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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, - SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census--8,854 Where Industry Joins With Climate In A Call For You,. . v- -* VOL XXXIII, No. 103 “Covers Cleveland Completely.” SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 1925. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE COUNTY BOARDS GIVE SUPPORT TO COUNTY-WIDE SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAM Things Started Not Finished Unfinished Business Engages Atten tion of Kiwanians. Mr. Fille brown Makes Speech. ' Unfinished business” engaged the attention of the Kiwanis club Thurs day with Dr. E. B. Lattimore chair man of the program. All during thi.-/ and last year, worthy propositions had been discussed and new things proposed for the club which were re ferred to committees, but which were never seen through. It was to clear up these matter that Dr. Lattimore call ed on men who had been identified r.ith the propositions. Jim Smith, county welfare officer, reported that there is still an urgent need for a sys tematic handling of charity in order to give attention to worthy objects and fhun the deadbeats and imposters. Z. J Thompson who once encouraged the building of a furniture factory still maintained that it would be a desir rble industry for Shelby but that an experienced and capable man to head it is of prime importance; Lee B. Weathers on the question of advertis ing Shelby suggested that the neces sary money for this purpose should eonie from a tax levy, such as Ashe ville has and that this is a most op portune time to spend money adver tising- Shelby in order to attract the Florida people who are now flocking to Western North Carolina. derprivileged child, couldn’t explain why the tonsil and adenoid clinic had i ever been held, while Wm. Lineber i’cr who sponsored the zoning law expressed pleasure over the fact that building permits are now required arid that all new streets must be open ed under the direction of the city en gineer. Forrest Eskridge declared lit tle had been done with the suggestions trad* by the lailfTifape architect ilr. Draper toward improving the aj» ptonch to the cemetery, beautifying the last earthly resting place of the read, planting shrubbery at the churches, etc. As for the “welcome signs on highway No. 20 at the coun ty lines east and west J. D. Lineher gcT announced that the county com missioners had apropriated $600 with \ hich to buy these sigrs but that be local committee had never been able to agree with the Kings Mountain committee just where the signs shou! 1 he placed at Kings Mountain. O. M. Mull who advocated the co-ordination of the various highway commissions into one body said difficulty Was en countered in'this endeavor, but that the committee had been successful in having a maintenance tax levied in the various townships, resulting in better loads. The club was pleased to have as a distinguished guest Mr. H. M. Fille hrown of Pawtucket, Rhode Island who has been favorably impressed with Southern climate, citizenship and hospitality. He delivered a most in ; tractive' talk on “Americanism , pointing out the efforts about which v.c knew little, to undermine our gov ernment and throw it intq a. state of t*moil such as exists in Russia. Mr. 1’illebrown is a manufacturer in New England where he has to contend with all nationalities of workmen. Mr. Fille brown was accompanied by a represen tative of Lockwood, Green Co., textile engineers of Spartanburg, S. C. Major Bulwinkle Here Visiting Friends Major A. L. Bulwinkle of Gastonia, congressman from this the ninth dis trict, spent Wednesday here renewing acquaintances. The major is still on crutches as a result of an automobile accident some 12 weeks ago when an automobile overturned while he was returning from a meeting of the state American legion at Raleigh. For many weeks he was confined to hospitals, but is gradually improving and ex i ccts to be able to discard his crutches in aboY, four weeks, although the broken leg will be a bit short and will cause him to limp for the remainder of his life. Major Bulwinkle’s injury kept him from making visits through the district this summer but he was able to make a hurried excursion through Cleveland, Burke, Catawba and Lincoln counties this week before leaving Sunday night for Washington to be present when congress convenes next week. His many friends weic glad to see him out again and found him looking well. Seventy rural women attended the recent district meeting of the I'ed ition of Women’s Clubs held in Reidsville. Fifty of these women wove home demonstration club members nf Rockingham county, state Miss Mvrtie Keller, the home agent. In three curing houses of Beaufort . TO ADDRESS MEETINGS. Miss Daisy' Magee: who will have charge of departmental work here During the County Sunday School con vention at the Presbyterian church. Mountains. Piedmont and Seashore Oiler Comfort That Is Lacking In Florida. (Powell In Charlotte News) Washington, Dec. 3.