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IF IT’S NEWS, IT’S IN THE STAR r reliable home paper Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Fanning Section. Modern Job Department, VOL. XXXIV, No. 20 li'iiclatii) SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census _8,854 Where Industry Joi.is With Climate In A Call For You, . "Covers Cleveland Completely.” SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, FEB. 15, 1926. Published Mondav, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ' By maiI’ »,er vear (in advanc<>) <2.50 ___/ By carrier, per year (in advance) $.'!,00 LARGE PERCENTAGE Estimated That 4,000 Shelby People, Half of Population. Are Church Members. May be Record. The population of Shglby is S.vil.'l Of that number four thousand, ut a full fifty per cent, arc enrolled a--! church members. And the same number, four thou sand, are .enrolled as Sunday school members. That estimate was made Monday by William Lineberger, who in addi tion to being a bank president here, i also superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school. Mr. Lineberger is an authority on church statistics of this city. May Constitute Record. This relationship between popula tion and church membership existing' in Shelby, it is said, perhaps com.i 1'ites a record in the United States. The statement is a full twin to tin one made in this newspaper son ■ weeks ago, uoting an authority heic that 80 per cent, of the people of! Shelby own their own homes. Large Number Active Workers. Mr. Lineberger, commenting on the figures he offered, stated that about two thousand of the number were ac tive in church and Sunday school w.,rk. “We have nine hundred mend ( is in our Methodist Sunday school.” !>■ said, “and yesterday (Sunday) we had on attendance of six hundred. But tha‘ attendance really means six hundred out of a possible eight hundred, one hundred of the enrollment being those either too old or too young to i‘ tend.” J. F. and Holly Ledford of the Rex Cigar Co. on Saturday pure.-as - pff six acres of land on highway N». 20. adjacent the property re ntiy purchased by Mr. Affleck of V... h ington, D. C. within a stones' turo\\ of Cleveland Springs property. IT > understood the purchase price was about $800 per acre. This property was purchased from Jack Palmer b;. Z. J. Riviere and Arey Brothers.- a few months ago. It. is ideally situat ed and is across the road from bit: acreage owned by the Gardner Lata' Comanpy which has already beer plotted by Mr. Draper, landscape architect of Charlotte, into beaut if d suburban sites. Just what the Led ford’s intend to do with their pur chase it is not known. Trade a: ; made by W. C. Harris. The buying and selling of pro perty on the Cleveland Springs read has been active during the past t weeks and prices are mounting rap idly. Several big tracts are unoc.i stood to be under option for the pui pose of sale at public auction a soon as the winter breaks, hoiks it’' talking realty values in Shelby ’ other towns an^ outside buyers ;• beginning to take notice of th ■ ad vantages Shelby offers in leal es tate trading. Mrs. Smith Passes At Austin, Texas Word has been received in Sh.lt.> of the death at Austin', Texas. < n February 7, of Mrs. Emaline Sir it p. aunt of G. V. Hawkins, of the local postoffice organization. Mrs. Smith, who was more, than 1 years of age, was raised in ( levehmb county, and it is understood > ad other relatives in this section. a. • was the daughter of V\ ilham t\ n brow. Another* Marriage Near Beams Milij Mr. Theodore Bingham, who It'1 near the Lincoln county line in thm county, and Miss May Ward, of < o-| tawba county, were united in man - age Sunday afternoon. The ceremony was performed at the home of ’Suire Sylvanus Gardner, to i Beams Mill, at o o’clock in the ar.ei noqn, Gardner officiating. 1 he many friends of the young couple hope t i them a happy union. Mr*. Wilkin* Sinking Rapidly Report Stales: A message received by friends hen Monday afternoon stated that Mt-s.i Wilkins ,of Rutherfordton, mother ■>[ Mrs. L. W. Gardner, was sinking rap idly and that little hope was held fo: her recovery. Mrs. Wilkins suffered a stroke naralysis only' a short time hack, b >t Gardner is at hm h d iG. . i North Carolina Banks Show Record Gain In Resources •A Wins Tourney Harry Coop, r, J-'-iu*.' Tea., above recently won the JIO.COO open Mii tournament at Lea Angeles, Calit One i f the Most Popular Students At I attimore and Good Athlete. Buried at Sandj Plains. of. t hr .largest crowds that ever gathered at S; rdy plains Baptist church.