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SHELBY’S BUILDING PROGRAM IN 1925 TOTALLED THREE MILLION DOLLARS N RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section, Modern Job Department, 1926 WHAT? MAKE A CITIZEN OF EVERY VISITOR. SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census___8,854 Where Industry Joins With Ciimate In A Call For You, . VOL. XXXIV, No. GO THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1926.Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. f- ^ mai,.< P" year (in advance )__$2.5C ' By carrier, ner r /in __\ Commencement Season On iIn Shelby City Schools Graduating Class At Central High One Of Largest Ever With 94 Hoys and Girls. I’i .marv Exercises Shelby now is experiencing a gen eral commencement season, beginning with the closing exercises in the i n f mary schools. The high school commencement opens with the annual sermon Sun day night. May 20, by Rev. II. N. McDiarmid, pastor of ihe Presbyter, ian church. It is the custom of local school officials to use local pastor h, the annual sermon, alternating each year. On Tuesday night, June 1, v. i l l I t the debate for the LeGrand medal, pupils of the eighth and ninth grades debating. The Junior debate for the Mat. Gardner medal will be held Wednes day night, June 2. Thursday night, June 3,. a big nrus ical program will be staged by the school orchestra, band and glee citib. This evening promises to be 'one 11 the most entertaining i>f lire com* mencement season. The graduating and final exercises will be held Friday night, June 4. Big Number Graduates There are 97 pupils now in the senior class at Central High school' ccordirig to Supt I. C. Gritfin. Tn :> , .s one of the largest graduating clas es in the history of the school ard establishes a near record in th-* state considering the size of the town. t recent years state high school offi cials have given Shelby a iifte raun; for the number of students continue g on through high school to graduation. Graded School Exercises. Several of the primary schools have already held their exercises. The nex> program is that of the LaFayetie school on Thursday afternoon of thi week. This program will consist of a historical pageant with costumes and music. The exercises of the South Shelby school will be held Friday r ight, May 118, at 8 o’clock. The opening num ber will be an operetta, '“Fairy Shoe maker,’’ by the primary grades. One hundred children will take part ami advance indication is that it will be one of the most entertaining higl - lights of the city commencement sea son. This will be followed by de clamation and recitation contests, with four boys and four girls entered. The boys will declame for the U. M. Mull medal, while the best reciter will re ceive the Paul Webb medal. A spell ing contest will next be held for she J. 1). Lineberger medal. The closing exercises of the Easi side school will be held Friday at <5:30 p. nr. May 28. with a Maypole, pageant and other entertaining out door exercises. Thursday night, May 27, an expres sion recital will be given in the Cen tral school auditorium by the expres sion pupils of Miss May Washburn. The Class Day exercises -of the Teachers Training department wi’t he held May 29th. The Central Elementary grades will give an operetta Thursday night. May 20th, at 7 o’clock. On Friday morning June 4, the annual declaim - tion and recitation contests of the Central elementary schorl will be held in the Central auditorium. Fanning Announces Summer Opening Fanning’s is announcing in the col umns of The Star today the summer season opening, to be held Friday afternoon and evening of this week. It promises to be an elaborate e’vent, worthy of the Fanning establishment. It has been broadly advertised throughout the Piedmont section, ar. l a throng is expected. The opening follows the remodel ing and restocking of the store. Mr. Fanning makes the announcement that the changes in the store just com pleted are as important from the standpoint of service to the buying public, as was the move from the old Fanning building, up LaFayette St'., to the new. Surveying the store, in its new form, Mr. Fanning said: “l think we have an institution here that the pub lic as well as ourselves should be proud. We take it that u is a store to reflect credit upon any commun ity.” The afternoon opening will be stag ed at four o’clock. There will be music, All visitors will be escorted over the store, literally from the fop story to the basement. The new goods will be shown, the changes n the apartments; in fact the moderniz ing program will be explained. The evening opening will be on at oight o’clock. Attention is called to the four page advertisement of the Fanning Com pany announcing the details of the big event. Young Chief a um. && ^ Four years ago Ji'.mes E, Dr. vis was ;i "tenderfoot" l>s Angeles, Calif.', no!