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IF IT’S NEWS, IT’S IN THE STAR r RELIABLE HOME TAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department, » „ --— ■■ - r VOL. XXXIV, No. 15 “Covers Cleveland Completely.” SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1926. Published Monday, SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census_8,854 Where Industry Joins With Climate In A Call For You, . . —. ■ ,.Jt Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ' I By mail, per year (in advance) $2,50 By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 will wiutni urn BRIDGE STRUCTURE. Work Will Begin Soon In Improving Roadway In City Limits Termed “Dangerous” to Travel. An important feature of the meet ing of the county hoard of commis sioners this week was the decision t > widen Hopper bridge within the city limits out North Lafayette street. The decision came about aft r highway commissioners of No. O', ; is said, agreed to straighten nut tlv so-called “dangerous” road lending from Shelby to the bridge. The structure is over Hendricks creek and is a road channel uvi; much by traffic in and out of S elby from the general northern section. The present bridge is a one-way af fair with entrance hard to sc • at a distance going down the hill, or n ir‘l. from Shelby. It is not known just how . oon vo.rk will begin on widening the structure, but the steel has already been or dered and it will not take any great length of time, it is estimated to complete the job. The steel in t side structure will be new, enlarged ing the bridge into a two-way, traf fic carrier. Order Rills Raid. Outside of the Hopper bridge mat ter and routine business ti e <or - missioners passed upon little busines. of general importance. Countv bills ordered paid were: A. D. Warlick. bridge work S'"!: .1. €. Weathers, bridge work $182,0", L. A. Cabaniss salary .arid exix-nV** hf me $150.35; C. C. Martin, bridg' work $97.00; T. 1*. Eskridge, -up plies $28.40; H. O. Mauney, bridg; work $18.96; D. B. Whisnapl. bridge lumber $24.00; A. E. (.line, coo missioner $66; C. C. Martin, bridg • work $15; W. W. Washburn, com missioner $45.04; T. (•'. Mauiity. bridge lumber $74.10; Shelby Off ■ • Supply Co. office supplies $'..'.15'; South Shelby Pharmacy, supplies 32>'.l ; Necessity Manufacturing C . - -p. plicE $12.50; H. A. Logan, trip to Os borne, Ohio and reward for Cody and Deane $133.25; C. M. Peeler, profes sional services $8; Star Pub. $88; Kendall Medicine Co,, supplies $2.50; L. U. Arrowood. cement and bridge work $27; Flay IT. Hbey, -up plies $1.61; J. I). Lineherggr Sow supplies $10.45; Shelby Hardware Co., bridge work $24.21; Z. B. Wea thers and Sons bridge work P-'.IO; Webb Bros., supplies $31.35;. SVlb . .Electric Co., lamp for county how • $65; Edw'ard and Broughton Co.. - - ficc supplies $15.70; B. R. Dellinger, burial expenses Madison Cool: •-"ib: J. G. Watson, $107.30; Campbell Dept Store, supplies $25.50; T )c Herald Pub. Co.. $7: D. A. Fulton, two coffins county home 320;. Para gon Furniture Co., supplies s'C>n; Wray-Hudson Co., supplies sl H. A. Logan, jail expense* ir.d inci dentals S289.8C; J. R. Melton. $2 25; Irma Walace, Home Agent *.>n; Mitchell Printing Co., office $29.24; Summie Canipe, ea'jty.r-irg still $20; Mary E. Yarbrough stslt.'.n $21.98; G. T. Putman, fixing 1 '• court house $2.40; A. B. Put man bridge work $2.10; Oscar 1 uttorson, $1; John Hord, burying mule cv Eillis Transfer Co., freig >’ and dray age $1.82; Dave Turner,, wood court house $3; State Hospital. M!: 1 ■ Selig Co., $62.50; Z. J. Thompson, supplies jail $32. Groundhog Bobs Up And Goes Back In, Six Weeks cf it Yes, folks, the ground hog saw - shadow. That is to say those fort, tin a .0 ground hogs who I’ve on the green hills and in the vales of ( level md County saw their shadows, for fact is pointed out that they are la ground hogs—well-fed and all that easting a big shadow. And so—according to the goose1 "i.e prophets—we are in for six