North Carolina Newspapers

By mail, per year (in advance)—$2.50 By carrier, per year (in advance) $3 00 ^ Tomorrow week we’ll all be gw inng to the fair! * * * So far as can be learned no Clev eland county people lost their lives 1 in the big hurricane that swept Florida Friday and Saturday. Me.-- : sages, however, have not been re ceived from every county native there and concern is felt for some ; The death toll is new estimated at! around 1,000 people, according to | dispatches in The Star today. * * * Pessimistic old maids say the young folks nowadays butt Into ev erything. Be that as it may they are going to take a big part in the county fair, a news item states. * * * Bootleggers, here's your chance, F< doral court statistics say the Shelby area is the dryest in the; United States courts. One time,: however, Star advertising should not pay. * * Lattimore is planning some fair ; for the 24th, says a dispatch from that enterprising town. Twenty years ago the schools of Cleveland county were as different from those of today, says a school article in The Star, as Miami now is changed from the Miami of last winter. * * Shelby is to have a miniature Dempsey-Tunney battle Thursday night, reads a sport article, ard the big fight will he broadcast at the local ringside. * • * Last month prospects were such that Cleveland county expected the biggest cotton crop ever. Now the army worm is making network of thousands of acres here. The Star today has a full account of the rav ages by the pest. Read it. • * » Then you must not miss the ar ticle on an inside page telling wh; t Gaston farmers thought of our farm section. * * Clyde R- Hoey, The Star says today, believes the prohibition la'.v has done more good than any other. You’ll find a newsy item on ev cry page. AND, yes, a circus is coming on October 5. Red lemon ade, painted ladies, street parade. Veverything. Restraining Order For Yeung Couple Made Permanent Girl Bride r^nd Young Husband Cannot Live Together Until Court, Judge Webb Rules. The temporary restraining order, issued last week, by which a young married couple of the county were restrained from living together was made binding until the next term of court at a hearing held before Judge James L. Webb here Satur day. At the time Judge Webb, who signed the temporary order, heard arguments from Capt. Peyton Mc Swain, attorney for the girl-bridi’s mother, and Mr. O. M. Mull, ap pearing for the groom, who by law has been restrained from living with his bride. No outside evidence was intro duced in the case. Readers will recall that the re straining order was granted in view of the annulment proceedings which will come in the grind of the October court term. The complaint for the order and basis for annul ment was advanced by the girl’s mother who says her daughter was not old enough to be married and that a law of this state was violated when the young couple en tered South Carolina to be married. House and Contents Destroyed by Fire A dwelling house belonging to George Bridges and all its contents were destroyed by fire Friday right just over the Cleveland lina in Rutherford county two miles west of Mount Olivet church. It is understood that Mr. Bridges ar.a family were away from home at the time the fire started and that neighbors who went to the scene after they saw the flames were ur. alde to get anything out because the entire house was burning. Mr. pt'idges has a wife and ten children it is understood and he had recent ly bought his farm and home. Wood Heads Coal Office in Shelby Gaffney—R. E. Johnson, protnln ent Gaffney business man, who handles coal in connection with his other interests, has established branches for his fuel business at Shelby, N. C., Blacksburg and Greer The Shelby office is in charge of J Draper Wood; Dr. Wyatt is re presenting Mr. Johnson at Blaeks ourg; and J. B. Mendenhall, jr., has *V,ar(?e of the business at Greer, iar. Johnson said be expected his ?ross business to be largely in creased as a result of these three ‘<ranches. DISASTROUS STORM SWEEPS FLORIDA _ - i Reports Say Cleveland People There Uninjured; j Others Not Heard From Late Reports Say Terrific Hurricane Moves j Iuland Over Pensacola, Florida. 