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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. @he libelant) THE S T A R Is The Leading Paper of Shelby and The State’s Fertile Farm Section. VOL. XXXIV, No. 101 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, AUGUST 2,‘l, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. per year ^‘n. a<lvanc®)--J2 , _ by carrier, per year (in advance) |3j 60 00 FINDS AVERAGE OF 8 BOLLS TO STALK \\ ill Padgett Makes a Survey of Thirty Acres Of Cotton To Determine Its Fruit What has been said recently on the outlook of the cotton crop in Cleve land has caused no little discussion. Opinions are divided as to whether the cotton is fruited well or not. All agree that the stalk is large enough and the fields look promising and some con. fend that the stalks are well fruited, but this statement) is challenged by many. Will Padgett who lives out on high way. No. 20 west, made a survey of his farm a few days ago, taking foul rows in four different fields, embrac ing thirty acre* planted in cotton. It. survey No. 1 he measured off 48 feet, found 32 plants in this distance beat ing a total of 2C7 bolls, or an average of 8 1-2 bolls to the stalk. In survey No. 2, a distance of 48 £e?t there were plants with 267 bolls, an average * of 8 1-11 bolls to the plant. In test No. 48 feet had 39 stalks or a total of 290 bolls, averaging 7 7-39 bolls to tnt plant. The fourth test of 48 feet had bolls on 37 stalks, or 8 8-39 bolis i to the stalk. In the four tests, cov ering 182 feet here were 1154 bolls on Ml saks, making an average of 8 1-6 bolls to the stalk. The plants averaged 15 inches apart, according to Mr. Pad gett. ! Now Mr. Padgett did not carry out the survey with mathematical pre cision hut thinks the results show a \ ield of about a half bale to the acre, lie only counted bolls which he thinks are advanced and healthy enough to grow to maturity. Much of the cotton is still blooming and with a late fall tlie bolls will mature and make white cotton. An early Fall would make a stained lint. Indebtedness On The Mill Amounts From Three to Four Hundred * Thousand Dollars Mr. George Spurlin, prominent far mer living just north of Shelhy rals ed his own oid of $31,500 on the Vivian Spinning mills at Cherryville, recently adjudged a bankrupt mill and sold at public auction at Gastonia. Mr. Spurlin is one of the large creditors and recently placed a bid of *31,500 on the plant whic|i includes the mill Imiiding, machinery, twenty acres of land and a number of houses for em ployes, the real estate being located v.. hir a few blocks of .hi heart of Ch.'i-yville. On last Fri d.i.v he raised the hid to S3r..av and Ju*» r • Michael S.-h'ouk signed a judgment in the su perior court at Gastonia in favor of Mi. Spurlin against the nvi’l. It is understood that Mr. Spurlin some years or more ago sold a large quantity of cotton to the Vivian Spin ning company and accepted notes in lieu of cash. Before the notes were paid the mill went broke and Mr. Spurlin holds notes against the com pany for $21,020.14, it is stated. The mill was managed by John J. Georg?, of Cberryville. Mr. and Mrs. Lee R. Hamrick anr fhildren, of Winston-Salem, are in Shelby for a few days visiting rela tives and friends. ! What’* The News? Was Bill McGraw ousted as chief of pplice ut Forest City because he dealt with liquor ard bad women ? Or did McGraw re sign of his own impulse? Read the former chief’s side in to day’s Star. Everybody should be reading “They Never Knew.” Those who do hot, never know what they’re missing. It appears in every is sue of The Star., Colored boys are rhy on picking a sweetheart these day: in Shelby. There’s a reason: One fellow's sweetie unloaded a gun into tiis body. Now, the %wains are shy. It's In the local news of The Star today. Farm readers will be more interested in another cotton story appearing today. The watermelon- market: 192b, 75 cents each—This year, 10 cents each. More melons than customers in Shelby says an item in today's paper. Shelby and Cleveland county news from all sections of the town and county, together with state news and items from ad* joining counties may be found in today’s Sar. Be sure you get all the news out of Clevelan<l coun ty’s newsiest paper. Tells How Cleveland County Might Honor Her War Dead Citizens Suggest That Enough Money Could Be Raised By Popular Subscription To Purchase Bronze Slab Does Cleveland county think enough of her hoys who died in the great, Work! War