North Carolina Newspapers

What’s THE News .THE STAR’S REVIEW. Cool snap! Almost time to put THE STAR Is The Leading Pap?r of Sheiby and The State’s Fertile Farm Section. 1 VOL. XXXIV, No. Ill = SHELBY. N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15. 1920. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoon..®' ’em on! ♦ * ' * Nowadays when a fellow talks he’s generally called on to hack it up, and Max Gardner with County Agent Hardin is out today showing a delegation of Gaston county farmers just what Cleveland has that reveals farm progress. (P. S. Boll weevils and leaf hoppers are urged to remai nunder cover). * * ► Who said mountain real estate was through moving? \ Chimney Bock hotel has been turned back tc its owner, says an item in today’s Star. * * * There’s no use beefing about it for there will be an exhibit of most everything at the county fair Sep tember 28—October 2. even to an exhibit cf beef cattle, according to the publicity agent of the fair in The Star. * * No new school Tiouses were bought by Cleveland county during the first half of this week for Re corder John Mull, who rakes in school funds from lawbreakers, did not have but one case during Monday and Tuesday. That’s news and of course may be found in The Star. * * * A reader misses “Around Our Town”. Perhaps he hasn’t realized that it is blended into this review like a harem atmosphere in \ ir ginia tobacco that eventually is termed Turkish cigarettes. A news story today says that the young bride who wa3 restrain ed from living with her husband of a week is now making her abode with a sister instead of her mother. * * * Girls, watch your step, just be fore you go hitting it down the aisle to the strains and bruises of “Here Comes the Bride”, County Welfare Officer Smith in a Star in terview today says one worthless husband deserts his wife and chil dren every month in the year here. * * Dr. Pcteat, a news item today reads, says that mothers are the real teachers of children. Mayhaps that’s why so many youngsters can do the Charleston, smoke and guz zle bootleg so efficiently. • * • There once was a tear-drawing song: “Where are the Missing Girls.” Judging by an item in to day’s paper a lot cf them arc at tending school at Limestone col lege. * * * Another car has been stolen from theatre-going owner. Once was such was considered news in Shel by, but this is about the sixth. • • The Kings Mountain Baptist as sociation will meet at Kings Moun tain after the county fair and the change of date has been accepted by the Kings Mountain church, ac cording to a dispatch to The Star. * * *. Advertisers in The Star today say that it’s time for the new fail clothes, meaning that last year’s raiment is out of date. Likewise the same order comes from the sheriff’s office about last year’s auto tags—but alert officers have found but few cars with old li cense plates. * * * Would a Cleveland county man be serving time now in the state pris on if a state legislature some years ago had passed a ?aw requiring lights cn horse-drawn vehicles ? An editorial in today’s issue offers an opinion about the matter. * * * Read the personals and police court items. Your name may be in one or ’cother. Dr. Ramseur Auto Stolen On Street His Ford Coupe is Missing After He Attended Picture Show At Princess Theatre. Another car has been stolen in Shelby. This time Dr. R. L. Ram seur, chiropractor, had his Ford coupe driven awav while he was witnessing the showing of a pic ture at the Princess theatre Mon day evening about 8:30 o’clock. Two boys were seen by bystanders to enter a car in front of the thea tre which did not appear to be a car which they wotdd possess. It is unde\stood that the suspected boys as well as the car is missing and that this is the only clue which the officers have to work on. Dr. Ram seur says this is one of the first times he had ever left his car for any length of time without locking 't. He had entered the theatre with Mrs. Ramseur and n-ter being in side for a short while, thought about his unlocked *car and his im pulse was to go out and see about it. but he remained in the theatre with an uneasiness of mind about bis car. In the car he had a suit of clotho# .lust from the pressine club and thisj was taken as well as a nice coat. Enough Eggs Here I’o Supply Demand Of ’Nog Drinkers Shelby Storage House Has Nearly One Million Eggs on Storage. Shipments Start. Egg<=! Eggs! Eggs! It is said that C. B. Caban as can not lock a hen in the face. Mr. Cabaniss is the proprie tor of the Ideal Ice and Fuel company, which is equipped with a cold storage plant for the retention of eggs. Last week the company began to turn loose the first,shipment of its summer supply. The new season found them with 2,400 cases of eggs stored, which means 864,000 individual potentialities—almost a mil lion eggs. Which would make eggnog for the A. E. F. And if they all went bad would depopulate Shelby. And if they all hatched out would make cackle enough to draw all the foxes in the coun try to this bailiwick. tourTfooIty FARMSTQDAY BY ! Delegation from Neighboring County Go Over Farms In This County. — Gastonia, Sept 14.