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IF IT’S NEWS, IT’S IN THE STAR r ——— RELIABLE home paper Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department, VOL. XXXIV, No. 13 “Covers Cleveland Completely.” SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census_8,854 Where Industry Joins With Climate In A Call For You. . SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JAN. 29, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. 1 By mail, per year (in advance)-.$2.50 __ l By carrier, per year (in advance) Jieclares Shelby and Cleveland Springs are Well—Advertised, But Folks Won’t Ride Day Coaches Mr. Henry L. Vanstory, manager of the Cleveland Springs Hotel, b< - lieves in advertising Shelby and the j multifarious advantages of this sec tion. In a letter to the editor of The S'.ar, he calls attention to the fact that he has spent nine thousand dol lars in three years for advertising, using newspaper space and booklets But the Cleveland Springs mana ger believes, as he points out plain ly in his letter, that there are cer tain conditions which should be re medied before it may be expected that outside advertising may be entric ly effective. Mr, Vanstory expresses the belief that Shelby will be handicapped in making a todbifrouirsstqvs? _ making a bid for tourists just so long as the local railroads withhold Pullman service from the town. He points out that tourists coming into Charlotte by rail, having enjoyed the comforts of a Pullman from north or south, will feel little inclined to climb into a day coach for the last leg of the trip. The Pullman people have informed him, Mr. Vanstory says, that the ser vice will not pay, “Anyone would have told you The Cleveland Springs Hotel would not pay in the winter," Then he concludes: “I believe wr.oj the pressure that the people of this I section can bring about that we car. get the railroad accommodation.-. and I believe that as soon as we get them the people will come. And 1 hi-’ licve that The Cleveland Springs Hotel will be the best asset that Shel-.i by can have. Lawndale News Of School And Town Piedmont Students Astir Over Hoey Contest. Persona! Mention Of People on the Co. ((Special to The Star.) Lawndale, Jan. 28.—Prof P. G. Gal lop spent the week end in Charlotte. Miss Alma Burgess was the week end guest of Miss Ethel Elmore. The school is astir with interest in the various contests which the students are entering the Clyde R. Iloey con test in oratory; the Selma C. Webb contests in recitation and in essay; the contest for the scholarship of ft red for the best essay on the sub ject of chemistry to be awarded by the -National Chemistry association. Aton.i w ith these various activities, how ever, a little time is left for such pur suits as class-room work and athletics, '.he triangular and amateur theatri cals. Mrs. Mat Cline’s new house is near ing completion. Mr. John Schenck has returned from a business trip to New York. Mrs. John Schenck has returned from the Shelby hospital, much im proved in health. , Miss Paris Fox returned from Greensboro a few days ag >. Mrs. J. E. Westmoreland of Hick ory Grove, S. C., was the guest last week of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. F Beam. Mr. C. S. Lee recently moved into his new house in Lawndale. Mr. Carmie Elam’s handsome new house is rapidly nearing completion. A delightful picnic supper and marshmallow' roast, at which Misses Minnie and Emma Gold were hostag es was enjoyed by their friends, Miss es Callie Owens. Sadie Mull, Ruby Carpenter and Eloise Grigg. W. E. Harley of Greenwood. S. C., visited his daughter, Miss Marion] Harley and his son, John Harley, Sun day and Monday. Continue Training School Work Here Plans were laid in Shelby Thursday Par a continuation here 'his year of thr Methodist-Presbytcrian standard training' school for Sunday school work. The school will be opened in Shelby, according to a state by Wil liam Linebcrgef, who is a nrime mover in the venture, March Vlth. C V. Woosley, field secretary of the \\estern Carolina Sunday schooli board visited the city Thursday, and mot representatives from the vari mis churches of the county to ar-j range for the work. This, it is comprehensively explaine 1 is strictly a co-operative endeavor, the aim of the work being to train Sun-| m*y school workers. Five experts will h" employed in the school here this year, one of Whom will be C. T. Carr,; "ell known in Cleveland county as ( former head of the Shelby High] school. >j News Story Brought Man And His $1,000 Together Wilbert Davis, Not Located For Years Found In Heimont. Comet; Here For Check, iMn ' :<Ti;vt to res.d jour news-,, -paper. In addition to keeping.. J ou ported with li.e it may have a gr-s i:r value some day Ueac.ir.g the paper Pot week $1,000. to Wilbert Davis, -i-y,-. r-oiJ , .