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READ THE STAR’S NEW SERIAL “THEY NEVER KNEW.” IT’S BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. NOW RUNNING EVERY OTHER DAY. SHELBY Was Carolina’s Fastest Grow ing Town 1920-1925 By U. S. Census. Ubelanft THE STAR ^s The Leading Paper of Shelby and The State’s Fertile Farm Section. VOL. XXXIV, No. 92 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. §£ ^HW^eryYarOn^dvrncerJa^ Tax Levies Announced For Roads And Schools ( aunty Commissioners Says These Levies Are Subject, However, To Changes Made Today, The county commissioners have tentatively agreed on the special tax It \ ic-s for roads and schools in the County, these levies being subject to change at the request of the various highway commissioners and school i mmittteemen. These levies were set the first Monday in July but were allowed to stand until today to allow tune to confer with other authorities There may be some changes, but the changes will be slight, if any. County Tax Supervisor W. R. \«.jv tor. says the value of all real estate ami personal property in the county is approximately thirty-seven and a half million dollars. The general rate for the county for this year is two cents per $100 property valuation lees than it was last year while the levy for schools purchases has been in creased twelve cents over that of las* year. Next year will be revaluation year, 'this comes every fourth year. The following is the complete tax .'levy as it now stands, subject to the final approval of the county 'coin mis sinners in session today. County Levy. Property. Roll. School __ .. -i_ .00 $1.50 Bridge and funding Ponds (gen. law) .011 i Bridge bonds (chap. 570 pub laws 1017) __ .02 Various bonds and int. .02 Roads and bridges cchap. 100 Rub. laws 1004) .10 (funeral county pur poses —_ .08 .50 Total __._ _.90 $2.00 Special township and district Levies. All maintenance levies made under chapter 190 Public Laws 1919, ex <i pt where maintenance is levied with road bond interest and this is authorized under the act authorizing the bond issue. No. 1 township property 85e, poll SI.05. No. 2 township property 65c poll 51 cents. No. 3 township property 10c, poll Me. No. 4 township property 3c, poll—. Kings Mountain road district, 12c on property, 36c on .poll. Grover precinct 20c on property, 18c on poll. No. 5 township 40c on property, 45c on poll. No. C township 20c on property; 12c on poll. No. 7 township 40c on property ; 66 cents on poll. No. 8 township 50c on property; 75 cents on poll. No. 9 township, 32c. on property: 39c on poll. Lawndale road district, 14c on property 0 on poll. No. 10 township 60c on property; 06e on poll. No. 11 township 70c on property; 81 (ents on poll. No. 6 hospital bonds, 7c on prop I rty, 0 on poll. School Trx Specials. districts Property. Poll Boiling Springs No. 6 23 .69 Karl, No. 12 __ -30 90 Pat Springs No. 14._'-_.30 .90 Grover No. 24 30 .99 Hilling No. 79 . --.15 <45 I' xon No. 21____.In .30 Pethware No. 19 .30 Waco No. 30 __ ..40 - Stubbs No. 32 __.--15 .45 St. Paul No. 31 ---.10 .30 Lattimore, No. 16 50 1.50 Mooresboro No. 17 _ -- .50 — Kallston No. 22_ 50 — Relvjrood No. 23 —40 — T'ledniont No. 20 -.10 — t'asar No. 24 _ 50 — Moriah No. 25 J. __30 — Says Farmers Will Sow Wheat Next Year Sam Morrison Finds This Sentiment as He Travels Around Threshing 12,000 Bushels. Twelve thousand bushels of wheat were threshed and ten thousand bales of straw were baled by Sam Morrison, local drayman who owns a"d operates a threshing outfit. Mr. Mnrrison says tht^ wheat crop in Cleveland is the best he has ever seen f'd that in threshing this amount of wheat he visited the Earl section went west to Boiling Springs and north to Fallston, finding plenty of fine crops. Tne sentiment of the farmers after such a splendid yield of wheat is that next year they will s"w more ami let up on cotton Mr. Morrison says many cotton fields next year will be in wh^nt if the Present sentiment of the farmers is wried out and that he would not , surprised if the cotton crop is cut in half and the wheat crop multiplied many times. Girls, Meet Mrs. Shoe! Yes. yes, Mr.'