North Carolina Newspapers

SHELBY Was Carolina’s Fastest Grow ing Town 1920-1925 By U. S. Census. VOL. XXXIV, No. 76 NORTH CAROLIN A’S LEADING NEWSPAPER OUTSIDE OF THE DAILY FIELD THE STAR Is The Leading Paper of Shelby and The State’s Fertile Farm Section. THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advance)_$2.50 By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 ( o:i>truction Work On 5125,000 Worth (it Asphalt and C< ncrete Streets Begins July 1st. Fly Construction Co, and Zeb It. \\'< others and -sons will begin con : ruction work on the $125,000 street mprbvement project on July 1st in •K i iirdance with their contract which >-|H-cifles that actual work must Com mence Within 15 days after the letting r,i the contract June 16th. Th'- Ely i. ,pany with headquarters at Wil. taitigton, was the low bidder fur tht ;i-pha.lt streets while Z. B. Weathers and sons received the contract for the inncrete alley-ways and both have gi-.en bonds for the faithful perfor mance of contracts. The Ely Co., as lia< been previously noted, put down the first asphalt streets Shelby ever had when the hard surface was plac i I around the business section. Asphalt streets will include the ox t< -ion on S. LaFayette through South Shelby, the extension of West (iiaham, the widening of E. Marion or No. 20 highway six feet on each side to Lineberger street. Lineberger street from No. 20 highway to tht r v Eastside graded school building now under construction. South Shelby citizens have petitioned for a forty foot street through that section hut the width has not been determin er! by the city council. S. LaFayette street is 32 feet wide at the old cor porate limits and in all probability th. extension will not be any narrower than this. Ely Construction Co., does alb of the asphalt work. Weathers and sons were low bidder on.the concrete alley-ways widen in clude both alleys on each side of the Baptist church extending from N LaFayette street to N. Washington street. An effort is being made to pave the alley between the Star of fice and R. E. Campbell’s Court view hotel property to Lackey’s Buick gar age, but this has not been approved as ■yet. The alley between Judge Webb’s building and the Paragon will be paved to Graham street also the al ley at the Royster building on S LaFayette street to S. Washington street. I Election Board Asks Early Return of Vote All tickets have been sent out to the respective registrars __ together with a letter of instructions ir. ac cordance with the request of the state board of elections, asking th'.'t the ballot boxes be sealed in orot r ,he! a recount could be made, shot Id same be demanded. It was also re quested that no tickets be distiibn.t <1 1 y the registrars and judges Until the day of the second primary. July 3rd, except for the neecssary absentee voters. ( ounty Chairman, Bynum K Wentii e> advises that an emergency sup.yl> sufficient to meet the demands of the various precincts is be.ng kept on hand, and wishes to inform earn fi ts, rar that if he finds there is an in sufficient supply in his oaekage 1 o pi'f mptly notify the board and a new : apply will be immediately dispa '.P ed. If, on the day of the primary, if is discovered that the supply ts l un iting low communicate with thy chairman at the court house. It is hoped that each registrar wi . comply with the instructions in r - i ; rd to making returns. The county hoard hopes to be able to fuBv tabu late the votes on Monday foil wing the election, which will be first -dun day. July 5th. and to that end io guests each registrar or judge I” hiing the official returns to the c“i' t house by 10 o’clock a. m. so M e can ’ ..-sing board will be able to go about ti>< task without any delay or inrun-, vinience. Anyone desiring to procure tick, .o M r the purpose of mailing to absent: e frichds who would be interests. in voting in this second primary are re emosted to see Chairman B>num " a,hers or Secretary J. F. Harris once as they are now in Position to furnish ballots for that purpose. Tom Dixon Explains Wildacres Matter Thomas Dixon, woh is back of the TMdacres development, stated in an interview with Mr. Bennett. Snelb> lawver, Thursday, that all claims otic peainst his branch office in '.be ei > "'f uld be paid by him personally. Mr. f'ixon further said that W i! Inc if ■ r"1' boen under his direct sun°i■vision. these and other obligations/were ''’c result of sales mans cement, and that the entire force had been rent'C en as a result of the affair. He plans tie' reorganization of Wildacres on an entirely different scale, end €"Pre3s himself as refretful of the occur fence. One of America’s Great Trees —,\'EA. Chicago Bureau Tiiis giant sycamore near Worthington, Ind.. is the largest tree in Indi na and one of the largest in America It Is almost 45 feet in ci; umfer nee at the base, and its topmost branches are approximately „5 feel torn thy ground llow old the tree is is a matter of conjecture Wake Forest Alumni Here Contribute to Their School Thirty Gather Around Festive Board. Building Law Library and En dorsing Bible Chair . An effort is being made to raise $2, 000 from ihe alumni of Wake Forest college