-.tile worker of Beir.! - < A. rul it came almost a'1 a wedding present to I, in. Leaders < f The Ftar will rerneni Pei that las; week the paper earned a ory tj the effect that Wiib-y t- II;.vis-, a young-, man not heard from since: DilO, was being1 tr- ght by lepresentative rails' Shelby attorney, who held an ir.s .ranee policy worth 81,000 to Davi-. Search for the young by ether methods prove*1 fruitltss. Thm the newspaper mem d mas resorted to .It made a Rood story, and the value of new: paper . t,.ric-s makes an other; .' Davis father was killed in a brawl in South Carolina, in 1021. At the time of his death he was a Woodman and through the order left $1,000 to his son. Jiowevrr, years before that he became separated from his wife and lawyers were unable to locate the wife or son. Xo trace < f the family could be found in recent year:*, because Mrs. Davis v'<ts the person sought for and wasn't Mrs. Davis anymore. She had married again and was Mrs. Carris, of Charlotte. The boy, very young when his father left, had been reared by h:s grandparents at Rock Hill and was generally known by their sur name. Thus city directories con tained not the sought for name and it is doubtful if Davis would have been located had the r.ewR story never been published. Mrs. Garris, Davis' mother read about it one morning at her home in Charlotte. The boy read about it that afternoon in Belmont. Wednesday Wilbert Davis. Mrs. Garris. Mrs. (’. W. Mice, Davis half sister, and her husband walked into Attorney Fali's office and made affidavits ider.t fying Davis a; the heir to the $1,000. The check will be turned over to him when th • af fidavits are approved at the home office of the Woodmen. Davis had been living in Charlotte of late years, accord ing to Judge Falls, but recently he was married and moved to Belmont, where he is employed. He had no idea that his father had left him any money and the heritage came almost as a wed ding oresent-— and can be used, according to Judge Falls, as a leg has been giving Davis trouble and almost preventing him from work ing. It is to be presumed that here after young Davis will be a re gular reader of the newspapers. Says Nation Turning Toward South, i:ud That North Carolina Will Boom. Raleigh:—Raleigh nun who listened Monday to Tom Dixon's talk on North Carolina and the turn of the Nation’s attention toward the South, are bet t pg that within another six months there will be? a bus every day between Raleigh and Asheville, carrying its capacity load of people interested in the real estate development in the west, N. C'. Hines. who is the owner of such a bus, planned his maiden trip to Asheville today, but the snow frightened him and his trip was post poned a week. Mr. Hines, whose busi ness it is to boost and to auctioneer, took the negative of the wager. Great as he believes the eastern and west ern boom is to be, he is not so opti mistic after hearing the phenomenal speech of Tom Dixon glorifying North Carolina. Florida and the whole South. Mr. Dixon say the boom isn't arti ficial; but as natural as the tides. The nation all about the South has been booming on less; it will now boom or. more. Governor McLean rather shares the Dixon view and his excellency sees the California drama of 1849 repeat ed. The country is traveling this way now, not West. However, Mr. Hines is a conservative booster, and though he lu>- bought a great bus to do his business in the east and west, he does not figure so early on a daily drive across the state. "If 1 lose my bet I will of course v in .the prize, but if I lose my bet I win the business,” Mr. Hines said, "The guess isn’t bad. Wo, Joe Eller and myself, were to have taken our trip today. We can carry seventeen in the party and had