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reliable home paper Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department, IF IT'S NEWS, IT’S IN THE STAR t .. . % SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census_8,854 Where Industry Joins With Climate In A Call For You, . *-— VOL. XXXIV, No. 17 “Covers Cleveland Completely.” SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, FEB. 8, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons i ‘ I By mail, per year (in advance) $2.50 By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 WIDOW OF BUTLER THUD WITH Krports Say South Carolina Bootleg, gers Warned Her Not to Testify Against Alleged Slayers. Morganton, Feb. C.—Misery and f'ar were written upon the face of the young widow of Frank Butler, 29 year old moonshiner, last night as she «at in a hearing in the.Burke court/ courthouse called for the purpose < { ,-etting a date for the preliminary ex amination of the four Gaffney, S. young men charged with her husband’s murder. t!he had fled from her home in the Pouth mountains seeking safety fol lowing messages said to have reached her from a South Carolina bootleg ring to the effect that she would be shot if she testified against the four prisoners. Burke authorities gave her assur ance of protection, and her father Aeon Cook, former deputy sheriff took her and her two children into his home. “Crip” or Will Green, 19-year old youth, is charged in the alleged con fession of “Slim” or Otis Jolly and Boy Hill, with firing the shot that pierced Butler’s %eart last* Sunday morning. The same allegations has it t>>at Charles Kendrick first fire ! it the mountaineer and missed, ealli’ g to Green to “kill him.” The hearing ’-■ts set before Magistrate George fettle for 3 o’clock February 16. DEFEND 10 BOYB Shelby Attorney to Appear for Two Gaffney Boys in Butler Killing Case Near Toluca. It was announce^ here Saturday that O. Max Gardner, Shelby attor ney, had been retained by relativesj of the two boys as counsel for Wells Green and Charlie Kendrick, of Gaf fney, hel$ in connection with the re cent killing of Frank Butler on the Shelby-Morganton road. The mother of Green, 19-year-old school boy, and relatives of Kendrick were here in connection w.th Mr. Gardner’s employment. The original confession if will be remembered charged Green with be ing the one who shot directly at Butler. Thought at Movie. According to Mr. Gardner the plight of the mother of the youth is a tragic one. The wild culmination of her son's trip came as a complete shock to her. Reports have it that Mrs. Green thought her boy at the movies when in lfality he was wan dering in the liquor section of the South Mountains and getting mixed in an affair that will bring about a great change on his future. The mother, it is further said, Had no idea that her son was of the drinking type or was accustomed to making such trips, her whole story being related in the line: "I thought he was at the movies.” Trial on 16th. The preliminary hearing was sche duled for Saturday at Morganton, | hut Mr. Gardner learned late in the day that for some legal reason it will not be held until later in the month, tmobably February 16. The act" '1 trial will likely come up at the March term of Burke county Super ior court. Potato Farmers To Assemble Tuesday Announcement is made by A. Hard in, county agricultral agent, that ad directors of sweet potato storage bouses will meet at the court house in Shelby Tuesday afternoon at lad - part one o’clock. The object of the meeting will mo,j Mr. Hardin said, to determine the number of bushels of potatoes in storage, their condition, and to L*y the foundation for a co-operative sales system next year. Realty Business Continues Climb Locally the zest of realty trading is increasing in favor. _ 1 The past week numerous trnoe-. 'vere recorded and it is estimated thay local reaf estate dealers and property owners transferred, bought and soh more property than in any “first ci J *>b|«uary” period in the past. Quite a bit of the realty inter wL tenters on the Cleveland Springs road and around the proposed development but several trades have been rtcoid-j cd in other sections <■)! to'' ‘ Hoey Medal Won By Charles Forney-Piedmont ’s Third Sons Of ( ounfy Hoard Members Take First And Second Honors In Annual Contest. ( . :ir: . I) j-v n . •. T, pi(,4. ni°ni I i L' 1 school. w*ia ih"- w hincr of tlif Ilopy AT* cf: ] i v ( *1 in the an nual 11 , f)t■ ~ic ! ,-aich was ! . ’,1 at: ; ho Ceutr d school audi torium ! t FV dry ni;.jH \- i 'g F’orrii ub jett was ’•nnfical Projfre.'