in Cleveland county to help build an addition to. the library at this large Baptist institution to provide space for the law library an I more recitation rooms for Prof. N\ Y. Gul ley's law classes. This movement was launched at Cleveland Springs hotel Thursday night with 30 alumni gat ti ered around the festive board an ! lis tened attentively to an appeal made by Arch MeMilHan, alumni secretary and Dr. Bagby, college pastor, both of whom declared that 'he present facilities are inadequate with 42 teachers and instructors Dying to teach the boys in IT class co ues L’t. Gulley says ample books are avail able from the 1.100 law students who have passed the state board from his bur school, acknowledged to be one of the best law schools in the .South, but books are piled in the n.iti d'e of the floors and more space is absolutely necessary. In addition to providing for the law school a part of the £84,000 which Mr. Mc.Milben and Dr. I'okat are frying to raise from ti e alumni, will be used to endow the chair of Greek which Dr. W. B. Roy al ha.- been teaching consecutive iy and without interruption for over 68 \-o- i- a record unheard of in the ar. nalr of education. Talk (her By-gone Days. ]n. Potent who was scheduled to ? i-.k at the alumni gathering had to t ill an. appointment at Winston-Sa lem, epnse'ijiRntly he did not aj pear at the meeting-, but the alumni wire i nthusiastie about the alma .water at,.i readily subscribed about S500 to* waid the goal si t. Rush Hamrick, ,1. C. Ac w ton a ltd John 1*. Mull v ere ap r anted a eontiiiiUee of three to sec id..cut alumni am! present the urg ent appeal with a view or securing the r ominder of the. amount, O. M. Mull who presided, displayed one of the first sweaters that was i warded an athlete 25 years ago, lie regards it as a priceless r-dic of his college days and when he held 't up I ef< re the tit) alumni, the boys cheered like they did in the days of victory on the fields >d' contest, Geoi go Blan ton, E. V. Webb and E. B. Lattimore, v,h(, were members of that famous football team which won Southern | (.i.ms. recalled those days of vi.tt.oey, 'vhde Clyde Jones, member or" cho victorious tea mot last year empha ihe importance of athletics. Judge E. V. Webl) who has been a member of the board of'trustees D't .10 years, pointed out the wondi rful work the college is doing in spite if limited taeilities and called attention t ■ the law school, medical school and . •li'ctir life which have brought such tto the institution. Wake Forest men are now holding high positions of trust andj honor in this and other .♦at<s which is evidence of the fine work that is being done under limited < utupment. O. M. Mull was elected president, B. T. Falls vice president and Max Washburn secretary-treasurer of .the alumni association which will be a permanent .organization and hold an nual meetings, according to the sug . , tion of Attorney C. B* McBtayer. JULIUS DELLINGER RETURNS TO STATE Writes Letter To Star From Denver Telling of Northern Trip Coming To Shelby On Visit A irfember of The Star staff has received a letter from Charlie Ross, whom Julius Dellinger, of Denver, has generally come to be called, tell ing of his arrival home in the North Carolina town, and of his plans for the future. Ross is planning a trip to Shelby, as the city that gave, him the start on his course toward world renown, but he says he will wait until such time as Mrs. Gibson (Mr. Gaffney’s sister) arrives here, so that he. may have a visit with her. Mrs. Gibson knew Dellinger or Ross back in the old days. It was she who it wafe thought had the picture of young Ross taken about the time he was at Gaffney, which would, could it have been secured, cinched the mat ter of the Ross identity. Ross said nothing in his letter about the New York World offer of twenty fire thousand dollars for the story of his life, but he did mention that he plans to put out such a work. And he says further that he is going north again at an early date. Meantime, his trip has confirmed him in the belief that he is the lost Charlie Ross, having been accepted in New York and Philadelphia as the lost lad. Note—W.lliam Lineberger, back in Shelby Wednesday 1'rom -a two weeks visit in Philadelphia and New York, states that he heard a great deal of comment while in the big town about the Ross affair, many expressing the belief that Charlie Ross had at last been found. New Faces Appear In The Star Office ■ 4. _ New faces have appeared in The Star office. The faces are more dis cernible and appreciated by members of the fourth estate who carefully scrutinize every type face that is used in the newspapers. Readers do not notice type faces as much as printers and publishers. The reader class only “takes in” the general ap pearance of a newspaper, but the general appearance is made up by the careful selection of different faces of type which tell the story in print The Star has just received an array of new type faces which will material ly add to the dress of the advertise ments, giving snap and variety to this important part of the paper which is a sort of shopping guide to th» 20.000 who scan these pages every other