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CLEVELAND: COUNTY THAT leads a progressive state in diversified agriculture, and where PAID-UP CIRCULATION Of This Paper Is Greater Than The Population Given Shelby In The 1920 Census HOSPITALITY REIGNS” Icbclanii RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department. VOL. XXXIII, No. 11 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 192r>. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE With Eight Consolidat ed Schools In County Education Comes To Forefront There are eight consolidated schools in rural Cleveland county, four of which were brought about or formed during the year just past, according to a survey of the years school work by County Superintendent J. C. Newton, Moreover five, and possibly six new school buildings will be erected in Cleveland county during 102~> and a number more added to the consolidat ed plan. In fact, Superintendent New ton believes that at the present rate of progress—progress in educating rural children—everv school child ir. Cleveland county will in five year 1m attending a consolidated school, mod ern in every respect and with ever*/ facility afforded the city child. North Carolina may spend four dollars for motor cars for every one invested In schools, but the ration seems to he changing here and a new era has op ened for the rural child desirous of an education. The eight consolidated schools in the county row operating or to open with next year’s session are: Moriah, Casar, Fairview, Union, Beam’s mill Waco, Piedmont, Ware-El Bethel. Moriah, in No. 11 township, is com posed of four schools Mt. Zion and Briar Creek of this county and two of Burke county, being a consolida tion of two counties as well as of four schools. The Casar consolidated; which will open next year is made up of the following schools Casar. Pruett, McNeelev, Newtons Grove. This school serves all the remaining portion of No. 11 with exception of Whites school. Fairview is made up of four schools: Eliott’s, Willis, Baltimore and Warlick. Union is also the con, solidation of four schools. Beams mill, a four-teacher elementarv, was con solidated with Spangler. Waco, a stand ard high school, is composed of Waco, Beams and Beulah. Palm Tree, Dou ble Shoals and Lawndale are united at Piedmont, the largest consolidated school in the county and with 15 teachers. The contract for the new building let for Piedmont calls for completion by July 1. Ware-El Beth el is a consolidation of the two schools and the new building is now under process of erection on King-* Mountain highway.. The consolidated districts formed this year were Casar, Moriah, Ware-El Bethel and Waco. Better School Methods. Estimating that there are around 7,000 school children in Cleveland the county superintendent says that about] fifty per cent of that number are in ; high or consolidated schools. Many rural children at private expense at-' tend high school and considering these with the regular students at consolidated points the number will amount to half of the 7,000 he says, it being estimated that nearly 2,000 at tend consolidated schools, or will do so by next year. Serving the eight schools are thirteen big motor busses, trans porting the children to and fro, and it is not thought that more than five or six trunks will have to be purchas ed by another year. “Where the consolidation plan is in effect there is nothing but absolute satisfaction,” declares the county edu cational head. “Owing to big buses and convenient transportation in all weather we are not troubled with at tendance, and the progress of the pu pils is more rapid because of better equipment, more teachers, and regu lar attendance. The children in the 'corp-yulated schools we now have chow better school spirit, are hetter disciplined and better trained than w#s possible the old way”. Taking the place of the little ono feaeher schools that once dotted the j hills of the county are the big con solidated schools. Plying from the country homes to the big schools are motor busses, which carry those to school that in inclement weather would not have been in attendance. Gradually the system is spreading °ver the county and in a few years the county already noted for the number of her boys and girls in college will have cause to show