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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 IcbcUni) RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State's Fertile Farming Section, Modern Job Department, VOL. XXXIII, No. 39 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, MAY 19,1925. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Fellowship Spirit Dominates Inter City and Inter-State Meet Be tween Kotarians and Kiwanians. A friendly spirit of neighborly af fection and ' inter-city co-operation that regards not a state border line marked the joint meeting of the Gaff ney, South Carolina, Rotary club and the Shelby Kiwanis club at Cleveland Springs hotel here last Thursday ev ening. The meeting was in the nature, of a “dutch” supper and was the dawn-; ing of an era in this section where in neighboring towns and cities decideu to grow and progress together e’en though they be in different counties and in other states. . The banquet list included G-l visi tors from Gaffney, Rotarians and their friends, and G8 Shelby Kiwanians and special guests and it was considered one of the most entertaining and de lightful dinner meets ever staged by the local club. Cherokee county, ovei in South Carolina, and Cleveland coun ty join each other, although the divid ing line is also a state line, and the two counties have much in common agriculturally and the towns face sim ilar problems and questions as they grow together in the progressive march of the Piedmont Carolina sec tion. With this in vie\^ the two lunch eon clubs have been planning for some time such a meeting as that held Thursday. At a date to be selected la ter the Shelby Kiwanis club will go in a body to Gaffney as the guests of tho C,affnev Rotary club. The program of the joint gathering was featured by addresses, musical numbers, some boosting, some chiding, but more than anything else by a friendly get-together conversation and a “swapping of ideas, hopes and ambitions of mutual interest. The in vocation was by Rev. Henry Stokes, of Gaffney, and the 30up was enlivened by two charming dances by little Miss Gladys Henderson, following which the visitors were recognized en masse amid a thunder of aplause. The welcome address, witty, appropriate and con veying a sincere cordiality, was by President J. C. Newton, of the local club, responded to by Major Henry C. Moore, Cherokee county representa tive in the South Carolina legislature. The musical numbers offered by the Gaffney people as their contribution to the “dutch” program were very en tertaining, encore numbers being re quired throughout. There was a quar tet by Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hames and Dr. and Mrs. V. H. Lipscomb and oth er entertaining numbers by Misses Elizabeth Earle, Eva Blythe and Fran ces Bryson, riiarmingf young artists ot Limestone college. Numbers contribut. ed by the local club included vocal se lections by Miss Nell Padgett, of For est City, with Miss Vera Whisnant at the piano. Other addresses that range from humor to the heights of oratory and fervor were by Dr. W. K. Gunter, president of the visiting club, and Messrs. O. M. Gardner and Clyde R. Hoey and Harry Wilkins of Gaffney. Before and after the program there was a mingling together in the lobby of the hotel and the friendly relations between the two cities were cemented with a closer touch, that of personal contact and conversation. Dispensation Has Been Granted. 83 Members in Prospect. Lodge Room in New Building. A Masonic commandery for which Shelby Masons have been striving for a number of years has been assured in Shelby, a dispensation having been granted last week at the annual meet* >ng of the Grand Commandery and Grand chapter held in Gastonia and attended by J. D. Lineberger, T. J. Babington and George Washburn. This new local organization of members of the Masonic fraternity will work un der the dispensation until the charter is granted at the next Grand Com mandery meeting. Already there are 35 Masons who hold their Commandery membership at Hickory, Forest City and Gastonia who have manifested a desire to trans fer their membership to the Shelby Commandery. In addition to this it is hoped to secure 60 new applications irom Chapter Masons, making the to tal membership 80 when the charter is secured. Degree work will begin in the next three or four weeks in com mandery rooms provided in the new Masonic building for which all neces sary furniture and paraphernalia have been bought. A clergyman defends the youth of to day. The trouble is that too many have needed defense by lawye£» — Ne v j^ora LveOjny Woriu. Mother of Two Children Confesses To Larceny of Auto—Caught in Tennessee Bonnie Sutton, Who Tricked Taxi Driver Out Of Big Car. Arrest ed At Chattanooga And Brought Back With Car. Had An other Car In Possession. The now Cleveland county jail this week houses a new type of criminology —a confessed female auto thief, or so officers state. The