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SHELBY, N. C FRIDAY, APRIL 14 1911.
$1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
Cpic P.IVC in
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
tiLL HELP BUY A $2,500 PIPE
I . i.j ihrhnrrh Members Raise
loviceuMit v..---
quai Amount-Subscriptions
Being Made Rapidly finishing
;u((,es Are Being Added to the
lurch.
has just been made public
Mr. Andrew Carnegie bas
ontedto give $1,250 to the
Baptist cburch of this pl&Cd
equal amount will be raised
be eongrefcaiion. Several
emen have guaranteed that
amount will he subscribed
ly and steps will be taken
idiately toward the pur
esf a $2,500 ppe orgaa to
nstailedin the new churca
llicg which is receiving the
bing touches and which cost
h neighborhood of $40 000.
committee in charge of the
iructiou of the church has
in communication with Mr.
egie for some time but only
insly got a reply to their ic
es. Afier Mr, Carnegie d it-
red thai the cause was a
lb) on?, application blauk.s
forwarded to thecommittee
e were filled out and return-
The request was considen d
rabiy ty the gentleman in
sre of the (locations cf this
and news has just ben re
d that Mr. Carnegie will
kte the $1,250. His generous
is deeply appreciated by tho
cb and subscriptions to mako
the other $1,250 are being
3 liberally. Rsv. C. A. Jn
is pastor.
mshiig touches arc L-eirg
d to the church and it is
d that it will brf ready for
May 15. Recently the art
Swindon arrived and liry
indeed handsome designs
expert decorator has bem
fcged to decorate tho icterior
s. The carpet and seais Lave
red and as soon as the walls
finished they will be put
i. Elabcralededicationsir-
swill ba arrausod la.er.
HR. KELLER DEAD
Mnent Young Han Died At
s Hountain Odd Fellows
fer Services.
Ir. William Keller, a promin-
jonn? man cf Kings Moun
ted at his home there tbis
i'i as a result of cancer of the
He wis single and 28 vears
ge. Mr. Keller was one of
nost prominent vouns- men
that city, being an active
rch worker and all round
i hearted gentleman, He
a member of the Odd Pull HOTS
Fife No. 1 fift ftnr1 TlcA M nA
K- Kendall and Mr. W. J.
!7 went down from Shelhv tn
idact the funeral. Mr. Kenda'l
;i,g charge of the ceremony
sjici supervisor of the Old
s. As an evidence of tha
"& man's popularity, a great
a attended the funeral which
s conducted by the pastor cf
I oaptist church of which he
P member.
&"9aqement
fa announcement of unusual
';eSt tO Shelbv HPnnlo tnnlr
pinCharlotte this week when
Uarles KlnrmAi w in.
faced the enpnnmenf. nt n,.
pter, Miss Bertha to Mr.
Williams Kendrick, the
TK W take place there
6venlno An.iiio' -
Jrick.ia originally from
lD7 and is a prominent busl-
r""" Charlotte, being a
HOW THE UNLORD
TREATS HIS RENTERS
ANSWER TOCHARQE AGAINST
TENANT SYSTEM.
Don't Throw a Tenant Off Your
Land to Become a Hired Hand.
Because Your Land Goes Down I
Is Because You Are Oppressive
in Rents and Constantly
Change Your Renters.
(J. D. Morris, Fallston.)
It has been urged by many
writers that the present tenant
system is unprofitable, and have
also advised the land owners to
make the tenant a hired hand,
or in other words not rent him
any land, thus forcing; him to
become a hired laborer. Now
do you think this is reasonable
and just ? Because there are
some very incompetent and un
worthy men who butcher up a
man's land, shall you oppress
every man who has no land of
his own, who must look to the
farm for his living ? You will be
free in your arguments of free
moral agency, to let every tub
stand on its own bottom, then let
the incompetent work under the
master's direction as a hired la
borer until he is competent of
directing a little farm of his
own. So in like manner let him
who has done well, who ha3
proved himself competent, not be
submerged in the water because
the other fellow could not swim,
but errant unto him the rights
and privileges of a good citizen i
and farmer, because they justly i
belong to him as an individual, I
and will stimulate him to higher j
aspiration on the farm and will j
be an incentive to raise the;
standard of those less fortunate.
Now sir, you complain that the
renter has been an idle dooless ;
and even careless and no count, '
good for nothing fellow because
the land you rented to him has ,
gone down. He has not made j
terraces, put in possibly 'a half j
or a mile of tile to drain that
swamp, the old rail fence has ;
rotted, and gone down and he
has not, made any rails to repair,
it, and the house has gone down j
some, and all this been going on f
before your own eyes for years, i
years and years, and you have
not complained until now. You j
have been long .suffering andj
have borne-it just as long as you
could stand it, haven't you ?
