SECTION ONE TODAY paid-up circulation Of This Paper Is Greater Than The Population Given Shelby In The 1920 Census —..... 1 FOURTEEN PAGES VOL. XXXII. No. 79 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY. N. C. SECTION ONE FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY TUESDAY. OCT. 7, 1924. RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department. t- -» $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE BAPTISTS TO MEET IN SHELBY NEXT V. Washburn to do Sunday School Work in Association—Drive to Close up 75 Million Fund. The Kings Mountain Baptist Asso ciation which closed its 73rd annual gesion at, Double Sprtngs Baptist church Thursday of last week voted to meet next year with the First Bap tist church, Shelby. It is understood that this will be the first time the Kings Mountain association has met in Shelby in 30 years. The date for the meeting is Wednesday and Thurs day before the first Sunday in Octo ber. Former officers were re-elected as follows: John W. Suttle, modera tor; Fletcher Hord of Kings Mountain vice moderator; G. G. Page of Kings Mountain, clerk and George Blanton of Shelby, treasurer.' One of the most outstanding plans for the association was the adoption of program to wind up the collections of the pledges to the 75 million cam paign and provision for next year. At the state convention held in Gastonia this year it was stated that two mil lion dollars must be collected by No vember 30th. Since that time only one-fourth of the amount has been paid in, so Rev. R. L. Lemons, D.D., associational director will map out a campaign in this association to col lect the un-paid pledges and get con tributions for the unified plan for next year. The unified plan is to let the five state boards divide the con tributions for next year as they see fit and where the money is most need ed to carry on the work started under the 75 million campaign. Two canvas gers will be selected for every 20 members in each church of the asso ciation to direct the pay-up campaign and secure pledges for the unified plan. Dr. C. E. Maddry, state mission board secretary told of the distressing condition of the board because of the un-paid pledges and of 05 missionar ies who marched on Richmond at one time ready to enter the field of labor, but who were sent back home because there were not sufficient funds to sup port them. Washburn’s Important Work. A. V. Washburn, the enterprising superintendent of the Double Springs Baptist church was elected to a new position, that of associational worker. His duties will be to hold institutes and promote all lines of Sunday school activities in the 41 churches of this associaion. The home mission board has agreed to pay half the sal ary of five men in five N. C. associa tions, Kings Mountain "being designat ed as one of the five. Mr. Washburn is expected to be a great stimulus to Sunday school work in this associa tion. Boiling Springs Report. The report on Boiling Springs high school was very encouraging, the fi nancial condition of the institution being in good standing and 27 stu dents taking the ministerial course. The school is crowded wdth students A new heating plant is being installed and will be ready for use this winter.. Dr. Huggins of the state education al board, in a masterful address ex plained the plans and distributing of money to the educational institutions. Boiling Springs next year will get S3— 600 for current expenses and $2,400 with which to pay interest on bonds which are being issued to pay re mainder of debt on the new audito rium. Cyclone Auction To Have Another Sale The Cyclone Auction company of Forest City will have another auc tion sale in Shelby. On Saturday aft ernoon October 11th beginning at 1:30 o’clock this company will offer the Jarvis Hamrick land adjoining the Cleveland Springs golf course near the County Fair grounds in about 50 residential lots. This property has a road frontage of 1100 feet on the hard surface highway No. 20 and about 1.000 feet on the Elizabeth church or Old Post road. Of course a band will furnish music and prizes will be giv en away, but the master prize this time is something unusual; it is a good bale of white cotton. In addition $100 in cash prizes will be given away. The terms of the sale are an