day. The Star is always anxious to keep abreast of the times and its policy is to improve the paper in style, make up and appearance when the treasury will perpyt. * I Gala Meet At Resort Today \ Business Men From Half Dozen Towns of Section Enjoying Half Day Flay at Springs. An early outlook at Cleveland Springs today speaks for ihe success of (he big gathering there of (he business men of the sec tion for a half day vacation and community event. The meeting is the result of an idea forwarded by Bar Ionia and Shelby newspa pers for the mingling together of the leading but iness men of the western piedmont section, attend ance b, ing restricted to luncheon club and chamber of commerce members and their families. The afternoon is being spent in wi'ii-us forms of play at the Shelby I resort, consisting of golf and tennis tourneys, horseshoe pitching,r.. ,witn ! tr.ing and diving. Quite a number of golfers were list- | j cd for the golf tournament w>th sec- , | oral teams on hand for the renirs j i games, while Dick Gurley. Cleveland : Springs play director has rrrangeC numerous attractive water events. The crowd is expected to increase in size considerably late in the ufier nron and evening as other bu«ims} men and their wives come in from | neighboring towns for the evenii g program. With about 100 outsiders it. attendance during the afternoon i around 100 others are expected in tor I the evening’s activities. At the “dutch” banquet in the hotel i-his evening addresses will be made by Clarence Kuester, Charlotte cham fer of commerce secretary, and Col. j V ede Harris, editor of the Charlotte i Observer, and also talks by cb.’b ami ! commerce officials of the visiting j towns with O. Max Gardner acting j rs toastmastar. Visitors here came from Gasfor.-t, ! Lincolnton. Kings Mountain, Clover, | S C., Rutherforaton, Forest City, ! Gaffney, S. C., and other towns. I Aiound*150 Shelby business moi: and j their wives will be among tbtf cven j ing gathering. Thompson Starts Work On $25,000 Building i L. A. Morrison and Son have beer. : avarded the labor contract for the I | erection of the $25,000 brick store | building which Carl Thompson is hav. j ing erected on West Warren siieet, 1 irfiacent his lumber plant and facing | tt e Southern railway tracks, Mr i Thompson has been excavating for I ti.'s building for several weeks, aft ■ er the old wooden buildings occupied by the Shelby Grocery company was j removed #from the site. The building j .vill be 90x120 feet, two stories hi.-n j with a basement. Construction v ill be j of brick. After the building is coir. j pleted it will be partitioned oft to 1 suit the needs of the occupant. It will , be ideally located and constructed for i the use of a wholesale firm because i the railroad track extends along one side and the street on another, facili tating shipping by truck or rail. Material is now being placed on the ground and Morrison and Son expect i to begin actual work on Monday c f | next week. Star Advertising— It Pays, They Declare l - Does STAR advertising pay? Ask Wray-Hudson. This firm inserted a page id. in j ine past Wednesday's issue of this i newspaper, announcing a sale. 1 hursday morning the stoiv was ! packed. According to Mr. lluiiron many could not be waited on. "We had one of the biggest day’s business we ever had,” said Mr. Hudson, “and I give credit for the result to Star advertising. “It certainly pulled business for us. “Our sales were more than double the figurd we had put down aa the maximum of our expectations.” The crowds of Friday were almost ! equal those of Thursday. Branton Goes With New Cleaning Plant Announcement was made Friday that Worth Branton, for two years with the Whiteway Dry-cleaning com pany, had resigned from thai. firm ai d bought a half interest with J. C. Bowling, of the Sheiby Dry-cleaning eomDany. Mr. Branton will move over bag i.nd baggage to the Shelby company, in the Beam block, Monday. This young man is well and very favdrably known in Shelby, and his friends are congratulating him upon I his move of going into business as a j proprietor. • SUMTER STREET IS NOW BEING WIDENED Southern Railway Engineer Coming To Look Over Proposition Of New ISridge A force of workmen are engaged 1 in widening Sumter street from the j overhead bridge to the rear of the j high school building to the rear of Squire T. C. Eskridge residence, the | street which was ordered opened sev- | era! years ago under the J. T. Card- j Rer administration. Sumter was wid ened from Morgan to the bridge a j year or more ago, hut the narrow bridge and lack of funds hindered further work. Some of the prettiest j .residential property in Shelby lies along this new street and the old buildings and barns will be removed. When Sumter is opened to the rear of the Eskridge home it will turn into W. Marion alongside the Eskridge re sidence. This will furnish a new drive to the cemetery and probably place on the market some of the most desirable close-in residential property. No petitions have been signed asking for street paving or sidewalks but this will no doubt follow later dn. Mayor Weathers was in conference a few days ago with a Southern rail way