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READ THE STAR’S NEW SERIAL “THEY NEVER KNEW.” IT’S BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. BEGINS MONDAY AUGUST 2. THRICE A WEEK. SHELBY Was Carolina’s fastest Grow ing Town 1920-1925 By U. S. Census. Hit THE STAR Is The Leading Paper of Shelby and The State’s Fertile Farm Section. VOL. XXXIV, No. 91 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advance)„$2.50 ____ J By carrier, per year (in advance) |3.00 Five Sentences Imposed In Superior Court Here I wo Boys Who Broke in Stanley's Store go to Juvenile Court, Another to Roads n Months. Judge Webb’s well-known pro clivity to slap road sentences on vio lator; of the Prohibition law came into full play Thursday afternoon, when nearly every person appearing before him in whiskey eases received a term to serve on the county roads. The criminal docket was finished Thursday afternoon, so far as was possible, with the conviction of three negro hoys on a charge of breaking and entering. Besides the trial of Charlie P.um gurdher, the high light in Wednes day’s and Thursday’s dockets were as fellows: tanner 1 rum was aeciareu not puilty of a charge of possessing and transporting liquor. It developed that he had carried three negroes from B acksburg to Kings Mountain, who were in a more or less intoxicated condition, but the jury held that this was insufficient evidence to find him connected with the beverages. Mattiej Bradford, of Rutherford county, ,waa also acquitted of the charge of carrying a concealed wea pon. Precedents cited by her at torney, C. B. McBrayer, indicated that uqder the circumstances in her case, she was justified in carrying tl e pistol in her pocket. t'hurch Jackson, charged with the possession of a pint of liquor., was found guilty by the jury, and <h" court fined him $10 and costs. Julius Gamble, Blaine Hollifield, Bart Wall and McSwain, indicted under the same warrant, were acquitted. In the last case o fthe afternoon, three negro boys, Willis Odom. Eli Odom and Jacob Clements, were (harged with breaking and entering the store of Stamev Co., and steabne thorefrom a nuantitv of merchandise as well as about $05 in cash. The three of them pled guilty, hut thei lawyer,, B. T. Falls, showed the court tbr t two of them were, under age and consequently outsid" the. juris diction of the court. Hence Willis Odom was given a sentence of 0 months in the county jail, and the other two were sentenced to appear before the Judge of the Juvenile Court, Geo. P. Wcbh. Saturday. Sentences Imposed Judge Webb also found timn t > im pose five sentences, besides the or. s mentioned above, during the enur e of his afternoon’s work., of which the four-months sojourn in the coun’v jail given to Charlie Bumpardn r at-, tiY.ctcd the most interest. Mr Hoev. counsel for the defense, brought ou*l that the jury’s derision, in accordance with the instructions of the court, had been rendered on a uehnicalitv. and that there was no evidence to •how that the defendant was guilty nf any criminal intention. Th” sen tence imposed by Judge Webb is the lightest that the law permits for an ( ffonsc of this kind. Wash Harlow, convicted of manu facturing intoxicating beverages, was sentenced to three months on the roads of No. G township, despite the nlea for a suspended sentence ma> e by his counsel. His offense ocean eo two years ago. , Forest Chapman received three months for embezzlement, w i ‘ < larenoe Bostic, convicted of possess ing materials for the nianufaciuie liquor, wjis fined $100 and costs, aiu placed under a $200 bond for good be havior during a period of mon i>. Clyde Beatty, charged with f'n<l A. was fined $75 and costs., and like wise placed under a good behavioi bond. . - . Many cases were continued < u( the absence of witnesses, and toy other causes. However, the ' (H ‘ was considerably lightened during t u four days which have been given 0 the criminal cases thus far. Auto Values Larger Than That Of Schools S. H. Hobby, jr., of the department of Rural school economics says the investment in automobiles in (leve ls nd county last year was $4,690,400, while the value of school property was only $642,000. In the state at largo the investment in automobiles is four and a half times as much as the value of school propAty. Mr. Hobby’s fig ures appear in a recent issue of the University News Letter. The table is based on the value of school property in 1925 as reported .'■y the state superintendent of public instruction, and the number of auto mobiles as recently reported by tnc state department of revenue. Auto mobiles are figured at $800 each, ♦he figure of the National Automobile f hamber of commerce. Mrs. Drennon of Birmingham, Ala.. will arrive the latter part of the week, and spend the week-end at Cleveland Springs Hotel with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Wtbb. I f-' ** v *.* *.* *.» *.