.s o*- itiv.'htivp Genius.” I’i dmont Slroi-" I;1 r<.. ah the* abi ity i f v. uns: For rvy 1 1 i* -.try. off the honors of She conic t inodal jmes to >h.- Pled nio:r •■■■hnn1 ora ions far the third Consecutive ye a r l nit>uc Stand «« Av.-im of the judaes as e?iven out brinp forth an rnusunl incidc; ■ of the contest, which holds rro”'> Vi- r est. r, Gap; then" F;*"j ( "T ;* d in by the schools of Cleveland county. First and second honors were a'vard cd V ■!;■! of ;r< >r b t= of *’).> Cl volt-, id county: board of education. Forney's fathi *- i a member of the board as ,s J. L. Iiord, sr„ of Waco, father of •I. I. Hor.d, dr., who ranked s'eor.d in the contest. I lord’s subject was “Grasping Life’s Opportunitier." Third pipe? was award'd C. M. Hollins of Boiling Springs, on "The Greatest Needs of the Day." The entire program of orat’ons proved very interesting to school na trons assembled for the contest and the judge were forced to pTk a win ner out of numerous fine orat’ons. In addition to the regular pro gram there were several mu - cal numbers including a piano duet If Misses FI more and WarUck.,of Pied mont High school; a vocal solo by Thos. Cornwell, of Piedmont, and a i niatio solo hy Miss Falla Clement, of | Boiling Springs, and selections by the Shelby Hiafi school orchestra. j Out of Town Judies Judges ae'ing at the contest were | nil from the neighboring county of Rutherford and included R. E Pric", I -ditor of the Rutherford Pun; I. r^j Sp'kes. head of the Rn.bi rford-Spin- j dale High school; and Miss Awe’iaj Stenheson, head of th' modern lang: j uage department at the same school. | Former Shelby High Coach Being Talked For Director Of Athletics At Wake Forest' Of much interest locally am/ng Vvfckc Forest fans and Shelby athletic followers generally is the report chrt Dick Gurley, former Shelby coach and rlow Ler.oir-Rhyne coach, is being < < i. 'dercd as th» next athletic head for Wake Forest college. .'Gurley, who brought Sheloy her first state championship and instill ed clean athletics among local hoys, is a favorite in the section and si.n-e the. report a number of Woke Forest alumni, are working in his behalf wi h the Demon Deacons athletic commit tee. ' The disaptch under g Wake forest date line-in the Charlotl • Mews'Sun daes says: '“Tonight the campus of the “Demon Deacons’ is buzzing once more following the report that the coach ing situation at Wake Forest college v ijl be cleared up in the next few days. Information here is that the ath letic authorities are to act either to morrow or Tuesday and name a suc eos'-or. to “Hank” Garri+y. who re cently resigned - as head of athletics at Wake Forest. “Dick" Gurley, coach at Lenoir Rhyne college, is to visit Wake For est tomorrow for a conference with the authorities, according to information received here. Officials arc unwilling to discuss the situation, further than to slate dial they have several prom •fi-ng men under consideration for the vacancy. They intend to land a capable man for the post, but demand plenty of time in which to select a mentor tor the Deacons. ‘ Gurley, a star at North Carolina State college, is regarded as one of the best coaches in the state. He has made an enviable record at Lenoir Kh} no. considering the fact that the material -was rot of the best.” Children Attend School In Carolina ’More Regularly Xc.i-th Carolina children attended school more regularly in 1924-25 than they <li<l in 1923-24. Not only! was a much larger number of child ren enrolled last year than during that preceding, but a bigger percent age of t l ■ enrollment was in daily ] attendance, it is shown by figuiea compiled by State School Facts. The February 1 i^sue of this pub lication, put out by the State De partment of Public Instruction, and released for. publication t ^’ay. deals comparative records of enrollment and attendance for the two years. j asl year, 559,396 white children were enrolled in the public schools and of .this number 426,999, or 76.4 percent were in average daily atten dance. In 1923-24 the enrollment fi gures was 544,142, and 406,661 chil dren that year attended school daily a percentage of 74.4. In the negro schools the enrollment was 248,904 in 1923-24 and 250,438 ia 1924-25. The average daily atten dance figures for the two years were 164.098 and 