CLEVELAND COUNTY LEADS ALL COUNTIES IN AMERICA IN LIGHTENING FARM LABOR WITH ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS. paid-up circulation Of This Paper Is Greater Than The Population Given Shelby In The 1920 Censua leheland tar RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section, Modern Job Department, VOL- XXXIII. No. 68 THE CLEVELAND STAR. SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1925 $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE f TIE CENSUS BE NEXT WEEK ,„r Shelby Will Soon Know Her (,realir * • T Nicholas, Pooulation **• » Supervisor of Census Ar rives For Work Greater Shelby will soon know her rnmmerce, bureau of census, Wash 0 . „ n c and is planning to take bcBinninC T««lay Sept. I.: right or ten enumerators will be c ured locally to the census Ser the direction of Mr. Nicholas, £ supervisor and those who wish to Inn 1 v for jobs are asked to report at the City Hall not later than Satan (hv From the number who report, eight or ten people will be selected and instructions given them as to the methods of getting the desired in f°Mrat Nicholas has been making a survey of the town with Mayor Weathers and will divide the city m to districts with an enumerator for each district so there will be no over lapping or missing Having the census taken under the direction of a bureau supervisor makes the report official and thereby very valuable in manv ways. Some time ago the question ot taking the census aftei the boundaries of the town were em larged, were discussed and endorsed bv the Kiwanis club but not until now could the census bureau send a man to this territory. . The co-operation of the people is absolutely necessary to get a correct line on the number of people within the present corporate limits of the town and Mr. Nicholas askes the < flVzens to facilitate the work as much as possible. He thinks it will require three or four days to make the official county. The preliminary figures will be given out as soon as the work is completed. There is much speculation as to Greatei Shelby's population. Some estimate a> low as 7,000, while others place the estimate as high as 9,000. Tht» census will not be broad in its scope as the official government census taken every ten years, but will show only the number of people by sex and color. Mooresboro Youth Dies In Charlotte Andy Goode, ir., 31-veer-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Goode who live two miles west of Mooresboro died in the Charlotte Sanitorium Wednes day night where he had be°n a pa tient for thre weeks suffering with Daralvsis. While working in Spartan liurg he was stricken some weeks ago and his condition has been glowing from bad to worse, eujjninating in his death in Charlotte. Mr Goode has been selling real estate, fruit trees and life insurance. He volunteered in the world war and was r» young man of spkndid traits of character. His bodv was brought home Thursday and will he buried at Race Path flautist Church Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock, the funeral services to be conducted hy his pastor, Rev. M. Rollings. Sur viving are his parents and the fol low ng brothers and sisters, Eddie, hol'ie. Robert. Roland, Russel War rie, George Albert, May, Alma, Ger trude and Velma. Young Mr. Goode was engaged to be married about the time he was stricken with paralysis. Silver Child Dies In Saluda Hospital John Reid Silver, 11-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Silver, ot ( legg street, died at the hospital in Saluda Wednesday night at 11:30. The funeral services were held at the home here Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, conducted by Rev. Rush Padgett, pastor of the Second Bap tist church, assisted by Rev. C. B. "ay, Pastor of the Methodist Prot fcstant church. Interment was in Sunset cemetery. The child had been at the hospital for a treatment for one month prior to his death. The parents have the sympathy of their many friends and neighbors in their bereavement. rirst Bale Of Cotton Turned To Association Tho first fiaje cotton turned in to e co-operative cotton Growers As sociation this year came from the W. • alton farm at Lattimore. It was () only the first cotton association th <‘Jn C!eveland county, but perhaps rst in this part of the state, ac r mg to Mr. Forrest McGill, dis ''n, representative. The bale eig ited about 400 pounds and the” r r,°Wn **y Mr. C. W. McCurry on alton farm. An advance of $65 as received. On bales weighing 500 more