--f man. Now is . hiif. the young.si over in that city. Beauty Conte-1 and Card Playing A!-o Flayed. Wet Candidate To Lose , ‘Houston, Texas.—Horse racing, beauty contests, card playing and ala mus motion picture. have been condemned by the Southern Baptist convention. Tcsolutiors passed at the closrnf* sessions of the annual meeting were vigorously defended by their author*, Hr. M. P. Hunt, of Louisville, ana Rev. T. L. Hasting, Monroe, La. Dr. Hunt, a former secretary of a Kentucky Anti-Race Track Gambling Association, declared that Louisville, after the Kentucky derby, "has more dissolute women, gamblers, bootleg gers and criminals ’ generally within its gates than, any other city in America for they have been drawn there by the derby'” Bought By Ik charged that the Kentucky S. rate I,; <1 been ‘bought by the gam blers and that otherwise the evil would have been put out of the State.’* Horse racing. I>r. Hunt said, was the fastest growing business in the coun try an l last year 8500,000,000 was thrown away , on it.” .Mr. Hasting in presenting his re solution condemning beauty contests and baihirg revues, declared.' they were ‘‘‘productive only of evil, giving c pporuijiitt for the .lecherous to feast their eyes upon the form of yo"ng girls.” The convention vigorously applaud ed a declaration by Dr. A. J. Barton, of Kansas City, that if the Demo crats should nominate a wet candi date for President and the Republi cans named a dry candidate, he would vote the Republican ticket. TrA wet Democratic Governor from Maryland” he said, “is no better than a wet Democratic from any other State.” Dr- Gihbs’ Father Dies of Asthma Mr. k W. Gibbs, who lives near Mars Hill, in the Asheville vicinity, father of Dr. Gibbs, ,T. C. Gibhs, and Mrs Hudson Blanton, all of Shelby, died Sunday last at his home from asthma. He was in his seventy-sev enth \ ear. Dr. Gibbs said he had been a sufferer from arthma for ten year*. The burial took place Monday, with alt the Shelby members of the family at tending. Chapman Sells Out To George Button Walter Chapman, who for some time has onerated a printing and specialty job shop on the secone floor of the Hoev building, this week sold his shop to George Button, for a consideration safd to be around 81 .OOP. Mr. Chairman is now employed with tHe job department of The Star. Mr. Chapman also moved this week from the Huey apartments into his new borne near the Shelby hospital. Cleveland Springs Officials Will I Ian Future Management Of Hip Shel by Resort Hotel A meeting of the directors of the Cleveland Springs Hold company will be held soon for the purpose of I selecting a manager and planning the future operation of the big resort ! hotel following the tragic death of . Mr. Henry L. Vanstory, for several I years proprietor of the hostelry. Just what plan the directors wilt ; pursue is unknown, and they t lu ni sei ves are probably not aware as yet as to definite plans. A meeting of the directors had he'r scheduled for Tuesday to consider | other business matters, probably in connection wit hthc development \v< ik | of Cleveland Springs Estates. which centers around the hotel, but this ; meeting was called off following the announcement of Mr. VanstoryV ; death. ! However, directors communicated I with say that a manager and plan of operation will be selected at the meet 1 ing and that the hostelry will continue to oDerate as heretofore. Just wheth er it will be operated by a manager for the company or a lessee is net ; known as yet. The operation of the hotel core tinues without interruption and v. i'» be continued, officials say. Mr. »T. (. Vanstory, brother of Mr. Henry V*»c. story, is here from Goldsboro and will he in conference with the direc tors this week. In all probability he will continue his lease with an ex | perienced hotel manager in charg ■. | Mr. Vanstory operates the Hobl 1 Goldsboro and the Hotel Kennon nr Goldsboro and is one of the most suc I cessful and widely known hotel nun ■ in the state. Plans Taking Shape For Tent Meeting On Sunday Night Clans are rapidly taking shape for the