* •,* «,♦ ♦,* ♦,* «> :: Eye Burned Out By Lighted Cigarette A lighted cigarette between the lips of a friend with whom he was scuffling, will cause Franklin Williams to lose the sight of his left eye, according to the father, Forrest Williams who lives oh N. Washington street,, Shelby. Franklin Wil liams is about 18 years of age and a namesake of his grand father, .1. Franklin Williams, now living near Elizabeth church east of Shelby, who was for a number of years the pop ular clerk of court in Cleveland county. Young Williams is living at High Point and a few days ago w'il > scuffling with a friend who Ivad a lighted cigarette be tween his lips, the friend in the Scuffle drew Williams close to his body and the burning end f th" cigarette punched in the young fellow’s eye. It was with no malice or intention on the part of his playing companion that the cigarette struck Williams in the eye. Young Williams has been re ceiving the attention of the best eye specialists, but the sight of the eye will be lost entirely. *,♦ ♦«»»♦»♦*«♦ #,♦ **«*♦*«* »♦ ** ♦♦♦,*«» «* ».♦ WILL ADVERTISE TOWNS JOINTLY Six Shelby Men Attend Western Car olina Chamber of Commerce Meeting At Lenior J. C. Newton, secretary of the Shelby Chamber of Commerce., Wm. Lineberger, ,W. .C. Harris, Paul Webb, Mai Spangler and Max Wash burn, attended on Wednesday a j meeting in Lenior of the Western North Carolina Federation of Cham- j bers of Commerce. Ways and means were discussed of bringing the at tractions of the different sections of ! the Western portion of the state be- j fore the national public. President C. P. Rogers, of Hender sonville, piesided. F. Roger Miller of Asheville, occupied the position of secretary for the organization, which includes in its membership represen tatives of Chambers of Commerce in practically every city in the moun tain section. The sessions began at 11 o’clock and terminated at 4 p. m., when a motion was made and unani mously passed to accept the invita tion cf the Chamber of Commerce at Hickory to hold the ne,\t meeting of the organization in that city. The federation accepted the report made by G. A. Abbott, of Marion, who headed a committee investigat ing th" feasibility of advertising the western part of the State through the medium of a letter head which will He used in common by the Cham ber of Commerce and the business firms of the section. This report was referred to a committee. A report submitted by F. Q. Boyer, of Asheville, on the “loop tour” idea was unanimously endorsed by the body. Mr. Boyer’s committee showed that it was possible to, at a moderate cost, publish a map of the entire area, which could be used by each chamber of commerce in advertising the scenic values of its own section. Never Any Question About Innocence Of Dr. Ashley Chappell He Says Dr. II. K. Boyer, Shelby minister, who defended Rev. I);-. Ashley Chap pell in his recent ecclesiastical trial and who is spending a few days at the Grove Park Inn, mpde a brief comment on the trial of Dr. Chappell this week. “There was never any question about the innocence of Ilr. Chappell,’ j he said, “but the case was a difficult • one to handle. I cannot speak high'y I enough of the assistance given me by ; Wallace Davis, J. W. Haynes, of i Asheville, and the Rev. Mr. Mangum, j of Waynesville, in getting at the bot i tom of things. We had sheaves of evidence that we did not even intro duce at the trial. i “The trial was tense, but clean cut and there was no particular reason why press representatives rhould have been excluded from it. Dr. Chappell's innocence was so obvious that I do not believe charges would have ever been preferred against him had it not been for certain intra-church faction al complicatiors.” Dr. and Mrs. Boy er are in Asheville until Thursday. Prominent Lawndale Farmer Married 25th Mr. Bulo C; Hicks, prominent farm er of Lawndale and Miss Cord a Ledford were happily married Sun day morning at 10 o’clock at the home of Rev. John Green at Falls ton. The hride was dt resident of Cberryville, but originally from this county and a cousin of Mr. Hick’s first wife. She is a woman of unusual qualities, while Mr. Hicks is one of the leading farmers and churchmen near Lawn dale where they are making their home. In a short while they will make a trip through the mountains of Western Carolina, after which they will reside at the handsome Hicks home near Palm Tree church. Both have a host of friends who wish them every happiness through life. School Pupils May Work Off Conditions To Editor of The Star. I should like to call to the atten tion of high school students the ad vantages of the summe- school which is now in progress at the high school building, ou can work off conditions or make up failures in two subjects. This might enable you to take the next grade instead of being a repeat re. If you plan to play fooiball or ex pect to take part in other forms of ; athletics, you must have passed the j previous year’s work. Thi* rule will j be obeyed. The summer school offers : you an opportunity to make up what \ you need. We can give anv high school subject. Any student who is behind in credit is urged to enter at once. School work is done only in the fore noon. The tuition is the same as last year. I solicit the cooperation of patrons | and friends in helping me to main- i tain