Plans Complete for Celebration at Chimney Rock
Lake Lure hosts July 30 Jubilee marking completion of State Highway No. 20 the first fully paved link across North Carolina. Notables from across the state attend with Frank Page leading the Highway Commission. Events include water carnival diving by Palm Tippy, luncheon at Lake Lure Inn, bands from Spindale and Cliffside, fireworks, and a large traffic control committee in charge.
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Lake Lure
Old North State
Lake Cure
North Carolina
Blue Ridge Mountains
Atlantic Seaboard Town
Frank Page
Chaiman
State Highway Commismn
Comision
Reese Combs
Chimney Rock
Palm Tippy
Atlantic City
American Red Cross Life Saving Corps
Rutherford County Club
Lake Lure Inn
Spindale
Cliffside
Charles H. Haynes
David Lindsay
Combs
Ned Washburn
Frank P. Stratford
Rutherfordton
W. C. Hardin
Clyde A. Erwin
C. F. Gold
N. C. Harris
N.C. 20
Commonwealth
Highlands
Piedmont
Coastal Plain
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Bat Cave
Unty Boys Return From Fort Bragg
More than 1,200 boys from southern states trained at the Citizens Military Training Camp in Fort Bragg. The camp ran June 15 to July 14. Rutherfordton sent eighteen boys, led by George Baker and Randolph Anderson, with Forest City, Alexander, and Cliffside also represented. Activities included baseball, tennis, a fifty piece band, buglers, and camp publications.
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Citizens Military
Fort Bragg
Rutherford County
Rutherfordton
Forest City
Alexander
Cliffside
George Baker
Randolph Anderson
Leslie Tanner
Edwin Lovelace
Horace Carpenter
Dixon Eskridge
William Chapman
George Whisnant
Louis Nanney
Phillip Padgett
R. L. Biggerstaff
Edward Mae
Craig McClure
W. B. Marks
Hoyle Griffin
Baker
Tanner
Nanney
Anderson
Turner slain by relative in Polk county shooting
Rutherfordton July 15 Harrison Pritchard shot and killed his uncle John Turner Sunday July 10 about 15 miles south of here in Greens Creek township Polk county Turner 56 year old father of seven was batching alone when killed up by turn ers crop gathered he planned to return to Columbus after harvest Pritchard 35 was arrested at Columbus jail with about 12 gallons of whiskey found at his home Turner burial at Sandy Plains church July 12
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Rutherfordton
Harrison Pritchard
John Turner
Here
Greens Creek Township
Polk County
Hardin
Pritchard
Turner
Columbus
Sandy Plains Church
Cannon Burgess Couple Wed in Spartanburg
Mr. Russell Cannon of Caroleen and Miss Essie Burgess of Avondale were married in Spartanburg on July 8. The couple is well known and has many friends who extend congratulations and best wishes.
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Russell Cannon
Caroleen
Spartanburg
Essie Burgess
Avondale
State Deputies Target Unrenewed Plates On County Roads
A corps of State deputies patrols highways enforcing new license plate rules. Several arrests have been made in the county. Ex-sheriff D. D. Wilkins of Cleveland county, a state officer, was here Monday.
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D. D. Wilkins
Cleveland County
Mon Jay
Rutherford Hospital to Open Dispensary
Lake Lure notes arrangements for a new dispensary in the Rutherford Hospital Administration building. Two second floor rooms will host a nurse station and an examination room with devices for urgent treatment. An ambulance will stay ready to transport patients to Rutherfordton.
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Lake Lure
Rutherfordton
Purification Cure Ad Promises Health From Calotabs
A drug-store advertisement urges readers to purify the entire system with Calotabs claiming it restores health. It asserts physicians endorse cleansing the body as Nature’s health foundation, recommending a thorough course once or twice weekly for several weeks and offering a family package for 85 cents.
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Boiling Springs High School
The
Baptist State Convention In
Southern Association of Schools and Colleges
J. D. Huggins
Electrical Contracting
Electric Service CO
Forest City, N. C
Goodyear
Cord
Forest City Motor CO
Forest City, N.C
Unty Boys
Grady McCurry
Leand Branch
Butler Pruett
Cannon
Burgess
Rutherford Hospital
BROWN INSURANCEB AGHNOY BK BROWN +, Bank Bulg
Palas & Lose Office
Cyclone Auction Company
Forest City, N
Insurance & Realty Co
Harrill
Sec’v
Treas
N. C
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