NORTH CAROLIN A’S LEADING NEWSPAPER OUTSIDE OF THE DAILY FIELD
SHELBY
Was Carolina’s Fastest Grow
ing Town 1920-1925 By U. S.
Census.
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VOL. XXXIV, No. 80
THE STAR
Is The Leading Paper of
Shelby and The State’s Fertile
Farm Section.
THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C.
MONDAY, JULY 5, 1926.
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. £y rnai1.’ per year (i.n. advance>~$260
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Hamrick And Spurting Winners In Second Primary
NEW CONI PEST
15 LEAF HOPPER
.Appears In Cleveland And County
Agent Hardin Says Is Playing
Havoc With Cotton
A newcomer—an unwelcome visitor
.. ]- announced in Cleveland county.
It is the Leaf Hopper, whose pres
ence is explained by A. Hardin, coun
ty agricultural agent.
According to Mr. Hardin the Leaf
Hopper, which is in dimensions and
looks a small edition of a gras:- hop
p-r, is playing havoc with cotton
plants—being a worse enemy than the
celebrated boll weevil.
It appeared in the state for the first
time last summer, and created groat
alarm. Now it Is back, with renewed
P"P. It has appeared in two sections
of Cleveland county, in the west in
the vicinity of Boiling Springs, an.i
to the North near Polkvillle.
Numbers of farmers have com
plained to Mr. Hardin that the pest
has invaded their cotton fields.
It works on the leaves and the bolls,
cutting the young bolls off from the
stem. Mr. Hardin said he found a
many as fifteen or eighteen of the
insects on one plant. They arc diffi
cult to see, he explained, owing to
their greenish color, but if the plant
is shaken they hop off like grass hop
pers and disappear.
Mr. Hardin said they eat the leaves
from the tip inward, and so diminish
the leaf area as very seriously to
impair the power of the plant.
Mr. Hardin has asked State Enty
niologist Metcalf, of Raleigh, to come
to Cleveland county to investigate the
ravages of the insect and to suggest
means of combating it. Mr. Metcalf
js due here today (Monday.)
Meantime he has reported to Mr.
Hardin certain aspects of the work of
the Hopper, asserting that dry
weather, such as has inflicted these
parts for many months, is highly fav
orable to its propagation and work.
Old Timer* Visit
Haunt* Of Other
Days At Morehead
Camp Glenn at Morehead City wdl
have several interesting visitors this
week in addition to the usual quota oi
militiamen. Three Shelby men de
parted over the week er.'J to visit
haunts of old at the old drill grounds
and will bring back memories to the
seaside camp of other days when
fathers of the boy sdrilling the re now
filled the camp barracks.
The three are: Capts. Hugh A.
Logan, J. Frank Roberts and Charlie
Roberts. Accompanying them was
Squire T. Cling Eskridge, county cor
oner. Logan, and the twfo Roberts are
former service men and two of then*,
have headed company K, formerly
company G, Shelbyjunit, in days gore
by at Camp Glenn, while Capt. Cha'
lie Robers has visited Morehead ;n
the role of first lieutenant of old Co.
G. new Co. K.
Several weeks ago Sheriff Logan,
Charlie Roberts and Squire Eskridge
decided to go down and spend a week
or so with Company K, and later
Captain Frank Roberts "decided to join
the party. ?
It is likely that it is the first inci
dent of the type to transpire at More
head in which three captains of Co.
K, present and past, together with a
former first lieutenant will be thera
together.
Dance At Cleveland
On Thursday Night;
The Shelby Cotillio nclub announces j
a big script dance for Thursday
night July 8, at Cleveland Springs j
hotel. The music will be furnished by
the Tar Heel Syncopators, crack
Shelby orchestra. The hours are nine
to twelve.
The cotton ball planned for that
evening will not be held it is generally
understood, there being some misun
derstanding about leadership in the
event following postponement of the
date. The dance of that night, how
ever, is expected to be widely at
tended.
Detective Arrests
Boys At Ellenboro
Charlotte, July 3.—C. W. Johnson, j
Seaboard railway detective, yesterday |
returned from Ellenboro, where he as
sisted in the arrest of two boys, Otis
Hamrick and Roy Bright, both charg
ed with larceny.
