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IF IT’S NEWS, IT’S IN THE STAR r— --———s reliable home taper Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department, U’liduni) ......i SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census_—8,854 Where Industry Joins With Climate In A Call For You, . .-.— VOL. XXXIV, No. 12 “Covers Cleveland Completely.” SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. } By mail, per year (In advance) $2.50 I By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 WASHINGTON REALTOR BUYS BIG PLOT NEAR CLEVELAND SPRINGS PROPERTY Affleck Gets 56 Lots Near Development I.oca) Realty Traders Getting Spring, time Fever. Large Individual Sale Completed. With a lingering bit of snow on the hillsides, local real estate is irk ing on a springtime activity. Sales announced Tuesday night added a ti ne of real estate trading that specks v c-'l of the realty business in Shelby and around the Cleveland Springs re sort development during the spring months. The sale announced definitely Wed nesday marks the biggest lot transfer of vacant property outside of the city limits in recent months with the ex ecution of the purchase of the Cleve land Springs company and Mr. Mar shall, the Florida developer—that is with an individual buyer. Property purchased Tuesday by Mr. Phillip G. Affleck alone included 56 j lets with a frontage of 25 feet each, j or 14 100 foot front lots on Highway] 20 and the Elizabeth road, which runs j through the development. Mr. Affleck is of Washington, D. C.. and repre-' st nts the Affleck Investment company ■ of that city. The sales were hand'ed : through his local representative, Will; C. Harris, Shelby realtor. The lots purchased included a lit-! tie over 700 front feet on each road j belonging to Garnett M. Cox and Renn Drum, and 400 front feet on each , road belonging to Lee B. Weathers1 and Renn Drum The plot is just be yond the log caTTu belonging to the Shelby Real estate company and runs east to the wooded strip on towards! the fair grounds and at the extreme limit of the Cleveland Springs prop erty to the east on the Elizabeth! read. The property is not far from lhc old Cleveland Springs line and about an equal distance from the site < f the proposed new golf club house. The first development work at the resort, it is understood, will staid on . the Elizabeth road section, which too; Affleck property fronts on one side,1 fronting on the paved highway on the other side. No announcement has been made'by Mr. Affleck or representative as to] how the plot will be handled as the trade has just been completed. Mr Affleck, who arrived in town over the week-end and about the time Mr. Marshall came, has been stopping af Cleveland Springs hotel, but left Wednesday for Hendersonville, Ashe ville, Black Mountain and other west ern points. He plans, it is said, to re turn to Shelby at an early date. Realty trades about Shelby have ] 1 een holding up for some time, most ] property owners waiting to see just j low things turned out at the resort.] The fact that the Washington realtor | came into town about the same time ' as Mr. Marshall and that he is exne-1 lienced in the realty game in his city and Florida has started general trad ing about the town. It is understood that Mr .Marshall is now going over final plans here and that work on the development will begin in the near future. In view of which considerable trading by local and outside interests is expected in the coming weeks be fore spring, when the market beg,ns active operation. Little trading other than individual lots has been going m since the sale of the hotel to Florida financiers, and the fact that a prom inent outside dealer sees enough in the future of the resort to buy 56 lot? adjoining the resort property natural ly has added considerable “pep” to the local outlook. And the trade com ing in January makes the stove-league experts wonder just how things will move in real trading weather. Geo. Washburn New With Best Furniture, It was announced Wednesday '.hat' -Jr. George Washburn, for some time connected wtih the Washburn Oil company, has accepted a position with the John M. Best Furniture company, which recently n^oved into modern show rooms in the new Royster building. Mr. Best, proprietor of the firm, and Mr.Washburn will leave Tluirs <h.y for High Point, where they will attend the furniture exposition fer two days. While there they expect to add considerably to the Best stock. —’Wicker Coming—AH local Ma sons and visiting Masons arc urged to attend the meeting in the Masonic h dge rooms, Friday night of this week 11 which itme W. C. Wicker, Masonic educational secretary of this district "'ll make an address. Mr. Wicker is rn interesting talker and vhat he will have to tell tho Masons will be woith hearing. New French Ambassador Arrives Mr. anil Mrs Henri nereriger ore shown on their arrival I Berengef succeeds Emile Daeschner as French ambassador to c = Salary And Wage Commission Under Fire At State Capital (By ' 1. L. Shipman, Star Correspon dt lit.) Raleigh, Jan.'.25.