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. Ibe letoelanfi THE STAR Is 'The Leading Paper of Shelby and The State’s Fertile Farm Section. VOL. XXXIV, No. 95 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, AUGUST 9. 1926 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. Eight Months School Term Looming As Big Question - ' ! Kaleigh, Aug. 9.—That the question ■ of an eight months school term is | getting more and more likely to bfc j onc of unusual interest and one that j likely to be productive of consid erable fireworks at the next session j of the legislature is evident in the re- ! cent appointment of Dr. Fred Mor-' j rison as assistant executive secretary | (d the State educational commission, j The commissionj consisting of 12 | members, of which J. O. CCarr, of j Wilmington, is chairman and J. Y. 1 Joyner executive secretary was ap- ; I pointed by Gov. McLean, in accord- 1 ance with an act by the last legisla ture, to make a study of educational ! system in the State, and any possible ways and means for improving it. The ' report of the commission is to be made to the Governor who then may transmit whatever recommendations j he sees fit to the legislature with his j personal recommendations for needed j legislation, remedial or oftierwi.se. i The discovery that Dr. Morrison had been made assistant executive secretary has just been made, cl though he was tendered this office on July 22 when the commission held its last meeting, and has been busy rince then in collecting data and do ing the necessary assembling of the material with which the commission will busy itself. A large part of t(hc . icsearch work will naturally fall upon ! Hr Morrison, although from the mat erial he assembles the commission will1 make its recommendations to the | Governor. And although no indicatin' has been given by any member of the commission, judging from the general makeup of the commission, it i* .thought extremely likely that the eight months school term will be among its recommendations for the i members of the commission tor U,t> most part are considered pi*ugr*-s sives. The chairman of the commis sion, Mr. J. 0. Carr, is from New Hanover county, where at present the county schools all have a nine months t term. Though no statement could be1 obtained from Mr. Joyner, it is be-, heved that in view of his former ser vices as State superintendent of pub lic instruction, that he will favor the eight months term. The em’i'oyment of Dr. Morrison as assistant execu tive secretary is believed important, in view of the fact that he is ad mitted to be one of the leaders in j modern educational thought in the , .State. A graduate of the State Uni versity, he was for several years on ♦ he faculty of the North Carolina col- : U-ge for women in Greensboro. Just1 last year he received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia University, with a thesis based on the subject of the operation of the equal ization fund in the financing of the State school system in North Caro lina. Thus Dr. Morrison is well equipped to enter upon his duties ns the research secretary of the commis sion. Thus it appears not at all unlikely that the recommendations of the commission will be progressive m nature, looking toward the building up of a stronger and more efficient system of State education, than other wise, which naturally would indicate ihe question of an eight months school term. The eight months school term, however, cannot be legislated by the general assembly, but must be sub mittted to the popular 'vote of the people in the foVm of an amendment to the constitution, before it could become a law. Hence it can only be come a reality when a majority of the people of the state desire it and so vote at the polls. It is also pointed out that the eight months school teP#i -could not even be authorized before 1929. Street Paving Here Moving Right Along Work on the streets <>f the city to paved under the contiued program of street improvement is advancing auspiciou8lyt progress being such as *o justify a hope that they will be ready for use by the end of August or the first of September. Sumter 'treet, in particular, is rapidly being finished, and the er.d of the week should find it open to traffi'1. Resides this, other streets under Process of construction are W. (lr. bani, S. Lafayette, Marion and the N. r State highway. The town is highly interested in the progress of this lat ter and it is expected to be finished some time in October. Ely Construction Co. and 7.ob Weathers have the contracts