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SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPT. 17. 1926.
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.2y rnal1.’per year (l," adv.ance^r!^
J By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.00
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Tee cream has no near rival as a
delicacy, that is until watermelon
season rolls around. Then the two
run nip-and-tuck for first honors.
However, ice cream dealers admit
in today’s Star that the cream bu
siness has been slack since the wa
termelons came in. Even rats like
‘‘August ham” says another news
item.
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The consolidation plan has ad
vanced to such a stage in Cleveland
county now that 28 trucks are used
ju transporting children to and
from school, according to figures
cited by Superintendent (Trigg to
day, ^
One day’s news shows that three
Shelby boys on college football
teams are out with injuries. That’s
just an idea as to how many foot
ball stars Shelby sends forth.
A man made a dangerous weapon
out of a “cap buster” and Recorder
Mull sent him out tb bust rocks for
two months. Which is a bit of Th ■
star’s court news.
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There are those who say that
eight months school will not work
in rural Cleveland county because
it is a farm county. Yet, an article
'n today’s Star, reveals the fact
that over half of the farm children
do attend long terms. The cos;,
however is another matter.
One of the main features this
year at the county fair will he the
fancy work and art department
wherein the women ef the county
will compete for the prizes, details
of which are announced today.
Some folks still ponder with sad
ness over the many folks killed dur
ing the world war. It is to be won
dered if they realize that more
folks are killed weekly by autos in
North Carolina than were North
Carolina soldiers killed each week
during the war. Auto fatalities in
August claimed 5Si live- in this
state, The Star says in a Raleigh
dispatch. Watch your step—on the
gas throttle—or you may plunge
into the rear end of a hearse.
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It is officially announced today
that the Kings Mountain Bapt’st
association will meet on October 5
and 0. instead of on the date pre
viously announced, which conflict
ed with the county fair.
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What did the Gaston farmers
think of rural Cleveland county and
the agricultural progress here? It
is in today’s Star.
l*o you think Cleveland county
needs a workhouse so that vagrants
may serve time and also keep up
their family expenses? This paper
does, or so says an editorial today.
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Stay informed. Read every
page of today’s paper.
Goes To “Roads”
Over “Cap” Pistol
Made Shooter Out of “Buster” and
Will Work 60 Days. Drunken
Driver Gets 90 Days.
A “cap buster", such -is the
youngsters like to shoot about
Santa Claus time is an innocent
thing as long as it performs in its
accustomed role, but when made
into a real gun, that’s anovher mat
ter.
Officers recently arrested Turly
Smith, of No. 9 and found on h;s
person an odd gun and the result
"as that Smith was given 60 days
Wednesday by the recorder for
carrying a concealed weapon. A
hole had been bored in the cap lo
cation of the toy, running an open
,nC for .22 cartridges which were
used in the gun. Officers who ex
amined the gun stated that shoot
ing .22 cartridges in the lignt “can
pistol” was something that requir
ed nerve.
A year ago Eff Bell was before
recorder Mull charged with making
bootleg out of California reache".
This week Bell returned to call on
the judge, the charge being that of
driving a car on Kings Mountain
streets while under the influence
of liquor. Bell won’t drive any more
for 90 days unless limousines are
furnished county Convicts.
Quite a number of other minor
cases were disposed of by the
county court Wednesday, the cases
for the most part dealing with
liquor law violations.
Padgett School
For Consolidation
At an election held this week
the Padgett schocr district voted
for the proposed consolidation plan
°f that school district. The measure
carried by a vote of 76 to 56.
A nortion of the district will be
consolidated with Lattimore and
fhe remainder with Mooresboro. It
will be remembered that one elec
tion held last spring for the same
purpose failed to pass by a small
majority.
The truth about the Ford. Ask
he man who owns one. 4. J
won FIBERS
SEE HIGH LIGHTS
Delegation <d ft') Farmers Tour the
< ounly Seeking Agricultural I
I ips from < Tevc land.
Some tin Gaston county farmers
1<\1 lfy their county agent, Editor
H. A. Query, of the Gastonia Ga
zette. and other farm and business
leaders, spent Wednesday in- Cleve- I
land county as the guests of the
c hamber of commerce, farm board
and county agent.
The day was taken up in a tour
of farm high-lights of Cleveland
and a luncheon was tendered the
delegation at Cleveland Springs
hotel by the Shelby Chamber of;
commerce. Short talks at the lunch |
eon were made by Mr. Wiley Ran-!
kin, of Gastonia, Wm. I.incborgor,
J. < . Newton, O. Max Gardner and
County Agent Alvin Hardin. Fol
lowing the luncheon the parly de
parted on a tour of the1 southern1
portion i f the county, where they
visited some of the county’s lead
ing poultry farms.
