r SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census-8,854 Where Industry Joins With Climate In A Call For You, . ....-• VOL. XXXIV, No. 18 SHELBY. N. C. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 21, 192G Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advance) ._$2.50 t By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 r “THE GOOD BAD GIRL" —BY NUM FIUCI) VAN IHZEN Chapter Two With the kiss of the unknown 'burning horribly upon her lips and the words of the artist— Winship White, the illustrious —shrieking in her ears, the gird from Tranquility plunged through the streets. Ih had said, “You will pose nude!” Said it to her—.Minisi Marsh! And that other man had kissed her. With his yellow face against hers. In the street. As if she had been a common ma ture! She kept scrubbing at her mouth with her handkerchief in a hard, little ball. People stan d. But city lips, set to snicker at the blowing grav-green ulster and the boy’s hat rounded in stead to a quick “Oh!” before the topaz haze of her face and the red hair whipping out like spurts of flame. And when she crossed Broadway she counted the climb of windows in the Knickerbocker building and for got her rage. New York! So her feet were dancing when she turned into .the Sev enth Avenue hotel and shyly asked a yawning clerk for her key. The Hotel Vincennes-—Vin cennes—the Hotel Vincennes. The name had jumped at her from faded letters in the cer tain old trunk behind the chim ney in the attic at Tranquillity. Mother’s letters to Daddy. Written in the brief weeks be tween their meeting and then marriage. Mother lived her. long ago! Where the walls were covered with leather and suits of armor stood about. . She didn t see that the leather was faded and that the armor was painted card-board. Her room was a ceil with a strip of bed, a silver of bureau and a chair at the end of a lane. A suitcase lay on the chair; it had seen Aunt Kate through her honeymoon and age had ra vished it; the package ot lunch Aunt Kate had packed for her was on the bureau. No use unpacking yet. No place to hang clothes, anyway; The room back home. . . . case ments east and south, and sun all day. And the braided rag rug Aunt Kate made in spite ot her reheumatism. Here there was a chimney in front of the window, and dreary windswept roofs. Different from Tranquillity, with green shuttered white houses ^ and pines at the door-steps, i low ing lawns. The white tower of the white church you could see whereever you were. But Tran quillity. was still. Picturesque and still as an etching. There was life here, even on the roots. A woman hanging up clothes. Like the woman on the tire es cape when the train stopped at One Hundred and Twenty-til th street that morning. .Mimsi wondered about the wo man; she seemed someway, to look as New York would look it your heart stopped singing. She’d climbed out of a tilth story window and begun to hang a washing on a piece ot rope across tne urescapt-. high heels bowed outward and soapy water ran in crooked pan els down her soiled, pretentious dress. Limp garments left hei hands to hang in grimy dejec tion and, organized cham ber of commerce. Officers were t ’• ct< -t Ti:. vf|ay afternoon at a mooting i f the 12 directors in the directors’ ro< :n if the First Na • t tonal hank. A committee hu been anpointed ta nopi! iate with 1 a vc hole-time secretary. and aft- I cv h- is sncurid a definite pro-. From if action will l>e mapped fit!*, to which th“ organization will devote its efforts, ('has. I,. , Tv-kridno has he n named cha:r- ! man of the • dvertisin" commit • ! tee and he will at once set prices i r.ml designs on I ante road signs *i! he erected on the state high "aj' leading into Shclhv from the four directions of the com- i p::s-v Information is being com- . piled for the advertising folder to ! 1“ printed and distributed with facts about Shelby and Cleveland j county. A: i.-t the Shelby Chamber < f C : : has bt< > organ bo d. An e> ( gani ;ationmeeting was held in . the U housy Monday" evi .ring at S ■.I rl: v. ih the following twelve ■1! n ,-!■ : •: D. W. R< y.