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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1922
Page
6
The Cliffside News offers weekly publication in connection with The Forest City Courier. Subscriptions, job and ad orders, and news items are handled by Editor B. E. Roach in Cliffside with prompt attention.
A nostalgic verse recalling a mother singing hymns at her knee. The speaker imagines streets of gold and heavenly choirs as the mother’s face lights up in the vision. The poem ends with a quotation about reading and quoting, attributed to E. E. Roxford and C. H. Spurgeon.
Cliffside hosts a six course dinner Thursday evening to honor newlyweds Mr and Mrs B Deck Wilson and Mrs J Rush Shull of Charlotte. Sarron Caldwell presents an artistic basket of pink sweet peas tied with pink tulle around a miniature bride.
Groom, bridesmaids and groomsmen formed a wedding procession centerpiece. Place cards featured kewpie brides and grooms. Favors were pink baskets with wedding bells and mints. Coverage mentions Mrs. J. Rush Shull, Mr. and Mrs. B. Deck Wilson, Miss Evelyn Pusey, Dr. Boboy Scruggs, Mr. Chas. H. Haynes, and Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell.
A large Rutherford county turnout of Baracas and Philatheas attended the Hendersonville convention last week. Rutherfordton also sent delegates and the county won the pennant for the largest number of representatives in the parade. The Cliffside Baptist Junior Baraca's sixteen delegates earned the State banner for best all around report, and Miss Maude Jackson was elected a vice-president of the Junior State Organization.
Baltimore resident Mr John Elys visit to Rutherfordton and multiple Friday to Sunday socials mark a busy period. Prof Clyde Erwin and Prof Charles Erwin plan university summer programs while Cliffside Mills expands cotton gin capacity. A wedding planned for Cliffside Mills clerk Claude Grose and Miss Lottie Stroup features prominent Rutherford and Cleveland families among out of town guests.
Last Sunday's Charlotte Observer reports Mrs Barron Caldwell of Cliffside entertained 50 guests in a stylish party honoring Miss Jessie Jenkins, recent bride of Hollis Owens. The home was opened with the living room library and music room set for receiving, decorated with white and pink sweet peas.
A reflective editorial voice recalls years of Western outrage over China and Japan, recounting vows to reform China, mournful reactions to Shantung, and shifting sentiments as China now declares no grief. The piece contrasts past tears with current calm, noting rhetoric and hypocrisy in public mood.
Washington, June 15. Dr. W W Skinner of the U S Bureau of Chemistry says Americans have embraced the bottled carbonated beverage as a mass habit. He notes annual consumption exceeds four billion pints and attributes growth to public recognition of the beverages merit and to innovations from spices and condiments worldwide.
J Q A Collins of Forest City outlines the Masonic Mutual Life Association benefits and workings, urging enrollment and coverage explanation from the district agent in Forest City, N. Ongoing outreach to potential policyholders.
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