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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1925
Page
7
The drive to prevent typhoid fever and diphtheria began Tuesday led by County Physician Dr. J C Twitty. Free vaccinations offered at multiple locations and times through June and July, with schedules by town and venue to reach residents and families.
The County Board of Education orders an election in Haynes district for July 17. A levy of 20 cents per $100 of property would fund a new school house on the burned site. The board met with the county commissioners on Monday to discuss next year’s budget.
Rutherford county ministers met with C V Wesley at Forest City church to plan a teacher training class in the first week of August in the graded four school building. J C Gentry will lead a pastor's school at Duke University. Regular services to be conducted by laymen in the pastor’s absence. A purse will defray pastor expenses. The joint Sunday school program by Providence Tanner’s Grove Keistler’s and Wesley’s schools was excellent. Children’s day programs to be held in Harris consolidated school on the fifth Sunday in August. The play Topsy Turvy enjoyed by the audience at Harris and to be staged in several county schools, including Oakland on Friday June 5.
Bostic section crops look fine but a rain shower would help. Miss Merle Hollifield attends summer school in Boone North Carolina. Mr and Mrs Billie Freeman of Bostic hosted D Freeman and family last Sunday. Mr and Mrs H L Johnson attended memorial services at Union Mills. Mrs F Freeman visited Mrs Lindsay Purga son last Sunday. Mrs J L Johnson spent the latter part of last week with aunt Mrs J T Gladden in Shelby.
Forest City resident Mrs. R. A. Ross reports kidney strain from heavy lifting, with backache, headaches, dizziness, and urinary troubles. After one box of Dean's Pills from Reinhardt Drug Co. she claims complete relief. 60 cents at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co. Mars Buffalo NY.
Route 2 News reports continued dry weather in Forest City R-2. Rev Z D Harrill led services at Bethany Fat, with community members including J J Hardin family and Raleigh Hardin's illness noted. Socials feature Nellie Sherrill hosting a party, visits by Harrie Lee Marlow, Hubert Hodge, and Grace Hill groups, plus updates on A J Sherrill's recovery from ice cream poisoning and Elmeda McDonald visiting Dollie Carroll.
A Rutherford Sun writer visited Double Branch Corn Mill, three miles west of town toward Polk County. Owned by M. C. Dickerson and run by W. P. McCurry, the mill shows old dressing with a steel water wheel. McCurry grinds 3000 to 4000 bushels yearly. The mill is clean and sanitary and has a muzzle loading Revolutionary War pistol, a 75 year family relic, plus a dinner bell claimed to be over 200 years old.
Mrs C W Watkins died at her daughter M rs A L Grayson home after an extended illness. Funeral held at First Baptist church with Rev M A Adams in charge and deacons as pallbearers. Interment in family graveyard. She was 85, survived by two daughters and two sons. granddaughter Alda Grayson of China among mourners.
Sylva North Carolina June 1 1925 Dear Editor Enclosed you will find my check for 150 to renew my subscription I am eager to keep up with home county affairs Recently I passed through Forest City and was impressed by the work there It may interest readers that Sylva elementary school met standards in the recent evaluation There are two standard elementary schools in Jackson county Cullowhee and Sylva A C Lovelace
Mrs. L. G. Hockman of Edith Virginia reports relief from shaking and smothering spells after using Sorbol Quadruple stainless liniment. She plans to share her experience and notes availability at Reinhardt Drug Co and local drug stores. Sorbol Company in Mechanicsburg Ohio invites inquiries.
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