I The Courier

H Only SI.OOPer Year

VOL. IX?NO. 33

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

FORTY STUDENTSARE MEMBERS OF

THE SENIOR CLASSDr. R. H. Wright Brings Inspir-

ing Message to Graduat-ing Class. Dr. H. N.

Snyder DeliversSermon

(By Mrs. Maude Minish Sutton)

Commencement week in ForestCity has been featured by beautifulweather and an abundance of Springflowers. The exercises began on Fri-day evening with a recital by the pu-pils of Miss Goggans at the highschool auditorium. The stage was abower of loveliness and the programwas all nature music. The lovelydresses of the girls and the floralarrangement of the stage fitted theelaborate program and created anatmosphere of "early morning spring-

time freshness" that was truly de-lightful. The pupils on the programall performed their parts well andshowed a great deal of progress.

The stage decoration were in charge

of Mesdames R. E. Biggerstaff,Spurgeon Moss, and Flay Weathersand Miss Mayme Martin:

Dr. Snyder Delivers SermonSunday evening at 8 o'clock the

commencement sermon was preachedby Dr. H. N. Snyder, president ofWofford College. The big auditoriumof the Cool Springs High School wasfilled with a capacity audience and ithe sermon was one of the best thata Forest City audience has everheard. The music by the combinedchoirs of the Forest Citywas typical of the splendid musicthat these choirs always give. Itconsisted of a violin solo by Mr. A.M. Glickman. This was an unusuallybeautiful number. Mr. Glickman, with

. perfect command of his instrument isan artist that always delights a ForestCity audience. The entire congrega-

tion sang, "Come Thou AlmightyKing," then Dr. M. F. Moores pro-

nounced the invocation, the choirsang Kipling's Recessional, Dr. W. A.Ayers read a selection from theBible, Mrs. A. M. Glickman sang abeautiful solo, "O Divine Redeemer."After the sermon the congregationsang "How Firm a Foundation," andDr. Geo. R. Gillespie led the clos-

ing prayer.Dr. Snyder's sermon, addressed to

the graduating class who filled thefront seats, was a most inspiringmessage. He talked especially to the

, young folks and told them first, that

he believed that times were growingsteadily better all the time. Jle based

this belief on the fact that young

folks today are better than they have

ever been. He said man was like abeautiful house which he once saw,

in which the entire attic was madeinto a beautiful living room full of ;

FOREST CITY GIRLIS PRIZE WINNER

Miss Ruth Reid Wins ThirdPrize in Nation-Wide

Essay Contest

The following announcement was

made in Tuesday's Charlotte Observ-

er, under an Atlanta, Ga., date line:"The commission on inter-racial co-

operation announced today thatGeorge M. Clarke, of Cleburne, Tex-

as, won first prize in the commis-sion's nation-wide contest among

high school students for the best es-

say on the subject "Negro Progress

Since the Civil War." First prize was

SSO, while second prize of S3O went

to Robert A. Armistead, also of Cle-

burne, and third prize of S2O to

Ruth Elliott Reid, of Forest City,

N. C."Miss Reid is the daughter of Dr.

and Mrs. G. P. Reid, of this city. She

will graduate from the Cool Springs

high school this year. She is one of

the outstanding members of the

senior class. She won the Carpenter

Essay medal in the county-wide es-

say-oration contest held in

March. She is the senior class prophet,

and a model all-round student.

FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLI NA, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927.

Commencement Exercises Cool Springs High School Held This Week

big- windows each of which framed alovely view. In this room the ownerof the house kept his best lovedbooks, his most beautiful pictures andentertained his closest friends. There,he said, these friends could be withthe persons they loved and with God,away from the crowd, the bustle andspeed of life. He told the seniors thatlife in the top story was the bestlife. He stressed the joy to be foundin intellectual development and inspiritual growth.

He said that if you looked at apicture of pre-historic man his bodywas like that of a man's today, buthis head was shaped very differently.The change in the structure of thehead is from the eyebrows to thehair, the top story. He showed howthe growth of man's brain had madethis difference. Like the house hesaw, the brain of man is in three

? stories and only the top story counts.

To fill that top story with the bestthat the world can give is the onlyambition worth while. To do this,you must do the best you know, dothe best people expect and do thebest God expects. Mold your lifealong the lines of the only perfectlife, that of Christ.

Class Day

Monday evening at 8 o'clock theSenior class presented a clever andinteresting class day program. Thisprogram was in the form of a pos-sible class reunion in May, 1957. Theplace was supposed to be the homeof U. S. Senator Agnes Davis, andthe boys had presumed that the mil-

I itant spirit of the girls would havesucceeded, by that time, in placingthem all in position of great import-ance while the boys would "revertto their natural state" and care forthe homes. The girls appeared asjudges, generals, ranchers, aviatorsand all kinds of professionals. Theboys as "pretty little butterflies,"maids, cooks, Misses and other fem-inine occupations. Very clever actingwas done by Wm. Biggerstaff andPierce Hyder, as "maids" in thehome of Senator Davis, by Reece Haiv.rill as the Senator's "pretty frivolous jhusband," by Evelyn Blanton, AgnesDavis and Alice Holmes. The history

! was read by Ena May Lyda, the will,! by Frank Griffin and two pretty mus-! ical numbers on the program were a

j duet by Mary Meares and Ruby; Moore and a solo by Alba Padgett,both of these were accompanied by

i Eunice Hollifield. Between acts a

I very pretty gypsy dance was put on| by eight of the senior girls.

