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Rutherford County Offers Unequalled Opportunities To Manufacturers and Others VOL. XIII —No. 52. VIRGIL E. EVANS i PURCHASES THE RUTHERFORD SUN i i Moving Plant This Week and Will Establish New Weekly Paper at Spartanburg. I I A deal was consummated Monday whereby tl j&i.aierford Sun was .Id to Mr. Virgil E. Evans, who 11 remove the outfit to Spartan ig this week, where he will short begin publication of a new week ]•, publication to b known as the jolina State New.. Mr. Evans ■•ught the physical plant and the ;;b.-ciiption list of the Rutherford newspaper, but his publication •.iii have no connection whatever •\kh the Sun, which goes out of ex >.ince with the closing of the deal. They will, however, continue an ad vertising sheet for a week or so in order to till out the unexpired legal advertising contracts and to carry only a valedictory and no other news. With the closing of this deal, Rutherford county's oldest newspa per g( v-s out. of existence and that honor now goes to The Forest City Courier. The Sun. as is well known, had a long and varied career and was a leader in county affairs and prosperous until the establishment of .mother paper in Rutherfordton, The News, and since that date has had to struggle under the handicap of two newspapers in a one paper field, inevitably leading up to its dissolu tion this week. Mr. Virgil E. Evans, purchaser of The Sun plant, is a newspaper man of wide experience and at present owner and operator of radio stations WSPA at Spartanburg and WNOX at Knoxville, Tenn. He is a man of experience, wealth and ability and should meet with «rcc ess -fir the publication of his new paper at Spartanburg. He has been associated with some of the largest and most influential publications in the coun try, starting with the Huntsville, Ala., News and later with the At lanta Georgian and Hearst and Pulitzer publications in New York. Mr. John Ed Pearce and Mr. Donald Thomas, former editors of he Sun, will take positions with the new Spartanburg publication. Some weeks ago the Sun people removed their job printing outfit to Forest City and attempted the pub ation of a small job press "Daily, ' which was never granted mailing; privileges, but delivered by boys on : le streets. After a very short exis tence this sheet was discontinued be vo the deal for the sale of the Sun wont through. It was no field for a aily, small or otherwise, and the promoters soon found this out. The * 'ant was included in the Sun trade ;snd will go out with that outfit this w ek". Below will be found a short .his i.v of the Sun: The first issue of The Sun made appearance on January 1, 100'}, ' h Clarence D. Wilkie as editor r ! publisher. Capt. W. T. R. BeU c me associate editor of the Sun, . h 12, 1003, but resigned v of the same year to enter up his new duties as superintendent public instruction, leaving the ■V in charge of Clarence W iikie. f ir.st the paper was a five column, 12 pages weekly. With the issue July . 0 ,0, 1903, the paper chang to a six-column paper, 8 to 12 •-ic-s weekly. A stock' company was med in July, 1004, to take over n ■■ plant, but Wilkie was left >n harge as manager and editor, and 'tnained until "his death in 100'. Hie Rutherford Press, which was arted about 1806, was leased in •'anuary, 1000, to The Tribune Pub >hing Co. W. F. Rucker was editor if The Tribune. On January Ist, i 003, Mr. Rucker withdrew from -he editorial chair to devote his time to his duties as representative m the General Assembly, and L. D. Mil ler became manager and editor, and was assisted in his new duties by Annie Bell Erwin. In December, ■ 004, The Tribune was discontinued and the plant bought by The Sun Printing Company. W. H. Miller leas-d The Sun and was in charge during 1907. Capt. FOREST CITY COURIER FOREST CITY — ONE OF THE TEN BEST PLANNED AND MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES IN THE US A " U DFP \ FMT AiN _ _LZ!_Z__ ENT 0F AGRICULTURE SURVEY. PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD t jfciTY HOTEL MAKES IMPROVEMENT. ; The New Central Hotel has/ just J completed finishing and furnishing a 1 very attractive lobby downstairs in ; connection with th-e dining room. ! Chairs, tables and writing desks are i arranged to give comfort and ac ' comodation to . their patrons. BAPTISTS OF SANDY RUN TO MEET I Fortieth Annual Session of The Sandy Run Baptist Associa tion Will be Held on October 7th-Bth. ; Alexander, Sept. 29.