YOUR PATRONAGE
Our success as funeral direc
tors has been developed by our
patrons, and our best adver
tisement is word-of-mouth re
commendation. Some of our
customers have been with us for
years. We aim to serve one and
all, rich and poor, alike—to ren
der the very best we know how.!
PARAGON' FURNITURE UO.j
Shelby’s Leading Undertakers '
And Emba Inters.
tf
A CHEAP FARM HAND
For a few cent 4 a day, the
Dayton water system supplies
water to cattle quicker than a
farm hand can pump it. Kitchen
and bathroom have water at a
faucet's turn! It gives real fire
protection, too!
Let us explain how a Dayton
water system will increase your
profits with less work.
SHELBY PLUM BIND CO.
Phone 490. Shelby, N. C
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE.
.Having this day qualified ns ad
ministrator of the estate of M. O.
McIntyre und Mrs. Sara L. McIntyre,
late of Cleveland county, this is to no
tify all parties having claims against|
the said estates to present them prop-i
erly proven to the undersigned on 01 |
before the 10th of August 1926 or
ftbis notice will be pleaded in bar of
any recovery. All persons indebted
to the said estates are notified to
make prompt settlement to the un
dersigned. This August 10th 1925.
w. r. McIntyre,
b. v. McIntyre, admrs. of
estate of M. O. McIntyre. •
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
Having this day qualified as admin
istrator of the estate of Mrs. Jess’®
Allen, decensed, this in to notify all
persons having claims against the
aaid estate to present them to the
•‘undersigned on or before the 0th day
W»f August 1920 or this notice will
'^pleaded in bar of any recovery. All
parties indebted to th<» same estate
Will please make settlement to the un.
designed. This August 0th, 1925.
-••JOHN M. TUCKER. Admr., of the
{Mate of Mrs. Jessie Allen, deceased.
fir-- —
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE.
.^Having qualified as executor of the
last will and testament of L. R.
Bridges, deceased, late of Cleveland
Sjjnty, North Carolina, this is to no
y all persons having claims against
the estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Shelby,
N. C., on or before the twenty-first,
day of July 1926, or this notice will
be oleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment.
~ This July 21, 1925.
C. O. DOTY, Executor of the Inst
Will and Testament of L. R. Bridges,
deceased.
Chtts. A. Burrus, Atty.
PALE, JIERVOUS
Wert Virginia Lady Says That
She Was in a Serious Condi
tion, But Is Stronger After
Taking Cardui.
Huntington. W. Va.—"I was in a
• eery weak and run down condition
—In fact, was in a serious condi
tion," Bays Mrs. Fannie C. Bloss, of
. 1964 Madison Avenue, this city.
"In my left side tko pain was
«rery severe. It would start in my
back and sides. Part of tho time I
was in bed Rnd when ui> 1 didn't
feol llko doing anything or going
anywhere.
"Life wasn’t any pleasure. I
was very pale. I was nervous and
thin, and so tired all the time,
"My druggist told mo that Cardui
waa a good tonic for women and I
. bought a couple of bottle's. I took
two hot ties, then I noticed an im
provement. I kept on and found
ft was helping mo. ] have taken
nine bottles. l’iu stronger now
than i have been in a long tinto.”
Cardui it made from mild-acting
medicinal herbs with a gentlo, tonic,
Strengthening effect upon certain
female organs and upon the svateiu
in general.
NOTICE OF SCHOOL BOND ELEC
TION FOR SHELBY SPECIAL
(HARTER SCHOOL DISTRICT
NO, 33.
