CLEVELAND COUNTY LEADS ALL COUNTIES IN AMERICA IN LIGHTENING FARM LABOR WITH ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
’^^TmCULATION
of This Paper Is Greater
Than The Population Given
Shelby In The 1920 Census
. XXXIII. No. 60
THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1926.
RELIABLE HOME PAPER
Of Shelby And The State’s
Fertile Farming: Section,
Modern Job Department,
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
Deane Brothers, Charged With
Desault On Girl,Draw 2 Years
c stators Ordered From Court While Girl Was
Stand. No Civil Ca.es Until Monday.
Crowds Packed Court House For Three
Trials. Barrett, Dynamite Plotter,
Termed A “Paranoiac.”
the afternoon session of Stupor-;
ior court Wednesday Dillard^Deane
nd nawford Deane, young brother.
th(. Victory mill village at Gas
tonia. were given two years each on
the county roads after they plead
Ljitv through their counsel to as
L,lt on a female and simple as
' uU Dillard pleading guilty to an i
assault on Ruby Dalton, young Gas- .
tonia girl, and Crawford to simple as
Court Room Cleared
The case was perhaps-the bigger
drawing card on the criminal docket
wjth the spectators and there was
some inconvenience in handling t’ne
crowds that packed and jammed the
court room before the hearing and af
ter it was in progress. At one time
the court room was so packed that
judge Shaw ordered spectators to
remain out of the windows, and later
when two men crawled into a window
they were fined $5 each by the court.
The Deane case was entered on the
docket as “rape” and when the case
first came up the judge ordered that
all hoys and girls under 16 years
leave the court room. Later in the
dav when Ruby Dalton, the girl bring- !
ing the attack charge, took the utana
all spectators were removed from
the court room, leaving only niembqr>
of the bar, witnesses and court at
tendants.
The first charge against uinars
Deane, preferred by Ruby Dalto.i and
Mary Allen, was that of rape. How
ever, it was changed by the state to
read assault with intent to commit
rape, and after a submission of evi
dence by the state the defense plead
guilty to assault op a female. The
story of the case in 'brief is that
several months ago the two Deane
brothers took Ruby Dalton and Mary
Allen to ride in a Hudson car. Craw,
ford Deane and Mary' Allen rode in
the front seat, Crawford driving, and
Dillard Deane and Ruby Dalton in the
rear seat. The car headed towards
Kings Mountain from Gastonia on the
Linwood road. The girls testified fh*M
Some where on the trip they were
forced to drink something they termed
liquor and that later Dillard assault
ed, or attempted to assault Ruby Dal
ton in the rear seat, while Crawford
kept driving and prevented Mary Al
lfcn in the front seat from assisting
the girl in the rear. The car neve>
stopped except at Kirgs Mountain
where the girls jumped out and ran
into a filling station for protection,
according to the testimony. The Dal
ton girl was not sure that she had
really been assaulted but thought so.
A physician, however, testified that
she had not, although such an attempt
might have been made.
Apparently the case was the at
traction for the large crowds attend
ing court as the size of the gathering
has diminished considerably since the
passing of sentence. Assisting So.
licitor Kemp Nixon in the prosecution
were 0. Max Gardner and A. E. Woltz,
of Gastonia. The defense was repre
sented by Ernest Warren, of Gastonia,
dyde R. Hoey and Odus Mull.
1 he "Bobbed-Hair Bandit”
Ronnie Sutton, Cleveland’s first
bobbed-hair bandit,” charged with
stealing a big Shelby taxi car, was up
for trial Tuesday and through he*
attorneys Clyde R. Hoey atid C. O,
Riding, of Forest City, plead guilty
to larceny, Joseph Roscoe Abernethy,
an alleged accomplice, also plead guil
*>’ to aiding and abetting. Following,
tie submission the case was thrashed
out and arguments made, but sentence
,as n°b as yet been passed by the
court and the defendants were re
turned to jail. Owing to’ the wide
publicity given the girl auto bandit
be court room was packed and jam
m,,,J for the hearing and to take g
pcck at a modern woman “gone bad.”
Suffers Paranoia Over Wife
• Hon Barret, South Shelby painter,
w fl some months ago took a pictures.
