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Rutherford County Offer* Unequalled Opportunities To Manufacturers and Others VOL. XIII—No. 3?. APPOINTMENTS MADE BY NEW CITY OFFICIALS Two Meetings Held By City Fathers Since Election— Making Good Start. \ll city officials elected at the election of May 5 were sworn in on the following Wednesday and held their first meeting on Friday night. \r was mostly an organization and get-together meeting the new board and mayor, although some work was foremost of which was the combining of the street and health departments, which means that two men will henceforth take the place of five with a hand some saving to the city in the upkeep of the two former departments. Another and more important meeting was held on Monday night. At this meeting, J. E. Caldwell was re-elected as city clerk and treasur er, a position he has held with dis tinction for a number of years. R. R. Blanton was named as city attorney, Dr. W. C. Bostic, Jr., health officer, B. B. Greene superintendent of water and lights and other minor employees retained. Much interest was centered in the appointments for city police force, Chief C'nas.R. Price having tendered fc resignation. The appointme-nt of Sergt. A. A. Price as chief and T. F. Green as night policeman meets with the general approval of the public. Both are experienced officers and good men. . Mr. Price has been on the force here for the past 4 years and is outstanding in his wgrk and as a citizen. Mr. Green - has served With eminent satisfaction as deputy sheriff and is an experienced officer and splendid citizen. The public is highly pleased with the work of the new administration and much is expected of the new of ficers. Their good start seems to por tend an administration of efficiency and economy. All have the best in terests of the city at heart and are business men of experience and abili- j ty. | J Funeral Held Por Mr, Jeter Laws Forest City, R-2, May 11.—Mr. Jeter R. Laws died at his home on is route last Wednesday after an ness of s °me time. He was thirty one years, of age. Funeral services were held Thurs day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at ° vi^ence Methodist church, with e y> E. L. Beachboard in charge, fisted by Rev. Mr. Coffee. Inter est u as j n tji e Providence cemetery. . . r ,,^ aWs is sur vived by his par s' r. and Mrs. Stokes Laws, with * ho * he made his home. j « T c j! e pall b earers were Messrs G. • errill, E. E. Sherrill, C. H. aruTu ' A ' J " Sherrill > w - E Laws, 81 >d Worth Hardin. ' PUPLLS OF MISS WALL GIVE MUSIC RECITAL ay —The pupils of th u Uc^e Wall, music teaeher in v e mietta-Caroleen. high school, in? 6 3 mus * c rec ital Tuesday even s . 7 the auditorium of the high Dm!- 0 OSe taking part on the I Lov Mark and A. C. New* 306 ' ar^a ret Brock, Juanita Sar a tj' Versie Ward > Mary and Cam * mrick ' Margaret Wilson, Sue Cha'l elyn Henson ' Paul and kev* 1 \JT Jeanette Hus— ' v a^ace Holland, Mary Hart *abeth yh T am ' HaZel Eli- Vj r . . ames > Shirley Crawford, Sißia Smarth, Meredith Spratt, Harr'n Elm ° re ' Sara Jenkins ' Ruth and Ethel Hawkins. SERVICES AT W ALLS CHURCH, MAY 24 EUenboro, R-3, May 11.-Memor- Sunl feIVICOS WiH be held at Walls at io ay : lay Sunday school 0 cock, pteaching at 11 o'clock, § . ev - A. G. Melton, of Boiling din ln^S ' ecora tion of graves and ntr °n the grounds at two o'clock by Rev * E P le y» of Forest I V. Special singing for the day. L Everybody invited. v FOREST CITY COURIER FOREST CITY "ONE OF THE TEN BEST PLANNED AND MOST BEAUTIFUL STATE WILL ACCEPT 685 MILES COUNTY ROADS x f •On July Ist, the State 6f North Carolina will take over 685.15 miles of highways in Rutherford county. This milage will be divided into three class es: Class A, topsoiled and grad ed roads, 263 miles; class B, graded roads 299.30 miles and class C, unimproved, 122.85 miles. COUNTY CLUB HOST TO CIVICLEADERS Number Expected From Char lotte, Gastonia, Kings Mountain and Dozen Other Towns Fri day Night. ——— The May meeting of The Ruther ford County Club will be held Fri day evening at 6:30 in the