woman is Bonnie Sutton, a character known in many sections of North and South Carolina, and the mother of two children. She will bo given a preliminary hearing in a few days, after she has “rested up a bit,’ and maybe talks some more. On Thursday night, March 19, Plato McSwain, driver of a big 7-passenger Buick taxi belonging to Zeb Costner, stopped' on the road between Boiling Springs and Shelby to get a drink of water for his female passenger, and returned from the well with the water to find his big taxi and the woman disappearing from view down the road in a cloud of dust. Early Sunday morning Officer Bob Kendrick drove into Shelby with the woman, Bonnie Sutton, the Buick car and another car, a Ford touring said to have been bought from the Wilson Motor com pany of Charlotte on the installment plan and never paid for. Last week Sheriff Logan's office heard reports of the missing car in Tennessee and on Thursday night Of-* ficer Kendrick, Plato McSwain, Bob Dorsey and Mack Ellis left for Chat tanooga. Three miles out from Chatta nooga at a highway camp Kendrick found the woman camping with her family in two tents. In the party in addition to Bonnie were her mother, sister and children. The Buick, how ever, was not there, but was located the next morning. The officer states that the woman readily admitted tak ing the ear while the taxi driver was drawing a bucket of water and says that she related her wanderings in the car since then—going to Spartanburg, her old home, the night of the theft, from there to Tennessee, to Texas, Ar kansas and back to Chattanooga. Some time after she left Shelby she was joined by her family, who with a man travelled with her camping out as tour ists. Toe s-den tax-i was driven back to Shelby oy the driver from whom it was taken, while the woman and offi cer with another member of the Shel by party came back in the Ford, which the woman says she bought from the Charlotte firm and never paid for. Officer Kendrick on his return through Knoxville stopped long enough to arrest and bring back with him Raymond and Odell Grigg wanted here on a whiskey charge. The Sutton woman, who appears to be between 25 and 30 years of age, talked readily to officers, but there seems to be more that the officers hope to ferret out before the prelim inary hearing. The woman is a native of South Carolina, but has lived and moved around in this state for some time prior to the time she disappeared with the car. The taxi was in fair con dition considering the distance it had been driven and apparently had not been damaged to any extent. Tenth District Convention at Court House Here. Will be Attended by Delegates from 10 Counties. Delegates from all the counties ot the tenth district of the Cotton Grow ers coperative association will meet in Shelby at the Court house Tuesday at 2 o’clock. The counties composing this district are: Alexander, Burke, Cald well, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Ire dell, Lincoln, Polk and Rutherford. Each county is allowed one delegate for every thousand bales delivered or major portion thereof. This will give Cleevland county the largest number of votes of any of the counties be cause this county has delivered more, cotton to the association than any of the ethers of the district. , The purpose of this convention is'to select the nominees for director of the ■cotton association for the coming sea son. The convention will, through a process of elimination, select two men whose names will be placed on the ballots which will be sent to each in dividual member for his vote. It is very important that each member should, when he receives his ballot, consider it carefully and return it properly marked to the association. It is understood that several of the counties have, indorsed a man from their district and are coming here with plenty of support to put over their nominee. For that reason as many ot the members of Cleveland county as possible should be present Tuesday and use their influence for any Cleve land county nominee that may be ad vanced. It is very gratifying to see the1 progress being made by the associa tion in this district and its future growth is dependent on the type of men we select to direct its all airs. CAPTURE ESCAPED CONVICT HERE SATURDAY Toni Hayes, an escaped convict from the State prison farm, was captured Saturday evening at the home of his father. Colonel Hayes, in No. 2 township by Cleveland county officers. Hayes, aged about 30 years, had served about fouy years ofa seven-year sentence for store breaking when he escaped with a number of prisoners from the Halifax farm in March. Prac tically all of those who had es caped have been captured, Hayes being one of the last to be appre hended. Officers making the cap ture were Messrs Ed Dixon. M. H Austell, Gus Jolly and Buren Ded Randolph Logan, son of Sheriff Logan, left for Raleigh with the convict Monday morning. There was a $50 reward for his capture. New Bethel Church