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1925 TOTALLED THREE MILLION DOLLARS—1926 WHAT? MAKE A CITIZEN OF EVERY VISITOR.
SHELBY’S POPULATION
1925 Census_8,854
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VOL. XXXIV, No. 86
“Covers Cleveland Completely.”
SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAR. 21, 192G. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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Judge Webb Puts Crimp In
Future Of Drunken Drivers
Store Thief Gets 18 Months and Grind
Continues on Other Interesting
Criminal Cases.
,lodge James L. Webb, presiding
over Superior court here, has what
court spectators and barristers be
lieve- to be an effective method of
dealing' with drunken auto driver.-,
who endanger the lives of other mot- i -
ists and pedestrians.
Instead of administrering a fine, or
giving the drivers a term on the road
enabling them in a month or so to
start driving again, the jurist rules
ir almost every case thai in addition
to a fine easily remembers that they
shall not drive a car under any cir
cumstances for a period of 12 months.
Should they fail to observe his ruling
he leaves over them a suspended sen
tence that assures a goodly time i f
pile driving on the roads instead 'of
err driving. Several defendants have
f-ictd the court this week on cou: t
of reckless car driving and similar
sentences have been meted out. Spec
ulation about the court room spears
highly of the plan used.
Bumgardner Next Court.
Charlie Bumgardner, who was to
have been given a hearing in tfik
i curt in connection with the death id
his wife, had his case continued until
'the next term through his attorney,
Clyde R. Hoey. It will be remembered,
that Mrs. Bumgardner died last week
after being shot. Before dying it C
sc id she made a statement saying
that the shooting was accidental. The
Bamgardhcrs lived at Kings Mountain
at the time. The bond is $2,000.
B. Hamrick, young negro, con vic
ed of entering the Lowery store at
Patterson Springs on several oc-a
shins was given 18 months of foil for
h's tendency of taking that which did
nr t belong to him. He was caught in
the store by a special defective and
Mr. Fields Young on his third night y
i ntrance. Asked by acting Solicitor
San Ervin what he got on each trip
the colored boy replied: “Money and
shoes the first time; sardines ami
more money the second time, and
inure money the second time, and
handcuffs the third time." When the
handcuff portion of his confessicn
", -.ink in” on the court crowd quit? a
laugh followed.
No. Jury Monday.
The grind of the court Monday
was perhaps one of the speediest ever
noted here. Numerous cases were dis
posed of, yet during the rntire day
a jury was not used.
Tuesday the jUry was in constant
lire and the grind was slowed up
somewhat. For the most part qw
erses were minor ones and disposing
o1' the so-called “jail cases'^ to relieve
the congestion in the county’s horrn: of
ciriection.
One interesting case being taken
pp Tuesday was the charges against
several of store breaking in upper
Cleveland.
Start Cody Case,
Wednesday morning the court op
ened with the now famous Cody ca-o,
connected with the hold-up of a con
vict guard here and the freeing of i
prisoner, Dillard Deane, who was sere -
ing a term on an assault charge. At
torney Jack Dillard, of Murphy, ore
of the state’s most brilliant attorneys,
n presented the defendants the debon
air Lee Cody and Crawford Deane,
younger brother of the prisoner w!»
was freed.
1‘adgett Case Next.
It was the understanding, it is s.vd
:.t the outset of the court that th
criminal docket was to end Wednes
day at noon. However, trial of sev
eral cases including that of the store
breaking and the Cody incident con
sumed more time than was estimated
for and it is likely that the criminal
docket will be continued long enough
r.t leasi to dispose of the more impor
tant jail cases.
Barristers say that the Padgett
auto case, dealing with the larcency of
two Sherlby ears, will follow the ( ody
trial. Padgett, the young man featur
ing in the case, presents a striking ap
pearance in contrast with usual con l
scores. In addition to being weli
dressed the defendant has a striking
fate and could be easily mistaken for
a prosperous business man both m
hearing and appearance.
A hitch, claimed by some to be me
"ay and by other to be another way,
has developed in the expected renew
ing of the Francis-Philbeck episode.
Whitesides Passes
At Ellenboro Home
W. B. Whitesides, 86-year-old farm
or. died Sunday morning at his home
at Kllcnboro. Pneumonia was the
‘iiuse of his death.
