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PLAN TO ATTEND CLEVELAND COUNTY’S FIRST BIG FAIR THIS FALL-OCTOBER 14, 15, 16, 17, 18-BIG FREE ATTRACTIONS EVERY DAY. PAID-UP CIRCULATION Of This Taper Is Greater Than The Population Given Shelby In The 1920 Census VOL. XXXII, No. 73 Pie lebeland RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department. THE CLEVELAND STAR, SlIELBY, N. C. TUESDAY. SEPT. 16, 1924, $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE I Old Paper Published in Shelby Shows Heated Controversy Over Seces sion—Gidney Prominent. There has come into the hands of The Star a copy of the Mountain Eagle, published by Thomas Eccles and Sam S. Moss in Shelby inl8‘»l when the war was brewing. Cleveland county was spelled Cleaveland at the time, and Major H. DeK. Cabaniss. and Dr. J. W. Tracy were in contro versy as delegates to the state con vention to determine whether North Carolina would join the other states in secession or not. Major Cabaniss wrote “One of my opponents (Dr. Tracy) has said over and over again, that if North Carolina did not secede that he would leave her borders. I said to bim in debate at Major Holland's, that I thought that he had better be nut of North Carolina than to be here, disorganizing the very party which he professed to be in favor < ' and I as one, would hid him a hearty goodbye when ho left.” Dr. Tracy in reply de clared he would vote for secession and hold himself in readiness to defend North Carolina with all his power and energy and “I am ready to spill the last drop of my blood in her de fense, or any other seceding state.” Roster of Pacolet Guards. This issue of the Mountain Eagle also carried a roll of the Pacolet guards, one of the first companies in the Confederate army to he formed in the South. It was made up of 80 men in Spartanburg and Union coun ties with Capt. J. Q. Carpenter in charge. Speaking of Captain Carpen ter the paper says: “He is a native of Lincoln and a braver and more noble hearted gentleman could not swell the ranks of the guards. He served in the Mexican campaign under Captain Clark as orderly sergeant. ‘Jake’ will not be found to be a pasteboard sol dier.” In the roster of the company are names of families living in Cleve land today, such as Alexander, Alli son. Blanton, Bridges, Byers, Cline. Collins, Gaffney, Goforth, Jines, Lo gan, etc., R. M. Gaffney, a member of the company was a brother of our townsman. J. Frank Gaffnev Business Houses Then. The paper carries under the head ing “Three Lives Lost” the following “A sad and painful ccurrence took place on Monday night the 4th of Feb ruary 1861 in Broad river at the Cher okee Iron works. Mr. William W. Gaffney informs us that four valuable negroes, Albert and Tom the property of Governor Gist. Same belonging to Dr. J. G. Gaffney and Dennis owned by Major Montgomery, attempted (with out permission) after their day’s work to cross the river in a batteau. The river at the time being very full and rapid. Unfortunately they were borne down the stream and swept over the falls.” Dr, Gaffney was the father of Mr. J. Frank Gaffney, of Shelby. One of the largest advertisements in the paper was for Dr. J. F. Miller’s drug store. In addition to selling drugs medicine, varnishes, oils, brushes, per fumes and confections, etc., he offer ed brandies and wines for medicinal purposes. A. H. Gaither was an attorney-at law at the time; D. A. Putnam was an artist in house, sign and ornamen tal painting; M. L. Putnam was a watchmaker and repairer; A. M. printers. Shields ran a carriage factory and did blacksmithing, taking country pro duce in exchange for his work; A. W, Quinn, the father of the late Beck Quinn was a merchant tailor who had just removed to Fronebarger’s brick range; W. P. Love esquire, had per formed a ceremony uniting J. Run nions and Miss E. R. Quinn in the holy bonds of matrimony; and the Kings Mountain Railroad compay offered a financial statement and paid a divi dend of two and a half per cent to the stockholders. The inaugural address of Jefferson .vis was published, he being the first and only president of the Con federacy. His inauguration took place at Montgomery, Ala., and the paper says 't that “the procession was the grandest Pageant ever witnessed in the South." Mr. Gidney Called. A meeting was held at St. Pauls 1 lurch at which A. P. Holafield an nounced himself a candidate for the ecession convention and opposed to secession. “J. \v. Gidney, esquire, be mg loudly called for, responded to the true spirit of the young and gallant' ■ outherner—he was a native of the j’ '4^° and county of Cleaveland, and ' .Proud to ‘flash his maiden ■'Word in so good and holy a cause ,Sa at .