CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS’ EDITION
RELIABLE home paper
Of Shelby And The State’s
Fertile Farming Section,
Modern Job Department,
VOL. XXXIII. No. 109
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SHELBY’S POPULATION
1925 Census_8,854
Where Industry Joins With
Climate In A Call For You, ,
“Covers Cleveland Completely.’
SHELBY. N. C. FRIDAY, DEC. 18, 1925. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
$691 Fund For
Local Charity
Kiwanis Club Starts Christmas Char
ily Fund to be Distributed
Among Needy Families.
Six hundred and ninety-one dollars
ll'Ol) was contributed to the Christ
mas Charity fund by the members of
the Kiwanis club Thursday night in
their desire to play Santa in a sub
stantial way to 20 needy families in
»nd near Shelby, who otherwise would
suffer for the comforts of life while
the more fortunate would be enjoying
the bounties of the season. Immedi
ate distribution will begin to these
29 destitute families constituting 130
individuals, 36 of whom are children
nf school age who are not attending
school because they do not have suf
ficient clothing and books. It is che
first big charitable undertaking of the
Kiwanis club and one which they arc
determined to put over in a big way,
hoping to have the support and help
of individuals, churches, and other
organizations of Shelby. In making
tip the list of “most needy’”, the com
mittee composed of James Smith, wel
fare officer, I. C. Griffin and R. T.
LeGrand with the help of Otto Long
made personal investigation of 47
ca-cs where charity is needed and
where the Christmas cheer will be
absent unless it conies from the out
side. This list was sifted down to the
29 that are adjudged to be in dire
need of the bare necessities of life,
hence the committee recommended
an amount of money which it consid
ers necessary to provide for the next
"0 days—a litfle food, clothing and
fuel.
Committee to Distribute.
One thousand dollars is needed now
*o bring Christinas cheer, for baie
ecmforts is cheer to them. Seven hun
dred and fifty is apportioned f■ r
white families; *250 for colored fami
lies which will also be remembered in
this Charity fund, for Shelby charity
knows no color line and makes no ra
cial distinction. This is the amount
necessary for the cases already dis
covered, investigated and found to 1 e
most worthy, yet the surface has onlv
scratched and another thousand dol
lars would relieve more distress and
bring cheer to a hundred or more de
pressed and destitute souls. Distribu
tion Will not be made in money but in ;
supplies which merchants have agree 1
to sell at cost to the Charitv Fund
committee which has ben divided as
follows: Committee on finance Leo
B. Weathers, Wm. Lineberger. George
Blanton; committee on supplies John
S. McKnight. George Blanton. TL T.
T. eGrand; committee on investigation, ]
Otto Lohg, James Smith and I. C.
Griffin.
Report Distress Cases.
This week the distribution goes on.
Hundreds of articles were sent out
hv the Shelby Public school children
Friday, sufficient in quantity to last
until this committee begins its work
Saturday or Monday. Folks who know
of needy cases are asked to make a
written report and send it to The Star
office at once, outlining the destitute
circumstances of the families, number
in the household, income, name of
family head and street address- L’o
names of cases will be published but
due acknowledge of contributions
such as money, food, fuel, clothing
nnd Christmas gifts for the children
will be made through the columns of
The Star, by publishing names of con
tributors.
Thi* County Still
Ranks With Leaders
In Cotton Production
With the worst farming season in
many years just closed. Cleveland
county still ranks among the leading
counties in the state in cotton produc
tion and as yet sets the pace for far
western counties, all the counties lead
ing this county being in eastern Car
olina.
By the recent report Cleveland
stands in eighth place. Fifty-eignt
counties in which cotton is raised
stand below in number of bales for
this year’s crop.
The figures for the eight coun'i^s
leading in the last report follow with
number of bales this and last year:
County 1925
Johnston ... . . -67,839
Robeson ... . 58,722
Nash ... . ... ..60,649
IVake .... . . _37,090
Halifax ... . .. 46,743
Harnett ... . . j. 46,360
Sampson _ 39,150
Cleveland ... ... 35,396
SHELBY CHURCH LEADS
CHARITY AND CHILDREN
Up to this writing Shelby First
church stands at the head of the list
in Thanksgiving contributions. The
church budget of this virile bodv for
>926 calls for $30,000. Dr. Zeno Wall,
the pastor of this great church, is
having remarkable success, having
received during the first 40 days of
h's pastorate 42 additions to the
membership.—Charity aud Children. |
1921
42,854
26.56-1
32,220
28.080
22 025
31.251
25.342
35,016
HEADS KIWANIS CLUB FOR NEXT YEAR
J. D. Lineberger, New Kiwanis President
J. D. Linebergor, energetic young Shelby Hardware dealer and
active in civic, fraternal and religious organizations of the town,
was elected president of the Kiwanis club Thursday night to serve
for the ensuing year, succeeding J. Clint Newton. Dr. Reuben
McBrayer was elected Vice-Pres., Rush Hamrick treasurer. Geo.
