Forest City Local Happenings 1929 Update
Local Happenings notes social visits from Mrs. Kerron Goforth and two children of Shelby, Brevard guests, and regional shoppers. Classifieds advertise half price W. T. Dorset yarns and linen lace sale. A fatal traffic accident linked to car with no brakes prompts calls for strict punishment, citing a Spartanburg Herald editorial..Field pages announce real estate sale by Harrill & King in Hendersonville and other regional visits and ads from Rutherford County residents.
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Forest City
Spartanburg Herald
Harrill & King
Hendersonville
Rutherford County
Wayside Column to Start in The Courier
The Courier will publish a weekly Wayside Page with one to two columns. Miss Myrtle Wilkerson is named editor and will handle submissions from Forest City. Mrs. W. L. Horn serves as secretary treasurer and business manager. Merchants’ ads funded a donation for shut ins.
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Courier
Wayside News
Myrtle Wilkerson
Rutherford County Wayside Gang
Forest City
W. L. Horn
Professor Abernethy to Preach at Mt Pleasant
Professor W. E. Abernethy of Rutherford College will preach next Sunday at 11 o clock in Mt Pleasant Baptist church. The public is cordially invited to attend this service.
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W. E. Abernethy
Rutherford College
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
Presbyterian Church Notes Communion Service Prompted
Communion service at Forest City Presbyterian Church Sunday at 11 o'clock with Rev. W. C. Rourk officiating. All church members and Presbyterians in the city are urged to attend.
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Forest City’ Presbyterian Church
W. C. Rourk
Spindale Scouts Set July Fifteenth Camp Trip
Spindale scouts led by J. H. Hill plan a week long camp at Lake Lanier for July 15. Two cabins are reserved for the local troop as the number of participants is not yet definite.
Birtie Beauty Shop Opens With Expert Mrs Hawkins
The ladies are invited to visit the new and elegantly appointed Birtie Beauty Shop. Mrs Hawkins, an expert, offers modern conveniences and has earned eminent satisfaction in her beauty parlor work.
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Birtie
Hearts in Dixie at Romina Theatre
Fox Movietone presents the all talking Hearts in Dixie at the Romina Theatre Friday and Saturday described as a symphony of the Southland with songs and instrumental music. The film blends spoken drama with music to portray plantation life and the seaves along Southern rivers. Soil improvement clubs form as Wilkes County farmers organize new groups, with 20 men forming one at Benham.
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Fox Movietone
Romina Theatre
Hearts In Dixie
Southland
Wilkes County
Benham
Administratrix Notice for S J McKinney Estate in Rutherford NC
Octavia McKinney administratrix asks all claimants to file by June 25 1980 at her Ellenboro NC home or risk recovery denial. Creditors urged to pay promptly. Dated June 25 1929 Octavia McKinney administratrix. attorney C O Ridings listed. Also rentals and ads for a filling station in Shelby and two Forest City theaters with Jersey Bull register listing.
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S. J. McKinney
Rutherford County
North Carolina
Ellenboro
N. C
Octavia McKinney
Ridings
Rexall Orderlie Aids Quick Constipation Relief
A Battle Creek physician says constipation causes much misery but Rexall Orderlie offers relief. The tablet draws water into the colon to soften waste for a gentle evacuation without habit or dose increase. Chew Rexall Orderlie at night and feel better next day. 24 for 25 cents at Hall Rudisili Drug Co.
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Battle Creek
Rexall Orderlies
Hall-Rudisili Drug Co
Telephone facts show growth and reach across cities
Nearly 1,000,000 calls occur daily in Cincinnati while toll calls rise 68 percent in Connecticut. New York Telephone employs over 42,500 in NYC, with 2,000 serving Manhattan. Denver expanded from 160 instruments to over 88,000 telephones. Belgium’s phone network more than doubled since 1922, but 50 communities still lack service. The South American line reaches 12,500 feet in the Andes. subterranean cables guard against snow avalanches. Bean Beetle Dust. Farmers Hardware Co.
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New York City
The
New York Telephone Company
Manhattan
Denver
Belgium
Andes Mountains
Forest City Deal Promises Test Drive Demonstrations
Call 98 at Forest City to arrange a no obligation test drive of any car in stock. Demonstrations offered to showcase all available models and features on request.
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Forest City
Over Fifty Years in Telephone Service
William B. Eddy born earliest notes entered the field in 1863 as a special agent for the New York Telephone Company in Albany. At age 14 he ran the Whitehall telegraph office, introduced the first telephone there after Bell’s invention, and his long career surpasses fifty years with a half century emblem from the New York Telephone Company.
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Gettysburg
William B. Eddy
New York Telephone Company
Albany
Whitehall
N. Y
Alexander Graham Bell
Eddy
New York State
Telegraphic Ad Copy Promotes Desert Song Opening
A full page advertisement copy was transmitted from New York to Los Angeles by AT&T telegraph for Los Angeles dailies announcing the opening of The Desert Song. The entire copy, about 2000 lines, required only two hours to transmit in actions.
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New York
Los Angeles
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
PUPS FOR SALE Thoroughbred setter pups available
Pups for sale from non registered setters. Males ten dollars, females seven fifty, pairs fifteen dollars. Contact W. W. Southers in Kings Mountain North Carolina or M. E. Davis in Forest City. 36-31
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W. W. Southers
Kings Mountain
N. C
M. E. Davis
Forest City
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Forest City Courier
Congress
Kerron Goforth
Shelby
C. E. Goforth
E. E. McCurry
Margaret Miller
Brevard
B. H. Garner
Blanton Biggerstaff
E.E. McCurry
H. C. Verner
Toccoa, Ga
C. H. Verner
Mrs. Verner
Messrs
J. H. Thomas
J. A. Dennis
M. W. Harris
Bankers
Asheville
W. H. Fanning
Gertrude
Woodruff
S. C
C. A. Wilkie
Bessemer City
D. H. Stahl
Chicago
E Abernethy
MT. Pleasant
Presbyterian Church Notes
Spindale Scouts
Birtie Beauty Shop
Royster Oil Co
Shelby, N. C
Jersey
R. V. King
Cincinnati
Connecticut
Farmers Hardware Co
Forest City Motor Company
Forest City, N. C
V. P. Eddy
OKRA
Groceteria
OUR Job Printing Department
the Courier
Petty’s Shoppe
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