Isother mal Hotel, in Rutherfordton. The time of meeting has been changed from one o'clock in the afternoon to 6:30 for this one meeting. Representatives of civic bodies and chambers of commerce from Char lotte, Gastonia, Kings Mountain, Shelby, Asheville, Bryson City, and other points in Western North Car olina are expected at the meeting. Dr. L. B. Morse, of Chimney Rock, will have change of the program and will open a discussion on a plan far traffic routing. It is expected that the representatives from the other points w.iH g;ive their., by ©£.. lAliqplL d, the matter will be reported fully in the next issue of The Courier. _ The price of the luncheon has been changed from 50c to 75c for this particular meeting. This meeting promises to be a worthwhile and profitable session, and every member should be pres ent. Twin High Junior- Senior Banquet Caroleen, May, 12.—The sixth annual junior-senior banquet of Henrietta-Caroleen high school was given Saturday evening at eight o'- clock, May 2, 1931, at the Isothermal hotel, Rutherfordton. The following program was ren dered : Toast, Adolph Atkins. Response, Lewis Lynch. Vocal duet, Mark and A. C. Love lace. Toast, Muriel all. Response, Mrs. T. C. Lovelace. Musi?, Roy Blanton and Raymond [ Lindsey. Dance, Jeter Mooneyham. Speaker, Mr. Clyde A. Erwin. Seniors present at the banquet were.: Robert Spratt, Lewis Lynch, Pauline Harrill, Edith Holland, W. B. Deßrule, Roy Robertson, Yates Hawkins, Annie Sue Kiser, Virginia J Kennedy, Glen Hawkins, Elizabeth Smith, Mczelle, Bridges, Lucy Blan ton, Dan Hughes and Irene Deßrule. Juniors present were: Adolph At kins, Muriel Wall, Eileen Hughes, Mary Lou West, Ernest Jolly, Ver die Blanton, Hazel Biggerstaff, Al bert Head, Ruth Allen, Edessel Lowe, Louise Fowler, Elizabeth El more, Adelaide, Wall, Oscar Harris and Pauline Sparks. Guests including speaker, trustees, faculty and those on the "program were as follows: Mr. Clyde A. Erwin, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Lovelace, Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Cooper, Dr. and Mrs. T. C. Lovelace, Mr. and Mrs O J Mooneyham, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Holland, Mrs. O. A Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neal, Lillian Grant, L. M. Sherer, Virginia Poole, Olga Fort enberry, Joe Lockman, Carl Lock man, Joe Harris, Lucille Wall, Mark Lovelace, A. C. Lovelace, Jr., Jeter Mooneyham, Mary Hart Mooneyham, . Raymond Lindsey, Roy Blanton and Abbie Jane Wall. Music for the en tertainment was furnished through out the evening by Roy Blanton and Raymond Lindsey. Rainbow colors, the senior color, was carried out through the use of I flowers, favors and ~ ribbons. PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTH COUNTY FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 14 1931^ DEATH CLAIMS CONFEDERATE VET James M. Goode, Aged 86, Passes at Home Near Mt. V ernon—F uneral Monday. .. j 1 -.1: Forest City, May 14.—Funeral ser viced for Mr. James M. Goode, aged Confederate veteran, was held at Mt. Vernon Baptist church Monday afternoon at three o'clock. Rev. C.' L. Taylor, pastor of the Mt. Ver non church, was in charge of the obsequies, assisted by Rev. D. J. Hunt, Rev. J. W. Parker and Rev J. M Goode, of Boiling Springs, a cousin of the deceased Interment was in the Mt. Vernon cemetery. The grave was covered with a mass of beautiful flowers. Mr. Goode died at his home near i Mt. Vernon church Sunday "night at! eight o'clock, after having been in feeble health for sometime. He suf fered a stroke of paralysis about eight weeks ago and had been con fined to his bed since that time. Mr. Goode is survived by two sons, Addie and Willie Goode, and three daughters, Mrs. Baxter Long, Mrs. Vernon Goode and Mrs. Bate Wil son, all of the Mt. Vernon commu nity. The nephews of the deceased were pallbearers. Mr. Goode was a member of Com pany I, 50th Regiment., North Car olina Troops, during the War Be tween the States. He was an active member of the church, and had belonged Mi?