°^ fights of the states an< their duty to sustain them. Mr. >idney, js a young man of promise. e has bade a good start—may those Promises be fulfilled.” Speaking of the convention and sc-1 session the Mountain Eagle said etli- j tonally “Citizens of Cleaveland,! Kutherford and Polk. By all the mem °ries that cluster around the bleaching! Cleveland Farmer* Have Some Capital To Brace Confidence It is Estimated that 2,000 Bales of Last > ear’s Crop are Still Being Held by By Farmers. Cleveland counts* farmers are a I confident hunch, speaking in a way. Pessimistic* visitors frequently wonder why. These visitors are usually from ! sections where the boll weevil has been felt, or where the season has been anything but good. They know that < leveland is also a cotton county, and it is hard for them to understand | just why the people of'this. County are not losing sleep to worry about mat ters. The answer to that confidence, from a orobe of the visionary and real realm of the farmer, must be 2,000 or more bales of cot’on from last year’s crop that is as yet unsold, which in '•be busine « of farming is something 1 like $200,000 to fall back upon. It is estimated, the government alone knows, that there are from 2, i 000 to 2.500 bales of cotton in Cleve land county from last year’s crop yet unsold. The boll weevil and a bad sea son—although it is not likely—may i play havoc with this year's produc j tion, but neither will eliminate the 2,000 bale Perhaps those 2,000 bales 'could have been sold at $0 cents, and I perhaps they may be sold at 20 cents, but 2,000 bales at 20 cents is eonsider ! ably better than zero at one dollar per | pound. To express it in the manner of : one of .Shelby's farm life students: : “Cotton is capital to the farmer. Why take the blues about this year when | there is $200,000 Jcft over from last year? A bad season could put our farmers down but not out—of cotton.” It is an unusual bit of philosophy, but it may be the answer to the pessimis tic query. ’Tis true the 2,000 bales might have been sold at 00 cents, but among those holding the 2,000 bales are some of the leading farmers and most intelligent men in the county. Which reminds one that th"re are two sides to the holding as well as the sell The fellow who considered cotton as capital to the farmer talked a little bit further when asked about cotton pr'ce - this fall. “It depends on two things, season and production being one. and,the European situation is the other. *The latter outlook is hriehten ing up to a considerable extent, and speaks well for a good price this fall. The season and production all de pends, one must wait and see. The pro duction prophets cannot be relied up on as well as the 2,000 bales.” Two hundred thousand dollars left over from. thra preceding year and fair prospects for this year is the lo cal farm outlook. Why The $5,000 For Shelby Public School Three New Teachers to Care for Ad ditional Enrollment—9 Months in Elementary. Why the request of the city school beard for the aldermen of Shelby to provide $5,000 additional money to run the shelby public schools, has been a question which many local tax payers have no doubt asked since The Star published last week the budget for the coming year which called for an additional tax levy of 25 cents on the §100 property valuation. Supt. I. C. Griffin explains the necessity for 85,000 more to run the public schools in this manner. “The length of term in the elemen tary grades has been increased from eight to nine months in order to con form to the requirements of the state school law which applies to all local tax districts. In order to conform to this law the term has been made a month longer in the elementary grades. Another rea son is that three new teachers have been added to the faculty. This be came necessary because of the larger enrollment. I expect fully 200 more pupils this year than we had last year. This is a conservative estimate of the increase because last year the enrollment increased 255 over the year before. “The 25 cent increase in the tax rate is not solely to meet the school