1,200 People Killed. -- Late dispatches today from sections in Florida where te c graph wires were up confirmed the report that the devastat ing storm left 805 dead in Miami alone All over America thousands wait with much concern definite reports of the catastrophe. Owing to the great building rush there last year hundreds of people the country over are interested from the standpoint of alarm about their investments, while prac tically every state is represented in the people who live in Miami as the Florida boom city attracted thousands from all 'Oction last winter and they have since made their home there. T ho Miami and Palm Beach sections of the Florida east coast are today attempting to get back on a living footing following a terrific hurricane which swept over the section from the sea Friday and Sat urday and left in its wake one of /.inerica’s greatest catastrophes. Meantime reports today say that the West Indies storm is sweeping northwestward over the Pensacola region. The storm left 1.200 dead, hundreds injured and thousands home less in its destructive wake around Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, say reports of Sunday night and Monday morning. Further more, property damage runs into the millions with no accurate count of deaths and damage possible as yet. So far as is known no Cleveland county people, many whom are living in that section, lost their lives in the storm. However, grave con cern is entertained here about a few who have not been heard from as yet. Lving at I-1. Lauderdale, where 100 lives were io3t, are Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Summey and-son, Mr. Irvin Lutz and family, Mr. Grover Cline and family, and a Mr. Brooksher. A telegram today from Mrs.. Summey to her mother, Mrs. Minnie Spangler, on North Washington street says aii are well, but giving no details. Summey and Lutz, who are contractors there, lived with their families in ‘‘The Wanderer” a a fishing boat which at one time belonged to Gover Cleveland. The boat had been pulled to dry land, but whether or not it has been destroyed has not been learned. Mr. W. G. McBrayer arrived here Friday fom Florida departed just in time to escape the strorm. Mrs. Olive Cline, a sister of Mrs. J. B. Nolan and Mrs Lawrence Lackey, lives in Miami and nothing has been heard from her since the storm. The Star has on its mailing list David Z. Newton, house carpenter of Casa?, living at Hialead, a town in the path of the storm. C. M. Cook also of this county, lives at Coral Gables, whirh is said to be almost totally destroyed. Mrs. Dwight Carver, nee Madge Thompson, a daughter of Mrs. W. H. | Thompson, lives in Miami wth her husband and children. Attorney D. Z Newton si also concerned about the safety of a half sister, Mrs. T. M. Wilson, who lives in Miami, her husband being a contractor there. | Dozens of other county folks are in that section, some of whom have ! been heard from, while others have not, probably owing to the lnahil I ity U) transmit messages over the fallen-telephone and telegraph wires. Dispatches this morning say the hurricane passed inland over the gulf coast near Pensacola about h o’clock this morning and is apparently raging over eastern Mississippi and Alabama. Most wires are down and not much information is coming through today. The wind is said to b«» blowing 100 miles per hour at Pensacola where much damage is cer tain today. Otherwise reports have been little changed since this morning. v A preliminary review of the catastrophe follows: 804 dead at Miami. 140 dead at Moore Haven. 100 dead at Fort Lauderdale. Property damage over the seotion of nearly $100,000,000. 38,000 people homeless. Restaurants and business houses closed in Miami, undertaking -.hops unable to handle the dead, while relief trains are being rushed in the stricken territory from Jacksonville and other northern points. With the storm continuing to rage to the westward it will be im 1 possible to secure a definite idea of the toll for several days. Children’s Work Will Be Fine Attraction At Fair Art of Baking, Sewing and Can ning as Taught Young Folks Will Be Shown. Exhibits by children enrolled in club work will be one of the out standing features of the coming Cleveland county fair, September 28 to October 2. The arts of sewing, baking and canning, as taught to children par ticipating in club activities, will be demonstrated to visitors. Not only will they exhibit in the household arts, but in outdoor events as well. As a result of in struction by club leaders, visitors will find that many boys excel in baking, sewing and canning, while many girls have become expert In raising livestock. ‘•Thorough instruction is given boys and girls in all projects,” says Mrs. Ulus Rollins, director m charge of club activities at the i fair. “Everything is done scientifi ' cally and guesswork has been rele gated to the ash heap. Take bread baking, for instance. The old prac tice of using a pinch of this and a dash of that, is not followed by children receiving baking instruc tion. Every loaf of bread made by them will be made from exact rule They measure every ounce of floui salt and other ingredients used ii: making bread, leaving nothing tc guesswork or the eye.