SHELBY’S BUILDING PROGRAM IN reliable home paper Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section, Modern Job Department, ■■ r 1925 TOTALLED THREE MILLION DOLLARS—1926 WHAT? MAKE A CITIZEN OF EVERY VISITOR. r . SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census_8,854 Where Industry Joins With Climate In A Call For You, . VOL. XXXIV, No. 49 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 2;’,. 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mai1, per year (in advance)--*2-50 . ■ .... _\ By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 $160,000 Is Low Bid On New Wotev Plant—To Provide More Bond Money Another Bond Issue Will be Neecs sary to Pay For Plant. $82,000 Already Spent on Extensions. Letting ol the contract fur the new six million gallons water and pump station has been postponed until Tuesday night by the city officials, by which time they hope to provide about $50,000 in bonds additional to pay the cost of same. Bods were op ened yesterday and they range from $100,000 to $183,000 for the complete i b. Engineers declare the bids are satisfactory and in line with their as titrate of the cost but at a meeting held this morning it was decided to pc.-tmone the letting of the contract un til all money is provided, as is re quired by law. The city issued $200, 000 for water improvements and ex tension last fall, but only $118,000 of this money is left, $82,000 having been spent for the water and sew er extensions in South Shelby, $35,000 fur reimbursing the mills and indi viduals for the privately owned mains which were taken in when the city limits were extended; $15,000 or mere having also been expended for the septic tank which is nearing com pletion south of town. The city officials feel that cuts iuuIo be made here and there in the proposed new plant, but it would be unwise. They could save $30,001) by eliminating a 16-inch water main from tie pump station to town, but in ord> r to give ample fire protection it would he unwise to have only one small line. The bids include the intake at Chapels Bend on the river, a si:; m'llion gal lon raw water basin, a two million gallon daily capacity filter plant, 1 ump house, pumps, electric wiring, water meins, wash water lank, etc. Many Bidders Here. By actual count 62 men were at the city hall Thursday night at the opening of the bids Not all were bidders, however, many were here as material men, hoping to sell mater ial to the successful bidders, as much material will of n^ce^.ty go into the large plant. H. W. Loving, director of new work for the McCrayer En gineering Co., and C. F. Wagner, chief engineer were both here to open the bids and calculate the bids which were made on the un,t basis and had to he worked out in detail before they and the city officials could determine the successful bidders. They worked until 1 o’clock this morning going thruugh the maze of figures, consid ering every item in detail Bidders for the general contract < f the six million gallon water station were Brown-Harry Company of Gas tonia, Boyd and Goforth of Char iot tie, Fiske-Carter Construction com pany of Spartanburg, S. C., Tucker and Laxton, Charlotte, V'. B. Higgins and Company of Charlotte, A. H. Giiion and Co., of Gastonia. Bidding on pipe line work were Zeb Mauney, Shelby, Mr. Flack of Forest City, L. J. &F. L. Wagner of Shelby. Equipment bidders were Allis halmers Manufacturing Co., C. M. Setzer, American Mill Work Co., Morris Machine Works. G. R. Purs. erm, Worthington Machine Corpora tion, Textile Mill Supply Co., J. W. Frazier, Goulds Manufacturing Co,, Warren Steam Pump Co., Frederick Iron and Steel Works, Dean Steam Pump Company. Rev. Housen Harrill Dies At Forest City Rutherfordton, April 22.—Re'-, ilouscn B. Harrill died Wednesday at his home near Forest City. Funeral services will be held Frida} mopiing at 11 o’clock, at the First Baptist church of Forest City, with the pastor in charge. Deceased was years old and one of the prominent Baptist ministers of Rutherford coun ty. He was a Confederate veteran. During his pastorial work he has bap tised nearly two thousand people and married over five hundred couples. NEW ELECTRIC SIGN FOR BEST FURNITFRE CO. There has arrived and will be put no tomorrow a new electric sign for ihe John M. Best Furniture company. B is of huge and elaborate design, 16 feet Jong, and of ample depth. It will he erected over the side walk imme diately in the center of the Best building, on South