The arrest followed a series of
thefts on the Seaboard. They are ac
cused of breaking into a box car and
making way with merchandise val
ued at $16(h
Prelates at Eucharistic Congress
* —NBA. Chicago Bureau
Nearly i (HKMK'O Catholic* assembled recently In Mundelein. 111., near
for the KucTiaristlc Congress of the church The picture shows
Cardinal bonranc (left) special representative of the pope, and Cardinal
MunJeieln Chicago f
Factories And Not Farms Now
Backbone Of North Carolina
Shelby Company Off
For Morehead Camp
Company K, Shelby unit of the
State guard troop®, entrained here
Saturday for Morehead city for theii
regular summer encampment at Camp
Glenn. Capt. Peyton Me Swain and
the non-commissioned officers of the
unit accompanied the men on the
special train. Lieutenants Mike Aus
tell and “Shorty” Long having been
at Morehead far several days.
/Extra Cleaning Force To He Addrd To
Street Department With Funds
Thus Arising
A trash removing tax is being dis
cussed by t.he city fathers and will in
all probability be levied against
Shelby merchants, the funds thus
secured being used to enlarge the
street cleaning department. An extra
force will prubably be nut on to haul
away the trash and rubbish that is
thrown to the rear of the stores where
it accumulates and is blown to the
four winds, creating an unsightly ap
pearance and contributing to the in
,sanitation of the town. The tax will
in all probability be $2.90 a year on
merchants with stocks worth up to
$1,000; $5 per year on stocks worth
from one to So,000; $10 on stocks
worth from $5,000 to $10,000; $20 on
stocks worth from $10,000 to $20,000
and $25 on stocks worth above $20,
000. In lieu of this tax, the city will
haul away all trash at regular stated
intervals, thereby keeping the back
lots free from all rubbish which other
wise blows out into the main streets
and makes them un.ightly and mar
the appearance of th<' town.
City attorney O. M. Mull has been
instructed to draw such revenue ordi
nance but this has not been done as
yet. The above, however, is a tena
*tjve agreement of what the city fath
ers im«nd to do in their efforts to
keep Shelby clean and the method
thev have adopted to raise revenue
with which to enlarge the street
cleaning department. Sentiment is
crystaling for a suction sweeper and
before the year has ended .one of the
newest and latest model machines
will probably be purchased.
>1 ItS. REICH ARD’S GARDEN
IS PRODUCTIVE THIS YEAR
Mrs. Charles Reichard. of Lawndale,
usually has a good garden despite un
favorable weather conditions. So far
this Spring she has sold 165 dozen
cucumbers, 65 gallons of beans and
tomatoes in proportion. Of course the
garden is not.yet at its best. Other
truck is coming on and with favor,
able weather she will have a better
record to report last. Mr. Reichard
reports that his section did not have
any rain Sunday.
Miss Pauline Stevens, an attrac
tive deaf girl of Lynchburg, Va„ will
arrive this week, to spend part of the
summer with Mr. and Mrs. A. V.
Wray on North Morgan street. Miss
Stevens attends the Virginia school
for the deaf at Staunton. She has
spent part of the summer here before,
and is well known to local people.
Raleigh—Factories, not farms, ar«
trow the backbone of North Carolina,
according to figures for 1925 present
ed in an article by Governor A. VV.
McLean, showing the value of the
state’s industrial output to be more
than one hundred million dollars n
year, or almost triple the value of
the stale’s agricultural output.
Governor McLean has recently
written an article for the Index, a
publication of the New York Trust
company, one of the largest banking
institutions in the United States. The
article deals fully with North Car-;,
lina as an industrial 'tate and goes
into particulars about the progress
made during the past year.
Values produced by North Carolina
industry, according to Governor Mo
Lean, came very largely from the ut
ilization of natural resources of the
state itself, principally cotton and to
bacco.
Power that turned the wheels of
North Carolina industry during 1925,
says the governor, was largely power
that was drawn in the form of hydro
electric energy from North Carolina
Streams.
