CLEVELAND:—“A COUNTY THAT LEADS A PROGRESSIVE STATE IN DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE, AND WHERE HOSPITALITY REIGNS’*
PA1IMT CIRCULATION
Of This Paper Is Greater
Than The Population Given
Shelby In The 1920 Census
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VOL. XXXIII, No. 4
THE CLEVELAND STAR
TUESDAY, JAN. 13, 192'.
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
,Marf.fi S6‘> 000 <«> Surplus and I'ndi
v.ded Profit'- and Paid S41,000in
Dhidcmh Uuring 1924.
T,.„ t ;.f Shelby banks had a pros
roy, year durinjr 1924, according to
{N.jr published statements which re
tj,r.jr ,.,und management and the
prosperity of the county in general.
0f the banks the First National
W Cleveland Bank and Trust com- ;
h .Id their annual stockholders
roeeting-n today, whHe the Union Trust
f ...pa- !,. Id. its annual meeting
r. x. Tuesday. The directors of the
thm, baftk... however, have met and
declared their regular dividends,;
checks for which were mailed,last
v. wk t» their shareholders.
'The Fi st National bank declared
j.. regular six per cent semi-annual
dividend amounting to $15,000 on its ,
$j:.«,000 capital. This $15,000 added to
a'siritilar.dividend paid in .Tulv of last
voar r.K'kf a total of 830.000 which
the bask • aid to its shareholders in
1924. La-' year the First National
placed .a 'total of $45,000 to undivided
profits, tv:- giving this strong insti-;
tution a > mmlus of $250,000 and un
divided profits of $125,000.
The Cleveland Bank and Trust com
pare raid four per cent on its capital
of $125,009. the shareholders reeeiv- i
inr $5000 in dividend checks last ;
week. In addition to the dividend the
Cleveland bank added $5,000 to its sUr
n!us, making a total of $15,000. All
departments of the hank are in excel-1
lent condition and the institution has !
made wonderful strides for a young
brink.
The Union Trust company of Shelby]
with branches at Lawndale. Fallston
end- La.ttimo.re paid its regular three
Per cent semi-annual dividend on its
?!00,0.00 capital, the July and Jan-'
.I’Wdi'-idend's amounting to $0,000 on.
the bank's $100,000 capital. During
the oa.-t year the bank placed $15,000
addition! to its surplus which now
total? $,‘55,000.
The three hanks last year added to
their surplus and undivided profits
.account? the, handsome sum of $65.
000 while $11,000 was paid in divi
dends, showing the total net earnings
to be approximately $106,000.
It is a fine index to the strength of
the ban Is and their sound manage-;
men* to know that the total resources
of the three Shelhv institutions
amount to $6,477,884.02. There is not
likely a town in the South the size
of Shelby which has such strong bank
in? institution as Shelby and with to
tal resources that equal nearly six and
a half million dollars.
Exports And Mill
Takings Of Cotton
Report ta be Large. Stock Market
Boom Continues, but Watchful
Waiting Seems .Wisest.
(B>' 11 arid B. Beer. R. .J. McCarley
Representative,. Shelby.)
The high price stock market boom
continues but think many larger eap
ca'i. z*'ie ar firm. Further improve
ir.eiit metal industries reported. Hogs,
sheep, cattle higher upon expectations
Lt ^’’'ing shortage. Cotton and wool
‘t-goods moving slowly. Distributive
tr:y1<‘ is disappointing. Automobile
! rices bping reduced as smaller pro
duction is indicated. Broadening in
l"rpst 'n sugar at slight decline. Cot
■ ■ and grain hesitant. Coffee unset
. • Statistics confusing. Money eas
!> r Hut expect higher rates soon as
'I exports large and sterling ad
vanced to 4.!I7 1-2 foreshadows Eng
a?5(1’s parly resumption specie pay
’ u! ts. Doubt much increase in public
UMng at current prices. Watchful
Waiting seems wisest policy.
ecember cotton consumption like
' bullish. Total average rain
in bexas past four month 6.04
|ache.s last year 17.00 and normal of
Exports will continue large per
aPs, mills takings also large. Re
J'l.ieri from Shelton bureau Decern
i consumption 4G0.000 against 492,
...November of this year, and
UKi for December last season,
mpression prevails December con
sumption this season will be smaller
' an fl)r November owing to it having
een smaller for December than No
vember past two years but it has oft
fn been larger than it was in Novem
f’’ "bon trade was good. It is ru
mored that the National Ginners De
cemher consumption will be 500,000 to
• 00. Think National Ginners fig
m< s nearer the mark because of re
VlVal in textile industry.