—“Florida may think it has a .modern Garden of Ellen,” Congressman Charles L. AbernetKy said here, “but the United States Weather Bureau says there is no doubt of North C arolina's clima tic sunerioritv.” Mr. Abernethy, upon returning here from Miami went to the Weather Bureau for information. Experts there prepared him the following comparative statement: “North Carolina lies between lat itude 35-50’ and 36-33’ North a posi tion in the Temperate Zone interme diate between the increasing cold of more Northern districts and the con tinued, and at times enervating, heat that comes to latitudes materi ally farther South. “On the other hand, Florida lies between 25-05’ and 31-0’ N., some portions a thousand miles nearer the tropics than North Carolina and all portions subject to long, warm sum mers ar.d t>nly moderately cool Win ters. *Not Healthful “While great extremes of temper ature are on the whole undesirable and probably not conducive to the best development of mind or body, neither is a climate too uniform best for the human system. “North Carolina enjoys a mean between these two extremes in that 't has a climate with many varia tions, cold to moderate, warmth at frequent intervals in Winter, moder ate to hot weather in Summer. “At the same time Florida has few marked changes from cold to heat and many days in succession of heat with little or no changes. “Probably one of the most potent factors influencing the daily life of the indiv dual is that ot variety. Sameness palls uponn the physical sys tern as well as upon the human mind. In Florida, the same landscape greets the eye North South, East or West; forests of nine, bare stretches of sand or fields of dwarf palmettos with an occasional orange or grapefruit plan tation or pineapple grove and fields of potatoes and tomatoes. Not a hill with a name, a laughing brook* or waterfall. Some beautiful lakes, Pf course, but acres and acres of marsh with stagnant mosquito breeding waters. “North Carolina has us mountains the Great Smokies with their ever changing hues, the restful green of Spring and Summer, the red and gold tints of Autumn, and the pure white of the Winter’s snow. Farther Fast are the hills and broken mountain ranges of the Asheville legion with its verdant zones and luscious fruits. Away from the mountains in the won derful Piedmont section of the mid dle portion of the State are seen suc cessions of wooded hills and fertile valley farms, swift flowing brooks rushing rivers and Waterfalls furn ishing power to millons of spindles and other labor-saving devices. Here are the fields of grain that in late Spring and early Summer billow like the sea, with corn and tobacco chang ing from the dark green of late sum mer to the ripening shades of early Autumn. “Stretching from ine Piedmont hills and the “fall line’’ there is a gradual slope to the Atlantic Coast with aspects much like those of (Continued on Page fom-A Sunday School Meet To Open C leveland County Sunday School Con vention (lets Underway Here Sunday Afternoon. The annual Cleveland County Sunday school convention will open here Sunday afternoon with a program at 2:30 o’clock in the Presbyterian church. The advance outlook is that the convention will be well attended by representa tives of Sunday schools all over the county. Cleveland county is noted for its Sunday school work and Sunday school leaders, many of whom will gather at the con vention. Among the prominent state Sunday school workers coming are D. W: Sims, general superintendent, and Misses Flora Davis, and Daisy Magee. All will take part in the convention. After Pennant. Several Sunday schools, it is understood, will be working for the pennant to be given by the county association to the Sunday school in the county having the largest