Hue and crude plan of eliminating oi
lightening someone, after a general
J iscussion of his case was termed a
Paranoic” or a sufferer from one
°nn of insanity—his particular case
’< mg an illusion that his wife is not
P'aying square with him. It will be
remembered that back in June Bar
er 7* ace<* a cigar box containing two
1 jf of dynamite and a burning
candle under the home of Lem Pat
erS(,n in the Ella mill section of South
j. e ^he dynamite, however, was
lsiovered before it exploded and no
”’af resulted. Barrett readily ad
... Ht*er some sleuth work by
n ef Hamrick, to placing the dyna.
mite there.
At the hearjug ijarrett/'s attorney.
■ ' - ion atcSwam,, inlo.mod th;
court that Barrett last year was
dared insane and was sent to Mor
canton, escaping after spending sev
eral months there. A letter from the
hospital superintendent declared him
to be apparently harmless, but living
under an illusion. Since his escape
Barrett has been on painting contracts
about Shelby. A portion of the evi
dence was taken up and Judge Shaw
after a conversation with the prison
er termed him a “paranoiac” over his
wife and ordered that he be returned
to jail while the court could debate
over what to do with such an unusual
case.
Postpone Civil Docket
At the session of court Wednesday
it was decided that the court would
be unable to reach the civil docket on
Thursday as planned and it was an
nounced that civil cases would noti
be taken up until Monday, it being
considered that the criminal cases
would occupy the court’s time during
the remainder of the week. The first
day of the civil docket, it is thought,
will be devoted to divorce cases, somt
thirteen couples having decided to
try the “one for one” route again af
ter working for a period in combina
tion harness.
Other Cases
Among the other cases disposed ot
by the court during the first three
days:
State vs. Docia Spurlin, receiving
and possessing; 12 months on road
without stripes.
State vs. Ben Lovelace, manufac
turing liquor; defendant plead guilty
of aiding and abetting and was given
10 days in jail.
State vs. Charlie Gault, breaking
and entering and larceny; foui
months without stripes.
State vs. Forest Chapman, drunk
and disorderly, receiving and possess
ing; four months without stripes,
State vs. Pink Brooks, possessing and
transporting; six months at county,
farm without stripes.
ibroIetsIg
PRISM SENTENCE
Walter Abrams Goes to State Prls.
on for 12 to 20 Years For
Shooting Will Carpenter.
Just before noon Thursday
Judge Shaw, presiding over the
summer term of Superior court
here, sentenced Walter Abrams,
negro truck driver to the state
prison for “not less than 12
years nor more than 20 years.”
The sentence brought to an end
a case that lias kept the colored
gallery filled with spectators and
removed from the court docket the
last case of major importance
during this session.
Abrams, when he came into the
court room was not the same
bouyant, half-impudent negro
that leaned back and took no in
terest as he did in the preliminary
hearing, but instead drooped his
head between his hands and hard
ly looked up during the hearing.
Through his attorneys, O. Max
Gardner and P. Cleveland Gard
ner, he plead guilty to manslaugh
ter and the state accepted the
plea. Evidence was introduced by
both sides, the defense tending to
show that Abrams was attacked
by Carpenter before the kilting
and was afraid Carpenter would
kill him. A change was also made
on the docket entry showing that
Abrams’ name is not Charlie, but
Walter.
It will be remembered that car
penter, who was released trom
the chaingang about 4 o’clock one
Saturday afternoon several weeks
aero, was shot and killed by
Abrams about 10 o’clock thalf
night on the street corner near
the Masonic temple and amid a
large Saturday night crowd of
shoppers, the shooting creating
I quite a bit of excitement. The plot
behind the shooting is supposed
| to be cent red around Carpen
S ter’s wife, with whom Abrams Is
said to have become too intimate
while Carpenter was on the gang.
| Assisting Mr. Nixon in the prose
cution was Hon. Clyde R. Hoey.
—Masonic Notice—Cleveland lodge
No. 202 A. F. and A. M. will meet In
special communication tonight (Fri
day) at 8 p. m. Important business
| come before the lodge, a full altend
‘ ance is urged, ____._.
