Firestone plan designed to aid local business
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company promotes a national ad campaign praising local dealers. Local dealer M. D. Harrill highlights Firestone’s policy of selling through neighborhood merchants who live and contribute to the community, contrasting with mail order houses. The program emphasizes branding, local advertising, and community wealth distribution. Snakehead and Gee Whizz Teeth 25c. Farmers Hardware Co.
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Firestone
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
M. D. Harrill
Mr. Harrill
Snakehead and Gee
Farmers Hardware Co
Miss Freida Heller Visits City Library
Miss Freida Heller of the State Library Commission Raleigh visited the city library last Monday. She is noted in literary circles and took part in classifying and rearranging books with librarian Mrs. Carla Huntley. Heller praised Forest City Library’s progress over two years and anticipated larger goals.
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Freida Heller
State Library Commission
Raleigh
City Library
Miss Heller
Carla Huntley
Forest City Library
Warson Strike Leader Convicted in Penn
Alfred Hoffman, a union organizer for hosiery workers, was found guilty on three counts including conspiring to assault and rocking strike breakers in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. He was acquitted on charges of conspiring to murder and to assault feloniously. Sentencing pending, he remains on a $25,000 bond. The case follows the fatal shooting of Alberta Bachman, a hosiery striker. Hoffman's Marion conviction for rioting and prior penalties were cited at trial.
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Alfred Hoffman
Iports
Stroudsburg
Hoffman
Shull
Alberta Bachman
Philadelphia
Marion
McDowell County
Supreme Court
McDowell
Cotton gowns and frocks mark 1931 summer weddings
Brides of 1931 favor cotton gowns and lace for summer weddings. Wearable gowns for bridal attendants in organza are popular. Practical, wearable frocks suit summer dances and ten hour parties, with lace and organza remaining fashionable for the season.
Presbyterian Services Next Sunday at Local Church
Presbyterian church will hold services next Sunday at 11 o clock led by Rev. T M Stribling of Spindale. All Presbyterians are urged to attend and visitors are welcome.
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T. M. Stribling
Spindale
A Dog's Life and Kat-astrophe Books Offered
Jo Anderson's A Dog's Life featuring Runt the country mongrel is on sale for 1 dollar from Clint McDade in Chattanooga Tennessee. He also offers Kat-as-trophe, about Tom the Beau Brummel of felines, at 1 dollar. Reading both promises hearty laughs.
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Jo Anderson
Clint McDade
Chattanooga
Tenn
Sulphur Springs Church News and Memorial Services
Rev J A Brock filled his Sulphur Springs appointment on Sunday afternoon memorial services were held at Holly Springs and High School last Sunday Miss Ruby Robbins returned from Boiling Springs College for the summer Mr and Mrs N F Wessinger visiting relatives in South Carolina Mr and Mrs Arthur Henson with Mrs Hensons parents C B Grose B Y P U invited Sundays at 8 pm Rutherford County singing convention to meet at Sulphur Springs church Visitors encouraged to attend and bring friends MrsGeorge Propes visited near Shiloh and Mr and Mrs R W Eaves attended services near Sunshine
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Forest City
R-1
J. A. Brock
Sulphur Springs
Holly Springs
Ruby Robbins
Boiling Springs College
N. F. Wessinger
South Carolina
Arthur Henson
Pauline Cole
Selma Hopper
Frank Cole
Rutherford County
R. W. Eaves
Sunshine
George Propes
Shiloh
Bert Lowery
N. A. Greene
C. B. Harrill
Presbyterian Hospital
Charlotte
Kathryn Randall
Hazel Biggerstaff
Mary Blanton
Etta Blanton
Roy Blanton
Delia Randalls
Hester Carpenter
T. T. Carpenter
Cliffside
W. T. Harrill
C. C. Magness
Hendersonville
M. E. Hawkins
Clyde
Moses Scruggs
Louis Scruggs
Wonnie Webb
Shelby
Irene Webb
Henrietta-Caroleen High School
J. North Randall
Pineville
W. B. Blanton
Jack Harrill
Card of Thanks for Mr. J L Harrill
The Harrill family thanks friends for kindness and help during the illness and death of their father and husband Mrs. J L Harrill and children express gratitude for support and sympathy.
Thanking Friends for Kindness After Illness and Death
An expression of gratitude from Mrs. N. J. James and children for support during the illness and death of their husband and father. They thank friends and neighbors for sympathy and flowers and wish blessings on all.
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N. J. James
Memorial services mark Oak Grove week
A number of residents attended memorial services at Walls and His Shoals on Sunday. Rev J N Snow will preach at Oak Grove next Sunday replacing the first Sunday in June due to attendance at Pisgah for the quarterly conference and memorial services there. Several local residents and visitors were noted at church, hospital, and family gatherings amid routine illness reports and travel to nearby towns.
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Bostic
Walls and His Shoals
J. N. Snow
Oak Grove
Pisgah
Clarence Tate
Sandy Run Association Meet Holds June Event at Cliffside
Cliffside May 26 The Sandy Run Association plans a Sunday School and meet at Cliffside in June with Harrill as president. Speakers include IC Matheney Rev J 45 for Caroleen Rev J y and others. Miss Vivisy Lillian Keeter of Rutherfordton will give a musical program. 4 700 delegates and officers are expected to attend.
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Cliffside
Er Harrill
Matheney
Record day in Rutherfordton Court with multiple charges
May 27 in Rutherfordton a busy recorder’s day saw many tried on larceny manufacturing and driving offenses. defendants faced sentences for assault with deadly weapon and driving while intoxicated. the testimony noted a road safety movement had some effect and a ping pong injury case appeared among other entries.
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Rutherfordton
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Rajah
Howe Ade
Certo
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A&p Grape
Pillsbury
Sunnyfield
Shankless
Crear
Atlantic
Pacific
J. L. Harrill
OAK Grove News
Tle
James Martin
Docia Beam
M. B. Bean
Bru
Cherokee
Tommie Harrill
Kalep Sparks
Isaac Padgett
Sandy Run Association
Recorder
Soy Beans, Stock Beet Farmers Hardware Co
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