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SHELBY’S POPULATION 1925 Census-8,854 Where Industry Joins With Ciimate In A Call For You. . I- ■ — » VOL. XXXIV, No. 62 NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING NEWSPAPER OUTSIDE OF THE DAILY FIELD * ■ . .—^ RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section, Modern Job Department, THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MAY 21. 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ' mai1, Per year (in advance)—$2.50 _____1farrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 2,500 Gather At Big Tent First Night Of Wall Revival Orchestra and Choir of 100 Voices i Hit; Feature Other Churches Invited During W eek. Two thousand five hundred poopm filled and over-flowed the big 'tent on s, Lafayette street Sunday night <■» thi: first service in the three weeks lint revival being held by Revs /. to Wall and Rush Padgett, pastors of the i t and Second Baptist church ■ Tile attendance was far beyond the ivi eolations of Wall and Padgett who ], ,,k for one of the most effective s >ul \ inning campaigns ever conducted here. Members of churches not only )j. Shelby but from the surrounding c ui try-side are taking a part, pray ir:c and co-operating in the effort to i, ,ike this an.unparallelled success Dr. Wall says it looks now as if the tent v,ill not be large enough to -eat the nightly congregations, and the lea i er- iif the meeting are trying to ar range so there will be no conflict in the meeting with the closing exe»c:r es of the public schools. South Shelby tchool closes with appropriate e:.< r ci.-es on Friday night of this wees hut capacity, houses will no doubt attend both places. Music a Feature. ■Music is a great feature of the re vivai. Mr. H. M. Pippin direct rr < f music, has a choir of 100 voices and (in Sunday night every available so rt in the choir vvas filled. Sinclair. V d liaras, Tillery, Hamrick and Putr.an impose the orchestra, Williams and Tillery being members of the "Kan read” Spinks organization who Curse with the tent when it was leased. AT. arc good musicians who with the choir and congregational si.igu v ng old familiar hymns, make njysie 'that stirs every fibre of the soul. 'I>r. Wall has thrown his heart and si ul into the. meeting. He has . :.n celled appointemnts. to'deliver -civ ! closing addresses at Henrietta. (T.ff ide and Forest City this week anc is giving his entire attention to intern 1 lv:ng the spiritual life e f the cm: (•unity in the three wee1:- revival, r.xuenses- of the campaign will be hoi • c wn to a minimum. Hr. Wall and Mr. Padgett having in mind no financial •reward—only the satisfaction «.f t’ ■: good that will result from cheir ci forts. ' . “A Great Revival’ wa- the .subidyt of Dr. Wall's Sunday night sermon. It was a great deliverance. Tonight he c ill use for his topic “Standing in try R)each for the Ford.” All f 'd~ g o pt! messages will be free of toe .-.pw tr.eular. It will he a i|uiep N-ew Te-ta ment revival of praying and singing. Kach night the pastor and his ecoig' - - 1.1,ion from some near-by chime!) is invited. InvitT-tions have been ext end ed to churches for this week 'r.s ted lows: Monday night May’ 24th Maslstde church. Double Snrings church Tue-liy t ight May 25th.. Dover mill church Wednesday night May 26th. Zoar church .Thursday ’dglu May 27th. Fallston church Friday night May 2Hh, Klizabeth church Saturday night May 2'dth. Grigg Will Hang Un Hat And Assume His Duties On Tuesday Prof. J. Horace Griffs. principal of the Shelby High school who was re ccntly elected superintendent of schools in Cleveland county to succeed Sqpt, J. C. Newton who resigned to become secretary of the Shelby f ham b'er of commerce, will assume his du ties next Tuesday, June 1. There wal be no inaugural cerentonv when Mr Grig'g begins his new duties. He will imply walk into the office, hong up his hat. roll up his sleeves and gu to work. For the past few weeks he has Wen in the office with Mr. New tor. learning all he could about the big .iul) which he will soon undertake. The Shelbv city school will close this wer' and Mr. Grigg wall have nu leisure •lav before he assumes his new duties. T. VV. Hamrick Co., wh" are r it - Cog up offices for the chamber of oierce headquarters over the jewelry -tore, have a force of carpenters at work, putting in a new store flow and building an outside '•air-way *«> the second floor where