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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1922
Page
4
The Forest City Courier lists display rates per column inch and notices per line for classified ads and notes a 10 o'clock Wednesday deadline to publish. It also charges 5 cents per line for Cards of Thanks and entertainment notices with admission charges and directs communications to the newspaper.
H B Doggett announces candidacy for Sheriff of Rutherford County in the Democratic Primary to be held on Saturday June 3 1922. Announcement rate applies. single signatures cost five dollars and multiple names ten dollars. Also notes political notices at one cent per word per insertion.
Forest City Lodge No 381 holds a special communication Tuesday night March 28 at 7 30 p m. The event supports the Educational Campaign with good speakers. All Master Masons in the county are invited. F I Barber W M S N Watson Secretary
Edna Hollifield visited homefolks and Louise Lattimore spent time in Asheville. Oak Grove school staged An Old Fashioned Mother with proceeds to both schools. Rev. Havner to preach at Baptist church. Local youths win baseball 10-5 over Washburn. Philomathian society program drew a large crowd. Several residents visit relatives while others recover at home. Master Clemmer Thomas celebrated his twelfth birthday with friends. Alice Smith recovers from tonsillitis, Kate King visits Shelby.
Forest City Lodge No 232 L C reorganized at Odd Fellows meeting Saturday night with Grand Master L W Moore and Grand Secretary John C Berry presiding. Officers elected include Noble Grand R E Biggerstaff and others. Banquet at Carolina cafe followed a sump tious dinner. March 2 important meeting urged. Died Malcolm Sorrel prom or Gilkey aged about 60. Lost ladies white kid shoes and a man's overcoat found in hall. owners to claim at Coca Cola plant office.
A Forest City Red Cross worker tells of John Benjamin King, a World War I veteran marked missing at Chateau Thierry. Stricken with tuberculosis after sleeping outdoors, he sought a night’s lodging and supper, receiving help only from the mayor’s office and a loan for rail fare home. The report questions the government’s delay in compensation and calls for relief before the illness worsens.
The Men’s Wesley Bible Class meets at the Methodist church every Sunday at 10 o’clock. You are cordially invited to attend.
At the Wesley Bible Class meeting on March 19, officers were elected for six months. B B Dogett is President J M Edwards Vice President E G Abernethy Secretary O C Turner Treasurer B H Long Chairman Membership N H Welch Chairman Social N B Dogett Chairman Devotional The class reappointed Captain B L Smith as teacher and praised rapid progress under his leadership.
A classified style notice invites men women and single people to join a correspondence club to meet potential spouses worldwide. It promises free photos and low subscription rates offering four months for fifty cents and one year for one dollar.
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