-iur. C. S. Thomp . Oliver S. Anthony, A. V. Wray, ! . R. Hoev, II. B. Lattimhre, Charlies T . Eskridge, Paul Webb, C. C. Elan ton. O. M. Gardner, J. 1»: Lineberger and Lee B. Weathers and to these has lie n conferred the author ,y to u. tat; a • -.nstituie-n and by-laws, elecf a j ,1 ■ d t : and t ;vo vice-i-re-I dent pros idr.:Mr. end a secrctry. who will devote wl ole tithe to the wori,. Clartiae A';the live-win secretary of tb C.hard,It;- Chamber if Commerce.; m ho Am- bad a -part in the organiza » u, i ef 'chambers of conum -ce in five : • eib- r:: • tates .came.up and iitultnc.l th ; -gent need, for such nn orgamM ,,-i here, de.! irirg that sufficient . 1,,: . y world be fertu-ohrii.g if the mm -ff Shelby who hive a vision and UK-dit-ion fur the town's future, would tbe'r energy. efforts and talents be!- ! the movement; It was the first Town Mr. Kuester had ever visited of the necessary funds bad Mi t ad been subscribed. He a<> vi. did the -election of a local mail for c.i v iit-t east- a local man has an ._’edge of conditions v. I ii T 11 pi.ire an outsider sev eral yea is t - acquire. vT.v.tO Vlready Subscribed. •\y;,h *7.250 already subscribed, tb« 1, lance would be. forthcoming if ail the business atui professional men had Ms. Kuester. Charles A. Wit li;,p5s and Charlie Parker tell Monday eijr;it v, hat splendid results had been m pi i shed by the Charlotte Cham bei. Kuester U a peppy talker and as -ore.;! the 1-1*0 'or more present that ,S- u.,v, , apd euuv.ty could raise S2*. (at , in a few Hours if the people urndd only cat eh a vision, have the ; , pat ■ iot i 1-1 and deterniina : lien to rut the organization o- ei. Tl inus arc coming to pass in Char lotte tela;' which were started 25 year, age’ A chamber of commerce is net a in racle work. Direct results are net to lie .-trained, but the indirect re -ults in the general growth and de V.,.T,nt of the town and county ! Gear fruit many fold in the years to : c-onte. Men who join -he chamber should not try to see how much thov Ket out of it. but how much they lean put into it, then the steady, solid gr-wth and development of the com : munity will surely come. s2~t Memnersnip uurs. Mr, Kiii-'stcr further declared that : (T(,(*.j| pew: papers and hotels are d e greatest assets any town has and without them a chamber nf commerce j cannot do its host work. He advised | ^at Shelbv's new organization should „ihp out too large a program. It . ould undertaken something definite I ;,nd work toward its accomplishment ilbe office should be on 'he ground floor and not buried away un-staiif. where it is hard to reach. With a 1 Rround floor location, a live secretary will all facts and information at hand | to impart readily to inouirers, the memberships will find it the best in vestment thev ever made. He suggest ed membership dues of $25 per vear, payable semi-annually. Strong busi ness and commercial men should buy several memberships and distribute Hum free to friends and associates in order to tie them tin with the or ganization, therefore those who sub scribed less than the price of one membership in the recent drive, will be asked to raise their subscrip! ion. iCc*ntiiHUid p \ i Si ter of Mr--. Geort"" Blanton and Draper Wood of Sheihy, Suc cumbs L'ndt'r Operation. > ftv.. of the death of Mrs. Ar nie Wood Butler, wife of Colonel T .B. Butler at Gaffney, S. €., was learned in Shelby with a distinct shock to her many friends in Shelby wlure she ho- • fen visited, having re re a sis ter. Mrs. George Blanton and a broth t/ Mr. Draper Wood. Mrs. Blanton .he left Shelby Sunday night far Washington, I >. called by Gaffney to rye her sister who assured her the;' she was getting along nicely and th.T the Washington trip need not be be foregone. Shortly after tier arrive! in Washington she received notice of Mis. Butler's sudden and unexpected d(nth. Mrs. Butler entered the hospital several days ago for treatment as an influenza patient An examinaiion by physicians show * ' (1 she was suffering from cthc / | Cause.