Ku Klux Lecture—There will be
ThPUj lecture in the court bouse
inursday evening, January 15th, at
. ?cl'.*'k by Hon. O. K. Bennett of
j hev!lk>- No admission will be charg
*' and a special invitation is extend
vi_ °C)t"e ladies as well as the men.
of ti, i inet Wil1 discuss the knights
ue k al1 all<l the invisible empire.
Guest At Central
Snoozes On With
His Bed Aflame
A small blaze at the Central hotel
Thursday night brought about a bit
of excitement, but J. C. Cadell, of
Wake Forest, who occupied the room
in which the flames were at work
snoozed on—and it was his bed that
was on fire.
About 9 o’clock in the evening some
of the hotel attendants passing along
one of the upstairs halls noticed that
it was full of smoke. The alarm spread
to the lobby and Mr. Hershell Ponder,
clerk, and Mr. Plato Grigg, taxi driver
sought the source of the fire. Finally
by following the smoke trail they lo
cated it in the room occupied by the
Wake Forest , man, and more excite
ment was added to the situation when
it was found that the door was lock
ed. Mr. Ponder gained entrance
with a pass-key and there with the
flames eating around him snoozed the
guest, probably dreaming of big
things next day.
Started From Cigarette.
Not until the flames were practi
cally extinguished did he awake and
still a part of the sheet at his elbow
burned. Advice from the hotel is that
Caldwell was not injured by the fire
that might have proven serious had
it not be^n discovered so early, but it
is safe to suggest that hereafter his
room door will be unlocked part of
the time—and cigarettes will be care
fully guarded when the eyes have a
disposition to close. It was a cigarette
that started the blaze, or at least re
ports have it that the guest fell asleep
while smoking—and awoke to find
that his bed had “shot the duck.”
As the fire was confined to the bed
there was no large damage, although
the mattress was ruined by the flames
according to Mr. Ponder.
Funeral Of Robert
McBrayer Saturday
Cleveland Man Who Died Suddenly in
St. I.ouis Was on His Electric
Car When End Came.
The funeral of Mr. Robert McBray
er, who died suddenly last week in St.
Louis, was conducted from the home
of his sister Mrs. W. N. Dorsey on N.
LaFayette street Saturday morning
at 11 o'clock by Revs. J. IV. Suttle and
R. L. Lemons in the presence of a
large crowd, considering the inclem
ent weather. Music was rendered by
Prof. H. M. Pippin and his quartet
while J. B. Lowery, H. A. Logan, Paul
Webb, James Borders, Lander Mc
Brayer ar.d J. H. Quinn served as pall
bearers.
Mrs. McBrayer, widow of the de
ceased and her three children, Evelyn,
Virginia and Howard accompanied the
remains from St. Louis. According to
the reports Mr. McBrayer was a mo
torman on an interurban electric line
and on the day of his death, had been
suffering with aviolent headache. At
about 11 o’clock at night he told his
conductor on the car that he felt like
he was going to die. Shortly after he
talked to bis conductor he swooned
and fell and when the conductor asked
him where he hurt, Mr. McBrayer
pointed to his heart but did not utter
another word. Deceased had been away
from Cleveland a number of years,
but was born and reared here and has
a host of friends who mourn his pass
ing. He was a pleasant personality, of
splendid family and held in high es
teem.
Princess Pat Vet
Makes Harp Record
Frank Lewis, native of the Cleve
land county South Mountains and vet
eran of the famous Princess Pats of
the World war, will now be heard by
the phonograph fans over the country,
having last week made records for
the “OKeh” record people at Atlanta,
Ga.
Lewis, a master with (he mouth
harp, began giving: public concerts
around in this county and adjoining
counties some months ago, after hav
ing lived in oblivion in the South Moun
tains following his return from the
war as one of few remaining mem
bers of the much-heralded Canadian
regiment. While abroad he played be
fore the King and Queen of England
and this with his natural ability to
bring harmonious sounds from the
harp have given him good audiences
in his recent concerts. Last week he
made a trip that included Greenville,
S. C., Athens and Atlanta, Ga., and
while in Atlanta was persuaded to
make a record with his harp. The
number recorded was “Lost John”,
one of the big blonde mountaineer’s
favorites.
