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CLEVELAND COUNTY’S LEADING PAPER rr Automatic Job Feeder3. Three Job Presses. No Job Too Large or Too Small foi Us to Handle. Phone No. 11. lehclanil PAINT UP—SO CLEVELAND MAY SHOW UP VOL. XXXII, No. 21 THE CLEVELAND STAR* SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1924. it T Cheapest Paper Per Copy in This or in Ad joining Counties. Two Linotypes. Advertis ing Cut and Picture Service. All Home Print. *1 It $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE DIED FROM APOPLEXY. Body Of Cleveland County Man Found In Stream Near Spar tanburg By School Boys. The lifeless body of Jack Brackett, a native of this county ami a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Brack ett of the Casar section, was found early Thursday morning partially sub merged in a small stream under a railroad bridge one mile west of Gramling, S. C. The discovery was made by a party of school boys. On the bank about ten feet above the body was a suit case containing a new ■rifle and a .32 calibre pistol, two box es of rifle ammunition and one box of pistol cartridges. The body was taken to a Spartanburg uncVrtaking establishment and later identified by relatives from th's count.-, who early Friday morning brought the remains to the home of a brother, R. B. Brack ett, near Lawndale. The funeral s.erv, ices were conducted Saturday morn ing at 11 o’clock at Carpenters Grove church by Rev. A. C. Irvin. The deceased, who made his home for about 20 years in Memphis Tenn., and in Arkansas, where he was en gaged in the lumber business with a brother, had been in bad health for six or eight years. For sometime his mind had been affected and he was a patient at a private sanatorium and later at the state hospital, from; which he escaped some months agi j after spending three or four month j there. Since leaving the state hospital he had visited here and had made two wandering trips to Arkansas, dying while returning from his'second trip. Mr. Brackett, who was about 45 years of age and had been’successful in business, is survived by a number of brothers and sisters in this county. He was never married. Apoplexy Killed Him. That death was due to apoplexy is told in the following from the Spar tanburg Herald: “It is the opinion of Sheriff Miller and Coroner Turner that Brackett.! was walking along the railroad tracks i and upon seeing the stream below, j went down to get a drink. Here they' think he was attacked with apoplexy! and succumbed before being able to move. “Mayor John E. Floyd, who exam ined the body later, said that he be lieved it had been in the water for \ about 24 hours. He described him as ; being about five feet nine inches tall, | ■frith grey hair and one gold tooth on the left side of the mouth anil the; other missing. He wore blue striped trousers, a dark gray coat and sweat er, and a blue work shirt. Hi cost | bore a label of ‘The Shoo of Culture of Memphis, Tennessee.’ There was i scar about three inches long on the left leg iust below the knee, and on his feet were a pair of badly worn high top tan shoe3 with no heels.' Wrapped up in a piece of paper' inside one of the trouser pockets were two of the missing teeth. “Dr. H. R. Black reported after an investigation that he believed death was due to natural causes.” Mr. Suttle Gets Three Quarts of Weevils Baxter Suttle quotes Shakespeare j and says “Hold, Enough!” The Star made note in its Friday’s issue that he wanted live boll weevils gathered in Cleveland county and would pay $1,000 a «(uart. He bought three quarts Saturday and now he has enough so his offer does not hold good any longer. “Bass” says he is going to breed up his stock, cross the wee vil with lightning bugs so they can work day and night and after he gets pedigreed stock, he intends to sciid them to Africa where the British gov ernment is trying to encourage the raising of cotton in order that he might keep the British government from growing cotton in competition with the south. He has high hopes of his plan which may work out so that southern farmers will benefit. If his plan works he may get a pension for life from southern farmers. Mankind is Lazy. President Garfield once confessed to Edward Atkinson, a Boston busi ness man, that he dated his intellec tual life from listening to a lecture by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and from the lecture he could remember only one thing that Emerson said, namely: “Mankind is as lazy as it dares to be.” This one thought stuck in his mind all his life. It stimulated his thinking as no thought had ever done before. Possibly it served as apersonal re buke. causing him to make a great effort to develop himself than would otherwise have been the case. H MSECS IKE TIGS. SAFETY IN SCRIPTURES. Presiding Elder Of She!by Dis_ trift Fears Not Attacks Of Critics In Sermon Here. “The