North Carolina Newspapers

r IF IT’S NEWS, IT’S IN THE STAR reliable home paper Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department, err??. VOL. XXXIV, No. 27 \ ►- -- « SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census ____r_8,854 Where Industry Joins With Climate In A Call For You, . v SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1926.Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. I Hy mail, per year (in advance) ?2.50 t carpior. 1)01* fin adtmnnnl 19 nfl Change His Mind On Local Investments Finds Dividends Small Hut Iudirict Returns by Reason of Town's Growth Have Been Good. \ Shelby business man sat down ai ! desk Saturday morning, tool, a <• i;ciI and paper, and began to n . k. i. ations. A representative of The S ar sat across the desk from hiv . The business man wrote the figv< Sr.1,000 as one item, drew a line uniter i , and then wrote $1,400. He look 1 .at the figures a minute, then-Tee i back in his chair and said: “I own fifty-one thousand d'-ilai worth of stock in Shelby enterpriser , Last year that investment paid me ex actly fourteen hundred dollar-. When I look at those figures cold blood—the investment and the return, I am apt to feel pretty b 1 u. . Fourteen hundred dollars look- like a pretty thin return for fifty-one thousand. When I first made the-cal culation I made up my mind 1 wauld lay off, and let somebody else c;ur\ the burden. "Then I haa a second thou::!. "Listen to this* I owned a lot in Shelby for which I paid $6,500. lie fore 1 built on the property 1 was offered $44,500 for the site. "1 at first thought of my. fifty-" .• thousand investment and fourteen hun dred interest, and the original* cost of the lot and the later offer on it. a separate departments of my businc never occurred to me until the otter day to connect them up. "But when 1 look at the mutter h'< estly, what conclusion must 1 reach ? I must reach the conclusion that !>u» for my investment of fifty-one thou sand dollars in Shelby enterprise. I never in the world would have b •; offered forty-four thousand for ; ,y lot. My returns from my stock i,. vestment were therefore indirect, -but no matter how indirect they were thev were there. "So that I have changed my mi ml t n tirelv about investments. If none of us invested in a new business, \vc would have a stale town. The iriv-r'i ments themselves, per se, may '-t pay, but indirectly, as I have c*> - eluded to my own satisfaction. t: cy do pay.” HTUliD LADIES to wem stock MADE IIH SHELBY Export Ilusines Helps to Boost Post Office Increase to New Levels In Shelby. < The name of Shelby is darkenh A on the map. hast night, meaning Tuesday 'light, litre was shipped from .he Shelby postoffice a consignmen* <>t 1 "ally made hosiery, from the Jam t mill, to Central America. Specifically; tie point of export was Ouatumal i. * his. according to author.ty, i# the first shipment of hosiery from tiio local mill to this hinterland The mention of the shipment came 'ip in a discussion with the postmastir r laiive to the increase of the Shell ' postoffice business since the first of the year. Mr. Quinn, the postmaster, told The Star that postoffice busi as increased since January !’ *•: from 12 to 15 per cent., and has taken a jjump from this time last year of | srime 25 per cent. Which is said to be the very bi-t index of the growth of the town. Assistant Postmaster Laughrioge announced the shipment from the fa net mill last night to Central Amer : a. He remarked that the postage charge on the shipment was somethin': i" excess of $01. “ That sort of business increases our receipts in a hurry,” Mr. Laughridgo said. Mr, I), \V. Royster, head of the J net mill, was asked to what extent b's mill is exporting hosiery to Lai in America. "We have been shipping goods t some parts of Latin America for some 1'me,” he said “notably to Mexico. V\ itave a shipment ready for Mexico at this time. We are beginning now to