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I 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. mt letoelattd THE STAR Is The Leading Paper of Shelby and The State’s Fertile Farm Section. VOL. XXXIV, No. 98' THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, AUGUST 1,6. 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advance) —12.50 By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00 Negro Woman Kills Man Then Declares She Didn't Mean To l inptics Double Barrell Shot Oun In Hi* Hack—Row Took Place On Red Row Sunday Walter Gaines, colored, died Sunday afternoon about 6:30 with both i barges of a double-barreled shot gun in his body, poured into It at dost range by a coloreu-woman, Euzella Jones, at her home on Red Row, just off W. Warren street. Gaines took the two loads from the gun in his back just under his left shoulder-blade, arm died immediately after he reached the Shelby hospital. According to most versions of tho story, the negro, who had only been in the city about three weeks, had been with the woman all afternoon. He had come here from Forest City, although his home was in Newberry county, S. and had been employed in the construction of the new Gulf Refining plant in South Shelby. Afte; being released Friday at noon. iw. wandered around over the negro dis tric-t, finally striking up with thV woman who *»s"to slay him. Sunday afternoon he was with her again, and it is stated that he payed some of her bills for her. However that may be, he went to her house some time before the shooi. mg. One can only guess at what took place there. The woman’s version, considered unreliable by the officers because of her excited mental con dition, is that he made improper pro posals to her, and then attempted to assault her. At any rate, as he turned to leave the room, she took the load, oil shot gun from the place where It stood, pointed it at him, and puller, both triggers. The two charges struck in almost the same place, leaving a gaping hole in the body of the victim, large enough to thrust a doubled fist into. Many white people heard the shot, and gathered at the house. Tin. negro was taken to the hospital, wher* he died immediately without uttering a word. Immediately after the shooting, the woman fled to the home of Mr. .1. C. Newton, where she had beer cooking, possibly with some idea of gaining protection there. When the officers found her, she was in a perfect frenzy of terror and remorse, continually re peating “I can’t go to jail,” and claim ing that she ^hadn’t meant to shoot h’pi ’’ and “she just wanted to scare him.” She was lodged in tho county ia.il. to await her arraignment on th ■ count. It developed afterwards that •he was married to a negro named Ed .Tones, hut so far as it known, be does not enter into the affair at at1 Shelby people have been aware for ome time that thp moral conditions of the negro district known ns Red Row, where the shooting took place, have tieen exceedingly bad. This is blamed more on the number of strange ongroes now in town than on the Shelby colored people. It is learned, on good authority that another slav ing. and possibly two, were har'd" averted there Sunday morning, by the timely intervention of bystander*". Once it was with a razor, the owner threatening to “cut another negro’s bloody head off. and throw it again-t bis dead body,” ami another time, pistolx were draw, a tragedy being averted only by the narrowest of mar gins. The negro’s body, unclaimed as yet by relatives. is in an undertaking <' tablishment awaiting final decision as to its disposition. Up to press Mon day, no relatives had been loraten by tho officers. It was found that the shot gun •'" longed to a negro called Tube wh > i < employed by the city, and who roomed at the house where the shoot ■ ing took place. Immediately after *he scrape, he left, refusing to stay any longer. His gun was sold to f hief Hamrick for $2.00. Rocky Mount Scouts Conning to Shelby Shelby and Cleveland Springs v. ill be the stopping place for .'lb B' X Scouts, of Rocky Mount, due to the efforts of Wiseman Kendall. Sheiby hoy, the Star office, and the coopera tion of the Cleveland Spring hotel management. The boys, who are tak ing an eight days camp trip through the “Land 6f the Sky,” will be ten-o the use of the ground to pitcn their camp, and will he extended othci courtesies, such as the use of toe swimming pool, free of charge. Rockv Mount’s Rotary club, of which Kendall is a member, is spou soring the trip. They will leave home August 18, and are expected to sptfio the night of August 2fi or 2” here. \ special bus has been chartered for the occasion, carrying sufficient camp ing equipment to allow the scouts to pitch camp ever night. An exper’, 'living and swimming team is a pnrf of the organization, and it is hoped that an exhibition can be secured for the date they are here. Loss of Home by Fire Charlie Ross or Julius Dellinger, <», Denver, Lincoln couny who lost his home and all its contents by fire Sav. urday night.' In the fire most of his letters, newspaper