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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1926
Page
2
The Courier asks correspondents to submit good news letters by Tuesday for possible publication. It requests signatures on letters sent in for verification, notes Route 2 envelopes sent to a Providence correspondent, and praises all correspondents for improving the county paper.
The Family Welfare Association reports distributing food clothing and supplies to 5& persons with 42 cases under personal investigation and one placed in county hospital since returning home. Cash activity shows 108.63 spent 103.25 received with 467.70 on hand and about 1000 in outstanding pledges. An urgent appeal for clothing and supplies is requested sent to the May con's office at once. J N McMurry left for Little River Florida for several months of business.
Local notes list sick residents including Riley Baynard and Bud Sisk. young Hazel Dean Sanders broke her arm after a chair fall. Will Gee in Atlanta sanatorium is improving. Various visitors and travels noted among residents, with a birth announced for Horace Gusey and his wife.
Shelby January 10. The Lawndale railroad between Shelby and Lawndale eight eleven miles ceases carrying passengers. The line will operate only as a freight line under commission permission as mail service ended years ago. Captain Johnnie Lattimore ends his daily trips and Engineer Buren Wilson handles freight checks. The railroad remains active for freight serving Cleveland Mill and Power and residents of upper Cleveland.
The Pinehurst News reports cold weather in Ellenboro R-2 area. Sidney Greene’s baby Trust died Sunday and was buried Monday at Walls. A newborn boy blessed Chall Spratt and wife. mother and child are well. A pound supper at Raymond Greene’s drew many locals. Numerous neighbors attended and socialized. Mrs. Whit Blanton injured herself after a fall on snowy steps. Ethel Brooks visited B C Melton’s home. Over 119,000 acres have been sown to cover crops per county agents to extension agronomist E C Blair.
Caroleen residents hear of local changes as Mr. Rufus Hughes relocates to Union Mills and J V Price resigns after over two decades, with Stokes and William Grant stepping into key roles. Funeral notices for Mrs. Annie Laws and Mrs. Carrie Humphries mark the week, while Grace Robertson returns home after nursing school. A poultry expert offers feeding guidance to boost egg production.
Mrs Lizzie Harris executor of G Millard Harris proposes payment on or before December 23 1926 for all claims against the estate filed by December 23 1925. Creditors and debtors are urged to settle promptly as failure to file or pay may bar recovery under law.
The trustee will re sell at ten o clock a m January 23 1926 in Forest City North Carolina the property described as lots eight and nine in the J D Leabher subdivision of F B Harris lands at Alexander Mills as shown on a map by J A Wilkie now on record in Rutherford County plat book one page one. The proceeding reflects a prior deed of trust dated May 16 1925 between Fannie Hamrick and G F Hamrick and R R Blanton trustee.
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