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CLEVELAND: “A COUNTY THAT LEADS A PROGRESSIVE STATE IN DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE, AND WHERE HOSPITALITY REIGNS" PAID-UP CIRCULATION Of This Paper Is Greater Than The Population Given Shelby In The 1920 Census She letuiuni) RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Fanning Section. Modern Job Department, VOL. XXXIII, No. 37 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, MAY 12. 1925. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE . SHELBY WINS FROM ■IE HIGHS Hoyle, Youthful Hurler, Wins Pitchers Duel in Semi-Final Game For Western Honors. Playing in Gastonia Friday after noon Coach “Casey” Morris’ Shelby Highs defeated the Charlotte Highs 6 to 5 in the semi-final game for the Western North Carolina baseball championship. Jack Hoyle, 15-year-old Shelby twirler, was the star of the contest, yielding only six hits to the hard-hitting Charlotte club, while Morris’ gritty little club drove out 10 safeties, four being for extra bases. The victory renewed baseball inter est in Shelby and the town is now banking strong on the gritty young sters, who minus ability are repeating the victories of Shelby’s 1924 state champions on the determination to win. Two all-state-players, Captain Beam and Wilson, of last year’s club are on the present eleven, while half of the team that on Friday defeated Charlotte is new material and products of Morris’ training. From the outset the game Friday was a mound affair and at the end young Hoyle had bested Fred Lanier, rated as one of the best high hurlers in the state since the passing of Lee and Wall. In the second frame Shel by drove over three of their markers when Max Connor clouted one over the fence for the circuit after Dixon had singled and Grice had tripled, and for an oddity it happened to be the weak er end of the batting array that stag ed the spree that commonly is credit, ed to Magness, Beam and Dedmon, Shelby scored another run in the fourth and put the affair on ice wit it two more in the seventh. Charlotte al so threatened in the seventh when Hoyle gave up two hits and Self cr rored. A long run and catch by Gribble of Wilson’s slash to center was the field ing feature, while Connor with a hom er, single and walk led the hitting. Magness and Wilson secured two hits each, Beam and Dedmon drove out doubles and Grice a triple. “Dutch” Hengeveldt, of Davidson j college, officiated and the contest was j staged before Gastonia’s largest! crowd of the season with hundreds at tending from Charlotte and Shelby. Shelby will play Bessemer in Salis bury Wednesday, May 13, for the west: ern North Carolina championship and: a large number of Shelby people are planning to journey down for the game. Charlotte AB. R. H. O. A. Cribble, cf _J.:__ ...4 1110 Hurt, ss . ___ „_3 0 0 7 2 Foard, 2b __ ___ ___ 3 0 12 0 Kistler, lb _ 4 0 0 1 0 Scott, rf ___ J__._4 0 0 1 0 Phillips, 3b ______ 4 10 10 Sherrill, If_4 1 1 4 0 Webb, c __.___3 12 5 0 Lanier, p__ 3 1 1 2 4 Totals —___32 5 G 27 12 Shelby AB. R. H. O. A. Wilson, If___5 0 2 2 0 Self, 3b __5 0 0 0 1 Magness, cf.___5 12 0 0 Beam, c __5 115 1 Dedmon, rf ... .__.-_._5 0 14 0 Dixon, 2b ... __4 114 3 Grice, lb ___ _____ _. 4 2 1 11 1 Conners, ss — _2 1 2 1 2 Hoyle, p__...5 0 0 0 3 Totals ___ ___ ___3£> 6 10 27 11 Shelby__ ___030 100 200—G Charlotte ___ __102 000 200—5 Summary: Errors, West, Foard, Scott, Wilson, Self, Conner. Two-base bits, Beam, Dedmon, Sherrill. Three base hits, Grice. Home run, Conner. Stolen base, Wilson, Magness, Conner. Sacrifice, Conner, Hurt, Foard. Base on balls, off Hoyle, 2; Lanier 1. Struck out by Hoyle, 5; Lanier 5. Double play, ( onner to Dixon to Grice. Passed ball, Webb. Wild pitch, Lanier. Time, 1:55. MEMORIAL services at NEW PROSPECT SUNDAY _ Memorial services will be held at New Prospect church Sunday it is an nounced. Sunday school and song serv. ice will be from 10 o’clock in the morn >ng to 11, with a short intermission before the sermon at 11 by Rev. W. U. Camp. A big dinner will be served on the grounds from 12 to 1:30 and everyone is asked to bring a basket. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon there will be an appropriate memorial ad dress by Chas. A. Burrus, county solic itor. On Thursday morning of this U'eek those in the New Prospect sec tion are urged to meet at the church tor the purpose of cleaning off the cemetery. Memorial at Palm Tree. , Memorial services will be held at Palm Tree church Sunday, May 17th. In the morning there will be children’s exercises, followed by the decoration of the graves and dinner on the r'Omi.f, Rev. C S. Kirkpatrick will jureach in the afternoon. MULL USED FEEBLE MINDED UK WaKe County (.rand Jury Asks That Idiots He I aken Away From For mer Cleveland Man. The following story from the Ra leigh News & Observer of Thursday will be of local interest: Disclosing horrible conditions in which- three feeble-minded men are i living on the farm of J. C. Mull, pros perous farmer of Wake Forest town ship, as laborers without pay, the Wake county grand jury in its report to Judge Frank Daniels yesterday recommended that the men be taken from Mull's custody and placed with some other citizens or in some insti tute,,.. “The three men are: Harley Clark,! 