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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1927
Page
5
The Cliffside News appears weekly in connection with The Forest City Courier. It provides brief local items and community notes aligned with the Forest City publication.
The Roachee Baptist Church reports Pastor Smith and wife on vacation with no service last Sunday. Members attended E Church and Avondale. A Men’s Bible Class stew event at Memorial building featured Prof A C Love lace. Fish stew praised. Classes visited by M E and Baptist groups. Rev W T Tate of Pacolet S C to preach next Sunday. An Old Time singing at 2:30 PM invites all with Christian Harmony books. Rev D J Hunt to preach Sunday at 7:30 PM. Hunt formerly served here.
Farmers in this section bustle with pea and cotton picking. The sermon proceeded in Pastor’s absence, with Prof. W. V. Tarlton and wife attending Mol ly Springs service. Visitors from Henrietta, Alexander, Sulphur Springs and Shiloh attended. About forty or fifty converts were baptized at the river near Big Island Bridge. The Sandy Run Association prepares to meet with the church in October.
Forest City reports include Mr. and Mrs. B R Douth and son Ray of Charlotte staying with A C Moore family, Alda Moore leaving for Wins ton Salem after a week with her parents, T L McBrayer and family visiting Coster McBrayer, E M Diveney and family tied in Spindale, Ozell Moore departing for Duke University, birth of Boyce to J C Hudson and wife, Alonzo Carver and Hendersonville kin at W H Carver's, and J W McCammon from the University of Cincinnati visiting Ellenboro with Prof A B Bushong.
Local notes report rearrangements at Cliffside Mills Drug Store for convenience. Residents and visitors include DeWitt Thompson of Washington DC visiting parents, and numerous locals traveling to Lake Lure Hendersonville Mars Hill College and Spartanburg. Several students depart for Chapel Hill Randolph Macon and Wake Forest while others attend events in Asheville Shelby Gastonia and West End.
Forest City R-1 notes smaller B Y P U gathering due to rain on Sunday evening. Community activity includes cotton picking, visits among residents, and local road improvements finishing a concrete bridge near Asheville. Several households report family and neighbor visits, with focus on easing road conditions toward the Cleveland County line toward Shelby.
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