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By mail, per year (in advance) __(2.50 By carrier, per year (in advance) |3 00 What's THE News .THE STAR’S REVIEW. Next Tuesday? * # * Few modern stories have been written about Christ. Fact is, most modern stories seems to be about everything else but Christ. Hut he sure to start reading “The Man N > body Knows” in Monday’s Star. ♦ * * A dining room completely fitted up as a distillery, that’.; the story told by Cleveland county officer in The Star today of a raid recent lv made by them in No. 8 township. * * * Late reports have it that two Cleveland county folks were kibe t in the Florida storm, and several lost practically all of iheir pm. sessions. Just what happened to one family is told in a news story j in this paper. * * The race track at the county fair ■grounds is only one-half mile In length yet fair officials say there will be a solid mile of amusement ', at the county fair next week, and The Star states that the float pa rade has many entrants. * * * The Star has been and is yet the sought after paper of the rural sections and enterprising commun ity centers of Cleveland county. That’s one reason why you’ll find in today’s issue live news events from all sections of the county. * * The Shelby Highs of 1926 get their first taste of real football Fri day when they meet the Lattimoro team there as a pari of the com rounity fair program. And, accord ing to reports from I.attimore, the gridiron game is only one of the many entertaining events of the day. * . * * The local American legion post thanks the Star for starting a drive to erect a tablet to the county’s World war dead—but so far The Star hasn’t carried any news item, telling of those who broke their necks while rushing to contribute to the fund. The patriotism of 1917 and that of today compares about like the beer of 1910 and near-beer as is sold nowadays. • * Former Governor Cameron Mor rison passed through Shelby yer-! terday and stopped for a chat or so The Cleveland News, now' appear ing in tabloid form, says the form er governor is “suspected of being a candidate for the United States senate”. Anyway, Mr. Morrison did not plead guilty before Clyde R Hoey. * * * The Star in keeping with a re cently established custom carries today the live news of Kings Mour, tain as well as that of a dozen oth er centers in the county. * * * The only thing an argument can not he started over is a cemetery. In the last Star farm leaders stat ed that the army worm will eu* 10,000 hales off the county cotton crop. Today’s Star quotes Wm. Lino berger, Shelby banker, as saying “thaCs all bunk.” The crop will be hurt some says Mr. Lineberger in an interview, but nevertheless we will make one of our biggest crops * * * The Masons of this section an nounce in The Star today that they are planning a real gathering for Friday evening. * * * Don’t forget the fair, the circus, and the next Star Friday. Fight Program And Champ Matinee On For Thursday Night Shelby fight fans are looking forward with interest to the fight program and championship matinee to he staged Thursday night in the old Best stand on South La Fayette street. The evening’s bill includes sev eral fine preliminaries and what 1 promises to be a good main bout in addition to a radio matinee of the Dempsey-Tunney championship -fight ip Philadelphia. The main bout, as arranged by Arthur Sides, calls for a setto be tween Benny Mack, fleet-footed hlonde ring artist, and Kid Cpats. both of the youngsters on the main hill are Charlotte fighters and hoid a good reputation there for mixing. The matchmaker assures that his Preliminaries will not be pink tea affairs and an entertaining evening seems assured. Wants Exhibits Of Fine Art For Fair Mrs. Charlie Buirus who has charge of the exhibits to be in the j f>ne arts department of the Cleve land county fair to begin next Tuesday urges all who have ex hibits to send them In In order to a'ake this department one of tl.c J "g attractions in the exhibit buiid 'ng- The fine arts department in cludes oil, water, crayon and pen cil sketches, while the craft depart* 'nent includes basketry, china paint ■ng and pottery decorating. Prizes are offered for all of these exhib its and Mrs. Burrus wants the best a ent in the county to be repre sented. Two Cleveland County People Killed At Miami During Disastrous Storm John Horten of Casar. And Newten Child Dead. David New ton Injured. Cleveland founty had two victims in the Florida hurri cai!