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VOL. XXXIV, No. no SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY. SEPT. 10, 1926. , ,,r , . . t, . , ... By mail, per year (in advance)—$2.60 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.By carri»-r,year (in advance) $3.0® What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW. Cotton picking time! * * * i; times get hard why not go to Pegging? One outside beggar re . oil $H0 in one day recently in S1;■' 1 by, hut the chamber of eom m, ice plans to put a stop on the |u ,".<t ice-, a news story in today's Star says. \nd then it pays to watch the ... that come across the coun ter-. That’s what Shelby business ^ous'-s' learned this week when tin y cashed ? 100 worth of worth |( paper, The Star says in ther tews story. One merchant lias a sign over his cash register: "lour tace looks good bet it * won’t ring the cash register.” * * * Casey Morris has what appears p, he the fa test backfield ever known, to the Shelby high, ac cording to a sport .article appear ing today. Von mere men, how lone have v< i hern wearing nightshirts? An old citizen says that 10 years ago ,,m. couldn’t buy such a thing in . town as a nightshirt. Now they're prescribing 'em for convicts, judg ing bv today’s paper. * * * The Baptist picnic and thanks giving day yesterday was a sue cess all the way through—even to the dir.ner. An article in this issue tells Of the details, but fails to estimate on the missing chickens, * * * It’s not often a Republican praises the accomplishment of Democrats but Johnson Hayes, G. O p. senatorial candidate did. nothing else hut in his speech here this week. Read it in The Star. * * * The first hale of cotton has been, picked, ginned and sold. So says The Star. * * * A lot of folks have passes to this and that, but those who motor about Shelby Saturday with last year's auto tags will have free access to Judge Mull’s county court say- the sheriff’s office in a news story today. * * * A lot of youngsters lit out for school this morning with a scowl on their faces, but on November 1. Supt. Grigg says. 5,000 more will enter at -the six-months schools. * * * This isn't bull either! Dr. Dor ton says in The Star ‘.Mat $1,116 in premiums awaits the winners at the cattle show this fall at the fair. Last spring and the spring be fore that, baseball fans about Shel by crowded to the city ball park to see Jack Hoyle work in games against opposing high school teams. It will be interesting to them to note in this issue that next year the young pitcher will be with Larry Gardner on the Ashe ville elub. * * * Shelby streets are beautiful as they are, but they could be cleaner an editorial today’s paper opines. * * * Do you read the personals? It you don’t perhaps you can’t keep up with the fellow who owes you a hill and has left town. * * Greensboro is making it hard on the drug-store cowboys according to a dispatch from the Gate city. They aren’t taking ’em riding, hut they’re making ’em on the move. * * The Star occasionally run^ upon articles well worth reproducing. In this issue is an editorial which The Star believes to be one of the most brilliant ever to be written by a North Carolina newspaper man. It appeared this week in the Greensboro News and apparently is tlie product of Earl Godbey s gerius. Read “Reed of Missouri. Ebeltoft Robbed of $30 in Cash By Bold Thief To have a thief cop your cash drawer—search for It awhile, then Ri'e it up for gone—and smile. That’s the T. W. Ebeltoft method of procedure. i Sometime between seven and eight o’clock Thursday morning a thief put one over on the genial bookseller. While Mr. Ebeltoft was laboring at his desk a thief slipped UP to the safe and went south with fbc cash drawer, containing $30. He took cash, drawer and all. and didn’t stop to pass the time of day. Mr. Ebeltoft has been in the babit of leaving cash around mole or less carelessly, all over the store, figuring that, like Ivory Sf,ap, ninety-nine and forty-four per cent, of men arc pure—mean ing honest. But the one bad apple 'n the barrel, got him. But he stii' maintains the majority of men are ad to the good. The little episode bas not disturbed his philosophy. First Cotton Of Seaso.i Ginned And Sold Here i be lirst liaic of cot!on of what looks to he one of tflov elatu! county’s biggest crops "us ginned and sold in Shelby Wednesday afternoon. The bale was brough. to the Southern C tton Oil company’s gin by W. 1’. Armour, of the \V. II. Blanton farms. It weighed ■r)lS pounds and was sold to the McMuiTy Cotton firm for 18 cents. Quite a number of other bales have b< en pii ked and are ready for the gins