:..$hc (Ekvchml $tm ■' TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Subscription Price. tty mail, per year-$2.00 carrier, per year-——. $2.60 car «ac=: The f Star Publishing Company, Inc. jjEE B. WEATHERS_President tUSNN DRUM_Local Editor .Entered as second class matter January 1, 190b, at the postofTice at ibelby, North Carolina, under the H*t of Congress, March 3, 1879. Jfe wish to call your attention to the jj^ct that it is, and has been our ■euatom to charge five cents per lino 'ftljr resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. Thi:i m be strictly adhered to. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1925. *~Some of the mountains are be ing levelled, but Hendersonville real estate mounts higher. They're so plentiful now—and popular—that no one refers to t^em any more as “4dears.” Next we’d like to know iust who Cameron Morrison considers ''disaster croakers” ? In the days of the old West it took a dare-devil rider to lasso the long horns, but nowadays a flivver pilot can throw the bull. Ike, of Casar. wants to know from Dayton if Bryan had a glass of grape juice as often as Darrow lost his temper. It may be the sensible thing to to buy the winter supply »f oral now. but who has 'the pep this weather to give the ice man an order for coal ? ^Vender how Editor Galt Brax ton, of the Kinston Free Press, would define the word “normal aov” as it applies to North Car olina? ’ Eventually there’ll be no such t$fjng as news. A fellow in New Brunswick. N. J., liked jail life so well that he’s going hack tb stay, and cn his own accord. -Another week has passed and phfhing more has been heard of tha-school. bond issue, and it waS said tThat. Shelby Children would be turned away from the school doors soon unless some move is made. 5; The Star offers a year’s sub aoription to the person who can 4hfreetly prophesy Shelbv’s next My business development and Sm for our personal informat ior* $$at sensation will supnlant BWvton’s trial. Y’know Floyd Qatlins came just before Dev ton. and as we recall “bananas" and the Teapot Dome were other pr< cedents. f We’re wondering now about the eyes of Editor A. C ,,IH' CMtt, of Stanley News-Hmu'V Who anent the talked of hand painted pictures on the k^es that have been bared bv rolled Hose says: “The presence of snanny hand-painted pirtfcreb would have a tendency to break the monotony of just a plain bate knee.” Whew: Monotony! • The Norfolk Virginian Pilot tays: “If Borirlum could live to the age of Mcthusaleh and have the unstinted support of .las. B. Duke, he might see the Chimney itoirk ioli thromrh. Without these essentials we fear the worst." Ifche same brand of Virginia on tjjjpism hailed North Carolina's highway system before it be dafne a reality. THROUGH SHELBY? if Duke extends the P. Si N. nhrtric railway to Snartanhurg. j Wjll it be bv way of Shelby? ' t)o the citizens of Shelby real- j ire just what it would mean to; “T$m City of Springs”? Kings Mountain. Blacksburg. Spartanburg. Gaffney and other} cities and towns along proposed routes of the extension are hold ing mass meetings, promising support, and guaranteeing a cer tain amount of freight business.) ShHbv is doing nothing Duke may be a philanthropist.: but he was first a business man —and is yet r YORK WEDDINGS A press dispatch informs the state that North Carolinians ate-spending $8,000 annualiv on York weddings: that Tar Heels refuse to pav the $5 license fee plus the charges for the phvsic iaT examination. The nature of t&e dispatch is to the effect that the increase in price of marriage license and the required physie jal examination are the reasons for ho many Tar Heel marriages in York. With the innuendo we wish to disagree. Our belief is that there are no more North Carolina folks being married in South Carolina since the passing of the eugenic law than before. Perhaps the number has increas ed, but the population of the state has also increased and there are more marriages tak ing place. It was a popular hab it of North Carolinian* to jour ney over into the neighboring state to get married in the days when the trips were made In horse-drawn vehicles. Still we’ve heard of no one get ting unmarried in South Caro line by a $5 license, eugenic law, or any other plan. PLAN FOR FEEDS If the rain Friday afternoon was general in the county, farm ers should plant something for hay and feed crops. The spring and summer have been so dry that we are about to face anoth er shortage rf forage and the consequent importation of a half million dollars worth of western hay, corn and oats such as we had last year. It is very natural to suppose that there will be more rain from now on and that any feed crop will have the eight season to grow. The late planting is highly important to the finan eial well-being of Cleveland coun ty and the matter cannot be stressed too much. Our boasted cotton crop becomes a sham when we have to feed ourselves and our beasts frem Western fields. TWO MORE MILLS. Two'more textile plants start ed the first cotton through the process of manufacture in Shel by within the past ten days. This gives two more whistles to blow pnd sound the note of progress and employment. Recently an anonymous letter was circulated in Shelby protesting against the blowing of whistles in the early morning. It disturbed the peace-s ful slumber of the author and he evidently thought industrial plants would suspend to conven ience him. Such a man is to be pitied. Industrial plants that give employment and livelihood to men and women are the life blood of any community and in stead of whistles-ceasing to blow, we hone ot her pUnts will go up and add to the early morning symphony. The Ora and the Shelby Cloth mills which have just started will employ around 300 workers, at that. These plants manufac ture specialties which require more skill than the average mill. This material shows the drift of Southern cotton mills from yarn and plain white cloths to mater ials r f a higher duality which are *"0"e in demand. Ging ham-* npd hose are being •—i dress ma tr ials r.r.d silk hose. * ___ no OWN YOURS? P f i '' T>a ism of the Uni* vr ritv i'.ici’l!y made the alarm ing st'lement a few days ago that there are a million and a ouniter citizens of North Caro lina who ‘do not own a single inch of ground they cultivate or a shingle of the roof over their heads." We have no successful way of controverting Dr. Bran son who probably has statistics to prove his assertion. But tak ing the whole population of the state, this seems to be a very large proportion. Such a propor tion certainly dees not obtain in Cleveland county, we are happy I to state. Building and loans and farm associations have eneour 1