Whereas a petition haw been pre
sented to the Board of Aldermen of
the town of Shelby by the Board of
Trustees of Shelby Special Charter
School District No. 33 requesting this
board to order and hold an election in
the territory embraced within the
boundaries of said Shelby Special
Charter School District No. 33, which
are hereinafter set forth, to ascertain
the will of the majority of the quali
fied electors residing in said district
upon the question of issuing the
-hool bonds of aid Shelby Special
Charter School District No. 33 in the
F’lm of two hundred thousand dollars
<’$300,000), for the purpose of acquir
ing, erecting, enlarging, alterin'? and
•equipping school buildings and pur
chasing sites in and for said district,
and on the question of levying a suffi
cient; tax for tjie payment of both the
principal ami the interest on said
bonds as same become due; the metes
and bounds of said Shelby Special
Charter School District No. 33 being
as follows:
Beginning at the junction of the
Hoppers Park Branch with First
Broad river, about three-quarters of
a mile west of the new corporate lim
its of the town of Shelby, N. C., runs
thence up said branch, as it meanders,
to the new city limits; thence with
the eitv limits to the north edge of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway,
theme with the north edge of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway to the
nor! hen ! corner tf Clarence Gard
ner'- farm: thence south with Clarence
Gardner's line to State Highway No.
200, including Clarence Gardner’s
farm; thence southwest with state
Highway No. 206 to old county line
road near Max Wilson's; thence includ
it g Max W ilson’s farm and running
south to the headwaters of Little Hick
ory creek; thence down Little Hickory
creek as it meanders, by Cleveland
Springs to the new city limits; thence
with the new city limits to Big Hick
ory creek: thence down Big Hickory
cm k as it meanders to First Broad
river; thence north up First. Broad
river, ns it meanders, to the bine
Don of Hoppers Park branch, which
is the point, of beginning; the same
including all of the town of Shelby and
the inscribed territory adjoining
same. 1
Now, therefore, the Hoard of Al
dermen of the town of Shelby, at it';
ro-nlar meeting duly anseinb'uii and
held August 4, 1924, do hereby grant
said petition and order that an elec
tion be held in and for said district,
with voting place ip the court house
of (’lev’l lnd county, in the town of
Shelhv, N. CL within said district, on
Tuesday, the 29th Dn» of September,
A. I)., 1925,
for the purpose of ascertaining the
will of the duly qualified electors
within said Shelby Special Charter
School District No. 33 upon the ques
tion of issuing school bonds of said
Shelby Special Charter School Dis
trict No. 33 in the sum of two hun
dred thousand dollars ($200,000) for
the purpose of acquiring, erecting, en
larging, altering and equipping school
buildings and purchasing sites in and
fot1 said school district, and the levy
ing of asufficient tax for the payment
of both*the principal and interest on
su'd bonds as same become due.
It in further ordered that a new
registration of the voters residing
within snid Shelby Special Charter
School District No. 33 be hod and that
the registration books shall be kept
open for the registration of duly
modified electors for twenty davs,
Sundays excepted, preceding the day
for the closing of same, and that- ftp id
books shall be opened for Vegisuation
(in Friday, August 28tji and closed
on Saiiirdnv, $«Ptomber 19, 1925, and
■hat on each Saturday during the pe
riod of registration the registrar shall
have tlie said registration books at the
polling place in, said district for the
registration of voters, and that on the
day of the election the polls shall be
oven from sunrise to sunset, and snid
election shall be held, canvassed and
the results declared, in the manner
provided by law.
1* ir, further ordered that, after the
closing of the noils, the registrar and
noil holders shall duly certify under
their hands the number of the duly
registered and qualified voters in the
aid Shelhv Special Charter School
District No. 33 and the number of
votes cast at said election for, and ihe
number of votes cast at said election
principal and interest of the bonds as
of 'ehool bonds, and the levy and col
left ion of the tax sufficient to pay
principal and interest ofthe bonds as
sanie become due, and certify same to
tlie Board of Aldermen of the town of
Shelby for canvass and judicial de
termination of the results as provided
by law. ' **
It is further ordered that T. 0. F,sk
ridee be. aed be is hereby anpointed.
registrar of said election, and that be
be furnished with a cony of this order,
and that C. A. Morrison and J. F.
Ledford he. and they are hereby ap
pointed. judges of said election.
It is further ordered that at said el
ection those who are in favor of the
issuance rf t'vo hundred thousand
dollars <*200 0001 school bonds of said
district for the purpose of acquiring,
erecting, enlarging. altering and
eouinnini' school buildings and pnr
ebiisino ^'Oes in and for said Shelby
Special (’barter School District No.