The stage decorations for this eventwas extremely beautiful. The senior jboys, under the direction of Mr.Crowder, had built a fence for thefront of the stage and three pahelsof lattice for the back. All of thiswas entwined with Dorothy Perkinsroses and two tall white pedestalsheld bowls of daisies at the centeropening in the fence. At either endof the stage was a large basket oflilies. The effect was exquisite. Infact, the decorations for all the ex-ercises have been unusually approp-riate and beautiful.

Reading and Declamation ContestTuesday morning at 10:30 a. m. the

reading and declamation contest washeld. Three boys and four girls con-tested for these medals. Mr. Erwinpresided and the program follows. 1

| ?The Gypsy Flower Girl by MayHill. 2?Americanism by Forest Hunt,

j3?The Littlest Rebel by Ersell

I Horn. 4?The Return of Regulus byWm. Ayers. s?Aunt Jerushy Visitsthe City, by Lilah Gordon King. 6Character, by Wyman Wood. 7The. Soul of the Violin by AileenPadgett. The winners were WymanWood and Aileen Padgett. All the

contestants did extremely well andshowed splendid training. Both win-ners are from the Junior class.

Graduation ExercisesI

Tuesday night at 8 o'clock the

; graduation exercises were held in the jhigh school auditorium. The stage

was beautifully decorated and the jpeople made a very striking picture. |Dr. Geo. R. Gillespie made the open- j

| ing invocation which was followedIby two musical numbers, "Sweet- 1

1 heart" by the boys quartette and \u25a0"Welcome Pretty Primrose Flower" ,by the glee club. Then Superintend- i

I ent Eaks presented County Superin-I * ;

tendent Clyde Erwin who was to in-

troduce the speaker of the evening, iMr. spoke briefly in his usual jgraceful manner. He congratulated

Cool Springs Township on its schoolachievements, described the graduat-

ing class as the flower of the town-

ship and said there was no way to

estimate the value of the trainingthese young people Had received.

In introducing Dr. R. H. Wright,

president of East Carolina Teachers'College, Mr. Erwin paid a high trib-

ute to Dr. Wright as one of theState's foremast educators. He saidthere was no man in the state now,

rendei'ing greater service.Dr. Wright's address was interest-

ing, instructive and very forceful.He held the complete attention ofthe large audience every second ofhis time. He first gave the origin ofthe term commencement, then con-gratulated the seniors upon graduat-ing and announced his subject. Tax-ation. He discussed the universal na-ture of taxation,, how it concerns ev-ery citizen, gave its origin in tributemoney, told Christ's attitude towardtaxation, "Render unto Caesar thethings that are Caesar's" and said ithat this saying of Christ's establish-ed for man a satndard for all time.

Then he took up the uses of taxmoney. Most taxes are used for com-munity development. We Jevy taxes

for schools. There are two kinds oftaxes every community must pay:

School tax or crime tax. The last leg-

j islature appropriated in the same bill$400,000 for the state penitentiaryand the same sum ror one of thestate's A-grade teachers' college. Hesaid that he had rather spend his

; money to send teachers to children: than to support criminals. What is

' the reason North Carolina's crime bill

i is so large? The average age of our! criminals is 26' years. Twenty years

ago they were six years old. What! was the state doing for her children

1 twenty years ago? In many places! there was no school. She is noweducating her citizens. One of our

| great judges said that of all the' criminals he sentenced they were

| either entirely illiterate or did not

attend Sunday school. Educationwould have saved 95 per cent of thecriminals now in prison.

He congratulated the township onits magnificent progress and itsbuildings. Then paid a tribute to

modern youth, showed hpw stylesare more sensible than they used to

be, how modern youth shows greatcourage and daring, and said thatback in the heart of modern youthburned the age old desire to makethe most out of their lives. He saidAmerican boys in the world war andLindburgh in his flight last week,showed the quality of modern youth.

He said that each year's crop ofgraduates was better than the pre-

ceding one.Youth is clamoring for a chance to

get an education. We cannot educateunless we put in each class room agood teacher. A child is a little sav-age, but oh, the possibilities in everychild! Upon our progress in educationthe future of the state depends.

_ IBuild good school houses, transport

the children and give them teacherswho know how to teach, then thiswill be a great state.

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FACULTY?First row?Miss Juanita Minish, Miss Sara Bailey, Miss Katherine Brown, Mr.S. M. Crowder. Second row?Mr. C. C. Erwin, principal; Mr. D. H. Sutton, Miss Princ-a Gaines.Third row?Miss Mary Wilder, Mr. J. W. Eaks, superintendent; Miss Katherine Goggans. Fourth row?Mrs. O. C. Turner, Miss Lillie Maude Bell, Miss Gladys Harrison, Miss Pauline Huggins.