Mr. Ne.vCr i will maintain headouartors for the newly organized chamber of coni •fierce. Mr. Newton has been doing 1 ’ •eat deal of preliminary work a..d learning all he could about chain! <•.' of commerce workings by freuucnl ci-iiatinns to Charlotte, Gastonia and Asheville offices. Look at the brighter side. Think bow many people in fierin never have killed anybody. It seems strange that those v. no s,age endurance tests haven’t thought of a gun-chewing contest. Prosecute Traffic Violators In City I'he■ motor n i Who dashes by the ‘••Stop" signals in th<* business sec tion of Shelby is likely to pay .out a ten-snot or so for the privi lege of the dash. - ’ City officers are not saying nujiv, - t they consider that fair warning has been given and that autobm of the section have hatl lane enough to acquaint themselves with the new traffic, system. Th first prosecution came last week and the \ iolator plead guilty—there being nothing els’ to d --and was taxed with the cost , something around ten doi . lar:-. F'i if you have an extra ten buck and need help in spending just fail to notice the signals, and eventually—maybe not so long— it will be. spent. Shelby School Be ard Buys Property I're;m K. A. Wcllmon on N La Fayette St. for *‘>.000. Another school building in the sys tem of Shelby schools will be erected in property, purchased Friday frur.! L. A. Wellmon by the Shelby board . <t education, according to John S.! McKnight, secretary. This property is] said to he ideally' located for a school site a- it is well elevated and drained and fivnts: on both N. La Fayette and' North Washington streets. Purchase • 1 >iee is given at $‘>,000. The pronerly 1 floats -40 feet on each street and nas ! a depth of 100. feet. A beautKv! i Mr. McKnight says that-a ncyv ward school building-'.will be creeled ibis summer and it is the hope that the-building will; be ready for occu iiaii'-y when the next school term opens, in September, The building will! have eight rooms with a large base- j nient auditorium. Of course it \vtl! have steam heat and be.well'equipped. ! The school, officials have not decided whether the building will be one or two stories high but in either evert it will be so constructed that addi tions can be made as occasion demands. Week’s Search Fails To Locate Lost Negro Ki^'liteen Year Old Nego. ( lure Hull, Mysteriously Disappears Near Fairs twit A week's search has tailed te h - ■ciiifc Clure Hull, 18 years old negm boy, who mysteriously disappeared Saturday evening May 15th while go ir;cr- from Zeniri Cline’s on the Bailey Kskridge plantation to the home of his father Frank Hull who lives on the plantation of Mr. Cletus Royster be tween Beam's Mill and Fallston. All last week searching parties went up and down Buffalo creek, rambled through the woods and pastures and ound no clue whatever, except tracks of the negro youth which would indi cate from the way he walked across his path that he had made several times, that he had lost his sense of direction. The negro youth di<l not i.ave a blight mind and was not ac customed to making trips of any dis tance by himself, although he was 18 veers of age. Some people in ihe community feared that he might have n et with foul play, but no due has been found that would e nfirm this belief. He had no enemies, and was a very quiet and peaceful youth who kept close home and both > ) 1 no one. Saturday May 15th. he with a brother and three cousins, went to J'cmri Cline's to a barbecue. His companions returned home early in the afternoon leaving him at the ( line home. Cline reports that he left his home about 8 or 9 o’clock, travel ing through fields and woods with no attention to roads. Hull weighs about 110 pounds, is ical black and his face is spotted from a recent attack of chicken pox. One hand had six fingers, at birth, bui the t xtru finger was removed by an opera tion, leaving a scar for his identity. Anyone knowing of his whereabouts ■ hould notify Mr. Cletus Royster. SHELBY’S RECREATIONAL CENTER j _1_ New Cleveland Springs Golf Club House Latest Shelby Building. fit Year old Lady, Widow of Zollie F. Jackson to be Buried Tomorrow At Sunset Cemetery. Mrs. Ellen Jacksc widow of Zol lie F. Jackson, died ..ionday morning at 2:20 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mr*. Fred Turner a few n iles below She.' y near Hickory trestle, after a protracted illness. Mrs. Jackson was a fine Southern mother, a