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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1925
Page
2
Proceeds from December plays funded twenty new library volumes for Forest City School. Cards show many titles read by several appreciative readers, signaling strong pupil appetite for wholesome fiction. Plans call for a campaign to add hundreds more volumes to the school library and educate the youth.
In February our school will hold a campaign for new library books. Two teams will be chosen with captains and colleagues organizing visits to homes to request family book donations. We seek wholesome fiction and, if no book is available, gratefully accept money to purchase a book or magazine.
In fall 1924 Forest City High organized a debating club to train students in declamation, reading, and debate. Officers changed midterm, with Margaret Moore as president and Robert Lee Harrill as secretary and treasurer. Members prepared round table discussions on topics including capital punishment and port terminals, with seven students set to debate the port terminals act. The club welcomed Miss Minish as adviser and Mr. Lee’s future visits. The scene closes with a light quip about cigarette humor.
Miss Katherine Grogzans of Asheville joins the music faculty as piano and pipe organ instructor. A Limestone College graduate with post graduate study at Boston University and the Paris Conservatory, she toured North Carolina with the Piedmont Lyceum Bureau and recently played Debussy and Chopin in chapel. She also serves as organist and choir director at First Baptist church.
Miss Clara Reid returns to teach expression this spring term in her home town. She has taught the subject before and plans a recital with the music teachers.HONOR ROLL
A list of students by grade and sections appears, naming many individuals including Bertha Harrill Estelle McFarland Sarah Watkins and others. The fragment covers 1A 1B 2A 2B 4A 6a 5A 5B TA 8th 10th and 11th grades with numerous full names.
Ellenboro R-3 details a series of family visits and social events. Visits include Mr Rus sell Wilson and sister Mrs Fola to Mrs A R Beam in Forest City, and Mr Paul Beam with ties to the Southern railroad. Numerous family gatherings occur with relatives from Ellenboro, Gaffney, Mooresboro, Polk County and Forest City.
A note records Toby approaching a post office window asking to view red 2 cent stamps. The clerk presents a sheet of 100 stamps and Toby selects the center stamp. A fragment mentions Prof Walker in biology and a question about handling deadly gas.
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