< disaster which took a death toll of about 400 lives, according to a special delivery letter received this morning by Mrs. Clem Willis a Shelby relative. Mrs. Willis received a letter from her father David Z. Newton, a house corpenter in Miami, saying that his five year old son Hardin Newton and his brother-in-law John Horton, formerly rf Casar, were killed in the storm and that Mr. Newton himself re ceived a broken shoulder. Series of Misfortune. Misfortune seems to follow the Horton family in rapid succession. During the influ enza epidemic which swept this county a few years ago his father, mother and a brother died within a 12-hour period at Casar. The death of John Horton in the Florida storm, takes the entire family except two sisters. Mrs. Buff of Casar, and Mrs. David New ton, now of Florida. Details of tha storm which took a toll of two lives of Cleveland county people were not given in the letter received here, this morning by Mrs. Willis. It was a brief note stating that the two had been kill ed and that if it were possible to get the bodies out of the stricken area, they would be brought to Casar, the former home, for inter, ment. There is such distress in the hurricane area, coupled with the fact that transportation is cripple-1 and undertaking houses have ex hausted their supply of caskets, that it will not be known for sev eral days whether the bodies can he shipped to this county for inter ment. Families Lived Together. The Newton and Horton families lived together, being relatives. Both the men were carpenters. Mr. Newton had been at his Casar home this summer and made a crop returning to Miami about three weeks before the storm struck the city. Mr. Horton who was killed was about 28 years of age. Mr. Newton was twice married, the five year old victim being a child of his first wife who before marriage was Miss Octavia Led ford. EHTI1I LOST By SHELBY FOLKS Irvin Lutz and Family Say Sewing Machine and Wearing Apparel Only Things Saved. Communication is beii estab lished between the Florida storm area and the outside world which has awaited definite information as to the extent of the death toll. With many Cleveland county peo ple in the storm area, relatives back home have felt a grave con cern about their welfare. A letter from Irvin Lutz, w'ho with his wife, who before marriage was Miss Pearl Laughridge, lived at Fort Lauderdale, says when the storm struck their home In the early hours of the morning, everything was lost except the sewing ma chine and a few articles of wearing apparel. An administration build ing in which they lived was com pletely demolished. It is thought that Sir. and Mrs. S. S. Summey lost everything as they lived near the water in a fishing boat which had been pulled on shore. Summey and Lutz are contractors in Fort Lauderdale, but live some *ix miles distance from each other and when the Lutz amily wrote home they had not seen the Sum mevs to learn the extent of the storm damage to their quarters. Mr. J. B. Nolan Had heard noth ing from Mrs. Olive Cline, a sis ter of Mrs. Nolan and Mrs. J. L. Lackey, who lives in Miami, but they suppose all is well with her (Continued on page five.) Woman, 100, Reads Paper to Son —.NEi/v, ^ nicaro rsureat Mrt Katherine Henen recently celebrated her lO'Hh birthday at her homt a farm 10 milts from Free, r.*t, 111. She cooks, bakes, sews and doei •toer household duties, tHer - she is rhown on the porch reading the paper aloud to ner son. .7 die. who is TP Business Firms And Clubs To Have Floats On Tuesday The big float parade from Shelby j to the county fair grounds Tues-; day morning premises to be one of the colorful events of the fair pro- j gram. Quue a number of business' houses, clubs, schools and indl- j viduals have already announced that they will arrange floats to participate in the contest. The parade will move off from the court squart at 10:30 Tuesday morning, it is announced by Mrs. B. O. Hamrick, chairman of th« float committee. The following firms, clubs and' schools have announced their in tention of entering floats: J. C. Penney Co., J. C. McNeely, W. L. Fanning and Co., Electric Service Co., Paragon * Furniture Co., John M. Best Furniture Co., I Blanton-Wright Clothing Co., T. W.j Hamrick Co., Jordon Chevrolet Co., Planters and Merchants Ware house Co., Ella cotton mill. Gilmer's, Woman’s club of Shel by, Boiling Springs High school, H. F. Young, Blue Ridge Ice-cream Co., Shelby hospital, U. D. C. chap ter, D. A. R. chapter, 20th Century club,, Chicora club, The M. P. Coley Agency, Arey Bros garage, Chas. L. Eskridge, D. H. Cline. J. L. Lackey, Bosts’s bakery, Ce celia Music cldb, Ishpening club, Children of Confederacy, Mrs. Alice Boland, Shelby