to raise by popular sub scription a sum with which to put chase a large bronze slab, bearing their names, to be placed in the Men oiial fountain on the courc house j square? That’s the question that has been raised since the advocation of a suitable memorial by The Cleveland Stai. The suggestion is actively advanced by Judge John P. Mull and endorsee by numerous leading citizens who think that 1 he Star should conduct such a campaign and turn the funds 1 over to a committee for the purposes of purchasing and erecting such a memorial. The idea is advanced that the peo ple if the county would voluntarily contribute enough to purchase the slab and have it suitably erected a*, some point about the court squar*. The plan is that the bronze tablet to be purchased should be of conveniens size and should have carved upon it the names of every Cleveland county soldier giving their lives for then country during the world conflict., On the wooden board at the court house, where the “Roll of Honor” is now inscribed, the weather elements are gradually erasing the names anu ere long there will be no public re membrance of the boys who gave their all with the lone request that their torch be carried on. Many citizens will remember that at the time the board was erected it was the general sentiment of the town and county that the wooden board was only a tempor ary affair to be supplanted later by a more suitable memorial—and living in the age made historic by the phrase, “Lest We Forget,” we are forgetting America over, and in othe nations, monuments rear from thousands oi spots holding forth to the public the regard of thousands of communities for their dead; for the boys who in time of war were heroes. Whose deeds were never to be taken lightly. Sleeping in their earthly shrouds un der little white crosses in France and America, are a score or more of th»a country’s native blood, all that **■ mains of healthy manhood that march ed to stirring martial tunes in '17. A bronze slab as proposed will cost no great sum, supporters of the movement say, and it is the general opinion that a sufficient sum could be raised in a short time should some one take the initiative in the rnovo ment7 With this in view and a proper lo cation on the court square selected, The Star volunteers to present the ap peal to the citizens of the county. There is no doubt but what the board of county commissioners will gladly offer a spot—and the so-called Memor ial Fountain may be tendered—for th» slab. In the meantime The Star would ap preciate hearing the sentiment of various citizens, and of fathers and mothers of the boys of the World War, together with the hoys them selves who came hack. Any communl cations regarding the proposed move ment will he welcomed and a contribu tion to open the way would not b» amiss while final details are planned. ! Dusky Shieks Now Dubious of ‘Wimmen’ The colored Valentinos of Shelby are using care and deliberation in picking their love mates now since Fuzelia Jones trained a shotgun on Walter Gaines and sent him to a grave dug by city workmen. “Yo can't never tell ’bout these wimmen” seems to be the general sentiment of the colored males. One afternoon during the week-ena a dusky swain passed along Wash ington street near the postoffice walking between two of the fairer sex of his race—that is in name—ana across from the fountain at the court square came a warning from a malt j friend: "Boy, yo better watch what yo is doing and git away from dem wlno men. Afore yo know it one o’dem will take a shotgun, blow off yo bean and cake yo seven bucks.” And Gaines, who is anything but a living example of the danger hidden in the female sex, rests in a grave over | in Freedmon while his killer occupies i quarters in the county jail. Friday af ! ternoon there came a wire from | South Carolina to Chief B. O. Ham I rick. It was from a brother of Gaines i and read: “Received your wire. Have | n’t any money. Bury Mm there.” Gaines was already buried, his coffin ! lowered without the presence of a rlative or friend. That’s why the colored boys of I Shelby and environs are picking care* | fully the material for their {jetting parties. Valentino, Movie Shiek \ Dead, Report Rudolph Valentino, shiek of the movies and one of the most widely known stjjrs of the screen, is dead according to a report received in Shelby this1 afternoon over the market wires jf John F. Clark & Co., Shelby trokerage firm. Other than the bare announce- j ment “Valentino is dead” noth- i