¥!)« li'tidanft tar VOL. XXXIV, No. 115 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPT. 24, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. e THE STAR Is The Leading Paper ol Shelby and The State’s Fertih Farm Section, By mail, per year (in advance)—$2. By carrier, per year (in advance) f3 Just three more days before what Doc Dorton says will be Cleveland county’s greatest fair. Get ready! * * * 1926—the year of crown-lifting. Bobby Jones was dethroned as golf champion. Bill Tilden lost his tennis title, and last night. Gene Tunney, a marine during the World War, lifted the heavyweight crown from Jack Denpsey’ brow with a flood of rights and lefts’*!o the head on which the crown rest ed at the start. A newsy yoai, w hat ? * * * Perhaps it’s the flappers with their bobs that are causing the “bobbers” of Shelby to work longer hours. Anyway, a notice in today’s Star says that hereafter Shelby barber shops will be open until 8 o’clock at night. The world isn’t so black as r has been painted—that is, if one keeps trying. A struggling young widow of this county 10 months ago is now earning her livelihood and that of her three fatherless children according to an article in The Star from the county welfare department. Several o’hcr Cleveland county families in Florida are reported safe according to information giv en this paper and published today. * * * The Kiwanians, says a news story, have been urged to support The Star’s fund to erect a mem orial to the county’s World War dead. If memory serves the Ki wanis motto is “We Build ” Les see. * * Dead men tell no tales, hut sometimes thev go walking at night, especially around spots where their killers stay. At least, that’s what Euzelia Jones, negres? who shot a would-be dusty lover tells a Star reporter. The dead man’s ghost has visited her twice in the county jail, she says. * « * Why is cotton so low ‘. A review of the cotton crons of the past is given in today’s Star as a part of the information passed along in the paper three times each week. * * * A new business firm is coming to town, another item states. * * * The men who last Saturday | night entered a Shelby filling sta-; tion are now resting at the coun ty jail The Star says in"a news item. • » Mayhaps you’ll drivo an auto— a flivver—to the fair next week hut don’t forget the horse »>>e~ on Thursday, a summary of which j is in today’s paper. * * * Next Mondav don’t fail to read , the new serial story- by Bruce Barton. 15,810,000 Bale Crop Forecasted Big Increase in Two Weeks by Report. Fruitfulness Over comes Worm and Weevil. Washington. Sept 23.—Unusual ly warm weather during the first half of September favored fruiting and enabled the cotton crop to par tially overcome its late start, the department of agriculture states to day in announcing an indicated to tal production of 15,810,000 bales of 500 pounds gross. The improvement in the crop amounted to 644,000 bales between September 1 and 18, and indica tions now are for a crop only 203,-, 679 bales smaller than last year. Declines in prospects were report ed from only two states, Missourij and Tennessee, since September 1. Else where the increasing damage from boll weevil and leaf worm has been more than off-set by the in Upon the preliminary estimated area remaining for harvest, 47,- j 207.000 acre^fi the indicated crop would approximate a yield of 16. opunds of lint cotton acre. A crop of 16,166,000 bales was indicated by the September 1 con dition, which was 59.6 per cent of, a normal, approximating a yield of, 153.6 pounds per acre. Last year production was 16,103,679 bales. North Carolina69 per cent, and 1.199.000 hales. Barber* Shops Here Stay Open Longer It’s possible now for tbe work ins' man—who works until six o’clock—to get his supper ami then Pay the daily visit to the barber shop—or “bobber shop,” as you Prefer. Messrs. J. P. Austell, L. S- Cook, J- E. Elliott. D. L. Willis and Fred J- Wright, <p»*rators of Shelby barber shops, have signed an agree ment saying that their shops will \ remain open until 8 o’clock each j evening instead of seven o’clock as heretofore. The new closing hour went into effect Thursday. I Kuzelia Jones, Who Killed Would H' -Lover, K Visited a* Night By Her Victim If you arc superstitious to tho extent i,l believing in ghosts, don’t over kill anybody. lee k about the middle of Aug ust, Kuzelia Jones, colored, had a caller, \\ alter Gaines. The negro attempted to make love and a ru cus followed. Officers found Gaines dead and Euzelia admitting that she used the shotgun. In the course of tir.ie city workmen bur ied the slain negro when relatives failed to show up ana