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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IN CLEVELAND LAST YEAR TOTALLEDOVER NINE MILLION DOl LARS—FIRST IN BUTTER; FOURTH IN COTTON. PAID-UP CIRCULATION Of This Paper Is Greater Than The Population Given Shelby In The 1920 Census f be leticlanii RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’* Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department. VOL. XXXII, No. 55 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, JULY 8. 1924. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE BOV IS SHOT FOR Negro Shoots Boy for Interfering With Him While He Was Beating His Wife Love for his mother and his de- | fense of her against the attack of his, step-father almost cost the life of Boyd Ross, 16 year-old colored boy of Dravo, Cherokee county South Carolina, on Monday. The body of the boy was punctured in nine or ten places by bird shot from a single: barrel shot gun in the hands of his1 stepfather Heywood Ross, who be came infuriated at the boy for strik-1 ing him while he was beating his wife, who was the boy’s mother. The boy was brought here for medical! attention and the story he told was an unusual one. Hit Ross With Shovel “He had my mother down on the floor beating her with his fist and when I couldn’t make h’im stop, 1 picked up the fire shovel and cracked him over the head. When I hit birr. j he started after me with the shotgun : and shot me as I was running away He kept running after me and I saw j him coming on once or twice before i they picked me up and brought mej here”, the negro youth related as the blood trickier! from the small holes j over his head and body made by the i bird shot. The young negro kept run- j ning and was enroute, he said, to the , home of his grand mother in this county, when several men in a cat . overtook him and brought him to .Shelby, where he was treated by I)r j E. B. Lattimore. The physician said , nine or ten shot had hit the boy and j were scattered from his head to his j heels. None of the punctures were j serious, but they bled quite a bit and the white shirt the boy wore had turned to a shade of red when hu reached town. From the boy’s state ment and the manner in which the shot were scattered Ross was evident ly 400 or 500 feet from the boy when j he pulled the trigger. The boy did not seem to know how the affair started further than that he “got tired of seeing him beat her” j and brought the shovel into play. The little negro was badly frightened and believed that his step-father would have killed him if he had not out distanced him. People along the road« thought the little negro was crazy from his actions and the way he looked back as he ran. Local officers, McBride Poston, Jerry Runyans, H. G. Ware, and Nel son Lattimore, arrested Ross several hours after ^he shooting after he had been chased'over the state line. As the shooting occurred in South Caro lina he was turned over to Gaffney officers. The negro, who formerly lived in this county, had a bad repu tation here and had been in court a number of times. The act of the little negro in defending his mother against Ross, who is termed a “bad nigger”, was commended by local people who heard the unusual story, and consid ered the boy lucky for escaping with his life. Lattimore School Tax Election Called Off The Lattimore Padgett and Double Springs school bond election leading to the consolidation of these districts with a special tax of fifty cents on the 100 valuation, was called off yes terday by the joint action of the county board of education and by the county commissioners. After the election was called, considerable op position developed which resulted in a division. Rather than have this division engender ill feeling in the proposed new consolidated district, it was thought best to cancel the elec tion. This was done upon the recom mendation of the school board of the Lattimore district and petitions sign, ed by 121 citizens in the Padget dis trict and 80 citizens in the Double Springs district. A petition asking that the election be held was present ed with 51 names frdm the Double Springs district. The county commissioners on Mon day appointed John A. Buff a member °f the highway commission in No. 10 township. STANDARD OIL MEN AT CLEVELAND SPRINGS 1' ifty or more of the Charlotte of fice force of the Standard Oil Com pany were dinner guests at Cleve and Springs Saturday evening, be 'iisr in the nature of an outing for 'he force. Officials present includ p”- C. M. Byers. Charlotte branch manager;' H. C. Woodall, assistant manager; C. E. Motte,r district man ager; My. Clark, of Springfield, Mass. • M. Lattimore, general salesman, •astonia; C. O. Heavner, Cherryville agent; B. B. Byers, general