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Twenty Nine Years Ago (From The Star Of April 14, 1807.) Discussed Typhoid. “Monday the Cleveland County M ep ical society met here and transartew its routine business. At the meeting to bo held during October court a me '• idol subject—typhoid fever—will be discussed. “Among the doctor The Star has many friends. Below are the names ( of some of ihe members of this noth profession who were here this week; Drs. V. J. Palmer, S. S. Royster, i,. A Lee, C. O. Champion, George Gate-. G. M. Gold. B. F. Dixon, J. G. Hord, J. VVr. Young, J. W. Wood. W. T. Grijrp A. M. Whisnant and W. J. Trent. Big Trade Made. Capt. \V. P. Love has sold 273 of his COO acre trat of land near Cow pens S. C.> to a Georgia mining com pany for $7,400. the company s rep k sentatives hud been prospecting for gold and found the precious mineral in such paying quantities that they were induced to buy the land at trie above named price. Captain Love ex pects to move back to Shelby and make his home. All will rejoice in his good fortune." Cvclonc of 1897. < Last Friday morning about two o'clock a little cyclone passed over! this section of the county. Window glass were blown out and tin roofs. were lifted nearly off of one or two j houses. Mr. .1. A. Ellis of Grover, tells ! us that thp cyclone passed over thej mountain about six miles from Grover, and completely wrecked everything ii> | its path, hut it extended only about 75 yards in width. 1 Passing Around. Industrial Agent J. C. Beam return c-,1 last week from the Charlotte meet ing much enthused. He delivered an address at Charlotte and gave a vcr> 1 tncouragirg report. Alderman T). D. Suttle of Asheville was here this week. His old friend1* wore all glad to see him. Judge and Mrs. Norwood are stop ping with Dr. R. ('. Ellis. The latter nn l Judge Norwood are old time iiiends. Investment Paid. Mr. A. C. Miller has sold to Mr. S. I-(. Hamrick one of his plantations. litar town, the Beam place’ at a hand some profft over what he gave for it. Mi. Miller is not only n cotton man. ufacturer, but a dealer in real es tate. His investments always pay him. Ladened With Wishes. Dr. E. B. Lattimore, one of Shelby’.! most popular nrd promising young: incr. and one of the best qualified an* j most thoroughly prepared doctors ini the state .left Tuesday to locate at, Red Springs for the practice of htf • profession. We commend Dr. Lattt- j more to the people of Red Springs nr* a most worthy, honorable and upright1 citizen and a gentleman in every par, j tlcular. He goes ladened with best wishes of his many friends here. Cctton 7 1-2 Cents. Capt. F. Dilling of Kings Mountain \v is here Monday and bought a groat deal of cotton for his mill. Mr. J. M, Wilson, of Double Shoals, sold him IS bales of cotton at 7 1-2 cents. Thi.r t> a little better price than most buyers pay. Planting Cotton Early. Among aspirants for Deputy .Tus. tice’s place we note name of James A Logan, of Chimney Rock. “Jim” v well known to a great many of our people. He played with the R. M. 1. base ball team two years ago. Abe Hamrick, colored, of No. b township, planted six acres of cotton last Thursday. This is the first cotton planting we have heard of this sea. son. Abe must think the prosperity wave is coming and that cotton is g« lr.g to ten cents. The Star is indebted to Mr. A. T. Gantt, of Redlands, California, an cjd Cleveland county boy, for a copy of “The Land of the Sunshine,” a neat and artistically gotten up magazine, containing n handsome description of Redlands and the business houses ot the place. Mr. Gantt is a prominent merchant of Redlands. Called ’em Together. “Secretary \V. J. Hogue, of the county Republican executive commit, tee, requests every member of the committee to meet in Shelby on Sat. urday, April 24th to attend to impor tant business. The important business is r.o doubt the distribution of PIE. Legal Lights. In addition to the local bar the fol lowing legal luminaries are attending court this week: Major W. J. Mont gomery of Concord; Ex-Attorney Gen eral Frank I. Osborne, of Charlotte; D. W. Robinson and Butler Justice, ot Lihcolnton; C. P. Moore, and C. E. Whitney, of Bessemer City. Boy. Match, Fire. Ml-. ‘Bobby’ Hamrick one of Shar on’s substantial citizens, lost his barn end