But unlike the patient Job you J
must complain. Let's stop a mo- j
ment and try to locate .the ,
trouble. Why did you allow the .
Devil to ran riot on your land so
long ? Yow saw the place sev-1
eral times a year. You were J
prompt to call for your rent and
you got it. Will this help you to
' solve the problem ?
You remember six years ago,
'Tim Pinigan" came to rent and
you sounded your conscience to
tVin hnttnm. nnd said vou could
j have the place for one thousand
' pounds of lint cotton, and added
j "Tim," lam really anxious to
get you on that farm, been
hoping since I heard of you to
1 get you on that place and will
1 give you a good chance. "Tim"
' comes, is a good tenant, makes
' a good crop, pays your rent, has
' a bit left for himself. About this
1 time "Ike Snickleson" comes
'along and says, I'll give you
J twelve hundred pounds lint cot
cotton for that place where
"Tim's" on. Bells begin to ring
in your ears, you put conscience
in a new made casket and bury
him and say, yes, you can have
' the dace next year. You run
"Tim" off. put "Ike" on. Thus
for a pittance more rent, year
1 after year, put one off and put
SAIN SHOOTS SAIN
Plato Sain is Shot by Luther Sain at
Carpenter's Knob A Shot Gun
Used Debating Society at St.
Peter's Church - Other Items From
No. 10.
April 4. Thj farmers of this
sec' ion fra very buy row pre
paring for a big crop and corn
planting wl'l Foon be in order of
h" day.
The fruit is nearly all killrd
bu', the cu'look for the berry
cr p, our old stand by, i9 good
and th re- is no fear ct a famine
Plato Sain, son of Joseph
Sain, was shot and seriously in
jured bv Luther Sain late Sun
day evennc at thelaUer's home
near Carpenter's Knob. Full
particulars cannot be learned but
all parties were drinking beavi
ly. Prom particulars learned it
seems that Plato Sain and Wins
InwMauney were pass'ntr and
Luther Siin ordered them off his
premises anr for some reason
emptied the contouts of h:s shot
gun into Plao Sam's back and
pida. Hois in a serious condi
tion, soma fi'itv or more shot
having 'ak'n t fleet.
The younsr men of the coTmun
i'y hive organized a debating
society at St. Peter's school
hnus-i. Much interest has been
rnnnifestcd and larre crowds
an1 a'tr-ndirg every debate.
Mr. J. C Mull, the efficient
beeper of the county home visit
el in our midst Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr.. J. L. S'uHh of Shelby vis
ited his old home last week.
Rev. W. M. Gj'.d tilled his re
tru'ar monthly appointment at
Cn or.fpr's Grove Sunday. The
ondav Sivool will be organized
s;-coud Sun. 'ay.
Mr. L Z Huffman, our ncrriy
el-c'f.d squire, wishes to an
ii' urc? to the younsr people that
h" is ready and waiting to per
f -rm :hat ma riage ceremony.
Easter Service.
Mr. J. T. Porter asks us to
announce that there will be
preaching at Buffalo Baptist
church at Stubbs on Easter Sun
dav, April 16, at 11 o'clock by
Rev. T. G. Porter. His subject
is on the suffering and death of
the Son of God. Everybody is
invited to hear this fine sermon
Easter Sunday.
another on, till as we have stated
before, the farm is in such a di
lapidated condition the poorest
negro refuses to rent it.
Mr. Land owner you and your
land both are left in the condi
tion you justly deserve. You
have exacted usury off of the
poor tenants, and run a good one
off for a sorry one, and run oil a
sorry one for one worse, and ex
acted such rents that you made
sorry tenants of them all. Now,
in your delirium you cry down
the present system of renting.
Sir, it is not so much the system
of renting as it is the system of
exacting.
You have made bad renters of
them, then you say they are un
worthy, hire them out, let them
be hired laborers. Better colon
ize them, hadn't you ? They
failed and you are as much to
blame for their failure as they
are. The fruit of the land, the
products of the field, are the re
sults of the laborer. Be reasona
ble with the tenants, so when
TOM JOHNSON DEAD
rormer Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and
Twice Congressman Passes Away
at The Age of 57.
