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MARION PROGRESS, MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 1929 program for new Marion Theatre THURSDAY, thanksgiving day (one day only) “BUDDY”ROGERS With MARY BRIAN, JUNE COL- LYER, henry B. WALTHALL And WALLACE BEERY in “THE RIVER of ROMANCE” In which “Buddy” plays the role of a young fellow who refuses to de fend his honor, but who later re turns and vindicates himself, and wins the heroine. Everyone likes “Buddy” Rogers, and you will like him in this. Mary Brian is a charming l^roine, and the rest of the cast is splendid. Also—Fox News Reel And a Vitaphone act. Prices: Matinee—10 and 30 cents Night—15 and 40 cents. FRIDAY, NOV. 29th— “ THE SOPHOMORE ” ^ With EDDIE QUILLAN and SALLY O’NEILL. (Silent) A refreshing college story with a good football game in it, with the one minute to go” incident in which the hero saves the game. Humor, college incidents, fun and work are in the story, and a love story, of which the charming other half is Sally O’Neill. Also—A Fax “Variety” “ AZURE COAST A Vitaphone Act, and A Metro Act. Matinee at 2:30 Prices—10 and 30 cents. Night—Children under 12 - lOcI Children over 12 but of | school age 20c i Adults 30c i SATURDAY, N0v.*30th— CONRAD NAGEL in “ THE MICHIGAN KID ” A very entertaining story with a fine star, that you will enjoy. Also—A “Sound” Comedy “ PEACEFUL ALLEY ” And two musical acts. Matinee at 1:30 Matinee Prices—10 and 30 cents. Night Prices—15 and 30 cents. MONDAY & TUESDAY DEC. 2nd - 3rd— CLARA BOW With RICHARD ARLEN in “DANGEROUS CURVES” In which the “It” girl is given the background of the “big top”. Clara is a circus performer and is in love with a star in the show. The fact that he is in love with another girl doesn’t prevent the little red head from going after him and landing him. “DANGEROUS CURVES” is an entertaining story with a typical Bow romance combined with plenty of action, thrills and laughter. Also—Fox News Reel And Vitaphone act. Matinee at 2:30 * Prices—10 aird 30 cents. Night Prices—15 and 40 cents. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4th— LON CHANEY With LUPE VELEZ, LLOYD HUGHES and ESTELLE TAYLOR in “ WHERE EAST IS EAST ” An excellently produced and in teresting Chaney story in which this versatile star plays the role of trap per of animals who thwarts the ef forts of his former wife to destroy the happiness of their daughter, whom the father idolizes. Also—A two-reel comedy “ A CLOSE SHAVE ” Matinee at 2:30 Prices—10 and 30 -cents. Night—15 and 30 cents. all THINGS THAT ARE GOOD Be it breakfast, lunch or dinner you are sure to enjoy your meals in our restaurant because we serve all the good things that are in season, every dish properly prepared and promptly served. If you want something spec ially prepared to your order our chef wiU be glad to do it for you without delay. Give our restaurant a fair trial. MARION CAFE FOE SALE^ M«ad Bicycle. cash price. Apply t. Progress office. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Copeland spent last Friday in Raleigh. Fred Allison, of Old Fort, was a visitor here yesterday. T. A. Porter, of Old Fort, was in Marion on business Tuesday. Grayson Neal, of Raleigh, spent Sunday with his parents here. Millard Wilson, of Charlotte, vis ited his parents here lasif week. Mrs. Carrie Lowery spent several days last week with relatives in Ral eigh. Mrs. W. H. Rasor left Sunday for Birmingham, Ala., where she will visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Kirkpatrick and son spent several days in States ville last A^eek. Mrs. Francis Little, Jr., of Forest City, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Gilkey last week. Mrs. Lloyd Wolfe, of Knoxville, Tenn., was the guest of Mrs. Ralph Alexander last Wednesday. Miss Lena Andrews, a student at Davenport College, spent the week end with Miss Miriam Story. Miss Anne Lawrence, who is teaching at Forest City, spent the week-end with relatives here. Miss Toby Turner, of North Wil- kesboro, was the guest of Miss An nie Laurie Blanton last Sunday. W. L. Dowell, secretary of the North , Carolina Merchants Associa tion, was a visitor here last Thurs day. The regular meeting of the U. D. C. will be held with Mrs. Eugene Cross next Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Mis» Annie Robinson, of Char lotte, expects to return home this week after spending some time in Marion. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Compton and Mrs. J. B. Parks, of Elkin, N. spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Parks. R. L. Greenlee and D. H. Laugh- ridge left Monday for Wilmington where they will spend a week on a hunting trip. Mrs. Agnes Hyams left Wednes day for Greensboro where she will spend the winter with her son, D. R. Hyams, and family. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Whitten and daughter, Elizabeth, left Wednes day for Chapel Hill and Raleigh where they will spend Thanksgiving day. Dula Hawkins and James Neal, students at the Presbyterian Junior College at Maxton, will arrive today to spend Thanksgiving with their parents. The Marion Theatre announces a very entertaining picture for Thanksgiving Day, “BUDDY” ROGERS in “RIVER OF RO MANCE”. W. A. Hord, service station sales man for the Standard Oil Company, has been transferred from Marion to Shelby, and will move to Shelby next week to take up his work there. He will be succeeded here by Arnold Pyatt. Miss Miriam Story complimented her house guest. Miss Lena Andrews of Davenport College, with a party at her hme on West Fort street last Friday evening. Many games were played during the evening. An ice and sweet course was served. As Christmas season is most as suredly approaching, the McDowell Hardware Company and .Becker’s Variety Store have each opened up a toy land. Beautiful displays of a wide variety of toys for the kiddies can be seen at these two stores. ^ Miss Louise Garrard, a member of the Marion Public School facul ty, received word last Wednesday of the sudden death of her father at his home near Durham. Miss Garrard left immediately for home and will not return until after the Thanks giving vacation. Thanksgiving day will be gener ally observed as a holiday in Marion. The banks, postoffice, stores, and other places of business will be closed in accordance to ancient cus tom. A two day holiday of the Mari on schools will be observed. Thanks giving services will be held at the First Presbyterian Church and St. John’s Episcopal Church Thursday morning at 10 o’clock. WOMAN’S CLUB HOLDS INTERESTING MEETING The home of Mrs. W. R. Cham bers was the scene of one of the most interesting, important and en- |thusiastic meetings of the Woman’s ! Club that has been held this year. ! Mrs. G. W. Chapman was joint hos tess with Mrs. Chambers. Mrs. J. Q. Gilkey, president, call ed the meeting to order, and a very gratifying report was read by the treasurer, who expressed her ap preciation of the co-operation of the club members. A literary program of unusual merit was presented in the form of questions and answers by Mrs. Eu gene Cross. The theme in this liter ary program was “Illiteracy”. There were some astounding facts presen ted about illiteracy in the state of North Carolina. Mrs. D. F. Giles was elected as chairman of this campaign on illiter acy in McDowell county. A complete survey on procedures will be map ped out later. A tasty salad course was served, and all the members departed satis fied that they are accomplishing a great good for their community. The next meeting ^f the club will MARION SCHOOL NOTES Students, the books and maga zines in our library are our friends. We should treat them well. . Dr. Thurston Price gave a most interesting address to the students of the Seventh Grade and the high school at the chapel period on last Thursday. Mr. Klontz and his class in Com mercial Law attended court Wed nesday afternoon. Mr. Rhodes, of the State Depart ment of Vocational Education, cal led at the Commercial Department Wednesday afternoon. Second period examinations were given Thursday and Friday of last week. Report cards were issued to the students Wednesday of this week. The students. are rejoicing,- and offering thanks for the brief Thanks giving vacation. Probably the' teach ers are, too. The Inter-Home Room basketball tournament is in progress now and , ^ „ will be completed next week when ° . J®; I school re-opens. The Senior home room has won the pennant the past three years, and hopes to win it again. on Friday, December 6th, with Mrs.! J. E. Neal assisting. CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE BEGINS NEXT MONDAY The sale of Christmas Seals for the benefit of tuberculosis preven tion work in North Carolina will be gin here next Monday, it is announ ced by Mrs. R. J. Noyes, local chair man. Mrs. Noyes will visit the schools in the interest of the cam paign and will make an earnest ap peal for the success of the sale of the little Christmas emblems, upon which rests the health of a large number of future citizens. Much of the money gained through the sale of the tiny Christmas seals is used in supplying milk for needy and undernourished children of this community. The following pupils of the 2-A Grade were neither absent nor tar dy the third month of the school which closed last Friday; Wilhemma Moffitt, James Bolton, Roy Brown, Billie Cranford, Gurhril Gladden, Condice Lynch, Jack Laughridge, Franklin Nichols, Edward Reel, Fred Sisk, Franklin Yarborough, Jose phine Craig, Ruth Eaker, Bettie Fleigle, Lillian Green, Helen Hoyle, Bell Silvers, Loree Walker, Marga ret Bell. FIRST SNOW OF SEASON Jack Frost told his killing tale by painting the green foliage of God’s handiwork into brilliant and beauti ful hues that almost