religion of Jesus Christ will remain solid and secure until critics discount and remove three things— the Bibl", the Church and Jesus of Nazareth, the international charac ter,” was the statement of Rev. C. S. Kirkpatrick, presiding elder of the Shelby district, preaching Sunday at the Central Methodist church in a ser nvn advising that we need not be afraid of our faith and religion. Rev. Mr. Kirkpatrick was only re cently appointed presiding elder of the district and was in Shelby in con nection with 1hc second quarterly con ference being held at Central and La Fayette churches. The presiding el der took occasion to congratulate the members of Central church on their church at’endance and the building of the:r new church. He also spoke of tin campaign for superannuates— the old Methodist preachers who are shelved when their days of usefulness are o’er. “To me the saddest day of a ministers’ life is the day his services to mankind are ended by time and he is discarded.” he said. Standard Literature. “Nevertheless the foundation of God stande‘h sure,” a part of the 1 !)th verse of the second chapter of Second Timothy, was the text taken in answer to the Question, Have crit tics made us afraid of the foundation of our religion? “In this time of un rest and upheaval when the version of ages arc being overthrown and even our religion is being attacked it is good for us to go back and medi tate on the absolute statements of the simple Galilean fisherman,** ‘To IdQ the world’s faith in the foundation of God, critics must first remove one thing—the Bible,” Rev. Mr. Kirk patrick declared. “If your child car ried to school a text book printed 50 years ago, even 10 years ago, he would be laughed at. Books have changed; a 10-year-old book is no longer standard, but the Bible stand ard down through the years and un revised through the centuries is still standard and accepted. If our faith is unfounded why has the prestige of the B;ble stood through time and ev ery mode of attack?” Furthermore it never grows old. With one reading other books become uninteresting, but time after time the Bible is read and read with renewed interst and attrac tion. Certain passages are 'read for hundredth and thousandth time. Why, ause it hr:nrs safety and comfort The inscribable comfort and safe tv felt where the Bible is read was illustrated. “Once in the pioneer days of our country a messenger was bearing a vast amountof gold across the moun tains of North Carolina into Tennes see. All during the trip he was afraid of being robbed and afraid of his own life, such was the nature of the coun try through which he was travelling. One evening while deep in the moun tain section he had been unable to find a place to spend the night. Time after time he was refused lodging. Finally approaching a cabin deep in the mountains he knocked and and asked permission to spend the night. The request was made to a large un couth mountaineer who further added to his forebodings. The interior of the hut increased his fears, and when such fare as the plain folk could of fer him was set out he was unable to eat because of his fears. He felt as if he would never leave the *hut alive. As the evening hours passed The mountain man suggested it was bed time. Then the old lady, the mother of the mountaineer spoke up: “Par don us stranger but we have a habit of reading from this Book each night before retiring,” and with the state ment she picked up the Bible from a rudely constructed table. All fear and forebodings fell from the mhn as a cloak and during the night he slept like a babe so peaceful and unafraid was he because he closed his eyes in a home where the Book of Books was supreme.” There are few homes in America today that are without a Bible, at least the New Testament and those that do not have them are embarrassed at their absence,” said the presiding elder. “As long as men suffer and die. yet find comfort in the Bible, the religion of our God is se cure.” “Furthermore, critics that would destroy our faith must remove our churches. The church that uplifts mor als and kindles a kindlier spirit. The church of mankind that makes and (Continued on page eight) F. B. Ford Points Out Man Who Sold Him H*s Jamaica (linger. Negro Given Six Months. F. B. Ford, father of John Ford, whose mysterious murder in Gaston county is still the main topic of con versation in this Bcction owing to the recent purported confession of Arthur Crowder, spent Thursday night in Shelby in custody of local officers. Ford aparently imbibed a little too freely of Jamaica ginger and was ar rested by officers as he came into town driving his car serpent-lik<\ Brought up before Recorder Falls Friday morning, Ford decided to make a clean breast ofthe affair. He was ert route to this section working •in evidence in the murder case, or oerta-'ning the case, he said. Pass ing Cherrwillo he