more pride. At the monthly meeting of the county board of education held Mon day contracts for the two new school buildings at Fallston and in South •Shelby were officially signed by mem 'ers of the board as follows: A. P. Spake, chairman; J. T. S. Mauney, L. H. Patterson, Carme Elam and W. A. Ridenhour. Arrangements were also utade by which the county purchases the site of the South Shelby school rom the textile plants, paying $6, J00 for the present South Shelby school site, or the original cost of tne Property to the mills. The old Beam school building in No. 5 was sold to J, , .,®.ear0 f°r $300, the Beam school Holding being consolidated with •Vaco. The elect*an was only held re-1 Wants Somethin*: Promised Outsiders Which has Already Item Promis ed as 1- ar as Hoard Can *o. lo tre hditpr: I note Mr. J. H. Dover’s comment on the e xtension of city limits and ',our 't'ply. I was at the meeting you •peak of Mr. Dover not attending Hc-ll. Mr. Weathers, if this meeting had been attended by Mr. Dover, ol , what good nnd benefit would he have gotten. After all discussions did not •W. o. M. Mull get up and read a pr ]K'r that you made a motion to adopt, or to petition the general assembly to give an lection on extension? Were you not asked to withdraw your mo tion and call another meeting and have all voters interested present that would attend. I note that you failed to mention in your paper that on the first vote the people that opposed the extension out-voted you and your mo tion. This was done by some of the be. t citizens up-town as there were not many present from the outside. 1 note that you made the statement tha11 if you felt that the people on the out side did not get some benefits of good streets, sidewalks, likhts, water and sewer that you would not advocate same any more. This was what your feadsai- was asked to do the night of the meeting—to let your voters inside know what the:,- already owe and what it would cost in new bonds to take in the new territory. Why do you not want to let the people on the outside known what improvements you can give us and in the neighborhood of what it will cost to do same. Are you afraid to let your voters know that to extend your city limits, they would have to pay tax on one and one half to two million dollars. I see that your idea is to get you> voters to vote for extension on the promise that the city will not mako those improvements for some time yet on the streets, etc. I for one wish to join Mr. Dover for a meeting and let all citizens attend and go in a friendly agreement and see what benefits we will derive from same. It seems that your spirit runs good in some ways and very bad in others. It may be that the iron-da? hand may rule for awhile but remem, her our history that all such is but the flower that grows in a field—it Is beautiful for awhile ar.d then withers. Remember your heated passion, if there lie such, that extension will come and must come and let your fel lowman see the light and victory is more safe. C, II. Reinhart, South Shelby. Now, Charlie, that meeting you speak of was intended for a com promise meeting. The invitation to extend was mainly to opponents to whom the alderman wished to present six proposals, showing their attitude in the matter. None of the opponents seemed to garsp the compromise tha aldermen offered. I have printed them in substance but you should read them in full. They are in hands of city clerk or city attorney and the aldermen went on record favoring lights streets sidewalks, schools, sewer, police ana fire protection in the new area on the same basis abutting property owners pay 2-M of street and half of sidewalk etc. just like up-town streets ana sidewalks were built. Isn’t that fair enough? Surely you wouldn’t expect the town to pay it all. There was no motion made to call another meeting. Ycm are confused about this. The sin gle motion was that the limits be ex tended, that municipal improvements be given on basis outlined in the al dermen’s proposal and that date foi extension be set so outsiders would not have to list property for town tax until May 1st 1926. I appreciate your attitude for a friendly settlement and I have under stood that you would be for exten, sion if the main street through South Shelby would be paved. This could not