-, it was stated, and a donlx’ bpbratior. was deemed necessary. Shei wir kept irwier treatment until Mon-1 day in preparation for th ; operation.; Dr. It. T. Ferguson, Charlotte spe cialist who formerly lived in Gaffney j a.nd Pr. S. B. Sherard, City hospital j - urgoon, had successfully perfprniee f one operation and were ready to start j the second when Mrs. Butler sudden* ; ly ceased breathing and expired, it ..•as stated. Mrs. Butler was the eldest child of Colonel'.A. N. Wood, one of Gaffneys most prominent retired business men, .Shewas born about 50 years ago in what .'was known as the old “Shuck House,” on Granard street, where her parents were boarding at the time. She attended the Sams and McArthur j stiu o! here as a girl and •eceived her j finishing at Dr. Price’s school ini Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Butler is survived by her • husband and two children, i'. B. But-i ier, jr„ of Spartanburg, and. Mi sj A are Jeter Buttler, who is a student i at Converse college .Spartanburg. The following brothers and sisters, with her father, also survive: Mrs.' George Blanton, of Shelby; A. Lewis V\ .m <1 and Mrs. C. W. Hames, Gaff ney; J. Draper Wood, Florida; Eugene II. Wood, Savannah, Ga: and Hare! D. Wood, Los Angeles, Calif. I Poultry Meeting On Friday Night Much interest is expected to be shown m the county-wide pouPry meeting to be held Friday night at 7:30 oclock in the court house here. Rev. John W. Suttle, head of the Cleveland County poultry growers, states that announcements are not being sent to members of the associa tion and that all members should at tend as the only announcement is be ing made through the newspapers.. All persons in the county interested in poultry are urged to attend. Commissioner Grist Visits in Shelby Frank Grist, Commissioner of La bor ami Pr.ntitig for North Carolina, was a business visitor in Shell y for ^ a short time Tuesday, stopping here and there while in town to greet old friends. Commissioner Grist at one time was employed in Shelby and has many friends here. A iked about the service' in the de partment of the deaf of Hugh Miller, Shelby native, Mr. Grist was highly complimentary of Miller’s work stat ing that “he is one of the hardest and most conscientious workers in Raleigh.” Commissioner Grist ha* just re turned from the north where be made | arrangements affecting Carolina pa per industries. Since the burning of the Western Union plan, in Char ' lotto the agency of several 1 ig paper firms was moved out of the state. These firms sell products of the Can ton mills and Mr. Grist did net see [why an outside jobber should profit on a Carolina product soid to the I Carolina department. The firm fin ally glimpsed his version and named a Carolina jobber to handle the pa per. “All things being equal patronize | the home folks,” is one o2 my several mottoes, the commissioner staled; Lawndale Citizen 1 Sure Dellinger is Lo3t Charlie Rcss ) 3 j > 3 > > ! > > i j 3 > i 1 3 Julius Q. Dellinger of i>eh\ r in Lincoln county, was. positive ly ideiitificd as Charlie Brow no Boss kidnapped a, Philadelphia many years ago when he \va. a child, by Dow H. Crowder. of Lawndale, who declare# he brows there is no doubt of DC linger’# real identity. Mr. Crowder and some friend? visited Mr. Dellinger at hi? home. After making an ex haustive investigation, Mr Crowder declares there is ‘To doubt at all” and expresses a wTlingt’ens to make an affida vit to.that effect. Mr Crowder wa a youth at the time of the kidnapping The question of Mr. Delling er's real identity came into prominence several weeks ago when he announced that he w e convinced after years of iu qulry that he is the missing child of a wealthy Philadelphia family. The, probabi'ity of Ids being Ross was first advanced by The Star, Shelby paper. { < t t i l < ( ' ( I ( i ( ! < i t C ( ( : < ! ! < i ( Local Theatres Bring in Films Worthy of Large Cities Patron age Not Measuring I p. Shelby has the reputation —and j well deserved—as being the one out- i standing small town that keeps | abreast of the big ones in being un-1 to-date in the presentation of high class motion pictures. The theatres of this city not in frequently show big time pictures be fore they are exhibited in Charlotte. : or the other large centers of the