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Attend the Patriotic Rally on the Court Square Sat. night at 7 P. M. and Lattimore Chautauqua Sat., Mon. and Tues. Aug. 25th, 27th 28th Published Every Tuesday and Friday Tbe Oldest and Best Paper in This Section We Do Job Work the Linotype Way Let Us Figure on Your Work. Phone No. tl VOL. XXV. NO.- 69 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1917 1 .50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE u n . 'ex civ MORE MEN ARECERTIFIED F SIX MEN CALLED FOR ! ilT-VKY SERVICE ARE FROM cHFl IIV DATES ON WHICH rlMT U l A U1L.L, IIL1UIU fl TO fl0 TO TRAINING CAMP. MR. FRANK GREEN DEAD Successful Hotel Man and Sod of Ma jor S. J. Green dies at Rutherford ton Buried Here Yesterday. Six rtrire i,- the loca military oi" ranies pu men have been certified exemption board for service in addition to the lished last week. They Mr. Frank Green, manager of - the Winsdor Hotel at Johnson City, Tenn. died at the Rutherfordton Hotei Tuesday night to which point he had Deen brought for an operation, but owing to his weakened condition, the surgeons thought he was unable to withstand the operation, hence it was filed no claim lor discharge ami nave not periormed. Mr. Green's body thf-refiTi' ll'in P""-eu lul Beinteinoa uiuuiii, iu uie nome oi nis lath hdi calK-'i upon. Their names are ?.,-,,i-II;iary T. Hudson, Shelby. jj.Rnliurt D. Crowder, Shelby . '-;! Thns. A. McGinnis, Kings Mt. blotto Webber, Kings Mt. Walter' II. Bowman, Shelby, (..'llwni. Kvnr.s Crowder, Shelby. ,.m in ptiori boaril says those felVlT :!- the fa.iuiv . ... I e uvc lu'eii accepted iur military ili.iul:! hold themselves in s v.vA keep themselves posted er, Major S. J. Green Wednesday night and the funeral took place there yesterday morning at 11 o'clock, con ducted by Rev. C. A. Wood, pastor of Central Methodist chilrch, assisted by Rev. L. M. White. Mr. Green was 49 years of age and was or.e of the most successful hotel men in the country having a wide ac quaintance among the traveling pub lic . "il. 1 " i. i i viin wnicn ne nail come in con- ard is not responsible for tact for 20 years. He was connected get notices mailed them, (with the Broadway Central Hotel, When They Leave New York City, a popular Atlantic The beard has instructions to have City resort hotel and several Florida the ceimty's quota ready to report at .resort places of mammoth size. As a f ,nu. trail ing camp in the following hotel man he was extremely popular Thirty per cent will leave and successful and his untimely death ITALIANS TAKE 13,000 PRISONERS AND THEIR GREAT DRIVE CON TINUES AUSTRIA ADMITS LOSSES GERMANS DELIVER HEAVY COUNTER ATTACKS. nri or, Se'. timber ,th, thirty per cent hep-temw-r l'.nh and thirty per cent Oct ober 3rl. This means that the men .ailed for service will report to the will -be learned with considerable re gret. Mr. Green was married in Philadelphia and his widow survives, together with his father, one brother local exemption board in the order Miles P. Green of Venice, Illinois and they have been called in three sec tions and be prepared to leave for some training camp. The board does ret know yet to which training camp the Cleveland county drafted men will be sent, although it is the general impression that they will go to Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C, where the First Regiment under command of Col. J. T. Gardner will report. Exemption Buttons The board has a quantity of exemp tion buttons sent out by the Govern ment for distribute to those who have been exempted for one cause and another. The buttons are oxidiz ed brass with the words "exempt U. S " and a shield U. S. in the center. M n who have been found physically unlit, exempted on account of having dependents or on account of vocation two sister, Mrs. David Wray of Shel by and Mrs. Florence Pridgen of At lanta, Ga. Deceased was a man of striking personality, big hearted and jovial and his death has cast a gloom over his many friends in Cleveland where he was born and reared. A HOSPITAL PROPOSED Plan to Organize and Build One Shelby Doctors Co-Operating. in A plan has been set on foot by the Shelby Board of Trade to organize and build a hospital, A MUCH NEEDED institution since the de parture of Dr. H. Shoemaker. Most every county has a hospital, but Cleveland is sadly lacking in this res ar. given one oi tnese buttons, ine pect consequently all patients have exemption discharges are made sub-,to be sent awav much to their'dis ject to be revoked at any time, but comfort and the expense of friends no one .who receives a discharge and ,ovd ones who want to be at need to report to tne local exemption their bedside Dr. Ivan McDowell was here this board until further notified About 25 Appeals About 25 appeals from the local b ard have been sent to the district board which meets at Statesville. These appeals are made by men who filed claims for exemption, but their claims were