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Manufacturers
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VOL XUI-No. 29.
FIRST NATIONAL ||
TURNED OVER TO j
ONiON TRUST CO.j
Bank at Meet.ng Held
Tuesday After
noon.
, t a mating of the Board of
Director? Of the First National Bank,
■„'.,! Tuesday afternoon, it • was
voted to turn over to the Union
Trust Co. of Forest City all the as-
L of the First National Bank, the
Co to assume res-
Union Tiust LO.
T,onibility to all depositors, this ar-
Lament to go into effect Wed
nesdav morning.
' T hus passed the First National
B-irk of Forest City, opened for
Ivsiness October 10. The action was i
n a f ter deliberate consideration i
v.- rj-jt* officials of the First National !
Bulk anil the realization that at tiiis
. there i.* not sufficient banking
business in our section to justify
!V - rc than one banking institution
in Forest City, and because the of
ficer? of the First National have the
utmost confidence in the Union Trust J
Co. anil its management.
Not one cent was lost by any de- i
positor of the First National. The
merging of the younger bank into
that of the older and stronger will
n.ake for a more stabilized banking
condition m our county.
Statements from officials of both i
banks will be found below:
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To .the patrons and depositors of
the former First National Bank of I
Forest City: We the former officers
■ and directors of the First National
Bank of Forest City wish to announce
that vfe have turned over to the
Inion Trust Company of Forest City.
our assets and the^Un
and deliberate consideration,' realiz
ing that at this time there is not suf -
ficient banking business in our sec
tion to justify more than one bank
ing institution in Forest City, and
having utmost confidence in The
Union Trust Company and its man
agement, and with the approval of
the department of the Comptroller
of the Currency in Washington, we
have taken this action. We feel sure |
that this move on our part will meet
with the approval and approbation
of our patrons and depositors, and
we urge that you give the Union
Trust Company your support and
confidence, continuing your banking
business with them. We wish to ex
press our appreciation of the busi
ness and support that has been giv
en us during our existence, and ask
t!l at you join with us in our plans
of co-operation with the Union Trust
Company.
K S. Moss, Pres., T. R. Padgett,
E- L- Reinhardt, B. C. Horn, G. C. j
McDaniel, G. H. Blanton, W. C.
Bostic, G. B. Harrill, C. E. Alcock.
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To the depositors of the former
Fist National Bank, of Forest City:
Having assumed responsibility for
the deposits of The First National
Bank of Forest City, we the officers j
The Union Trust Co., both in the |
h'»me office in Shelby and local of- j
fice in Forest City, wish to extend '
L, | you a cordial welcome as patrons
" ! L'nion Trust Co., and assure
J" u that you will receive from i»s ]
c,)ul 'teous, reliable and helpful bank
,n K service. We sincerely trust that
'° u w 'll continue as depositors of
ne tnion Trust Co. and if there is
«t any time any improvements that
; f ' u can suggest to us in our bank
ln£ service to you, we will appre
(late y°ur suggestions. We wish to
ei^e you, and please you in our
service.
C. Blanton, President; For
|, est Eskridge, Cashier; R. E. Big
"eisiaff, j Worth Morgan, Mana-
K rs of Forest City Office.
j" ! ''-nils will be sorry to hear of the
illness of Mrs. T. W. Jack
n is at the home of her
-'ughter, Mrs. Linsley Hunter in
j nc °lnton. Mrs. Jackson suffered a
r °ke of apoplexy about two weeks
," l j an i nap been confined to her
* since. The stroke affected her
fc eeh and the left side of her body.
I • c °ndition has been serious for
lhe Past few days.
FOREST CITY COURIER
FOREST CITY "ONE OF THE TEN BEST PLANNED AND MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES IX THE U. S. A." U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SURVEY:
Mark and A. C. Lovelace, Jr.,
who are 10 and 11 years old, are
making quite a name for themselves
as singers and musicians. They are.
the sons of Prof, and Mrs. A. C. Love
lace, of Forest City, and they have
sung on several occasions. over
broadcasting Station WSPA, Spar—
tanburg, S. C., during the past year.
They are also in demand as special
singers at the local churches. Re
cently they entertained the Kiwanis
clubs in a district meeting held at
CLEAN-UP WEEK
APRIL 27-MAY 21
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If'wCSSfr' ij)pr-^s-a—1
City Officials Request Co-op
eration of all Citizens of
Town—Milk Ordinance
Effective.
At a meeting of the city board Tues
day night it was decided to set apart
the week beginning April 27 as
Clean-Up Week in Forest City. Every
citizen in Forest City is requested |
to co-operate with the tow*n officials.
in this clean-up drive. The officials j
request that all complete their clean- j
ing up by Thursday so that wagons!
can make the final rounds Friday, i
Every person is asked to gather up
the rubbish and trash around his
premises and place it near the drive
way or sidewalk, in order to ex
pedite the work.
