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CUmlmul JHar TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Subscription Price. By mail, per year_$2.00 By carrier, per year_$2.50 The Star Publishing Company, Inc. LEE B. WEATHERS_President RENN DRUM_Local Editor Entered as second class matter January 1, 1005, at the postoffice at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1870. We wish to call your attention to the fact that it is, and has been our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards ox thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. ^ FRIDAY, JAx\T. 9, 1925 ~~ We see by the Charlotte papers that Edgar W. Pharr is speaker of the house—rather we k"ep seeing. Over in another town they’re say ing something like this: “Watch Shel by Grow.” We just changed one word. Our goal for 1925, lest you forget: 50,000 bales of cotton for Cleveland county and 15,000 people for Shelby. A report from the stock market says that “profit hunters pushed the is sues down” nnd once and anon we hear the profit-hunters (jet pushed. There are delegates from twelve nations in Paris for a debt conference —and Uncle Sam is willing that the entire dozen “put out.” Another evidence of North Caro lina’s prosperity is thut the people have enough money to keep riding all these motor busses. When Irvin Cobb remarked that North Carolina needed a press agent he surely was unacquainted with Gas ton Means—but what a publicity man. Comments the Yorkville Enquirer: “Over in Charlotte, when they want something to drink, they ask a police man.” "Extension Citv Limits up to Peo ple”—Yes, and the people are up to the city limits nnd running over. Al most more outside than in. Sunday should be quite an occasion to Central Methodist folks with two former pastors preaching in the new church the present “building pastor” built. Ono of the newspaper tribe at Ral eigh sends out the word that the law makers are none too thankful for Editor Poe’s advice. To which we say, naturally. The Charlotte Observer says the road will be completely naved—mean ing Highway No. 20. We hope Mr. Kistler, who does the saying it seems in these parts, is us confident about the same matter. It appears that there are about as many newspaper men down in Raleigh as lawmakers. Which is good, for it will take experts to tell us wlvt is being done—that is if things are v. h t they "usterbe.” The county hoard of agriculture ' adopted a good program for Clew 1-•• 1 for this year. A smaller acreage v. i h more bales and a larger acreage de voted to food and feed crops is a wise move. Clarence Poe pleads for more ef ficiency in state affairs and says it is the best way for economy. Just an other reason why we consider the Pro gressive Farmer editor a very sensi ble man, but getting what he pleads for. There were those that laughed when it was said that nearly every rural section in Cleveland county would be electrically lighted within a few years, but according to the progress now be ing made it will not be necessary to even wait two years to return the the laugh. THOSE “CREPE BUS SPECIALS.” It has been the belief of The Star all along that the Corporation Com mission did not really know what the discontinuance of the two Seaboard trains running from Charlotte to Rutherfordton really meant to the towns along the route—those directly affected by the discontinuance. Some of those affected, Charlotte included, did not regard the movement for dis continuance serious until it had been done, and for this reason many of the j conditions the discontinuance has I brought about were not known, or pre sented, to the commission. The deliverly of mail for instance: Afternoon papers and other early ev ening mafl now coming into Shelby must be by the bus plan—which I brought about the title “Crepe Bus j Specials” for the discarded trains. Up • at Ellenboro, pardon the “up at” the people of the town are unable to se cure their morning mail until 11 o’clock owing to the removal of the' "down train.” The train exchanged mail from the Southern Railway at Sprindale coming from the west. Mayor Cofield, of Ellenboro, is mak ing an effort for another arrange ment through official circles at Wash- j ington, according to a Washington j the poatouice department will consider. No city shopping expedition con veniences; no mail until i' is out-of date; no regard at all for the towns served—that’s what the discontinu ance of the two trains meant. And all because the coaches were not packed with passengers When extra freight trains had to be added to take care of the freight traffic. A soda fountain is nota paying part ofa drug store. Vet how many stores do not have them? They are conven ient to the stores patrons by which the store does derive an income. May we not now call the two Seaboard trains the “Soda Fountain Specials”? SPECIAL MARKETING EDITION. On Friday, January 30, The- Clove land Star will issue a special mark eting edition, devoted to Co-operative Marketing of Farm Product: in Clev eland County. An essay contest is now being carried on in the rural schools at the end of which a hand some loving cup will he presented to the student writing the best essay on “The Advantages of Co-operative Marketing ir Cleveland County.” This essay together with the winner and the number and name of all the schools participating will he carried in the special marketing edition of tin paper. In order to fully cover the market ing situation in the county as it re lat.es to farm products The Star is an vious to secure the opinion and views of farmers and others over the coun ty, on either the marketing of cotton, potatoes, eggs or any farm product Such articles will he welcomed by the paper and should be in the news office by January 24. Marketing e-i nerts and prominent local farmers and business men will be asked by The Star to express