A. BLANTON GROCERY
TO ERECT BUILDING
Big Wholesale House With Foul
Branches to Erect Modern Brick
Building on W. Marion Street.
Tile A. Blanton Grocery company is
planning to erect on West Marion
street a three-story building for its
own occupancy, the same to front \V.
Marion street 200 feet and extend a
depth of 76 feet, the east end of
which will have a frontage on the,
Southern railway. This property was
recently acquired from the Shelby
Ice and Fuel company and is ideally
situated for wholesale purposes.
Mr. C. S.' Young manager of the
local store says the new building will
cost between $60,000 and $75,000 and
construction work will begin in about
two weeks. No general contract wih
be let, but the masonry, carpentry,
plumbing, roofing, etc., will be lei
separately. The basement will be con
creted and above this floor there will
be two floors for office and stock.
Mill construction will be used and an
electric elevator provided for the
transport of stock. The new building
will have a floor area of 45,000 square
feet which gives this enterprising
company more space than at the pres
ent location. An automatic sprinkler
system will be installed for fire pro.
tection.
The A Blanton company conducts
wholesale grocery houses at Shelby,
Marion, Morganton and Spruce Pine,
and was established some years ago
by A. Blanton. At a meeting of the
stockholders this week the following
officers were re-elected: W. W. Guy,
president; Charles Laughridge and C.
S. Young, vice presidents; R. L Morris
secretary. The same store managers
will continue. A very gratifying year’s
business was reported at the meeting.
License Branch Sells
Many Automobile Tags
Over 5,000 state automobile licenst
tags have been sold here this year,
according to figures computed by
Wade W. Hoey, local manager of the
Carolina Motor club and license
branch. This number runs somewhat
ahead of that last year, figures hav.
ing it that only about 3,500 tags
soid up to this time in 1924.
Ready assistance has been given the
club management in assisting with the
securing of the necessary titles and
local people feel that the branch ofi
fice of the club as directed has been
of much benefit to motorists, not
only in handling title and license tag
matters, but' in dealing 'with othet
ttouiles that facd motorists.
The number of automobiles owned
and operated in Cleveland county and
surrounding section has increased cm*,
isiderably since last year and such a
convenient method of assistance as
that rendered by the motor club and
branch license bureau has become al
most a necessity with car owners,
who speak highly of the methods o?
operating the branch and especially
the smooth method of handling the
title and license tag matters.
Ellenboro To Have
Standard High School
(Special to The Star.)
The drought in this section contin
ues.
Mr. J. R. Green who has been se
riously ill for some time is not any
better.
Miss Gertrude Byers who has been
ill for some time is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wright who have
been living in Forest City are spend
ing the summer in Hendersonville.
The administrators of the D. B.
Harrill estate are" having the lands
of the estate surveyed.
Filling stations in our town eie In
order, Mr. Joe Martin is the latest
to enter the field.
We are to have a yarn mill here.
The necessary stock has been sub
scribed and the company organization
perfected.
We are going to nave a standard
high school at Ellenboro this fall.
The B. Y. P. U. of Ellenboro Bap
tist church is going to give a program
at the Racepath Baptist church Sun
day night.
Miss Cora Lee McDaniel enteitaln
ed anumber of her friends at he*
home Saturday evening.
EF1RD FORCE ENJOYS
PICNIC AT TOLUCA
Efird’s Department force lead by
Manager and Mrs. G. W. Neely left
Thursday at noon for Toluca for an
afternoon outing, all members of the
force going in automobile and taking
lunch w.th them Th°y spent the af
ternoon at Toluca, it being their cus
tom to take an a.i n-u picnic togeth
er. Ji;t year the picr.ic " is held at
Hollis.
Mr. H. M. Pippin left Wednesday
ioi O’ark Ala., tc aoend two week#
i
SPEAKS HERE FRIDAY, AUGUST 21ST
Governor Thomas G. McLeod
Will Be Chief Speaker At Farm Celebration.
Raleigh, July 29.—North Carolina
farmers in the second day of their
23rd annual convention today discov
ered a way to pay their taxes easily
with the full trees of the Lord.