169,212. Expressed in terms of percentage, the latter fi gures mean that 66.2 percent of the children enrolled in 1923-24 were in daily attendance, and 67.6 percent in 1924-25. Mr. Putnam 111—The many friends Mr. Albert Putnam will regret to that he has double pneumonia ! that Ids condition is quite serious Putnam lives on S. LaFayette rot and is 79 years old. —Realty Sales—Among the realty L.s 0f the past week were eight lots ir Cleveland Springs and the R. G/dney house and lot near the velaml Springs road sold to M. A. ,ng|, r l.y V\ » . Harris, realtor At a meeting of the d rectors of | the Kiwanis duo and member'? of the Kiwanis Charity Fund commit lee Friday afternoon it v.as decided to' present the matter of an Associated i Charities organization to work the whole year round and systematically! distribute charity and otherwise do j welfare work, to the churches, fra-j ternal orders and civic organisations. ] It is hoped to secure the support of, these organizations, each one of j which wJl be presented on the j board of trustees. The purpose is to ; have all such organizations co-oper- j ate in order to prevent over-lapping | in the distributing of charity and sec that a thorough investigation is made J of each and every case before the! hand of charity is extended. The plan is modelled somewhat after the ! plan of larger cities and means that! every organization that contributes j will work through the proposed As sociated Charities so that the very! best results can be obtained. Ministers will be asked to present \ the proposition to their congrega-j tion, fraternal order leaders will be I asked to take up the question before | their bodies and the civic organize- j tions will do likewise. In the event: they agree to co-operate the organi- j zation will be perfected. ANOTHER “SQUARE DANCE” HERE ON TUESDAY NIGHT j Another old-time “square dance” j will be held at the old armory here Tuesday night at 8 o’clock, it is an nounced. Those- promoting the dar.ee along old fashioned lines say that better | music will be furnished for the swing ing partners. ! ---- HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS. 90, ENTERED MOVIES AT SO Los Angeles—Hollywood's most am- j bitious “extra” is 90 years old. She is Mary Holden, born in Rat land, Vt., in June, 1830. Every day she appears at casting; offices looking for “odd bits” in mo tion pictures and more often than' not she obtains employment. “I never thought about acting until I was passed 80," she declared. "\ov I thlpk it is wonderful. I want to play! in 100 pictures before I die. I will ; never be too old to get parts. In my; case, the older I am the better.” —Mother III—Mrs. L. W. Gardner! was called to Rutherfordton Monday, on account of the illness of her moth er, Friends of Mrs. Gardner will be sorry to learn that her mother, Mrs. \\ iikins, suffered a stroke of paraly sis. * Mr ' , ) KEEP UP | With Real Estate values around Shel by and in Western Carolina by reading Realty “Ads” in the Star. • Informing to the in vestor and home seeker. ... l I,, tl. Ha rill is New Working as Club Si'etlatisl With the Agricultural Experiment Serv ice. Thi ei.i v C lev »• land emu f y friends ,0)' L. It. Hurrill will be interested to know tat ht* has been a>'i'o,nted v's club specialist for tne North t'nro l:n ■; E:;t«nmon Service bureau with heatiitiii.rtt'i a ivt Raleigh am: that i:n dir his direction boy and girls be Ion,1’, rig to tlubs will be given move attention. Says the Extension Farm News pubt'si’cd at Iialeigh: f:r. IF i rill v. ' work w ith the hory ah I farm n'genta in club Yrgan-1 isiiiion: and methods and will seek ' to pror.we tli Y work in the future.: Mr. 1'arr 11 in a native of Ccleveland j county, rec lying Isis elementary1 education in the public schools of | C >d ny Springs. He gradual ?d from j the North Carolina State College in' 1922, with the degree of Bachelor' of Science in Agronomy. Follow ing lus gradual ion ho be came assistant county agent in Bun combe county having charge of club work, ,a id remained in this work during 1922 and 1923. He then went with a commeretal organization, de monstrating methods of dusting to ■ control the boll weevil. In 1925 he re turned to the College to take work leading to his Master's Degree, which' was awarded him in .June, Mr. Ilarrill was reared on a farm, ami lies always been interested in i better farming and batter rural life. While at college he was a member of the Alpha