—The Fortieth annual session of The Sandy Run Baptist Association will be held with the Alexander Baptist church on Wednesday and Thursday, October j th and Bth. The sessions open at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning with' devotional by Rev. L. N. Epley. This ' will be followed by enrollment of I delegates; organization; report ohi order ot business; report of execu tive committee, and at 10:45 Mrs.' Charles McCurry will discuss reli gious literature. Welcome will be extended to new pastors and visi-; tors, and after the appointment of j committees Rev. P. A. Hunnieutt I will deliver the sermon. Lunch will; be at noon. j The devotional for the afternoon! session will be by Rev. M. M. Hunt ley. The co-operative program will! I be presented by Prof. A. C. Love-j lace, with discussion by Dr. Chas. j | E. Maddry. J. A. Brock will present ;the Unified Budget and the South- Wide Every Member Canvass. Wednesday night's session will j open with devotional by Rev. T. "M. : Hester, followed by B. Y. P. U. Re-1 port by M. D. Blanton, with dis cussion by Kenneth Dobbins, B. P. j | J *-Parks—w til make- a report for j Sunday schools, and W. A. Ayers; will lead the discussion. Immediately! after this Perry Morgan will deliver the inspirational address. 1 Talks and reports for Thursday j morning will be by Rev. Z. D. Harrill; W'alter Hicks, Dr. Zeno 'Wall, Frank i Jarvis, W r . A. Ayers and Dr. Luther Little. I Reports will be made Thursday afternoon by Mrs. T. C. Lovelace.) Mrs. J. A. Hunnieutt, G. B. Pruett,! :S. E. Welchel, D. J Hunt, M. M. j Huntlev and C. C Matheny. Miscei- j | laneous business will ariso ta'k'e part; | of the program Thursday afternoon. | UNDERGOES OPERATION. I i . Mr. John Graham. Jr., owner ot ; the Graham Stores, underwent an : operation for appendicitis Monday j night at the General Hospital in I I Spartanburg. According to latest re-1 i ports he is resting nicely. » ! I I W. T. R. Bell was made editor in I 1908, and was assisted by L D. Mil-; ler as News Editor. Capt. Bell resign ed in September, 1910 to become su-i perintendent of the Rutherfordton school. He was succeeded by L. D. Miller, who acted as editor until R. ! D. Marsh purchased controlling inter-1 i est and operated it with Mr. Millt iin charge. In 1018 R. E Price j became editor with L. D. Miller busi ' ness manager. j In January, 1926, The Sun, which i had been purchased by Th: 1 Chim-' , ney Rock Mountains, Inc., came un ids'r the control of the late John li. ' Norris, with Clyde S. Wilson as | j editor. Following Mr. Wilson's resig nation in January, 1927, Mr. Nor-] ■ ris assumed editorship, a position /wfcich he held until his death in! April, 1929. when he was succeed-; ed by his brother, Dr. Philip Norris. i i Controlling interest was sold to | j John Ed Pearce in July, 1930, who j continued as editor until last week, j Incidentally, Mr. John B. Miller,! ; now of The Rutherford County New? j | printed the first issue of The Sun. j j and remained with the paper almost j | constantly until the organization of; 'The News Publishing Company in I 1926. He also designed the mast | head. Mr. L. D. Miller, who acted las manager and editor of The Sun | for a number of years at various j I rimes prior to 1926, is now with! The Rutherfprd Cgunty News. i i FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 1931 DISTRICT MUSIC CLUBS TO MEET Fifth Annual Session To Be Held October 3 At Mars Hill. Mars Hill. Sept. 28.—The fifth annual meeting of the Western dis trict of the North Carolina Federa tion of Music clubs will be held at Mars Hill Saturday, October 3. The hostess groups will be the music de- I partment of the Mars Hill woman's club and the Schubert Junior club. The senior program, which begins at 10 o'clock in the Mars Hill college auditorium, is as follows: hymn, . "'America the Beautiful," federation collect; invocation, the Dr. Oscar E. Sams, welcome, Mrs. J. A. MeLeod; ; response, Mrs. S. J. Asbury; minutes ; Mrs. Charles A. Harris; vocal trio, "Ave Maria" (Marchetti), Mesdanies ;J. C. Morrow, Larry Bobst, C. A. Meyer: message to the district, Mrs. Eugene Davis, State president; Mars | Hill college chorus, "Unfold Ye Por tals" (Gounod) y message, Mrs. Cora Cox Lucas, South