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PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY A3STD FRIDAY. ii a NO 31 SHELBV, N. C TUESDAY, APRIL 19 1911 11.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Im'i. X 0D( 'striper FOR FARMER'S NEEDS . .Mirv nr tut nrurtroiTC IK IUNUKCU. - Umnfe 01 Pem Dl.ro i it imiiiivuiT and Tariff rrogram . is wearer Downward Revision of Products of K,e firmers Than on Products of the Trusts. Washington, APril 17. -Ravi- downward on the tbiDgs the r mus,t bay, as well as ro ibioDownward cn :be thirds j produces ! Tbisis the keynote of the De- bocratic reciprocity and tariff urogram. ltd fft-rs rad'cally from :h; re- iiprocity proiram contemplated the R'puoncans, wmcn was: treattr downward revs'oo on e produces 61 'he farmers than m the producs of the trusts. Hero are the articUs that will ooq the free list undei the Da ocratic program, each of which on!d havs remained heavily ied under the Rjpablicau pro- Iron: Lumber, dressed meats and eat products, flour, boot3 and 0(8, sewicg mach'nos, saddlfe lid saddlery, wire fencing, bal- g wire, cotton bargine and s, burlaps and agricultural im petus, including plows, har ts, reapers, binder and mow- 3, This is no' all of the Dsmo- a!ic program for the extra ses- oa. Following as soon as pos- h!e after the passage of the c'prceity ard free list bills, the riff will be revised downward p woolen and cotton poods The articles in these Kch dul s li which the greatest reductions be made will be blankets, Iderwear and men's,, women's d children's clothing. The mocratic idea cor templates the acing of the lowest tax on ti e .eaper grades of wearing ap' krel used by the poor. Under le Payne-Aldricb law articles ed principally by the poor are I'd twice as much as the high 1 priced articles used by the bh. Ia addition to reciprocity and riff revision downward will bills providing fir the rect election of United States nators, publicity of campaign afribuiions before instead of Prelection and seperate stato )od for Arizona and New Mex- MR JOLLY WRITES FROM OKLAHOMA HOME L'PPER CLEVELAND NEWS TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCES FARMER AS A SHELBY WINS aded School Defeats Boird's Prep winoi of Charlotte by a Score of 7to5. On the local diamond Friday tonoon the Shelby Graded hol team defeated the Biird's pp School of Charlotte by a pre of 7 to 5, the locals hold- lb the visitors down to no runs the ninth inning. The nnd was heavy as a result of 2 recent rains but the gme M interesting throughout. The eioy boys had the visitors on 8 SO all the time but erew confident toward the last 4 allowed thorn to pile up 5 M- The feature of tho eame fsthe pitching of Moore who paU men and did splendid unS- Batteries for Shelby, pore and Anthony: for Baird's. Find Carr. Orr fanned onlv 6n- Only a few attended the "Mowing to the inclemency of weather but they did effect rooting. The Shelbv bovs 76 & fast team ,D r win 6ver any other club of t ex nor! a n. iti -rwuvio tuu age. xwr, over Hamrick rendered impar- Several Marriages Are Performed Mr Sain Is in a Serious Condition from Effects of Gun Shot Mr. Bumgnrner Moves Back Mr. Wort man's Ey Gets Leg and Arm Broken. If you will allow me space in 3 our valuable paper I will give you a few dots from upper Cleve land. Tf arm 't.liiric rlfin'f. ahnn npooln from 6 to 9 Months-Wind is Worst from marrykitf up here they will soon all be married, Former Cleveland County Man is Mak ing Money in The West - Gives Item ized Account! his Farming -Uses no fertilizer-Sells Hogs Schools ! Feature ifeieclal to The SUr. (by Charlie W. Jolly) Rush Springs Okla , April 5 As some of my friends write to know about thin part of the coun try, and how I am getting along, if you will be so kind as to allow me space in j our valuable columns I will answer through The Star as I suppose nearly everybody in Cleveland county reads The Star. I was born and raised in town ship No. 2 Cleveland couuty, am 26 years old, have been ic Okla boina 8 years. I was married 5 years ago to a Miss Gilbert. Have one sweet little girl 4 years old. Have been farming 5 years as a renter and have farmed on the Mr. T. Buff aud Miss Grigg wero married last Sunday. A so Mr. James Randall, son of Mr. Jor;n Rindail-arid Miss Hattli Previt daughter of Mr. David Previt of No 10 township were married last Sunday. Mr. G. M. Cook officiated. It was Mr. Cook's first couple. to marry. ' Mr. Piata Sain who was shot by Luther Sain a few dys ago iu a drunken brawl at Lather Sain's is in a very bad condition and may not get over it. R-v. A P. Bumgarnerof Gas tonia is moving back to his farm near Casar. There will be