Blanton district trustee. Directors were elected as follows: Paul
Webb, E. B. Baltimore, R. T. LeGrGand, George Blanton, O. Max
Gardner, Clyde R. Hoey, John R. Dover.
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State Has Completed More
Than 5P(JU0 Miles Of Roads
Raleigh, I),:. IT.—Around 2,200
miles of. ] give me: l and 3,100 miles of
top soil, .-and day and gravel roads
have Lee.; completed or have been
placed under contract for construc
tion by the Slate Highway Commis
sion sines 1521 when the present pav
ing program began to November 12,
1925, according to figures made pu
blic yesterday. These roads are scat
tered through every one of the ICO
counties of the State. There are now
0 500 ml!;.- on the State Highway,
leaving 1,200 miles unimproved as of
November 12.
When the 1521 legislative appro
priated $50,000,000 to . expend on
North Carolina roads, there were 158
miles of paved road on the State sys
tem which represented about $5,161,
700, and ST5 miles of sand clay, or
the lower type of . road which had
been constructed at a cost of $8,190,
700. The "Tieiii 1 report on January 1,
1925, show d l,07i> miles of hards
surface road costing approximately
$$6,647,700. and 2,64$ miles of sand
clay top soil, and similar types of road
costing in' round figures $10,500,000.
This makes a total of $80,367,256
which had Itvit spent on roads to
January ! 1925, including $3,219,
556 v. h was speht on bridges.
All of this, however, did not come
out of t:,o $65,000,000 State road fund
which v. a created by the 1921 Legis
lature and. enlarged with $15,000,000
by the 1923 Legislature.
J. F. Alexander Dies
At Florida Home
Ja-ob F. A lexanuer, prominent and
wealthy citizen of Forest City, this
state, and Ft. Petersburg, Florida, and
well known here, died in St, Peteis
hin-p Thu -day afternoon according
to news dispatches.
Mr. Alexander, a native of Forest
City, was president of the Alexander
National bank of St. Petersburg,
Fla, and ■ prominent, in banking and
lumbering enterprises there. He was
president of the Alexander Manufac
turing company and chairman of the
directors of the banners bank at For
est City, and was prominent in mat y
industries in this section as well as
in Florida.
Recently he had purchased the
Round Hill academy at Union Metis
and converted it into the Alexander
School. Inc. He was chairman of the
hoard of finance and a trustee of 'he
First Baptist, church there and had
recently made a gift of $10,000 to the
building fund of the new Sunday
school, which is now under construc
tion. At one time Mr. Alexander re
presented Rutherford county in the
North Carolina general assembly.
The body will be taken to Forest
City for funeral services and inter
ment. Mr. Alexander is survived by
fds wife, three small children, Kath
leen Martha and Jacob jr„ and one
brother. A. C. Alexander, who is also
interested in the Alexander holdings.
HIGH 01010
17 Boys Get Coveted Honor-. II of
the Number Likely to be Back
For Another Year of Play.
Members of ;he Shelby High $cho< 1
football squad performing in eight
games during the past season to en
title them to the coveted “S” were
rt. \ f ded certificates for their let
ters Thursday morning at the Central
High chapel exercises.
The letters were presented to the
boys by O. Max Gardner, one of their
most loyal supporters, who in a brief
speech praised them for their play.
wed { heir work, chances and
record and spurred the mon towards
the future with more enthusiasm for
tasks ahead.
Including the letter given the: team
manager following a custom of year s,
IT letters wore awarded. Those re
ceiving letters were Vernon Grigg,
captain; Tom Kerr, Charlie Magr.ess,
Ed Harris. Ben flippy. Clove Owens
Lee, James Gardner. Louis Roberts,
Howard Moore, Melvin Peeler, John
Elliott, I ay mon Beam, Gilmore Sin
gleton, Horace Whisnant, and Bill
Grigg manager.
Very Good Record.
