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VOL. IX?NO. 28

FOREST CITY COURIERPUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FOREST CITY AND RUTHERFORD COUNTY

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER KILLEDBY LIGHTNING AT CAROLEEN

Mrs. James Morrow and Daughter Mrs. George Reavis Are-Instantly Killed When Struck by Bolt of LightningMonday Evening at 8:00 O'clock.

Caroleen, April 19.?Light-ning claimed two lives duringthe severe electrical storm thathit this county Monday eve-ning, when Mrs. Lucy Morrow,aged 47, wife of James Mor-row, was struck dead as sheturned to lower a window inher home, and her daughter,Mrs. George Reavis, age 28,was found dead in the nextroom a few minutes later, avictim of the same stroke thatkilled her mother.

REGISTER NOWTO VOTE IN CITY

ELECTION MAY3Registration Books Will Close

Saturday, April 23, at

9 P. M.

Forest. City's municipal electionwill be held Tuesday, May 3. Allwhohave not registered to vote in prev-ious elections must register beforethe books close next Saturday. Itis the civic duty of every man andwoman eligible to vote to registerand cast their ballot on election day.

A mayor and five aldermen areto be elected. Forest City must havethe very best set of officers, and thiscan be obtained only by every voterexpressing his or her choice at theballot boxes.

Remember, if you have not alreadyregistered, you must do so beforeSaturday 9 p. m.

FATHER OF MISS JUANITAMINISH DEAD

Word was received here this weekthat Mr. W. R. Minish, of Gratz,Ky., was dead. He underwent anoperation for stomach trouble at ahospital in Louisville, Ky., a few daysago, which brought about his deathTuesday evening, of this week. Mr.Minish was a druggist at Gratz, Ky.,and one of the town's leading citi-zens.

According to reports the stroke oflightning that killed the mother anddaughter struck a pine tree near thehouse and entered on the electriclight wire, blowing out the fuse plugs,and burning into two main electrictines and leaving the town in dark-ness until near midnight. The strokealso demoralized the electric linesfrom Gaffney to Rutherfordton fora few seconds, throwing the entireterritory into darkness about eighto'clock Monday evening for aboutone - half minute.

The body of Mrs. Reavis was foundby her father after Mrs. Morrowfailed to answer his call. A toe onMrs. Morrow's right foot was splitby the bolt. The house was not in-jured, except a plank or two tornoff the ceiling. Mr. Morrow, semi-invalid husband of Mrs. Morrow, wasslightly shocked. The three smallchildren of Mrs. Reavis were in theroom but none of them were injured.

Mrs. Reavis had been making herhome with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.James Morrow for some time. They

lived in the Hawkinstown section ofCaroleen. Mrs. Reavis is survivedby three children, the youngest threeweeks old.

Mrs. Morrow had just taken outSI,OOO group insurance for mill op-eratives, which became effective lastSaturday. She also carried $460.00

insurance in another company, takenout last August.

Funeral services for the couplewas conducted Wednesday at 3 o'-clock at High Shoals Baptist church.Several hundred people were in at-tendance.

Miss Juanita Minish of Forest Cityis the only child. She is teacher ofFrench and dean in the local highschool and one of the town's mostpopular young ladies.

TOWNSHIP DECLAMATIONCONTESTS TONIGHT

The township declamation and rec-itation contest will be held at thehigh school auditorium Thursday eve-ning (tonight), instead of Fridayevening, as announced last week.Prof. Eaks states that the changewas made on account of conflictingdates.

THE CAROLINAPLAYMAKERS

COMING MAY 13 WITHDRAWS FROMMAYORALITY RACE

Famous Body is Sponsored by

Dramatic Club?At High

School Auditorium

Mr. A. L. McDaniel, who announc-ed as a candidate for mayor a fewweeks ago, has withdi-awn his namebut announces that he will be a can-didate for Alderman.

Attention is again called to thefact that registration books closenext Saturday at 9 p. m. All whowish to vote in the approaching townelection must register, if they havenot done so in a previous election.