for tba street work to b% 'done in the town, ond have been working for soma *'me- No further developments have 'Materialized in the proposed concrete overhead bridge on North Lafayette, but the repairing of Ob o7ut wooden structure during the pa3t few days nas led citizens to believe tnat noth ing will be done any time in the near future. Kills Twenty-Two Snakes At One Shot Here is a snake story for you ( and it is vouched for by none 3 other than A. L. Devenny, a « most dependable and worthy ( citizen who lives out on Kings ( Mountain, R-2, to which place j he moved from upper Cleveland, j At a single shot of his gun j Saturday morning he killed 22 snakes. The mother reptile ( was the garter snake some two j and a half feet long. When the j snakes came forth, 21 in num- j ber, measuring about five in- [ ches long. A few days prior j to his “killing” experience, | Mrs. Devenny put an end to the j mate in the yard near the De- j venny home. It is supposed j that the mother snake was out j Hooking for rats when Mr. De- I venny came upon her with his ( shot-gun as the snake was f found near the corn crib. REJECT PLAN FOR STATE OWNED ROAD Federal Body Will Not Approve plan Of North Carolina To Build Railroad With State Money The Interstate Commerce Com mission at Washington Saturday re jected a proposal by the state of North Carolina to build a state own ed railway to a point in Western North Carolina and a point in East Tennessee. The road evhich would have been built by the Appalachian and West ern North Carolina railroad com pany, which will be organized for the purpose, was proprosed for one of the three routes suggested by the appli. cant. It would have been built from the proceeds of the sale of $10,000,000 worth of state bonds. In rejecting the proposal the com mission doubted that $10,000,000 was sufficient to construct, equip" and operate the road. In addition the com mission suggested that the company select a. single route rather than a number of alternative routes before the commission could pass on the question of the road’s necessity and public convenience. The commission’s decision said the “evidence as to the •ost of the construction on the line may be able to support itself, but the estimates of the earnings have without doubt been exaggerated.” Three Routes Proposed One of the proposed routes would extend from Doughton to Mountain City, Tenn. The distance was placed at 86 miles and the construction costs estimated at $9,470,000. The second route would extend from North Wilkesboro to Mountain City, Tenn., sixty-eight miles long at a proposed cost of $7,430,000. The third route would use the North Wilkesboro and Mountain City terminals, including more territory, being 84 miles long and costing about $8,840,000. As an auxiliary project the company would build a 23 miles line from North Wilkesboro to Taylorsville in .lexander county to connect with a ranch of the Southern railway. “Tam" Bowie Road The railroad for which permission i huild was refused by the Inter late Commerce commission was nown in North Carolina as the Tam Bowie railroad" through “the ,st provinces.” Representative Chas iowie, of Ashe county, introduced he measure passed by the 1923 gen ral assembly providing for a bond ;sue of $10,000,000 to construct the „ad which was to connect the coun ies of Ashe, Watauga and Alle hariy with the remainder of the tate and with a western outlet in •ennessee. These three counties have or years been known as the lost provinces because they are almost ompletely shut off by mountains. After the bill had safely passed. At. ornev General Manning ruled the ct unconstitutional and his succes or Attorney General Brummitt, con u/red in this ruling. The matter has ever been taken to the supreme ourt for final decision. The state has aid out approximately $60,000 for te preliminary survey of the route L>r the road. BITE PUCK PUS VICTIM Substantial Farmer And Well Known i Teacher Died This Morning— . Funeral Tuesday Mr. J. Bate Philbeck. prominent j citizen of the county, died Monday morning about 12:25 at bis home J about four miles west of Shelby, as a result of a stroke of paralysis in , his left side, which came on him sud- ; dcn!y Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, j Mr. Philheck’s health had been grad- j ually failing for about two years, hut j his death came as a surprise to his i family and host of friends. He never i regained consciousness from the time of his affliction to hte death hour. I M. Philbeck was 63 years old at , the time of his death, having been