requirements, but the bulk of the in crease is to meet bonds coming due.” CAKI) OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their sympathy and kindness during the death of our dear wife and mother and we also want to thank the Stamey company for their kind assistance in burial. , Marvin Lutz and Children. The rich man doesn’t know how much happiness there is in a five dollar bill unless he once worked f< r §15 a week. bones of your futhers on Kings Mountain—we exhort you to do your duty to your county and leave the consequences to God.” The Mountain Eagle was published in a room at what is now the College Inn and O. C. Sarratt was one of the Citizenship Must Wake up so Righte ousness Will Prevail. Series of Popular Sermons. Rev. R. L. Lemons, pastor of the First Baptist church introduced on Sunday night a series of popular ser mons which he will preac-h each Sun day evening by asking the question, “Is Shelby Briftir.tr Morally?" I)ue to the rainy weather the crowd was small but the sermon was nevertheless in teresting and the subject a most per tinent one. Br. I.embnr. did not at tempt to point out wherein Shelby is drifting morally but simply asked the question is an introduction to a scries of sermons whch will deal with local problems in the hope of arousing, the Christian people of h>'s church to a keener sense of conscientious duty. The mortal drift is not peculiar to Shelby hut every waking day brings fresh evidence of moral decadence ev erywhere. Leopold and Loeh whose crime has been one of the saddest and strangest occurrences in all the court annals of America is evidence that crime crouches at the door of all our boys and girls and only by the closest paternal love and attention can they be saved. These boys did their crime simply for the “thrill” there was in its commission and the time has come when too many do not show any con cern as to what God thinks or the legislature has decreed on matters of right, but they give most concern to what punishment the judge metes out. In part he said: “I believe it is time for this com munity to get up and see what is hap pening .Joshua wondered why his small army was defeated until God told him that sin and disobedience was at the bottom of their defeat. He doesn't compromise with sin and I believe if every Christian citizen in Shelby j would do his duty, law-breaking would stop tomorrow. Too often when we fail to remonstrate against sin, that sin is too close to us. Our eitizenshi < needs to wake so righteousness will pr*vail. “Shelby has its hands on the i wheels and is driving straight to ma terial progress and success. One rea son for this is that we are following a fixed course and this is good. We i would despise the man who would, purposely swerve us out of the course to material prosperity. Yes, we are moving toward intellectual propriety with one of the finest schools in North Carolina. All of this is good, but the reason why we don’t do more for our, moral success is because there isn’t a fixed conviction on moral questions. We need to become conscious of a moral sense of duty. Under all expres-, sions of our social and business life, ] there is a failure to do our duty to-! ward Him'.” Dr. Lemons, in his following ser- 1 mens, will no doubt point out wherein j Shelby is drifting morally. Mrs. Louisa Beam Cline widow of the j late Jerome Cline died at 6:30 o’clock Monday morning at her home at Lawndale, following a stroke of par alysis Saturday afternoon at 6:30 o’clock. Mrs. Cline was about 60 years old and a devoted mother and church member, holding her membership at New Bethel Baptist church where the funeral will be conducted Tuesday aft ernoon at 2 o’clock. Mrs. Cline’s husband died about three years ago. He was one of the leading farmers of that community. She is survived by five children: Grover. David and Furman Cline, Miss Lou Cline and Mrs. Will Spangler. One sister, Mrs. Nancy Grigg who lives on N. Morgan street also sur vives, together with two brothers, Mr. David Beam of Cleveland county and Rev. John Beam, a Baptist preacher of Roxboro and superintendent of the person county schools. —Building Store House—P. F. Grigg will begin next week the erection of a large business house on the site of the old Shelby Creamery property in South Shelby which he purchased some months ago. He will build of wood and [ sheet metal a building 50x100 feet with basement