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VOL. XXV. NO. 90
THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6 191'
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
published. fJvcry ;
Ti.i-iy and Fridrv
jtoj- -p'tiai and B;1
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PATHFINDING
PARTY HERE
kvi:kal members
EXPRESS
thkMSELVES IN FAVOR OF
THK SHELBY ROUTE MR. E. Y.
WEiiB ENTHUSIASTIC.
The pathfinding party of the Bank-
head National Highway association
arrived in Shelby Friday from Kings
Mountain, at 1 o'clock and was met
iv 500 or more school children, a uni-
formed band and many prominent men
h,i ladies. The high school girls serv-'
(i coffee and sandwiches to the path-
finding party and seven or eight
nrominetit uanney citizens wno went
to Kings Mountain to meet them and
rtrort them on their way. Secretary I.
C. Griffin of the Hoard of Trade dis
tributed cigars and after three brief
speeches the party proceeded to Gaff
piloted by Banker C. C. Blanton
and Mr. Charles L. Eskridge, a prom
inent automobile dealer and one of
tkt best drivers in the country.
Five or six cars full of Shelby men
and ladies went to Kings Mountain
Friday morning to meet tne party and
CSCOrl ini'in lu.oueiuj, vungresaman
Webb having been instrumental in
jetting them to detour via Shelby to
iispect the roads which are much bet
ter than via Blacksburg, although 7
er 8 miles further from Kings Moun
tain to Gaffney than the established
. ii olii. r"
highway.
The three men who are to select the
highway are John Olive La Groce, night, was still alive at last account
chairman of the pathfinders commis- and it was believed that his recovery
fion and editor of the National Geo- was possible.
graphic Journal; M 0. Eldridge, Unit- Mjg8 Dora grown 19 years old an
ed Suites office of public roads and , of Erwin cotton mi at
member of the pathfinders commis- j Durham, was struck in the back by
ion; A. B. Batchelder member of the broken of machi and
executive committee of the American a bucde on the mi of Mt in
Automobile Association and member fli d injurjes that caused her death
of the pathfinders commission. i
Other members of the party are Elsia Stansbury, aged 16, was filled
Senator J. H. Bankhead who was in- at Spencer Monday by falling from a
.urumental in securing the appropria-' 1 idder a distance of 20 feet. He was
tion for the road and for whom it has 'employed at the railroad shops and
ton named, Congressman E. Y. Webb(was finishing his first day's work in
who lead an active fight for the bill hat capacity when the accident oc
in the house, ex-Congressman P. S. curred.
Plowman, president of the Bankhead After an anday search off the
National Highway Association; J. A. Knrt-.nn 'nt the North Curo-
Houndtrce secretary oi tne mnKneaa ,
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.National Highway Assocation; v. r.
In-lmd. assistant secretary of
l,,i
tne
a.M.. iatmn; Mrs. Kuth Kramer, mem
ff-r "f the woman's board; Miss Seleri'
i "a nif-i : n of Birmingham,
Ala., Cel.
liir.hani Cameron of Raleigh
W. P.
Fa'
. state highway engineer; Clar
li.izelweod of Washington ar.l
!.. I'andolph of Jefferson, Ga.
party was delighted with the
:"ni King.-i Mountain to Shelh
m- judges who usually keep their
ii-; to themselves expressed the'r
i n i
Mrv
Ti
a i,1
nj'ini
surprise to find such an exeellent
r- ml. l'nri leaving Shelby they wti'.l
ia B-iling Springs, thence across the
i',"v. st,., 1 bridge at Broad river.
-tarn curve or two,a short stret' h
r.agh surface and a litle more mile
1h:iM the lr;ivo road caused th
Shi"iy people to fear that the most I
'.ivnralile route had not been Uiken '
t" I'-ave ,i c-nod imnression uixm the
W.-tr; r.f fhn rnmmission. The UP-
per Hroad river route was chosen,
tawovtr, because there is a polo
i'ri.ige at the crossing at Pr.ivo in
lif-rokee which Messrs. Eskridffe and
Kli.nten were warned to avoid. The
I'nv) route, will be submitted to the
"mm:, -ion before they make up their
'iuisi..:.. Cleveland's part of the roads
sre all riirht and if the Dr.avo bridge
built the Bankhead highway is al
f1 sure to include Shelby.
