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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1929
Page
2
The article explains that regular farm grains like corn and oats lack sufficient protein for optimal milk yield. It advises supplementing pastures with a grain mix and outlines protein targets from 15 percent in lush summers to 20 percent as pastures dry. It provides a sample ration: 300 lb ground corn, 200 lb ground oats, 100 lb wheat bran, 370 lb linseed meal, plus 1 lb feed per 4 to 5 lb of milk.
Seventeen Ellenboro vocational agricultural students with their teacher left Monday for their third annual tour and encampment at White Lake in Bladen county North Carolina home of the state camp for Young Tar Heel Farmers. The trip will include a day at Wilmington and a ocean voyage to view ships crossing the Atlantic and sails to South America. Eight schools will attend White Lake during July and August with weekly contests in baseball swimming horseshoe and other games to determine the best school.
The Courier reports work on state highway 19 from Rutherfordton to the Rutherford line will begin around September 1. The contractor plans about 60 carloads of gravel for the project. The Rutherfordton to Columbus segment is being repaired in August, with an all-year route from Marion to Columbus via Rutherfordton expected upon completion.
Elizabeth Hovey an 18 year old daughter of Chandler Hovey becomes the first woman named as a skipper to represent the United States in international yacht racing. The selection upsets old sea traditions as races are held at Marblehead Massachusetts this year.
County accounts official M R Reed announces Rutherford countywide levy of 1.41 for the year ending June 1930, down three cents from 1928 29. Details show splits among General Fund Poor Fund Road Fund Debt Service Current School Fund Capital Outlay School Fund and County Wide School Debt Service with adjustments for uncollected taxes and emergency road bonds. Gasoline tax and state equalization funds expected to lessen the burden despite higher bond principal due.
Mrs. W. Oscar Bowen of Bostic North Carolina died at age 87 after a three month illness. Funeral services were held at Hopewell Methodist church with a large turnout. She leaves her husband five children and four brothers. Bowen was a devoted member of Hopewell church.
An aged Westminster Confession of Faith owned by Miss Susannah Green at Holly Springs church area, descending seven generations of the Terrell Griffin families. The 1647 and 1649 text pages, sheepskin binding, Virginia birth notes, and fellow heirlooms mark a long lineage. Also notes state fair attendees with 2000 people present at State College Farmers Convention on July 23 and 24.
About 150 applicants will take the State bar examination in Raleigh on August 19. Among them are Thos J. Edwards of Rutherfordton and John Lester Dun can son of Spin dale, listed as sons of local residents.
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