. Shop is her name. Odd, isn’t it? However, she is the wife of a detective and his real name is Gum Shoe. Naturally enough, her name is Mrs. Gum Shoe. She helps do some detecting in "They Never Knew." Also, she does some falling in love. The story starts today ir. The Star. Dr. Moore Locates Here For Practice Native of Cleveland Finishes Medical Education and Locates In Shelby I>r. D. Forrest Moote, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Moore of the Boiling Springs section, having completed his long course in medicine, has decided to locate in Shelby for the practice of his profession and this week he will Open an office in the old Masonic building oyer the Rose’s five and ten cent store. Dr. Moore is well pre paid for such a career and is a young man of excellent qualities. After his graduation from Boiling Springs high school he attended Wake Forest col. lege where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree. Next he went to Jeeerson Medical College in F’hiladelphia, where he completed his course. Two summers ago he was interhe at the Shelby hospital. Last summer he passed the state medical hoard of examiners and received his license to practice. For the past year or more he has been holding a posi tion with the Atlantic City Hospital at Atlantic Ci y, N. J., his practical experience in hospitals, therefore fit ting him all the better for his life work. Dr. Moore has many friends over the county who rejoice to learn that he has decided to locate here. Mr. George Spurlin. prominent farmer living just north of Shelby bid in the Vivian- Spinning company place together with 20 acres of land within two blocks of the heart of Cherryvilte ;,t a public sale of the property at Gastonia Saturday. The highest bid j placed on by Mr. Spurlin was only j $31,500. Mr. Spurlin may have had [ associates -interested with him in the j bidding. It is understood that Mr. | Snurlin sold the Vivian Spinning Co. ! $20,000 worth of cotton a year or I nlore ego and accepted notes for pay j mont. The notes were never paid and j Mr. Spurlin was forced to bid in the I mill to protect himself as best he i could. It is also understood that the , mill of which Mr. John J. George.was ! an officer, had liabilities of over ! $400,000. Badly Cut By A Cotton Bale Tie .lule Hamrick, colored laborer at Eastside mill, received a badly cut : wrist Friday evening, when a bale of cloth which he was handling some how fell upon his hand, the metal tie with which the cloth was bound turn ing and gashing the man’s wrist. Al though the wound was not deep, it was sufficient to cut the great vein in two, and the negro lost blood co piously. An emergency tourniquet was ap plied. which failed to stop the bleed ing, and he was brought to town > where his wound was dressed, im mediately afterwards he fainted, it being necessary to practically carry him to the car. An Officer Will Get You If You Don’t Watch Out—4,416 State Tags And 980 City Tags Sold. Leave your car in the enrage after August .'i if you are one of those who ns yet have failed to secure a new state or county automobile license. A notice from the State Department of Revenue instructs all officers to arrest drivers of cars with 1926 licen ses still dangling from the rear, and it is supposed that the city depart ment will take the same step. Every year it seems that some owners per sist in holding up the work of the department by delaying their applies lion for license until the last possible moment, but this year, according to newspaper stories emanating from Raleigh, returns have been slow* r thnn ever. Dp until Saturday at noon, 4.41C license plates had been issued by the Ccrolina Motor Club office at Esk ridge's'garaee and still they were be ing sold. About 400 of these ha v* boon disposed of since July 17, the usual date for thn old plates to be come unlawful. The town of Shelly took about 25 per cent of these, since the last number to be issued by the city bureau was 980. It is interesting to note from the sheets listing the tags on file in both offices that the great majority of those issued during the past two weeks were for cars of the smallest classification, such es Fords, Chevrolet's, etc.., a fact proba bly explainable by the assumption that the small car owner is less likely to be able to make his payment* promptly than would be the possessor of a bigger one. It is also an indica tion that people are inclining more and more to the use of a smaller ro tor general use, due