sales man, Shelby; C. R. Doggett, local agent. Many of the guests were ac companied by their wives and lady friends and a dance followed the din ner. \. Hawkins, Shelby Carrier Is elected President Of State Letter Carriers. G V. Hawkins, popular rural letter •arrier of Shelby has been elected president of the North Carolina Rural Letter ( arriers Association which clos ed a two day session in Greensboro Saturday. This is a deserved honor coming to Mr. Hawkins who has beer one of the most ; ctive members of the association within recent years. He was a delegate two years ago tc the national convention and was in strumental n having the letter ?ar riers meet in Shelby last year' whet: he was active in their entertainment. About 100 people {..tended the con vention at Jreensboro last week. Other of liter a for the ensuing year are: Vice president, O. w/llines, Mc Leansville; secretary, J. I*. Turner, Burlington (re-elected); Treasurer, W. P. Cook, Asheville. Officers were installed just before the session ended. Delegates chosen to attend the na tional convention are: Carl H. Howard, St. Pauls; John Norwood, Norwood; Neal Thompson, Vineland; J. S. Devihney, Julian; A S. P.arnes, Wilson. The convention voted to meet next year at Salisbury. The convention went thiough a busy day. Committees made their re ports, routine business was handled and resolutions adopted. Chief among the latter was one ask ing senators and congressmen to give united support in behalf of the equip ment bill, asking that it be brought up at the next session of Congress, pass ed and made retroactive July 1, 102* The equipment bill proposes that rural carriers be allowed six cents per mile for equipment. It is not a salary bill, but the carriers think they should have some compensation for equip ment. Another resolution nut the associa tion on record as desiring all roads used by carriers in discharge of their duties be made public roads; another that carriers be paid by postmaster; another that rural carriers be free from license tax on automobiles i»ed for carrying mail exclusively. Moores vi lie, July C.—Joseph E. | Sherrill, 19 years old, son of Marvin Sherrill, of Lincoln county, was in stantly killed; his brother, Francis Sherrill, was bady injured, and a companion, Baxter~Little, was so j badly Jiurt that he probably will not ! live, when an automobile in which they were returning from Sherrill’s Ford to their home in Lincoln coun ty, was run into and wrecked by an other car occupied by negroes. The accident occurred about 9 o’clock last night, when the boys had reached a point just over the Cataw ba county line. There were two cars of the negroes, the one in front run ning into and climbing nearly ovei the Ford car occupied by the young men. Young Sherrill was killed out right and his body badly mangled. Little was brought to a hospital here, where very little hope is held out foi | his recovery. ! There were eight or ten negroes in the party. Several of them were j placed under arrest and will be held ! for trial. One of their number was | badly injured. The names of the ne j groes could not be ascertained. Li ; quor was found in the wrecked car ! occupied by the negroes. -—. Home Agent Attends Summer Conference Mrs. Irina Wallace, homo demon stration agent, leaves Tuesday for the Summer Conference, which will he held at State ^College, Raleigh. For this reason, there will be no club dem onstration meetings with either "iris or ladies until further notice, except where provision has already been made for the meeting:. During the fruit season there will be need for Bulletin No. 114, Canning Fruits and Vegetables, also Bulletin No. 113, Jelly, Jams, Preserves and pickles. You may order these direct from the department. Both are full of valuable information. A new feature of the meeting of the department of superintendence at Chicago was a series of radio talks by educational leader. The talks were broadcast by one of the daily papers of Chicago. Flies bother you? Farmers Hdw. Co. has a dandy line of screen wire, fly swatters and fly poison.—Adv. Want a lawn mower cheap? Look iat the Farmers Hdw. Co.