- The eleven representing the -chord
during the season although eliminat
ed early in the race by the Gastonia
champs nevertheless turned in a
more than creditable season. They
won the bigger majority of the game*
scheduled and in their defeats per
formed brilliantly. The eleven at the
outset of the season was entirely
green material, there being only two
letter men on the squad with a num
ber of the hoys playing in their first
games. Credit for much of their suc
cess must go to the instruction given
them by their coach. “Casey” Worn
but their ability to develop cannot bo
overlooked.
Good Year Ahead.
Next season the hoys who received
their letters Thursday should be tears
formed into a real football agirresfo
tinri. Of the 16 rceular players award
ed letters 14 will more than likely
l,e back as the entire eleven this year
was composed of young boys. Add ;i
season of experience and the growth
of one year to the eleven that fin*
i‘hed the season and Coach Morns by
1026 should offer a dread team for
the western honors. Melvin Peeler,
veteran lineman and one of the stars
(if this year's eleven, and Louis Rob
erts. another steady lineman, will not
1 he back another year. Vernon Grigg,
quarterback and captain of the pres
ent eleven, will likely return as will
every other one of the letter men. And
that should mean that followers of
football In Shelby will have another
one of the famous Shelby elevens to
cheer on. _
i
78 STRUTS IKE
HIGH in ill
j Y(.-v i' v Iji v; Vmonte HikIi School
iftudcnts Making Coveted Honor.
Seniors Lead.
Unfit‘St tile past scho >1 month 78
'■•‘titlent’s of Ont.-nl high school made
] t1 >• honor x 11 rani;, according to the!
! I'at issued; liy the school oTice. This,
i i an r.verngr of nearly 20 students j
[to oil'll of the four grades, although
11h? < ’eventh and eighth grades made I
i the VH-rccr.tag-* with leading numbers
; cf honor.students.
The i 1 evens h grade ltd other grad>8 j
v th 2> on the roll, the eighth grade •
loHowirg with 22. The tenth and ninth
■ ro'es had 1G and 15 rrsyeetvely.
Th'1 third section of the senior class
had more students on the coveted.list
than ary other section. 1C from this i
section were on the roll. Eleven from |
the a com) section of the eighth grade j
toe'; second honors.
There is a query for debate ir a
review of the roll: Are high school
p-'rh more brilliant than bovs, or do!
I hey apply themselves more? One of
section of the double query must be
true for of the 78 honor students only
II were boys, G7 girls attaining the
(i sanction;
The roll for the month follow*:
11th Grade—1 Lois Hudson, Louise
Ltd ford, Pearl Morris, Mildred Ram
sey, Clara Sperling, Steven Woodson.
11th. Grade—2 Mattie Sue Allen,
Viola Halms, Grace Putman.
11 Grade—3 Jennie Mae Callahan,
Katherine Dover, Ruth Gladden, Kate
Grip:I?, Virginia Hoey, Lela Hoyle, I
Madge Mauney, Lucille Morehead,
Dorothy MeKnight, Olive Singleton,
Matt e Short, Elizabeth Spangler,
Lilly Webber, Lula Moore Suttle,
Charlotte Tedder, William Hughes.
loth. Grade — 1 Margaret Blanton
Adeem Costner, Ruth Dixon. Charlie
Ma‘>fcaughridge, Montrose Mull Zel
la Sipe.
Ititlj Grade—2 Madge Stirling Don
nie Sain. Alice James, Ada Anthony,
Thomas Kerr, Herman Mauney.
10‘h.4 Grade—3 Irene Bridges Novel
la White, Daniel Troutman.
9th. Grade-—1 Lucille Bridges. Faye
] Glascoe, Corene Heyward, Mrytle
Han-ill, Eva Hamfick, Minnie King,
I Sarah ttichburg, Ethleen Webb, Milan
Bridges.
9th Grade—2 Martha Eskridge Lal
h'nge Shull, Billy McKnight, Gilmore
Singleton, William Webb.
9th Grade—3 Boneta Browning
I LesRoy Ledford.
I ^th Grade— 1 Robert Gidney, Mary >
Sue Borders, Mary Frances Car pen-;
lor, Mary Reeves Forney, Burtie Get-;
tys, Virginia Jenkins. May Ellen Me
Brayer. Bessie Sue Wilson.
8th Grade—2 Lula Agnes Arey,
i Gladys Colquitt, Ruth Dellinger, Ma- |
ble Hamrick, Virginia Hunt, Dorothy
King, Ada Laughridge, Ruth Laugh
ridge. Pearl L.vbrand, Madge Putman,
I Margaret Vanstory.
