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ONE OF THE FUNNIEST STORIES EVER WRITTEN, “TOO MUCH EFFICIENCY”, IN EACH ISSUEOF THE STAR. A LAUGH IN EVERY LINE. reliable home paper Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department, litoelftnib SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census_8,854 Where Industry Joins With Climate In A Call For You. . VOL. XXXIII, No. 102 ‘Covers Cleveland Completely.” SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2, 1925. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Store Robbed Then Burned Thieves Enter and Rob Cliff Carpen ter's Store on Fallston Road. Ablaze When Discovered. The chain of store breaking con tinues with the robbing and burn ing late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning of Cliff Car penter’s store and filling station about four miles north of Shelby and just off the Fallston road. When discovered between 2 and j (dock Wednesday morning the building was aflame, and such was the headway the fire had made that it was impossible to save the structure or any of the stock in the building. Mr. Carpenter, who lives a short distance from the store, says that the front door was standing open, accord ing to reports, when he arrived, but that the room was so full of smoke that lie could not enter. Robbery Suspected. It is the general presumption that the store had been entered by thie .'C-s »nd sobbed and then the building set m fire to cover up the clues that Plight lead to the arrest of someone. The owner of the store states that the fire was burning in the northeast j corner of the building when he arrived r.nd apparently had started on the in- ! terior. Other clues supporting the robbery , theory were the tracks of an automo bile truck about the building, it be ing suspected that the stolen goods ■ were taken from the store, placed on 1 the truck and carried away. Nothing ! of benefit to the officers could be learned from the truck tracks, it is j said. How the entrance was made is n -t I definitely known as it is sad that iite j lock to the front door was found in.ibe i n-hes and ruins of the building am' j that it had never been unlocked, al though the door was open, it is said. It is reported that the loss is part y j mvered by insurance. MIMES AT ADVANCED A9E 84 Mrs. Amanda Branton Passes Away in Room Where She Was Mar ried 70 Years Ago. Mrs. Amanda Branton, widow of the -late David Branton, veteran of the Civil war, who preceded her to thy grave 25 years ago, died Wednesday morning at 12:30 o’clock at her home ' n the Fallston road, in the roori where she was married 70 years ago at the age of 14 years. Before marri age Mrs. Branton was a Justice, (laughter of Ben Justice, poneer citi zen of the county Mrs. Branton had been in unusual health for a woman of her age until she was stricken with paralysis last Friday. She joined the Baptist church at New Prospect but later moved to Ross Grove where the interment will take place Thursday 'morning at 11 o’clock, the funeral serv ices to be conducted by Rev. H. ,E. W aldrop and Rev. J. C. Gillespie. Mrs. Branton had her widowed' daughter-in-law Mrs. Everett llran ton living with her at the old home I lace for the past several years. Sur viving are four sons, Jasper, Julius,! Bus and Charlie Branton, three daughters, Mrs. Zeb Weathers, Mrs. Hebert B. Kendrick, Mrs. Clarence j Costner, all of this county. Four j daughters preceded her to the grave, j Mrs. Frank Costner, Mrs. Wm. j Branch, Mrs. Rube Spangler and Miss! Orilla Branton. One sister, Mrs. David j Coodson of Morristown, Tenn.. and | three half brothers also survive: Tom. ! Bock and Twitty Justice. Shelby Legion Post Elects New Officers At a meeting held Tuesday evening j 11 the local club rooms members of the Warren Hoyle post of the Ameri-: ran legion elected officers for the tuning year. The new officers elected are: J. j Horace Grigg, commander; Charles -T. Woodson, vice- commander; Otto Long j adjutant; H. C. Griffin, finance offi- j cerl Oscar Powell, sergeant-at-arms Among the retiring officers are Mike H. Austell, commander; J. H. Grigg, adjutant; Vernon Proctor, finance of Hcer, and H. A. Logan, sergeant-at arms. — Are You a Capitalist? (Union County Times) Lvreybody who works and saves j "toothing and builds a home or lends 's savings to some industry to be Used in production is a capitalist. A "ember of labor organizations which . ve hanks and other assets is a cap "alist. Every individual who has a pavings account is a capitalist. The greater the supply of capital, the e',"ler will be the demand for labor She Likes Persimmons'Best Th- r l.i.1 *' v.|* i .« n:• 1 .is first bite of frost and M.-s i'fnnlr K.itf ! lollinUsu ai th, T.f'ton. Mu . is a bout to <*xperi<4iu o her t ;rM I-it <• <»f flu* ; f.iMm s ]•* i>ii. i crop (.‘ali t you just see those* lips pu- !vc i up aft. r taking that lii>t file ' An Appeal For Contribution of Books To Shelby School Library Is Issued To th« Friends and- Patrons of the I Shelby Public Schools: Next week, December 7-12, will be ‘ Book Week” in the town of Shelby. It is the aim of the school to have one book added to the school librarit s fer each child enrolled in the pubic schools. This means an addition of 2. 