their opinion of mar keting. Furthermore, school princi pals in. the Various sections of the county should know the feeling in their immediate neighborhood regard ing the marketing situation and fei this season the paper requests that each principal write an article on the subject and mail it to The Star before January 2-1.. Any information on the subject will be appreciated as The Star hopes to make the edition one of real benefit to the farmers of the county. To the advertisers, merchants aid business men of the comity: This spe cial edition will he scattered all over Cleveland and adjoining counties by the Co-operative Marketing associa tion and advertising placed in this special edition should be of more than ordinary value to the advertiser. Con sidering the wide distribution of the edition merchants in the smaller towns I over the county, as well as those of , Shelby should take advantage of this advertising opportunity. Advertise ments for the special edition may be mailed or handed to O. Forrest Mc Gill, co-operative field representative in the office of County Agent Law rence, or delivered direct to the ad vertising department of The Star. All advertising should be in by January 24, or at least by January 27. HU4 Oumwn —SHELBY SIDELIGHTS— — R. I). —' '------1 Again the time has come when .groups that gather here and there in Shelby have nothing else to talk about, someone brings up the matter of ex tending the city limits. Perhaps that’s why of the “growin'est” towns in Piedmont and Western Carolina is still coop 'd up in a three-quarter of a mile space. " I It’s somewhat like putting a police man’s foot in a Cinderella shoe. Tin' town wa given a pleasant lit- 1 tie Mirprise Tuesday afternoon when the Webbs removed the work scaffolds fi'etn the front of their new theatre building on the Washington and Ma rion street corner of the court ouar ■. Fact is the removal revealed the remarkable change that has tak en place—a business building with a bNodnome front now stands where once "■I' the door and the welcome motto to ih" old Central church. And the interior is right nifty also. Shelby will soon have two up-to-date thea tres. Since ther ■ has been no snowfall hereabouts' and many of the young st rs have wondered why. we have heard one or two of the elders re mark: “It’s too cold to snow.” Guess it w:e n't Tuesday, hut the sun was shining then. Good alibi! Maybe we should do like Asheville -advertise our weather, and then to 1 of the cold snell next summer. Without the nublicity stunt it might l>" said that Shelby has just as agree? aide .winWVwonthev as I'inehurst and ranks with Asheville for the summer. Hut like business nowadays, one must specialize in everything. It don’t seem to get over with the outsiders that .we have here a year-round resort, instead of just a summer or winter hang-out. Speaking of the bus lines that run in and out of Shelby, and good cooks and such like, the following is told of how a man in these parts got a good start with his new cook on a bus— maybe it was one operating on the liliie Ridge Trail," and maybe not: The bus was starting in the rain, when the conductor put his head in side and inquired: “Will any gentle man get outside to oblige a lady?” “She car, sit on my knee if she likcs^’ said a passenger jocularly. To bis surprise, a buxom woman bounced in and accepted his offer. Aft er a time the man asked where she was going. On hearing her destina tion he exclaimed: “Bless my soul! That's my house!” “\es,” she said, blushing. “I’m the new cook.” A fellow took it on himself to ask us why we suggested the Masonic Temple corner for the taxi terminal proposed during Leap Year. Shelby should have a bus station, a regular room, a telephone and some one to take the calls. A place where all the cars on the bus line would stop and where passengers for any of the lines or private taxis might wait in com fort. Such a station could be maintain ed bv a spiall fee from each line and driver and it certainly would allevi ate the jam around thehotels and main business section. The temple corner was only asuggesf ion, but it is dose uptown and traffic is not so heavy there as in some sections of the “court square.” Was it Samson that first said: ‘ I'm stroup- for you kid”? Or mavbe it was Columbus that started the re mark: “I don’t know where 1 am go inp: bi’t I’m on tny way.” And it could have been Sheriff Loiren or Chief Hamrick that first urged: ‘‘Come, gp with me.” One of 1 Tie court '-orso retinue >• marked this . week that the “first Monday” crowd in Klmjb” a* t:-e first of the week was one of the biggest ■ in many months. And be was about. | rii»ht. The “court Snare” was lined i with cars all the way around (imag ; ine arniin 1 a souare) like unto a good shopping Saturday. Contrast, if you da m t. mind giving away your age. th-- dav when the countryside came to Shelby on the ‘first Monday’ bv mule powm- and the ! last first Monday with all the ears, i from the family flivver un to some | real expen: ive boats—and some of I - ------ these big cotton farmers have nothing j else but. J hink of the old hitching rack and the sign to the mule "Don’t Chew this Post” and compare it with the nice white lines where the cars are parked in 1925. Get a Blum’s almanac, write it 1925 instead of—4, make some new resolu tions if you have already broken those just made 9 days ago and start off with a vim. You’ve got a long time in which to “mail early” your pack ages for next Christmas. One of Shelby’s best known and pop ular business men told us recently how he came to be here—in Shelby we mean. “I moved here and thought 1 d stay awhile, but I got myself in debt and had to stay, and well here I am and I’ve enjoyed it and continue to do so.’ That man is what we would cad “right well off” and then some. He’s one of th» town’s best and most successful business men—prominent in the business, social and church life of Shelby. The moral is: Come tn Shelby, get in-debt—AND SUCCEED. Salesman Die3 In Blacksburg Hotel Gaffney Ledger. The body of \V. F. McDaniel of Duke, N. G., was found Saturday morning locked in a lavatory at the Gettys hotel at Blacksburg. An in uuest conducted by Coroner E. R. Par ker resulted in a verdict to the effect 'hat death resulted from natural causes. McDaniel \v*n a travelling sail s man renre? n.ting Parks Cramer com pany. Fi‘chl)”er_ Mass., manufactur ers of industrial piping. The company i has a branch office at Charlotte, it is su'd. McDaniel! registered at the Gettys h'V ecrlv Friday evening remarking time that he was not feeling *»•' to testimony at the in G Gettys. hotel proprietor, ed to appear for break fast • lu-rt morning Gettys started an investigation that shewed the bed in the r •ori ar-sVned McDaniel had not been orrunjed. Further search reveal ed the body, apparently dead for sev ere' h u’-es in the lavatory. Coroner Parker placed McDaniel’s "nrsennj effects in the Bank of B'ack‘ burg and directed J. L. Good sen, Blacksburg undertaker, to taka •eba.r<»n of the hodv. Messages report ; in" Ids depth we- ' sent to his home address and to the company he re | presented. 1 TRY STAR WANT ADS. Campbell Resigns Canton Pastorate Native of Cleveland to Become Pastor at Scotland Neck. Wonderful Pro gress of his Canton Church. Canton (N. C.) Enterprise. Rev. It. C. Campbell, who has been Pastor of the First Baptist church here the past three and one half years, has tendered his resignation, having accepted an urgent call to Scotland Neck, this state. At the beginning of his pastorate here, there was a membership of 237 which has been increased now to 530. There were no active young people’s organizations in the church at that time, now there are five wide-awake unions carried on by the boys and gills of the church who are very en thusiastic in their work. Out of the R. 1’. U.’s three of the ybung peo ple have already entered training for special service. -Not only has the church made pro gress in membership, but the contri bution: have been increased to almost one hundred per cent. During the pres ent pastorate the indebtedness has been lifted from the old nastorium, and a new pastorium has been built which it is said, *s one of the best in the state. As stated above, Rev. Mr. Camp bell goes to Scotland Neck, one of the leading churches of the state. There are more than' six hundred mem hers and they have a church building completed in 19ID, adequate for all church and Sunday school purposes. I i speaking of this charge Mr. Camp bo 1 sai !• “X i man could lightly dis miss a call coming from a church with such a record of influence and power and yet, had we considered our feel ings only, wo should have immedi ately declined the call.” It can truly be said that Canton has not known a nor powerful preacher, a more beloved pastor, nor a more lov ing a’d sympathetic friend than Rev. Mr. Campbell, and to say that the Baptist, of this community will miss the leadership of Rev. and Mrs. Campbell is expressing it in tbu mild est manner possible. Let one New Year resolution be a sieterminat:on to put the boy cr girl in one of the organized clubs of your eountv. flub work as conducted by the State college extention division teaches a fuller appreciation of farm life, it builds character and develops t ie mind, body, and soul. Grist Fire* An Ex-Service Man News and Observer. American Legion members in Ral eigh yesterday voiced doubt as to thj wisdom of the action of Frank Grist commissioner-elect of labor and printing, in replacing J. G. McIntyre ex-service man who served in France' with Park G. Hampton, who was not i a soldier, but who is a brother of I Frank Hampton, secretary to Sena tor Simmons. Members of the local American L gion stated that McIntyre did not i wait for the draft at the outbreak of - the war but enlisted, served overseas in he infantry, took part in the fight, ing and returning from the war was emploed in the department of labor ■ and printing by M. L. Shipman, and joined the American Legion. They declare that McIntyre’s only t offense was in supporting the head of his department, Mr. Shipman, 'in j the primary in which Mr. Shipman j was defeated by Mr. Grist. Mr. Grist, who served overseas as an enlisted man himself, and was I wounded in action, received the lib- ! oral support of the American legion in the apathetic second primary and probably owes his election to this sup- j port. AMERICAN SKYCRAPER Wil l NEVER INVADE ENGLAND London.—England will never adopt ' the skyscraper because it is brine realized in America that New York ; is too high and that the tall building? convert th" streets into veritable can. yens, in the opinion of Tomham For res4, architect to the London county council, who has just returned fr.ni an official visit to the United States, Yr. Forrest, says that in plumbing and rro-vtptien arrangements he found the United States far ahead of Great Rritain, and that the education-] al hpiWrg.s are far better eou need and finished than rhose -n Eng’and, In regard to hotels Mr. P'orrest says that the best hotel in the corr-l naratively small city of Buffalo would] if dumped down in Piccadilly, put the! best London hotels to shame. Ameri-j j can hotels rxo'd in the r>'atter of serv-j I mo and in design, and the leading ho-1 tel architects of Great Britain are | visiting the United States to .study methods of hotel construction. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. Notice is hereby given that the an nual meet'ng of the stockholders 4 the Cleveland Bank and Trust com pany w-ll bo held in tti-». director'! room of tKo bank in Shelby. N. C ogi Tuesday Jamiarv 13+h at 11 o'clock! J. J. LATTIMORE, Secy-Treas. j
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