stormed at a store fo buy a “dope”, he told the recorder, i ,1>d while there was prevailed upon b* the store proprietor to make an additional purchase of muddy Ja miaca ginger to keep him worm on *h* r»me:nder of the trip. The gin. ?er was "doped up and enough to kill a mule’’, Mr. Ford declared and was entirely responsible for his being ar rested. At the time of his arrest he had in his possession a bottle w!th a small quantity of the warm fluid re maining. Mr. Ford told the court he would be glad to go to Chcrryville with the officers and point out the man he alleged sold him the ginger. He was accompanied to Cherryville by Officer McBride Poston and the man was located and placed under a $100 bond for trial in Gaston Super ior court. For returning and pointing out the man he says sold him the gin ger, Judge Falls let Ford off with the minimum fine for driving a car while intoxicated, $50 and the costs. Eager for His Pick. Ernest Rudasill, a colored resident of the Freedmon section of the town, was up in court Friday charged with h*MUng hi* spouse a little too harsh ly, th# actual charge being assault with deadly weapon. Judge Falls de cided on a six months sentence and it was enteerd. but six months sounded mighty long to Ernest, who probab ly had an appeal in mind and he ask e3: "Jedge how long it is tar big cote stahts?” “Two weeks.” “Huh. mighty long time fer uh nig (fOr tuh hafter lie in jail an’ den #uk six months.” and turning to Chief Hamrick, “Chief kin yer git me down tuh de gang today sose I kin staht easin' off dem six months.” He admitted serving a 2-year sen tence on a similar charge in Guilford county. Other Cases Heard. The following cases were heard in recorder’s court Monday: • Ab Barrett, Elam Mayhcw, Alex Morrison and “Casey” Jones, gamb ling; fined $25 and the costs each. The four boys were caught “looking for the hole card” Saturday afternoon below the Ella mill. Two other boys made their getaway and carried with them the calling cards of Lady Luck. Bob Whisnant and Sam Jackson, colored, manufacturing intoxicating beverages, namely corn liquor; sen tenced to twelve months each on the county roads. An appeal was noted in each case and bonds set at $500 per appealer. Bob and Sam ' are na tives of that section between Grover and Kings Mountain—or were. Watler Harris, possessing intoxi cating beverage—Jamaica ginger; fined $25 and the costs. Measles is Leading Epidemic of County Measles is the leading epidemic of the county, according to Dr. Ben Gold, county physician, to whom all contagious diseases must be reported by the physicians. There are a num ber of other contagious diseases in various parts of the county sOch as whooping cough, (placarded now as spasmodic cough), diphtheria, scar let fever and small-pox but all of these are in a hopeless minority as compared with measles. This disease has been raging in upper Cleveland most of the winter and recently broke out in Shelby, Supt. I. C. Griffin re porting that fully 100 pupils are marked from the public schools be cause of this disease alone. There have been only a few deaths as a re sult of these diseases, the influenza epidemics of the last few winters taking much heavier death tolls. Rutherford Mills Curtail. The Grace and Cleghorn mills cf Rutherford county closed down last week to give their employes a week’s vacation and to curtail production. Most of the textile plants in the "coun ty have curtailed production recent ly. NOTED OMTOi TO BE HERE THURSDAY lion. C. I’. Swift to Speak at Court House on “Defense of Amor ien's Heritage.” Hon. €. F. Switt, former member of tho Pennsylvania state legislature and noted orator, is to speak on Thurs day evening, March 13, at 8 o’clock, in tho court house here. The subject of th» address will be "Defense of America’s Heritage’’ and the rally will be of a patriotic nature under the joint nuspiccs of the Shelby churches and the National Reform as sociation, whose American headquar ters are in Pittsburgh, Pa. For many years Dr. Swift has been a national leader in church and civic movements. He comes to Shelby as a part of the campaign for law enforce ment and civic righteousness? which the National Reform association is conducting in North Carolina. A speaker of unusual ability and wide ly known for his lorccfu. »nrf inter esting presentations, Dr. Swifi is an orator of the old school. He has been a successful pastor and for many years, was a leader in those worth while mQvementfe which have engaged the attention of patriotic and earn est citizens. Among the other workers in North Carolina in the present campaign are Miss Sada M. Lamb and Rev. A. E. Curry. Meetings, have been arranged in many of the towns and churches and the program of the National re form association presented. Dr. Swift comes here because of the arrange ments that have been made through these representatives. << After