400 books to our libraries if the goal is reached. Is there a need for more books in our school libraries? Consider the fol lowing: There are 1210 books in the school library. Of this number, only 425 can he classed as fiction, the others being reference books for use in class work. This means that 2400 children are de pendent upon a supply of 425 books fer their reading material. Make your own calculation as to the amount of read ing matter available for each ch'td. Are our children then in danger of mental starvation? Or are they find ing their mental food elsewhere. Can we afford to meet the demand for ad ditional books? Fifteen schools in North Carolina* including Shelby have jointly prepared r list of the best books published. 1 hese books have been arranged in a list according to grades. The average price of each book is SI.25. A neat, at tractive ftook plate has been printed for each book,, bearing (bis inscription “Donated by To the Shelby Public School Library Build ing .In Honor of — Thus, for $1.25, any friend of the school may honor and serve the need of some child and at the same lino? add a book to the library. Can we af ford it'1 Rather can we afford not to meet thb demand for more books? la it safe to teach a child to read ard, not provide hint with something safe to read? j Doubtless some will say that hooks for reading should lie provided in toe ! home. But there are so many homes unable to provide books. During the recent Thanksgiving season, the call lor food ahd clothing received a hearty response. Shall we not make the same response to the call for men tal food? Furthermore, with books in| the school libraries, the teacher can j direct and supervise the child’s read ing, making such checks on it as will j secure worthy-while reading. Please read what some others have to say on this subject: “The child conies to value the prec ious obligation to be intelligent by actually living and working in an at mosphere of enlarging intelligence. It is to provide that atmosphere that th' school library exists. Seen in this light, the tremendous significance of its task becomes apparent.” “All education is self-education. The child’s mind is active during all his waking hours, and if the school and home are concerned with its pro pci dc velopment they may guard the chilli’s leisure hours. No better means to this end has been devised than to see that the child has a library of his own, wherein he will delight to browse, thus widening his interests at the same time that he is learning to use leisure wisely.” The arrangement works automa tically. Where overpopulation is threatened, grade crossing are more numerous. to make use of that capital. “If capital is scarce and timid, the demand for labor is less,, says C has. H. Carson of the American Bankers Association. “The more productive capital there is, and the more it seeks to be used, the piore authority does labor exeriees in its demand for ivugeo." ... ... Engineers Locating No. 206 Highway Highway from Shelby, By C'herryville And Waco To Lincolnton May Be Paved. A party of State highway en gineers are in camp on highway No. 206, west of Lincolnton. The state engineers are in this section it is learned, for the purpose of lo cating route for state highway No. 206 between Lincolnton anti Shelby. This route begins at Lin eolnton and runs by way of Crouse,, Cherry vflje and Waco to Shelby, and is one of the most im portant roads through tho section. When this route is surveyed the 1 state will likely hove graded and eventually paved, thus adding another hardsurfaced road to the state system traversing this set'-* tion. While No. 208 has not yet been included in the State let tings. the state has been main taining that road for some months and the surveying of No. 206 probably indicates that the state is soon to let contract for hard surfacing it, which if true, will be welcome news to all who use thi.-. route of travel. City Will Regulate New Street Openings At the regular monthly meeting of the city council Tuesday night it was ordered that no hew street in the real estate developments can be opened without first having secured the ap proval of the city engineer. This has been ordered with a view of preserv ing the symmetry of the streets of the town, making it conform as near as possible to the block system. A water pipe will be laid out Chest nut street to serve the people living in that vicinity. A $5 charge will be made by the city for wiring in feed lines for electric stoves and ranges. Shelby Men Compose New Lumber Firm Two Shelby men are connected with a $120,000 lumber supply company re cently drganized for operation at Hen dersonville. They are J. \V. Howell, formerly of the Arrowood-Howell firm here, and Graham S. Dellinger. The new company is the Howell-Pless 1 Lumber and Supply Co. The certificate of incorporation as issued by the secretary of State reads: Howell-Pless Lumber and Supply , company, Hendersonville, with au-' thorized capital of $120,000 and $20,000 subscribed by J. W. How ell, and G. S. Dellinger, of Shelby: and E. J. Pless and J. E. Claitt of Marion. New Furniture Store To Open in Shelby Spratt Brothers Furniture company have secured a lease on one of the store rooms in the A. P. Weathers apartment on S. LaFayette street where on January 1st they will open an up-to-date furniture and household goods store. Mr. Spratt, a member of the firm, was here this week and closed the deal for the lease. These brothers already have two furniture stores, one at Concord and one at Greenwood, S. C., which are quite successful, so the Shelby store will be the third in the chain. [VENTS OF WEEK AT STATE CAPITAL Thanksgiving Quiet At Raleigh, Gov ernor Paroles 15 In Thanksgiving Clemency. Other Raleigh NeWB, (Special to The Star.) Raleigh, Dec 2.