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NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING NEWSPAPER OUTSIDE OF THE DAILY FIELD SHELBY Was Carolina’s Fastest Grow ing Town 1920-1925 By U. S. Census. Wbt lifaelund tar THE STAR Is The Leading Paper of Shelby and The State’s Fertile Farm Section. VOL. XXXIV, No. ?8 nturr*. THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 23. 192G. Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.®y mai1.’ per year (i,n. adIance)rJSS _ £>y carrier, per year (m advance) $.J.OO Farm Crops Good Despite Dry Weather-Corn Suffers Most Kain Within Four Or Five Days Will Prevent Serious Situation, Says County Agent. Leaf Hopper .May Disappear According to a statement made to The Star Thursday by Alvin Hardin. County agricultural agent, the crops nf the county are in good condition despite the dry weather, with the possible exception of corn. Discussing the subject of the diought Mr. Hardin said: “Corn is the only crop that seems to be set back and the condition of the crop is by no means serious if we are for tunate enough to have rain within the next four or five days. “Cotton is not suffering—is in fact doing very well indeed. That is with the exception of the work of the Lear Hopper. The hopper is getting in its work all over the county, in fact all over the state. Its operation is wide spread, and it is doing a great deal of damage. That is to say, apparently it is. "But. it may be that the damage is actually more apparent than real. I mean this, that evey year there is a certain normal droppage of cotton. Such loss is looked for. If the hopper does no more than cause such drop page. the damage will be negligible. But if the usual droppage occurs, plus an amount knocked off by the honour the resulting loss will be considerable. Mr. Hardin said it seems to be the prevailing opinion of experts that the dry weather has caused the hopper to attack cotton, and he said he believes with normal w'eather the threat will disappear. "It seems, said he, that the <lr> weather has for some reason caused the hopper to attack plants other that, it formerly fed upon. It has appeared in considerable numbers this year on 1 h<> potato, and on the peanut. It has done great damage to the peanut crop. And it is appearing more and more on the cotton plant. “I believe it is changing its food habits due to the dry weather, and it seems reasonable to believe that with normal rainfall the pest will resume its former habits.” With Mr. Hardin was H. C. Bates, agent of the Southern railroad, in t'lf-veland eountv in the interest of securing for this section a better grade of cattle. The Southern rail road, Mr. Bates explained, is interest ed in the better cattle movement lor the reason that such create a greater market for products shipped over hi.s line. He explained his point of view thus: Taking his information from Mr. Hardin that there are at least twenty scrub bulls in this county, he said if this number were replaced hv pure bred bulls, the increase in milk con sumption would be startling. ‘‘Statistics prove this,” said the Southern agent, “that if a bull of good stock is bred to a dam, the of’ spring from the union would give milk valued at twenty dollars a month more than the dam gives. “On the other hand, if*w scrub hull were bred to such a dam, the milk supply of the offspring would de crease in equal proportion. That is the reason why it is so vitally necessary to stock a county with the best breeds. “You can see from a little simple arithmetic that a good hull bred to a dam would increase the income from the offspring a hundred - and sixt\ dollars a year .Whether or not such added income is worth while is a oues t-ion that literally answers itself Good Record Made By Lattimore Girl Miss Lilia Crawley Makes 505 Points In Examination. School Opens August 9th (Special to The Star) Lattimore, July 22.