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IF IT’S NEWS, IT’S IN THE STAR RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department, ' . - SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census __8,854 Where Industry Joi.is With Climate In A Call For You. . SHELBY. N. C. FRIDAY, FEB. 2G, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons, j 1!y niai|. P<?r year (in advance) 52.50 _ By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 VOL. XXXIV, No. 25 Covers Cleveland Completely.” SHELBY TO RET! I.iccnsc Plates Will Again he l>i»tri buted Here by Another Change Made. Raleigh, Feb. 25.—Blanch office o] the automobile license bureau will be retained in 20 cities and town- fur the i ext 12 months under the tornn of a contract with the Carolma Mutr club entered into today by Revenue Commissioner It. A. Bought on. Forty other stations which ha. ■ been maintained during the past year will be abandoned. The installation at the central offices in Raleigh of rav 'd fire addressing and mailing machine will enable the bureau to do:the b i.k of the work distributing the plate; from here and render unnecessary those stations which are to be cl d down. In addition to the contract w;td the Carolina club. Commissi in - Douehton indicated that arrangements would be made for the Winston-Salem Motor club to continue supervision of one or more branches in that territory. The 20 stations which the commis sioner has decided to keep open ire located ai Asheville, Charlotte, Win ston-Salem, Durham, Elizabeth < : . Fayetteville, Gastonia, Goldsboi ■, Greensboro, Greenville, Herder1 on Hickory. New Bern. Rockingham. Rocky Mount .Salisbury, Sanfu i, Shelby, Silver and Wilmington. Although it has not been offi • .il ly announced it is presumed tin,., vh : sale of license tags in Shelby vyib he handled through the local branch the Carolina Motor club Of which Wade W. Hoeytis manager and aim. the same forms of the past season One of Shelby’s Oldest and Most Re spected Citizens Passes A»a; at Age of 79 Years. Mr. A. R. Putnam, one of Shelby's oldest, staunchest, and most res’pe- ted citizens; died at his home 'on South I,a Fayette s.reet Wednesday evenir r at 6:30 o’clock, following an illness of two and one-half weeks 'vith do#:, to pneumonia and kidney trouble. 1' u nera! services were held at the resi dence Thursday afternon at 2:30 by Rev. Rush* Padgett his pastor, Rev. •' W. Suttle a former pastor/ and !>*'. Zeno Wall of the 1st Baptist church, interment being held at /.oar ceme tery. Mr. Putnam was born Kovember 18, 1847 and died February 24. 1920, being 79 years of age. lie was a char ter member and deacon of the .Sec ond Baptist church where lie was very active until his health gave way sev eral years ago. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Eliza McIntyre, and five eh L dren: Mr. J. B. Putnam, of H v; . La.; who was unable to attend the ! neral; Mrs. M. W. Hamrick, of Ashe ville; Mrs. J. L. Stroup; Mrs. J W. Spangler; and Mr. Everett Putnam, all of Shelby, also a number of grand children and greai. grandchildren. Mr. Putnam was the last member of his family. The large number of relative and friends attending the funeral an ! the beautiful floral offering showed the high esteem in which he was held. The pall bearers were Messrs. A. < • Miller, John R. Dover, R. H Wilson. F A. Morrison, G V. Hawkins, Mon roe Barnett, Pick Smith afid Ralph Turner. Those out-of-town attending tin funeral were Mrs. G. Piunam an Mrs. Earl Howard of Charlotte, Mr. and Mrs. C. D Stroup of Lineolnt n Mr and Mrs. M. W Hamrick of As; i' 'ille; Mr and Mrs. Hoyle Elliott of forest City, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mel ton and Mrs. Cato of Bostic, Mrs. I 'in Threat of Lattimore, Mr. Jt-kt Mi Intyre of Asheville, and Mr. and -Mrs. Tom Spangler of Double Shoals. Mrs. J D. Barnett, granddaughter o' ■Jr. I’utnam, who is in New Orleans ! a., with her husband, was unable to get here. Rippy Funeral At New Hope Church I he funeral services of Mr lleni x Pippy were held Wednesday at .er 1 "on at New Hope church. Eearls, coi: th'e>ed hv Rev G. I’. Abemelhy. Mr. Rippy, who was 51 years oi a?e, had been in bad health for a con •terable length of time, suffering Pom the after effects of fever, it is said. He is survived by seven children, three of whom lived with him, ami lost' ot whom are married and living near. He was married many years ago >" Miss Maggie Nichols, ‘she died three Jr'cars ago. George Webb Will Not Run For Court Clerk Next Term Superior ( ourt < lerk for Fight Years Announces Tha« fie \\ ill Ne; Ask I ice If lieri •^'r ‘ l;-" !’■ tr and 'P'c ' -ci ■: k of Cl< vv'an.l county Su;>>•• if juu iiir eight. y..a' an nouti . thro -gb The Star today that iff1 ha - d.'riCfil not to off r for re in th. .Ii’n-’ pi unary. I oo aniouneenient comes pra-ti < a!h.' a a '! 