North Carolina Newspapers

THE STAR Is The Leading Paper of Shelby and The State's Fertile Farm Section. v -- . ..-——* : VOL. XXXIV, No. 108 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1026 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advance)—12.60 By carrier, per year (In a^vShce) fS.OO , ,1 Bells! * * * > , \ >u know that Cleveland pel t $384,000 for schools s the year ending June 30, Which isn't so bad in view j recent criticism of North ! i ,■ i schools. That sum was oi addition to the operating ( Read about school ex , in in today’s Star. * * * y, will gin the first bale of j , The Star is waiting to ; , , the information. * * * g t “soused” l ight in . v court house this week, w was chr.e by and didn’t , c. . cnt for Judge Mull fin- I . 1 y $10, according to a : . item,in this paper. * * * ' 1 'vrland county man who a i lib- m man at the Speed <. .... r in Charlotte wil’ face a! charge in court, says Soli- j , < .* penter in today’s Star. * * * | : ri roners out on the convict j. ill not have any “nighties” 1 , • The county board failed V , de any at lb; ir meeting al . : -ue.h a request is said to ) ; . .n made by the State |„uf health. » * * Ii'.rton is expecting every; child in the county to at. ; 'he opening day of the fair. . |v . - in this issue. And. as the. ■ rs are all fond of the fair •a v it’s their place now not ti. disappoint him. * * « Ovei at the school athletic field r, r than a score of youngsters b c.g toughened under Cascv Morr-’ tmining for the football ahead. To see how they de- ' v(;, ■ read The Star regularly. T S.’. memorial fund for the U r' War dead of the county is ! ...vidy growing. The list of con t> . is published today. You’ll i \\ ' ■ out reading whether or ret veur name is listed. * * » tf ■ doesn't rain—-and Baptist mind e general drCnch i'-e around r.OCO people are ex pected to- attend the big thanks r, , . ( ■ nut tomo’-row, ro Baptist j e- 'I- i; - tell The Star. * * * T. • • -county has already gin- ■ re d hale of cotton, according' to j a (1 natch from T.incolnton. * * * v ' i Rock Oukc be remember ed 1 y hi wine cellar, or by h’s ' w r : tha* started Carolina on t■. r id to p -og-ess ? An edi t'lri-il ••iew in todev’s Star says Tv■' ; the win? cellar at least. * * * ft..' ; ■ i red'd the advertisements, e; . r ■ you a spendthrift? ♦ * * A•; | thr'n Charley Ross bobs ur> deniri which isn’t news any more. But this time bank officials arc V- .will rjjig jf |1(1 signs a chock ‘'Charley Ross” and is not Char 'f v R . who is he? And is the C ■<!: good? And—? “Red” •1, m.i- started it all. * * * K. K. K. Gives Bible To Second Baptist Church Of Shelby Thirty members of the Ku Ktux K; formally robed last Sunday ! i'h: presented the Second Bap i h'irch, of South Shelby, with :i handsome Bible. i i <■ manner of the presentation " impressive. ■Bur.ing the service, immediately afo ; !h<- reception, tlie Klansmen, ir full regalia, including hoods, appeared in the vestibule. Form ire is line they marched up both >'■ , meeting at the pulpit. The h v. a presented to Rev. Mr. J’Tigett., pastor of the church in •! "> . the gift being accompan n i fey a note. ' * i ■ the congregation sat in * • >• wonder at the unusual spec h of the wh'te robed figures ^ 'd about the pulpit, Mr. Pad s'' ' read the contents of the note, w eh was a recitation of the prin 'U'h of the Klan. A prayer was 11 offered, during which the V i imn stood with upraised ItatidK. . i . f Padgett thanked the visitors f i * heir beautiful gift, which he ' '•id wmdd be highly appreciated 1 iii olf am) the church, add that an organization that n such gifts must believe in 1 age of the scripture. * ,r*t Cotton In Lincoln Ginned l.monlntnn, Sept. 7.—-There has 7"'n ni,l<,h speculation as to the 1,1 for the first bale of cotton to ‘ :"7' tbe trin in Lincoln. It has al ■' ;;:]>• roiled in. . 1 "7 first bale of new cotton from , ‘*28 crop was ginned on Seo '"mlM r 3rd bv Mr. J. F. Linger felt, it weighed 450 pounds and war. j rrn by Mr. J. H. Brindle of * «e. Shelby School System Ranks Second In Group In Group of 14 Schools Shelby Ranks Second In Academic Work And 12th In Cost . * '' '', ;v 1 s: ''-cm from tha standpoint of academic cffi 1,1 ' • "1"i in a group of 14 towns of similar size, and only two .inm tin 1 • ■ ‘ in school cost, ’.'his information is given out by tbc State department of education in ‘’School Facts” citing the effi ciency <.i public schools in tile state. it interesting to Sheihy school patrons to note that: In a group of 11 city schools, in Droup -1, Sh' lhy rank; second in acao ■ 11.ic efficiency and 1-th in fin ancial cost. In other words Shelby ranks next to the highest. Hickory, in academic factors. while only Dunn and Smithfield have a lower financial cost. The schools in the croup are: Roanoke Ilapids, Hick ory, Reidsville. Washington < fleer