28, and Ethel Clark, 2G, white broth- j ers of Cleveland county, who were se cured by Mull from the Caswell Training School, and Will Boyd, negro of Cleveland cuonty. Mull came to Wake several years ago from Cleve land county. The men work on the farm and are not of such a low type of mentality that they are unable to do good labor. The negro who appear ed to be of lower type than thf> two white men to the grand jurors takes care of the two white men. “Immediately after the report was made, E. Lloyd Tilley, assistant clerk of the court, got in touch with Dr C. Banks McNairy .superintendent of the Caswell Training School, who order ed the sheriff to take the two white boys and return them to the institu tion. At the same time an order was issued requiring Mull to appear be fore Judge Daniels Friday morning at ten th.rty with the negro man and show cause why the negro should not be sent to the county home. "On Friday, May 1st, a Committee visited the. home of Mr. J. C. Mul', in Wake Forest Township," the grand jury report states, “for the purpose of investigating the conditions sur rounding three feeble-minded men. This committee reported conditions to be such that called for an investiga tion of the Grand Jury as a whole. Accordingly, on Monday, May 4th, we visited the home of Mr. Mull. Though an attempt had been made since the preceding Friday to clean up the out building far from suitable for the men are quartered, we found the building far from suitable for the housing of human beings. The so-called mattress es and other equipment on the beds we found to be in filthy condition. Without undertaking to describe in de tail the conditions as we found tnem. we must say' that the living and sleep ing quarters provided for these tnen are most unsanitary. In the winter the two white men and the nygro man occupy the same sleeping room, but we are informed by Mr. Mull that the negro occupies a separate room in the summer. In view of the conditions which we found, we recommend that these men be taken from Mr. Muli s custody and that they be either plac ed with some other citizen or citizens in the County or admitted to the state institutions provided for the care of those so afflicted." “The information concerning the condition of the men was brought to the grand jury by citizens and not officials.” — Dr. Grigg Heads District Woodmen: Shelby Camp Planning to Attend En campment at Charleston, S. C. Selling Tickets to Princess. Dr, T. 0. Grigg, T. P. Lail, Charles D. Hicks and E. B. Hopper attended the district convention of the Western North Carolina Log Rolling associa tion of the Woodmen of the World held at Arden, this state, on Thursday May 7. They report a very enthusiastic meeting and say they enjoyed the meeting immensely. At this meeting Dr. T. O. Grigg clerk of the local camp was elected president of the as sociation for the ensuing term. Hickory camp No. 518 W. O. \V. Shelby, have reorganized their com pany of the uniform, rank known as Co. K 97th regiment. This company is planning to attend encampment to be held in Charleston, S. C., begining Au gust 22, and continuing one week and in order to raise funds to purchase equipment they are selling tickets to the Princess theatre for next I41 iday night May 15 and reguest all members of the camp to help all they can. CENTRAL ELEMENTARY ENTERTAINS THURSDAY The Central elementary school will observe Parents day Thursday after noon at 5 o'clock in the Central school auditorium. All patrons and friends are invited. Exercises and entertain ment will be given by the children of the Central elementary grades. T-?l STAR WAA'l AIC & ANOTHER LOOK AT BUSINESS SHELBY The Above View Was Taken From The Roof Garden Of The New Masonic Temple And Looks West On West Warren Street. The First National And Union Trust Company Appearing Dis tinctly One Block Away. The High Building In The Background Is The Princess Theatre. OFFICERS FIND 20 GALLON CACHE OF BOOZE Corn liquor on the local market v will likely advance in price as a result of a find made Friday shortly after noon by Chief B. O. Hamrick and Officers M. H. Aus tell, Jim Hester and Bob Kendrick. While making a search in the woods near the road between the two Hickory creeks about three and one-half miles out of Shelby the officers found four 5-gallon cans of corn covered up in the leaves. It is presumed that the liquor was to have been retailed in Shel by, hut instead it was turned over to the sheriffs office and will go the way of all good booze—and bad—down the gutter. Big Home Coming At El Bethel (Special to The Star.) Kings Mountain, May G—Homo coming and memorial services will be held at ElBethel Sunday May 17th. Last year at this service a historical society was formed with Mrs. B. F. Dixon, president