Atlantic district president: vocal solos "Papillon" (Fourdrain), Truit D'Etoiles" (De , Bussy), Mrs. J. C. Morrow; short j talk's by delegates on "what helped me most at the State convention. Mrs. 10. C. Hamilton; presentation of of ! ficers and chairman; string quartet, Hendersonville club; plans for the year's work, by presidents of senior I clubs; selection by the Aeolian choir i of Asheville. Luncheon will be served at 1 o'clock, at which time a question box for club problems will be con ducted by Mrs. A. H. Riser, j The afternoon session will be de ; voted to junior music clubs. The i program, which will be held in the ! college auditorium, will be as fol lows: "America"; welcome, Eliza ' beth Fleetwood; message, Mrs. A. |W. Honeycutt, State junior counsel ! lor; piano solo (selected) Phyllis Prunt.v; violin duet, "waltz" (Bra hms), Howard Battle and Sadie Bat ; tie; piano solo, "Slumber Song" j (Schubert), Evelyn MeLeod; mes sage, David Bennett; vocal solo, "My Heart's in the Highlands" (Court ney), John W r ashburn, Bennie WTa?h --i burn, accompanist piano duet, "Shoot | ing Stars" (W T alter Rolfe), Marjorie 1 Padgett and Katherine Bradley; pi ; ano solo, "Chanson Creaole" (Jules Devaux). Mae Jenkins; Junior club reports; report of committees. Mrs. George S. McCall, of Marion iis director of the western district J of the North Carolina Federation of I Music clubs, and Mrs. Preston String field is district junior chairman. Mrs J. A. MeLeod is president of the j Mars Hill woman's club, and Miss i Zula Coon is. chairman of the mti j sic department of the local club. | Pages for the meeting Saturday Oc ' tober 3, will be Misses Mildred El more, Mildred Sorrell, Lillian Crowe, and Helen Keeler. j ! There will be several members of the music department of the local Woman's club who will attend the district meeting in Mars Hill, Sat urday, October 3. i . Sunday School Meeting Siind &3 r The Sandy Run Sunday School ! 'Association will meet in th, 1 Flor- j : ence Baptist church here next Sun-. ! day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The; topic for discussion at this session ; is "Promotion." Prof. R. L. Leary, j of Spindale, will discuss "The Im- i ! portance of Promotion." Mr. Hatch- j er Melton, of Avondale, will talk • ;on "The Superintendent's part ir j | Promotion." Miss Mildred Hamrick. j ;of Henrietta, will talk* on "Visita- J tion after Promotion." ! All Sunday schools are urged to ! have a full delegation present. Election of officers will also ho held at this time. The present of ficers of the association are Mr. G. C. Harrill, president and Mrs. A. C. Lovelace, secretary. Mr. Jim Cherry, of Asheville, Mr. Rayburn Joiner, of Canton and Miss Pauline Duckett, of Canton, were week-end guests of Mrs. B. B. Dog gett and Mr. Doggett. WIN PRIZE IN ESSAY CONTEST \ Courier Offers Three Cash Prizes Totaling SIB.OO For Best Essays. The Forest City Courier is offer-; ing three cash prizes, totaling SIB.OO for the three best essays on the sub ject "The Forest City Courier as a Factor in Upbuilding and Growth of : Forest City and the County and its (Value to the Community." The first | prize will be SIO.OO in gold; the sec ond 85.00 in cash and the third $3.00 Jin cash. The contest closes Monday, I October sth, at 6 p. m. The winning ; essays will be used in the anniver sary edition of The Courier on Oc tober Bth. The contest rules follow. Contest Rules. Any man, woman or child in Ruth erford county is eligible to compete iin this contest, excepting employ -1 ees of The Courier and their imme ' diate families. u. _ i Essays are limited to I,OUO words, i-Write on one side of paper only. Essays must be written with pen ; and ink or typewriter. No discrimi nation will be made between type ■i j written essays and hand written es i says on this point alone. All essays must b: j in The Courier office not later than Monday after noon, October 5, at 6 p. m. Do not j write name on essay. Place your essay, unsigned, in an envelope, and write, your name and address on the envelope. On receipt of the essays, they will be numbered and name and address of writer and number assigned will be recorded in The Courier office. This will be done in order to conceal identity of writers tp judges. j Three disinterested judges will be selected, who wil lgrade the essays, tand announce the winners. Their