Kentuckians' Motorcade to Open New Highway to Charleston
Several hundred Kentuckians will begin a motorcade in Danville in the first week of April to Charleston via the Chicago Charleston highway. The trip marks the formal opening of the Great Lakes to sea route with stops at Forest City and Kings Mountain. Distinguished participants include William Jennings Price and C J Truck, plus Kentucky club women and officials from Lexington and Louisville clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Charleston
S. C
Forest City
W. 0. McIntyre
McIntyre
Thurston Kirby
Great Lakes
William Jennings Price
Panama
C J. Truck
Centrel College
Newton Bright
Agriculture
Kentucky
Central Kentucky
Wilderness Road
Boone Trail
Gateway
Cumberland Gap
Middlesboro
Land of the Sky
Piedmont Country
Columbia
Greenville
Charlotte
Kings Mountain
Isaac Shelby
Lexington
Louisville
T. Bush Hill
Middleboro
Kentucky Progress Commission
Hardware Store Opens Here Soon In Old Buck Store
The Southern Hardware Incorporated plans a store at the old Buck Store building beside Peoples Drug Co, about April 1. J E Ridings will manage. The firm operates in West Asheville and Enka, with 100000 capital and incorporators W B Gamble, J E Ridings, and D L Mayde.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Hardware, Incorporated
Buck
Peoples Drug Co
J. E. Ridings
Carpenter
West Asheville
Enka
W. B. Gamble
South Carolina
Forest City
D. L. Mayde
Asheville
North
Georgia
Alabama
C. O. Ridings
Polk County
Spindale Street to Be Paved Soon
Spindale town council announced on Monday night that Spindale Street, a main thoroughfare from the railroad crossing in front of the Spindale House to the incorporation limits 1 1 2 miles east, will be paved at an early date.
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Spindale
Spindale Street
Spindale House
Kiwanis Hear Dr E B Jenkins at Monroe Meeting
The Kiwanis Club heard Dr E B Jenkins pastor of First Baptist Rutherfordton speak on The Value for the Church to the Community. Dr Jenkins, who has traveled widely in Europe Asia Africa and North America, shared experiences and insights. The club plans a monthly directors meeting at city hall Thursday at 7:30.
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Kiwanis Club
Blanton
W. A. Ayers
Katherine Goggans
Ann Lawrence
A. M. Glickman
E. B. Jenkins
First Baptist Church
Rutherfordton
Jon
Jenkins
Europe
Asia
Africa
Boston Store Opens March 28 in Forest City
The Boston Store, Forest City's newest enterprise, will open March 28 in the old Harrill wholesale stand near the Romina theatre. Manager E. M. Goldklang will offer a complete line of ready to wear for men, women and children at medium prices. He is stocking the building this week and preparations for the opening are under way. Goldklang comes from Bishopville, South Carolina, where he has years of mercantile experience.
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Boston
Forest City
Harrill Wholesale Company
Romina Theatre
E. M. Goldklang
the Courier
Goldklang
Bishopville
S. C
Harrill Family Reunion Honors 104th Birthday
The Harrill memorial birthday dinner for Martin J. Harrill drew 48 relatives at the old home place on the Bostic road. It was declared an annual event with talks by Rev. W. A. Ayers L. C. Lawrance Charles Z. Flack and B. Arp Lowrance and a Grahamtown colored quartette performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin J. Harrill
Charles Ford
Harrill
Old Home Place
Bostic Road
W. A. Ayers
Forest City
L. C
G. H. Harrill
Rock Hill
J. B. Harrill
Raleigh
T. W. Barrett
S. E. Wylie
W. H. Ferguson
Chester
J. P. Simmons
Miss Mae
Spindale
James Kanipe
Lattimore
B. Arp Lowrance
Charlotte
Outstanding Achievements of 1929 Legislature
North Carolina adjourned after a 69 day session. Major enacted measures include a School Aid Law creating a 6.5 million dollar equalizing fund, County Highway Aid raising gas tax to five cents and a 5 million dollar fund, and a 38 million dollar two year Maintenance Appropriation. Other items cover revenue, ballot privacy, workmen’s compensation, executive counsel, senatorial vacancies, sterilization rules, highway patrol, aviation code, constitutional amendments, marriage banns, bar exam restrictions, revenue commissioner appointment, dual license plates, robbery penalties, divorce grounds, and alcohol education in schools. Governor’s salary raised to 10,000 and prison industries reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina General Assembly
Courier
State Highways Commission
Revenue Act
Industrial Commission
Executive Counsel Act
United States
Highway Patrol
State Highway Commission
Aviation Code
Supreme Court
General Assembly
Nct
Frank Page
Robbery at Rural Home Ties Terry Philbeck's Savings
Terry Philbeck of near Bostic was bound and robbed Sunday night at his home in the Washburn community. The intruders broke into a trunk and took about 500 dollars, the savings of a lifetime. Philbeck and neighbors reported the crime, but no suspects or clues have emerged.