At a recent meeting of the board
it was ordered that grades of milk
sold in Forest City, under a milk
ordinance adopted sometime ago, be
announced on May 1, provided the
town of Spindale is ready to announce
grades at the same time. This will
be merely an announcement of the
grades, and will have no effect on
restricting the sale of any giade
of milk.
CITY LIBRARY WILL
CLOSE ELECTION DAY
| The City Library takes this oppor
tunity to thank the friends who re
membered its birthday by giving a
took on that day. A great many who
came forgot to bring a gift but it
is not too late as books are needed
and acceptable any time.
One week from next Tuesday the
Library will not be open, due to
the fact that the town desires to use
the room for voting purposes. Re
member on Tuesday, May 5 the Li
brary will not be open.
MR. ALTON HUNTLEY HURT.
Mr. Alton Huntley, who is con
nected with the C. & O. railroad in
New r port News, Va., had the mis
ortune to get his collar bone brok
en and a deep gash cut on his head
besides other bruises when knocked
from a car while on duty. He is in
the Clifton Forge hospital, and lat
est reports are that he is getting a
long nicely. His many friends here
wish him a speedy recovery and are
glad to know that his injuries are
not o± & ser.ous
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY
Youthiul Musicians
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FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1931.
; Rutherfordton with several popular
songs.
' Neither of these two boys have ever
taken vocal lessons but despite this
they have unusually strong voices to
be as young as they are.
1 Singing, however, is not their only
'accomplishment. Both are piano
pupils of Miss Lucile Wall, music
j teacher in the Henrietta-Caroleen
school, which they both attend, their
father being superintendent of the
school system. A. C. Lovelace, Jr.,
also plays the violin, while Mark
plays the guitar.
LAST RITES FOR j
MRS. C. E. HUNTLEY
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Passes Sunday After Long 111-}
ness—Funeral Held Mon- j
day at Pleasant Grove.
The entire town was grieved to j
learn of the death of Mrs. Clarence
E. Huntley, which occurred at her;
home on West Main street Sunday;
night at 7:40 o'clock, following an j
illness of more than a year.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at three o'clock at
Pleasant Grove Methodist church
with Rev. W. A. Barber, of Spin
dale, in charge, assisted by Rev. J.
W. Williams, of Forest City. Inter
ment. was in the Pleasant Grove
j cemetery.
| Mrs. Huntley was a daughter of
| the late Mr. and Mrs. Labron Neal,
of Cleveland county. She was mar
ried to Mr. Clarence E. Huntley 25
years ago. To this union eight chil
dren were born, Mrs. R. B. Mcßray
; er, Mrs. J. L. Butler, Jr., Baxter,
Grover, J. C., Eugene and William
Chivous Huntley, all of Forest City.
One infant preceded her to the
grave several years ago. She is also
survived by her husband and six
half-brothers, Messrs Jess, Frank,
! George W r . and Edgar Roberson, oi
Shelby, John Roberson, of High
Shoals and Jim Roberson, of Forest
City. Mrs. Huntley was 41 years, one
j month and 16 days old at the time
of her death.
She had been a faithfu. and con
sistent member of the Pleasant
Methodist church for a number of
years, and was a- regular attendant
until her recent illness.
The pallbearers were Messrs Her
bert Cole, Hicks W r ilkins, Hollis Spake
'Clarence Jones, Walter Moore and
fW. M. Owens.
' The beautiful and profuse floual
;offering was borne by the following:
Misses Myrle McDaniel, Lee Ellen
j Tate, Ruby Silvers, Hazel Price, Alice
! and Louise Owens, Allifair and Ear
ileen Roberson, Vannie Haynes, Lucy
I Peaarson, Mesdames C. E. Alcock,
Spurgeon Moss, C. W. Huntley, Bulo
Grant, Clarence Jones, Ernest Wat
kins, Joe Tinsley, Robert King, P.
D. Harrill Jr., Misses Beatrice Tate
and Grace Champion.
ICE CREAM SUPPER.
The Epworth League of Pleasant
Grove church will have an ice crean»
supper in the hut, Friday night.
April 24. Come and buy our home
made ice crsam, cake and candy.
DR. A. W. DANIEf; M
SPEAKER AT OLDfc
BOYS' CONFERENCE
Several Hundred Boys From all
Sections of County Attend
Seventh Conference Held
in Cliffside.
Cliffside was delighted to have the
Seventh Older Boys' Conference
j meet with us Friday and Saturday
of last week. The boys came from
nearly all sections pf! the county
and the first meeting was held at the
Baptist church with a fine atten
f dance. Mr. Jay Laughridge, Profs.
