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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1929
Page
12
Cliffside News section dated Thursday January 24 1929 features brief local items and notices sourced from The Courier. Read as a compact record of happenings, notices, and short reports in Cliffside.
Local residents share weekend visits and relocations. Ed Carpenter and family, Lawrence Blanton, and Randolph Martin visited and stayed with friends and relatives in Boiling Springs and Shelby. Several families moved to nearby towns, while others welcomed kin and friends for hospital recoveries and weekends at home.
veteran boxer JwRENCE Blanton known as Jack Blanton from Cliffside trains for an eight round bout in Shelby on Saturday January 26. He faces K O Ser from McAdenville as the semi to Jerry Roberts Jonny Smore in a card featuring Sizemore as South Carolina middleweight champion and Roberts as a noted puncher. The event is set for two rounds with local names noted in the lineup. The R R Haynes Memorial Building has hosted constant activity since spring 1922 with multiple groups meeting in rooms, gymnasium and lobby during the past two months. Interment for Harriet Edwards followed the funeral attended by Clyde Edwards and family, Una Edwards, C D Hughes and Rev D H Whinehardt. The service was held in Rutherfordton with burial at Mount Pisgah Creek.
The Cliffside High School section details weekly school life from January 18 1929. It covers new officers in the Florence Nightingale Society and Clyde A Erwin Society, classroom programs by Miss Logan and Miss Player, the first honor roll of the year, a 30 to 16 basketball win over Cowpens, a strong season run with 6 straight wins, and the launch of girls basketball led by captains Catherine Hawkins Monnie Hill Delia Bridgers Melba Jar rett and Mildred Plemmons.
The second contesting association in eastern Carolina is now ready to begin work with the appointment of J L Moore as official tester.
A pupil chronicles exam dread and memory lapses during study time. They describe slipping knowledge, nervousness, and odd mishaps with language rules and grammar as they struggle to answer questions. The piece ends with a plug to subscribe to The Courier.
In Alamance County, 3000 acres will be planted to improved pastures as key farmers in Mebane adopt a plan to increase dairy output and attract a milk condensery. About 11,057 cows are available but current pasture is insufficient, with W E White and W Kerr Scott driving the effort backed by 16 banks and local business leaders.
Farmers report 3000 acres now planted to tame and cultivated grasses with several buyers already purchasing seed.
Wilborn Wilford a Scout from Okeechobee Florida saved his fourteen month old infant brother from drowning after the child fell into a tub of water. He performed artificial respiration until the baby revived, despite doctors being away from town. A cotton variety test report from North Carolina agriculture circular No 20 is available free from the State College agricultural editor.
About 100 birds were sold or exchanged at the rooster sale and exchange day organized by the Yad kin County Poultry Association.
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