- attended the 'funeral- Sunday a*ter'HM>n at •'! o’clock of Gordon Bfi sun • f Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Brooks who live between Lattimore and Mew fI< e. Youivg Brooks who wa- 10 y» :>.; 7 njonths and two days did was a student at Luttimore High school .and an outstanding young man in his. community. He was not only pr niinent in athletics hut a good stu dent with. a strung personality, a fine int'dliit a: da useful, life. /In July 11 he pr.•leased tcHgion and joined Sandy Plains church, dedicating him self a year later to some special Chris tian, service. Those close to him cx I < -ted ! lin to I.eiome a minister of the gu-pel. He was a must cheerful d.s ■pesiti :t and a leader in church and school work. He Was musical director of the 11. Y P. V. and a leader among th ■ young people of the church. Young Mr. Brooks was taken des perately ill with pneumonia eight diigs ago and all that medical skid, profosHoral nursing and the tender care of family and friends could do. did not prolong, his life. He 'ted Sat urday afternoon at. 4 o'clock and his remains were buried Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock and his remains were bu ried Sunday afternoon at Sandy Plains, .tlte funeral service being con ducted by Rev G P Abernethy, assist ed l,v Rev. Rush Padgett and Rev. J. I). Bridges. Fickle Weather Strikes Shelby Winter, spring, summer autumn -thunder. lightning, rain, wind— During: Sunday and Monday y : ,.n,v and Cleveland county had the whole works. Sato.inay night the sky opened ,j red eye winked at the t,,\vn. Then the thunder rolled. TIu old guys say when ;t thun der.. and lightnings in the win ter time, you may batten down the hatches. Hut Sunday was clear. and , .. as near being a summer on a any twenty-four hour pe ri,;,! I,, the history of the old bailiwick for the'season. in. Charlotte Sunday the ther (o.ioeter climbed up the tube to degrees, establishing a record the warmest winter day in hrs inv Hire in Shelby, according t,, T. W. Ebe 1 toft, weather fore c.o ter, the mercury rose to about 7:>. It was fifty-eight at G o'clock, and G2 at nine o'clock. The merchants advertising spring duds, fancied they were taking time by the forelock. But the weather man played ’em a trick. ,• i They ought to have advertised I’a 1m Beaches, Elizabeth To Boost Sunday School Work “ \ bigger and better Sunday school" is the slogan for Elizabeth church for the spring and summer months. A drier is being planned by .hi1 church to boost the Sunday school at tendance and increase interest in thl« work Beginning next Sunday every member of the church is urged to at tend and bring a new member to Sun day school . . , . Through the drive it is hoped u have the best attendance ever within the t'v .1 tfew - uida. . _ „„„ New Mark Established By State Institutions During Year lt>25. Raleigh.—Resources totaling $307. 150,781.30 and breaking all banking records for state banks, were announc ed here by Chief Bank Examiner Clarence Latham, who easily accounts for the small lift over the September -8th, 1925 statements, when the peak of all bank riches was reached. Joined to the $199,105,000 of D e - cember 31, 1925. It is a grand arid glorious record, the like of which the oldest man in the kingdom has not known. Mr. Latham frankly expeete i a bigger showing, because things were on the upward move when no last examined tne 501 banks and their 07 branches. But the chief state bank examiner has a noble alibi. He cun show that the record is marvelous at its worst. Show Shrinkage, The loans and discounts, first big item in the latest showing, presented a shrinkage from September 28, 1925, when the figures were $212,263,888.23. On the last day of the latest December they were $207,030,729.28. That was a loss of more than $5,000,000. But at that it was a gain of $8,752,630.51 from December. 