—Adv. 8. Tin DIED nsDir mods Funeral of Prominent Rutherford Cotton Manufacturer Held in Charlotte. Aged 72 Years Rutherfordton, July 5,—S. B. Tan ner, well known cotton manufacturer and capitalist, died here Thursday morning at 4:10 a. m. at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Robt. H. Craw ford, with whom he has Jived for the Inst three years. Mr. Tanner has been ill several months and grew worse Tuesday. He died of compli cations. Funeral services were held at Try on street Methodist church, Friday noon and interment was In Elmwood cemetery by the side of his wife and son, Spencer. Active pall hearers were I). C, Col pin and T. B. Stephenson. Carolcen, the laptop General Supt. of the Hen rietta Mills: W. S. Moore, asst. sunt. Henrietta Mills, No. 1, Henrietta, W. L. Horne, and J. R. Moore, prominent Forest City men; B. R. Flack, Carl Horne, G. B. Howard and J. .0 Wil liams, prominent mill men of thi> place. Mr. Tanner was 72 years of age and was a native of Spartanburg county, S. C. He is a member of the Rutherfordton M. E. church. He is survived by two sons, K. S. Tanner, of this place, and S. B. Tanner, Jr., now in Italy, and one daughter, Mrs. R. H, Crawford, of this place, one full brother, A. S. Tanner, of this place, and one half brother, W. R. Tanner, of Cowpens, S. C., and five sisters, Miss Alice Tanner and Mrs. Sallie Tanner, Saluda; Mrs. Laura Gaffney, Gaffney, S. C., Mrs. W. H. Justus, Hendersonville, and Mrs. II. M. Jus. tice of this place. Mr. Tanner built the Henrietta mills and was president of them for many years. He and his son, K. S. Tanner, built Spindale. He is presi dent of the Spencer, Spindale, Stone cutter, Sunlight, and Horne mills of Spindale, the Cleghorn mills and the Commercial Bank of this place, also Green River Manufacturing company of Tuxedo and is connected with many other business enterprises. He built the new Isothermal hotel here. At the Fourth of July celebration in Spindale Friday at noon, at the speakers stand a 10-minute memorial service was held in honor of Mr. Tan ner, the founder of Spindale and Rutherford rounties pioneer cotton monufacturer. Mr. Tanner was one of the south’s leading manufacturers and financiers, His ideas on the cotton situation were always recognized as authority. Ush Sardon, or Sargent, brother of Percy Sargent, who was killed in a battle with officers in January, was on the recorder’s court docket, Fri day, for attempting to he the “keeper of his brother’s children. The Sar dons, or Sargents. are Georgia ne proes and inclined at times to be “tuff.” Percy, the “Top Sargent,” ran wild in the early part of January and after a battle with the local offi cers, died of wounds in the melee. Amonp the survivors were two sons, aped 13 and 15. Thursday. July 3, Ush, uncle of the boys, who were "hired out,” approached their em ployers with the intention of collect ing, their pay. The boys objected strenuously, saying that the uncle did not have the right to take their money. “Uncle Ush” lost his tem per, or found it, and proceeded to be lay their backs, it was charged, with a leather strap. Judge Falls let him pay the costs for the act. The negro is said ^o have told the employers of his nephews that his brother |on his death bed instructed him to look out for the boys and also added that he had been appointed their guardian with the approval of the recorder. Judge Falls knew of no such approv al, neither had the court ever hoard of the guardian appointment. Sar don, it seems, must have planned the scheme so as to have a little ready cash for the Fourth, but instead was forced to pay out some. Other cases heard Friday and Sat urday included: Will Hoy, reckless driving; nol pros. Rome Waters, profanity, and enter ing after being forbidden; not guilty. Harley Francis, assault with a deadly weapon upon J. D. Bridges; fined $15 and the costs. The weapon in question was the butt of a knife. J. L. Jones, O. W. Ramsey and O. C. Connor, receiving and possessing; guilty by jury and fined .$25 and the costs, each. Mr. and Mrs. John Wynn Doggett and children, left Monday for Hen dersonville where they will spend some time. Veteran Nominated Frank D. Griai Ex-Service Man Wins By Landslide. Cleveland Gives Best Major ity In State In the second or run-off primary for state cc mifiissioner of labor and printing, Saturday, Frank I). Grist, of Lenoir, was an easy winner from unofficial returns over M. L. Ship man, incumbent .for 16 years. It is thought to he the first time in many years that a state office holder has been defeated, and the victory of Grist is credited largely to the sup port of the American Legion, Mr. Grist being a veteran of the World War and wounded in action. Cleve land county voted light on the pri mary as there were no county offi cers in the run-off, but the ex-ser vice men were active and around 1,400 votes were polled, over 1,300 be ing for Grist or a ration of more than 22 to 1. The unofficial vote from 22 precincts of 24 gave Grist 1,322 and Shipman 59. The two precincts not heard from, Holly Springs and Mulls, will not noli a large vote and the total is expected to be only a little over 1,400. The voting here was characteristic of the ballots cast all over the state, only a few counties in the reports received so far giving Shipman a majority, while the others gave Grist large