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FOREST CIIY COURIERVolume II No. 5 FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1919 $1.50 a Year, in Advance

Courier's Big Contest Gets Off With Many EntriesNEWS OF THE WEEK

FROM BUSY CUFFSIDEMr. Pink Randall Dead Active Voting to Begin

in Next Issue of Paper

News Items In andAround Forest City

WILL CELEBRATE FIRSTANNIVERSARY ARMISTICE

Soldiers Parade?Maybe Air-plane at Forest City 11th

?Other Ellenboro Items

Ellenboro, Nov. 2. ? Mr. Pink Randalldied last Wednesday of pneumonia. Heleaves a wife and several children. Mr.Randall was a leading citizen of hiscommunity and will be greatly missed.

The school children, with their teach-ers, had a very pleasant time Fridaynight at a Hallowe'en party at theschool house.

I. B. Covington and family visitedrelatives in Maiden Saturday and Sun-day.W. P. Murry Dies Suddenly

Marriages- Other Items SIO.OO in Cash to Be Given Away November 18th?Many Taking Advantage Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Alevander havejust returned from a week's trip toGeorgia.

of 150,000 Vote Offer?"Opportunity Period" Means 500,000 Extra Votes

To Those Who Become Active AT ONCE?See Page 5?A Wise Person

Will Enter Today if Desirous of a $585.00 Ford Auto For a Little Work.

FIRST LIST OF NOMINEESWhile the first list of nominees printed in this week's Courier Auto-

mobile Contest is not exceedingly long, still it contains the names of the live-est of the "live wire" hustlers of this section.

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NOT TOO LATE TO ENTERIt is not too late to enter this race?indeed, the race has not fairly

started yet, for those entered were all started with 50,000 votes each, andactive voting begins in our next issue. From now on the voting promisesto be lively. IF YOU WISH TO ENTER THIS CONTEST, or have a friendwho wants to enter, mail the nomination in today, or phone it to No. 58.

WIN $lO IN CASH NOVEMBER 18THThe first special prize period wtti. end Tuesday, November 18th, 8 P. M.

The candidate that has turned in the GREATEST AMOUNT OF CASHSUBSCRIPTION BUSINESS up to that time will be awarded $lO in Cash.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF "OPPORTUNITY PERIOD"On the sth page of this issue are found FIVE "OPPORTUNITY

COUPONS." Every one of these coupons is good for 100,000 votes each,providing you send, or bring it to The Courier office BEFORE November18th, and accompany the coupon with SEVEN YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONSor their equivalent to the Courier.

NOMINATION COUPON VOID AFTER NOVEMBER 18THEvery candidate turning in SEVEN YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS BE-

FORE NOV. 18th, 8 P. M. will get 100,000 votes added to their nominationblank, making their nomination worth 150,000 votes. We anticipate thatnearly every candidate in this list will have turned in SEVEN SUBSCRIB-ERS inside of a week. ANY PERSON COULD GET SEVEN NEW SUB-SCRIBERS TO THIS PAPER IN ONE DAY, if the person tried. Thatwould make the nomination worth 150,000 votes, and also entitle the workerto one of the "Opportunity Coupons" good for 100,000 votes besides count-

Cliffside, Nov. 4th-(Special to TheCourier)? Mr. W. P. Murry was found

dead at the band stand in the park last

Thursday morning. He left the dining

room of his son, W. F. Murry, Wednes-day and it was thought he had gone to

his room. He failed to appear at thebreakfast table Thursday morning.His son thought he had spent the nightwith another son, H. F. Murry, and sowas not alarmed and never dreamed ofanything wrong until told that hisfather was dead. Coroner Butler wassummoned and the county physician,Dr. Twitty, of Rutherfordton. Theverdict of the coroner's jury was thathe came to his death from a stroke ofappoplexy. Mr. Murry had some hogs

just beyond the park and it is thought hewent to put some leaves in the pens, ashe had a sack with him. A shower ofrain came up and it is thought that hewent to the band stand for shelter.

Mr. George Blanton and Miss MaryElliott were happily married here lastTuesday night, Rev. D. J Hunt officiat-ing in his impressive manner. Theirmany friends wish for them every joyas they sail life's sea together.