ville, Burlington, Lexington, rayettev lie, Statesville, Mount Airy, Tarboro. Shelby, Dunn and Smithfield, The table shows furthermore that Shelby has 8^.7 per cent of the enrollment in average attend ance. only two schools. Hickory and Lexington ranking higher. The per teacher cost of current ex penses gives Shelby a rating of 55, only two from the lowest. And speaking of high salaries for teachers) The average teacher prir.cipal salary of the local sys tem is 93.9, only Dunn and Fayet teville having smaller average sal aries in the group. LIP Hi CHS BROUGHT DEATH TO HUT Shelby Colored Man Burned to Death Near Maiden. Reports Differ About Death. Hatch Toms, colored, who died Sunday of burns received last Thursday, was buried in the old colored cemetery here yesterday following funeral services at the home of his father. Dave Toms. Fire and gasoline mixed brought death to the colored nun. who was a well known character in police circles here in years gone by. Many varying reports are told of how Toms met his death. It seems that with two others he was rid ing near Maiden when their car ran out of gas. Working with the gas line and while borrowing some gasoline from another car Toms had his clothing saturated with gasoline and when a kerosene lamp was used about the work the flame caught his clothing and burned over his body, the turned man suf fering much agony until his death Sunday. Just how he got his clothes saturated reports differ: some say that he was working on one of the gasoline pipes, while others have it that the gasoline got on his clothing while securing gas from the other car. Other reports, per haps mere suspicion, hint at some motive behind the affair. Ten Bucks Price Of “Woozy” Trip To Court House The man who was arrested in a drunken condition in the court house Monday paid a fine of $10 and the costs for the trip after a hearing Tuesday before Record er Mull. The defendant stated that he did not kn>w whet he was doing there _in he didn’t remember that he had been to court at all on M >n day. Extracts extracted too often were credited with his experience. The judge didn't so advise, but it is presumed that the next time the defendant imbibes he will head some other direction than right int othe arms of the law at the court house. 'VIIEX WILL FIRST HALE BE BINNED? The Cleveland county cot ton crop this year is several weeks late, yet despite that fact a big crop seems in the offing. With the first bale al ready ginned in . Lincoln, the Star is anxious to sec ure information on the first bale to be ginned in this county, dinner of the count;, are urged to report the first bale to The Star as soon as it comes rn. giving weight and prices, together with the Vmme of the farmer bringing in the bale. Carpenter to I’rciecute Serious Charge Despite Lack of In terest by Man Shot. Charlotte, Sept. 7.—A bill of in dictment charging assault with in-1 tent to kill awaits C. O. ChampionJ of Mooresboro, held at the county. jail here for the shooting of A. E.1 Gibson, of Gibson, at the Charlotte speedway last month. Doubt as to the nature of the I ■■ ■soeution in the case, arising in the puzzling attitude of the wound ed man toward the affair, was dis pelled summarily by Solicitor John G. Carpenter last night. The solicitor promised the limit of the law despite the apparent re luctance of Gibson to act. The so!? alternative to the assault charge, ho said, would be a murder charg ? which he declared will be brought in the event of the victim’s death. “It makes no difference how Gibson feels," Mr. Carpenter said “the state has something to say about the matter.” The solicitor declared that he has made no plans thus far for the trial during the special term of court, to be called this month. j Dail y Breeders To Meet Monday Night Tom Cornwell, chairman of the dairy breeders association of Clev eland county, calls attention to all dairy breeders of a meeting to be held in the court house Monday night at 8 o'clock zo enter discus sions regarding the exhibit of cat tle at the county fair and talk over i other subjects that will make for the advancement of this industry iri i Cleveland county. Mr. Cornwell j urges that all who are interested in dairy cattle be at this meeting next j Monday night at the court house. SEVERAL IIINONED SCHOOL CHILDREN I)rpnrt ments For Young at County Fair Show Hig Growth. Fine F.ntor'ainmcnt Features One hundred percent attendance of sehool children at the Cleveland county fair is the goal of officials in charge of this year’s fair, which will be held here from September 2> to October 2. “We must have the children in terested in the fair if it is to be successful,’’ says secretary Horton. “’.Ve wart the boys aift girls to enter exhibits, but regardless of whether they enter exhibits or not, w." want them to attend the fair. There will be many things of in i'e est to