j boro in the midst of the Civil War in the year 1863. He married Miss | Susan Doggett, and is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. Bynum E, Weathers, Joe and Charles Phil beck, aged 13 and 10 years respec tively. He leaves a valuable 200-acre farm surrounding his home, as well | as other property over the county, ! being a very progressive farmer and j substantial citizen. I Mr. Philbeck was a graduate of j the University of North Carolina,; where he was a member of one of the j oldest and best fraternities. Although i his course was one of the hardest in : the curriculum, he was an honor stu- j dent, and upon his graduation around | 1885, he took a position as teacher j in a Texas school. Later he returned to North Carolina, where he taught many years in Gibsonville, Earl, Fall ston, and in other schools over the state and county. Members of the school board during his career as in structor rated him as one of the best teachers in hte county’. His last posi tion was at Earl a few years ago, immediately following Prof. Lawton Blanton, and afterwards he retired to pursue farming. Mr. PhUbeck’s family, both on his own and his wif&’s side is related to the most prominent in the county, ard he leaves a host of friends and relatives to mourn his death. A brother, Irvin Philbeck, died early in the spring. Funeral services will take place Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 at Beaver Dam ChurcK. Rev. D. G. Washburn, assisted by Rev. Zeno Wall, will of ficiate, FlPllMliST BEING DISTRIBUTED Carries List of Prizes Together With Rules For Big Fair Which Opens Sept. 28th. Cleveland County Fair prospects received a noticeable boost this week with the issuance Uf the annual bul letin, carrying the list o7 prizes and the rules and regulations of the event. Racing fans, in particular, are gloat ing over the $300 purses offered for the winners in the various horse races to be scattered over the five days, that promise to attract some of the finest horses in the South to j compete for the money. More awards are to be given this year than last, and In more events, a fact that in it-1 self seems to assure success for the fair. The gates will be opened Tuesday, Sept. 28, at eight o’clock, and the five days from then on through Oct. 3, are filled with attractions of all sorts to draw the crowds to the grounds. Besides the racing purses, a total of approximately 1.750 awards are offered, of which 1,370 are cash prizes and 380 ribbons. The cash awards range all the way from 50c, third prizes in varous groups, to the awards $15 for collective exhibi tions of canned fruits and vegetables, $30 for the best city club booth, ara $70, $60 and $55 respectively for the three best community exhibits of farm products. All communities ex hibiting in this last group will re ceive $50. Many citizens of the city and county have already signified their intention of trying to pull down some of the prizes in the "Various events, and first-rate exhibitions should he the rule. Dr. Dorton, secretary of the fair, continues daily to secure new amusement ferflures for the patrons, with ji line-up of free attractions almost equaling those which require cash admission fees. It has become almost a triteness to say that this is to he the biggest fair that Cleveland has yet had, but nevertheless all pres ent indications point that way. —£---7 Rev. and ;Mrs. Lee White, of Miami. Florida, ate guests of Cleveland Springs hotel. They will spend the month of .August here, having rela tives and friends who are glad to welcome th7|i back to Cleveland county. Lo! Behold the Royal Indian Chief] «-NBA, Los Angeles tturekn Crown Prime (iulUnw Adolphus «>t Sweden, visiting America now hn» Uen made a blood brother and chieftain by a bond of Arapahoe Indian* here Chief Standing Bear has ore muted Cbikf Customs with a fentha* ' ehapeau Schools Are Beginning To Open-30 School Trucks 13,660 School Pupils In County Last Year—Dr. Highsmith Proposes Shake-up In Courses of Study School terms for 1926-27 will be gin opening over the county Tuesday, when the courses offered at Pied mont, Fallston, Lattimore and Mooresboro schools will get under way. Others will have their open ings at later dates, Waco the 16th of this month, Grover the 23rd, and | others up until the latter part of October. While the exact date for the beginning of the Shelby city schools has not as yet been decided, it will be some time about the mid dle of September. The county schools, under the policy inaugurated during the past two or three years, will