This hydro-electric industry has de
veloped 690,000 horsepower and deliv
ers more than a billion and a half kil
owatt hours of electrical energy an
nually. In large part this power is
used in turning spindles of North Car
olina’s more than five hundred textile
mills.
State's Own Power.
The majority of this power is
drawn from the streams of Pied
mont North Carolina, declares Gov
ernor McLean, but he states that
recent hydro-electrical developments
in the western section of the state
promise to lend that section an in
dustrial stimulation that will enable
it in coming years to rival in manu
facturing the busy Piedmont section.
In his article Governor McLean men
tions many other salient features of
North Carolina’s remarkable possibil
ities for diversity in industry and ag
riculture and traces the almost mir
aculous growth of the prosperity ol
the state during the past quarter cen
tury.
Dover Church May
Become Full Time
Indications now are that th1 Dovoi
Baptist church may in the near future
become a full time place of worship,
following the recent evangelical sens
ices at the newly established church. !
Rev. D. Frank Putnam, who con
ducted the revival there, met with !
marked success. There were around
60 additions to the church, numerous
professions and many were reclaim
ed.
The sentiment of those active in the
church is for regular services, to be
held and plans are underway to that!
end. Mr. John R .Dover sr., prominent1
churchman of Shelby, has been elect- |
ed superintendent of the Dover Sun-;
day school.
Mr. Steve Woodson who is working
in Goldsboro spent the week end here I
with his parents Rev. and Mrs. C. J.
Woodson. He returns to Goldsboro j
on Tuesday.
Mrs. Graham Morrison and chil- j
dren who have been visiting relatives ;
here returned to their home in Stan* :
ley on Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Shytle and chil
dren who have been visiting relatives [
here will return to their home in j
Goldsboro on Tuesday.
Off To Get
New Evidencej
I>r. Boyer More Strongly Convinced
Than Ever That Dr. Chappell
Is Innocent of Charge.
Rev. H. K. Boyer, of Shelby, as J
counsel for Rev Ashley Chappell, the!
accused minister of Asheville, left ;
for Memphis, Tennessee, Monday1
morning to conduct a further invest!- j
Ration of the facts looking to clear!
his client of the charge of immorality.!
Dr. Boyer returned to Shelby late
Friday afternoon from a two days’ i
trip w here he conferred with Dr.;
Chappell and his friends over tha
conduct of the case, the trial of
which is set for the 20th of this j
month at Statesville.
“The deeper I go into the facts,’’
Dr. Boyer told The Star in an inter
view Saturday morning, “the more J'i
am convinced of the innocence of Dr. |
Chappell. I am completely convinced
that Dr. Chappell was the victim of a '
very unusual and peculiar chain ot |
circumstances.
“And those who have gone into the j
case with me have reached the same \
conclusion.
“I have a letter here,” Dr. Boyei I
went on, .‘‘from a man in# St. Louis
who described the same circumstance |
that happened to Dr. Chappell as hav- j
ing happened to himself. Suffering |
from hernia, as Dr. Chappell was, and ;
walking the streets one night, he had
an attack and went into a house, and j
found later he had sought refuge in a j
negro house of ill fame.”
“But he wasn’t arrested,” it was
suggested to Dr. Boyer.
“No,” replied the minister thought- !
fully, “he was not arrested.*”
Dr. Boyer went on to say that In
vestigation showed that Dr. Chappell
was not in the house more than a min.
u{e by the clock. He was absent from
the hotel about half an hour, the ar
rest having occurred at nine-thirty.
The house was something more than
three thousand feet from the hotel, or
something more than half a mile. The
street upon which the infamous place
was located, is one of the principal
streets of Memphis, which is describ
ed as a city where good neighbor
hoods and bad are pretty much inter
mixed, and exist very close to one
another.
Ellenboro News Items
Of Late Happenings
(Special to The ^tar.)
Ellenboro, July 3.—On Sunday morn
ing June 27 there was a wedding in
Ellenboro, the contracting parties be
ing David Webb and Nancy McArthui
both of Forest City, Rev Z. D. Harrill,
performing the ceremony at his resi
dence.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Harrill are vis
iting his mother Mrs. Margaret' Har
rill.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Greene of Spir.
dale visited their daughter Mrs. Fon
eie Bridges, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Brooks were
visitors in and around Ellenboro Sat
urday night.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Jones and little
son Corbett, visited Mrs. Jones’ moth
er near Lattimorc Monday.