** Instruction in sewing and can ning is just as thorough, say fall 1 officials. Many fine exhibits o! needle-craft, exemplifying the com mon-sense principles of sewing taught by sewing-club leaders, wil be shown. Visitors wtll be greatly impressed by the neatness and thoroughness with which the chil dren have done their work. The exhibits of the children wili be only one of the many interest ing features of this year's fair. Here Are Winners Dressed Up ^ A * * f —NJ3 V, Cleveland Bureau The i! ■ ■ • ' '•von )• in' tha heUBlr contest at Atlantic City, If. J.. are shown her Ircascd up. They arc (left to ri^ht): Norma Small wood. "Miss Tulsa," ■'warded first prize and the title of Miss America for 192C; Rulii K. i’a.u^r. "Miss Greater New York.” Winner of four divi sion prizes. a d M.».Jorle JoesUng. "Mis-s Washington," who took second honors to "alias Tolsa. * Cleveland County Schools Have Changed Much In 20 Years, Old Meport Shows FI ? T' .r, A3 Much Spent For Schools It" : c~r Ac Was Spent Twenty Years Ago. LATTIMORE FI TO BE FEATURED BY SCHOOL WORK Races, Football Game and Quaker Wedding to Furnish Enter tainment on Sept 24." In addition to the exhibits at the -- Lattimore Community fair to be held at the Lattimorff'School build ing Friday September 24th, there will be entertainment features dur ing the day according to Prof. V. C. Taylor of the agricultural depart ment of the high school. Begin ning at 10 o’clock tn the morning the school orchestra will furnlsn music, which will be followed by a program from the children in the grades. The high school pupils will give a “Quaker wedding” in th3 chapel and this is to be followed by races between boys and girls of the school. Fat men of the com munity will have an opportunity to try their fleetness of foot and this promises fun and amusement for all. In the afternoon at 4 o’clock the Shelby high school and the Latti more High school football teams will play a game on the gridiron. Over $400 is offered in premiums for exhibits at the community fair to be held in the school .building This is said to be the only commun ity fair to be held in the county this year and no doubt the exhib its will be large and varied. It is the first time Lattimore has at tempted a community fair but when Lattimore starts anything she usually puts it across in big fashion. Exhibitors may bring in their exhibits on Thursday before the opening on Friday—all except live-stock. Exhibits will be accept ed as late as 8*30 Friday morn ing, the day of the fair, but it is better to bring in things that arc not perishable the day before. Don’t bring live stock until Friday morning. Professor Knight, or any other prominent educator for that matter, could not say that Cleve land county schools haven’t made wonderful prgress in the last 20 years. As an idea: The school board of Cleveland county during the past school year spent more than 13 times as much as did the school board of 1905-06. Furthermore the teachers of Cleveland county last year were paid more than ten times as much as the teachers ir. the county in 1905-6. At that time not quite 9,000 children, white and colored Iti the school census, while today over 20,000 children are included in the school census of the county. Historical Document. This information comes from one of the most interesting docu ments brought lo light here in re cent years. A short time back At torney O. M. Mull found among his private papers the annual report of the public schools of Cleveland county for the year beginning [July 1, 1905 and ending June 30, i 1906. Facts set forth in the little j booklet, which is interesting from ! cover to cover, reveal the wide stretch between the public schools of the county in that and the pres ent day. It is worthy of passing attention to note that Sheriff W. D. Lackey recently nominated for the new school board, was at that time chairman of the county board. Oth er members were W. W. Wash burn, now county commissioner, and W. L. Plonk. Judge B. T. Falls was at that time county superin tendent of schools and his work was responsible for the booklet. What They Spent. The biggest change of the years is noted in school expenses and funds. In that by-gone year the total school fund from all sources was only $22,102.21. Special taxes raised more than that* amount last year. A total of $22,107 was spent that year for everything as compared with $384,129.20 spent last year in which is not estimat ed the expenditures In Shelby and (Continued on page seven.) SHELBY AREA IT Liquor Cases for Federal Court Not Ah Numerous Here As Other IMaces The hootleg business apparent ly isn’t so encouraging about Shel by nowadays. At least that’s what the follow ing dispatch from Greensboro re veals: The people in the Shelby area of the Western North Carolina dis trict of United States court do less making and selling of liquor than those in other areas of the dis trict, it is seen from the dockets for the fall terms ot criminal court in various centers. This is learned from the time allotted for court terms at Shelby, Charlotte, Statesville, Salisbury, Asheville, Wilkesboro, Greensboro and Winston-Saleni. The fall