Euzelia, who was a cook in a prominent Shelby home, was placed in a slayer’s cell at the county jai:. And now Gaines, though dead, is back calling on his slayer at the county' jail. At least that’s what she says and no one should be in position to know better. He, or hi.s spirit being, has ap peared there twice, the woman slayer says, since she kuTed him and likely as not he'll bo back again according to her belie*. It’s an old legend of supersti tion that a killer will always be followed by the ghost of the vic tim and Euzelia grinning, while sunshine creeps in through the! bars, says it’s just as true as it is old. And the odd part of the unearth ly visits at night is that the wo man does not seem a hit worried about her victim drop in during'tim still hours of the night, and then drop out just as mysteriously. j “Lawsy!! He doan worry me! none. What’s Ah got to be scant of him fur?" was Euzelia’s answer to a query from a representative of The Star who visited here | with Chief B. O. Hamrick to geti first-hand information of a ghost | that walks right in between iron! bars and parades along the dull, I gray corridors of the county jail, j “Ah, dean known how he got here j where he cum from, or when he j went away. Ah didn’t watch to see. ] When Ah looked up and saw him ' standin’ there Ah turned my j haid and didn’t look no mo til] mo’nin’. He’s been here twice. Fust time was not so long after All shot him. Then it wuz Tuesday night that he cum back again. “He didn’t say a thing. Just stood there in the door of the cell and looked at me, and Ah didn’t ask him nuthin’. What fur did Ah wanna be talkin’ wid him? Ah wouldn't talk to Ed, my husband, ir he wuz dead and wuz to come back, for Ah doan believe in talk'n' to dead folks, but Ah aint scairt of ’em.” And as she continued to tell just how her spirit caller looked the woman failed to show any signs whatsoever of fear. That she didn’t like such visitations seemed sure, hut not a hit did she fear talking and joking about the calls, flow to Keep Him Away. Reared on a South Carolina plantation amid a primitive negro race the Red Row killer apparent ly has bred in her a hit of hoot' ooisni and much of superstition. The reporter caught a hint of this when she said: “When Ah get out he wont bother me no mo’.” Asked how she would keep the lover she killed away the woman seemed amazed at a newspaperman's ig noranee: “Great Lawd! Didin’t y<» alls know that a ghost can’t cross water? Ah wont worry a bit about him when I gets across the river. He can’t cross it.” Further questioning brought more information on the hoodooing of ghosts. “Lawsy, Chief, if you’d bring me a Bible Ah’d keep him out of here. All you got to do is open the Bible and sleep with your head on it. or leave it lyin’ open some where about the room. Ah’ve tried it befo. My dead brotherg used to cum and see me and Ah never did do that with him cause Ah never minded him comin around, but there wuz a nigger girl that Ah’d seed after s*ie wmz dead aud Ah slept with my head on the Bible and Ah haven’t seed her since.” Heard of Razor .Nellie Ghosts, however, seemed to be Euzelia’s least worry. In between bits of information on how her vic tim’s ghost looked she would keep asking Chief Hamrick “Whateber reckon they goan do with me?” In replying the chief jokingly named every possibility from acquittal up to the electric chair. At the men tion of the North Carolina method of sending killers on to eternity the. woman gave a typical “hee-haw” laugh. “Doan try to hand me none of that' stuff. Doan you think Ah know they doan ’lectrocute no wim men in this state no matter who they kill?” (Continued On Page Two.) Jack’s Wife Until last night she was the wife of a champion, but do you suppose the former Estelle Taylor, movie star, will do the usual Hollywood stunt and seek a divorce now that ihe glamous of a title has depart ed from Dempsey? However, she w'red him before the fight to hurry to her—the fighting marine lost no time in sending him. MINUS CHAMP Worn-out Dempsey Loses Record Fight to Veterans of The World War. Gene Tunney, colorful "devil dog” of the World war, is to day the heavyweight champion of the world as a result of hi* 10-round victory last night at Philadelphia over Jack Demp sey. The ex-marine’s victory was a decisive one despite the complete 10 rounds and it was one of the greatest upsets in boxirg history. Dempsey, only a shell of the one-time “man mauler”, was outboxed and out-slugged from start to finish. 