majorities. Monday, according to a dispatch from Raleigh, the un official vote of 43 counties out of 100 gave Grist 30,146 and Shipman 19,391. Grist’s manager announced that the majority was greater than expected, while Mr. Shipman had no statement to make. Shelby Strong for Grist Shelby citizens almost cast a solid vote for .the ex-service man, he hav ing worked here one time and being known by many local people. The only active interest was taken by ex-service men who were rewarded at sunset bv 074 votes out of the 08 l cast in the four voting wards. In the county, Delight, Lawndale, Sharon, Boiling Springs nnd Youngs, according to unofficial figures, voted solidly for Grist. The unofficial re port from the 22 precincts is as fol lows : t PRECINCT GRIST SHIPMAN Shelby (4) Delight Polkvilie Casar W. Kings Mt. Kings Mt. Lattimore Waco Mooresboro Lawndale Fallston Queens Sharon Earls Patterson Boiling Springs Youngs Double Springs Grover G74 8 07 10 46 50 46 33 31 42 97 30 10 17 30 19 24 16 02 0 • 1 6 0 11 1 0 0 1 5 10 o 4 4 4 3 CLEVELAND GlARDS LEAVE FOR CAMP AT MOREHEA/D CITY The Cleveland Guards, Company “K”, 120th infantry of the North Carolina National Guard troops, left Shelby Sunday morning at 5 o’clock on a special train over the Seaboard. Company “F” of Charlotte and the howitzer company of Gastonia were picked up enroute. The company that entrained Sunday was composed of three commissioned officers 'and 77 non-commissioned officers and en listed men. FOR SALE-ONE FORD TOUR ing car, 1924 model, slightly used, in good condition; with starter. Bar gain to quick buyer. W. S. Forten berry, Lawndale, N. C., Star Route. 2t-7p If you are interested in a good lawn mower, .cheap, look at the Far mers Hdw. Co.—Adv. Williams And Hamrick Tn OpMi Of fice Supply And Book Store At Miss Luts* Stand Messrs. Charlie Williams and Max Hamrick will open about July 25th a book and office supply store in the corner of the Courtview Hotel build ins, taking the store room now occu. •lied by Miss Georgia Lutz, milliner. The name of the new firm will Ire vVill'ams and Hamrick and their line ■vi 11 he office supplies, loose leaf s\s '.e:ns, fIlir-jc systems, safe, desks, of fice chairs, party favors, typewriters and typewriter supplies, school sup plies and everything else in the of fice fixture line. For sometime they have been making arrangements for this new business enterprise, looking "or suitable lines of merchandise and • n available location which they have it last secured and are now having ■heir stocks shipped direct from the nanufaeturers. Bo h Messrs. Williams and Ham ick have for a number of years been salesmen for the Liggett and Myers i’obacco company. Both are prmni e.it youi g business r.ien whj plan to ,ive Shelby a:i office supply store uch as has been needed for many •ears Their business will not be con fined to Cleveland alone, but they will .ravel a salesman in Rutherford and Lincoln counties and their many friends for them the rich suc •ess they deserve. Miss Georgia Lutz whose location they have secured, will occupy one of the store rooms now under construc tion on N. LaFayette street by Messrs. T. W. and Frank A. Hamrick. it Quite a number of Cleveland coun j ty farmers were visitors at the of fice of the county agent Saturday end Monday exhibiting stalks of cot ton taken from their fields, which apparently are infected with “black arm”, a form of bacterial blight. Specimens of the diseased stalks were sent to Raleigh, where they will be examined to determine the exact na ture of the disease, but from the de scription given by the cotton disease bulletin. County Agent Lawrence is practically certain that it is the , “black-arm” form of bacterial blight. The leaves on the cotton thus infected i turn a reddish color at first, then (back and finally wither and fall off. At the same time portions of the stalk and branches also turn black and rot in nearly every instance the branches split and fall from the stalk as do the bolls. Hovcever* with ; t he disease coming so early in the I season there are no bolls to be infect ; cd and the damage will be less. ; Farmers here Saturday and Monday stated that they estimated that one fourth or more of their crops was in ! fected by the blight, which the bulle tin says, thrives in continued wet and windy weather. The blight is being noticed in practically every section of the county. The disease is thought to originate in the seed and where fields are badly attacked a seed treat ment is necessary as well as rota tion of crops for a season or two. Dry weather checks the disease, which heretofore has never bothered the Piedmont section. It w’as thought by some that the black and withered leaves and I branches were caused by hail, but