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PAVE ELLENBORO STREETS SOON Town to Spend Approximate ly SB,OOO in Paving Streets Will Begin Work at An Early Date. Ellenboro, Dec. 23.—At a recent meeting of the town council it was decided to spend approximately SB,- 000 in paving the streets of the town. It is understood the contract has been let and that work will be gin as soon as the weather will per mit of concrete construction. It is thought likely that late in February or the beginning of March the pav-1 ing will be under way. The name of; the contractor who secured the job J j[wEAK Sp ELLsJj I "I WAS so weak," says Mrs. I Josephine Cockcroft, of Bal- j dock, S. C., "that I was not able I to do anything. I mSM "At certain times, J 1 I suffered dreadful gfif ■ly with pains in my Hf J back and sides. My I „«J| head would hurt— I s felt like it would I {SrMI °P en * Spells I W/V of weakness would ] I \MI last for weeks. j I ifm 1 "I read of CarduL ; 1 \m\ * Bent f° r a bottle v\ *'A i and began taking it j x My case was stub- ; born, and at times I almost | lost hope, but I could see a > little improvement. At last I began to feel much better. Then I improved rapidly. For the last year I have been in better health than I ever have been before. "I give the credit to Cardui, ! for after I il WOMEN ; TO HEALTH j | Take Thedford'* BLACK-DRAUGHT 1 ( CHRISTMAS | With No Worries | Make sure, now, that next Christmas will jj find you clear of financial worries. Start :■ a savings account in this bank; add a few "j dollars when you can; and you will face jl next year's gift lists with a smile, instead j; of a frown. Just think, how a bank ac- i| count, no matter how small, would have ij helped you this year! Join Our Christmas Club !■ Ask for a Key to the Treasure Chest. :■ ■I Investigate our weekly Savings Plan. £ CAPITAL AND SURPLUS SIOO,OOO $ INDUSTRIAL LOAN &INVESTMENTBANK f FOREST CITY, N. C. -- 5 '^WAW\W.V.V.V.%VAViV.VAV.VVAV, i W.WAV.V has not been made public, nor the number of streets to be paved. The funds for the work of con- J struction are the profits derived from j the sale of Ellenboro electric light) plant. It will be remembered thatj the cost of building the light and. 'power plant was close to $lO,-; i 000 and the price realized from! the sale was slß,soo—a sum; sufficient to retire the bonds is- 1 sued to defray the cost of the plant and to leave a handsome sum Incidentally Ellenboro enjoys low light and power rates. I A NEW INDUSTRY I„• , 1 i "What our town needs is a few, new factories employing skilled la- j bor and having large payrolls." I We all agree to this, but it rarely j occurs to many of our citizens that j ( we have the equivalent of an indus- j try here that can be developed thru 1 the exercises of a little spirit and , i community initiative. | i Many cities of three and four; ( thousand population , exist without a 1 single industry—the entire popula- j J tion being supported through trade * with the farmers of the surrounding 1 ( territory. These communities are, in-, ( cidentally, almost always prosperous j t and steady. j ( This points to opportunity here, j X To gain what means as much or more i than a new industry it is merely ■ * necessary to develop more effective j 1 trade possibilities with the people of. s the surrounding area. J 1 To accomplish this our merchants; 3 and other business people must work 1 in harmony. They must seek at every * opportunity to find ways of making our city known as a good shopping s center. A reasonable amount of friendly competition is essential for s good business, to be sure, but with i it must be the willingness to work j together for the common good. j ( Not only our business people are, t needed for such enterprise. All citi- j zens may well contribute their part ( to the city's business future—'oy ! keeping trade here at home whenever | ( possible—by supporting the men who | are doing most for the upbuilding j 1 of the city. ; To accomplish all this it is neces-1 sary to have an active cooperation! • that overloks no opportunity to de-! velop the city's resources. Subscribe to The Courier. THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1929. HOME AND CHURCH BLAMED FOR CRIME Governor Gardner Says Better Understanding Of Youth is Needed Today. I —— i The following appeared in The Asheville Citizen and was written by governor O. Max Gardner. Since I have been governor of North Carolina. I have been im j pressed more and more by the nec | essity for a better understanding on j the part of our people and religious 1 leaders of the spiritual life and i needs of the youth of our state. 1 lam not one of those who be lieve that the young people of this day and generation are headed for perdition. For one thing, they face life and its problems with an open minded sincerity that is, 1 think, wholly commendable. They hate hypocrisy and are intolerant only of intoler ance. And they make an honest at- I tempt to think and reason about I questions that the youth of my gen eration accepted, if they accepted them at all, upon the somewhat doubtful and insecure basis of au thority. The youth of today are haunted by a thousand doubts and misgiv ings. But the earnestness and utter sincerity with which they seek ans wers to their questions indicate a yearning for the truth and spiritual assurance as poignant as it is some times futile. But there is something wrong somewhere. And at present I am in clined to lay the responsibility squarely at the doors of the home and the church. We have had an enormous in crease in crime and delinquency in this state during the past five years and from the statistics gath ered as to this condition, two facts stand out with an emphasis that cannot but challenge attention. In the first place 65 per cent of the increase in the population of our state penal and correctional