132,000 people, the greatest crowd to gather for any sport event in history, cheered the new champion, who promises to be one of the most popular title-holders ever ow ing to his war record and his likable personality. It was the pinnacle of a fighting career for the one time buck private in the ma rines and New York has now another champion—Tunney, the philosopher, the marine, the student, and the fighter is a product of New York’s own Greenwich Village. Farm Implement Store Opens Here Monroe Firm Establishes Branch Here for International Har vesting Co. Machinery. Grifl'in-Price Implement Co., of Monroe has opened a branch in Shelby in the Harris-Hamriek Webb building on West Marion St., known as the Bost old bakery stand This firm handles International Harvesting machinery which con trols McCormick-Deering farm machines and implements. Mr. J. L. Griffin is general manager while Mr. Brooks is retained as mechanic and service man. This firm will keep on hand at all times a com plete line of farm equipment such as harvesting machines, hay and corn machines, tillage implements, seeding machines, plows, threshers, binder twine, oil tractors, oil en gines, cream separators, farm wag ons, manure spreaders, feed grind ers, saw mills and repairs. Mr. Griffin who is here opening the branch says his firm has been engaged in handling this line ex clusively for the past ten years in Union county with marked success. With the opening of the branch here this place will serve not only Cleveland but adjoining counties. Heretofore International products have been handled in this terri tory more or less ns a side line in connection with other business, but henceforth the Griffin-Price Im plement company will devote its entire time to farm machinery and the service of farm machinery. His company has secured a large booth at the county fair where much of the farm machinery will be on display next week. “Last Minutes Rush” On At Fair Grounds For Event\ All Exhibits Must Be In Place Soon, Dorton Says. Balanced Program Promised The Thousands Only a few more days remain until the pates arc opened for the annual Cleveland county fair, which will he held here from Tuesday, September 28 to Satur day, October 2. The last minute rush of getting exhibits in place is now on in full swing, and exhibitors and conces sionaries will be kept on the jump every second front now on getting everything spick and span for the opening. Secretary Dortor has notified all department superintendents tl.at all exhibits must be in place when the gates officially open Tuesday morning. Visitors who attend the opening day will see everything that there is to be seen at the fair, says Mr. Dorton. “We are going to open this year without fair going full blast, and we will keep it traveling on high throughout the entire period.’ A well rounded fair in all de partment will be thrown open to the public. In fact, visitors will find each department a little fair within itself. The liberal prem iums offered by the management for educational displays has result ed in such wide interest that re- j cord breaking lists of exhibits have ' been reported by nearly every de partment superintendent. The livestock show, as usual, will be a big one. Sleek cows and prancing horses, fat pigs, pom padoured sheep and cackling chick ends will vie with one nnd other for popular attention. Women and children will be es pecially interested in the exhibits of boys and girls enrolled in club work. They will find that many of the juvenile exhibitors have ex hibits good enough to win prizes from their elders in open classifi cations. As good as the educational fea tures are they will not overshadow the entertainment side of the fair. A balanced program of at tractions will be presented that will be replete with thrills. Struggling Young Widow Winning Success Battle Nat Reiss Show To Spend Near $6000 Here During Stay Show Leaves Money Instead of Taking “All Money Out of Town," Benefits. .* * The old propaganda that “showr take all the money out of a town" can hardly be applied to the Nat Reiss ShowB playing the county fair here next week. Fact is, the Reiss shows wilt spend about $6,000 during their week’s stay here. That's the esti mate of Carleton Collins, publicity director of the show, and It is sup ported by the list of expenditures in towns played before Shelby this year. All told the Nat Reiss shows have spent $134,330 in thetowns they have played during the season, which is an average above $6,000. The following sums were spent by the show in towns and cities vis ited before Shelby: Monesscn( $6, 706; Conemaugh, $6,723; Harris burg, $17,691; Reading, $5,459, and Norristown, $6,179. The money spent by the show in its varied forms is usually left in a town with merchants, hotels, res taurants, telegraph and