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VOL. IV?No. 48.

FOREST CITY COURIERPUBLISHED IN THE BUSIEST/BEST, BIGGEST AND FASTEST GROWING CITY IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY

FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1922

REVIVAL CAMPAIGNAT BAPTIST CHURCH

To Begin Sunday, Sept. 17, Con-ducted by Dr. R. J. Batcman?I.lr. Horace B. Easom to ConductChorus.

Everything is in readiness forthe beginning of the big revivalcampaign at the First Baptistchurch, Forest City, next Sunday,Sept. 17th.

This meeting, which is lookedforward to with a great deal ofinterest,, will be conducted by Dr.R. J. Bateman, pastor of the firstBaptist church at Asheville, Mr.Horace B. Easom, the splendidchorous leader of Wilmington, N.C., will have charge of the music.

The greater credit for bringingthis powerful preacher to ForestCity goes to Mr. J. F. Alexander,who is always at the forefront inchurch work. Mr. Alexander, whois a personal friend of Dr. Bate-man, made several trips to Ashe-ville in an effort to have Dr.Bateman come here. It was only

j after a conference with the dea-cons of the Asheville church thatarrangements for Dr. Bateman'scoming were made. The noteddivine has fteen in several success-ful meetings recently and feltthat he should now devote histime to his home church, andasked Mr. Alexander to put thematter of his coming here beforethe church board. When this wasdone, the deacon's at the personalsolicitation of Mr. Alexander andothers, kindly consented.

Dr. Bateman's coming is await-ed with considerable interest. Heis one of the most powerful preach

ers of the state,, and his work inForest City will doubtless proveof great benefit to the city andcommunity.

Dr. Bateman's Last MeetingDr. Bateman closed a success-

ful meeting at Wilmington, N. C.,last Saturday. The WilmingtonStar says:

"May i know that I am a Chris-tain, and if so, how?" was thesubject used by Dr. R. J. Bate-man last night at the closing- ofthe Southsicle revival.

The sceaker said that one must

first find out what God wantshim to do, and then be willingto do it. The unsaved people ofthe congregation were picturedas being on trial, and JesusChrist was presented as the onlycouncil, who could win the case

and guaranFee to each individualan everlasting heavenly home.

Implicit faith was pictured bygraphic and simple illustrationsfrom actual experiences in thelife of this great preacher.

"Will you do God's will," wasthe invitation; and "Doing God'sWill,*' was the consummation.When the invitation was givenseveral came forward and laid

j their lives upon the altar,

j Those who have been hearing

Dr. Bateman throughout his ser-ies of sermons declare them to besome of the best and most logic-

al ever delivered from any pul-pit in the He leaves thismorning for his home in Ashe-ville, where he is pastor of theFirst Baptist church of that city.

The large chorus choir, underthe direction of Mr. Easom, didgreat service throughout the re-vival, and was a great drawingcard to the crowds present at

each service. The Southsidochurch conducts its service along-evangelical lines all the time.

those who started the shooting at;Casar. It is understood thatsentiment in No. 11 township, (where the car was stopped, is so!intense that Hoyle and Wesson |have been threatened by a num-

ber of people.The opinion of the attorneys:

seems to be that Houser, Hoyleand Wesson will likely be triedin Federal court, inasmuch as theparty was in charge of Houser,who is a Federal officer. How-ever, Cabaniss will probably betried in Superior court in thiscounty as he was not acting inconjuncting with a Federal of- jficer. Hoyle and Wesson are coun-ty officers but the fact that they,were under direction of a Federalofficer places them, it is believed,under the jurisdiction of Federal Icourt. I

Clyde R. Hoey has been retained jto prosecute the officers, 0. Max ,Gardner represent Policeman Ca-'baniss and O. M. Mull will appear

for Wesson, Houser and Hoyle.

HENRIETTA NEWS OFPASSING INTEREST

Miss Mary Glenn Hamrick andMr. Crawford Durham MooreMarried Last Saturday?OtherHappenings.

Henrietta, Sept. 12.?A quietwedding, but one of much inter-est, took place Saturday evening,Sept. 9, at 7 o'clock, when MissMary Glenn Hamrick became thebride of Mr. Crawford DurhamMoore. Only members of the im-mediate families and Dr. and Mrs.T. C. Lovelace were present forthe occasion, the ceremony being-performed at the home of thebride's pastor, Rev. W. T. Tate,of Caroleen, who officiated.

