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Subscription rates payable in advance are listed as one year for 1.50 six months and three months. This notice appears in the March 2 1922 Thursday paper.
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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1922
Page
5
Subscription rates payable in advance are listed as one year for 1.50 six months and three months. This notice appears in the March 2 1922 Thursday paper.
The Courier praises Rutherford county business leaders for an excellent ten page issue. It commends enterprise and county growth, notes many firm ads, and thanks Forest City Rutherfordton Cliffside for support and correspondents who contribute.
Mrs E E McCurry announces a millinery opening in this issue with events set for Friday and Saturday. The notice highlights new hat designs and fashion accessories available at the store.
The local Knights Pythias lodge entertained the Betterment Club on Wednesday night with a tasty supper served by the supper committee of J. C. Harrill J. T. Poole and C. C. Blanton. Talks by Rev. Parker Holmes I. B. Covington J. C. Scruggs J. C. Harris and Mrs Holmes followed. The lodge reports steady growth with 27 new applications from February 22 to 25.
Mrs Tate aged about 38 at Harris home last Thursday burial at 7k Grove. Survived by husband and five children. She was aunt of Mrs C K Mc Daniel of Forest City.
The revival meeting at the Wesleyan Methodist church continues with strong interest and large crowds at each service. City merchants will close stores daily from 2 to 3 PM. The mass is reported as particularly good and the preaching of the highest order.
Mrs A C Jones moves to new quarters and opens a millinery stock in the shoe store of Mr J T Fortune on Main Street. She will announce her opening date later.
Ellenboro on February 26 Miss Louise Elliott hosted a Monday evening birthday party from seven to nine o'clock with many friends. Refreshments followed prepared by Mrs. Elliott. Guests included Pauline Wright Loraine Culbreth Pauline Culbreth Ethel McKinney Margaret McKinney Ethel Spurlin Vera Hamrick Mae Hamrick Alma Reed Eunice Reed Camille Carroll Alline Hamrick Jessie Martin Gladys Martin Alda Elliott Lecy Elliott. Everyone wished Louise many more happy birthdays and praised the hostess.
A. P. Hill, executor, alerts all creditors to present claims against Leah Hill, deceased, of Rutherford County NC, by March 2, 1923, or risk bar of recovery. Indebted persons should settle promptly. Public notice dated February 28, 1922.
The article describes a netting season tip with a wood block cracker that also doubles as an anvil. A photo from Popular Science Monthly accompanies the piece.
Rutherfordton Feb. 28 Stewardship Institute of the re River association met at the Baptist church Feb. 21 22. Rev. D. J. Hunt led opening devotions and Rev. A I Justi of Hendersonville chaired. Rev. C C Smith Brevard spoke on four stewardship principles. Rev. Walter N Johnson Badin gave a talk on the source of vitalized stewardship, citing Acts I through V as foundations. Johnson and Smith continued sessions on atonement and tithing with further addresses through Thursday morning.
L J Hudson of New Haven plans new Farmers Hardware Co in Forest City to display goods on panels with clear prices. He brings Winchester standard tools and exclusive agency for this line, with samples marked down to today’s market. Hudson, a renowned hardware expert, will stay several weeks to complete displays and pricing.
Spartanburg expects about forty thousand visitors for the Piedmont Commercial and Industrial Exposition to run March 18 to 25. The event features a Billy Sunday tabernacle with 300 booths, an automobile show, a style show with living models, and expert decorators. Local and out of town firms are supplying exhibits and music contracts are being signed. The exposition aims to promote Spartanburg city and county and the broader Piedmont region, with many exhibits booked from nearby cities within a hundred miles.
The funds from the show will defray expenses of an industrial survey of Spartanburg City. Dr John Nelson planned a city plaza and the next step is to conduct the industrial survey to advance the project.
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