1924. The overdraft shrank from ' $C>08, 727.71 September 28, 1025, to $332, 034.93. The United States bonds held at the close of the September iast were $10,860,691.71. but they had dropped to $7,390,028.46 three months later. The capital stock paid in was on last examination $22,983,954.77 which was nearly $150,000 increase, the sur plus fund showed a jump from $11, 591,982.37 in 1924 to $12,809,739.38 at the last figuring. Rediscounts Drop. The notes and bills red1 scounted dropped from $4,140,656.48 in Sep tember to $2,375,933,90 December 31, 1925. For the December previous the figures stood at $1,745,247.49. I he greatest slump on the side of virtue went also against total resources. Bills payable mean what the banks have borrowed from other banks. Sep tember 28, 1925, this'item was $19, 291,763.98 but three months later it was $4,680,905.75. And for the year closing in 1924 it was $7,967,273.4'!. The state banks are unhesitatingly pronounced in high health by Exam iner Latham, who observes that the banks are paying their loans and sug gesting individual goins and doing thou likewise. Star Makes Apology To Fallston Couple In Friday’s Star on the front page | was carried a list of marriage li- ■ censes recently issued at the Court House to Cleveland County couples This list included licenses issued to both white and colored but somehow 1 in copying from the court records or in setting up the names on the type setting machine, the names of Mr. Andrew B. Wright and Miss Bessie Ward appeared under the list of col ored couples to which licenses had been issued. The Star hastens to , make due apology to Mr. and Mrs. Wright. Mr. Wright is the son of J. A, Wright of the Fallston. commun ity and is a young man of fine parts and high standing in Ins community, while the bride is a native of Linco* county and has been one of the courteous and efficient sales ladies in Stamey Company's store. Both are white and their many friends know them to be pure white blooded citi zens of high standing. The Star is truly sorry of this error. It was purely unintentional and we offer our apolo geis to each of them. Those who fol low The Star closely know that we . exercise that utmost care and cau ! tipr. in handling news matter and when a sliD like this is made it is an error of the hand and not of the heart for it is our purpose never to intentionally and mabciously wound the pride and feelings of any person, whatever ther race or standing might be. T. D. Nolan May Go In Realty Business -. Mr. T. D. Nolan, son of Mr. .1. B. Nolan, is in Shelby with his par ents, coming up from Warrenton, Ga. Mr. Nolan made the trip into the mountain districts with his father the latter part of last week, and stated Monday that it is likely he will re main here and engage in some branch of the real estate business. Mr- J. B. Nolan made an extensive trip through Western Carolina Friday and Saturday, visiting Asheville, Hen dersonville and other high powered centers. He said when he returned that he found the real estate business in those parts humming, with pros pects decidedly looking on i > I i > i > i > ) ) > i > ) > ) i > s ) > a a a a a i a 5 Puts Out Fire With Crocks Full Of Milk Mrs. Clayton Feeler extin guished a threatening flame in her Kitchen Friday afternoon with several crocks full of sweet milk. Water has to t>e carried at the Feeler suburban home and when the careless cook sat a can of gasoline on the store which she thought to be cold, but a drop trickled down, ig nited and started the fireworks, it was not time to carry water front the well or spring. Mrs Peeler rushed to the kitchen, threw the crocks fulj of milk oil the flame, then hurried to a bedroom where she gathered up a nice, new bedspread and an old and prized quilt with which she finished the fire fight. Mrs. Peeler seized the can of gasoline and dashed it out of the door before it exploded but when the can struck the ground and spread, the flames caught the side of the house on fire. The fire department responded and with the valiant work of Mr.;, Peeler and all hands at the house, the flames were extin guished with no consuk'table damage. The ebdspread and heir loom quilt, and damage to toe walls of the kitchen constituted the greatest damage. < * Robert Crowder Entered Sunday With Serious Trouble. Three New Horn Babies in Hospital. Including two patients who were dismissed Sunday and several who entered for operations on Saturday, the Shelby hospital has two dozen beds filled. Robert Crowder, of the Southern Cotton Oil company, was entered Sunday with a severe Kidney trouble and threatened pneumonia. J, II. Toms who was severely scalded about a month ago at one of the local mills when a jet of