Corn mill, Latti more high school, Piedmont hi£h school, Waco high school, Fallston high school, Dover mill school. Twenty or more consolidated school trucks with children will be in the parade. Thirty horseback riders and three band wagons. Mile Of Amusements Premiced Along Gay Midway At County Fair Durriig Next Week mm EX-SERVICE MED Succeeds Grigg as Legion Com mander. I*ost Members to Support the Memorial. Mr. Vernon Proctor, one of the most enterprising members of the Warren Hoyle Legion post here, was elected eonimander of the post at the annual election held in the legion club rooms Monday night. Proctor succeeds J. Horace Grigg as commander. Other officers el ected were Dr. Pitt Beam viee ccminander to succeed Sam C. Lat timore; Charles Roberts, finance officer succeeding Mike H. Austell; .Everett A. Houser, adjutant, suc ceeding Otto W. Long; E. B. Jar rett service officer succeeding Charles Woodson; Earl Hamrick sergeant at arms succeeding O. W. Powell. Rev. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church was elect ed chaplain. All the new' officeis were elected by a unanimous vote, and following the election a rising vote of thanks was tendered the retiring ofieers and commander. For Memorial. A vote of thanks was also ten dered The Cleveland Star for the newspaper’s drive to secure funds with which to erect a suitable me morial to Cleveland county’s World war dead. Mascms Look To Big Meet Friday Masonic members of Cleveland lodge No. 202 look forward to one of the largest gathering of ma sons that has ever been held in Cleveland county on Friday night of this week, when the 300 mem bers will gather in the lodge halls here. Stunt degree work will be done by well trained members, while prominent masons will sing ard make speeches to the edifica tion and amusement of the crowd. Light refreshments will be served in the dining room of the Masonic building. A solid mile of amusements, bril liantly illuminated and carpented with an aisle of sawdust and shav ings to insure dryness regardless of weather condition, is promised visitors to the Cleveland County fair, which will be held this year September 28 to October 2. Show's presented in weather proof canvas theatres behind daz zling and costly fronts, riding de vices resplendent in coatings of polish and plating, and concessions with the tastily displayed merchant dise of oriental bazaars, will be found on the midway rivalling the attractions of a world’s fair. ' That was the statement today by Secretary J. S. Dorton who an nounced the engagement of the Nat Reiss shows for what has every prospect of being Cleveland coun ty’s greatest fair. The engage ment of the Nat Reiss shows in sures fair visitors, Secretary Dor ton said, a solid train of 25 double length railroad cars filled to the brim with Wholesome amusements. Music of two big concert bands will enliven the magic aone of the midway throughout fair week. Nearly 500 people, horses and ani mals, all’of them master holiday makers, will exert their charm to rout gloom. It will be a week well filled with entertainment, is the ' promise of the fair officials. | “MAN NOBODY KNOWS" COMING TO READERS ) “It’s the best modern book 1 j ever written of the real ' ) Ohrist”—that’s the opinion j of the world’s leading minis- | | ters on Bruce Barton’s “The | > Man Nobody Knows” which I j will be published in The Star I I in serial form beginning I Monday. | This vividly interesting t book reveals the Christ in ( moods and under circum- | 5 stances heretofore never pre- l ) sented. Furthermore, it is a 1 | very readable story—differ | ent from anything you have j ( ever read. By all means start with the i first chapter Monday. I "m. Lineberger Says (r«n Will Be Big Despite Army Worm Attack • Here's a yarn about blessing in disguise. And we will first introduce the boll weevil. Down in Alabama a grateful people erected a monument in a public park of a town to the boll w'eevil as the agency of Providence that handed the cotton lands a bou quet. Ft. E. Lawrence, who was once agricultural agent in Shelby, was fond of saying that if it hadn’t been for the boll weevil cotton would be five cents a pound. Which may be true. Which puts the weevil in the list of the blessings in disguise. Now along comes William Lineberger, with whom you are all acquainted, with another blessing in disguise harangue. Mr. Line berger says this talk about the army worm, or the leaf Jiopper, or whatever it is, cutting down the cotton yield in Cleveland county ten thousand bales is the bunk. Said Mr. Lineberger: “This in. ! sect is a help; not a