Memorial ser vices at St. Paul before the sec ood Sunday in May. R v J. P. Hapgaman cf Mor gai'on will preacn at S Paul the fi'th Sunday in April at U conntT 0 CH CK Mr Joe Wortmao sameplaco for five years. Will tell of the truck I have raised the l0WIlshil) was buried at last 2 years. I raised Jn 1909, church Sunday. Ha died of para' 1.160 bushels of corn, paid rent lysis and raised ten bales of cotton averaging 539. bs to the bale. Only one bale of this cotton I paid rent off of one fourth. The other I broke 20 acres of new Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Mad are all smiles now on hecount of the arrival of a tine son in their home Mr. J. P, Mull who was brought from Vv ate Forest Col- land which I get all the crops eff ; lf,&e t0 lCte Shelby Hospital for ' 1 hnmo ahnn . nrrall Tnese ten bales of cotton j phe youngest son of Mr. and $746 30 j Mrs D3vid Wortuaan had the ffiisforture to cet his leg and brought me Coitou seed averaged $9.40 per bale 84 60 Total $830 90 I paid out for labor on this entire arm broken while playing with o'her children. kings Mountain presbytery Of NO 11 atngW it Corniw Waco vi CLEVELAND CENSUS Full Returns of the Census of Every Township and Incorpor ated Town In This County. The Star is just in rece'pt of a pamphlet cum&ining the full re turns of the populations of the townships ; and incorporad towns in Cleveland county made public Friday by the census bureau at Wdsh'ugton. The population of the county shown bf ne last census is 29,494 as compared with 25,078 ten years ago. Tbii is interesting informa tion to our citiz ;ns so we give it in full below: Place 1910 Township 1, River 726 Township 2,Boiling Spgs 2,238 Township 3, Rippys 2,246 . Township 4, Kings Moun tain, including . Grover village and part of Kings Mountain town 4,511 Grover village 209 Kings Mountain town (part of) 1,572 Total for King Moun tain town, in township 4, Cleveland county, and Crowder Moun tain township, Gaston 2,218 Warlick, iu- Waco village 2,238 village 185 Township 6, Shelby, in cluding Shelby town 6,560 Shelby town 3,127 Township 7, Sandy Run including Lattimore and Mooresboro vil lages 2,791 Lattimore village 297 Mooresboro village 108 Township 8' Polkville 2,360 Township 9, Double Shoals 3,206 Township 10, Knob Creek 1,285 Township 11 1,333 HOSPITAL POINDED 1900 624 1,943 2,030 3,570 174 1,281 BRIEF NEWS FROM COUNTIES NEAR-BY WHAT IS HAPPENING IN ADJOINING COUNTIES Summary of the Most Important News Items That are Taking Place in Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, Burke and Rutherford- Also South Caro lina News in Brief. RUTHERFORD: At Caroleen on April 8 at the home of Mr. J. F. Mclntyre, Mr. Walter Gilbert and MissBslle Mclntyre were married by Rev. 8. M. Davis. The marriage was qiiet but hap- P7. An interesting program has been arranged for the Ministers' and Laymen's Conference of the Green Rifer Association to be held at Montford's Grove Bap tist church, April 20 and 30. Many prominent ministers and laymen will take part. Mr. Henry Harris of Cleve land county and Miss Varna Bridges of near Hopewell were married in the Methodist parson age at Cliffside lat Sunday af ternoon by Rev. A. C. Swafford. Miss Lexie McDiniel closed a very successful school at Mc Kinney's last Friday. She has . .a. m L. .1 gone toner noma luermu M74 r-itv. The Graded School commence ment at Rutberfordton will take 2,379 place May 11 when an attractive 108 program will be rendered. Rev. 144 ' Robert S. Truesdell of 8partan- 2,062 2,060 160 4,439 2,169, 3,467 1,156 1.242 'decisii game. onsasumpirer in Fri- crop of corn and cotton and for cotton picking Total This leavi s me for my labor I sold hogs in 1909 to the amount of $7 50 $S8.47 $201 55 Crop cotton and hogs 1909 -Total $936 43 I raised in 1910 one thousand and ninety bushels corn. I broke 25 acres of new land, I also get 2 years on that I made V17 bales of cotton on 45 acres; paid for cotton rents $44.0 J. Tnis year 1 bad one hired manaad4 good horses, I paid the bind man $100. for 5 months, I paid for cot ton poking $175.77. My 17 bales of cotton brought $1,201.30, 17 bales cotton anfl cotton saeds $1354.30; ren's $44; hired man $100; cotton picking $175 77; 'otal $319 77 balance for my labor alone $1,034.53 I sold hogs to the 75 00 50.00 $1,159.53 Held Forth At Gastania For Two Days Excellent Report of Barium Springs Orphanage $95 97 GaBtou Prorra- j The spring meeting of the . K'ugs Mountain Presbytery ' M : c im'i to a clos3 yesterday after noon afternoon after a two days session. AU of the ministers in the Presbytery were present except two und a very good aie-ting was tho result. The business was dispatched