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VOL; XXV, NO. 98
THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY DEC, 4, 1917.
$1.50 A YEAR IX ADVANCE
mr HYBI'RN THANKS ONES
" CONTRIBUTED TO Y. M. ,
A.
jioe Who Gave Feel Bette r It Wcs
3Ire a Matter of Our Attitude
Proof that Corporation
Are Not Soulless.
j0 tiv Editor of The Star. '
A? diairman of the. committee cnn
oVtir.g . the .. Cleveland county cnm
paipn in aid of the Y. M. C. A. war
work "fund 1 w'stl on 1" half of the
I'Hi'v io iniuiu "ui n-uji.!.' nr me
rr.-T'nse ,h'y hav v-' ! '
nil, and also to thank the in'i, !,!-
n-,';ers fr their hearty 'ro-otera-;nd
untiring and unselfish efforts
!: '(' of this cause. The staunch
i i :;;ul active and zealous work
.Ipi U'i's t'avc us and tin; he:ir:.--use
and hard work the vavi"iis
-1 : i I s in every eonvmrnity.
results are snowii, made, .the
WHAT MOTHERS CAN IK)
f Al I "...-
...uinem . Are Asked to Co-Operate
"itn quarantine Officer to Con
trol Contagious Diseases.
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a suk emu like the mother
ct tins count
com
sple
this
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in
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ifdi-
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tne motners
especia v.- to
...lit. . , . . " ...
iu- wan me, rne!r (.ountv m.artln.
i.y all working together,
iuown tnrme 'preventable dis
like whooiiiiv)' comrli r.i,!ui..
ve.- and dipth.-ria, as far as
to lit
ease,; 1
scarlet, f
irf possibh
So-.n (
to In lit V
can-
liar. !
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CSV"
er f-:
jze i"
-lle-n a great success. No one who
t tic;ively encaged in a enm
'f this kind can conceive the
..." trjie and labor reouii'od, r
ries incident to it, and whi' I
ur.uertaKe j,o tnanK eacn worK-
niea. :
conic,
went,
Inow
cn i;'
hard
more
fects
' .5
'.til .
til
diff
chiTii r.
then t'
with t!
I wish each one tn r.-ni. i Knows Wheth"
hits not been forcottcn. ''n''' d;--f,
jir.d hi- lancrs ars not without due ap-
H-et :a':oii.
M-l I A, .in thin - tnn
V,'I!.L I mi nut limn. 1.111. icti,,- vi":-
tribute:-? gave more than they ought,
the' gave cheerfully what they were
asked and in my judgment their ac
t.-' dikititd niv.'hers used
whooping cough and
tnxe:!. just had to
'o;;er they "came and
Rut now mothers
They know that e-
Jhoiild hau these iii.,;
y grow up it goes less
'ni then, and tliev urn
likely to recover without de
nnd impairment. Wh.v at,
'a mother's baby, has measles' if it is
less than five years old. she nevfi-
i knows wheth r it is roine- u, l,n irf
'me. or with we;ilf mA
i ...
;mun or Kid. . ys. for life. The saf-if.-t
nin is i ) tjik-e mi .h.m..nl- ...;ti.
I any of these o-called children's dis
eases. Childi.n don't have to have
.them, and wl.y not protect them?
Some of the thinirs mothers can do
' "" tl tl c 'ill ,
. ! ..i- 1 1 1.- A - I.O KCPn ( AWIl ll-hnnm n...,U
Hon contnouieu very jargeiy xo our "ini; hiukm, ineas-
gucce-s. The response made by the set fever, infantile paralysis
corporations was. most gratifying. It .and d'Ptheria in their homes and com
showed recognition of their responsi- 'unities are, fir-t to suspect the dis
l.ilhy and a readiness to meet it, and 'ase 3n1 kt'('P home the children hav
that their managements are men of tnt-' first symptoms, such as sore
vision and proves at laast some of our , throats or head colds, particularly if
Cleveland county corporations have an' contagious diseases is in the
J0Dis j community. Second, in case no phy-
" But there were hundreds of small ,sician called to attend the child, the
gifts-hut gifts in the way of love and Mother should see that the disease is
Facrifice that were large, and to j reported at once to the county quar
eaeh of these givers our thanks are!antine cfficer who will then tell her
returned also: It did not matter so ,what to do and how to treat the case,
much whether we raised the moncv. Th( law requires her to do this. Third
It mattered greatly what the attitude !evcry mother should respect the quar
of our people to such calls was, and antine law. It may inconvenience her
tbe hundreds of smaller contributions slightly but what will a few days of
mean it it saves a
child's life or even if it saves him
from a life long defect, like blind
ness which is often one of the after
effects of measles. The mother who
disregards the Quarantine Law is
not only an und"si:iMe citizen to
have in the community but is an ene
my of little children,
j The number of cases of" contag
ious diseases in this county last
showed that in the main the heart of , inconvenience
cur folks is right.