—Suspension of ac tivities incident to Thanksgiving caused the Capitol to develop little news during the week hut other mat ters absorbed attention and furnished the highlights for the week usually furnished by the doings of official North Carorna. Chief among these were the celebration of the holiday, the escape from State Prison of Ot to Wood of Greensboro, the pardon list of the Governor a a Thanksgiv ing gift. The action: instituted by the Department of Public Welfare against N. C. Cranford in Stanley county, the decision of the Supreme Coutr in the case against Thomas K. Cooper, and the close of the football season with Carolina's annual battle against Vir ginia. Paroled Prisoners Governor McLean exercised clem ency on Thanksgiving by paroling fifteen prisoners. Some of these had been in a number of years one being the oldest in point of service in the prison. One was stone blind, having become so while serving time. The Governor said in issuing his clemency list that those whose names were on it were for the most part men who did not have money or influential friends to present their cases for con sideration. Th" decision of the Supreme Court in upholding the lower court means that Thomas E. Cooper, former weal thy bank official of Raleigh and Wil mington must serve eight years on the New Hanover roads. At present Cooper is serving a sentence in the Federal prison at Atlanta in connec tion wAh his conviction following [failure of the Commercial National Bank of Wilmington. Th * state road ! sentence is because of his actions in connection with the failure of the Liberty Savings Bank of Wilmington. The case has been hard fought, it ! having been before the courts near i ly-.live years. Cqoper will be free from Atlanta in a few months and i will then have to serve the state sen tence. His brother W. B. Cooper, former Liejtenant Governor, is now .appealing a sentence from the Fed eral prison. His conviction was as an official of the Commercial Nation al Bank. Crime and Addresses N. C. Cranford, supervisor of the Stanly county prison camp, must face a jury having been indicted for as ‘••■ults on prisoners resulting in death. The case against Cranford was brought chiefly b.V pressure of Mrs. Kate Burr Johnston. Welfare Com missioner who had investigated the matter. At least six deaths are char ged against Cranford. He resigned his position the day he was indicted. Pardon Commissioner Sink, mak ing some observations about crime, says that the youth of the State get mixed up in crime because of their hatred of manuel labor. He attri butes a great deal of crime to the men not wanting to work, preferring dishonesty; R. 0. Self of the Corpora tion Commission believes in the near future that trains of busses will oper-| ate between Raleigh Durham and Greensboro to accomodate an ever in creasing tragic; a $25,000 fire last week destroyed the barn of the State Institution for the Blind here, five calves and one cow perishing; the Associated Charities sent out 170 bas kets to needy persons in Raleigh on Thanksgiving; D. W. Sims, general I superintendent of the State Sunday 1 School Association reports great in crease in interest in Sunday School work; the Governor lauded the late James B. Duke at a memorial service at Durham as one who had contribu ted greatly to present and future life of State; State Superintendent Allen says all schools will follow Byrn Mawr in permitting girls to smoke-school hears here say NAY to it; Doctor Cooper thinks birth con trol would reduce charity work,' etc. Folk Lore Society The North Carolina Folk Lore So ciety, Mrs. W. N. Reynolds of Win ston Salem, president will hold its annual session in the auditorium of the Woman’s Club here during the af ternoon of December 11th., in con nection with the yearly meeting of the State Literary and Historical As sociation. Following the address of the President, a paper on “Folk Cuss toms in Central North Carolina” will be presented by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green of Gliapel Hill. The principal attraction of the joint gathering is to be an address by Homer Saint Gaudcns, director of the Carnegie Museum of Fine Arts. Pittsburg, Pa. Against W*r The North Carolina League of Wo men Voters announces an interest in the proposed World Court which is (Continued on page seven.) Suggesting It To Readers of The Star Beginning with the is sues the latter part of this week and next week and continuing until after the holidays Shelby merchants will begin advertising their Christmas offerings, gifts and bargains. By reading the advertisements you can save much time and receive many helpful hints for your Christmas shopping. Shelby merenants make a study of the things needed for gifts and just what the public wants and desires— mingled with that experi ence that stocks the proper gifts for the family in a.I lines. If you've been worry ing about what to give let the merchants hep you through advertiseemnts in The btar. They're easily solved that way. Try it. Another convenience of shopping first through "ads” and then making your round is that when you select all the gifts it is possible to add up the total and know just how far your Christmas savings are go ing. The merchants who ad vertise want our busi ness and he is prepared to please you, otherwise he wouldn’t advertise. Let the home merchants and Star advertising make this Christmas one of the most pleasant ever along the shopping line. Many VUit Here For Purpose Of .