to the smalli r initial cost and the cheaper upkeep. This is a tendency that has long been noticed abroad, especially in England. Property To Be Sold—Better Pay Sheriff Logan for the county and Chief Hamrick for the city have given warning that county and city property on which taxes have not been paid by August 2nd (today) will go to sale under the hammer at the court house. Of course before this is done all property on which taxes have not been paid for the year 1925 will be dulv advertised which in itself is a humiliation to all parties con cerned. This week the tax collectors will probably make up their lists fot publication so if you have not pai •, better rush at once to the court house or to the city hall,—maybe both, and see that yon are straight with the tax authorities. Pale of property for taxes will re sult in a penalty of 20 percent being attached plus the cost of advertising. After the sale the property owner has a year in which to pay the penalty and redeem his property. Penalties imposed by the city and county are identical in regard to de linquent tax payments. Cranford Will Be Tried This Time For Cruelty Raleigh, Aug. 2.—Nevin C. Cran ford, former conv'ct boss of Stanley county, acquitted last week on a double charge of murder, will be placed on trial at the September term of court in Stanley county on a charge of assault upon Henry Wooten, a con vict. This statement was made over long distance telephone by Solicitor Don Phillips at Rockingham. Mr. Phillips added that many persons were asking why had Cranford not been tried c n other acts of cruelty which w'ere al leged during the trial last week. He answered this question with the dec laration that except for the alleged attack upon Wooten, which was in 1925, and the murder charges which were felonies, the cruelty charges were misdemeanors and were barred by the statute of limitations. Verdict Fair Mr. Phillips stated, that in his opinion, the murder charges at Albe marle last week “were fairly tried in every respect by a good jury from Anson county and their verdict was not against the weight of the evi dence.” He pointed out that Cran ford could not be tried on charges of cruelty which were several years old, because the two-year statute of limitations bars the charge of mis demeanors after the lapse of that time. The assault charge comes un der the classification of a misdemean or but the murder charges were not barred, they being classed as felonies. Following is Solicitor Phillips’ statement in full to the Associated Press: ‘'Many people over the State are asking the question, ‘Why was Cran ford not tried on other acts of cruel lies which were brought out in the trial of last week?’ The reason for same was that the other acts were barred by the statute of limitations. The homicide charge was not barren, it being a felony hut the assault charges, being misdemeanors, were barred. Is Within Limit “When Judge McElroy had his in vestigation in November, 1925, he bound the defendant Cranford oveT to court on the charges of murder of James Howell and James Terry and for an assault with a deadly weapon upon Henry Wooten, the charge be ing that in 1925 the defendant as saidted the said Wooten by dragging him behind a motor-drawn tractor and by whipping him with a leather strap; this charge being presented to the grand jury and a true bill found, the same being within the two vear statute of limitations for mis demeanors. The same now stands for trial and will be tried, the other charges of cruelty being barred by the said statute of limitations, “The homicide cases of last week were fairly tried in every respect be a good jury from Anson county ar>d their verdict was was not against the weight of the evidence as to the cases that were on tr>al.’ Cranford is now at libertv on bond of $500 pending his trial for the al leged assault upon W’ooten. Gardner And Girls At Races Max (Gardner Referee Official at the Speedway Races and Bevy of Shelby Girls Sponsors. Max Gardner of Shelby has been named referee at the Charlotte Au tomobile sprint races which take place at the Charlotte Speedway August 23 and a bevy of pretty Shelby girls have been selected as sponsor and maids. Miss Betty Suttle is the spon sor to represent Shelby and the fol lowing popular young ladies have been named as her maids, Misses Evelyn Dover, Elizabeth Suttle, Dor othy MeBrayer, Caroline Blanton, Nancy Suttle and Virginia Hoey. With every ticket to the World's sprint’race classic there will be at tached to it a coupon which will en title the purchaser of the ticket to ten votes for sponsor for each dollar represented in the ticket. Speedway tickets purchased before August 15;h. will entitle purchaser to ten vr>u •, for sponsor for each dollars worth of tickets purchased. All votes must be cast before August 15th, as the contest closes the night of Au gust 1 1th. The sponsor receiving the largest number of votes will be presented with an engraved silver loving cup, $250.00 in. cash, transmutation to and from Charlotte# will be crowned “Queen of the Speedway" just prior to the races at 'he speedway, a" i will occupy the “royal suite" at the Hotel Charlotte as guest of the Char lotte speed wav. The sponsor receiving the second largest number of votes will be pre sented with an engraved silver lov ing cup. $150.00 in cash and she and her maids will act as “ladies in wait - ing” to the queen art the conoration ceremonies. Tli; sponsor receiving the third largest number of votes wll be pre sented with an engraved silver loving cup. $100.00 in cash and she and her maids will act as “ladies in waiting" to the queen at the coronation cere monies. Many other valuable prizes will be presented to sponsors who do not win the first, second and third prizes. These prizes will be announced later. All sponsors who receive 10,000 votes will he presented with tickets to grandstand “A” for herself and maids and she and her maids will be the guests of the speedway at the Speed way ball in Charlotte the night of August 23rd. CIVIL DOCKET NOW BEING TRIED IN CLEVELAND COl'RT The Superior court in this week en gaged in the trial of civil cases, the two most important cases on the dock et being a suit against the Henrietta nil 11s by an emnloyp for the loss of two fingers. The other is the suit against the town of Shelby by R. L. Mode of cutting trees down on the sidewalk. Red A){er Jumped on a Moving Train And Fell—Curious, Yet Serioua Crowd Reviews Body Death claimed Thomas Aker, r.r "Red” as he was ca'led, Tuesday evening at 4 o'clock. On last Satur day young Aker, who wis about 22, and small in size, tried to jump on a passing freight train for a little rfd" at Kings Mountain. He lost his grip and was swept under the train and his body fearfully mangl 'd and torn. He was carried to the Gastonia city hospital, and t-eemed to he doing very well until Tuesday night .when com plications set in that ended in his death as the lay drew to a close. “Red’ lost his parents ten yenrr. ago, and has had a poor chance in growing up. He was not vicious, but he missed parental care and restraint in his upbringing. His end war tragic and pathetic. Funeral services were held Wed nesday afternoon at the Wesleyan Methodist church. Rev. Marion Con nor .the pastor, nresiding. Mr. H. T. FmfSv, funeral director, had charge of the funeral of “Red” Aker. He embalmed the body for burial. A serious, curious crowd gathered around the undertaker’s establish ment to get a view of the broken bodv. The poor boy’s sad fate should be a warning to others who try to catch a ride on passing trains—an old cus tom among many reckless boys about the station. JURY MISTRIALS IN HAMRICK CASE Fail* To Agree and Mistrial h Ordered—D. B. Hamrick Suing Eastside Mill For $19,000 The case of D. B. Hamrick, suing the Eastside Mill for $10,000 damages for injuries sustained some time ago when a door at the mill struck his j head, resulted in a mistrial, the jury | failing to agree on the amount of damages to be given the plaintiff. According to one juryman, the near est they ever came to an agreement was a vote of nine in favor of giving Hamrick his medical expenses and compensation for the time lost in the accident, and three holding out for payment by the defendant of $250. Hamrick was represented in court by Bennett and Edwards, young law yers of the city, while Clyde R. Hoey upheld the defense side of the argu ment. The evidence stated that Ham rick, while passing through a door of the mill, was seriously injured about the head, losing his hearing in I one ear, as well as two weeks time and having his earning power dimin ished. He claimed