be promised unless you get property owners on each side to pay their part. Dr. Royster, mayor pro tern. is a*** thority for the statement that if these property owners will sign up to pay their part, he favors giving this main road to South Shelby immediately. As a matter of fact we are not far apart in a compromise. Speaking for the present Shelby we know there is no disposition or desire to impose any hardships, saddle any debts or injure any outsiders. We want to be all one, sharing the same blessings, enjoying the same advantages that greater Shelby will have to offer. Heavy’s Cafe—Where Shelby eats. cently but in consolidated school term. formally the schools were at the opening of the last Gaston County Boy Hit By Auto And Fatally Injured Gastonia, Feb. ,‘j.—Garren Lingerfelt affed nine, son of John Frank Lingcr felt, prominent farmer and citizen of tho. Sunnyside community or, the Bes semer-Cherryville road, Gaston coun ty, died in the city hospital here late Monday night, from injuries sustain ed when he was knocked down and run over by a Ford, coupe driven by Jesse Kiser, son of L. A. Kiser, of Kings Mountain. The accident occurred at o’clock in the afternoon on the paved highway i immediately in front of the Sunnyside schoolhouse, just following adjourn ment for the day. One hundred and fifty or more of young Garren’s school mate? were eye-witnesses to the tragic accident. According to rtate j ments secured from a number of eye j witnesses it appears that the accident was unavoidable. Young Lingerfelt’s vision of the road was obscured by the big school bus standing in front of the school. He stepped from behind it into the road and directly in front of Ki ser’s car. The injured youth was brought as j quickly as posible to the city hospital | here but bis injuries were such that j death ensued within a very short time. ! The body was removed to the Linger 1 felt home and funeral services were j held Tuesday. -- Negro Had To Hurry From Court Here To Make Another Hubert Morrison, negro youngstei j of Hickory, almost had more dates j than he could fill Tuesday, While up before Recorder Mull here for being drunk at a dance the night before at Mart Moore’s place near the Southern station, he remembered that he was due to appear about the same hour in Catawba county superior court. The charge there against him was for hold ing a man for another to beat, he said, ard on the payment of the costs and a $20-fine the recorder gave him his freedom to attend the other trial. The charge here against Morrison developed at the dance and three oth ers were given the same fine on a charge of drunkenness at the dance. It seemed from the evidence that tha dance must have been some affair as i those in attendance came from 'Spar tanburg, Gaifney, Blacksburg, Hick ory, Newton and many other nearby towns ami cities. Th? quartet up for : violating the Volstead act declared i they were drinking liquor, but in re cent weeks the South Carolina “Jump Studdv” has become a favorite bev erage among some of the colored folks here and the dance may have receiv ed part of its pep from the new drink. “Jump Studdv” is nothing other than wood alcohol—the same that the cars drink in freezing weather—with the poison removed by soda pop. Sooner or later the beverage, which has a kick unequalled, will mean ex tra business for the undertaker, says a York dispatch, hut nevertheless it I is supplanting “Jake" and “van” about Shelby already, according to the officers. ARRANGEMENTS FOR CO-OPS TO PURCHASE FERTILIZER All members of the Cotton associa tion who are interested in getting credit through the agricultural credit corporation to buy fertilizer for cash, should arrange for a meeting at their school and call for Mr. O. F. McGill, of the Cotton association to meet with you to explain the way to get this credit. If you will arrange for a meeting and notify Mr. McGill ahead of time he will meet with you and help arrange for a credit group through which this money can be secured. This will enable the members of the asso ciation to buy fertilizer for from 15 to 18 per cent loss for cash than for time. Dover Mill School Honor Roll. First grade: Ella Raney, Kather ine Mae Buice, Edward Chandler, Ir vine Johnson, Burgin Sisk. Second grade: Earline Johnson, Margaret Lindsay, Ganell