pounds +h«> ad’^nco j« *v»!f Wins Seven Prizes This short ho: a bull, “Sv.intQn n-’cenr," won first and Supreme Cfcnnv Ji°n, and in ail seven prizes, at the Vorksh Ensr.. Agricuituiv.l : aety c 7sth annual show. He m ««u.v, Major Clive Behrens, VwUUi.c Poultrymen Spend Day in County With Local Breeders. Visit Fair Grounds. — A joint meeting of the poultry breeders of Cherokee county. South j Carolina, and the members of the Cleveland County Poultry association was held here Tuesday. The joint meeting was featured by a demon stration and get-to-gether held at the poultry exhibit hall at the fair grounds. A part of the day was spent by the •11 chicken-fanciers from Gaffney and surrounding section in visiting the. leading poultry plants of Cleveland. Among the plants visited in the coun ty were those of B. Austell, at Earl; Lawrence Hawkins, the boy breeder at Double Springs, and the Cherokee Poultry Farm, owned bv Mr. T. C. Hitchcock. About 2 o’clock in the afternoon the South Carolina delegation with about 50 members of the local association journeyed to the county fair grounds where local breeders had assembled birds and a general demonstration was held at which entries were discussed. Prominent breeders explained the out standing points about preparing and arranging birds for exhibit purposes and how to tell if the birds would bo disqualified. Following the demon stration and discussion refreshments were served to visitors by local j breeders. j During the demonstration work short talks were made by Agent S. C. Stribling, who was in charge of the Cherokee delegation here; County Agent Lawrence, Rev. John W. Sut tie, able head of the local association, Dr'. J. S. Dorton, secretary of the Cleveland County Fair, and Mr Johnston, secretary of the Gaffney chamber of commerce and the Chero kee fair. Dr. Dorton and Rev. Mr. Suttle urged the South Carolina breeders to enter birds at the coming fair, while spokesmen for the visitors extended an invitation to local breeders to attend and take part in their fair. The tour of the entire day seemed to be well received by the visitors and local breeders were enthusiastic in having the delegation visit the county and inspect plants and the poultry ex hibit building, termed by many as the best in the section. Bessemer City Club Here On Saturday The management of the Shelby baseball club announces that the re juvenated Bessemer City team will play the locals here Saturday after noon at the city ball park. The Bes. semer outfit has ben reorganized and is now considered a strong semi-pro outfit. The local club, not breaking any speed limits in recent contests, is expected to recover from a general slump with Saturday’s game, which is not on the regular schedule. By next week Shelby is expected to be back in the fast stride that marked local victories early in the season. The onlv league game scheduled tot the local diamond next week is the one Saturday with Newton. However, fans are asked not to forget the good game expected with Bessemer this Saturday Ladies at this game uVi *.o clierged r Dead Man Comes To Life Again New York, Aug. 25.—For the second time in 12 years Patrick Donahue, 61, inmate of St. Joseph s home for the aged, was declared dead today. Donahue collapsed in the street near the home. Dr. Holt, of New York hospital, declared hTn. dead and the body was taken to the station house. The home of ficials notified Dr. Edward Donlin, attending physician there. “When the body is taken away by an un dertaker,” Dr. Donlin told police “caution the undertaker not to em balm or otherwise prepare it foi burial for several hours. Donahue was taken to the Fordham mor-. gue as dead 12 years ago and com-, pletely fooled the physicians,” ac cording to Dr. Donlin, Donahue was picked up in the street at tht. time he was taken to the morgue and lay on a slab several hours Then lie suddenly came to life and walked into the attendant’s room. Weathers And Sons Get Local Contract Eight Bids Submitted On Septic Tank And Outfall Running From $12, 800 to $22,267. Z. B. Weathers and Sons, local con tractors were awarded the contract Tuesday of this week by the city of ficials for a septic tank and outfall at their bid of $12,815.60. There were seven bids submitted by contractors in Spartanburg, Forest City, Charlotte, Hickory, Fayetteville and Gastonia, the highest bid being $22,267.08. The peptic tank will be constructed three quarters of a mile below the present tank in southwest Shelby and the city officials