hut the Armour bale goes on record as the first of the season. Winns TO DOIT LOCAL STREETS Chamber of Commerce Directors Ask City for an Ordinance To Protect Citizens. Beggars, some of whom have a meritorious appeal arid others who are pure fakirs, frequent. the streets and usually receive a hearty response from a generous citizen ship. But the Chamber of com merce wants the* city fathers to curb promiscuous begging and with this in mind the directors of the chamber of commerce on Wednes day afternoon decided to ask for an ordinance prohibiting professional beggars from working the streets of Shelby. If they live be yond the confines of Cleveland county there will be no hope for them here as the police officials will move them along if the or dinance passes. If they live with in the limits of Cleveland county and want to solicit alms on the streets of Shelby, the Chamber ol commerce directors want an or dinance which will require them to apply to the county welfare of ficer for permission to solicit. The welfare officer will investigate the merits of all beggars and if they are not worthy, no permis sion will be granted. If they have merit and can establish the fact to the satisfaction of the welfare officers, he will grant them pc* mission to solicit alms and the permission will be in written form so that it will be shown to peo ple from whom help is asked. Professional beggars from the outside have found Shelby peo ple ‘‘easy meat.” One of this type dropped into a local bank the other day, with . $80 in small change which he had secured from his operations to have the money changed into $10 and $i!0 currency certificates. CONFLICT 0/1TES II YET SETTLED Kings Mountain Church Is Asked To Consent to Change In Date For Itaptist The First Baptist church of Kings Mountain is being asked by the executive committee of the Kings Mountain Baptist associa tion to concur in a change in the date of the meeting of the assoc iation so that it will not conflict with the Cleveland county fair. This action was taken Thursday at a meeting of the executive com mittee at the Baptist picnic and i praise service held at the county ! fair grounds. It was the sense of the executive committee that the date should be changed a few days later, but the executive committee did not wish to authorize the change w )'iout the consent and ap proval of the entertaining church. The entertaining church .however, voted ten days ago not to ask the executive committee to make the change, but the executive commit tee felt that in view of the over i whelming sentiment of the pas i tors and leaders in the associa tion for a change that the Kings I Mountain church will give its con sent. j It is probable that the question will be definitely settled in n few i days. Rev. 0. J. Black, pastor of the First Baptist church at Kings j Mountain will no doubt confer with | his board of deacons in a few days and give the executive committee ! an. answer one way or the other. The county fair meets September J 28th and runs for five days, while the Kings Mountain association is scheduled to nteet with the Kings Mtn. church Sept. 29th and 30th. Mr. and Mrs. Graham Anthony, of Hartford, Conn., will arrive the j sixteenth of this month to spend three weeks with Mr. Anthony’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. An j thony. CITY WILL OPEN I. CLEGS ST1E1 BT ClDEffilTIO!) <-'ity Kngineer put on Full Time For Two Months. Jitney Drivers ask Protection. The city officials in regular meeting Tuesday night authorized the city attorney to prepare iv-i per- for the condemnation of Mrs. \V. H. Thompson’s property so that f l 'gg street in West Shelby cat. he opened from its north end to firaham street, a distance of one block. It is understood that the city hes been trying to open this street f< r some time but there has been some objection on the part of heirs of the late \\ . Horace Thompson, so con demnation proceedings will be in stituted at once and the value of the property adjusted by a boaid of appraisers. It was voted to buy 1,500 feet of fire hose to add to the equip ment of the Shelby fire department. C onsequendy an order has been placed for 1,500 feet at a cost of $1,800. The mayor was authorized to sign a note and meet the running expenses of the town until taxes become due. City Engineer Dan Frasier was put on full time for two months, b ginning September 1st. He has been devoting part time to city af fairs, but while the city has so much improvement work under way, it was deemed wise to have his entire services during the next sixty days at a salary of $250 a month. Meat dealers who have license to do a wholesale