* ernon for about sixty years. years* old in P. T. A. Award Night Friday Evening V / The Parent-Teachef Association, of Forest City, will hold its last meeting in the auditorium of the Forest City elementary school, Fri day evening, May 15 ,atßp. m. This program will consist of awards to a large degree. The association j cooperated with Governor Gardner in J the "Live-at-Home" program. Mrs. Asbury and Mrs. Reid have " been ( judging gardens last week and will finish the task before Friday night. ( A large number have entered this contest. Awards will be presented Friday night. ' The association will award all pu pils blue perfect attendance buttons. Pupils who have not been absent or tardy this year will receive these buttons. , The P.-T. A., will give prizes to ! ( all pupils who have been on the hon- j, or roll all the year. A number of j j pupils have been on the honor roll ( some time during the year. These j j prizes are to encourage pupils to j stay on the honor roll all the year, i The boy or girl in the high school 1 who has attended school the longest period without an absence or tardy . will be aw'arded a prize. Also the 5 boy or girl in the grammar school j with the best attendance record will \ get a prize. 1 Monday, May 18th will be tho i round up day for the pupils who will be ready for school next year. This t will include all children"*who are now i six years of age who are not in A school and all that will be six years t old by November Ist? The object of this is to give the pupils a thorough jt physical examination. The P.-T. A. j has done a great work thru Mrs.' Asbury and her assistants. The work j which is to be done next week will ; c cap the climax of the whole year's work. The parents are asked to bring their children to the Forest City elementary school from 8:39 in the morning until 3:00 p. m. : * £ ATTENDING SOUTHERN j* BAPTIST CONVENTION S i k Rev. J. W. Jones, pastor of Mt. r Pleasant Baptist church, (R) and £ Mr. Ross Wall, deacon, Cliffside! 1 Baptist church, left Monday morning j for the Southern Baptist Convention \ v in Birmingham, Ala., as messengers from their churches and also the Sandy Run Association. v They will visit Atlanta, Ga. f and s other cities as they drive through e to the convention. SUPERIOR COURT NOW IN SESSION .* - > Judge Hoyle Sink Presiding at This Term—-Large Num ber of Cases on Docket. BANK CASES SETTLED. At noon Wednesday the cases j pending against the five former of- j ficials of the Citizens Bank and Trust j Company were settled, also the case against Mr. B. B. Doggett. Messrs. K. S. Tanner, S. E. Elmore, W. B. Walker and T. F. Oates, former Citizens Bank officials paid $52,500, whifs the fifth official, Mr. J. L. I Taylor, was given until Friday to pay $15,000. At the same time Mr. B B. Doggett, a former official of the Farmers Bank and Trust Com pany, compromised in the action against him and paid $7,500, and all actions against him were dismissed. In dismissing the actions against those who paid, it was also pointed out that by their paying the amounts assessed against them any future actions at law in this instance were barred. The money paid in will be used by the bank liquidator to pay claims of unsecured depositors of the banks. Rutherfordton, May 13.—The criminal term of the superior court convened here Monday morning with Judge Hoyle Sink presiding. As The Courier goes to press a number of cases have been disposed of. The following sentences have been imposed: JState vs. James Byers, charged wth stpre breaking. Found guilty arid sentenced to State's prison fbr not less than two and one half years nor more than ten years. Will Tolbert, storebreaking, guilty and sentenced to state's prison for a term of two and one half to ten years. Weldon Logan, guilty of larceny and housebreaking, was sentenced to two years on roads for house breaking and five months for lar ceny. In the case of Henry Clarke and D. K. Mayse, charged with larceny, the defendants were ordered to pay costs and be confined to jail for a period of 12 months, and to work cn the roads. i • State vs. JVill Tate, pleads guilty and to sixty days on the roads. State vs. Grifton