nun<• weeks of rain and slush and sleet and much, before Annie’s gentle spring time comes over the hill. Old Sol furnished a rare■ h-rano <> brilliance yesterday morn no whs was ground hog day. Everything trees and shrubs and twigs and tele phone poles and even very thin I ! east a sharp shadow, so bright was 1 <■ mid-winter glare. So, it. is pointed wot, there is n > doubt. Mr. Woodchuck saw ihe t ' semblance of liimself upon the *and scape as he awoke from hi- v nt> 1 nan, and came out of his hole to look about. Strangely enough, the do.i.g- •> little rodent furnished much talk •’ Shelby folk Tuesday morning. man’s day was complete unless n hed heard at least a do-.on tin" “Well, 1 guess the ground hog his thad-der.” Shelby Returns To “Square Dance” With Henry Ford Old-Time Dancing And Music Is Announced For “Square Dance " Of Days Gone By At Armory Saturday. "'Ha’? I oov.ni 17■ bonnet, 1 ; 'i »■••• il ’W0 :riy ? h owl, hand Olf do' ; try eaiieO ijl'f s:., I'm £0 "_il.lV !■) > '■.' h:i’! i S- : day ni;: t. a' tin old ■ > • ’ f’ Washburn bui’d '. ■: : I I .c n y ■1'"-! ‘ : ■'";'I a ral Sh-'hv aj (i S iui"ia y > „:' t t ho inv* dh\V;il be tin* lat *.■ ’ •*( .•>). v, a h Shc’by: ‘ ‘ ' :r.t • limit and if ie vj'! i''., - ;tr • ’sued they will ] • , vi y "(id llvn sonic." 1 ■ dai. • w :i | in lude the S'l’ n-e dar ■ . Viry'n'a Hcc.l, , f 1f.,r! ie.-d’ and | 1 t)ia‘ . > vane-r yaneralion ; dr_-'s; not l;n>«-.-v. 1y.r w'lh t, ■ d-sew, of 1 ■ I t o’d-t me mu -’<• !ii! a-bed f r tiif n , : j art by t ■: 1 ’ iyi >. F ddVr who r- • ‘'fid'H " | not '.’idlin' end In • d : he ] r ijier harmony with a f<"-« that;- j,at?. . i i*1 lioot nr ■ s '*.doled front 1 f an ! ir: the three hours nuv h 1. ■■ndi.o-nt i, proriv ed and <0 lerh'inK ■ e w for the -younger f ' H: .•■ to look upon. Henry l- ord r< cenily' h;.s been taniiny towards the resurrection of old ho'.’oned'rrt.de end danc e-0 Nus; oro'.in j -oyrair. of har n.on'i • well-known in by-ffone dr have been.hro{i(lCf«s.tfdre . «nt!y '••• radio through his inter c: t in such and gradually tli'.* "Id airs arc catching another hold. •lust how many folks'there are in Shelby capable of di iog the. the “square dance’’ in. the. right manner is not known; some of them may be capable and not able. As to the Virginia Reel, be ing experts in that are thought to be scarce with only one or two remembering the ‘‘fox Dot of rim forties.” The first call then for Saturday right not for the youngsters who are ad. pt at the Charleston, hut for those who remember the days when dancing was more a thing of grace than shaking and wrig gling. Perhaps Corn Cracker, veteran “fiddler." who recently volunteer ed to play for Henry Ford, wi 1 help with the music. Anyway, it is definitely announced that no one wishing to take part in the old-time dances will be hand - capped by lack of old fashioned music. The “29 Years Ago." column of The Star frequently relates o: dances of that day ami the young folks of those affairs may teeth the younger folks of today i few steps Saturday night. As* it is those promoting (be old-fashioned affair believe that Henry Ford, god father of old - time air , would . enjoy 'himself at the armory Saturday night. Ml Street Paving and Sidewalk As sessments Due and if Not Paid Property Will he Sold. Street paving and sidewalk assess a if nt against property owners in the Ur. n of Shelby must be paid or the i r* forty will be advertiser! and sold. Si cording to a decision of the city fathers at their regular meeting on t Tuesday night when this resolution v a.~ passed: “All property owners :"U street paving and sidewalks ;abuHing their property on which more Than one a vessment is past due, -will hereby take notice that unless these install!).eats are paid by March 1st, dd property will be advertised for sail /’ Bonds issued by the town to do 'this improvement three and'four years /an are .due. and the town does not ii.i’.a tin- money with which to pay the jbends, ruder the terms of the pav ing. the town pays one-third of the I ua! cost while abutting property , wi pav the other two-thirds of strict- paving. MdewalKs were cone (a the fifty-fifty basis. The city .f:.11 ■ • ■ r declare they have no disposition 'to he hard hut the bonds now due irtn-sl !