the high standard set by your former and very efficient principal, Mr. J. H. Grigg. I am yours for serv * A. C. LOVELACE. I MARI AH BEATS PHILBECK The Mariah and Philbeck ball teams nlgyed at Mariah last Satur- ! day with a score of ter to one in favor of Mariah. The best feature of the game was a home run by Arlo Devenny, second baseman. Former Shelby Clerk Tries Suicide At Winston Salem Leo R. Hamrick Swallowed Poison Trying to End His Life. Mas Still Living This Morning. Lee Roy Hamrick, manager of the furniture department of Gilmer’s Shelby store, up until about eight weeks ag > when he went to High Point and later to Winston-Salem to be.. me book-keeper for his brother, a wholesale to! aeco and candy merchant of Winston-Salem, tried to end his life there Thursday when he swallow ed a quantity of poison By receiving; prompt medical attention at a hos pital to which he was rushed soon after taking the poison, it is thought that he will recover, although his con dition is said to be quite serious. Re ports this morning from the hospital state that he is still living. Relatives state that he gave as nis reason for trying suicide that he was discouraged over his work. It is known that he is a good salesman but book keeping was a hard job to tackle and it is thought that he became discour aged over (Jiie job. He is a native of this county and his mother lives in South Shelby. He was married to Miss Jennie Gold and has two chil dren. Most of his work in Shelby has been with the furniture houses, he having worked in all of the Shelby furniture stores at different times. His last position here was with Gil mer’s furniture department. Several weeks ago he went to High Point to take a position with a furniture deal er at that place, but he did not remain there but a month, going over to Winston-Sa’.em where he became book keeper for his brother. Mr. Hamrick is 25 years old^ a ro bust and cheerful fellow, well known in Shelby where the people regret to learn of his near tragedy. _ Mr. and Mrs. John Godwin and son John jr., and Miss Nancy Griffin are on a week’s visit to lelatives and friends at Salisbury and Granite Falls. 'crowned queen at the cotton ball Miw Betty Suttle, of Shelby. Miss Betty Suttle, the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius A. Suttle is shown here in her cotton dress, made from the fleecy staple on which the South largely depends. At the Cotton Ball, this pretty girl and her home-made cotton dress won first prize and she was crowned "Queen”. The purpose of the hall was to prove that pretty dresses can be made of cotton materials and the fact was proven to the hundreds who looked on the ball at Cleveland Springs hotel. Would Improve County Home If New One Is Not Built Grand Jury Commends L. A. Cabaniss Who is Soon to Retire as Keeper of County Home. The Grand Jury for the present term of Superior Court in Cleveland county made their regular report to Judge Webb Wednesday afternoon, breaking into the trial of Luke Pruitt for that purpose. The Jury, follow ing out the instructions given them by t.lie Judge Monday morning, gave a report, through committees, on the various county institutions, including the Jail, County Home, Courthouse and grounds and the CoBvict Camp. They found ail these to be in excelled order, so far as present conditions 'Could permit, but recommended sev eral changes, notably the laying of a new floor at the County Home, if the Commissioners find it impossible to construct a new building within the next two or three years. Their report, as delivered by the foreman, W. J. Moss, and read by Judge Webb to the court room gather ing. is as follows: To llis Honor, J. L. Webb, Judge presiding at the July term Cleveland County Superior Court: We, the Grand jurors for this terra, wish to report that we have disposed of all matters coming before ns and have inspected the different County Institutions by committee. We found the County Jail in excel lent condition. It is well kept and sanitary in every respect. We recom mend that a steel wire fence be placed around the south east corner of the Jail House yard, leaving the jail at the boiler room and extending around to the garage. We also recommehd that the front yard be sown in grass. * We find the County Home in good condition with a few exceptions. Wo are greatly pleased with the way it is being kept. The inmates are well fed ami cared for. Wo also find the build ings well kept. We see the need of a new County Home, hut if the Com missioners ran not see fit to have a new Home built within the next two or three years, we recommend that a new floor be laid in the present Home as soon - as possible. We find the Stock and Crops of this Institution in rood condition. We wish to commend Mr. L. A. Cabiness for his efforts put I forth in earing for this institution, j and we regret to learn of his resigna tion. The Committee that inspected the No. Six Chain-gang Camp reported it to be in a sanitary condition. We find the County Court House offices and Crounds well kept and in excellent condition. Respectfully submitted this the 28th day of July, 1926. Foreman of the Grand Jury. COLONIAL NEWSPAPERS CARRIED NO PERSONALS Unlike the great journals of today, the early papers of America were but little concerned with local news. In fact, it was long before any of them thought of saying anything aibout such matters of home interest as deaths, births, or weddings. Rut one day an editor had a bril liant idea. Once every month he would print notices of births, burials, and other matters of local concern. No sooner conceived than done! But he made one trifling omission in car rying out his innovation. Of course he could not be so bold as to actually print names; and so his news stories, when they appeared, were in this illuminating style; “Drowned, accidentally, in the river, a man.”