m a very satisfactory manner arid in th'j words of oue member "there was very little squabbling emong the Bre'hern." lUv. C. H. Lit-' i!e retiring moderator of Char lo'.te, was ill acd unabl8 to bo present and the ODoning sermon was prei.cb.ed by R A. Burwell pastor predicting oflicor. No spe cial speakers were present ex copt Superintendent D. H. Hill of. Barium .Springs Orphanage, wio made an xcellent report of Uie work being done there and an eloquent plea for assistance. Tho fall meauDg will ba held at Stanley. value I sold one milch cow Total baknet-1910 I also raised about 100 bushels of oats and 10 Ions of sorgum hay. Soniu farmers do better aud t oe do w ir e 1 live 2 miles west of Rush Springs, a railroad town. We have good health here, good water, good neighbors, 6 to 9 months free school. Pnone linos are all over the country. Horse stock and cattle are high. Im. proved land here is as high as $25 to $50 per acre. Government or unallotted Indian lands can be bought from $4 to $8 per acre with some time to pay. This is a fine fruit country. All kinds of crops do well here when we have good seasons but the last 2 years have been very bad. We do not have much trouble to work a crop for the ground hardly ever gets too wet to culti- The commencement of the Gastonia graded school will take place May 8 and Rev. G M. Harmon, pastor of the Main Street ; Methodist church will preach. Exercises will be ren dered on Friday the 5th, the ser mon on Sunday and the graduat ing exercises Monday 8. vate aud never getstard, being a saady loam in th:s section. We never use fertilizers of any kind. The worst drawback hero is th wind blowing. Wages are a), ways good. The cotton crop this year will be increased 50 per cent over last j ear. I will plant this year 3 acres oa's, 50 acres in corn and 50 in cotton, and 12 in water melons. This is a great place to raise melons. Very likely there v:ill be COO car loads of melons shipped from our station this season to the northern markets. There is al?o about 2 cars cf fat hogs each week shipped from Rush Springs the year round and about that many cars of cattle and about 1,000 cars of corn each year. This gives us some money all through the year. Shelby Friends of the Hospital Tate in Large Quantity of Groceries and Linen. As an appreciation of the hos pital. Shelby's wonderful insti tution for suffering humanity, the la-ties and gen'lemen gave a pounding" iass Thursday after noon. It was a deluge of good things to eat and serviceable things for the sick rooms. Gro ceries and linen wer& mainly the articles sent down. They were gathered in the Riyster building and hauled down on a wagon, the ladies going along to . extend their good wishes and appreciat ion of the hospital. Dr. T. C. Hamrick is resident physician and Dr. Harlan Shoemaker the surgeon. These gentlemen have met with splendid success so far in their operations and ministra tions to tho sick and Cleveland county values tho institution be yond expression. The articles included in tha pounding were many and show the spirit in which the Shelby people regard it. Tho pounding was instigated by the Civic Lagu& Mrs. W. J. Roberts made a short talk in be. half of the town and Mrs. Clyde R Hoey in behalf of the league. DiXO.VS POSITION Refused to Accept Pastorate of Big Lon don Church Because Pews are Rent ed. Hosts of friends and admirers of Dr. A. C. Dixon, of Chicago, watch with interest anything in which be is interested. He was recently offered the pastorate of Spurgeon's church in London, one of the most influential churches in the Eaglish speak ing world, and the world is anxiously awaiting to see wheth er he will accept or not. He has made the declaration recently and those who know him know also that he meant what he said that be would not accept the pastorate unless that church would agree to abandon its cus torn of renting pews. Dr. Dixon is a brother of Thomas, the author and play wright and Is a native of Cleve land county. burg, B.C., will preach com-mjnc.ment-sermon. Prof. N. W. Wala-er will deliver the com mencement address. Superior Court was in session last week with Judge Henry P. Lane president and Solicitor A. H. Johnson representing the State. Court contiuues this week. LINCOLN: East Lincoln folks are up and stirring in an effort to get the interurbau trolley line to extend its line north from Mt. Holly through Gaston, L'.ncoln and Catawba counties. Mrs. Susan Lowe, wife of the late Ruf us Lowe died at Alexis last Friday night at the age of 85 Was a member of the Lutheran church for 70 years. Funeral wss conducted by R9V. Mr. Fin cher of the Lowesville circuit and the interment was