Notice. All members and those who have rel ives and friends buried at New Beth Baptist church are requested to eet there on Thursday morning May ,e 21st to clean oft the grave yard. 11 that can bring wagons and hau: A. tlOKL. Buys Interest in Cleveland Hardware Mr. D. Curtis Weathers lias pur chased one-third interest in the Cleve land Hardware Co., which was bought a few weeks ago by Mial Tiddy and Will Metcalf from S. A. Washburn and Sons. Mr. Weathers will be ac tively identified with the business the first of June. He has sold his inter est in the Kendall Medicine Company with which he has ben connected for a number of months, having a more thorough knowledge of hardware than of drugs and sundries. He is a practical farmer with a wide ac quaintance, a live, energetic business man who will be quite an addition to the new hardware firm. Messrs. Tiddy, Metcalf and Weathers will make a fine trio of hardware dealers, all of them being practical and experienced young business men, each with a strong following in building and farming lines. Masons To Hold Last Meet In Old Hall The Cleveland Lodge A. F. & A. M. No. 202 will hold its last regular communication in the old Masonic Hall on LaFayette A street Friday night of this week, if is announced, at which time new officers will be elected. All members are urged to at tend this important session. The next regular meeting after the one Friday evening will be held in the handsome new four-story Masonic Temple on the court square corner. Final arrangements at the new tem ple are being rushed along and with in a few weeks the imposing struc ture will be the scene of the regular i.nd called meetings of the order. Mrs. Sara Pruett Is Buried At Union Mrs. Sara Pruett, wife of Mr. John C. Pruett died Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock following an illness of about ten days at her home in the Union church community. Mrs. Pruett was in her 79th birthday and was a woman of beautiful traits of charac ter, a devout Christian and loved by all her neighbors and friends. Her death is a source of great sorrow for she will be missed in the community wh?re her fine Christian character ra diated love and service. She is sur vived by her husband and one daugh ter, Miss Maggie Pruett. The interment was at Union Bap tist church Monday morning at 11 o’clock amid a large crowd of friends, the funeral being conducted by Rev. A. C. Irvin and Rev. D. G. Washburn. ST. PATRICK LEFT AT LEAST ONE SNAKE Dublin.—Notwithstanding the le end that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland, one has been dis covered in Dublin and is now on ex hibition in the National museum. It is a very small specimen, less than two feet long, and of the harmless variety News of the find caused much com ment in the press. Snakes have occa sionally been brought into Ireland from overseas but they have never beet) hnov. u to breed here. _ Fi nos u BOOSTED SESSION Officers of State's Biggest County Fail Make Flans For Second Agricul tural Show in Cleveland. “Cleveland county’s second big fair this fall will he more than anything else a surprise to the people,” say offi cers and department heads of the mammoth agricultural show. "A sur prise in that it will be even better than the successful first fair last year, which those who attend say is impos sible, but we intend to show them.” Such was the spirit that marked the banquet of fair officials and depart ment heads held at Cleveland Springs hotel last Friday evening and attend ed by 2G people, who are already work ing towards their ambition. The meet ing was held with the idea of getting things together and for tin early plan ning of how the fair might be made better with one year’s experience. Of ficials told of their aims and plans and department heads told how they could be realized and the part each depart ment and exhibit would play. Natural ly, the entire meeting revolved around the Dorton dynamo who made such a success of the first fair and will spread so as to make Cleveland’s fair events mean much to agricultral N. C. The head of each department was called upon to tell of the .good and had points in theif departments at the first of the fair, and to offer sugges tions as to how their departments might he improved this year. The pre mium list came up for discussion and it was decided to improve it by offer ing better and more appropriate pre miums, as it was decided to offer bet ter balanced exhibits, more attractive and in more definite classes County-wide Committees. One of the big features of the meet ing was the forming of a county-wide committee made up of smaller com mittees with a member from every community in the county. By this plan it is hoped to interest every section of the county in the fair and have ex hibits and displays from every com munity, making it in reality a cAunty fair without an equal. By this plan it will lie the farm folks' fair with all re presented and showing ap interest that