The morning session was dedicated
to the trees. W. W, Ashe, of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture,
came here as district forest agent and
spoke on a land policy for a state
Following him G. H. Collingwood, ex
tension forester of the national depart
ment of agriculture, spoke on “Farm
Forestry Management,” and F. O.
Bartell, drainage investigator of the
\Torth Carolina experiment division,
speaking on the proper way to ter
j race »iid under drain for the improve
ment of soils for crop production,
did not get entirely away from trees.
George Ross, chief of the division of
s markets in Raleigh, was at work with
: his Jackson Springs peach trees am!
unable to come here to tell something
about getting an income from forest
and waste lands, but R. W. Graeben,
of Iredell county, filled in and gavt
i through his work as county agent,
some romantic reports of this forest
saving but forest production for all
that.
Gardner's Paper Read.
President O. Max Gardner was again
trying to save some clients and there
fore unable to attend this convention,
but Cleveland has 200 persons attend
ing and these farmers have come
from a county in which the tillers all
have the right of excathedra pronoun
cement. Mr. Gardner sent his address
down and it was read to the conven
tion. It was far from the resonant
voice of Gardner when reading was
attempted, but it was an interesting
story.1
Since January 1, 1925, Cleveland
has done some big things. In the early
days of the legislative session Mr.
Gardner put through the general as*
sembly giving power to organize ru
ral corporations and as the result of
I that law 485 rural homes of Cleve
i land have installed electricity and
! made it work for them. Mr. Gardner
j called his paper “The White Sieve on
! the Farm.” The picturesque title has
I no reference to n very # loathaom*
trafficker in human morals. The whitd
slave is electricity, a glorified and
shining servant. The address of1 Mr.
Gardner showed that this power Is
perhaps the greatest social and econ
rmic force at work in the county. He
is president of the Cleveland county
board of agriculture under which or.
ganization this program has*been car
ried on. The Clevelanders, therefore,
have come down here \yith something
to talk abouti
Women Have Big Day.
Abuhdantjy supplied with headlin
ers at their first full-d^y session the
farm women of the elate, numbering
400 or more in attendance at the con
vention today, put on a program that
would “stack up” with the best of any
convention anywhere. In addition to
the farm women who recounted their
experiences in home and farm im
provements, contests and campaigns,
and general club work, Dr. Delia Dix
on-Carroll, for 26 years resident phy
sician of. Meredith college and noted
lecturer; President E. C. Brooks, of
State college, and Miss Margaret Am.
brose, state home demonstration
agent, Knoxville, Tcnn., were outs tana
ing speakers of the day in the womens
meeting.
There has never been known such
a gathering of farm women in North
Carolina. Less than a half dozen arc
present who attended the first meet
ing 14 years ago which Mrs. Jane S,
McKimmon recalls with pride as the
beginning of this splendid organiza
tion of women. Since that time many
“Jenny Mac" clubs, some in name, and
all in the spirit of the founder, have
sprung up over the state, until now
30,000 women and girls are uniting
their efforts in club work.
Gilmer Puts On Big
August Furniture Sale
Gilmer’s Department store announ
ces in a full page advertisement in
this issue, a big August furniture
sale to hegin Saturday August 1st.
Extremely low prices have been mark
ed on all merchandise in the furniture
department, including blankets as
well. Gilmer’s furniture department
added last fall, has met with remark
able success. Mr. R. Lee Hamrick,
manager of this department was a re
cent visitor at the High Point furnN
ture show, where he purchased many
new items which will be on display at
an early date.
MASONIC SERMON AT
UNION CHURCH SUNDAY
Rev. J. W. Patton, lecturer for the
Masonic fraternity in North Carolina
will preach a Masonic sermon at
Union Baptist church Sunday morn
ing August 2nd at 11 o’clock. The
public is cordi.d)' ytviteu to he u My.
Pater ____
Lutz Reunion To Be
Held Saturday Aug. 8
The 6th annual reunion of the Luts
generation will be held at Philadel
phia E. L. church Gaston county about
two miles northeast of Dallas on the
lower Lineolnton and Dallas road on
Saturday August 8th, 1925. Following
is the program:
Begining at 10 o’clock, song. Devo
tions hy Rev. W. D. Hnltiwanger, Ad
dress of welcome by Rev. C. K. Rhodes
Response by Rev. B. J. Wessinger.