Zeta fraternity and some of the other purely social or ganizations. ' In “his new work Mr. Harril! will select one county in each district to put in model club organizations. This will be a representative county, with both home and farm agents employed. At the present time, Polk county, i;i the mounta.ns, Davidson County' jn the Piedmont, Robeson County in the Southeastern District, and Pasquotank in the Northeastern' District, have been selected as model counties to try the new plan. Al the recent conference of exten sion workers, it was agreed that more attention should be paid to work with the farm boy and girls, and it a was felt that in the selection of Mr. Ilarrill to head this activity an ex cellent choice had been made. Hikers on Visit To Shelby Attract Street Attention Shelby was visited Saturday bv a man and a woman who have walked twenty-five thousand miles, and are i still on their v. ay. The two, man and j wife, started out from Wilmington,: this state, June Oth 1923, and haw visited the capitals of forty-one of the country's forty eight «tate. And they have hiked through both Can da and Mexico. The man tells the story that bej was knocked out by war service, and started on the hike toi put some ml blood in his veins, lie carries on his! back a pack weighing seventy-eight: pounds, which is handcuffed to his j right wrist by a '•ha in. The reason for this hit of by-play was not clear, But the weight of the pack was entirely evident. The couple said the trp along over the scenery at about twenty" miles a day. One day the woman said she walked thirty-two miles. She looked husky enough. Asked if she didn’t think some of the flappers of the time would do better to follow her exatuple and tramp a few miles every I day, she said she wag sure of it. It takes off the flesh. That’s the, wav she put it. The couple was going west from Raleigh, headed into Tennesse, whence j they will hike northward, through j Kentucky and Indiana and on to St. Paul, Minnesota Lewd Company Formed Here With Capital Of $180,000 The Card her land company, a cor poration wi'.h an authorized capital stock , i' .jnot) with $180,000 paid ;n, w.i formed in Shelby Saturday by O. ?fa> Gardner, Chan, (’. Blnn ton pr..•• dent of the I-'irst National Bank and O. M. Mull lawyer and furnu ■. There are associated with these cent!, nt< n* a group of north ern capitalists who are convinced of ihi' future f,rew h and development of tin- . cti« it e" North Carolina and they t epri i t < • edit and resource* ■>f ai'.’r amount th y care to employ in their ouerut.o s. The objects of the corporation w ill be to <b vd ip suhtir ban property into a t• :i • ■ e home sites.-No dit'ini.e territory for t'eir operation: i.. prescribed, but the im niediat • plan- C3hten,du1 ... opera tion in the Cievelnn?! Springs mo tion, mi. , to Shell y and on the new W lh.o-ci ! l aid va:d between Gastonia and ( hi.r’otl • v.d i.-h con nects t .vo of th > live:-’, indu tria' townn in the South. Mr. Gardner will b ■ prevalent of the company and O. M. Midi, score- . tary-tieasurcr. No stock will be of fered for sale, This corporation is another strong proof of the awaken in*' to values in this section an I is in line with the wonderful future in th‘s territory. Train l.o-ids Coming ti.ic* H. A. Merritnil and Son of ( teervvaUr, Fia.. have purchased an interest in Cleveland Springs park consisting' of an- 80 mom hotel and 240 acres of land. r<al estate he-re1 has become very active and this I whole section promises to share with the t -rritoiy farther west, tin wonlerful devolopment whk-h. is niar king Piedr-.or.t Carolina. Mr Marshall arnouu, that n truin load of Pull - ma i i i.s will a -:vo in Shelby short v. y-'v —.do f th- situation that has * who’-bv re-ji'e from this cetion ' ave 1 en taken to Florida. TVs is th ;ir t time-F oridians have hero inv-o-t -1 in train loads to North Carolina with a view of inter esting them to the point of invest ing • 1 a year-round c’itnr.te. Mr. Dr .p-v land-wap- nrchitect of Char iot?!* has < inmleted hi., survey and lan t for the < levcland Spring’s park development an! work en roads, wa ter and sewer mains, elub house and Another golf tourse will begin in a few weeks. Piedmcnl School Teacher Dies While In Car En Route To Shelby Hospital According to reports reaching Shelby. a Ford car and about $200 worth of goods Were stolen i by thieves las, Thursday night at Lattimore. The stolen Ford, it is said, be longed to J. D. Brooks, while the goods, reports say, were taken front the Seaboard warehouse there. Entry was made into the ware house by means of prying off staples of the door. The automo bile was pushed out of a shed in which it was housed and was driv en, away. DEATH ROW NOW HAS POPULATION OF SIX’ Raleigh, Feb. 7.