Owens, John McAlister, Benta Wellman, F. E. Smith. Third grade: Harland Pruett, James Webb, Selma Wellman, Ernest Tur ner. Fourth grade: Raeford Davis, Lu nez Marrow, Norman Nolan, J. R. Pruett. Fifth grade: Ralph Dover, Lalla McCraw, Ormie Lee White, Coley B. Owens, Hazel Thompson. Sixth grade: Beuna Lindsay, Ellen Elliott. Seventh grade: Subanna Morrow, Janie Wilson. O. E. Ford Co., (authority on fer« tilizers) says to buy your Spring’s requirements now, and be assured of getting it. Ad Order club sandwiches from Heavy’s Cafe fpr the Sunday evening meal. | | To Serve st March Term Federal Ses sion Here. Only One Juror Drawn a Gheihy. -. Jurors for the essioh of U. S. dk [ trkt e-'urt t > h'1 held at Shelby, begin* ; ning Monday, March •!, were drawn al Jti.e Federal building a! Charlotte Wed : resday morning by Charles I.. Wyatt, j Federal jury commissioner, assisted b> ! S. Williams, deputy c lerk of the |U. S. Court, and Mi.... Margaret Brook clerk in. the V. S. district attorney’s j >fTiee. Those- drawn were : B-verlv Pa; | terson, Kimrs Mountain; Mix Bennett, Green Hill; L. M. Logan, King; Moun tain; M. L. leonerd, Henry; John E. Carpenter, Lineolnton: ,1. C. McDaniel, • Tree; H. P. 'tucker, Gilky; Charles L. Fulton, King ; Mountain: L. 1). Hemp 1 hill, Union Mi.Is, B. 11. Bridges. Forest City; It. R. James, Cliffside; J. Frank Beam. Henry; II Carson, Bostic; W. W. Caldwell, Lincoln ton; J. W. Lucas, Mooreshoro: Belvin M. Bellin ger, Iron Station; James Rollins, Bos tic; C. E. Owen. Harris; f’armp Elam Lawndale; A. Q. Calc, High Shoals; T. C. Summer, Cherryville; J. II. Srbnce, Stanley; J. W. Rich, Bel wood; | Bate Moreheml, Henrietta; Charles H. j Sain, Crouse; R. M. Painter, Belmor.t; | Miles M. Ware. King;.1; Mountain; B. i M. Scroggins, Caroleen; John C. j Roach, Avondale; A, B. George, Cher ryville: L. II. Jackson, Bowling Green; | A. F. Gaston, Belmont; A. L. Houser, | Cherryville; Preston Proctor, Denver; ; I. B. Allen, Shelby; R. W. Hand, Low oil. Dr. Sikes Speaks At Bible Class Sunday Dr. E. W. Pikes .president of Clem ! son college. S. C., will speak before ! the men’s Bible class of the First Bap list church tr- Sunday school Sunday j merning, the hour of service beginning at 9:45. Dr. Sikes for a number of 1 years was professor of history and po | litieal economy at Wake Forest college land la*rr president of Coker college, Hartsviile, S. C. He is one of the fin. est speakers North Carolina has ever turned out and has been heard here on a number of former occasions with pleasure and profit. I)r. Sikes is a splendid orator and most entertaining speaker who will no doubt be heard by one of the largest crowds that eve* attended the Mens’ Bible class at the First Baptist church. Dr. Sikes will also preach at the 11 o’clock hour. Regular services at 7:30 Notice the change from 7 o’clock. AN M AI. COM MINICATION OF ST. JAMES GRAND LODGE The annual communication of St. James Grand Lodge of F. and A.A Ycrke- Masons National Compact in the continent of North America, F. C. Y-, was held with Providence Lodge No. 2, Shelby, January 27th 1925. Rev. G. \V. Maige, grand master opened the lodge at high 12 with Rev. G. W. Maize presiding. Election and appointment of committees on re turns: Rev. S. If. Presley, Rev. G. W. Patterson, Clarence Gardner, W. R. Hunter. Committees on credentails Edward Powell, ft. B, Miller, J. A. Crosby. Committees on by-laws: Rev. G. W. Patterson, James Stroud, Rev. S. H. Presley, W. R. Hunter. Financial committee; W. D. Patter son, Pinkney Schenck, Edward Pow ell. Adv Rev. Mr. Stallings Resigns Pastorate. Rev. W. M. Stallings, who has been pastor of the Church of God at this place and also the church of that denomination at Belmont, has resign ed the pastorate, delivering his last sermons last Sunday at the church here. Mr. Stallings has been pastoi of these churches for more than one year. He expects to go to Augusta, Ga., where he will become pastor of a group of churches. A sucessor to Rev. Mr. Stallings has not yet been secured, but the churches have extended a call to one of the ministers of the denomination and are expecting an acceptance of the call soon. FLIVVER SAM. In this issue of The Star you will meet a new character—Flivver Sam, who deals in automobile news and flivver backfire. If you travel in any thing from a Packard to roller skates you’ll enjoy Flivver Sam. TAX NOTICE. City taxes are now past due. Please call at office at the city hall and settle. 