North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXXIV, No. 50 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SIIELBY, N. C. MONDAY, APRIL 26. 11)26. Published Monthly, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons ' mail. per year (in advance)--$2.50 \ By carrier, per year (in advance) $.').00 SHELBY S BUILDING PROGRAM IN 1925 TOTALLED THREE MILLION DOLLARS—192G WHAT? MAKE A CITIZEN RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. 5 Modern Job Department, OF EVERY VISITOR. r".. . SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census_8,854 Where Industry Joins With Climate In A Call For You, . Democrats In County Meeting Discuss All Matters Calmly pass No Resolutions and Take Ikm ocracy as It Is. I)r. O. G. Falls Presiding Officer. Governor Angus VV. McLean .and his cohorts of Democracy at Ru! gh appear to be manipulating matter, of state arid politics in the right c hannels if the mood of the Cievc - land county Democrats in oor>vct ...i assembled may be taken as an omen Following the customary call the group of loyals coming from ail pre cincts in the county gathered Satur day afternoon in the court house f. : the annual convention. Contrary to the usual standard- of political conventions there were no re du cions. and no one became “het tip” publicly. In briet, uemocracy was -taker. ns .-he is” and "ill proceed with the same prescription in force. New ways of doing things were not suggested, innovation was not even mention/d. Suffice to say th3t harmony prevails a* least among those assembled. Wednesday, those Democrats .ahid. to attend will depart for the State p .vention at Raleigh as official d le gates from the county, such bring the ruling convention. Falls Presides. The convention formally got undei way at •'! in the afternoon with Dr. 0. G. Falls, of Kings Mountain, t re siding. A keynoter, brief and nrinu issues, was offered in a sh rt talk by 0. M. Mull, chairman of the executive committee. Following which a cen.rus of would be delegates was taken for the nor. pose of ascertaining renresentati i. at the state convention. Then the- 01 dcr was passed that all bemoc:-;,: • ; , tending would he rated as oft;>-is 1 delegates. Those at the convention ex pm sing their intention of being » n hand for Feimster’s keynote v It, high Thursday were: O. G. Falls. C H. Hoev. O. Max Gardner, O. M. Mull, A. E. Cline, B. T. Falls. P ytoi Me •Swain and others. These will be join-, ed by others from various precinct, of the county. Practically the :• n* delegation is forecast Tor senate convention. The regular meeting gave away to the confab of the executive commit *o hich was presided over by A. E. Cline, chairman of the county com mission board. O. M. Mull was ■■ elect ed chairman of the -executive force* with A. P. Spake as secretary. The meeting as that of the usual convention with Democrats front ;11 precincts in attendance. Not a whisper was heard, it is said, about the Overman-Reyr;ohis boar, in the offering, Poole bills, or 3.73 bee. So to Raleigh goes the stand-by county of Democracy openly satisfied with ,he general direction of thing politically and apparently housing no stored up scores to be settled or de bated about. Which is nothing out of hte ouiin iiry. Mike Borders Out For Highway Job Mr. Mike I.. Borders, prominent farmer and business man who live: in east Shelby on the Cleveland •Springs road, announces in th.s N- ; sue of The Star his .candid:e-y for Highway Commissioner for No. 6 H ■ nship subject to the Democratic primary in June. Mr. Borders m one of the county’s he-t known citizens and it is thought v id draw considerable support in the primary. Strawberries And Spring Come Along It's Springtime, and strawberry time, At least with some folks. I' or his Sunday dinner Mr. Tom Heafner, who lives about two miles southeast of Shelby, had strawber r’'"V that came from his own garden. So far as is known these are the fast strawberries, locally raised, re ported iii the section. _ Which speaks well for the future °* real estate. Young Mother Dies Leaving Twin Boys A death of unusual sadness was that of Mrs. Sam Dyer who passed ■'Way Monday morning about - o'clock in West Shelby following a ; h'iel illness. She leaves in addition to; 11 I wo year old boy. a set of twin boys only a week old. Both the young ba