—The rapidly in creasing . disturbance over the func tioning of the salary ami wage com mission, the meeting of the state ug 1 [cultural society, report of a state deficit and the fight on school fire in surance rates were among the out standing matters of interest in ad ministration circles during the week. In addition many other matters en gaged attention of the Capital city residents during the week. The criticism of the salary and wage commission, which became ; tronger during the.-week with the coming of Lee’s birthday, a holiday which the commission declared shoal i not be observed unless or.e day was taken from the annual vacation of each employe observing it, was ans wered on Sunday with a statement by Hoyle Sink, secretary of the commis sion in which Mr. Sink charged there was an organized propaganda to dis count the work of the commission and that members of the legislature were being approached by certain bodies with a view to having the commission legislated out of existence at the t ext legislature. Mr. Sink, in a long statement defended the actions of the 1 commission. On Saturday the com-! mission made it public that salary in creases of approximately fifty thou-! rand dollars had been granted begin ning this mouth, but against this set the fact that the commission had abol ished offices and reduced salaries to the total of about $2U,O0O in October and approximately the same amount had been saved the state by the vol untary discontinuance' of certain jobs by department heads before the com mission got to work but in anticipa tion of the commission’swork. The sal ary increases allowed were defended by Mr. Sink on the ground they were defended by Mr. Sink on the ground they were chiefly for employes • 1 the highway commission where not a single increase had been granted in a year. I Representative W. \V. Neal of‘Mc Dowell county, a member of the leg islature creating the commission, was among those attacking it in the past work. Mr. Neal asserted the commis sion was taking unto itself powers which the legislature had not intend ed. The North Carolina society of en gineers also joined the ranks of those opposing the commission when it re quested that greater consideration be shown for technically trained men. Deficit Explained. The report of a deficit in the gen eral fund of the state as of January 1st, closing the first six months of the fiscal administration of Governor McLean was explained by the execu tive with the statement of large dis bursements and meager collections. Mr. McLean said he expected to change the deficit of S800.000 to a sur plus by the end of a full fiscal year as the income and other collections coming due shortly would swell the income. Stacey Wade, insurance commission rr served notice after a meeting with the Southeastern underwriters that lie would oppose the 26 per cent 'in crease in school fire insurance raies in N. C.. which the underwriters body has ordered effective. Mr. Wade branded the action as “high handed” and contrary to the law. Fair Not Likely. With the prospect of no fair this year, the agricultural society at a meeting elected W. A. Hart of Tar - ct'-.ntmued on l age I'oui i ; But Thsre’s That Hercules Door When you visit the Shelby post jlfice go in by the front door. About a year ago Mr. B. B. Byers paid the institution a visit, and went n by the back door, fell and broke his arm. Last Sunday Moses Taub, who hauls Uncle Samuel’s mail pouches back and ft rth to the depots, went out of that same back door, fell and turned his inkle. The jolt put him in bed, where >e is still suffering from the effects jf the mishap. M STUDENTS 1 The total enrollment of the South Shelby school at present is 460. Of this number 21S are boys and 213 gitls. The percentage of attendance at the close of the fourth month was 91 per cent. There were 59 tardies dur ing the past month. The average daily attendance at the close of the fourth month was 422. Thirty new pupils have entered since the Christmas holidays. 67 on Honor Roll. There were 67 pupils in the South Shelby school who were on the hon r.i roll during the past month. Each month the names of the pupils of the 61 h, 7th and 8th grades only will be published in The Star. The following is the honor roll for the fourth month: Sixth grade—Helen Anthony, Eli sabeth Blanton, Fldith Blanton, Lena Hamrick, Evelyn Short. 7th grade—-Lottie May Mauney, Ruby Lucile Blanton. 8th grade—Ola Lee Glp.scoe, Helen '.Vhitner. During the past week Rev. Rush Padget and Rev. A. S. Raper, conduct ed our devotional exercises for us. The messages which they brought to the . pupils were helpful. Misses Minnie Warliek and Adeline : Bostick had charge oi our chapel ex- ' prclses last Tuesday and Friday. These two chapel programs were greatly enjoyed by all. The children i who took part showed that they were well trained. Mr. Wilbur Green one of our 7th ■ grade boys who is ill with pneumonia i is recovering. We are sorry to hear oi his illness. Mrs. Ransom Casstevens teacher of the fifth grade was not able to teach for a day and a half on account of ill ness. Mrs. Nash and Mrs. Charlie i Barms substituted for her. Miss Howie our teacimr of public'' school