The bride was becomingly at-tired in a lovely dress of bluewool crepe with grey accessoriesto match.

Immediately after the ceremonythe happy couple left for a shorttrip to the mountains, afterwhich they will return to Shelbvwhere they will make their home.

Mrs. Moore is the youngestdaughter of Mr. and Mrs. JamesM. Hamrick, of Henrietta, ayoung lady of unusual charm andbeauty and very popular. Shewas educated at Boiling SpringsHigh School and finished a busi-ness at King's Business Col-lege, of Charlotte. For severalyears she was assistant cashier ofthe Haynes Bank at Henriettaand for the past three years hasheld a responsible position withthe Farmers Bank & Trust Com-pany at Forest City and Caroleen.

Mr. Moore is the splendid sonof Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Moore, ofAlexander, a young man of un-usual character and business qual-ities. He was educated at WakeForest College and for the pastsix years has held an importantposition with the First NationalBank of Shelby.

The marriage of this popularcouple will be of much interest totheir many friends in this partof the state.

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Mrs. H. R! Camnitz, Jr., andMrs. H. R. Camnitz, Sr., left Tues-day morning for Bishopville, S.C., where they go to spend a fewdays with Mrs. Camnitz's parents,

Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Perrin.Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Moore and

children motored to Mars Hilllast Saturday, spe?iding the daywith their son Tom, who is inschool there. They spent a fewhours in Asheville on their wayback.

Mr. R. L. Armour and shoppingparty, who motored through toBaltimore and New York, return-ed Sunday. They had a splendidtrip with no bad luck.

Mrs. W. D. Walker, of Ruther-fordton, spent the week-end withher parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C.Smith.

The Yates Bible Class entertain-ed at a social given at the Wel-fare House last Saturday night.Prof. A. C. Lovelace, teacher ofthe c'ass, with most of the mem-bers present enjoyed the eveningmost heartily. Ice cream and cake

I were served.

B. & L. ASSOCIATIONTO OPEN QUARTERLY SERIES

At a special meeting of thestockholders Sept. 12 it was un-animously agreed upon to openthe series quarterly, thereby hav-ing 4 series yearly instead of two.

On October 7th we will openthe 34th series, just one monthearlier than before.

Already a good number of jshares have been applied forand the prospects are fine for abig series.

This is how we stand at thistime. A net gain of $3300.00 over

one year ago Aug. 31. With thissubstantial gain we are $63,000.00

behind with the loans. With thisamount you may be sure at least

50 new homes will be erected inForest City. We need your co-operation and need it badly.

Buy prepaid stock at $72.50 a

share. One of the best and clean-est investments to be had.

FOREST CITY B. & L. ASSOCIA-TION.

CHAPTER MEETING

There will be a regular convo-cation of Forest City Chapter, No.79, R. A. M., at the hall Thurs-day night, Sept. 14, at 7:30 o'clock

Exercises To Be Held in Meth-odist Church at 9 O'clock?Capt. Smith Writes a Letter toHigh School Graduates.

The Forest City Public Schoolswill open the 1922-1923 session inthe Methodist church at 9 o'clockMonday, September 18. The pat-rons and friends are invited tobe present. Talks will be madeby some of our leading citizens,plans for the year will be out-lined and announcements made.

Until we can get into the newbuilding it will be necessary forthe first and second grades to al-ternate mornings and afternoonsrespectively at the old Baptistchurch. The first grade will re-port at 8:30 o'clock and will re-main till 12:00; the second at12:30 and remain till 4:30. Thethird grade will occupy the littlebrick building; the fourth, fifth,and sixth grades, the woodenbuilding; the seventh grade theupstairs of the main building,and the High School the firstfloor of the main building.

Books are now on sale at theBernhardt Drug Co. for the ele-mentary grades. High schoolbooks will be sold by me. Itwill be necessary to pay for the

, books when they are delivered.It is very important that every

one who expects to attend schoolbe present the first day. If it isnecessary to be absent at all,make every effort to be on handthe opening day.

The teachers for the year willbe as follows:

First Grade?Miss Annie Ham-rick, Miss Ruby Hicks, and Miss

Second Grade?Mrs. J. V. Ware,Miss Lucy Padgett, Miss MattieHyder.