—Notwithstand ing the fact that a high school teach er's certificate. Class C, is based on two years in college, Miss Lilia Craw iey. who graduated at the l.attimore high school this spring. took the state examination and made 50s> points when only 450 points were necessary. This is a great credit not only to Miss Crawley, but also to her school, the record being attained only once before irf Cleveland county. The boys Bible class of Lattimore high school has received their beauti ful banner which they won this yeai in the Y. M. C. A. Bible study con test among the schools of Western North Carolina. Lattimore boys won a silver loving rup last year, but only won the ban ner this year. School opens at Lattimore this yeai August the 9th. Besides the regular course ot study we will have domestic science, art, agriculture, music including public school music. • We are better equipped with teach ers and prospects look best ever tor a good school at Lattimore. Half Holiday Quiet In Business Shelby Shelby’s second half holiday Thurs day afternoon was even quutir than the one of last week. With the ther mometer showing 102 and the busi ness houses closed there was little activity on the ■streets, and business folk vacationing for the afternoon participated little in strenuous sporrs owing to the heat. I'or the most part me afternoon was spent seeking shade ice watei and fan breezes. With the half day business layoff and slightly cooler early morning business Friday was very active, there being numerous shoppers in the local stores. Shelby’s Sage Has Birthday Town's Outstanding Character Says If He Had Been a Well Man He Would Have Been Head “If I had come to Shelby a well man I probably would be dead; but I came as a sick man, and I am still living.” Such is the philosophy of Mr. T. YV. Ebeltoft, who celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday Thurs day. Which means in effect that he has .had to take care of himself, and he has done it so well that today he is as vigorous intellectually as the average man twenty to twenty-five years his junior. He gives credit for his vigor and intellectual integrity to the simple life. Charles Wagner the Frenchman who wrote “The Simple Life,’’ and came over here and visited the White House during the Roosevelt regime, had nothing on Mr. Ebeltoft. This Shelby scholar never goes to the movies, never gets in an automobile, refuses the innovation of the electric light (reading by oil lamps exclus ively) and for years has not been be yond the boundaries of the town. Of the movies he says: “I have never learned to look at them, hence I don’t like them. Besides I have some visualizing power, and so I get the same pleasure from reading a good book.” Of the automobile he says: “A trip ! in an automobile leaves with me an unpleasant reaction.” Of worry he says: “I learned long ago that it is folly to worry, and I : never indulge in it. I try to fulfill the ; Biblical injunction—take no anxious thought for the morrow. YY’hen I close i my doors the day’s business is as dead for me as Hector.” I Of diet he says: “I attribute much ! of my good health to correct eating. I eat very simply. Today for example | I have not been hungry and I have ; eaten virtually nothing. I have learn 1 ed to control ni* appetite. He is a Sam Johnson, landed here j in Shelbv. and his hook store might be a coffee house of old, where those interested in the intellectual life fore gather. You can get a discussion, and a learned one, on most any subject at most any time in the Ebeltoft shop. Of the bookseller people say: Will Roberts—"This is the only place I come into am insulted yet come again.” | Carl Webb: “This is a literary cafeteria: I select my mental food, put it on a tray, and pay at the desk. I I)r. Mitchell: “There is only one ! Ebeltoft; let us give thanks.” I Dr Rovster: "I come in here and get in an argument: I am going to stav away.” . , The Star hopes Mr. Ebeltoft s life will be enriched by many more birth days. _>|rGill Here—'0. Forrest Mc Gill, formerly cotton coop repiisen tativo here and now in the realty business in Florida, spent Thursday and Friday in Shelby with friends. Mr McGill, who is a member of an enterprising Orlando firm, says tha. Shelby has progressed considerably since he left the town. After a trip to the western part of the state McGill will return Sunday by auto mobile td Orlando — At New Bethel—Rev. J- M. Sut tle will begin meetings at the New Bethel Baptist church Sunday to ex tend through next week. The Sunday service will be held at eleven a. m. The hours for the weekly services arP, 10:30 in the morning and 8 m the evening. Mr and Mrs. R. E. Carpenter and daughter. Miss Mary Frances are visitipg relatives in Aiken. S. I. Citizens Of Shelby Asked To Flo As Sparing As Possible In I'se Of Water For Awhile With two construction jobs going j on. the building of the large reser- , voir and pump station near the river and the laying of cement base for 1 streets in South Shelby, the supply of 1 water gets at a low ebb most every j day. In addition to the construction i work the citizens are using more than j