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Published Every Tuesday and Friday The Oldest and Bs1 Paper in Thia Section We Do Job Work the Linotype Way Let Ua Figure on Your Work. Phone No. U VOL, XXV. NO CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16, 1917 $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE rvr ' 1 -- m. e METHODISTS MEET IN ASHEVILLE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OPENED WED-XESDAY- WITH BISHOP ATKINS PRESIDING, MEMBERSHIP..' IS 110.000. The Western North Carolina Qow ference met Wednesday in Asheville with Bishon Jarr.es Atkins of Waynes, y'llle presiding. The meeting: closes Monday of next week. Several prom inent laymen and ministers of Cleve land county are in attendance. The election of 12 delegates, six ministers and six laymen, to the gen eral conference to be held in Atlanta next May; the organizing of a con ference historical society to promote the preservation of Methodist history; the selection of a location for the proposed conference hospital, and the question of appointing a financial sec retary to raise an endowment fund for the superannuates of the confer ence, are among the matters that will come before the conference in addition t: the routine that for a week e!H',a;.es a dor.en or more hoards i.nd committees, to say nothing of The husy morning sessions of the conference each day. All this is aside from the work of making the appointments for the year, which enjrosr;es the atttention of the bishop and the presiding elders throughout the week. The time limit of four years will this year remove 18 pastors and one i;reiding elder. Rev. H. K. Eoyer who completes a ujadrcitim on the Winston district. Nineteen is an unusually small number of changes by the time limit, but the total number of pastors changed by this conference will as suredly run above a hundred. For the number of removals from one charge to another rarely if ever at any conference falls below those fig ures, and sometimes runs far beyond the one hundred mark. Historical Society. Quite a litttle interest is beinc evidenced in a movement on foot to write and preserve the unwritten his tory of the Methodist church within the bounds of the Western North Carolina Conference. At the. last session of the Charlotte district con ference in Wadesboro. this matter was agitated and the presiding eider appointed a committee to carry the proposition before the entire member skip of the annual conference at it; meeting in Asheville. The foregoing matters will unques tionably call for conference action. Among those things to probably be considered by the Methodist body in Asheville will be wh.-ther the con ference shall appoint one of its num ber to serve under the Y. M. C. A. at Camp Greene mar ( 'hr.rlotte. Such action has been s-riot:slv considered hy so:e among toe .-.nf :; . ad :. This work if entered ::! would rill for the seniles of ope of tVir- most etfic' n; ir.' mber " i'- Western North Carolina (.' n:Vr-',n. Th Western North Carolina Oi iVrence ivbraci-s all tint par' r the state west of Ah:r:;nce a:si Montgomery counties and tho Fee 1, e rfver, and has a membership of 110,01)0 with house of' worship v;il ud at over $:s,00O,(M0. There arc 2"i clerical members of the annual con ference and 22 preachers are em ployed by the confereiii e to serve as pasters. The total attendance of members, ad visitors ho have business with tie conference, will he well above the "0 mark, must of these, to be enter tained in the homes of the Asheville people. Bishop James Atkins, the presid ing bishop at this session of confer ence, was a member of the body be fore his elevation to the episcopacy and was the presiding officer when tne conference met in Asheville nine years ago. The bishop was at one time president of the Asheville Fe male college. He is well acnuainted with all parts of North Carolina Methodism and abundantly able from personal knowledge to perform well the functions of presiding officer r.t Asheville. The Methodist hosts will look for ward with great pleasure to their week's sojoorn in the mountain tropolis. The people from the hills always enjoy a trip :o the mountains and the inhabiants of the other sec tions of the mountains are glad to get into Asheville. Furthermore, the st beautiful church edifice, per nps, in the state will give added plaasure, as the NortTi Carolina Meth odists assemble in Central church, of hich Dr. C. W. Byard is pastor and conference host. PAY YOUR TOWN TAXES NOW. At a recent meeting of the Board of Aldermen, Mr. B. O. Hamrick was lected Tax Collector and chief of po i;ce of the Town of Shelby. A rc.solu:ion was adopted ordering that all Towj Taxes be collected be fore January 1st next. All property n which taxes are not paid by Jan uary 1st will be advertised for sale. By order of the Board of Alderrnen f the Town of Shelby. 