Last Wednesday night Mr. Hunt,who tires the boilers at night at themill, heard something strike the smokestack and fall to the ground. He went

to the place and found a bird resemb-ling a loon. The bird presumably wasblinded by the electric lights and colli-ded with the smoke stack. Its neckwas broken. B. E. Roach secured thebird and sent it to Mr. Webb, the taxi-dermist at Morganton, to be mounted.

An effort is being made to have anaeroplane flight for the celebration ofthe signing of the armistice to be heldat Forest City next Tuesday. Definiteannouncement cannot be made now,but in a conversation over longdistancetelephone last night the Charlotte Ob-server assured The Courier that it ismore than likely that an aeroplane nowin Charlotte willmake a flight to For-est City Tuesday and "do stunts" overthe town. Definite announcement willbe made as soon as possible, and every

effort willbe made to get the machinehere.

The advertisements in this paper thisweek are more interesting than mostnews. Read them.

Mrs. Susan Withrow, of Hollis, spentSaturday and Sunday here visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Withrow isin her 78th year.

Little Miss Robbie Lee Woods, ofMarion, N. C., is visiting her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Crawford.

A Hallowe'en party given by MissAnemo Kanipe last Friday night wasgreatly enjoyed by many of the youngset.

M. L. Leverette has sold his farmnear Hendersonville and has moved toCherryville. He and his family spenta few days here last week. L

Mr. Bruce Taylor and family havemoved here from Caroleen.

E. A. Martin and George Mauricemotored to Cherokee Springs one daylast week.

Messrs. J. H. Thomas and B. B. Dog-gett left Tuesday night on a businesstrip to South Georgia and Alabamapoints. The Forest City Betterment associa-

tion and the Red Cross workers haveplanned a county-wide gathering tocelebrate the first anniversary of thesigning of the armistice.

Mr. and Mrs. Abernethy, of Ruther-ford College, spent Sunday with theirdaughter, Mrs. Benj. L. Smith, in For-est City.

Van Harrill has gone to Charlotte to

see Barnum & Bailey's big circus.

Rev. and Mrs. Z. D. Harrill and Mr.D. B. Harrill spent last Wednesday at

Mr. Monroe Green's, near Mooresboro,where a large number of relatives andfriends met to celebrate Mr. EliasGreen's ninety-fourth birthday.

M. Bynum Beam returned today froma visit to his sister, Mrs. Solon Ham-rick, of Matthews.

William Butler, student at BoilingSprings high school, spent last week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.J. L. Butler.

This celebration willbe held on nextTuesday, November 11th, on the square

in Forest City.In connection with the celebration

there will be a Red Cross rally and

parade. It is the purpose of the RedCross to make this the biggest and bestparade ever pulled off in this section.Every business house in town is expect-ed to enter a float.

The Florence Mill band will furnishmusic. A prominent speaker will behere and an effort is being made tohave an aeroplane flight.

There will be a parade of soldiersand every man is requested to wear hisuniform. Capt. B. L. Smith and Capt.Long willhave charge of the parade.Free lunches willbe served to soldiersin the parade.

The exercises willbegin about threeo'clock in the afternoon.

Allkinds of refreshments willbe soldby the ladies of the Betterment league.

Come out and celebrate!

Mr. and Mrs. Josti McMurry and Mr.and Mrs. A. G. Weathers visited F. A.McMurry and family at Kings Creek,S. C., last week.

Ladies especially willbe interested inthe advertisement of .the HenriettaMills Store in this issue of The Courier.This store is selling out millinery athalf price.

Mr. Frank Howell is spending a fewdays here with his family.

The Woman's Betterment associationoffers .$lO reward to the person furnish-ing information which will cause theconviction of any one for bringingliquor into Ellenboro. No names willbe made public.

Friends here of Prof. E. J. Aber-nethy were delighted to see him Sun-day. He formerly had charge of theForest City school, and is now connect-ed with the Gastonia schools.

ing the regular schedule of votes, also. RIGHT NOW IS THE TIME TOGET THAT BIG START?to get a BIG LEAD?and the REAL WORKERSARE NOT GOING TO LET THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY SLIP.

We regret to learn that both Mr. andMrs. W. W. Poole, of Caroleen, arevery sick. Mr. Poole is in the Ruther-ford hospital suffering severely fromrheumatism, while Mrs. Poole is atRidgecrest.