representative in regard to a concrete bridge, supplanting fbe pres ent wooden structure, and the rail road official expressed himself fav orably to the permanent structure. He will send an engineer here at an early date to make another investiga tion of the re<juest on the part of the city for a concrete bridge arid if it meets with his approval, a concrete over-pass as wide as the s.reet and sidewalks will no doubt he built. Rains Help Realty And Other Business Recent Showers Inject New Pep Into General Business of Section. Prospects Brighter The recent rains have proved very stimulating to business in general in Shelby and over the section. Local real estate agents say that sales and trades have picked up very briskly during the past week with the promise of better weeks ahead. And the same report comes from fhe stores and other business centers of the town. A section that depends primarily on the cotton crop prospects were none too inviting during the drought and a slight wave of pessimism invaded the business world, checking to an extent real estate activity although not having much noticeable effect on general retail trade. With the showers of the past week and the report from the office of the county agent that the cotton crop will likely turn out well in the coun- i ty a change can be noted on the I streets. Numerous new residences are now I under construction in the town and the years building program bids fair to hold up to par if not an improve ment. Presbytery Meeting At Shelby Church! The Presbytery of Kings Mountain will have a called meeting in the Shelby Presbyterian church Monday at 2:30 p. m. to receive two new min isters and arrange for their installa tions. One of these young men, G. C. Bowan, of Bessemer City, will be ex amined for licensure and ordination. | The public is given a cordial welcome to all the activities of the church. At .the Presbyterian church Sunday there will be services appropriate to the season. No regular service is al lowed to last more than one hour, and every minute of that hour is filled with helpful worship. The workers council of the Sunday school will con vene at 9:30 a. m. The worship per iods of the departments begin at 9:45 a. m. J. S. McKnight is the super intendent, and he is asking for a large attendance Sunday morning. At U e. m. and 8 p. m. the pastor, Rev. H. N. McDiarmid, will preach on timely topics. In the morning his subject will be “Danger of Hearing,” and “Restored” will be the evening theme. The junior and senior Christian En deavor will hold their meetings at 7 I P m. Letter to Build at Cleveland Springs Alfred P. Marshall. director if sales of Cleveland Springs estates announces that a home site in the de velopment was yesterday purchased by Mr. B. A. Lefler, sales manager of the Charles L. Eskridge garage. Mr. Lefler, it is understood, will at an early date start the c instruc tion of an attractive home in the de velopment. ^ I Highest Honors —NEA, New York TJureau Ellen Elizabeth Henson, 12, wai j graduated from her preparatory ! school In New York City this year with the highest honors In her clasB. i Her teachers believe she Is the most | imaging girl prodigy In the country, i having a mental age of 19. She Is to ! art In college next fall. Another Suit In R. R. Crash According to information front Charlotte the second damage suit re sulting front a fatal grade crossing t evident on the Dowd road on April 26 was started Wednesday in superior court when the estate of R. H Spar row filed a f50,000 damage complrint r.gainst the Southern railway. The suit followed a $60,000 com plaint filed last Saturday by the es tate of J. V. Sparrow of Cleveland ccunty who with his father, R. H. Sparrow, was killed when their Fet'd touting car was smashed to bits by a northbound Southern train rnglC miies front Charlotte. Mrs. Mary Knight, as administra tor for the estate of R. H. Sparrow, filed the complaint. Vanstory Surrenders His Lease and Directors (Jet Lineberger to Op erate the Hotel. J .C. Vanstory of Goldsboro, mana ger of the Hotels Kennon and Golds boro, and lessee with his brother Henry Vanstory manager of the Cleve land Springs hotel who met a tragic death about six weeks ago, surren dered his lease on the Cleveland Springs hotel Tuesday of this w< ok end the directors pui J. I). Ltneberger in charge to operate the institution for the stockholders. Mr. Linebergcr has taken charge but has not leased the ’nsiitution. IKs position there is sim ply that of representative of the h 1 cctors of the Cleveland Springs com pany and the stockholders an i he will continue in charge of affairs ui til some permanent arrangement is Made. There was a noticeable improve ment in the dining room fare of the he,tel when Mr. Linebergcr took charge. He has had considerable ex f'erience in making menus, heing one of the owners of the S. and W. chain of cafeterias, one of the largest, chains of eating places in the Carolina® It ts understood that the directors will ail t irrize Mr. Lineberger to carry on an advertising campaign for summer vis itors. Outlook is very promising and there is aready an appreciable in crease in the number of guests with