in stitutions is made up of young white men and boys, there being SCREEN-GRID RADIO You need no longer make the slightest allowances ~ 3 music .. . and that is the noise in the set." For in At- H| II I water Kent Screen-Grid Radio there is no operating H| i ! \ © / !;1| ||. sound! If the broadcasting station is silent for a mo il I I :Mll I ment —then the set is silent. So silent that you need 11 'IIf the tiny light behind the dial to tell you that it's on! II l i IKIBiyW I | It's hard to believe. But come in and listen—and 111 ■ psPii I i you'll prove it to yourself. And while you're here, try 111 IKSSSctI the power and selectivity that bring distant stations right up to your door. Look inside and see the work ' nW ■| B manship that makes these remarkable qualities possi ft IT Be ble and permanent. That's Atwater Kent workman c © 0 ship. That's your assurance that every dollar you © spend for this set will bring you the most in radio en joyment. NEW LQW PRICES Table Models $95.00 and up. Cabinet Models $112.00 and up Less Tubes Forest City Furniture Company REUBEN McBRAYER, Proprietor It Is Easy To Pay The Mcßrayer Way noted over the same period of fall ing off in the number of colored youthful offenders. In the second place, the vast ma jority of these young men—George Ross Pou, superintendent of the state's prison, places the estimate at 80 per cent—have never finished the sixth grade and have never re gularly attended any church or Sunday school. In other words our pitsons are being overrun by a class of crimin als hitherto comparatively rare in this state and who, so far as their home and religious training is con cerned, have been permitted to ap proach maturity almost as pagans. LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS / Doll and Tea Set. Forest City, Dec. 20.—Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl five years old. My name is Reba Street. Please bring me a doll and a tea set, doll bed, nuts, apples, candy and don't forget the poor little girls and boys. Good bye Santa, REBA STREET. $ :jc % Horse and Wagon. Forest City, Dec. 20.—Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy three years old my name is Hix Street. Please bring me a little white horse and a wagon and a gun that will shoot, nuts, apples, candy and mother will make me a cake. Good bye Santa, HIX STREET. •'f * * ❖ Shot for Air Gun. Forest City, Dec. 16.—Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy ten years old, my name is Paul Street .Please bring me a watch and some shot and nuts, apples, candy and mother will make me a cake. Don't foi'get me. Good bye Santa, PAUL STREET. * * * Received No Whippings. Spindale, Dec. 20.—Dear Santa Claus: I am a boy six years old and going to school. My teacher is so good. Her name is Miss Wilkins. She hasn't even whipped me a time. Pretty good for a boy, but any way, Santa, I want you to bring me a car, | a real nice one. Please bring apples and oranges and candy and don't forget my little sister. I live on i Church street, at Spindale. Best | wishes for a merry, merry Christmas. JACK HARRILL. GARDNER'S GREAT GOAL Gov. Max Gardner has been tre mendously in earnest about the program for« bringing agriculture along in North Carolina. In promotion of the farming interests he had been fortunate in experience of particular value, as has been dem onstrated in the way his native coun ty has profited by his leadership and it is evidently his determination to make the State profit, as Cleveland County has profiited. His developed concern is over the enormous amount of money the State farmers and peo ple are sending out for supplies that could be raised at home, and which he is determined shall be raised here. He has converted the State Farm into a model which the farmers might copy, for it is cotton, to be sure, but along with it abundant sup plies of food and feed stuffs. Governor Gardner in directing the minds of the people to the advan tage of "living at home," has desig nated the period from December 15 to 21 as "Live-at-Home Week," and is to give an example in inspiration by staging an "all-North Carolina dinner" at the Executive Mansion toward the shank end of the week. His goal is to establish a situation of all-home production in the State —and North Carolina can do it. In promoting this idea—and a practical one it is—Governor Gard ner is rendering his State a service whose ultimate benefits are beyond calculation. Succeeding in even small degree, he will have made himself a greater Governor than had been promised the people, for he will have started a movement that will even tually make of North Carolina an entirely independent State, so far as living on its own products is con cerned. When the farmers are doing what Gardner wants to see them do- ing, they will save, for general cir culation at home, as much as ?25Q. 000,000 which they have been sen-d --ing out of the State every year for supplies that they could grow on their own lands.—Charlotte Observ er. JUNIOR ORDER WILL GIVE OYSTER SUPPER Ellenboro, Dec. 18.—The Junior Order of American Mechanics Lodge will give an oyster supper Monday night at the K. of P. hall to the members and visitors. The Junior lodge numbers around 125. M interest is being shown by the mem bers in the Lodge work which is pro gressing nicely. Fifteen new members were installed at the last meeting. 1 I | Save your ♦ I health and strength ♦ ♦ Let us take the heavy labor + ♦ of washing off your hands. Wi £ ♦ wash everything in rainsoft ♦ Y water and billows of creamy ♦ T suds, with from nine to twelve ♦ ♦ distinct changes of water. Most Y 4 of the water then removed and i X clothes returned to you in I + quick time ready for ironing. A 4 i ♦ 'phone or card will bring us in ♦ a hurry. | J ♦ a | Rutherford County 1 ♦ Laundry $ Forest City, N. C. T
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