I uneral services were conducted at
■he Bethel cemetery, near Ellenboro, j
*>v the Rev. I. D. Harrell, ol Ellen
boro.
Mr. Whitesides is Survived b' M
■’ if< and three children.
Shelby Man Owns
Very Unique Relic
Mr. YV. j. Howell, (lf \\fst Shi'lpy,
is the possessor of an atuique of uni
(pii' history, It is a (an ikstick, made
in lao(r, - whim candles supplied more
1> the 1‘ght of the w rid.
Howell said he g.g the r lie
fr'nii the late Mrs. Dobbins, of Mi -
Dowell county, and that Mrs. Dobbins
ifet ii in turn, from her tr amino ther
: he relic is made. apparently of
1 ev. ,er. end is well preserved riot
I’mgrc.-' ive Citizens 1{< spend Well in
first IMj of Chamber *f Com
merce Drive litre.
The first day of the drise for a
chamber of commerce for She!b>
resulted in a total subscription
of S3.281, according to an an
nouncement made by citizens in
ter' ltd in the campaign and bet
ter interests of the town. The
drive will be continued through
out Wednesday and Thursday with
goal set at the estimate $12,000
budget.
The committee making the drive
Wednesday morning' declared that
they had around $M,060 in sight fori
rhe most part large individual 'sub-!
so: rptio'!-. This will swell the total to'
art end sx.Oou to which will be added
numerous smaller subscriptions.
bio far in the drive it is reported
that progressive citizens with the,
better interest of Shelby at heart
have subscribed readily.
The committee staging the drive
is composed of business men, who are
naturally busy in their own profes-,
riors and firms, and they urge that
should some citizen not be. in, or is
not seen by them that he display sim
ilar loyalty to Shelby, giving up their
time and loyally call in ar.d make his
subscription.
Many think that the $11,000 budget
set is too small, but as yet it has not
been subscribed and cheering results
are expected from the second and
•hird days of the campaign.
Loyal eitizzens wishing *o see Shel
by spread during the spring and sum
mer months and attract its quota of
outside visitors and investors are
urged to fall in line with the chamber
of commerce plan. There is only one
real way to'present the opportunities
and advantages of a town to an out
sider and that is through such an or
ganization. Hundreds of local citizens
have felt the need for such an organ
ization and today and tomorrow
they will be called upon to support
Hieici advocation with material back
ing •
Have YOU subscribed?
Short Nov- "f Kerent Interest gath
ered All Sections of State
Greensboro.—Estelle Pr.ee and
Pauline Moore, well dressed young
white women, were freed of charges
of aiding and abetting in violations
of the federal anti-narcotic law.
when give!) a hearing by United
States Commissioner W. S'. Lyon.
The evidence against them was too,
weak, the commissioner said.
Bound Over for Murder.
Albemarle.—Theodore Grey was
placed in jail several days ago in
connection with the murder of "1 >ad”
Watkins, was given a preliminary
hearing here today, and was bound
over to Superior Court and allowed
to give bail.
Theodore Grey is charged with
having burned the arms and tend of
“Dad" Watkins in the furnace of
Wiscassett school building, where he
i- janitor. This charge is pr< ferret 1
I,v John Grev who with Carl Sweat,
jJ held without bail for the murder
of Watkins. Theodore and John Grey
are brothers.
Open Narcotic Drive
Winston-Salem.—The city of Win
ston-Salem is getting a genuine
spring cleaning in more ways than
one. During the past two weeks ted
eral narcotic agents have been busy
emiring evidence against local al
leged violators of the narcotic act
and a number of arrests have been
made, two having been added to the
list tonight. It is estimated that tin
total value of the narcotics seized
with the attendant paraphernalia
u,eii : , connection with the drugs
amounts at bootleg prices, t- *40,
Speaks Before hiwanis ( lull and Gen
eral Invitation Extended.
Orator Bike Bryan.