Cleveland Springs estates offering recreational facilities and making a strong bid for outsiders to come and j enjoy the climate, cusine, mineral we- j ter® and recreation at this noted old resort. Miss Reinhardt Dies At Virgina Home The remains of Miss Janie Rein hardt who died last week at Warren, Vh., were brought to Cleveland county for interment last Thursday at Ka desh Methodist church, Belw’ood. Miss Reinhardt had been living iu the Bel wood community until 7 years ago when she moved to Virginia with J£*\ and Mrs. John Webber with whom she had lived for nearly a half cen tury. She was a woman of fine quali ties and her death is learned with great sorrow to her many friends in the two states. She was 'sick for awhile with menengitis and pleurisy which ultimately affected her heart, resulting in her sudden death. A larga crowd of friends from Virginia accom panied ihe remains to Cleveland coun ■ tv and Revs. Charles Goode and Jc)in Greene conducted the funeral services. Second I’rimarj Results Apparently l'p To Vote of Farmers Judging From Working of Candidates \\ ith ( leveland county's second pri niary only a week and one day in the offing, Interest is at low ebb in Shel by, with little more being shown over the county. However, it's the county vote that will decide things as appearances go. Anyway, that seems to he the belief nf the two county candidates and the. two outside candidates for Superior Court solicitor.. In Slielby one hears considerably less talk of the second primary than was the case in the first—and inter est was none to high before the first primary although a heavy vote was cast. Shortly following the first primary the political dopesters surmised that the outcome of the second would be up to the farm vote. “Getting the far mers out for the second primary with, out a full ticket will be the big job,” they said. And apparently the remaining can didates accepted the prophecy us straight dope. Messrs. A. M. Hamrick and George H. Washburn, the two county candi dates for clerk of court, are not vis ibly giving Shelby a hard working, but reports eking in from the rural sections have it that they’re letting none of the proverbial “grass grow under their feet" in the farm sec tions. Both have campaigned Shelby and Kings Mountain to an extent and apparently feel confident that their forces are properly lin$d up in the in corporated places, leaving full time work where it is expected to be a task to get out a heavy vote. In that instance someone may be fooled. From general appearances and by the predictions of some only a light vote was looked for in the first primary, and nearly 6,000 people ex pressed their wishes that day by cross ing a ballot. And, on the other hand, the greater number of voters may feel like that they got enough kick out of the initial ballot battle and a light vote may result. Either light or heavy, the two candidates for Clerk George Webb's office seem to believe that the farm vote will have much to do with their future. Sam Ervin and Spurgeon Spurling, candidates for the solicitor, look at it from practically the same view point, it seems. Both men have been recent visitors in Shelby, but not for any long stay.. Their cars soon head ed for the rural sections, and on var ious occasions have the trips been made out with friends in the county. JIFFLECK TO PUCE The A fleck holdings in and about Shelby will go onthe realty sale^, mar ket next week, it is announced by Mr. Phillip G. Affleck, of Washing ton, owner of the property. Mr. Affleck, who is in Shelby to at tend the business men’s gathering at Cleveland Springs today, is having the final survey made of his valuable property adjoining the Cleveland Springs Estates. The Washington man, now a big Shelby boost ir, was very much interested in the luncheon dub meeting today and announced some time back that he intended to be present. On Highway 20 His first property to go on the market will be what is known as the Affleck Sub-division No. One, which is just east i^ the Cleveland Springs Estates on highway 20 and the Eliz abeth road, lying between the estates and Cleveland Heights, the develop ment of Gardner and Mull. Mr. Affleck has had the property plot teil* and announced that by mid week it should be in the hands of local real estate agents, who will handle the sales. He purchased the property in several separate deals and will unite it and block it for sale. This property, favorably situated, is considered the highest residential property on the Cleveland -Springs road, or especially m that vicinity which has become a realty center. Following the sale of the sub-divi sion the Washington realtor plans to open a second one on the Lincolnton highway, disposing of a part of the Wilson lands purchased some months ago by him. Then, he says his lake just west of Cleveland Springs Es tates towards Shelby, will be con structed and a lake residential section opened. . . Having a verv optimistic opinion of this section, Mr. Affleck expects homesiteS about Cleveland Springs I to be more in demand by another year and still more as the outside world gradually learns of the climatic and living advantages of the section.