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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1925
Page
8
The Cliffside News operates weekly in conjunction with The Forest City Courier. Associate Editors E Roach Clyde A Erwin and Una Edwards guide the staff in producing local coverage for the Cliffside community.
In the absence of Pastor W. Heckard Rev Marion Blanton preached Sunday evening to a large audience. Blanton, a Cliffside native, will be a Wake Forest senior next year while Heckard attends summer school at Duke.
The Baptist church training school last week was well attended and concluded with sixty two passing exams. Missionary Society women served a fine T une. overall about one hundred fifty awards will be distributed. Attendees came from local M E church Avondale and Double Springs near Shelby. Faculty included Miss Elizabeth Nuckols J N Barnett Roy Waters and Dr C H Stevens. Plans for next year’s school are already in progress.
A Senior B Y P U was organized at the local Baptist church with many enrollments. After organization, a study course from the B Y P U manual will be taught by Dr Stevens. The church has four unions now, one Senior, one intermediate, and two Junior, all aiming to become standard unions.
Members of the B Y P U training class enjoyed a Saturday picnic and dinner at Me Swain s Mill. Dr Charles H Stevens and Rev Roy Waters gathered them at the Baptist church and transported them to the picnic site by trucks and cars.
Residents and visitors frequent Rutherfordton and nearby towns. Names include Jay Hicks of Charlotte B P Caldwell Hendersonville trips W W Nanney Lincolnton and Admiral figures from Forest City Shelby Spartanburg Avondale Asheville and Rutherfordton. Activities range from visits and shopping to work changes and family weekends.
Avondale June 15. W B Jenkins writes on his two years as pastor at Avondale Baptist with 124 new members, 41 by baptism, 83 by letter, plus 30 added at Concord Baptist and 21 at Camp's Creek. He notes building projects totaling about 7,200 dollars, 10 Sunday school rooms added at Camp's Creek and plans for eight more at Avondale. He thanks Mr. Chas Haynes for help and urges prayer for His Kingdom.
Mr Dan Hawkins who has been teaching at Franklinton arrived last week. He and his sister Miss Jennie went to Charlotte Monday where Miss Hawkins will enter King's Business College. Mr Grover C Haynes and family, accompanied by Mr G K Moore Jr, arrived from St Petersburg Fla last Saturday. They have spent the winter and spring there and Monday they left for Hendersonville where they will spend the summer. Mr and Mrs Monroe McDonald and children, accompanied by Miss Ozelle Moore, spent Thursday at Broad River fishing. Miss Helen Carver entertained a number of her friends Saturday night with a surprise party for her sister Miss Willie Lou Carver. A large crowd attended the birth day dinner at Mr J C Hudsons Sunday.
Rev. of Spindale preached at Adaville Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Deviney spent Sunday in Spindale with Mrs. Deviney's mother, Mrs. Octavia Hamrick.
Shelby visits Mr and Mrs J B Freeman and Mrs Wilson plans to stay a few days. Families and friends gather at Hollis and Hendersonville with Baptists, a baptism, and a Weaver College sermon. Profs Trowbridge and Hawkins feature in upcoming services and a new beauty parlor opens near Biggerstaff’s.
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