similar conditions existed in sections I of the county where there has been I no hail this season. The hail suppo! I sition was advanced by the appear, a nee of the stalks where the branches ; and stems had split off. Although j a considerable portion of the cotton I already seems to he infected it is 1 hoped that dry weather will check | the disease and the situation is not ! vet alarming. — Banks Pay Regular Dividends July 1st The First National Bank of Shelby last week issued dividend checks to i its shareholders, paying them the reg ular six per cent semi-annual divi dend on the banks capital of $250,000, the total amount paid out being $15, 000. The Union Trust Company paid its regular three per cent annual div idend on its capital of $100,000 the shareholders receiving $3,000. In addition to the dividend pay, the Un ion Bank and Trust Company added $5,000 to surplus, making the tax sur plus reach $25,000. Both banks are in a flourishing condition as the state ment published in today’s and Fri day’s papers will show. This is hot weather. But if you will drop down to the Farmers Hdw. Co., and get a water cooler or an ice cream freezer.—Adv, BIRTHS 187 ID DEATHS 88 IN NO. 8 A Birth n Day iti No. 6, including Shelby, During First Six Months There was a birlU a day in No. 0 township alone during the first six months of this year, according to vital stati<tics which have been for warded to the bureau, in Raleigh this week. While all of the statistics are not at hand, indications are that there are three children born every day in the year, this fact emphasiz ing more than anything else the im portance of a Sheppard-Towner ma ternity nurse, who could be secured full time for prospective mothers and new born babies at a nominal cost to the county. Up to July 1st there were 105 births in No. 6 township outside of Shelby’s incorporate limits, 82 births inside of Shelby, 35 deaths outsid,' of Shelby in No. 6 township and 33 j deaths inside of Shelby. White births in Shelby that go to Raleigh in the report for July are as follows: To. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. L. Patterson, a girl, June 3rd. To Mr. and Mrs. Tony Porcelli, a girl, June 9th. To Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Weathers, a son, June 15th. To Mr., and Mrs. Robert Buchanan, a girl, June 24th To Mr. and Mrs. Julian Hord, a son, June 27th. To Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Caldwell, a Rirl, June 30th. In No. 6 Township To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stallings, a girl, June 22nd. To Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Sparks, a son, June 25th. To Mr. and Mrs. Willinrd B. Mc Sw'ain, a son, June 25th, To Mr. and Mrs. Dewey M. Free man, a son, June 27th. To Mr. and Mrs. Grady Metcalf, a Kiri, June 30th. To Mr. and MrR. R. L. Carpenter, a Kiri, Feb. 28th. To Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Anthony, a Kiri, May 2nd. To Mr. and Mrs. Sam Conner, a Kiri, May 21st To Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Page, a son. June 5th. , To Mr. and Mrs. Carl Peeler, a son, June 7th. To Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Royster, a Kiri, June 8th. To Mr. and Mrs. Grady Rudasill, a girl, June 11th. To Mr. and Mrs. Fred Morrow, a girl, June 12th. To Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Brackett, s son, June 15th. To Mr. and Mrs. Caines Moss, a girl, June 16th. To Mr. and Mrs. Roy S. Bradford, a girl, June 18th. To Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bridges, a girl, June 18th. To Mr. and Mrs. Charley Queen, a boy, June 18th. To Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dover, a girl, June 20th. To Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Edwards, a boy, June 20th. To Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Sanders, a boy, June 20th. Rex. Cigar Co. Put* New One On Market The Rex Cigar Company of which J. F. and L. H. Ledford of this place I are the popular proprietors are this j week introducing to their trade a new j cigar known as “Shelby Straights”. The cigar is original with them and is put up for their exclusive sale. It is made of domestic and Havana to baccos and is mild and pleasant. One of the most striking features of the cigar is that it retails for five cents, j indicating that at'last a real good five cent smoke has come again to the market. They received this week 50,000 of these as the first shipment and are introducing them through their salesmen and the Kendall Medi cine Company salesmen. The Shelby Straights will advertise Shelby, named for that famous re volutionary war hero. The Rex Cigar Company says the sale of Cham pagne, Hava-Rexa and Skill cigars is most gratifying. Last week several nice orders