hindrance.” This is his reasoning: That inas much as the worm cuts the fol iage off the cotton plant, the bolls are exposed to the sun, and being exposed to the sun they will open —and many more of them will open through this agency, these late days of the crop, than would otherwise open if the light of the sun were not admitted. Which sounds logical. You see it is this way: an early frost is predicted, and these late bolls would be'caught, if this more or less artificial process, letting in the light to them and causing them to open, had not been brought about. Mr. Lineberger admits that if the season is late—so late that the bolls would open naturally—his reasoning is wrong. Because the worm or the hopper or whatever it ■is, has actually cut down the yield of the last crop—that is to say cut off the top layer of bolls —the last fruitage. But, as has been said, an early frost is predicted by the weather sharps, and considering this even .tuality, tho more sunlight the late bolls get to force them to open and mature, the better they are off. And incidentally the better off is the cotton grower. “This talk about the yield being cut to ten thousand bales in this county,” said Mr. Lineberger, “is bosh. I don’t believe it. There is a big crop in sight, and unless some thing unforseen—more unforseen than the army worm—conies along a big crop will be made—a crop so huge that it will not be minus ten thousand bales, or any amount like it.” Which is the opinion of Mr. Lineberger. | 5.S. KINGS MOUNTAIN; BIG ANNIVERSARY County Sunday School Convention In October. l)r. Hord And , Mr. Falls Together (Special to The Star) Kings Mountain.—The Cleve land county Sunday school con vention will meet with the Luth eran church at Kings Mountain October 9 and 10th. This will be Saturday and Sunday. All the Sunday school workers of all denominations are invited to take part ih this convention. The officers and teachers are especially invited to be here at that time. An interesting and hlepful pro gram has been prepared for the convention. Practical Sunday school problems and methods are going to be discussed. Copies of the program will be mailed out to the several Sunday schools offi cers when it has been printed. Linden Biggers who has been confined 'in a 'Charlotte hospital for the past three weeks is able to sit up once more and hopes to be able to get home within a few days. He Is much better, but is still very weak. We are glad that he is getting well once more. His life was despaired of once while he was in the hospital. He went late Saturday afternoon. The teacher’s meeting at the (Continued on page three.) Activity Grows At Fair Grounds As Date Nears Race Horses Are Arriving Daily and Grounds Are Covered With Workmen. Prepare For Great Crowds Out ftt the county f'lir i (grounds on the Kings Mountain highway final preparations have started for the big annual event of next week. Dr. Hor ton, fair secretary, with a | group of efficient assistants are about ready for opening: day Tuesday, and the grounds are abustle as the various sec- I tions of the his tract are he- 1 ing arranged for the expected crowd of five days. That the five days should offer the biggest fun of enter tainment the county has ever known seems assured after a survey of the complete pro- j gram. Shows can hardly he bettered, free acts are the best ever, and the racing events promise greater thrills than heretofore. Meanwhile j the exhibit halls should reveal a better farm exhibit than in previous years for Cleveland [ county farmers and their wives have learned the art of building displays from their products. Exhibits during the two years had much of exper imentation in them, and this year should see better arranged exhibits than before, although those of last year were given wide praise over the state. Anyway the fair is looked at the five days promise to be packed with instructive and entertaining events. 