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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1931
Page
5
The City Dry Cleaning Company advertises thorough cleaning and pressing as their core business. They emphasize reasonable prices, mail order handling, and a customer‑oriented approach centered on pleasing each individual. Call 103 for prompt service and aim to make customers lifelong.
Four year old Craig Kennedy son of Mr and Mrs W D Kennedy of Salisbury was killed Thursday when struck by a truck driven by R P Luckadoo of Bostic. Luckadoo stated the child ran into the street into the rear wheels as he hauled material for a highway project. The coroner's jury found Luckadoo crimeless and ruled the accident avoidable.
Rutherfordton June 1 The Rutherford county jail is near empty for the first time in a year with only five prisoners. Jailer A A McFarland notes three white and two Negro inmates and cites the cash and carry court system as a factor in the decline from a high of about 50 prisoners.
Shelby May 27 Readers of The Courier learn the author was struck by illness and invalids, recounting a heart condition, gallbladder or prostate surgery, and lingering high blood pressure. He mocks superstition about weather signs dreams and moon lore while describing doctors, quacks, and a near death dream.
The Hewitt Auto Works of Forest City North Carolina covers auto service including body rebuilding painting upholstery and glass work. They manufacture roller coverings with a patented process and have operated for thirty years supplying high quality yarn equipment to southern mills.
A veteran speaker denounces low teacher pay compared with doctors and lawyers, urges economy rhetoric to end, and recalls 46 years on the firing line. He argues veterans deserve pensions and criticizes antiwar lobbyists while recounting his own 1917 enlistment and three sons' volunteers.
Relatives and friends of Miss Hazel Elizabeth Ross and Forney M Freeman note their marriage on August 19 1930 in Gaffney South Carolina kept secret until this week Miss Ross younger daughter of J C Ross Forest City route 3 attended Mount Vernon High School class of 1931 Freeman youngest son of J B Freeman Stars Georgia works at Talbotton Manufacturing Company Rival factions of Christian converts staged a riot at Taiku Korea injuring many people.
Forest City beauty shop advertises advanced scientific services including massage manicuring and permanent waving. The piece praises its modern booths skilled staff and fashion-awareness seeking to attract ladies from across the region for the latest hairdressing and beauty culture.
County residents from Forest City Spindale and Rutherfordton circulate petitions asking the Post Office Department to extend Star Route service connecting with train No 29 at Gastonia to Shelby and then to Rutherfordton. If approved it would bring mail to Rutherfordton about 6 30 am, allow earlier replies to morning trains and enable earlier rural deliveries.
The earliest English silver table fork, dated 1632, is exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. It is highlighted as a rare survival from early 17th century tableware.
Caroleen June 1 The Junior B Y P U held a picnic at Boiling Spring near Coopertown with about 20 children. They enjoyed games, stories, and riddles, lunch at 5 with lemonade served by Mrs Cordie Lynch, leader, Mrs Millwood sponsor, and Alda May Sparks secretary. The intermediate group later picnicked at Sunshine Lake with Alda May Sparks chaperon as H R Holland could not go. Pastor Rev J A Brock of Caroleen Baptist was away in Anderson S C. Mr Jesse Lancaster led prayer meeting in his absence. The topic was a new Testament church. The discussion was interesting.
A. E. Huebner of Dorchester Massachusetts has spent 33 years collecting more than 300 bricks from demolished historic buildings. The bricks were saved as relics of structures erased to make way for new ones. Each brick carries a piece of local history and demonstrates a peculiar hobby.
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