steam struck his body, is getting along as well ns eould be expected. Little Charles Pat terson of Kings Mountain who was kicked by a mule was entered on the 12th. Mr. F. F. Borders of Shelby R-7. was operated on February 12th. Free man Sailers was entered February 11. and underwent an operation. J. O. Lail of Kings Mountain entered February 18th for treatment. Born Saturday afternoon to Mr, and Mrs W E Wilds a son. Mrs. James Roberts of Shelby is doing nicely from a recent opera tion. Mrs. R. P. Philbeck of Lawndale is a patient fur treatment. Mrs. I). Z. j Newton and her new-born daughter are getting along nicely. Born Feb ruary 12th to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dudley, a daughter. Mrs. L. C. Bust of Shelby was operated on Saturday. Mrs. 0, C. Beam of Shelby is respond ing rapidly to treatment. Cline Lack ey was operated on Saturday for ap pendicitis. Mrs. Clarence Rogers of Cherryville was operated on Friday. Mrs. 1. C. Griffin is improving and will be able to return to her home mi S. Washington street early this week. Mrs. J. A. Anthony is a patient for treatment. Mrs. John W. Doggett who w'as operated on Tuesday night was able to go home.Sunday. Mr. Martin who has been a patient since last October and had several op erations has been removed to govern ment hospital in Virginia. Mrs. Mollie Smith of Lattimore, and Mr. John Blackburn of Lawndale were dismiss ed Sunday. There are three colored patients in the colored ward. HONOR ROLL FOR EARL SCHOOL FOR LAST MONTH Honor roll for Earl school first grade: Annie Lee Gibson. Second grade: Nell Deloach, Helen j Borders. Fred Ross, Quitman Ellis, j Inez McSwain, Ophelia Borders, Agnes Borders, Evelyn Turner, J. M. San sing. Third grade: Clarence Turner. Fourth grade: O. W. Ellis, Joseph Austell. Cle\ eland in Cherryville Miss Tasca Tolar, music teacher , in the Waco school, Miss Katie Stone ! of the Waco school faculty. Miss . Lou Hord, of Waco and Miss Zona JTnrd who is teaching at Union in Cleveland county were in Cherryville shonning Saturday afternoon.- -Cher ry ville Eagle __ e 200 People Ride Bus Lines In And Out Of Shelby Daily .More Passengers (Io n*; To Char lotte Than Any Other Point In State. How many people pass in and out of Shelby daily? Once was the query could he ans wered approximately by a check-up on tickets sold by. the railroad tickets of - fiees. Nowadays, it’s different. As many or more people go or come in the family car, or by bus as do a trains. The bus lines perhaps carry the most and daily figures on ticket sales at the Inter-Carolina bus .station here show that a goodly percentage of f Mks keep on the move. K. II. Griffiri, bus station agent, es timates that approximately 100 peo ple ride the various bus lines out cl Shelby daily, while an equal number come, making a total of 200 parsing in and out of town. Saturday Dig Day. Saturday is the big day of the week with the bus station, The sue tom comes down from other modes of travel through the itinerary of week end visitors who come and go. The daily average of folks riding buses out of Shelby is slightly bel >\V 100, but Saturday travellers a littl" more than carry the daily average fni a week over 100 going each way. Through the week between 85 and 100 people tide the bus lines out of Shelby to Charlotte, Asheville, Gas tonia, Morganton and Hickory. On Saturdays the figure moves above 100. Monday, according to Mr. Griffin, ranks close behind Saturday in num ber. Those spending the week-end in Shelby leave Monday, and Shelby folks spending the week-end awa^re turn on Monday. That’s the solution of the Monday classification perhaps. Sunday, it is said, is the third best day for business. More passengers board buses here for Charlotte than to any point. This is accounted for by two reasons: One that Charlotte is the nearest metro politan center and the other is that connections are made there by rail and bus lines for longer journeys. Gastonia takes the second largest number of passengers leaving Shelby, while Kings Mountain, junction point for south-bound travel, ranks third. Asheville and the west-bound buses running to Forest City and RUther fordton rank next. However, it would be still more in teresting to know how many more travel in and out of town by private ear. As it is, the 200 daily average if the bus station is indication enough that there is considerable travel