all of his fodder, oats, etc., last Wednesday by fire. His little four j ear-old son struck a match in tit stable, the hay caught fire and the tarn waB burned up before the fire could be put out. Pastor Gets a Bride. Rev. R. F. Treadway, the Baptisi pastor, will leave Thursday afternoiu for Louisiana and will return Friday Aa.il 28rd, accompanied by ,his bri-'e Hr has made a line impression, 011 our. people during his jiaptorato hero und he Will he heartily weleonteil in his new estate, when Ire returns. i he Mar extends congratulations in ad vance. Judge Lattimore Commended. I his week .Judge T. I). Lattimo”. who has been clerk of Cl .eland Su perior court for over 22 years will tui oxer the office to the 'lire sfu 1 r,,n lestee. Mr. J. !j. Quinn. To say th'ji■. Judge Lattimore has mad" .he best clerk the county has ever had. woule ■ ic nothing more than everybody knows. His record both public ,<nu private is clean, lie stands blanVtdosy ami guileless, before 'lie searching light of public opinion, in the dis charge of his official duties. The pr pie and the county will mi him. Ills successor is a clever gentleman and j make a courteous and efficient publl. servant. One of Greatest Courts of Honor! Ever Held—Many Scouts Ad- i v a need. (Forest City Courier) Scoutmaster Uev. <). < . IP; ■ xvelcomed to Fllenboro last Friday! n'gh, whut proved to be one of the1 herd Courts of Honor ever held xvit'x! in the bounds of Piedmont CcMinc.il i at which 37 Scouts were advaneeo i, ! rank or gained merit badges through | successful examinations before ex- I ports. »Scouts 'advanced in rank canru.! from troops in Rnthcrfordion, Oliff sido. Spindale, Eltepboro, Hollis and Forest City, while those gaining -fh,~! coveted merit badges were all Horn troops in Rlienfo6.ro and Forest City. Assistant Scoutmaster Arval A!cook of Forest City was awarded five merit badges and Scouts Craig Mc Clure, Phillip Padgett and Oaklet's Morrison, Scouts of Forest City troop 1, were each awarded four and ad vanced to the rank of star scouts The outstanding event of the coin' was the statement from the Scout Executive that Rev. 0. C. Huston, or Eller,boro, was an expert in electri city, having acted as examiner tor himself and Henry Harrill in this branch and that Mr. Huston then in the United States army, had born rent by the government .to-the-Pana ma Canal to repair the i loctricalH controlled water-gates when the. gates had refused to open, and had successfully completed the job. Certificates from the scoutmaster* training school recently conducted by the executive in Forest City wet awarded to Scoutmaster O. C. Hu.-, ton, G. F. Harrill. .1. T. Turleton, IV A. Buff. Win. Allhands, Rev. O. 7, Simpson, F. II. Shuford, I.. W. Jones, N. V. Shuford and approved certifi cates to IV E. Roach, H. G. Thomp son, J. B. Jones, C. Blanton and C. Watkins. Members of the court of honot were Rev. O. C. Huston, 0. R. Cot. fil 'd. E. E. Harrill, G. M. Edwards. G Fred Harrill, J. A. Bland, L. \V Jones, Rev. O. I,. Simpson and 11. K. Poach, F. C. Kinzie, presided and scout commissioner G. R. Gillespie made the presentation of badges. STRANGER DIES UNDER ODD CIRCUMSTANCES Hm One-Legged Buddy Gets Him in Hospital and Then Disappears ' Charlotte, April I t.—Private John j Molliek, 40, brought to .he city by a mysterious one-legged companion Tuesday night, died soon afterword* and his body lay today in a lot, i fencral parlor, the finish of an un known soldiers career of mystery and pathos. i A strange young man, excited, i speaking the lingo of the race tra.ek, suddenly appeared before a group of workers in the courthouse Tue day j right,. ! “1 gotta guy in my car outside. | He’s a good guy, but I think he’s gonna croak,” he said earnestly. The workers quickly arranged for i the sick mans entrance into the hospital, where he died Wednesday morning. I llis last words, were: “Where's my j cuddy? I want to tell him somp ! thing,” I But the picturesque young cripple had disappeared as suddenly ns he tame, and had not been located Weoresday afternoon. , American Legion officials are try , mg to assemble facts which would enable them to return the body to the family. j CAUGHT WHILE RECEIVING A SHIPMENT OK MORPHINE Hendersonville, April 14.