Many people were grieved over the
death of Mrs. Ben Wall which oc
curred June £5. The funeral was con
ducted at Walls church by the pastor
Rev. Z. D. Harrill. Shu leaves a hus
band and eight children.
The Death Angel visited at Holl's
and claimed the IS year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bowen, Horace C.
who had been an invalid from birth.
He was buried at Sandy Plains, June
24.
Mr. John Wright who is in the
Rutherford hospital was operated on
Sunday is getting along nicely.
Mrs.-R. L. Limerick visited hei
daughter Mrs. C. J. Jackson in Forest
City, who has been seriously ill but is
improving.
Miss Ila Hamrick visited Miss
Alma Hamrick Saturday night.
Jeff Howell Was
Buried Thursday
Mr. Jeff Howell, well known Shel
by character, died Wednesday at his
home in West Shelby at noon follow
ing an illness of two weeks with can
cer of the stomach. Mr. Howell was 75
years old and was twice married, the
first time to Miss Bettie Smith to
which union four children were born.
Two survive, Mrs. Minnie Lindsay and
Mrs. Lilly Smith. His second marri
age was to Miss Carrie Kings who
survives with two children. Ben King
and Macie Butler. The funeral was
conducted from the residence Thurs
day by Rev. Rush Padgett and a
large crowd attended. The interment
was in Sunset cemetery.
VAVAW.V.V.'
Hamrick’s Official i
Majority 198 Votes !
According to the Board of ^
Elections which canvassed tha J
second primary returns today, 1
A. M. Hamrick's official major- J
ity over his opponent George D. *1
Washburn for clerk of the J
court is 198 votes. L. S. Spur- 5
ling’s official majority in this 5
county over Sam Erwin for dls- J
trict -solicitor s 337, The vnrt- J
ance with the unofficial returns j
as received by The Star Satur- J
day is no doubt due to misunder- J
standing over the telephone, i
There were fully a thousand 5
people before The Star's bulle- \
tin board Saturday night to get 1
the returns and all seemed to \
appreciate the prompt service }
The Star rendered. By 9:30 J
o’clock, every one of the 24
precincts in the county hn i J
been heard from and the look- ^
er« on at the bulletin board J
knew the outcome. •'
GAR IN FUNERAL
CORTEGE WRECKED
Corpse of Baby Was in Car in Front
—Relative is Brought to Shel
by Hospital for Treatment.
A car belonging to a funeral cor-r
tege capsized in a culvert 12 miles
west of Shelby at 7 o’clock Saturday
morning, as a result of which Mrs
Alvin Johnson, of Henderson, this
state, is in the Shelby hospital in a
serious condition suffering from in
ternal injuries.
The woman was unconscious aftei
having been brought to the hospital
for between four and five hours.
The party, of which Mrs. Johnson
was a member, was accompanying the
remains of a two-year-old child from
Saluda, where the child died at the
Smith hospital, to Durham, where it
will be buried.
The child was the son of W. T.
Johnson, of Union, S. C., brother-in
law of the injured woman. The corpse
was in a car in front of the one
which turned over, and was being
driven by the father.
The wrecked car was being driven
bv Alvin Johnson, who, it was ex
plained, owing to lack of sleep nodded
at the wheel, the Ford suddenly ca
reening from the highway over a cur
vert, and capsized.
There were ten occupants in it, five
young children and five adults, includ
ing the two grandmothers of the dead
boy. All were severely shaken up and
bruised, but Mrs. Johnson was the
only occupant severely injured.
The car was practically demolish
ed.
Monday Mrs. Johnson was critical
ly ill and was operated on Sun
day for internal injuries, which may
prove fatal.
Observe Fourth As
Rest Day In Shelby
Good Crowds in Town for Day With
out Program of Celebration.
Business Houses Closed.
The Fourth, observed on the fifth
here, was a day of puietude in Shelby
With practically all of the business
houses closed there was little business
activity on the streets, yet quite a
number of people came in town for
the day and gathered about the court
house square, discussing everything
from the cotton crop to the primary
of Saturday.
