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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1920
Page
1
A fragmented note expresses illness and fatigue yet carries a stubborn wish for improvement. The writer questions their own vitality and resilience, seeking a brighter tomorrow despite ongoing health struggles.
An old advertisement extols Pepto Mangan as a tonic that fights fatigue and low spirits, claims to bolster iron and red blood cell supply, and suggests it can be taken as liquid or tablet. It touts Gude’s as the genuine brand and urges inclusion in advertisements.
Farmers enjoy calm weather and begin planting while local families visit kin. Julius McDonald and parents visited. Matt McDade and family at W. E. Lendy’s. T A Bostic’s family visited William McDonald. Mrs Calhan improving slowly. Mrs Hardin still sick but improving. Other visits include Mr Vandyke buying a Ford. Ralph and Mrs Green and several girls at W E Lewis and Stella Blanton in Forest City. Georgia Bell Wells from Forest City visited Blanton sisters.
A humorous local column notes Forest City is overrun by mosquitos arriving for the summer. It highlights breeding sites such as old pails tin cans pools of stagnant water and damp heaps around stores and homes and urges a cleanup to curb the pests.
The Florence Mill Band performs a big concert this Saturday at Forest City at 3 p.m. and at Alexander Mill at 4 p.m. under manager J. K. Deane. They debut new uniforms and play popular waltzes two steps ragas and overtures.
Marion and Dewey Blanton returned from Arden to attend an Aunt’s funeral. J Floyd Duncan of Marion joined Cliffside Railroad. Boiling Springs defeated local team eleven to four. Receptions and visits occur among Freeman, Wilson, and Carpenter families. A park concert drew a large audience as revival services continue in Caroleen. Overalls trend noted, churchgoing in denim mentioned. Cliffside Graded School finals set for Thursday and Friday nights.
Rev N R Stone of Mississippi opens two series of meetings at Caroleen on Sunday the 11th. First sermons draw strong interest with men and women in separate services and a large tent erected near the Baptist church for worship. Bible study at 8 A M draws 400 attendees. Mrs Stone's singing highlighted the event as services continue for several days. Maurice Schwartzman of Forest City Bargain Store rents the C C Moore building to stock ladies and mens ready to wear, shoes, and dry goods once the current tenant leaves.
Forest City patrons enjoyed a bustling week as Bill and Eva McClintock led a shift from vaudeville to solo legitimate work with a patent medicine demonstration on the square. The Demorest Stock Co. then opened a weeklong engagement under their own tent praised for clean morals and strong audience appeal with further plans for a Friday night performance of Bringing Up Father and a forthcoming carnival.
Rutherfordton High School organizes a boys baseball team with players Ralph Dalton Gifford Lynch Bryan Lynch Max Justice Clarence Griffin Robert McDaniel William McDaniel Charles Justice Haywood Dobbins. They practice afternoons and Saturdays and seek a better catcher outfit and field. Also mention a Rutherford county league invite potential teams Union Westminister Rutherfordton Spindale Forest City Caroleen Cliffside Henrietta Miss Mayme Stacy absent two weeks, Boy Scouts meetings, Forest City Bargain Store dresses event, Mrs. A K Rickinson visiting New Providence NJ, and local visits to J K Deane household.
The Long Drug Co invites young ladies to win a $10 Mary Garden Toilet Set by guessing Forest City population. Closest guess wins. second and third receive prizes. Fill coupon and return to Long Drug Co Forest City NC by May 1 1926 9 p.m. The Forest City Courier offers a box of Nurica cigars to the man with the nearest correct figure.
The Presbytery of Kings Mountain met at Rutherfordton Forest City Spartanburg for its semiannual session with the Rutherfordton church on April 13 and 14. Rev W S Wilson opened with a sermon from Samuel. Rev F C Rankin was elected moderator and Rev K J Roach temporary clerk. The body approved changes, missions reports, and pledged benevolent funds. thirty-one churches contributed, and Japan mission was highlighted.
Party travelers above Forest City may descend to take either the Southern or Sea board trains and connect with the bus. Those arriving by bus at Forest City can link with the Southern train to Marion, then continue to all points east and west.
Governor Bickett opposes an overalls club and other price controls, arguing they raise costs for wearables and declaring self denial essential to curb living costs. He cites limited price caps for hats shirts shoes and suits and warns against expensive goods. The piece notes Maurice Schwartzman buying a new Chevrolet and a Presbytery meeting at New Hope church with two candidates to be licensed.
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