going on, Boxing Matches At Old Armory Attract Very Good Crowds Shelby followers of the squared ring enjoyed a comeback Friday night in the old armory, whree several good boxing matches were staged. The main bout between Clyo Flier, hard hitting McAdenville youngster, and Jackie Fields, Shelby’s psuedonym hone, was one of the best fistic en counters fight fans have ever wit nessed here. The winning shade fell to tiler through a slight superior exhibition, aKhough his weight and reach gave him some advantage over his smaller opponent. Fields, lighting in Charlotte and elsewhere lias al ready established a reputation and Fi ler who was in his second public ap pearance according to his manager, bids fair to be a headliner ere mu' y months in the art of scrambling ears. The preliminaries, far superior to ordinary pre-bout entertainment, were staged by local boys, many of whom exhibited considerable ability in handling their “mitts and dogs”, as the fight fans say. A fair crowd of fans, including a sprinkling of ladies, attended the pro gram. indicating that Shelby may have several other boxing evenings before warm weather opens up. Pro ceeds from the Friday night fights were turned over to the Hi-Yi club at Central high school. Proceeds from future bouts, minus expenses, will also go to the club. So far removed from the usual run of “fakes” and frame up* was the program of Friday night that considerable interest in boxing has been revived in Shelby and many predict a packed house for the next bout and preliminaries. Needless to sav there’ll be entertainment enough with Jackie Fields and Filer properly matched. At Methodist Sunday School. Present in Sunday school at Central Methodist church yesterday 592. Present in Mr. Clyde K. Hoey'i Men’s Bible class 252 Offering iti ihi thool l. Now U.S. Citizen Count born in hi* fin tl Ing him City, Alfred do NiezychowRkl, tjfimnny, has just received naturalization papers rook a L. B. titiaen in New Vorlc, Shelby Stale Champions to Star Um bering up Before Many Hays, Coach Morris Says. The call of the batted ho re hide may soon he heard on Central High park. If warm weather holds through this week, or breaks in again next week the ri manta of Shelby High’s two year state champion baseball teams will start limbering up for the diamond season. With several spring-like days last week Coach "Casey” Morris with the national pastime feeling in his own blood felt like issuing the call for c '.ji. didates, hut the first call was deferred for a longer run of balmy days. With no basketball court'interest in athletics at the Shelby High has been lagging since the close of the foot ball season arid the youngster can hardly wait for the baseball grind. Needless to say fans are also look ing forward with eagerness to the coming season. With two champion ships safely stored away in the rec ords at Ceptral school high school fol lowers are wondering if Morris can take the few letter men left and the rew crop, of prospects and build an other championship machine. The prospect is none too cheering. ! Not a one of the regulars on Shelby’s ; first champ team two years ago re mains. and only three letter men are back from last year’s title winners. | They are Jack Hoyle, pitcher; Peeler, pit In r-ontlielder. and Ed Harris out j fielder. I However, several scrubs will be out ; together with several likely prospects in the youngsters just growing into athletic size. No hopes are held for ( line I-ees or Big Beams in the new candidates, but | nevertheless some stellar diamond ! performers are expected to develop. I from the prospects. Then "Casey” Morris, one of Carolina’s idols with a j wicked willow, has a way of develop ing a good athlete out of mediocre ma terial. If Shelby could repeat the cham pion dose three times consecutively it ! would add much to the athletic fame of the school. Morris says: “Might.” That's about as much as he ever talks about his prospects, which sounds like Carolina outlooks in the days of Bill Fetzer. I -- To Load Poultry Car on Wednesday A car of poultry will be loaded Wednesday Feb. 17th. 1026, Sea ! board Depot. The following: o*sh prices will be paid colored hens 2d 1-2 cents leghorns hens 20 cents, turkeys 29 1-2 cents, cox 10 1-2 cents ducks 21 1-2 cents geese 14 1-2 cents, stags 14 1-2 cents, guineas 40 each. Do not bring chicken in sacks or with feet tied, and all