big tent revival to be conducted on S. LaFayette street for three weeks beginning Sunday night May :23rd. 1 The tent with a seating capacity of 12,000 has been pitched and will he l filled with comfortable seats for the j large crowds that will attend each of j the services. Mr. Pippin, choir lead ! er at the First Baptist church is mak ' ing big plans for the organized choir ' which w.ll be a special feature. Mr. . Padgett returned the first of the week I from Houston, Texas where he at | tended the Southern Baptist convcn i tion, while Dr. Wall who also attend ed the Houston- convention stopped | over in Missssippi and w ill not reach j Shelby until tomorrow. While Wall i and Padgett will launch the meeting, j they will receive the hearty eo-opera I tion of the ministers from other I churches in and surrounding Shelbv it is planned to invite congregations from near-by rural churches to come on specified dates in order that the meeting might reach its fullest use - i fulness. An extensive advertising | campaign will be' carried on with the i view of enlisting the cooperation of I the entire town and communitv. I ___' Realty Dealers In Meet At Cleveland Hotel On Friday All the realty dealers of Shelby, their salesmen and assistants will be the guests of Alfred P.Marshall, sales director of the Cleveland Springs Es tates, at a luncheon t,o be held at noon Friday of this week, it is announced. At that time full details of the plan of reservation for homesites by Shelby people in the Estates will be related. Following the luncheon the opening drive on the reservation of lots will begin in the big Shelby development. It was first announced that reser vations in the opening section. Hill top would begin Tuesday. However, jdue to'the illness of one of the engl I neers engaged in staking and plotting | the lots it was necessary to hold off | the reservation plan until Friday. I Lee Hamrick With High Point Firm Lee R. Hamrick, manager of the furniture department of Gilmer’s for the past year and a half, has accept ed a position with the Kester Furni ture Company, of High Point, anb will leave to take up his new job ths first of June. Hamrick is a Shelby “boy,” who has made good. Hejias put over such a job of salesmanship at Gilmer’s that the way was paved for his new undertaking. He has many friends in this section who will be glad to hear of his success. Shiloh Church Hits Evolution “We be!live th ■ record” of. creation in Gepesis is litt-ai fact and not mere poetry,” says a resolution drawn tin by Mem bers of the Shiloh baptist church in the Sandy Run A - ociatioti, and signed bj t e church clerk and moderator. The resolution continues to ex; loss the belief of the church members that the Bible was di vinely inspired, ihat Jesus Christ wa.- the son of God artl not a mere product of evolu tion, that Christ died to : uvf. the world, that the miracles <»' tile Bible are u'ue as well as the resurrection'of Christ, that all t'orffis of the dortrine of evclu lion will he refuted. The resolutions were adf pb. ed “inasmuch as there is a great eifnrt on ihe part of modernism t i belittle the Bible aml^tts^y its statements.” A full copy of tbc resolutely may bo found on an inside page of today’s Star. Shelby Has Run Of Mumps. Whoop ins Cough Above I'sual In Var ious Section,- Of State While in Shelby and about over Cleveland county many cases or mumps are reported, measles ai d whooping cough seem to be more plentiful than usual over other sec tions of North Carolina. A dispatch from Raleigh states that M a-les and whooping cough are on the increase rather than decrees ing in the State, according to tin re port for the week ending May 15 made puhlic by the Board of Health, u, which 1540 eases <«f measles and 303 eases of whooping cough are report ed. The figures for the same week last year show but 29 cases of meas les and only 110 eases of whooping cough, while the expectancy figure-, estimated on the average number of cases of those diseases in the same week taken over a period of fifteen years, show that according to this average there should not be more than 240 cases of measles and no more than 210 eases of whooping eougr. Both of these expectancy figures an exceeded in this week's report. The measles epidemic seems to be largely centered in the following counties: Forsyth, with 41 cases; P-ru 40 eases; Robeson, 34; Guilford, six teen, and in the Two" cities, ' where Greensboro leads with 35 eases, who e Asheville, New Bern, Durham and Winston-Salem have ten eases each. The whooping cough epidemic is centered almost entirely in Carteret county, where there are 97 cases, of which 53 are on Barker’s island. While 44 are in the county at large. Thu- r are nineteen eases in Davidson county. Among the cities Durham has the most whooping cough cases with sev enteen, while Asheville and Raleigh each have fourteen and Winston Salem twelve. TOM DIXON TO ADDRESS THE l'RESS CONVENTION Gastonia. May 18.