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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1929
Page
13
The Cliffside News, published weekly with The Forest City Courier, provides short local notes and updates for the Roach area. The April issue contains community information and notices of interest to residents.
The Baptist Church reported 21 Sunday school visitors last week and one new member. Visitors included Joe Camp and son Shelton Camp and Gaither Lemmons, guests of Q W Lemmons. The 10 member orchestra performed for the first time, lacking a clarinet.
Local residents reported a busy weekend with visits to Spartanburg Gaffney and Shelby. Highlights include Miss Louise Lemmons’s stay, Elam Hawkins’s return to assist at the beauty parlor, a school faculty weekend, and a Junior Class play "Go Slow Mary" at the high school auditorium Friday night.
The Rev W S Jones filled his regular appointment at Center Schoolhouse Sunday afternoon and held a prayer meeting. Attendees included Adolphus Murray family Zeno Hutchins McCurry Toney Crowder of Lattimore and several Murray Mauney McCurry and Waters relatives with others visiting centers in the area. Master Lee Morrow returned home after visiting his aunt Mrs Hubert Flynn of Cramerton. Mr Charlie Self and Pink Chapman plus families spent the weekend with local friends.
A nationwide Red Cross program tightens disaster preparedness through chapter committees in ten thousand communities. The updated manual When Disaster Strikes guides mobilization of radio, air, water, and motor transport for rapid relief, with past large disasters cited to justify broader action.
Information service transport and communication and finance. Co ordination of all of the societies organized groups and institutions in the locality is urged so that all effort for emergency relief will be directed without conflict. Trained in advance these committees can swing into action and provide an orderly and systematic relief organization.
The American National Red Cross lists relief expenditures for the four latest major disasters: Florida hurricane and Mississippi Valley flood of 1927, New England 1927, and West Indies hurricane 1928. Totals shown include 5 918 062 47, 44477 17007, 47 498 902 16, and 1 299 773 93. The figures reflect distribution of funds across relief efforts.
Boston sees Miss Wilhelmina Robinson, 100, declaring she detested men and valued a life free of marriage. She says she never invited or accepted a marriage proposal, blaming men for her long, happy years. Her only companions are two cats.
Notes from Golden Valley April 22 recount Mrs. Blanche Stroud’s return home after two months in Rutherford hospital and improving health. Illnesses include Mrs. Dan Melton after dental work and Miss Mary Sue Anderson with pneumonia. Community members visit, travel, and family updates mix with brief social notes and local chatter.
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