are now engaged in securing property rights from landowners in that section. This is one of the first steps taken by the town in improving the present water and sewer system which is to he taken care of by a bond issue of $200,000 authorized a few weeks ago. Weathers and Sons, local contractors will begin work in a few' days and must complete the same in three months from date of contract letting. Piedmont Alumni To Gather On Saturday The annual Piedmont High School alumni banquet will be held Satur day, August 20, at Lawndale at the site of the well known institution. A large number of alumni, loyal to their old school, will gather there for a general get-together and renewing of old ties with the spirit that has marked the success of the school. In the morning there will be short exercises in the auditorium at which time alumni will celebrate the com pletion of the handsome new school building with its modern equipment. Following the big annual picnic din ner there will be short impromptu talks by alumni and others with no set program of speeches or addresses. The school organized something like a quarter of a century ago has turned out many prominent men and women, many of whom will be present at the alumni banquet. Most arctic explorers get in hot ;Wi Vi rv: '.i i • hi. Many Improvements (Joins <>n at Fair Grounds. Event Heins Discussed With Premium Lists Out. It will lie a month Saturday before the “b-i-n-g-o” ballyhoo is heard on the Cleveland county fair ground** and the farmers of Western Carolina be gin to gather here for the state's largest county fair, but out on the fair grounds on the Kings Mountain highway things are abustle. Improve men's, additions, and preliminary pre parations are being madp. There may be pessimism abroad in the land, but there is nothing but optimism express ed in the fair plans—several thou sand more than the great gathering of last year, 70,000 folks, are ex pected this fall. That’s some expectation. However, preparing to accommodate such a gathering is the main work at the fail grounds now. Around the Track. . The biggest change. perhaps, ib taking place around the half mile race track. The grandstand has been enlarged so as to seat more of the folks crowding in to sec the speeding horses; grandstand box seats have been added, a press box constructed with a new stand for the judges just across the track from the stands and facing the thousands who will listen for the announcement of the winners. The 5-foot addition to the grand, stand will seat some 500 additional people, while the 28 box seats will take care of 264 more, the total seat ing capacity now being between 2,200 and 2,500. Much of the dirt in the infield is be ing removed so that those in the stands and around the rail may see the horses as they pass all around the track. The levelling of the infield adds another advantage, alanding field foi the airplanes that will hover around during the five big days. At the poultry exhibit building the interior has been remodelled and is now regarded by Rev. John W. Subtle, head of the poultry department, and Dr. Frank Lackey as the best poultry show building in the state. A new rest room for the ladies, with all con veniences, is being constructed near the exhibit buildings. New horse and cattle stalls and a livestock pavilliori have been added with 15 more new stalls for the race horses. All the stands have been placed around the outside turn of the track below the fill and the midway of the big Nat Reiss shows will cover the entire cleared interior of the grounds. Fair Being Talked. With the ttate—Sjeptelhbef 29. 30 October 2, 3—noafr at hand the fair is becoming the main topic of eonversa tion over the county, farmer.! and their wives are making visits to the fair grounds, planning and arranging for exhibits; inquiries are coming in about the races, special shows and ex hibits, and much interest is being shown in general. The premium lists, published by The Star Publishing company, were off the press this week and are in demand not only in this county, but in many adjoining coun ■ ties. Signs, banners and other advertis- 1 ing matter are being scattered far and wide. Bus lines operating in and out of the county are carrying banners while private cars are being decorat ed with pennants announcing the date. Dr. Dorton, secretary of the fair, is al ready devoting the major portion of his time to the coming event of the farm world in this section and the outlook now is that the Cleveland County