push our i export trade, and hope to see it in crease.” Asked what sort of hosiery ho whs t sending to Guatumula. he said the ' 'll is for stockings for ladies, ami they are demanding the same sort, 'corn by the women of this country. ! They are quite up-to-date down there,” he added. ‘“'I'"' ; U n- s'-*tc Owned Radio *'• Station—Law vers K erred from Practice ■'% f- Shipman.) ‘«‘h 1. Announcement j J* 1 1 :< yn?»ld.s car. iid.u-y for the . . ‘ : ' S;;t:a> against Seim ! '' ■hvenn^n, the argument ! ; '• ■■nn n: ! a uwey of women I** *• J't-h < Ar lina. the nui ' ••;i^--nee\ int . the limelight :'n 1 ! ;> ig ! I: ill ">r at ( hri.-t ; M,i : ••'htiher of other matter.* ab:" r;:l \ the •attention -<if the Capital i"' A'1'1'- »KL'!i administration ejr. 1 •" ' A ‘orth no outstanding . new-:, ,tVe de'v.-iopmeftts around the 'ani'ai with t-oe adnihmtration a- a c.omi'H>n cm.:; r,v .-re sufficient to hold . interest. - i’eyn 'ds Kims L He-hold-. A -he vi 1!attorney, ; ■in 1 • Mc<-t 1 }<>i i h<• Senate lo succei •! ■ (..iiTtia:' vvhterm expires thir year. Reynold.- frankly Stated he was 1 he t ‘ if yote> ami would do his best i' ■ ted but would take n ticking with ■ f •" i V" of. M i-,.. had to. Since 0\tr i than wilt make a run for tile otfee, it vi-pear/ the inaior election pf June j Will h ■ c . I-.,?,.,]. toirv.o Working Condition 1 at Child Welfare commission and ! *h' •' a'I’ edt r i ion of Labor divided ati ntiou 'a i .<. Governor McLean this Wi e'; in- ’ he proposed survey of work's ner em’dit; ;.s of women in industry, rhe Governor issued and then reiter ated twne ;i statement that he would not order a survey of the siaty.s of . win en rs- until fact- were pre - n:e.i ; him showing that there were , v.--!,i';pn- of law with respect to their ■’■(•at < at. The president of the State h cdi-rat ion of Labor asked the Gov ern to order: a. survey arid alleged ' 1 i: •'■ o of women In industry wri - id it s L• -i -St in North Carolina.” The Child Welfare Commission de clared an investigation was not with in ns scope. At the "lid of the weak the tali' - of t he matter was unchang ed. ard the prospect'Of a survey ap pear'd dim unless the Governor r' i ' d actual facts involving speci fic c.m on which to base an order ■ of a- survey. Finger. Prints Required Chiefs of Police and sheriffs of the State were criticized in the reftort of [Gouty Warden Honeycutt of State Pri n made public during the week. The deputy warden said the law re quired the sheriffs and chiefs to fin gcrnri,nt prisoners and file finger prints with the Prison Bureau of Identification but. only six had kept the law. (Jarred Irnm I ractice Rex I.. Farmer of Wilson and Otis W. Duke of Greensboro will not prac tice law in North Carolina. The Su preme Court barred them *’rom prac tice after they had passe] the men tal examination. The ground for bar line them was that they were not of sufficient gooff character for admission to the profession. The opinion was the most, far reaching of its kind ever handed down for it set moral limits within which prospective attorn'.: s must hold themselves and it has been d( rribid as an attempt to rid the le gal profession of men devoid of chat ; • i-.and shysters by not admitting (he o, orartii e. Charges against both men had been filed. State Fair week will be a big Home, renting Week this year hut there "li! 1„. i:11 air. Instead there will be tv big auction sale and the Fair site v». 1! ho m , ,, ed of and a new site bough', s;* that tile Fair can pay c[ its debts and star, ia l'.t27 with a balance to its credit f ile move, also will allow l’al ,,j, i to expand to the \yhich has I . u prevented by the location of the Fair. . b - Mo ; loss vcill have to pay income tax n house rent which they escape 1 y virtue of being furnished resi dences by the churches. The amount or rent e raped must he -aided in as in,■on e ai d taxes paid thereon. t'..mini• 'oner Graham of the De partment of Agriculture, has started eomprehbhsive experiments in straw I,..,-rv culture on the Stafasville and Willard test farms where many plots are under cultivation, each receiving ", did'.'eat kind «f fertilization, The Commissioner is also directing a num her ot forestry demonstrations and |;, , ,,s a careful cheek on the results obr.