0. M. Suttle, collector. Ad For thirty years O. E. Ford Co., has been selling fertilizers, and they know whereof they speak. Ad | Big r'oialc Storage A co-nnorative veet p ,‘.v.*< -tor age wari'1'otse to l>- located in Shel by and to. serv* the fanners of tIn jsurrounding section i- being planned in a drive now put on by <*ount> j A gent it. K. Lawrence. The propose* warehouse, will f ive a eypn-.-ity ol 10,000 bushel according to plans am ' will eventually store enough potato?: to supply the li.fal demand with sonv j to nut on the outside market. Plans for the big eo-opmative wive jhouse nr- matorwYlixing and from I present indications the nroj.-i t is as sured. Farmers and husine • men in tereslcd in this- commendable move meet ar • requested to g -t in- touch with thr county agent and assist ir puttin '- over t he idea. The Ware house i is another st-p in diversifying the utr riculttral program of the county am appears to be a irorTessive step base*' j«A actual ucc»- .-—the business ant1 sales of the warehouses a! King: j Mountain ard Karl. The hip co-operative warehouse a! Kings Mountain is one of the rhost ! successful * sample:; of co-operatior and stor.-ur" in the sweet potato In jdustry. With a capacity of near lO.OOf bushels the warehouse is unable to supply the demand of the town alone although the quality of the potatoes has brought inquiries and prospect sales from the north. That with | farmers diversifying by the sweet po. : tato crop it seems that within a few years the c rop will rate as one of the j county's big money-makers. House Is Planned For This Place storage capacity and more Gas Moves Up 8 Cents in 3 Weeks _ j So-onpr or later you may have to place your automobile-—or “car"'—on | a diet. Gasoline Ija.s hopped up eight [cents in three weeks on the Shelby market, and from opinions of pas and oil wholesalers is likely to keep hop. pinp. I Another advance of two cents on Uhe pal-lo.ii, making the retail price 26 i cents, took place-, Tuesday.' Three I "vecks ago local automobile owners ! were “.'il!ir> r '•}>” f- r 18 cents a gallon | anti were somewhat aristocratic about , tho two cent “change”. Then an ad j vance of two cents and a purchase of | five gallons completely demolished otic greenback, and the eri..tocrntic feeling about the odd coppers vanished. But another day or so brought another advance, and so on until four advan ces of two cents each had been regis tered and now instead of speaking in awed tones about “,‘10-cent cotton" which was once talked more than the state deficit is now, the general sub ject is “20-eerrt gas” sooner or later, and at present much more “sooner.” Don't be alarmed. There is not a gas panic or shortage. The flivver fuel is just going up like wheat, and along with the advice about not being alarm ed, also, don't be surprised at another advance. Not a single dealer in town will guarantee you that there will not be another advance, or several more. Shelby High Quint Defeats Piedmont Playing at Lawndale Tuesday aft ernoon the Shelby high basketball quint playing thpir first game of tho season defeated the fast Piedmont high five 1C to 10. Piedmont has been winning practically every game play ed this season and Shelby's victory was somewwhat a surprise. Laymon Beam, forward, end Ellerbee, guard, were the outstanding players for tho local quint, Beam caging nearly all the Shelby baskets. Tod Caldwell, was the side line feature for Pied mont. Shelby (16) Pos. Piedmont (10) L. Beam 1. m. Lee Grice r. f. Hunt F. Beam c million Lurches r. g. Rawls Ellerbee :. g. Beatty GREAT MASS MEETING FOR LAYMEN OF CHURCHES A great mass meeting for laymen of all the churches of Cleveland county, February 15th at 2:30 p. m. This meeting will be in the interest of the Centenary Sunday school, evangelism and a general forward movement foi our county and the whole district. Each pastor is urged to be present with a large delegation of laymen. A similar meeting will be held in Lin colnton, but the people of Cleveland are to meet in Shelby. Rev. J. F. Prettyman, J. H. Separk and C. R. Hoey will deliver short addresses. Let us have a great