nounced one-third cash, balance in one and two years. Central Methodist Church. Wednesday night will be the last Prayer meeting of this conference year. We are asking that every mem ber be present. Stewards meeting im mediately after Prayer meeting. Let every officer be present. There will be a joint meeting of the four Circles Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 with Mrs. J. C. Smith. Let all Ihe ladies be present. Misses Opal Poston, Verna Mae Tiddy and Gladys Green attended the Gaston county fair Friay. Saw Ten Thousand Bodies Burn In One Heap At Yokahoma I>r. ( has. E. McBrayer Was on One of I' irst Relief Ships to Reach Dis aster—America Helped. The* most horrible si^ht Dr. Char 1^'- K\ ans Me Braver has seen in his years of travel in the service of the : | »»r’dical department of the United i States army which has taken him all 1 over America, to Alaska, the Philip-! pine Islands, Japan and even through France and Belgium in the world war wher ■ he was in charge of a base hos pital, was the sight of ten thousand human bodies being burned in one i [heap at Yokahoma, Japan last year,' following he Japanese earthquake. Dr! M Ilrayer has charge as inspector of' an army ana including the states on! the Pa ifie coast and Alaska and when , news of the horrible Japanese earth O.nuke came, he-ww surgeon in chiefj of a relief ship which was quickly dis patched to the stricken country. The t ship on which he made the trip was | :i. transport which required 15 days to reach its destina ion, but it was the first hospital equipment any nation in| ! all the world had sent Japan. .Dr. McBriryer, who is a Shelby man, j I son of th • late Dr. T. E. McBrayerj says the docks and wharves at Yoka-j ! homa had been so wrecked by the ; earthquake that it was impossible for j hi-- ship to dock, so the supplies had t’> be taken olT on small tugs and car ried to shore. His ship furnished 300 ton of rice, set up two hospitals, one w'ith 1,000 beds and one with 600 beds, but when the American aid came, the Japanese officials were suspicious, feeling that the Yanks had taken ad vantage of their desperate condition and come to capture and conquer. He had some difficulty in explaining to the Japanese officials that America was doing that act of kindness out of sympathy for a stricken nation and that all of the supplies and equipment were given without hope of reimburse ment. With relations strained between the two nations because of the Japan ese problem on the Pacific coast and the lecent Japanese exclusion act, the nobility of that country could not quite understand the motives of the j United States. After the Japanese saw i the American relief had no ulterior ! motives, the ship’s officers were en- ! tertained by royal.y and given a trip ! over the country to the most interest ing places. Dr. McBrayer says when his ship1 arrived 15 days after the earthquake,' the odor in the city was unbearable. ] Everywhere could be seen the limbs j of human beings protruding from the debris. The bodies were gathered and piled in a heap where 10,000 were cre mated at a single time. Fair Secretary Is Flooded With Work With the opening day of the big j county fair only one week off Dr. J. S. Dorton. fair secretary is being flooded with last minute details and incidentals connected with the gen eral supervision of the greatest show ever put on by the county. Anything from minor questions concerning the | hours of the fireworks display, ar rangement of calf exhibits and the j races to plans for handling a mam | moth crowd came up in one day’s ’ work. Mr. Robert Hord, formerly with Wray-Hud son Company, has been employed as assistant to Dr. Dorton and will be at the Fair Association office in the veterinary hospital on Sumter street throughout the day. All of the office details, distribution of premium lists and such work will be handled by Mr. Hord, while Dr. Dor ton will spend the remainder of the time before the fair in rushing up the work at the fair grounds. Any one desiring information about the fair should visit the fair office or see Dr. Dorton at the fair grounds. Mrs. Jno. B. Harrill Dies At Forest City -. j Rutherford Sun. The many friends of Mrs. John B. j Harrill of Forest City were grieved | to learn of her death Sunday