Fair this year will again be the talk of the farming South. Dr. Hoyt Dixon Will Open Offices Here The two front offices on the sec ond floor of the Hose store building, ond floor of the Rose store building, rented by Messrs. R. Z. Riviere and Garnett M. Cox, the owners, to Dr. Hoyt C. Dixon, dentist. Dr. Dixon, w'ho is a native of this county and well know’n in the section, plans to oc cupy the offices at a early date and open up a dental practice here. He is a graduate of the Atlanta Dental col lege and comes here well recommend ed and with the best wishes of his many friends in the city and county. Dr. E. A. Houser, who has hereto, fore occupied offices in the Riviere drug store will occupy two of the oth er offices in the building. The two remaining offices have not as yet been definitely rented, according to the ow'ners. The stairway to the office floor of the building has been moved tothe front and the new offices opened up will prove quite an addition to the business section. Making good is the thing that goes farther than looking good. The upper world gets the creu.. i&j •’'in ■ ■ •'1: • .. . Textile Plants Here Close Tuesday In Water Shortage All textjlc plants in Cleveland county will lit* shut down lrom 6 o’clock, Tuesday morning;, September 1. until 6 o’rlodk Wednesday morning;, September 2, conforming with orders from the Southern Power Company, which furnishes power for around 1)6 per cent, of the plants in the county The day shut-down is due to the water shortage in the section brought in by a long drought and will continue each week until rains come in suffi cient quantity to ennblc the power plants to return to regular production. Other counties in Zone 1 that will close Tuesday with Cleveland are Rutherford, Lincoln, Catawba, Iredell, Cald well and Burke, and Cherokee and ■ Spartanburg counties in South Carolina. The day of closing in Cleve land alone will put 5,000 or more textile workers out of work for the day. The city of Shelby so far is not suffering from the drought nnd water shortage and as yet no deep alarm is felt, not enough, at least, to call for a curtailment in the use of water although water users are asked to be as econom ical as possible. However, ow ing to the low water in Second Broad river, from which the city water is derived, it has been necessary to turn the bed of the stream towards the intake so that the proper amount of water may be secured daily. Can’t Make Uniform * Telephone Rates Here Major R. B. Rabington on the Other Hand May Ask for Increase in Telephone Rates. Major R. B. Babington, manager of the Piedmont Telephone and Tele graph Company was a Shelby visitoi this week, calling on Mayor A. P. Weathers with reference to the re guest on the part of the city officials that the Piedmont Company allow its uniform telephone rates within the old incorporate limits of the town to aply to the subscribers in the newly added territory. Major Babington says it will be impossible for him to extend the same rate charges to thosa who live beyond the old three-quart ers of a mile limit and that on the other hand the telephone rates hi Shelby are lower than in other towns of like size and th^t when the present contract expires with the town at $2 for straight line residence and $3 for straight line business pippes, heemay ask the town or the stali c6a*iiorttion commission for the privilege ji an advance. Contracts for the present rates was signed about 191 P thtfrates to be charged “within the corporate limits” of the town of Shelby. The limits having been extended since that time, the city officials are making an effort to have the same rates-ap ply to all. Under the present ar rangement there is an extra charge of so much for each quarter of a mile distance beyond the old city limits. Major Babington says there are over 900 telephone subscribers on the present switchboard. Broad River Kennel Club Meets Saturday I)o>r Owners of Section To Make Flans For Annual Show At Cleveland County Fair This Year. The Broad River Kennel Club-will hold a meeting in Shelby, Saturday August 20, at 2 p. m. The meeting will be held in the court house and ib called by W. W. DePriest, president, and Dr. R. McBrayer, secretary. The object of this meeting is three fold; first, to perfect plans for our Annual Dog Show, to be held at the Cleveland County Fair next month. It will be necessary that additional quarters be secured in which to hold the show. This matter must be tak en up with the Secretary of the Fair at