1o the hundreds of Vi ■ f‘ i :i I|V( •• the e i-ioty. who here l<‘ "if' .nl h anl nothing that indu .Chted that Mr. Webb Would -1*■ • > out (>■ the pub! • tr’fich where during C-ig . Vf nr h l.a ■ i n iearcd ! msMf n.any. ro-oisig in contact with Him throng; huh:,- - in the clerk’s office. l)ui i'."- ti l' t ighi year.: he Ihad r.o (j position. ' l)i ir •- Change Mi. Vhlii did not expect any op pos* f i<».*•' aii 'i «!<“•] ar*‘«- .ho hnc-?K\h.**d te fie i' m merely thfuogh’ desire for a rwsng •. "I ti.ifik it would ..be host'.-for me to get < ut ome after being confined to one. place for so long ami after setioti? dolib ration 1 have decided to do m," : ( .ntir. 'i-d. “I have heard of t o | • oiiai.il” opposition and do not anticipate u.pv.” "If. a way it will be quite a task to Hi - ah t1 t o and routine of remain ing in t i offc-i* for eight years. During that time I have met hun dr> <h- inf people and made many friends and their friendship alone •repay me Dr the time I have spent in offiie However. I think it is best fiif. .me. tv make a change, in making the ibc -ion." Mr. Webb concluded, “I woitl.fi id to express my sincere ap pre;i in r ion for the help and coopera - tier given me-during eight vears by the people and officials of the coun ty and the • members of the Shelby bar anti others having business or re lations with the Superior court of the clerk's office. 1 It is \v,th regret I break the tier, of the long association.” Mr. Webb is not in position as yet to announce future plans or connec tions and will take time, as he puts it. to look around a bit before mak ing up his nvnd. The primary will be n .June and it is supposed that there w II bo nuieh speculation in coming weeks as to possible candidates t.> succeed the man who for so long has been a fixture in the position. Other Rumors Heard With the hearing of primary day many rumors are to b-’ heard of pro bable eandulacie-, hut so fn- as is ; known defin te announcements have j not been made «i‘ ,er by those in of Ifice or out of office. The rumors connect at least four we’l-knbwn ci*rsen» of the county with being likely candidates for re g -ter of deeds, an office row held bv R. Lee Weather -. They are: Rev. Wilburn Wall, of Shelby; Squire M. I'. Harrelson, of Waco; Marc.o Biun ton of South Shelby: Andy Newton, of Kings Mountain, but a native of upper Cleveland. It is understood that cards are already being circulated calling the attention of voters to Mr. Newton. General rumors also has it that Ed. Dixon, of Behvood and now a de puty : heriff, may make the race for high sheriff, and Peyton McSwain, young attorney and soldier, is rumor ed as on a possible slate for the state senate, P. ('. Gardner is also connected with a rumor placing him i: the race for solictor of the county re corder's court. All of which may be rumor, and may not be. Dr. Rankin Urges Health Department For Cleveland <’!< velati'd county'.- death ra«.e is he-! low the average of the slate anti the' nation, aecord.i.nir to |»r. W. S. Rankin, din tor of the hospital and orphan age department of the J. B. Duke on-' dowrnent fund,, when he snoke Thurs day night before the Kiwanis dub in the interest of a Countv health de partment There are ten and seven tenth-. deaths pc >' thousand, per year in Cleveland, while the state average is 12.02 in.the-state and 12.00 per cent in the.nation, but with favorable nat ural conditions and a predominating white population. Dr. Rank:n says the death rate can be materially reduced b\ mean;- of a health depart men*. Cleveland county is out of the malaria zone . and no hookworm eases have been reported which reduce the fa tality race. There are only 0,000 col-, ored people in the county which is re sponsible for the low tuherculo- s death rate. Negroes run a death rate of 11 per thousand; ,so the state is growing whiter and whiter. The states ). "-*h rate is 21 .Oft ;the birth rate in Cleveland is 3501, so Cleveland coun tv is netow the state average h deaths and abode the state average in births. North Carolina holds the re cord in the nation for births, losing it one tear to l tah. I rges Health Department. Trie purjx^'* oi i;r.