Our Pioneer Settlers by Rev. \V. A.
Lutz. Song. Address by Hon. J. G.
Carpenter and Hon. B. Capps of Gas
tonia. Song. Short talks by Rev J.
L. Yost and others.
A cordial invitation is extended to
everybody. Come and let us make this
the grandest reunion ever held and
don’t forget that big basket welt fill
ed with good things to eat.
S. E. LUTZ, chairman.
L. H. Lutz, Secretary.
In Bryan Eulogy
Shaw Strikes At
State University
Judge Shaw in a tribute to the
late William Jennings Bryan here
this week before the Cleveland
county grand jury spoke pointedly
on the state university’s stand re
garding the Bible. It was the con
tention of Judge Shaw that those
who attempt to underm in ° the
Bible are also undermining all law,
as nil modern laws are founded on
the Bible. The particular part of
the eulogy as it. touched upon the
university as recorded by n mem
ber of the hat follows:
“There is a publication sent out
from the university which is as
full of agnosticism and atheism as
an egg is full of meat. It has been
said that >10 per cent of the boys
sent out from the university are
atheists, or agnostics. The at
mosphere is there and the presi
dent and instructors make it. They
claim to he searchers after the
truth, free and clear. The people
back home are also free. We ob
ject. to these people guessing at
God's thoughts and then teaching,
their guesses to our boys rs the
truth.
“When these people are all dead
and decayed in their graves we
will still have the hifle.
“Every law we 7mVe in our law
books was founded upon God's
word; our ldw is based upon the
Bible, and if you destroy the Bible,
you by so doing destroy the foun
dation of our law. That’s the at
titude Mr. Bryan took, and it is
correct—the belief of a Christian
world”.
Jonas Elmore Killed
When Struck By Car
Was Leaving Church in Rutherford
When Run Over by Ford Driven
By a Woman.
Rutherford ton, July 29.—Jonn* El
more, well known farmer who resides
about seven miles south of here died
at the Rutherford hospital yesterday
morning as a result of injuries recelv.
ed Friday night while he was leaving
Shiloh Baptist church, where a re,
vival was in progress. He was knock
ed down and run over by a Ford coupe
driven by Mrs. Martin E. Ruppe. His
neck was broken and his body from
his neck down was paralyzed. He was
rushed to the Rutherford hospital and.
was conscious to the end. He was
buried at Shiloh Baptist church,
where he had been a faithful member
for years.
One of t>e largest crowds in the
history of the county attended the
funeral. He was 60 years of uge and
leave* let Widow% six daughters, all at
home, six ■ brothers and four sisters.
He was one of the most liked citizens
of the county and untimely passing
has cast a shadow of gloom over the
county.
Lightning Performs
Some Odd Pranks
Great Falls, Mont., July 29.—
When William Black, 38, a truck
driver was struck by lightning
yesterday in the oil fields near
here, the bolt performed some
freak things. It broke his watch
chain, welded together two silver
dollars in his pocket, tore off both
trouser legs and shoes, and burn
ed his hair. He was unconscious
for two hours but will recover phy
sicians say.
The same bolt set fire to a near,
by oil tank and destroyed it.
Several Appendicitis
Cases At Hospital
Roy Newman, city fireman, and
Giles Webb, of the Webb Brothers
firm, are recovering nicely at the
Shelby hospital following operations
Tuesday morning for appendicities,
Mrs. Luke Brooks, of Cliffside, who
was also operated on the same day, is
recovering. Miss Laulie McMurry, op
erated upon Wednesday morning,
seems to be resting well.
Mrs. Carey Boshamer, who has been
in the hospital for several weeks with
an attack of typhoid fever, was able
to reurn to her home thik weeK.
A number of new patients have
been admitted recently and quite a
number recovered sufficiently to re
turn to their homes during the week
and last week.