Raleigh,—There will be no move
at this session of the legislature to
ward extending the corporate limits
of Charlotte, Senator Hamilton C.
Jones indicated stating that it appar
ently had been agreed that the job
can wait a couple of years or so.
“The limits will be extended before
| the next census is taken, but there is
I plenty of time before then,” he* said
The New Central Church Edifice—Facing “Court Square.”
to «r
1
Many From Other Congregations And Visitors
Join With Methodists In Initial Worship In
Handsome Structure Despite The Inclement
Weather. Fine Music By Choir.
An exhortation by a former pastor
to make the handsome new structure
a gateway to the Kingdom of God
marked the first service held in the
New Central Methodist church Sun
day with the auditorium and connect
ing rooms packed with members and
visitors for the opening sermon. Rev.
R. M. Hoyle, of Belmont, a former
beloved pastor, preached the first
sermon at 11 in the morning and the
capacity of the edifice just complet
ed was taxed to seat the hundreds
who were in attendance. Mrs. C. L.
Steidley spoke to the women and girls
of the church at 3 in the afternoon and
many heard her stirring message. At
the evening service the sermon was
by Rev. J. Ed Thompson, who was
pastor of Central church when the bel!
recently removed from the old huild
ing was installed, and another large
congregation listened attentively.
It was an outstanding day for Cen
tral Methodists, and one that had been
looked forward to for many years.
Friends from afar with former pas
tors and others worshiped wnn the
regular congregation in addition to
many from the other Shelby churches,
who joined with the Methodists in
marking the occasion. The decision to
build came in May, 1923, and Sunday
marked the culmination of the build
ing. but only the first forward stop
in the work the church has to do. With
a seating capacity of around 1,000
practically every seat in the auditori
um and connecting rooms was filled,
and it is estimated that around 800
attended each service.
There was special music at both
services, special preparation having
been made by the choir under the di
rection of W. Fife Robertson. Solos by
W. Fife Robertson and Mrs. Steidley
and a soprano obligato by Mrs. Ben
Suttle and Miss Ruby Thorne marked
the morning service, while the male
chorus was a special feature of the
evening service. The first formal pray
er in the new edifice was by Rev. E. E.
Williamson, of Greensboro, one of the
three former pastors present.
The initial sermon by Kev. R. M.
i Hoyle, who needed no introduction by
Pastor A. L. Stanford because he was
known to Central Methodists years
ago, was one of power and stirring
appeal. “Behold the Kingdom of God
is Within You.” Luke 17-21, was the
text from which an able description
and aim of the Kingdom was given.
Every thought led to the conclusion,
where reference was made to the hand
some new structure, “which if it was
built to be used, and is used as a
gateway to the Kingdom of God, you
have wrought well, but without the in
ner spirit and God in the heart it will
be just a big mass of brick and mor
tar, wood and nails.”
In his description ot the Kingdom
of God, Rev. Mr. Hoyle declared that
“the world of today is below the ideal
of God, the people departing instead
of attaining his desire.” In material
things the world may be ideal or ap
proaching the ideal but without God
in the heart it will never be ideal.
Want makes everything. Hunger
moves the beast to find food: want
leads men to their desires: and a de
sire for God from the heart can only
be satisfied by God, as for everything
there is a correct place. The inner
thing in every man that he calls him
self is God, the seat of the Kingdom
of God. “Some wonder when the
Kingdom of God will prevail ? This
will come to pass when the Kingdom
of God is set up in the human heart,
and then war shall cease for the world
1
jwill be ruled by the heart, and the
heart by God.”
“Man's Worth.”
At the evening service available
seating capacity was again taxed as
other churches of the city did not hold
iservices sothat their members might
| have the privilege of attending one of
j the opening services .Rev. J Ed Thomp
son. now at Kings Mountain, deliver
'd the sermon and many there were
i in the congregation who recalled
j hearing him years ago as pastor here,
j while many others who heard him as
: pastor have passed and their places
were- filled by a younger generation.
His subject might have been “Man’s
1 Worth" or “The Investment of Life—
11he Superior Value of Human Life
Over Everything Else." The text was
from Isaiah, 13-12: “I will make a
man more precious than fine gold;
even a man (more precious) than the
golden wedge of Ophir.” God was,
and is the standard of value by which
the worth of everything is judged, yet
God made man more precious and of
greater value in His sight than gold.