It would not be fair not to admit
that some dark spots have been shown.
Some localities were untounched. Oth
ers did not measure up to their duty.
Tiis ought not to be again. Every in
dividual who gave is a better and hap
fier man or woman because of his or
hergift. and so is every community.
Shelby did magnificently. A splendid
man put it to me this way yesterlny:
"I feci Shelby is a finer place to !i.e
in tlv.n ver before."
.-.shed the eidtt.r f The S .:.'
n another column an editorial
month reported to me wee 20.
H. II. 1'ALMEr.,
( 'cunt QuaramVie Officer
I ha
lo print
which i
Week"
TW
titled
appc : d
Mag; '
idea 'h
world n
Turn
"ently
ntitled
finpeare-S in "Evi
"A Sacrifiie
vine", and also a pot m i
h AVer's Recompense" w'.
in the Pe-vmb?"- Fed fi
". ;'-ld thc-.e both ;v: out
: this is i':'- t lie a :n
live in because o! th: .
hem and vad J"'r-.
R. L. RYLiri'.N"
SPARTAN Bl'Rt;
at (;:c:iVE::
as En:
Army
grr
;aicd i
Tr-ck
Tr,.in
'. i
sni.DlEU KILLED
!iv TR MN Nil.
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til" I'lUli-.
ADDITIONAL CONTRJRl'
TIONS TO Y. M. C. A.
I ' I ' N 1
In audition to the aekr.owied-re-ents
published in Friday's Star, the
following contributions are duly ack-
Mr. tiali. a
State stationed ;,!
Spartanburg, S. (
day afternoon r.t
them train N. -!7
bile truck he w::s
truck master o-'
Supply train ad
G4 other soldiers
l,
wh
Ca'cn
.. wa .
Grov r
s; ru; k the
driving. (
t'i -inanv '
v. as engaged wit
a; G rover who o'
i Sc.!
i o '-i . .
dl wa
of th
erate eight army
wood a distance of
-ucks in hauling
'bout 4 miles and
liowledged by the treasurer, Mr. Oeo. ioa(j:n ;t on cars to be sent to Spar-
A- Ho-lc. t tanburg. Call and his comrade nam
Kings Mtn. (unofficoal report) $100.00 Mt,ndan were returning to the
A. '. Weathers 1--'ni woods with an empty truck and their
C T. Hord ... ... ... i-"'0 ! view of the train was obscured by
H. I). Wilson 5-00lsome obstacle. Gall was killed in-
J. S. Lafferty 2.00 !stantly anA his head was badly crush-
Bunice Hoyle 100ed. The truck was carried a distance
T. W. Ebeltoft - 10 (K);of 200 yards by the engine. Mendall
Ir. E. B. Ittimore 5.00 I " , v. cpVpral comrades who
waiter L. Fanning a.w
3io. R. Dover 20.00
0. M. Mull 5.00
(As Follow. )
Mooresboro -4.00
T. D. Scruggs ... 1-00
Y. L. Mcardwell 2.00 fa t take it back to camp,
. j. .,nampion -
3. E. McBrayer 2.00
I. R. McBrayer 100
W. M. Greene 1-00
t
an. M. SI Martin 5-W I
H XV i fin L
trs. C. C. McBraver LOO ing the city folks who work for sal-
Urino nn ess their waires nave
knew Gall was returning from New
v,i- nn No. .,7 and had seen his
mother on the day before,
r: oil's hnHv was taken to
Spangler's home where it awaited the
arrival of an ambulance from Spar-
Mrs.
The Farmers' Day.
Danbury Re porter-Post.
The higher cost of living is pinch-
The War's Recompense.
been
largely increased to meet ie heavier
price scales for everything which
K"l Cross Magazine. they must buy. Wit a prosperity
e that have 5th to look with fear- jond the wildest dreams ha, reacheo
less eves the agrnaltura' aistncs 4.