Six Days” To Show First In Shelby Magnificent Feature I'icturization of Old Testament. To lie Shown at The Princess Theater. “After Six Days” u magnificent feature picturization of the world’s greatest story, the Old Testament, will be shown for the first time in the two Carolinas at the Princess theater Thursday and Friday, March 20-21. The big picture is brought here by the B. and W. Booking office, a local film exchange, whose territory embraces the two Carolinas. As the booking office is operated by local people the picture makes its initial appearance on the screens of the two Carolinas m Shelby, and will later be exhibited In other towns and cities of the two states. “After Six Days” has 600 princi pals and 50,000 supernumeraries and presents with the touch of the su preme artist in a swiftly moving nar rative the Old Testament, beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and ending with the immortal songs of Solomon. The story of Cain and Abel is shown; the building of the gigantic ark; the flood; the Tower of Babel; Sodom and Gomorrah, Joseph and his brethern; Moses and the Egyptians, and the magnificent court of Solomon. Even old King “Tut” is an important figure in the hundreds of scenes. To Organize County Fair Here Friday Friday morning March 14th at 10 o’clock in the court house has been designated as the time and place for the shareholders and others interest ed to meet and perfect the organiza tion of the Cleveland County Fair as sociation. It is very important'for all who are interested, whether they have taken stock or not to be present as the officers and directors will be elect ed. It is especially urged that the farmers come as this Is a fair for the Cleveland county farmers and many of them are needed in the or ganization to see that it has the whole hearted co-operation of the county. Support so far has been very grati fying but it is necessary that as many as possible be present for the organ 1 izati^n. ram. shot Will Ledbetter, 25-year-old em ploye of the Lily Mill and Power j company, was instantly killed Satur j day afternoon about 6 o'clock by the accidental discharge of a revolver in ' the boiler room of the Vivian mill at | Chcrryville whilS- talking with friends j The revolver was hanging on a nail | on the wal' when Ed Hartman, a ! member of the party, started to rc I move it and in doing so the revolver ! accidentallv went off, the bullet strik | ing Ledbetter, who was sitting direct ly beneath the gun. The bullet struck him in the shoulder and ranged down ward, probably striking the spinal cord. Ledbetter arose from his chair and sttaggered a step or two across the room before falling to the floor and when others present reached him he was already dead. Hartman is not blamed for the tragedy, it is said, as it is thought when attempting to re move the revolver he exerted a lit tle pressure when he touched then weapon, which was hanging by the trigger on the nail. At Grandfather’s Funeral. The unique part of the tragedy was hat Ledhetter, with several other members of his family from here was in Cherryvilje to attend the funeral of hiB grandfather, Smith Ledbetter, i who died there Friday. Ledbetter, son i of Henry Ledbetter, machinist at the | Lily mill, was termed as a faithful worker by officials of the plant. Sur-; viving relatives here are his wife and two small children, his father and mother and three brothers and four sisters. He had been married about five years. The remains were brought here and the funeral services conducted at the home Monday morning at 10 o’clock by Rey. J. W. Ingle, pastor of LaFay ette Street Methodist church. Inter ment was in Sunset cemetery. Young Man of Bethlehem Community Succumbs to Injury Received in Charlotte j John Lattimore Dixon, died Friday night at the St. Peters Hospital, Char lotte as a result of injuries received when he was struck by a street car in front of the Louise Mill while on his wray home from work several weeks ago. Mr. Dixon had been confined to the j hospital since January 29. He sustain ed a very serious injury and one foot j had to be amputated. It is stated that | Mr. Dixon was on his way to the Char- i lotte Casket comany where he was1 employed and in an attempt to get! off the tracks for an aooroachin' train, he walked on the Belmont car line and before he had time to jump, ’ a car struck and seriously injured him. Deceased is a native of Cleveland county, being born and reared in the Bethlehem community; the son of th late George Dixon. For a number of years he had been making his home in Charlotte at Old N. Caldwell street. He. is survived by his wife who was ! Miss Lula Pruett, daughter of the late | John J. Pruett of Cleveland county, j two brothers George Dixon of Clover, I S. C. and B. F. Dixon of Kings Moun- j tain, r. f. d., two sisters, Mrs. W. E. Ferguson of Charlotte and Mrs. W. H. Simpson