-—'Thomas Dixon, noted author, playwright, and lecturer has accepted an invitation to address the North Carolina Press association at a banquet on Thursday night, July 22, at Hickory during the annual con vention of the association. Governor Henry Flood Byrd, of Vir ginia, has also been invited to ad dress the association and will prob ably accept. MEETING OF THE W. M. l\ DIVISION NO. 3 A meeting of the third division of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Kings Mountain 'Association will Ke held in the First Baptist church, Shel by. N. C. on Monday afternoon. May 24th, 1026, at 2:30 o’clock. Since this is the first. meeting of this division all the women from each church in the division are urged to attend. All others who are interested will be gladly welcomed. Program: Hymn; Devotional, Elizabeth Church; Roll Call; What the W. M. Ik means to a church; Reports, Mrs. W. I.. Packard; Special Music; Mission Study, Mrs. Zeno Wall; General Re ports; Round table discussion: Hymn. Mrs. Rush Stroup. Chairman Card of Thanks. We want to thank our friends and neighbors for their kindness dating the sickness and death of our hus band and father Rollins Roberts. His Wife and Children. Services llrld At Mother's Home In Lincolnton. Burial There. Many j Shelh) People Attend ■ •->--—' . I The funeral servi -es of Mr. Henry J i I.. Vanstory, proprietor of Cleveland Springs hotel, were held 1 uesday af- i ternuon at 5 o'clock at the residence ; of his mother in Line blnt-oii. Burin, was in the cemetery there. The services were in charge >>, Or. I H. K Boyer, pastor of the Shelby Central Methodist church. Many Lin colntdfi friends and relatives'gatherr t to pay their final respects to the man vvellweH known over the entiKLaeci ;oo and in addition to the Lincolnton home folks, scores of friends from Shelby and elsewhere over the state were in attendance. The floral tribute was unusually large and beautiful. , Served Well Here Th ■ deceased was for four years proprietor of the Cleveland Springs hotel and during that tone became the friends of hundreds of local peo ple in addition to his large acquain tance among commercial travelers and tourists. Prior to coming here Mr. V'anstory was assistant manager of the Grove Park Inn, at Asheville, and before that was connected with hotels at Connelly Springs, Greensboro, New ton and elsewhere over the state, be ing one of the best known hotel keep ers in the Carolina*. Body Not Brought Here The body of Mr. Vanstory was not brought to Shelby following his tragic death Monday afternoon at his farm in Catawba county, where he fatally shot himself with a single barrel shot gun. The remains were taken from the farm to his mother’s home in Lincolnton, wheru the funer al services were held. Full details of the suicide have it *hat Mr. and Mrs. Vanstory with the two younger children and chauffeur left the hotel here about 2:110 in the afternoon. Immediately upon at riv ing at a negro tenant house on the farm in Catawba, it is said, that Mrs. Vanstory proceeded to n well in the vard for the purpose of securing a drink of water. While there she heard a gun fire in the tenant house, the tenants, being away at the time, and upon entering fount* Per husband dead upon the floor. Near him lay the single-barrel shotgun which had been discharged. A small limb had been cut from a tree' and was used in touching off the trigger of the gun, the muzzle being held against the head near the right eye. the full load taking effect in that portion of the head. A pistol with c;»t ridges were found in hi,s pocket. It is said that on previous visits to the farm Mr. Vapstorv had used the shot-gun to shoot birds and knew of its location in the house over the mantle-piece. Mental depression of some time brought about through financial wor ry is thought to h->ve been hack of the tragic deed. The deceased was of a reserved nature and usually kom his troubles and worries to himself, the continued mental worrying, it is thought, having finally overcome the stronger will of his personality. Shelby along with the entire sec- I tion sympathizes with Mrs. Vanstory i and her attractive children in *h‘.