,‘t:t -n,| in favor efthe levying of a tax.
sufficient for the payment of both
*h> principal and interest of sn'd
hoody |,s s»eip become due. shall vote
a ballot with the words and figures
written or printed thereon to-wit
“For the issuance of $200 000 School
Ronds and Levyin»- of a sufficient, tax
for the payment thereof.” and ’hose
opposed thoroto shnl| vote a written ,
Or piloted ballot with the words iher"
op “Against the isspipee of 5200,020
OeVmot hopd - and the levying of a s"f
fic;-n’ t-'x for the opvoicnt thereof”.
That if "* said election e majority
of ’hi rnialif*°d electors shall vote for,
or in favo- cf the i«ovan."i» of *200,000
iihaol bo”ds and the levy of a gpf
ficient ’av ’o nay same. then said
h-h»n ho jss’-od "nd saI^ ps nre
vided hv low »nd when thus issued
and sold sh»U he and constitute the
vpUd sort h’ldip" oh’tgpMon of th*
'•old tihelhy S"»cial t imr.t i ^ct.oot
It is further ordered that due pub
lication** of this order, and of said
election and new registration, be made
by publishing this order in The Clev
eland Star once a week for four suc
cessive weeks, the first publication to
be made on Tuesday, August 25th,
1925.
A. P. WEATHERS, Mavor, Tjwn of
Shelby.
Mrs. Oscar M. Suttle, Clerk to the
Board of Aldermen, Town of Shelby.
, /
North Carolina—Cleveland County.
It is hereby ordered by the Board
of County Commissioners of Cleve
land county, N. C., that the foregoing
order of election made by the Board
of Aldermen of the Town of Shelby on
August 4. 1925, for an election in and
I for the Shelbv Special Charter School
I District No. .TJ on September 29. 1925,
i up op the question of issuing $200,000
bonds of said district and the levy and
collection of a tax sufficient to pay
I same, be and the same is hereby ap
i proved and adopted, and said order
j and every part of same is hereby made
I the order cf the Board of County Com
| missioners of Cleveland County.
This August 4, 1925.
I R. Lee Weathers, Cleik to the
. Board of County Commissioners of
I Cleveland County, N. C.
---
Wanted—The Man.
(From News and Observer.)
Governor McLean properly scores
antiquated county government. Gov
ernor Morrison did the same. Gover
nor McLean proposes a commission to
effect reforms. So did Governor Mor
rison. The best remedy is the Pitt
county system carried out systemati
cally. This means that no system is
good without county commissioners
who give their time and who are fit
ted by knowledge to conduct the busi
ness of a county efficiently.
One trouble is that the county of
ficers, whose work must be supervis
ed by the commissioners, receive full
time pay, while their superiors are
paid u per diem for a few days in the
year. The chnirman of the board
should be a full-time official, well
paid, given more power, and held to
i strict responsibility.
But, no matter what the law or the
regulations, no system will work well
unless you find the right kind of men
to administer it.
Wanted—the man. That’s Che need.
The Alexander Gift.
(From Rutherford Sun.)
The gift, or move of Mr. J. F.
Alexander in helping Round Hill
Academy to become a great and in
dustrial school and home for mother
less children is far reaching and will
mean much for this county. A stand
ard high school is needed at Round
Hill. An Industrial school fills a most
important place in our modern life
It. trains boys and girls for ’ some
thing definite in life. Vocation train
ing is needed. Boys And. girls need to
be taught a trade or profession.
The opportunity for poor boys and
girls to go to school, or work their
way through will mean that many a
boy or girl will develop their talents,
who otherwise would not. It means
a greater opportunity for some of
our young people.
The home for motherless children
is greatly needed. It should prove
very useful. It will mean better train
ing and advantages for many a child.
Mr. Alexander is to be highly com
mended for his foresight and gener
osity. |
__i t—
The Price of Raw Rubber.
(Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
The rubber squeeze to which Great
Britain is at present subjecting Amer
ica is of the very essence of economic
warfare. No matter how leniently
Americans may be disposed to regard
it, there is bound to grow up an ever
pressing demand for some sort of re
prisal. Most Americans probably re
aline that the British attempt to take
advantage of their virtual monopoly In
the world's rubber supply is perfectly
legitimate from a commercial point
of view. They further realize that
only through trade profits can Great
Britain pay her war debt to thq
United States. But the feeling is un
doubtedly growing that these profits
should not be made so exclusively at
the expense of American consumers
ana mai a similar muvi: uu uiv h*1*
of the United States to return the com
pliment would not be out of place. We
mifrht, for instance, squeeze the
British on cotton. If it came to this,
economic war would be on in earnest
and the situation would become truly
menacing:. This possibility is giving
the British government something to
think about, as well it may.
Leaving footprints on the sands of
time is considered harder than leav
ing finger prints at the police sta
tion.
Some people get frantic every time
they sec a little of the world.
For Sale By
C. C. GREEN,
Shtlhx N l!
#
CRITICISM OF DR. POTEAT’S BOOK
AND HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTION
Squire J. Z. Falls has asked The
Star to produce the following criti
cism of Dr. Poteat’s book which
criticism he thinks is interesting lo
cally because of the statement which
Judge Shaw made in the Cleveland
Court in regard to the number of
agnostics and atheists being turned
out by t^ie universities:
The very title, “Can a Man Be a
Christian Today?-' impresses one se
riously as to why such a question is
necessary, and what conditions have
prevailed making the question neces
sary, and what has brought about
such conditions.
Evidently the author- has actually
seen or seriously anticipated appall
ing conditions confronting the work
of the church and of the school, or he
would not have asked the question.
I think the Doctor has given a clue
for the reason of the question by
what he says following, “I am concern
ed most of all to inquire whether your
culture is going to be at home with
your religion.” Then follows the most
astounding and lamentable admiss
ion: “It (culture) is likely to intoxi
cate a spirited youth and absorb his
enthusiasm.” And then asks, “Will it
dim and put out the candle of the
spiritual life?” And then “Is religion
still possible?” “Can a man bo a
Christian today?"
He also asks, concerning the at
mosphere of the time, “Is it favorable
and friendly, or chilling and hostile
to the faith of our fathers?” My
reader, we are living in terrible limes
if such quest:ons as the above are
necessary.
If “Culture cannot be at homo” with
the young student’s religion, what
kind of “culture” must it be ” The
writer has carefully read Dr. Po
teat’s book, and shall endeavor to re
frain from unnecessary and harsh
criticism. I cannot agrc'. at all with
the “doctrine of protoplasm and the
doctrine of evolution” as set forth i.n
the book, which I consul;? absolutely
contrary to the plain teaching of
Genesi-.. ", he ‘ one cel!' protoplasmic i
them-. is :! e heart and core of I he
book, which 0 cory the author sets]
forth on pages 10 and 20 saying,!
“When life first rises to view it is i
lodged in a tiny cell. It is frail and
simple and poorly equipped. But she j
(nature) takes it to her bosom,;
warms and guards it, feeds it with
opportunity, establishes and diversi
fies it with struggle, until alga (a sea
weed) and moss and fern and rose,
infusor and worm and insect and bird,
and man, respond to her (nature)
mother yearning from every nook of
her wide domain!”
Here the author classes man with
worms infusoria (the smallest worms |
or animals found in decaying sub-!
stances.) Notice carefully, for I do
not desire to misrepresent or misin- j
terpret the doctrine, or position the j
author takes. The author says all life,
including man, was “frail and simple
and poorly equipped,” when the Bible
says “God made the beast of the
earth after his kind, and cattle after
their kind, and everything that creep
eth upon the earth after his kind:
And God saw that it was good.” And
yet the author says they were “frail,
simple, and poorly equipped.” God
said, “Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness, and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that ereepeth
upon the earth.” Genesis 1:25-26.