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Bostic
Terry Philbeck
Mr. Philbeck
Salem Church
Washburn
Imapeck
Self
Philbeck
Operetta Triumph by Grammar School Pupils
Teachers of the primary grades receive praise for the operetta Fairies Are Really Truly performed Tuesday night at the grammar school. Costumes were beautiful and the children demonstrated fine training.
Minstrel Revue in Spindale Saturday Night Benefit
Spindale March 18 a minstrel revue will be held at the Spindale House Saturday at 8 pm to aid the basketball team. The program features orchestra and vocal music, readings, skits, and performances by C Z Goforth Whitaker Sisters McGinni Brothers Spindale Quartette and For rester orchestra. Also notes on a new Saturday bus between Spindale Rutherfordton at 12 30 to 9 30 with ten cent fare. New births: Frank Mitchell Howard son of Mr and Mrs G B Howard and a son born Tuesday to Mr and Mrs Garland Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spindale
Spindale House
C. Z. Go-forth
Whitaker Sisters
McGinni Brothers
Spindale Quartette
Forrester Orchestra
Rutherfordton
Central Hotel
G. B. Howard
Frank Mitchell Howard
Garland Johnson
Murder Plotter Pleads Guilty in Woodbury Case
William S. Joyce alias Walter E. Morris of Woodbury New Jersey pled guilty in federal court at Trenton to sending indecent letters offering $300 to have a wife killed. He was trapped by Chief Charles Price with Postoffice Inspector W S Brown after a long investigation beginning February 1928. The case grew from a Waters letter to Morris signed Waters name and led to a staged deal at the Woodbury office and a raid that uncovered the plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Joyce
Walter E. Morris
Woodbury
N. J
Trenton
James P. Waters
Forest City
Joyce
Waters
Chas. R. Price
Postoffice Inspec
New Jersey
Chief Price
Price
Post Office
J. G. Evans
Asheville
Morri
Morris
Postoffice Inspector General
Washington, D. C
Postoffice
W. 8. Brown
Bridgeton
Brown
Paulsboro
X. J
Tar Heel Farmers Banquet For Fathers March 26
The Cool Springs Chapter of Young Tar Heel Farmers will host a father and son banquet in the High School cafeteria on Tuesday evening March 26. Thirty five boys and their fathers plus county and state education officials will attend. Albert Blanton presides, Roy H. Thomas delivers principal address, with a prepared program of toasts and responses by local and county education leaders.
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Cool Springs
North Carolina
County Board of Education
J. W. Eakes
Chas. Chas. C. Erwin
D. H. Sutton
Roy H. Thomas
J. M. Osteen
Home Economies
Johnnie King
Albert Blanton
Young Tar Heel Farmers
Our Fathers
Forest Hunt
Scout Finance Day March 29 in Rutherford County
Rutherford County Boy Scouts plan a county canvass to raise 1650 for the quota with March 29 set as Finance Day. R E Price chairs the drive, with each town receiving a proportional share and a local finance committee to canvass parents, business houses, and mills.
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Spindale
Rutherford County Executive Committee
Boy Scouts of America
Spindale House
R. E. Price
Civics Class Visits The Courier Office
Miss Ruth Moore's eighth grade civics class from Cool Springs High School toured The Courier office on Tuesday. Twenty five students observed linotype presses and the folding process and learned how a newspaper is produced. William Joyce, named in the report, was arrested July 13, 1928, and pled guilty at trial held last week in Trenton New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Moore
Cool Springs High School
Courier
William Joyce
Joyce
Trenton
N. J
Also Mentioned on This Page
Southern Hardware, Inc
Buck Store
Bing
Farmer
Near Bostic
Tar Heel
J. W. Matheney
County Boardiage Education
Glen McKeithan
Norris Wells
Cool _Strings
Roy H.thomas
Clyde Erwi
Courier Office
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