Supt. I. B. Covington entertained theoverseers and second hands of theFlorence Mills last Wednesday night at

a delightful "Get-Together" meetingat the Florence community building.A buffet supper was served and sever-al good speeches were made.

Mrs. W. L. Packard received a mes-sage last Wednesday announcing thedeath of her father, Mr. Faires, ofBertram, Texas.

For More CirculationBelieving that The Forest City Courier should have more circulation,

should in fact reach EVERY FAMILY in this section, the business manage-ment after installing one of the finest mechanical printing plants in thissection of North Carolina, decided to inaugurate a great subscription cam-paign and spared no expense or pains in getting up a list of prizes, whichin desirability and variety should appeal to everybody.

Clyde Harris, with the General FireExtinguisher Co., of Charlotte, and hisbrother, Gaither Harris, visited theirbrother, N. L. Harris, here last week.

Charles. Moore has returned fromGlobe, Arizona. Charlie says, "Nomore Golden West for me."

Will Run for Congress

According to the Hendersonville NewsJ. Scroop Styles, an Asheville lawyer,will be a candidate for congress in theTenth District next year. He is aDemocrat and managed one campaignfor Congressman Gudger.

How to WinAnother wedding was solemnized here

last Wednesday, when Miss GalenaHamrick became the bride of Mr. J. D.Henson. It is said they had planned to

be married last Sunday and surprisetheir friends. Somehow some onefound out about it, and so Mr. Hansonleft the weave room and taking 'SquireQ. L. Womack v/ent up to the cardroom and with his girl and the witness-es proceeded to the roving store room,where there was not so much noise,and were married.

Did you ever notice that Glenn Aber-netlty is a rather peculiar fellow? TheCourier noticed it very much last weekwhile we were getting out a large edi-tion of our paper. Last Wednesdaymorning when Abernethy "dropped in"The Courier office we were "head overheels" in work. He noticed it, took offhis coat, went to work and didn't quituntil eleven o'clock Wednesday nightwhen the last paper was folded and ad-dressed. He wouldn't charge us a centfor helping?said it was a pleasure to

him. (Peculiar). Not only that, buthe wanted to buy the ice cream sodasafter the bunch quit work. However,that was a little too much and he couldnot put it over. (Also peculiar). Nextday he hitched up his Reo and deliveredseveral thousand Couriers at Caroleen,Henrietta, Cliffside, Ellenboro and Bos-tic, for which he charged us 0. (Verypeculiar). But to cap the climax, next

day he painted a sign to go on the FordThe Courier is going to give away, andcharged for that just like he did for the

other work, including the war tax. Andby way of parenthesis we will say thatthere is not a sign painter in the statethat could have given us more satisfac-tory work. Yes, Glenn Abernethy is a

peculiar guy, but his peculiarities are

very pleasing.

The whole plan is designed to increase the circulation of The Forest CityCourier. Every subscription counts votes. The candidate polling theHIGHEST number of votes in the race gets the $585.00 Ford Touring Car;second highest, the $115.00 Victrola, etc. The way to win is to get yourfriends, neighbors, and relatives to subscribe for one year or more to TheForest City Courier. You can also ask those already TAKING The ForestCity Courier to renew for a year or more, and that counts votes also. Theseprizes will be won by the candidates polling the highest number of votesand the time to make the votes count is during this "OPPORTUNITYPERIOD."

While this is the first formal an-nouncement made by a congressionalcandidate in this district, it is generallyunderstood that Congressman Weaverwillask for re-election.

Forest City Route 2Farmers are very busy sowing wheat

and oats.Free Assistance

One of the most enjoyable events ofthe season was the Hallowe'en party atthe girls' home on North Main streetlast Saturday night. "Ghosts" ofevery description were there. Therooms were decorated with ghosts, owls,black cats, witches and all kinds of"spooks". On either side of the en-trance were the indispensible huge

pumpkins with the grinning faces,

illumined by candles inside. There wasmuch fun in guessing the identity ofthe ghosts. The costumes were varied,

some were bats, witches, ghosts, etc.

Delicious refreshments were servedduring the evening, and all went away

declaring they had had one of the most

enjoyable evenings of their life.

