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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1930
Page
4
Harris district notes show regular church visits and family gatherings. The column reports illness improvements for Hoyt Wilkie, baby burial at New Hope Methodist Church, and calls for sympathy with the McMurray family. Social visits span Blanton family, Turner and Randall households, and local school returnees from Central, S. Cy.
Rev G P Parks of Forest City elected pastor of Spindale First Baptist Church on Sunday morning He will move soon to the Spindale Baptist parsonage succeeding Rev W W Rimmer who has served about three years.
Dr Welchel preached at 11 am and the workers council plans a B Y P U class starting June 13. Local families, including Freeman, Champion, Hawkins, Huskey, and Smith, visited relatives in Forest City, Spartanburg, Spindale, and Rutherfordton. Several youths spent time with grandparents or friends, and ill or traveling residents were reported.
Weaverville North Carolina June 3 Miss Josephine Young of the senior class at Weaver College departs for Forest City after earning numerous college honors She was active in Mnemosynean Literary Society Junior Debate 29 Recitation Contest 29 Tennis Club Rutherford Henderson Polk County Club honorary Buncombe County Club junior class officer and sponsor Delphian Literary Society 30 Mountaineer staff society editor and economics club member She also served as sponsor for Junior class 29 and was on the winning teams in the State Junior college debating contest.
Mr R V King of this city displays a unique curio an alligator carved from a rhododendron root purchased at a Henderson county filling station about 12 miles north of Edenyville. The two foot long piece is a woodwork specimen with button eyes and shellac finish transforming the root into a lifelike alligator.
A young man marries a wealthy widow who owned four farms, a union seen as surprising yet rooted in shared stake in the land. The match ties old wealth to youthful ambition and the local landscape.
Mr and Mrs Frank Biggerstaff of Forest City are visiting Mr and Mrs Ralph Biggerstaff in Fall River Massachusetts. They also toured Washington New York City and various Massachusetts sites and other New England states. They spent Saturday at Plymouth Rock and Sunday in Boston before returning to Forest City via Norfolk Elizabeth City and eastern North Carolina points next week.
The family of L. D. Wilkie expresses gratitude for the kindness shown during illness and death of wife and mother. Subscribe to The Courier.
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