telephone companies, express companies, railroads, draymen, license clerks, lot owners, and public utility com panies. So, when you pass through the midway nett week remember that $6,000 of the money you spend will in turn be left in the town. That’s just one of the reasons why the Reiss shows are so sought after by fair officials the country over—the belief that the money a town spends should in turn be spent in that town so far as needed. jLattimore Fair Attract)) Crowd A message to The Star this morning from Lattimore states that the Lattimore community \ fair is attracting large crowds and that so far in the day tjie event seems to be a great suc cess. The Lattimore folks have this year put forth more ef fort on their community exhib it than ever before and practi cally the entire county is in terested in the day’s occasion. In addition to the community exhibits, displays and other entertainments a football game is being played there this aft ernoon between the Lattimore squad and the Shelby High eleven. Bank Worker* To Vi.it At The Fair The banks of Shelby will take two half-holidays during fair week, it was announced here today. The first will be on the afternoon of Tuesday, the banks closing at 12 o'clock. Then again on Friday the banks will close at noon permitting bank employees to take in the fair events two afternoons in the week. Those who have business with the banks are urged to remember they will be closed during the af ternoon of the opening day and also on Friday afternoon. M*y in Time Become Interior De corator After Having Life Ilard. Shows Fine Work. Life has its ups and downs, ami often a helping hand proves of more value than can be discerned until time passes. Over in Kings Mountain is a young widow with three children. Day after day she turns her ar tistic handiwork into the draper ies of the J. M. Rhea firm, draper iea that go into many of the lead ing homes in this and other states. As she works she dreams. Some day afce may be an interior decor ator and command an interior decorator’s salary. Then' the fath erless youngsters may have whet life intended for them—education, a home, clothes, and plenty of life’s material things. The opportunity for the eyes to dream as the hands work was made possible through the county wel fare workers and the Mother’s Aid fund of North Carolina. Many months back the father of the children died and for months the young mother tried to make ends meet on the little farm in No. 4 township. Ten months ago hei health began to fail under the strain of worry and the too heavy work of the farm. Then her case came to the ears of County Wel fare Officer Smith. Through his assistance a grant of $25 per month was secured from the State’s Mother’s aid fund. The family was moved to Kings Mountain, where they share a house with a sister of the mother. Employment was secured for her in a drapery shop at $50 per month. Today she has profitable employment, is the picture of health and happiness and the future holds a rosy out look for her and her children. And the end is not yet. At tl\e drapery shop it is said that the yong widow has become efficient in her role and is one of the most valued employes of the firm. What is more she is studying and has her eyes set ahead to tne day wnen she will become an interior decora tor. Already her ideas and plans have been forked into numerous homes of the section where drap eries have been placed by her firm. Miss Emeth Tuttle, of Raleigh, state director of the fund, on a re cent visit stated: “That family is one of the fin est examples of the right type for Mother’s Aid that 1 have seen in a i long time. As a result of the con structive work of the county sup erintendent of welfare, and the grant from state and county the family is well on its way to finan cial independence. “The two older children are doing well in school. The youngest child is cared for during the day by her aunt, while the mother works at the shop. Electric machines, and airy, well-lighted rooms make her work as easy as possible. The wo man is ambitious, and is Especially interested in interior decorating. Grandpa in a motor car Pushed the lever back too far Twinkle, twinkle, little star Music by the G. A. R. “It was the kind of liquor,” said the prisoner in explaining to the police judge why he tried to drive his car into the kitchen, “that fer ments after it reaches your stom ach.” Here’s Some Redskin Pulchritude —XICA, Uur«nH .>lr. mill Mm Alex.indi r Stuixkin non* ole. t.