clippings and photos which he was relying on to establish the fact ^.at he is the long lost Charlie Ross, were burned. The child’s picture is tTiat of the youthful Charlie Ross, stolen in Germantown, Pa., many year*? ago. Barn and Mules Are Burned Near Shelby Fire Friday afternoon, destroyed ttu 1 /,arn of Will Winson, who lives about two miles from town on the Buffalo roaad( burned to death twm valuable : mules, and destroyed a quantity of new hay stored in the barn. It is thought that the fire originated through spontaneous combustion in the damp hay. The house and other buildings were also threatened, but escaped without catching fire. An alarm was sent in to the city fire department iS^ut 7 o’clock after the blaze had gotten ***■ yond control, and the house was ere , dar.gered, but later developments showed that other buildings were safe • Lutheran Picnic At Dallas Wednesday -' The annual picnic of the district, Lutheran Brotherhoods of Gaston, Lincoln. Cleveland and Mecklenburg counties will be held again this year at Dallas in Gaston county on Wed nesday August 18th. The nrogram which lasts all <>7 calls for the prin cipal addresses by Dr. H. B. Schaef fer, new president of the Lenoir Rhyne college at Hickorv. Mr. A. R. Cline of Kings Mountain, chairman of the board of county commissioners of Cleveland county is president ol the district brotherhood and will pr_ side over the exercises which begin with a hand concert at 10 a. m. and continues through the day with speeches, addresses, singing, child ren's exercises, etc. LOCH UTS 1 HEAVY LOSERS Receiver Appointed For Vanstorys Who Held Lease On Cleveland Springs Hotel At Goldsboro Friday Foul B. Ku mundson, of Goldsboro, was appointed permanent receiver for J. C. Van Rtory, who with his brother IIonr,» V’anstory was lessee of the Cleveland Springs hotel. It is learned on good authority that the liabilities are lisi■ erf at $.*18,856 and the assets at $11, 7C1. All of these assets are not so. vent, it is understood, and in the last analysis there will be around $3,000 with which to pay the bills. Singe labo. must be paid first out of the asseir-, it is understood that practically a:, of the amount arising from the set tlement of the affairs, will be neede's to pay for labor hired but unpaid dur ing the operation of the hotel by Mi Henry Vanstory. It is therefore he- , lieved that Shelby merchants am business men, will stand to lose some $20,000 or more in the transaction as most of the accounts payable were u j Shelby firitis for supplies. Mary h! these local concerns have fiXX their claims in due form with the receiver which others feeling that there would be nothing to distribute in the ser- i tlement, did not go to the trouble I to submit their claims. Attorney O. M. Mull who repres ents creditors with accounts amount ing to about $15,000 intended to go to Goldsboro last week and attend a meeting of the creditors, but he d • j cided to turn the accounts over to A. i torney O. N. Lovelace of that place who handled the local accounts f, i ' Mr. Mull's clients. Several other local I attorneys had accounts which were filed with the receivership, a conser vative estimate of the local account being around $20,000. After the tragic death of Mr. Henry Vanstory, his brother J. (.« Vanstory, of Goldsboro, who was n joint lessee of the Cleveland Springs that the bankruptcy course was the hotel, came and operated the institu tion for a few weeks, later deciding best course to pursue in view of the ; overshadowing debt. i ■THE Ross Family Lose Everything In Blaze While They Are Away From Home Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the home of Charley B. Ross (the former Julius C. Dellinger; at Denver, near Lincolnton, Saturdaj night. The family was away from home when the fire was discovered. Nothing was saved except the clothes the members of the family had on. Neig*'. bors were taking care of Mr. and Mr -. Ross and family for the night. Since returning from New York anu Philadelphia a few weeks ago seeking to establish his right to be eallejj Charlie R. Ross, the Denver citizen has been (operating his wood-working plant and writing the story of hi.-, life. In the fire Mr. Ross lost many ot his valuable records and papers which he had saved since a boy and on which he was relying for data for the story of his life. Highways Get 85 Cents In Each State Dollar Spent More than half of all the money spent l>y the State of North Carolina in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, was spent in building and maintain ing better highways, according to fig ures and percentages obtained from Baxter Durham, State Auditor. This sum was $23,669,804 and rep xgsents 58.88 per cent of the State's total expenditures, or more than all other State expenditures combined. I, was financed by special highway, gasoline and automobile taxes, ol which $8,298,620 was used in the high way program, and by the sale ‘of $15,271,184 in highway bonds. Education Second Education was the second greatest item of State expense, receiving $5. 