Tom L. Johnson, twice Con
gressman from the 21st Ohio dis
trict and four time's myor of
Cleveland, champion of three
cent s' real railway fiireand pro
minent advocate of the single
tax -h "Ories of the late Henry
Giorgp, died Tuesday night , at
the age cf 57. Johnson once re
ferred to himself in a public ad
dress as a ' stormy petrel" and
this metaphor ap .ly described
him and indicated the course of
his career. He was one of those
men who had an humble begin
ning, starting in the Lou'sville
street railway office at the age of
15 All through his life he was
in a storm Center of politics and
finance and it was thus he enjoy
ed himself best. He entered in
to the stee) manufacturing busi
ness and later became miyor of
Cleveland on a platform promis
ing three oent car fare. He fail
edto secure the reduciion in fare
but two moaths after ha retired,
his successor established the fare
as a result of his efforts.
He was nominated for gover
nor of Ohio by the Democrats
but was unsuccessful.
DRAWING I OR WEBB
Citizens Anxious to Entertain Con
gressman Webb Who Will SpeaK at
Gastonia on Memorial Day.
Washington Dippatch April 11:
in a letter which Represent
tive Webb received to day from
tha chairman of the committee
which hv charge of the cere
monies in connec'ioa with the
Confederate M'jmonal Day ex
erchses at Gsonia. Mr. Webb
was reminded of a promise to de
liver an address at Gastonia on
May 10. Mr. Webb promised the
committee the cariy party of
December ihat he would ba glad
to make thesptecb, not knowing
that there would ba an extra sas--ion
of Ccngnss. However, Mr.
Weob will be on haud to deliver
ihe princ'pal address.
"You are so papular down
here." tha lefcicr read, "ttiat we
will have to draw straws to see
who s ia!l hva the pleasure of
entenainiag you while rou are in
our towr."
fOIND IN WOODS
Deranqed Neqro Kills His Mule Be
cause it Won't Work Then Strayed
Awy.
Concealed under the bark of a
trew in the remote sections of the
words, Sam Palmar, an aged col
ored man was taken in.o custody
Tufif dy on the plantation of Mr.
Charlie Cabincss five miles from
town. Pilmer is thought to be
mentally unbalanced. A tele
phone message from his homo at
Mcoresboro says that ho became
enrgjd Monday while trying to
drive a kicking mula. He took
ih? mulo back to his homo tied it
to a tree in the yard and killed
it with an axe. After thi3 he
wandered away aud was not
found un'il when he was seen in
the woods. Sheriff Wilkins is
making application to get him
admitted to the hospital for the
insane at Greenville.
Drainage Meet
There will be a meeting of the
landowners who are interested
in tho drainacre of Buffalo and
your rent is paid if he has been' jtg tributaries in the court house
faithful to duty he has a bit to ! qat,,rdav mornincr at 11 o'clock.
tide him over the hard winter .This is an important meeting as
months. Don't expect him to the committee appointed at the
fill UJ xxrita'a onrrtTl" xinfVi nuVo' . , x 11 5
mi ma ix v a t, mi i uv.n.o , ast meetine 10 mvesturaie me aa
and tie some to his shirt tail to
keep them on mother earth
through March, and then expect
them to roll in a big rent next fall
again. '
visability of forming a drainage
district along Buffalo will report
at this meeting. Everybody In
terested la invited and urged to
be present.
CONDENSED NEWS
OF THE GAROLINAS
NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA fliEWi
11 mi
Happenings In The Two Slates Boiled
Down In Brief Paragraphs Tor Easy
Readers of The Star The Most Im
portant Things of the ffetX Saraed
Up.
The First Presbyterian church
of Charlotte has called Rev. Dr.
J. A. Vance, of Chicago, to the
pastorate. Dr. Vance is a native
of Tennessee.
R. M. Jarvis, formerly a de
puty sheriff in Buncombu county,
died suddenly Friday, morning
while eating breakfast at his
home in Asheville.
Gov. Kitchin has off .-red $100
reward for the unknown murder
er of alia Gaddy, colored, whose
dead body was found in a trunk
at Hamlet March 19th.
Earl Hoover, the 13-year-old
son of Briles Hoover, living?
miles from Asheboro was ac
cidently shot last Thursday af
ternoon by his brother, Hal
Hoover, dyiug in about an hour.
Chas. Murphy, who killed
John Simmons in Yancy county
last December, was convicted of
first degree murder in 'Yancy
county Suponor Court last week
and sentenced to die Juno 30.
Mr. William Howell, known as;
"War Bill" Howell because he
had served in tho Mexican and
I ulian wars, died In Wayne coun
ty a few dys ago at the alleged
authenticated age of 105. He
was active in farm work up to a
recent illness.