number of representatives in attendance considering the miles travelled to attend. A large attendance is expected any way and this feature w’ill add much to the interest in the occasion. The opening program Starts at 2: >0 in the afternoon and on the program for the afternoon are: Rev. H. K. Boyer, of Central Methodist church, and Misses Magee and Davis and Mr. Sims. Mr. G. G. Page, of Kings Moun tain, will preside at this meeting. Wrh. Lineberger, superintendent of the Central Methodist Sunday school, will preside at the night meeting and on the program will be Rev. Hector N. McDiarmid. pastor of the Presbyterian church, and Miss Davis and Mr. Sint3. Department Work. The meeting at 2:30 Monday after noon will be devoted to cradle roll end primary Sunday schol workers and will be in charge of Miss Magee. At 3:30 in the afternoon interme diate and young people’s work will he taken up under the general superv:s ion of Miss Davis. Monday evening, W. A. Ridenhour. county secretary, will preside, and this will be the closing session of the convention. On the program will be Rev. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church, together with Misses Davis and Magee and Superintendent Sims. The pennant will likely be presented to the winning Sunday school of the ccunty at this meeting. Juniors To Give Flag And Bible To School Here Th» Local Council Junior Order will hold special exercises and pre sent a bible and flag to the South Shelby High School on Sunday after noon at 2:30. A very interesting program has been arranged and is as follows: , 2:30 p. m.—Invocation—Rev H. N. McDiarmid. Song By Men's Chorus First Bap tist church. 2:40 p. m.—Reading, ‘‘The Bible,” by pupil. 2:45 p. m.—Reading, “Ouf Flag” by pupih Song—By School. 3 p. m.—Presentation of Bible by Dr. Zeno Wall. 3:15 p. m.—Presentation of Flag —Judge Jno. P. Mull. 3:30—Acceptance of Bible and Flag— Prof. I. C. Griffin. 3:45—Raising Flag with song by chorus. Benediction—By Rev. H. K. Boyer. In the event the weather is bad the services will be postponed until next Sunday. The public is cordially in vited. East Marion Street Is Being Paved Contract has been let and workmen are now engaged in laying a concrete sidewalk on the north side of East Marion street from the present loca tion street school. This sidewalk wiil prove a great addition to pedestrians and school children who use the street every day. The new work will join the sidewalk at the school. Tom Tarheel says ho is go:ng to feed an egg producing ration to hi§ hens this winter and get some of the money being spent for high-priced eggs. A hick town is a place where there isn’t much to be proud of except the traffic problem and the local million air*1. i - • " ' TO ATTEND CONVENTION. I). W. Riiim, General Superintendent of North Carolina Sunday School as sociation, who will be here Sunday for County Sunday school meeting. Will Keep Party Reins But Talks Not On Armistice Spserh of Shelby Man Raleigh; Dec. .‘5.-—State Chairman John G. Dawson of the Democratic executive committee, spent Wednes day in Raleigh and received full re portor’al impact on the Max Gard ner A .isIndian ballot pronouncement, but Mr. Dawson as head of the party is not yet willing to say what he thinks of the device. The chairman’s plans for the fu ture indicate clearly enough that he has no purpose to quit the chairman ship. As much has been prophesied many times. The vtftr'k is irksome and it takes a great deal of money to carry on the business. The party has had no chairman who chased mo ney less, none who refused more steadfast: to traffic on his position. The State chairman won’t lobby and ho won’t pick up the difference be tween ease and comfort and scuffling for a living as all decent lawyers do. But he isn’t going to tire of mana ging the party. He broke all re cords in his first campaign and if there should be an Australian ballot he would be the proper man to man age the party in the first campaign conducted under it. There have been many suggestions that Chairman Dawson would retire from the chair manship before the next campaign. But he will not do so. He will see the party and Max Gardner through. The Klhstoniari is so well satisfied with party affairs that he looks for no contest over the governorship in 1S28. Perhaps the leading Gardner man in 1920 Mr. Dawson would be denied that title in 1928 if there should be a fight. But ttye Gardner leadership did