-ii d ‘‘i-.iin time to time. animal state-wide meeting of t!,o N ,rtli Carolina Home Economics \ . , ., ■ A scheduled for Raleigh on March IS in conjunction with the Di,.,',ing .if the North Carolina Fdu \ -Delation. The former is a gathering of homemakers, Rome econ ,,‘nVio teachers of high schools and col • p.,,,, homo demonstration agents, wo ill 'institution^ management and in bome economies work. The general meetings will be held in the House of IJopr. eotalives and the sectional meetings in the agricultural build Keyenue Commissioner IF A- Dough ton announces that the slate law • tContinued on page eight.) Most Valuable Book in World ^ - • .... I J i 1 if rvw*** l>. •'<■■■ |V- '•' X yj. •a** raj?»»w*w»»fc., ' '• v < 22,i23I&? ■,<***** »•;, A‘-4W »4J»« 4t*>v 6 J??'4* *>''*- -:'.Vik «»»»:,. JL '***'«•»»«? Sf.*, ■S5sf*!!??«^K5 :>xW-«' K -: <v| .»^;<aftfc0>;>&g. •. •::' Xv.**;xX;.'.^|. ■*' ‘ 'v > v'oc-.v ,. *WtfVn8<&5 ; *<* ’*:;^a£*2S *■•••••. <*r ^°'irf2c«;i •* «3i -W; ;: ■..,.. ? ■ '"“•"Qy&i ii' ^;X*, ;.v The above book, the Melk copy of the (Jutfenbcu; liible, recently wold for fl08,00{i. It is the first Iwjdk printed from movable type, and iB in Latin. Jhr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, New York. city, now owns it. Belwood Boy Loses Eye As Result Of Prank In A Store Robert Norman, 25-yebr-ol i : son of Julius Norman of the Bit wood section lost an eye as a re sult of a boyish prank on the part of Robert Porter, son of V', . R. Porter who threw some .22 cartridges in a hot stove in the Porter store at Belwood a few days ago. A piece of steel struck M>‘. Norman in the eye with the result that the eye-ball was punctured. He was rushed to the Shelby hospital where Dr. Tom Gold, prominent local eye apt ialist, removed the eye as the only alternative. It is learned that " Norman had gone to the store to do some trading. A number weie in the store at the time When young Porter in a boyish way, threw some cartridges in the stove to watch their action. When the cartridges began to explode, ciu shell pierced Mr. Norman's eye. IGSlWA! BATTLES 10 90S Succeeds in killing Him Alter Shoot ing Him Eight Times. Mrs. Moss is Heroine. A daring feat was accomplished at Kings Mountain when Mrs. Charles !•' Moss of Cherokee street killed a mad ; dog. Mrs. Moss was visiting across the street at the home of Jim Jenkins, when a big ugly looking Jog ventured , upon the Jenkins porch and threw a fit. Mrs. Moss slipped out of the house! and made her way back home to take care of her own children. The dog fid lowed her. She ran into the back yard; meeting the dog. She shot him four times With the pistol, each shot tak-1 ing effect hut not stopping the dog.' She then*ran back into the house ami) secured a trusty rifle and pul two bul lets in him with that. But the dog: came on. She ran back into the house.J and slammed the door in the very face ! of the dog and grabbed a breech-load- j ing shot gun and lay down on the j floor and poked the gun out through ( the cat hole under the deer and fired I a deadly shot into the dog. He keeled over on the hack steps and quit the ^ fight for life, Mrs. Moss tnen opened i the door and took plenty of time and; gave the varment one more good, steady shot to make a good job of it. Mrs. Moss is now tiie heroine of her j neighborhood and all know that not1 all women are cowards and that not all j dogs are easily killed. When Mr. Moss arrived home and made a post mor tem examination of the dog he said i he found eight holes where the eight : different shots took effect. DeKalb Street Opened Beyond The Hospital -- ,| Another step in the expansion of Shelby was taken last we«>k, with the opening of an added section of Xoith' DeKalb street. This thoroughfare has , been extended to a point to the north! of the hospital, and a new street dc-i veloped Connecting DeKalb and Nortn Washtington. Convicts were itt work upon this1 development the past week, and vir-j tually completed the imurovsment. As the area is now laid out. streets; are laid out around the four sides of the hospital, l 10 BEAUTIFY COURT SQUARE FOR VISITORS Commissioners Let Contract for Re pair of Sidewalks. To Improve Trees and Grass on Lawn. The court square will lie truly a beauty spot this summer, when plans made by the county commissioners are works d cut. Contract was let this week t > Z. B. \\ eathers and Sons for the widening of the cement sidewalks and the repair of the damaged places. When pedestrians ‘‘cut -orners” and thereby make path-ways across the grans, the walk-ways will have wide circles and trespassing on the grass will be strictly forbidden. A tree sur geon will be employed to prune the shad- trees, while the ladies of the civic department of the Woman's elub and Mrs. Irma Wallace arc working out plans for flower bed.; and shrub bery, all leading to the beautification of the park and making this an at tractive “first impression” spot for the thousands of visitors who are ex pected this summer. List of Hills Paid. Bills were ordered paid as follows by the county commissioners in regu lar session Monday. W. J. Turner, bridge lumber $24.63; Allow Jim Murray $5 supcort for one month; R. A. White. bridge work $197.60; I)r. Ben Gold, county physi cian 8184.00; W. E. Martin, bridge work 823; Ideal Plumbing Co., work at jail and county home $54.68; B. R. Harris, bridge work $7.60; .) C. Wash burn. bridge work $73.50; D. B. Whis nant, bridge lumber $3; 1). A. Beam and son coal for county home $32 50; Bryan Poston, brick work $13; Alvin Hardin, county agent $125; Paul Webb and son supplies county home $11.75; W. H. Blanton, blacksmith work $4.2(>; .South Shelby Pharmacy, $11.95; Shel by Electric Co., work at court house 72 cents; Shelby office Supply So. supplies $66.50. Farmers and Planters Hardware ( n„ supplies for jail $2.25; Thompson Co., lumber $11.40; Shelby Printing Co., $6.50; Commercial Printery $2.75; Shelby Hardware Co., supplies for county home and jail $26.09; ,1. E. Williams supplies county home $5; Paul Poston, supplies county home $2.90; A. C. Brackett, bridge lumber 850,10; Paragon Furniture co. sup plies countv home SG.25. II. A. Logan incidentals and jail expenses $260; Forrest Eskridge bridge lumber $180; I.. A. Cabauisa salary and expense county Lome $122; Cleveland Hdwe. Co., supplies for court house $6.25; Flay Hosy, grocer ies for county home $.‘58,00; Lee Cab aniss bridge work $36.20; Mrs. Irma Wallace home agent 850; G. VV. Peel er services as commissioner $44.11: •I. A. Varboro bridge lumber $98.00; Kendall Medicine company, supplies county home $7.76; Wray-Hudson, home supplies $18.10; Mitchell Print ing Co., office records $76.30; H. A. Logan, trip for prisoners $18; Shel by Foundary and Machine shop, sup plies for jail $19.1?!; R. A. White, bridge work $475.77; E. W Dixon, bridge work $10; Southern Railway company freight on coal $149.30; Bewly-Darst Coal company, coal $112.73; C. C. Martin, bridge work $52.05; Herbert Borders, sawing wood at county home $15.75; Snowflake laundry for jail $5.55; Major League baseball teams be gan spring training in Southern can.ps Monday, evidence that the springtime is with us. The players will go in for extensive work for three weeks, then begin the barnstorming tour north, COURT JURORS FOR SUPERIOR COURT I Judge Henry I*. Lane Presides Over I Next Term uf Cleveland County Superior Court. The next term of Cleveland Super ior court convenes in She by Monday March 22nd for a two weeks term of the trial of civil and criminal casts. Loo Cody and Crawford Deane, both j white hoys, charged with holding up guards at 1 taking off Ralph Deane a member of the convict force, will be tried at this term. It wi’l be ten.cm i be red that last September masked men released by force Ralph Deane and > - creted him away. Cody and Crawford J'ean*' were arrested and brought t.i Shelby to answer this ser ous charge. Grover Ray, colored boy, who bus been in jail since the last term . f cou't, is charged with arson, in the burning of L. C. 