Xot only Kiwnnians. but the public
in J-eneral anti especially ousno - - men
and women, will have the privilege
1 !:ur.-day nijeht of hearing lor. Fran
cis Burgette Short, of New Void, city,
deliver a lecture of unusual power
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Dll. FRANC'iS B. SHORT.
and ability before', the Kiwaais club!
at (leveland Springs hotel, l'r. Short1
is said to be an orator second only ini
power to the'great Commoner. Mr. ’
Bryan, He is a minister of *■he Gospel ]
by profession but has travelled ex-1
tcmively and is a great student of
l.ii mess, so the subject on "which he \
will speak here Thursday night is “R- - j
lignin in Business.” Mr. R. E. Carpen 1
ter has charge of the program on :l'ut:
eight and it has been decided in or-,
der to let as many hear this orator as'
possible, that a general invitation is
extended in this way. Kiwanians are
liberty to invite as many as they j
choose, merchants and business men I
err invited, whether a member of the;
club or not and the invitation is es
p< cially extended to store heads and!
employes. The only requirement is
that you will pay the Cleveland
Springs hotel for your dinner plate,
seventy-five cents. A number of mer
chants who employ sales people, ex
rcct to take their entire organization
in carder that they might hear l)r.
Short on the subject “Religion in
Bus- iness.”
Dr. Short possesses an unusal
knowledge of human nature and fre
quently punctuates his address with
keen humor which serves *o intensify
the effectiveness of his message. He
speaks straight from the shoulder
with commendable fearlessness and
no little degree of brilliancy. He pos
sesses a dynafnic personality and
these tilings coupled with the fact that
he was pas,or of some of the largest
churches in the west for* 18 yeais,
makes it possible for him speak in
terestingly before any audience.
Those interested in hearing Ur.
Short may do so by notifying Rush;
Hamrick of their intended attendance
and paying the usual dinner plate
charge to the hotel.
D. H. Cline Purchases
Local Auto Interests
Mr. D. II. Cline, who has taken over
the local Hudson-Essex agency has
leased the Doggett garage building, I
on West Warren street, where the j
Hur.son-Essex cars will be on display.
It is announced that Mr. Cline also
bought all the Studebaker parts pad]
accessories from the 'Doggetts.
Mi. John Doggett told The SU'"
Wednesday that Doggett brothers
have retained the filling station at the]
garage, the proprietorship of which
they will continue.
And also they will retain the used
Stut’ebnker cars, which they will dis
pose of themselves. ‘‘But we will sell
no more new cars,” Mr. Doggett said.
Succeeds Noel I
Rale.gh—F. A. Hutchison of
Greensboro, will succeed Paul G.
Noell, of Lexington, as state service
officer April l, according to an
nouncement made here tonight by
Frank D. Grist, commissioner of la-,
bor ami printing.
Mr. Grist declared his wish to
avoid any controversy and to that
end he leaves the objection to his
course to start something. There is
all abundance of American legion
politics bound up in the change of
state service officers and it is well
recalled here that Mr. Grist support
ed Colonel John Hall Manning in
the Fayetteville contest. Whether
this phase of controversy will devel
op is not known, but it may.
Satnarcand Building Burned
Rockingham.—One of the buildings
at, Samarcand, state institution for
wayward girls, located 30 miles
north of Rockingham, burned to the
ground Sunday night about 8 o’clock.
It is understood the fire originated
.from <i movjiig picture machine.
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Must Be Some Town
—This Place Shelby
Mr. John A. Beam has a hunch
that Shleby ha • the goods.
And he wants to bring h's en
thusiasm for his home town into
popular notice. And here's h s
stunt:
il'- is offering the dollars in
fold as a prize to any man who
has lived in thus hurt three years,
been away ten years, who has
nut the itch to coni.- back and
sit himself down in Court
C.iu-ire.
The .ofreft Mr. Beam an
nounces., is open for thirty days.
Mr. Beam believes that once a
bhedbyite, in spirit :• i t will al
ways h • a Shelby-ife. And he
says if anyone can dig- up a ntoss
ba k "lie doesn't want to cone
back here and hear the sparrows
sing in the elms, he can have
five dollars from him.
School Has Attendance of 150. And
Large Number Prepare Assign
ments and Work
Tho third annual co-operative stan
dard training school for Methodist
and Presbyterian Sunday school
workers in Cleveland County, held
throughout last week at Central
Method 'st Church, closed Friday
night with appropriate exercises. The
school was voted a decided success.