not stand in the way of legislative command. The Lenoir county representative as speaker was the champion of the Morrison mea sures of progress. So well did his excellency like the Dawson style that when judges were talked about in the Kinston district Dawson was the nian. He did not seek to be judge. Mr. Dawson said while here that in time he might make a statement on party affairs and this doubhtless would include a declaration on the Australian ballot. The party, how ever, has not committed itself and party considerations on woman suf frage once were great enough to balk Woodrow in an interview with the Washington women. The cattiest of them asked the President how he stood on suffrage. He replied that he could not speak for the party. They urged him to “speak to the party”. And he waited. However, Mr. Dawson and Mr. Gardner w'l find themselves in ac cord, ail the leaders here think. The legislative council of women workers did their Lest to get the issue before both houses iftnd almost won in the lower body. The Gardner position has been uniformly praised. He nev er has uttered anything that caused quite the comment that this did in his Greensboro Armistice Day speech. Declaration in the next State plat form is confidentally expected. And Mr. Dawson will probably beat the party to it. Methodist Protestant Church. There will be service in the Metho dist Protestant church on Sunday ev ening at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. L. S. Hems the pastor will preach. A cordial invi tation to all. You never hear anybody of native American stock explaining that dirt is “art.” Store Breakers Go To Superior Court A preliminary hearing before Recorder John P. Mull Friday morning was given the gang of alleged store breaker.! recently arrested by officers and held in jail here. Jack lloliek. Fi nest Parker and Wes Hoyle were bound over to Sii'v'tior court tinder a bond of $750, charged with breukng and entering, and receiving. The di rect charge from e'idem ,' was the robbery of the Lowery store at Patterson Springs, Seal Jef fries, whose car was used on th • marauding trips and in whose possession some of the goods were found, was bound over to Super ior court under a $500 bond, charged with aiding and abetting and receiving. Lottie Hoyle, wife of Wes, was placed under a $300 bond charged with receiving some of the stolen goods The other defendants will be tried in Lincoln county as they were not directly connected with larceny in this county and their alleged possession of stolen goods was in that county. A large crowds attended the preliminary hearing and the open space around the bar was filled with enough of the stolen goods to open a bargain store. Numer ous store proprietors, including some from Maiden and Moorei boro, were here to identify goods. Four racing- horses with their trainers arrived here this week and entered quarters at the Clevelan County Fair Grounds east of Shelby where they will winter. The horses are in charge of Frank Wickersham, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, as trainer. Hr. Wickersham owns one of the horses himself and is well known on eastern and southern tracks. He trained the famous trotter, Joe Bowers, who sold for $12,000 after es tablishing seven new track records in cluding the 2:10 1-2 record half mile tiot. With Mr. Wickersham as assist ant is George McCarty, trainer and experienced follower of the dirt tracks. The two men visited Shelby first during the county races and “fell for” the friendliness of the town and de cided at that time that they would w inter here. The horses already here are Carry Watts and Pete LaConda, property of Colonel McElroy, well known horse fancier of Anderson, S. C.; Peter O'Neal, property of T. D. Murphy, of Spartanburg, S. C., and Bijou, Wicker sham’s racer. Peter O’Neail is expected to be a wonder stepper after a season of win ter training here under the hand of the veteran trainer, Wickensham. The other horses are in good shape follow ing their long journey and will be worked out each day during the winter as the training progresses. Several of the racers are young and will learn to step during the coming winter with the idea of having their debut on the eastern tracks in the spring. The move to Shelby as winter quar ters by the veteran Wickersham speaks well for the climate and town and may mean that numerous trainers will winter at the fair grounds