and retail busi ness in the city of Shelby were granted the privilege of dealing in green hides without paying any ad ditirnal license. A number of jitney driver ap peared before the city fathers asking some protection against outside jitneys who usually come in while the county fair is in pro gress and compete with the regular jitney drivers who are here all the year round engaged in the jitney business. The city fathers were in clined to grant tne locaT jitneys drivers some protection if it can be done within the law and the matter was referred to the city attorney for an opinion. Mule Falls, Throws Lad to Ground and Injures His Skull Worth Oakes, 16-year-old lad , living on Lattimore R-l has been unconscious since he was injured ! Monday when the mule he was rid I ing, slipped and threw' him off, i the mule falling and rolling on th» j youth. He has been suffering with ! concussion of the brain and is re | reiving treatment in ihe Shelby i hospital to which place he was | brought soon after the accident. He j is slowly gaining consciousness and | hospital authorities say he will recover. Germany’s Mary —N'KA, Nrw York ttur« ail Mine l-'ll.n itii hli'i if Cenruti >•'* M.irv t'Jokford. Slit' rerently mip tn Arm rii a and is now en;;nnoil in •.)»■ iMOdui llon of her first A.ncrn*n •irklura. Signed His Name Cleveland (Gardner and Claimed to be From Charlotte. A dapper young man, well dress ed and representing himself to be a traveling man out of Charlotte, flashed a number of checks on lo cal stores and banks Wednesday and before the worthlessness of his checks was learned, he hao taken the bus, telling the ticker agent that he was bound for Asheville hut the bus driver says he got off at Forest City. The young man was about 22 years of age and signed his name Clev eland Gardner. He told his victims that he was not the local attorney P. Cleveland Gardner, nominee for county solicitor, but that he was another Cleveland Gardner who traveled out of Charlotte. In work ing his crooked scheme here he would go into a store, buy a small amount of mechandise but write a check for a larger amount I because he ‘‘needed a little extra ' change.” At one of the local banks he got a draft cashed on a Charlotte bank and when the day was over the local institutions had been soaked for about $100. It is reported that another young man was working with the i fellow claiming to be Cleveland ! Gardner and it is thought they are making town after town, flashing checks on merchants. Their neat appearance would lead any one to believe that thejl arc honest and sincere but a telegram from the Charlotte bank on which 1 they draw checks brings back word that they carry no such ac I count on the bank’s books. Mrs. Carey Boshamer left today for Statesville, where she will spend several weeks housekeeping for her mother who is spending I several w-eeks in the North. »» »»*»»* ** •> • • «>«# ♦> «> «> •> WATER SHORTAGE; OFFICIALS ASK THAT NO CARS BE WASHED AND NO LAWNS BE WATERED To the Citizens of Shelby Because of a shortage in the supply of water from the old pump station, or rather because the consumption of water is greater than the capacity of the plant to produce, it is re spectfully asked that all p:ople REFRAIN FROM USING (*ITY WATER IN WASHING CARS AND WATERING LAWNS. Exercise every other economy in the use of water until the new water plant is in operation. It is promised by October 15th when the supply will be ample. We appeal to you as patriotic citizens to heed this re quest. Without water, your property is at the mercy of fire. We are trying to store up a supply for fire fighting purposes. It can’t be done withouj the patrons economising in daily consumption of water. Why the shortage, you ask ? The old pump station is doing its best, day and night. It is physically impossible to filter and purify the water as fast as it is used. The marvelous growth of the citys population and increase from 100 patrons when the plant was built to 1,600 patrons now makes it impossible for the plant to produce enough for all uses. A break-down this week at the plant has made the situation worse. Repairs are being made as rapidly as it is possible to do without stopping the supply entirely. So in order to get a reserve for fire fighting, we urge all cit izens to economise in water as much as possible. Do not wash cars and water lawns with city water The quality; of the water may not have met with your ap proval. This Is due to the strain on the old station. It is pushed to the limit and beyond to give you the w'ater you do get. What more could be done? Please, therefore, use every economy until the new water