morning I at 6:30 o’clock. She got up and went across the room, came back and sat down on the edge of the bed and fell over dead, heart trouble probably be ing the cause. She has been feeble for several months. Mrs Harrill was 71 year and a few’ months old. She joined the Baptist church at the age of 14 years and has lived a consecrated Christian life since. She was a member at Forest City. Mrs. Harrill is survived by her hus band. two sisters, one brother and six children. The latter are: Mrs. W. E. Moore, Forest City; Mrs. W. G. Young, Lincolnton; Mrs. R. R. Flack, Rutherfordton: Messrs Clay Harrill, Spindale; Fred B. Harrill, Forest City and Hope Harrill, at home. One brother Robert E. Webb, Forest City; two sisters Mrs. Carrie Wall of Hen rietta and Mrs. Melitia Goode, Shelby. VISITS HERE THIS WEEK Shelby and Cleveland county will be given the opportunity to hear Gov. Cameron Morrison Thursday night at 8 o’clock in his port terminal cam paign. The speech will be non-politi cal and it will be the object of the governor to give the facts relative to the Port Terminal and Water Transportation bill which is to be voted on in the general eelction on November 4. Since the begining of the port ter minal campaign the governor has been devoting his time to speaking through the state and has had large and appreciative audiences, not only because the governor can make an address worthy of any speaker, but also because the voters want inform ation regarding the port bill. Never has any bill created such in terest as the Port bill. J. W. Bailey, Ike Meekins, General Albert Cox and many other leading men of the have ; put aside all political feeling joined I hands and are working over time to put the nill liefore the people. They are all of the same opinion, that if (the people will give a little, thought to ithe bill it will carry, and no stone is j left unturned to give facts regarding the case. However the opposition in cludes many leading state figures. All voters for or against the bill should • hear Governor Morrison and use the 'information in their final decision on November 4. Mr, Maft. 6. Henderson of Ral ; elgh, who is the governor’s advance agent, was in town Monday and is of the opinion that the hill will carry | by a good margin. He has been out in .the state for a month and is in position • to hear many expressions of the vot j ers. He states that the governor has had unlooked for success everywhere he has spoken to the voters. Great Crowd Expected to Attend the Celebration of Battle Today. Parades, Band t oncert, Etc. (Special to The Star.) Kings Mountain, Oct. 5.—Every thing is in readiness for the celebra tion of the battle of Kings Mountain, Tuesday, Otcobor 7th. Already the city is decorated for this great event, and a large crowd is anticipated. The parade, a big feature of the occasion, will start promptly from West Moun tain street school building at 9:30 a. m., headed by the honored guests and will proceed through the main business section of the town* to the Central high school building where the speaking will be hed. The following is the program for the day: 9:30 a. m.—Grand parade, ending at Centra lhigh school building. 10 a. m.—Speaking at Central high school. (Governor Cameron Morri son and other noted speakers.) 12:30 p. m.—Aeroplane flights over city. 2:00 p. m.—Band concert, First Na tional bank square. (American Le gion band, of Gastonia). 3:00 p. m.—Football game. Mar grace park. (Shelby vs. Gastonia high 7:00 p. m.—Wrestling and boxing school). match. Big tent, Hambright lot. (Joe Turner, former middleweight cham pion of the world vs. Jack Gordon, .champion of the U. S. navy. Forty j rounds of boxing, including a bout between Lee Johnson, Rock Hill, champion of the Carolinas and Ralph Hood of Charlotte, 10 rounds. This will be the biggest show of the kind ever staged in North Carolina). 9:00 p. m.