—A number of farmers from all sections of Gas ton county will gather at the local; court house Wednesday morning at 8:30 o’clock for an automobile tour 1 of Cleveland couynty. making a day of it. Several business men are also expected to make the trip. | County Agent L. B. Altman, of Gaston, and County Agent Alvin Hardin, of Cleveland, have been busy with plans for the trip the past week. All indications point to a success. | Agent Altman announced Mon-) day that word from Shelby was to the effect that a splendid itiner- j ary has been arranged for tne| farmers and business men. The cold storage egg plant at Shelby will be thoroughly inspected. Two or more of the big Cleveland poul try yards will be visited and stud ied. The electric light system, cov ering the greater part of the eoun-| ty, a great benefit to farmers and i rural residents, will be examined.' Cleveland’s bumper cotton crop, known as a “flat cultivated” crop,1 will be a center of interest. I The farmers will take basket lunches with them on the trip. Th’S is believed to be the best plan.1 Others, not desiring to do this, will have a chance to stop at a hotel or cafe for lunch. Bride Taken F*om Young Hubby Goes To Live With Sister - . I The 14-year-old bride of this j county whose husband was re- j Strained from living with her by a I court order served last week is now j making her home with her sister,; according to ('apt. Peyton Me- | i Swain, attorney for the girl-bride's , j mother. Meantime annulment pro- j I ceedings await the next ierm of. sunerior court here. Barristers -interested in the un-| usual restraining order, that of, keeping a man fren his wife, sav; : that if the complaints alleged by the girl’s mother are found true j I that am.ulment of the marriage is j | possible. It will he remembered | i that the girl’s mother charges that ■ the couple are not legally married i in this sta;e. although lawfully j i wed in South Carolina, because the j girl is too young to be legally mar- j j ried and reside in this state and, I also because, she alleges, the | : young husband could not be legally | married here because of physical f ' defects. Previous cases of a similar na | ture include one reviewed often :u law schools, attorneys say, where white man married a negro woman in a Northern state, where such marriages are legal, and brought her to live in this state. The courts ruled that they couldn’t live here ! because such marriages are not | permitted in the state. Another similar case ended in an annul ment here some time back when a girl under age was married in j South Carolina, the annulment be j ing granted when the couple re turned to this state to live. Of i course, though, barristers say, this I counle, or any other couple married under such circumstances, could live in the Siate where they were ) legally married, yet couples not I married in compliance with North Carolina laws cai. not live together ! in this state though legally married ! in another state. BEEF CATTLE ON EXHIBIT PROGRAM E. IS. Herndon and Colin Edwards in Charge of Cattle Show. $395 Prize Money. Beef cattle representing all the popullar breeds will be exhibited in large numbers at the coming Clev eland County fair, Shelby, Septem ber 28 to October 2. Preparatichs are being made for the biggest cattle show in years. Directors E. B. Herndon and Co.lir, Edwards, in charge of the show, already have received entries from several leading breeders in this community. Animals of the finest type and conformation will compete for the S295 in prize money offered by the management. The breeds that havei been recognized in the premium! list are Herefords, Shorthorns, and Angus. Persons planning on visiting the fair are urged by officials to pay especial attention to the work i of the judges. The judging end of the cattle show is one of the most | interesting phases of the competi-; lion. Animals to score high in the' bee f contests muBt be blocky an.i; compact in conformation; with even covering, thick, mellow flesh-1 ing, and must be extremely smooth i worn a pliable hide and silky coat1 of hair. Fair officials ar« going to con-' tinue their campaign for more pure j bred sires in this locality. Many reasons have been offered why ev ery farmer should number at least a few head of beef cattle among his