Pointed illustrations of the value of
man ooxn to mantuna ana in me scrv
ice of Gad were given by Rev. Mr,
Thom} son. “A man that earns S600
a year is worth S10.000; a man that
earns $1,200 i- worth $20,000 in mone
tary value. And it is a tragedy for
a man to waste such valuable life even
in the eye- of mankind. How much of
a tragedy i it then to God for the life
to be wasted when to him it is of
more than monetary or gold value?
Wesley died poor, with hardly any
thing in his pocket, but yet he was
worth untold millions to the world and
mankind and was far greater and
more precious than gold to God."
In stating that the building of the
firm church and parsonage here was
a “miracle of Methodism,” the form
er pastor took occasion to say that
the church xvas “one of the most beau
tiful he had ever seen,” but that “a
church is not valued by its cost but
by its aim and the people who erect
it.” He also complimented the choir
and the music at the two opening
services.
The interior of the new church is
the latest arrangement and hand
somely fitted. One thing that made the
music at the opening service stand out
was that the choir is so arranged that
the music carries well to all sections
of the church. The pews in the main
auditorium slope in a semi-circle and
’face directly the pulpit. '
One hundred and eighty-one mem
bers were present at the Men’s Bible
class in the morning, according to the
secretary, and the main auditorium
of the church was packed with wo
men and girls in the afternoon for
i Mrs. Steidiey.
Coming Services.
On Tuesday evening an organ re
icital will be held in the new church,
I while on next Sunday evening there
twill be a cantata under the direction
[of Mr. Robertson. It is the “Christ
■Child” a Christmas cantata, but was
! held over until the new church was
opened so that the new organ might
j be used. There will be a number of
i special solos, and other than the can
tata, which starts at 7 in the e%ening,
there will be no services. Rev. A. L.
Stanford announces that Bishop Den
ny has been invited to preach in the
new church on the fourth Sunday,
January 25.
Weather Forecast.
Unsettled Monday ni^ht. Clear
1 Tuesday.
Officers Of New Ora
Mill Are Elected
; .1. Ft. Dover Is President With Earl
Hamrick Secretary-Trea-urer.
Authorized Capital Half Million.
There was a meeting of the stock
holders of the newly formed Ora Mill
in the directors room of the First Na
tional Bank Friday at which time the
] officers and directors were elected.
; J. R. Dover was elected pres'dent and
| manager, Chas. C. Blanton, vice pres
j ident; Earl A. Hamrick secretary and
treasurer. These three gentlemen, to
getherwith Fred R.' Morgan, J: R.
Dover, jr.t W. B. Fullerton, Clyde R.
Hoey, J. P. Toms and E. B. Hamrick
constitute the board of directors.
The Oru Mill started the process of
organization-lost laU-nvhenAir. Day ex
and associates decided to build a 5400,
000 textile plant to manufacture spe
cialties. Tlie Beatty-Yarboro planta
tions on Brushy Creed: two an 1 a half
I miles west of Shelby were purchased
and plans for the mill building, tene
ment houses, etc., were prepared by
J. E. Sirrene Company of Greenville, I
S. C. Contracts have been let and the
construction work started last week 1
with the hope to have the mill in op
eration within the next six months.
The Katherine Mill in South Shelby
will be abandoned and the usable ma
chinery transferred to the new Ora
Mill. The authorized capital stock of
the Ora is 8500,000 but it starts with
5300,000 paid in on the common stock
and $100,000 in preferred.
VIcBrayer Moving This
Week To Beam Bldg.
Evans E. McBrayer, clothing mer-j
chant is moving his stock of mer- [
chandise this week into the Beam ;
building between the Farmers Hard- ]
ware company and the W. L. Fanning
company on S. LaFayette street, tak
ing the store room recently vacated by
Wray-Hudson company's No. 2. Mc
Brayer has had the interior of the
store room gone over and freshened
upand by Wednesday he will have all
of his stock of men’s wear open, ready
for business at his new stand. Mr. Mc
Brayer will feel perfectly at home in
this location where he was in business
a number of years ago when “pop cor
ner” was watering place for beasts of;
burden, yet a good stand for merchan- !
dising the old way in wooden store
rooms with no show windows or show
cabinets. No new lines will be added
for the present to his already large
line of exclusive men’s wear.
Training School a Success.
(Special to The Star.)