can mean nothing but success. Talks were made by Secretary J. S. Dorton and County Agents R. E. Law rence and Mrs. Irma Wallace. The two agents, wdio are so closely connected with the farm life of the county, at tributed much of the success of the first big fair to the spirit and coopera tion of county farmers • and their wives and were confident that a larger measure of this spirit will mean much to the fair this year.,A. E. Cline, pres ident of the fair association and head of the department heads, took a few moments in which to thank those pres ent for their work last year and to compliment them on their success, with the expressed hope that the dream of having the nations outstand ing single county fair this year. It was suggested by Supt. I. C. Griffin, head of the educational department that the educational exhibits this year be based more definitely on the work actually carried on by the schools. Noted Newspaperman to Deliver Com mencement Address of Shelby High Monday June 1. W. T. Bost, one of North Carolina’s leading newspaper writers and speak ers, has been secured to make the com mencement address at the finals of the Shelby high school, according to an announcement by Supt I. C. Griffin, of the city schools. The speaker, bet ter known to the state as “Tom Bust”, is the correspondent at the State Cap ital of the Greensboro News and is considered the state’s most brilliant and fearless writer, and an equally en tertaining talker. Bost in between his newspaper dispatches, which are wide ly read, is a preacher and a lecturer of equal fame and his selection for the address to the graduates will meet with favor in the town and county. The graduation exercises and ad dress will be Monday evening, June 1, at 8 o’clock with the largest graduat ing class in the history of the local : high school as a feature of the pro gram. The commencement proper will open with the annual music recital Thursday evening, May 28. On Friday evening at the Central auditorium the closing exercises of the Junior high school will be held, while the annual debate for the Gardner medal will be staged Saturday evening, with the baccalaureate sermon Sunday night by Dr. R. L. Lemons, pastor of the First Baptist church. No doubt a cynic is all rignt in his place, but he never goes there until he die .. - JCiuihtla. ii-cOf!-. FREE TRIP TO WASHINGTON IS ATTRACTING PEOPLE IN COUNTY Quite A Number Are Already Working In Subscription Campaign And With A Little Spare Time Effort Will (Jet Ilig lour Without Cost. There Are No Losers. Washington, America’s beautiful and enchanting capital and the shrine of the world’s greatest nation, has been, is, and will continue to b/'thc country’s most attractive point. Americans with the prospect of pick ing only one of the “onee-in-a-life time” trips will invariably choose Washington. There is a reason. And on September 4 a special train will carry a number of Cleveland county folks to Washington on a big sight seeing tour with all expenses paid by The Cleveland Star. Already the fever to make the won derful trip has spread and quite a number of folks arc already devoting their efforts to a little spare time work so that they may make the trip in September without the expenditure of the trip. Many others will have caught the fever in the weeks to come ar.d the big tour to the capital with its scenic surrounding section and its historic spots will be long re membered over the county. If you’re ever wanted to see Washington and the sights, or even planned or hoped to in the future it will he well worth your time to write or call at The Star office for details of the plan whereby you may realize your dream without cost—free! Write or Call. When you have heard ti>e plan you will be more interested than ever. There is no way to lose. A certain amount of work will be given you and when done it will assure the trip. You do not have to beat some one else or have a larger number of points to make the trip. It’s no con test. A 11 those working may make the trip and none need to be ahead of the others. Today The Star is rated by some as the leading semi-weekly newspaper in the state. It is located Ln Piedmont and Western Carolina’s fastest grow ing town and serves a people that till the soil in one of America’s leading agricultural sections. It is the am bition of The Star to keep progress ive pace with the town and county, -and not only be £he best semi-weekly in North Carolina, but the widest read :;( mi-weekly in (he South. There fore this campaign. Those who enter in the campaign will have their work allotted in helping to make this am bition a reality. And the task is no groat one; not an impossibility by far. In fact all those who have had the plan explained to them accepted and started to work without hesita tion. One fellow .remarked: “Why you've pot three month:-, to do it in and if I cai)t do that in two weeks 1 don’t deserve such a trip.” It will surprise you how easily this hip free tour of The Star can be made. If you want to see Washing ton and the historic sights at all you’ll be willing: to accept The Star’s offer. It’s to your advantage to in quire about the offer today, either b.