•(' paid and the town is looking t. > the property owners to pay all past dot assessments. During the first ; . r or two many property owners spred their ten assessments in full ,welch cave the town ample money to me, t .bonds in the past. By paying in I'd' ihi e property owners saved the i ter -t which accrues from year to vei.r.’Ser ‘ have not paid a single one (I the three assessments dye on the pav-i' g program while others I I' c net paid a single one of the four iU."i . treope, due on the first big pav i'g tro.rrain, hence it is imperative fa; the town to collect this past due ln, ;s v in older to meet bonds. lie! merits are going out to the property owners who have property against which assessments are due .■ml attention is called to the fact that t""artv will be advertise 1 for sale ■ |t, r March 1st if more than one Vt-ort or sidewalk assesments is past due. Bury Frank Herndon At Bethlehem Today 'i he funeral services of Mr. Frank I fermion, who died Monday at Haml'-t wer. i .inducted tit Bethlehem church We :ii sday morning at ID o’clock. Mi Herndon, who was a native of Cleveland county, was it brother of Mr ,T. G. Herndon at Grover, and Mrs. S. II • Katteree, at Kings Mountain. He let. this county some 20 years ago |. n.j moved to Virginia, later moving Irak to Eastern Carolina to Ellertee Springs, whore he lived for several wears Lately the family has been liv j,,r at Hamlet or Laurinburg. ; Mr. Herndon is survived by his [wife and several children in addition |,is brother and sister in this eoun I■, and numerous nephewswind mece-s, .Vi- Hugh 0 Logan being a utew. Edney Laltimore Heads Veterans Mr. Edney Lattimore, of Lattimore one of the ltest known older men of the county, teas elected commander of the Cleveland County Confeder ate veterans at a meeting held here Monday. Mr. LaUitncre succeeds th late Rev. A. C. Irvin as commander of the remaining “men in gray,” For years Mr. Lattimore was one of the most regular attendant' at reunions and he is known by practi cally all of the veterans in tni - .■■■: c tion. Quite a number .of the veterans met at the court house Monday, but the gathering was not so large, as those of a few years back. Comman der Lattimore and other veterans v.nll attend to matters concerning the state reunion at Wilmington and other business matters. BE BURIED m El Substantial Farmer of No. 3 Died at Morganton. Where he M as Pa tient. Burial at New Hope. Mi. Gus Borders, One of the most ii'fiuer.f ial and substantial farmers of Xo. 3 township, died Wednesday morning at 4:30 o’clock in the State hospital at Morgan ton where he had been a patient for several months and his body was brought Wednesday to t!v> home of his eldest daughter, Mrs. IV P. Byers and the funeral will he held at New Hope Baptist church, Karl, Thursday morning at 11 o’clock Mr. Borders was about oh years of age and son of T. Glenn Borders, white-whiskered veteran of the Civil wa r Deceased lived near Stives Shoals ahd was a prominent and successful farmer, held in highest esteem by his host of friends because of his fine Christian character. For many years he was clerkof New Hope church, lie was first married to Mary Caban> s te which union five children were l orn. Three daughters survive, Mrs. Claude Austell of Charlotte. Mrs. 1> P. Byers and Mrs. Victor Bowen, of this county. The two sons preceded him to the grave. His second marri age was to Miss Elizabeth 'Lattimore, daughter of John Bynum Lattimore |who survives together with one brother. Joh>i Bunk Borders and one sister, Mrs. Frank O’Neil! of Lenoir. I For some time his health had been bad and last fall ho was entered ns a patient at the State hospital at Morganton where his condition was very had at times and more favorable at other times. Shortly before Christ mas he had pneumonia and since then h's health condition had been declining Sir.ce Sunday he had been unconscious [and members of. the family knew he could not survive much longer. The county loses one of its most esteemed citizens in the passing of Mr. Bor ders and the funeral will no doubt he largely attended l Dorothy Ttwi'cnd, 1 iinice Michcal ! an 1 Mir> Harris C.’et illrcmjjh Three !)