hies are normal and are doing as well ■' could be expected. Mrs. Dyer was only 19 years and the daughter of •'Irs Carrie Sisk who lives in Sou'hi Chelby. Surviving the mother ar“ thai husband and three small children. ' he funeral will be conducted Tue-o j «Ihv afternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. ltush Padgett and the interment will , ' «t Zoar Baptist church ip South fhelbv. Fascist Leader Signora Margherha Sanai'i is known as Mi as soli-,/s ." n t in i s n r vali ent a portfolio." She his liecn the Fascist d.i tatoi s right hand aid for more than tin years, and is called the "mother of the Fascist move merit." Officers Capture Two More Liquor Outfits In Week Maki , Fifth Still Nabhed in One Week by County Officers in General Liquor Raid. Manufacture iri Clev. land county is being curtailed—as it pertains to booze-, anti nm cotton. Officers, over the week end captur ed their fifth liquor plant in one week brie capture coming on Friday and the other .Sunday morning. Friday in the Oak Grove section of No. 5 township Officers Mike H. An - tell and Jim He-.er captured a 25. guli n copper plant From indications about the plant had just »>een: erected cr :)• hud > •■’.'Or been used. Needless to. say.jit never will be now. On Sunday morning Deputy Buren Dcdnuni. wandered ■ up on a 50sgallon plant o.-. P(.,us creek in No. 5. Thu out fit v as 'i!led with beer and seeming ly \vas ready to fire up. However no operators were • hand and Deput,. Dedinon took charge and eliminated the necessary machinery. Good Story About Eggs-Good Eggs And Selling Same Here's vyhat newspaper men call a good story about good eggs. Lots of good so ris-s are toll about bad eggs, as for ex;.mi.de that one about tht bad egg that got struck on ah actor. But this is different The •i-.e.is laid" ac the headquart ers of the Idea! fee and Fuel Com parn-. Out therewhere C. B. Cabii.esi get- 'em coming and going; gets'em in tee w nter with coal and in the . -i; wield ;>••-. Anil in the merm tinie. o' ke"p the pit boiling, deals iri t gg - and hens. Ail o ' which reminds us of a story. R,.v. Mr. AS al 1. coming into, the Star offic • a cold day in March was ask ed to pray for warm weather. "Can't ,i,, it," Cm! Bov. Dr. Wall, after a moment’s thought; "Got too* many e« a I m- i chants in my congregation.’* But to conn hack to Cabiness: He is unloading t day a little consign ment of egg. from Tennessee. It is n two car had consignment containing 1000 -case#, or .10,000 dozen or 300, 000 individual eggs. He is put ling them in his cold storage plant;, where, having lowered the temperature he will sit down and wait for a high price. Which is due along about next Thanksgiving Meantime all hope of evolution- ii. th. sc eacs will be dead and gone. Mr. Graham’s Father Dead At Rowland Friends of Mr. B M. Graham, resi dent engineer of the state highway commission hen* will regret to learn I.f the death of his faiher .Mr. W. Jl. Graham at Rowland, this «a.e, last Tuesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Gra ham were summoned home Tuesday morning and spent the past week in Rowland. Mr. \V. 11 Graham, deceased was mu* of Robeson county’s oldest anil most prominent citizens being S’ years old at the time of his death, lie was a veteran of the civil war, serving during the entire conflict. Funeral services were held in Row la„d Wednesday and the beautiful floral tribute showed the high esteem in which hi,was held, St. Petersburg Plan In Shelby Benches for the extra side walk “pare in Shelby arc being planned by Shelby business men and o.tlit -s. The idea comes up from St. Petersburg:; Florida, where hundreds of visitors and tour ists pal!: on the benches on the street corners to watch the World go by ;n the “Sunshine j "ity” A move a on* was started in Shelby Saturday to have all iierehnnts in the uptown busi es section place comfortable irnchos on the wide sidewalks nexi to the curb in front oi h< ir stores. Shelby sidewalks ire considerably wider than the i: ia! city sidewalks affording i space that could be used for the benches. Central hotel has dready placed outside rustic benches which are proving at tractive to visitors wh owish to ake it ea y for a few minutes md watch • the movement of •raffle and pedestrians. Such, t plan would also keep so many er-Ople off the