Mr. llnundtree, secretary, mountid
thf elevation at the Confederate rn" -
unimt and in a few well cnosen wonis
the people that the object of the
! ur was to locate this coast-to-coast
highway for which Congress had made
si appropriation of 75 million dol
lars and that the men to select the
'"uie were picked from neutral xerri-
tftrv In ..-J Mrtt ho '
tof.v in order that there may not be
v favoritism.
The government is to give for the
construction of the road $75,000,000.
This is to be djvided among the 13
states through which the highway will
pass. North Carolina will get about
$1,500,000.
Senator Bankhead appeared very
nappy when he faced the bright school
children who are to receive the great
"st benefit from this proposed high
way. He complimented in most gener
is terms Congressman Webb and the
hKh rank he holds at the capital.
Congressman Webb was the most
enthusiastic member of the party. It
ws through his influence that the
Pay came to Shelby and he was
proud to stand before his home peo
Pje and tell them that the Bankhead
hlRhway would be the longest and
"st magnificent in the world. He
compared it with "the famous Appian
ay of Italy and said when this high
ly is built, it will be a' great artery
travel into which thousands of
other roads will pour their traffic; it
"! be the connecting link between
Ife Sunny South and the Golden
wt rbetween the canital of the
United States and the capital of the
Confederacy; between the capital of
the Old North State and the capital
other Southern sister states. He
Poke of the Kings Mountain Shelby
stretch .and the complimentary man
ner in which tt inn ..
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via Vlhulhir
Cleveland countv would i,D J
in making the finest road along the
entire route.
I The party spent a short time in
Gaffney, going on to Spartanburg and
Greenville for the night. Whether
tni snme commission will go over the
entire route or not, we have not been
able t fi"d out. The highway extends
from Washington to Birmingham,
thence to Memphis and across to Los
Angeles, California.
The. Shelby Board of Trade will
keep 'n ouch with the commission and
fufsh additional data as to roads,
nuis Kw.
NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM.
terns of
Interest Gathered
Over the State.
From
Britt Martin of Anson county was
: riding a mule in a trot, the saddle
girth broke, the mule fell and the
young man's head was hurt so that
he died three days later.
Stephen Lauzanne, chief editor of
Le Matin, a leading newspaper of
Paris, was in North Carolina this
week and made addresses in Raleigh
and Durham. Fighting in France was
his subject.
Charlie Moore, one of the men re
ported killed in an automobile acci-
dent at Cary, Wilkes county, Saturday
na coast lor two surimen oi iue
Pia s and am Oretron inlet station, u
Oregon inlet station, !f request to pay up, but our i
a Tuesdav in a pale,.,, 1 . , - ,
mining " men was Cleveland county friends are
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no trace
of the
found.
Ollie Tout, farmer of Bunn, Frank
lin county, was kiliil Sunday when
his automobile turned over, the re
front, tiro. Mrs
."Ull "-'1 I,'!".. WMl ...
,Tout was hurt lut not seriously. Three
other occupa-ts of the car escaped in
jur-
I Salisbury i.:ii:..ei:al
secure I'otion on fron
officials will i
."() to l.OOi)
!conls of wood in
order to guarn
against possible suffering
those citizens during the
Charlotte will ai:o ctabl'.-h
cipal woodyard.
among
winter,
,,,:
Ernest Mourn "i '' '
2S years old, .-hut away par
1 .ft' jaw and the crrntr of hi
moutn
a'-U-mpting SUIO
and was ;.li
!at last account,
hem rejected for
ruin; "f his en-:
Ment:'.!lv off. Han
army service on
al conditio:-..
fter iin.ntlis of waiting, New F.orti jincl-eased 50 per cent, the wages
i. at la-t assured of a line of boats -. over
;,;;;::L,K:i;;!t . l& a year the eight
!i. expi red to dock at taut port o.i the j
'XrSy- '
Arrcsted at Fort lb.
son, Indiana, where h
jain-.n li.irri
was serving
, i !;,,,) states army,
Charles A.
'crt - ws, Jr., formerly city ticket agent
of the Southern railway in
was
u. i.nM tn Iia eiirn to an-
.. . .u,iin,r :rl.71
itwer a cnarge oi vmLM...i...e.
L.v,ii in the employ of the railroad
, IIe was released on
5 '
$700
bond
o r H-irL-fr of Greensboro,
died
Sunday morning in a hospita at Mt.
Airy, the result of his skull being
fractured when he was thrown from
an automobile. He was 38 years old
and unmarried, was an
in religious causes ana wneu .
ceived the fatal injury was en route
to a sunrise prayermeeting.
Red Cross Receives Prizes.