4t-Fri. Mrs. Anderson Dead. --Krs. J. R. Anderson died rather suddenly in Rutherford county Mon day morning She was Mary Simmons of Henrie tta prior to her marriage and is sur vived by, her husband and five chil dren. , NO PEACE TILL GERMANY SINKS PRESIDENT WILSON SAYS WF MCST STAVn rnrt'Ti,!,,. I TIL THE JOB IS FINISHED s APPEALS TO lxr. i pv FOR CO-OPERATION. ' President Wilson, in a forceful ad- fore tin Z-rican F KSunday nht when "h Preai'hed jure me American te pra inn re i. i. ..u' . m.t. . . dress at Buffalo v v m V , - uiess ai uunalo, Monday be- leiation of. La-'the bor aniiMi,.,) .u . - uiu suujeti, r ny aoes not, i,oa stop he E , ,t e;V',rk,"8m0,ithfi war?". The large crowd showed n the roil, , t C0-PL,ratlorl tle interest in the question and Mr. in the conduct of the war. made it Pa(m, i ..-n.- .ul f.m Yh n . .... I i . . .1 .... u"i"",uuu? ciear tnat he onnosi-s ..,... .,4:i ,i nuuufcii Hiiiiiuns ox minus 1 1 won aKa"'St Uermany at the present- Ma"y a mud-caked "Ti,,,' n -i . . , , . figure as he climbs out of the JrW"t dedared that his trenches with his nerves shattered mc fe 7-S ,WI ,C Celinir1 f the t0 Pil"CC8 wondering why God does pad Us but that my mmd has a not stop the war. Many a Red Cross contempt for then,.' nurse as she KQn uan(J (iown thp 1 want peiae but 1 know how to row of beds of human ruin is won- r i v m l'y, not" he (!l(lart(1- dering why Cod does not stop Imv eol. h. M. House, head of the war. Many a man who had a pros American delegation to the allied war'perous business which has now cone conference, the President said, had to pieces is wondering why. Little been sent to take part in a conference children who lost a father, a dog or as to how the war was to be won, some food who has been taught that and he knows, as I know, that that is God can do evervthine". wonders whv mo way to gel peace U you want l. . for more than a few minutes. The -150 delegates to the con .'en turn and the several thousand f1'1" sons admitted to the hall to hear the I resident speak, arose and applauded . i , ... . . burst of cheers. Another demonstra tion of approval came when he said: U' i. .v.... -,u. i vmtii .J.;. !..k ;. finical day until this job is finishe For Foreign Consumption The President, while devoting h address to the problem.- for the peopie oi tne united Mates, laid empha1 upon the broader phases of the worl 1 conflict in a way that sctme.l to indi cate that his speech was possibly in tended as a message to the people of Germany, of Austria and of Rus sia, as well as of the United Stai?s. lie declared his belief that were it not for the Pan-Germans, the spirit of freedom would find "as fine a wel- come in the hearts of Germans as it can find in any other heart. "Power," he said "caaot be usi 1 with eoiA-entrated fot.e aga:;M five eoples, if it is to be u -ed by free people." Speaking, probably of Austria. M. Wilson referred to the intimations . anxiety for peace that bad c o "from the central powers" and de clared that it meant "that the p-o-nle of tha tcentral power knew ilia1 it' the war t ,.d ; e.s j. i", effect, themselves ai:.;. u y win vas.-als of Germany, r.ot withstanding that they do not wish in their pride ami handles the leaving lightning and proper svrit of nationality to be j vou handlo Lucifer matehc. absorbed and dominated." (f an He stop it? Y'es. Then why u t ? Of Kr.ssia, he said that he wasj-phere is evidently something in the r.maztd that some groups in thatwaVi j,, ho first place human free cour.try could suppose that "any re- j jom ;s jn the way. You are free to form plans in the interest of the P"- think, act and do as you please. I 1 !e can live in the presence of a Ger- ',!n,t believe God is a big fiddler and manv powerful enough to undermine ie ,r0t to dance to His music wheth erthrow them by intrigue '.o-js as the dreamers of Ru -re those ptrsons in this cour- declared emphaticai.y, wh su:j tti t "the free industry. :-n I c. of the world can continue if the pan-German plan is a.'h'ncd and the German power fastened the world." Gemanv Started War. The President directly asserted that y. tJ--u tha -aiar nnH i l " ii i . .(;.nwtmn nf sain ne woum u-oc luiuuhiuv.u.. u; .itnnnut t.i the verdict ol tcrv. He rtf erred ' German-'' growth to n "plaee in the s-.