music is teaching the follov ing new songs to the primary grades: ' The Muffin Man,” “The Little Fid dler” “The Hunting Morn” and “Hay - making Song.” These songs are found in our revv sor.g book, “The Song Hour.” We like our new book. The pupils of the sixth grade are memorizing “Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.” Every one should know by heart this peerless address and should seek to appreciate its wonderful pow- > er. The address is now lettered on bionze tablets and placed in public buildings throughout the country. The boys and girls are very much interested now in basket-ball. Mr. Blanton who has charge of athletics is organizing basket ball teams. i Asks Damages For Chickens Foxes Killed Most Unique Suit <>n Court Record is Filed. Claimed That Wild Faxes Destroyed 200 Chickens. Can a man be made to pay for the damages caused bv wild foxes turn d loose by h'm? rtr (an it be proven ‘hot p. number of Brer foxes running ■vild killed certain chickens;? The two questions should cause ■■(ime debate among the hunters of the county, and will a! so cause some ■iincursion in court as a suit based ■i-nrund the two questions has been Tied. Tuesday Horace V unedv. acting] no aciornsy for V,’, H. Warli k. of1 Vo. r> township, fTod a complaint | with Recorder John P. Mull alleging i ‘hat five or six foxes were turned j loose by O. V. War lick of Vo. ft. and 'hat since that time 200 chickens he-] longing to the plaintiff have been killed- that i* is the information the plaintiff has that the foxes were re sponsible for the missing chickens, nrd in view thereof damages to the -•xtent of S200 are asked, one dollar for each missing chicken. While it is most unique suit ever to lace Recorder Mull he says. The solution, he adds, from a survey of the complaint will require ail the wjs ciom of a Solomon judge and then some- There iR nothing to cut into. The foxes, unless th»re are some mighty good dogs in the county, canrot be brought into court to te.-ti. fy, and the chickens are now nil. So there! The plaintiff claims that he is in formed, believes arc! avers that the diaapnearance of the chickens was brought about by the foxes, and fur ther adds that the defendant knew, or should have known*, that the fox es would prove destructive. No character attacks or anything out of the wav is in the suit, it is understood, and both parties are well ; known and respected in the county, j However, the oddness of the sub ! will attract considerable attention, it ! is believed. The case will not come j up for sometime. The Complaint Itself The complaint verbatim as filed follows: “That during the year 192o the de fendant purchased and turned loose icar the plaintiff's residence five or six wild foxes and that at the time of racing said foxes the defendant, knew, or should have known, that the aforesaid foxes would damage and destroy the property of the plain stiff. “That shortly after tlve time raid foxes were released by the defend ant near the plaintiff’s residence the plaintiffs chickens began to disap pear and this plaintiff is informed 1 relieves and aver that said chick ens were killed and destroyed by the ! foxes which the defendant released, j and that up to this time at least 200 I sbicltens belong to he plaintiff, have been killed and destroyed by the ; foxes of the defendant. “That the value of aforesaid chick- , was §1 each," Shelby Laundry to Expand Business V j The Shelby Steam laundry, owned1 ;nd operated by F. R. Sanders, lias eased the building next door to the lorth and is preparing materially tc >xpand the business. i Mr. Sanders states that his business las grown until it was necessary to idd new quarters. A lease on the ad joining property was made, the two louses connected, which will give the ■nterprise practically a hundred per rent. increase in floor space. “I consider that the growth of Shel ly is reflected in the growth of this jusiness,” Mr. Sanders said. He added :hat he will add new machinery and lew equipment at once to take care ■f the trade increase. The lease was r.ade with Attorney B. T. Falls, who iwns the property taken over by the aundry. SEE PAGE 8 The Big War Serial Story Stars Today On THAT Page —Turn To Page 8— And Start With First Chap ter On One Of The Best Stories You Have Ever Bead. i Half-Brother and Half-Sister Meet First Time in Life I i V must be a stage: freak in-, c.dii is, gueer :.s meiodramn, oc cur as time grinds away. I rani; Hefner, well known about Shelby, born seme 52 years ago. Tl Itimcn year.-; prior to H at t.rne 1 is hal.f-sl.-t .‘r, now Mrs. Kilrn Oaka, was born. Tiiey saw' each other for the first time this month. •Mrs. Oaks’ fat h r was killed in the Oi'il win. Her mot hr r then married Cary Heftier, lather of Frank Hefner and too family moved to O'evehiud Milks, th s county, v.hcre Frank was born. Frank’s father died in 1 >.