DEPUTY BARRETT TURNER
IN DYING CONDITION
Mr. W. Barrett Turner, for 1®
a prominent deputy sheriff under
Sheriffs M. N. Hamrick and Ab Sut
tle, was in a dying condition at. his
home Thursday aiternoon on West
Warren street. Mr. Turner has been
suffering with paralysis and members
of the tamuy uiu not expect him i>
live :b:.. _!•. ‘.lie d?-\ _*_
SOUTHERN TRAINS
10 TERMINAL HERE
Freight and Perhaps Passenger Trains
to Have Terminals Here. Work
men Now Laying Tr^ck.
The Southern railway is erecting s
terminal in South Shelby by provid
ing trackage on several acres o*
ground given sometime ngo by tho
Lily Mill and Power company to tho
Southern railroad ns long as the land
issued for such a purpose. Rumor has
it that freight trnins will make Shel
by ns a terminul and that passenger
trains might also terminal here, thus
adding a dozen or more families of
I railroad men to the population of
Shelby and increasing our passenger
and freight facilities.
Four car loads of material arrived
this week and closely following was a
work train and a crew of hands who
set to work this week grading for the
“Y” and other tracks that will be put
down. No plans have been announced
by the Southern officials but it Is
generally understood that all freight
trains on this division will mainta;n
headquarters here nnd in all probabil
ity some schedule will 1ms worked out
whereby the passenger trains that
now operate between Rock Hill and
Marion will probnbly split up here and
one train operate from Shelby to Cam
den and another from Shelby or Ashe
ville. By extending the passenger serv
ice beyond Rock Hill to Camden, con
nection will be made with the main
line Seaboard north and South and
with Southern trains to Columbia.
It has been understood for some,
time that the Southern planned to put
in a “Y” here so a terminal could be
maintained but the matter did not be
come an assured fact until this week
when the material and workmen ar
rived to set about the job. Passenger
officials have been studying the bus
schedules in and out of Shelby and
in all probability there will come some
change in the passenger service to
meet the competition of the bus lines.
To Have Oil Road
From Shelby To
Morganton On 18
Shelby and Morganton will be join,
ed soon by an oiled sand road of the
latest type, according to information
received here. Preparatory work ftt
the oiling is already underway and
the road. Highway No. 20, crossing
the South Mountains front Cleveland
into Burk^ and opening up Westerii
Carolina’s richest farm section will
be one of the best of its kind in the
\ state. ' . . ‘
According to information obtain,
able all of the road will baoiled vrith
the exception of a 10-mile stretch
ust cut of Morganton, which is a new
road being now under construction.
Aftomey Odus M. Mull several days
ago received a letter from Highway
Commissioner A. M. Kistler, of Mor.
ganton, stating that the road would
be oiled, making of it omTtiF'The best
trans-mountain routes in the state.
Insurance Men Enjoy
Week At Wrightsville
A number of insurance men work
ing for the Security Life and Trust
company left Tuesday for Wrights*
viile Beach to attend a convention,
the trip being given free to agents
who had qualified in the $100,000
club. All of the salesmen connected
with Moore and Leverett, general
agents in this territory make the trip:
M. S. Leverett, C. P. Wilkins, W. T.
Alexander. J. D. Barnett, J. R. Jones,
C. H. Grose and George G. Moore,
while other go?fl?"Trom this district
were O. L. Edwards of Asheville, R.
C. Collins of Hendesonviile, R. L. Ro
land and W. C. Gillespie of Burnsville,
J. W. Antry of Marion, H. R. Walker
of Brevard and J. H. Daniels of For
est City. The Security Life and Trust
company, a North Carolina concern
maintaining' headquarters at Winston
Salem has written $2,515,000 worth
of insurance during the last 12
months. It is one of the youngest, yet
one of the fastest growing life insur
ance companies doing business in
North Carolina.
Colored Fair Book
Of Premiums Is Out
The premium list of the Cleveland
County Colored Fair association has
come from the printing press and con
tains about 25 pages of .cash prizes
that will be awarded at the colored
fair to be held at the fair grounds
October 14, 15, 16, and 17th. Rev. J.
W. Roberts is president of the fait
association, Lester V. Borders is sec
retary and Rev. A. W. Foster is treas
urer. The colored fair will be held aft
er the fair for white people and every
encouragement is given by the white
fair officials to make the colored fair
the largest. jt« kind jc it* ituttj, j
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