\ letter or personally. A Great Trip. Pennsylvania Avenue, “tire Street of Presidents” and a thrilling right itself will be well worth all the work done in order to make the trip. Imagine yourself next September sliding upward in an elevator to the topmost recess of the famous Wash ington’s monument and looking down upon u hurrying stream of people be low, so far below that they look like ants scampering about; think of toy ing with and handling the chair and trinkets that once were a part of George Washington’s life out at beautiful Mi. -Vernon, overlooking the majestic Potomac on which you will be taken for a ship ride. It will be great. Then in the city there will be some grand sight a minute and more. The Congressional Library, stately public buildings, and then the prominent— people—foreign ambassadors, mem bers of the President’s Cabinet, for eign attaches, uniformed and high army and naval officers. Could you ask for more and have it free? Keep in touch with the details of the tour and ask right away how you may make the trip free. You’ve never had such an opportunity before, and many years may elapse before it will again beckon. HIGHS TRAIN FOR CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Coach “Casey" Morris is this week training iris high school charts foi the final Value either, Fndhy oh Sat urday 6f this week /or the North Car olina baseball championship. It has not bden definitely decided just which day the game will be played, but local offi cials are of the opinion that it will be Friday. Quite a number of local people expect to go down to Chapel Hill for the contest. A game will be arranged for about the middle of the week so that the Western champions will not go stale because of their week's lay-over owing to a muddled situation in the east. In addition to this game there will be reg ular practice and the Shelby coach is adding some fine points to the play of his young team, which as a surprise to the entire state marched on to the western honors for the second straight year. First Service In New Bethel Church The first service to be held in the new brick veneered church building at New Bethel will be held Sunday May 24th. This will also be memorial day at New Bethel and a large crowd is ex pected to attend. The building has just been completed by Julius Branton contractor, and in addition to the large auditorium has nine Sunday school rooms, with others to be added. All former pastors have been invited to at tend and speak during the morning. In the afternoon there will be Sunday school speeches with A. V. Washburn, associational Sunday school worker in charge. The building has steam heat and electric lights and is one of the most modern country churches in Clev eland. Rev. John W. Suttle, pastor, says the campaign for funds were the easiest raised of any church he evei built and the various committees work ed in perfect harmony. Of the six churches he is now pastor, four have new buildings and the other two are considering a building campaign. Regular church conference will be held Saturday at 11 o’clock. ELEMENTARY GRADES IIELl) FINAL EXERCISES THURSDAY The elementary grades of the cen tral school held their closing exercis es Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Central auditorium under the di rection of Miss Agnes McBrayer, piim 'pal of the elementary depart ment. The program consisted of ex ercises by each grade .end depart ment mule the ms clementm;. teach Judjp Stack' of the Superior court of North Carolina at a hear ing held Friday at Newton where he is presiding over court, ruled the Waco school election invalid and the there school districts of Waco, Beams and Beulah which were consolidated last year in an eloction, will have to go back to their former bound ar ies. About a half dozen property Owners raised a protest against the consolidation and employed Hon B. T. Falls to represent them in a restraining order issued against the school authorities for bidding them to collect the special school tax on the ground that the recent election was not in accord ance with the provisions of the law and the plan of the county wide school movement. In plan ning for consolidation the county board of education had included five school districts in the consol idation movement in that territory but when the election was held only three districts were included. The law provides, so Judge Stack holds, that the county-wide plan of consolidation cannot be changed without giving due notice to the various school committeemen and the patrons interested in the dis tricts. This required notice of modifying the plan as originally outlined was not given, hence Judge Stack held that the election was irregular and invalid. C. R, Hoey and John P. Mull represented the county authorities in upholding the consolidation as voted Inst year. Following the el ection the pupils were transported to Waco from Beams and Beulah districts but now that the election has been held invalid they will go back to their former schools until another election can be held. It is understoood that sentiment is strongly in favor of consolidation and that another election will be called for as soon as possible. 