them. Nearly every’ educa tional exhibit has been planned so that it will have a children’s ap peal. It is the mission of the fair to educate. We have kept this in nund in building up our program this year.” The exhibits of school children and the work of boys and girls enrolled in club work will prove a revelation to many visitors. The fair culminates the activities of the club members for the year. To them, the fair is Achievement Day. if they come to demonstrate what they have learned from their club leaders and compete in the finals of their club contests. The fair management has done its part to encourage the work by offering liberal premiums. No department of the fair has grown so rapidly in recent years as boys’ and girls' club work. Local bankers and business men have joined with the fair officials and club leaders in pushing the var ious projects in this section. Every body wants to see club work pros per. for, in interesting the boys and girls in cows, pigs, poultry and other club projects, they are inter esting them in the problem of the farm. Fair officials again wish to call attention of the public to this year’s entertainment program. It is the most pretentious arranged by the f . All kinds of new and ovel attractions have been engaged and visitors will find this year's fair one of a “Thousand Thrills.” Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wqll. of Lexington, spent the week-end here with Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Hol land. Mr. Wall returned to Lex ington on Mondav but Mrs. W all will remain until Friday. Mrs. Rob Laney and baby, of Monroe, are visiting Mrs. Fancy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Dover. Wall Expects 5,000 For Church Picnic Thursday Approximately Half of Associa- ' tion’s Members Expected to Attend Big Event Here. Baptist leaders in Shelby expect to have approximately half of the Kings Moutntain association’s membership in attendance at the big picnic and thanksgiving serv ice tomorrow at the county fair grounds east of Shelby on the ! Kings Mountain higthway. Which 1 ; means that preparations are being made for around 5,000 Baptists— ! one of the biggest informal church events in the county’s his tory. The latest compilation of the as ' soeiational statistics show that there are near 10,000—9,639 to be exact—members in the churches of the association. These churches I number 42 and own church prop erty valued at near a half million 1 dollars—$479,100—and each year these churches put r.side $186, >f?.50 for church expenses, bene volent, educational and mission work. The association covers one of the most progressive districts in the Piedmont Carolinas and is one of the Baptist strongholds in the South. Hard to Estimate. The crowd likely to attend is hard to estimate, according to Dr. Zeno Wall, of the First Baptist church here, and one of the lead ers in planning the event. However, he feels that Baptists all over the association, will be moved to attend if for nothing else except in the! spirit of thanksgiving. With 3,000 people praying for ( rain with Dr. Wall at his tent re vival here in the early summer as a highlight to numerous prayer-for rain services over the county and section, the event tomorrow first originated with the idea of re turning thanks for the answered prayers. Cleveland county crops are in excellent condition, when in the early summer !t seemed that ihe farm situation was serious. Conditions in other counties touch ed by the association are also good and an abundant harvest is expect . ed. Therefore, the prime spirit be hind the day ia one of thanksgiv ing. On the program of the day are many interesting features—Dr. R. J. Bateman, of Asheville, and Dr. Charles E. Maddry, of Raleigh; two of the most inspiring speakers in the Southern Baptist church, are on for addresses church and Sun day school leaders in the associa tion will take part together with laymen and outstanding church workers. A feature of the day, expected to attract many, will be the song serv ices conducted by Mr. Harry Pip pin. Singers from many of the 42 churches are expected to compose the big efioir of about 500 voices in songs of thanksgiving and praise. Except for association meet ings the general membership of the association seldom get together atsi the day will be one of friendly re union, brotherly love and contact with each other. The following is the program for the day: v 10:00 a. m.—Song: “Come Thou Almighty King.” Praver. Dr. C. J. Black. 10:10 a. mu—Song service for thirty minutes led by Mr. H. M. Pippin, who plans to have a good orchestra, and at least 500 voices coming from each Baptist church within the bounds of the Kings Mountain association. 10:45 a. m.—Devotional services led by Dr. Zeno Wall. Special music 11:00 a. m.—An address by Dr. Chas. E. Maddry, Raleigh. 