- wwimh n m; nr ii.tr m- on invitation of those inter ester! in a health department for the tourvy. T>r. Rankin was for the coun ; v. Dr Rai kin was for a number of y,sU- head of the state department; of health and has been a (treat silet t force in improving the state’s health. He deflated that a county health de partment composed of a physician and ■ i nurse would cost the county only sT.'ido a yeai; but. would save the tuun-j ty many precious lives and its citi 7A ns with much worry and anxiety. .Keferrir g to the first influenza epi demic. Dr. Rankin declared that 10.) livo- could have been saved in the county by a systematic organization ,,f f,i to stem the tide of an epi demic. .He outlined the duties of a .health department, showing how it Wot k - toward : the control of disease, ,b(. ■ dmation of mothers in the care of their new-borns. the vaccination of children, the education of the public , „ ,inirpieahle diseases, etc. He pointed out how a health department , m gather and study all the cases in an epidemic and the factors contri buting thereto, then set about to elmi th • ca us os. There were birth- in Cleveland county last year an,| in| new horns died before they reached the age of one year. Tlmu Shalt Not Kill Dr Rankin pointed out the value of a iift. i„ dollars and cents and declar ed that the comity cannot afford to neglect the salvation of lives. The oo-i of a health department is infini tesimal compared with the returns. In concluding he quoted the command ment "Thou Shalt Not Kill- ’ dec ar th-it 'f not only forbid- "H,ui killing, hut forbids that any com munity shall allow its citizens to die through neglect and ignorance. Dr. Rankin's speech was well re ceived. A number of ladies were pres ent, while representatives from the Medical society, county commission board, school board, city board and others were also in the large audi ence that heard him. One of the dis tinguished visitors was Mr. A. S. Averett, representative of the L. B, Hamner Realty corporation of Tampa Fla., who takes a party of Cleveland county people to Florida tomorrrw. Mr. Hamner is one of the directors of the great Seaboard Air Line railway system. Mr. Dover Says He Was Quoted Wrong T!ie Star is in receipt of the fol lowing letter calling attention to a misquotation in the length of time he went to school when the Kiwanis eight months school program was dis cussed by h.m and others last Thurs day night and in justice to him we gladly publish it: Dear Lee: During the last few years the Ki wanis School of Oratory has turned out qu;te a number of silver-tongued orators and, being a student' of that institution, I had some aspirations along that hue myself, hoping to at tain at least a degree of mediocrity by which I might skirmish around in the highways and hedges. But It is all off. My name is Dennis. If the Star report of my speech at the Ki wan^s is correct, then my case is hopeless. I thought I was speaking on one side of the question ami woke up to find I was on the other. Worst of all, it represents mo as having done some tall lying about the length of time I spent in school. I did not say that I had never gone to school s much as eight months in my life, nor did the gentleman who reported it to you so understand it or report it. You just got things balled up. On the other proposition, I was ad vocating a course of conservation. It 's an unpleasant word and not in the spirit of the times but someone has to count the cost. Neither the fear of danger nor the mandate of the law seems able to compel us to stop at the crossings. The old danger sig nal, Stop. Look and Listen, is out of date, both in public highways and public enterprises. Taxation of Corporations has reached the point where it is a grie vous burden and stockholders may well consider in imposing higher rates whether or not they shall do so at the sacrifice of all dividends. J. R. DOVER. The sale ads announcing women’s clothes half oil' no longer shock the men. f'" ( Chosen Queen t Mins Katherine WHHairm, 19, r» cently was chosen queen of the New Orleans 1926 Marili Ores carnival. -1 1 HOT FIVE STORE MIS IT Ml Aik ther big rea’ty deal sincm. the last issue of The Star. This time K. T. LeGrand and Chas L. E kr'dge bay five brick store r njres from John Beam otv N. Washington street, the block of store rooms known a. the “Au loo o ive Building” because it is a sort, of headquarters for the s'I ■ of cars and a -cessories, ru o painting and battery stor rtr°. et:. A grocery store, a sau ag ■ factory, an ice cream stor age and other things occupy the same. It is understood that the tons id ration was $25,000. These htii’.dtngs were erected a year or two atro by John A. Beam and arc* within a block of the court square. LeGrand and Eskridge i’ is understood, bought them for an investment because all are income property with good pros pects of a higher value. Deal .v as made through W. C Harris realtor. School Elections Over Cleveland 1 wo of the three special tax elec tions held by school districts of the county this week passed, while the third failed to go over. All three elec tions were held with the view of con-j solidating with other school alongj the county-wide plan. In the Cabarfiss district the specialj tax election carried by 20 votes, ask-! ing for a special tax of 50 cents in ; view of consolidation with Lattimore.i In view of the