court square at t t me when too much tramping would damage the grass and ilants there. So far the plan is meeting •v.th approval and if the move fier.t continues its force xnches along the main streets vill likely be placed with in a 'orlnlght. Executive Beards Hold Enthusiastk Gathering at Cleveland Springs. Plan Lake Lanier Camp. j One of the most enthusiastic meetings ever held in this Reckon in the interest of boys was held at Cle.’ efand Springs hotel on Friday night, April 23rd, at which time the execu the board of the Piedmont Council ' of the Boy Scouts of America, retire seating the counties of Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford, Polk and Gaston , held its regular monthly conference. A large number of men of affairs :n the various sections of the council I were present and took part in the various phases of this great move ment for boys. F. L. Sinyre, prominer/t mill exec j iitive of Gastonia, president of the ' Piedmont Council of the Boy Scouts I of America, presided. Vice President 1 F. C. Kinzie, of Spindale; Judge O. C. Erwin, of Rutherfordton; Rev. R. G. j Gillespie. Scout commissioner, of For je&t City: Rev. O. C. Huston, president of the Rutherford county scoutmnst , er‘s ' association; J. D. Lineberger of Shelby, chairman of the Shelby scout committee; II. P. Lineberger, treas urer of the council; \V. L. Bal‘his, j chairman of the finance romnuitee; Rev. J. W. C. Johnson, chairman of 1 the committee; Hugh E. White, chair 1 iran of the reading committee; Kay ; Dixon, chairman of the leadership training commiUee; J.' W. Atkins, chairman of the publicity committee, Harry; Rutter, president of the court . of honor, of Gasconia: Scout Execu j tive It. M. Schiele aird Field Executive .1. Marion Harmon were present. Ota er prominent men associated with the | executive board of the Piedmont I council are F. P. Bacon, of Tvrcn, j Harry Page of Lincolnton; I,. A. Kiser j of Kings Mountain; M. A Stroup, of i Oherryviile; C. I). Welch, of Cramer l ton and 1. A. Tabor resident managci 1 of the Manville-Jencks company of i Gastonia. Reports of the various departments I of the council indicated that the I>oy ! .Seoul movement in the five counties j was growing by leaps anti hounds and, that men of affairs everywhere were j I taking part in the direction of this] work for boys, giving of their time ] and means for the extension of the movement. In the Piedmont council there are at present some 38'troops of boy scouts with a total membership of over 700 hoys and some 300 lead ers and committeemen. Reports of the court of honor show that the scouts hi the Piedmont coun cil arc leading the suite in advance ment. Since January 109 scouts qualified for the 2nd class rank; 45 ! for the 1st class rank; 413 merit badges have been awarded; 2t! scouts qualified for the star rank and two scouts have attained the eagle rank. \j Training courses for scout leader:, j has been one of the important phase* j ; of the work of the council during tl( past few months. Leadership training! I courses have been conducted in Ruth erford scounty, Lincoln comity and at A’ings Mountain. VV. L. Balthis reporting for the fi nance committee of the council show iContinued on liar'll Close Harmony’ ty Si. mese Pair Mery a 11.1 Mar*.•!!• I Ofl.lt K \.;u n'li i A;. , n< nip very <-loe<> hi) elfin uii. ■ t :i .. . , it,, j together ailil ium (• m tan* • it:. am <. s;• t i • ,,, . ( Tl«> fiirls are lali iiKtl t'n.iit.i'.aai..* Th. ■ *u-s* very nun.li like «a»u i *n !- .•! Hum I >..<r r I'.ivi, J. .Hu 1 ’ i.i-1 N 1' Is* iUi.ll live lilt* Shelby Creqmety Praised By South Carolina Paper I'ays Cleveland County Farmers $20,000 a Month for Butter-fat, Million a Year (Jus. I). Grist in Yorkville Kn»|U'i.:< r> Every now and then when tht dis cussion comes around to diver; ie.t farming mixed with cow. and i tgs and chickens and truck, some of tr.t wise • ones solemnly swiggcr that North '‘arid South Carolina is a ctt ton country pure and simple; that i. is doubtful even it it pays to grow corn and small grain crops arid that so far as the dairy and creamer.