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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1927
Page
4
Raleigh reports the 1926 cotton crop set records with 1,204,496 five hundred pound bales ginned by March 21 and a total U S crop of 17,900,258 bales. North Carolina yielded over 290 pounds lint per acre from 1,895,000 acres, the highest among Cotton Belt states, with 1.5 percent abandonment since June 25 estimates amid prior dry conditions and June shifts.
Doctors say perfect purification is nature’s foundation of health. Rid chronic ailments by a weekly Calotabs course for several weeks. Calotabs purify the entire system. Get a family package with full directions. Only 50 cts. At any drug store.
Rutherfordton May 23 Officers Curtis Hardin and R L Houser aided by Ed Brown raided in Gray's Chapel on May 12 and captured two white men John Hodge of Polk county and Pink Canipe of this county at a still in operation They were preparing for a run They had six bushels of meal and were ready for manufacturing They were jailed and given a year on county roads of hard labor The still was destroyed.
The Court of Honor, Boy Scouts of America Piedmont Council, met in Rutherfordton's graded school building amid unforeseen difficulties after chair man B A Buff resigned at the last moment. Scouts from Rutherfordton Troop 1 Cliffside Troop 1 and Forest City Troop 1 advanced in rank and earned merit badges in aviation sculpture leather and more with staff including Scoutmasters Roach Jones Gillespie and the Schieles.
One ton of ground limestone applied every four years has greatly increased cotton yields on the Cecil clay soils of Piedmont North Carolina.
Prize money totaling fifty dollars will be awarded to the top three hog callers at this year’s State Farmers Convention. The event runs July 26 and 27, with focus on strengthening the livestock industry and revival of interest in deep growing across North Carolina pastures.
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