of the most interesting and helpful
messages they have heard. The pas
tor spoke to the young people on a
■very appropriate subject, "The Mes
sage of the Flowers." The church
was made beautiful by several of
the ladies who had decorated it with
urns filled with dogwood and pink'
Azaleas and other flowers. Conspi
cuous were the pretty baskets filled
with tulips of all colors. The tulips
were presented to the church by Mr.
Price of Lattimore who, last Sat
urday had about eighteen thousand
tulips in bloom with many others yet
to bloom. Last year Mr. Price sent
beautiful Japanese lilies and other
flowers to the church and we are
very grateful to him for this repeat
ed kindness-.
Members of the W. M. S. met at
the Memorial building Wednesday of
last week at 10:00 a. m., and en
gaged in Mission study. At noon they
served lunch and the afternoon ses
sion closed at 3:30.
Members of the B. Y .P. U's.,
have been looking forward to this
■week as it had been designated for
a study course. The pastor is teach
ing the book, "A General B. Y. P.
U. Organization," by Lambdin. Mon
day night a large number assembl
ed for this administration course and
it was organized as a "Model B. Y.
P. U." with the pastor as sponsor.
FLOYDS CREEK NEWS
The Cliffside News
The Cliffside News is published
«&ch week in connection with The
Forest City Courier.
B. E, ROACH Editor
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES,
The committee recently appoint*
ed to beautify the church grounds
are still working and a lot of gladi
olas and other flowering bulbs and
plants are being planted. The mem-*
bers of the W. M. S. and its auxi
liaries are taking certain parts of the
grounds as their special care and
while they expect to see results of
their labors this summer, they are
expecting greater results next year
when the plants will have had time
to get started. i
The usual childrens' service was
hekl last Sunday morning and a num
ber of people say that it was one
The B. Y. P. U's. all had splendid
meetings Sunday evening and the
adult, or B. A. U., won the ban
ner for the highest percentage and
at the closing period rendered an
interesting program. Most of the nine
unions were P. W. 0. Q. That means
they presented their programs with
out using the Quarterly to read from.
The pastor preached the Bacca
laureate sermon for the Ellenboro
school Sunday afternoon and then
at Mooresboro Sunday evening. In
the absence of the pastor Sunday
evening Rev. Marion D. Blanton
preached for us and brought to his
hearers a message on "Wells of
Water." At. the close of his mes
sage one young man came to the
front and rededicated his life to the
Lord.
Forest City, R-l, April 28.—Mem
orial services will be held at the
Flioyd's Creek church on Sunday j
morning, beginning at 10:00 o'clock
when Mr. G. B. Pruett, of Ellenboro
•will speak. At 11:00 o'clock the
Rev. Mr. Jones, of Mt. Pleasant will
speak. The Lovelace boys, sons of
Prof. A. C. Lovelace, will sing at
the morning services.
The afternoon will probably be
given over to choirs from other
churches who will sing. The public
is viery cordially invited to attend.
The "Pepper Box Minstrel," which
was given at the Floyd's Creek school
on last Thursday evening at 8 o'-
clock was attended by a record
breaking crowd. It was regetted that
they could not even get close enough
to the doors to hear the minstrel.
It was pronounced by many to have
been the best minstrel they had ever
"heard.
"Floyd's Creek school came to a
close on last Friday afternoon, clos
ing one of the most successful schools
ever held here. A large crowd at
tended the closing exercises Friday
night. The school this year was un
der the principalship of Mr. M. L.
Johnson, of Union Mills, assisted by
Miss Georgia B. Wells, of Forest
(City.
The Cliffside News
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES. |
Services this week daily at 8:30,
a. m., and 7:30 p. m. All are cor
j dially invited to attend the services. |
Our services in the series of meet-,
J ings now entering the second week j
jhave been well attended and much j
I interest shown. Rev. Armstrong had j'
!to return to Asheville, but Rev. N.'
!'. . - 1
M. Modlin of Lincolnton will preach
for us this week.
j We want to call special attention t
to the 8:30 a. m., meetings. We who (
have attended these early morning;
services feel they are the best ser-j
vices of the day. Friends, lets come to
this service while our bodies and
minds are fresh and start the day
off with renewed spirit to help us
all day.
1 -r
The funeral of Mr. Max Ramsey
jwas held Sunday afternoon at 2:00
o'clock in the church. There was aj
large crowd and not all could get in
the church. Mr. Ramsey had not liv
ed here for some time, but only a J
! few months ago moved to his farm I
just east of town. All that love and
professional knowledge could do was
done for Mr. Ramsey, but it was
God's will that he come home. He
, will be greatly missed in the com
munity .The family has the sympa
j thy of the entire church member
; ship as well as many others.