8th grade—", Madie Gillespie, Buna
Rollins, Panntee Osteen.
Jiffy Stores To
Open Here Soon
Durant Crowder and Fred Baber,!
<wo enterprising young local fellows,!
have secured the franchise for a Jiffy j
grocery and will open a self-service
■ tore in the Royster new building on'
S. LaFayette street between now and i
the first of the year. They have rent-1
od a store room next to the double!
; tore which the John M. Best Fvrni-;
lure Co., will occupy soon. In addi- •
t on to groceries the store will sell j
fresh meats and a new refrigerator j
has >een purchased and is being in-j
stalled. The Jiffy groceries are pop-!
ular all over this part of the country |
and are operated somewhat like thej
ether self-service groceries that are!
growing so rapidly in number.
Cotton Price Likely
To Improve Hereafter
(By R. J. McCarley’s private wire to
New York, New Orleans and Chi
capo.)
New Orleans, Dec. 17.—After a
careful survey of conditions, pro and
con, affecting the cotton market, we
have come to the conclusion that all
the known bearish factors have been
discounted by reason of the lower
prices established, for while the crop
is larpo, consumption promises to bei
hip this season, and much of this
j year’s yield Is very low in prade. the
; wastape of which will be heavy when
i put through the spindles.
After all is said and done, the fact
remains that while this year’s produc
tion of American cotton is about 15
per cent larger than last year
much of which Ts low in prade, pros-,
pects are for an increase in consump
tion of about 10 per cent, and as the
prevailing price for middling is .about
25 per ent lower thun the average
price of middling last season, which
was 24.27, season before last 31.07.
cotton, at its present price, is about at
value.
il. AND K. BLEU.
Christmas Giving Spirit To
Aid Many Needy Homes Here
Shelby Ao A Whole With Organizations And
Individuals Working Will Take Hundreds
Of Gifts Into Homes Of Poor
Families.
It will be Christmas after all in Shel'nv in ew.y ,(• H i of the city anil
in every h me if p'ons of local organisal'ui s arc rarriio out amt the citiatm
show the interest that s expected.
The sad little g'rl, pictured in th« li t Star, vo .dcrinp why she never
grot a present even niter praying for ma \y night*, may yet a present
after all.
But it i up to YOU, and the y i
r.inms firy Shelby person who ft- Is
ih I tif the season enough to «ii -
v;de with these not so fortunate.
When the wise men of the c " i
journeyed to see th * Christ Child in
tile ox stall where he was born in a
nargep they carried gif's, and the
coming of that Christ Child ht s
biought to the world much—-ami o'f
the much a f cling, glad and joyou-.
that gifts shall be given not only
among those able to give as well as
to receive, but also to those who have
r.ot to give.
It’s the spirit in which it is given
that counts, and Shelby is asked to
give as it can and as the heart
prompts.
This time the gifts, money, shoe*-,
clothing, food and all collected, will
not go out of the city. It is for the
poor of Shelby that it is asked.
Over the city, which near P.dOO
people call home, there are dozens of,
homes where the gaunt wolf of pov- !
erty and despair will be the only Santa
Clause known on this gladsome day
unless YOU GIYF!
Through the initial efforts of the
Kiwanis club a complete survey has
been made of the city by Welfare
Officer Smith, and Messrs. R. T. Le
Grami and 1. C. Griffin. The pictures
brought in by that survey is enough
to wring the heart Of a Stoic—enough
to spoil the Christmas of the entire
city if nothing is done. The Kiwanis
< tub and charity board alone cannot
anyway like meet the situation. Their
best efforts would leave many homes
unvisited, many mothers needy, scores,
of children despondent. All Shelby ,
must give if every home covered in
the survey is visited and actual ne
cessities left.
This appeal is not for trinkets or
• « ii !•- C'o actual necessities
of 11r • • t11 .-nib straining the
J-u a-.hit to scv that enough
is giver,:
l’> i ai tiv. t every citizen must
fp-t'ijK r.itr in it u real Christi
na-. the Kiwt.r.ir dub ant! charity
bonid uppeu - to the trnvr, in geneta!,
civic, business ami church organiza
tons, individuals All gifts will fee
hi idled through a central committee
appointed by the Kiwitnis club and tin
welfare officer. A systematic distri
bution will be made, and anyone giv
ing should follow in the plan and
turn over gifts to the central com
mittee.
Co-operating with the movement
The Star and its thousands of read
ers will handle a portion of the call.