'Palmers cotton and other personal property at Polkville’ ubout four months ago when Mr. Pai nter's loss ran up to several thousand dollar... Another important case is that of Charlie Bridgentan, white boy of South Shelby, charged with larceny of sev eral automobiles. There are about 15 prisoners in the county jail awaiting a final hearing, while a number of de fendants are out on bonds, most of them being for traffic in whiskey. First Week. Jurors drawn are as follows: No. 1: S. H. Ruppe; No 2: C. II. Pearson, T. L Greene, G M Whisnant; No M: W C. Sarratt, David Weaver, Lee May hew; No. 1: Charlie Dilling, R L. Muuney, C. S. Dixon, ,1. A. Dover, R. M Dover, M L. Thornburg; No 5: J II Dedtnon, J A. Hallman; No. b: G. W. Neely. Joe K. Nash, J P. Hord, C. H Shull. II. E. Campbell, F 1’ Cel lohan, Brevard llennessa; No. 7: C, M. Bridges, R. L. Jones, F. A. Whits ker, J W Lovelace; No 8 S. II. Peeler. S H. Philbeck, J. P. Towery, Robert H. Bridges; No. It: R. F. Wallace, C D Stroup, II A Harris, C. R. Wright; j No. 10: S B Carpenter; No. 11: D. P. j Fortenbury. Second Week No. 1: D ,P. Pearson; No. 2: D. P. j Hamrick; No. 3 A F T Bechler; No. ] 4: Clarence E. Carpenter, B. H. Bruig | es; No. 5: A. C Beam, D. A Bridges: j No. 0; S I) Gibson. T M. Gladden, A. | T. Hamrick; No 7: Plato Lee, S J. ! Gettys; No. 8; Sam McNeely, Wilie | R. McIntyre; No. 1>:J.B. Brackett, Ed Hoyle; No. 10: Perkins Bivins; No. 11 i A .A. Warlick. Auction Sale of Realty Next Tuesday Shelby Real Estate Company to Sell Valuable Property Near Clev eland Springs Development. Another auction sale of valuable real estate is set for Tuesday March 9th by ihe Shelby Real Estate com pany when about 50 residential lots belonging to J. F. and Holly Ledford will be sold for the high dollar. This property lies on Highway No. 20. jigft a short distance beyond Cleveland Springs development and is near the center of where big things are export ed to happen from now on. The Shel by Realty boys are enthusiastic about the property and say many investors from out of town have been anxious to come here and invest as soon as this tract is put on the market. Col. R. E. Foster of Spartanburg who has conducted a number of sales here in the past, has been engaged to cry this sale. Valuable prizes will be given awav. Liberal terms have been offered of one-third cash, balance in one and : two years. Streets have been graded and the property put in fine shape for development purposes. Self Takes Tharpe’s Place At Gilmer’s Mr. Op ip R Thavpe. gentlemen's furnishing department manage- i f Gilmer’s local store, has accepted a position with the Mellon store of Charlotte, taking up his new dunes Monday. Mr. Tharpe's place with Gilmer's has been taken by Mr. N, G. Self, who lately has been street overseer with the city administration. Mr. Tharpe had been two and a. half years with Gilmer’s, having come to Shelby from Statesville a year and a half ago. Winter Gives Final Kick; Mercury At 26 One of the dying gasps of winter hit Shelby and the surrounding parts Tuesday night, sending the thermom eter down to 26 degrees. The cold snap came on with a west north-west gale Tuesday afternoon, that put the countryside on its toes. The temperature had hot abated to any extent by noon Wednesday, the mercury standing in the Ebeltoft ihermoine'er at M2 as late as 10:.MO' o’clock, with ice forming in the gut-; ters. I Chas. 0. Harrill Kills Self With Borrowed Shot Gun How to