The Red Cross chapter of Shelby
. i rn i.nm'thA secretary
ofheCGaston county fair for prizes.
p r. Brady received two blue
ribbons (tot Pl-.lfice who work all the year for
intr crown anu nuopn
rberk sent to her for the above $2.25
was generously turneu over
shelbv chapter. Mrs. C. R. Hoey re-)
reived the red ribbon second pdize,
Z her hospital bed shirt. The Shelby
chapter is very proua oi
;, t n manv nnzes at the'
tne wmi's
Gaston fair.
tii:n;m J Wise of New
Britain,
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enlisted soldier, -vas lounu
guilty at Hartford on Tucsaay on ui
charge of murdering Mrs, Aijna Tobin
of New Britain in September He was
sentenced to be hanged December 14.
SAM CUSTER LATTIMORE, TOO!) ADM'R.
Sam is a farmer of no small
proportions. He has been called
from the field to administer on
the food situation for the govern
ment in Cleveland and is doing a
service of meritorious value for
which he receives no compensation
whatever. In fact the office makes
it necesary for him to devote val
uable time and spend money out
of his own pocket
He hopes to enroll four or five
thousand ladies of the house in
Cleveland in the campaign to con
serve the food supply by practiQ
ing economy and stopping waste.
Should the pinch come, he will be
the man to supervise the allot
ment of sugar, meat, flour and
other necessities, but he hopes
there will be such strict economy
that this time shall never come.
Last week was the time for all
housewives to sign their pledge
cards and thousands responded in
the 75 school districts of the coun
ty, but there is yet time to enroll
your name and enlist your sup
port of the government in an ef
fort to whip the Kaiser, establish
peace, democracy and freedom of
the seas.
Food conservation is said to be
as powerful as men, guns and
powder. Sam Custer Iattimore is
gratified with the support the
housewives are giving him in his
work of sacrifice, love and patriot
ism. AN APPEAL TO
OUR SUBSCRIBERS
The Star has subscribers from
the rocky coast of Maine to the
Golden Gates of California, 2,600
of them. Out-of -county subscrib-
ers iiave uceii lespunuuig utiuy
,,0f r.m- nn linfnnr
iu our it'U lit? M ii Uii up, uui um
r j n
,1 1 , 4,.;.J r, I
backward. We want to Urge that
since the year i.s almost gone.
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that POOd prices are prevailing
on all farm products, that we are
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serving you Wltn a liberal
'jon 0f neWs tvice-a-week
por
and trenuine barsrains by the mer
chants, that you favor us with a
remittance on your subscription.
Tis
true the subscription
has advanced. We were
i
.price
I forced to it or quit business. At
nmr.ty.ithe $1-50 a year rate, the paper
t of his is cheaper than a weekly at $1 or
a foreign paper which has no
news of a local nature to interest
ar-'you and yours.
t j.car tis in mind. Taper has
business, We must COl-
lect over $8,500 a year before
we have one cent oi prom.
Less than one per cent of our
subscribers are Stopping because
of the advance in subscription
rate. To counter balance this, we
are adding new subscribers ev
ery day, but we must collect
from all who are due us in order
to survive.
Don't make it necessary for us
to send a statement of your ac
count. A letter stamp costs 3c
and to send a statement to every
subscriber would cost us $178.00
besides the stationery and time.
So we appeal to you to remit
now. We want every subscriber
who is in arrears to pay up this
month. Don t overtook this obli
!gati0n on your part. We have
LavpTI pmnloves in The Star of-
, , ,
,y0u, furnishing you the news
wice-a-weeK ana you gei an ui
, $1 ,
,vui , -r
'not that reasonable enough?
MUSICAL COMEDY AT PRINCESS.
Don't miss seeing the Big Musical
Comedy Company at the Princess to-
iivv. ' . . i-t.:v
n,ght a company oi eleven pcopie iuKu
class musical cornea y num.
This troupe comes to Shelby nigniy
recommended as a nice, clean and up-
tn-date show, admission at night 20
and 30 cents. oN seats reserved. Adv
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GRAND JURY REPORT.
Recommended that Lighting and
wiPr i,.t.m k ino.wii
County Home.
'strongly built buildings, but a major
The grand jury of the fall term of !ity of tnerri agt ni(rht mi to pre
court last week filed the following re-!fer th safety of their own homos,
port over the name of its foreman, ; Whan t.ht lmirlea sounds! "all rWr"
"ii.o. iraMnKvr.
v.r,g (Hsposed of
coming before us, we
jn a kdv and found ?
n.iving uisposea or ail me
t)U:
cmmi
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cominc before us. w visited the in:
. '
ame in a sani-
tary rondition and the prisoners well
caf.(. for' .
