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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1927
Page
6
The Cliffside News is published weekly in connection with The Forest City Courier. The joint arrangement expands local coverage and cross promotes community reporting across both papers.
The Oxford Orphanage singing class will present a splendid program at Cliffside Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m. A large crowd is expected to attend the children from the Masonic institution. They have performed here before and are always well received.
The community mourns the death of Mr. Smith McGinnis who passed away last Friday night at his home. Funeral services were held at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Cleveland County with Rev. I. D. Harrill and Rev. D. G. Washburn officiating. Burial followed in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. McGinnis had been in poor health for years and was less active in recent times. Local attendees joined the service.
Circle No 7 presented a fine program at the Prayer Meeting and the regular monthly church business followed. The pastor Rev Roscoe C Smith was away at a meeting near Fayetteville and there was no Sunday night sermon, replaced by a song service led by Craig Watkins, musical director O G Morehead and others. A large contributing audience from area churches joined in the singing with Miss Mary Jolley on piano, and the Sunday School plans a picnic to Ferry Springs next Saturday at 2 30 with all members urged to attend. Lime and cement advertised by Farmers Hardware Co.
Local items report Miss India Goode ill after a Saturday collapse with a Sunday prayer at the Baptist church. Mrs. P. C. Hawkins, A. P. Rudisill party visits, Lillian and Violet Wakefield join Dan Hawkins in North Carolina mountains. The community marks Mr. A I Moore's outdoor fish stew birthday supper amid weather plans and a crowded guest list.
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