and sell coal, wood, fertilizer and feeds of all kinds. Hair bobbing for ladies and children done by Miss Turney at Mrs. F. N. Wood’s millinery store ,South Shelby. The Star for nine months at SI.50 to your boy or girl off at college is cheaper per copy than a letter. Piggly Wiggly is a wise selection for the housewife. Ad $1.50 sends The Star for 9 months to your boy or girl off at school. r Ku Klux Speaker Is Booked For Shelby J. L. llamme one of th«» official speakers of the Ku Klux Klan will ! speak in the Court House or on the I Court Square of Shelby Thursday ! r.iith of this week, beginning at H:15 o’clock. The Ku Klux klan has been making an effort for some time to perfect an organiza- ( turn here but this is the first time a public speaker has he -n sent here to announce the principles of j the klan. The speaking will be public and ladies as well as men are torriialiy invited to hear Mr. llamme, according to an announce m-pt sent to The Star. ( V- ■ I ■■■■ » . ^ Cleveland Capital Some Trading Town Circus Hits Town and Is Sold Before Colored Balloons Get Well Distributed. There may be a business slump in some sections of the country, but a pessimist way Id have to suffer a bad attack of he "blues” before he could see anything; resembling "hard times" in Cleveland county. Right here it might be declared that anything front a share of stock irnthe Cleveland coun fy fair to a two-ring circus may be bought and sold in Shelby. Saturday night and Sunday a fleet of big wag ons started moving Golden Brothers circus front the train to the "lot” for a "stand" Monday, but on Monday several hours before the balloon man had located a good corner it was no longer Golden Brothers Trained Ani mal Shows, but the Christy Shows, having been sold before it had been in Shelby ■! circle of the clock to the head, of the Christy Shows. Officially from the office of the show it is announced that John Pluto, president and chief stockholder of Go-1 den Brothers, Incorporated, early Mon day morning, sold the show to G. W. Christy, nresident of the Christy hows, which are well known in North C irolina and the Sout hern states. Headquarters of Golden Brothers is in T.i tie Rock. Arkansas, while the main office of Christy is in Beaumont. Tex as. Mr. Christy, who was in Shelby and handled the trade in person, states that there will be a number of addi tions and that the show will be in creased and complete the season as mapped out but under Christy man agement. The shows here Monday were under the direction of the new management. The purchase price was not made public and perhaps the man ager thought it would be best to let the small boys, who always go down early in the morning, to still think that a real circus would sell for some thing like a "million dollars or more”. Legal transactions in connection with the sale were handled by Attorney Clyde R. Hoey. “Maytime ' In Fall At Princess Theatre "Maytime”, for six years a great stage success, will be presented in pic tures at the New Princess theatre Tuesday, according to the manage ment. Maytime was love time when mo her was a girl, but Maytime means n gay time in today’s mad whirl. This is an unusual attraction and should be seen. "Another Scandal” will fea-( ture the day Wednesday at the Prin- j cess, and to top it all beautiful Lois Wilson will star in that scandal, which ! is a startling story of a wife who had | not outgrown her "girl stuff” a hus-! band who knew nothing about women.' and a little gold-digger who knew ev erything about men. “The Red Lily,” a Metro-Goldwyn special, is billed for Thursday and the j Beams assure a picture a little better than usual. The Fox News will be an [ extra attraction for Thursday night. ' Mr. E. F. Lewis Dies in Shelby, Age 69 Mr. Emanuel Franklin Lewis, born October 22nd lS55t died in Shelby Saturday and his remains were buried Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Sun set cemetery, the funeral being con ducted at the Methodist Protestant church of which he was a member, by the pastor, Rev. J. M. Ridenhour. Mr. Lewis had been ill for about ten months. He was well known in Shelby and had been a member of the M. P. church for some time. Surviving are the following chil dren: L. P. Lewis, Mt. Holly; A. C. Lewis, Marion; O. C. Lewis, Shelby; Sidney Lewis, Hickory; Mrs. Mattie McDonald, Hickory; Mrs. J. C. Rhodes, Gastonia; Mrs. Dora Stephenson, Chester, S. C.: Mrs. Estella Mathely. Reasonable primes on millinery and rady-to-wear for ladies at my store in South Shelby. Mrs. F. N. Wood, 14 season’s experience. Ad POTTERY KILNS TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 2" A Visit to .lugtnnn Where One of the Oldest Arts in America Is Practiced. Tho'<> o' Cleveland county wlio have become interested in the pottery plan's in Catawba countv might be interested to know that the potters will burn kilns and have newly made wares r-ady for sale after September :20th. A representative of The Star vi- ited two of these plants last week end found then well worth while. Jugtown pottery ha. been known for years but only recently have the peo ple manifested anv particular inter est. 'i he Women of Shelby have shown a pecidia*- interest in pottery since the manufacturers have turned to fancy designs. One of the oldest , potters found in that sec.ion wns Mr. Johnson, ""red 74, who learned the trade in Kast Tennessee and has been following it for fiO years. He confines himself to crockery warn, jugs, churns of the cruder sort, although he is an artist in his line, working in a picturesque lit tle log cabin be ide the road with his furnace near at hand. The Hilton, ten miles from Newton have the largest plant, three men working all the time, making 250 dif ferent designs. They cater more to the artistic rather than the strictly useful and so well have they become known that an order is never solicited. Orders pile in faster than they can make the wares. Some days 15 to 20 automo biles drive to their door, mostly with women customers wanting to buy the fancy products which are later paint ed for ornamental purposes in ele gant homes throughout the land. The Hilton pottery was brought into the limelight by exhibitions at the Made-in-Carolinas expositions held in Charlot'e. Articles appearing in the press recently have revived interest in this art. one of the oldest in the country, which dates back to Indian days. - “Why don’t you hire more men and increase your output to meet the de mand,” inquired The Star representa tive. “We can’t get the men,” replied Mr. Hilton, “it takes four years for one to leara the trade and we can’t find people who are willing to serve an apprenticeship that long." If you have never seen the potter take the plastic clay and make it obey the will of his fingers, the trip is worth the time. You’ll learn why Jesus is referred to as the potter and you a« the clay, why some vessels break and others serve a good purpose. DEFENSE Dir IS National Defense Day, Friday, was observed in Shelby by a program held Friday evening in the Company K. armory on Morgan street. Taking part in the program were the Cleveland Guard, local unit of the North Caro lina National guard troops, ex-serv ice men and a number yisiting offi cers. ' :. i Following regular drill and parade around the court square several short addresses on “Defense Day” were •made at the armory. Captain Charles P. Roberts, who commanded a com pany in the SOth division during the world war, spoke briefly on the spirit which carries men forward in battle. First Lieutenant A. M. Huffman, Chaplain, O. R. C., of Kings Mountain made a short talk in explaining Na tional Defense Day, while 1st Lieuten nta M. H. Austell, who is temporary command of Company K in during the absence of Captain McSwain at Camp Perry, presented warrant to the non commissioned officers of the outfit. After the formalities Mess Sergeant Ernest H. Johnson served members of the company and visitors with “warm weiners” and cold drinks. There were about 25 reserve officers, former sold iers and citizens united with the sol diers in observing the occasion. Dr. McBrayer Opens Office In Raleigh Dr. Janies H. McBrayer, who has for some time successfully engaged in the practice of dentistry here with of fices in the Union Trust building, left last week for Raleigh where he will engage in practice. Dr. McBrayer pur chased the location and equipment of Dr. S. E. Douglas, there and with the purchase naturally acquires an excel-1 lent practice as a starter. Dr. McBrayer was popular here and I efficient as a dentist and will enter ] the professional circles at Raleigh well equipped to make good. Shelby regrets to lose such an able dentist and he has the best wishes of his many friends for success at his new location. Thrifty and particular shoppers en joy the