and Mrs. Lydia Da vis as vice president. This society is expected to make its first report at this meeting on May 17th and some interesting historical facts will be pre sented, showing that old ElBethel is the Mother church of Methodism in Cleveland and adjoining counties, giv ing names of some of the pastors who have served when circuit riding was in style and a lot of other information. Among some other things a grave 150 years old. Services will begin with Sunday school at 9:45. Special music. Sermon by the pastor Rev. B. Wilson at 11 o’clock. One hour intermission for din ner on the grounds. Old friends and new ones too, are cordially invited to come and bring a well filled basket. * After dinner the Hon. O. F. Mason of Gastonia, S. J. Durham of Bessemer City and Messrs. J. H. Quinn and J. A. Anthony of Shelby will speak. We will also have a sermon by a former much beloved pastor, Rev. J. Frank Armstrong of Charlptte. Pleasant Ridge Gets Light Line Charter The rural electric lighting program in Cleveland county moves on stead ily and soon the majority of the homes in rural Cleveland will be elec trically lighted. A dispatch from Raleigh says that a charter has been issued as follows: Pleasant Ridge Electric Light and Power company of Shelby, R-4. Au thorized capital stock $20,000 with $000 subscribed. Incorporators, L. V. Lee, G. L. Hamrick and G. B. Mc Swain, all of Baltimore and Lewis Me. Swain, O. C. McSwain and P. C. Blan ton. When it comes to payment of in ternational debts the Powers are get ting close together. Only some aie more close than others. - Manila Bui lain. NOTICE TO OUR ADVERTISERS In order to make our mail sched ules. thus delivering The Cleveland Star to its thousands of readers on time, and in order to avoid the pay ment of a heavy over-time payroll, advertisers are notified that copy cannot be accepted later than 10 o’clock each morning of press days —Mondays and Thursdays. Copy i that can be furnished earlier than press day, will be appreciated. News matter for publication should reach us on Saturdays for Monday's paper and on Wednes day for Thursday’s paper. In eases of necessity, important news items will be received on press days Mondays and Thursdays. Our pat- 1 rons and friends will enable us to serve them better and at the same | time save considerable expense if | they will co-operate with us in I these important matters. Sewer And Water Extensions Here 1 The present city administration has under way or just completed a number of sewer and water extensions, all of which is being done without any bond issue. When the newly elected city of ficials met with the present officials In the city hall Tuesday night of last week, the present board acquainted the officers who take the reins of gov ernment the first of June with the work under way and offered to assist them in any possible manner. In ad diton to the widening of East Marion ; street for about two blocks, sewer and water mains are being extended to | the Shelby Cloth mill, a new industrial | plant in the northeast square of the j town of Shelby. The sewer main will 1 run by way of the colored graded ; school where sanitary closets will he j available to the homes and the school building in that vicinity. A state san itary inspector on a recent visit to Shelby declared the colored school building and vicinity to be the most unsanitary section of Shelby, so an ef fort is being made to remedy this sit uation which might lead to a disease epidemic. Sewer and water is being extended to Fairview Heights, another line is being put down in southwest Shelby, extension of West Gardner street, while a water main is being extended to the flat rock section for fire protec tion. Fatally Injured In Auto Accident Gaffney, S. C., May 8.—Draper Har ris, 11-years-old was run over and fa tally injured by Charles Elmore on Cherokee avenue this morning: at 8 o’clock. He died at Doctor Nesbitt’s office at 1 o’clock, where he was taken after the accident. A coroner's jury rendered a verdict that it was an un avoidable accident. The coroner held Elmore in bond of $500. Demanding: an aii depaitnicni, General Mitchell cot tnl> the ii>. Dailai vtcv-. * NEGRO IS CAUGHT TAKING DRESSES FROM STORE. A shop lifting epidemic seems to have struck Shelby. On Friday after noon employes at Gilmer's store caught John Bubo, young negro man, in the act of stealing three silk dress es. The officers were called and Satur day morning in Recorder Mull’s court Bubo was advised and ordered to spend four months in the movement to bet ter the roads in No. 6 township. Bubo, it is said, was . sticking thc dresses under his coat, thus trying to conceal them from the store employes. Another negro, who was with him. made his escape. The convicted negro is said to have given his home as Lau rens, S. C. Local stores have been bothered sometime by petty shoplifting and in recent weeks several of the offenders have been nabbed and it is thought that with Bubo's sentence the shop lifting will slow