by another season. Would Furnish Better Service R. B. Babington general manager of the Piedmont Telephone Co., was a Shelby visitor from Gastonia this week with a clipping from The Cleve land Star in his hand showing that nearly 500 rural homes are supplied with electric power. Finding that these power lines extend to all parts of the county Mr. Babington proposes that if the power line owner will permit his company to use the poles already up; he wjll string telephone wires under neath the light lines and install mod em telephones in the homes of farm trs at a service charge of $1 per month, thus connecting every section direct with the Shelby exchange and afford a service that is equal in ev ery way to the high standard of U.c Shelby exchange which would be not only a convenience to the farmers bur to the Shelby patrons as well. Ha is working on this proposition with the hope that some plan might be worked out whereby this system might be extended to +h« rural -ec ioj - County To Assume Half Of Cost Of Building Program Consolidated Program Divided Into 25 Units Covering Entire County With Sum Of $222,000 To Be Expended In Four Years. Loans Will Be Made From State Fund And Paid In Install ments Covering 20 Years. Three Cent Levy i'y Progressive Move Will Benefit County. •' I ’ * <*' ' t'> • Cleveland county board of education a plan I o, ra ti *: ■ . :■> ' u» bo >rtl and approved and ordered by the county ;-uii . is >; <■■■:■■ >•. • re by th * county will assume one half of the indebed of Ci: •*! i* iluin-r program beginning with 1926-27 and here af ter a hu » i) tic cure ■ f i ne-half the expense of the complete building pro;r. sin o! toe . u t • solid;>U. The estimated total amount assumed will b'* around ’2 tvh.ch will !:>e expended during a four-year building t rogrtun ;r the i > :.it;-. a'dug the con solidntrd plan with the 25 units or disc i t?. The plan as drawn up is the formal move beliind an applicat ion to the State Special Building fund, provided by the last legisla ture. for a loan i f $ it 7,00'» to be used in the building program in 1926-27. i he step la perhaps the mast deci sive ard progre. .dve ever made by the county in securing educational advantages and follows the state-wide plan of equalizing educational op portunities. It is worthy of note, now that the move has been made, that Cleveland county up until this meeting of the board was the only county in the State of North Caro lina that did not carry one half or more of the school building program. Lincoln, a neighboring county, all ready carries the full amount. The plan as drawn for the loan and ordered by the county commissioners means that in 1926-27 the county will assume one-half of all the indebt edness of county schools and that thereafter the county will assume one-half of all indebtedness. This means that a tax levy of three cents on the regular valuation will be is sued. This, however, will work 119 hardships. In the wealtheir districts it will mean that operation expenses will be lessened under the county plan and the smaller districts will be enabled to add two months to their school term. The important move made was under the direction of County Superintendent, J. C. Newton, the board of education, Messrs. Spake, Mauney, Ridenhour and Forn ey, with the approval of the county commissioners. The hirst Loan The first loan of $87,000 as applied for will be used in the following man ner: Unit 22, No. 9 township Fallston, $33,000. Unit 24, No. 11 Township, Casar, 124,000. Unit 23, No. 10 Township, Del wood 137,000. Unit 16, No. 7 Township, latti more $0,000. It was agreed to make application to State Literary Fund for $15,00 to rover outstanding floating indebted ness against Moriah and Bethlehem School districts. The Plan Itself. The complete move of the board of education is contained in detail in the following paragraph from the min utes of the meeting; “It was also agreed to assume one half the indebtedness on the State Special Building Fund now outstand ing as against the various school dis tricts in the county outside of the Special Charter Districts and the same per capita amount of Shelby and K:ngs Mountain outstanding in debtedness and provide for payment of the same as outlined in Section 179 of the Public Law as amended by the General Assembly in 1925; ard that all future building projects the estimated total of which accord ing to the county wide plan, which is