No celebration program was held
at any section of the county and those
enjoying a day’s vacation either
spent it quietly at home, or motored
elsewhere for the day.
Mr And Mrs. George
Gold Lose A Child
The many frfiends of Mr. and Mrs.
George E. Gold, of Metcalf’s, sympa
thise with them in the' loss of their
little daughter, Addie Frances, aged
one year, seven months and 4 days,
who passed away Sunday June 27th
from an attack of acute indigestion.
The little one was buried Monday at
Zion Baptist church, the funeral ser
vice being conducted by Rev. D. G.
Washburn. It is understood that the
child ate some fresh fruit on Satur
day before its death on Sunday and
that an acute attack of indigestion
caused its death. The bereaved par
ents have the deepest sympathy of
their host of friends in their hour ol
sorrow.
Close Races Over County;
Political Precedent Made
l or First lime In History Of County Two Losing Candidates,
Washburn And Ervin, Carried Towns.
Cleveland county’s second primary is now history, and political observ
ers have received two additional, and enlightening bits of information.
Before primary ins'rest displayed is no indication of the vote to be cast.
APp»«-ntly a week ago little interest was shown in the second primary, yet
over ’V»0() votes were cast Saturday, nearly twice the vote expected. And
for the first time in history the candidates carrying the towns of Shelby and
K ngs Mountain lost in the county as a whole.
A. M. Hamrick is the Democratic nominee for clerk of court, winning
over George l>. Washburn by 214 votes as compiled from The Star’s unoffic
ial yet near accurate count. Spurgeon Spurting, of Lenoir, a native son of
Cleveland, is the party nominee for Superior court solicitor, winning over
Sam Ervin, jr., of Morganton, by approximately 1,700 votes in the district
Biff County Vote
Cast; Women More
Active Than Ever
That Cleveland county voters had a
real interest in Saturday’s second pri
mary is plainly evident in the vote
cast. It is estimated now that only
about 500 more votes w**re cast in the
first primary than in the second.
As calculated 5,630 people voted for
their choice for clerk of court, while
6,394 voted for Superior court solici
tor. A. M. Hamrick, victorious candi
date for clerk received the highest
vote, 2872. Spurting received only 2J
less votes, while Washburn received
only 107 more votes than Ervin, the
defeated candidate.
Suffrage Shines
Many and varied were the week-end
comments of the political activity ot
Cleveland county women. That they
are rapidly taking to the ballot battle
was seen in the heated fray of Sat
urday. Around one-half dozen women
spent the day working the polls here
for their favorites—and they really
worked and results of their labor
were manifest.
It was: “Please vote for my hus
band, father, uncle, brother, cousin'
—and so on.
That the urge of the lady politi
cians had its influence with some
was plain, while on the other hand
some of the hard-boiled, never-say
die type, who opposed suffrage and
still oppose, were heard to speak re
sentfully of the active entrance of
the ladies, who have likewise mado
the barbershops “anything else but
what they were once.’’
“It’s a good thing for politics and
will have a purifying influence,” sup
porters of the former would say.
“In another year or so our elections
and primaries will be nothing but
pink teas and the men will quit com
ing out,” was the sentiment of the
other class.
Nevertheless, they’re in, and kiek
Open Air Services
At First Baptist
During the months of July and
August open air services will be held
each evening at the First Baptist
church, according to an announcement
made Sunday by the pastor Rev. Zeno
Wall. Chairs from the Sunday school ‘
department will be placed on the
beautiful lawn on the North side of
the church building sufficient to seat
the crowds that attend and Dr. Wall
hopes that the attendance will grow
because of this cool, inviting out-!
door spot and that he will be speak
ing to 600 or 1,000 people after a
few services.
FALLSTON DEPUTY GETS
AUTOIST AND A QUART
_ |
Deputy Tom Sweezy of No. 9 town
ship arrested a white man of Shelby
by the name of Flay Robbins one’day
last week and found in his Chevrolet
coupe, a quart of liquor and enough
under the man’s shirt to make him In
toxicated. He was given a hearing be
fore Recorder Mull and drew a sus
pended sentence Saturday of four
months. Deputy Sweezy was appoint
rd deputy in that township and in the
first primary won the nomination for
another term over R. B. Fortenbury
by a majority of 47.