—Arrival Thursday1 right of Robert Lumpkin and Booker T. Williams, Robeson county negroes who slew Chief Boyd M. Rogers, of Rowland, brought the death row pop-' illation to six this week. These rip-! grots' helped to make the uncommonly' bloody record of the last 11)25 days. The state had an epidemic of homi-i rides. These young fellows were tried by Judge. Frank A. Daniels, who sen-, fenced them Tuesday of last week. There will probably he no plea for ’leniency for them. Their district will n heard in a few weeks and if there, should be an appeal they would hardly, ret a new hold on life. The jury that onvicted them was out less than an! tour. DR. MOSS FINDS ROOM FOR ALL EXCEPT BIGOT Raleigh, Feb. 7.—“Parson” \V, P. Moss, of Chapel Hill Presbyterian I march, spoke to the Raleigh religious! forum tonightand found faith big!1 enough to embrace everybody but the jigot. Mr. Moss was not in pugnacious mood; he dealt more with the Beauti tudes, as he always does. His man whom he found in the Bible was big enough to go to the forum, large 'nough to bring a Poteat to Chapel Hill, and great enough of vision to me the glory of Christian instruction is interpreted by the denominational school. The Chapel Hillian spoke to the congregation just as though he had it before him in his university church, :alked to the people as if e instructs the graduating class under Davie poplar during commencement week. He preached a real sermon from a [•eel pulpit. BOB EYMOLDS TO RUN IN PRIMARY AGAINST OVERMAN Asheville.—Definite opposition to Senator Lee S. Overman was an nounced here today when Robert R. Reynolds, of Asheville, tossed his hat into the ring and stated that he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the United States senate in the June primary. Mr. Reynolds said he will niake a formal announcement in a couple of weeks. Senator Overman let is be known months ago that he would be a can didate to sut deed li.m-ei* <e<tlO» The joy of victory in the Hoey con test was swallowed i«f> in grief at Piedmont High school Friday after noon in the sudden death of Mrs. Al ger F. Harrelson, teacher of third and sixth grades who passed away in an automobile while being brought to the Shelby hospital for treatment. Mrs. Harrelson had been slightly indisposed for two days and had abandoned her school work for that length of time, a substitute taking her place. She had shown improvement, however, and talked freely and hopefully with friends who called on her in her sick room. In fact she had expressed the (.pinion that she was feeling better a ml would be able to return to her school work on the following day. About 5 o’clock F'riday afternoon she took a sudden turn for the worse and her physician was sent for. He soon found that his skill was of no at ail and she grew worse rapidly. As a final resort the physician directed that she be sent to the Shelby hospital with all possible speed. Professor Harrelson, her husband, who also teaches in the Piedmont High school. Professor Ledford and Mrs. Moore started with her in'all j h iste but before the car reached t!ie John F’alls place, a mile aWay from Piedmont, ’her brave spirit passed awry. Everything that medical knovd •dge, a husband's devotion and this loving sympathy of friends could do, tvus done to relieve her suffering and to prolong a happy and useful it'e, but all to no avail. Mrs. Harrelson was Miss Martha Deer, of Dallas. She was only 24 years of age and a bright and love dle vyoung woman. She was married j :o Professor Alger P. Harrelson, son if Squire Miles P. Harrelson about :hree yeurs ago and together they ■cer. teaching at Piedmont. Her remains were taken to the home >1 her father-in-law, Squire Harrelson where they were kept until Monday he funeral being conducted by Rev. Vfr. Houser and interment being at it. Paul Baptist church at 11 o’clock. \ great throng of people attended the funeral from this and Gaston coun ies and the floral offering was an vidence of the high esteenf in which ihe was held. ‘Two Horsemen” Make Stop-Over In Shelby Two of the famous “Four Horse men” of Notre Dame football lame rode through Shelby