be more closely bound together than before by the consolidation of six school* at Bel wood, to go into effect this terra, and the combining of the Roberts and Eliznbeth schools recently decided up on. Thirty trucks will take care of the pupils living at a distance from the schools which they attend. The total enrollment this year is expected to exceed that of last year, which figured for the county exclusive of Shelby and Kings Mountain, 7,219 ,whites and 2,752 colored. This num ber is increased by the enrollment of 2.070 white and 425 colored pupils in Shelby, and 971 whites with 230 col ored at Kings Mountain. School facilities in the section have been in creased to take care of the expected growth in enrollment. Proposes Big Change In Studies Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, state in spector of high schools, in conference .with county principals here Saturday morning, outlined a policy of reorgan ization of schools which when put in to effect, will mean a decided shake up in the courses to he taught in the schools of that class over the state. The plans discussed by him will par ticularly effect the small, or three teacher schools, in that many of hte changes are to apply directly to them. One of the most outstanding mod» fications is the new rule which pro hibits the small school from offering more than one foreign language, the course being limited to two yeais. The rule also limits the number of courses offered during any one yen. to four, prohibiting any student ex cept ispeciant stude,its, from taking more than the prescribed number dur ing any one school term. This latter .rule applies to all schools, large as well as small. Another effecting a severe shake-up in teaching policies concerns the mathematics courses, under the terms of which algebra is to be begun in the middle of the eighth vear. and to be taugV for a year and a half. Plane geometry will therefore begin in the tenth grade, and continue the remaining two years. It is further ordered that no instruc tor shall be allowed to teach more than two subjects, these to be pre scribed by the state. Possibly the change most interest ing to the students thenuetvfls is that in the length of the period*. Five minutes are to be added to each reel tation, making a standardized class oeriod over the state of 50 minutes. Dr. Highsmith, in closing, stated that the purpose in the new program is to limit the classes in order to in tensify the work, and be able to give more attention to the laboratory side of teaching. He recognized the dif ficulties in the way if the new policy, but declared that although it will be necessary to do the best possible the first year with the teaching force al ready signed and the equipment at hand, next year should see a com plete installation of the changes, with the rules to be strictly enforced. HARDIN OFF ON IP WITH FIRM I6ENTS Alvin Hardin, Cleveland county farm agent, has gone to Washington, D. C., to study the federal govern ment methods of farming, breeding, and dairying. Mr. Hardin was accom panied by the agents from 17 other counties of Western Carolina, as well as the district agent, and the trip will be made in a large Pullman bn*, scheduled to leave Charlotte August 9th, and to st^r away from the state about 9 or ten days. Two days will be required to make the trip each way, the route up leading through Dan ville and Fredericksburg, and the return by way of the famous Shenan doah valley section. Each agent will pay his own personal expenses. While in the capTlal city, the part> advanced farming methods employed will make an intensified study of the in the government laboratories and on the farms. They will be shown through the federal agricultural de partments, and to cap the clmax, will be introduced to Hubert Work, secretary of agriculture. Many new ideas in regard to the modern way of running a farm will be gained by the agents, during their tours over the farms owned by the government in M’aryland, and the farmers of the state should benefit accordingly. Mr. Hardin is very enthusiastic oyer possibilities of the trip, and hopes to bring back information that will be of help to the farmers of the county. REAL ESTATE MAN KILLED BY AUTO B. I,. Jay, Formerly With Thomas L. Dixon's Wildacres Development Co., Head of Shelby Office B. L. Jay, prominent real estate man and well known in Shelby, met sudden death Wednesday aftei'noon in an automobile accident that occur red while he was traveling: from Au gusta to Monticello, Ga. Mr. Jay was on his way to see his wife when the