•>■ rs 11> Fre<dom. Outside Aid Suspected. r a* nomen with a pa-t, Mini all in liniiinr to Mrs. \V at ren's. profes ! ...ion. took French leave of the jail hole Monday afternoon, i.i the broad light of day. They unlocked their . 11 door-. and W'lh. lhe d -gr.it y of movie stars uti rav.. ling a plot, • tt ■ "! down the ft - t .'tops of the .*'•■ * riff' (juarttrs r.t.d out into u waiting automobile, I wa; an exist, swift but dignified. A it! t;'"y ere still at Jarg •• Ac.riling to Sheriir Logan it was n.. - any that they unloc k three 1 door t- make their getaway. The 1 ti c • v they were supplied with j key; from .'the outside. One of the w...>..en.. Dor oil y Tow n rid. L a sis tc of Bonhie Sutton who is. now in t’ • |> niteutiary servi nr a litr e year eetiterve for the thcft of the Costner ear here la t yee.r. This voting woman—-sh" is only itt eit— was- arrested while her -is le r Donnie was in jail, and sent tip for ninety days, for trying to smug gle havk raws to the prisoner. And while Bonnie was languishing in jail somebody on the outside smuggled her two jail keys—keys made after the j'il key pattern,— in an egg sandwich. Those specimens of the handiwork of there who tried to liberate the fair ardi/vjnobi'e thief are pow in Sh.-riu Logan’s possession. They ex hibit a tv-i inblance so close to the ’original key. that tb S'- '—iff h'<- 1 „ doubt they were made after a legiti n. • pattern.. in tbs new jail on a sixty clay Forest City Dorothy bad been four times; this time ; i entent e. i It ; aid she calif i home. | The second member of the trio was ; Eunice Michael, also eighteen, hail fram Gastonia. Eunice is also known ! ns a repeater. The Sheriff remembers I her well. Last summer she was | beardin'.'' -with the county, in comp ! any with a hap named “Mattie" i Hammond. She was put to work ; sweeping the yard. Watching her op i ortunity when her watcher’s hack j was turned, she whipped out of the i yard pate and did a Marathon across I the fields. j She ran like a hare. Cut the Sher ! iff caught her. j She was in then for drunk and dis orderly the same charge for which she was servipg the sentence which she terminated so dramatically Mon day. The third member of the band was Mary Harris. Mary w'as older, hav ing seen thirty summers, some of them good but most of them punk. She was in for ninety days, and had served little more than a month. Sh • c.pce lived on the East Side in I Shelby, before she took to the tin | sel life. j She was in th - old jail here in Shelby when the..prisoners' were mov ed over into the hew quarters. All three of these Magdalenes were | grouped in the women's quarters of !+ho bastile. Three iron barred doors 1 | i i interposed between them and freedeom Not only did th. y find key ; to uiu lock the cel! doors but they a dually made their escape out of the Iron, door of the living quarters of the Lo gan family. Some school children re par cd they saw the women hasten across .!,e street from the jail and climb into- a truck bodied Ford. Local Boys Held For a Time as Sus pects in Butler Killing. Are Freed Later on in Evening. | Two ytuiig men of Shelby, out on a mission, and observing the amenities, [drifted into a jam Monday that threat [one! to land them behind prison bars .with a murder charge over them. , The plot encircled about them, has a parallel on the screen—innocent youth, false charge, a viliian and a : v. oman. | The •woman in this instance happen ed to be endowed with god sense and a lm cl head, otherwise this rambling narrative might lead into a morass, j