The morning tour covered the
northern and western sections of|
the county over the big cotton and;
dairy area. \ islts were also made!
to the creamery, whole miik plant;
and cold storage hut,nr.
it the visitors were impressed;
by anything it was by seeing cot-1
ton growing at the foot of the
mountains, and the uniformity < f
the farm fields—with a lack of few j
fine fields intermingled with poor J
fields and instead a general aver
age of good fields. One ordeal im
pression of the visiters was tke !
shortage of silos considering the j
number of dairy herds seen-. Nu- i
merous complimentary remarks on |
the county’s farm progress were
made by the visitors in the course)
of their tour which covered the i
county's cotton, dairyfi poultry and!
diversified farm projects. That the
visit was worth-while seems cer
tain. The Gaston county farmers
no doubt carried away with them j
valuable information on certain ;
farm topics, and in turn, by their
friendly criticism and observant !
eyes left several things for Cleve
land farmers to ponder over.
The Star in Monday’s issue will
give the Gaston view of the tour as
covered in detail by Editor Query,
who was with the delegation. Clev
eland farmers should look for this
article with interest. A stranger,
some times can see outstanding
points and weaknesses heiter than
natives and it should be interest
ing to note what an enterprising
group of farmers think of Cleve- j
land county farming in general.
Wash Your Car
Saturday Only,
Then Wait Again
Here’s something that will in
terest you if you have a dirty car.'
Mayor \Y. aihers announces a sus
pension of a recent order for one
day Saturday) only. If your ear
is dirty and needs a bath you may 1
wash it Saturday or send it to an
automobile laundry and have it
cleaned .with water from the city s
mains. A little extra waiter has
been stored as a result of the recent
older forbidding the use of city
water to wash cars and water
lawns and now there !s a tank full,
to the rear of the city hall, some
300,000 gallons to be used in case
of fire. The old pump station is
doing the best it can the output of
filtered water since the filter has
been overhauled, has enabled the:
city to get a supply ahead. The
ban on car washing, therefore, is
lifted for Saturday of this week, I
then it goes on again.
All car Washing stations wore
notified by the officers on Mon- j
day of this week not to wash any !
more ears until the water short
age is overcome or the ban was ;
lifted. This order lias been well
carried out. As a result of ihe sav- j
ing and the improved condition of ,
the old plant, the supply is coming i
in better. Enough is in the tank to :
fight a fire. Patrons of the water j
mains are receiving the filtered
water direct from the pumpsta
tion but the pressure is low be
cause ihe old steam pump can’t do
any better.
After Saturday do not wash any
more cars until further notice.
This condition will soon be over as
the new pump station is nearing
completion and Tucker and Lax
ton. contractors, hope to finish the
plant ready for use by the 15th of
October.
_\eyv Bus—A handsome new 28
passenger bus has been put on the |
Inter-Carolinas bus line operating
between Shelby and Charlotte. The
new motor coach is an Internation
al and is painted a cream color. The
big yellow busses* are. being over
hauled, one by one; since the new
coach has been added.
Nearly Half Cleveland
School Children Attend
Eight-Month School Now
Schools Operating Long Terms Now Show
Positively That Farm Children Can
Attend 8-Months Terms.
Dorton To Sesqui
To See Big Shows
The Cleveland county fair this
year may not he the best in the
country, hut ii will not he the fault
of l)r. J. S. Dorton, the secretary,
for the shows anti exhibits here will
be patterned after the world’s
biggest fair—and Sesqui-centenni; i
at Philadelphia.
Dr. Dortcn left Wednesday for
Philadelphia and will spend several
days there looking over the mam
moth exposition and getting tips
on improving the big farm show
here.
ITEiiLONlCUT
ICE CREAM TRADE
Ice Cream Manufacturers Felt the
Competition of Farmers Who
Grew Biggert Melon Crop
You wouldn’t think that water
melons are a competitive product
of ice cream, hut Leslie Taylor of
the Blue Ridge Ice Cream plant |
says they are. When melons are
plentiful, folks let tip on eating
ice cream and business fell off
with the cream manufacturers. Of
course there was a fairly good
trade during the summer on ice
cream but. the fear,on was not
what it should be. According to
Mr. Taylor, the farmers grew four
times as many melons as they
have growm in any one season dur
ing the past five years. The mar
ket was glutted and melons were
cheap, and being a fruit which
ninety per cent of the people en
joy eating, it was served to the
neglect of ice cream. Melons took
the place of ice cream for dessert
in homes and hotels and as a re
sult the best season the ice cream
manufacturers have was cut into
heavily. Then, too, the season was
a long one. Melons came on the :
market along the first of August
and while few melons are offered |
now, because the crop is about
gone, the melons that do come, find j
a ready sale and a better price. As
the melon season closes, the Ice
cream business is picking upv ac
cording to Mr. Taylor.