gathering from all over the county. THAD C. FORD, Assistant District Lay Leader. From all reports money is scarce in Cleveland county right now, so Mr. Farmer be sure to see O. E. Ford Co., before you buy. Ad Try Heavy’s special Sunday club sandwiches. They’re fine. / Ad 7!k comity hoard of commissioners pn regular monthly oi«n Monday of fhi week tniiid for the most j part only routine busines - of the . I'uiinty. However, cjiiito a hit of time I was given over to a discussion the | bfitljrs in the county and propos'd j bridtro work. The "first Monday" i crowd war about the usual in size i with many of the county transacting oflTWa! duties about the court house. The following '-minty hill-, were or dered paid by the com mission erst . 1!. f?. Kinner bridge work, § to.70; C. R. Dixon, bridge lumber, 821; \\ . A. Cook, bridge work. $11.60; Taxi transporation $1.50; W, A. Seism, bridge work $8.04; W. G. Hopper, bridge work, $-1.80; C. A. Yar boro, bridge lumber, $30; B. B. Well mmi, bridge lumber $165.96; 11. S. Grigg, election judge, $3: G. F. Corn ’vell, bridge work $5.45; J. C. Webber, bridge work, $2; A. C. Brackett, bridge lumber, $22.50; W. W. De Priest, trip to Morganton. $10; Tom Cornwell, bridge lumber, $1.‘16.41; W. A. Robinson, bridge work, $6; A. W. War lick, bridge work $81.45; 1). A. Frittard, casket for pauper, $17.50; R. I,. Weathers, stamps, $8.80; S. M. Poston, capturing two stills $40; Dr. Ben Gold, rounty physician $96; Elec tric Service Co., work $255; South Shelby Pharmacy, supplies. $9.65; John M. Best, supplies, 812; Herald Pub. Co., printing $9; Paul Wellmon, supplies $32.78; Thompson Co., lum ber $73.04; Paul Poston supplies, $6.16; J. F. Williams, supplies $9.78; J. C. Hprd, labor, $26.26; L. A. Cub aniss. salary and home expenses, $191.20; Shelby Hardware Co., sup plies $26.55; Cantpbell Dept. Store, supplies, $9.58: Cleveland Drug Co.’ supplies, $7; H. A. Logan, expenses and jail incidentals $401.55; J. D. Lineberger. supnlies, $4.10; Williams and Hamrick, supplies. $7; Shelby Water and Light plants, $68.10 Star Publishing Co., printing, $33.91; j Commercial Printery supplies, $18; i Wray-Hudson Co., supplies $27.90; | Edwards and Broughton, office sup ! plies, $50.17; H. W. McKinney, serv ices. $11.65; R. E. Lawrence, county 'agent $125; Ramsey and Smith, re pair work $1.25; Shelby Foundry, j work, $2.50; Graham-Chrisholni Co., I supplies, $3.38; Irma Wallace, home j agent, $50; Moore, burial expenses ;S20: Art Wilson, work, $15; J. B | Smith, expenses, $5; C. J. Hamrick and Sons, bridge work. $8.45; Ellis Transfer company, freight and dray age $167.49; Paragon Furniture Co., supplies $9; Piedmont Telephone Co., I $19.S3; Observer Printing house, sup plies, $16.85. Man In Blacksburg Offers Collins Aid | Sends One of the Many Suggesting Release of Kentucky Man Held in Case. All the nation has become interest, ed in the attempted release of Floyd Collins, who is prisoned in a cave in Kentucky and watches death slip up on him as thousands vainly attemps his release. Hundreds of telegrams i have been pouring into Cave City, Ky., suggesting plans of releasing the man. A«cording»to the daily press dis patches a native of Blacksburg, S. C„ offered advice in the following tele gram: “I have a man who can free your brother with a strapper machine,” Get strapper and wire if you want this man to come.” A Chicago, newspaper sent the fol . lowing: "If there is any apparatus in Chi cago that will help you liberate your brother please notify the Journal by return wire collect and we will for ward it by airplane without expense to you.” A Topeka, physician offered to come to Cave City and amputate Collins’ feet without cost. “Be courageous, calm, and don’t worry,” said a telegram from Wash ington. D. C. “Trust all in God anti all will be well. You will be deliver ed.” llard-Surface Koads. Lincoln County News. Which county has the least and the most hard-surfaced road? That ques tion is uppermost. The Shelby Star says Cleveland county has only 14 miles, whereas Guilford has 54.47; Pitt, 54.33; Pender, 51.10; Mecklen burg, 48.30. As to some of thqpe counties above the average, county taxes contributed a part.