is normally used in sprinkling lawns, j the moisture being necessary to prc- ! serve the life of the grass because the j lack of rainfall. Mayor Weathers i asked the citizens to be as sparing as ! possible with the use of water until ! the new water station is placed in i operation. He hopes that it will not! be necessary to issue an order for- J bidding the use of water on lawns.! The old water station is being pushed j to its capacity to avoid such a con- ; tingency. There is plerty of raw I water in the river but the capacity of j the plant is simply not large enough j to meet the requirements. Mayor Weathers and Water Supt. | Toms carefully watch the tank every day to keep a sufficient supply on hand for use in case of fire. The water situation is worse this year than last when the drought was very sev ere, but the shortage is due to the in creased consumption. While there has been an unusual increase in the num ber of water patrons, the shortage is due more to the construction work. The twelve inch water main from the new water station to Shelby has been ‘ put down and through these pipes which will carry water to Shelby when the new station is completed, there is now flowing water from Shelby to the site of the reservoir and pump station. Connections were made this week on N. Morgan and N. LaFayette streets when the water mains were tied up with the large twelve inch main to the I new station. Superior Court To Open Here Monday; Expect Short Term Criminal Docket May Be Completed In Two or Three Days Judge Webb to Preside The July term of Superior court will convene here Monday morning with Judge James L. Webl> presiding, and Solicitor R. L. Huffman will likely be the prosecutor. Indications now ar" that the crim inal docket may be completed in two or three d»Vs- unless more jury cases are developed than are now planned-. There are few cases on the criminal docket of general interest. Tnc Bumgardner shooting ot Kings Moun tain, causing the death of Mrs. Bui:« gardner, and the Jessie May France, cases will likely attract major Interest, However, nothing sensational is ex pected in the BumgnHnor hearing. The husband, who claimed that tin. gun was fired accidentally, faces the major charge, but this is said to be only a formality. The civil docket, members of the local bar say, will likely take tip more time. There are numerous cases that will require slow procedure, including two will cases. One ;s that of the will of C. K. McCraw. of the Boiling Springs section, and the other is that of the will of Fannie Poston, who lived in the Elizabeth section. Other wise the civil docket is made up ot the rountine minor suits. The bulk of the cases entered on the criminal calendar are in connec tion with liquor violations and appeals coming up from recorder’s court. Accident Patient* Return To Home* _ i Chart's Eskridge Recoverin'* Nicely Following Full From Car. Others Improve The three patients, who were ad mitted to the Shelby hospital some time back with fractured skulls, have all returned to their homes and are recovering nicely, according to re ports from the hospital. Charles Eskridge, jr., State college student, who fell from a “skeeter" car and fractured his skull on the t rear side of the head, was removed his home Thursday morning and a cording to information the fracture is mending in fine fashion. Master Glenn Short returned to his home in South Shelby last week and I is doing well. The yotingster received a fractured skull several weeks back when he fell from a high porch. Pal mer Paxton, whose skull was fractur ed when he was struck over the head with a shovel in the hands of a fellow worker, left the hospital for his home Monday. Hospital officials announced Thurs day that so far no patients suffering from heat prostration had been brought in. Can^You Tell Them Apart i* —NKA WttxMngton Iftirenu This lif** lil:** of .Who!;!* Lungworth sr>°ukf»r of the House, is^bolng nind«> l>v Washington * wotl known a« ulpfot Moses l)ykar» night* __ Traffic On State Highways Increasing At Rapid Rate Nellie Freeman, Who Cut Husband's Threat, Coes Scot Free. Bible Quotation Helped Charlotte, July 31.