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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1922
Page
2
The Cliffside News edited by B. E. Roach and associate editor Professor Clyde A. Erwin is published weekly in connection with The Forest City Courier. Subscriptions, job and ad orders, and news items can be left at the Cliffside office for prompt attention.
The town seeks growth through public spirit and sacrifice. A clipped daily paper quote calls for sportmanship, less greed, more help and praise, and tolerance. The piece notes strong revival activity with hundreds lining churches, stressing moral life as essential to a town’s success.
A three week tent meeting concluded with a vast baptismal scene at the Swimming pool on Church street. Rev Collins baptized seventy four in twenty three minutes, hundreds witnessed the momentous event and many members joined the Baptist church, with others expected to join Methodist and Presbyterian churches. The gathering included a fellowship line for new members, a purse presented to Rev Collins and Mr Carter, and plans to send Collins to the Southern Baptist Convention in Jacksonville. Local notices follow on engagements, visits, contests, and community updates.
At the school auditorium on Saturday May 20 at 8 o clock Miss Eloise M Tanner Miss Minnie Campbell and Mr D C Cole will present a program of musical and reading numbers. Tanner is a highly regarded reader from Virginia and New York Campbell has a famed voice and Cole will accompany on piano and perform cornet solos. Tickets on sale at the Drug Store Wednesday through Saturday no reserved seats.
Boas reports many colored residents asking to be served in the tent before it is taken down. Rev. Collins plans a colored-only sermon tonight and asks white attendees to abstain to preserve the service quality.
Messrs A R Wall and B E Hawkins serve as jurors in Rutherfordton this week. Messrs P C Hawkins and Robert Sparks will attend the Grand Lodge meeting of the I C F which convenes Tuesday evening in Winston-Salem. A committee funds the new Baptist church to be built on the site of the ongoing tent meeting from the past three weeks.
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