livestock holdings, but none sums up the situation clearer than the words of Director Herndon: “Cattle raising enables much of the crops to be fed on the farm, and builds up the fertility of the soil by per-1 milting the return of manure to land. Cattle raising makes the ro tation system of farming neces sary, which does away with the evils of the ‘single crop’ system ” Entries for the cattle show will be accepted until September 27. Hickory Firemen Coming To Shelby Fire Chief Whjtener to Speak Be fore Kiwanis, Chief Eskridge to Have Local Firemen. At the Kiwanis club meeting Thursday night at Cleveland Springs hotel, Hickory’s fine fire! chief Harry Whitener will deliver ‘ the principal talk on fire preven-; tion and the club will have as it* special guests the mayor and al- ■ dermen, Chief Herman Eskridge and his members of the Shelby fire 1 department. This promises to be a most interesting and helpful pro-' gram. It was arranged by Wm. McCord who has charge of the pro- j gram Thursday night. The Hickory I fire department is one of the best in the state. The men are well] trained and the fire fighting equip- I pient is modern and up-to-date and at every state firemen’s convention j the Hickory team has taken a prominent part. In this meeting Thursday nighty the Hickory fire chief is certain to ] give some helpful information j about fire fighting and impress j upon the property owners the val- ] ue of an efficient fire fighting staff. Few Arreats Made Of Drivers Using Old Auto Plates It is announced from the sher iff’s office that every car owner in Cleveland county has apparently purchased a new auto tag,, or has ordered it. Sheriff Logan publicly announced that after September 10 all drivers still using last year’s license would be arrested provided they could not produce a receipt showing that the money had been sent for the new tafc-. Quite a number of drivers have been stopped since the 10th. but all were able to produce money order receipts showing that the tags had been ordered. Chimney Rock Hotel Back To Mr. Flack Mountain View Inn. well known hotel at Chimney Rock changed hands today. John Atwell, who bought it last wh.Ser, gave it over to the former owners, J. M. Flack and family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reynolds and Mr. »yid Mrs. W. Ed gar Flack will be in active charge. Mr. and Mrs. Atwell will return to Greensboro, their former home. This is one of the largest and best known hotels at Chimney Rock. Lost for 3 Days Miss Evelyn Eastman of Chicago tv as lost for three days in the Cau casus mountains/"' 8he was found |,y a Near Bust Relief searching j,arty under R/ofeesor Pete Kloyd Ot L’uthbert, Cia. Conies From Louisville, Ky., After Leaving Because c>f Financial Trouble and Worries P. F. Grigg, well-known young automobile dealer who unexpected ly left Shelby eight weeks ago for parts unknown because of financial trouble which with a break-down in health, caused by mental despond ency, returned to his family yes terday afternoon from Louisville, Ky., where he 'had been working for a real estate firm as salesman for the past four weeks. Mr. Grigg was accompanied to Shelby by a Mr. Chapman, a member of the real estate firm for which he had been employed. The news of his home-coming was a source of joy and happiness on the part of his family and many friends, for dur ing the past eight weeks he had been in parts unknown and fears were entertained at times for his health and well being. When finan cial troubles came in multiplied form, together with one of his at tacks of violent headache to which he was subject, he left Shelby for Atlanta, thence to Birmingham, Ala., writing his wife a letter from that point. Since then, nothing has been heard of his whereabouts until Monday when he told his real estate friend Mr. Chapman in Louisville the circumstances of his misfortune and gave him his proper address, consenting at the time to allow Mr. Chapman to telephone Mrs. Grigg and relieve her anxiety. Mr. Grigg left Shelby after a series of financial troubles and worry which was breaking his health. From Birmingham it is un derstood that he went to Spring field. Ohio, where he wras inspec tor in road consfsurtion for seveeal weeks. In Cinrinnati, Ohio, he answered an advertisement by a real estate firm for salesman and made connection there with the firm which later transferred him to Louisville, Ky. With this firm was Mr. Chapman 'Vyo be ( me a close frier.d because of fraternal ties. He cojifided a great deal in Mr. Chapman and told him of his wan dering from North Carolina, but Mr. Chapman never knew his home address until three days ago and at that time Mr. Grigg consented to communication with home folks. Mr. Grigg went