Ellonboro Cotton Contest Raises 100 for Prizes
Ellenboro plans a fall cash prize program for farmers and boys in a cotton contest. $100 was raised by the oval department and local sponsors to reward greatest seed cotton yield on five acres for farmers and three acres for boys. Bank of Ellenboro adds six prizes for top lint per acre, plus gin prizes from Chambers and Turner Cotton Gin. Over 100 participants, with guidance from the agriculture teacher on seed, fertilization, and acreage measurement.
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Ellenboro
Bank of
Chambers and Turner Cotton
Landon Robbins
Four Hundred Eighty One Attend County Demonstrations
Four hundred eighty one men attended twelve meetings held at sweet clover, pasture and small grain demonstrations in Catawba County recently.
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Catawba County
Dahlias Bloom and Local News from South Mountain
Golden Valley reports profuse dahlias with a ten inch red bloom. South Mountain Institute girls visit Ridgecrest Y W A Assembly. Fairview Baptist services held Sundays and evenings with Rev Cain and Miss Bertha B Moore. Blues Reds contest noted with music by Ernest and Fannie McCurry. Local visits include Blaine Melton and families. Grace Jefferson returns from New York auto trip with Rex Coxe. Mrs Tate Brandle improving. Stan McCurry better but bedridden. Sunshine Methodist sermon on Is Jesus Coming Again If So When.
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Bertha B. Moore
Reds
Blues
Ernest McCurry
Fannie McCurry
Blaine Melton
Glen
Alpine
Golden Valley
Eli Melton
Eva Yelton
Janie
McCurry
J. E. Yelton
Grace Jefferson
New York
Rex Coxe
Asheville
Milford ‘Little
Tate Brandle
Stan McCurry
W. J. Grayson
Miss Moore
John Yelton
Sunshine
Sunshine Methodists Church
Jesus
Shay lays five rules for profitable hog feeding and growth
Kategh North Carolina June 24 W W Shay swine extension specialist from State College outlines five rules to profit in hog feeding. Start on fertile land, adjust brood sows to homegrown corn, keep strong healthy hogs with good housing sanitation and parasite control, time breeding for season, feed hogs fully from weaning to market with corn as 80 percent of diet, and stay with the system despite price changes.
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Shay
Notable Leaders Underperform In School, Say Biographers
Biographers note that several leading political figures showed limited scholastic aptitude. The evidence cited suggests these individuals did not excel in early schooling, challenging prevailing perceptions of their intellectual abilities.
PENSION CHECKS ARE NOW READY AREA
Rutherfordton June 24 Clerk s Court M. D. Dickerson received last week the semi annual pension checks for Confederate Veterans and widows totaling 11 250 a gift from the state to those who defended the Confederacy in the Sixties. Forty checks go to Class A veterans and widows. details follow on who qualifies and how others may claim pensions.
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Rutherfordton
M. D. Dickerson
County Pension Board
O. C. Erwin
A. H. McDaniel
Forest City
Annie E. Logan
M. O. Dickerson
State Board of Pensions
County Board of Pensions
Pension Board
Clerk of the Court
Foster dies at Chimney Rock after long illness
D W Foster, 78, of Chimney Rock, died Tuesday morning after about two years of illness. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 PM in Chimney Rock Baptist Church, with Rev E P White and Rev Sargent presiding. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Survived by widow, four daughters, one brother, and four sisters. native of Rutherford County.
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Chimney Rock
D. W. Foster
Chimney Rock Baptist Church
E. P. White
Mr. Sargent
Mr. Foster
Mesdames Leo ‘Lestig
Johnson City
Tenn
Walter
Lester
Ralph Snyder
Chimney
Rock
Daniel Cuthrell
Elizabethton
W. D
Foster
Fairview
Mesdames Bell Williams
Asheville
Ed Shuford
Emma Jackson
Hendersonville
Maggie Foster
Rutherford County
Rutherfordton
The
Baptist Church
George Wolf Sells Butter From Three Cows In County
George Wolf of Cleveland County operates a small dairy, producing and selling between $20 and $25 worth of butter and buttermilk weekly from three well cared for cows fed with home-grown feed.
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George Wolf
Cleveland County
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Charlee Philips
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N. C
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Dave Killian
Lincoln County
Castoria
Grar
Ea Castoria
Boiling Springs College
Piedmont
Charlotte
J. B. Davis
Boiling Springs, N. C
Oldsmobile
Lansing
Mich
J. T. Camp
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