election carrying the! county board will be asked to handle; the consolidation. k Although the official vote had not ■ been turned in Friday, it is under-! stood, that the special tax election j in the Ellis district carried. This elec-1' tion asked for a special tax of .TO 1 cents with the idea of consolidating! with Patterson Springs. In the Padgett district the special j fax election failed to carry by 14; votes. Should it have carried the Pad gett district would have been con-, solidated with the Mooresboro and j Lattimorp schools. Since the burning of the Padgett building Inst yea* trucks have been transporting the school children of the district to the Mooresboro and Lattimore schools, i Since the consolidation election was | voted down it is probable that after this year the trucks engaged in this transportation will be taken off and facilities provided for school in the;r own district. Autoists Thrilled As Modern Traffic Regulations Start j Shelby got the thrill of its middle aged life here Friday just before noon when the new traffic regulations went into effect. The bells tinkled on the signal posts, the green and red signs began to flash, and square-bor dering stores emptied themselves of the crowd to see Shelby {Hit on its first big time stuff. Motorists, green in the new style driving, pulled bone after bone, and got the horse laugh from the audince One local Do Palma in a hurry, made a left hand turn at ihe Cleveland Bank and Trust company’s cornet, and Jim Hester, on guard there, up able to stop him, took out after him on the run. The car beat the policeman , out, and the crowd shouted. The new system will get a thorough i test, it is said, tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon, when the throng comes to town. Meantime the city authorities have temporarily abandoned the idea of having cars parked in the center of Fayette street City Fathers Consider Big Plans For Coming Visitors A municipal improvement prog, nun of large proportions is being given due ai d careful consideration by the mayor and board of aldermen which if artel upon favorably will include a bond issue at once for H00,000 utp.ro street paving bonds, the beau tification of the court square, tin purchase of a street cleaning machine and the immediate construction of tt e water [ lant, together with water and sewer extensions and electric line-., all wi lt a view to having in Shelby this spring and summer the largest crowd if visitors and investors chat has ever come, A called meeting of the board of aldermen \\ a > held \V yd - liesdav night ai which lime 0. Max Gardner, recently returned from f 1 u ida. declared that in .his candid op'n ion Shelby will be oyer-run with visi tors and that in order nr attract and hold them as home owners, a program of preparation ohould he put on at once. »ir. bMQRM says tnat uh inousamis that Oil- coming from Florida to West ern N't rth Carolina cannot be acroni modit 'it in the mountain towns which are already over-run and that these hordes v, ill come to Shelby where a more even temperature prevails and where the wise investor will find prosperous industries which sustain Shelby’s growth and progress. In planning a welcome to these visitors Mr. Gardner suggested that the court square be beautified and made more inviting. It is the most attractive spot in Western Carolina towns and can be so improved as to make a last ing impression on the minds of the visitors To this end he suggested that the town and county officials have all the trees pruned and treated, that the bale, spot on the lawn be resowr, that the broken walks be repaired and that comfortable bench be plac ed about for the use of the visitors. Going a step further Mr. Gardner commended the administration for its contemplated expenditure of $100,000 in street and sidewalla improvements. For rome time the officials have been receiving petitions for street work, hoping to gei all together and find out just what amount is necessary to do the next program. Action has been with-held until now on the advice of the city attorney who suggested last fall that no more bonds be isused until about the first of March. By that time the city will have to retire some of its bonds and improved its credit so that an addi tional bond issue will sell to a better advantage. Mr. Gardner assured the officials that the tax payers are back of them in this contemplated pro gram and that he would support them , before the people if any criticism is made. With a resolution from the Ki wanis club endorsing a progressive program, the offivta’s will probably author > a bond I.