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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1925
Page
1
Ladies enjoyed a lively Kiwanis meeting with the Hendersonville Quartet providing strong entertainment. Awards honored attendance and beauty contests, while local Kiwanis officials and visiting members planned future events and a Shelby zone gathering with a golf tournament.
Mr RL Williams head of Clinchfield coal storage at Bostic received a birthday dinner and a Masonic ring from plant employees at Clinchfield Park. He has long served as inspector and traveling fireman, overseeing Bostic yards for ten years amid 1968 carloads of coal stored for Seaboard Railway Co. The event featured Southern hospitality, readings by Miss Julia Grayson, and group photos, with many colleagues in attendance.
All city business men are urged to attend a 8 o'clock Thursday meeting at The Courier office where Mr M W Harriss and others will outline a cooperative proposition promising bigger business for merchants without changing current firm policies. Leave work for one hour to hear details and consider joining the movement for the city’s benefit.
Miss Sallie Wacaser of Henrietta school wed Mr. Buren Phillips of Caroleen at noon Tuesday August 25 in Shelby at the Z. J. Thompson home. The ceremony was by Rev. C. F. Sherrill with only relatives and close friends present. The couple will reside in Caroleen after September first.
Work at Rutherford fair grounds progresses toward a top county fair opening October 6. Construction chief R O Duncan says the track and exhibit building near completion with a ten foot fence and guard-line added. The Ohio Fireworks Company will stage nightly displays except Saturdays. Children’s Day will offer free admission as county schools close. Daily band concerts and a lineup of free acts will accompany horse racing and aeroplane flights.
Forest City party led by Harry Camnitz caught 21 pounds of black bass at Bridgewater with an eight pound fish, said to be the largest ever caught there. The group included Dr. R. L. Reinhardt and Paul Reinhardt. Also notes births and a 9 1/2 pound voyage on Sept 2 for Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Finch, and a Sept 1 birth of a boy to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Allen.
Caroleen businessman tied to Henrietta Mills Store wed a local bride. Attendees included Miss Reba Phillips Mrs Denis Camp and sister Miss Camp, Mr Louie Smith of Henrietta, and Mr and Mrs Hall Gilman sister of the bride from Fallston.
The Alexander Bostic and Forest City grammar grades reopened Monday with enrollments of about 200 in Alexander 100 plus in Bostic and over 600 in Forest City the largest ever. Teachers resumed full schedules as classification adjustments and a county wide school census were planned to ensure all eligible children seven to fourteen attend.
Rutherfordton reports the death of Mrs. Ed Beam on September 1 at her Alexandria, near Washington D C, home. Former Rutherfordton resident, widow of a Wilson administration staffer, she was 59. Survived by husband Gordon Beam two daughters and several relatives. Funeral set for Brittain Cemetery.
J L Dilebay, nine years manager of the Gaffney South Carolina sub-station, will be transferred to Forest City soon to head the new station. E G Abernathy continues as Division Superintendent as before.
Mr Harris chair of the County Commissioners said a county cottage near completion will house thirty two boys. He expressed a hope that Forest City boys will not be included in the group.
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