tirm will start with a one-week ternTat Shelby on Monday, September 27 However, not even a week is requir ed at Shelby to conclude the trial of criminal cases, court in the past having assembled on Mondays and often having finished by Wed nesday niirht. At most of the other places it requires two weeks and then all the booze eases on the docket are not completed. At the June term of court here there was a total of 500 cases on the docket and less than half of them could be com pleted in the two weeks. That leaves 300 or more cases hanging over to be added to the docket of the next term, and there will also be many new cases. Whether the people in Shelby area are more interested in other things than in liquor. it is not stated, but the cases for that court term are much les sin number than in other places but even when con sidering that the number of cases is smaller than would be the case in exact proportion. After Shelby term. Judge E. Yates Webb, the district attorney and his assistants, the deputy marshals, the clerk and any other court attaches will go to Char lotte for a two-week term, then to Statesville, then to Salisbury, then to Asheville, then to Wilkesboro. then to Greensboro (first Monday ( in December) then to Winston Salem. Winston-Salem is the lat est place to be designated for a court term, and it will see its first term of United States couit just before Christmas. Some of the defendants will spend the yuletide In the federal prison at Atlanta, if the past is any guide in predicting the future. These will be the mten sentenced to serve not less than a year and a day. The others who receive shorter sentences will spend Christ mas in the various county jails, where United States government boards its prisoners. Masons to Hold Get-Together Meet Members of Cleveland Lodge No. 202 A. F. and A. M. are planning one of the biggest get-together meetings of their - members the lodge has ever had. The date is Fri day night of this week, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Great things are in store for those who attend for the program committee has been working hard for the past week to get up stunts, music and speaking for the occasion. Short talks will be made by prominent Masons while stunt degree work will be done by those who know how. Light refreshments will be serv ed in the banquet hall. Consider able interest has already been showr by the local Masons. Tho local membership numbers over three hundred and it is expected that every one will be present. Lattimor'e Defeats First Opponent Playing the county’s first grid game of the season last Friday aft ernoon the Lattimore High school team defeated the Chesnee, S. C., eleven by a score of 26 to 0, the game being played at Lattimore. Falls and Brooks were stars in the offensive of Coach Tilden Falls’ team, while his entire out fit performed creditably. Coach Falls this year has a husky squad of pigskin warriors and is expected to make a fine showing in county and sectional games. Ravages Of Army Worm On Cotton Is Damaging Acres Of County Cotton Destructive Caterpillars Turns Fields Into Sheets of Lace and Will Cut 10,000 Bales Off County Crop. I ^ tusands of acres of cotton fields in Cleveland county look like sheets of lace as a result of the ravages of the army worm or caterpiller, millions of whcih have been eating ujl the leaves and puncturing the tender bolls during the last two weeks. Max C.ardner fears that this worm damage will cut off 10.000 bales from the county’s cottojj crop, which 3( days ago presented the most encouraging prospects for f bumper crop the county has ever had. Prohibition Law Is Best on Book, Says C. R. Hoey “Thousands of people still poke fun at our prohibition, but never theless more good has come to this county through our prohibition law than from any law ever written on our statute books,” declared Hon. C. R. Hoey in the course of his regular Sunday lecture to his Bible class at Central Methodist church Sunday'. “Of course it is still violated,” he continued, “but what law is not violated? Opponents cite the fact that the prohibition laws are viol ated more than any other. That’s true. But had it occurred that the prohibition law goes against the craving and instinct of generations of people? Even with the contin ued violations the great results of prohibition can already be seen. Thirty ^ears ago with saloons all about Shelby a drunken man threw out his chest and walked about the streets among our women and chil dren and apparently took pride in doing so. What of today? The man who gets drunk is ashamed of it and he parades the back alleys and trys to keep out of sight, for he knows that society as well as law looks with disrespect on his be havior. “With Lady Nancy Astor I agree that ‘liquor in all time has never helped any man from.the material to the spiritual’ and after all that’s