Third Grade?Miss Mae Nanney,Miss Nelle Young.

Fourth Grade?Miss Mary SueHill, Miss Frances Hoyle, MissVirginia Holmes.

Fifth Grade?Miss Jane Smyer,Mrs. Joe Morris.

Sixth Grade ?Mrs. Buford Flack.Seventh Grade?Miss Mary

Simpson, Miss Mable Sanders.High School?Miss Amelia

Stephenson, Miss Emeline Go-forth, Miss Ellis Credle, Miss VeraMcßane.

Music?Miss Zola Parler.Perhaps next to yourself the

teacher determines the destiny ofyour child. She should have yourwelcome into the town and yourhome, your co-operation in theconduct of the school, and yourappreciation for the help shegives you in the training of yourchild.

Let every one put a shoulder-to the wheel and make this thebest school year Forest City hasever had. We carirff each onewill do his part.

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To the Forest City High SchoolGraduates:

During these days you areleaving for College in large num-bers. This year we shall haveformer students in the Univer-sity of North Carolina, WakeForest College, Queens College,Trinity College, Winthrop Col-lege, Greenville College for Wo-jmen, A. and E., etc. For thejfirst time in the history of the jschool there will be sufficiently jlarge numbers in college to form jan estimate of the efficiency with jwhich the school is preparing its jstudents. Your record will deter- jmine the rating of your mother!High- School. '"You will make it'easy for those who come after jor you will make it dificult for |all those who follow you. Old F. jC. H. S. Jooks to you to give her ithe best that you have.

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jOthers' of you will be holding,

responsible positions as clerks, jbookkeepers, teachers, etc. Like,those who are in college, you are,setting standards. Will your work jbe such that Forest City gradu-ates will find an open door whereyour service has been rendered?Give your school ? good name bydoing all in your power to fillwell the position entrusted to;you.

As you go the school confident-ly hopes for your success. Weshall sympathize with you inyour trials and rejoice with you

in your triumphs. You are our

chiefest honor. The school ex-

pects you to keep high ideals and

FOREST CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILLOPEN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH

a wide-awake sense of duty. Youare each one out of one hundred.What splendid good fortune!What tremendous responsibility!Your opportunity calls you topositions of leadership and ser-vice. Your communities awaityour minds and hearts to directthem. You must not fail! "Givethe best that you have and thebest will come back to you.

We hope that you will not for-get us who hold forth back athome. Send us a note once in a whileletting us know how you are get-ting along and what you arethinking about. The Foresterwould be glad to publish lettersfrom you. Keep in touch withus.

Let me say once again to you! that, if you can See and you arewilling to Do, you can have whatyou want. Our best wishes gowith vou.

BENJ. L. SMITH.

FLORENCE MILLS NEWS

"Is tithing Scriptural, logical,and applicable in this present age?This great subject will be dis-cussed Friday evening 7:30 o'clockin the home of Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Coffey. If you are interested,meet the "Study The Bible Class,"at the above place and date.

Miss Lola Yelton has just re-turned from a two weeks' staywith relatives on Union Mills,route 2.

Announcement has been madethat eleven candidates for mem-bership in the Missionary Meth-odist church will receive waterbaptism in the village swimmingpool, Sunday afternoon next at 2o'clock.

Mr. and Mrs. Lex Hardin havemoved to Shelby, their formerhome.

Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Waycasterspent Saturday night in the homeof Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Funder-burk. Rev. Waycaster now residesin Caroleen.

Mr. Archie Sisk, who has beensick, is reported as greatly im-proved; but we regret that hiswife was taken ill Sunday, butnot seriously.

Messrs. Norman and BunyanHenderson, of near Chesnee, ac-companied by Mr. Johnson Wat-kins, were guests of Rev. andMrs. H. C. Sisk, Monday.

Mr. Jordan Crow, a former em-ployee of the Florence Mills, isnow working at Cliffside.

Revs. J. J. Sisk and LawsonEppley with their families at-

tended religious services in Car-oleen, Saturday and Sunday.

The Sisk-Henderson tent meet-ing which was to close Sunday

night, continues until Wednesdayvoicing the sentiment of thepeople.