under his cor rect name all the time. Since leaving he has been subject to violent headache attacks which have somewhat broken his health, but his voluntary return to his family seems to have given him a new lease on life. Little Court On Early In Week The county court has during the first few days Of this week enjoved a lull in its grind. Contrary to by gone Mondays, Monday of this week was a blank day in the court room with only one minor case com ing up Tuesday. Judge Mull was in Catawba Mon day and again on Tuesday in con nection with legal business there. Sailors Still In County Jail Here The two sailors, said to be de serters from the U. S. navy, held in the ooumy jail were still in jail Tuesday evening awaiting further orders from Portsmouth, Va. Local officers understood that the two youths be held until an officer arrived from that place, the car which they were driving hav ing been stolen from Portsmouth. KINGS MT. CHURCH ACCEPTS CHISE OF ASS'li DATE First Baptist Church There Will Hold Out Best Entertainment To Baptist Visitors. (Special to The Star.) Kings Mountain, Sept. 15.— The deacons of the First Bap tist church of Kings Mountain last Sunday morning accepted the change in the date of the association made by the exe cutive committee of the asso ciation. The churcfi could not change the date, -,nc since it had voted unanimously to not change the date, it could say no more than to accept the change suggested by i:ie execu tive committee. The deacons held a meeting between the Sunday school service and the preaching hour ant: voted un animously to accept the sug gested change and go to work to entertain the assocrazton as best we can. It i* hoped that every church in the association will let the church know how many dele gates it is going to send. This will help much in making ar rangements to care ror the folks. Clerks are urged to send in their letters to Mr. G. G. Page at their earliest conven ience. This will enable him to do his best work. Considering the Kings Moun tain acceptance of the changed date as final it is :o be under stood that the Kings Mountain Baptist association will meet October 5 and 6. U. S. Court Comes To Shelby During County Fair Week Shelby will offer a double-bar relled attraction during the last week of this month, two seasonal events of importance coming at the l same time with Federal court con i vening here during fair week. The Federal court grind is not expected to continue over a period longer than four or five days and heretofore jurors and other visitors for the term of court have been per mitted to attend fair events during the evening and portions of the day when not engaged in court. No outstanding cases are to come up during the term, it Is understood unless the big Hopkins will case is taken up. This is the case, it will Be remembered where more than 100 North Carolinians are laying claim to a portion of the big for tune left by Mark Hopkins, native Carolinian, when he died in Cali fornia years ago . High Grid Outfit Gets In Scrimmage The Shelby Highs Tuesday open ed up in their first real scrimmage of the season after several days o' dummy scrimmaging. With a like ly looking firstTeaTHp handled by Tom Kerr onlookers were afford ed some amusement in seeing the speedy little second eleven hold the regulars to a scant score margin. Numerous shifts were made in the two line-ups as Morris sought bal ance for his teams. UUlespie, speedy full back,u is suffering with an injured knee, which however, is not expected to keep him out of the fray for any definite length of time. So far only two players seem to have deal lock cinches for their berths. These are Tom Kerr, gritty little quarter and Laymon Beam, end and tackle. However, Kerr has a good second in Ed Harris, while Coach Morris has several brilliant substitute wingmen including Lackey and Hoyle, both of whom will be hard to keep out of the season’s games. Local Officials Invited To Meet The mayor, police chief and members of the police department of Shelby have been Invited to at tend the state policemen’s conven tion in High Point on September 28, 29 and 30. However, it is not thought likely that a delegation will go from the Shelby department as the entire force will be hard worsed during that week handling the traffic of county fair crowds. T. D. Duff, representative of the police association, was in Shelby today conferring with members of the local department. Mr. Duff stated that the usual loving cup will be given to police officials who make the best time in reaching High Point considering distance travelled. A big barbecue will close the event on the 30th. Marines Give Tunnc v iVelcome p» —NKA. Nhv York Bureau When G.