As Fall approaches the ice cream
plant w’ill soon begin making Es
quimo pies, a favorite chocolate
covered dainty that is the rage r.ot
only with ehiidren but with grown
ups as well. Esquimo pies are not
made during the summer because
the appetite for candy on the
part of the consumer is less then
in the winter. -To take the place
of Esquimo pies the ice cream
manufacturers put out a paper cup
containing a frozen sherbert. This
is popular because the price is
only five cents at retail and the
purchaser can buy and eat it as he
goes, squeezing the bottom of the
paper cup to force it Into reaching
distance of the lips. There is no
saucer or spoon to return to the
ice cream vendor. The transaction
is finished when the money passes
and the goods are received, so the
customer can go merrily on his or
her way.
rvotning new in an icen sweet is
promised for this season. With
tiie melon crop over, the ice ci'eam
plants turns again to cream, sher
bert and Esquimo pies.
Central Shop Now
In New Location
The Central Barber shop, which
has for four year= nad a basement1
location in LaFayette street, just
south of the Fanning store, remov- \
ed this morning to fine new quar- !
ters two doors above the Princess ;
theatre.
The present quarters have been
rebuilt and adjusted for the shop J
purposes. The new establishment!
contains six chairs, and is very j
attractively located as well as ar-1
ranged.
Jim Elliott, the proprietor, was j
giving first customers to the place1
the glad hand Friday morning,
and was being congratulated upon
a successful expansion.
A feature of the new place is a
big room in the basement devoted
to shower baths. There are four
compartments, arranged for hot
and cold water.
A genius is one who can follow
a route over a county side road
which has been minutely described
by a friend giving directions as to
how to reach there.
Opposition to eight-month school
terms in Cleveland county is bus
ed < n the thought liiat being a
farm county such is impossible be
cause rural children do not have
time to attend school over a per
iod of eight months.
Which is entirely wrong. More
than 45 per tent of the rural school
children in Cleveland county are
now attending eight-month terms
and school patrons of those sec
tions are undergoing no hardships,
reports say.
Fact is, plain figures In the of
fice of Supt. J. Horace Grigg—and
“figures don’t lie”—show tnat the
voiced opposition is without proof.
Hy the next school month more
than one-half of the county school
children will be in school with
every section proud of their school
plans. What’s more eight-month
school terms are now being held
in the leading farm sections of the
county. Falls ton, Behvood, Pied
mont, Casar, Lattimore and
Moorcsboro children are attend
ing school eight months m the
year and the farmers of those, sec
tions are not surpassed in fann
ing the county over, yet they are
content, even glad, that their child
ren may attend the longer terms.
Estimated figures from the sup
erintende'.—’s office show that
3,211 rural children of Cleveland
county are now in schools running
eight months. The total ruial
school enrollment is only 7,123,
showing that practically half of the
enrollment of the county is in
school during the first month. This
figure will be increased approxi
mately 25 percent, by another
month. And, it might be added, the j
3,244 does not include city high
schools.
h k a query hard to answer by
opponents of the long term. If
half of the children of the county
now attend such terms, and come
from the best farm sections, why
should there be any hardship in
having uniform eighr-month terms
all over the county?
Long Terms Here.
Cleveland county schools now
operating eight months are: Latti
more, Waco, Mooresboro, Dover
Mill. Piedmont. Belwood, Grover,
Casar, hast Kings Mountain and
Fallston. In addition to these Earl
is going to a' seven-months term.
These schools work on a plan that
offers little inconvenience on the
farms. The state school law leave s
it) within the power of local school
officials to determine the opening
and closing of the terms and the
length of daily sessions. The eight
month schools in Cleveland county
now open in August, when there is
a lull on the farm and the children
are not needed and thereby may
close early in the Spring, so that
the children are back on the farm
ready fer the busy season. The
Mooresboro school has a solution
of its own: School there suspends
for about one month during the
busy harvest season and takes
back on where the work was stop
ped. Thus the longer term is eas
ily made convenient. At Lattimore
and Belwood the plan is to start
school early in the morning, which
permits the children to have short
day sessions and get out ^arly In ,
the afternoons for frrm work.