state, which fact has been made men tion of not only here but in other places. In other words Shelby is and has been for sometime past unique as c small town m tn's particular. And it has reaped an advantage from it. V.sitors coming here have observed the class of pictures being run at tie theatres, and have taken pains to say that the little city must be pretty up-to-date, measuring it by the yard stick of the motion picture world. Rut there is this to be said—the theatres have been running a cer tain class of high grade pictures of late which reveal a condition which should not exist. That is not enough response lias been given them. The patrons.of the theatres have appar ently failed to meet the theatres half way in giving the latest and best in entertainment. Two illustrations come to mind. Last week at The Princess was shown one of the very finest pictures ever seen on the screen—“Sally of the Sawdust.” It was a clean, fine, wholesome play-—splendidly present ed. And it played two days to more i 01 l&ess half-full houses. A r d The Webb >1 onday night $m f - ! fered the same experience. On the j b. 11 Monday night was ‘‘His People” ! one of the very best pictures procur able. It was advertised to run two days, but owing to the slender at tendance Monday night Mr. Webb withdrew it, and substituted anoth er. Concerning this experience Mr. Webb said: “I could have made as much money on a five dollar western as I did on “His People which cost me a heap of money, and was the best picture 1 could get.” The point is this: It would be un fortunate to say the least if the lo cal theatre going public failed in meeting the theatre owners fifty fifty in the effort to bring good pho to plays to the city. The statement has been made time out of number tin* better pictures would be made if the public apnre cinted and would support them. And producers assert that ri e public is getting what it wants. And so they are flooding the market with a lot of sex junk and other undesirable trash. The local then! res have ce tainly made a highly commendable effort to give the people the best, and the patrons should respond. Otherwise our picture houses are due to go the course of the others—fall into the habit of feeding the patrons cheap slop—m which case only one party to the transaction, v'ottic ne t. 1 .. e. 1 ;iU (lalhering of Woodmen Ivxpectea At Annual Log Rolling in ( ourt House Here. Between 250 ami 300 Woodmen jfiom 13 counties in Western Carolina > nre expected to attend the annual log rolling, or convention of Woodmen, to be held in Shelby Thursday at ti e court house, according to Mr. Sate. M* n it on, local Woodman official. Local officials plan a bg day ft r | .he visi.ors and it is the hppe of Shel by citizens, that the annual conven tion may be held here next time. This j would bring several thousand people j tc Shelby and in view of the fact busi ness Shelby will Thursday welcome the Western Oarol na group. | The formal program of the meeting ' it) t ns in the court house at 10 in the ; n te ning for a general business ses j sioti. At 12 o’clock there will be a drill by the degree team of Hickory | camp, Shelby. Following the drill the visitors will be escorted Co the fair grounds w'herc dinner will be served, A feature of the I leg dinner will be the music furnished ! by the well-known Shelby High school Orchestra. The meeting will meet again in the court house in the afternoon, anti I Thursday night a session will be held i at the Woodmen hall in the Hoey I building at which time 25 new canii ; dates will be taken in. Shelby Drops Game To Gastonia Team By Many Bobbles Irr:cld and Outfield Blows t'p Late In Game And Gives Victory To Crawford's Outfit. Flavine here Monday afternoon the Shelby Highs lost a miserably play ed game to the Gastonia Highs 12 to 8. The Shelby team scored a half doz en runs in the f.rst frame ard ap parently had a ’•.k*c\v tucked away, but the eon - ir.ue 1 fight of the visit btg team never weakened and in the last frames ihe 'IkVjv infield broke, then the wor';* am! liui’.iy the Dial hi When thd dint of the f n ii frame lad cleared (.way G te tania, several