Beyond the 'tragedy of a world at e are in the midrt of an era of ; good
strife, times unparalleled in hist jry Eve -
And know that out of death and night 'thing that car. .f" .Jj
shall rise I sail is selling at fancy puce?, wni h
The dawnoFampIer life. ! overcome the difforencj m he
Iioice whatever anguish rend tbe JZ
t God has given you a priceless ja surplus 0 "
dower to clean up his' debts, buy more land
To live in these trreat times and have, or deposit in the ban
your part
in freedomfs crowning hour,
That ye may tell your sons who see
the light
"igh in the Heavens' their heritage
to take
$9,000,000 COTTON
DEAL
FOR FRANCE
w Orleans. Nov. 28. One of the
deals of the war is be-
" . . . . 'U'R6"" . . iL! 1 1
' saw the powers of Darkness put to ng negotiating in mis mi, "-
, fight, .
aw the Morning break."
une original of this verse
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v
18 More Shopping
Dayfi Till
CHRISTMAS
Do
our Buying beforn
the Rush is On.
"A Sacrifice of Tlianks-
giving
Fi'om Every Week.
A year ayo we were giving thanks that we had been
kept out of the war, and praying that we might continue
to be kept out.
And the war has reached across the ocean and engulfed
us. Not a family but feels its pressure and its pain al
ready, and will feel it more.
Shall we say, then, that those prayers were useless?
Is it impossible to find in days like these anything
for which this nation should be thankful?
In ancient times they had a suggestive phrase. They
spoke of offering a "sacrifice of thanksgiving."
Sacrifice first and then thanksgiving: Joy, preceded
by and founded on self denial.
I see, as I look around me, signs that this nation is
learning the meaning of that great word, Sacrifice signs
that must inspire in any man who really loves his country
a very deep and reverent gratitude on this particular
Thanksgiving Day.
I went out a few days ago to one of the big canton
ments, and spent some hours in talking with the men.
They were just light-hearted boys, to all outward ap
pearances. But underneath there was another note.
"I'd hate to have had all this happen in my life-time
and not had a part in it," said one of them. "It's the first
time I ever had anything big appeal to me so much that I
wanted to give up everything for it. I believe there must
I;: something in that stuff about its being better to give
than to receive. Anyway, I know I'm happy happy all
the way through."
In Washington I met a rich man who has abandoned
his bu Fines? and is working for the government at a sal
ary of SI a year. He is one of hundreds who are doing
the ame thing.
Tho stock market may go up or down; lie does not
know it. Th? other ec.neerns in his line of business are
ni:i king money; and his concern is simply marking time;
an 1 be does not care.
Just on.' tiling in the world matters to him to help
his country do its part in the war so efficiently that there
may never be another war.
"It's costing me a barrel of money to be down here,"
he laughted. "and I'm getting more fun out of losing it
than I ever had making it. A whole new world has opened
up for thousands of men of my class a new reason for
being alive. We'll be different fellows when this thing is
through."
I met a mother who has given two boys, and who is
giving every moment of her days to war relief work.
"Isn't it wonderful," she cried, her face beaming, "to
think that, if we do our part well now, mothers may
never have to go through this again?"
Sacrifice sacrifice everywhere. And bringing with
it such a sense of joy, such an inward peace, as no work
of selfish pleasure or advantage ever brought.
Can any one see the sweep of that spirit through
the land and not feel cause for thanksgiving, even under
the heavy cloud of days like these?
Across the pathway of every activity of our ordin
ary lives War writes its flaming question-mark.
In tones that can not be drowned, it cries:
"Millions of men across the water are giving thjir
lives in the service of an ideal. For what are you giving
your life?"
"Men are dying gladly abroad," it cries "dying in
in their twenties and thirties to make this world a bet
ter place in which to live. What are you doing to make
it better?"
There was need enough for such questions.
We have lived for many years in the atmosphere of
"Do and Get." We were immersed in that atmosphere
a year ago, when we prayed that we might be spared the
bitterness of war, which would interfere with our doing
and our getting. t
To-day that atmosphere is clearing. We are learn
ing some of us at least that he who seeks to have his
life by thinking only of himself finds in the end that
what he has saved is not worth saving. That he truly
finds his life who first loses it in the service of a great
ideal.
Are you among the number of those who are begin
ning to learn that truth? If you are, then for you this
should be a perfectly wonderful Thanksgiving Day.
SOCIETYNFAVS
Notice. .
The members of the Civic league
are ura-ed to attend a caV! meetinir
Thursday afternoon at the court
house, Special business is to be trans
acted.. The hour is four o'clock.
Rlanton Family
Reunion.
Between forty and fifty guests en
joyed a bountiful repast on Thanks
giving day, when the children and
grandchildren and a numbrr of neigh
bors gathered at the home of Mr, and
Mrs. J. Henry Rlanton.