ing more was received, it is said.! * The famous movie star was operated upon only recently in a New’ York hospital, the opera tion being for appendicitis and gastric ulcer. Several relapses followed and dispatches of Mon day morning stated that his condition was grave. Auto Almost Leaps From Overhead Bridge Colored Boys Have Close Call When Car Starts Over High Bridge Rail Over Railroad Tobe, city employee and of the re cently famed Red Row, and his com panion Mose Allen had a near serious climax for an auto tour of Shelby Sat urday afternoon when their car took a sudden desire to leap from the high overhead bridge on Sumter street near the city high schooT. Mose and Tobe, sober as saints an-S traveling along peacefully in a Chev. rolet touring car, narrowly missed death on the railroad tracks far below when the car hit the wooden rails ot the bridge and would have plunged over had not the wheels become fast ened on ft large beam at the extreme edge of ihe bridge. Needless to sav j the car hung in a mid air swing while the occupants perspired freely and attempted to remember childhood prayers. The colored boys attritute t«n mishap to a fault of the steering wheel and the damage was covered by a smashed front wheel, a hole u. the radiator and a bent-in engine. To put it’Vmidly the occupants of the car were “a little scared,” aj though It is said that Mose with his feet back on solid ground remarked between the drips of fright perspira tion: “Gosh! I almost had supper wit'» the Devil tonight.” Humorous to an extent the acci dent came near to resulting in a tragic end. Just how or why the wheel* caught the edge of the beam anA prevented the car and occupants from a long fall is not known. Had the beam not arrested the plunge of the auto the occupants, would have beet, extremely lucky to have escaped witn their lives. Noted Presbyterian Mini ter Speaks In Shelby To Large Congrega* tion Presbyterians South America, a land of great op portunity, m struggling under banc, icaps almost unbelievable, according (<; a message brought Shelby Presbyter ians Surrjav night by l)r. Egbert \V Smith, of Nashville, Tenth, secretarv of foreign missions of the Presbyter ian church. Dr. Smith, one of the most' interest ing speakers ever heard in a Shelby pul nit gave a first hand de*eript:o:, of the religious and moral status of South America, covering briefly thu facts learned by him while spending several months there. Under the guilding hand rf a eo- : rupted priesthood, Romanism, tinted: with Spanish influence and taste is! swiftly transforming South America from a so-called Christian continent to ! a great mission field for Christian workers, he stated. Charging the Catholic church with the present state of religious affairs in South America, Dr. Smith declared that the Catholic oJiarch in the United States and that in South Amor, ica are really two Separate churches and that he had no criticism of t’ti American branch. Tlie United States branch of toe church is from the English stem, while !n South America, Spanish art. Portuguese influence dominate tne Catholic church. Dr. Smith quoted high Catholic authorities as lamenting tin condition of Rnmanifm in Sooth Amer ica. Besides following a corrupt prie»> hood, the Catholic adherents are grat - ually being led to a very ungodly peo plo. The hope for the revival ef Chris : tianity’ in the continent is in Proto tant missions. Dr. Smith said. Th" ! Presbyterian church its taking ad van j tages of the newly created mission field, I'r. Smith said. More than1 1,000 missionaries represent the soutti . em Presbyterian church in the Span- | ish-American countries, he reported. | Conditions and situations touching on a horrible si ate were vividly pic- i tured during the course of the ta|k and those who listened intently tu the mes sage were given their best insigl * into the work of the mission fie la Considerable interest was also mani fested in Dr. Smith's relation of the very valuable service and work beinv i carried on by the Trot actant mision aries and ihe eagerness with which their work is received by native South Americans. 