The facts are these: Friday nig!i: a man named Frank Butler, who lived on the Shelby-M organ ton road,-in the vi cinity of Toluca, was killed. He was called out of his bed at the wee hour of i‘. o’clock in the morning, by two 1 men who wanted liquor, and on tiie llittle excursion was shot to death. It happened—and this is very im (Continued ••• page four A Blaze At Shelby Colored School Wednesday Halted School Work A lih . which anted. it is said, i i • (•<I in about iS_’.tHHl damtutrs to the I Hudson >’t., WTdti day, ju-t befoie i No (hie Hurt. Oth f than the damane ■ the walls, a low desk and some cloihinp of 'die s; iiool i nildren ' n',j mg; developed f a serious inline. The f re broke out unt la fore, the noon rece. s and the •ev i ral I !• *.i colored school children iv're aide to make their exit withov' injury. According; .<• t ye-witnc- ses 'lie hiiildimr : ei nu tl doomed wt en tile fir e :im n arrived, hu, quick work by tin m jwith the aid of the colored lolks o'" the 'section sor i ‘had the fire under con trol although at times the fire-fit: t it.’tr. was K’-'nt.y hi.qdirnpye I fry t >1 ■ smoke of thi‘ l.ivtrni: wood. n hr.ilaii,j.; T«« I’mims Damaged. The damage for the most pat t ivm |confined to two room:-, one unstair; .am, one downstairs, one of which was ■ the school library. The dainajfv in . .—- -- the basement i>f the building, result* 1 lurid school iraildiiif.' on i<u n. tlif‘ (wo i >• i n > - . it is s :t i«f, was run filed to t’ ■ t■ ‘tor walls unit a .slight! I".’ :-i'V of the rhsht. School ch'l <*'■ M having the building hurriedly h H l ,,ats and hat ■ everywhere, but only *• mall amount of clothing was I t it til, titvmeh report, among which w i an i vena.at btlmgiig to Pro fey ■ ' i • | ( i-iii a crowd was at(facted to the i • e ■■ t jr" it volume of smoke it1! g nut of the building indicated a ' ii '' <b s. motive blase. Firepan ii i d to v. ork at the task of tx tiioi, hue ('■; flame, for more than 'ii h ■ the i •- • o pump on the nt:v truck | r oi.ng (>f neat value. 1 >'•••( 11 () Hamrick is id’ the opin ion lo t ftj000 will cover the damages and that force of carpenters can put lb' h’lilcii' it back m.’Quu) shape within, a day or * .. 9 “Call Of Carolina” Being Seen In Publicity Drives j Cities V;*d Towns Of State Raise Advertising Funds To Boost Op portunities And Bring Investors ! . I The call of Carolina is beginning ! to be heard abroad. Rather prepara • tions are being made to attract oat j side )M‘o|>le, capital and investors, j That s Carolina jio m n.lly. Some spe lt ions hnfe already been will adver j ti: ( d. i On his reeeii'. % > it to Shelby Mi I Phillip G. Affleck, remarked: “Here ! t.ofore we people farther North knew ' of Carolina in terms of Asheville and i Pint-hurst when in reality you have ja general wonderland. If the world J knew of this section as it does of | Florida there d have to be some method of handling the incoming mo torists.*' And now Western and. Piedmont Carolina are generally getting pre pared to “U11 the world." In Hickory such a campaign is underway and in connection with which the Hickory Records says; "The Committee of the Hickory i Chamber of Commerce has announced j that tin- drive for the SlOjOdO fund . for publicity and industrial develop ment will take place on Wednesday, February 3. “If the fund is raised, t,he citizens will have an opportunity of seeing j and learning what effect publicity arid j industrial development of a definite ! character will have on this commun ity. Other ce'itcis have ra-sed large i amounts of money, for tire same pur j ose. Spui tanhurg. S. ( .. recently : raised over $2'»,000.' for advertising | Spartanburg. Greenville S. G., i-' put : Miff on a campaign i i rai-- $50,000 .for the minu1 purpose. A he\ il! • is how beginning it's ond year untier it's special advertising fund plan and as a result is now receiving an aver age of over 5,000 written inquiries per month. Wilmington has develop ed a $25,06.0 fund for advertising. 