LaFavette street. It is a sign with a blue field, with massive electric letter display, made Springfield ui.i . j Pershing and Chip off the Block General John J. Pershing, photographed for the first time since leaving Valter Heed Hospital at Washington, Is shown with his son. Warren. Y.'arren was a wee lad when his father was in Europe settling the faruaui argument. „ _ South, rn Workshop Plans Opening 'ihirri Season. Is Completed Dream of Cleveland Native. The Southern \V< rkshop ami School of Expression will dp.cn in the new Hi eh school building, Asheville, Mon day morning. June 7th, and close Fri . -fitly JOth. The. Southern Work shop:-feels v< r> fortunate to he holding a joint se sion with the school of expression during the summer of . 1 For the prst 2d years the school of expres sion- has held a summer school in A heviilj. Public school teachers holding 'cer tificates-of the grade of primary , grammar grade or high school teach ers’ certificate... class C, will receive fu'l certificate credit by the state "f North Carolina for work dene in the Southern Workshop and School of.Kx pression. One hundred and sixty credits toward a diploma are given by the school of expression, Boston Credits arc given by the Boston school if public speaking toward a public speaker’s diploma. The South-, ern Works!)ip confers a diploma to college graduates for the satisfactory' completion of four summer session.'. The Southern Workshop and its ac tivities are dedicated to William La Fayette Plonk .because of his interest in educational work of his town, his county and hu-j- state. The Workshop is very fortunate t.» D\-(- as a new member of its faculty : Madame Ponse-Huerta. Madam Huer ta will teach Dalerose eurythmic-. This course s r ains the body to be an instrument-for musical, and drain,aide expression. r ( rmer \\ >iKsnop have hoi with the Workshop for tw : years arid will return arc: Lain-. Plonk, director: Lillian Plonk, assist-. ant director; Marguerite Stewart, hostess; Mrs. Florence E-ans; John p Froome, jr., and Frederick H. Knch. The regular course of tne Workshop include the studying and leading of the Bible, character study,' acting rehearsals .direction of public, performances, public speaking, panto : minie, vocal expression, public read ing. voice training and diction, har monic training, practical F.nglish, Dal C)0j,e eurvthmics, gymnastics, music French. The activties ror children are acting, story telling, poetry and Dalcroze eurythmics. The Workshop is open to all, child hood, manhood and maturity, and its purpose is to waken and arouse the greatness which it believes to be in cverj man. in every woman, in every child. To public school teachers, min isters. public speakers, people be draggled in routine, pep.pl" who want to study piano, music . singing and every phase of speech, this joint term of the Southern Workshop and the Sl tool of expression will have a spe-i cial appeal. Asheville, the scenic won der of Nature’s prodigality, is the home of the Southern Workshop. A mhist the towering and stately peaks which are shrouded in. mysteries un roTved; air, pure and bracing, climate wholesome and invigorating—in this wealthy surrounding, this unparal leled environment, the student of our school creates or stimulates, moulds or ennobles his study and his I He's Get Third Still In Mountain Section Near Border Line Wednesday county officers nabbed their third still in a week just on this side of the famous Kings Mountain battleground, the breaking point of A' .cricar liberty—and prohibition lav.?. The outfit was of copper and about 35 gallon capacity. About 17v rations of beer and one and one-halt gallons' of liquor were destroyed at the site. Thursday the officers who captur ed the three stills arrested two men, John Lindsay and John Kirk, who. ac cording to the officers, may have some connection one wav or anothei of the plants captured. The men will likely be given a hearing Saturday. Officers making the capture were Bob Kendrick, Creel Ware and Char lid Shepherd. FREE TICKETS TO How Young People Can Win Free Tickets to Famous Automobile Paces May 10th. Do you want a free ticket to the Charlotte Speedway races, May 10th? A way has been devised by The Cle\ - eland Star. Carolina's newsiest news paper outside the daily field. The sub scription department has a plan that should interest boys and girls from 14 years up. whereby they can see the thrilling auto classic as a guest of this paper. Here is the