H. C. Beatty and John Tinkler, Rev.
J. A. Hunnicutt and B. E. Roach reg
istered them as they came. Prof. F.
S. Hail, of the Avondale School, pre
| sided over the session. The meeting
i opened by singing "America," "The
| Old Rugged Cross" and "Stand up
, for Jesus." Mr. John Durham With
j row of Hollis, vice president, elect
!ed last year brought greetings. Prof.
■ Hall presented the adult president
{ Mr. J. C. Hames of Cliffside w : ho
I told of his joy at having the boys
with us.
Then Rev. L. B. Hayes of Shelby
lw r as presented and spoke to the boys
j and men bringing to them a fine
message.
Friday evening at 7:30 the annua!
banquet was held in the R. R. Haynes
Memorial building. The ladies of the
two local churches with Mrs. H. L.
Robertson in charge planned and pre
pared the meal and it was served by
a number of the girls in Mrs. Robert- ;
son's Domestic science class. They j
were prepared to serve 234 but there i
were several vacant chairs, though'
at first they began to get uneasy for j
||ear all could not be accomo- j
dated- ifAdult president, J. C. Hames!
was toastm aster and for the second
•I
time ,in the, history of the organiza
tion - boys as well as tTTe mgri
were delighted to have Dr. D. W. i
Daniel of Clemson college as the
speaker of the evening. He was pre
sented by county superintendent of
education, C. A. Erwin and Dr. Dan
iel soon had every one convulsed with
laughter with his witty jokes which
interspersed his more serious words.
The address of welcome was giv
en by Rev. J. A. Hunnicutt and the
response was by Prof. L. E. Spikes
of Rutherfordton. Music was furn
■ ished at the banquet by Dewey McDan
!iel and his string £>and, and the Love
' lace boys, sons of Prof, and Mrs. A.
C. Lovelace of Caroleen, who de—
: lighted all with their singing, ac
; companied at the piano by Miss Lu
' ille Wall.
| Saturday morning Prof. H. C.
Beatty presided ove{r the meeting
after a song service led by Rev.
Hunnicutt who also led in prayer.
' This year's slogan is "The Chal
lenge of the Heights." Mr .Robert
Hamrick of Forest City high school
spoke on "Physical Heights." "Men
tal Heights" was discussed by Mr.
Ralph Smith of Harris high school.
"Social Heights" was the subject of
Mr. Wendell Grigg of Cliffside while
Mr. Haskel Bates of Union Mills
spoke on "Spiritual Heights." These
four buys brought to the rest of the
conference four real sermons. They
were followed by Rev. J. A. Hunni
cutt who gave a splendid talk on
"The Heights." Following this elec
; tion of officers was next. Samuel
Thompson, of Cliffside was elected
president; Gerard Lipscomb, of Spin
dale, elected vice president; Ralph
Smith of Harris, secretary and Ro
bert Hamrick of Forest City, assis
tant secretary. Short talks were made
by the new officers of the confer
ence.
Saturday afternoon there was a
ball game played by the teams of
Central high of Rutherfordton-Spin
; dale and the local high which result
-1 ed in victory for the locals.
The conference very fittingly clos
ed Saturday night with a splendid
program by the glee club of Wofford
college of Spartanburg, S. C.
| The delegates paid one dollar for
• their ticket at the banquet which
also entitled them to entrance to the
ball game, and the glee club concert
and the reception that followed,
i The entire program of the glee
club was fine and thoroughly en—
| joyed especially did Mr. Ballenger,
the comedian win great applause and
encores. The others were spiend'd
SPEAKS AT ELLENBORO
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Prof. A. T. Allen, superintendent
of Public Instruction of North Car
olina, who will deliver the literary
'address at the Ellenboro school clos
jing, Wednesday evening, April 29.
PROF. A. T. ALLEN TO
BE AT ELLENBORO
State Superintendent To Be
Speaker at Ellenboro Fin
als—School Has Had
Successful Year.
Ellenboro, April 20.—The com
| mencement, exercises of Ellenboro
| High school will be held April 24-
i29th as follows:
Friday night, April 24th will be
jthe high school play, "Ally Daffo
dils," comedy in three acts.
Sunday, AMjl 26th at 3 p. m.,..
by Dr. J.
iA. Hunnicutt of Cliffside.
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j Monday, April 27th at 8 p. ni.,
!will be the music recital under the
'direction of Miss Mildred Rogers,
music teacher.
Tuesday night, April 28th, Class
Day exercises in Operetta form,
i "Giants of Fortune," a senior class
day exercise in three parts. This is
j reported to be an unusually inter
esting play.
Wednesday evening, April 29th
at 8 o'clock, will be the finals and
the annual Litteravy Address, by
State Supt. of Education, A. T.
j Allen of Raleigh. At this time di
plomas will be presented and prizes.