Mr. and. Mrs. J. J. Mabry and Mr.
and Mrs. Dean Mabry of Spartan
burg, spent several dnys the past
week here visiting their daughter, and
sister, Mrs. L. R. Phillips.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Stephenson
who have been spending ten days in
Asheville, spent Wednesday here, en
route to Virginia to spend two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Morgan spent
the week end in Asheville.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cannon of Colum
bia. S. C., spent the week end here
with Mrs. Cannon's mother. Mrs. Can
non was formerly Miss Annie Laurie
McBrayer, and a recent bride.
Generally speaking: the primary '
outcome told of one of the closer*,
races the county has ever known.
Hamrick and Spurling, the winners
received victorious margins of less
than 300 votes each. An indication
that all four candidates were held in
high esteem over the county. Ham
rick led Washburn in the first pri
mary by only a small number pf
votes and the margin was increased
to no great extent. Spurling had a
far greater lead in the first primary
over Ervin than in the run-off race
showing that a big portion of the
McBrayer vote switched to the young
Morganton barrister in the second •
contest. Spurling being a native of
the county, although practising else
where now, evidently, as the dopw
sters see it, received his margin from
I that fact.
Ordinarily in days gone by the can
didate carrying Shelby and Kings
Mountain won the race. Saturday it
was different.
Washburn received 26 more votes
in Shelby than the winner and in
creased the margin to 43 with his
lead at Kings Mountain, yet the coun
I ty vote outclassed the two towns and
put Hamrick over.
Ervin did even better With the town
vote. In Shelby the Morganton man
led his victorious opponent by 117
votes, and at Kings Mountain received
a margin over Spurling of 355 votes,
or a total town margin of 472 votes.
Upper Cleveland however placed the
necessary impetus behind Spurling
to give him victory over the town*
vote for his opponent. Fallston andi
Lawndale lead in the support of the
native son.
Returns, incomplete as yet Monday
morning, establish the Lenoir man
as winner, 76 precincts out of the 96
in the district giving him a lead of
1.790 over Ervin. The precincts yet
to come in from Burke, Caldwell and
Catawba do not have enough votes,
even though Ervin received them all,
to change the standing, and esti
mates are that Spurling will with an
official court have around 1,730 load.
Cleveland conetv e.-v-nl-'e ga"*
Spurling 2.843, and Kryin 7,551.
Lincoln mot.-*. «*nvc Ervin
854. and Spurling 061.
Thirteen out of 21 precincts in
Burke gave Ervin 2,309 and Spurling
Twelve precincts out of 15 in Cald
well gave Spurling 3,387, and Ervin
57. >
Thirteen out of 21 in Catawba coun
ty gave Spurling 633, and Ervin 318.
The following tabulated vote of
Cleveland county complete is as given
to The Star and compiled. This tab
ulation is not official and may be
slightly off from the official count,
but the difference from this tabula
tion and the official count will not
be enough to materially change the
standings of the candidates:
Tabulated Returns
Clerk Solicitor
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Holly Springs .. 25 10 4 30
Boiling Spgs-115 42 117 36
Youngs ..... 83 22 79 25
Mooresboro .... 31 48 47 32
Lattifnore _. -103 113 101 100
Fallston _ -203 95 22 303
Lawndale-116 156 77 199
Delight - 43 24 20 47
Polkville..228 127 48 267
Casar _ .. 81 74 31 97
. 84 44 25 105
Earl .. 87 121 116 53
Patterson Spgs. _ 29 95 47 75
Grover. 31 73 41 63
E & W King Mtn. 309 326 496 U1
Shelby 1 ..231 222 159 283
Shelby 2 .321 339 433 207
Shelby 3 .171 217 234 137
Shelby 4 -...322 293 256 338.
Queens...124 39 71 89
Waco . . 62 67 60 69
Double Spgs. .... 84 76 47 103
Sharon _ . 49 36 30 54
Totals ...2872 2658 2551 284^