- : in' for street im pr..v mivi t to the amount of $100,000 at thmr next Tuesday night meeting, thi mi'ni-.y. to be spent on S. LaFay e.te ■ : (t through South Shelby to the r. w eb,,porat.e limits, the widen ing of Highway No. ti t to Helvederj He git i.t improvement on Went Graham tret !, the paving of the two a!h s , o both ■ i Ics of the First Bap ti "in 'vh cornetFng N. Washington ai d >.• taveite t i e'-. t • Kastsitle mill, tb • g: . ! nst- ■ f Sumter street flora where =t 01 iiers v, ith N Morgan out to t.F • ( t-ry i''ad. School ->ft’i cuds )••«> e ah-' idv been notified to move he (f eud stird on the athletV fi I I to mate way o r thin work and, South'.!'.. ( fftHnlv Tifive been notified; to w; !en tho bridge to conform to the? wider Greet. Other pavements are, under consideration anil petitions j from citizens w II receive due consul-j oration. May Huy Sweeper. In. order to keep the streets clean, it \y;i< suggested that the city buy a suction sweeper or street washing ma-| chine so that the hard surface stree's; can he cleaned every day. Already the! street department has been doubled over two years ago but machinery is necessary to cover fne entire town. Hush Water Station. The administration is now rushing; the engineer for plans for the pump1 station. This matter has been held in I abeyance longer than contemplated because there was a hitch over the location of the plant. The officials had hoped to secure a location close to town in order to make a pari: in connection with the large reservoir, but no land was available at what was considered a fair price. In all prob ability the station will be located above the mouth of Hendricks branch. This will permit the development of real estate north of Shelby on the wa ter-shed of this creek. Had the water intake been below the mouth of this creek, there would be no way to give sewer connections to the residents in the Hopper’s park section. The offi cials, therefore consider that while the delav is to be regretted, they feel that it has been profitable in that Shelby will have more room to ex pand in a northern direction. A. K. Cline, chairman of the board j of county commissioners, has agreed | that new and wider walks will be laid] in the’ court square and that new benches will he purchased and the trees pruned and “doctored” as soon ! as possible. New Grass will be sown1 in the bald spots and the lhdies will be asked to plant flowers in the flow er borders, all with a view to making: the court square the prettiest place . in Shelby by early spring. SHELBY PLANT TURNS OUT 7,000 TONS OF FERTILIZER IN WORKING SEASON City Has No Conception Of Immense Business Handled By Southern Cotton Oil. W. A. Gladden With Plumbing Firm Here W. A. Gladden, of F’atterson Springs, has accepted a position as head of the office department of the Shelby Plumbing Company. Mr. Gladden is a brother of T. M. Glad den, proprietor of the establishment. The latter announced Thursday that he Will complete the heating plant of the renovated colored school in two weeks. Formerly this school was heated with hot air, and it is be lieved a defective flue of this system causer! the which partially destroyed the building about a month ago. The new plant is of steam, of the new Aero type. This is a new system which, according to Mr. Gladden gives super radiation from a very much re duced radiation surface. Auction Sales to Start off Spring With the coming of sprhtg days, the auction is with us again. The first of the season is announc ed by the J. B. Nolan Company to be held on the fourth of March, when two separate sales will be held. One of these will be the disposition of the old Cathefine mill property, on South Washington street. This will be sold in the morning of the sale day. In the afternon the auctioneers guns will be trained on R. C. Brid ges tract on South La Fayette street. With the real estate business of Shelby already on its toes in antici pation of a big on-coming season, it is expected this first season auction will prove a big drawing card. Folks can’t be expected to live up to their ideals if they have none. What this country needs more than anything i- a disposition to give and tale Tiie Southern Cotton Oil (CompanyV j mill in Shelby has been in operation for the current season since October first, and will run another montu be fore the spring shut-down, and ac cording to Mr. J. Frank Jenkins, the I manager, during that period will have crushed 7,000 tons of cotton seed and manufactured it into ns constit in r»t products. . In the course of a season, also,.Air Jenkins, said, the plant turns out seven thousand tons of fertilizer. Those figures, it is said, will prob ably serve as an eye-opener to the people of this community, who have, it is believed, very little concept! >n of the magnitude of the operation of the Shelby branch of this gigantic concern. the plant in this city has a storage capacity in one warehouse of 2000 tons of seed. In addition to the three thou sand