-n" sv;--asked why she was not satis'V when she gained that pes',';..:-.. Ir. an- wer he described the German gov t n;?nt, methods of controlling the mm- tintitinn of its industries and ass-n- ed that "all the while there was ly ing behind its thought, in its dream for the future, a political control which would enahle it in the long run to domintae the labor and the indv trv of the world. Mr. Wilson cite I m this conii-e en the Berlin-to-Ragdad railway which leaving the candle at me window , ne aid "was constructed to run th, the world for all His childrron He threat of force down the flank of the couid blow out Berlin just like He did industrial undertakings of half a doz- Sodom. en other countries, so that when G-r- ln closing his remarks Mr Bate man competition came in it would n,t man addI, "I have not reached the to VS. I too far because place where I want to see innocent a ways the possibility of women and children, millions of them getUng German armies into the heart wiped out for the sake of reaching of S country quicker than any oth- that degenerate brood of blood-suck-11 amies could get there." ing butchers. A man to m th SuZng up. he said that Germany r'her day 'if the allies can't do ,t. is denned that the political power I wish God would drop a bomb upon of the world shall belong to her, but everv German. There are sinners here that never before had such ambitions i Shelby and if God should drop a "been ta' ed unon so exact and rre- bomb here there would be many va- e and scientific a plan of domina- cant seats in this church tomgh c cise tion." nohcr Loan to France. ' . 4t ... ,o a ion nr rnmZ to France "to" co;7r" ex- manv of you have been treating God's nenditures in this country during No- word as a 'scrap of paper' and stamp 5emb and December was made to-' ed it under foot with as much bra-. dv bv the treasury. This makes the tality as the German Kaiser broke his total credits extended to France $l,- pledge to our nation? How many of $0 000 000 and the total of loans to you have broken the ten command- u '.Mies $3 876 400,000. ments. How many of you have broken all the allies, pn)mises , Wy doesn.t God kill ' Hosierv from 20c to $1.25 a pair the kaiser, you ask? For the same V. McBraver's. "The Hosi- BU JU cm" - ery Man." WHY DOFS NOT GOD STOP THE WAR! WE ARE FREE AGENTS AND IF WE CHOOSE TO GO DOW.N THE .DEVIL'S SPEEDWAY IN A TWIN-SIX, WF ARE DOING THE DRIVING. A full house greeted Rev. Thomas ""mian at me rresbytenan church Snmlnv nirrkt ,v. v, ..i,j subject, "Why does not God stop i 4 v. u .:n:.. e t He does not stop the war. ''H"w ci;n G x stand hy and see this planet lilunced to nieces? How can he see the things he sees and h"r ,, ,. .,, .. ,, , ''.' uu n uitanru u kr ; i ir does He do nothing nothing when he sees this world streaked with blood and the devil and all his demons dumping hell as fast as they cm work the shovels? "God gets no music out of a ma chine gun dashing so many thousand fatal shots per minute. God has no pleasure in seeing men who are made in His own image, messed to pieces. He gets no pleasure in seeing the crosses that mark the graves of vic t.im on the birttlefitlds. He lis n't having a good time while pandemon- jum reigns and the whole red globe is calloping to the gutter. How tender is God's heart tender enough to notice the sparrow with a broken wing, tender enough to caress the bosom of a butterfly without brushing the delicate dust off its wir.trs. Cod can take up this whole world and rock it on its lap without wakinjr the mother leaning over the bill's cradle to catch the glimpse rf a smile. "This war is ugly, damned ugly," said Mr. R-itcnian with emphasis, "and I answer to you. yes, He wants this war lo stop. No whele ever moves when he puts on the brakes, doci ,,',, to the storm and it turns n! '. God plays with mountains like ronr- er I want to or not. 1 'Ion t believe Cod will drive me to the fountain of living water and make me drink or yank me up the golden stairs. I am .i fro man. I can take His ten ccm- niandments. roll them up and light my pipe with them. I can ta'.ie n.s ser mon on the mount and throw it ir. i the brush neap. I c"n take His Lible ; and swat flies with b. When Jesus onens the door I ca;: kick him down . the steps. And that' what the world , Anino Hp is nc.-t CrOV'T C OJICK Until hn nwn the nni's." and oust tne , nis-irhairs anil mvin hiii in. mis worm is a sc'.f-sUrter and if it wants to go down the devil's grrcedway in a twin six. v.'u aie the driver and it is up to 'vou. He won't pull on your emer- (Tpncv. I he peopie J.a"" - rind God has decided to let us have it out. Me told us inai munt r... ,.i . .1... fhi. fruit of our doings ar., the fruit ;s bitter indeed. "God could ston the war by hitting the world in the head with a hammer, but that would stop the whole thing. He is patient and long-suffering, mon. like a mother than a father and is think our sins arc miK"i..v tared with the sins of the allies or the Germans, out. uon on. ,.