up. Practically all of the articles being taken are of small value although in some in stances the loot was very costly. Ocicers and em ployes are now keeping strick watch for shoplifters and others are expect ed to be caught soon if their word continues. Further Railroad Talk Is Heard Charlotte Observer. The Observer gave editorial treat ment, Sunday morning, to the change in control of the Norfolk Soutuern, but t appears that Mr. Williams, who bought up the majority block of stock, is closer to Mr. Duke than had been anticipated, It looks mightily lik'i Mr. Duke is the real controller of the Norfolk Southern, and that this prop erty is going to be worked into an im portant main line connecting Florida with Norfolk. The New York infer-| mation given in yesterday’s . paper may prepare the public for the forth coming at some time later on of de velopment of a nature in which the State will he intensely interested, for the “rumor” looks like quite a straight line. If the guess work should prove well-founded, there is prospect of on electrified railroad which would ab sorb the Norfolk Southern on the north and the Georgia & Florida on the south, in connection with the Piedmont & Northern, and this would mean another expansion for Durham, because of the fitting in of the rail road development with the Duke uni versity extension. Extension of the Piedmont and Northern from Charlotte to Durham, as blue-printed in the original plans, would be likely followed by extension from Durham to Beaufort. And then out from Charlotte to the south, the Norfolk Southern would be carried to its long contemplated western and southern connections. There are all sorts of possibilities under specula tion, and however large the public may shape them up, they will prob ably prove even larger when the things Mr. Duke may have in mind are fully developed. At any rate, the big future the Norfolk Southern has b. en anticipating is evidently ut Land. American t.lm tciiessc; jVti/ry in Lit,to and iepcat at leisure.—di'un.l.. Will hr (iursts of Shelby Kiwani.i Thursday Evening at Cleveland Springs Hotel, Local Kiwaniaiis will he interested in the definite announcement that neat 100 Kota,inns front Gaffney, S. will be the truest;- of the Shelby Kiwanis club Thursday evening at Cleveland Sprint's hotel. The Gaffney Ledger says of the proposed meeting: Members of the Gaffney Rotary club and a 'number of at her Gaffney busi ness men received the following let ter from Charles \. Burrus, secretary of the Shelby Kiwanis club relative to the joint meeting of the two organi zations to he held at Cleveland Springs, near Shelby, next Thursday evening: “You are cordially invited to at tend a joint meeting of the Gaffney Rotary club and the Shelby Kiwanis club at Cleveland Springs hotel Shelby on Thursday evening, May 14, 1925, at 8 o’clock, for a get-together affair of the business men of our two towns Being of the same stock and inheri tance,, we want to know* more about each other, and with this in view the meetings has been arranged. We’ll be disappointed if you don't come, and will come down to your town later to see you anyhow. “Seriously, fellows, come along and be with us. As you know, next to your own town, we have the best town in the world.’’ Harry Wilkins yesterday said it is hoped to have at least 100 Gaffney men attend the Cleveland Springs meeting. ELECTRIC SERVICE BEING EXTENDED While rural light lines are ex tending throughout the county and serving over 500 farm homep, with the prospects of 1,000 homes by the end of this year, the light service is also being ex tended in Shelby, according to Supt.'W. V. Toms of the Shelby Water and Light Plants. On Wed nesday of this week he cut on five new patrons and on Thursday, nine were added to the list. Prac tically all of these were in new homes that have been construct ed within the old city limits. Now that the limits have been extend ed, more transmission lines will have to be provided in the newly acquired territory and in a short while the number of new patrons will be added more rapidly. Superintendent Toms does not know exactly how many water and light patrons are now being serv ed by the town, but thinks it will reach near 2,000. lie expects to make a count at an early date to find out just how extensive the service is. He does know howrever, that it requires half of his time to read meters and make out the monthly statements to the con sumers and that the power used mounts upward each month and tire water consumed exceeds 300, 000 gallons daily. FERTILIZER TESTS Department Officials Here Last Week Began More Cotton Land Experi ments. Farmers Should See. W. H. Reed, of the department of agriculture at Washington, and S. J. Kirby, of the North Carolina Experi ment station at Raleigh, were in the county last week assisting County Agent R. E. Lawrence in starting fer tilizer tests for the information of the cotton farmers of the county and sec tion. Two tests similar to these of last year were started, one on the farm of T. C. Black, of