Out of tin attendance of 150, 07 at
tended six or more class periods and
were thus officially enrolled, 87 of
which cumber attended all twelve
Cla-s periods, read their text-books,
prepared their written assignments
and entered into the discussions of
their class group, thus entitling them
to certificates of credit. 75 of these
credit students are Methodist and
14 Prerhyterions. These credit stu
dents are listed us follows: Central
32, Polkville id, First Presbyterian
14, St. Paul 5. Beulah 5, LaFayette
Strc-t 4. Kadish 3, Palmtree 2,
St. Peters 2. Eli ott’s 2. Mt. Har
nio 'y 1. Shelby circuit 1,
Tile courses instructors and names
of credit students follows:
“Bible—New Testaments”—Rev.
C, R. Kirkpatrick. Instructor: Rev.
H. K. Boyer, W. ,1. Bridges. ('has. A.
Bridges, Georgia Bridges. Mary Sue
Bridges, Boyd Canlpe, V. P. Crowder,
Miss Lottie Elliott, Plato Elliott,
Sarah Bell Elliott. Geo. A. Hoyle,
Mrs. Geo. A. Hoyle, Ralph Harrel
son. Alvin Harrelson. Reid Harrel
son. A'ates Lee. F, H. Lee, Gladys
Lee, Lawrence Lee. Rev S. M. Need
ham. Rev. A. S. Raper, Rev. C. F.
Sh°ri)l. Mrs. C F. Sherill. Rev. D.
P. Waters, Whisnant. R. T. Whis
nant, Mrs. R T. Whisnant. C. S.
Whisnant. Mrs. Edfjev Willis. Robt.
Wolfe. Blair Wolfe. W L. Wolfe W.
I. Wolfe. Mrs. Walter Ramseur,
Mr*. Marv E. Yarborough,
“Principles of Teaching”—-Prof.
C. T. Carr. Instructor:
Mrs. Clayton Peeler, Mrs. Tai
nt ad ere Gardner, Mrs. Bessie Delling
er, .1, R Wikle, Mi-s Mamie Cavan
iss, C. B. McBrayer, Mrs. C. B. Mc
Braver.
“Story Telling’'—Miss Carline
Lander, Instructor:
Mrs. W. A. Abernathy. M.ss Nell
Abernathy, Miss Ruth Beam. Miss
Corrne Blanton. Mrs. R. K. Buyer.
Mrs. Walter Dixon, Mrs. Tliad.
Ford, Miss Mary Hardy, Miss Alnha
Harnion, Miss Yerta L. Hendricks,
Mrs. ,?. H. Hull, Miss Mozelle Lee,
Miss Lizzie Mae I.ce, Mrs. Oghurn
Lutz, Mrs. John R. McClurd, Mrs. F.
R. Sanders, Miss Lucv Short. Mrs.
Z. R. Thompson. M,ss Mary Sue
Whisnant, Miss Lillian Wolfe. Mr.
Jul’an Thompson, Miss Alda Willis,
Miss Josemvne Lnnvsty. Mrs. Gro
ver Bit..,' ' iG« 0,1 Whisnant, Miss
Ol’ve R;ugl Marv Greney,
Miss Ina Carpenter Miss Madge Mc
Coy Mis« Carobel Lever, Miss Mary
Hull, Mrs. C. B. Alexander, Miss
Elizabeth Alexander, Miss Ruth
Arrowood. Miss Lois Hudson, Mias
Melissa Kerr. Miss Verna Mae Tid
dv, “Intermediate- Senior Lesson
Materials and Teaching”—Miss E.
Jane McDonald. Instructor:
Mrs, W. T. Alexander. Mrs. Huuh
Mrs. C. R Hoev. E. E. Scott Mrs. P.
R. Wooten. Miss Lucy Dixon, Mrs.
Erma Johnston Drum. Miss Mary M.
Keller, Mrs. R. M. McGregor.
Lawrence Officer
of Kiwanis Club
According to news dispatches
from Brevard Robert K. Lawrence
was elected secretary and treasurer
of the Kiwanis club organized there
last week to add a get- together
atmosphere in the active business of
the Transylvania capital.
Mr. Lawrence, who was the ener
getic county agent here for several
years, is engaged in the leal estate
business at
I Mi oker. and the first whit* man to travel the Oregon tr.iil and
who Kim e then has traveled the same trail by auto and airplane is shown
here hrnadoastinjr an address oyer the radio, lie is the oldest man who
ever broadcast via radio.
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Meat Thief Who Raided County
Smoke Houses Gets 14 Months
Cleveland county hams are val
uable. They are worth a lot of
work—in this instance, 15 days
of toil for each ham.