The Forest City Courier stands ready to assist EVERY CANDIDATE

in any way possible during this race. All will be treated absolutely fair

and above-board, and NO FAVORITES WILL BE MADE. There will be

no "doubling up," combining of votes, or any shady business tolerated atany time. A fair field, a free race, and no favorites will make this a cam-

paign that will be of interest to everybody, and decidedly profitable to

those who participate in it. THERE ARE NO LOSERS?REMEMBERTHlS?for The Forest City Courier offers you an opportunity to win in a

contest, the prize list of which is worth over SBOO, and at the same timeGUARANTEES that ALL will get something?a prize or a cash commis-sion.

Miss Edith Robbins spent last weekwith her uncle, J. R. Morrow.

Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hardin and sonvisited her mother at Forest City Sun-day.

J. E. Womack visited his father,Rev. W. W. Womack, at Mill SpringSunday.

Mrs. Martha Kennedy is very ill atthe home of her sister, Mrs. WilliamMcDonald.

Pie SupperTHE PRIZE LIST

FIRST GRAND PRIZE?A $585.00 Ford Touring Car, 1919model. Purchased of B. B. Doggett Garage.

SECOND GRAND PRIZE?A $115.00 Victrola, purchased ofHenrietta Mills Store.

Owing to the rain last Saturday nightthe pie supper at Tanner's Grove schoolhouse has been postponed until Fridaynight, November 7th. We are not dis-couraged, but are preparing for agreater pie supper. C.The faculty and students of the high THIRD GRAND PRIZE?S7S.OO worth of anything in Efird's

Department Store, Forest City.

SPECIAL CASH PRlZES?Special prizes, aggregating atleast $35.00 in cash, will be given away from time to time.

NO LOSERS?There will be no losers in this campaign, forany candidate competing to the end of the campaign and failing'to win a grand prize, or a special cash prize, and turning in atleast $25 in cash subscription business, will be given 10 per centcash commission on the gross business he (or she) brings in.

MAILED RECEIPT BOOKSA receipt book has been sent every candidate under first-class mail. If

YOU have NOT received YOUR receipt book by the time this paper reachesyou, PHONE THE COURIER, (phone No. 58 RIGHT AWAY, and anotherbook will be sent you. (The Courier will pay any phone charges.) Also a

candidate can have AS MANY RECEIPT BOOKS as he or she wishes, andcan appoint friends as assistant boosters, and every subscription a friendgets FOR you counts just that much.

Regular Vote Schedule

A vote schedule on subscription payments ranging from 1 to 10 years

(Continued on Page 4)

LO^T?A dark brown bill foldcontaining three new five dollarbids Also railroad passes andcards with my name. Libeial re-ward if returned to Otto Long, For-est City.

school gave a Hallowe'en party at the jsk&ting rink last Friday night. Thelarge rink was decorated appropriatelyfor the occasion. Ghosts and witcheslooked out of the trees and shrubbery

that had been set up. An admissionfee of ten cents was charged, the pro-ceeds going to the library. A numberof guessing contests added to the en-joyment of the evening.

Mr. Raleigh G. Holyfield was marriedSunday acternoon at three o'clock to

Miss Alma Burrus, of Rockford, N. C.Mr. and Mrs. Holyfield will arrive in

Cliffside the latter part of this weekand willoccupy the cottage on NorthMain street opposite the Cliffside hotel.Mr. Holyfield is a young man of ster-

ling qualities and has made his homehere for the past ten or twelve years.He has a host of friends in this sectionof the state who willlearn of his mar-riage with interest. Miss Burrus isthe accomplished daughter of Mr. andand Mrs. Robt. N. Burrus, of Rockford,

and neice of our Methodist pastor, Rev.A. J. Burrus. We extend to this young

couple our heartiest congratulationsand welcome Mrs. Holyfield to our midst.

Rev. A. J. Burrus has returned fromthe M. E. Conference at Greensboroand from a visit to High Point. Weare glad that the conference saw fit toallow Mr. Burrus to remain with thischurch another year. We have alllearned to love "Uncle Jack" as he issometimes called.

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CLIFrSIDF. LAUNDRYM. F. HAMRICK, Proprietor CLIFFSIDE, N. C.

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