denied by the local board. In most cases the appeals are being made for exemption on account of the drafted men having farm work de pendent upon them. Vocational claims for exemption cannot be pass ed upon by the local board but have to go to the district board, composed of five men representing five differ ent walks of life. It has not been learned whether men who have crops dependent upon their labor will be ex empted or not. When these claims on appeal are passed upon and re ports returned, the findings will be published and posted. week from Savannah, Ga., and met Witn tne directors oi tne uoara oi trade, at which various plans were discussed and a goodly amount of stock subscribed. A committee has been appointed as follows: Paul Webb, Dr. ,S. S. Royster, Lee McB. White, A. C. Miller, C. A. Wood, Thomas Bateman, J. D. Lineberger. This committee will solicit stock sub scriptions, locate a site and formulate plans on which the institution will SECOND DRAFT NEXT SPRING No Steps Have as Yet Been Taken Changes May be Made as to Sta tus of Married Men. Washington, Aug. 22. A full sta tistical report on the operation of the draft law will be prepared by the provost marshal general's office as foor, as the mobilization of the first increment of 087,000 men has teen completed some time early in Octo-"(r- Pending the preparation of the r,1P"rt and careful analysis of con uitior.s are disclosed, no step towards f allir.jr a second increment to the col "r Will be taken. General Crowder said today that thl4 call for the second increment never had been considered at any wnfwenn. at which he was present and ;h-,t l, i..i :.. uuu IIU 1111UI IIUUll'.l V.I a" act:-.): by the president or scc retnry f War T'n" training facilities already are taxw to make ready for the front men now available ant it is regard 1,1 as very unlikely that organization "' n additional 500,000 men of the rational armv ran hnirin until the Thursday's Dispatch: The great oflensive of the Italians from the region of Tolmino to the head of the Adriatic sea is going on despite the stubborn resistance of the Austrians and the difficulty of the terrain. Meanwhile, the British and French forces in Belgium and on the sectors of Lens and Verdun in France again have made progress against the Ger mans and also have' held, notwith standing most violent counter-attacks all the ground they won in recent fighting. On the eastern front near the im portant' Russian port of Riga on the Baltic the Germans have started what possibly may turn out to be another big offensive and also are attacking the Russian lines to the southeast in the vicinity of Dvinsk and further south near Brody and Tarnpopol in northern east Galacia, Already the Italian offensive has re sulted in the capture of more than 13,000 prisoners and 30 guns, and gains of great importance have been made all along the line. Italian war ships, which ore aiding in the attack at the head of the gulf of Triest.have switched their guns from the battle line and showered shells on Triest,the big Austrian port which is the objec tive of the Italians. Austria Admits Losses Admission is made by the Vienna war office of victories of the Italians at several points south of Tolniino and the capture of the town of Selo near the head of the Adriatic, but it is asserted that the offensive especial ly at Selo, cost the Italians thousands of men killed and wounded, in addi tion to more than 6,500 prisoners. Not only have the Canadians re pulsed all German counter-attacks be fore Lens, but they hav taken addi tional positions from the enemy in front of the important coal center. Near Ypres, in Flanders, the British have penetrated the German line to a considerable depth. On both these sectors furious fighting is still going on. Tuesday night and Wednesday morning saw the German crown prince delivering heavy counter-attacks against the newly-won French positions northwest of Verdun, where at several points the Germans suc ceeded in re-entering them. These positions, however, shortly afterward again were relinquished to General Ptain's men under fierce onslaughts. North and northeast of Verdun the Germans made similar attempts to capture lost ground, but the artillery and rifle fire of the Frenchmen forced them to desist. Wednesday af WILL A. CROWDER, FARMER Another Cleveland Farmer Who Owns 420 Acres of Land and Will Make 2,000 Bushels of Corn and About 100 Bales of Cotton. PATRIOTIC RALLY To Be Held on Square Tomorrow Night, Beginning at 7 O'Clock Fine Speeches Everybody Invited. One of the really big farmers of Cleveland is Will A. Crowder of near Lattimore who will make this year, with favorable conditions continuing, 80 to 100 bales of cotton and not less than 2.000 bushels of corn. He owns a fine farm of 42(7 acres, having just . J?uished men wiI1 The biggest patriotic event ever held in Cleveland county is planned to take place on the court square to morrow evening, beginning