! medals, certificates, etc., awarded.
| The Senior class roll is as fol
lows: Rob Blanton, Lloyd Greene,
! Chas. Ledford, Jessie Harrill, J. L.
Hamrick, George Hamrick, Bernice
Beam, Inez Harrill, Ella Helton,
Gertrude Jones, Hattie Melton,
i Ruth Owens, Mavis Smart, Jan : e
Teddar, Evelyn Walker, Jennie Loj
Hamrick and Margaret McKinney.
Ellenboro has had a most sue-
J
cessful year under the principal
ship of Prof. Curtis Price, who has
been ably assisted by a corps )f
trained teachers.
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DENTAL SOCIETY MEETS.
The Rutherford County Dental
Society held its regular monthly
meeting Tuesday evening, April 14,
at Dr. R. R. Howes office, Forest
City. Dinner was served at the New
Central Hotel.
After dinner a very instruqtive
paper on the "Early Care of Chil
dren's Teeth" was read by Dr. W. E.
: Clark, of Asheville.
Dr. W. E. Clark and Dr. Geo. K.
Patterson, of Asheville, and Dr. A.
Pitt Beam and Dr. H. C. Dixon of
Shelby, were guests of the society.
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in all their roles and from the first
number won their audience.
Following the concert a reception
was held in the school gymnasium
where several were kept busy serv
ing ice cream.
It seemed that all the boys en
! joyed the conference and some were
J heard to remark that they never
j wanted to miss one as they seemed to
iget better all the time. One boy re
j marked at the reception Saturday
j night that he was already looking
'forward to next year's conference.
16 Pages
96 COLUMNS
SI.OO Per Year in Advance
FOREST CITY GETS
5 FIRST HONORS IN
MUSIC CONTEST
Local Students Also WJn Two
Second Places in District
Music Meet Held in
Shelby.
j Forest 'City high school pupils
i won five first places and two sec
. ond places in the district music con
test held in the Central high school
auditorium in Shelby last. Saturday.
Forty-five of the local school's
j musicians will participate in the
finals in Greensboro this week-end.
A special train left here this morn
jing (Thursday) taking part of the
i members to Greensboro.
j There were eighteen competitive
j events in all, and Forest enter
ted seven of them, winning first and
j second place in all of them. Events
;in which Forest City entrants won
: first honors were as follows:
j Soprano soloist, Dorothy Green,
j Male quartette: Harry Kendrick,
j Howard Magness, Bill Chambere and
j James Bolen.
i
| Mixed quartette: Virginia Mag--
j ness, Dorothy Green, Harry Ken
jdrick, James Bolen.
Girls glee club: club composed of
twenty members.
j Mixed chorus: twenty boys and
twenty girls.
The events in which Forest City
won second place were as follows:
Tenor solo: Harry Kendrick.
Boys' Glee, club: club composed
of twenty members,
j Those winning first honors in the
five events will contest in the state
j contest at Greensboro. Part of the
members left Wednesday afternoon,
while the glee club members .will
leave this morning (Thursday) cn
a special train, which will also carry
J .Shelby and Chai> -
Tette. A total of forty-five including
|Miss Katherine Goggans and Mrs.
A. M. Glick'man, teachers, will go to
Greensboro.
i Forest City's record at Shelby is
,a source of gratification to all friends
of Cool Springs high school. Of ull
schools contesting, Belmont and For
est City took the high honors. Shel
by was awarded five first honors and
,four second places, but that school
i
j participated in the band events,
j The music supervisors for schools
throughout the district, compliment
Mr. O. B. Lewis, Shelby musical di
rector and district chairman, on the
speedy and popular manner in
which the contests were handled, de
claring it to be the best district
•event ever held. Mr. L. B. Sides,
j Charlotte High school musical > di
rector, acted as judge.
OBSERVE MUSIC
| WEEK MAY 5-9
AH Programs Will Be Given in
Cool Springs High School
Auditorium.
Tentative programs for Music
Week have been made, and in a lat
er issue of The Courier complete
plans will be presented to the pub
lic. Rutherford county is striving
to make the celebration of Music
Week a forceful success. Each year
there is more interest and apprecia
tion of good music manifested in
the communities of the county. There
is found a unison in every group
gathered for participation in musi
cal festivities.
I Band night, May sth, will open
] the unit of programs with enter
taining and interpretative numbers.
On School night, May 7th, there
will be a varied program of talent
from the schools of the county. Per
haps the climax of the week will be
on Community night when every
body will join in singing.
All the programs will be given : n
the high school auditorium of For
est City. Watch your paper for t 'r-*
outlines of the programs;
I
BETHANY MEMORIAL
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1
j The annual memorial services will
be held at Bethany Baptist church
j Sunday, May 3, The services will
be an all day affair. A program will
be announced in next week's issue
of The Courier.