at New Hope. The Lincoln News says people of that county have contributed about $22 for the relief or the Chinese who are dying from the plague. The largest crowd that ever attended the Lincoln court was there Monday and Tuesday owing to the wetness of the ground. Judge J. Crawford Biggs presid ed and Solicitor Wilson prosecut ed. Court adjourned Wednesday. Plans are being laid for a great memorial celebration May 11 in Lincolnton when the confederate monument will be unveiled and Governor Kitchin will cpeak. CATAWBA : - two .. y o u n g Scotchmen direct from Scotland arrived at Mr. John W. Robin son's farm in Catawba county and will engage in farming. Catawba, already far to the front in the matter of local tax districts, has five more elections for May 6. Thetaxis for edu cation and ought to pass. Frank Brown, the notorious blockader who was arrested and taken to Statesville by theU. S. deputy marshall, escaped Satur day night by filing through and removing the steel ..bars of his cell. Mrs. Mary Hall, a noble wo man and member of tho Presby- terian church , at Newton died last week In her 93rd year. She was in every sense a real mother of the Conf edercy, i CONDENSED NEWS 0FJHE CAROLINA? NORTH MO SOUTH CAROLINA NEWi a tie Happenings In The Two States Boiled Down In Brief Paragraphs for Easy Readers of The Star The Host Im portant Things of the Week Sumtd up. :;'y-, Senator. Simmons seems to think a state-wide primary will be greatly to his favor in nomin ating a United States senator. He hopes the Democratic convention will designate this method of nomination. The shops for the trolley Hue owned by the Southern Power Company will be located in Char lotte. Shops for the Southern division will be located at Green ville where the company has 28 acres of land. Equipment to maintain the line will be manu factured at High Point. The people of Edgefield, S. C. have become interested in the business of canning fruit and vegetables for the market. Six thousand dollars baa baen raised to build a canning factory. The present property assess ments in North drojina aggreg ate upwards of $613,000,000 and the leaders in the Legislature fieured on an additional $100, 000,000 when they created the county tax assessors in the new revenue act, The dry kiln and machine room and engine room of the Haper's Furniture Company, at Lenoir, was destroyed by fire Monday nigth. Loss including lumber, estimated at between $25 000 and $35 000, partially covered by in surance. Roscoa Rivenbark, the youth who recently killed a scarlet woman at Goldsboro, was arra igned in Wayne Superior Court this week escaped on the insan ity plea. He was committed to the criminal insane department of the State prison, Wearing a "jim swinger" coat and a white tie, Wiley Black, of Asheviile, noted blind tiger and convict, went to Raleigh this we k and talked with Gov. Ki chin about the attempt to re voke his pardon. Black says he is very much persecuted. Playing with other children in the yard at her home near Friendship church, , Forsyth county, Gertie Hargrove,, 12- year old daughter oi Mr. ana Mrs. Henry Hargrove, leu over a boiling pot of soap and receiv ed fatal icjuries, dying rome hours later. The monument erected by the Nonh Carolina Society of Daugh ters of the American Revolution at the birth place . of Andrew Jackson was unveiled Wednes day with appropriate exercises. The place is the site oi tne oia McKamle house, six miles from Waxhaw, Uoion , county. The foundations of the bouse are still In exlsterce. Mr. E. R. Preston, of Charlotte, was the orator at the unveiling. GASTON: General Manager R. B. Babington of the Piedmont Telephone and Telegrah Com pany has let a contract for the erection of a three story office building in Gastonia to be used by " the telephone "company. Building will cost $9,000. - An extensive write up appears in the Gazette of last Tuesday about the debate at Boiling Springs. Three boys on the program are from Gaston, Messrs. George Falls is secreta ry, Wilbur J. Smith was orator and Mathew AStronp, one of the debaters was on the winning side. ' ' Mr. J. Kelley Dixon, who was at one time Congressman Webb's secretary has received an at pointment as second assistant to the bank examiner oi South Caro lina. , Rev. W. J, Wiley died early Friday morning at his home in Bowling Greent a few miles South of Gastonia. He was the popular pastor of Beth Shiloh and Allison Creek Presbyterian churches, and was a man loyed by all who knew him. Was 35 years old, i f V- ' - i II i I 1 ; ? -i ' ; i i. j 1. -'A .; i i tip; 1 1 Mi r 'i :: r t "i t 3 i i . lit- rf - V
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