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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1925
Page
5
A 1925 issue urges Forest City residents to keep money in local circulation to support small businesses and property values. It argues mail order houses threaten local merchants and stresses taxes from stores fund schools, churches, and public services. It contrasts cooperative, gregarious behavior with individual independence and cites a local roofing materials notice from R. M. Twitty of Rutherfordton.
Rutherford County farmers lost an estimated 421,250 in a single year due to low cotton prices and market manipulation. The piece argues for cooperative marketing through the North Carolina Cotton Growers Co operative Association, detailing pooling, grading, and member payouts while urging farmers to unite, cut costs, and sell collectively. It cites a field representative Forrest McGILL and notes dairy farmers also receive monthly checks from creameries and milk stations per John A. Arey.
The Forest City basketball team hosts Rutherfordton at the fair grounds tonight at 7:30 p m. A big crowd is expected for the clash. The cinema listings show a week of films with multiple titles from January 15 to January 21 including Unseeing Eyes Young Ideas Temple of Venus Tiger Love and Society Scandal plus news reels and shorts.
Bostic January notes welcome Miss Margaret Kendrick and her brother Clyde to high school grades. Hazel Arms of Connecticut visits during holidays. Pinehurst first basketball team defeats Bostic second team on Pinehurst grounds. Love lace starred for Pinehurst, while Bostic and Likens played well. Mrs Etta McFarland of Shelby visits sister Mrs W L Jones. Miss Bessie Jones returns from High Point after visiting sister Mrs Horace Stepp. Lost three small brass keys on a key ring. Driveway requests urged to save delay for town contractors. Forest City Town Council notes dissolution of H E Coffey and DeWitt Harrill partnership. H E Coffey to manage firm thereafter.
North Carolina Rutherford County Superior Court actions involve Etta Putnam versus Mallory Putnam seeking absolute divorce on adultery grounds. A hearing date February 7, 1925 is set for the defendant to answer. also a court-ordered sale of real estate in Rutherfordton on February 16, 1925, for partition between plaintiff and defendant with life estate of Lucy A. Shotwell, under commissioner's sale.
Mr Walter Moore formerly with Eaird's for seven years resigns to work at Tate's Garage Rutherfordton as automobile salesman. He will sell Studebaker and Dodge cars and is regarded as a young man with strong business qualifications and broad popularity.
Chicago January 13 more than two dollars a bushel for wheat topped the market with a 2 1/2 dollar peak and a 6 1/2 cent overnight rise. The advance was exceptional and limited to a small parcel of No 2 red winter wheat for immediate delivery to mills.
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