runs behind at the lx ginning of the inning, was four runs in the lead -a lead that She’hy never v.crcume. Hoyle, o <• : ig on the mound, pit-h .,•(! fairly steady ball during the opening framebut later ns bis sup port crumbled weakened himself and was taken from the mound for VVhis nant, who fan ! little better at the hands of the Gastonia hitters. A revamped infield placed on the field by Con • ! Morris looked good in the early stages of the game, hut re sembled a worn-cut s,cve later. Cleve Cline shifted to firs-, covered his ter ritory well and was one of Hie few local players who did not ‘ blow up " Grigg. shifted to third for Anthony looked more 1 ite Anthony, only more so. on some ot bis play;. However. Grigg’s fieldiog was in a manner made up by kgs timely hits on the of fense. •Just where the main weakness of the defeat came in is hardly known, hut as is common to high school [ teams, especially young ones, a blow up must come and fans are hoping ; Morris’ youngsters ■ have had them bobble day. At times both teams played snappy ball executing several double plays. In Shelby’s big first frame and Gastonia’s better ninth (’line, Shannon, and Gillespie were the | hitting stars. York Delegation Here To Inspect Creamery A delegation of York citizens com posed of Jas. I). Grist, editor of the ^ orkville Enquirer, Dr. Bratton, Messrs. Stroup and Black, came up Tinsday afternoon to inspect the Shelby creamery and the Shelby mtlk plant, with a view of establishing in York a co-operative creamery. Win, I.ineherger, president and treasurei j of the Shelby creamery who has been lesponsible for its marked success, took great pains in showing the visi tors through the plant and explaining to them the details of its operation, alter which Mr. Lineberger and Editor Weathers of the Star showed the vis iting delegation something of Shelby, her residential sections, manufacture ing plunts and small industries. Tile visitors concluded that a co-operative creamery cannot be a success without plenty of cows owned and looked aft er by landlords who are fixtures In the community. A co-operative cream ery tailed in Yon. iioopa lb j ears ago. i Affleck Announces Plans For Super Resort Center Here > > ) ) > I Agnes Harrill Spelling Champ \ Mi- s Agnes Harrill, dnughu r of Mr Charlie Hand], Hurt a .'.tuii.'i t in the o ghth grade at the !,ntt Imife school in No, 7 town, hip, i.~ tlie Eliciting cham pion of flip Cleveland county schools. In the final- at Central school today Miss Man ill climinati ’ seven entrants com it ,* from five townships in the final county test were all elim inated ott the first round except Misses Harrill and Saunders. It was necessary to have them spell four rounds before the I.at timore girl eliminated the Shcl girl. Miss Harrill will go to Charlotte in May to„represent Cleveland county in the state spelling contest. A S5 savings account was the local prize given by Mr. Wm. Lineberger. Friday’s issue of The Star will carry the names of all en trants and the words some of them missed—especial! those missed by the county champion and her runner-up. dvcs etaoin etoain shrdlu shrdlu I SHELBY REVIVAL Prominent Minister to Preach at Presbyterian, Church in Meeting May Second to 16. i The congregat.on of the Ideal Presbyterian church is rapidly get ! ting in Hhe spirit of an evangelistic awakening. The church has secured some of the most choice leaders in the whole evangelistic field here May ; 2 to 16, to conduct a meeting. Rev. J. Ernest Thacker. D. D.. one of the General Evangelistists of the South ern Presbyterian church, will do the ; preaching, Dr. Thacker is a preaeh i er of great power in his delivery of the gospel story. There is nothing of I the sensational in his methods. He appeals to the rank and file of the people in every community where lie goes and large spiritual results fol low h.s preaching. He is first of all a strong gospel preacher. j. A fine compliment to Dr. Thacker's j work is that of Mrs. Thacker, who ! to tliis community is known as Addie Dixon, a sister of Dr. Thomas Dixon. Her attractive personality and bril liant intellect is given to Christian