-1r ; tragic sorrow and loss. Surviving in the immediate family i are Mrs. Vanstory and four young j children: Margaret, James, Violet, ! and Lola Kn.e. Mrs. Vanstory and ! children returned to the hotel Mur- | day evening, while Margaret, the 1 eldest child, is now confined with i mumps. —^-;—_ Fanning Opening Date Friday, Not Thursday j At the foot of page three of the four page Fanning advertisement, ap pearing in this issue .the date for the summer opening of the Fanning store is set for Thursday afternoon and evening. This is a mistake, growing out of the fact thai the date j was originally set for Thursday, but later changed to Friday. The origi nal copy was prepared with the idea of the earlier day in mind. The date is FRIDAY of this week from four to six o'clock and from eight to ten at night. “Damneo' Souls” From The Los Angeles Times Thirteen young bloods of Rochest er University have handed themselves together to banish God from the ur.‘ verse. They call themselves the Soc iety of Damned Souls. However, was j it not a little over a century ago that some one predicted that the Bible would be a relic in 100 years.? It was the best seller in 1925. 9 000.000 copies, an increase of 2.500,00 over the year before. Evolution Guest ___ At Local Hotel \V. II. Kerr, behind the desk i f the t'entral Hotel, in this vity, being imliffereni as to the issue of evolution, allowed a goes’ with a monkey to register at tlu hostelry Monday. It is said to he the fir . monkey ever ontei laineil in Shethy. The traveler w ith the reputed ancestor of man was George It. Sherrill, of Ashe \ille, traveling thither front Miami. Walking into the hotel Sheri ill asked if it would he no. essuiv lo register the monkey. He a a i asked t ait the rates fnj such guests- were. Kerr told him if he really hettened the am mnl was hi ancestor, the us'u1 rate would he charged* but if he wanted to class him with dogs eats and ( .her pets, ho registra tion would be necessary. No name appears on the reg ister for the Visitor, who is said to have been very human like and well behaved. Exercises Held at Central School Auditorium. Reception Follows At Home for Nurses. The graduating exercises of the second class of nurses to graduate at the Shelby hospital were held Tuesday evening in the Central school' audi torium with a large crowd in attend ance. The four nurses graduating from the training school at the Shelby ho* pital were: Minnie Ada McCoy, Mar garet Eunice Crowder, Sarah Robert* and Maggie Sue Atkinson. The graduating program was oper ed with selections by the Shelby Iligft school orchestra and invocation by Dr. H. K. Boyer, of Central Methodist church. Prof. J. C. Newton, who ma le the graduating address, was then in troduced by Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, who presided over the exercises. Mr. Newton’s instructive and inter esting address was followed by the presentation of diplomas by Dr. E. B. Laitimore, president of the hospital staff. The class pins were presented by Miss Ella H .MacNichols, superin tendent of the hospital training de partment, and the benediction was by Rev. H. N. MeDiarmid. There weie other musical selections by the or chestra, a violin solo by Mrs. John Schenck jr., and a vocal solo by Mrs. Ben Suttle. Following the exercises a large miin bpr of Shelby people together with visitors and friends of the graduates gathered at the nurses’ home on the hospital campus for a big reception that followed. Affleck Returns After Visit Here Phillip G. Affleck, prominent Wash-I ington realtor, left Tuesday for his home at Washington, I). C., following a t isit here to his valuable property holdings near the Cleveland Springs Estates., Mr. Affleck, who recently bought a large tract of the D. O. Wilson land for a lake site, announced just before leaving that on his return he would make an announcement of consider able importance to Shelby realty cir cles. S. LaFayette School Closes On Saturday The dosing exercises of the South LaFayette street school will be held Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock on the school lawn, it is announced from the school. The exercises will include a patrio tic pageant “Memories of America” and quite a gathering of patrons and parents is expected for the exercises, which promise to be very entertain ing. Morrison Will Run For Senate in 1932 High Point, May 18.