—Mrs. Nellie Freeman, razor slayer, tonight was free of the charge that she caused her husband’s death by slashing his throat. After deliberating for 41 hours, the jury this morning found her not guil ty of a murder charge. Eefore taking the final ballot the jury prayed over tha matter, it was revealed after the woman was freed. Before leaving a local hotel for the courthouse to report to Judge Mich ael Schcnck, the 12 members of the iury were led in prayer by Andrew W. Smith, the foreman, who is a steward in Tryon Street Methodist church. Mr. Smith said that the argeement came when one of the jurors arose during the morning and quoted: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” The three jurors who had held out for manslaughter then gave in, Mr. Smith said. Thirty minutes after she had be<‘n freed, the 20-year-old admitted razor husband-slayer was in her mother’s embrace. “I am through with men forever," she said. Talking to reporters, she added she had no plans for the future, but that >she would “care for mother" as long as she lives. Mrs. Freeman, who admitted that she killed her husband on the night of May 22, maintained that her ac tion came when he threatened to de (Continued on page three) Present Superintendent To Resign At End Of Term. Made Success. Borders In R. Lee Weathers, clerk to the county commissioners, has an nounced that L. A. Cabaniss will retire at the end of his present term of service as superintendent of the county home and John P. Borders! has been selected by the commissioners to take his place. ; Mr. Cabaniss, Mr, Weathers said, will continue his managership of the Home through the fall season, but told the commissioners he did not de sire to be reappointed when his pres ent term expire-;. He has been in charge of the Home three years. Mr. Borders, who succeeds to the of the Home for a period of five years or more. He made such a competent officer that the commisioners turned at once to him when it was learned there vcould be a vacancy in the ad ministration of the property. It is said Mr. Borders was so well loved by the immates of the Home during his term of office, that one ol them actually followed him from the place when he left, and has been liv ing with him ever since. Mr. Cabaniss, it is said, made a most excellent superintendent, giving satisfaction in every particular. It is understood he could have held the post as long as lie d* sired it Heavy (Populated C**nters Show Heaviest Traffic. All Roads Have Increase Raleigh.—Traffic over North Caro lina’s highways has been increasing by leaps and bounds_the past year, with hardly a road in the more than 6,000 miles of highways that does not show an increase according to the road census survey of the State High way department just made public. A large map showing the highways with the heaviest travel has just been completed, the width of the lines on the map indicating the proportion of travel on that particular highway. And so heavy is the traffic in centers such as Ashevilfe, Charlotte, Greeo> boro and Winston-Salem, that on the map, it is hard to find the land tor the highways, comparatively speak ing. A comparison of this new map with, the pne made a year ago and the corresponding figures reveals how fast traffic has incr**scd within t»W last year. , , Accurate CMisus An accurate census of the number of cars that pass over every section of the highway is kept throughout the year and i>,t the end of this period the average of the records are taken and the finul average for each section of highway taken. Each highway patrolman is required to check hts stretch of road one day each month for traffic, so that the average obtain ed is regarded as being fairly ac curate. The strip of highway with the high est traffic count in the state is that section of Highway No. 10 extending from Asheville to Ridgecrest and Oiu Fort, which has an average traffi* count of 3.080 cars a day from Juno 1925, to June 1926. The count for the year previous was 2,916 cars a day. Almost equal to the traffic on this strip of highway is the traffic over that section of Route 10 between Raleigh and Durham, which in q year has jumped from an average of 1,685 cars a day to 3,016 cars a day. Another length of highway that has a very heavy traffic stream is Route 62, from Asheville to Hendersonville,] with an average traffic count of 2,006 automobiles a day, as compared with but 1,345 a year ago. The traf fic from Asheville to Charlotte over Route 20 averages 1,845 a day. Very heavy traffic also runs over the highway from Charlotte to Gas tonia. the count on this particular section of Route 29 averaging mote than 3,000 automobiles daily, as com pared with but 2,379 a year ago. The traffic between High Point and Greensboro has declined some in the past year, largely because of the con gestion and narrowness of the roa(». This road