* business is concerned, anybody . Wo would have the audacity to suggest there is any money in it. is •'imply ar: ignoramus. Well, seeing is belief-' ing and figures don’t lie and i, i- a fact with plenty of proof to show tin. one of the best, if not the best pay ing industries in this hustling little city of Shelby, is the Shelby Cream ery, a Cooperative concern which pays its stock-holders twenty per cent, in terest year in and year out; besides setting aside a substantial surplus. 1'. docs that despite the fact that it pays the highest average price for buGet fat the year round of any creamery in the two Carolinas. True, the cream ery had hard sledding during its in fant years and lost money. It took the time and attention of one el Shelby’s leading bankers and bust ness men, Mr. William Lineberecr, head of the Cleveland Bank & 1. at Co., to pull it. out of the hole and get it on a sound business basis art a paying basis. But l.ineberger did it just as. he dues any old thing he so out to do. \ orkvili? Men Visitors. Av the March meeting of the V rk Business Men’s association there w'a some discussion relative to the .. tabhshmeio c.t a creamery in Yack ville, and President Ma.-k.oreU ap pointed a committee of »he members of the organization to look into the matter and report at the April meet ing their opinion as to whether or not it would be practical to establish a creamery in Yorkville, Aurthur 1. Black was named chairman of tin t committee, and today Mr. Black, lb It. A. Bratton, J. Ernest Stroup and this reporter came to Shelby in Mr Stroup’s car to look over the Shelby creamery and get all the information available about it. The Shelby people were mighty nice about it. Mr. Wii liam Linoberger. president of the Cleveland Bank & Trust Co., and president and treasurer of the cream ery association and Mr. Lee B. Weathers, editor of the Cleveland Star, leading newspaper of Cleveland county, took the Yorkville party In charge and to the creamery. lUgfll l 111 I II. The Shelby Creamery is located right up in the business section of town. It is there because people of the city an<i county are proud of it and look upon it as one of the- most important industries in an industrial town. Established in 1913, it had hard sledding for a number of years and to fact went broke, through bad man agement or rather lack of manage* .menu. When Herbert Blanton, the present expert butiermaker went to work there eleven years ago the creamery had only 71 patrons. To lay between 1,200 and 1,300 farmers, the great majority of them Cleveland county farmers, sell butter-fat to the creamery and make good money out of it. Capitalized at $5,700, in 1917 the debts were more than the capital stock, The fifty-odd , oxkkoldc: ' rather the most of them were dis courag'd and ready to quit. Mary i did quit, selling their stock as low ss <5 per hundred '.dollar share. About that time Mr. Linebcrger stepped in With a proposal that he would take charge and s' aft >r ninety days he d r. not show the stockholders there . wa-, money to, be made out of ,he business, then the thing could go hang. He put the butter ii. attractive sanitary cartons oh which was print ' ed the fact that the butter was the. “Celebrated Shelby Gilt Kdge Cream ery Butter Made a, the Foot Hills ,.t Blue Ridge Mountains; Hut up Kx pressly for the Best Trade.” He got i;i touch with Cleveland farmers, as rored them that the creamery was going to gay the highest cash price for high class cream and that they had his personal guarantee of honest, weight arid sure pay. Having one h ad instead qf many, the industry prospered. Farmers had •.confidence' in Linebcrger and 'h-y began to bring in their butter fat Today nearly 1 .GOO of them are sell, ing their cream here—!i«Jlc farm i s and big farmers. They send it in twice a week. Some l ighteeti cream routes are operated.' About 270 , !0 1*pounds of butt ;• a year are turn < t out at this crcamdry. Farmers of the couiity are paid about S20.000 a month for cream. The product of ap-. proximately .'5,50.0 coos i used to make that butter. The price being paid today for butter-fat is 46 cents Th ■ creamery is selling its product at .45. cents a pound. Cleveland farmers are partial to Holstein and Jersey Cows: but tb» great majority of the farmers who have long since learned the cream , cry is a good thing for them, have •list ordinary cows, trtill. the nurivbei of grade cows is ever on the increase. Most of the patrons of the creamery live within a ten-mile radius 1 Shill-.y. Some live further away, how