plan. Collect SI2.50 in subscriptions to The Star and a tick et is yours free to Grandstand B. Here the admission charge is $2.50. This gives you a seat in full view of the great arena where you can see the fastest drivers in the world compete for the $23,000 cash prizes. A 25 piece band will furnish music in this grand stand, adding a festive air to the oc casion, Just call at The Star office and get an official subscription re ceipt hook. Take it out among your friends and ask them to subscribe to The Star. Your father and friends read it already and will no doubt re new in order to help you out. Then you might find a few who do not read Shelby’s newsy, newspaper and want t- keen up with the activities of the year. You sell them a year's subscrip tion for $2.50 hy mail or SI! delivere 1 at the home of the subscriber by The Star’s own carrier boy system. It will only take an hour or so. Get a sub siription receipt book, finish the little task and the ticket will be handed you at The Star office. Remember it on’y takes $12.50 in subscriptions collected from either old or new subscribers and your friends will help you. Clyde Skates Can’t Play in Big Series Clyde iSkeeter) Skates, star pit. cher for Kinprs Mountain hisrh school will not be allowed to pitch in the State elimination frames, it was stated Thursday bv those attending: the meeting: in Salisbury. Says the Gnstonia Gazette of Thursday. The pitcher, one of the best in this section, was ruled out of the cham pionship race on two charges the ua;'oiiiri pop-. •h; . WAV CASE GOES TO HieH COURT AGAIN Former - Faster Wins Point Hut At torney of ( hurch Trustees Appeals Higher. taxing ion, April 22.—Rev. C'. B. Way, own the first tilt in his suit for unpaid salary against the Methodist l’rctestant church of Shelby, when Recorder H. E. Olive, overruled a de murrer entered by the church trus tee.'. However, B. T. Falls, attorney for the church, appealed the ruling to Superior court and spectators had no chance to hear the merits of .he ease set forth. The defense rested purely on the legal technicality- of whether the former pastor could properly sue for unpaid salary. Mr. Falls argued the relations of church and pastor to bo ecclesiastical and without the nature of a legal contract, he digressed in his argument to attack the minister fi t bringing the suit and also attacked the character of his services to the church. Counsel for plaintiff rested ihetr resistance to the demurrer on the ground that the salary contract be tween church and pastor has the full legal force of a contract. and the, court upheld this contention, .Several ministers were among those rresent for the hearing. The next term of superior court opens here May 3. Lineberger Attends Davenport Meeting William Lineberger spent Thursth y in Salisbury attending a meeting ot the trustees of Davenport college, Le noir. of which he is a member. The meeting was called for the purpose ot electing a new president of the insti tution, and Rev. William A. Jenkins, of Greensboro, was chosen for the post. j'ho meeting was held in Salisbury, Mr. Lineberger said, as a central point, of contact for the members of the board. IJev..Mr. Jenkins was unanimous’} chosen bv the trustees as Davenport’s new head. He is a man of broad scho1 aiship aryl broad influence. He suc ceeds C. L. Hornaday, who Mjas elect ed in 1922. Mr. Hornaday resigned a few weeks ago. spake Land Goes For Over $12,000 The W. George Spake property on Highway 20, in east Shelby, sold Thursday for over $12,000 at an auc tion sale conducted by the ,T. B. Nolan company and the Carolina Land com pany The property ran around five acre* and totalled $12,233 in sales, officials of the auction say. Between three and five hundred people were in at tendance. Those buying lots are: J. L. Thom arson, Ola Anthony, O. O. Palmer, H. A. Logan, Rev. N. D. Younts. Ike Berger, Irvin M. Spake, Anthony amt j Anthony, G. A. Spake, Renn Drum and W. J. Arey. Rena Mae Beam Passes At_Waco Little Miss Rena Mae Beam, four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Beam, of Waco, died suddenly last Monday morning following an illness of less than 24 hours. The child was a; parently hardy and well Sunday ami attended Sunday school and chorch services. Sunday night she was taken ill, and Monday morning was dead. Some uncertainty exists, it appears, as to the exact nature of the illness that so quickly took the child off. The remains were buried Tuesday at Prospect