wanton negligence on the part of the mill in owning a door, such as the one in question, which was liable to close at any tima without warning, and hence endanger the lives of the employees of the mill. The defense claimed that any man of ordinary prudence, knowing that a door was there, would look to see if there was any danger before entering. Judge Webb gave the case to the jury about four o’clock Friday after noon, after charging them to investi gate whether the injury was laused by the mill’s negligence or whether the plaintiff’s carelessnesr was con tributory, and if they decided to award him damages, to determine the amount. They remained out some thing like four hours, and adjourned after it was decided that there was no possibility of an agreement. $t is not known just' when the new trial will be held. $7,000 Worth Of Desks For Schools Desk equipment was purchased last week for the two new additions to Shelby’s school system, and it is ex pected that the buildings, in North Shelby and at Eastside will be ready for occupancy when the fall term of school opens. Mr. J. S. McKnight, sec retary of the school board, stated that the contract was let to the South ern Desk company, at Hickory, as the lowest of the five bidders, who will furnish the 800 desks necessary for a consideration of around $7,000. The completion of these two lest buildings will give the town a total number of six buildinps for white children, with a capacity of around 2.600 pupils ,and it Is estimated that this will be sufficient to take care of the growth in enrollment for at least two years. Train Kills Five Girls On Truck Near Gastonia i - ' ' ' "J 1 A Sixth Girl On The Truck May Live. Bodies Mangled And Die Instantly. No Screams Heard. *_ t.1 Five girls wore killed outright nnd a Hixth was dangerously injured Sun | day afternoon about 5:30 o'clock at Gamble’s crossing about two miles i south of (.astonia on the Bessemer City road, when Southern passenger | train No. 45, struck a delivery truck loaded with six Bessemer City girls. The dead are: Meet Mr. Weed! This, gentle reader, is Jimpson Weed, dashing stylist and man-about town from Omeomy, Ohio. He is the hero of the greatest adventures ever recorded. It started when he dug up a well for doughnut holes and fell into the well while he was carrying it. Then he fell in love, but, really, you must read "They Never Knew.’’ It starts in The Star today. Blacksburg Man Jailed For Shooting J. L. Goodson Shoots John Cline, A Neighbor. For Alleged Insults To His Wire J. L. Goodson, Blacksburg fur niture dealer and funeral direc tor, is under bond on a charge of assault with intent to kill, while John Cline, Ids next door neigh bor, is in i hospital at Rock Hill recovering from a bullet wound in the chest, alleged to have been inflicted by Goodson. Investigation by officers dis closed that Mrs. Goodson report ed to her husband that Mr. Cline had insulted her ssvcral days age while Mr. Goodson was out of town. The enraged husband, with a club in his hand and a pis tol in his pocket, called on his neighbor to demand an account ing. When Mr. Goodsor. attempt ed to use the club, Sir. Cline drew hjs pocket knife, It was re- I ported, and the shooting followed, j Mr. Goodson was arrested by Blacksburg officers and arrang ed bond before Magistrate J .C. Duncan, of that city. North Carolina Dairying j Asheville Citizen. I The development of the dairy in dustry in North Carolina is an object in which Governor Angus YV. McLean is deeply interested—he persistently points out the undeveloped possibili ty r of dairying here and furnishes all the encouragement the state can give. And the state agencies have helped —the results now show. In Macon county a celebration will be held July 30, at Franklin in honor of the opening of the new creamery there. Creameries are essential in dairying, but the first step to be taken is to secure the necessary supply of cream. In Alamance county, it is stated, the creamery whs built first and now it is necessary to stimulate the produc tion of milk needed for its operation. Governor McLean will personally go to the county in September to lend his aid. The Citizen has told of the supeib herd of cows on the R. L. Shuford farm near Newton and the milk re cords made these. It is now announc ed that others are personally