! Ordinarily some say it take#
j sbout 15 days for an average
' larni family to dispose >f a ham.
It'll take Howard Lowing, young
white man, 14 months to dispose
of the sentence given him by the
court for getting his hams. Law
j iog, by the way. had '14 hams,
I shoulders and middlings altogeth
’ er, or a total of 510 days, mean
! mg 15 days for each ham,, shoui
der and middling.
1 Several weeks ago “smoke
houses” from Mooresboro east to
Shelby were raided one night. Of
i ficers checking up on the ra'd
| found 34 hams, shoulders and mid
<.lings missing.
Several days later woid earn
from Salisbury that a young man
was peddling country meat there.
Local officers and some of the
j .citizens from whom meat was
stolen, made a ourney to Salis
bury. They brought Lawing back.
This week in Superior court
Judge Janies Webb decided upon
a 14 moltths sentence for the
| jnung fellow on the roads of So.
6 township. Lawing through his
attorney O. Max Gardner ask-s!
that he be permitted to serve his
time in the state prison. Whereup
the jurist proved his patriotism to
local highways arid stood to the
sentence. ,
Reporter Hears Why They Chew Excelsior
Around Mail Emporium—Hard Luck Story
If, when you go to your Uncle I
Samuel's emporium, presided over by
Mr. Quinn—-meaning exactly the local
postoffice—and see Carr Cline,.Tal
i’niadge Gardner or Chess Dalton
chewing excelsior, don't be amazed.
As they say about the eating of
grape-nuts—there's a reason.
The story runs like this:
Last week a package came through
the mail, and when it reached this'
the tale end of its destination, the'
bottle, as they say around Blanton
and Wright’s hospitable stove, “was
busted.”
And the contents was spilled.
But the bottle was wrapped with
excelsior.
Do you get us ?
Ever s'nce the little mishap, the
aforementioned gentry have been
chewing excelsior. It may or may not
he the same excelsior in which the
bottle of Scotch was wrapped.
But they appear to like the hay
pretty well.
Meantime the package was not de
livered here to the consignee, hut was
sent to the postoffice inspector.
Which is a thrilling chapter of a
hard luck story.
Local Men Building
$50,000 Laundry
Shelby men, George Moore and M.
S. Leverette of the Moor*1 and Lev
! (rette agency for the Security Life.,
and Trust company, an insurance or
| gunization, are financially interested
i in a $50,000 laundry to be built at
Hendersonville. It is to be known as
♦be Snowflake. A site has been setur-1
ed near the Howell-Pless Lumber
Co,, ami plans are made for a build
ing with 12,000 square feet of floor
space. It is understood that in addi
tion to the regular laundry, there viil
be a dry cleaning plant. New machin
ery will he purchased. J. Tv Leverette
a kinsman of M. S. Leverette, l as
come from Texas and "ill have
charge of the new enterprise.
Birthday Dinner.
Everybody is cordially invited to a
birthday dinner at the home of W. S.
Huf fate tier. Kings Mountain, N. C„
I; 1, for him on Easter Sunday April
tth. Everybody com*' a no itring well
ftfht.t U**
New Development on
Market Next Week
Elizabeth terraces, a sub-division
being opened on Highway No. 20 just
beyond Cleveland Springs, >^ill be put
on the market next week by the own
ers, C. P. Wilkins, J. \V. Cobble end
associates of Brevard. Thi- develop
ment comprises nearly 12 acres, beau
tifully situated on a knoll and will be
sold with a guarantee of water, sow
er, lights, etc., available to every lot
within six months. Messrs. Wilkins
and Cobble have been in Shelby for
several days having the property cut
into desirable home-sites by Engineer
l>an Frazier. They have secured of
fices in the Lineberger building and
anin mice that the lots will be sold
pivately and not at public auction,
(wizens in other towns will be given
an epoprtunity to buy on small ctn-h
payment and liberal terms lor the re
mainder of the purchase price.
Julian Miller Hands
Bouquet to Shelby
(Charlotte Nows Editorial.)
One of the fastest growing little
cities in this part of the country is
Shelby and it is delightful to have
the many evidences of the new spirit
of enterprise and development that
has come over its people. Shelby is a
neighbor of Charlotte and a mighty
goon one at that.