—Former Gov ernor Cameron Morrison will be aj can didate for the United States senate in the primary six years from now, ho admitted to newspaper men here to night. Governor Morrison said he is -tip porting Senator Lee S. Overman for re-election this year and believes that in view of Senator Overman’s long career and loyal service to the coun try during the war he is entitled to serve another term. The only qualification former Gov ernor Morrison placed on his inten tion to be acandidate in 1982 was, “If 1 live and keep my health.” ; V'J.vw Pour Concrete On Highway 20 Highway Forces Start Paving Main Thoroughfare Through County, Hcgins At Mooresboro. Highway construction forces last week begun paving one of the biggest unpaved links in North Carolina fn tnous highway from the mountain *o the sea—Highway 20. From the office of Resident Engi neer H. M. Graham it is learned th.it workmen on Friday of last week poured the first concrete on the stretch at a point near the Rutherford-Cleve land line just beyond the town of Mooresboro. Since that time the (lav ing forces have been busy moving on ■eastward in the direction of Shelby. Five Months Vet Hy the middle of October, it is thought, Shelby people will be able to motor over concrete all the way t«* Asheville. At least that, is the estimation cf Mr. Graham, who says that it will liketv take five months to complete the paving from the Ruvherford line to Shelby. This estimate does not include handicaps or an awry turn in the work, the highway forces put ting down something like 500 feet of concrete daily. It was first planned, It is said, to start one force on this end of the un pavod strip, hut due to a handicap in the bridge work over Broad river the (dan was abandoned. Work on this bridge just out of Shelby has been completed for the crossing of the new paved road, but grading work around the bridge !ia [ not yet completed. When this is done detour traffic will V.‘ routed that way saving a roundabout run just out of ■ Shelby. And with the pouring of con crete the detour beginning on the west side will be at Mooresboro. When this link of Highway 20 Is completed one of Eastern America’* greatest through state highways will he ready for continuous traffic, the highway extending from the Atlantic seashore to the Western Carolina mountains. A '--------- $ Mr*. Hoyle Passes After Long Illness Resident of North Brook Townslrp. Lincoln County. Buried At Oak Grove Church This County Lincoln Times Mrs. W. D. Hoyle, aged 53 years died Sunday morning at her home in North Brook township after an ill ness which extended over a period of two years. Funeral services were condutcetl Monday morning at Oak Grove M. P. church in Cleveland 'county. Rev. J. M. Morgan, the pastor assisted by Rev. J. D. Morris. Deceased was a loyal member of the Methodist Pro testant church and was highly es teemed in the community in which she lived. Mis. Hoyle is survived by her hus band and one daughter, Mrs. C. E, Phillips of Monroe. t Local Party Off For Hot Springs A party of Shelby and Cleveland county people left Tuesday for Hot Springs, Arkansas, where they will spend vacation and rest for several weeks. • Among those j going were: Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stanley, Charline Stanley, Joe Stamey and T. C. Stamey, Jr., Mrs. Mabel Lovelace, Mr. W. D. Lack ey, Mr. Hatcher Webb, Mrs. D. D. Lattimore and Dr. G. M. Gold. gf Warning To Voters Not Having Registered During this week queries have been numerous regarding registration fog the coming Democratic primary. Judge John P' Mull stated today; that some were under the wrong im pression about registration. Those who registered for the city and bend elections of recent months are not necessarily registered for the county, primary. Some who registered for tha city elections are under the impres sion that they need not register ag?in If you were registered two, years ago, or voted two years, you arc en titled to vote in the coming primary. If not you should register before thfl registration boks close Saturday. N ewtoi\ Case Goes ' To Supreme Court Raleigh, May 18.—The stat£ High way commission will seek a hearing at the present term of the Supremo court on the appeal from the adverse decision of Superior Court , Judge J. L. Webb, in the action of the town of Newton to compel the commission to! route highway No. 10 by the court house door at Newton. j i