eve The notorious South Molin' ai.i region on the Cleveland county border produces something besides moon shine. According to Mr. Linebergei some of the. finest cream that comes here is sent in by farmers of the South Mountain country. Always in Demand. “Shelby Gilt Edge” butter is very much in demand. In fact, did the creamery have 7,000 cows instead o: only .1,600 to depend on, no trophic would be had in selling the butter Every North Carolina town knows It The city of Raleigh uses 1,000 pounds a week. The five S. & \V. cafeteria? one of which is located in Charlotto these noted cafeterias, by the way being owned by two Cleveland county men Messrs. Frank Sherrill and J. D. Lineberger, use a ton of Shelly butter every two weeks. Two South Carolina town, Greenville and Dar lington, use several hundred pounds a week and cry for more. Farmers always get the top of the market from the creamery. They know that their cream brought here ! must be A-No. 1 The fat must look \ right, smell right, he handled right j No use to try to put oyer any rotter, cream or wild onion cream. The cream is thoroughly examined' before it is poured. No Cold Storage. Occasionally it may happen that .\y..t ■ / Pi eJAt iniK .! •), P ‘ V * Cleveland Man Killed In Crash In Gaston; Another Probably Fatally Injured Oak Cirove Mai Dies When Train Hits Car At Crossing Where I ove Was Killed In Similar Accident. Father Badly Injured. V d! > H;vh I! .It Alt. 11. II- >1, ! Sr*. S’cr-i'vi (fame, Meet ( h rryvilk Hero. !!<'■ She’hv High* tmi lint", stale !<h#itpi*n piny the ( hcrrvdlle Highs hi r- Ft: aim fif »r-’oon in tin- scc | game of Ih* s!,i!o chamoiii.i-.hii) ric . The visiting team will present ; 1 strong aggregation and Morris' | hoys lace one of their hardest con ! le -Is. !! Sh-lhy should come through victorious in this name the local team would then plav here Friday for the group championship moving •hem a little nearer what would he their third consecutive state title. A 'ares crowd of fans is expected to at tend Tuesday’s game many coming Tom the Cherryville section. The High school orchestra will he on the field to boost the placing of the lo cal.*;. Easily defeating the Mt. Holly Highs here Friday afternoon the Shelby Highs won their first game in the state elimination series. The final count was 11 to 3. The. game lacked fast-playing fea tures other than the heavy hitting of the Shelby dub. Errors were fre quent and costly to both teams. Sturt Hitting ICally Early .n the game the visitors I threw a scare into local champion ship hopes by scoring in the first and second frames on bobbles and bad plays hy the Shelby infield. It seem • ed then that a run an inning would | - top Shelby in the first game. How ' ever, the local youngster donned [their hitting clothes in the second j and began to pound the offerings of ! Davenport. Mt. Holly twirler, to all | corners of the lot. The high spot of the hectic frame was the triple of Peeler with the bases jammed. In that frame every Shelby player hit. including the pitcher. After the second Mt. Holly got over one more when Grigg failed to gel Gillerpie's throw to the hot corner Shelby continued hitting and in the fifth Clove Cline stepped off a four base -Wat When his line drive took a bail bound in right field, going to the fence. Three clean hits were all the vi sitors could secure off the' delivery of Hoyle, who. at that, did not seem to be in regular form. Their scores came through costly bobbles by a make shift infield so arranged as to replace Lee, fast shortstop, out with an injured ankle. Cline, who runs the utility gauntlet was on short, and now has only one more position, catcher, in which to perform to hold the record of working everywhere on the team. First and third were the weak points of the Shel-by defense, although Young Bridges shot in at first after the game started played well despite his nervousness. It is not known whether Lee will be back in the game by Tuesday, but fans are hoping to see the youngster al his berth by Friday should Shelby win Tuesday. Whisnant. Cline and Peeler are all ready for the mound call Tuesday witli Hoyle held for Friday's game under the usual ‘‘if.’' Score: R II K Mt. Holly _3 3 7 Shelby . 