reservations for IT. That looks like interest in North Carolina." Mr. Dixon’s wonderful voice never was so musical as when he sang to North Carolina Monday. \\. Dt-PKIEST IS SOMEWHAT IMPROVED AFTER ILLNESS .Mr. 0. W. DePriest, old Shelby res i irleiit. who was tricken with heart [trouble while visiting: at Fountain r,n, S. C.. last Monday, was reported to be somewhat improved Friday. Mr. DePriest was visiting his daugh !tor. Mrs. II. B. Edwards, at Fountain Inn, when he was stricken, falling upon the street. His condition was considered so grave, that iiis son, P. j H. DePriest was sent for at Holly wood. Fla., and went immediately to his father’s bedside. Mrs. Annette Leland. a daughter, who lives in Shelby, will leave Satur day morning for Fountain Inn. Mr. I,. P. Meggison, of Shelby, will after the first of February, be iden tified with the Roberts-Maunev Auto Parts company, and will travel West ern North Carolina for that firm. Mr. Meggison was formerly associated |with the Continental Range company. Little Daughter Of A. V. Wray Passes Threc-year-cdd Marjorie Maize Wray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Wray, died at the Victor hotel, in Shelby, where the Wray family is making their home for 1 he winter, Friday morning at eight o’clock. The immediate cause of the child's death was said to be pneumonia, which developed from whooping cough. This malady developed three weeks ago. About that time the Wray family contemplated removing from the Vic tor hotel, which was formerly known as the College Inn, to an address on North Morgan street, to live while awaiting the construction of the new home. But it was decided at the last mo ment, even after sprue of the furni ture had been moved into the Morgan street house, that it would he best not to take the child, now rapidly hec^.lin ing ill, from the steam heated hotel, and all removal plans were canceled. The condition of little Marjorie aid not become alarming untjl early <hi week. By Tuesday the whooping cough had made such inroads upon her strength that she developed convul sions. Thursday night there was a re petition of these attacks, which be came more violent. ' The little sufferer’s frame was shaken by eight of these attacks dur ing Thursday night. and Friday morning one of prolonged duration earned her off. She was the youngest of a family of eight children, having one sister, Sai a Ellen, and six brothers. The funeral will be held sometime Saturday, but at the time this is be ing written complete funeral arrange ments have not been made. Mr. Wray told The Star Friday afternoon that he did not believe that A. V. Wray. jr„ the eldest son. who ires ^t Flagstaff, Arizona, would be able to reach Shelby in time for the funeral Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wray, the former a brother of Mr. Wray, of Gastonia, will attend the funeral. And Mrs. C. M. Gibson, of Charlottesville, Va., ister of Mrs. Wray, has already reached Shelby. Miss Charlotte Jones, of Cedar Springs, S. C., niece of .Mis. Wray, will reach the city tomorrow. UnfiUable Gap. The Star, in common with the people of this community gener ally, extend a very heart-felt sympathy to the Wray family in their bereavement in the loss of their little three-year-old daUgh-' ter. Marjorie. Death is inevitably and always sad, but the passing away of a little child, somehow pulls at the heart strings as does no other event in this vale of tears. The loss of the lovely child will leave an unfilled and unfill rble gap in the household. for which there is but one slight con solation, and that is. duty well performed for the little one while she was here. Mr. F. A. Atcheson, manager of the Charlotte branch of the Ford Pterests, and W\ F. Duckworth, wholesale ear department manager of the same agency, were visitors to Shelby Friday, calling upon Mr. Chas. L. Eskridge, at the Shelby Ford head I Number of Deeds l-'iled for Record i Show inn Real Estate < ontinucs Active In Cleveland. Register of Dodds R. L. Weathers F ".t il busy recording deeds and other papers, showing a continued I activity in trading. The follow.