rfe | cision will be final. Prizes will be f awarded immediately after the | judges announce the winners. It is understood that when an in dividual submits an essay, whether it is awarded a prize or not, the same becomes the property of The Cour j ier and may be published if desired, i The essays will be graded by the I judges upon a system formulated by them, in which neatness, length of essay and adherence to subject will be considered. Milk Grades Are Announced / Mr. Frank Dorsey announces the following milk grades, effective Sep tember 28: Grade A. Dairies: W. S. Bridges, James Crow. Bailey and Wilkie, J. T. Camp and Ed. Thomp son. Grade D. Dairies are Zora Har rill. George Wells, Frank Robert son, John Smith, Frank Smith, G. W. Hardin, Bob Cook Harrill, |>S. M. Flack. Mr. Robertson is installing Grade A equipment and will be giv en a grade A rating as soon as he i completes the installation of the i equipment. . Mr. Dorsey states that all dairy nu-n must place Grade A or Grade D caps on their bottles after O.'to : ber Ist. At the present time the five Grade ; A dairies are furnisiV;ng 211 gallons of milk daily, from 02 tested cows On May Ist of this year there was - only one Grf.de A Dairy which furn-l ished 32 gallons of milk daily. On May Ist there were 02 Grad: D. dairy cows being milked, and ten dry cows. The 02 cows furnished 170 gallons of milk daily. On Sep tember 28th, there were 33 Grad" | A milk cows furnishing 40 gallon I of milk daily. USING COTTON BAGGING AT ELLENBORO Ellenboro, Sept. 28.—The first bale of cotton to be bound with cot ton bagging at Ellenboro was ginned and bound at O. C. Turner's gin last Saturday. However, cotton bag ging is not very popular with El lenboro farmers since the .. cotton binding costs the farmers more and makes the bale weigh less. Mr. I. B. Covington, of Wadesboro spent Saturday and Sunday here. ' STUDENTS IN COLLEGE. In last week's issue of The Cour ier three names were omitted from the list of students who are in col lege from this county. They a> e Wyman W T ood, of Forest City, Blaine Jones and Clifford Crow, of Bostic, R-3. MATHENY HEIRS CASE SETTLED Suit Involving Over $21,000 Concluded at Last Term of Superior Court. ! i i J Rutherfordton, Sept. 28.—The ; Matheny heirs were awarded $9,000 : Iby the Superior Court here in the ' will of the late John G. Kennedy. In the court proceedings as publish- i ed in The Courier this case was j mentioned after court adjourned. ; but no details were given. This clos ed a suit in which over $21,000 has been involved for several years. Plaintiffs in the Matheny case were Mrs. L. P. Hamrick and hut band, Geo. Matheny, Jr., Elijah Matheny, J. L. Matheny, Jr., G. W. Matheny, Mrs. Lester Hopper and 1 Mrs. O. R Norville, T. C., G. A.. S j j A. and W. B. Matheny, Chas. Ware, j ' Lucy Keeley, Pauline Lottman and S. A. Matheny, administrators of: Elijah Matheny. The defendants I in the case were: Mrs. C. M. Hoi-J land, administratrix and S. A. Hol land, administrator with the will annexed of John G. Kennedy, de- 1 ceased; Mrs. C. M. Holland, indi vidually, Mrs. Josie Kennedy, indi vidually and as executrix of M. B Kennedy, deceased; Thos. Kennedy, Hoyt Kennedy and wife, Albert , Kennedy and wife, Thos. Dobbins) and wife, M. B. Kennedy, Jr., and wife and Virginia Kennedy, minor.! .... Xkg._fase_4Y.as. ...^.ampraau^d--! the defendants agreeing to pay plaintiffs $0,000.00 out of funds now in hands of said administratrix and administrator of the will of John G. Kennedy, deceased. This • is to be paid out of $21,700 now in. the Haynes Bank at Avondale. Tn«. j court further decreed that the SO.- ! 000 is in full settlement of all claims any of the plaintiffs may r have against any of the defendants. . The court further ordered th it j the SO,OOO is in full settlement of; ihe amount provided for in the will to go to the plaintiffs. The de fendants to pay the cost of the action. Cool Springs Grid Team To Meet Shelby i Cool Spvings high will play their very strong- rivals; the Shelby high j school here Friday afternoon at 3:45 j p. m. Forest City and Shelby have been strong rivals on the gridiron for a long time and Shelby always brings a fighting team to Forest City. This strong rivalry will assure ;he fan ; one of the best games to be play- ' ed on the local gridiron this season. ! Forest City has shown they can nlay j