Mr. and Mrs. Willie V. Gee, ofRoute 1, spent Sunday very pleas-antly at the home of the for-mer's parents, Mr. and Mrs JamesGee.

BIG AUCTION SALETO BE HELD SATURDAY

Edwards & Edwards, agents

Southern Land Auction Co., Ashe-ville, will hold a big auction salein Forest City Saturday afternoon.

The sale will begin at 2 o clockand will include several pieces ofvery valuable property. Read thebig ad in this issue for particu-lars.

The Spurgcon Yelton dwelling

at Spindale will be sold at 1o'clock.

COTTON GINNING

We are ready to gin your cot-ton at the Lawing plant, Sea-board depot, Forest City, whileour new plant is nearing comple-tion. Bring your cotton to us forquick and satisfactory service.

We hope to have the new oilmill plant ready for business at

an early date. In the meantimewe will take care of your cotton

at the Lawing gin.FOREST CITY OIL MILL CO.

A FINE BOY

Born, to the wife of Mr. J. R.Kiser, Sept. 10, a fine boy.

TWIN! GIRLS

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. P. O.

Seav, of Forest City, Sept. 10,

twin girls. Mother and childrenare getting along nicely.

MRS. I. B. DULLER, SHOT BY REVENUEOFFICERS, EXPECTED TO RECOVER

day morning" that Mrs. Miller wasdead and rather intense excite-ment prevailed for some time,quite a number of people havingcongregated in the square whenOfficer Houser, the only one ofthe officers who attempted tosearch the car at Casar coming toShelby, arrived.

Mr. Miller is employed at themill company store at Caroleen.Mr. Thompson is master mechan-ic at the Caroleen mill. Bothmen, according to Caroleen peo-ple who were in Shelby yesterday,have good reputations.

Thompson denied yesterday thatthere was any whiskey in the car.Officer Houser stated that therewas some whiskey in the ma-chine; that Mrs, Thompson threwout several fruit jars of whiskeyas he stepped on the runningboard of the car.

Mr.-. I B- Miller, of Caroleen, Nar-

owly Escapes Death From Of-

ficers' Shots?Much Feeling

Aroused.

A telephone call to the Ruther-iord Hospital late Wednesday

morning elicited the information

-hat Mrs- Miller was resting

fairly well. The bullet which

penetrated her jaw has been re-

moved but no attempt has yet

fceen made to remove the other

bullet.* * *

No happening in years has sostartled the people of this sec-

tion as the shooting of Mrs. I. B.Miller, of Caroleen, by revenue

officer* on Wednesday night of

last week.The Shelby Star, of Sept. 8,

has the following account of theaffair:

Mrs. I. B. Miller, of Caroleen,

was shot and seriously injured,B. W. Thompson, also of Caroleen,

is under arrest charged withtransporting whiskey and withrunning over and injuring Z.Short, of Casar, as a result of anattempt by Prohibition Enforce-ment Officer Evan L. Hauser andDeputies John Wesson Pear-ly Hoyle to stop and search anautomobile driven by Mr. Thomp-son and occupied by Mrs. Thomp-son and small child and by Mr.and Mrs. Miller and child, theattempted search occurring abouttwo miles beyond Casar near AsaPruett's home about 11 o'clockWednesday night.

Warrants were issued earlyThursday afternoon by SheriffLogan for Officers Houser, Hoyle,

Wesson and for Carl Short, theJast named having been driver ofthe officers car. No action hadbeen taken in regard to the Lat-timore officers.

It was impossible Thursday af-ternoon to obtain any definite in-formation about the matter. How-ever, from the best informationavailable it seems that OfficersWesson, Hoyle and Houser sawthe car occupied by the partyfrom Caroleen near Casar andsuspected it of containing whis-key. Mr. Thompson, it seems,halted when ordered to do so byofficers, but when Officer Houserstepped on the running- board ofthe car, threw the machine ingear and ran away. Somebody

\u25a0f ~ot at the car, who it was is notknown. Houser, the only officerwho had reached Shelby when theStar went to press states that heheard a shot fired as he lay ontne ground, after being thrownfrom the running board of thecar. Which one of the other of-ficers, Wesson or Hoyle, fired, heclaims not to know. Mrs. Thomp-son says Mrs. Miller was shot int-e back at that time, the bulletthung effect in a lung. <