Christian of outstanding character; and a neighbor whose loyalty and de votion marks her life as an example for others to emulate. Mrs. Jack, on lived on East GraTiam street until a tew months ago when she moved be low Shelby with Mr. and Mrs. Turner. Twenty-seven years ago her hus n.it: died. He was the son of Afcer i ethy Jackson who owned and oper ated the Double Shoals rotten mill m the early days of the county’s his tory. Mrs. Jackson was a member of the Methodist church since early child i hood. She is survvied by four children , Ab Jackson'who operates the Jackson cash store on S. LaFayette street, Mi s Fred Turner, Will Jackson and Mi : Pearl Jackson. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. A. S. Raper of LaFayette Street Methodist church ; tif which she was a member, and Rev. ( C. F. Sherrill on Tuesday afternoon I at 2 o’clock and the interment will be ■ n Sunset cemetery beside the remains of her husband. Woman Is Nabbed Stealing Dress In Store By Manager Mr. E. E. Scott, head of Penny’s, it a sleuth. He catches ’em red-handed. It would never do for the guilty parties to know what is going on :n the gentleman’s mind while ho i., do ing the catching; that is not a part of this yarn. The feature is, he nabs them—nips them in mind career. It happened Saturday. The store was more or less full, A woman en tered. A rather nice looking women, w earing a black hat with a red rose oi it. It sort of set her off, that red lose on the black hat. She had an aii with her, as they say in Peacock Al ley. Leisurely, the visitor made a couple of purchases; a corset and a pair oi ,n >«.s •first class goods of oual:*v. Then, with an abstracted, worldly air, she drifted over to the ready to wear. One of the clerks saw her perform ing a sort of informal act with a twen ty-five dollar dress. It :s not meant she was putting it on; nothing so in formal as that. But she was stuffing the flimsy, light, airy thing into the folds of a coat she had thrown over her left arm. The cleric called her attention to the fact that visitors don’t stuff dresser into coat folds, and the stylish one hung it back on the rack, not perturb ed a bit. She sauntered about the store some more; had the corsets and tie shoes wrapped, and then revisited the :eady-to-wxar. This time she got the dress, and as the saying goes “went south" with it. The theft was reported as the '.to man was going east down Warren street, stepping lively like. Mr. Scott who takes experiences as thev come, went after her. As he approached the hurrying figure he had doubts. He looked at the black hat with the red tose on it, and took in the assured air, and said to himself ‘I am taking a chance.’ But he didn't want io lose the per fectly good twenty-five dollar dress, tnd what’s morf tic £iii't want a thv to get away with anything out of his store, which is the pride of his heart. So he overhauled the dame, as they say on the quarter deck, and spoke to her about like this: “Madam, you have one of our dresses, which I vistt Construction Work On Club House Here To Start Immediately Marshall States v.-wvwv. .••-■/ww-fv. Florida Color Strikes Shelby A Florida color, vivid as that of .the sunshine state, struck Shelby today, and incidentally .introduced something new to realty circles of North Caro lina. At 1 o’cloc k this afternoon re ports front Cleveland Springs Hotel stated that two people were already lined up waiting to make their reservation early Tuesday morning for select Iocs in the Cleveland Springs Estates, which go cm sale at that time. The developer has announced that those first in line get their pick of the property and, it was already rumored that a line would form during the night Monday, hut it was little thought that it would begin forming at noon today. And, now, what has Florida on North Carolina ? I McDiarmid Will I'reach At First Baptist Churi h. Busy Week With t Closing Exercises In School The annual commencemern sermon • •if the Shelby High school will be ot cached in the First Baptist chut 1i' Sunday night. May MO, at 8 o’clo, k, | it is announced by Supt. I. ('. firiffia, i As previously announced the ser-1 moii will be preached by Rev. H. X. McDiarmid, pastor of the Presbyter ian church, but the place was not (ie'it'itel.v known at that time. This week '..ill be a busy one with several closing exercises of the var ious schools during the week. Tfe music recital under Ik**. super- \ \i.non of Mrs. Win. McCord and .Miss; Bertha Bostic will be held Tuesday j night in the Central school auditor-1 turn." Thursday nigh' an esef re-sion re-1 c'H l will be gi ' n by the pubils of j M ss May Washburn at Central j school. 