'Associations] Convention Meets. The Kings Mountain associational B Y. P. U. convention will meet at Un ion church Saturday and Sunday May 30 and 31. The Women’s Missionary union will give a program at the 11 o’clock hour on Sunday. It is hoped that every church in the association will send representatives, whether you have a B. 1 . P. U. ui VV. Ivey Whisnant of Polkville Said to Be in Serious Condition at Ruther ford College. The following clipping from tho Hickory Daily Record (May 14) will be of interest to Cleveland county friends of Ivey, and Clyde Whisnant, those young men being sons of Mr Bar rett Whisnant of the Polkvtlte section and students at Rutherford College: Ivey Whisnant, 18 year old student at Rutherford College, is now in a critical condition as a result of knifo wounds inflicted on him yesterday by H. K. Sipes, a ministerial student of the college, according to information received here today. One cut started - behind his left ear and came to the middle of his forehead and another in the abdomen is considered alarm, ing by physicians, said persons famil iar with the situation this morning. Dr. Foard, of Connelly Springs, told the Daily Record over long distance communication this morning that ho does not believe the wounds are fatal unless complications set in. Whisnant is at present under the care of Dr. Foard. Sipes, who is a married man with a family, is nearing the completion of his ministerial course at Rutherford college and planning on accepting a pastorate call after the end of the school year, it is understood. He is about .it) years old. According to the story gathered this morning, Sipes wits walking along the walk by one of the dormitories at Rutherford college when someone pour ed water on him. He went up to the room where he believed the water had come from but no one u.is apparent in that room, it is said Then he came down to the room just below it where Ivey Whisnant and his brother, Clyde Whisnant, about 15 years old, were talking with several other boys. Sipes is said to have called Clyde Whisnant out of the room and pulled a knife on him. At that time Ivey Whis nant rushed out and caught Sipes by the coat, it was declared, and Sipes turned on Ivey and slashed hint sev eral times with the blade. Authorities had not arrested Sipea this morning. He could not be found yesterday afternoon and last night his wife and family are said to have been missing. The Record was informed td~ day thata wide search is being con ducted for Sipes. Whisnant is also a brother of Kay Whisnant, waiter in the Colonial Cafb in this city. \ Catch 3 Booze Cars At 3 County Corners Deputies M. L. Leonard, C. E. Boyles and Ellis Hoyle captured ten gallons of whiskey and a Bulck automobile in the North Brook township near the three county ines Sunday afternoon says the Lincoln Times. A negro who gave Cleveland county as his home was arrested and brought to Lincolnton, but later gave bond for his appearance at court. Monday afternoon these same off cers captured 15 gallons of liquor and a new Ford roadster in the same sec tion of the county. No arrests were made. Again on Wednesday this same trio took a Ford roadster and about a pint of liquor, the capture occurring in the same neighborhood. Two arrests were made in this case but both men were released on bond. WOMAN GIVEN PAROLE SO SHE MAY DIE FREE Della Sellars, of Craven county, was last week paroled by the governor for the remainder of a five year term for murder in the second degree because “the prisoner at most can live but a very short while.” The woman has made a model pris* oner since she was committed in Feb ruary 1923. She has developed a malig nant tumor, which affliction is inoper ateable owing to its advanced condi tion. She is paroled in the custody ot Mrs. R. Hunter Smith, Craven welfare officer. Card of Thanks. We wish to thank our many neigh bors and friends for their kindness during the sickness and death of our son and brother. We wish to thank Dr. House: and the nurse for their good attention during the sickness and also the Stamey Co., for iv "r kind assist ance in burial service. M. L. Lutz and Childi’en. ad* Tom Tarheel says shoes will last about twice as long in his family it polish is used regularly. A British baronet has been found to have shipped liquor to American bootleggers. Sort of a baron in a net, as it were. A doctor asserts that cross-wo.tl puzzles have reunited many families. Hands across the dictionary?—Brook* lyn Eajjlo, _ . v.
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