* Identifying Goods Storekeepers Over Several Counties Seek Their Stolen Goods in Col lection Secured off Gang. Shelby this week has been a meceu for storekeepers of several adjoining ec unties. The store proprietors of Western Carolina are not holding a convention here, but a store breaking gang that has been making things tough for merchants over the section is holding a convention here—in ihe county jail, a half dozen of them. Following the arrest and publica tion of the recovered haul made by the gang of seven placed in Jail here Sun day numerous store proprietor* have been here looking over the haul, try ing to identify goods stolen from their places of business in recent months. Many stores have been en tered and robbed in this section since August and now many of the entries are being charged up against the j bunch in jail here. The major part of the stolen goods belonged to the Low ery store at Patterson Springs, hut when the Lowerys were through iden tifying their good there was still a quantity left, auto tires, tubes and such. Delegations coming here to see if any of the goods belonged to them included a party from Hickory, one fi nni Maiden, another from Blacks burg, ami still others are expected to come. Officers say that members of the gang have admitted entering a tilling station or store near Newton where, it is thought, some of the tires j were secured. The trial for the store breakers has been set for Friday morning, it is said end either Clyde R. Hoey or Horace Kennedy of the Ryburn-Hoey firm will represent some of the defendants, it is understood. Seal Jeffries a mem ber of the party, has given bond in the sum of $300 and is now free. Coleman Blanton To Open Milk Station Has Leased Dr. Dortons Hospital Fur Milk Distributing Station In Shelby. Coleman Blanton, proprietor of the Brushy Creek dairy has leased Dr. J. S. Dorton’s veterinary hospital building on Sumter street opposite J. L. Lackeys Buick garage where he will open up a milk distributing station. The building is now under going repairs and renovation with the hope that the milk station can be ready for operation by the tenth of this month. Mr. Blanton will not only distribute his milk from this station but will buy milk from other dairymen and distribute. The pur pose of the milk station is to have a pastuerizing plant, maintain regu lar and stated hours of milk delivery to the patrons, eliminate much of the un-necessary travel by the trucks in the delivery to the homes in Shelby. Under the present system, three or four different dairman pass up and down a single street, each with his ov-n patrons, rvH<»n one delivers; v ould Waco Bank Entered Tuesday Night By Supposed Bandits ' Sculptor •An.ong the ho t known of * tha limn sculptois of Kngluhd h the l-at!.v Angelina Parti. third daughter 'Of* Mr Diehard and Liuly Muriel * ..jot. SIMS TO m .1! General Superintendent of North Carolina Sunday Schools On Pro gram at Meeting Here. D. W. Sims, who for the pant five years has been General Superintend ent of the North Carolina Sunday School Association, will take an im portant part on the program of the Cleveland County Sunday School Convention which convenes in the Presbyterian Church, here Sunday afternoon, December G, at 2:30 o’clock For a number ©f years Mr. Sims has been prominently connected with Sunday School workers in different part.- of the country and is widely and favorably known for the excel lent type of work he is doing, Mr. Sims is said to he one of the most attractive and helpful speakers in the1 Sunday' School field, his addresses being shot through with wit and hue mor. and yet full of practical sugges tions for Sunday School workers. Having helped in several previous Sunday School meetings held in, Cleveland County Mr, Sims will pro- ‘ hably be remembered by a large number of the Sunday School lead ers. Sharing the work of the convention with Mr. Sims will be Miss Daisy Magee, Raleigh, Children's Division Superintendent of the North Caro lina Sunday School Association. VVoriaet - from all Sunday Schools in the County have behn invited to at tend the convention. The officers in charge of the work are expecting a good attendance at all sessions. Alex Putnam Dies After An Operation 'Veil Known Meat (’utter of Shelby, Passes Away at Lincolnton. Buried Wednesday. Mr. Alex Putnam, well known meat cutter who spent most of his years in Shelby, died at the Lincolnton hos pital Tuesday morning at 1 o'clock following a serious operation for a bladder trouble. He had been a pati ent in the Lincoln hospital for three week and