Hickory Democrat: J. W, Ben-
fijld, who has a wife and two
children living here, has been
arrested at Lemon City, Fla.,
pending trial on the charge of
bigamy. It is learnel here that
he was married there some tr-ie
ago to a young woman of good
famtly Miss Maud Lewis.
Elections have bean ordered in
Craven and Robeson counties on
the question of establishing farm
life schco's. As the counties in
which these schools are establish
ed must give $25,000 for build'.rgs
and $2,500 annually for mainten
ance It is necessary to vote a
special tax for this purpose.
En route to her home in Union,
S. O. to make arrangements for
the burial of her husband, at
whose bedside she had remained
until death casa at7 o'clock Mon
day, Mrs. M. Y. Dunlop died
suddenly as the train was near
Ing the destination. Both hus
band and wife passed within two
hours.
The commission form of govern
ment was defeated at Winston
Salem Monday by a majority of
106, the total vote- being cast
1.003. ' '
Store Entered
The dry goods store of Wray
Nix Company was entered by a
burglar sometime Sunday Dight
by breaking a glass in the base
ment window. About 1 15 was
taken from the cakh drawer and
an unknown quantity of clathing
from the counter. Mr. Nix had
left some money and statements
rolled in the cash drawer. Mr.
Wray put other mousy in the
safe and not knowing what the
roll was. left in the drawer.
When Mr. Nix looked for his
roll and statements to finish col
lecting, he missed the money. ; A
pair of pants was dragged near
the window where the thief went
out. There is no clue.
W read that opinions are di
vided on thoh&rem skirt. Yes,
bifurcated,
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General News of the Entire Country
Boiled Down in Briet Paragraphs
For Busy Readers -Most Important
Events ef the Entire Country Sum '
marked From Great Daily Papers
And Served Fresh to Star Readers.
A hail and wind storm in the
entreme southwest section of
Texas, last week, destroyed much
property and among the damage
it is reported that 300 goats were
killed by hail in one locality.
Considerable damage is report
ed from Livonia, Ga., as a result
of a hail and wind storm which
swept that section Sunday.
Craig Lippincott, head of the
publishing house of J. B. Lippin
cott Company, and prominent in
the financial and social life of .
Philadelphia, committed suicide
last week by shooting himself.
The Georgia prison commission
has recommended to Governor ,
Brown that he grant an uncon
ditional pardon to Thomas Edgar
Stripling, the former police chief
of Danville, Va., who killed a
man in that State 14 years ago
and escaped while being taken
to the penitentiary. His fate now
rests with the Governor,
Thirteen women will hold im
portant municipal offices in Colo
rado as the result of last Tues
day's . elections. . Pueblo, the
State's second largest city, elect
ed a woman auditor and Leal
ville, Telluride, Idaho Springs,
Greely and Montrose elected
women treasurers, as d!d the
small towns of Fair Play and
Rideway. There are four women
members of the Colorado legis
lature and one of the commission
ers of the county of Denver is a
woman.
At Fort Worth, Texas, last
week, Mrs. T. M. Brooks was ac
quitted of the murder of Mrs.
Mary Binford January 16 last,
acquittal being en the ground of
insanity. Mrs. Brooks who is
the wife of a well knorn local
attorney, during the . rush hours .
of shopping went to a large de
partment store, where Mrs. Bin
ford was employed, and deliber
ately shot the woman to death,
firing a number of bullets into
hervictim's body while the latter
struggled to get away. The kill
ing was coldblooded murder.
Throe negrees were lynched at
Ellaville, Ga., early Saturday
morning.They were in jail await
ing a preliminary hearing on the
charge of murdering a white
man. At Lawrenceville, Ga,,
Friday night a negro charged
with criminally assaulting a white
woman was taken from jail and
lynched.
Kendall's Opening
The formal opening of Mr.
Henry E. Kendall's handsome
new soda fountain to the public
was a delightful affair.
Tho store was decor
ated, with ferns and flowers,
the clerks, Messrs. Carl Carpen
ter and Ben Roberts were dress
ed in immaculate white coats,
four young ladies, Misses Mar
garet McMurry, May Kendall,
Mabel Quinn and Bertie Lee Sut
tie served and a colored orches
tra furnished music. Several
hundred guests were served the
well-known Brannon-Hahn cream
made in Charlotte while souven
irs in the form ol pretty pin trays
were given to the ladies. The
occasion was delightful in every
waj and presages a big patron
age of the new fountain this
season.