Rutherford
County Offers
Unequalled
Opportunities To
Manufacturers
' an d Others
|OL. XLL— No- 51.
((PAGAN AND
HAMRICK DEBATE
I POLITICAL ISSUE'S
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Locratic County Chairman
Touches Several Important
Points in Debate With
Republican County
Leader.
Rutheiiordton, Sept* 22 - The !
house was filled to its capa
ty he re Monday night, and many
* I.: n ot secure admittance to
e first debate between S. P. Duna-
L chairman of the Democratic
te'cutive committee of this county
id Fred D. Hamrick, chairman of
e Republican county committee,
it debate was scheduled to start
eight o'clock, but ten minutes be
re that time the house was filled,
d by agreement the debate began.
Mr. Dunagan spoke first, and pre
uted in fine style his charges a
in?t his opponent. Mr. Dunagan
ngratulated Mr. Hamrick for final
adopting his idea, advanced three
Lrs previously, that the taxpayers
the county weite overburdened
d needed relief. Mr. Dutiagan said
was not "mad" at anyone, and
not allow himself to get mad
•r politics. Asserting that he be
ted the Republicans waited a
.-sided campaign this year he had
In criticised severely for calling
ir hand. "1 fight for my side to
i," said Mr. Dunagan. "If I lose
ake defeat good naturedly; if I
i I'm not going to crow over vic
y. So far as I'm concerned the
mting of the ballots settles the
tter until the next election" said
speaker.
Dunagan's Speech.
ask you Republicans, who start
this row anyway? Why Mr. -Hm»«
c started the criticism back in
ril at the Republican convention,
ad his speech in the Sun of April
in. So he got a little - bolder and
Dm that time on 'till my speech
cepting the Chairmanship of the
mioeratic Executive Committee he
t bolder and bolder in charging
e Democratic Party with incom
iter.ce, violations of the laws, etc.
didn't get mad at him for his re
arks, and my message was the fore
inner of my intentions to discuss
ie issues of this campaign in a way
1 let the people of Rutherford
Dunty know the truth. I even ad—
itted that my party had made mis
kes, and stated I would not under
*e to defend the mistakes. That
pht to have tickled my friend
imrick. It would have if I'd storj
d there—but to be fair with the
jblic I felt the voters should know
10 someone entirely disconnect
"'th the Democrat Party had
nething to do with the grave ev-
That didn't suit Mr. Hamrick
r ese Republicans following his
ship. My message exploded in
'h camp like a bombshell and was
>u to blow up their chances for
toi 'y—a victory that they'd ,'al
c'y counted on.
Conflicting Interests.
* wasn t mad at anyone, and
' ause here to say that I have no
• on ai feeling whatever. I myself
convinced that our former board
Commissioners who will necessar
conie this discussion were
a ' e honest, and acted with hon
mtentions. So far as they are
Cein ed their big mistake was in
epting the advice of those who
elfish interests at stake rath
an the advice of real Democrats
* could have the interest of the
e> of the people in mind and
*• Hi go further and say that
ai H'iok acted conscientiously
lUt ] -
interested from several
Clent ar ~les he could hardly be
to be fair. His client's in
_ foremost in his mind.
* a lawyer's duty, to look after
c lp nts interest. I admire him for
great mistake he made
aving clients whose interests
u tod with the rights of the peo
*nci undertaking to look after
sides and advise the county,
ar, ks, and Chimney Rock Moun
• in transactions between
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FOREST CITY COURIER
FOREST^ CITY —"ONE OF THE TEN BEST PLANNED AND MOST BEAUTIFUL TJ. S. A."~~UTS. DEPARTMENT OF AGPJCULTURE~SURVFV
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOR ESf CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
Dunagan-Hamrick
Joint Debates
Hon. S. P. Dunagan, chairman of
the Democratic executive committee
of Rutherford county, will meet Fieri
D. Hamrick, chairman of the county
Republican executive committee in
a public debate Friday evening, ?.t
eight o'clock at the Caroleen-Hen
rietta High school. On Tuesday even
ing, September 30, they will debate
at Ellenboro.
Mr. Dunagan was recently challeng
ed to these debates by Mr. Ham
rick.