Black, charged with public drunkeness, fined SIO.OO and costs. In the case of Lewis and Jess Bradley, charged with entering sev eral Spindale stores, office building and depot, Lewis Bradley was found guilty and sentenced to state's pris on from two to six years. Prayer for ; judgment was continued in Jess Brad ley's case. Otis Hamrick was sentenced to the state prison from three to ten yeaVs for storebreaking. State vs. George Reavis, guilty and sentenced to roads for 14 months. In a case against Charles Wil liams, the defendant was ordered to pay the doctor bill of the prosecut ing witness, also costs. The grand jury returned a true bill against Paul Burpess, of Hen-1 rietta, for rape. It is not known whether the case will be tried at this term of court or not. State vs. Lloyd Boheeler, Nol Pros with leave. State vs. C. A. Goode, Nol Pros with leave. State vs. Ed Phillips, Alias and continued. State vs. Albert Kelly, Nol - Pros with leave. State vs. Howard Walker, good | behavior shown, continued under j former order, defendant allowed to j show good behavior at November j term, by affidavit provided he is working out of the State. State vs. Henry Warlick, good be havior shown, defendant allowed to j show good behavior at November j term by affidavit. State vs. Johnnie Jones, Nol pros j with leave. State vs. Johnnie Jones, defer- j dant pleads guilty, sentenced to jail for a term of six months and as signed to work on the roads of Ruth- j erford county. State vs. Walter Sams and Her-, IgPt Baseball At Alexander Park Alexander, May 11.—The Forest City-Alexander baseball club has contracted with the General Electric Company for lighting equipment for night baseball in the new park at the Alexander Mills, which calls for a total expenditure of $6,000. The new park will be completed within the next few days and will be # the first textile park in the United States to have night baseball. Forest City-Alexander would like to enter a semi-pro league with i other good semi-pro clubs playing two to four games weekly. The club challenges any semi-pro league for j games within a radius of 100 miles i Mr. E. L. Cantrell is business mana- ■ ger of the club. \ SCHOOL BAND GIVES' FIRST PROGRAM 1 Remarkable Ability Among School Students Revealed in Band—D. C. Cole Director. In keeping with the observance of National Music Week, a delightful musical program was presented at the regular high school assembly hour on Wednesday afternoon, May 6, consisting of band, vocal and piano selections. The entire program was well rendered, but special mention should be made of the Cool Springs band which was presented to the pub lic for the first time under the most [ efficient directorship of Mr. D. C. r Cole, of Spindale. ! both high school and grammar school students revealed remarkable ability in the rendition of four selections. ■ The fact that the band is able to present a program after having had only eight lessons proves that it has an unusually competent director as well as diligent members. Through out the presentation of the numbers there pervaded an, atmosphere of utmost efficiency and confidence be tween the players and their leader. This is the first step toward a j permanently organized band and Forest City and the surrounding com munities are indeed appreciative of the opportunity given the boys and girls who wish to play band instru ments. The next public appearance of the Cool Springs Band will be early in June at which time a full evening's program will be presented. Watch for the date if you wish a musibal treat. .