All readers or others who have not
time to see members of the committee
may leave gifts and money at The
Star office to be turned over to the
committee. One collection center of
the movement will be in the business
office of the paper. Others, who feel
the spirit of the season enough to
give and give gladly should visit the
office of Welfare Su)K-rintendent
Smith or get in touch with members
of the committee and learn just
whaA family you are helping, or
how may you may be able to take
of. Special portions of the list will
he turned over to Sunday school class
es and organizations.
There are only six more days be
fore Christmas. The work must be
han*ed quickly. Will you enjoy the
day, and will you have that feeling
of satisfaction that nothing else gives,
in knowing that in some needy home
you have brought joy to others? IT
IS IJP TO YOU.
WHAT WILL CHRISTMAS MEAN
TO THESE UNLESS YOU HELP?
Peihaps you'll call this a tug at
your purse strings through your heart
strings, but it means life at its worst
improved for a real Christmas in
Shelby. In your pocket is an extia
dollar or so. This money may go care
lessly during the holidays. In your
home are old clothes and shoes that
may go in the rag bag. There are
homes in Shelby where the money and
the clothes would bring more joy
than the best gift you could wish for
yourself Christmas day—and it also
would bring much to you deep down
where ordinary gifts reach not.
Four of Shelby's neediest cases fol
low as they were found in the recert
survey made. Can you refuse to help
such as these?
First Needy Case.
Depict this Christmas scene, one
that an artist would perhaps paint on
canvas and call it “Poverty". And to
the painting you could add a touch
that would make it more immortal.
In the corporate limits of Shelby,
known far as the hospitable town,
there lives a widow with four chil
dren—this is not fiction or a movie
scenario, but bare truth. Two of the
children work in textile mills at 510
per week; one child goes to school.
The other cannot because she does
rot have any clothes to wear. The
mother is sick. Think of the joy
Christmas would bring if the prin
ciple of the Christ Child carried into
this home, clothing for the child un
able to attend school, medical atten
tion for the sick mother. Both just
reminders that the world is pot so
cruel after all. Will the same condi
tions exist after Christmas? It’s
your chance?
Another Case.
Shelby folks driving serenlv and i
comfortably in closed cars down a
certain street of the town may see the
toil-worn form of a woman bent over
a wash-tub, scrubbing away at
clothes, just scrubbing through the
daylight hours. Nearby two half
clothed tots, aged two and five, play
unmindful of the cold and hunger,
which to them through fate has be
come only a part of life. Sunta Claus
to them would be nothing more than
u dream in the night—of things they
never knew’, or hoped for. They plav
on and the cold relentless hand of
poverty draws closer the ring about
them. The brave mother finishing the
washing, that brings in a paltry sum,
moves on ns dark fall*, tucks the
Jiivcriiitj little tot' of u terrible lute I
into it bed in a heatless room, then
she makes her way to the mill where i
she works at night. THE DAYLIGHT
WASHING IS ONLY SMALL
i ART OF HER TOIL. At the mill
i.-he Works the long night through. At
home the children cough and cry with
cold and loneliness. The mother that
should be with them during the for
bidding night hours is away at work
— must lie if the children are to exist.
From d all, day and night, she derives
an income of about $8 or $10 a week,
a day’s work for many Shelby men.
The mother never complains, that's a
mother always. Twenty h*ars of the
day may he her course of toil, but it
is for her children. She must carry on.
All the heroic deeds of life are not on
the battlefield. The everyday business
of living where existence is hard car
ries the major share of life’s heroes,
the real heores, who live, toil and pass
on unnoticed, without praise. Such is j
this mother, but some day at the pace i
she must go, she will surely falter, j
Then what? Those tots! Will you?
For Sixty Cents Daily.
Just sixty cents per day On this I
amount a molier, grandmother and I
three helpless children must live. It is
what the mother makes by her daily
toil, and ill health prevents her work
ing more than three days each week.
Right here in Shelby it is. The little
children insufficiently clothed for
comfort, nourished none too well. The
aged grandmother slipping into eter
nity, cold, hungry, wondering at
l.ife. Shoes, clothing, fuel and food
are needed, and badly, in this home.
Around your fireside, full, satis
fied, can you push t' - ‘rue picture
out of your mind. Tneir Christmas is
in your hands.
No Romance For Her.
A 17-year-oi3 girl. At the age
when girls dream of knights and cav
aliers. the coming of the Prince
Charming. The hoping time of life
for girlhood, but for her naught of
that which is good and cheering, but
finger-breaking toil, never a hope,
only pain and struggle, heaftaehes
and despondency. For on her frail
; boulders rests the task that would
strain a strong man, 'that of feeding,
clothing and homing a widowed moth
er and four helpless little brothers
and sisters. Each morning she plods
to the mill. Every day is the same.