once by the Club. The Secretary and Treasurers re port is to be read and someone elect ed in Dr. McBrayer’s place, because of his lack of time to attend to the many duties of this office. There has been some little misun derstanding about the premiums that will be gone into fully at this meet ing, and all premiums will be paid promptly thereafter. All members are urged to be pre sent and to bring any friends that la interested in better dogs. ICE CREAM SUPPER AT HOLLIS SCHOOL, AUGUST 29. There will be an Ice cream suppei at Hollis school Saturday night Au gust 2uth. Proceeds benefit Ho.u* DECBEAS M CDUfTYTdX WLUES TO Body Of Hoyle Is Buried At Arlington The body of Edgar VV. Hoyle, prom inent young Bel wood man who took hi* life last week at West Point, New York, was buried Monday in the na tional cemetery at Arlington, near Washington, I). C. Mr. Hoyle, it will be remembered was nnothed victim of the world war. Although the war has been over since 1918, Mr. Hoyle was a victim of melancholia brought on because of the gruesome task he-per formed while in service overseas. He belonged to a detachment that buried dead soldiers and upon his return the awful experience he had to undergo overseas so preyed or. his mind that he would lapse into periods of abso lute quiet and hardly converse with closest members of his family tor days at a time. Recently he joined the army at Washington assigned to an engineer ing corps and was dispatched to West Point where soon thereafter his bony was found in the Hudson r'cer. His brother Hugh Hoyle of Relwood went to West Point and found that two gashes were inflicted on his wrist. Whether he was drowned or died from the self-inflicted wounds is not known. Investigation as to how he met his death is still under way. His valinnt service overseas entitled him to bur ial at the National Cemetery at Wash ington. Young Hoyle was unmarried. Penney Department Store Opens Friday All is set for the opening of the J. C. Penney Company department store in the Masonic Temple building Fri day from 9. a. m. to 9 p. m., making another link in the Penney chain of 676 stores in the United States. Flow ers will be given to the ladies who call, while the children will receive a souvenir each. The beautiful shew windows present a wide variety of merchandise which this store will sell. A Lambson cash carrier system has been installed to reach every depait ment in the store which is connected with the cashier’s desk. The person nel of the store for the present is E. E. Scott, manager, C. L. Hager of Belmont, assistant manager, Gerald McBrayer, men’s wear and furnish ings, Mrs. Ora Davis, readyto-wear, Mrs. Archie Archer, piece goods, ,Mrs. J. D. MeBser, piece goods and notions, Misft Elsie Hardin, notions and toilet goods. Hamrick Is Awarded Playmakers Honors Harrill Hamrick, son of Pr. and Mrs. T. G. Hamrick, who has been at tending summer school at the Univers ity of North Carolina has been award ed a pin to wear as a badge of honor in recignition of his talent as an ac tor in “The Poor Little Rich Girl" staged recently at Chapel Hill. Out of the class of summer school pupils, twenty were selected to stage this play and at the close of the season Mr. Hamrick was one of five out of the twenty in the cast to receive a pin. “The Poor Little Rich Girl" was the fifth studio production by the Carolina Playmakers and was written by Eleanor Gates. Mr. Hamrick pluy ed the' part of Thomas, and did his part well. He will return to Shelby in a few days and resume his work as a public school teacher. Maj. A. L. Bulwinkle On Visit To Shelby Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle, of Gastonia was a visitor in Shelby Wed nesday and Thursday. There was nothing of political significance in the visit of the popular congressman, the visit being with friends and support ers of this city. The big district Moose picnic sched uled to have been held Wednesday aft ernoon at Cleveland Springs at which Mr. Bulwinkle was scheduled for an address was postponed by Moose of ficials. Senator Cole Blease, of South Carolina, was also on the picnic pro gram. Both Mr. Bulwinkle and the noted South Carolinian are members of the Moose. Thursday evening at Cleveland Springs Congressman Bul winkle made an address before a ban quet of the Luther League, which is in annual session at Kings Mountain. HOEY WILL SPEAK AT EDUCATIONAL MEETING Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby will be one of the speakers at the meeting of the South Piedmont dls. trict of the North Carolina Educa tional Association to be held in Charlotte October 23-24. Mr. Hoey will speak on “The Need of More Normal Schools.” Quite a number of well known educational leaders will also speak at the meeting, which will be attended by teachers and edocv '*!