Will Take Youth
To Wayward School
J. B. Smith, county welfare officer,
will within a few days leave Shelby
for Stonewall Jackson Training school
:J* Concord taking with him Buster
Bridgman, young South Shelby boy.
Bridgman, it will be remembered,
was connected with the temporary lar
ceny’ of an automobile belonging to
Mr. J. S. Willard and was mixed uo
in several other scrapes. Such was his
record of waywardness that Judg3
Webb did not set any special sentence,
making the boy’s sojourn then* for t,n
indefinite p,.-i at <t tin.*.,
IS COTTON CROP
CLEVELAND COIOT
Total Production l-'or Past Year
Pouches .{7,211 Hales, lieport,
Shows
According to the state ginning re*
T»>rt issued last week Cleveland coun
ty’s cotton crop for 1925, up to
March 20 as recorded by ginning fig
ures, was .‘17,221 bales.
This report places the total con
siderably above the most optimistic
estimates made in the county by
farm leaders.
It ;s noted that the crop for the
vear was only 4,760 half's short of
iho record crop of 11,981 hales in
1924. Prediction early in the 1925
season was that the crop of the past
J car would be around 10,000 bales
short.
In view of tlie lastest ginning re
port the county moves from fourth
place in cotton production in the
state to eleventh ^dace, Northhamp
ton county barely supplanting this
county for tenth place by less than
100 bales.
The eleven leading counties and
their production in bales for 1925
follows:
Johnston, . 74,lilt!
Robeson ...... 00,914
Nash 59,768
Halifax _ 57.920
Wake _ ...._ 51,205
Harnett ..... .... 47,990
Edgecombe _... 41,661
Sampson . 41,065
Wayne . 59,010
Northampton .... 57,245
Cleveland . 37,221
Highs Have Busy
Week on Diamond
Play at Hendersonville Thursday,
Gaffney Here Friday and a
Game Saturday.
Shelby baseball fans will have un
ci r* r early spring taste of the nation
al pastime Friday afternoon when the
Cal fney Highs meet “Casey” Morris’
boys here.
In addition to this game the Highs
on Thursday go to Hendersonville
v here they play the Blue Hidge school
ft r hoys.. On Saturday they go to
IMorganton and play the Morganton
lliglis. Manager Whitelaw Kendall has
arranged a heavy schedule with more
11 an a dozen-games yet before the
state series. This falls in line with the
idea of Coach Morris, who iias a team
of young and inexperienced players
and believes that the best training
for the, state series can be gained in
actual playing.
Playing Kings Mountain Monday,
Skates, the big twirler of Kings
Mountain, again proved too much for
the local lads and Shelby lost by a
score of 4 to 2. However, the Highw
revealed much improvement over
their first contest and with a few
:.mre games are expected to develop
into an aggregation with considerable
punch. It is optimistically said that
during the season they will face very
few hurlers in the class with Skates
ana that against an ordinary high
high school nioundsman they will go
exceedingly good.
High School Class
Visits Star Office
Miss May Bussey’s eleventh grade
English class from the Shelby High
school made a visit to The Star of
fice Tuesday where they studied the
making of a newspaper. They were
shewn through the offices and told
bow news is gathered, then carried to
the mechanical department where
they inspected the large Duplex press
which has a capacity of printing 2,500
eight page papers an hour, delivering
them ready for the mails and car
riers. The operation of the linotype
mat bines was explained, also the mak
ing to cuts from mats. The class was
in command of Coach “Casey” Mor
ris, while Miss Bussey toot another
section of her students to the Shelby
News office to inspect that plant.
McNeely at Bedside
In Charlotte Hospital
Mr. J. C. McNeely went to Charlotte
Tuesday to be present at the Char
lotte sanitarium at the operation upon
his father, Mr. R. F. McNeely, of
Greensboro. Mr. McNeely was join
ed at Gastonia, on the way to Char
lotte, by his brother, Mr. Thomas B.
McNeely. And at the bedside of tho
father was Mrs. Elmer McAdoo, a
daughter, also of Greensboro.
Mr. McNeely said Wednesday that
his father was doing as well as could
be expected, as naturally an operation
upon a man of his advanced age, would
have severe effects.
Mr. Fred Fields, of Shelby, mado
the trip to Charlotte with Mr. lie*
Neely.