The Carolina Playmakers are to

be in Forest City, May 13. The Dra-matic club is sponsoring this pro-duction which will be best eventof the year. Forest City is particul-arly fortunate to secure the Play-makers for they usually make only

the largest towns.

The Carolina Playmakers havewon favorable criticism from all over

the United States and their remark-able achievements have placed Norffi

Carolina in the foreground in orig-

inal play writing and distinctive in-terpretation.

The Playmakers began their workjust nine years ago. They have writ-

ten and produced 46 Carolina Folk

Plays, published two volumes and de-veloped some remarkable writers.

The chief of ttese writers is Paul

Green, whose play "In Abraham's

Eosom" is appearing in the Garrick

Theatre in New York now, and is

mentioned as being likely to receive

the Pulitzer prize.The program that is to be produc-

ed at Forest City includes a play by

Paul Green, "Quare Medicine" a

folk comedy of Easter Carolina. The

second play is "Lighted Candles" a

tragedy of Mountain life by Margaret

Bland and a Chinese play, "The Mar-

velous Romance of Wen Chun Chin,"

written by Cheng Chin Hsing, a Chi-

nese student who came to University

of North Carolina to study dramtics.This play is based on a beautiful old

OPENS FURNITURE REPAIRFIRM

Mr. T. A. Summey, of Gastonia hasopened a furniture repair shop here,under firm name of the SouthernFurniture Repair Company. The bus-iness will be operated upstairs inthe Moss Building, and will specializein repairing, upholstering and re-fin-ishing furniture.

Mr. Summey is a brother of MissKatie Summey of the City Dry Clean-ers Co.

Chinese folk tale and is one of themost beautiful plays the Playmakershave produced.

This is an unusually good programand representative of the excellentwork that is being done by this groupof young people. The most famousgroup in America. The New YorkReview says, "The plays produced bythe Carolina Playmakers are fullyequal to any of the Irish folk loreplays produced by Lady Gregory'scompany.

Just received a large shipment ofsmall hardware, Courtney's 10cStore.

FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1927.

LOCAL HI-Y CLUB BEST ORGANIZATION OF ITS KIND IN COUNTY

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Top Row?Pierce Hyder, Earl Withrow, Willie Toms, D. H. Sutton, Horace Yelton, William Ayers. CenterRow ?Louis Summey, Alfred Gilliam, James Moss, Tom Dorsey, Dexter Henry, Coil Morris, Flay Weathers,Howard Walker, Norman Morgan, Yates Holland. Bottom Row ?Cap Freeman, Clarke Matheney, CharlesSummey, Worth Harris, Clyde Keeter, Thad Marks, William Biggerstaff, Charles Ford, Howard Camnitz, Sol-en Suber.

The Hi-Y club is one of the most ?

active organizations in the Cool jSprings High School. The purpose of !

the club is to create, maintain and j0

extend through the school and com-

munity high standards'of Christian

character. The club sponsored a

Bible study class last spring and thisclass won the Jstate chimpionship.

The school now holds the state cup.

This is a beautiful silver loving cup

given by Mr. G. F. Ivey, of Hickory.

The club sent four delegates and theadult leader, Mr. Sutton, to theState Older Boys' conference inWinston-Salem last fall.

The members of the club are se-lected from among the upper classesin high school and are very enthus-iastic about the work of the club.

The officers are: William Biggerstaff,president; Louis Summey, vice-presi-dent; Pierce Hyder, secretary andJames Moss, treasurer. Mr. D. H.Sut-ton is adult leader of the club andattends all its meetings. The advis-ory board is made up of all the menteachers in the high school. Themotto of the club is, "clean speech,clean athletics, clean scholarship andclean living."