-.l th«- in<tin l.» lutlfut >->iusle of lhi* Vnkiinu tribe of Washington Note thiU tin* hull- is not l.oU.. ,t Is Cotton Crop Too Large Cleveland Farmers Wonder? Each Government Report Hammers Itewn the Price—Yields and High and Low Given Are the cotton farmers their worst enemy or is the government a bitter enemy to the cotton far mers in telling the world every two weeks that the South will produce one of the largest crops on re cord? Cotton has declined 370 poults or over |17 per bale within 15 days. Each time the government has put an estimate on its crop, the market has declined. Two weeks the census bureau at Wash ington estimated the crop at 15, 166.000 bales. Since that time the census bureau was grown 644,000 more bales and not another seed has been planted. At least the men in Washington who undertake to tell the world how much cotton will be made, predicted 15,810,000 bales or 644,000 more bales than was predicted two weeks ago and as a result of this prediction the “market in New Tork went down 140 points from 11 to 2 o’clock. Growing in Washington Farmers are asking the question why? If the government thought two weeks ago the crop would not exceed 15,166,00 bales, what hat come to pass to justify a yield of 644.000 bales more? What good are these reports, anyway, except to give the gamblers a chance to ride the cotton waves and make fortunes while the people who toil in the hot sun from ■ morn to night earn only a poor existence nt> a result of their labors. Then there is another side to the story. If the south makes even | 15,000,000 bales this year it will be the first time in the world’s his-; tory that two consecutive crops have amounted to thirty million bales. Last year the yield was 16, 103,679 bales and the lowest price was 19.16 per pound, the highest i 26.05 per pound. The peak price reached this year was 21.26 per pound. In the year 1897 the South began producing over ten million bales. Then the lowest price was 5 3-1 cents, the highest 8 cents. Only: two years since that time has the | annual yield fallen below the ten (Continued to page six) Officers Bring In Men Who Entered Filling Station ■. Shook and Hannon Held Here : Charged With Entering City Service Station Sat. Albert Shook, taxi driver, and i Clyde Hannon, both of Laurens, S. C-, were lodged in the county jail here yesterday to await a hearing j on the charge of entering and ) taking tires and tubes from the . City Service Station here last J Saturday night. Policeman McBride Poston and Marshal Moore made the trip to Laurens Thursday after the men, who were being held in jail there, i The capture of the men was the result of a little watching by South Carolina officers, it is said. After leaving here someone saw the men leave a tire near the South Carolina town and report ed the affair to the officers 'who watched the place until Shook is said to have returned. He was ar rested and Hannon was picked up later. Three of the casings taken from the local service station were recovered, hut the tubes, the men said, had been sold to a man go ing to Gastonia. Another man, said to be a broth er of Shook, accompanied the two when they entered the station, it is reported, but he has not been apprehended as yet. Many Fine Prizes Offered in An< nujiJ Event I'nder Auspices of Shelby Riding Club. One of the outstanding events of the county fair next week is ex pected to be the annual horse show on Thursday morning at 10 o’clock. This show is held under the auspices of the Shelby Riding club and this year will likely attract entrants from many sections of the state. Prises are offered In 10 classes as a part of the show. The show program, which is now published, gives the rules and regulations of the event together with judging. points. Class No. 1 is that of ponies with three cash prises and a ribbon. The second event is that of the fivc gaited saddle horse shown by lady, and the third is of the five-gaited horse shown by gentleman rider. The remaining classes of the show! are open to all entrants. The fourth event is the open five-gaited horse with a first cash prize of $25. The next class will show the threev gaited saddle horse, and the next the three-gaited combination, in harness and saddle. The planta tion class, jumpers, model horse best horse arc tho other events. The five-gaited open events hold out the largest class prizes and are expected to be the high lights of the show. Officials of fie Riding Club say that they expect entrants from numerous towns over the state and that quite a number of the best sad dle horses in the Carolinas will take part in the show. The Horse Show last year prov ed one of the biggest attractions of the farm week, and this year the program will be even more at tractive than that of last year. Mrs. Wall Goes To Bedside Of