1 Friday evening at 6:30 the F.;’. st ride exercises v ill be held at the scl'ool there. Friday evening at 8 o’cloct: the big program at the South Shelby school witl be held. This will bo ore of the hugest programs, of the eo.-rnience- > inrr.t season. T! i n on Saturday afternoon the tlos.ng exercise.- of the Teacher Training depar.ire.i: will he held, tak ing place at 1 in the afternoon. you would return." The woman brought up all standing, Mack hat and all. gave the manager he once-over, and concluded evidently l h' jig was ill'- Whereupon she lid Ci. 13. S. described as a feminine act— burst into tears and spilled the beans —the whole dish of 'em. • She broke down, she wept, she plead eh. she implored, all out there in the sunshine of the street of a Saturday afternoon. And Mr. Scott let her gv W hat was the poor man to do—a fe male in distress on the public street — and she did want the dress so bad. And that ends the storv-—except the manager has the woman’s right name end may prosecute her, if he can harden his heart up "to that point. Put the chances are when he thinks about the black hat with the rose on it, and realizes how all wonlen like blue dresses that cost a quarter of a hun dred—ho will do no such thing. 1 ' ' ‘ ' Henutiful liecreation Outer to be Erected At Cleveland Spring. Entire Spanish Design. Construction work on the hand some go'.f dub house at Cleveland Springs will be started immediately, according to a statement made to The Star today (Monday) by Mr. Alf>«d I*. Marshall, vales director of Cleve land Springs estates. This announcement carries much importance'to the Shelby section, for the big club house as designed will be one of the outstanding recreational buildings in this entire section and from the standpoint of architecture, will be one of the most beautiful buildings near Shelby. The building will be of Spanish and Italian design and of commodious si*, . In addition to being the center of le tal an dvacation golfdoni, it will alto be a social and general recreation center, serving as headquarters for the various sports of Shelbv and as a .-.etting for semi-out-door and garden social events of the section. Overlooks Hotel. The building, i, is announced, will be located on the hilltop just beyond the present home of Mr. John \\. Doggett in the Cleveland Springs es tates, and will be so placed that it will overlook the resort hotel, the in viting golf course and practically r.'l of the suburban homeaites. The first tee of the new 18-hole g If course is just across Highway 20 from t he* site of the proposed structure while the home green of the first nine, expected to be one of the best courses in the state, will also be Nearby, just to the righ of the course in a spot ideally situated will be constructed the tennis courts for owners of homes in the development. Nearby will be other sport and playgrounds. The building will consist of an un usually attractive club living ret in, locker rooms, showers, pros wn, ladies quarters, shop, specia'ty stands and many other necessities of a big club house. There will be spamsh pa tios and tiled porches where dances, parties and tens may be held. Tbc new club building will be the headquar ters of W. II. E.vle, professional ot the club, and of Dick Gurley, v!ay direc tor for children. Saifs Start 1 uesilay. Full details of the plan of selling Cleveland Springs estates were made public Friday by Mr. Marshall at a banquet given the realty dealers of the section. This evening, (Monday), every realty dealer together with scores of other guests will attend a big dinner to be given at Cleveland Springy hotel. Aetna! sales in the development will start Tuesday morning. Dozens of Shelby people, it is said, have taken advantage of the several days giver, local people to reserve homesites. However, all reservations must be re corded in turn Tuesday morning and last minute information from tne of fice of selling agents is to the effect that there will be a long waiting one at the hotel Monday morning to en ter select reservations. Reports on tie. streets are to the effect that several will begin lining up this evening with ilie probability th&t the line would he increased during