last week and alighted from their charger, a modern auto, for a short visit in “The City of Springs.” The “two horsemen”, Don Miller and Harry Stuldreher, were with John McAuley, Rockingham boy, who was among those in the “cleaning” busine:f in Florida— not clothes, but dirt just the same, in sub-division plots. McAuley, who brought the two famous athletes to this state boosting them for coaching positions at the State University, halted in Shelby to greet W. H. Blanton jr„ and other old friends of Carolina school days. They were en route to Western Caro lina seeking a site for a summer camp for the “Four Horsemen.” Following their visit discussion here centered around the possibil ity of having the camp located in The Cleveland Springs section ar.d a conference regarding the mat ter is still pending awaiting de velopments a M mu; sought ai Brevard. a Cleveland Hanks 18th Down the Cist in Handed Debt I’er Inhabi tant in County. Up to June SO, 1925, the total bond ed debt per inhabitant in Cleveland county was $61,77. This includes all debts county and municipal. The county debt per inhabitant for county government purposes alone was only $27.61, and among the low est counties in the state. In total debt 47 other counties have a higher average per inhabitant. The total bonded debt of counties, cities, towns and all other divisions, exclusive of the state government debt, on June 30 1025, was $223,671, 510, or $83.24 per inhabitant. On June 30, 1023, it was *134,443,016, or $•50 per inhabitant. The county debt, on June 30, 1025 totalled $102,181, 874, and the municipal debt totalled $121,480,645. The bonded debt of the state gov ernment to date (including current debt to be funded) amounts to $126, 677,531. The state debt, when all au thorized issues are sold, will aggre gate $157,402,531, The total current and bonded debt of the state and the bonded debt for all subdivisions of the state, for all purposes whatsoever, on June 30, 1325, was around 350 million dollars, or $130 per inhabitant. County Total debt per debt per , Co. Gov’t (Co. and purposes Mun’pal) Rank County 1— Buncombe ..$90.75 $215.40 2— Guilford . . 49.65 190.60 5—Durham _ 86.10 190.70 4— Forsyth . 15.72 149.75 5— Henderson _ 81.65 143.80 6— Mecklenburg .. 32.54 139.75 7— Carteret - 61.00 129.70 8— Alamance . 48.40 121.90 9— Cherokee . 61.13 116.20 10— Swan ..100.00 115.65 11— Beaufort 71.00 110.12 12— Davidson . . 21.94 107.45 13— Gaston 35.80 105.30 14— Wilson_ 42.26 104.57 15— Craven 69.82 104.00 16— New Hanover 36.85 103.60 17— Rowan' . 18.34 103.(10 18—Cumberland ..62.67 103.25 16—Lenoir j . _ 71.68 102.20 20— Iredell . ' _ . 61.36 102.00 21— Rockingham 73.26 100.60 22— Transylvania 72.30 94.75 23— Montgomery _ 90*20 94.70 24— Wake ...... 36.76 94.45 25— Washington 58.60 92.25 26— Pitt __ 66.81 89.27 27— Pasquotank 57.95 87.78 28— Edgecombe 15.82 86.58 29— Lee .. 34.60 86.20 30— Haywood 47.10 8476 31— Catawba__ 29.08 80.12 32— Perquimans 57.02 80.10 33— Lincoln .. 46.10 79.15 34— Chowan ... 61.25 • 77.93 35— Mitchell ..... 68.82 77.25 36— McDowell. . .. 53.12 76.50 37— Calwell ...... 40.60 74.62 38— Macon ...__ 44.00 74.44 39— Vance __ 42.35 74.17 40— Rutherford ... 47.68 71.90 41— Green ...... 53.59 71.53 42— Surry ...... 42.29 69.09 43— Ashe ..._ 66.60 67.82 - 44— Clay ........ 67.80 67.80 45— Burka -. 35.48 64.18 46— Richmond .... 29.81 62.75 47— Stanly ___ 29.81 62.75 48— Cleveland ..... 27.61 61.77 T. Carl Hamrick is New Co-op Secretary T. Carl Hamrick of Boiling Springs has been made district secretary of the North Carolina Co-Operative Cotton Growers Association, suc ceeding Jack Leigh of Danville, Va., who came here last summer to hand le the work after Forrest McGill re signed. Mr. Hamrick at the time Mr. Leigh entered upon his . duties was made assistant and has therefore had considerable experience in handling the work. He is a native son and a practical farmer who is familiar with all problems and is vitally interest ed in the success of the co-operative movement. Mr. Leigh has been transferred to the Charlotte terri tory of the co-operative association. Important Meeting Of Legion Tuesday An important business meeting of thr Warren Hoyle Post of the Ameri can legion will be held Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock, it is announced by J. Horace Grigg. The meeting will be held in the club rooms af the legion in the First Na tional bank building and all member^ no urged to be present.