Is Being Done
So, what opponents of eight
month school terms say can’t he
done is really being done by the
leading farm sections of Cleve
land county. Who would dare say
that hallston and Belwood folks,
along with the others, do not know
how to farm- The .'•eetlon is classed
as being the leading agriculture 1
region of the county and their
children go to eight months of
school.
W hen the Earl school runs eight
months considerably more than half
of the rural children will be in
school for more than six months of
the year. And, judging by figures
and what is being done, why is it
any more impossible for the re
mainder of the county schools to be
gin the longer terms?
Scotland county, small Wt fer
tile, is considered the best cot
ton county in the state consider
ing size. And every school in
Scotland county operates eight
months in the year. Opposition to
the long term here says: “Cleve
land is a cotton county. The child
ren can’t be spared off the farms
that long.”
Scotland county is proof that
they can. So are Fallston, Bel
wood, Lattimore, Waco, Moores
boro, Dover Mill, Piedmont, Grov,
er, Casar and East Kings Moun
tain. t
Needlework Exhibit Will Attract
Hundreds of Ladies, •‘Crazy.
<J>iilt" to Have Day
Plain and fancy needlework of
all ki. ds will he exhibited by wo.
men al the ( leveland county fair,
Shelby, September 28 to October
2, announces Miss Faye McSwain,
director of women's activities at
the fair.
The display of needlework. one
of the greatest of household arts,
will prove that the modern wo
men, too, are skillful and adept
" i h the needle when it comes to
embroidering, crocheting, knitting
and needleeraft of every sort.
Needlework of all kinds has
heer. recognized in the premium
list. The more common types of
practical sewing, including ex
hibits of table linens, towels, bed
room linens, rugs, aprons and wo
men’s and children’s garments,
will be displayed. It will be ap
parent to visitors that baby
clothing, simply planned, has suc
ceeded the layette of a decade
ago, with its ruffles, puffs and
embroidery.
Fancy work, because of its de
corative qualities, will continue to
be an ever-appealing subject of
interest to women visitors. It
goes without saying that the old
fashioned “crazy-quilts,” oddly de
signed in a hundred different col
ors, will be exhibited in numbers.
Prizes also have been offered for
braided rugs and sofa pillows,
and crocheted, knitted and braided
bedspreads.
I he most competent judges
available will be obtained for this
year's fair. Design, usefulness and
finish of article will be points
considering in awarding prizes.
Canning and baking exhibits also
wil be featured. Entries will close
September 27.
BIIWOlET
DOTH 5-811
KK MIN
Date for Association Officially j
Changed So as Not to Con. i
flict With Fair
October 5th and 5th, first Tues
day and Wednesday in October ,
have been officially designated as
the meeting dates for the Kings
Mountain Baptists, the change be
ing made in order to avoid a con
flict in dates with the Cleveland
county fair which begins Sept, j
28 and runs for five days. Kev. j
John W Suttle, moderator of the
association, in Shelby this week
from Hickory where he is engag- j
ed in a revival meeting, authorized ;
The Star to state that October
5th and 6th has been selected
since a change has been approved
and agreed upon by the First
Baptist church of Kings Mountain
where the association is schedul
ed to meet this year.
It was the unanimous opinion ot
the executive committee of the
association as well as the majority
of the pastors and laymen that a
change should be made but this
was not authorized until the enter
taining church gave its approval.
When the executive committee ex
pressed itself in favor of a change,
it also empowered the moderator,
Mr. Suttle who is ex-officio chair
man of the committee to make the
change if the First Baptist church
gave its approval. Rev. C. J.
Black, pastor of the First Baptist
church at Kings Mountain has I
stated to The Star that his con
gregation will entertain the as
sociation delegates at a postponed
date and it has been announced in
the church that the association
will meet Oct. 5th and 6th.
The change seems to meet with
the hearty approval of the minis
ters and lay delegates and in all
probability the association this
year in its annual gathering will
set a meeting date so there will
not be a conflict again with the
county fair, the fair being on a
circuit with other towns so its
date cannot be changed without
much confusion.
SHELBY LIBRARY OPENS
AGAIN ON SATURDAY
The Shelby public library will be
opened Saturday at the usual hours
to the public. After being closed
for two weeks for repairs.
The librarian asks all who have
books to return them.