station is completed in about six weeks when there will be an abundant supply of a better grade of water. , A. P. WEATHERS, Mayor. R. V. TOMS, Supt. Water Plant. Republican Candidate for I Hilid States Senate I.eaves Bitter Politics out of Speech. Johnson J. Mayes addressing a mixed gathering of Republicans and Democrats here Wednesday afternoon and also at Kings Mono tain praised North Carolina's high wav system like one of the lust followers of Cameron Morrison’ regime and even found fault with the state educational system like unto critical university professors. Otherwise the Wilkes citizen boi\ and presented the usual character istics of a candidate of the Repub lican party for the United States senate. Hayes whom the G O P has pick ed to oppose Lee Sinter Overman for the western senate berth, drop ped down amid Cleveland county's democracy Wednesday morning under the guiding hand of 11. Clay , Cox, Republican party ohairmatv The senatorial aspirant passed | about town during the morning re-1 newing old acquaintances and mak ing new ones— and may it lie said in his behalf that he drew no line? on politics. A matter that has brought forth the comment here that he is of the Meekins type,| which is about the most promising future for a North Carolina Re publican. Morning conference in cluded one with Postmaster J. H. Quinn, other leading Republicans and some few Democrats, friends to Hayes as fellow barristers and per sonal friends when politics are not in sway. Mr. Hayes was fittingly intro duced by Mr. Quinn and proved a (Continued on page eight.) Officer* To Nab Driver* With Old Tag* On Saturday If you still have last year's li cense tag on your auto, or if you haven’t a receipt to show that you have ordered a new tag. it will be best to stay away from Shelby Sat urday. That’s the word that pomes from the sheriff's office here. Some time back Sheriff Logan made a forma! announcement that he had been lenient enough with those not having new auto tag< and that after September 10 he would begin making arrests. Today is the last day of grace with the county—the state's day of grace expired some weeks ago. It is explained at the sheriff’s office that anyone having a money order receipt or anything else to show' that a tag lias been ordered j will not be arrested. But without either tags or receipt a journey to the county court is in the offing. At that place a charge will be pre ferred on operating an automobile without proper license—and usual ly the costs will equal the price of a flivver tag, e-Vept that the tag isn’t furnished. Walk In Dream Caused Austell Boy to Plunge Relatives of C. L. Austell, 12 year-old Charlotte boy related here, say that walking in a dream caus ed the youth to plunge from a sec ond-story window at his home early last Monday morning. The youth, who is suffering from serious in ternal injuries, is a brother of Mrs William Crowder. After regaining consciousness he stated that he was dreaming that he was going to his mother. While walking in his sleep, he went to in.? window and fell from it. His moth er said that the boy struck a wire fence which broke his fall to some extent. His face was badly cut and required 12 stitches. He also had several teeth knocked out when he struck the fence. He was carried to the Charlotte sanatorium, where an operation was performed. 6-Month Schools Will Open On First November About 5,000 Students Will Answer Bells at 81 Schools on The Above Date. Approximately 81 six-months term schools will open in Cleve land county on November 1. ae I cording to Supi. J. Horace Gngg, | of the county schools. The decision j w'as made at the meeting this week I of the county board of education. There are about 50 schools for white children in the county with six months terms and about .‘51 for negroes. Around 5,000 children will attend these 81 schools it is esti mated. Ready to Start Non-Eating Hike * --* —NBA, Chicago RureaiS fJeorge Mnsler Johnston was exnmined Just before the start of his at tempted hike from Chicago to New Yrrlt on which he was to take no food whatever James Hocking famous long distance waiter. who was to ao vrttnpnnv Mn, Is shown at 'he right ' * ' > 2,500 Baptists Gather In Thanksgiving Service Here Transformation Of Crops In Ten Weeks De clared a Miracle—Vote To Hold Praise Services Annually Baptists to (he number of 2,500 or more met Thursday at the county fair grounds in the largest denominational gathering ever held in Cleveland county to frater nize together and render thanks for the prospects of a bountiful harvest in the face of what look ed to he in the early Spring, another year of drought and dis* tress. The