—Fireworks display. Speedway park. Noted History. On Tuesday will again be celebrated a crucial conflict in thestruggle of the colonies to obtain their indepen dence. The celebration of this event is a habit formed long ago. Forty four years ago the national govern ment obtained the battlefield, com prising 40 acres of land, and a cen tennial celebration was held at that Mr. Watters Heads Cleveland Feed Co. Mr. F. N. Wat‘«T8 of Youngstown. Ohio, heads the Cleveland Feed Co., which recently purchased the Suttle Feed and Seed company from Mr. Ben Suttle. The business is being contin ued at the same stand on West War ren street next to the Doggett Bros. S'udebakcr salesroom. Mr. Watters has made many friends since coming to Shelby. For nine years he was dis trict sales manager for Van Camps, one of the largest manufacturers of its kind in America. Mr. Watters says he has the largest stock of flour, feed and provisions between Gastonia and Asheille and that he interns to hae two booths at the Cleveland County Fair next week to display t*h 1924. Sat urdav, November 1st, 1924 is challen ge dav. Flection occurs Tuesday. No vember 4th. 1924. Those who were dulv registered anil qualified to vote in the primary will not be compelled to register atrain. All who have attained the are of 21 and vye-e got registered in the .primary will be reuuired to present themselves for registration in the precinct in which thev reside. Ballots on Issues. Notice has been received by the chairman that the following official ballots have h»en mailed: 20 000 Dem ocratic st-ie. 20.000 Democratic naticn al. 20,000 Democratic congressional 9th distric*: 12.000 Republican 9th dis trict: 12.000 Republican state; 12,000 Renublienn national, 8.000 each for «"d airainst Limiting Stnte Debts; 8, 000 each for and aeninst Increase Pnv of I egisle'ors; 8,000 each for and against Sinking Fund Amendment; 8,000 each for and aeainst Tax Ex emption of Home and Homestead Notes: the last four named being Constitutional amendment ballots, al so referendum ballots as follows. 8, 000 each, for and again«t World War Veterans’ Loan Fund Bonds; 8.009 each for and against Establishment of Port Terminals and Water Transpnr eation. Registrars Are Named. The following named men have been designated as registrars for the gen eral election: No. 1 township—R. J, McClur.ey, Holly Springs precinct. No. 2 township—R. V. Green, Youngs nrecinct: W. C Hamrick. Boiling Springs precinct; M. D. Moore Sharon precinct. No. 8 township—R. L Ruber's. Pat terson Snrinsc precinct; R. H. Aus tell. Earl precinct. No. 4 township—D. H. Houser, East Kings Mountain precinct; R. C. Rat teree. West Kings Mountain precinct: .1. A. Ellis Grover nrecinct. No. 5 township—M. C. Whitworth, Waco nrecinct. No. 6 township—J. L. Smith. Shel hv No. 1 precinct: Oliver Anthony, Shelhv No. 2 nrecinct: A. P. Weath prs. Shelhv No. 8 precinct: J. T. Gardner, Shelhv, No. 4 precinct: A. M. Hamrick. Oueen* precinct. No. 7 township—Cleophus Ham rick. Double Springs precinct: L. C. Green, L»ttimore precinct; W. B. Martin. Mooreshoro precinct. No. 8 towrnship—Oscar W. Powell, Potkville nrecinct; Zemri Kistler, De light precinct. No. 9 township—F. L. Rollins, Lawndale precinct; W. A. Gantt, Falls ton precinct. No. 10 township—Carr Mull, Mulls precinct. No. 11 township—Chester Downs, Casar precinct. The judges for the general election will be annouced later according to Chairman Weathers. Excitement Brings Apoplexy And Death To One Known Here A. E. Wood Who Lived in Shelby for a Number of Years Wins Auto Race Purse and Dies. A. E. Wood who lived in Shelby for a number of years, died suddenly Fri day afternoon at New Bern from apo plexy, brought on, it was believed, by the excitement of an automobile race at the county fair at that place in which one of his automobiles won 1st prize. Mr. Wood was an automobile dealer at New Bern and had entered several of his cars in the races. He had just received a check for first place money and was walking away from the track when he was stricken. He was rushed to a New Bern hospi tal where he died an hour later. He was a native of Jacksonville, Onslow county, this state and was unmarried. Mr. Wood came to Shelby for his health a number of years ago and was so impressed with the place he induced Dr. Ward and the Loy families to come^here. He was a printer by trade and worked at different times for The Cleveland Star, Ex-Sheriff D. D. Wilkins and Charles L. Eskridge, go ing from here to Winston-Salem where he entered the automobile busi ness as a salesman. It is thought he was about 40 years of age. A modern threshing machine can do as much work in a day as could be done by fifty