I have just read for the second time
the book “The Direction of Human
Evolution,” by Prof. E. G. Conklin, of
Princeton University, which book Dr.
Poteat highly recommends, and Conk
lin says that man became man one to
two million years ago. Conklin says,
“From primitive protoplasm has de
veloped all the fultitudes of living
things which inhabit the globe, in
cluding man.” Pages 175-176.
In order for the record of Genesis
to harmonize with Dr Poteat’s proto
plasmic theory, the theory set forth
in his book and his lectures, Genesis
should read thus, “And God said, Let
us make the amoeba in our image
and likeness, and let the amoeba
make or bring forth all living things,;
including man, and in a few million
years, when evolution evolves a man,
I will give him dominion over his an
cestors.” Of course he must first
lose his tail (which Dr. Poteat says
he has) before he could be suitable
for a ruler over all beasts and*creep
ing things with tails.
You will recall that Dr. Poteat said,
“I believe that God created all things,
man, animals, included, by the meth
od of evolution and there I stand and;
cannot help it.” I think I have cor-;
rectly quoted him. Referring to the
doctrine of protoplasm the Doctor
says, “That doctrine declares that, i
its essential properties and powers,
protoplasm is the same, wether in the
form of an amoeba, performing all
the functions of animal life, without
organs (impossible,) or a germ-cell
carrying in its microscopic dimensions
its freight of a thousand heriditary •
traits, or a brain cell thrilling with a I
high emotion.” “By this doctrine all
the living world was unified in sub- !
stance is by the evolution doctrine it
was unified in mode of origin.” Pages
20, 21.
Does the reader comprehend the 1
deep and far-reaching significance of
the above saying? Read and ponder
it over carefully. Dr. Poteat says “By
this doctrine,” that is, the one cell,
protoplasmic amoeba theory, “all the
living world was unified in sub
stance. While the Bible says that “all
flesh is not the same flesh: But (there
is) one flesh of men, and another
flesh of beasts, and another of r u
(and) another of birds.” (u! ~8hes
thians 15:39.) Hence, we see L h’"'
tor >s mistaken when he ,saVs "all
livnif? world was unified in snh„ the
But h;, (oli„„i„g ,t.«
honoring to God the g,„, r ° “
where he says that “Bv the i . •
doctrine it (life) was unified in^n
of origin,” when the Biblical r dc
says, “God breathed into hM
nostrils the breath of life.” (Gpn?,*
We see by the Biblical record 7i;7
there is no unification of “substance
in living things, nor is there unin
tion of “origin” of life by the
plasmic evolution method, hut Lth
by the direct creative act of God- tl
"•‘o' ** a* «h. u> at
light, and there was light, before h!
created the sun. He, by His f
brought light into existence, and uS
that method, if I may term it a meth
od when He made all living thin^
and decreed that they should renrn
duce every thing “After its kind •’
and “multiply in the earth.” Beloved
reader, how restful, trustful hone
ful and comforting is the faith that
can enable one to pillow his head on
the simple Word of God as he finds
it, and believe it with all his heart
It requires no stretch of imagina
tion to believe the Bible record. The
Bible record harmonizes with all We
have ever observed in both the ani
mal and vegetable kingdom. That is"
that every thing produces “after its
kind,” and not that the amoeba
brings forth all kinds; that all life
originated in the Amoeba, and that
all animate life sprang from the
amoeba. The one-cell protoplasm
theory is the theory the evolution
scientist has adopted. It is the theory
set forth in Dr. Poteat’s book and
lectures.
S. J. BETTS.
Vice-president Dawes is trying to
tramp on the senatocs.
We never could understand what
some autoists are driving at.
Mation-Wide
Institution
You Are Invited to the
Opening of
when another link will be added to our long
chain of 676 Department Stores in the
United States.
See announcement in this newspaper
Friday of our money-saving values.
/7 ration-wide
INSTITUTION
enney1
kr DEPARTMENT STORES
Corner Washington and Marion Streets
Masonic Temple Building, Shelby, N. C.