attached and made a part of this tevolution is $222,000, be carried on a 50-50 basis, and that for every dol lar of new money assumed by the County Board of Educntidn, the same per capita amount will be assumed for the Special Charter Districts. It is further agreed that the county commissioners will take over one half indebtdeness for buildings nec essary for the six month school term and furnish one-half of all the new school projects over a period of four years not to exceed $55,000 per year and the same per capita amount for the Special Charter Districts, that the Board of Education upon its mo tion will not ask the Commissioners to take over more than one-half the financial responsibility of the build ing program now being assumed by the districts until the aforesaid build ing program shall have been com pleted—.” Estimated Building Program The estimated building program for the four years, covering the 25 units of the county-wide plan and every township of the county is as follows: Unit 1-Number, 1 Township-Census 222, composed of Holly Springs, Prospect, and Palmer. Elementary or pnssiblv Junior High school; <i.j. Jl merit 190. Located on County High way across to Cliffside in.center dis trict. Building $30,000. Unit 2—Composed of Boiling Springs, Flint Hill, Mt. Pleasant. Elementary nnd High School. Enroll ment 320. (Now has Den. H. S.) Lo cation, in town of Boiling Springs on Shelby-Gaffney road. Ad. Building $10,000. Unit 3— Number 3 Township, com posed of Earl, Cedar Grove, Broad River and McBrayer. Enrollment 290; Location, State Highway 18, in town of Earl. Elementary and High School; Census 330: Building $1,500. Unit 4—Number 3 township, com posed of PattersonSprings, Ellis and Pleasant Hill. Elementary School; Enrollment 165; Location, Highway 18, 3 1-2 mlies East of Shelby; Cen sus 190; Building $16,000. Unit 5—Number 4 Township, com posed Grover and Hardin; census 229; and high school pupils from Bethle hem; elementary and high school; Enrollment 230; Location in town of Grover on national highway; ad. build ing and Equipment $4,000. Unit 6—Composed of Bethlehem and Dixon; Census 225; Enrollment 185. Near National Highway on road from Shelby. Building $25,000. Unit <—Composed of Beth ware; Census 152; Enrollment 114; High way No. 20; Building $12,000. Unit 8—Composed of Patterson Grove; Oak Grove and Plonk building $80,000; Census is 282; Enrollment 240; Location on Cherry ville Kings Moiintain road, near Pat terson Grove. Unit 9—Kings Mountain special Charter Sehool. Unit 1&.—Composed of Waco,' Mary’s Grove, and St. Paul; Census 830; Enrollment Elementary 236; High School Enrollment 64; Location State Highway, Shelby-Cherry ville intown of Waco. Additional building $15,000. % Unit 11—Stubbs; Census 122; En rollment 100; Present building ade quate. Unit 12—Composed of Elizabeth and W. J. Roberts; Census 180; En rollment 137; Location on Cross Country Road near County Homo; Building $15,000. Unit 13—Composed of Shelby Special Charter, South Shelby, East side and Ross’ Grove. Unit 14—Composed of Beaver Dam, Shanghai, and Sharon; Census; 310; Enrollment 240; Elementary School; Location on Cross Country road leading from Highway No. 20 to Sharon etc., in center of territory Building $20,000. Unit 15—Composed of Dover Mill and Ora mill; Census 240; Enroll ment 200; Additional Bflilding $4,000. Unit 16—Number 7 Township, Composed of Lattimore, Pleasant Ridge, Double Springs, lower half Padgett; Census 686; Enrollment High School 175; Elementary 400; additional building $10,000. Location in town of Lattimore near present school site. Unit 17—Composed of Mooresboro, upper half of Padgett, and Trinity: Location in town of Mooresboro on State Highway No. 20; Census 310; Enrollment 262; Junior High School and Elementary school. Unit 18—Union, Cabaniss, eventu ally Zion; Census 441; Enrollment High school 70; Eleriientary 300; Lo cation, on Shelby-Polkville road near Union; Building $35,000. Unit 19—Composed of Fairview, Delight, finally New House; location in town of Polkville; census 400; en rollment, elementary 300; high school, 75; building $35,000. • Unit 20—Composed of Piedmont, Double Shoals and Palm Tree; Cen sus 700; Enrollment High School 172; Elementary 450; Location on crest of hill 1 mile Northeast of Lawndale. Unit 21—Composed of Beams Mill and Poplar Springs; Location, high way No. IS at present side of Beams f Continued Page £our.\