Observe Traff’c Signals I i -1 ’ o v\ i: i g arc tin* regulations laid down by the city police to comply with the n„w tral fie coils arid the ! new t-affic Ignals: l.c t a ,| tut 1 arc prohibited at the two (’our; Square corners on Ca l' ayctt ■ street. This i- to say, you may make no left hand turns at the < h v< land Ba k and Trust Company corner, nor at i ie National Bank cornet*. Left ha-id turns are p-rmi.ttcd at tilt » th" corin' ,ln making these corners, however the vehicles going straight have rig;;., uf way over those making a tut it. II ght l ard turn are permitted at all street intersection . Which is to say, jin will !>• permitted to turn to the right at any of the street inter red ions mu matter how the signals are sit. 1’hc Star is asked to advise driver* to take special care n these right hand turns to watch for pedestrians who may not lie aware of the regula tion permitting these turns. It was said at the City Hall Tues day the new regulations are working well, the general run of drivers hav ing fallen quickly into the new me thod. Mr. A. M. Hamrick, prominent local real estate man and farmer, h: a an nounced today his candidacy for clerk of the court to succeed George P. Weld) who announced in The Star last Friday that he would not run again after having served eight years. Mr. Hamrick has been urged Tty many friends to make the race and defin itely made up his mind this morning to enter. County Commissioner A. E. i Cline of Kings Mountain. J. J. I,atti more and Frank L Hoyle are all be ing urged by friends to throw their hats in the ring and they are consid ering the race, but neither has settled in his own mind. Mr. Orlando Elan) will in all likelihood enter the clciks race instead of for sheriff. Mr. A. B .C. Me Priest, former mer chant of Polkville, who recently mov ed to Shelby, is being solicited by friends to make the race for register of deeds Mr. UePriest is listening with an attentive ear and feeling out the sentiment of the voters. He is well and favorably known and would make a strong'candidate.. Already R. L. Weathers, incumbent and Andy New ton of Kings Mountain, have announc ed to friends that they are in the race. Squire M. P. Harrelson and Rev. Wil - bur Wall have not definitely announc ed publicly what their attitude will be with reference to a race. La Marr Shop Makes An Assignment Here Thf* La Marr shop which has oper ated a ladies ready-to-wear store on N. LaFayette street for less than a year, made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of cer Mors Monday afternoon. Mr. Marvin Blanton was named as receiver and will wind up the affairs of the company. The store was opened by Mrs. Saba who catm? here from Salisbury with her hus band who helped her operate the store. Bus,ness has been poor since the opening, hence the assignment was made for the benefit of the cre ditors. It is not known what the lia bilities and assets are. “Smoke House Raider” Held For Court Howard Lawing, front the.Charlotte district, smoke-house raider, who pulled a new stunt in this vicinity re cently making raids on the pork sup ply of families in the vicinity of Mooresboro, waived a hearing in Shei by Tuesday, and was bound over in >\ thousand dollar bond for superior court. Deputy Sheriff Austell told The Star Wednesday that 1.awing admitted having spent a term in the pen for house breaking. He was caught, charged with his recent quite original escapades, by Hie city police of Salisbury, and fetched back to face Cleveland county justice by Sheriff Logan. Governor McLean goes on rccoru as advocating more pay for the con cientious teacher. The Governor is seeking to have better renumeration for teachers of character, who take their work seriously, differentiating between the flapper type and the wo man who has the interest of her work at heart. Will Known I'armcr of Double Springs Takes Own l.if,—Had Suffered Bad Health. Mr. Cha O. Harriil, well known farmer of tin- Double Spring- ( im munity ended hi- life Tuesday morn iug about a o i l-ic!