The training school for Sunday-!
school workers recently conducted at I
Union by the associational worker was
a splendid success. An average of 65
attended the school with 35 or 40 tak
ing the test.
The efficient superintendent Mr.
George M. Gold states that he expects
to have Union numbered among the
standard schools in state by March.
Rev. D. G. Washburn, pastor of the
church is leading his people in a great
!way. A fine spirit of co-operation and
i willingness to be used in Kingdom
j work exists among the members.
Box Supper at Hollis.
There will be a box supper, cake
walk and popularity contest at 7 p.
m. at the Hollis school building on
Friday January 16th. The public is
cordially invited. The proceeds to be
used for the benefit of the school.
Mrs. S. S. Royster is in Mooresboro
with her father who is ill.
Judge Webb Gives
W'ork Statistics
In His District
Declares Need of Third District |m.
pirativc. No Time to Write Opin
ions as Needed.
Washington.- -Judge Web!) has fur
nished Senator Overman with statis
tics on the amount of business done
in his judicial district as compared
with the business in districts in other
states, in showing the imperative need
of the establi hmerit of a new district
in the state. These statistics firt. tak
en from the attorney general's report
for the last fiscal year and they dem
onstrate the verv large amount of bu
siness done in Judge E. V. Webb's
court.
Judge Webb in his statement does
not aver that because he is disposing
of so many more cases than judges in
other districts, these judges are lazy
and idle. Ife is confident they are
very busy and that he, himself, does
not have time—and should have time
—to prepare written opinions in re
views of referee’s findings appealed to
him. He states that he is compelled
frequently to affirm or simply reverse
a finding in a bankruptcy Case, or
merely find for or against the com
plainant in an equity suit.
Average Number of Cases.
He says that it will be found from
the attorney’s report for the last fis
cal year that the 57 districts with one
judge in each district, disposed of an
average of 571 criminal cases and 76
jury trials, while he disposed of 1,0.17
criminal cases and 201 jury trials.
The average number of civil cases for
each of these 57 districts was 71 while
for Judge Webb’s district the number
was 174.
In the 16 districts each of which
there are two judges, there was for
each judge an average number of
cases amounting to 1,052 while Judge
Webb had for the same period 1,335
cases. The average number of crim
inal cases terminated by two judges
in these districts was 735 while Judge
Webb terminated 1,037, Each judge
in thes-e districts terminated an aver
age of 377 cases against Judge Webb’s
1,037.
terminated Many l ases.
In the 51 districts where there i
.only on»„ judge„to such district thw>'
were signed upon an average of 41
h’demenfs in civil cases while Judge
Webb signed 62 judgments. The at
torney general's report shows that
Judge Webb terminated more cases
in his district than were terminated
in any one southern state with three
judges and more than in two other
southern states with two judges in
each of them.
A short time before Judge Connor
died he told Judge Webb there was im
perative need of another judicial dis
trict in the state and another judge.
He also told Judge Webb that Ral
eieht should remain in the eastern dis
trict. Even while Judge Connor was in
feeble health he terminated more
cases than the average judge. Judge
Webb says he works under high j
pressure all the time and that he can j
not stand up much longer under this j
heavy strain.
Senator Overman expects with the ■
statistics in Judge Webb’s letter and
other information he has at hand to j
prepare an introduce his bill very soon j
creating the new middle district.
Many Crashes Over
Rainy Week-End I
A steady rain that started Thurs
day nitrht and held up through the
week-end, making the streets slippery
and the windshields hard to see
throueh, resulted in a number of au
tomobile crashes and collisions in and
around Shelby. Nearly every corner
in the up-town section had its private
collision with one or two having sev
eral more thrown in, rather jammed
together, for good measure. However,
so far as can be learned none were of
a serious nature althought several of
the cars were considerably damaged.
A car driven by Mrs. Cline Lackey
and a Ford touring car said to be
long to a Hayes and driven by Law
rence Lowrance collided at the cor
ner of Washington and Graham
streets with damage to the Lackey
car- The other car caught fire and
was badly damaged, the fire originat
ing from a lantern broken in the
crash. Mrs. Lackey was considerably
hruised and shaken up by the impact,
but her injuries were not considered
serious. There were two men, a woman
and a baby in the other car and ac
cording to reports the baby was
slightly injured.