to wit ness what can be done, at a big meet ing of the North Carolina Jersey Cattle Club to be held there July 27. North Carolina imports annually 16,000,000 pounds of butter and 27, 000.000 gallons of milk—this must stop. The State must export instead of import—it can do it and highly profitably. * Miss Bertha Wright, l(i. Miss Laura Wright ,‘20. Miss Inez Jenkins, 20. Miss Vivian Jenkins, 10. Miss Gertrude Cloninger, 15. Miss Ida Bess, age 17, the sixth girl in the awful tragedy is still liv ing in the Gastonia city hospital, ac cording to a telephone messuge to The Star this morning although her recovery will be miraculous as she has both legs broken and internal injur ies. In spite of this, however, the phy sicians hold out hope of her surviving. The six girls were riding in a grocery delivery truck belonging to Miss Gertrude Cloninger whose father operates a grocery store in Bessemer City. Miss Cloninger was driving and the light truck was completely de molished when the heavy engine, one of the new locomotives placed in service to draw the Crescent Limited between Atlanta and Salisbury’ plunged into it. Death was thought to have been instantaneous for at least four of the victims. A number of Shelby people who vis ited the scene say thousands of people gathered there soon after the tragedy and it was sometime before the | names of the ginls could be determin ed, their bodies being mangled beyond ! recognition. ■ • Made no Outcry. Witnesses to the wreck describe the scene as one of horribly mangled , bodies and much blood. The motor car. ' reduced to splinters, wns scattered along the railway right of way and i the torn and bleeding bodies of the ; four girls were strewn along the track from the tremendous impact. Persons, standing near the track, declared after the wreck that the [ girl* died in silence, no screams being heard to come from the truck when I the occupants realized that death was upon them. The girls, all employes of the Ragan mills nt Bessemer City, were cn route to their homes from Gas ! tonia. Approaching the railway cross ing, Miss Cloninger was said to have driven around another automobile which was stopped beside the track to await the passing of the tfain. The truck was described as crossing the northbound track and on to the south bound track, to be dashed to pieces by the speeding southbound train. The locomotive, driven by Engineer C. H. Gaines, of Greenville, S. C., was brought to a stop some distance south of the crossing, and the train crew, led by Conductor B. L. Ormond, of Kings Mountain, Hbshed back to aid - in gathering up the bodies of the dead and injured. Aid was summoned from Gastonia and motor conveyances _ were hur.ird out to bring in the bodies of the dead. Miss Cloninger who was alive when picked up, was hastened to the City hospital along with Miss Bess, but Miss Cloninger died soon after reach ing Gastonia. Sunday night the bod ies of the dead were being prepared for burial. The Misses Jenkins were the daugh ters of Mr. and Mrs. Love Jenkins, of Bessemer City. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Wright of Bessemer City were the parents of the Misses Wright. The names of the parents of Miss Clonin ger and Miss Bess were not available, but it was learned that Mr. Clonin ger operates a grocery store at Bes semer City and that it was his deliv ery truck which carried the girl to their death. Rock Springs Camp Meeting Tomorrow Lincoln County News. The annual Rock Springs camp meeting at Denver will be held this year from August 3 to August 8, and will be the largest in the history of this famous old meeting place, ac cording to information received by the Times from Rev. R. C. Kirk, pas tor of Rock Springs circuit. The first services will be held next Tuesday night. hev. G. A. Stamper of Asheville, and Rev. C. S. Kirkpatrick, presiding elder of the Shelby district, will as sist in the meeting, according to word coming from Mr. Kirk. Rev. D. D. Holt, of Duke University, at Dur ham, will conduct the singing this year. There will be four services daily— at 9 a. m., 11 a. m., 3 p. m. and at j night. There will be singing at the 1 camp ground, before the services are ' begun, on Sunday and Monday nights August 1 and 2, according to Rev Mr. Kirk.
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