1 ■ Home Coming Planned For ffalm Tree Church * Homocoming day will be observed ! at PalmfTree on Sunday, August 29* it is arnojjnced. Mr. Bart Smith will bi in charge of the program in the morn ! ing at 11 o’clock, and in the afternoo, j Mr. Ed. Crowder will have charge. Everyone in the section is invited. ■ including all former pastors and all; ministers reared in Cleveland county ; A great day is promised. Mr. Clayton Norman, of Grady j Ala., and Mr. P. B. Stone, of Parks- | ville, S,' C., spent the week-end wit r* 1 Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Norman, of Bel- j wood. Would Create Memorial At Hatcher Hughes Birthplace Noted Cleveland Playwright Had Parents With Brains But No Money. Born at Polkville Editor The Star: As I have a well developed predellc tion to keep history straight, this communication shall deal with the dis tinguished Hatcher Huges. noted scholar and author. It required sundry affidavits, the evidence of Hatcher i Hughes himself; and sundry threats ol I violence with a club of Herculean di i mensions to establish the vicinity ol f Polkville as the land of his birth; but it has been established beyond perad, venture and a stake driven through the claim. As a bar sinister on his escutcheon, in the opinion of snobocracy; is t-ne fact that when very young he was my i pupil at Elliott school house; but he : escaped in time to save both his bacon and reputation. The same chortlers who know all about it, claim that he got the material for "Hell bent fer Heaven" from the ignorant, uncouth and lawless citizen 1 ship of his environment. As much native ability, as much genuine culture, as good farmers and farming, as much veneration for law j and order and found in Township No. I 8, is in other region of Cleveland , county—rural or urban. As many young people attend high school and college as are to be found in an> other adjacent region. Hatcher Hughes was marooned* among typical mountaineers, and there he secured his material for this pros* epic. His father, A. J. Hugos, enlisted with Cleveland guards, and he distin guished himself as a brave defender of the Stars and Bars. He was desper ately wcumYd in action and was al ways a maimed soldier. He was a ma* of remarkable intelligence for his op portunities and the soul of honor. I*o was devoted’to cause of Sunday school and the Baptist church and was a fin* Bundav school teacher. If a man. is poor in goods of this world, the fact damns him while living and damn* his memory when dead among the snobocracy. The mother of Hatcher Hughes was a Gold, and they are a prominent and gifted family. ___ . ! I think it is due this region, his i parents and the illustrious author to ! let facts be submitted to a candid j world. 6eal greatness often is devei j oned from pov^qty and obscurity, and j this is a case in point. The ruins of the humble dwelling in which he was born is crumbling in decay near Polkville, in Townshtp No. 8. This should he a shrine and a beacon to aspiring youth of this re gion. CORN CRACKER This Sun Fish Weighs 1500 Pounds I— -mrsm """l •MSk ‘\‘I>t W. K. Mattocks captured the sun fish pictured above, at Hogue Inlit, near Swansboro, N C.. Jt Is being prepared for the state museum at JtnkiRh The body was more than 7 feet long and weighed mure than l.'.uu pounds. One fin weighed 35 pound*. Melon* Plentiful; Prices Very Low Thi> Southland is back to normal. Even the urchin on the street corner may enjoy the greatest repast of the summer a watermelon feast. A bumper melon crop in Cleveland county is responsible. Last year a good-sized watermelon sold on the streets of Shelby for an average of 50 cents and a large melon cost in the neighborhood of 75 cent*. But this year with melons galore far mers of the county are finding it none too easy to dispose of large melons at 10 cents. The weather, the big bugaboo of the farmer, is responsible. Last yeat with a record drought melons woie scarce; the favorite fruit of the South was for those with abundance of spending money. This year a delivery hoy at one of the stores can make oi>3 trip and buy a melon for a big feed all to hhnself at the rear of the store. K's hard on the farmers with melons to sell, but, really,- it’s an ill wind that doesn’t waft a little good to some one—the city folks are taking no chances on another drought and arc eating according to capacity. Women's Missionary Union of Kings Mountain Association To Meet August 27-28 The annual meeting of the Woman’s Missionary union of the Kings Moun tain Baptist association of whieh Mrr>. Wacaster is president, will meet ut Bethlehem church August 26-27 when the following program will be carried out: 10:50 - Devotional service, Mrs. Rol lins. Oxganization. Address of wel come, Mrs. M. A. Jolley. Roll call ot societies. Recognition of new organ izations. Visitors and pastors. Report of officers. Song, Mrs. Keeter, Pre