KINGS MOUNTAINPRESBYTERY METTUESDAY IN SHELBY

Mr. O. C. Erwin Elected Mod-erator?Spindale Presby-

terian Mission Changedto Church. Parsonage

to be at Spindale

With the churches of five coun-ties represented Kings MountainPresbytery convened at Shelby Tues-day morning for the regular annualspring meeting. Rev. W. W. Akers,of Lincolnton, preached the retir-ing moderator's sermon and ElderO. C. Erwin, of Rutherfordton, wasunanimously elected moderator forthe ensuing year, the Rutherfordtonchurch being represented by Rev W.L. Latham and O. C. Erwin, the For-est City church by Rev. G. R. Gilles-pie and Thos. G. Stone and the Brit-tain, Union Mills and Duncan Creekchurches by Rev. R. T. Baker andthree elders.

The report of the home missionsuperintendent was commended andadopted and Rev. G. R. Gillespie againre-elected for the ensuing year withheadquartei's at Forest City.

An overture with 31 petitioners,representing prominent Presbyteriansof Spindale, was received and hon-ored and the former Spindale con-gregational mission granted permis-sion to be organized as the SpindalePresbyterian church by a commissionappointed for that purpose. A call fora pastor is now being prosecuted andhe will visit the field the first Sun-day in May with a view to becom-

| ing settled at Spindale.

SPINDALE TO PLAYCHARLOTTE ROAD CLUB

Spindale, April 20.?The Spindalebaseball club will play the CharlotteRoad Club Team at the Spindaleball park on Friday afternoon at 3:30o'clock and on . Saturday afternoonat 3:00 o'clock. The Charlotte RoadClub is making a tour of the twoCarolinas and are playing some ofthe amateur teams in the two

states. Manager Thomason of theSpindale club assures baseball fansthat thjs will be two games worthseeing.

MISS VIRGINIALINKWEDS OWEN STAMEY

Attractive Forest City Girl Be-comes Bride of Ruthe-

fordton Man

Miss Virginia Link, of Forest City,

and Mr. Owen Stamey, of Ruther-

fordton, were secretly married Sat-urday. It is reported that the wed-ding- took place in Asheville.

Mrs. Stamey is the attractive

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Link.

She has been attending school at

Meredith College where she is a Jun-

ior this year and one of the college'smost brilliant students. She came to

her home here last week to spend theEaster holidays with her parents, andSaturday left with Mr. Stamey. Mrs.Stamey was voted the most beautifulgirl in attendance at Meredith Col-lege in December.

Mr. Stamey is a son of Mr. T. A.Stamey. He is a graduate of Trinity

Park School, at Durham, year of 1919and later attended Wake Forest. Heis secretary, treasurer and salesmanof the Wilson - Stamey WholesaleGrocery Company of Rutherfordton,a young man of remarkable character

business ability and is an inval-uable asset to the firm and commun-ity.

Following the wedding the coupleleft on a honeymoon trip. Every de-tail of the elopment is attended withthe utmost secrecy, and the announce-,

ment of the wedding here this week

was received with much surprise.

BARN BURNED

A bam belonging to Mr. William {

P. Watkins, on King Street, was

burned at five o'clock Wednesday.

The cause of the fire was thought

to have been defective wiring. Mr.

J. C. Harrill noticed the fire andturned in an alarm, but when the jfire truck reached the fire the flameshad gained such headway that they (could not be checked. .

The building and contents were a !complete loss. One pony was burned

to death, and two cars stored in thebarn were burned, also one standing

nearby on the outside. A lot of feedand roughage in the barn was alsodestroyed.

APRIL MEETING OFTHE COUNTY CLUB

AT LAKE LUREDr. L. B. Morse Tells of Won-

derful Development ofLake Lure Country in

Address BeforeClub

Lake Lure, April 20.?The April

meeting of the Rutherford County

Club was held at the Lake Lure Inn

here yesterday. The attendance was

good, and the luncheon up to thestandard of that excellent holstery.

Dr. L. B. Morse was in charge of

the program, and in an address to

the Club, told of the wonderful devel-

opment of the Lake Lure section andgave inside information on the growthof this new summer resort.

A committee was appointed by thepresident to investigate the telephonesituation in the county, in referenceto making charges for connectionsbetween exchanges in the county.

The committee are Messrs. K. S.Tanner, Tan Harris, and Dr. C. F.Gold and F. D. Hamrick.