She’s Telling Him Funny Story
rsr
The city editor of a Cleveland newspaper sent Miss Marlon Schneider
Itb a circus zoo to write about the animals. She kept then taaood hunutt
bv telling them funny stories- Bee the little fcU4£„liuafl!vr f
Firemen Entertained At
Kiwanis Club Luncheon
New $12,500 Fire Truck Shipped
This Week—Town Will Have
$30,000 in Equipment
It was announced Thursday night
at the Kiwanis club when the
members of the Shelby fire de
partment were guests of the club
that the new $12,500 American
I.aFrance fire truck was shipped
this week from the factory and
will arrive in Shelby within a few
weeks, at least by the time the new
pump station is ready for use. W’m.
McCord had charge of the Kiwanis
program and had arranged for a
joint meeting of city officials, firc-j
men and Kiwanis members to hcarj
Chief Whitener, of Hickory, but i
the Hickory chief was detained an.! I
could not reach here. However,
Shelby’s fire chief Herman Esk
ridge, Fireman McClontz, of Gas
tonia, and J. C. Newton, secretary
of the Shelby chamber of commerce |
filled the program with informa- j
tive speeches.
15 Local Firemen
Chief Eskridge undertook a few
weeks ago to organize a group of
firemen who will be trained to
meet any emergency that arises and
already he has 15 men who are
training once a week, learning tlie
art of fighting fires. He has made
splendid headway r.nd in a few
months, he hopes to have a well
trained bunch of men. Shelby has
been fortunate in the matter of
fire losses in the past, but accord-!
ing to the law of averages the
town is certain to have a disastrous
fire sooner or later so every effort
is being put forth to tram a group
that will be equal to any occasion
that arises. It is stated that Shel
by’s investment in fire fighting
equipment when the new truck ar
rives will be about $30,000. Chief
Eskridge has 15 men who are re
sponsible and interested in saving
life and property of Shelby citi
zens and to this end he asks the
co-operation of the citizens gener
ally in abolishing every fire hazard
that might exist. The fire loss in
the United States last year was
over a half million dollars with the
loss of 15,000 lives. To curb this
gigantic loss President Wilson, dur
ing his administration, inaugurat- !
ed fire prevention week once a 1
year which he hopes will be observ
ed in Shelby.
Fireman McClontz of Gastonia,
was another speaker on the pro
gram, a practical fireman who
commended Shelby’s steps toward
the training of er.'icient firemen, j
Secretary Newton said that stat
istics prove that from 75 to 00 per!
cent of the" fires are preventable
and therefore urged the citizens to!
L*At rcise every precaution with ,
matches, cigarette stubs and the j
preless storing of lose paper and
waste. He would have every civic
body participate in fire prevention
week and couple with it a clean
up campaign, for a clean town nat
urally has less fire loss. He sug
gests safeguards against fire such
as proper electrical wiring of
homes, the removal of dangerous
wooden buildings, fire-proof roofs '
on houses, chimney flues built
from the ground instead of hung
from rafters.
The Shelby fjre department was
commended for the splendid pro-'
gross it is making and the prompt-J
ness with which fire alarms aro
answered. Last month there was
only one alarm. far this month
there have been two alarms and
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Rat Gnaws Prize
Winning Melon
A rat has spoiled a prize
winner for the county fair. One
of these “varmints” got in a
storage room at a local ice
plant a few days ago where Mr.
Francis of Lattimore, had his
74-pound watermelon on stor
age. holding it to win a blue
ribbon at the county fair the
last of this month. The rat
gnawed a hole *iuo the juicy"
melon to “see how it tasted.”
After the rind was broken Mr.
Francis feared that it would
not keep, so he took It home,
called in his family and friends
and they feasted on the seven
ty-four pounder.
Attachment Run
On Filling Station
On Guest Notes
Trouble Follows Sale of Filling
Station on Cleveland Springs
Road to A. N. Dry.
Bennett and Edwards, attorneys
for A. N. Dry who purchased a
filling station opposite Kings place
from S. D. Guest, have issued no
tice of summons and awarrant of
attachment against Guest in the
sum of $664.77. Guest, it is report
ed, has gone to Cuba since he sold
his filling station to Dry. Accord
ing to the attorneys, Guest repre
sented that his business had no out
standing, unpaid obligations when
it was sold to Dry but since that
time accounts have come in to the
amount of $664.77 ana more may
come yet, which of course Mr. Dry
will be held responsible for in- view
of the fact that the defendant
Guest failed to comply with the
bulk sales law, make due publica
tion of the sale of his business and
get bond for good title to the fill
ing station.