We visited the convict camp by
committee and found everything in
k) condition, with the exception of
me nomiing which we think should
have more straw. We al.;o recommend
that better ventilation be provided at
the camp.
"We also visited, by committee, th
county home and found everything in
a very satisfactory condition and the
keeper faithfully H-rforming his du
ties. We recommend that the county
put in a lighting and water system
as soon as this can be done.
"We found the offices in the court
house well kept. Some of th" toilets
need repairing and we recommend
that this he done at once."
AMERICAN OFFICERS
SEEKING PATROL IH TV
A dispatch from a correspondent
with the American army in France
savs: Conditions in the sector in
which the Americans are stationed
jwere normal today. The artillery work
I work continued. The weather was
howery and much colder.
For the last two days there has
been considerable aerial observation;
late yesterday three German plane
flew over the American trenches.
So j-reat is the enthusiasm among
the Americans to go on patrol that
the French commander has ordered
than none of the higher grade offi
cers perform other than thcir regu
lar duties. It is the duty of the jun
ior command officers and he non-commissioned
officers to go with the pat
rols, but the officers to go with the
patrols, but the officers of high rank,
such as major, were anxious to go
out
The quartermaster now has sup
plies for several days within reach
of the American position as a precau
tion against any transportation diffi
cultes with the bases.
3 KILLED AND 21 HURT
IN AIR RAH) ON ENGLAND
London, Nov. 1. Eight persons
were killed and 21 others were injur
ed.in the German air raid last night,
according to an official statement is
avwiuni w -w
sued by British war depart-
mem
The heavy barrage which was put up
to protect the metropolis seemed to
disconcert the raiders, who dropped
bombs indiscriminately as they ap
proached. Several of these fell upon
spaces, several shaking little subur
ban settlements where there was lit
tle or no protection from bombs or
the shower of shrapnel.
As the Germans crossed the coast
in relays the barrage arose as each
relay made its appearance. Alter the
Ujrnerience of former raids, the pub-
;c n0w takes to cover as soon as the
FOR CLEVELAND!
warning of an enemy approach is giv-
en, with the result that before the
l18 P thcir "kim of shrapnel
the streets were derted except for
a few policemen. Some persons found
protection in the subways or the more
there was no crowding into the
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; Lilt' HI. 11II III LIU 11 llftC SILUtl LIU II 1 U T ,
populace to make up for lost tfleep.
Other Court Proceedings. '
In the case of C. 15. Byers by his
next friend, Forrest Byer.-, minor
against Southern railway for damages
for personal injury, judgment was en
tered in favor of the plaintiff for $75.
O. G. Falls, Walter Hilling, Cora
Hunter and husband, B. It. Hunter,
Thos. Harmon and Chus. Harmon,
and Charlie Harmon, plaintiffs vs.
Maiy Falls and others defendants,
judgment was that the matters of
difference between plaintiffs and de
fendants he settled by selling the
lands and dividing the proceeds; that
F. i idling and R. L. Campbell be ap
pointed commissioners to see the
la:. (is and
make
division.
PREPARATION NECESSARY
FOR WARS AFTERMATH
j Mr. Garland Green, Miss Gertie
London, Oct. pS. "After the war .Greene and Miss Euzelia Hamrick
the world will l e weary, cold and hun- 'spent Sunday with Mrs. Lyman Love,
gry and if we are to avoid famine and at Cowpons.
revolution something will have to be Miss Ethel Wofford reported a de
done at once," said Sidney Webb, a lightful visit to Lincolrton Sunday.
political economist, in a speech at the
London school of economies. He as -
j sorted thot peace would come suddenly
I and unexpectedly and then the world
would be forced to face a great short-
age, signs of which were already vis -
ible.
The wheat stocks of the world, he
said, had been reduced to the small-
est amount ever known and there
would be a shortage of one pound of
wheat a day to each person, t locks
and herds all over the world would
be much diminished. Even the pig was
rapidly disappearing. Metals, coal,
timber, hides and leather and all
building materials would be at famine
scarcity.
One-eighth of the world's popula
tion he declared, was engaged in non
productive work. The economy that
could be set up against that was very
small.