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HON. J. W. BAILEY TO
SPEAK HERE OCT. 6
Candidate for U. S. Senate
Will Present Issues of Cam
paign in Impartial
fanner.. *
Hon. Josiah W. Bailey, Democra
tic candidate for United States Sen
ate, will speak in the school audi
torium here Monday evening, Octo
ber 6, at eight o'clock, according to
an announcement made by Hon.
Stover P. Dunagan, chairman of the
Rutherford County Democratic Ex
ecutive committee. This will conclude
the first series of sixteen campaign
speeches by Mr. Bailey.
Mr. Bailey will probably speak at
Rutherfordton on Monday afternoon,
and come to Forest City Monday
night. Further announcement in re
gard to this arrangement will be
made next week.
Mr. Bailey is a forceful and virile
speaker; clean, honest and upright;
and will present in an impartial and
unbiased manner the issues of the
campaign. His campaign speeches
over the state thus far this season
has been free from aiiy abuse .and'
bunkj a«d- he been heard*
by thousands of Republicans as well
as Democrats.
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A cordial invitation is extended
to every voter of Rutherford Coun
ty to come out and hear the issues
of the 1930 campaign presented in
an impartial manner Monday even
ing, October 6.
THE MOST STUPENDOUS OFFER
EVER MADE IN THE COUNTY
Our readers will no doubt be sur
prised at the two for one announce
ment made by The Courier this week,
wherein we are offering to let our
subscribers pay their arrearges at
two years for the price of one—one
dollar. Of course, we will take new
subscribers at this special offer, one
year for the subscriber and one for
any name they suggest.
We have given much thought to
this offer, and want it distinctly un
derstood that it does not imply a
cut in our subscription price of one
dollar per year in the county. We
know how hard times have been this
year and have not billed our sub
scribers during the year, consequent
ly many are in arrears with their
subscriptions. We appreciate our
subscribers continuirig with us dur
ing the depression, appreciate the
loss in the price of cotton, take count
of their losses in the banks and oth
erwise, and to show our appreciation
of all these good folks sticking by
their favorite county paper, we are
going to show our appreciation by
taking part of their loss ourselves
by allowing everyone who pays dur
ing this special pffer two years , for
the price of one. We want every sub
scriber to continue with us, and be
lieve they will appreciate and take
advantage of our offer of two for
one.
We are going to send out subscrip
tion notices soon and want every
one receiving a notice to respond
before the offer closes, November
15.
This offer does rifct apply to any
subscriber not living in Rutherford
county.
Every subscriber not taking ad
vantage of our offer, and is in arre&rs
at the close, will be stricken from the
list. There will positively be no exten
sion of time, and the regular price
of one dollar per year will go into
' fT?ct at the close of the offer.
FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1930.
THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN
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Lake Lure Is Dragged
For Woman's Body
Investigation Started by Dis
covery of Hair on Fishing *
Hook—No Results
- Thus Far.
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Despite a misting rain, Smjg
bot; j£> S^*TSlre^t > u?e," was dragged for
hours Saturday afternoon in attempt
to recover the body of some person
believed to be in the lake. This be
lief originated when C. S. Hemphill,
this city, while on a fishing party
pulled in a bunch of blonde hair on
his hook. This he turned over to
Coroner W. C. Hightower, who with
Garret M. Edwards, county patrol
man, led Saturday's investigation.
While no body was found, the belief
that there was one in the lake was
augmented by the finding of several
more hairs and a peculiar nauseating
odor that prevailed over the spot
on the lake where Mr. Hemphill's
hook had caught on the hair last
week.
For hours a boat plied its way
back and forth across the harbor
with grappling hooks dragging be
hind to no avail. Several times the
hooks caught on some unseen ob
ject, but these turned out to be
bushes and stumps. There was one
place in the harbor, however, where
the hooks caught in some hidden
object, and is was here that Mr.
Hemphill pulled in the hair on
his line and where the strong odor
was most prevalent. It seemed to
be impossible, though, to get the
hooks to catch on to this object
and as it was beginning to get
late and was raining it was decided
to wait until Sunday to continue
the search.
Sergeant A. .A. Price, of the lo
cal police department, received a
letter last week from Mrs. J. E.