of Baskerville, Va. He was a member of the Park Coun cil Jr. Order United American Me chanics. His body was brought to Cleveland county and the interment took placd Monday at 11 o’clock at Bethlehem Bapt'st church, Rev. W. G, Camp con ducting the funeral services. Kings Mountain May Get New Post Office From The Herald: Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle last week introduced an omnibus postoffice bill in congress in which he asked for an appropriation of $125,000 each for postoffice buildings in Kings Mountain, Newton, Lincolnton and Morganton. In response to this many of our forward citizens wrote letters to Mr. Bulwinkle thanking him for his interest and urging him to push the bill. A mass meeting was called for | ^ riday night for the purpose of I discussing the matter and taking forward steps. A goodly number of citizens were present and a lively interest taken. After a number of talks a resolution was adopted urg ing that the measure be passed and those present signed it. The paper is to1 be passed around this week for the signatures of all the citizens of the town. We are not only petition ing for the postoffice building but for city delivery of mail. J. P. COOK MAKES TALK. Members \$ill fie Guest', Of Kim?s Mountain Chamber Of Commerce Next Friday. Next Thursday evening, “Ladies Night", is expected to he the premier program of the year with the Shelby Kiwanis club, KiuVinians entertain their wives and sweethearts only once each year and knowing this the pro gram committee has promised a pro gram that will not likely have an equal during the year. On the follow ing night the dub will go to Kings Mountain, where they have accepted an invitation to be the guests of the Kings Mountain chamber of com merce at a social meeting. From pro ■ er,t indications practically the entire club will at'end. “Make me a Boy Night,” ‘ Make Me » Boy Again Jnrt for Tonight” was the program last Thurs Hnv e-enine in charge of Attorney D Z Newton. Few times since the organ i'/a'ion of ihe club has every member rciaxed and had a more jovial and good-humored meeting. It was a well balanced meeting, at the outset and for about cne-half of the allotted hour the calm And. dignity of years were thrown off and the members became bovs n-ain, and then for the remain der of the meeting they became at. tentive. not critical and pessimistic, hut attentive to the interests'of North Carolina boys, that are not "bad bovs.” Mr. Newton opened his program with spoken 'skits” by Kiwanians Will Harris and Pete Grigg and these ‘skits” were the keys that unlocked the time-flown days of boyhood and left the club eager for the main fea ture of the evening. Dr. J. R. Osborne a lover of James Whitcomb Riley, and a man that can recite Riley with e vernacular and emphasis hard to eounl, was the chief entertainer. Rolling out in the drawling, down home sneech of Riley. Dr. Osborne rave “The Old Band,” “Riggsby’s Station,” and favorite selection after selection as the applause demanded. As a curtainHo his diversion the re citer gave an old Tennessee colored man’s version of his trial for manu facturing liquor without license. James P. Cook, founder and tfisad of the Jackson training school at Con cord and the guest of Dr. J.-S. Dor ton. was the next speaker. Mr. Cook’s visit to the club was timely, striking them when they were boys again and telling them of the wayward boy, who is not really bad, and telling it only as a man that has devoted his life to bov uplift could tell it. ‘There are no had boys,” said Mr. Cook. “There may be bad fathers, bad mothers, bad conditions,, bad environ ment, but bad boys—never”. “As n man that has handled and witnessed the true spark of manhood in ovrr 1,G00 so-called bad boys, I want to emphasize to this club that there are no bad boys.” In his talk, which war; a defense, by a man that knows, • the boy the world calls “bad,” the speaker agreed with a recent state ment of O. Max Gardner that it is the over-privileged child and not the “underprivileged child” that needs the atention of Kiwanis. “Of the hun dreds of beys that have, entered and passed out of the Jackson Training school, idleness was the major cot • ribtor" he said. Then he related incident after incident of how trust and confidence and a firm, but help ing hand has made out of the “ban boy” a man that the world trusts and admires. Mr. Cook told ^ of a trip through another section of the state and how he ran out of money and en tered a strange bank to have a check cashed. The alert young teller hesi tated not in cashing the check of a stranger but said: “Mr. Cook, I don’t believe you know me. I spent four years at Jackson Training school.” The teller was just a typical product turned out by a school, which, Mr. Cook has made his life work with the aim of giving every boy the fighting chance intended for him by his Maker. - Mr. Cook's talk