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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1929
Page
7
Gastonia and surrounding areas win strong showing for Near East Relief raising 1645.56 for orphaned boys and girls. Greek residents contribute over 300 dollars while the Dixie Negro quartet and local church services aid in the campaign.
The Asheville Normal College glee club performed to a full house in the elementary school auditorium on Friday night. Twenty two members wore white, with Miss Pauline Wall praised for singing and acting in a comic role. Miss Juanita Caldwell delivered two applauded readings and impressed as a top reader of the evening. The operetta The Family Doctor served as a pleasant finale to the program.
Boiling Springs March 4 The A S and the K L S societies of Boiling Springs Junior College sponsor a district declamation contest for Rutherford and Cleveland counties on April 6. Each school may send one male contestant from grades six to eight, with ten minutes per declamation. A preliminary on April 6 at ten will select ten finalists for the evening final at eight. Prizes include a gold medal and one year tuition for the top speaker. second place also receives a gold medal. Contestants must submit names and titles by March 30 to the committee chair.
Rutherfordton March 4. At the February meeting the Board of County Commissioners approved Sheriff Hardin's action to levy penalties on unpaid taxes as permitted by law. Discounts of 1 percent in October and 1/2 percent in November were allowed, with December and January taxes paid at par. A 1/2 percent penalty will apply to all unpaid 1928 taxes in February, 1 percent penalty on taxes paid in March 1929, and a 1/2 percent penalty on unpaid 1928 taxes during April 1929 and thereafter.
Spindale March 4. Champion Lumber Company completes a 20000 dollar addition to its plant. The eighty foot by two story building houses a twenty by sixty drying kiln. New machinery enables planing resawing mouldings sashes window frames doors floors and ceilings. Owner M G Johnson says mill boxes will be produced for cotton mills and sold locally and to other manufacturers.
Rutherfordton March 4 Sheriff Frank Matthews of Miami County Ohio came to Rutherfordton with four young men alleged to have stolen an automobile in Ohio. They were arrested with help from Sheriff W C Hardin and Chief Charles Price of Forest City after a stop in Ruth for oil without payment on the way to Florida.
Caroleen, March 5. The Henrietta Caroleen girls basketball team faces Hickory high for a Western final bid on Henrietta Caroleen court Friday at 8 pm. This first meeting of the season promises a hard fought game with a later date looming against Charlotte high for the western title.
Washington reports Rutherfordton will receive a new post office building within the next two to three years under the current construction program. Representative Weaver, who has long urged a federal building for Rutherfordton, was assured by treasury department officials that the project will likely move forward.
Ellenboro March 6. Dr Poole and Prof Fant of North Carolina Experiment Station will discuss Sweet Potato Diseases and Their Control at 7 15 p m Wednesday March 13 at the school building. Lantern slides and demonstrations on seed treatment are planned to help farmers curb losses. Ellenboro has expanded its sweet potato cash crop and built two storage houses with 10000 bushel capacity under Ellenboro Sweet Potato Storage Company Inc.
Rutherfordton March 5 Lonnie Flynn sought in Salisbury on several robbery charges is captured at his father Jerry Flynn’s Thermal City home by officers Calvin Hardin Roy Weeks and H Moreland. Local Rowan County search aided the arrest.
A recorded thought contrasts a well defined rut as a shallow grave with the disparity between rich men owning country places and poor men forced to work on farms, highlighting social inequality.
A butcher's delivery boy was struck by an auto but claimed no hurt, joking about finding his liver. The ad asserts grocery quality and purity for health guarding families, promising best selections professional buyers would choose.
Rutherfordton March 5 Sept Allison W Honeycutt of Hendersonville schools and chairman of the clusic committee of the Carolinas Kiwanis district with Mrs Honeycutt and four Hendersonville Kiwanis members attended the Rutherfordton Kiwanis meeting Thursday night. The program featured a varied musical set highly enjoyed by the club and included a brief address by Mr Honeycutt.
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