There would be a long interval be-
tween demobilization and the repair
ing of the devastation and waste. Dur
ing that interval here would be unem
ployment in all the countries, causing
an unproductiveness that would mean
rather a money famine than a food
famine.
"We should now be making prepar
ations to revitalize the world if we
are to avoid a shortage "developing
into a famine," said Mr. Webb, i
Camp Sevier Men Home Sunday.
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Col. J. T. Gardner, Lieut L. W.
Gardneralid Lieut T. 0. Grigg spent
Sunday at bjpme.
Sergt Price Hoey is enjoying a five
days furlough.
Sergt Edwin Hutchinson and Mr.
Stephen Cassell were Shelby visitors
Sunday. ' .
THREE AMERICAN
SOLDIERS KILLED
GERMAN BATTERIES DISPLAY
UNUSUAL ACTIVITY AGAINST
THE SECTOR HELD BY AMERI
CAN TROOPS IN FRANCE.
With the American Army in
France, Saturday, Nov. 3. Notwith
standing the rainy weather Friday
night and early Saturday, the German
Batteries displayed more activity than
normal on the part of the French line
occupied by the American troops. Ger
man sheila were distributed impar
tially among the trenches, the Amer
ican batteries replying in the same
fashion.
The enemy is using both high ex
plosive and shrapnel in sending occa
sional reminders of the war toward
the Americans. Reports reachiag
headquarters, however, are that the
bombardment could in no sense be
considered "lively," merely being a
departure from the normal state of
quietude at night on that particular
sector.
A high officer in he United States
army Saturday afternoon talked with
the commanding officer of the first
battalions visiting thenches and ob
tained their statements of their expe
riences. It is believed that the infor
mation will prove invaluable in tas
training of new contingents for their
turn at the front
Washington, Nov. 5. Advancing
under protection of a heavy barrage
fire, a German raiding party befsre
daylight on November 4 stormed a
trench held by American infantry, kill
ing three and wounding five and cap
turing twelve, according to dispatches
from General Pershing received by the
war department tonight
American infantry were in occupa
tion of a small salient for instructioas
when cut off from main body by heavy
bombardment of German artillery.
General Pershing reports the capture
of one prisoner. Enemy losses are not
known, says the dispatch.
The official statement issued by the
war department is as follows:
"The war department has received
a pispach from the commanding gen
eral of the American expeditionary
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fOTep(, which Rtfltpd thar hnfnrp rta-
! ion.ee wnun siaieu wiai oeiore aay-
light November 3, a salient orcupied
for instruction by a company of Am
erican infantry was raiifed by Ger
mans. The enemy put down the
heavy barrage fire, cutting off. the
salient from the rest of the men. Our
losses were three killed, five wounded
and twelve captured or missing. The
enemy's losses are not known. Oae
wounded German was taken prison
er". BOILING SPRINGS NEWS.
Mrs. Cade May Spend the Winter in
Mexico. Public Schools Open
November 12th.
Special' to the Star.
Mrs. Baylus Cade spent several days
'of last week visiting Mrs. Jabex
Hamrick. Her many friends were de
lighted to see her.
Mrs Cade will probably accept the
urgent invitation of her son Baylu3
to spend the winter with him in New
Mexico.
Misses Hamrick? Quinn, Dover Bad
1 Wofford of Boiling Springs High
'School faculty with Messrs B. C. Mc
Craw and Dan Moore attended the
'Hallowe'en party at Mr. A. J. Jolly's
.Wednesday evening.
Prof. Rowell, principal of the pna-
lie school at Boiling Springs was ia
town getting things in readiness far
the opening of his school, Nov. 12ta.
He will move his family here next
week.
The work on the pastor's home is
well under way. The building com
mittee hopes to have it completed by
January first.
There was a public debate in the
auditorium by the Kalagathian so
ciety, Saturday night, November 3rd.
Mrs. Jack W)entz, a student in the
high school, spent the week end m
Charlotte.
NATION WILL TAKE OVER
GERMAN OWNED PATENTS
Washington, Nov. 3. Medicinal
preparations, machinery, electrical
apparatus, chemicals and a wide va-
riety f ther commodities manufae
tured under German-owned patents,
will be available to the American
public at much lower rates than in the
past as the result oi .tne. action oi
the federal trade commission in li
censing aliens to manufacture these
articles. i
The commission has determined
that no commodity protected by a
German patent and made under an
American license shalul be. sold at an
extortionate price.
Miss Lucy Hamrick who is teaching
n Kings Mountain spent the week-end
with, her parents on N. LaFayetts
street,