-v,oy. hrnncrh the same eye. How reason Jie does noi Kin you. men maue this war and they must stand its hor- tors.'. Why doesn't God stop the war ? He remembers that you are a free agent and he is letting, you work out your own salvation, It is the Lord's mercy that you are not all consumed. The war wil stop and God will have a good deal to do with stopping it. . i "We have to win character through struggle and suffering." CAMPAIGN FOR Y. M. C. A. FUND EFFORT TO RAIHE $3,000 IN CLEVELAND RIG MASS MEET ING PLANNED IN SHELBY FOR SUNDAY NIGHT NOVEMBER 25. The people of Shelby and Cleve land county are again called upon to enlist in a campaign to help win the war. This time they are asked to contribute of their means to the Y. M. C. A. war work. Those who have this work in charge do not feel that they should make any apologies to the pub lic for undertaking such a campaign. This appeal should interest every m. m and woman, hoy and girl in the coun ty. The government does not and (?':. not carry on the work of the Y. M, C. A. anil the officers who have tl 'i making of our soldiers in hand vouch for the fact that the Y. M. C. A. is one of the greatest factors in the training of an army. It is the Y. M. C. A. that remVs the absent boy of his home and his God. When the boy on the foreign land is thinking of home and God he is pretty safe. Numbers of letters arc going to Cleveland county homes from the absent soldier boys telling of the great work of the Y. M. C. A. Cer tainly no Christian can turn down the appeal that is being made for funds to carry on this great work. At a mass meeting on last Sun ley night at the Methodist church at the conclusion of the address Mr. R. I.. Rybum was selected chairman to pro secute a campaign to raise a m'n: mum of three thousand dollai's in Shelby and Cleveland county, and Ceorge A. Hoyle was named as treas urer. On' Wednesday night a large n-i--her of workers assembled at the I':v -tist church upon the call of Mr. P. !.. Rybum and the following b:r ' v was transacted: 1st: A motion was carried unani mously to hold a ropular mass meet ing in the Baptist church on Sunday night, November 251 h. 'Jnd: A committee on an ange-.ient ' was appointed to provide soepkerr for the occasion and to arrange a program of exercises. "rd: Lee 15. Weathers and I. C. Griffin were appointed as publicity committee to disseminate informat;. relative to the campaign. 4th: An executive committee m follows was appointed to arrange for a county-wide canvass: Reverends Thmas Iiateman, C. A. Wood, Lee Mcl!. White, J. E. Kirk, .!. W. Suttle; Messrs. J. R. Dover, J. C. Smith, C. C. Rlanton, J. II. Hanisaui. of Shelby. Miss M. Livingston. Grover. Mrs. Carme Kleni. Lawndcle. Trof. Paul .Hamrick, Roiling Spt-. Dr. L. V. Lee, Lattimore. Dr. Houser, Fallston. M-. ('hath -a McBrayer, Moores- boro. Mrs. Hayne Patterson, Patterson Sorings. Clarence Ream. Waco. Prof. Pruett, Earl. Mayor M?Ginnis. Kings Mountain. oth: Boy Scouts have been appoint ed as a special committee to put up posters and to distribute literature. 6th: Captains for the two teams to canvass Shelby were appointed. Mr. William Lineberger will head one team and Mr. W. J. Roberts the oth er. The two captains will select their own team mates and lead for thc cam raign on Monday, November 2b'. OLIN HAMRICK MADE CHIEF Elected Chief of Police to Succeed I Harvey Jetton, Who Resigns. I Mr. Harvey Jetton resigned Wed nesday as chief of police after a serv ice of 12 years and Mr. Olin Hamrick was elected immediately in his stead by the aldermen. Mr. Jetton came to 1 phelfcy from the Charlotte police force after Mr. Ed Hamrick was kill ed by Jim Lowery, a negro desperado who was vainly sought all over tho United States by officers and for whose capture a liberal reward was offered. Upon the resignation of Chief Jetton the board of aldermen passed a resolution commending his bravery and honesty of purpose. Chief will probably move with his family to his farm in Lincoln county. Shelby re grets exceedingly to give up this es timable family. Chief entered police service in 1883 and has not been out of employment a day in 34 years which speaks well for his capability. Mr, Hamrick did not seek the office to which he was elected. He was ap proached by members of the board who asked him to take the place, which he consented to do after due deliberation. He will make a splendid officer. The pay for chief and tax col lector is $1,200 a year. WAR BREAD IS I HF. Nh X I I HlrVJlw M ? " - " HOOVER ORDERS THAT BREAD UK made or LLNMIXED WHEAT.' i.S1?160 MILK ANl oVGAUJ , iir i . Z , Washington, Nov. 12. The people of the United States. are to be fed on , war bread. This bread is to be made distribution and thai necessitates a from unmixed wheat flour, skimrrsed smaller per cent in milling. We tried milk and less sugar and lard. Accord- j lOO.per cent in Belgium. The experi ingto Herbert Hoover, who today an- ment brought an epidemic of dysen nounced the federal food administra- tery. The bread made from that grade tions plans for the standardization of 0f flour is too laxative, especially so baker's bread, one pound loaf should for a polulation like that in America. retail at seven cents when sold for Germany tried 82 and 90 per cent and cash and earned home by the cor.sum- it produced a serious health reaction .cr- ! among the people there. - President Wilson will issue a pro-! "Another problem confronting us in damation placing the 35,000 bakers of using large percentages of wheat in (the country under the system. This;making flour is the dairy industry. t will be done for the purpose of cheap- This is built largely on cattle in stalls, ening the cost of -bread and conserv- (They require a laxative. The bran and ing the supply of flour, sugar and other mill feed left from milling goes lard in order that the United States to these dairies and if it was taken can furnish more of these products from them the whole dairy industry io nor aines in r.urope. ino iood ad- ministration, under the rihsiden.'s proclamation, will require the bread manufacturers to bake bread in loaves of one pound, one half pound, two pounds and four pounds. These will be the so-called standard loaves. The receipt to be used requires the bakers to employ skimmed milk, one-half less sugar and two-thirds less lard. M Hoover estimates that by this plan 100,000,000 pounds of of sugar and 100,000,000 pounds of lard will be sav ed. He also states that moro than fiOO. 000 barrels of flour will be saved if re tailers are required to order just the amount of bread Ihey can sell. a' r In r na 1 , oreaa i iaiw. I Here is an outline of the "war bread plans as announced by Mr. Hoover: Every American family in economiz- ing on bread, must serve one wheat- less meal a day. This is an extention of the wheatless day a week for pub- he restaurants. The food admamstra- tion says it is a saving of 12 per cent m the amount of flour uswl in New York city brought about by the estab- lishment of a wheatless day. Enough wheat will he kept in the , , c, , , ., ,.' . uniivu omu-n iu n-t-u intr ni.ii'i n un people unmixed wheat flour bread. Bakers will be required to use only three pounds of cane or bint sugar to a barrel of flour against six pounds of present time. The milk to be used shall be skimmed, of which there is rn shortening against six pounds at the abundance in the country. This bread should be sold by retail ers at seven rents per douivI loaf, when cash is paid and the purcha carries the loaf home, Wh:re cred and delivery are required,- it is e::;'e;-t-chargod. i The bakers will be required to begin ed nn extra cent ler loaf will be -standardizing their output under thv food administrations regulations oa December 10. ! Fancy bread cv sugar couicd b"cad will lie abolished. I Bakers will be reqiiir'd to orx'i re tail sales stands at their bakeries, so that the consumer can buy dirett frora the manufacturer at a rr'-e slightly over the wholesale price. ' The food administration has no power to fix the price of bread, b'lt conferences have been held with ba kers all over the roitntry and no re sistance to the regulations is expect ed. The bakers have promised their co-operation with the government i'l selling bread at a fair and reason able price. I The "war bread which has been tested by bakers in New York. Philn- dulphia, Jersey City, Washington and Cleveland will be erisper and drye than the ordinary American bread, -t resembles to a large degree the so called Vienna bread generally served in restaurants. Its food value is about tne sameos tnat oi ordinary brenrt. have ()Ccasjon to telephone to police I Mr. Hoover stated today that his headquarters for the services of a p experiments in BelgMim and th?ae iceman she would specify Sergeaat conducted in Germany had shown that jetton. Children who would come whole wheat flour, that is, flour in home telling their parents about the wnicn me Dran nau neen retained, produces dysentery and impair the health of the reorle. Therefore, the flour to be milled in this country American bread will be of 73 for Pcr cent to 74 per cent of wheat I "By the American families