One car took a disgruntled feeling
at the bad weather out on the traffic
sign at the Warren and LaFayette
corner of the court suare, and the
heavy sign landed quite a distance up
the street. At Marion and LaFayette
corner in front on the Cleveland
Bank and Trust company, two cars
crashed Saturday evening and drivers
of two others stopped to look and an
other shot into the rear end of one
of them. The postoffice corner had i‘
collision and there was also a slight
bump at the Central church corner. *
To Strive For Better Schools, Better
(’ere Charity I’utients, And
Ample Playgrounds.
In his installation 'ress before
the Shelby Kiwanis duo Thursday
everii.ng, J. ( lint Newton, the new'
president, set as his goal for the club
in 1925 many helpful things, out
t ending suggestions being: Better
- chools, a normal for Shelby in the
future; county-wide care of charity
patients; ample playgrounds, and in
creased c hurc h and Sunday school at
tendance. In his talk tiie incoming
president departed a bit from the
usual, but stuck to the real and com
monplace in announcing his aspira
tions for the club during the year.
As is the custom of-the club, Odus
M. Mull, retiring president, opened
the installation program by present
ing the pre sident’s pen to Mr. Newton.
The retiring head of the club in
brief speech outlined the big and real
ncc ompl'shment of Kiwanis during
!924—the breeding of a better fel
lowship among the members, the
building up of a friendly relation be
1 tween business and professional in
terests of the town and county. Re
ference* was made to the material ac
complishments—creation of a big
county fair, erection of a big textile
plant and other such moves, **but the
b g thing, fellows, was the entrance
of a spirit that made of us all friends,
partners in the real building of our
town and community.” Mr. Mull made
witty illustrations in telling of the re
lation between the doctors, lawyers
and preachers, all leading to a ser
ious portrayal of what Kiwanis really
means and has meant to Shelby. “By
fostering friendship among ourselves
we have won the respect of the coun
ty. Never before has Shelby been
thought so much of by the people of
Cleveland county, who are now proud
of their county seat and what the
town is trying to do for the county.
By 'getting right’ among ourselves
we have won the respect and admira
tion of outsiders.”
Proposes Charity lax.
Mr. Newton, although on the floor
i for" oni\ a short period, demonstrated
■vis ability to successfully entertain
any assemblage and gathering and
at the same time to impart informa
tion and advice worthwhile. Taking
the Kiwanis motto “We Build,” he
described building in the worthwhile
sense and in so doing thanked the
club for the honor givfen him and as
sured his best in holding to the rec
ord of past presidents and preserving
the club’s reputation for activity. In
his plans for the new year four major
topics were stressed and apparently
met with the whole-hearted approval
of the club. Noting the passing of
the one and two-teacher schools he
urged a continuance of the consolida
tion plan that gives the boy or girl
in the remote sections the same op
portunity for an education as the city
child ei joys. Holding up before the
vision a big normal school for Shelby
he spoke of the wor d influence
of I. C, Griffin, city superintendent,
in educational circles and by so do
ing won the applause of the club. In
connection with the schools came the
pica for more playgrounds in Shelby
—“a place where our boys and girls
may secure wholesome and needed re
creation; somewhere to direct the
energy that is wasted on the st'-eet
corners.”
Speaking of the Shelby public hos
pital and care of charity patients he
urged that the club by resolution or in
some manner request the county
commissioners to take action that
would lead to a county-wide care of
the sick unable to care for them
selves. A plan offered was that of
putting on a county assessment of
one or two cents to take care of such
patients in the public hospital. The
need of such a move is urgent at the
present, and a discussion following
the talk revealed that the club was
entirely behind such an action.
“Max Gardner once said that Cleve
land county people are the greatest
church going folks on earth, and he
may be right, but another aim of the
club should be to see that more peo
ple in Shelby and Cleveland county
attend church and Sunday school, for
we are builders in more than the ma
terial sense,’’ was the final express- f
ed aim of the new club head. “We
have some of the finest churches and
Sunday schools in the state, and here
in Shelby we boast of big Bible
classes and large church congrega
tions, but there are between one and
two thousand people here in Shelby
who do not attend church or Sunday
school anything like regular, and to
see that these people do attend church
is a worthwhile goal for the club dur
ing the new year.’’
As a part of the installation the
new' directors and the program com
mittee were formally presented to the
club.
Mr. Joe W. Smith, building con
tractor. a member of the Forest City
K*wt is dub, has transferred his
membership and became a member of
i the local club at Thursday’s meeting,