950,422 during the fiscal year or al most fifteen cents of every dollai spent by the State. Charities, correction and welfare received $2,713,972 from the State, oi 0.78 per cent of the State’s entire in come. Interest, discount and premiums other than special revenue bond is sues amounted to 5.68 per cent of t.*ie State’s entire income, or $2,275,002. Pensions claimed 2.51 per cent ol the State’s income. General administration claimed 3.46 per cent. How Financed The State’s $40,039,713 expendi tures were financed from six major sources: Highway bond issues $15,271,184, oi 48.14 per cent. Special highway, gas and autorm,. bile taxes $8,289,620, or 20.73 per cent. General taxes, fees and other reve nue, $11,702,360, or 29.23 per cent. Permanent improvement bonds, $2, 591,940. or 6.47 per cent. Special taxes, fees, etc., $1,954,676, or 4.85 per cent. Miscellaneous Federal aid, $220,. 933, or .55 per eeot. One Of The County’s Leading Farmers And Churchmen, To He Huricd At Zion Church Tuesday Mr. Frank P. Gold, one of the coun ty’s leading farmers and churchmen who died Sunday morning at 1::;o o'clock at his home near Zion church, sir miles north of Shelby, will he buried Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock at Zion church where for 3.7 year , he was church clerk, 30 years a deacon 2.r> years superintendent ( * the Sun day school and 40 years leaner of the choir. The funeral services will *, ■ conducted by Revs. I). G. Washburn and Frank Putnam who have known him for many years and found him a most faithful friend and co-worker. Mr. Gold was conscious before the end came and made some of his funeral arrangements, "‘meting the hvmns which appealed to him must. Grady V*. llson, Ralph (.old, Turner Cahaniss, doe Spangler. Wilbur Simmons and I.ee Cornwell will serve as active pall beaers. Mr. Gold being one of the most esteemed and useful men in the county, the funeral will no doubt hi largely attended. Mr. Gold was born .Tan. 29th. 1856. the son of Param A. Gold, a confed erate soldier who was killed in bat tie near Richmond, Vn„ in 1862, leaving the wife and three small children. He was only a lad of 14 when his father died but he faithfully eared for his mother until her death Mr. Gold married Margaret Irvin, sister of the late Rev a. r. Irvin and lived in the Zion community from young manhood until death Sunday, al ways taking an active interest in church, school and community devel opment. In church work he was par ticularly interested awl gave un stintingly of his time and talent to further the cause of his master, tie loved home, chuiith and friends and forgot self to serve them. At Zion ne was always in his place of duty and ta sickness and sorrow, was a helpful, comforting. a living example of a fine Christian life. Mr. Gold had been in declining health for t\yo years or more suffer ing with leakage of the heart. IPs condition was very critical a few weeks ago when death was expected any moment, hut during the last two weeks, he had shown signs of im provement. much to the encourage ment of his family and friends. Mr. Gold is survived bv his belov«d wife and the following children: Mrs. S. R. Grigg. Mulberry Grove, 111.; Broadus E. Gold,'Cliffside; Mrs.’Grover Cham pion. of Gaffney; Mrs. M. W. Martin, of Cliffside; Carl A. Gold, of near Chesnee: Mrs. A. R Wood, of Bur lington, Ky. Also tTiere are, two sif ters, Mrs. J„ J. Spake, of Cherryville and Mrs. B. R. Biggerstaff, of'Bes semer City, and ow brother, George A. Gold, of Crewe, Ta. Calls No. “5” for Beefsteak and Gets An Alarm of “Fire” There is a vast difference be tween a fire and a beefsteak bui there is very little difference in the sound of "fire" and “five". Some lady called Central office Saturday and wanted telephone No. 5. To get this she simply said “five” but evidently said it in a feverish, excited sort of way because the weather was hot and the busy housewife was making hasty preparation fas a Sunday dinner. The J—:ello" girl mis understood and took the voice for a fire call. Down in the fire de partment the loud bell sounded and when this special “fire” bell sounds on a signal from the Cen tral office, the members Of the fire department have been train ed to assemble in the greatest possible haste. When the “fire” telephone clanged in the fire sta tion is was also clanging down at E: bridge’s garage where Chief Herman Eskridge heard the alarm at the same time. Before the bell stopped ringing the chief had sped to the station, the fight ers had gathered and were ready to mount the big “red devil.” All that was needed for them to leave the scene was knowing the place to go. When the receiver was lifted from the hook, the voice of the housewife had softened some what in an effort to get a fat juicy steak from McKinney’s market which bears No. 5 in the telephone book. When the error was discovered, the firemen en joyed a hearty laugh and dispers ed to their several places of busi ness. Now say, “have you any nice steaak,” to any of the fire fighters and you get a laugh. The trouble with being a judge is that no two people see alike. The most insignificant person can attract attention at church with squeaky shoes. Shelby Makes Another Reduction in Tax Rate and Will Pay $104,430 Interest and Bonds During Fiscal Year Just Started Why Mothers Get Gray —NIC A. New Voi U I'ut. an Mis ii vv ciiMiy i.ik< s a hurdle on ’Glenna Buy" In the Ladle* Hunter '.lass a! ill.