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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1930
Page
14
Forest City Courier weekly paper serving Forest City and Rutherford County with editors and staff listed. Advertisement rates include display per column inch and reading notices per line. subscription prices set at $1.50 for six months and one year outside Rutherford County.
Brevard News editor urges attendance at Oxford Orphanage Singing Class concert in Forest City on Thursday night August 21. Editorial highlights how the event reminds audiences of mercy, family, and the impact of fathers and mothers lost to tragedy.
The article extols the value of visiting and caring for institutionalized children. It notes that support from helpers greatly aids the youngsters and that taking time to spend an hour with them is beneficial for both sides, highlighting the mutual good it brings.
Loyalty among residents transforms an ordinary town into a thriving city. It fosters cooperation and organized action on local problems, keeps earnings circulating locally, and aligns citizens toward communal welfare. Fear of neighbor success blocks potential and harms business harmony and progress.
In a serious tone a writer argues that boy led endurance stunts like tree sitting mock the folly of elders who seek notoriety for publicity. The piece contrasts historic aviators Lindbergh and Byrd with earlier sensational feats such as flag pole sitters and marathon dancers, praising the current youth act as a sharper satire of adult vanity.
In Shipcton Wisconsin Eben E Rexford author of Silver Threads Among the Gold is honored with a memorial. Though famed for poetry and hymns his gardening books remain valued botany texts written in a small town. His life shows success can flourish from local roots rather than distant centers.
The Senate campaign committee reports unproven claims that students were paid two dollars per vote, liquor helped secure Grundy supporters, Schall was offered fifty thousand dollars to abandon Grundy, and Davis faced a one hundred thousand dollar deficit. The paper urges action beyond investigation, noting primaries at lower costs may better fit salaries of office seekers.
This piece argues against judging people or places by size or wealth. It praises Forest City small businessmen and farmers for success within their own limits, saying true worth comes from effort and integrity within possible means, not giant fortunes or city prestige.
The piece warns factionalism as the chief obstacle to civic progress, capable of paralyzing action and defeating plans for a better, prosperous town. It notes varying intensities from mild jealousy to raging hysteria and urges recognition and broad informed education to counter it.
Yenny, leader of a chain with 1500 establishments, told a radio audience last year the chain store business in the country reached as much as 9 billion dollars. The Observer accepts this, noting that chain store people spent about 20 million in 1929 for advertising to convey their sales message to buyers.
The piece argues today’s boys lack work duties once common in Forest City communities. It cites chores like caring for animals, wood cutting, and gardening as shaping habits and business sense. It calls on parents to restore or substitute these routines through guidance and role modeling.
Police say the drag net has reduced robberies in Chicago by removing criminals from streets while law abiding residents faced jail time for alleged wrongdoing, drawing concern over enforcement and public safety.
Chestnut Hills events highlight Aug Thomas Haynes and family hosting guests from Forest City and Birmingham. Visitors include Miss Nell Thomas, Miss Virginia May Haynes, and Miss Lucille Woodbury. A bridge party, music and a tea at The Hodge Lodge mark social season with numerous locals and guests from Atlanta Greenwood and Gastonia.
An old hardware store notice announces Mason quart fruit jars for sale at Armers Hardware Co. The terse line hints at a local newspaper classified item offering home canning supplies and basic hardware.
Fingerville residents share daily visits and family time as Bob Cooley and daughter visit, Jessie Owens spends an afternoon with Be Cooley, Lillian Cooley visits her mother, and numerous neighbors gather for Friday and Saturday social calls. A very sick baby is reported in the community while others stop by to see relatives, including the Cooley and Gilbert families.
The Webb family expresses gratitude to Forest City and others for kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and death of Fred E. Webb their son and husband May God bless you all Mrs Mary E Webb Mrs Fred E Webb
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