good football in the game last Fr'-j day night with L. noir. The high ! school faculty extended a cord'?,! welcome to the local fans, hoping ! that they will give complete support to our team. The admission wil! be i 25 cents for ladies and students and j 50 cents for men. Come out and sup port the home team. Forest City high chool defeated . Lenoir at the Alexander Park 0 to ■ j 0 before a crowd of four or five: ( hundred people, Friday night. Forest ( City'outplayed the Lenoir team j throughout the contest. Forest City scored in the first quarter when Cal- , ton returned a punt to the 20-yard, , line and on the next play P. Ham- j rick went over the goal line stand- j ing up. r Calton, P. Hamrick, Whitlock and t Mark's played a good game in the , Forest City backfield, with Captain | R. Hamrick. Abernathy, Padg tt; and Womack doing notable work in j the line. This was the first high school game played at night in th'? ( section and was a great success. t P Mr. Billy Kendrick" is in th? Shriners' Hospital, in Greenville, t undergoing treatment. 1 I 0 Pages 60 COLUMNS SI.OO Per Year in Advance OVER 50,000 PEOPLE ATTEND COUNTY FAIR Exhibits Best Ever Shown at Fair—People From Sever al Counties Attend. I Rutherford County Fair came |to a close Saturday night after one !°f the most successful sessions m I history. The weather, while rather warm, was (ideal throughout the | week, which helped to swell the at tendance. The entire five days' weath er resembled some mid-Au?ust | weather, and thousands thronged the grounds day and night. The largest .crowd in the history of the fair was ; on the grounds Wednesday night j I he attendance for the five days was estimated at about 50,000. The im mense throngs of people came from j Rutherford, Polk, McDowell and Henderson counties, and many oth er points. While the fair was of ficially for the four counties nam ed above, hundreds from other coun ties were present. School children •from .Polk, Henderson, McDowell | and Rutherford were admitted free |of charge on Tuesday and Wednes ! day afternoons." ; The conduct of the large crowds was exemplary, and above the aver age. A surprisingly few arrests were made by the officers during the fair. These were mostly for minor viola tions of the law, traffic rules viola tions and drinking. The free acts each afternoon and evening, while not as varied as usual, made up in quality what they lacked in variety. j The exhibits were above the aver age this year, and elicited wide com ment. Products of the fields and ..gardens—. ■were exhibited in abundance, while j a greater amount of canned goods and home produce ihan usual was . shown. Among the booths which were not mentioned in last week's issue of The Courier were those of Mrs. A. V. Hamrick, of Sandy Mush; Wright Manufacturing Co., of Rutherfovd ton. and Mr. Freeman, dealer in 'antiques, of Rutherfordton. Mrs lHamrick's booth displayed a plea ing array of home grown vegetabl and produce, canned goods, etc. Th 3 ! Wright Manufacturing Company dis played some excellent pieces of furniture which were made by their. Mr. Freeman's exhibit of old furr.i --j ture and other curiosities attracted ■ much attention. The Page Shows were on the mi l way throughout the week, and ap -1 parently did a good business. MANY EXAMINED AT EYE CLINfC Clinic Sponsored by Kiwanls Club—ls6 School Chil dren's Eyes Examined. j 1 The ye clinic held last week, | sponsored by the Forest City Kiwai:- is Ciub. was a great success in that one hundred and fifty-six scho-.l ; child!en of Cool Springs Township had their eyes ex' mined. The chil dren examined were found to hav defective vision by Dr. Twitty, o school physician, when he xamin • all our school children last year, i J>- Duncan who hat! charge of the clin states: Of the hundred and fifty children 28 had normal vision, had defects, not sufficient to ne«'i glasses. Seven were found to hav • severe defects thest could not L'- aided by glasses, and 7(> or nearly half had visual defects that coui ' be corrected by the use of glasses. The Kiwanis Club is to be congrat ulated for sponsoring this important work. BAPTIST W. M. S. MEETING. The Women's Missionary Society of The First Baptist church will hold their regular business meeting next Wednesday at 2:30 o'clock in th-_» church. All members and ladies of the church are urged to attend the meeting.