men with the flail of former days. __ Wife of Wfll Known Farmer Suc cumbs in Hospital After Five Weeks Illness With Tumor. Mr*. Emma Allen, wife of Mr. I. B. Alien, n well known farmer in the Elizabeth section east of Shelby, died Thursday afternoon about 2 o’clock in the Shelby Public hospital where she had been a patient for a few days suffering from a trouble which was diagnosed as a tumor, but she was too weak to undergo an operation. Mrs. Allen was ■!!! years of age and the daughter of Mrs. Margaret White, N. DeKnlb street, Shelby. She and Mr. Allen were married on (he last day of the Kings Mountain association six years ' ago and strange to say her death occurred on the last day of the nssociationat meeting this year. She was a member of Elizabeth church, having moved her membership from Union, ller church was always first in her mind. She win a devoted Chris tian and beloved by ht>r host of friends for her genuine kindness to all and particularly her devotion to the children of Mr. Allen, who loved and respected her like a mother. The funeral was conducted Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Elizabeth Baptist church by Revs. A. C. Irvin, D. G. Washburn,' H. A. Waldrop and W. G. Camp, a large crowd of rela tives and friends and a wealth of flor al wreaths attesting the high esteem in which she was held. She is surviv ed by her husband and mother, five sisters,, Mrs. P. J. Green, Mrs. C. A. Blanton of Gastonia, Mrs. J. W. Bran ton. Misses Edith and Susan White of Shelby and one brother, Mr. N. O. White of this county. Temple Ceremony Is Postponed For Time Being; Corner Box The cornerstone ceremony planned for the new $150,000 Masonic Temple on the corner of Washington and Warren streets has been postponed indefinitely. Masonic officials announc ed today. Impresssive exercises Were worked out for the event,huf as rain prevented the ceremony on the an I nounced date and the work on the building was being held up for the cornerstone laying it has been decid ed to call the rites off rather than slow’ the completion of the handsome structure. It would have taken con siderable time for the official Grand Lodge notices and work on the Tem ple would have been at a standstill. Local Masons now are of the opinion that very impressive dedication cere monies will be held at the completion of the building. Contents of Box. The copper box, sealed airtight, which will be put in the corner stone without formality is being filled by Capt. J. F. Roberts, treasurer at Cleveland Lodge No. 202 and past master who was officially designated to collect the various articles and prepare the box which will be placed in the corner stone. This box will con tain a copy of the Holv Bible; a copy of the Orphan’s Friend; a copy of The Cleveland Star; a copy of The High lander; a copy of the By-laws of Clev eland Lodge No. 202 A. F. and A. M.; a brief history of Cleveland Lodge No. 202 prepared by Past Master Lander F. McBrayer; a roster of the member ship of Cleveland Lodge; a.paper con taining the names of the officers of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina; a paper containing the names of the Cleveland county officials; a paper containing the names of officials of the town of Shelby; a paper con taining the names of the school offi cials and teachers of Shelby; a paper containing the names of the ministers living in the town of Shelby; program and roster of Woman’s club, and all other social and civic clubs of Shelby; a code of ordinances of the town of Shelby. Live At Home Booth At Fair (Extension Service.) The live at home program which Cleveland county farmers practice each year by raising everything they eat on the farm will he stressed at the Cleveland County Fair by the garden exhibit. Prizes are being offer ed for the best exhibit of garden pro ducts grown in the county by exhibi tor and individual exhibits of turnips, squash, potatoes, cabbage, beans, largest pumpkin and other vegetables too numerous to mention. All of the vegetables at the fair will be exhibited in a vegetable booth showing what Cleveland county raises. Every farmer is urged to look the * premium list through and begin now to get up your exhibit of vegetables and other exhibits. Miss Bertha Bostick spent the week end at Earl. __