sentation of banners. Superintendent’s address, others. First aid to your soc iety, Boiling Springs. Announcements. Luneh: 1:30- Devotional service, Mrs. Herbert Long. Minutes. Address, Mrs. Ecina L. Harris. Solo, Mrs. Keet. er. Playlet, Tithing, Shelby 2d. De monstration by Macedonia. Announce, ments.. Night session: Devotional. Rev. W. X. Cooke. Sermon, Rev. C. J. Black. Friday: 10:30—Devotional, Mrs. M. E. Herndon. Minutes. Young peoples hour. Special music. A new W. M. U. family. Our Mission fields. Announce ments. Lunch: 1:30—Devotional service, Mrs. L. L. House. Minutes. Reports, Mrs. W. I,. Packard. Standard of ex. ceilemv. Song. Mission study demon stration by Kings Mt. W. M. S. Re. port of committees. Closing serice. Shelby's Entrant Off To Speedway Sprints Miss Betty Suttle, recently crown* de “Princess Cotton"'at the Cleveland Springs ball, and Shelby’s entrant in the Speedway sponsor contest, is ay tending the races in Charlotte this af ternoon. Miss Suttle ranked fifth as the close of the contest, her largest vote coining from Atlanta, it is said. There was a likelihood yesterday that the Shelby beauty might go by airplane to the Charlotte races, flyinjy with Sid Malloy, young aviator who has been in the town for several days, but a previous engagement prevented the air journey. When tips are pass ed along as to “what contributed to my beauty” the Shelby girl might st» tribute some of her prize-winning com plexion to riding high in the clouds for she has taken several trips over the town and to adjacent landing fields m the Malloy plane. r* : Negro Woman Shot By Her Irate Hubby Tables Are Turned In County's Latent Shooting. Took Place On Mon day Morning Shelby and Cleveland county's quota of one shooting per week among the negroes seems to be holding the pace of the fatal shooting last ween.. The latest shooting, which occurred about 8:30 Monday morning near Patterson Springs, was somewhat re versed from the Caines killing: This time the man handled the gun and ir was the woman that received the loan i from the shot gun. As a result a color ed man by the name of Byers, whose first name is said to be Arthur. 1* “at large” and his wife has a face and breast marked by a load of shot from a single barrel shot gun. information that could be sec ured had it that Byers and his wife, who live on the old Shuford place In that section, had a dispute over the “carrying-on” of each other. Follow ing ah argument, it is reported, Byers departed for the house and secured his gun, meeting his wife a short time later. The shot was apparently fired at some distance as the shot from the < discharge were scattered widely, which | perhaps explains that the woman is I living and will not likely suffer fatal results from the shot. A small color ed boy stunding nearby is said to have been hit by several of the shot'. Dr. E. A. Houser, who rendered ! medical attention to the woman short-| ly after the shooting, states that ho removed some four or five shots frou. the left side of her face and arouno one dozen shot from her breast. One shot, the physician says, entered her face just above the left eye and as a result the eye apd the surrounding portion of her face is badly swelled. The eye, it is added, may be lost froti the injury although this cannot be dr conditions. The husband, it is said vamoosed finitely ascertained under the preset*, shortly after the affair, and accord- j ing to information secured by Sheriff Hugh Logan, who visited the scene soon kfter the shooting, headed to wards the South Curolina line. In Coma Four Days Bostic Man Lives _ ! Hope Held Out Saturday For Recov■ [ ery of AVeast Hurt In Auto Wreck Charlotte, August 21.—Held at the! point of death for more than 100 J hours in a coma which he was unable j to fight off for a moment, Itex Weast,; 22, of Bostic, is now given a chan*.! for life, in the minds of the physi cians who have attended him since he was brought to Charlotte sanatoi ium early Monday morning. Weast was a passenger in the c;u which Sunday night crashed into a truck parked for repairs on the Sal isbury highway, killing Waco Digit, 20, and seriously injuring his brothel, Durham Digh, 22, driver Of the car. Weast was brought to the hospital in a car hailed by the driver of the truck, who was working op it whe* the accident occurred. On his arrival here, practically no ht>pe for the young. man’s recovery was held out. At no time has he shown more signs of life than indi cated by the beating of his