were received fromj^ees tern states. NEW GIN TO BE BUILT NEAR GROVER MILL Application has been made for a charter for a new cotton gin to be erected near the Dover Cotton Mill, •s aThe gin will have four 80 saw gin stands, while the building will be 40 by 92 feet, large enough to increase the plant to double this capacity. The shareholders will be farmers in that community and stockholders in the Dover mill. All girls who enter the high school of Oswego, N. Y., are require^ to take a course of 10 weeks in home nursing. The superintendent of the Oswego Hospital is the instructor. MATE REPORTS BIG CONVENTION l)r. Duncan and Max Washburn Tel Local Club of International Meeting in Denver At the Kiwanis meeting Thursday evening reports of the international convention were made by Dr. Duncan it Forest C^ty, and Max Washburn, lelegate from the Shelby club. The program was in charge of Farris Led ford, who will have charge of the en tertainment and meetings during July. Dr. Duncan spoke briefly, for the most part relating humorous inci dents that occurred in and around the Shelby delegate. After a trip to Pike’s Peak, Dr. Duncan declared, that the Shelby delegate wanted at the Cgrolinas delegation to pass a resolution thanking Mr. Pike for building such a wonderful peak. And in turn the quips were returned to the Forest City representative. Mr. Washburn in his report to the meet ing covered the Carolines delegation, the route taken to Denver, stops made, and a brief account of the con vention high lights. Addresses that were considered by him as outstand ing features were those by Hon. R. J. Marion, of Canada, and Roe Fulk erson, editor of the Kiwanis maga zine. The historic pageant, “The Spirit of the West,” given by the Colorado people depicting Denver the village of ‘59 was a never-to-be-for gotten event of the coifvention. The Cave of the Winds, Pike’s Peak, where the delegates engaged in a snowball fight, and other scenic spots were briefly described. Both delegates were outspoken in their praise of the hospitality of the west, declaring that the South would have to march at aMast stride to re tain hospitality hoiHir*^ An appeal was also made by bot^i speakers that more members of the club attend the international and district conventions. MBSIRIC TEMPLE cDnTcn On account of a misunderstanding or rather a misinterpretation of the specifications in the plans for the new Masonic Temple, Luts and Webb, local contractors who at first were the low bidders and were awarded the contract, have refused to accept at the price specified and the Masonic building committee has voted to re lease them from the contract. At a called meeting last week of the Ma sonic committee, J. P. Little and Son, contractors of Charlotte, were award ed the contract which Luts and Webb refused to accept. J. P. Little and Son submitted a bid on June 19th when bids were received and gone over and at that time Mr. Little was the next lowest bidder, his bid being $79,500. The Little Company is now building the handsome Central Meth odist church building and received the contract a few days ago for the Sun day school department at the Shelby Presbyterian church. They are fine builders and have an organization said to be the best in their line. They will begin work July 16th and when the building is completed it will fill a long felt need in Masonic circles in Shelby and surrounding country. Killed By Freight Train At EUenboro Mr. Gidney Hamrick, age about 48 years, was killed by a train at Ellen boro last Friday afternoon when he attempted to cross the track in front of the oncoming train. Mr. Hamrick was plowing in a field across the railroad from his home when a*show er of rain came up and he started home, with the result that be was struck by the train, the impact knock ing a hole in his skull and crushing his shoulder. Mr. Hamrick married a daughter of Rev. I. D. Harrill, who survives with several children. Som* years ago. one of his daughters was burned to death when her clothing caught fire from an open fire place and it is said that he was so grieved because of her death that since that time his mind has been affected at times. Tom Humphries Is Buried At Zoar Mr. Tom Humphries who died in the Lincolnton Hospital last Thurs day night was buried Friday July 4th at Zoar Baptist church just south of Shelby, the funeral services being con ducted by Rev. D. G. Washburn as sisted by a Rev. Mr. Abernathy ot Lincolnton county. Mr. Humphries is survived by a his wife and two child ren, three brothers and three sisters: Mrs. Ida Hamrick of near Grover, Mrs. Julius Wright and Mrs. John Wright of near Kings Mountain, Junie and Robert Humphries of near Grover and a half brother, Luther Burgess who lives in South Shelby.