idea pf a picnic and thanksgiving service no doubt was conceived in June when Dr. Zeno Wall and £ev. Rush Padgett were conducting a tent revival in South Shelby in which all the nearby Baptist churches of the county 'were taking a part. The drought was severe and another crop fail ure was staring the citizens in the face, hut fervent prayers for rain went up and in less than 0 hours, the parched vegetation and dry ground were blessed with copious moisture. Since then, other rains have fallen and in gratitude to God for material as well as spir itual blessings, the picnic and praise service was planned by the ministers. . Day of Praise In every song, sermon anil pray er at the great gathering Thurs day. there sounded a note of gratitude ai d thanksgiving. Fami liar hyntns were sung by the 2,500 who practically filled the large grand stand at the fair grounds. The music was lead by II. M. Pippin, music director of the , First Baptist church while two pianos presided over by Miss Helen Lattimore and Miss Bertha Bostic, helped swell the notes. Rev. Kush Padgett was chairman and he presided from the speaker’s stand in front of the mammoth grand stand which was draped in bunting and American flags. At the noon hour the dinner spread in one of the exhibit halls where tables had been provided, gave every evidence by its bounty that the country has been blessed ibeyond measure with the fruits of field, orchard and barnyard. The crowd was so large that all could not get into the exhibit building and many had to spread their dinner on the ground around the building and in automobiles park ed nearby. Present Day Miracle Dr. Ohas E. Maddry, principal speaker during the morning was introduced by Dr. Zeno Wall os the statesman missionary secre tary in North Carolina. Dr. Mad-1 dry declared that the transforma tion that has taken place in the crops in North Carolina during the past ten weeks ha; been noth ing more than a miracle and if the people forget God this Fall aid spend the harvest money on themselves, God will forget them. The country has come from drought and despondency to abundance and plenty and Dr. Maddry was optimistic enough to believe that the people will show gratitude to a gracious and gen erous God. There are 600,000 white and colored Baptists in North Carolina and over 2,000 Baptist churches. To this great host of Christians he urged a de votion to the task that, is before them, the task of providing better houses of worship, , full-time pastors who live in the midst of their membership, Sunday schools that go not into winter quarters, but have departments that func tion all the year round and are al tractions to the younger people who arc educated at the splendid consolidated schools. It was no wonder to Dr. Maddry that young people lose interest in little “cig ar box’’ struggling churches that have services only once a month. Dr. Maddry spoke of the wonder ful progress that is being made and what a blessed privilege it is to live in this hour of the world’s history. Lauds State's Progress In the afternoon Dr. R, J. Bate man, pastor of the First Baptist church, Asheville, spoke • of the wonderful progress North Carolina has made*—a favored nation with a favoped people. He asked for a hand vote on the number of peo ple in the audience that were born elsewjJi're and when only a few hands went up, he commended the outsiders for having redeemed themselves by moving to Carolina Carolina’s situation front the standpoint of latitude makes it an ideal section in which to live. lie lauded the state for its industrial, educational and agricultural pro gross whch has been brought about by a fine type of God-fear ing citizen, appreciative of the countless blessings that flow from the hands of the God. He declar ed this gathering to be one of the most significant he had ever wit nessed and praised Cleveland coun (Continued on page seven.) Nightshirts Couldn’t Be Bought Here Decade Back, Say Old-Timers The recent talk of a ruling by the State board of health requir ing nightshirts for all convicts has created quite a bit of addi tional continent about Shelby. Some if it is interesting histori cally. “Why, 10 years ago one could n’t buy a nightshirt in Shelby,’’ comments one old-timer. Whether or not he is right about the time remains for the Shelby shopkeep ers to decide, but it is a certainty that pajamas and nightshirts have n’t been so common here always— at least not so multitudinous that convicts have been accustomed to them in the place of abode prior to joining the county work forces. Wake county seems to be taking the lead action in the state “night shirt" problem. Finding