work, and she shares the successes with her husband in all their meet ings. Mrs. Thacker will address a number of mass meetings of women j while here. In such services she al : ways speaks to packed houses. No I thing less is expected here in her na j tive city. The Charlotte Observer has said this: “Mrs. Thacker has her ; share of the Dixon brilliancy. Not! i even the famed brothers have any j lead on her in the matter of intellec ■ tuality. culture, brilliancy and origin ! ality of thought and presentation. ■ From the first sentence to the close, she held the almost breathless atten ; t:on of her audience. And it was the ; most largely attended and interest | ing meeting for women ever held ir | this city.” Mr. Harry Thomas of Florence, S. C., will be the song leader for the meeting. He comes with splendid re commendations and gifts for his part of the evangelistic effort, i The local pastor. Rev. H. N. Me j Diarmid, has had Dr. and Mrs. Thacker in meetings in previous pas torates. He promises to Shelby that good things are in store for her in the coming of these efficient and faithful workers. The date of the meeting is May 2-16. An ambassador accused of telling the truth! How absurd that any body should bother to deny it. It won’t do. A super-government at Geneva would-be too far away to soft soap the farmer. WILL BUILD FINE RESIDENTIAL PARK ABOUT LAKE FRONT IMiins Call for Year-Round Play cronnd and Homeland on Gen oral Basis Pinehurst. ■Shelby within another year will rank with Asheville and Pinehurst, as . C.. realtor, has pur chased .it) acres on the highway tri angle of Nos. 20 and ‘206, adjoining Cleveland Springs estates, where ho will construct a beautiful lake and a combination playground and home, land. " as \\ ilson Property. The property purchased belonged tf Mrs. I). O. W Ison and is consid ered the most ideal lake in this see-. ti< Mr. Affleck the Nolan company also handled a sale of nine acres of the same lands to Mr. W. W. Wilson. This tract, also a part of the P. O. Wilson lands, is on the west side of Highway 200. the ^helby-Lin-. I coin ton road. Mr. Wilson, it is under stood gave $1,200 per acre for this land, while public announcement is not made of the price of the ac companying sale to Affleck. Sees Future Shelby. “Up north,’’ Mr. Affleck says, “we know of only two places in North Carolina—Pinehurst and Asheville Both are extreme macros cold and hot. Somehow I knew that in between them there must be a hanpy medium. Frankly I think 1 have found it here in Shelby. Asheville is a summerland. Pinehurst is famed for its winter ‘ports. Shelby I believe will soon be famous for winter and summer cli mate. Combining this climate with golfing, horse rac.ng and greyhound racing at the fair grounds and the olden sport of fox hunting over the hill regions of the county I believe numerous outsiders will flock to your section in all seasons of the year.’’ v* Start Surveying Mr. Afflecks engineers will begin surveying and outlining the develop ment at once, it is announced. A general contour plan of the lake will first be made. This will be followed I by the outlining of streets, avenues roadways, and walks. Then construc tion work will begin. The lake will be made just as large as possible w.thout damaging back waters, Mr, Affleck says. Around the lake will be constructed a big driveway, which will be the scenic center of the development. From this driveway will run the residential i streets and avenues. Flan Carolina Shrubbery An important feature of the Pro posed development is the plan for making famous Carolina hill shrub berv. Just as the pftlm tree was the background for Florida’s beautiful developments so will be the pine of the hill country, the rhodendron and mountain spruce here. Rhodendron and spruce will be planted and min gle with the pines along the streets and lake frontage. This sale to an outsider is the ' biggest of its type since the sale of Cleveland Springs Estates to a Flori da developer. That it will mean much to Shelby is easily seen. The tract I now attracting the attention of the ! section is just a short distance from (Continued on page eight.)