ended the even ing’s program, which was interspers ed here and there with such songs as “Seeing Nellie Home,” “Good Morn ing, Mr. Zip,’ and other boyhood fav orites. Guests of the evening beside Mr. Cook and Dr. Osborne were: J. W. Howell with Rush Hamrick; A. B. Stagg w'ith William McCord; Kiwan ian R. B. Boger, of Morganton with Clyde R. Hoey and R. S. Paschal with Gene Schenck. Hickory Meeting. Quite a number of Shelby Kiwan ians are planning to attend the all day meeting at Hickory, Thursday, March 20, at which will be present international president of Kiwanis, ran hd FIB 1. & V ffij I PETITION FILED HERE. Judi^c Webb Signs Ruling To Show Why Receiver Should I Not Be Appointed. On petition of the Southern Railway ■ co-nany, a form of a common creditor’s j hill, asking that a receiver b? sppoint j ed to tpke over the affairs of the At* la it!c 4 ^ adkin Railway company. Federal District Judge Webb here Thursday signed a rule to show e-use why a receiver should not be appoint ed n"d set the matter to be heard in i Grernsboro March 17. The Atlantic & Yadkin Railway ! company operates from Mt. Airy to I Fanford. with certain branches — a > total mileage of 163 miles. The basis of the request for re ceiver. is that the Atlantic and Yad kin Railway company owes rb<* I Southern Railway company $770,000, vhich money, it is alleged in the bill, had been advanced to the Atlantic & Yadkin !n order that that com nan v might pay for coal, cross ties and other mater'ala with which to oper ate the railroad. It is averred that the Atlantic & Yadkin has other debtors for substantial sums. The bill discloses ‘ that the f-outh ern is unwilling to any longer ex tend any credit to the Atlantic & Yadkin, and since the Atlantic & \ adkin is a common carrier ratl in ad and must be operated in the interest of the public, served by it, the Southern asks the court to ap point a receiver to prevent a mul tiplicity of suits and in order t« con tinue the operation of the railroad and secure credit pending the fur ther order of the court. Not Profitable Enterprise The bill shows that the Atlantic & Yadkin has stock of $1,000,000, practically all of which is owned by the Southern, and has a bond in debtedness of $1,500,600, the bonds being outstanding in the hands of the public. The bill also discloses thRt the Atlantic & Yadkin has hot been a profitable enterprise. It discloses that for the' past eight years it has not earned sufficient money to pay expenses and taxbs, laying aside the question of interest on its bonds. On presentation of the bill to the court Judge Webb stated that he would receive the bill and issue a rule to show cause why a receiver should not be appointed, and he ac cordingly signed a rule to show couse, setting the matter for March 17 at This action on the part of the Sou thern railway will be of interest to the people throughout the state and to those who have beeh interested In ob tain ng an annulment of the sale of the old Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad, and of especial interest to Greensboro in its effort to secure a j competitive railroad. As is generally known, an action was instituted by the attorney general on behalf of the state, seeking to set aside the con veyance of that portion of the road fi om Sanford to Wilmington, now op erated by the Atlantic Coast Line, which action is now pending in the 3tate court. State May Buy Road. It seems from the action taken the Southern that if the state desit to obtain possession of that porti of the railroad which is in the char of the Southern, known as the Atlarn i and ^ adkin, an opportunity will | 'fforded it, since, under the applk j ion made for the appointment of a l reiver, if the court should decide th a receiver should be appointed, t court would have the power to eit! direct the operation of the railroad the hands of the receiver or a sale the railroad, in which event the sti or any other interested parties woi have an opportunity to become pi chasers of the property and to acqu the possession and control of same. The bill was presented by gene solicitor S R. Prince, of Washing! D; «’ a?‘ W’ M' Hen‘k,en. of the fi of Manly, Hendiuuv and Womble, Winston-Salem, division counsel of I Southern for North Carolina. EARNEST WORKER EDITOR DIES IN RICHMOND VA. John M, Armstrong, editor of the Earnest Worker, the monthly religi ous Sunday school book of the Pres byterian church, died at .his home in Richmond, Va., Sunday according to an announcement received hete yes terday by Rev. W. A. Murray pastor of the Shelby Presbyterian church. Edward F. Arras, of Columbus, Ohio; International Secretary Fred C. Par ker of Chicago; District Governor Harry T. Adams, of Raleigh. and Lieuenant-governor B. Scott Blanton, of Charlotte. This is the first visit of international officers to this district and Hickory is preparing for a red letter even*.