The members of the club left theircars at the dam and made the trip

to Lake Lure Inn and return by motor

boats, placed at the disposal of theClub by the generosity of the Chim-ney Rock Mountains, Inc.

EASTER CANTATAATBAPTIST CHURCHThe Easter Cantata, "The Prince

of Life," by Evan S. Foster, given at

the First Baptist Church Sunday eve-

ning, was pronounced by many to

be the best program ever given by

the choir of that church,

j Miss Katherine H. Goggans, choirdirector, was warmly congratulated

on all sides by lovers of good music

j on the excellence of the program.

A large crowd was present.. The

1 cantata consisted of fourteen num-

bers. Every member of the choir came

in for praise and the several visitors

who came and helped in the cantata

were given a rising vote of thanks' at the conclusion of the program.

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SPINDALE TO HAVEFIRE AND POLICE

STATION SOONNewly Organized Fire De-

partment Has First Exper-ience in Fire Fighting

Thursday

Spindale, April 18.?Spindale'snew fire department had its firstexperience in fire-fighting lastThursday afternoon when the houseoccupied by Lonnie Lynch, colored,of "Black Bottom", negro sectionof Spindale, was burned. The house,the property of the Spencer Mills,was destroyed together with thehousehold goods of Lynch. The firedepartment arrived too late to checkthe flames, but saved the adjoininghouses from destruction. The housewas almost a mass of flames beforethe fire was discovered, and thework of the fire engine was hamp-ered by the inabilityto secure water,as the water mains do not extendto this section.

The fire department organizationhas just been completed. It is a vol-unteer department, and consists ofthe following members: PolicemanYates Duncan, Chief; S. K. Yelton,Captain; G. L. James, Lieutenant;G. J. Moore, day driver; PolicemanG. F. Green, night driver. The mem-bers of the department are Messrs.0. C. Smith, Jim Chatham, T. B.Tate, Ed Nanney, Bill McDonald, HalSherrill, Ocie Nanney, Fred Green,Milton F. Apperson.

Fire and Police StationPlans for a police and fire station

have been accepted by the TownCouncil, and it is expected that workwill begin on same within a shorttime. The proposed building will beerected on the lot with the SpindaleHouse, and will adjoin that build-ing. It will face west on the streetleading from the Spindale House toRoute 20 highway. Architecturally, itwill conform to Spindale House, thesame architect, Mr. M. B. Boyer, ofCharlotte, having drawn the plansfor both buildings. The structure willbe about thirty by thirty-five feetin size and will be one story inheight.

A large, electrically operated firesiren has been place on top of theStonecutter Standpipe.

ALEXANDERNEWSBostic Win* Debate Over Alexander

School Fourth and Fifth GradesCommencement Soon.

Alexander Mills, April 20.?Sev-eral of the Sunday school classeswent on an egg hunt last Saturdayafternoon.

Miss Ruth Moore is visiting herparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Moore.Miss Moore has been studying inColumbia University, New York.

Mrs. A. L. Hamrick spent the weekend with her father, J. R. Jolley wholives near Cliffside. Mr. Jolley hasbeen real sick with "flu."

The debate between Bostic andthe Forest City Grammar school washeld in the Alexander school audi-torium last Friday afternoon. Rev.C. C. Matheney, Mrs. Bryan Randalland Mrs. Marion Blanton served asjudges. The decision was two andone in favor of the Bostic school.

Miss Nola Patrick and Mrs. Mar-ion Blanton, teachers of the fourthand fifth grades, had planned togive their school play next Saturdaynight, but had to put it off on theaccount of a negro minstrel that is tobe given at this time. This play willbe given Thursday night, April thetwenty-sixth.

Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Randall spentlast Sunday afternoon at Lake Lure.

Miss Nola Patrick spent last Mon-day night with her sister, Mrs. A.

i L. Jolley.

WASHING AND GREASING

Bring your car to us for best serv-ice and most satisfactory prices.Most convenient place in town. Fullline of Standard gas and oils, ac-cessories, etc. Free air and crankcase service. Located on Cherry Mt.Street. Give us a call. White's FillingStation.