\g 'dr- ...d were filed for record this week; ■John McKnigLl trustee to Richter and Phillips Co. stock of jewelry $2100. Georg • Carrie* to Ja . VV. Michael let in Freetown for $10 and other e nsirieralions. S. L. Burges, to Clementine Bur K< ss lot in Dodd property S: Shelby for Sit) and other considerations. J. K. Varboro and wife to Mrs. Emmett Varboro, 51* acres in No. 4 township for 51 and the division at lands. IV. It. Norris and wife to J. E. Varboro till aeras in No 1 township fr r $1 and division of property. Annie Webb to \V. it. Newton, lot in No 0 in Freetown for $1500. Avcy Bros to Chas, H. Hoey 17 pares in No <> on Shelby Kings Jit. road for $12,500. A. L. Devenncy and wife to J. B Wintz two lots in Mrs. Julie Green sub-division, for $700. C. R. Hoey trustee to L. U. Ar row ood Fairview Heights property lor $2200. E. G. Morrison ar.d wife and J. S. McKnight trustee* to George Blanton I two lots in Southwest Shelby for $750. J. W. Howell and wife to Mrs. J. I*. Sprott lot on \Y. Warren street for $5,175. I J. W. Spangler and wife to .L*s jsie Wilson lot in Curtis property for :?!<• and other considerations. | M. A. Spangler, Wm. Linberger land J. L. Suttle to Lee B. Weathers t lot on Linberger street for $5000. I’. P. Richards and wife to J. L. T homason six lots in I'airview Heights for $1500. i Foster Elliott and wife to Erie I Blanton, undivided half interest in four tracts in No. 8 township for ^1000 and division of iands. F. Bate Blanton ami wife to G. A. ; Gates 40 acres in No. 8 township for ;$;ooo. Interest in Meet About U. N. C. Coach j Quite a number of Shoiby alumni are interested in the meeting at Chai r t! Hil! today where a discussion of a i coach to succeed Bill Fetrer will be taken up. Several planned attending jtht meeting but so far as has been j learned none were able to attend. I As a result of their interest and i activity a number of local alumni of the University of North Carolina re ceived a special invitation to attend I the alumni coniViTTice and school to 1 he held at Chapel Hill on Thursday, j Friday and Saturday of this week. All alumni were invited to attend the con ' Terence. but the following local men jure among those receiving special in I vitations: Peyton McSwai.i, D. Wyeth Koyster, O. Max Gardner, Edwin Y. j Webb. J. L. Dixon Buried At Elizabeth Today i -- j Mr. J. L. Dixon, past 70 years of (age, died Thursday morning about 110:30 at his home near the Eastside mill. Mr, Dixon had been sick for over ;a year. He was well known in that [section east of Shelby, having lived in I the Cleveland Springs community. I lie was a member of Elizabeth church j where the funeral was conducted Fri iday afternon at 2:30 and the inter ment took place. Mr. Dixon was twice | married and is survived by a wife and several children. An intellectual, apparently, is oho who thinks it isn’t art if it isp’t naughty. GET IN ON IT Hundreds Are Reading “THE ONE WHO FORGOT” A Great Story In Each Issue Of The Star. TURN NOW TO PAGE 8. It Must Have Been a Good Joke1 Helen K"II. r ia lien . hewn lending the l.ps jf Mrs Calvin CooliJge by the tenth system. t>h'* is blind and uisat Says Miss Cole’s Letters Will Be Read Before Jury Hark Back A Bit Says 29 Years Ago Twenty-nine year- ago this January—doesn’t seem lorn? does [ it? the verteran teacher of the present day, Corn Cracker, was putting on a dazzling exhibition at his Polkvillp school. The report of the State Hospi j tal at Morganton for the year 1834 showed that they were off in the second story long before the advent of the Charleston. I Fhelbys' police chief, Jones, of ! that date was in Raleigh on busi ness anil Mr. D. M. Baker had i jnst purchased a large farm— 226 acres from Mr. C. C. Beam. A leg Gorman had been held at the Cherokee Inn at Blacks burg anil a number of Shelby peopl • attended. Music was furnished by Marks Band. That was back in the days when they gave a new neighbor a “pounding." Seems impossible, hut such happened only 23 ! years ago right here in Cleve j land county. Remember “them days"? They were great and to those , who remember they are interest ing. and just about ns entertain I ing to the young folks who learn | by them what dad and mother did when they were young. ! “23 Years Ago," a special . cdl : unin of new events of that date, may he found in The Star once each week. It’s newspaper his tory—that column. Turn to i.t. day. Expect Good Crowd For Shove This Eve Advance ticket sales for “Nadina