is now being resurfaced and widened to take care of the increased traffic. Last year the average traffic was 2,919 a daj** wnTch this year de clined to 2,496. When this stretch has been widened and resurfaced it will probably become one of the moat travelled stretches of all. as it not only bears all the east and west travel on No. 19, but also gets the inter-city travel Greensboro is also increasing, being 1,690 cars a day the past yeat as compared with 1,326 cars for the year previous. Galloway Attends Advertising Meet Archie Galloway, avertising mana ger of Gilmer’s, will go to Winston Salem Monday to attend Tuesday a general meeting of the ad. men of the Gilmer chain of stores. The meeting will be held at the Robert E. Lee hotel at Winston, which is the headquarters city of the Gilmer corporation. Galloway haq now been in charge of Gilmer advertising, under Pairt Wootton, general man u ger for several months. Ice Trucked Into Shelby To Supply Hot Weather Demand SOUTH STATES STRUCK BY HEAT New lleat Record* Established. Three Death* From Heat Reported On Wednesday In South Shelby, sweltering through Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday, mere ly formed a portion struck by a re cord-breaking heat wave according to press dispatches. Tuesday and Wednesday nights were almost unbearable and swim ming pools and electric fans were worked overtime. Thermometers in side business houses registered as high as 04 for three consecutive af ternoons with out door thermometers conservatively recording a tempera ture of 102. Raleigh Man Dies Numerous* prostrations* and three deaths from the heat wave were re ported Wednesday together with new heat records in this State, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Two deaths occurred in Danville, Va. Grover Thurman, father of nine children, collapsed at the Dan river mills and died instantly. George Walker, negro, died Tuesday night, Five negroes were overcome by heat while working on a coffer dam near Danville. Thomas B. Yates, 60, of Raleigh, a retired business man, was the third victim of the heat in the south. While the central and upper south sweltered, Florida and points along the Gulf of Mexico were reveling in balmy breezes and comfortable low temperatures. The July sun, aided by clear skies and scant breezes, established at least five new, heat records. Charlottesville. Va.. though three 'degrees cooler than the hottest place in the south Wednesday smashed the heat record for all time with IDS de trrees. The same temperature at Harrisonburg, Va., established a new fifty-year mark. The local heat record for forty years was broken at Charlotte, where the mercury climbed to 102. Lynch burg, Va.. with a reading of 103 de grees experienced the warmest weath er in eight years. The 100 degree mark at Chattanooga was the sea (Continued on Page Five.) Shelby Has Changed Much In 38 Years, Declares Visitor T. A. Price Bark In Home County After Long Absence Is Astonished At Progress “Well, it just doesn’t look like it could be the same place, yet every change is for the better.” remarked T. A, Price, of Philadelphia, Miss., talking of Shelby, his home town, which he saw recently for the first time in 38 years. The Shelby Mr. Price knew on his last visit, some time in the ’80’s, would make an interesting picture for some of the younger inhabitants. Though he has lived most of his life in another state the visitor says that without doubt Cleveland county is the best Diace in the world to live. “Although I’m happy and getting along fine." he added with a hint of I regret in his eyes. “I believe I made a mistake in seeking greener fields elsewhere. Nowhere in the world have I seen such progress as that made hereabouts.” Asked as to what change in the 38 years he noticed mo't. the Miss issinpi man replied briefly: “Cotton mills.” When he last left Shelby, as he remembers, there was only one cot ton mill in operation near Shelby. It was the presents Double Shoals plant, then operated by ’Lias Morgan, father of Fred Morgan, Shelby textile official. Nowadays Cleveland county ranks third in North Carolina in num ber of textile plants. Mr. Price, who is 65 years of age, left Cleveland county in 1878 and since for the major portion of the times has made his home in Mississ ippi. He came back to the county in June and has been visiting his son, C. G. Price and the family of his brother in-law, John W. Ellis. Mr. Ellis, it will be remembered, dlsd cnly recent ly Among other things Mr. Price spent