the great inspiration of our lives.” Prisoner Escapes From County Jail Ab Jeffries, colored, who some time back proved himself efficient in entering the Shelby laurtdry, ac« cording to charges, this morning proved himself efficient in getting out as well as getting Jn. He es^ caped from the county jail. It is said at the jail that Jeffries apparently hid himself In the cor ridors Sunday during the prisoners’ daily turnout and this morning when the main door was opened ti clean up escaped by that entrance. His disappearance was by way of Flat Rock and more than likely he will be back in his cell ere many hours. Jeffries, it will be remembered, was awaiting Superior court on the charge of entering the Shelby Steam laundry. Ross Grove Church To Revise Its Roll It has been unanimously decided by the congregation of Ross Grove Baptist church to call a conference Thursday evening September 23rd at 7:30 o’clock for the purpose of revising the church roll. Every member of the church is Invited to be present at this conference. Some members may be dead or living within the bounds of some other church, others have moved to va rious sections and cannot be lo cated. Mr. Joe E. Blanton, church clerk and Rev. H. E. Waldrop, pas tor, want to revise the church roll and to this end the congregation is called together Thursday evening, September 23. ROBINSON S CIRCUS IS COMING TO SHELBY OCT. 5. The circus is coming! What good news that will be to young and old alike. The advance car of John Robinson’s circus nit town today and booked Shelby for October 5th. Tuesday after the fair closes October 2nd. Tomorrow the bill posting crew will cover the town and surround ing community with large posters heralding the coming of this great show. These caterpillars have eaten uj the leaves, leaving the veiny parta which present the appearance pi lace. In some fields the worm have eaten only in the tops of tin | stalks while in other fields when ! they have been working for a long er period of time, every leaf on thi stalk is gone, except the finny part The Star’s first information of th damage came last Thursday whe: Messrs. A M. Hamrick and Juliu Smith came to the office with j ' hand-full of half grown bolls gath ered from Mr. Hamrick’s fields j These had been punctured by th caterpillar after the leaves wep gone. Where the bolls have bee damaged, naturairy these are en tirely destroyed. Mr. Hamrid thinks the ravages of the worm wil cut the cotton yield in the coun$ fully a third, but other disagr® with him. 1 All Foliage Gone. Travelling a portion of the couti ty Sunday afternoon, The Sta found that the caterpillar had bef working in practically every fie| and ia still working. Farmers hay no means whatever of stopping th damage. In many fields the stali are entirely devoid of any foliagt only the veiny part of the leave! being left. In many cases the catel pillars have started on the Augjni crop of bolls which are tender an ! therefore easily pierced. Had th worms confined their operation t| the top leaves, farmers are of tt| opinion that this would help ra$| er than hinder the maturity of cpi ton for the stalks and foliage ar rank and the eating away of the tot leaves would permit air and suai shine to penetrate and thus hastei the maturity of the crop. .g Tom Cornwell, one of the leading young farmers in the county was ij town the last of the week and hear ing of the work of the worms wart ed to buy a bushel to put to wo|4 on his plantation because he thought all bolls would mature I top leaves were eaten off so ligp and sunshine could strike the boll Tries Dusting. George Blanton who operates tit Blanton Brothers farm, perhap the largest acreage in the count] discovering the worms working t (Continued on page four.) Get Stolen Auto In Jacksonville Oficers on Trail of Man Who Too! Dr. Ramseur’s Car They Say. Found by Number. The Ford coupe of Dr. R. I Ramseur, which was Stolen las week from its parking place nea a local theatre, has been found i Jacksonville, Fla., according t Chief B. O. Hamrick. A wire Friday from Chief Rol erts, of Jacksonville, stated ths he had the car, locating it by th motor number. Chief Hamric says that the police departmer knows who took the car from She by and that a dragnet is bein spread for the man. Dr. Ramseur, it is understood will leave at an early date to g« the car. Standard Oil Men Hold Meeting Hen About thirty men connected wii the sales end of Standard Gil con pany products will hold a meetit tonight in the dining room of tl Victor hotel. Mr. Bert Byars, i Shelby, who is general salesm* in charge sales in the Shelby di triet which embraces the tcrritffl between Lincolnton and ChimiK j Rock, says several high officials » the company will be present at ' meeting which ha sto do with tj promotion of sales in .this ten tory. The meeting will no dtf) I prove an interesting one. 1