of Paradise Isle” at Central school auditorium this evening, Friday, in i ci it a to that quite a crowd will see the pc rformaticc. Some of the leading actors of the country, whose names arc well known to Broadway theatre-goers, are in the cast and the plot of the play, unusual ly romantic and based on the South Sea isle promises an entertaining ev ening. In addition and with the regular run of the the show there will be en joyable music, Hawaiian guitars and uktles and accompanying dances. UK KKU TO ADDRESS MASONS HERE TONIGHT \Y. C. Wicker, field secretary of ti e educational division of the Masonic Grand lodge, will address the local )M i. onie lodge tonight, Friday. A large audience of Cleveland coun tv Masons is expected to be present. The program will take the form of a lecture by Mr. Wicker, who will dis cuss the intricacies of Masonry. BOX SUPPER \T DOVER MILL SCHOOL SATURDAY There will he a box nipper at Do ver mill school Saturday night Feb ruary 6th. The proceeds will go •* running the school an extra length of time. The public is cordially invited to attend and bring boxes or well-f'lled nurse. Contests will be an important and interesting feature of the evening. Music will be furnished by a string I. -.ml. Ilaleigh, Jan. 28.— A declaration ;tH the much discussed correspondence between Miss Elizabeth Cole and his • on, W. W. Ormond will be offered in evidence, features the reply of Rev. A. L Ormond in his $150,000 damage suit against W. B. Cole, wealthy cotton manufacturer of Rockingham, for the ! slaying of his son. The reply, which constitutes the final pleading in the care, was filed in Wake county Su perior court and the case now- stands ior trial with only the priority of other cases standing between it and | a place on the calendar. It is possible 1 that the case vviil he reached this ' spring and unless continued it should in due course go to trial some time this year. The hitherto suppressed correspon ds nee which the minister states in his reply will be read in the civil action was the center of popular interest during the trial of Cole at Roeking> hume last October for the murder of young Ormond which resulted in the acquittal of the defendant, the jury i aching its verdict on the ground that the slander of Miss Cole hy young Omnond justified the shooting whicn dock place on the streets of Rocking ham on the afternoon of August 15. 1 he reply also asks the court to eliminate from the civil action all re ference to the murder tria1, which is declared to have no hearing on the civil action. The murder trial attract c . ration-wide attention and the let te’s. which it is now, said will be i-D’i-.de public were ruled out by Judge T. B. Finley as being incompetent e* i fie nee. The reply of Mr. Ormond asserts that only “garbled extracts" of let ters passing between young Ormond an I Cole and characterizes the advice |ghin Cole hy his attorney. F. VV. By num. as "foolish" and the testimony of Cole when on trial for his life as "blasphemous.” Rev. M. Ormond, who at the time of bringing suit, was residing at Ox fort". is now in charge of a church at Oxford, but the suit was brought in W’ak - county, where lie qualified as administrator of the estate of his son who at the time of his death was em ployed at State college as an eleclri cien. Mr. Ormond is represented by Doug lass & Douglass and R. I,. Simms, cf Rak igh, Larry Moore, of New Bern, Harold Copley, of Nashville and W. R. Jones, of Rockingham. Pou and Pou. and Jones and Horton of Raleigh, A. L. Brooks, of Greens boro and Bynum and Henry, of Rock ingham, appear for Cole. Remarkable Record In Sunday School Mrs. J. P. Long, aged 55 years, who died Sunday night last of pneumonia at her Kings Mountain home, held at the time of her death a remarkable record as a Sunday school teacher. For five years Mrs. Cong taught a Sun day school class at the Methodist church there without missing a Sun day. She missed only two Sundayss in seven years. Two of her cousins, Mrs I F Sampson nd Mrs. D. B. Goforth, of Shelby, at tended the funeral services at the Methodist church there Monday aft ernoon. The servldhs were conducted 1 y Rev. R. M. Hoyle, former pastor, ;.nd the present nastor. She is sur vived by her husband and five chil dren. three rtauehrers and two