-ne Tunney. former "Devil-Dog." arrived nt Camp Anthony Wayne, fhlladelphla, his former huddles grave him <v rousing welcome. Gene Is In training to meet Jack Dempsey Sept.- 23 for the world's heavy weight championship. Mothers Are Real Teachers Of Youth, Declares Poteat Asheville.—“The mothers are do ing all the teaching now," Dr. Wil liam Louis Poteat, president rf Wake Forest college declared in an address here "My grandson comes home with eigW books with as many lessons to prepare and all the teacher has to do is to hear the recitations. The average teach er is just trying to discover if the mothers have done their work well.” “Of course Dr. Knight is right in what he said about the schools of North Carolina. We have such ia long long way to go yet and we have been all along too sensitive to criticism both from within and from without. “Knight is right. But then so is Allen One looks up the road 10 see how verf far we still have to go and the other looks back to see what tremendous progress we have made. Not ‘Bad.’ “Of course our schools are not bad as compared with what they were ten years ago, have made splendid improvement and after all, though we have gone such a little way we have a good educational spirit.” “I feel that we are perhaps scat tering to attention of the children too much, giving them too many subjects and not enough of any one." “Giving a child as many as eight difficult subjects causes the teach er to have little time to do any thing but try to discover how well the mothers who r.re forced under this system to teach the children at home have done their job. The teachers are not to blame, of course. They have all they can do to hear the recitations and have very little time for the actual icai'h [ ing of the subject,” Dr. Poteat de- j dared. “I think it was a mistake to j drop Latin from the high school; requirements. The conflict between . the students who do not intend to! go to college and those who do j should be separated so that one group will not impose a hardship upon the other. Those students who intend to go to college should be allowed to pursue such lines of study as may be followed to ad-1 vantage in college. Too much em phasis on either one Is bad.” Cleveland Girls Attend Limestone Quite a number of Cleveland county girls are attending school this year at Limestone college, Gaffney;~S. C. A list of students registered there shows that the following county girls are new stu dents: Adelaide Cabiness, Shelby; Ruth Gladden, Patferson Springs; Evelyn Mullinax, Grover; Jennie Payne, Kings Mountain, and Mabel Wright, Mooresboro. Cleveland girls who have re turned there include: Baisy Crow der, Lattimore; Ruby Hambright, Grover; Sara Lee Hamrick, Boiling Springs; Gertrude Herndon-, Shel by; Edna C. Norman, Kings Moun tain; Terah Pinkleton, Grover, and Annie Roberts, Kings Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stovall and family have moved to Cleveland Springs and will spend the winter there. Mr. Stovall will be assistant manager. OFFICIALS PLAN QN FAIR PARADE Fair officials anu the Woman’s flub have appointed a committee of eight ladies 4o hove charge of the big arade and floats for the open ing day of the county fair. These ladies are putting rorth every ef fort to have the biggest parade and most beautiful floats for any fair ever held in the county. Merchants, business men, auto firms and private car owners arc urged to participate in the parade and enter decorated cars and floats. In addition to the car floa+s there will be three bands and 30 horseback riders in the event, it is said. Some may have been over looked in lining up float details., but this the committee says was through oversight as every one is urged to aid in the event. Any in formation on the parade may be secured from Mrs. B. 0. Hamrick, chairman of the committee, who also has information and photos of floats and details on preparation of parade entries. Prizes of S25 and $15 will be awarded the winning floats. Contribution Fund Is Growing Slowly Contributions to The Star’s fund to erect a memorial to Cleveland county’s world war dead are com ing in slowly. As yet no canvass has been made with the hope that enough interest would be taken by citizens to bring in their contribu tions without a canvass. If you intend to give something toward the memorial slab why not bring it in now? The sooner the proper amount is raised the better —many visitors here now' wonder why there is no memorial to the war dead on the beautiful court square. Will you do your bit, or are you satisfied with the present musty board? City Still Uses 600,000 Gallons Of Water Daily Despite the recent request not to use any more city water than possible owing to water water sta tion handicaps it is reported