prior to that time his health bad been bad. Mr. Putnam was about, 60 years of age and lived in Shelby: until about IS months ago when he, went to Cherryville to help his young er brother who is engaged in the meat business. Mr. Putnam was a? quiet easy, tempered citizen, a staunch Christian and loyal friend. Mr. Putnam was neve%r married. His remains were buried Wednes day morning at 11 o’clock at Mt. Zion church above Cherryville. Surviving are one brother George Putnam of Shelby, one sister, Mrs. Tom Wilkins cf Shelby and three half brother?, Frank of Asheville; Gus and a young- ' (r half brother whose name could not be learned, of Cherryville. If only the nations would wait ti2 years to pay off their grudges. You see if the Federal tax is low est, the States will feel free to soak us more, and won’t that be nice? j meet the demands and thus save , the other dairymen from covering the ' same territory. Mr. Blanton has made contract* with several other dairymen who wish to eliminate the delivery of milk from house to house, so his milk station will serve from one en tral plant. Bank Officials Report Nothing Missing. Combination Beat Off Vault Door The People’s Bank of Waco, this county, was entered some time Tuesday night by supposed ban dits and an attempted robbery stayed, according to reports reaching Shelby Wednesday morn ing. Nothing is Missing. In a telephone conversation with a representative of The Star. Mr. A C. Beam, cashier of the bank, stated that so far as had been learned early Wednesday morning nothing of im portance was missing. All of the mo ney held in the bank overnight was in the small safe in the big vault, to which entrance was not made. Vault Combination Smashed. However, an attempt was made to enter the big vault by the supposed bandits as the combination had been smashed and knocked off presumably with a sledge hammer. The attempt to force entrance further into the vault apparently was halted and it’s thought that perhaps the burglars became frightened at some noise and departed the building. Such as the smashed condition of the vault combination Wednesday morning that bank officials were un able to enter it thepiselvcs and efforts were being made to secure safe and \ault experts from Charlotte or Greensboro to open the vault. Mr. Beam stated that so far no expert could be secured at Charlotte, but that it was likely that one would be sent from Greensboro. Enter by Window. Entrance to the bank was made through the window, but after enter ing the would be bandits opened t in rear door and also knocked the lock off the front door, perhaps with the idea of having several avenues of es cape if they were deLeeted. Opinion at Waco was that the at tempted robbery was not the work of experts. The smashed combination! on th<rvauiUujipi*tdd|#«4>lj|^ iikj the elude to'ofaC Wrficlf' \vere useo| a crowbar, pick and sledge hammer be ing found about tk« bank. t,. ■«/ -t Although it Is not definitely k(1outn at what hour entrance to thfe bank was made it is thought that it occurred some time after midnight a» citl* sens of the town passod the Hank1 shout 11 o’clock in the night and noted nothing unusual taking place. So far, it is said, there are no clues as to who might have staged the attempted rob bery. An inspection of the business sectinp and what is known as the outer part of the bank Wednesday morning revealed that nothing of value had been taken, which was prac tically impossible as all papers and money of value are placed in the vault safe at night. Mr. A. W. Black is president of the bank; P. J. Kendrick is vice-president' and A. C. Beam is cashier. Cattle Quarantine Still On In County Department of Agriculture Now Stamping out Tubercular Cattle In 17 N. C. Counties. Raleigh, Dec. 1,-—The campaign ;• gainst tuberculous cattle in North Carolina is half over. Five additional counties today were placed on the modified accredited list of the United States department of agriculture, thus giving North Carolina exactly half her counties—50 out of the total of 100—free from tubercular cattle. Dr. William Moore, veterinarian of the state department of agriculture, today announced. The five counties which today were officially declared free from tuber cular cattle by the Federal department c.t agriqulture are Wake, Transylva nia, Johnston, Henderson and Ran dolph. And in addition to the 50 counties now freed of tubercular cattle, the work of stamping out tuberculosis among the cattle is in progress in 17 other counties: Macon, Cleveland, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Alexander, Surry, Caswell, Orange, Chatham, Granville, Vance, Bladen, Duplin, Beau fort. Nash and Montgomery. Incidentally, North Carolina is not only a leader in this work, but actu ally has accomplished almost as much in this direction as all the other states in the Union put together, Dr. Moore said, in quoting the figures. Tor on October 1, 44 of the 119 counties in the entire United States which had stamped out tuberculosis among their cattle were in North Carolina In other words. North Carolina had al most as many counties free from tu berrular cattle as the other 47 states together. Since October 1, six more counties in this state have been add ed to the list—Yancej m 'November and tte today. 4