, a most inspiring message to the

! seniors. He described some gardens in

the Organ mountains at Rio De Ja-

nerio. At the bottom people plant

shrubs in gardens, 1000 feet higheriare still more beautiful garden, 1000

I

feet higher up is a narrow gorge 2000

feet deep and a hard climb to thetop. When you make that climb theview is the most beautiful in theworld. He begged the graduates not

to stop in the pleasure gardens, butto climb on to the life work eachcould do best.

The medals were then presented byMr. Charles C. Erwin. The reading

medal given by the Farmers Bank &

Trust Co., went to Aileen Padgett. Aten dollar gold piece for the bestdeclamation, given by Dr. and Mrs.A. C. Duncan, was presented to Wy-

man Wood. The medals for the bestall round student, given by Mr. andMrs. R. E. Biggerstaff in memory oftheir son, was presented to Agnes

Davis. The scholarship prize of fiftydollars, giv?n by Mrs. J. F. Alexanderin memory of Mr. Alexander was wonby Sara Ruth Doggett. Three goldmedals given by the County Board ofEducation to students who have hada 5-year record of perfect attendancewent to Wallace Long, Gladys Long

and Ruth Reid. The typists prizeswere as follows: Gold medal for best2-year's record, Mary Meares,; a gold jmedal for speed went to Sara Ruth jDoggett, silver medals were won by.

Nell Searcy, Evelyn Blanton andGladys Dalton. The Dr. Young mem- |orial medal for the best debater was iwon by Evelyn Blanton.

Mr. Eaks ? then presented the di- \plomas. His message to the seniorswas brief but very forceful. He jtold them they had gone through'school in order to do more efficient jwork, and they must continue to let

| the sunlight of truth penetrate everyi corner of their lives. 1

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8t COLUMNS

SI.OO per Year in Advance

CHAUTAUQUATO OPEN HERETODAY-THURSDAY

Everything in Readiness forFive Days of High-Class

Entertainment Splen-did Program

Redpath's chautauqua, always eag-erly looked for and thoroughly en-joyed, is with us again, the openingnumber to be given this afternoon(Thursday), and to continue forfive days. The tent has been pitchedon the lot back of the Forest CityMotor Co., and a good first-day at-tendance is anticipated, with increas-ing interest throughout the five bigdays of wholesome entertainment.

The best first-day program everpresented by the Redpath Chautau-qua will be given by the ArcadiaNovelty Company this afternoon.This organization is one of the bestwoman's musical companies on thechautauqua platform. The membersof the company are Miss Dyer, pian-ist, reader and directress; Miss Lair-dre, trombonist; Miss Andrus, violin-ist, and Miss Sperry, xylophonist.These young ladies are artists and of-fer a program of classical, semi-

! classical and popular numbers. Thiscompany is always welcomed every-where, not only for their musicalability, but for their graciousness, aswell. Be sure and see this splendidfirst-day program, which pleases notonly the ear but also the eye.

Mr. Charles H. Plattenburg, notedlecturer, humorist and editor, willgive a lecture on the opening night,which is a message to every individ-ual in Rutherford county. His sub-ject is "The Old Town in a NewWorld." He presents his subject ina forceful, but humorous and veryinteresting way.

Mr. A. H. McClain, Jr., advancerepresentative, and Miss Nelle Pol-lard Dahnke, field representative forthe Redpath Bureau, have been inForest City for the past week pav-ing the way for the chautauqua pro-gram. Miss Dahnke has been workingwith the ladies of the Woman's Club,organizing sales forces which are cov-ering every section of the town andcounty in a thorough canvass. Boththese young people are Tennesseansand are alumni of the University ofTennessee. They have made manyfriends in Forest City and have donegreat work in promoting the chau-tauqua.

Also in passing, we want to con-gratulate the ladies of the Woman'sClub for their great work in placingthe pledge cards and other duties inconnection with bringing to ForestCity this high class entertainment.

PROCEEDINGS OF! CIVIL COURTSeveral Cases Disposed of Since

Convening of Court Mon-day Morning

Rutherfordton, May 25.?Civilcourt convened here Monday morningwith Judge John M. Oglesby presid-

I ing. The following cases were dispos-jed of Monday and Tuesday:

I Hyder Whitesides vs. Clement-Dunavant Co., judgment for plaintiffin sum of $75.00.

McConnon Co. vs. Charles Marsh,(deceased), W. S. Moss, J. B. Long,W. C. Blanton, for consent judgment.Defendants agree to pay $250.00 andcosts.

C. L. Harrill vs. Howard Hollifield.Compromise judgment, defendant topay costs.

Wright-Bachman Lumber Co., vs.Citizens Bank and Trust Co., admin-istrator of Solomon Gallert. Compro-mise. Plaintiff recovers by agree-ment $1125.00 and costs.

M. C. Flack vs. Mary Flack, di-vorce granted.

V. L. Cox vs. H. M. Cox, divorcegranted.

Bob Richardson vs. Mattie Richard-son, divorce granted.