Hicks, of Burlington, Route 4, whose j
daughter is missing and asking the
police to notify her if the body *s
recovered and can be identified as '
her daughter. A description war. j
sent with the letter. j
i
x In telling of finding the hair on i
his hook Mr. Hemphill, who was j
accompanied by J. E. Vassey and J
W. L. Brown on the fishing trip, i
stated that when he pulled in his j
line he noticed something hanging j
on it, but as it was night he J
couldn't see what it was and began j
pulling it off and throwing it on |
the ground. It was while rebaiting j
his hook that he happened to look j
sown and see by the light of thel
lantern that he had been pullingi
htfman hair off his hook. Wrapping j
some of it up in some paper he
turned it over to the police the next!
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Plucky Girl Catches
| Automobile Thiet
Returning to the home of her
G. P. Reid, Sunday night
10- -o'clock, Miss Ruth Refd
was surprised to see some one at
tempting to drive off with the car
belonging to Dr. Reid and which wa*
parked at the side entrance to the
residence. She sprang from the car
in which she was riding and grappled
with a negro man who was attempt
ing to start the car. She held him
until others of her party, including
Miss Elizabeth Davis and two young
men, came to her rescue. The men
then guarded the negro until Serg.
A. A. Price quickly responded to
their telephone call and placed the
negro under arrest. He turned out
to be a young negro of this city who
has borne a good (reputation. He
was drunk at the time and it is said
that the Doctor would not press the
charge of attempted robbery, but
that the negro would be fined for
drunkeness.
Mis? Reid, the first to reach and
grapple with the negro, has been
highly complimented by her many
friends upon the display of her
courage and nerve. She grappled him
by an. arm and held on until help
came.
Championship
Title Fight
Johnnie Price, local boy and a
brother of Chief Charles R. Price,
will fight Jack Blanton, of Cliffside,
Saturday night at the Rutherford
County fair grounds for the cham
pionship of Rutherford county.
The fight is scheduled for
six rounds and will be held in front,
of the grandstand. This will be the
jmain bout before Ambrose Taylor,
Forest City negro, clashes with an-
I other of his color from High Point;
: N. C.
! Mr. Price is in training to meet
} Harry Fayles, of the Wilmington.
|N. C., police force at the Police
i Field Day exercises in. Charlotte,
'October 24.
J New line of wool knit toques,
'gloves and bootees, 15c to 50c.
jStahl's Ten Cent Stores.
j
: morning and the investigation was
j started.
j Several divers attempted Sunday
|to locate the supposed body, but
; failed. Coroner W. C. Hightower is
■of the opinion that if a body is in
the lake the only way to raise it is
(to dynamite the lake.
Rutherford Fair
Opened Tuesday
Good Attendance on Opening Day—Agricul
tural Exhibits Are Far Superior to Those
of Previous Years.
AUTO RACES AT
COUNTY FAIR
Races Friday and Saturday Af
ternoon Sanctioned By A.
A. A. Racing Board.
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Interest is running high in anti
cipation of the greatest dirt track
automobile races ever to be held in
this se'etion of the county, for the
list of drivers entered in Friday and
Saturday's race programs at the
Rutherford County Fair grounds will
be made up of some of the most
famous dirt track pilots of this
country.
The races will be held Friday after
noon and Saturday afternoon. The
program each afternoon will consist
of six events, including the time
trials, in which all drivers will race
against time in an endeavor to set
a new North Carolina track record.
This record is now unofficially held
by the Rutherford fair track, but
due to last year's racing not being
sanctioned by the contest board of
the A.A.A. the record is not recog
nized. However, a sanction has been
granted this year which means that
the races will be supervised by a |
member of the contest board and any
records made will, go down in the
books as official.
The incomplete entry reveal? th?
n*o>«o
Patterson, Eilly Charles Cyr,
Bruce Thompson, Sam Numis, Ben
Shaw, Bill Neapolitan, H. H. "Speed"
Campbell, "Mac" McClure and a
score of others. Some of thes names
are familiar to Rutherford people,
as they appeared last year at thv
Rutherford fair.
pnrriONS OUT
FOR NAIL ROUTE
The County Club and Others
Asking for Star Mail Route
From Marion to Shelby
and Return Daily.