-*- J. A Anderson, Hendersonville citizen, in custody following seizure of son,* 400 to 500 grains of morphine, ship j meat having been intercepted ns Jo j livery was made to him here. Fedem agents were notified and will have charge of the case. Shipment was by 1 express from New York, but address ^Mj^was believed to be fictitious. Sunday School Workers To Gather At Kings Mountain Ne. < Township Meeting to Be Held in Methodist Church There on Sunday April 25. Kings Mountain Herald. The Sunday school workers of N'o. I townshifr are called to meet in Con vention at the Central Methodist church at Kings Mountain Sunday April-25, at 3 p. m. Mr. II. T. Fultdr* president of No. 1 township under the county and state plan of organiza tion and Mr. W. A. Ridenliour is cotih v president. They together are call ing the meeting. Each Sunday school, if whatever denomination. in the township is expected to participate in the convention. Each superintendent and all his officers and teachers ’s i specially requested to attend as well u- all pastors. Everybody else is cor dially invited." The following Sunday schools are in the township: Grover Baptist, Grover Prcshyterian, El Be..he!, Patterson Grove, Pc-nleys Chapel, Thomasson Grove, Macedonia .Grace Mcthodisi Wcr-leyan Methodist, St. Matthews Lutheran, Boyce Memorial A. It. P., Kings Mountain Presbyterian, Cen tral Methodist. First Baptist. And if there is any other it is also included. A program is under way of prepara tion and will appear in the Heraio next week. It is the earnest desire ot thofe promoting the convention that rll schools be largely represented and that all may be greatly benofitted. Re member it is a week from Sunday. Officials Say Inmates Did ! Not Start Hospital Blaze, Directors Oleel to Discuss Big Fire That Damaged Htate Hospital For the Insane. Ral >igh.—State hospital officials tool; issue yesterday with the opinion • m>-c,'| by Fire Chief Lewis F. rinks that the fire at the State hos pital for th.e Insane was started by irnnates Saturday, and that it would h i .e been better had it occurred at night. Both Dr. Albert Anderson, su fjerintendert, and assistant superin tendent, Dr. R. K. Adams, eniphati eidh denied that the fire was started by inmates. Both expressed the opinion that the file originated frena workmen who were repairing the roof, and stated inat from ail evidence and from tes timony of the first eye witnesses, it \v i evident that the fire started at the rnme place where they had been working. While not going into the ad vantage the firemen might have in fighting the fire at night. Dr. An (-evson called attention to the fact that the lights would undoubtedly have gene out, and it would have been next to impossible to be sure that the pa tients were all out. The board of directors held an all day meeting at the hospital yesterday whet, they outlined plans’ for rep lac - irg the west wing which was destroy ed by fire Saturday. This wing will utilize additional space so that it will ai'-cmmodate around 100 more nati on’ although the general plan of the old building will he followed in con strut i.ing: the now fireproof structure. '‘There is not a particle of truth In it,” Dr. Anderson declared in refer ence to Chief Hicks’ statement. “Four eminently reliable men have testi-, fied to me that they saw the fire on the roof and in the attic before it i cached the third floor where the in mate" were. Ar-i as far at--, human wit ness can he relied upon, I am certain that .he fire did not start on the third floor from the inmates.” Dr. Adams war. equally positive in his assertions that the fire originated in the roof. He was one of the four man to whofn Dr. .Anderson referred. The others being R. M. Brown, the iua<i carpenter; ,1. C. Brooks, head of the dean tip force; and one of the at tendants. Dr. Adams was in charge of removing the patients from the bulki ng at the time of the fire. Dr. An nevren being in attendance, at court, in Dui ham. Both doctors stated that many of tiie employes were no. away as sug gested by Chief Hicks, but on the job as Saturday afternoon was a clean up time at the hospital. CAN STATE ADMINISTER FEND FOR CARE OF CATS? GOV. M’LEAN DOUBTS Has any state agency the authority Co administer a trust fund for the care of cat;;? That is the question that has been put up to Governor McLean, and on which