Still she would not care if only by giv
( Con turned on eccouu yage.;
Welfare Officer Names Assistant
For Work In livery Township
Of Cleveland to Aid Hoard
A township board of charities, cov
ering all Cleveland was named Thurs
day by County Welfare Superintend
ent J. B, Smith to assist him and the
county board of charities in th^-ir
work.
These township committees will as
sist in various community problem:*
and will cooperate with members of
the county board in taking care of
the wants of the needy an.I unfortun
ate and other problems that ordinar
ily must be met by such an organiza
tion.
The list as named follows:
Township No. 1—Mr. Erwin Scru
ggs Mrs. Joe McCraw, Mrs. O. 1\
Earl.
Township No. 2—Mr. Irwin Jolfoy,
Mrs. J. I). Elliott, Mrs. M. A. Jolley.
Township No. 3—Jerry Runyans,
Mrs. Vul Thomasson, Mrs. Jesse Low
ery.
Township No. A—Roan Davis Mrs.
Earnest Neal and Mrs. C. E. Noisier,
Mrs. C. E. Byers.
Township No. 5—Mr. Jno. Waeaster
Mrs. Marvin Putman, Mrs. G. E. Go
forth.
Township No. 6—Rush Padgett,
Mrs. II. M. Pippin, Mrs. I. C. Grif
fin, Mrs. Hubert Long, Mrs. Clyde B.
Hoey, ex-officio.
Township No. 7—Lawton Blanton,
Mrs. Ulus Rollins, Mrs. A. V. Wash
burn.
Township No. 8—Mr. C. C. Warliek
Mrs. D. A. Harries, Mrs. W. H. Cov
ington.
Township No. 9—Mr. Ed. Dixon,
Mrs. Carme Elam, Mrs. T. A. Stnm
ey.
Township No. 10—Francis Boyles,
Mrs. A. D. Warliek, Mrs. Hattie Ed
wards.
Township No. 11—C. A. Brittain,
Mrs. A. A. Richard, Mrs. Joe Queen.
Somebody stole a march on the
court crowds. Mrs. Jessie Franis, bet
ter dressed and more attractive than
ever, was again a defendant in the
court room Friday morning and as
few knew nbout it few were present*
but for those in attendance it was
an interesting morning. Some of the
color of-the former trials was missing
■ but Mrs. Francis was there and that
was sufficient to cause numerous
necks to crane.
Three counts were brought up
against her, all in connection with her
visit last Sunday night to the convict
camp where Sloan Philbeck is a pris
oner. The counts charged trespass,
vagrancy, and a violation of the city
code in connection with a woman
loitering or being about the streets
or back lots after 10 p. m. The con
vict camp is within the city limits,
thus bringing this code into operation.
The triul brought out many things,
and failed to bring out an equal num
ber. No evidence was offered showing
that she talked with Philbeck, but
there was evidence aplenty that she
was in the gang house. At least Judge
John Mull saw it that way, and he
gave her 30 days on each of the three
counts or DO days in all. An appeal
was entered by Mrs. Francis’ attor
ney, Cleveland Gardner, and bond in
each case was set at $100, or a total
of $300.
Wednesday Mrs. Francis was bailed
out by her husband, Avery Francis,
bond being set at $250 by Solicitor
Huffman for a hold-over on the sus
pended sentence in Superior court and
SI 00 for the coupty court charges.
The $300 bond asked on the appeal.*
of Friday added to the $250 asked by
the solicitor totalled $550 and the hus
band, forsaken several times, still
stuck to his wife, officers say, and
offered to stand for the bond. Tiie
court refused his bond on the three
county charges appealed, but the oth
er bond stands. At noon the other
$300 had not been arranged for. ;
MISS WILLIAMSON AND MR.
CLINE MARRY IN SHELBY
Miss Fairie Lee Williamson, attrac
tive daughter of Mr. Charlie William
son of the Union community and Mr.
John Hoyt Cline, energetic son of Mrs*
David Cline of Lawndale were quietly
married in Shelby Wednesday after
noon at 3:30 o’clock at the home of
Rev. John W. Suttle on N. Washing
ton street, Mr. Suttle performing tho
ceremony in the presence of only a
few witnesses. Both are prominent
young people of the county and have j
the best wishes of their host ol i
friend...