the night. After this week sales in outside ter ritory will begin, it is announced. Construction work on the develop ment is nearing the final touches as it peiaains to the Hilltop section now or, the market. Paving is now being put down together with the var:oos Conveniences of city life that the de veloper is adding. Eventually autos will have to be weaned a bit—at least tut down in their daily doses. It's this way: Gasoline is one cent higher now than it was last Fri day in Shelby, Retail priees hereabouts moved to 27 cents on Friday following an advance made -by the Stand ard and by Texaco. Mrs. Sallic Carroll, 5*0 Years of Aye, Died at Her Home Here. Fu neral Held This Afternoon. i Mrs. Sa|lie Carroll, who had ii/oil in Shelby longer than any other cit« i izen until the time of her death, pass ed away quietly Sunday at noon, fol lowing a stroke of paralysis and pneu- \ n otiiu on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. ' Carroll was SCO years of age last Do i ember L’Hth. Sixty-eight years ago die was married to Manus I, Cat tell and together they lived happily tvnt.il 'ipi iated by death of Mr. Carroll 15: years ago. Mis. Carroll before man i :.g.‘ was Miss.*Si»llie Wray, daughter of William Wray and Sara vYarliik. She was born at the old Wray y.h"n tat ion i a-1 of Shelby hut eame n.ie to live after her marriage. She aid her hu; I and first lived on K. Marlon l ee*, moving later to tlie Carroll home near the Seaboard depot Wiure most of their life was spent. Mr. Cur roll was railway and express agent ,n the Seaboard, first at Cherry vilio, then at Buffalo and later at She'by, moving westward as the track wag extended. Mrs. CarroH's death was a great. shock to her many friends. She nad been in her usual health until Satur day when she was taken suddenly i’l at home. Among the sick she was truly a Good .Samaritan, always no. ministering unto her neighbors in sickness and sorrow. She was r de voted mother who gave her life to her family and friends, attending chan h with due regularity when her health would permit. She was very indepen dent in nature and was a tireless worker about her home, never asking oi expecting some one. eLse to do for her what she could do herself. Her husband died 15 years ago and since that time she has been spending most of her winters in Raleigh with Mrs.-Kim Weathers, the only surviv ing daughter. Two sons. Will Carroll and J. Henry Carroll survive with on* half brother. Mr. John S. Wray, the r.ly T!arriving member of the fam ily. The funeral will be held from toe First Baptist church of which she was e member this afternoon at 5 o’clock, the funeral services to be conducted by Rev. Zeno Wall, pastor. Mrs. Carroll had been a devoted member of the Baptist church for over 70 years and a large crowd will n< doubt attend the funeral. Inter ment will be in Sunset cemetery be side the body of her husband. Pall bearers will be J. J. Lattimore. Paul Webb. F. L. Hoyle, S. A. McMui’y, L. F. McBrayer, C F Leonard Rutherford Youth Drowned In River Rutherfordton, May 22.—James Os borne Ervin jr., the 12-year-old son of Rev. J. 0. Ervin, pastor of ■ Methodist church of this place, was drowned yesterday atternoon in btor.d river, six miles west of here.. He hid gone put with two other young com panions to camp for the night and ; tc fish. They decuTed to go in swim- j n.ing and wading when young Ei\in stepped in water over his head and 1 went under His companions brought him up and it is supposed that he was seized with cramp, due to the cold wuier, and fell back into the water and disappeaied. The body was found at 7:30" o’el.-rk about one and one-quarter miles be low where he went under, after stay ing under water for three hours and 15 minutes. A large party 'of men formed a line and searched the river until they found his body. Young Irvin is survived by his parents, five broth ers and three sisters. Sale Of 60 Lots At Auction Is Confirmed Sixty of the 20# lots sold at auction Saturday by the Shelby Real Estate Co., for Spangler, Lineberger, Suttle and Palmer were confirmed, the total sale amounting to about §10,000. A large crowd turned out for the sale and the lots sold at a very reasonable 1 rice. Mr. Rlaekwell cried the sale and after it was over 50 in $10 gold pieces were drawn by C. R. Heffner, Everett White, John Campbell, John Poston and Mrs. J. W. Silver . Dellinger Leaves For Northern Trip A Greensboro dispatch says