* when bo-borrow ed a double-barreied shot gun fv a colored tenant, went to i,i, bant and pulled the ti c < r with his toe, emptying the entire load in his ,1k t. When he was discovered by h, thir teen year old son CleVl. life vv.t ex tinct. His rash act saddcied the en tire community. While it v, a k wvn that Mr. Harrill Was d< : I bc | cause of ill health and some Jo , in investments, he had never intimated to any one that he would t• ••rt to •any such rash act. Mr. Harrill ad been suffering with a bone trouble in bis leg for sometime and had been eonf ned to his bed recently hut was up on the day before the shootig. He had also conveyed to friends the fact that he had suffered losses in bad investments, had bought cotton, and grain on the exchanges, which turned out had for him. hut he is known to be a man of substantial means which were in no way exhaus ted by reason of his losses. He owns a splendid GO acre farm in the Dou ble Springs community on which he had recently completed a handsome new home. This, with other property put him above-the-average class of wealth. He had brooded over his poor , health.and fell at times that he would I not recover from the bone trouble in i his lev. Morrows a Gun. Mr. Harrill went early Tuesday morning to the home of Matthew Durden, a colored tenant living on Fred Washburn's plantation and bor rowed a shot-gun, telling the* colored tenant that his family had been sick with influenza and he wanted to kill some quail. Mr. Harrill evidently had shells of his own to fit the gun j because he did not borrow any from i the tenant. About 5:30 o’clock the ! young son went to the barn and i found his father lying on the ground ! With the shot gun at his side. The hole in his chest and the blood on [the ground revealed the horrible ! story. One shoe was off so it is sup I posed that he pulled off his shoe so I he would reach the trigger with his I toe. Mr. Harrill was about 48 years of age and a member of Double Springs Baptist church. He was born and reared in the Prospect community and was married to Miss Lilly Grigg, daughter of Dock Grigg. She sur vives with five children, dell, Agnes, Elene, Evans and a baby about a year old. Three brothers, Alex, Hen ry and deve live in Lincoln county while one sister, Miss Kate Harrill lives near Lattlmore. D. L. Willis Buys Wright Barber Shop Wright’s Barber shop, in the Wool worth building, changed hands here Tuesday afternoon, the purchaser be ing l>. L. Willis, known ns “I>oe” Willis, of Shelby, It was one of the quickest trades ever known here abouts. Mr. Wright said Wednesday morn ing: “We traded in fifteen minutes. Willis made me an offer; 1 made him a counter offer; anti we got together. It took not more than 15 minutes. Mr. Willis took over his new enter prise Wednesday morning. The new proprietor is well known in Shelby, having been with the Austell shop for some 12 years or more. Mr. Wright established the Wright shop in the Woolworth building a year “ago. He has conducted a first class establishment, and has been success ful. He told The Star Wednesday that for the present he will remain with Mr. Willis. Oak Grove Section News Of Interest (Special to The Star) Mr. Oscar Bush lost a tenant house by fire late Saturday evening. It was not learned whether the family living in the house saved anything from the fire or not. Mrs. William Causley has been sick with grippe, her friends will be soiry to learn. Rev. B. M. Bridges filled his regu lar appointment at Oak Grove church on Saturday evening and Sunday to a good sized audience. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bell and lit tle son Roger of Gastonia were call ers in the community Sunday evening. Mr. Tom Adair and fumily spent the week end with relatives here. Mr. Mull Patterson, of Kings Moun tain visited at Mr. Clarence Blantph'a Sunday.