Sunday Evening
at Both Baptist and
Methodist Churches.
A cantat?,, "King of
Kings", by C. W. Davis, was render-
Ed by the senior and junior, or sun
shine choirs at the First Baptist
church on Sunday evening. This can
tata was composed of choruses, solos,
trios and quartettes, with a reading
from the Bible by Dr. W. A. Ayers.
Under the direction of Mrs. A. M.
Glickman and Miss Ruth Meares, or
ganist, both choirs had been work
ing diligently for several weeks in
preparation for the cantata. The
program opened with a pastoral by
A. M. Glickman, violinist. Others
having special parts were Mrs. W.
C. Bostic, Jr., Miss Joy Shaver, Dr.
W. L. Stallings, E. H. Freeman, Miss
Ollie Tate, Paul Hamrick, Miss
Emily Camp, Mrs. Broadus Moore
and Miss Merle McDaniel.
The choir at the First Methodist
church also rendered their cantata
on Sunday evening at the same hour.
This cantata, "His Natal Day'", by
Edward W. Norman, opened with a
joyous chorus by the choir and then
the story of Christmas was told in
solo, duet, trio and quartette and
chorus work by a number of splendid
voices. Those having special parts in
the cantata were: Henry Giles, Mrs.
R. C. Alexander, Mrs. Walsh Moore,
Miss Estelle Stembridge, Mrs. R. R.
Howes, Jay Cole, Mrs. Ernest Robin
son and Mrs. Bert Moore,
Legion Post Banquet
On January 9
At a regular meeing of the Willis
Towery Post, American Legion, held
Thursday it was unani
mously voted to hold an anual Ar
mistice day in Forest City on' Nov
ember 11th. The celebration here on
last November 11th, was a success
in every particular, but the post is
planing to make the 1930 celebration
even greater.
A gain of exactly 100 percent was
reported by the membership commit
tee. The membership for 1929 was 52
and at present there are 104 mem
bers, which gives the "post the state
, and national citation.
The next regular meeting will be
held on January 9, at which time a
banquet will be given for all mem
bers of this post. Cards will be mail
ed to all members who are asked to
immediately notify the committee on
arrangements if they can, or cannot,
be present.
SPECIAL OCCASIONS
AT ROMINA THEATRE
On Friday night a special musi
cal program by the Woman's Music
Club of Forest City. From 75 to 100
trained voices will take part in this
splendid program.
On Saturday night the Komina
will give away an Kent
Radio and also an electric train.
Good program for entire week. See
program for full particulars.
CURB MARKET OPEN
ON CHRISTMAS EVE
The Forest City Curb Market will
open Tuesday, Dec. 24th, when
the ladies are going to have on sale
some especially nice things in home
cooked delicacies, etc. There will also
be a nice lot of all kinds of farm
produce.
You are invited to patronize the
market on this day.
Pierce Hyder, popular young man
of this city, was appointed manager
of the Standard Service Station at
Main and Yarboro streets, on last
Wednesday. Asa Hamrick is assis
tant manager of this station, while
Roy Callahan is helper.