accident occurred, details of which have not as yet been received in Shelby. Mr. Jay was for some time local sales agent for the Wildacres Devel opments, belonging to Thomas Dixon, and in this capacity was a familiar figure to Shelby people. He had pre vioualy been connected with the Lau rel Park Estates as manager of the Asheville office, and at the time ot his death was with Thomas E. Throw er, Inc., selling Folly Beach, at Charleston. Mr. Jay was a member of a prom inent New York family, being a nephew of Ambassador Jay, who rep resented the United States at the 1 British cowrt during the Cleveland ad i ministration. He had been a resident j of the western North Carolina dis i trict for some time before hjs deatn. | and married a southern girl, Miss | Bessie Pope, of a prominent Georgia I family, living in Monticello. They had no children. The funeral took place at Monti eello Thursday afternoon at 4 p. m. Cleveland Has One Motor Car For Every Six People Best Fruit Crop In Fifty Years Uncle Dock Kuttle Itnalln When His Father Had 2.200 Gallons Of Apple Brandy ‘‘This is th‘e best fruit year that Cleveland county has had in fifty years.” in the opinion of "Uncle Duck” Suttle who was sitting on the square today in his accustomed place, dis cussing matters in general and the fruit crop in particular. Continuing, Uncle Dock said, “There are only two ways by which fruit can be sav ed now—drying and canning and 1 understand the farmers are doing both. Sugar is cheap and lots of fruit is being put up. When 1 was a boy there was a third way to snve the | fruit when there was a good crop. I It was made into apple branch'. ie | member one year when the fruit crop was abundant, my father had 2,200 gallons of apple brandy stored in barrels in a house in the yard. He .would haul the brandy to Columbia, IS. C., where he got 28 cents a gal lon for it and with this money he bought negro slaves when he got back home. If that brandy could be sold on today s market, it would be worth a small fortune. It would bring 28c a smell.” CLEVEUli BUT DIES OF Ml Vance Weaver. Formrely Of Lawn- I dale Killed By Street Car In Indiana—Funeral Today Albert Vance Weaver, former Cleveland county boy, was killed by a street car in Evansville, Ind., one day last week. Young Weaver, according to the meager reports reaching Shelby, was driving a truck in the Indiana city, where he had been located for about a year, when he was struck by the street car. It was not known whether or not death was instantaneous. Mr. Beaver was the son of Mr. j and Mrs. D. C. Weaver, both de ceased, but formerly of the \ Lawndale section, and is promi- , , nentlv connected over the coun ty. He is survived by one broth er, Paul, -and two sisters, Pearl and Mattie,, all of whom are 1 married. He also has an uncle living in Shelby, Mr. F. B. Weav er, who is Connected with the Shelby Com Mill. The victim of the accident, a boy of about 25 years, was himself unmarried, and had spent some time in the navy, before going to Indiana. His body will arrive in Shelby about eight o’clock this after noon, and interment will take place some time Tuesday at New Bethel church. Mrs. Ed L. Kerr Dies In Plainview, Tex. Mr. Henry Kerr and Miss Lill Kerr, of Shelby, have received infor mation that *heir brother’s wife, Mrs. I Ed. L. Kerr died recently in Plain- j view, Texas. Husband of the deceased , has quite a few relatives and friends back in North Carolina who sympa thise with him in his bereavement. . Mr- Ed Kerr left this state in 1886 and has been a contractor in Texas. He was in North Carolina on a visit in 1910, the third trip he had made back home since he went West. Mrs. , Kerr is survived by her husband and six or seven children. The Markets (By John F. Clark and Co.) (By John F. Clark and Co.) Cotton was quoted in New York at 10 a. m. Monday: Jan. 1725; March 1747; May 1762; Oct. 1729; Dec 1720. Liverpool 12:30 p .m. Oct. 2 Mch. 4 American points lower than due, Jan. as due. Light rain at Atlanta and Montgomery night, cloudy along Carolina coast, heavy rain at Wilming ton, otherwise belt clear or part cloudy, maximum temperatures at Ft. 