12:00 noon—Dinner on the ground. Let each one bring a well filled bisket. 1:20 p. m.—A forty minutes song service led by Mr. Pippin. 2:00 p. m.— Hon. O. Max Gard ner will deliver a brief address and introduce Dr. Bateman. 2:15 p. m.—An address by Dr. R J. Bateman, pastor First Baptist church, Asheville. 3:00 p. m.—Adjourn. Weighing In the Air Passengers' ! - %—NKA, Los Angeles Mureau When tU first passengers were weighed in at Iajm Angeles, the contract air mail route between I-os Angeles Hnd Salt Lake City, eastward, started Its "human transportation service." Charles Kerr '.a shown with lbs crutches, and A. IS. DeNault, pilot Memorial Fund Growing With Added Contributions County Prisoners Without ‘Nighties’ After Board Meet ComitiMskMiers in Session Thi.s Week Did Not Take up Board of Health's Request. The convicts out on the No. G road gang "ill sleep in their “un dies" or in whatever raiment they have been sleeping for another month at least. The board of Clev eland county commissioners meet ing this week did not take up the night shirt problem as passed along by the State Board of Health. Some time back the Health Board decided that it would be the sanitary thing to do to have all ■ convicts in the state dolled up at nigKt like “kiddies In the crib.” Then came the health order that all convicts should be put to bed in night shirts, or pajamas. Eventu ally the ruling began to sink in and this week, on “first Monday”, commission hoards in many of the 100 counties in the state delved into a new line of business—that of buying nightshirts wholesale. For it was the ruling of -the board that every prisoner should have two night shirts so that one might al ways be clean. Down in Wake coun ty the board faced a problem of financing the deai. Nightshirts, they found, cost at least 50 cents each and two nightshirts would be $1 multiplied by the number ol ; prisoners. Just where the sum should come from was another prob lem for that board. However, the local board, busy with routine work and tax matters never got around to the night shirts, although they Worked almost. uatil night. Unofficially the board1 has given the matter very little thought. The ruling has brought forth some sarcasm over the state and there are those hereabouts who think it just a new hardship for convicts—“how many of them, do you suppose, Know wr.at •» nighty is?” is an inquiry frequent j ly heard. In a rural section, even a prosperous one like Cleveland, there are those who have the opin ion that more shirts do double duty than double shirts, meaning that the day shirt often serves as a night shirt. Mr. A. E. Cline, chairman of th? coupty board, in stating that the board did not find time to take the subject up at this meeting con cluded with a hit of humor: “Who knows, a lot of us folks may have to visit ihe gang cronp now to see ! what the proper nighty should lock like.” Give Out Time No Longer at Office Of Western Union Local Manager Says About 75 Calls Have Been Received Daily If the alarm clock stops tonight I don’t call up the Western Union j office for the correct time. Mana I ger Stallings wouldn’t mind giv ing it to you except that he wishes to retain his job—and headquarters have sent out the order that time hereafter will not be given out fropi Western Union offices. The company apparently has a sound reason for the change in Dolicy. Scores of people daily call the telegraph offices inquiring as to the correct time. At the same moment perhaps a score of others are trying to get messages off— so after all the change ' is merely for the speeded conveniences of telegraph patrons. Manager Stalling in announcing the change in policy says that the local office has been accustomed to ' given the correct time to approxi mately 75 callers each day. Carpenter1* Grove First Sunday School To Make Contribution For Memorial Up until Tuesday The Star’s memorial fund for the World War dead of Cleveland county totalled $92 without any special canvass, all contributions having been volun tary. With a canvass planned for the com ink weeks the fund is ex pected to grow' readily into the hund reds. However, the voluntary contri butions are especially appreciated. Many of the boys, whose names are on the (dd musty board at the court house, volunteered. Carpenter's Grove Sunday school this week led the other Sunday schools of the county with the first school contribution. Next week many schools are expected to run in their contributions. No matter how small these contribu tions are they all help swell the total fund and make the memorial a reality. * In the list today are quite n num ber who gave with proud heart aches. Some of them gave to hon or the memory of a boy they lov ed since childhood—a boy that didn’t come back. Others gave in memory of friends who never re turned, while other made contri butions recalling the tingling feel ing of the days when the