'Burlington has a $16,(100 fund for this purpose. Now Hickory v d! • ive it's spcvi.il advertising fund AB of thane cities mentioned, are foltowpiff in the foot steps of the citie of < alifoinia and Florida in plaeiag before the war’d the advantage,- of their re spective communities. “.Many thousands of people arc' looking for a Southern location where all conditions including climate, na tural resource--., labor, health, educa tion, and other essent ials to good Jiy- , i g and good busitn .-s may be found” i Florida has proven a magnet to the southbound and North Carolina, not fighting Florida, v il! benefit thereby—that’s the Florida view-' point. Us exrc: sod by Fain earn bee, former Hickory newspapermen now publisher of the Lakeland Florida, Ledger, in an editorial in hi; paper, which says: “North Carol inti i. watching Flor ida, for it hopes, arid w;th reason, to I win developing iri’i’i'jns from Florid ians who have male their pile in do-, i vekipments her" end may 'want to jinytst in Carolina mountain develop-1 ments; in fact, nany such invest ments already nave been made by Fis: ’dials and others who have done .veil m Florida r od estate. “Carolina cub < itself, ‘*he next boom state’ after Florida, and Caro lina isn’t knocking Florida as some I States have been doing. I.ike Maine, | Carolina sees in the development of Flor’da as. a winter playground a ; chance to win business for the sum mer playgrounds in the mountains. “Wise people everywhere instead i of knocking a State to which’ every I knock is a boost, arc using t> e Flor ida magic to expand a little them ’ selves. Florida, it has been said, and [truly, is doing more for the south! | I'l.ia -ill llw re si , f .1, ■ uimu ..('hi ef combined. It is drawing people from the four corners and showing them not only Florida but Dixie. Florida leads the south." 1926 Not Hustling Business Period So Far For Dan Cupid With one month of the twelve in the New Year gone only one dozen Cleveland county couples have been married—that is at home since that many or more have scampered to their favorite hitching place in South Carolina. Which is to say that Register of Deeds R. I.ee Weathers issued license to only 12 couples /luting January, eight white couples and four colored. February Improves. With only two days of February gone Cupid’s business picked up again, one couple applying for license on “Ground Hog Day." License was issued in January for the marriage of the following cou ples: K. G. Dixon and Lucy M. Lutz; Willie Melon and Nettie Dixon; R. II. T. P. Hoyle and Pearl Lee Ledbetter; Ponder and Mattie -Shuford; Aaron Quinn and Katherine Briggs; Allen Ramsey and Mary Terry; G, C. Self and Sarah Witherspoon; G. Fox and Elvena Warliek. Colored couples re ceiving license were: L. Elmore and Pearlie Lutz; Arthur Lumpkin and Lonnie Shinsholster; Albert Smith and Docia Shinsholster; Roy Young and Wilma Elmore. The couple receiving license so far in February was Andy Warliek and Estell Spangler. DS. FILLS. NATIVE OF COUNTY. PISSES Brother of Squire .1. Z. Falls, Buried Wednesday at Cherryville. Was 71 Years of Age. Dr. B. F. Falls died at noon Tues :,inv at the home of his daughter, MrS, 11. M. Houser, at Kings Mountain, at [hr age of 71 years following two strokes of paralysis, one which he suf fered ten years ago and another about two and a half years ago. l)r. Falls was a native of Cleveland county, a brother of Squire J. Z. Falls, West Marion street. He practised medicine for 50 years and was a most success ful physician. During hi soractice he lived at Fallston, going from there to Newton about 1805 where he lived for two years. He returned to Cleveland Mills and lived at the Decatur Elmore piece for a number of years, moving next to Cherryville. From Cherryville he went to Laurinburg. where he prac tised during his latter years. About 10 years ago he was stricken with paralysis but continued his practise unld a second stroke followed three years later when he retired from ac tive work. Dr. Falls married a sister of Miss Etta Curtis, bookkeeper of Boiling Springs High school. His wife died about two and a half veers ago. Two brothers Squire .1. Z. Falls of Shelby, and Fletcher Falls of Rising Star, Texas, survive together with three daughters, Mrs. H. M. Houser, of Kings Mountain, Mrs. Elliott Mc Dowell of Cherryville. Miss Ruth Falls of Laurinburg. two sons, Curtis, of Kings Mountain, and George S. Falls. <f Cherryville. lli.