put the colors of the rainbow to shame the latter part of October. Now Jack Frost was placed in the background when j The business English class of the Commercial Department have star ted an intensive study of the Sales letter. The theory of sales letter writing will be thoroughly studied and discussed first. This will be fol lowed by a strong course of practice work in the writing of that type of letter. The students are intensely in terested in this subject. A treat for moving picture pat rons is announced by Marion Thea tre next Monday and Tuesday when the first flurry of snow added en- they will show CLARA BOW in chantment to the scene last Friday morning. The first snow or sleet that fell last winter was January 27th. The average temperature and precipitation for Marion and vicinity November 17 to 24 are as follows: “DANGEROUS CURVES”. Max. Min. Prec. 61.2 26.6 .05 Average one year ago; . 58.2 36.2 .34 THANKSGIVING SERVICES AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Thursday morning at 10 o’clock Thanksgjiving services will be ob served at the First Presbyterian Church. The offering will be for Ba rium Springs Orphanage. The ser vice will last for 45 minutes. Rev. W. O. Goode, of the First Methodist Church, will make a short talk. The famous “It” girl, CLARA BOW, will be at the Marion Theatre next Monday and Tuesday in her latest and most interesting picture, “DANGEROUS CURVES”. IF HE SMOKES CIGARETTES HOW THIN PEOPLE MAY BECOME FAT Excessive thinness, besides being unsightly, is a danger srlgn. Either you are not eating enough food, or the food you eat is not digesting normally and being turned into flesh In either case something is wrong. If you do not eat enough, your ap petite is not what it should be. If your food is not digesting properly, it is decaying and poisoning you while robbing your system of strength-renewing material. IROGEN prescription, written by a famous physician for his own pa tients, is without equal in muilding needed weight and strength. Thou sands have found it quickly and permanently corrects stomach troubles, loss of appetite, indiges tion, sluggish bowels, loss of weight, nervousness, sleeplessness and gen eral physical weakness. You’ll never regret the day you start taking IROGEN, Money back guarantee, jin liquid or tablets at all druggists, including Tainter’s Nos. 1 and 2. Fall ceremonial Bagdad Temple No. 213, Order of the D. O. K. K., was held at the city hall in Hickory last Thursday. R. F. Blanton, R. D. Byrd, W. W. McConnell, John Lew is, L. B, Walsh, and R, M. Cordell, all of Marion, attended this festive occasion. There was a sumptuous banquet staged at the Hotel Hicko ry. Several new candidates traveled the Stormy waves. A large crowd* attended the fall ceremonial. I When celebrating Thanksgiving i Day, do not forget to see “BUDDY” ROGERS and MARY BRIAN in' “RIVER OF ROMANCE”. At Mar-1 j ion Theatre. | WHY NOT make him a present of a IVIADEI cigarette case and J lighter to match? There is real lure in Meeker* Made Genuine 1 inported Steer- faide billfolds, key cases and other leather goods—decora- tively tooled — softly hand- colored. A man takes pride in ownership of out-of-llie-ordi- nary things he really uses. And if he 'smokes tfigarettes, he’ll surely appreciate this practical, matched combina tion. Wre displaying many other sets, as welL See them at LAWRENCE D. GREENE Your Jeweler for Fourteen Years. BUSINESS LOCALS WANTED: Country Eggs, will pay 50c a dozen. Rabb Grocery Co. DRESS MAKING. See Mrs. Tl J. Willis, 16 Elizabeth Drive. 6t. FOR SALE — Red Durock pigs, weight 60 to 70 pounds. T. 0. Curtis, near Providence Church, Marion, N. C. 3t. FOR SALE— Six acres of land, five room house, located one-half mile of Nebo on highway 105. For infor mation see Mrs. L. D. Cuthbertson, Nebo. SPRAYED, HAND PICKED APPLES For Sale. Powell’s Orchard Near No. 10 Between Old Fort and Ridgecrest. The Marion Theatre announces a very entertaining picture for Thanksgiving ROGERS in MANCE”. Day, ‘RIVER ‘BUDDY’ OF RO Here SHE Is CLARA BOW in “Dangerous Curves” SEE AND HEAR THE ‘“IT” GIRL PUT JOY INTO LIFE All reports say that her voice is as good as she looks. at Marion Theatre Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 2nd and 3rd GIFTS That Will Delight Gifts of perfume are always welcorne, especially if they are selected from our stocks where the utmost in rare and dain ty scents are to be found in vi^ls of unus ual design and flashing beauty. Also Kodaks, Stationery, Norris and Nunally's Candies, Leather Goods and Novelties. TAMER'S No. 1&2 A JOLLY WORD We take pleasure in extending to all the good people of Marion— THANKSGIVING GREETINGS! We are thankful for j^^r patronage; and we hope that we have made you thankful too, tor our service and good things to eat. Rabb Grocery Co. South Main Street
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