heart, and the case has been looked upon as one of the most unusual which was ever handled here. Greater regularity in the youth’s pulse during the afternoon yesterda> led to the feeling among hospital at taches that he might live. Mrs. W. G. Boshamer, of Gastonia, is a guest at the home of Mr. W. Y. AA'eathers. Gun Hattie of No. 1 Related To J«dko Mull. Gel Lincoln Boys With Liquor Heavy court dockets are the order of the day again in Cleveland count.. Saturday two courts held sway for a goodly portion of the day in the county courthouse and it was the. fourth day of the week that Recorder Mull’s county court held forth until at least 1 o’clock in the afternoon. Saturday morning while the entire ty was grinding away upstairs, Squire F.skrjdge was hearing an interesting case in Clerk Webb's office below. The feature of the Saturday docket before Judge Mull -p-as a gun battle staged several weeks back in No. I township, the defendants having skip ped into South Carolina and only re cently were hailed into court. George Bennett and Ezra Reynolds of No. I were the defendants and their shoot ing contest developed front an argu ment regarding some fruit. The dis - pute arose over some fruit belonging to their landlord, it is said, and afte; words had been passed the men knocked each other down with rocks, according to the evidence, and then repaired to their respective homes fox their guns. They met later, one witn a .22 calibre rifle and the other witn a breech-loader. Each gun was dis charged Once, as in the days of oldctt duels, however only one shot found Its mark striking Bennett in the should er. Judge Mull decided that the rortc j ing and shootfng together were worth i $25 and the costs to Reynolds. Bedford Gets 3 Gallons Melton Weathers and Claude Jones t Loncoin county youths, were still re pining in the county jail here Satur day after being fined $50 and the costa each by Judge Mull on a liquor charge. The Lincoln men were captured in No. 10 township Friday night by Deputy Plato Ledford. Three gallons of com in. their cur proved to be their down fall. It was shown in court Saturday that flu- car belonged to the sister of one of the defendants and it was re - leased according to the usuul pro* cedure. Charge Car- Larceny Tommy Wilson and Thurman Modo faced Judge Mull during the day Sat urday charged with the larceny of a car belonging to Claude Beattl. Both men were bound over to Superior court under a $100 bond each. Testimony introduced, however, according to court officials indicated that it might have been fr matter of only temporary larceny. Numerous other cases of the regu lar run came up during the day, th» verdict of "not guilty” being returned in several of the charges. * In Squire Eskridge’s court down stairs, Leopold Parker was charged with seduction under marriage prom ise. After a hearing the court found the defendant guilty of a lesser charge under that head and fined him $100. The matter of appeal, it is said ia pending. UTOII TO GET FI IIS IT CENTENNim Dr. J. Sibley Dorton, secretary of the big Cleveland county fair, has de finitely decided to visit Philadelphia within a week or so for the purposd of viewing the mammoth sesqui-cen tennial there for ideas concerning ex hibit and exposition promotion. The sesqui is the biggest “fair* the world has ever known and money with the geniuses of several countries have combined in assembling a won derful showplace for America and other nations. The displays there run the gauntlet of human activity and life and are educational as well as historical. That Secretary Dorton will pick up numerous ideas of value to him in putting on the big fair here this fall is the general opinion of those ac quainted with the sesqui-centennial. Mrs. Beam Dies And ' Leaves Six Children Mrs. Clemmie S. Beam died Friday evening at her home in South Shelby following a protracted illness from pellagra and cancer and leaves surviv ing her husband and six children, ranging in ages from two to fifteen years. Mrs. Beam was an Ezell, of Rutherford county before marriage, but had been living here for sometime, her husband working in the the Janet Hosiery mill. Only 36 years of age, her death is one of peculiar sorrow. ’She had taken treatment in a Spartan* burg hospital for the dreadful mala dies with which she was afflicted, but her life could not be spared. The furr eral services \asre conducted from the Second Baptist church Sunday by Rev. Rush Padgett and the interment was in the cemetery at Zoar.