privilege of buying at Piggly Wiggly. Try it. Ad Large Number Enjoy Kiwanis Outing At Belvedere Heights Kiuanians and Families Spend IMeas and Evening in Kegular Old lime I’irnic Fashion. The Kiwanis meeting last Thursday j evening varied from the regular enough to become a family outing nf ! fair instead of individual semi-formal* : ity. Some 100 people, Kiwanians, their wives and children, attended th '•> open air picnic held in Belvedere h ights, the attractive Lineberger deveb pment east of town on the Cleveland Springs highway. Formalities were cast aside and the evening was joyfully spent in characteristic picnic style, with the "eats” featuring—as is generally the \ case at picnics. | The picnic program has been plan ; ned for sometime, hut never rench ■ ed the stage of realization until Thursday. Several Kiwanians, names withheld, desired that the picnic meal be prepared by cafe chefs, while oth ers wanted it “home fashion", and perhaps the debating groups were re sponsible fop the delay. As things came off Thursday evening the 'home fashion" champions were easy win ners. It was ordained by club officials that the “eats" be brought along with the wp'es and children—and they were. Horseshoe and checker para phernalia were taken along by those who planned to put in the evening, but the main part of the program—dispo sition of the open air sunner—ran over time and darkness fell long be fore the disposition was made. As for the children the entertaining evening spent bv them will naturally bring about another “outing” next year, which means that the picnic will be an established affair. The site of the picnic was ideal. Although not out of town the now de velopment is an attractive location for out of door occasions with its bubblin'* springs and open places and still with in reach of city conveniences. The out ing Thursday was handled jointly by Kiwanians I. C. Griffin and Chas. A Burrus, The program the coming Thursday evening is to be an attractive one ac cording to the program committee •Toe Patton and his Entertainers of the Made-in-Carolina Exposition. Char ; lotie, will he among the attraction*, j and every Kiwanian is urged to be j present. Highs Play Gastonia At Kings Mountain The Shelby High gridders will meet th£ Gastonia high eleven »t Kings Mountain on Tuesday, October 7, the date of the Battlepround celebration, it has been announced. The locals first eame will be on Friday, Septem ber 26. The game in Kings Mountain is ex pected to be witnessed by a larger crowd than any other during the sea son owing to the big celebration on there that day. The event will draw thousands of people from the two Carolirfas to the historic mountain, while the game is the chief athletic attraction. The elevens are expected to be better matched than ever before. Word comes from Gastonia that Coach Pat Crawford has a heavy, fast moving outfit and that they in tend to score on Shelby for the first time. Appearances here are that Gas tonia will meet a stronger Shelby eleven than ever before, which assur es the descendants of the Kings Mountain heroes some real athletic entertainment for the day. McBrayer And Hoey Buy Hull Grocery A sale of business interest an nounced the latter part of last week was that of the grocery business of Mr. Guy Hull, on North LaFayette street opposite the First Baptist church, to Messrs. Chas C. McBrayer and Flay H. Hoey. Immediately fol lowing the sale Messrs. McBrayer and Hoey took charge of the business and will operate it under personal man agement. Mr. Hoey and Mr. McBraver until recently headed the Shelby Fruit and Produce company, which was sold to a Spartanburg, S. C., firm. They an nounce that in the established business that they now own that they will han dle a complete line of heavy and fancy groceries and feedstuff. Bevy of Girls Leave for the N. C. College A bevy of pretty Cleveland county girls left yesterday morning for Greensboro to enter the North Car olina College for Women, the number going from Cleveland this year to this institution being the largest the coun ty has ever sent. Leaving Monday morning were Misses Rosalynd Nix, Louise Lever, Frances Whisnant, Min nie Eddins Roberts, Mary C. Hamrick, Sara Austell, Alpha Gettys, Hattie Gidney, Margaret Ross, Pearl Dixon, Oviedo Roberts, Isabel Hoey, Edith Arrowood, Mary Palmer, Grace Boll ing and possibly others. SCHOOLS WILL TIKE PART IN BIG