—Stephen Cole, in The Inter national Book Review. NURSES LEFT TRAIL OF WOE Union Republican. Two nurses visited Burlington, one day the past week, distributing samples of a laxative chewing gum, and with hundreds of their packages falling into the hands of youngsters I left behind them a trail of woe and ! “tummy ache.” Despite the fact that when giving out a sample they would enjoin the recipient to “take it home to mother, U will make you sick,” the husky appetites of scores did not resist the “sugar coat" that robed two grains of phenolphalein, and they^smacked” ' their lips over one. two. three, four, or a dozen wads of gum. It would not have been so bad, one of the kids sorely lamented the next day if the samples had come along during the school davs. because ir each overdose would have been a . vacation period. Kings Mountain Youth Who Killed Wife, Given 4 Mos. Pedestrian Runs Into Mrs. Irma Wallace Car Folks Run Over Cars as Well as Cars Run Over Folks. Negro Damages Motor Car. ■ Horace Greely’s advice to aspiring young reporters concerning the news | value of a dog biting a man has j nothing on the story emanating from Mrs. Irma Wallace, Cleveland's home economic demonstrator. She claims 1 for her Chevrolet the unique distinct ! <on of being run over by a pedestrian j According to Mrs. Wallace, the in. cide.nl happened in Barber’s Junction, this state, through which metropolis she found it necessary to detour in i her return from Virginia. She had stopped her car behind a long line of others, waiting for a freight train i to clear the roftd in fririt, and on he* | left, only a short distance away, was I a loading platform at the side of a J mill fronting the narrow street. Sud j denly a negro man burst from the Idoor, running, jumped off the plat form, and being unable to stop, j crashed full into the front of Mrs. J Wallace’s car. bending her light to one side, and denting the fender | slightly. Then to the surprise of the j occupant of the car, he walked calm ly around to the side, lifted his hat, and said, “Jes’ go right ahead, lady; I nint hurt a bit.” Mrs. Wallace de scribed herself as being little surpris ed and frightened, but intensely amus ed at the incident, and claims that she is really afraid to drive if pedes trians are going to make a habit of retaliating thus on the unfortunate owners of cars. The star was unable to learn whether or not the man had been ar rested for reckless walking. Crippled Children Are Taught A Trade Three in the County Are Asked to Meet the County Welfare Officer Saturday. How many crippled children are there in Cleveland county who wish to be taught some trade whereby they lean earn their own living? Already I the Federal government under its vp ! rational rehabilitation system is teaiAi I ing several cripples a trade whereby j they can become independent wage j earners and Mr. J. B. Smith, county ■ welfare officer asks that Ethel i Wright R-l, Lattimore, Everett 1 Bridges R-6 Shelby and James Grigg, | Lawndale meet him in his office in | Shelby Saturday July 31st at 9 a. m. when Mr. H. C. Corpening of the vo i eational rehabilitation department will ; be present, investigate the cases and make some recommendations whereby these children may be taught a trade I so they might earn their own livell j hood. i If there are other crippled children I in the county, Mr. Smith would be I glad to have them come to Shelby I on Saturday and meet Mr. Corpening. ; The Federal government has a fund set aside for this purpose and makes arrangements whereby cripples may j be taught a trade and receive an al 1 lowance' for board and lodging and I other necessary expenses while they are learning. One Cleveland countv | youth is being taught telegraphy for i which he is well suited and while he ! is receiving instruction which neces | sarily takes him away from home, he | is receiving enough from the govern ment to pay all necessary expenses, i Those who know of other crippled I children in the county whose future station in life could be improved by the knowledge of some trade or pro, fession would do well to send such children to Mr. Smith while this re presentative is here. New Cotton Bale Brings 80c Pound Spirited bidding on the floor of the New York cotton exchange after the close of trading Wednesday featured the auction of the first bale of the South Atlantic new crop cotton, which was