Father Mrs. Zeno Wall left today for Marshall to be at the bedside of her father J. M. Ramsey, at Marshall, Madison county, who was seriously injured a few days ago When he fell from a truck, according to a telephone message received this morning from Dr. Zeno Wall who is holding a revival service at Mars Hill, a short distance from Mar shall. Mr. Ramsey is ex-sheriff of Madison county and one of the most prominent citizens in that community. He recently returned from a visit with his daughter in Cincinnati. Mrs. Wall did not know this morning just how serious his injuries are, but she left immedi ately for Marshall to be with him and will be joined by Dr. Wall. Fiddlers Contest Here In October An old-time fiddlers* convention will be held in Shelby on Friday night, October 16, it is announced by John W. Ross. The convention, it is understood, will be staged in the county court house. Prizes will be offered for the best selections on all string instru ments, Mr. Ross says, and lovers of the eld-time string music are as sured a good entertainment. Gardner, Eskridge and Weatl Talk of Star's Effort to Memorialize Soldiers Forrest Eskridge, Max Card and Lee B. Weathers talked night at the Kiwanis elab on movement which was Inunc some weeks ago to erect a suit memorial to the Cleveland con soldiers who served in the re< world war and the idea of men ialir.ing these men of Clevel county struck favor with Kim ians who will lend their effort ■he campaign. Mr. Eskridge chairman of the program. Editor Weathers explained nature of the memorial which Star has in mind, saying th large granite marker shoul< placed on the court square on side of which should be in ed words showing that the is erected for all the men served in the World war. On reverse side he would ha thronze marker recessed in granite and bearing the na the men who paid the sun sacrifice. To carry on this 1 aign for funds With which to vide this memorial, Mr. Weati suggested the enlistment of and social organizations, tional and religious agencies in a short while an organi: will be perfected to present cause throughout the county. D. A. R.’s have tendered services voluntarily and will leading part in the campaign. B. F. Dixon a Hero It was the anniversary of death in France of Capt. S Dixon, a native of Cleve county, a close personal fricm Mr. Eskridge and when this learned Mr. Gardner declared < Dixon to be one of the outi ing heroes that" went overseas North Carolina. Capt. Dixon in him the stuff that patriots made of. When his superior cer called on him to move his boro company into a dap segment, Capt. Dixon went witl fear and was mortally wound' the side. With this deadly he crawled fully a half mile his company against the adv his men. Shortly he died and the news of his death reach twin brother Wright Dixon, Wi searched for his body until lai the night. When it was discoj ed on a field of carnage bloodshed, Wright sat there his head in his lap until moi The courage Dixon showed typical of Cleveland county declared Mr. Gardner. It shame that the county has nothing to memorialise them for this reason Mr. Gardner his hearty endorsement to suggestion of a marker and ment, going still farther to gester that the names of the men who went out from land be placed on a tablet bronze. The recent drop in the price has no doubt had a tend' to depress some, said Mr. Ga but he bid them take cot Our people said he, are a type can adjust themselves. They come up from adversity and economy depression can and be overcome. He cited F!< where the recent storm has only destroyed property but t a heavy death toll and in com sion to that calamity, the dre the price of cotton is nothin companion. Miss Taylor of the Shelby si faculty gave two appropriate ings. “fn Flanders Fields” “Lest We Forget.” Dr. Dorton, speaking o: fair which is to open Tuesda; pressed the feeling that the hibits will be much larger ever before and that from « standpoint it will have a sui outstriping former years. Local Developmenl To Sell Anothej Homesite Sect I Another section of Clevi Springs estates. Shelby’s subij residential development, will sale next week, according to 1T P. Marshall, sales didector. Tl tates will give several fine away during the sale and a will be lhaintaincd at the faiiJ ing of the progress made In tfj sort settlement. In a recent advertisement Shelby development claims “g» er progress during . the pas# months than any similar dew ment in the Carolinas.” Ge| opinion apparently agrees] the statement as quite a nui of fine residences are going the estates' now and more i£j] sured. SBpi

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