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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1922
Page
7
The Cliffside News appears weekly with The Forest City Courier. Subscriptions and ad orders are handled by Editor B. E. Roach at his Cliffside office for prompt attention.
Salutatory of The Cliffside News asks readers across Cliffside and nearby areas to contribute news notes and items of interest. It lists local contacts at the Bank Postoffice Mill Drug Star Main Store and other offices and urges timely reports to keep the community informed.
The Cliffside News announces its first venture into journalism to record daily progress and achievements for Cliffside residents and others interested in the town’s welfare and growth. The note frames the publication as a growing town's real newspaper effort.
The town undertakes a community page aimed at recording daily life and progress. It invites ideas and friendly criticism to shape the column, stressing knowledge of other nations and shared growth, with notes on singing school participation and the value of music as church life.
A town page asks prospective Boy Scouts to consider reopening the Laur al Valley and Lovers Lane trails along the river. It praises wildflowers, suggests rustic seating near the cliffs, and invites church and lodge directories plus class notices to be submitted to B. E. Roach. The note ends with a quip about love and vision.
The Camp Fire Girls will hike this afternoon while the group studies their progress. The Chorus Class notes new faces as singing grows in volume and beauty. The Century Club work is paused due to war but plans to restart soon. Students prepare for Group Center Commencement at Henrietta next Saturday and the High School debaters travel to Henrietta on April 3 with teams named.
Rutherford county hosts a county baking contest led by Miss Eva Logan drawing interest in muffin and biscuit making at Cliffside public schools. Eighty two students entered a preliminary to pick four winners who earned aluminum ware. Lillian Nanney Lucille Nanney Jo Crawley and Pauline Freeman won and later claimed top placements at the Henrietta township contest.
No Sunday night service at the Baptist church due to a revival at the M. E. church. Rev. Collins preached in Avondale for Rev. Keever who will continue the meetings. Large crowds attended last night and services will start at 7:30 each evening with afternoon sessions after Thursday to aid those unable to attend.
On Tuesday afternoon the Junior Baraca class of Cliffside Methodist Church led by Rev J C Keever hiked with their boys. They recorded forty different tree kinds and enjoyed a long jumping contest lasting about two and a half hours before returning to their teacher Mrs Walter H continued on page 7
Special pictures including The Old Nest Dangerous Curve Ahead Theodora The Fall of Babylon and Knickerbocker Buckaroo will be shown soon at Rutherford county’s Cliffside Theatre in North Carolina.
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