—■ Mrs. John W. Dalton was taken tc the Charlotte Sanatorium, Charlotte, where she underwent an operation j on Monday. We are glad to report I that she is doing nicely and her friends wish for her a speedy recov ery. man Leverett, good behavior shown continued under former order. State vs. W. S. Cochran, defen dant called and failed judgment Ni Si Sci fa and capias, v State vs. T. C. Holland, good be havior shown continued, under form er order. State vs. Baxter Hopper, good be- I havior shown, continued under form er order. State vs. Johnnie Morrow, contin ued under former order. State vs. W. T. Johnson, Nol pros with leave. State vs. Ruff Borders, Nol with leave. State vs. Glenn Sawyer, contin ued. State vs. Floyd Conner, contin ued under former order. State vs. Troy McGinnis, jury em- j panneled, verdict not guilty. State vs. Troy -McGinnis, Nol pros with leav«* State vs. Carl Bvers, defendant pleads not guilty, jury trial, verdict guilty. State vs. Johnnie Morrow, con tinued under former order. State vs. George Bradley, true bill. / State vs. B|ampton Black, nol pros with leave, Sci fa and fine as to Ossie Baker, witness, stricken out. State vs. Eldridge Wall, defendant j 1 pleads not guilty of violation of traf* i i fic law, jury trial, verdict not guilt jr. 1 SI.OO Per Year in Advance COOL SPRINGS . COMMENCEMENT DATES MAY 17-22 Dr. D. W. Daniel Will Deliv er Literary Address—Full Program Announced. The Cool .Springs high school qommencement will be held May 17, 19 and 22nd, according to an an nouncement made this week by Prof. J. W. Eakes. The baccalaureate sermon will be , i delivered Sunday. Rev. L. B. Hayes, of Shelby, will deliver the sermon. The program will open with con gregational singing, followed by scrip ture reading by Rev. C. C. Matheny and prayer by Dr. W. A. Ayers, af ter which Dr. Hayes will preach. The benediction will be pronounced by | Rev. J. W. Williams. The senior play, sponsored by the senior class and dramatic club will I be presented as one feature of com mencement week in the Cool Springs high school auditorium, Tuesday night, May 19th at 8:00 o'clock. "High Flyers" is humorous and ? / dramatic. It is full of pep and col * lege humor. The characters are: Dovey Dalyle—attractive country maid—also a high flyer, Dorothy ' Greene. g Mrs. Doyle, hei mother, "a poor widow," Mary Frye. s Mazie Murray, Dovey's friend, Vir . ginia Magness. t Barbara (Babs) Bennett, a true :. friend, Dorothy Rudisill. Anne Anglin, one of the gyig, I- lUwl 1 Mfl. J * Wlx • i " rmumwiij l 11 1 Beatrice (Bee) Densen, another 7 member of the gang, Evelyn Jones. Rosie O'Grady, an attractive Irish ] maid, Oneida Welch. Miss Mason, the matron, Pauline Erwin. Professor Collins, president of the . college, John Blanton. Jack Whitney, the hero and high . flyer, No. 2, Phillip Chambers. Uncle Henry Titus, Dovey's un-' i cle, Lee Moss Reinhardt. I j Ezra Whitney, Jack's father and | a widower, Charles Ford. Bob Bell, Jack's friend, Howard Magness. John Murray, Mazie's brother, a dude, George Huntley. Mr. Peyton* j[the photographer, , John Williford. » Admission . for everybody will be twenty-five cents. The annual literary address will ibe delivered Friday evening, May 22, by Dr. D. W. Daniel, of Clemson college. He will be presented by Supt. Clyde A. Erwin. After the lit | erary address Prof. J. W. Eakes will . award the diplomas. Changes Are Made At Stonecutter Mill Spindale, May 12.—Mr. J. C. Cowan, Jr., secretary and superin tendent of the Stonecutter mills, of this place, has resigned to accept a position as assistant general super intendent of a group of mills at Burlington, according to an annouce ment made last week. Mr. Cowan has been connected with the Stone cutter mills for several years, and became superintendent about ? year ago upon the resignation of Mr. N. A. Gregg,, who is now Federal Em ployment director in North Carolina. Mr. Cowan's new position carries with it a substantial increase in sal ary, as well as an excellent oppor tunity for advancement. Mr. J. W. Bost, superintendent of the Grace Cotton Mill, of Ruth- I erfordton, has been named superin tendent of the Stonecutter mill lo succeed Mr. Cowan. Mr. Russell Northy, has held a responsible position in the Stone cutter Mills office has resigned to accept a similar position with the Holt Company, in Burlington, and left Sunday morning to accept the new position. PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES. There will be preaching services next Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the local Presbyterian church, by the past >r, Kev. T. M. Stribling. A 16 Pages 96 COLUMNS