'Worth 102, Abilene 100, San Antonio 100, Oklahoma City 102. Saturdays de tal showed 100 or over at 29 Texas stations and nearly all Oklahoma sta tions. Forecast Okla. and Tex. part cloudy, La., Ark., Ga., and Ala. local showers, Carolinas part cloudy show ers on coast, Miss, fair, central and i north, showers south portion. Fair business in worth street Satur day, New Bedford reports active in quiry for old crop cotton and says movement into New England past year is largest in five years. Man chester cable reports more inquiry but sales slow. Average 17 private reports is 68.3 and indicated crop 14,864,000. —Clevenburg. There Are 5,86.1 In The County And 414.000 In the State—Coat 290 Millions Annually North Carolina’s motor car bill for 1926 will be approximately 290 mil lion dollars, according To figures compiled in the last issue of the University News Letter. The esti mate is based on computations of the bureau of industrial technology whieh states that it costs on an average of $700 a year to own and operate a car. the figures including the initial cost, depreciation of value and up keep. Cleveland county, according to this authority has 5,863 niortor vehicles, an in the county average of one foi*every six and one-tenth people in the coun ty. This is a fraction more than the average in the state which is one for every 6.5 inhabitants. With approximately 414,000 motor cars by the middle of the year, and at the present rapid rate of increase actual calculations would place the figure even higher. It will take the money from all crops'received in the state to puy this bill, it is pointed out, or again it will take the total value of all textile mills in the State to pay the motor car bill. Guilford leads all other counties in the State with 22,451 cars, which is one motor car for every 3.8 inhabi tants, while Yancey county stands at the bottom of the list with 607 au tomobiles for every 26.7 inhabitants. The average for the State is one car for every 6.5 persons, but at the pres ent rate of purchasing cars, the State will average one to the family by another 12 months, says the bulletin, taking five as the number of the aver age family in the State. According to this average, Guil ford has considerably more motor cars than she has families. The entire population of Guilford could go to ride at once, and leave enough cars at home to carry the population of any one of the smaller counties of the State. Mecklenburg is second in motor cars, with 20,912, and also- second in inhabitants per car with one car for every four inhabitants. Wake coun ty stands fifth in both counts with Rowan holding third place and Lin coln fourth. Wake has 16,446 cars which is one car to every 4.8 persons. The nine counties standing at the head of the list which includes in addition to those named above, Bun combe, Caldwell, Lee and Henderson average a motor car or better to a fatpily. Eight mountain and two tidewatef counties comprise the 10 countiyi that fool the tabulated list. Yancey ranks last with approximately five families to the motor car, but Yan cey averages almost as well as the State averaged at the end of the prosperous year 1919 when 100,00.0 cars were listed in the State. In the last decade or since 1916, the number of motor cars in the Statu has multiplied 25 times over. In 1915 the 15,410 cars in the state meant only one car for every 140 inhabi tants. There are four counties in the State now each of which has more motor cars than the entire State had a decade ago. Mr. and Mrs. Suttle Married 57 Yrs. Ago Mr. C. B. and Mrs. Suttle, well known in this entire section, celebrab. ed yesterday the fifty-seVenth anni versary of their marriage. The/ commemorated the day by attending services at Double Springs Baptise church, to which they went Sunday, morning fifty seven years ago, fol lowing the marriage service. \ They heard yesterday their son preach at the Double Springs church, of which he has been pastor nine years. Mr. Suttle is eighty years old and Mrs. Suttle 76. . , Their seven children are all living, and all with the exception of one re side in Shelby, and are without ex ception men and women of influence and high position in the community. They are J. L. Suttle, manager of the insurance department of the Cleveland Bank and Trust company; Rev. J. W. Suttle, Baptist preacher; J. A. Suttle, proprietor of Suttle’a Drug store; Mrs. S. A. McMurry, Mrs. *L. F. McBrayer, Mrs. L. P. Holland, and Mrs. L. J. Bailey, the latter of 'Atlanta. ' The Suttles were married fifty seven years ago yesterday at nine o’clock in the morning by Rev. G. M. Webb, father of the two judges—« James and E. Y. Webb. After the ser vices they went to services at Double Springs. Yesterday, when the jiurnev was repeated, Mr. Suttle's only sur viving sister, Mrs. Esther McBrayer, was with the party. Mr. Suttle was baptized 68 years ago at Double Springs by his father, Rev. Joe Suttle. I

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