servir Jt wooId not lo for him to give the one wheatless meal every day." siM women and children a chance to telt Mr. Hoover, "we estate that n-"r)y him g00dbye they would cry. Better one-third of our flour outptit will fop the gerjreant to sneak out and let saved for other purposes. The publie none of ns kT)0W of hi9 gomKi But we eating places are establishing one will know tbat he is in Shelby and is wheatless day a week, or three wheat- dojng his duty there. less meals a week. W estimate thit only 15 per cent of the food is eon- sumed in these places by the Ameri- BRITISH CASUALTIES tOK can people. I WEEK ARE ANNOUNCED i "The baking trade is the mort com- pctitive in America. That is so be-1 London, Nov. 13. The British cas cause very little capital is needed to ualties reported for the week ending start in business. We feel under the today were: competition that ensues that ths price I Officers killed or died of wounds; of bread will be reduced to the nar- 397; men, 4,376. roweat possible margin and therefore, OffUws wounded or missing, 789; we do not feel that the time has ar- men, 19,594. rived to fix the price of bread on This gives a total of 25,056 casual account of this eomjpetition. There are ties, as compared with 21,891 easual 35,000 bakers in the country and this ties the previous week, number tends to depreciate any op-1 1 portunity for collusion in fixing pric-! Don't fail to see "Womanhood" the es." world's greatest picture at the Grand I The food administrator made it today and tomorrow. plain that he does not think it wise to disturb the present milling stand- "rds- IIe said on account of the high quality of the present wheat crop the percentage of wheat used in, baking flour is from 73 to 74 percent. "If we go over that percentage" he stated' "the durability of the ffour is affected. In Belgium we- milled 82 Ir cent and found the flour would not keep CO days. In this country, three or four months are reduired in WOuld lie thrown out of joint." Mr. Hoover stated that he expect ed corn prices to drop with the move ment of the new crop to the market. Corn at one time this fall wns selling for from f2 to $2.50 a bushel. It is now selling for $1.12 in Chicago. In a short time, he said, there should be a 50 per cent reduction in the price of corn meal. WHISKEY $8 A QUART. And Hard to Get at Any Price Around i . Greenville. Greenville News. i According to the best information nKolnaMo th nrW i.f whUlov in Greenville at the, present time is about ?8 a quart To the few wh0 have been able to obtain the whiskey j8 a quart Bei,m8 to a pretty steep pricei especially when the quality of the gtuff is ten into consideration. Effort8 to Ret in touc w(th iiquor relIcrs for the pUrpoge cf learning the ice and for private purposes, were unsuccessful. ,',,,, , ' u t Most of the folks who are hauled into police court on ' drunkenness charges use lemon extract, Jamaica ginger or some like liquid to satisfy their gastronomical centers. The man-about town and the city police concur in the statements that liquor is extremely scarce in Greenville now and is becoming scant r each clay. Truly, the seven day thirst cf the lowly camel seem a glad carouse in comparison. The only thing that the tors have here is a lasting memory of the old days when liquor was $i a quart and, of the old bar-room days when the best brought only 75 cents. .sr.RGEANT ILTTON. Charlotte Chronicle, Oct. A, 1901. So we hear that Harvey Jetton is to pull up stokes and go to Shelby, where he will assume the office f chief of police. Two men who filled that office there have recently bee killed by negroes. But "Sergeant Jet ton," as he is known in Charlotte, steps into the place without fear. And what a good man Shelby will get! The sergeant is a native of Lin coln county, and came here twenty odd years ago. He got on the police force and very soon won the esteem of the people. He's a stock little chap and looks for all the world like but while he has the Irish iook an(j tbe jrih sense of humor, he is a plain old American product. He smokes n clay pipe with a cane ste (when off duty) and likes persim mon beer (on or off duty). He is a wonderfully popular man with th wnmn Ann children. Nine times out of ten when a charlotte woman would offi(.cr who helped them across "tne square" would say: "It was Sergeant Jetton." And so the sergeant is H leave us. It will not do for him te shake hands in farewell with his mi frionds thev would crack his bones. -1 ' V i. I i Pi i fi t f.i id t: ;s t ;1 d : I-I ) i' i ; If L I J toil 3 :i P 'Ik i l4 : rtlv:;-:! - - 1 ... it"; j t- is'. 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