! The Sabbath: "The Sabbath was
made for man, not man for the Sab
bath." Mark 2:27.
To the ancients it was Sunday, a ,
day of life and light. To the He
. brews a day of rest and recupera
tion; to the christian, it is the Lord's
Day and given out of His goodness
for the health and happiness of His
people. The religion of Christ is not
one of gloom, as some have declar
ed. We know the happiest hearted,
brightest faced children in the world
are those who come laughing and
singing out of American Sunday
school.
I The saddest souled people on,
, earth are those who have no Sab
i bath, or Lord's Day of light and
' love; no oasis in the desert of a
week's work; no rest, no hope and
anticipation. The Sabbath is a day
t of new life, new powers, new hopes,,
because it is the day on which His
friends meet with Him in special
fellowship for spiritual instruction
and inspiration.
I This day is not imposed upon us
as a burdensome gift to be endured. 1
It is God's good gift for our health
; and happiness, peace, satisfaction
and service. On this day deeds of '
duty, missions of mercy, works of
worship are allowed, if engaged in
voluntarily, joyously, to promote the i
highest and happiest and greatest, 1
j good to all. The Sabbath should be :
a day of joyous spiritual occupation.!'
Come each Sabbath into His pres- J
ence and offer Him thy heart and alii
and be conscious anew of the gift;'
to you—Himself. • j
| Rev. Modlin was ill Monday night (
and could not preach to us, but the 1
i pastor, Rev. Rhinehardt brought a ;
1 fine message at the close of which; 1
!many rededicated their lives to God. 1
CLIFFSIDE'S HOME PAGE, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF LOCAL EDITORS
Published in Connection With The Forest City Courier
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Happenings
!
| The many friends of Mrs. M. E.
j Goode, (affectionately known and
' called J>y a large circle of friends,
"Mammy Goode") will be glad to
! know that she returned from the
Rutherford hospital Saturday. She
i was taken to the hospital early in
j the week in a very serious condition.
We join her host of friends in wish
ing for her a speedy recovery.
The children and friends of Mrs.
A. L. Campbell met at her home here
!on Second Avenue Sunday and par
took of a bountiful dinner honoring
Mrs. Campbell on her birthday.
Messrs. Clayter and Grayson Smith
of Lowell, N. C., were visitors here
Monday.
Born last week to Mr. and Mrs.
Wrendell Grigg, a son.
Born, Sunday, April 26, 1931, to
Mr. and Mrs. Collis Earls, a son.
Misses Virginia Christie and Lil
lian Smith of Avondale, were guests
last Sunday of Misses Sarah Hughes
and Dorothy Padgett.
The Junior play presented at the
school auditorium last Friday night
was a success. All the players show
!ed careful training and reflected
honor on those who coached them.
! Next Saturday evening members
of the high school literary societies
are anticipating an enjoyable event
when the Nightingale Girls society
will entertain the Erwin society >of
boys with a picnic at Flat Rock. The
plans are now to go "horse-back",
but if not enough horses and donkeys
are available they may have to use
the commonplace automobile.
HE WONDERS WHY?
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The following little skit is so old
that it is probable that Noah told it
to his family on damp evenings when
there was too much static to listen
to Amos 'n' Andy. It's good and
bears repetition, so here goes:
The average Southern farmers gets
up to the alarm of a Connecticut
clock, buttons Chicago suspenders to
a pair of Detroit overalls, washes
his face with Cincinnati soap, sits
down to a Grand Rapids table, eats
Chicagc meat and Minnesota flour
cooked on a Sears-Roebuck stove,
goes out to his barn and puts a New
York bridle on a Missouri mule fed
with Colorado alfalfa and Kansas
oats; plows improvished land cov
ered by a Vermont mortage with an
Indiana plow, in an effort to make
cotton for New England gamblers
to speculate on. When bedtime comes,
he reads a chapter in a Bible print
ed in Boston, says a prayer written
in Jerusalem, crawls under a New
Bedford blanket, only to be awaken
ed by the bark of a hound dog, the
only home product on the farm.
Then he wonders why in the heck he
can't make money raising cotton.
FERRY NEWS
Memorial Services at Floyd's Creek
Sunday—Charleston Family
Moves to Community
Locals and Per
sonals.
Ferry, April 27.—Memorial ser
vices will be held at Floyd's Creek
church next Sunday, May 3r-d. The
program arranged will require both
morning and afternoon services. Sun
day school will be as usual follow
ed by an address by Mr. G. B. Pruett
of Ellenboro, who is generally with
us each memorial occasion. The lit
tle sons of Prof. A. C. Lovelace, of
Forest City, will probably be pres
ent and sing at the morning service.