11 13 fi Davenport. Broom and Jones; Hoy le and Gillespie. McNeely Says South Stands High Abroad Lb C. McNeely, home front a buying trip to New York, says in trade cir cles North the Tar Heel state is con sidered to be the soundest siatj ir. the union. “We are considered to be in flu best- economic condition of any of the states." Mr. McNeely continued. “And there is a good deal of talk about North Carolina’’. Asked as to the outlook for styles in the feminine world, the merchant said that polka dots have taken the center of the stage, and materials ot this more or less old-fashion pattern are all the rage. "And how about the length of the skirts north?” he was asked. “Are ihey becoming longer or shorter?” “They are becoming SHORTF,R,’' Mr. McNeely said, with hands up in a gesture. "They are not becoming short, they ARE short.” He arrived home Saturday after noon* __ _ __ # w».j» J. Vernon Sparrow, farmer of the Oak Grove section was killed at 1 oclock today at the crossing where Kd Love of Lincolnton was killed some > i ars ago. An older man named U. II. Sparrow, thought to he Vernon Sparrow V. father, was badly injured. Southern train No. t<» struck the an torn obi If in which the son and father "<'te riding, carried the car about a quarter of a mile down the track and In rrihly mangled the body of the younger Sparrow, who died instantly, report* nay. 1!. H. Sparrow, was alive at two o'clock but his injuries will no doubt prove fatal, according to telephone comniur.Hution to The Star. Vernon Sparrow, victim of the ac cident. lived in the Oak Grove section on. or near the plantation formerly owned, by Grover Cline between Waco and Kings Mountain. He is married and lias a family. He Was reifred in that community. According to the tax hooks he lived last year on Shelby K-T.-in No. (> township. His father lived on Gastonia-Bessemer City road and carried a card in his pocket giving instructions to notify Mrs. Florence Knight of South Gastonia, in case ct accident. Mrs. Knight is supposed to lie a daughter. Wo. dmen From Three States Likely to Hold Convention In Shelby, (•rigg Reelected Woodmen from three* states, the i arolinas and Virginia, may gather in Shelby this summer for their an nual encampment. Such is the fea ture note of the Western Carolina district meeting held here last week. In tact, Shelby stands more than n fifty-fifty chance of securing the encampment. Hon. F. B. Lewis, state manager of the W. O. W. told local officials and othA-s that the conven tion site is now * up to Shelby and Morehead City. At an early date Mr. Lewis plans to return to Shelby to see attractions offered for the meeting. The bring ing of this encampment to Shelby would mean the sending here of around $6,000 outside of that spent by the hundreds of visiting delegates. 1 handler of Commerce officials and others are interesting themselves in the movement to bring the encamp ment to Shelby fur a short vacation during July or August. 100 Woodmen Here Approximately 400 Woodmen com ing from all sections of Western < arolina attended the meeting here last week. Addresses of welcome were made by J. C. Newton in behalf of the Ki wams club and Lee B. Weathers in behalf of the town. These were re sponded to by Rev. Wilbur H. Wall, Jerry Jerome of Brevard, Miss Rol lins and W. G. Spake in behalf of the local Woodmen camp, all of whom responded in generous words for Shelby and Shelby people. Following the talks the degree team of Hickory Camp, Shelby gave a drill for the benefit of those in at tendance. Following the dr.11 the con vention moved to the county fair grounds where dinner-was served, music being furnished by the Shelby high school orchestra. Back in the court house in the aft ernoon the meeting was addressed by Hon. F. B. Lewis, of Kinston, state manager and national official. Mr, Lewis talked on the “Growth and Standing of the Order.” Changing for a few minutes from his outlined talk, the official told of the possi bilty that the big summer encamp ment might be held here in July or August. Following the address and talks by others reports were heard from the various sections and general business taken up. At the election of officers the old officers were reelected: Dr. T. O. Grigg, of Shelby* president, and W. H. Grogan, Jr., of Brevard, secretary treasurer. The sectional organization covering Western Carolina is known as the Western Carolina Log Rolling Association;