from the city light and water depart ment that Shelby continues to use about 600,000 gallons of water daily. Some thirst! However, Superintendent Toms states that there has been a notice able decrease since the washing of cars has been stopped. This light decrease in use of water has en abled the town to store a small safety supply, which should he larger and would if the water was used more sparingly. By the end of another week prac tically all the cotton gins over Clev eland county will begin whirring. Announcements in today’s paper say that some of the gins will begin operation next week, while several gins are already running and pack ed loads of cotton may be seen com ing to the gins regularly now. HUBBY ABANDONS WIFE HERE EACH MONTH OF YEfll Deserting Husbands, However Come From Shifting Class. Says Welfare Officer. “Husbands ure frequent home do sorters, while few wives leave thei husband and children”. That’s thi observation of County Welfare Of ficer J. B. Smith in reviewing hi work in months passed. A case of a deserting husband reported for about every month o the year in Cleveland county, tu cording to Mr. Smith, but oni about BO per cent of these are ret j desertions as the county welfa* officer has won a reputation ffl reuniting couples parted by trail ed relations. In fact, his recor shows that he has some of the fee inine ‘match-makers’ beat to | standstill when it comes to maki< j the match go again after it go j on the rocks. it was only last week that ttl welfare officer departed for Soul ( arolina and through persuasioj brought back a deserting husban He carried him tothe waiting wr and children, jstole out of the rog closed the door softly and wait or a time. Then he re-entered ai helped gather up the brok threads of a matrimonial bn adrift in jagged shoal waters. T husband is now workmg regulai i m Shelby and a proud wife met | him daily at the door as he coni j from his work. That’s a true p | ture of the successful work of i | welfare game. There are sadc | pictures, however. Husbands Stay Gone. Within the turning of the la I calendar sheet one husband d j parted secretly from Shelby a | left a wife and three young ch ! dren. The wife was too proud ask charity and departed Shelby f i Charlotte where she sought ei jployment, but was finally tak over by the Associated charit there, that organization inquirl ; into her case here. The ljusbal j has not been heard from as yet a the spunky little wife says she;, going to make her own way aj bring up her children. That’s t side of the picture where.reuni fails. But usually there is a poi lude to that picture. If there’s any one thing th County Judge J. P. Mull bea down on it is a faithless husba who abandons his wife and ch dren. So, when a husband “si out” and cannot be located for i kindly measures of the welfare ficer, it is then that Mr. Smith cures a warrant and turns it o< to an officer, and when the desei ing husband takes a notion to oot back—and many of them do— calls on the recorder before wife and usually goes out to < gang camp for a period of trait)} before returning to earn a liv* hood for his family. There are several such men the No. 6 road gang now, thi families being charges of the co\ ty and Associated charities. Settled Folks Don’t. With an average'of 12 desert! hubbies in the course of a year is interesting to the better claw citizenship to note that Mr. Srn says more^than two-thirds of < serting husbands come from shifting class of people—folks w never stay in one town and are ways on the move. ‘'Few desertions are ever repo ed among families who have s tied down,” says the welfare ol cer. “They, too, perhaps, have th troubles, but I never hear of th« and I suppose the harder ones ni be settled as Maggie and Jiggs s tie family difficulties—with Mi gie’s rolling pin.” Aii oi which tends to show, seems, that Judge Mull was pot wrong when he suggested a cot ty work house for those men w refuse to work. When such des their families, even if they brought back and placed on gang, the families are necessi charges on the county. By workhouse plan the wages earl by those in the workhouse would to the dependent families under supervision of the county i thereby lessen county expenses; Considering that there are 12 serting husband in the county e year and half of them are re uni with their families by the well officer still six men remain v must be dealt with by the cop while six families are added to county expense. “But these little reunions, I h ’em every week, and usually t are both glad to get back togethi concludes the welfare officer. T he adds a postscript: *“As wives, I’ve had only one report a woman who dMRt’ted her c drem. Women stick to their C dren regardless.’’