15 f ast, race hor.c.s are now ar riving daily and a half dozen or more are now working out on the fair ground track get t injr into condition for the purses of next week. Some of the fastest steppers in Eastern America arc on the booking, while hundreds are looking forward to the local races, in which local riders and local steeds will vie with each other in sulky and running races. Of course, top, the horse show will be one of the grandstand attractions, and the fireworks program each night will lend plenty of color to; the five-day event. Report comes in that the fair will draw a large attend ance from nearby counties. For two years the fame of the Cleveland county fair has spread and large crowds will likely come from a distance this year to attend. Among the more distant sections from which crowds are expect ed are Hickory, Rutherfordton, ton, Jefferson, Hendersonville Gaffney, Sjmrtanburg, Mt. Holly, Monroe, Gastonia, Lin colnton and numerous nearby points. It should be the state's big gest fair again this year, say officials. And indications are in agreement with that view point. Highs Ready For Lattimore Squad Morris' Young Team it) Good Shape For First Contest On Friday. To Get Experience. The Shelby High eleven, which may be one or two elevens, is pre pared for the opening game of the season with the Lattimore Highs | Friday afternoon. The game will be played at Lattimore as a part of the fair program there. Quite a number of Shelby fans are expected to journey up the county for the purpose of seeing just how the fast-moving little out fit will look under fire. That the eleven looks good in practice is the general agreement, but a group of inexperienced youngsters in a real game may be another matter. However, the Shelby coach has arranged a number of such prelim inary games with the idea of get ting his boys accustomed to the fray and experienced in real play before the state series opens. Running signals and playing against stiff opposition are entire ly different things. However, one quarter of real play should see the local charges getting their bear ings and ready to exhibit the speedy drive they hav shown in practice frays here. With the game only a few* days off there are sev eral injured youngsters on the squad, though with an abundance of young substitutes on hand this should work no big handicap as they all must work under fire ere the state series is over and the more experience received the brighter chances should be. Gold, fleet backfield man, Is out tem porarily with a strained ligament, and Mauney, plunging, diving back, is also among those in none too good condition. The opening line-up for Shelby may look like this—and may not: Gardner, center; Lee and Whisnant, guards; Moore and Sin gleton, tackles; Beam and Cline, ends; Kerr, quarter; Harris and Gillespie, half backs; Mauney or Wall, full back. Or mayhaps Billy Grigg will be a center with any une of a half dozen backs replacing Mauney and Wall. And again it may De some otner way. W nat Coach Morris will do is consider ably harder to guess than guess ing on the Dempsey-Tunney fight. Lattimore with one victory on the ledger apparently has a husky out fit and Coach Ti!*en Falls has prepared his charges for the Shcl it that Max Connor, one of Shel by’s best running backs in days gone by, may help the Lattimore eleven move across field. Should such be the case, and remembering Lattimore’s defeat of Chesnee, Morris’ inexperienced youngsters have a task cut cut for them in their first taste of real pigskin scramble. by game planning on nothing else than victory. Rumor hereabouts has Mrs. Lithia Limerick of Waco spent the weekend here with Mrs. David G. Mauney. Mr. and Mrs. Reid Misenheimer accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Grif fin Smith, visited Mr. Misenheim er’s parents in Albemarle. —< Car Washing Cuts Into Supply— New Station in Nearing Com pletion—Ready Oct. 15 The old city water station ia limping alot\g, unable to supply the daily requirements of the water patrons, but the new station is rearing completion, according to R. V. Toms, superintendent of the water and light plants and by October 15th it is thought the shortage in water will be over. The pipe line is being laid from the filter to the river this week and the plant itself is about com pleted except for the pumps which must be set. When the new sta tion is finished it will furnish daily two million gallons of water, double the daily require men of the patrons at present. Mr. Toms says the washing of automobiles takes more water than one would imagine. For the past two weeks the mayor forbid the use of city water in washing cars and watering lawns. This curtailment helped greatly to make the present supply of water hold out for necessary demands. On Saturday last the order was sus pended and patrons were allowed for a single day to wash cars. The large storage tank to the rear of the city hall was filled as a re serve for fighting fire, but before the day was gone the consumers had used all water it was possible for the old station to produce as well as the fire fighting reserve stock. At present the old station is producing 745,000 gallons of water; daily, according to Mr. Toms. It was built for a million gallons a day, but the filter is not