at 7 o'clock. Everybody in the county is cordially invited to attend. A plat form is being built at the Confederate ! monument from which three distin- deliver patriotic purchased 50 acres from S. J. Kinney at iW.olil) or $70 per Mf. speeches; Lieu., Gov. O. Max Gardner, am, I Assistant District Attorney Clyde R. be run. The doctors of Shelby, at a recent meeting, pledged their hearty Jternoon found the Germans appar- co-operauon in suoseriptiuiis aim in r ently cowed as a result oi tneir un sending their patients to the local I rewarded efforts for their infantry institution. Dr. McDowell comes highly recommended. He had three years training with the famous Mayo brothers, perhaps the most successful surgeons In the United States. What Farmers Will Be Exempted From the Draft? early 'Pnng of 1918. Neither quar- train the men l"5 ror personnel to available. 'qualities of an inevitable na re will be shown in the report. latfo1 W'" 1)6 SOme amended reEu withr'a?ec' 011 actual experience , first increment and some "wndments of the law will be sought ot confess. eh!' 13 ,thouKht desirable that a of made 80 that a11 the sons alio? ly wiU not taken' StiU er 's the status of married men. Progressive Farmer: Capper'9 Weekly, we believe, sumi ., , . j. . .I. 1 I U up tne tact as to ine larmei mm uic draft when it says: "The rule appears to be that each case must rest on its own bottom, it must be shown, not merely that an applicant for exemption is engaged in farming, but that his employment is necessary to the operation of the farm, and that he cannot be replaced bv someone else without substantial loss. This probably means that young married farmers who are running their own farms, either owned or rented, and whose families are de pendent on them for support, and young men whose father or mother or both are dependent on the sons for support, will be exempted, but that there will be no general exemp tion of men employed on farms. NOTICE A representative of The Star will be at the Elliott lie union on Saturday, August 25th and at the Lattimore Chautauqua Monday, Auc 27th and Tuesday, Aug. 28th for the purpose of taking new subscriptions and renewals. Please be prepared to see him. SAMPLE COPIES ON REQUEST Ledford Re-Union at slirts, hosiery and underwear 6 yer Pr'CeS' 866 Evans El Mc" adv. A family re-union will be held at Mr. W. E. Ledford's in No. 10 town ship Saturday, September 1st. Ev erybody is cordially invited to at tend, bring baskets and spend the day. - which adjoins his present plantation. Mr. Crowder has a modern barn with concrete floors and ample room to store vast quantities of feed. Last winter 117 head of cattle were fed in his barn and he did not buy a dol lar's worth of feed, having madi? e no'ugh in spite of the damaging floods of last July. Of course he did not feed 117 head all winter for he trades and traffics in cattle and he owned and fed this number off and on. As a result he hauled out over one hundred loads of fine stable ma nure on his land this spring. Mr. Crowder's friends call his a "paper farmer," it may be because he 'keeps books like a merchant or reads the farm journals and talks "plant food," fertilizer ingredients, soil analysis and uses scientific terms. Te has an open mind, always ready and willing to be convinced on any subject that will be helpful to him in his work. He reads and experiments, absorbs what he can from all literature sent him and has just returned this week from a visit to the State test farm in Iredell county where he made a study and observation of what crops will do with certain commercial fertiizers on the same grade of land, with the same cultivation and under the same conditions. You can't say Mr. Crowder inherit ed a valuable estate. His parents died when he was small and left him to scuffle for himself. A third inter est in an estate valued at $1700, is all he got and what he has accumu lated since then has been on his shere ability and hard work. He is a good trader and some loins say ne nas made what he has at trading, but formincr a his main line ana uesi inource of revenue. He has 80 acres in corn and 140 ar-rpa in cotton this year. Of course he builds his land up with peas and nfhpr Wume crops, has a barn full of feed for his cattle during the win ter and will soon build a silo. He has a fine orchard, his wife, who is a good manager, raises chickens and notrnniips the creamery from which she receives a nice check each month. Visitors are made to feel at home when they go there, Mr. Crowder has two automobiles and moves in a hurry at home and abroad. He uses modern machinery and you can bet your life that he will soon have a farm tractor if they are successful in this country. Last year he had 90 acres in cotton and 40 acres in corn and his two boys in their teens plant ed and cultivated these tracts with no hired help except a hand to go ov er the corn one time. You wonder how they did it They used riding