The fatted calf, the king of the
poultry yard and ev-ry possible deli
cacy suggestive of our bountiful bur
vest were then? to cidebrate Thanks
giving and the home coming.
The out. of town guests enjoying
this hospitality were; Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard l elton am! children lie
LIMBER INDUSTRY ACTIVE
Mills of Large Capacities to Cut Big
Boundaries in This County.
Rutherford Sun. ..
There is considerable ' activity in
the luniher nianufacturino' nmimiinna
Of this CountV at the tirpsenf tirau
Messrs. Pitta fill, ''
. - v wicij reunite
who are cutting a large boundary of
tl !.- ..!-S!. .
n.iii.vi H, me- vicinity ot t ane t,reeK,
have recently purchased the Barber
plantation near Logan station on the
C. C. & O, Railway where they will
erect a plant tj nianufa ture their
lumber for niurkit.
The Vriirht-Bach man Lumber Com
jany, of Indianapolis, which par
chased 20,000 acres of land in this
and adjoining counties last spring, is
erecting a portable band sawmill of
large rapacity near Golden, and ia
preparing to build sidetracks and a
shipping yard at Bostic. to which hit
ter point it will transport its lum-
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and Allien ot Sharon. S. (.;. Mr. am lur oy automobile, trucks
Mrs. K. A. Ilouser and son Robert
and Henry Houser of Lincolnton and ."Rents av
Harold Rlanton of Charlotte
Chirora Club Finishes
60 Red Cross Articles.
Mrs. Lee Mi B. White was the gra
cious hostess to the members of the
Chicora club Friday afternoon at her
home on N. La Fayette street.
As this was a Red Cross meeting
the ladies gathered at two o'clock
and spent a most enjoyable and pro
fitable afternoon in that greatest of
all causes, Red Cross war service.
So busy were these charming ma
trons that sixty articles were fin
ished and a eoodlv number cut and
folded ready for stitching.
The Chicora cluB is the second body
of patriotic women of Shelby to real
ize the shortage of food supplies and
to generously cive ud servine refresh
ments that the money and food should .
be used for the suffering nations
In addition to these improvements,
- ,.llv w,c jiu I -
chasing locust timber from which to
manuiacture ship-pins for the con
struct ion of the ships which the gov
ernment is building to enlarge the
merchant marine of the country.
Twenty-five years ago the locust pin
industry was quite extensive in this
section, but for recent years there
has been no market for this product,
by reason of the national inactivity
in shipbuilding.
AMERICAN CUSTOMS ARE
INTRODUCED IN BRITAIN
tagtime Muxir, Huston Baked Bran
and U. S. Slan Male Araiy Y. M.
M. ('. A. Popular in Lodon.
London (ri IA . I.'4,n.a nmu
Boston baked hna anil rUm mvmrm.
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day United SUU ! fca mad
the new American Maa
This rlpcixion wan made at a short Christian a4ocialt' i of the
business sesssion at this meeting. iinost popular pl . xnkn. Al-
During the afternoon Mrs. White itnougn it na lrn niy about
served a fruit course in a most at- ,'x weeks, inert naa tn an aver
age of about 1.WXK) visitor a day.
tractive manner. Unique little cards
bearing the following rhyme which
nt.tpRfa thp lovnltv of the charming
hostess, was attached to the bananas,
We must save of bread
And things good to eat,
And be patriotic with all our might.
So be thankful for the privilege
sweet,
To help the boys win the fiuht.
Miss Ebeltoft Hostess
One of the most enjoyable meet
r I. v,.. n-,ia
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on Friday inght when Miss Elizabeth .women residents in London have con-
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Canadians. Australian and New
Zealandera anarentt nrefee tax
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American hut to their own. Owing to
me comparatively email number oi
American sailore and sailors in Lon
don thus far,, the hut has been patron
ized largely by the former.
The American ambassador, Walter
Hines Pne-p. and Mrs. Pntrp an Kaul
to have been responsible for the in
troduction or Anv.u'icnn cooking at
the hut, and the result hasl been elec
trifying. Several' wealthy America
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Ebeltoft as delightfully at home to tributed many phonograph records of
the members at a Red Cross meeting, popular American music and there in
! Miss Ebeltoft welcomed her guests an atmosphere about the place which
, into the attractive living room, which is distinctly American. .
was most inviting with its cozy fire, American soldiers und sailors who
soft lights and gay decorations of still find it difficult to acquaint them
holly intersperse i with numbers of selves with English money have re
flags of the aliies. and vases of fall cently been hoarding "clackcrs" (pen
roses and chrysanthemums. nies and exchanging them for silver
ATtt r the toll call which was ans-'coin at the hut. It is said that as
wered with "Things for Which I'm much as 20 pounds in pennies havo
Thankful," the hostess asked the been changed in. a day.