FI Superintendents and Principal* Dis cuss Exhibits ad Booths for School Children of County. The schools of Cleveland county will takp an active part in the county’s in augural fair October 14-18, according to an announcement by school officials. Superintendents and principals of the | schools of the county met Saturday with the extension agents and the fair secretary to map out the work of the I schools in connection with the fair, ' and it was decided by them that the school children and their exhibits will be an outstanding feature of the big ! event, which is prophesied to be “the greatest gathering of farm folk in the Highland* of North Carolina.” With a school day set aside and with school exhibits and a large number of school children attending the school feature as a part of the county fair Is expected to attract state-wide atten tion. The children in addition to the entertainment, for them will be re presented by demonstrations, exhibits and booths. School officials suggest that booths be 12x12 or 12x20 in size. It Was further suggested that schools participate in three forms: demonstrations, general exhibits and floats. Demonstration will include such as cooking, sewing, and typewrit ing. General exhibits will include: •Specimens of writing, drawing, best papers on all subjects taught, maps, paintings, arts and crafts, music work, pictures and models showing progress of schools. Floats for participation in parade: Marion school, circus; Central, plans incomplete; S. LaFayette, plans in complete; S. Shelby, plans incomplete; Piedmont, representing progress in one school; Lattimore, schools plug agriculture; MoorCsboro, school equip ment, old and new; Waco, Consolida tion vs. one teacher method; Boiling Springs, What high school can do; Supt. Newton’s, transportation unit; Fallston, better building; Kings Moun tain and Grover were not represented Deacon Appeals His Sentence On Roads Saturday morning in recorder’s court George Hogue, colored, for years a leading deitcon in Shoal Creek church, No. 3 township, was sentenc ed to eight months on the county roads on several liquor charges pre ferred against him, and immediately following the sentence an appeal to Superior court was noted. In the section around George’s home a still was found some weeks back by the officers and upon a search of the house a half pint of liquor was found together, the offic ers testified, with several other bot tles that smelled of the beverage pro duced from corn. George denied any connection with the still, but testified that he bought a pint in Kings Creek on the road leading to the “rock house,” the half pint bejng what was left over. The bottles, he said, were picked up by his wife and daughters to be used for various purposes around the house. A number of prom inent citizens of No. 3 testified to George’s good character and his I faithfulness in church duties and | work, but Recorder Fails took note of ! the prosecuting evidence and decided upon the eight months. The appeal was entered by Clyde R. Hoey, the de fendant's lawyer. At the same court Clarence Bur roughs, colored, who a month od more ago use his knife on Cicero Sar ratt, was given a hearing. Immed iately following the cutting Cicero’s feelings toward Clarence were rather heated, but the heat seems to have subsided since and Cicero was loath to attach much blame to Clarehoc’s act. Tlie judge let Clarence go with a $10 fine with the remark to Cicero that ‘‘if you want your head smooth ed down, I have no objections.” Has Seen the Four Jails of Cleveland Mrs. John F. Stephens, age 92 years, who spent most of her life in Shelby is here on a visit with relatives from Muskogee, Oklahoma, where she is making her home now with her daugh ter, Mrs. S. E. Gidney. She is here with Mr. and Mrs. Gidney for awhile, com ing last week from Washington, D. C. where she has been visiting. Mrs. Stephens remembers the four jails Cleveland county has had. The first jail was a log structure, the next was a brick affair situated where Charlie Laughridge’s home now stands, while the third jail now stands, but is being replaced by a new $80,000 structure on the eastside of the present jail. Mrs Stephens, although 92 years of age has a clear mind and active body fo one of her advanced years. All of us know the rules for get ting ahead, but most of us think our case is important enough to justify a few exceptions.