cultivators and, in this way the farm work goes on in a hurry and on a larger scale. Mr. Crowder does not represent Chicago. Auer. 22. Cattle reached JrHli7Pr manufacturers, so his Te- the highest prices in the history, of commendation of the use of commer- Hoey and Dr. J. Lee White of Miami, Fla. Judge James L. Webb will be master of ceremonies and the speech es will be limited to eight minutes each. The platform will be decorat ed in red, white and blue and is be ing lighted with electric bulbs in the national colors. A feature of the oc casion will be the singing led by Mr. James Jelks, evangelist singer who will have a chorus of 200 voices, sing ing patriotic songs. A basket picnic will be served to the 150 soldiers pres ent, following which the men will give a watermelon cut to the soldiers in uniform. Mayor Paul Webb asks all farmers who will, to give watermelons for the soldiers and they will oblige the sold iers by leaving them with Mr. L. P. Holland at the J. L. Suttle Company, grocery department. The soldiers will, leave for Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C, next week and a rousing "send off" will be giv en them on this occasion. PROGRESS OF THEFIGHT1NG GERMAN COUNTER. ATTACK UN SUCCESSFUL AND THEY SUF FER TERRIBLE LOSSES MEN MET IN BATTLE AT DAY BREAK. v Colter-Osborne Marriage kept to their trenches and only the artillery was in action. More than 6,000 Germans have been made prisoners during the three days of fighting in the Verdun region. Price of Cattle and Hogs the market at the stockyards when top steers were quoted at $15.50 to day. Hogs dropped from the high price of $20 on Tuesday to $19.50 a hund redweight, with few sales, and bids ranging from $19 to $19.25. v . . .... v kn foVon to ciai iertuizers run nui, w mean that he wants to advertise them. His fertilizer bill this year was $1,180, an average of $5 per acre. His fertilizer bill on cotton will average $8 or $9 per acre, and he considers this a good investment. PROGRAM OF PATRIOTIC RALLY SATURDAY NIGHT Judge J. L. Webb, master of ceremonies. Eight minute speeches of a patriotic nature by the following distinguished men and in the following order: Lieu. Gov. 0. Max Gardner Assist. District Atty. C. R. Hoey Dr. J. L. White of Miami, Florida. Mr. Gardner will present comfort bags made by the United Daughters of Confederacy and Red Cross Chap ter. Mr. James Jelks with a chorus of 200 voices will sing patriotic songs. Platform will be decorated in red, white and blue. Ladies will serve basket picnic supper to 150 soldiers, followed by watermelon cut, given by the men. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Colter of Ruth erford College announced the mar riage of their daughter, Ruth, to Mr. Joe Osborne of Shelby on Aug. 13th, 1917. This announcement will be learned here with much interest, because of the wide popuarity of the groom who is a native of this city, the son of Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Osborne. He is a young man of splendid personality, brilliant parts, and for the past two years he has been a student at the Southern Dental College in Atlanta, Ga., and expects to return there this year to finish his course. The bride is a most accomplished and winsome young woman, a grad uate of Rutherford College and for the past year held a responsible posi tion at the large Company Store at Lawndale, where her uncle, Mr. Ar- rloi io mono ffor This happy event occurred in Char- east of the stream Wednesday's Dispatch: Hard smashes at the German lines in France again have been productive of important gains for the entente al lies. North of Verdun the French have captured additional points of vantage, while the Canadians have fought their way forward nearer to the heart of the town of Lens, tak ing 2,000 yards of positions west and northwest of the town. All the counter-attacks by the Ger man crown prince's forces against General Petain's men on the newly captured ground in the Verdun sec tor have been ill starred; those of Crown Prince Rupprecht against the Canadians at last accounts had brought nothing more than an aug mentation of the already terrible casualties his troops have suffered in their attempts to save the important coal center from capture. Under a canopy of mist the Cana dians and Germans met at daylight in the open of "no man's land" north west of Lens, neither expecting the other. Springing at their surprised foe with their usual intrepedity, t he Canadians put the Germans to the bayonet and forced them to scurry for a seeming haven of safety inside their trenches. Here however, the Germans apparently were no more secure than in the open, for again with the bayonet and with bombs the Canadians did great execution, kill ing or wounding many of the occu pants and putting the others to flight. West of Lens, aided by a heavy ar tillery fire, the Canadians also ad vanced, pushing the Germans farther into the environs of the town To both