—News ana Observer. Lincoln has 6 miles of hard top, and 16 miles enroute. Present Petitions With 11^*5 Names-Outsid ers Use 25 Per Cent Of Water Petitions for extension signed by n r> duly qualified voters, residing ; both within the present corporate lim j its and in the jfronosed new area, I were presented to Mayor Pro Tom S. IS. Royster and Aldermen Hamrick, : I* ord and McClurd Tuesday night nnd i they passed a resolution Officially j asking Representative B. T. Falls to i amend the charater of town of Shel j by, extending the corporate limf*s I three-quarters of a mile in every di rection. This resolution asked Repre sentative Falls to authorize an elec j *i(,n to be held within 80 days from it he passage of the act and there was i a unanimous vote on the part of the J aldermen. Sufficient for Election. When Representative Falls was at home for the woj-k end ho told a friend that only 500 names would bei sufficient in number for him to pro vide the legal machinery for an elec tion on the mater of extension, henca the effort to secure more signers was suspended. Whiie there were 1145 names for extension presented to the mayor and aldermen Tuesday night, there are a number of other petitions were out that have not been handed in and hundreds of other people fav orable to extension who have not had an opportunity to sign. It is under stood that petitions have been circu lated against extension and that these petitions have been freely signed, most of them, however, being from residents living within the proposed new territory in South Shelby. Sanction of the Board. In giving its official sanction to the extension movement, the board adopt ed the following resolution addressed to Representative Falls: "Whereas there has been presented to the mayor and board of aldermen freely signed petitions by the voters nd tar payers in the town of Shelby and vicinity asking for extension of the corporate limits of the town of Shelby. N. C., three -quarters of a mile : from the present boundary; “Firstly: That you pass a bill through the legislature at this session i amending the charter of the town and ! of Shelby providing for the extension | of the town of Shelby, the same to be . voted on by the duly qualified voters 1 in the town of Shelby and proposed I newt territory at an election to be held at the call of the mayor and board of ! aldermen of the town of Shelby with ; in 90 days from the ratification of the | act. “Secondly; That we respectfully ask that you preserve the petitions sent you and return the same to the city | clerk t be filed in the office.” Outsiders Use 25 Per Cent. | In gathering information to answer i the questions of “At T forested Citi | zen” who wrote an ai t tele appearing | in Tuesday’s issue of The Cleveland ! Star, the city officials found that 25 i per cent of the monthly water supply is used by those living outside the present boundary and yet do not pay city taxes or any part of the water bonds, interest, maintenance, etc. The city pump station at the river pumps eight million gallons a month, two million gallons of which are used by out-towners. There are 1,237 wa ter and light patrons and of this num ber 68 consumers or approximately five per cent live outside the city limits, buying water at the same ratt of 40 cents per thousand gallons, the same rate the insiders pay. Other Business. A delegation of citizens appeared asking that Chestnut and East War rent streets be sand-clayed. The city fathers agreed to do this work and | will ask the highway commissioners of No. 6 township to furnish teams and help on part of it. It was ordered that billboards north of the Seaboard depot and east ot John R. McClurd’s residence he re ' moved at once under the following ordinance passed May 1921, reading i “No billboards shall be erected neat ’ er than 100 feet of any streets or resi dence and that all billboards now er ected, not complying with this law, shall be taken down.” Methodist Protestant Church. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. S. I Clyde Tate, superintendent. Preaching service at 11 a. m. Ser mon by Rev. W. H. Wall, of Shelby. ! Evening service at 7:15 o’clock. Ser mon by Rev. W. H. Wall. Prayer meeting on Wednesday ev ening at 7:30 o’clock, conducted by the pastor. The pastor Rev. C. B. Way will spend . ext Sgnday in South Carolina anil will preach at Liberty Hill Meth odist Protestant church near Greer, S. C.