dough bovs marched away. Is there any reason why Cleve land county within the next month should not raise the total fund to $750, or $1,000? Public speakers regularly thrill their audience about the county w'ith patriotic messages, ever us ing the phrase “Lest We Forget.” Is it possible that we have forgot ten? Have all the patriotic thoughts of a few years back dwindled down to that dustv little her or board at the court house? If all the hoys whose names are recorded there could form in a squad and march up a Shelby street to the court house and find nothing but that hoard to honor their- memory would you have the nerve to face them on the street? Think it over. When the memor ial fund is complete shouldn’t your contribution he among the others? The fund to date follows. It’s the fault of no one except yourself if your name is not on the list: THE STAR’S MEMORIAL FI ND FOR WORLD WAR DEAD OF COUNTY Star Publishing Co. _ . .. . $10 Wm. Lineberger 10 D. Newton _. _ B n. T. Falls ... _ 5 Clyde R. Hoey _ .. 10 Chas. C. Blanton 10 .1. D. T.ineberger - 5 I . Y. Lee ... S W. .1. A rev . ■" A. P. Mull _ 1 Frank L. Hoyle __ . - 5 Robert A. Hoyle ... _— B Mrs. .Tuyetter McSwain _ B Mrs. John P. Toms -- 1 A. P. Spake . ... _- 1 Carpenter’s Grove S. S-- 0 T. C. Hitchcock _ 2 Paul Lucas . _ .- 5 Let your name help the list grow for next time. Surely you’re inter ested at least one dollar’s worth in having the boys remembered by the coming generations? Mrs. Frank Love of I.ineolnton, spent Monday here with her par ents. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Dover. Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Goff, of Charlotte, were Shelby visitors on Monday. Thev were enroute home from Asheville. Public Schools Of Comity Spent $384,000 Last Year Teachers Arrive; School Thursday They are here, meaning the teachers, new and old, of the city j school system for the corning year. Practically all of the faculty mem bers arrived Tuesday and Tuesday night with few coming in Wednes day morning. A general teachers meeting was held at the Central school this • morning with Superintendent I. C. tiriffin presiding. All of which is ! not joyful news to the hundreds .of youngsters who will in the mornint, wend their way to the various seats of learning about town. TO SETTLE DATE CONTROVERSY OF BAPTIST ASS1 — At the big Baptist picnic to l>p held at the county fair grounds on | Thursday, the executive committee of the Kings Mountain Baptist as sociation hopes to reach an amica ble settlement of the conflict in the date for the association with the county fair. The executive commit tee is c< in posed of John W. Suttlo, ex-officio chairman Because he is moderator of the association R. L. Weathers, H. D. Wilson, I). G. Washburn, Mrs. John Wacaster and j Mrs. J. W. Wood. This committee I will receive a delegation of the I Baptist ministers r. ho have al j ready asked the entertaining ■church, the First Baptist of Kings | Mountain, to request a change by 1 the executive committee which is the only body that has the author ity to make such change. The Firs! Baptist church in Kings Mountain last Sunday a week ago disapprov ed a change on the ground that the Lord’s business “should not be side stepped for fairs and carnivals’’, as one brother pvr* 1t. Practically the entire group of ministers as well as lay members of the associa tion prefer a change in the date for the association and argue that if the change is not made that the association will suffer more than the fair in attendance and inter est. Those who favpr the change declare that the Lord's business would not suffer by a change in the date of the assooiational meet [ ing to a week later and that the First Baptist church of Shelby re quested the executive committee when it was entertaining the as sociation last year to change the date, and that it worked out satis factorily to the association with no disturbance whatever to the Cause. It is pointed out by those who (Continued on page seven.) Will You Give Old Phonograph Records? A certain individual of Shelby who does not wish her name men tioned, has given a second-hand Victrola to the inmates of the county home to brighten their lives and make their seclusion less lone some. This Victrola was in splendid condition after it was overhauled without charge by Mr. W. A. Pen dleton, the music man, who wished to have a part in the contribution, Mr. Pendleton gave a few records while the lady who gave the Vic trola, also gave a number of re cords to go with the machine. If you have records which you have grown tired of, won’t you kindly give them to the inmates of the county homo so they can enjoy the instrument? If you have any records which you can spare, please send them to The Star office and they will be taken out to the county home. “Uncle Billy” the blind man whose sense of touch has so