Rev. J. B. Jones pastor of Mt. Plea
sant church will deliver the memorial
address at eleven o'clock. Several
quartettes and singers are expect
ed and talks and singing will com
pose the afternoon services. Every
body come and help make the day
a get together day as well as one of
tribute.
Mr. Charles Alexander and sister,
Miss Ethel Mae Alexander, and their
aunts, all of Shelby, were visitors
at Mr. W. P. Alexander's Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Alexander,
of Duncan, S. C., spent the week
end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. P. Alexander, Mr. Taylor Alex
ander recently suffered an injury to
his hand while at his work as mill
operative.
Mr. Lester Duncan and family
moved here last week on the Keeter
farm, coming from Charleston, S. C.
Mr. Charles M. Scruggs made a
business trip to Charlotte Friday.
Mr. Clyde Gordon and family
spent Sunday the guests of Mr. M.
L. Goode and family.
Crawford Kennedy spent Friday
and Saturday in Charlotte visiting
his brother and family.
Mr. Gary Hames, of Shelby, spent
the week-end visiting relatives here.
Mr. C. E. Keeter of Lincolnton,
Ga., spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Sherlin. Mr. Keeter
had some mules brought from Geor
gia for his farm here to replace the
one Mr. J. S. Sherlin recently lost
by death.
Planting work will probably be
rushed this week if the rains hold
off, some have already planted cot-
ton seed;
Following a survey of milk cows
in Beaufort county, indications are
now that a creamery will be es
tablished at Washington in the near
future to assure the farmers of a
market for their surplus cream.
i
Union county resembles the west
coast of the United States in the
larger number of pure bred puoltry
flocks found on all the farms this
season, says Paul A. Seese, poul
try specialist, after a trip to the
county last week.
Many Reasons
Cause Divorce
Anything from a pancake surrep
titiously flipped into the face of a
despairing wife to a mosquito in-
truding upon the serenity of a
mountain honeymoon is an excuse
for divorce.
You don't believe it? Well here
are .some actual cases, recently
brought into publicity, which may
serve to convince yo.u.
To begin with, there is the separ
ation of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Han
cock Richardson, of Springfield,
Mass., which vindicates the pancake
allegory. Mrs. Richardson recently
succeeded in winning a divorce on
the grounds of cruelty and abusive
treatment which specifically outlin
ed, was an act on the part of her
mate in washing her face with a
flap-jack she had fried.
And as to mosquitoes, Mrs. Hazel
Gilbert Miller has received a divorce
at New Haven, Conn., because mos
quitoes and black flies broke up her
honeymoon in the Adirondaks, in
New York state. Her husband, Hugh
Miller, a Connecticut business man,
refused to screen their cabin in the
mountains, and this led to separa
tion and the subsequent divorce.
But that has little on the St.
Louis case in which Mrs. Josephine
Bernstein won a decree on the
grounds that, her husband wouldn't
kiss her but that he frequently ca
ressed his pet dog with his lips.
Here's one in which marriage is
really to blame. Charles F. Stultz--
man, of Springfield, Mo., had the
tie legally severed on the charge
that his childhood sweetheart
whom he married late in life after
years of separation, had develop
ed a "jealous and disagreeable
temperament," as the result of her
ten previous marriages, of which, he
said, he had no knowledge at first.
During his seven days of married
life his wife insisted upon taking her
dog to bed with her, Jesse Painter,
of Cleveland, 0., complained in his
suit for divorce.
A charge that her policeman hus
band's chief source of amusement
was tramping on her heels was the
basis for a separation suit brought
by Mrs. Edna L. Amrine, of Colum
bus, O.
In suing for separate mainten
ance, Mrs. John A. Weber, of Chi
cago, told the court that her hus
band, an amateur inventor, rigged
up a device by which he rang three
doorbells and two telephones in the
house at the same time—and usual
ly while Mrs. Weber was sleeping.
"At least seven or eight times a
month he stayed away from home
all night and wouldn't tell me where
he had been" testified Mrs. Mabey
Hymer, of Los Anegles, in her suc
cessful action for divorce.
Because her husband didn't like
alarm clocks, Mrs. Conrad Pscheldt,
of Chicago, told the judge she had
to get up every morning and run
around his bed, clogging on the floor
with wooden shoes. Her d e "
granted. "■
Mr. and Mrs. Donald E si
Los Angeles couldn't agv
going to the beach. Mrs. Sh *
sisted upon going one day
his rage the husband rip'?
new coat to pieces. She did n "
the beach, but now she's
divorce.
I Seventeen farmers entered '
Cleveland county corn contj
year made a net profit of sifJ
acre. The average yield w as 44';
els an acre produced at a ,
$16.54. COs
! The 13 cars of fat hogs rec
sold in Richmond by 74
'county farmers brought the
$11,998.52 in cash. Ninety p?
of the hogs graded top quality
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