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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1929
Page
5
An Ellenboro acquaintance arrested for driving 70 mph told the judge he sped to take his wife to her folks before she changed her mind. The ad praises a grocer by noting continual praise from housewives.
Huntley and Wilkie offer seventy acre Mose Shiele farm in Rutherford and Polk Counties at the county line. The subdivided property includes three dwellings an eight room house a storehouse a blacksmith shop and several outbuildings. At the roadside junction tenants can locate a cotton gin and three business sites with water timber fertility yielding a bale of cotton per acre and forty to fifty bushels of corn per acre. Auction set for August 29.
The Boy Scouts of Queens County New York fill summer with good turns. They maintain school gardens and lawns and assist playgrounds. Scouts act as big brothers to young children, teach handicrafts, and supervise safe play. They work with playground instructors and school gardeners. Beekeepers of Caldwell County added 100 new Italian queens to their colonies in early August.
James Ralph Burgess of Spindale was among 92 successful applicants in last week’s state bar exam. Of 133 takers, about one third failed, with the exam described as the hardest in years. A Wake Forest Law School graduate, Burgess would be the first Spindale student licensed to practice law and plans to move his family to Forest City to establish a practice.
North Carolina's dairy herd comprises about 8 000 pure bred animals of 300 000 cattle with growth expected as the dairy industry expands. Prof. R H Ruffner of State College urges testing cows for milk and butterfat to raise breed standards and notes benefits of buying bulls from within the state, where bovine tuberculosis is not present.
Phyllis Palmer, three and a half, daughter of Dr. J A Palmer and wife, died at Grace Hospital after clothing caught fire from matches while playing. Funeral held at home with burial in Morganton Cemetery. The Palmers recently moved from Marion. Dr. Palmer is an optometrist formerly practicing in Forest City.
Two registered Jersey cows from the Shuford herd in Catawba County were purchased by the Crossnore School in Avery County this month.
Poultry expert emphasizes cleaning external lice and internal worms before pullets begin laying. Treat each bird with sodium fluoride or blue ointment plus vaseline, reapply after seven days, and use worm capsules costing about $1.50 per hundred.
E P Hopkins of Mt Pleasant route 1 in Stanly County reports a yield of 71 14 bushels of Fulgum oats per acre on four acres for the season.
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