developed since he lost his sight, that he can operate a typewriter, will he taught to op erate >the machine for the enter tainment of the other inmates. *,♦ •*♦,« * *♦,*♦♦ ♦♦ «> .V* ♦♦ •• ♦♦ ♦♦♦»**«»*»*#» ♦* ««•»««<♦ ft ft COTTON ESTIMATE IS g 82.000 BALES LOWER 8 When the government’s e*. .tirnate on the cotton crop was issued at 11 o’clock to day, cotton went off about 50 points, but prior to the issu ance of the report, it had just gone up about 25 points, making a net decline after the report of from 20 to 25 points, The estimate is p 15.166.000 bales; condition g 69.6. Ginned up to Septem- 8 ber 1st, 694.877 bales. Sev- § enteen New York traders had estimates that averaged 14,- « 950.000 bales. Audit Prepared hv Frank Edmunds For County Board of Educa tion. Source of Income. There went through the hands of the county board of education for the support of schools in Clev eland county for the past year, end ing June 30th, the sum of $384, 120.20, according to an audit pre pared by Frank A. Edmonson, di rector of division of school ac counts, who spent several days in Shelby in the offices of County Superintendent Horace (Irigg and County Treasurer Mrs. Mary Lou Yarborough. The audit ia a com plete schedule of receipts and dis bursements, showing the source from which all money came and the various avenues through which it went out. This $384,129.20 does not insclude all of the money spent for public school education in Clev eland county as the city schools of Shelby and Kings Mountain receiv ed money from their municipali ties which passed through city school hoards and is not included in this figure. The county board of education, from its own revenue or revenue secured from the state, furnished the Shelby and Kings Mountain city schools the sum of Tan ‘v> Hog Tax Helped. The sources of revenue which pro duced the $384,129.20 necessary to operate the public schools of Clev eland county were many and vari ed. For the teachers salary fund the county received $179,620.67 from (general county property tax. $5,628.16 from apportionment of the state public school fund and $3,753.91 front miscellaneous state and county funds. Front fines, for feitures and penalties the school fund received $13,666.60. From county special tax the sum of $28, • 195.97 was received, while the tax on dogs which goes to the school© fund to educate children brought in a revenue of $2,862.43. The amount of $129,246.90 was re ceived front special local district funds and borrowed from state loan for school houses, etc. I n paying out this. , enormous fund of $384,129.20, the largest Kem for expense was for teachera who received $145,819,26. Other items of expense were for fuel,, school supplies, rent and insurance, repairs and replacements, trans portation of pupils, trucks, new buildings and sites; new furniture and apparatus, repaid loans to state for buildings temporary loans repaid and various other items which left a balance at the end of the year of only $86.82. There was a conference yester day between the county board of commissioners and the county, hoard of education which is seek ing financial help from the com missioners on about $11,000 in notes, becoming due and which the board of education does not have funds with which to meet them. This deficit is not from a single year's operation, but a deficit which has been growing larger year after year. The county com missioners recently increased the levy of taxes for school purposes 12 cents over what it was in 1925. Whether this will take care of the school deficit or not, The Star was unable to learn yesterday as the two county boards had adjournad and Superintendent Grigg was on a round visiting schools of the coun ty, no one with the information at hand cduld be found. Cotton Growers Get Checks On Tuesday There will be a meeting of the members of the North Carolina Gotton Growers association at the court house Thursday morning at 10 o’clock. This meeting will be for the purpose of paying back to the mem bers the first year’s reserve fund. All members will be required to have their first year’s reserve cer tificate in order to get their checks. Mr. U. B. Blalock, general manr.. ger of the association will speak at this meeting. What he will have, to say will be of interest to every member of the association. Bury Vickers In Rutherford County Rutherfordton, Sept. 7.—One of the largest crowds in the history of the county attended the funeral of Joe B. Vickers, prisoner who es caped from the state prison and was shot last week by Rev. George Wood, preacher-deputy of Kinston, at Floyds Creek Baptist church, near Forest City; Sunday after noon. Revs. W. B. Jenkins of Avon* dale and R. M. Childress of Caro, leen were in charge of the serv ices. The wife and children of Vick ers were present. Many expects Rev. Mr. Wood to attend the fu< neral, but he did not.