he is seek ing light. I A North Carolinian, who makes his home in Boston, has it t.erestec a woman acquaintance who wishes to leave her estate as a trust fund for the care of cats, in North Carolina eats, specifically,< and has asked the1 Governor if this State can oblige by offering a State agency to administer the fund. The Governor frankly says he doesn't know. Boxing Carnival On Friday Night Shelby is in for another boxing carnival tonight. Ic will be stage ! this time in the Webb hall, the fracas being slated to start at 8 o’clock. The main bout will be a ten round go. with Charles Cordell, the local be v, stacked against Marvin Ford, of Kings Mountain. This is in the mi ture of a return match. About a month ago Cordell got a decision over Ford, on points, both men being on their pins at the end of the last round. Jrasmuch as chis bout takes on this complexion, it is anticipated it will be a lively fracas. The second feature will be a six round go between Sailor Ed Turner, a local boy, pitted against an un-1 known, fighting as “Black Mask.” It is said this unknown will actually be j masked. , As a preliminary two local boys will go on for four rounds, and five negroes will mix it in a ba.tle royal.! I Miss Martha Bridges Buried Wednesday Miss Martha Bridges died Tuesdaj J April 13th at her home in the Pleas ant Hill community and the funeral war conducted Wednesday by Rev. D. G. Washburn. The funeral service j was largely attended, the size of the crowd attesting the high esteem in' which she was held. Miss Bridges was heir March 30th, 1870 and joined the church when a young girl. She had four cistern and four brothers bA only one sister Mrs. Essie Sanders and one brother Clifton Bridges, sur vive. FATHERS DAY AT SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY A program for Fathers’ day or.1 Sunday April 18th, second Baptist church consists of recitations, read ing, quartets and trios, also an addres • ' by John R. Dover. Everybody wel- j come, especially those who want to honor their dead or living father. We went 200 men in the Mens Bible class at 9:45 a. m. Above program to he-! g:n immediately after Sunday school.; Before child psychology was invent- j pd the daily dozen meant cuffs on lliol ear, I CONDENSED STATEMENT OF Union Trust Company OF SHELBY Including Branch Offices at Lattimore, Lawndale and Fallston, At the Close of Business, April 12th, 1926. RESOURCES NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS RESOURCES j Loans and Discounts ____$803,931.79 j Overdrafts ______- 1,951.08 Bonds and Stocks __ 54,800.00 | Read Estate __ 5,000.00 j Fixtures -- 5,000.00 ( Cash on band and due from other banks_.45,770.12 j Total ---$910,452.99 ( LIABILITIES Capital--$100,000.00 Surplus- 50,000.00 Undivided Profits___ 9,467.02 Reserved Interest_ 22,039.68 Reserved for Taxes_ l,50o!oo Notes and Bills Re-discounted 123,255.10 Due to other Banks___ 18,837.53 Deposits- 591,353.66 lotal -$916,452.99 The Customers and Friends Of The Union Trust Company Will be pleased with the above report, which reflects growth and encouraging progress. You will notice our total resources are over Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars. On the basis of the Strength and Growth of this Bank we solicit your business. UNION TRUST COMPANY SHELBY — LATTIMORE — LAWNDALE — FALLSTON BANKING — INSURANCE — TRUSTS. “IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH.” 1fiPfl r?=*n lT=*n ran ran ml ran ran ran A GOOD STRONG, WHOLESOME FLOUR FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ITS BEST IN BAKING WHERE YEAST IS USED. SAXON SATISFIES. Eagle Roller Mill Co. QUALITY GROCERIES AT LOWER PRICES. FRESH VEGETABLES FOR THIS WEEK. NEW IRISH POTATOES, TURNIPS, BELL PEPPERS, CARROTS, SNAP BEANS, TOMATOES, LETTUCE, CEL ERY, SPRING ONIONS, CAULIFLOW ER. FANCY WESTERN COMB HONEY, LB. * 35c H FRESH TOMATOES, NICE AND RIPE, LB.. 20c WE ARE OFFERING SPECIAL THIS WEEK 10-LB. BUCKET STALEY’S GOLDEN SYRUP. 50c 10-LBS. GREAT NORTHERN BEANS, OR LARGE WHITE an BEANS. O/C NO. 2 CANS TOMATOES, 3 FOR. 25c DOZEN FOR. 98c CAMPBELL’S PORK AND BEANS, 3 FOR.. DOZEN FOR. 25c 98c S-LB. BUCKET CRESCENT € 1 Q o LARD. v 1 DUKE’S MAYONNAISE & RELISH SMALL JAR. MEDIUM JAR. PINT JAR. 13c 29c 54c ■mm
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