Mr. Thompson states that Mr.*Miller to-.d him to drive to finda 'ioctor. As the car passedtn'ough Casar at a rapid rate of* ?.! it side-swiped a machine ontne running board of which Z.?. ,'' :t was standing. He was?v-1 u °wn and badly bruised.-f ofhcers who had stopped thet;' u /

lCn telephoned officers atl an( j other places in theL'' ' nty telling them of the fleeing; ' 11c ®r was sighted at Lat-

e, having gone in that direc-t-missing Shelby, and Deputy

n Looper, Policeman Cabaniss/

ver ?t! other people tried to| :l - however, the car quickly- . ' : around and another chaser- As the car driven by

\ |' n 'vas overhauled by that- '0 officers were riding

1 snot was fired, this shot\u25a0 Mrs. Miller in the back

jock, according to Mrs.' I'eputy Cooper states

.V car ' l a shot but he doesI who fired it. He is

he did not. Mrs.- 1 mp>,, n states that Mrs. Miller

;iat the man who shot; ' Sttimore was a man who

'?° a mustache.?

* stopped at Lattimore1 ;\ul: ' u- ! y _ after the shooting":Z- I*' : 'cr > after receiving

. attention there, was rush-v.- \° .

lne Rutherford hospital. ;c1 c *t was stated at 1 o'clockJtMcrday afternoon she wl est-

\u25a0 g very well although her con-Tii Ar-n

as declared to be serious.Miller is with her.

U Was reported in Shelby Thurs-

Miller and Thompson will betried in Federal court, it is pre-sumed, for transporting wkiskeyand for resisting arrest. The ac-tion against the officers at Casarfor shooting will likely be triedin Superior court here. The con-sensus of public opinion seems tobe that the officers at Latimorewere much more justified in shoot-ing than were those at Casar forthe Lattimore of steers had beentold over the telephone that a

' man had been run over and kill-ed at Casar by the machine.

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Later Developments.! The Shelby Star, of Sept. 12,says:

; The arrest of Policeman Cab-iness, of Lattimore, who is charged

; with having fired the second shot' which hit Mrs. I. B. Miller, ofCaroleen, is about the only de-velopment in the case which hascaused much comment in thiscounty and over the entire state.

Policeman Cabiness was Satur-day placed under a SSOOI bond. Heis charged with having shot Mrs.Miller in the neck, Mr. Milierdeclaring that the shot was firedat Lattimore struck his wife inthe back of the neck.

At the preliminary hearing Cab-aniss admitted having shot onetime but he declares that he wasshooting in the ground. Othermen who were in the car withhim also stated that he fired butthey were unable to say in whatdirection the gun was pointed.The whole trial was a John Doeinvestigation to find out who itw*as that fired the shot at Latti-more.

The defense of Mr. Cabaniss, itis understood, will be based onthe clainm that he had been in-formed by the officers at Casarthat a man had been kiPed whenrun over by the (Sir and that hewas naturally led to believe thecar contained desperate people.It will also be his contention thatMrs. Miller was shot both times jat Casar; that the bullet he fired !went into the ground.

This last contention, however,seems to be refuted by Mr. Mil-ler's statement and by that ofMr. and Mrs. Thompson, whostate* that Mrs. Miller was shotin the back at Casar and thotthe bullet which entered the backof her neck, circling aroand herhead and breaking the jaw bone,was fired at Lattimore.

A report reaching Shelby asto the occurrence at Casar whileunverified, is given as it was re-ceived. It is claimed that therewere two cars proceeding alongthe road. The car in which theCaroleen party was liding wasbehind the other machine. Both jmachines were stopped. Houser jsearched the machine which was!in front. Wesson searched the jcar in which Mr. and Mrs. Miller ;were riding and, finding no whis-;key told them to drive on. As |the car passed the one which'Houser stopped, Houser made a'jump for the running board, miss-;ed his step and fell to the ground.'Then the shooting started.

This report, of course, is un- 1verified .With the exception of;statements made by Prohibition;Enforcement Officer HouserThursday morning nothing has'been heard of the officers story.;It is now declared that the af-fair took place earlier in thenight than was first reported, orabout 9:30 o'clock.

The shooting has been almostthe sole topic of conversation inthe county since its occurrence.Sentiment seems absolutelyagainst the officers, especially

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