tons of meal annually produced from the 7000 tons of seed, another by-product of the local mill is some 1,200 bales of lintels. Once upon a time, Mr. Jenkins de clared, and it has not been a great) many years ago, cotton seed was con sidered to be a waste product, and was thrown away or burned. “I re member well”, the manager said, ‘'when cotton seed hulls were burned as utterly useless. There eame a time when some cows belonging to a farm er living near a mill with .which I was identified, came over to the hull pile and began -eating them. We told the farmer to come and get all of the stuff he wanted free of charge. “When we discovered they were of some value, the sale began at a dollar a ton. Now cotton seed hulls are con sidered of immense value as stock feed.” Asked as to the proportion of the yield of a ton of cotton seed into con stituent products,T»lr. Jenkins gave the following figures: “A ton of seed will yield nine hundred pounds of (Ctmtihued'm five 7 GET PIT OF STM ; meat m men [ Sixteen Pieces of Stolen Cleveland County Meat Identified There. .Man Arrested. Some of the meat stolen in the big meat raid in the Mooresboro sec« tion one night last week has been re covered. Wednesday Sheriff Logan, Officer Kendrick, Monroe (,roeni Sam Oreen, Yates MeBrayer anti Mr. Noinn vis ited Salisbury where it was reported i wo men were sell in g country hot; meat. Arriving in Salisbury the Cleveland county party with Officer Vic l’es perman, of Mecklenburg .’ounty, soou identified lfi pieces of the meat as be ing a part of the IT hams. 10 should ers and five middlings stolen in this county. Howard I.awing, young white man, selling the meat was arrested and brought to Charlotte and was brought on here Thursday by Officer Kendrick and placed in jail. It is understood that he will be given a preliminary hearing after officers complete an other round-up. The man, tt is sui t, was peddling his meat from a Ford coupe. The man arrested, who,has been seen around Cleveland county recent ly and has also lived in .Mecklenburg, just completed a term in the peniten tiary in September. officers here say. Questioned about where he got the meat officers say Lavving contend ed that he got it in the woods near Gastonia. Just how this may connect up others is not known, there being some doubts as to the statement. Other than saying tha* he got. the meat in the woods near Lawing refus ed to talk to any extent. Shelby Military Quarters in Lead The new armory of Company K. lo cal unit of the state guard, in the basement of the new Royster build ing on South LaFayette street is con sidered the best militia barracks in the state. Final arrangements for moving into the new armory were completed this week and drills are now being held there. The new barracks in addition to a roomy drill room ami storage quar ters have a finely-equipped recrea tion, reading and club room, and an other room with shower baths and other necessary equipment. Officers of the guard believe they have one of the best barracks in the section and that the recreational and club room advantages will add much to the interest in the military work here. The annual inspection of the local company will be held March 3. By last years report from inspection the local company was placed among the best drilled outfits in the state and Capt. Peyton McSwain and Lieutenant Austell are expecting an even better report following the inspection next month. Weekly drills are not held on Mon day nights and citizens who would like to inspect the new quarters are invited down on drill nights. Local Party to Tour Part of Florida A party of 15 Shelby and Cleveland county citizens will leave Shelby Sat urday afternoon on a four-day tour into Florida, the journey covering an inspection of the Tampa section. The party here will be beaded by Mr. A. S .Averett, representative of the L. B. Hanna Realty corporation and general inspection at Tampa will be of the country club area owned by the Hanna corporation. Mr. Hanna, by the way, is a director of the Seaboard railway operating through Shelby. The party will return to Shelby from the tour about Wednesday of next U’eek. Another Realty Firm Opens Here Announcement was made today of the opening of another realty firm in Shelby. The new firm is known as the Hoey Real Estate company and is composed of Messrs. Frank and Wade W. Hocy. The new company is already doing business and seems to be in the gen eral realty rush now going cn in Shel by. Building Balcony In Penny Store The J. C. Penny Company is erect ing an addition to the balcony in the rear of the store, in the Masonic building. The balcony as originally plaeed was occupied by Mr. E. E. Scott as h's office headquarters. The extended area will be used an alter ation department which is Heine in* L-t die .