- annual hoi><*. show at Stamford. Conn. Gleona Boy seems to tat;.' ofr.a.ie-:-ot>i; (lain, t »«*nce—easily Mrs. Raven (’raft Has Hack Injured And Newberry Youth Charged With Reckless Drivinf While Mrs. Raveh Craft is in the Shelby Hospital with a back injury as a result of an accident *he nut with Sunday a week ago. a young man j named Whitener of Newberry, S» C., is under a $5,000 bond to appear in j the court of Magistrate A. Hoke Huss j at Cherryville, Monday, August 30t!i, j for a hearing on charges of reckless driving and an assault on Tvlif. Craft. Mrs. Craft has been in the Shelbj hospital for a week and is partially oaralized because of the injury to hit buck. It is not thought that her back is broken but there is an injury to j the spinal m-rv which may make hei j an invalid for life. Mrs. Craft lives near Waco and it will be recalled from previous articles j in The Star that she was going to * church last Sunday evening with he*' family when the Craft ear stopped :,t a tilling station for gas. As the Craft car was going across the load where two roads cress each other, the BuicV driven by young Whitener of New berry plunged inti the rear of the Craft car. turning it over and spilling the occupant-, who were Mr. and Mrs. Craft anil Mr. and \Ir-. Cnrpeii. ter, their relatives. Mrs. Craft had the worst injury of the party and was rushed to the Shelby hospital where she has been under treatment since. There were three occupants o* the Buick car and all were injured. The driver, however, was served with ; a warrant *and required to give bon* in the sum of $.r>t00fl for h;s appon. ! a nee Monday. August 30 th, before | Magistrate Huss at Cherryville. He | is a grandson of Air. Logan Sa:n of i Crouse, who signed his bond. EMPLOYEE SUING DOVER MILL HERE! _ | From Gastonia Gazette: According to a complaint filed here! iti the offices of Clerk of Superioi ! c-oort S. C. Hendricks, H. G. Propsf, j mill employee now said to he living ! at Cramerton. is asking $10,000 at- i leged personal injuries of his former employers, the Dover Cotton Mills, Inc.. < f Shelby, the case to be scTl^i uled for trial here by his attorneys. Carpenter and Carpenter, and E. R Warren. • Propst alleges he was employed in the card room of the mills in Decem ber. 1925. Instructed to hold the licked end of a belt on a carder, Propst claimed the instrument split and at ugh t his trousers, throwing him over the machine into a nearby alley. He was thVis injured, receiving se- j vere bruises, it is alleged,'to his knee and leg. internally and externally, j He asks $10,000 damages, claiming the ) t mishap was due to the neglig“nee of 1 I the defendants. » 1 Wholesale Dealers Have Evidence That More Fruit Has Been Saved Than Ever Before Cleveland County and the section immediately surrounding, this yeni canned for home consumption some thing like thirty or forty thousand bushels of fruit and vegetables. i: calculations from the number of fruit jars disposed of by the various deal ers are anywhere near correct. Fig. ures given to The Star as to the num ber of jars sold indicate that the'total number will run around 18 or 20 thousand dozen, and to this must lie added the number left i ter front last year’s season, and the seasons before. It is reasonable to suppose that this number will equal', if not surpass tN total sold this year. Common sense will also show that these contains s will be fined before any new Jars are bought, hence the "number of dozen jars filled with peaches, and other fruits can be conservatively, estimatco at around 40,000. To these figures above must he added a total of 40,000 quart tin cans sold over th« county. which monr.s something like 2.500 more bushels of fruit. Jelly glasses also figure large ly, dealers estimating their sales in this item at 1.200 to 1.500 dozen, plus the glasses already" on hand. With those addenda, the rot.il amount i t canning reaches almost unbeUeveablc figures. Authorities on the science state that a bushel of peaches will fill six teen quart containers, or about eight half-gallons. Figuring from the ratio of pints, quarts, and half-gallons in use. it is fair to say that a bushel of fruit will fill an average of an even dozen iars. Thus the aggregate total of bushels canned wijl run something like 40,000. an amount that should almost rate this section with the far famed sand-hills of Eastern Carolina. In connection with this, it is intei esting to note that the season’s can ning at a factory in Hamlet, N. C., serving the entire County and «ri rounding sections, amounted to only 18,000 bushels, Hamlet being locate.! in the very heart of the peach-grow ing district. The eoirqtarison is dis tinctly favorable to