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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1929
Page
10
Spindale July 1 arrest of a drunken Negro driver by Officers Duncan and Green led to the recovery of a stolen Chrysler. The owner, passing through Spindale en route to Lexington, identified the car, which had been stolen in Hendersonville Saturday night. The owner accuses the man of theft. the driver says the car was loaned.
Raleigh July 1. The greatest yearly soil erosion in North Carolina occurs in summer, based on experiments by F C Bates and summarized by A T Holman. June to September account for about 87 percent of erosion, driven by clean cultivation of tobacco, cotton and corn. Sheet erosion can remove a quarter inch of soil in a field, with plant food loss five times the crop use. Holman urges frequent checking of terrace systems and timely repairs to weak spots after each summer.
By observing crops on terraced and unterraced fields at this season of the year, one may get an answer to many perplexing problems in soil management, he says.
The Forest City Library distributed 880 books in June and received 14 donated volumes plus 4.09 in fines. Recent gifts include one book from Eugenia Harrill Frances Price and two from Gwendolyn Proctor. Community enthusiasm grows as children and adults spend afternoons at the library seeking good literature.
The 1929 notice states Theodore Johnson seeks executive clemency from the North Carolina Commissioner of Pardons and Governor for a 1928 Rutherford County conviction of forcible trespass, with an 18 month chain gang sentence. Protests are invited, dated July 1, 1929, by Mrs. Theodore Johnson. C. E. Carpenter of Lincoln County reports strong profits from early tomatoes sold in nearby towns.
Messrs. C. E. Huntley and B. H. Wilkins will conduct a big auction sale at Tuxedo Saturday July 6. The property includes a six room house and twenty five residential lots in the heart of Tuxedo. Cash prizes and 500 pounds of sugar are offered on sale day. Sale begins at 1 30 o'clock.
Johnston County forms a county board of Agriculture to collaborate with the farm agent to improve agricultural conditions. A. M. Kriminger of Cabarrus County reports clover fields boosting profits for his ten bee colonies. Wilkes County reports a bountiful hay crop with over 1000 bushels of soybeans slated for late hay and soil improvement. Alfalfa yields well across piedmont Carolina as G. L. McCombs of Catawba County notes nine tons from one acre last season with expectations of ten this year.
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