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
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VOL. XXXIII, No. 39
THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, MAY 19,1925.
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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.