at their meeting this week that nightshirts for all their convicts would prove costly the hoard decided not to purchase any now, hut to require each convict to sleep in some other clothing than that in which he works during the day. Discus sion here seems to favor the Wake move. Perhaps, as the health board says, it isn’t best for the men to sleep in clothing that is saturated with perspiration of the days toil, but still it doesn’t seem a wise move to put the convicts in a night garb to which they have not been accustomed. No move has been made by the Cleveland County board and the matter will not likely be taken up until the next “first Monday” if then. The formal notices from the State health board were not sent out until this week and of [course did not reach the county | boards until after their regular i meeting. $1,116 PREMIUMS FOR CATTLE SHOW ^ HI COUNTY FI Competition in Cattle Show Ex pected to He Livelier Than Any Other Part of Fair. Liberal premiums totaling SU, 116.00 have been appropriated for the big cattle show which will be featured by the Cleveland county fair, Shelby, September 28 to Octo ber 2. Both the dairy and beef breeds will be represented, and ani mals with a combined value run ning into thousands of dollars wilt be shown. There will be ir.-;.y exhibits of interest at this year’s fair but it is not probable that any will at tract more visitors than the cattlo i, competition. Many outstanding ani mals from the more important herds in this locality have been entered in the show. With the fair close at hand, Sec retary Dorton is making prepara tions to care for a record-breaking number of entries. Although the, entry list does not close until Sep tember 2, enough entries have been received to assure a capacity show. Regardless of the number of ani mals entered there will be accom modations for all, declare fair of ficials. The classifications as worked out in the premium list are very lib eral, and provide competition for animals of both sexes and all ages. In the dairy division the breeds re cognized in the premium list are Jerseys, Guernseys and Holsteins. In the beef contest will be shown .Shorthorns, Herefords and Angus, j The entire livestock show is be ! ing emphasized this year. While | great interest centers in the cattle division, the horse, sheep and swine departments report unusual activi ty. Prospects are bright for record breaking entry lists in each of these departments. Secretary Dorton reports that he still has a number of premiums lists on hand. Any person interested in entering an exhibit at the fair can obtain a premium list and entry blanks by getting in touch with the secretary’s office. f ' . --- Break Down Causes Shortage of Water Blow Out -in Filter Causes Water To Be Off—Old Station Taxed Beyond Its Capacity A break down at the city water station Wednesday caused many patrons to go thirsty and wi*fmt a bath and caused Supt. R. "V. Toms and his force of. workmen to work until midnight making repairs. In a blow out' in the fil ter plant, all the sand was lost and new sand had to be added. To do this required nearly- a day and many housewives turned the spig ot in their homes for water and got nothing but a hiss from the air in the pipes. The telephone be gan clanging us patrons called at the city hall to know what the trouble was and some had little patience in the face of the ex planation that a break down had occurred. Mr. Toms says the water short age is due to the limited capacity of the old plant which is doing the best it can but will have to suf (Continued on page five.) Textile Company Formed to Work Vivian Property _ Gastonia, Sept. 9.—The Nuway Spinning company is the name of the new corporation chartered by the secretary of state, which will take over the Vivian Spinning com pany property at Cherryville and operate it. The authorized capital of the company is listed as $300,000 with $50,000 subscribed by George Sper ling, of Shelby; L. L. Self, of Cher ryville and W. K. Mauney, of Kings Mountain. It is recalled that Mr. Sperling bid $31,500 for the mill and its village at the recent public auction sale. It is understood that the plan of the new owners is to repair the plant and operate it. Few Parcels Bought In Sale For Taxes Cleveland county land isn’t sell ing so fast—that is, from the tax auction block. Monday of this week the sheriff’s office here offered on the block 32 parcels of county land for non •payraent of taxes and only tw« bids were made on the 32. Sincfli that* time however some of the owners have visited the office about redeeming their lands. ^ J
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