*02, yet hie mother and the mother of Mrs Oaks, lived until It) HI and her two chM *ren raver saw each othei until this month. Mr. Hefner, who has just re turned to Shelby, has been on re cent visit to the western section of the state. Yv idle there he decid ed to visit the half-sister, whose mother was his mother, and whom be had never seen. Mis. Oaks lives near Klk Park and about two miles from the Tenn essee line, having lived in that section all her life, while her half brother has spent most of hi.s 52 years in this section, having liv ed in Shelby 23 years. Mr. Hefner says that he had often heard of his half-sister and especially through his mother, who talked of her daughter, but the recent visit offered the first opportunity of seeing tier. Wootten and Hamrick to Furniture Show Paul R. Wuotton, manager of Gil. mer’s and Lee Hamrick, head of the furniture department of the store, left Wednesday morning for High Point to attend the furniture exposi t:on. They will make the trip by motor, and expect to be gone three or four days. Mr. Wooten gave out the informa tion before leaving Shelby that he and Mr. Hamrick purposed to buy at least ten car loads of furniture while at tiie exposition to fill in and pep up the Gilmer furniture deart meat. A deal was closed in Shelby Wed nesday morning, whereby the Royster interests, including Dr. S. S. Royster and his two sons, H. R. Royster and D. W. Royster, took over the distri bution of the Gulf Refining company’s products in this territory. The purchase of the big agency was made from R. B. Gantt. Dr. Royster told The Star Wednes day afternoon, following the consum mation of the deal that the transfer represented a monetary transaction A $40,000. This is the. first venture of the sort ever entered into by the Royster family. “What led you into such a depar ture ?” Dr. Royster was asked. “I consider the business growing and desirable,” he replied. He told The Star that his plans for the development of the business in cluded the erection of a big tanknge station in Shelby, with a main storage tank of at least one hundred and fif ty thousand gallons. And in addition to this central supply there will he supplementary tanks, several of them, of sixteen thousand gallons capacity. The company will be known as The Royster Oil company, and the terri tory taken over for distribution in cludes two full counties, Cleveland and Rutherford and parts of Lincoln and Gaston. “We will distribute from Gastonia to Rutherfordton,” said Dr. Royster They will hanndle the new No-rox feas of the Gulf Refining company, among other products of the Gulf out put. It is claimed for this gas that it generates no carbon, and knows no knocks. It may not interest Henry. *>ut "’■=> know an old man who can pla^- well on what the hoys call a “juice harp,” Well balanced ration Highbrow host. Florida Developer Tells Local Golfers Of Plans Cotton Crop Moves to 36,808 Bales For This County < 1 K'lui.l c. unit's c (tan crop Kill reach lhi* 37.000-bale n* irh I nr 1925, hut according to ‘ho i i s! sinning report for the c'tu-'.y it i, only 192 hales short of fh&i amiunt, I •'« • «h'> pr ‘dieted that the I 12.> crop it Hi II be short 10,000 hales ini»> non clip their guess in t«« f>r<] mcko it .'>,000 bales. The crop tot T for 1025, which iv; - the highest record ever es tabl hed in the county, was h-rMlv oier 42,000 bales. The latest ginning report for 1925 as announc'd to day is only a little over 5,000 bales short of the 192-1 total. In other words the cron to date. | according to ginning figures is sued 1;y Miles H. Ware, special agent, is only 3,000 and some hales behind the report of the 1924 crop. However, the crop this year was early. Thirty.ilx thousand eight hun dred and eight bales had been gin ned up until January 16, this year, as compared with 40,563 hales ginned up to January 16. 1925, ; Monday afternoon Durham Moore ' drove Mrs. Moore down town to shop. jThey live, Mr. and Mrs. Moore, on j West Marion street. It was a plea ! sant afternoon, the sun came out af ; ter the snowfall, and Mrs. Moore was in no hurry to return home. She stayed down town perhaps two hours and a half, which ordinarily would be neither here nor there. But in this case her length of absence has a distinct bearing on our yarn. , Toward iate afternoon Mrs. Moore joined her husband and they start I od home ward. It was. we will repent i very pleasant out-of-doors; the air I liad a winter tang, and the new fall en mow on the trees was beautiful.' i Decidedly there was no hurry. ! The young Moore child had been left next door with neighbors, with Mrs. L. S. Friday. Moore drove his car up to the curb in front of Mrs. Friday’s. Mrs. Moore got out, and he continued on into his own drive-way. As ho drove up by his house he saw a light in the sitting room. He saw the flicker of the blaze against the wall, that rose and fell and made shadows. “We must have left a pret ty hefty fire in the grate ” he thought to him self, as he got out of his car. taking his time, in the chunk of the afternoon. When he opened the front door he smelled smoke. As he got into the front room he smelled more smoke. And it did not smell like grate smoke; it smelled like burning wood. And that is exactly what it was. The horse was afire. The flames were leaping and crackling playfully in the middle of the living room, and had g,.l. s., far along toward a genuine conflagra tion