son;.. OF UNITED SKIES III WORLD COURT Dr. F. J. Pretty man, of Gastonia, Speaking Before Kiwanians, Re joices in Nation's Step. Speaking on the “Art of Living', Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D.. pas tor of Main Street Methodist church Gastonia, rejoiced that the Senate of the United States a few days ago had voted to join the world court in an effort to settle international disputes between the nations without force of arms and consequent bloodshed and sorrow. Dr. Prettyman for eight years was chaplain of the Unite 1 States sen i’tc under Woodrow Wilson’s adminis tration and world peace is uppermost i.i his mind because President Wilson attempted to secure such a peace agency as lias followed >n these lat ter years. It is the first step the Unit ed States has taken in this parliament of nations and brotherhood of man. Dr. Prettyman speaking on ‘How to Live", pointed out our relationship w ith ourselves. He urged that wo not get puffed up with self-conceit, that we listen to the opinions of others about us, that we do not pride our selves on power, money or the heri tage of a good name for the true es timate of a man is his success | through sheer merit and personal achievement in the face of obstacles. Speaking of the art of living with a wife. Dr. Prettyman declared sho should not be looked upon as an u;i- '' dcrling or a hireling, but the queer: of the home, tfie heart Bnd hearth stone, one whose personality should be recognized nrd whose equality and j partnership should be maintained, j After speaking of the art of living !'■ ith one’s self and with one’s wife, Dr Prettyman declared that the United States is too prone to live to itself in this great democratic country where th< bounty of the land abounds and have no concern or regard for the people of the other nations of the earth and their welfare. Other features were in evidence at the Kiwanis meeting. Mr. George Blanton, district trustee who recently I r< turned from a meeting at Columbia, |S. C., continued his report on the iclub’s work, while a special musical | program under the direction of Bill McCord was furnished by members of the high school orchestra. A special guest was J. W. Atkins publisher of the Gastonia Gazette and president of the North Carolina Press association. Miss Elliott Will Speak Here Tuesday Miss Harriett Elliott, professor of government at North Carolina College for women, at Greensboro, is to speak in Shelby the afternon of Tuesday, February 2, at the Woman’s club. She is being brought here by the Daugh ters of the American Revolution, who are inviting the Woman’s club and the United Daughters of the Confederacy to hear her. Miss Elliot is to speak on “Citizen ship and Government”. She is known as one of the most forceful speakers in the state to students and club wo men. She is an outstanding authority on history and government and emin ently qualified to discuss the topic she has chosen for her address. Miss Elliott is much sought after throughout the state and in other states and the D. A. R. leaders are to be congratulated on securing her for the discussion of the vital topic. They are to be praised, too, for sharing her with the other club women of the city. Train of Chevrolets Pass Through Shelby A solid truin-load of Chevrolet au tomobiles passed through Shelby over the Seaboard Wednesday afternoon an route from the factory at Detroit, Mich., to Jacksonville, Fla. There were 49 box cars loaded to capacity. Alt box cars belonged to the Norfolk end Western and the train was routed ever the Clinch field to Bostic, thence over the Seaboard to Jacksonville. Since millions of people are going to Florida, there is a wonderful demand for automobiles in the land of flow ers. The freight congestion in Flor ida which has forced the railroads to place embargoes on certain lines, it has become necessary for some auto mobile shippers to have their freight billed as far south as the railroads could take it with out getting in the jam of freight cars, and from there the dealers would drive cars over land to points farther south. It is mb known whether this train load of 4'J cars of Chevrolets was for Jackson ville dealers or for dealers in rhej; parts of the state, ,
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