church, Revs. Padgett and Camp officiating. This is the second child to be lost in the Beam family in loss than a year. In October, 1925, they lost a 9 year-old boy, who died of neart trou ble. HAVE YOU Started Reading “THE GOOD BAD GIRL” In The Star? Three First Chapters Carried Today BEGIN NOW. Old-Time Interest Shown In Contest For Spelling Champ The county-wide spelling con test held this week to decide the championship speller of Cleve land county schools has created considerable interest in spelling over the county. Memories of “Blueback” days come hack ns | >rroups here and there test out the ; pelting; ability of the grown ups as they go over the words missed i>v the champion representing their school in the county contest. Agnes Harrill. of Lnttimore, is the county champion, but the young girl missed one word in •the finnl round, the fact that her one remaining opponent misled more gave her the championshin. The word she missed wasn’t so easy. Perhaps it’s speiled this way: “pheasant”—and per ha pa rot. Mrs Harrill did not spell it that way. Alice Sanders, entrant of th. Shelby schools, who battled with the Lattimbrc girl four rounds be fore losing the county tide, miss ed four words on the final round, ■i five-letter word baffling her for the first error. “Yacht” was spelled "yatch,” the right letiers lined up wrong. The other words she missed and as she spellec thorn were “reccommend,' “lies ure,” “physic". What she should t sve spelled was: "recommend", “leisure” and "physique"—meb be. How do you spell them 7 Then the champion on a pre liminary round missed “negott rto" by spelling it “negociate.” The person who graded her papers rlso made a break on the same round. The Lattimore student spe’led “counsellod” and it was marked a hustnke, wherein Wcb s'er says one "L" or two “LL”. Miss Sanders on the first roun I spelled all right, hut spelled the word “alright.’. Krtiants in the final contest as held at Central school here were: Marjorie Crisp, drover school, No 4 township; ak,e Whit worth. Waro school. No. 5 town ship; P.reford Davis. Dover school No. 0 township: Alice Sanders, Cen.ral school, No. townshii:; Marion Packard, Mooreaboro school. No. 7 township; Agnes 1 Man-ill. Lattimore school, No. 7 township; Kathleen Boggs, Falls ten school, No. U township. By the process of elimination only Misses Harrill and Sanders survived the first round. McBrayer Sell* 200 Acre Farm to McGraw for $16,500 Large Farm in No. 4 Township Changes Hands. Other Realty Deals Noted. Deeds continue to flow into the hopper in the office of Register of Deeds R. L. Weathers, the largest deed filed for record recently being that made by Evans E. McBrayer wnereby he sells his 198 acre farm on Bt ft'alo in No. 4 township to R. R. Me Craw for $16,500. List of de« is since last report is as follows: K. S. Cline and wife to Robert Clire, lot in Fallston, 51 1-2 acres, 41 1-2 acres, 4 1-2 acres, 14 acres, con sideration $7,000. •J. F. Ware to Thad C. Ford, lit on West Graham street for *2,000. M. A. Spangler, Wm. Lineberger, J. A. Suttle to T. W. Hamrick, lot in Ilor.iesiey addition for *10 and other considerations. W. H. Arey and wife to G. P. Abel nerhy lot on W. Marion St.‘, lor $100 and other considerations. Evans E. McBrayer to ft. R. Mc Ctv.w 108 .7-10 acres on Buffalo in No. 4 iofvnship foil* *16,500.1 1 rustees of Central Methodist (hurch to Dr. E. A. Houser, lot ad joining Methodist parsonage on E Marion street for $2,600. Max Gardner and wife to Julius Mull, 157 acres in No. 6 township for SI and other considerations. L. I. Kendrick and wife to M. A. Spangler and J. L. Suttle, three lots j in Kendrick property on S. LaFay ette street for $1,787.50. J. O. Plonk and wife to Lake Mon- 1 ton in club for 19 shares of stock in said club, 47 acres near old gold mine in No. 4 township. W. A. Maundy and wile to Lake Montonia club 2 28-100 acres in gold : inir.e settlement No. 4 township for S91.20. R. B. Turner and wife to H. E. Wr.i dron three lots in M. L. Borders prop- j erty for $650. Rush Padgett and wife to H. E. Waldrop lont on W. Warren street for $1,000 and other considerations. W. C. Lattimore and wife to Louisa; Hitchcock, lots on Cleveland Springs load • for $2,100. Renn Drum and wife to Paul Webl»| house and lot on N. Morgan street for *6,750. O. C. Lewis and wife to J. W. Sil ver, lot on Bosiic street for *500. i Scout Board Meets Here Friday Night I The executive board of the Pied mont council of the Boy Scout