Mrs. Pierre C. Starr, ot New York, couBin of the long lost Charlie Ross, and Ju lius C. Dellinger, who Mrs. Starr states is Charlie Ross, left Greens boro Friday for the North, where they i lan to further establish proof that Delimiter is Ross. They will go by Roanoke, Va„ where a short stop will be made, then on to Washington, Philadelphia and New York. Shelby Child Fatally Hurt ( harles .McMahan, Aged Five, Struck H> Car At Henrietta And Fatally Injured. Died Monday. I he auto toil seems trt claim a death a week in Cleveland countv. Sunday before last a youngster in upper Cleveland jumped out of hC: father’s car and ran hack for a h it_ the run cost him his life wh.n he was struck by another car. Yesterday another youth was struck by a car and died todtfy in the Ituth erfordton hospital. The victim of the latest accident was little Charles McMahan, five-year old son of Mr. a,(id Mrs. Lloyd Mc Mahan. of South LaFayette street, Shelby. Details of the fatal injury had nut been received early today in Shelby. Mr. and Mrs. McMahan and the little son were spending the day at their old home at Henrietta, attend ing memorial services at the home church there. Some time during the dr.y the youngster was struck by n car. said to be a Hudson. .Just how it happened has not been learned. His injuries were considered ser ious and he was immediately' remov ed to the hospital at Rutherfordtou, where he died at noon today, accord ing to messages received here. The funeral services, it is report ed ( will be conducted there Tuesday. Rev. Rush Padgett, pastor of the family here, together with other neighbors and friends left for Hen rietta Monday. Mr. and Mrs. McMahan live on lower South LaFayette street anti are higi Jy respected citizens. Mr. Mc Mahan being assistant overseer of weaving at the Shelby mill Th' little son claimed so suddenly by th ■ tragic accident was the only chdd and was cowidcred unusually attrative and in t-.Migent by neighbors and those ac uoainted wuth the family. 405 Attend B. Y. P. U. Banquet At Cleveland Springs Friday Night Four hundred and five people at ! tended the Baptist Young People’s union banquet at Cleveland Springs hotel Friday night, said to be the larg est crowd that ever sat around a ban quet table at this modern hotel. The occasion was the gathering of .he members of the six young people’s an ions of the First Baptist church of which Harry M. Pippin is the efficiea: leader. Parents as well as young people were invited and the occasion v\as one Df great inspiration. The. young people had a great time sing ing songs and making the large din ing room ring witfi their yells. Miss Winnie Rickeit one of the leaders of Baptist young people’s work in North Carolina spoke on young people giving themselves ir. life to eesus, while A. V. Washburn associational worker con gratulated Mr. Pippin and the young people on having perhaps the finest organized body of young people of any cburc-h in North Carolina. Rev. Zeno Wall delivered a brief address on the possibilities that lie *n the boys end girls. All went away declaring it ore of the greatest occasions they had ever attended. Quiet Week-End Is Report Of Officers An unusually quiet week-end was the explanation given by officers Mon day for the light uocket before Re coiv.er John Mull. According to Chief of Police B. O. Hamrick only one arrest was made i vi - the week-end in Shelby, which is in contrast, wich the usual run from a half dozen to two dozen. Just why things were so quiet is a bit of mys ttry. Perhaps springtime has soften ed hard hearts, anu perchance booze channels were plugged. Any way, it was quiet. Fanning Opening Drew Good Crowds The Fanning summer opening Fri day drew a large and representative crowd both afternoon and evening, the attendance being enhanced by a great number of out-of-town visitcrc. The even-, was one of the most pl?as ing that has occurred here of the kind, Mr. Fanning and the store managers co-operating to do all in their power to give to the visitors to the establishment a profitable and pleasing hour. The store in its remodeled form waa inspected from the ready-to-wear floor upstairs to the basement, Mr. Fun ning and his associates coming in lor many pleasing words of congratula tion in bringing the establishment to its present state of effectiveness and efficiency. It was freely said the store was of such pretention that a large city might well be proud oT It.