working perfectly and cannot be put in good condition without stopping the plant entirely. The sand in the filter has to be washed twice every twenty-four hours and this requires 60,000 gallons daily of filtered water, which cuts down the daily capacity of the plant for consumers to less than 700,000 gallons which is insufficient in view of the fact that there are 1,600 patrons connected with the water mains. proclamation Dy the mayor for patrons not to use city water for washing cars is still in force and will be until the new plant is ! finished. There may be, however, a suspension of the order once every ten days until the new plant is at work. Cameron Morrison 1 Visits In Shelby Former Governor Cameron Mor rison was a visitor to Shelby for a short time Tuesday morning. The former governor was en route from his Charlotte home to Rutherfordton where he made an address. While here he called on a few friends and sojourned about the town informally for a time. Man in No. 8 Township Found Wil Furnace in Fireplace and Plant doing Full BlaAt. Officers F. D. and H. A. Wilscn P. G. Williams and H. A. Gui brought into the court room het Tuesday evidence of the latest dh tillery location. Last Sunday moffl ing about two o’clock the offieci walked into the home of Louis Tui nor in No. 8 township and found distillery in the dining room open ated at full blast. Ono of Turner' companions, Ambrose ftpurlbtj was tried Tuesday and given sentence of six months, while Tuw er who was not caught until Tud day will get a hearing later durin Lhe week. Cooled With lee. jl The capture introduced seven new angles on the booze btisin However, When the raid was officers say the turnace was „ in the fireplace of the dining ri and was sending its smoke up dining room chimney. A re run was on when the officers their call, they say, and the - of the brewing booze could be s ed 100 yards before they rea the house. As it was three to one house almost proved the doing of the officers, some of w stationed themselves at the door while others knocked at front door—and those inside parted by a s«ide door. Spur was caught and brought on to r while three others made their g away, officers state. Tuesday m< ing early—about 3 o’clock same officers made a scouting and located Turner asleep o sheet of cotton in a field in section. The court was informed by officers that the plant was pletely equipped and apparel was “the last word” in liquor ing. Instead of the customary ing tub, officers found that brew wag being cooled down ice. Tells Court Little. Spurting knew little about plant he told the court, but nev theless he could not explain Judge Mull’s satisfaction just w he happened to be doing then Spurling told the court that just “happened to be passing, and dropped in." But he cou’di or didn’t tell just why the otb lad dropped in. The family of Turner is said i have been asleep in their beds another room and they, too, seg ed to be entirely ignorant of w|fl transpired in the dining room. I High School Band Elects Office! — Hay Give Open Concerts When Place is Provided. Yotmgster Make Fine Headway. The new officers of the She High School Band were elected t recent meeting held under the division of Prof. W. T. Stack vho directs the young musicii Officers elected were: WilH IVebb, president; John Lineberj /ice-president; J. L. Suttle, s< etary-treasurer; Ed. Nolan, bu less manager. Mr. Sinclair, it is announced, t :ontinue to lead and direct 3 land this year. One exceptioi eature of the band is that eve neniber must pass his school wor ‘bout fifty per cent, of the boj ast year being on the honor *1 rhe boys seldom play jazz mu ind are developing a love for rea food music. So far the band lot given many public perforl mces because of the lack of a su ‘ble place. However, anyone deS ng to hear them play may do >y going to the Central auditor® in Tuesday and Thursday nigh In the near future when a suital ilace is provided open air eoncei ly the well-trained young bai nay become a part of the comrai ty life of Shelby. Jeffries Freedom Lasted Only Durin| Day; Is Capture Ab Jeffries didn’t get to treat free ozone for any great length; time. He escaped from the coua jail early Monday morning a that night he was back sleep! in his old cell. Jeffries, a nej prisoner, was captured Mon afternoon in some woods on Young place, Deputy Mike Aus walking up on the escaped priai er while out on a search with €h B. O. Hamrick and Policem Poston. Jeffries is awaiting Supei court where he will be char with entering the Shelby si* , laundry.
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