knocked down to Paul Pflieger for 80 cents a pound, or $400. Bidding started at 50 cents a pound and rapidly advanced. The proceeds of the sale will be given to New York city charities and the bale will be shipped to Liverpool where it will b« re-auctioned for charity The cotton was grown in Webster, Fla. Mrs. Ab. Poston and Clay Poston, are visitingjelatives in Georgia this , week. ' -—--- , Mr. Fred Costner of Monroe, spent Sunday here with Mr. Yan Weathers 1 on S. Dekalb street. I _ | Misses Katherine and Margaret Bowling are visiting relatives at 'Cliffside for a few days. Found Guilty of Manslaughter Testified in His Defense That Killing Was Accidental Charlie Bumgardner. Kings Moun tain youth, charged with killing his young wife last March, was found guilty of manslaughter at this term of court and given a sentence of four month by Judge J. L. Webb. The decision of thp jury was accompanied by n recommendation for mercy, hence the light punishment. The verdict came as a surprise to the majority of attendants in the court room, the consensus of opinion having been that the boy would he acquitted of the charge. Clyde R. Hoey was attorney for the defense while acting Solicitor C. E. Cowan was thp prosecution lawyer. No sensational developments mark ed the case, .which proceeded largely ns had been expected from the news, paper stories and other accounts of ♦ he affair. . Solicitor Cowan’s intro duction of the death-bed statement of the girl herself, obtained while she was in the hospital in Gastonia by two legal representatives of the state, was probably the high-light of the trial, .and it was noticed thr.t both the defense and prosecution made substantial use of this testi mony. Beyond the death-bed statement, outstanding witnesses for the state were Mrs. Ham,, .mother of the dead girl, who was the. only eye-witness of the killing, Mr. Ham. Mrs. Bumgard ner’s father,, and Willie Ham. her brother. The defense succeeded in materially discrediting the testimony of the girl’s mother, introducing many witnesses to show that she was a victim of the dope habit and that consequently she was irresponsible. These same witnesses also testified to the good character of the defend ant., as well as to minor AKnofto nf the killing. Whitney Wells, chief of police in Kings Mountain, took the stand and told of petting: two differ ent stories from Mrs. Ham, in the first of which she denied all know ledge of the shooting. Another legal battle centered about the attitude of Bumgardner after the aociden*. the prosecution claiming that he display ed no solicitude for the victim, while the defense maintained that he did everything possible to save her life. Plead Accident Climax in the defense testimony was reached late Wednesday afternoon, when Bumgardner himself took the stand, hnd under the questioning of bis lawyer told his story. He said that his pistol had been borrowed by another hoy three weeks before., and had only been returned to him when he went to work at the mill Fr’.tay night before the killing. He return ed home a few minutes after 6 Sat urday morning, hung up his overcoat and took the pistol out of his pocket, not knowing that it was loaded. Af. ter playing with it for a while, nut ting it in bis mouth and snapping it, he and Ids wife had a plnvful senfHa over its possession,„ whi.h culminat ed in the shooting of the girl in the right side. As will be remembered, she died several days afterwards in a Gastonia hospital. Solicitor Cowan, in cross examination, was unable to materially shake his testimony,, which corroborated essentially that which developed in the reading of the vic tim’s death-bed statement. Arguments by counsel were com pleted early Thursday morning,, and the jury took the case after being charged by Judge Web* their decis ion apparently hinging on their inter pretation of “wanton carelessness.” They were out only about 30 or 40 minutes. Indications from the counsel for the defendant were that there is no likelihood of an appeal,, in view of the fact that the decision was accom panied h(y a recommendation for mercy, showing that the conviction was on technical grounds. Anniversary Sale At Best Furniture In celebration of his fifteenth year in the furniture business in Shelby, Mr. John M. Best will inaugurate an August clearance sale which' begins Monday. During the sale he offers a sweeping reduction of twenty per cent on the entire stock. A large ad vertisement in this issue gives prices on many items in the large store. Mr. Best has had a phenomenal suc cess since coming to Shelby and to day his store occupies a double-store space In the Royster building with a full second story and A warehouse or two.. All of his available space is filled to capacity and the store is a credit to a town much larger than ! Shelby. ’ Since going into the new Royster building he has ample room for display and carries some of the best advertised brands of furniture and household goods. The sale of fers an unusual opportunity to buy at a" big saving and many will no doubt take advantage of it.
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