that already the plastering over head was heated and falling. Moore summed his presence of mind instead of the fire department. He remembered a garden hose was on the front porch, and a spigot in the brick. He quiCkiy got the hose and attached it. and turned on Uie water. When the neighbors came, attracted by the sight of smoko is suing from the door, and of Moore stepping the ligt fantastic about the scene, the fire was out. A gaping hole was in the floor: a chair was burned; one of Mrs. Moore’s gowns that was thrown over the back of the chair, and the ceiling had a hole in it. Now we come to the real pith of our narrative which involves three IPS— The first is, If Moore had been fifteen minutes, ten minutes, or per haps even five minutes later he would have lost his house. If all the doors in house had not been closed, shutting off all draft, he would have lost it, and lastly, if— The garden hose had not been on the front porch, where a garden hose] commonly has no right to be after a1 snowstorm, the home would have been burned anyway. t Moore's friends say he believes Providence handed him a white heel- t i Cleveland Spring* Golf C lub Elects Officers and Discusses New Kighteen-Hole Course. i jTalking to a group of the mem bers of the Cleveland Springs Gtl£ flub at Cleveland Springs hotel Tues day evening, Mr. Alfred P. Marshall, Florida realtor who is to develop the Cleveland Springs resort, advo cated a chamber of commerce for Shelby and told members of the club of his plans regarding the proposed i 8-hole course, which he will build here instead of the present course, and which should be one of the best golf meccas in Western Carolina. • Eskridge Re-elected. At a business meeting of the golf club held in the hotel parlor Char.. L. Eskridge was re-elected president of the club by a unanimous vote of mem bers present and R. T. LeGrand was likewise re-elected vice-president. Mr. Jean Schenck, secretary of the club during the past year, asked to be re lieved of his duties and Dr. A. Pitt Beam was named secretary and treas mer. A new’ board of directors wrs named as follows: J. F. Jenkins, Wil lis McMurry, J. F. Roberts, George Moore, Oliver S. Anthony, Earl Ham rick, and Renn Drum. The membership committee for 1926 as named was coni posed of C. L. Eskridge, O. Max Gardner and Odus M. Mull. Retain Lyle. Following the election it was de cided to retain W. H. Lyle as club pro fessional and a vote of thanks for his services during the past year was recorded. A membership drive for old and new members will be staged before the spring golfing season opens up and it is hoped to get back in the club all old members and quite a number of new members. The membership cam paign will be broadened to take in nearby towns and cities from which numerous golfers visit the local links. A fixed membership fee was decided upon and will be adhered to, applying to all persons alike and giving spe cial privileges to none. Golfers not holding the regular club membership must puy green fees and such fats must be paid for guests, the guest cards being abolished. Thirty-five of those present joined for another year immediately after the meeting. Among the new members joining was Phil lip G. Affleck, prominent Washing ton realtor, who is here on a business visit. Good for New Course. Chib officials and Mr. Marshall assured the meeting that all old mem bers would he carried on as members of the new club when the course and resort is enlarged this spring. The ad vantage of this was pointed out in that for the new 18-hole course and club house the entrance fee will be considerably larger than that of the present club and members getting in now will save considerable in the en trance fee. Uninterrupted. In the proposed development, ac cording: to Mr. Marshall, the golf play will not be interfered with. The present nine holes will continue in use until the nine holes on the north side of Highway fro. 20 are complete. Play will then shift to the new nine while another course is built on the hotel side of the highway. Then with 18 holes in operation a new club house will be erected near the residence of John Wi Doggett. Mr. Marshall as sured club members that the present system of operating the course would go on and that in the new development he would try to give golfers in this section one of the best courses in this territory and an equally good club house, and that in course of time prom inent golfers would be brought here and the game greately stimulated. Start Work Soon. Asked about what time work would begin on the development? Mr. Mar shall stated that he would promise no definite date, but that his company was losing money all the time the property was being held off the mar ket and that development work and sales campaigns would begin in the near future. His developements have been held up and delayed in Florida bv embargos aud other handicaps and fearing mi or handicaps, he stal ed, he would not like to set a definite date until he was positive that the work could be carried out at that time. As early as possible, however, he assured those present that he (Continued op page six^