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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1929
Page
1
Large crowds attend an evangelist revival at the 1st Baptist Church led by Dr. J. M. Haymore of Georgia. The schedule spans Sunday to the following Tuesday with topics on the Holy Spirit, omniscience, and hell. Merchants close one hour daily. services start 9 to 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. with choirs and special music enhancing the event.
E. V. Seitz, coach of the Cool Springs football team known as the Golden Tornado, released a 1929 schedule. Games listed include Chesnee September 20, Hendersonville September 27, Shelby October 4, Morganton October 11, Lincolnton October 18, Cherryville October 25, with the championship series November 1. Seitz expects a strong season, noting 35 to 40 players practice daily and past state success in 1928.
In Shelby the Piedmont Council Boy Scouts executive meeting reported the council in good shape but cited leadership gaps and the Pioneer movement linked to communism as a threat. Rev G R Gillespie aided in reclaiming uniforms used for distributing Red literature. Rutherford county delegates attended. Fred Smyre Jr spoke on attending the International Jamboree in Birkenhead.
Rutherfordton reports two fires this week in the New Hope colored section and at the First Baptist Church. A four room house owned by Joe McEntire and occupied by Genus Miller family with John Michael undertaking shop burned near midnight. Michael's loss about 3500 with 1500 insurance. McEntire about 1500 with 500 insurance. Earlier, a basement fire in the church motor area caused by a short circuit was quickly controlled with minimal damage.
A five month old Jersey calf named Sybil's Great Gamboge was purchased for 316 dollars and kept at Mr. O. B. Grose’s farm in Forest City route 2 on Sulphur Springs road. The calf’s sire is Sybil's Gamboge the third from Jersey and sold for 13 thousand dollars. The dam, Sybil's Great Belle, yields about fifty four to sixty pounds of milk daily. The calf, from Fair Acres Farm Weston Pennsylvania, will join a group of dairymen including Dr. W. A. Thompson and Claude Laughridge and will be rotated among four county communities after growth. This is the second community bull bought in three years, following Ivey's Golden Gamboge.
The Florence Pirates, winners of the second half, meet Harris in the second of a three game series at Harris Saturday at 3 30 pm to decide the league title. Forest City took game one last Saturday 6 3.
Local market today lists cotton at 18 cents per pound with steady activity. Traders report modest demand and no major price shifts for the session.
The Rutherford County Club meets Friday at one in The Hut of Pleasant Grove Methodist Church West End Forest City. Speakers are Prof Clyde A Erwin Rutherfordton and Dr W C Bostic Forest City. Erwin speaks on school progress in the county over the past decade. Bostic outlines the cancer clinic planned for October backed by the State Board of Health and Rutherford County Medical Society. Reports on the Sesqui Centennial Celebration and other business will be discussed.
Claude Phillips, 80, of Henrietta, is in Rutherford hospital with a broken right leg after a Ford touring car stop to fix a puncture on Highway 20 west of Rutherford. His wife and seven children were aboard when a blue sedan, about 55 mph, struck and knocked him about 30 feet and then fled. Phillips sustained a deep arm gash and shoulder injuries. no owner identified.
Spindale September 17 The fourth group conference of District No 2 of Kings Mountain Presbyterial will convene at Spindale Presbyterian Church beginning at 10 am with devotionals and a host of talks and music. The program includes leaders from Rutherfordton and Montreat, a chapter on The Standard as a Model, and a noon lunch with round table discussions.
Charles Ford captain and star quarterback of the local football team underwent an appendicitis operation at Rutherford Hospital on Tuesday. He played a key role in many of the Golden Tornado's toughest games last year and showed improved form at the season start, but the operation will remove him from this season's lineup. Hospital reports say the operation was highly successful.
Report from the county hospital Wednesday noon states Martin Priups of Henrietta is well known in the county and Mr Phillips remains in serious condition and not resting well.
Rutherfordton Kiwanis Club plans a teachers night at Isothermal Hotel on Sept 19 at 7 30 p m. One hundred expected with 32 members and 47 teachers in local schools. Roy Hunter and W Garland Cline lead a music and stunts program. L E Spikes is president with district trustees Nanney and Erwin named delegates to the Carolinas District Convention in Greenville Nov 6 8.
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