• ,|«i| TfwrV Income Tax Schools Will Fall Shy Of Op erating Expenses. Last year there was an increase ot around two million dollars in tax val lies in Cleveland county, but this yea* with a decrease in tax values of about nne million the operating expenses of the schools of Cleveland county will exceed all income by approximately $10,000, according to estimated bud gets made in the office of County Su perintendent J. C. Newton. In making the new tax levy the Commissioners planned to equalize the school operating system, but the bud get shows that although the levy would huve equalized the expense and income accounts of the big achool system, the decrease in tax valuation will still leave some $10,000 to reckon with. However, the actual budget of the schools is assured by the chair man of the county commission, A, B Cline, and the commissioners. Another increase in school expense is that ofthe graduated salary system, which means about $8,000 additional ex pense through teachers salaries an* nually. The state graduated salary schedule allows $5 per month increase in salary each year for teacher With 200 white and 64 colored teachers in the county this schedule totals around the eight thousand mark for the year. Added to that is the increased salary schedule each year for teachers who attend summer school and have their certificates increased. Teachers' Salaries $192,777.57. The total salary fund for the teach ers of all the schools in the county for the six months term is $192,777.57. Operating and equipment expenses of the schools for the year totals $44,310 which makes the entire county school expenses annually total $237,087.57. The income derived for schools from county tax totals about $195,235.77 aft er 3 per cent, has been deducted for collecting. To this is added $5,987 I from the state equalizing fund and the $25,000 derived from poll tax, dog tax and penalties, making an inconw ; total of $226,222.77, which is $l0,~ : 864.80 less than the estimated expense ' and salary budget. Objects of Expenditures. School expenditure outside of salar ; ies, as estimated in the budget for the l period follows: Traveling expense County superintendent_: _$ 50.00 Traveling exp. County Board education ___ 50.00 ! Clerical-- ---- 1,080.00 Office exp.__r 100.00 Salary or com. of Co. Trees. 750.00 i Fuel______ 4.480.00 | School supplies___- 500.00 Insurance ___1_-_ 500.00 &ent . jHl.:' •100.00 Transportation ,__ 6,500.00 Minor repairs „_ 500.00 Home Dem. Agt._ 600.00 New buildings_. _12,000.00 Repairs__—__ 2,000.00 Furniture and apparatus — 1.000.06 Rural libraries_ 200.00 Trucks___ 76.00 City Schools. Oneratinr and Equipment Fund. Shelby - 3,500.00 Kings Mountain__ 2,500.00 Total .. ...$44,310.00 College Trained Teachers. According to figures made by Su perintendent Newton over one-fourth of the white teachers of the county are college or normal trained. Five eights of all the teachers are high school graduates, while only three., fortieths of the 200 teachers have less than a high school education. Of the 200 white teachers in the schools of Cleveland 126 are high school gradu ates, 59 college and normal trained and only 15 with less than a high school education. Association Date Is Moved Week Forward The Kings Mountain Baptist asso ciation will meet a week earlier than scheduled, because of a conflict with j the Cleveland County Fair and a term of Federal court to be held in Shelby. The executive committee met lasfc week and authorized the change to September 23rd and 24th, the associa tion to be held this year with the 1st Baptist church of Shelby. Members ot the executive committee authorizing the change are Rev. John W. Suttle, chairman, D. G. Washburn, A. C. Ir vin, H. D. Wilson, R. L./ Weathers, Mrs. J. W. Wood of Boiling Springs, Mrs. John Wacaster of Cherryville. Methodist Protestant Church Services for Sunday, Aug. 30. 9:45 a. m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a. m.—Morning worship and sermon by the pastor, Rev. C. B. Wray. 6:30 p. n„ -Christian Endeavor meeting. 7:45 p. in.—Regular preaching serv. ice. Sermon by the pastor. All aw* < invited fll* * ..imswi , • - . - - ■

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