guests into the dining room.. Ferns'
and potted plants and decorations sug PLATTSBURG CAMP
gtstive of the Thanksgiving season J IS OFFERED TO POLH8
were used in here. The dining table
was especially attractive with its sett- Baker Will Permit Training There of
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Araiy of 200,000 Now Being
Raised.
ing of silver trays, sandwich baskets
and bnvinc as a centerpiece a cornu-
nr.;i rtici-f Inti-intF with friiit cnthpr-
ed from the Ebeltoft orchard.. Here Boston, Nov. 29. Secretary of War
the hostess was assisted in entertain-.Baker has shown America s apprecia
ing by her mother, who presided at jtion of the new Polish-American army
the coffee urn. 'of 200,000 being raised in the United
A delicious hot salad course, with! States by offering use of the camp at
mints was served. Plattsburg for the training of Polish
nurinir the evening .while busy officers. Ignace Paderewski made taa
fineers folded and stitched bandages 'announcement at a mass meeting of
and knitted sweaters for the soldiers,
several war stories were read by
Misses Ruby McBrayer, Nell Ligon
and Pattie Roberts.
At the business session of this
meeting the club decided to meet in
the Red Cross work room every Tues
day night and spend several hours
making bandages.
Polish Deople at Tremont Temple to
day commemorating the one hund
redth anniversary of the death of
Thaddeus Kosscuisko.
Mr. Paderewski urged all Polisk
American men of draft age who are
not called to the colors to enter th
new army.
is our chance to get back a
free and independent Poland," he said
"We have the support ana gooa wm
of this great liverty-loving Nation and
it. rret.est leader our DeioTeu
Can't Sell to Germany
An order restraining Louis En-
A. . rAMnM InuAntnr nf A RO-
called substitute for gasoline, from president, Wpodrow Wilson.
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disposing of his product ana irom
out information regarding it,
has been signed by a judge at Minco-
la, N. Y. The substitute, which is
declared to contain a great deal of
water and which brought Enrieht
prominence some months ago, is de
clared to be oi value in me opra
a Vo montion of the President s
name the big audience stood up and
cheered.
NcMurry-Blanton Wedding.
A wedding of considerable interest
hnt of friends was that of Mr. .
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tion of submarines. It is alleged the'j. p. McMurry, son of Mr. r. A. M
inventor planned to sell his formula Murry and Miss Ethel Blanton, attrae
to Germany. tive daughter of Mr. Zeb V. Blanton,
now living on the Blanton farm. Tm
Kill the Hogs at 200 to 250 Pounds marriage service was performed tt
"In the present emergency," says the home of the bride in No. 6 tows
the Live Stock Industry committee, 8nip Nov. 25th by Squire Gilead
"pies should be marketed at a weight Green. The couple has the best wishes
not to exceed zoo pounas. rxoi a ruie 0ia nosi oi inenus.
to be strictly abided by, or course, Dut
Main Cause of Death
Nearly a third of a million deaths
reported in the United States during
'spot brokers said today. The French
'government has purchased 60,000 bal
at $9,000,000.
found on an Australian soldier who Much of it already has been shipp-,1916 were caused by heart disease,
oraveiy fought and as nobly died. His ed. It was of tne oetter
fcame is as yet unknown.) , termed as "premium cotton,
predicated on vital statistics cover
ing 70 per cent. ; of the contry's
population, shows the deaths caused
by heart disease numbered 114,171,
the right idea. The hog pushed rapid
lv and killed at an early age is the
cheap hog. A pound of grain on a pig
weighing 200 pounds costs less man
Mr. Maurice Bridges, son of Mr. S.
r nmx nf No. A township and
'a pound on one weighing 400. The old jMiss Ullage Brook, daughter of Mr
Bridges-Brooks Wedding.
bravely fought and as nobly died. His ed It was of the better grades, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Figures tuberculosis 101,396, and pneumonia
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rivalry to have the heaviest hogs in
the neighborhood at hog-killing time
was an expensive business. The hog
kept until two year old eimpiy to maxe
! J. D. Brooks who lives on tne ta
Blanton plantation were happily mar-,
tied on Thanksgiving day at the home
of th bride'i parents, 'Squire uiieaa
Kept Ulllli UWV Jfl v . V1 fcMW aaauw f" 7
a big "Piece of meat makes some very Green officiating. The couple has gone
meat. coutnern Agncuttunst. jo eastern worm varwi