- remains were buried Wednes day after non at ;! o’clock at Cherry vilje. the funeral being conducted from the Baptist church of which he was a member. A number of rela tives went to tin- tune! I from Cieve lagb county. CLEVELAND SIXTH AT N. C. STATE FAIR Took First Honors in County Exhib its and Hrnught Home S584 in Prizes for General Exhibits. Of the (’>7 North Carolina counties winning money prizes at the recent Elate Fair, Cleveland county ranked sixth, according to a bulletin just is sued by the publicity department of tile fair. Cleveland’s honors at the fair caaio through the assembled county exhibit, house furnishings, culinary, poultry ar.d home economics. The prize money was distributed as b Hows among Cleveland county ex hibitors: It. E. Lawrence, Shelby, $500.00 county exhibit. Mattie Cornwell, Lawndale, $1.0C, house furnishings. Mrs. Irma Wallace, Shelby, $7.00 culinary. 1*. H, Kendall, Shelby, $25.00, poul try. I*r. F. H. Lackey, Fallston, $27.00, poultry. Mr. O. A. Rhea, Kings Mountain, $2.00, home economics. Mrs. J. A. Harrill, Shelby, $2 00 home economics. Mrs. Jesse Beuch, Kings Mountain, $3.00, home economics. Mrs. Wayne Ware, Kings Mountain, $3.00, home economics. Mrs. Irma Wallace, home dent, agt, Shelby, $14.00, home economics. The other eight leading counties ia fair winnings follow with their cash awards: Wake ... Guilford . Catawba Craven _ Forsyth C Iceland Alamance Wayne _. $1,065 .$1,003 013 743 064 684 504 Tuesday afternoon County Super intendent J. C. Newton had received the names of only two entrants for the annual Hoey Oratorital contest to be held at the Central school here Friday night at 7:30 o'clock. How ever, the names of all the entrants are expected in by the end of the day Wednesday. The two entrants were from the Kings Mountain school: William Ma son and Lamar Rhyne. Other schools likely to have entrants are Waco, Baltimore, Piedmont, Boiling Springs and Shelby. Each school will be per mitted two entrants. Mr Newton further announces that the essays written for the Selma Webb Essay contest must be in his office by February 18. The winner will be announced at the close of +he Selma Webb recitation contest Fri day night, February 26, at Central school auditorium. In the recitation contest each school is asked to select two entrants and forward their names to Mr. Newton so that he will receive them by Feb ruary 12. If there are not too many entrants two reciters from each school may be permitted and it i.-s urged that the names of entrants be sent in early as possible so that this may be decided upon. Present indications are that the oratorical contest Friday night will draw the usual large crowd from various sections of the county. As Shelby Grows —Talk Increases Everybody must talk—to a certain extent—and as Shelby grows there is more talking, that is by telephone. Seventy-nine new receivers will be adjusted to the ea*- during Febru ary and they will not be radio head sets, but the tuning in end of the re liable telephone. That’s another booster story. Every body does not use the telephone and when a number of new telephones are installed it is safe to say that there are that many, or more, new homes in Shelby. According to Manager W. P. At. wood, of the local exchange, his line men connected 79 new telephones, business and residential, during the past month, which establishes a rec ord for any month, it is thought, in the history of the exchange. So proud of the achievement is Manager Arwood that when one of his operators says “Number Pleas-e,’’