the jiroductive powers of Cleveland County soil. Although the figures may seem to be derived somewhat indirectly, it is impossible to estimate them any oth a way. and as a whole they are distinct ly conservative. The total may he much larger, margin for error having been left in the guess at the numbet of jars on hand when the season be gan, and in the estimate of the bush els of fruit used in filling this num ber of containers. It must be remeilibered also that many of these iars were filled with farm products other ihan peaches aril fruit. Anples, no doubt, figured large ly: cherries must likewise be consid ered, as must vegetables, and meats. Cleveland has gained a reputation of being a diversified farming county, a record that was supported l.y tht canning exhibits at the last fair. But that is only the more glory to the county. Budget Is Made I’p For Coming Year. Based Largely On Last Year’s Expense. A reduction of five cents on the $100 property valuation was author ized by the mayor and board of alder men in called session this morninv making the second reduction to be made by the present administration within a little over one year. Last year there was a ten cent reduction which of course was well received by the taxpayers. In mnkirtg up the bud get for the incoming year, it is found that another reduction can be made and by keeping within the appropria tions for the various causes, there will be a small margin left in tbe treasury for the next administration \thich will take charge next Juni Budget $184,430 The city will have to pay $61,4b’0 on various bonds during the present year - June 20 to June 27 and will re tire $4.3,000 in bonds, making a total expenditure set aside for these two items alone of $104,4,30. The entire budget of the town Is $184,215, so after deducting what is paid for in. terest and the retirement of bonds, this leave's only'•“4,000 with which to run the town. libs year the ^Ty is jrtfvlnj^ to pay $10,000 more interest than it paid last , year, this being on the $200,000 bonl j issue1 for the new water plant now , under construction. Nine Millions in Property The assessed valuation of real and personal property in the town of Shelby (new anil did) boundaries ta 1 $0,018,000, \t ithin jthc old corporate limits the1 value of property for taxes is $0,404,948. The Shelby school district extends beyond the enlarged corporate limits in order to give those living just outside of town the ad vantages of the Shelby public schools and in this special charter school dis triet the assesseel value of property j* $9,042,209. Iwx Kate Levied At this special meeting of the board to fix the tax rate for the com ifiK year, the following tax ordinance was unanimously adopted: It is hereby ordered that an ad vs. oreni tax of 45c on each $100 valua tion of property be, and the sarrib Is, hereby levied upon all the taxablo property within the town of ShelDy. Ix. 0., to raise revenue for general purposes and the needs of the muni cipality. It is further ordered that art ad valorem school tax of .10c for pub-' lie school maintenance, and lie to pa^ interest on $200,000 school bonds, or an aggregate of 41c on each $100 valuation be, and the samae is hereby, levied upon all of the taxable* property within the Shelby special charter school district No. ,*ft. ? I* is further ordered that an valorem tax to raise revenue to pay interest accruing on bond*, and tha principal of such bonds as become due (hiring the fiscal year, to wit: 14c for school bonds and interest, 10c fo»* funding and refunding bonds and in terest; and 10c for street paving and street and sidewalk bonds and inte:« cst; or an aggregate of 14c upon each $100 valuation, be, a«d the same is hereby, levied upon all the taxable property within the old corporate lim its of the town of Shelby, or within thi> town of Shelby as constituted prior to January, 1925. It is further ordered that a poll tax of $2 be, and the same is hereby lev ied upon each taxable poll within the corporate' limits of the town of Shelby for purposes as provided byj law. Appropriation Made 1 It is hereby ordered that appropria tes be. and the same are, hereby made by the t*\yn oi, Shelby to main, tain the municipal activities of said town and pay its legal obligations for the fiscal year 1926-27 in amounts and for the several objects a4 follows: Administrative department * and objects passed there under .... $12,000 Street and sidewalk mainten ance -i--12,500 •‘"-ce department _ _ 5,000 l ire department ___;_ 5,000) Fire truck, purchase price in stallment Contingencies _>__ Interest on $200,000 school bonds, at 5 percent_ 10,0001 Public school maintenance, district No. 33 Interest on $15,000 'school bonds _ ___ Interest on balance issue of $ 15,000 school bonds_ School bonds, principal mat uring _ _ ___ Interest on funding and re funding bonds ___ 1,710 Funding and refunding bonds maturing _ _ ___ 5,00$ Street and sidewalk bonds, 2.500 3.500 -- 30,000 1,7601 4,140 3,000 (Continued"to pag* 3}
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