Kings Mountain, and the other on the Sharon farm of S. C. Lattimore. As the result of the tests last year it was found that it is best to use from 800 to 000 pounds of fertilizer per acre under cotton. A slight-increase of fer tilizer to the acre by the tests, it Is thought. The farmers of the county are urged by the county agent to keep in touch and watch closely the tests this year, visiting when possible the farms where the tests are being conducted. Children’s Day in June, The Children’s day exercises to be held at Battleground Baptist church will be held the second Sunday in June instead of May as published in The SltU a sllJU llilit 0. Fleet Officers and Choose Goldsboro as Next Convention City. Plan Advertising Campaign. “Shelby is a fine little city and Clev eland Springs is an ideal convention hotel’ was the sentiment expressed by Master Plumbers front all sections ot North Carolina as they departed Shel by Friday and Saturday at the end of the last business session of the North Carolina Plumbers association. ‘What’s more,” they added, “these conventions should rotate over the state, but we are ‘ararin’ to coe back here.” The meeting was one of the most successful ever held by .the association and marked steps in a new plumbing area and advancement of the associa tion were made. The feature of the entire meeting perhaps was a regula tion heartily put over by the plumb ers for a regular advertising cam paign to be conducted in the newspa pers of the state guaranteeing all work done by a master plumber is lacked by the entire state group. The advertising campaign will spread to at least 30 newspapers, they say. An other move that seemed to meet with the approval of all convention dele gates was that of organizing a ladies auxiliary. Many ladies were in attend ance at the meeting and displayed con siderable interest in the sessions, even to the business routine. A motto for the state association was selected as follows: “The master, plumbers protects the nation’s health." Officers and Delegates. At the final session Friday after noon the following officers were elect ed: Henry Hackney, Charlotte, presi dent; Ed Harding, Greensboro, and J. C. Parrish, Durham, vice presidents; H. L. Griffin, Charlotte, field secretary The executive secretary and board will be appointed by the officers. Delegates ^o the national conven tion in Portland in June w^re named , as follows; S. M. Stephens, Asheville; L. P. Paseall, Durham; W. R. Dosher, Wilmington; E. B. Grady, Concord; Gene Mundy, Statesville; A. Z. Price, Charlotte; alternates, M. L. Gantt, Salisbury; J. G. Dudley, Shelby; C. A. Wollin, Raleigh; Carroll Walker, Char lotte. Feature addresses of Friday’s ses sions were by V. L. Peavy, of the Na tional Trade Extension bureau, and H. E. Longley, vice president of thei National Association of Master Plumbers. Mr. Peavy spoke instruc tively on “What 1925 Means to the Plumbing and Heating Industry,” while Longley’s address was under the subject “General." Following the ad dress business* aind the Working prob lems of plumbers were discussed. The convention was covered by represen tatives of two big trade papers, T. It. Graige, of Domestic Engineering, Chi cago, and B. R. Fitzpatrick, of the Plumbers Trade Journal. On Friday the ladies attending the convention together with those not en gaged in the business session made a sight seeing tour to Chimney Rock, taking lunch at the hotel there and spending the day amid Western North Carolina scenic splendor. In between sessions the golf course proved an at traction, and it was proved that a plumber does not forget everything, for if one failed to have enough clubs he borrowed one or made the one ho had do. McSwain Homestead 1 Destroyed By Fire The Dock McSwain homestead near Shanghi school house several miles southwi st of Shelby, was destroyed by fire Friday about noon, the property was owned by the late Dock McSwain’s son, Attorney Peyton McSwain and there was no insurance xcept a $500 policy taken out about 15 years ago and constantly renewed. A tenant, Mr. Charlie Cook was living in the dwell ing at the time and lost practically all of his household goods. The building was 2-stories high and when the fire was first discovered it was in the root near the kitchen flue. Prisoners Moved Into New Jail Cleveland county’s old andjnuch used jail became nothing but a mem ory to the prisoners last week, the last prisoner being moved out and into the new jail on Saturday. The county commissioners at a spe cial meeting last Thursday made an official inspection of the new jail, just completed,, and at the end of their in spection received it from the contrac tors and architects in the name of the county. The jail personnel was moved over Friday and Saturday, about one dozen prisoners being carried over as first guests in the county’s modern $8b,000 bastile. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Rorison of Ashe ville sj-eui . eek tipi here, ~ j
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