At a meeting of The Rutherford
County Club, held Friday at the
Dutch Grill, the following resolution,
requesting a star mail voutc, was
unanimously adopted by the club:
"We, the undersigned, postmast
ers, patrons, publishers and civic
clubs, hereby respectfully petition
the establishment of a star mail
route leaving Marion on a six day
service upon arrival of the Southern
train No. 36 (Salisbury-Knoxville),
and serving the postoffices of Vein
Mountain, Thermal City, Union Mills,
Gilkey, Rutherfordton, Spindale, For
est City, Bostic, Ellenboro, Moores
boro and Lattimore, terminating at
Shelby, carrying all classes of mail, j
"And leaving Shelby each week-j
day afternoon upon the arrival oi
star mail route No. 18995 at 3:50'
p. m., and returning to Marion that j
afternoon serving the same postof
fices as above. This star mail ser-!
vice is asked in lieu of railway mail ■
service of which we were deprived |
when trains Nos. 113 and 114 (Mai-:
ion and Columbia) were discontin-j
ued August 17th 1930. Approximate i
mileage 55 miles one way. Practical
ly all hard surface road."
This resolution was drawn up ai- j
ter a conference was held Thursday j
afternoon in Shelby, between J. K.
Quinn, Shelby postmaster, T. T.
Long, of Forest City, and Postmaster
Williams of Rutherfordton, and oth
ers. Those attending the conference
were unanimous in their opinion that
a star mail route was needed in lieu
of the railway service which was dis
continued several .weeks ago when
Southern trains Nos. 113 and 114
were taken off.
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96 COLUMNS
SI.OO Per Year in Advance
The Rutherford county fair open
ed Tuesday morning with indications
of nice weather for the week, and
record breaking crowds. Tuesday was
school day, and school children from
McDowell, Rutherford, Polk and
Henderson counties were adn itted
free of charge.
Krause Greater Shows are playing
on the midway this year, with an
aggregation of the cleanest shows
on the road. A nifmber of free acts
are given each afternoon and night
before the grandstand, while horse
racing and automobile races will be
afternoon features.
The exhibits this year are above
the average of other years. The coun
ties co-operating with Rutherford in
this year's fair have a number of good
exhibits, which add much to the edu
cational value of the fair.
With all exhibit space taken up
before the fair gave promise that
this year's fair would be the greatest
and largest of them all.Several would
be exhibitors were turned away for
lack of space to house their exhibits.
A total of 686 front feet in the ex
hibit hall is devoted entirely to ag
ricultural products, while 176 front
feet is devoted to commercial exhi
bits. This exceeds any previous year's
record.
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McDowell, Henderson, Polk and
Rutherford counties are represented
in the hall.
Booth.
A group of en*-e-*p.-?sing Polk
county citizens have placed a booth
featuring entirely Governor Gard
ner's live-at-home program, which is
attracting it full share of attention,
and is proving of great educational
value.
Individual exhibits from Henderson
county include those of W. E., D. P.,.
and Eiland Moss, Miss Julia Moss
. and L. Y. Lydia and others.
The Ccpisa Orchards, of Saluda,
Henderson county, and the Green
River Orchards of Tuxedo, Hender
son county, are centers of interest
with their fine exhibit of Golden De
licious, Winesaps and other brands
of apples.
Miss Laura Howard, county home
demonstrator, has an attractive booth
featuring the Four-II Club work, in
connection with pantry supplies. The
Alexander Woman's Club have a
! health booth, and the Central High
| school has an educational booth fea
turing dairy products and dairy work.
Community Booths.
Among the community booths arc
| the Oakland community booth, put.
|on by Mrs. Monroe McDonald and
Mrs. Fred McDonald; Watkins com
munity booth, in charge of J. J. Geer
and son; Harris community booth,
put on by Prof. H. W. Bingham and
class, of the Harris school; Cool
Springs high school, put on by Prof.
D. H. Sutton and class, of the Forest
City High school; and the Ellenboro
school booth, put on by Prof. A. B.
Bushong and his class of vocational
agriculture students.
Henderson county has an attrac
tive booth, featuring the products of
that county.
Farm and farm products booths
include those of J. H. Burgess, of
Union Mills, R-l; J. M. Cole, Harris;
Mrs. Monroe McDonald, Forest City;
R-2; and Mrs. A. V. Hamrick, of
Sandy Mush.
A well arranged forestry booth,
put on by the North Carolina Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment, co-operating with the county
game warden Ed Trammell is at
tracting much attention.
Another booth that brings forth
much comment is that of the Alex
ander School for Motherless child
ren, of Union Mills, which gives an
insight into the work of that school.
Commercial Booths.
Among the commercial booths are
exhibits of the new Fords, by the
Hunter Motor Company, of Ruther
fordton; The Farmers Federation,
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