of America, covering the counties of Cleveland. Gaston, Lincoln. Ruthcr ford and Polk will meet at the Cleve land Springs hotel on Friday night April 23. Representatives of the five counties will be present to discuss' plans of the work of boy scouting ar.d the development of the Piedmont scout camp at Lake Lanier. Democratic Convention To Be Held Saturday The Cleveland County Democratic convention will be held at the Court House in Shelby on Saturday, April 24, at 3 o'clock, P. M. At this meet ing delegates will be elected to at tend the state convention to be held at Raleigh April 29. All democrats of the county are invited and urged to attend the county convention. O. M, Mull, Chairman Democratic h.e.ur • . if- _ SHELBY WILL PUY FiiM Game of Champ Series On Here This Afternoon. Hoyle May Work On Mound The elimination series for the fitp'e high school baseball title be gins here this afternoon with Shell y meeting Mt. Holly in the preliminary for Group -1 championship. Odds in this game apparently favor Sl.elby, although proverbial dope lias ii that “one can never tell.” It has not been announced by Coach Morris but fans are jof the opinion that Jack Hoyle wnl stcrt the game here against Mt. Holly. However, one of the other hurlers may be used holding Hoyle in reserve for other games if Shelby corfiei through with a victory. From a view oi the group Kings Mountain sedni, to be the biggest object between the ty.('-times isiute champions and the group title. Kings Mountain plays Frrest City tt Kings Mountain today The next game will be played early in next week •with the group finals coming Friday, April 30. Faculty managers and coaches of 34 high schools in the West entered in the State high school baseba1! (•■cries, met in Salisbury Thursday and mapped out a schedule for the determination of group champions Th< meeting was presided over by E. R. Rankin, of Chapel Hill, Sta’o secretary of the high school athletic association. The teams in the West were divided into four groups and playing will be gin Friday. Group Champions will be determined by May 4, and the win ners will meet again to arrange for the schedule to determine the West orr champion. Schedules for the opening games: Group One: Reidsville vs. Monticebo, at Reidsville, April 23; High Point vs Asheboro, at High Point, April 23; Greensboro vs. Mebane, at Mtbane, April 23; Leaksville vs. A1 exander-Wilson, at Leksvibe, April 23; Burlington drew a bye. Groupe Two: Lexington vs. Wal bourg, at Lexington April 23; Trout man vs. Bessemer, at South Buffalo. April 24; Troutman vs. Yadkinville. at Harmony April 24; Madin drew a bye- Madison plays Pomona or Bes semer at Greensboro, April 26 and Winston-Salem meets this winner at Winston-Salem, May 1. Final game in this group at Winston-Salem May 4, unless Winston-Salem meets Lex ington, then at High Point, May 4. GJroup. Three: Concord vs. Gas. tonia, at Gastonia, April 23; Char lotte vs. Monroe, at Davidson, April 22; China Grove vs. Lowell, at Lowell, April 23; Salisbury vs. Spencer, at Salisbury, April 23. Group Four: Cherryville vs. Star olwn, at Cherryville, April 23; Mt. Holly vs. Shelby, at Shelby, April 23: Kings Mountain vs. ForestCity, at Kings Mountain April 23; Greens Creek vs. Biltniore, at Biltmore, April 23. The final game of this group will be played at Shelby April 3? The finals in group one and group three depend upon the second series of games, a long list of possibilities having been agTeed upon in each case. Coach Morris and nianager Whitelaw Kendall represented Shelby at ti.e meeting Shelby's Fire Fighting Equipment In sufficient Declares Sherwood Brockwcll. Fire Marshal. Shelby needs a hook an,| ladder firo fighting equipment, declared Sher wood Brockwell, state fire marshal, sneaker at the Kiwanis club meeting Thursday night. (apt. J. Frank Jen kins hu term of court that has been ordered. Few Vacancies In Ranks of Company K Colonel Parker of the U. S. army, and Col. Don E. Scott, of Graham, this state, commander of the regi ment, were here this week inspecting Company K. Captain McSwain and First Lieut. Mike Austell say there have been 12 or 15 vacancies created within the ranks of the company which they want to fill up with able-bodied yi ung men. Young men who wish to join the company are asked to make application right away so they can get Lr» trim for the annual encampment which will be held again this summer at the regular encampment grounds at Morehead City, on the Eastern