poultry must; be there by 2:30 P. M. according to Alvin Hardin, county agent. BATTERV ENJOYS DODD RESULTS FROM SALE The management of the Battery is, in the language of the street, tickled to death over the result of their big sale staged here last week. The sale was the most successful perhaps ever put on by this establishment. “The result was gratifying far be yond our expectations,” was the an nouncement from the store. It is said Mrs. D, B. Goforth, mana ger of the ready-to-wear, enjoyed an l especially fine trade, surpassing alt former records of her department. The sale will he continued through I ' h' 'vtefc, * James Elder Reward l>> Governor Mc Lean For Going to Aid of Com ict Guard Here. Hack in December Janies Elder, no pro convict on the road gang of No. (i township, voluntarily aided the camp guard when a white convict tried to escape by assaultjng the guard. Saturday Rider was rewarded by Gov ernor McLean with a pafole. The net of the hegro, who was i err ing a year's sentence came to the at tention of county and city officer and last week Police Chief Hamrick, made a trip to Raleigh in his behalf. The Raleigh story says: As a re ward for helping a guard to prevent the escape of a white prisoner front the Cleveland county convict camp last December. James Elder, serving 12 months on the Cleveland county roads for violation of the prohibition laws, was paroled Saturday by Gov ern,or McLean, on recommendation of Pardon Commissioner Hoyle Sink, for the remainder of his term. “A white prisoner of the county roads,” according to the parole order, “with the prisoner, Janvs Elder, cut his shackles, and when the guard opened the door of his cage, assaulted hinjj took his gun from him, and was about to do the guard great bodily harm. When this prisoner, on bis own volition, ran up and struck the prison er assaulting the oficer with a stick, and thus freed the guard.” Facts in the case, says the parole order are vouched for by the trial so licitor, guard in question, the -<r iff of the county, and other officials. Elder was convicted and sentenced : in Cleveland Superior court in July, i 1P25. 1 Big Shopping Crowd On Shelby Streets Saturday Afternoon | Whether it vvns the weather or j some Unknown impetus it differs not, ; but Shelby’s biggest shopping crowd I s,nee the buying period before Christ j mas was in town Saturday. Before 2 o'clock in the afternoon automobile parking space was hard I to find and by mid-afternoon was not. Numerous Shelby citizens versed With crowds, circus days and other wise, were of the opinion it was ono of the best crowds for the season of the yenr ever known to Shelby. Shopping must have been the mo tive of the crowds for the sidewalks i were packed almost as much as the auto parking spaces and the jam in | and out of stores was more than j lively. In Springtime thoughts must wan j <ler to more than romance—say to i Spring bonnets, dresses and suits. Valentine Hearts Hold Sway in Mail “Let me be your Valentine." That was the sentiment expressed by hundreds of little messages travel ing in and around Shelby and over Cleveland county Saturday evening and Sunday. Yesterday was Valen tine Day, the annual occasion when Cupid gathers more material for his target practice and much of the mail handled through the Shelby postoffice carried the little eards were their red hearts, sly sayings and roman tic sentiments. Some were mailed for fun—jokes have crept in on Valentine—and others were mere social requisites such as sending Christmas cards to all acquaintances, but many meant what they said and said it better than the senders could express per sonally Bashful swains dream sev eral nights about how she will re ceive the query of the neat little card and the same thing reversed applies to the timid girls, if there be such in these flapper days. And furthermore many children just budding into the sport hood age first learn “to shoot a line through sending valentine cards. Anyway the Valentine of I92ti is over, unless some cards were late. Small Night Fire At Heavy’s Cafe A small blaze that started around a coffee urn caused a slight damago about 12:45 Friday night at Heavy’s Cafe. The fire started while some gasoline was being placed in the big percolator. “Heavy," proprietor of the well known eating house, had the flames under control by the use of chemical extinguisher >focn the fin .•a tPe >