the captured positions the Cana dians are holding tenaciously, al ready having put down with heavy losses three strong counter-attacks two on the northwest and one west of the town. North of Verdun, on both sides of the River Meuse, the French troops have kept up their vigorous offensive started Monday and been regarded by the capture of additional impor tant positions, west of the river, Cote L'Oie, a point of considerable strategic value, and the village of Regneville, have been taken, while the village of lotte on last Monday a week ago, .aamogneux and fortified trenches ov- when the bride and groom met there (er a front of about a mile and a half, by appointment, and were quietly connecting Samogneux with the de married unknown to their families fenses on Hill No. 344, are in the and friends, returning the same day hands of General Petain's men. Coun to their respective homes expecting ,ter-attacks by the Germans all along to keep their secret for awhile, but Cupid is a very meddlesome little fel low and the news began to be whis pered about, and they have now de cided to make the event known to all tHeir interested friends. IMPORTANT! Special Notice The manager of the Princess will play for the benefit, of our loyal boys who are serving Uncle Sam for the good cause of their country, Friday, (today) . August 24th, matinee and night. The admission that day will be 5 and 10c. Half of the receipts Ki i l ; win De given to mem ior Duying stationery, stamps, and many other useful articles. Buy your tickets and help do your bit. PROGRAM A special selected 5 part Blue Bird Photo PlaV entitled "BEHIND THE LINES" It's a great piceure. "Blackboards and Blackmail A icreaming Lr-KO Komedy in 2 parts. Teachers Institute August 27th The State Board of Examiners and Institute conductors has arranged to hold Cleveland county's institute at Shelbv beginning August 27th and continuing two weeks. All teachers that expect to teach this winter must attend every day for the two weeks. This is not my order but is a state law and I have no power to excuse you. So if you ex pect to draw the county's money you must be at the Institute for ten days. Institute will be conducted by Prof. Highsmith and Miss Fulghum. 5t. J. Y. IRVIN. the new front have been repulsed by the French. In addition to more than 5,000 pris oners taken in Monday's advance, ad ditional captures resulted from the attacks of Tuesday. The German war office, possibly with the idea of heartening the people at home, says counter-attacks by the Germans have driven out the French from almost all the positions they captured on the Verdun front It adds that the German troops and their leaders anticipate a favorable conclusion of the Verdun battle. In the Austro-Italian theater the terrific drive of the Italians is caus ing the Austrian line to crack at numerous points. The Austrians are resisting vigorously. Although the battle is proceeding without inter ruption, little is available in the of ficial communication to delimit geo graphically the advances the Italians thus far have made. Austrian de fenses between Corite and Selo and near the strongly fortified Starilokva position are among the places captur ed. Up to Monday night more than 10,000 prisoners have been taken, not counting 243 officers. Community Fairs ' The Star wishes to call the atten tion of the people of Boiling Springs who have in mind the holding of .. a community fair this Fall to an articls in this week's Progressive Farmer on "How to Succeed With Community Fairs". This article will be helpful and interesting to Boiling Springs folks if they wish to make their fair go. It is hoped that the fair will be held and while it may not be a great success the first year, it will grow and prove a blessing in years to come. The store for daddy and the boys is Evans E. McBrayer's. adv. Aviation School at Charlotte Washington, Aug. 22. It was sta ted by an official in the office of Ad jutant General McCain today that the national guardsmen originally sched uled to go to Charlotte for training at Camp Greene had been changed and that the guardsmen would be sent elsewhere. It was said, howev er, that Camp Greene would be used for another purpose. Just what use the camp will be put to has not been given out here but it is probable that one of the aviation training schools will be put at Charlotte. The war department has decided to put at least one aviation school in North Carolina and only last week approved tentative plans to establish a school at forehead City. The plans were then changed and Wilmington or Fayetteville seemed to be in a fair way to get the place. Now that the guardsmen are not to go to Charlotte the camp may be turned into an avia- tion school. Don't be faked into buying cheap shoddy goods at high prices, when you can buy reliable goods which are cheaper at Evans E. McBrayer's. A I i ! . if i i ! !'I ' Hi M lit h if - 1- t. : . ! i i f ' ,-1. id mi. 'iir.