Mr. Dry gave notes to Guest for
a greater part of the purchase
price and Guest left these notes in
a local bunk. The notes were secur
ed by a mortgage given by Dry.
Now Dry seeks to attach enough
of these note swhich he gave to
Guest to pay obligations contract
ed by Guest before the business
was sold.
The summons and warrant of at
tachment are made returnable be
fore the clerk on the 18th of Octo
ber.
Fred Beam Hurt
In N. C. Football
Chapel Hill, Sept. 15.—Several
minor injuries struck the Tar Heel
football squad today. Beam, end on
the 1925 freshman team, suffered
a twisted knee in the morning ses
sion that will keep him off the
field for several days, and this
afternoon Foard, an outstanding
candidate for halfbt-ck, and Atkin
son, end, were sent to the showers
early but will probably be in uni
form again tomorrow.
the month is only half gone.
Committees will be appointed
from the Kiwanis club and chamber
of commerce to have fire preven
tion week observed in Shelby early
in October.
28 TRUCKS HAUL
Nearly 2,000 Cleveland Count/
School Children Ride to
And From School.
Year by year Cleveland county
(jets a little farther away from
olden school days when rural ehilJ
dren walked from one to five mile#;
to attend school at the proverbial
“little red building- on the hill.” )
The following schools in tbo
rounty use trucks for transporta
tion, the number of trucks use<f at
each school being included: Lat
timore. 4; Mooresboro, 1; Casar, 2;
Moriah, 2; Belwood, 4; Piedmont,
2; Beams Mill, 1; Waco, 2; Beth
ware, 1; Grover, 2; Union, 3; Fair*
view', 3; Patterson Springs, 1,
These trucks to be exact, wtl;
transport approximately 1,911
children daily, as many of th«
trucks make two and three sepap
ate trips.
The Belwood school perhaps ha
more children transported to an
from school by truck than any otl
er school in the county. The esti
mated figure for Belwood is 3_
while Lattimore comes second wl
300. with Union and Fairview cl
behind.
Officers Elected
Once For Ability
To Write Plainly
Writing isn’t what it used to
—meaning the long flowing “
hand” written with pencil or
A couple of old-time citi;
dropped into Ebeltoft’s recent!
while the bookstore was deluge
with young school children; note
the lack of writing accessories.
“Nowadays they care littli
about writing,” one said, “whi
back in my day a man's future stH
cess was assured if he could writ
a good hand—ami there were
that could do it.”
“Yes,” returned his pal, “th
fellow who could write well 50 __
60 years ago was regularly elec
ed a county official, register
clerk, because of his writing i
not because of his ability. Fact
they had to keep the records plat
and there were nto more than
dozen folks in the county
could write suitably for the task
1*1
Imagine election propaganda
this: “Vote for So-and-So. He’s
best writer in the county.” i
But the record books at the .
house stand as proof behind
old-timers. The cerks and registi
of 40 to 60 years ago would ms
present day writers blush wit
shame.
Already 30 To 40
Floats For Parad
Already 30 to 40 floats have beei
signed for the big parade to 1
place on the opening day of
county fair, September 28th,
cording to Mrs. Olin Hamric
chairman of a woman’s club co;
mittee which is soliciting ini
in this feature of the fair.
Hamrick says this number include
not only the floats which will
put on by merchants and manufi
turers and civic bodies, but al
includes a number of schools
town and county which will take
part in the spectacle. The para
will begin on the morning of t
first day of the fair at 10:
o’clock. In one issue of The S
next week the names of the
tries will be published and in tl
meantime if there are any oth
who wish to have a part in
parade, their names should
turned over to Mrs. Hamrick
once. Two bands from the N_
Reise shows and the Shelby Hij
school band will take part.
Expects Larger
Poultry Exhib
There were nearly 1,000 bi
on exhibit In the poultry buildi
of the Cleveland county fair 1j
year. That was a splendid recoj
but this year, Rev. John W. Su
tie, in charge of the poultry exhi
it thinks the number of birds
go well beyond the 1,000 mark,
least he finds considerable in
est in breeders of show birds a
indications are that the featb
tribe will be greater in numb
than ever before.
Mr. Suttlp says any pool!
breeders who want entry blai
or premium lists may secure
same 'by writing either to him
to Dr. Jt S. Dorton, the fair t
retary.
A speaker recently stated
there are too many dlf:
breeds of poultry in this e
and the number should be re_
Our motorists are doing their