much of his time while here talking with old friends, boy pals back in the ’70s. Preparing to leave ,for his home Monday, Mr. Price says that the visit concludes the happiest period in hrs life. r I’lantH Inside to Supply Demand ot Heat Wave—Several Suffer Here Three Deaths In State Shelby sweltered again Thursday under the rays of a sun that brought record-breaking temperature, and tried to keep cool by using up the entire output of the local ice plants together with hurried truck ship ments from nearby towns. No fatality's from the heat wave of the past three day- has been re ported in the county although several workers were temporarily knockeot out by the oppressive heat. A colored man. working on the construction jos at the new city pump station, keeleo over under Wednesday's tun, but re covered in a short time. A carpenter, whose name could not be learned, had to have medical treatment during the same day, but suffered no serious con sequences. Numerous others were about ready to drop Thursday when the scattered showers brought relief from the scorching atmosphere. Fol lowing the showers Thursday after noon Shelby and county folks enjoy ed their first ceol night of the wee*. Ice From Cherryville Shelby s demand for ice this sum mer has been the greatest ever and the peak was reached this week. Throuirh Ihe long hot rights trucks from the local plants have rumbled through the baked streets bringing loads of ice from Cherryville and Lawndale, where the Shenek plant Is now making ice for outside consump tion. The Shelby ice plant, running, night and day, and making around 31 tons daily had to secure outside ice a week or more ago to supply all their customers and the same experithc* happened at the Ideal plant, w'here 25 or more tons of ice are turned out. daily. However, the major part ot the outside ice was brought in during the three unusually hot days of this week. Both plants report a record demand for ice coming from all quarters or the city and ice products, such as lco cream, and salads have heen enjoy | ing record sales this week. Heat Broken While this section was refreshed here and there by showers Thursday afternoon other sections of the state continued to bake and three deaths in North Carolina were reported Thursday. However, the mercury hers Friday morning began to rise with indications giving some hope of move rain. The court square fountain, oasis of the thirsty city folks, had its deep well supply practically ex hausted on three consecutive days as scores lined up there for water. The peak reached Thursday was conser vatively estimated at slightly over 102. with a temperature of 96 degrees and more on the interior. Over the State Weather bureaus the state ovei Thursday night reported temper?* tures of from 91 in Wilmington to 104 in Wh'stbn-l'alem. lieat records of from one day’s stardhig to 30 and 40 years were shattered. The three victims of the heat, nil negroes, were working at the time they were overcome. Two of them in Charlote. a laborer and a laundress, died immediately. The man was El work on a construction job when over come. while the woman died at work. The third victim, a 65 year old Eliza beth City negro, was working in the fields on the outskirts of the city when the heat attacked him. In Charlotte at 2:30 Thursday the mereury was one degree higher than Wednesday’s record breaking mark there, touching 103, and no indica tions of rain. Even in mountainous sections thd temperature soared to record-break ing figures. For the second time in 48 hours a record of 32 years was broken with a reading of 96.2, in Asheville. Wilmington, with a maximum temper ature of only 91 by reports enjoyed the least heat of any city in the state. The greatest temperature of tli« day in Durham, wrlth no rain antici pated was 102, while Greensboro fell one short of that with 101 at 1 o’clock. Honeycutt New Head State Press Group Hickory, July 22.—A. C. Honey cutt, of Albemarle, editor of The Stanley News Herlad, was elected president of the North Carolina Press association at its convention here to day. A. L. Stockton, managing editor of The Greensboro News, was elected vice president; Miss Beatrice Cobb, of Morganton, secretary and treas urer; B. A. Lowrance, of Charlotte, historian. W. C. Dowd, Jr.. Lee Weathers. 3. W. Atkins, J. W. Noell and Fred May were elected members of the execu tive committee. Mr. Honeycutt succeeds J. W. At kins, of The Gastonia Gazette, a« president.
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