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VOL. XXXIV, No. 120 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6, 1926 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday £y mai1, per year (in advance)-$2.5( By carrier, per year (in advance) S3 Os) The circus was here, but the cir cus day spirit wasn't. The weather wasn’t fair, but the fair was last week. That explains it. * * * f The Gaffney officer who was charged with being inebriated dur ing the fair has been discharged, says a news story today. * * * Poultry winners at the recent fair are published in this issue of The Star. * * * Judge Yates Webb told a Char lotte court crowd that it is the rich drinker of liquor that damages the respect for law, according to a news item, but considering the price of good liquor nowadays no body else can drink exeept that z class. ' * * * A group of Indians visiting here circus day took in the town in “heap big” style by buying an au f tomobile and parading the streets. They were also muchly interested in the beads displayed in local fire and ten cent stores. * * * Fall real estate trading opened with a bang Mere yesterday, says The Star today, when Wm. Line f berger bought the Rose store build ing from Zollie Riviere and Gar nett M. Cox. * » Cotton is hardly worth picking and all the children are going to school. At least it seems so for numerous county schools are ask ing the board of education for extra teachers to take care of the largj enrollment. * * * If you haven’t looked over the new city water station a photo in today’s Star should show you that it’s worth seeing. * * • An item in today’s paper says * Editor Page will tell Shelby busi ness men of the Battle of Kings Mountain. No one is prepared t> better tell the story and the editor should have good listeners. * * * The Shelby Highs, with a few shifts in their line-up, will play Lenoir here Friday. The youngsters profited much by their defeat last week, a sport article states, and will give fans something worth seeing Friday afternoon. * * * Jurors for the next court term, several deaths, and other important news items may be found on the several pages of today’s paper. Read it all. LINEBlSSS Kll BUILDING FROM RIVIERE-COX Wm. Lineberger has purchased the old Masonic building between Efird’s Department stofe and Ri viere drug company from Zollic Riviere and Garnett Cox, the deal being consumated yesterday through the real estate firm of Lineberger and Hoey. Considera tion is not learned, but this build ing was purchased two and a half years ago by Riviere and Cox f< r $40,000 from the Masonic lodge j when the Masons started to build j their new temple at the corner of ; AVashington and Warren streets. It ; is undertsood that local securities, , mostly stocks, constituted the bulk ! of the financial consideration. This building has a frontage of 25 feet in the very heart of the j business section, giving a 100 pot, cent location for retail business. Ground floor store room is occu pied by Rose’s five, ten and 25c store, while the second floor is oc cupied as offices for professional men. Mr. Lineberger says he has no plans for the future with this building except to hold it as an investment. Recently it was im proved considerably and is now bringing in a nice return on the investment, all space being under lease. i Mercantile Firm In South Shelby L‘. R. Price Mercantile Co., has moved its stock of household spec ialties from Forest City to South Shelby, occupying the Ledbetter building. Mr. R. D. Morris, native of Texas, who has been conducting this business in Rutherford county for the past few years, is in charge of the new store here. The Price Mercantile Co., oper ates on a new plan—different from what has been followed here in merchandising. Customers are not expected to come to the store. Four salesmen make house to house calls, take orders and deliver later from the store stock. The line is confined to household specialties and is sold for cash or on time. Mr. Morris says the Price Mercantile company buys direct from mills and has 200 stores in 27 i states of the Union. I Increased Enrollment Over County Brings Application For New Teachers School attendance in Cleveland county this year is establishing new marks. So large has been the early at. tendance in several of the county schools that new teachers are be ing asked by district school boards. Applications from several schools for extra teachers were received this week by the county hoard of education. As attendance usually drops off some during this month the county board deferred action on the matter until their next meeting on the first Monday in November. Among the schools asking for new teachers to take care of the big enrollment were Fallston, Casar and others. Make School Tests Ere long if plans of the educa tional board work nut Cleveland county citizens may ho enabled to romnare their schools with those of other enurties and to note if there are deficiences here and whet they wav be. At th'-' meeting this week the board arnropriatod ?)r«0 for a testing program in f’c county school":. A stnralarfl test will bp secured and will bo ei'’^n repres ontative schools of the various t.vpes over the county. For in stance there will he a ?rs+ for *ugh schools, for one. two and three ! teacher schools as the rape mv he. ) a renresentative school 0f each ; type hcieir user'. Th" test, it is ■ estimated. will hi given pome , 3.000 school children of the coon. I tv. Thta T-e-tiH will p^ow <Jnfiew I encies in various studies, the indi- | vidual school system’s suceess and also that of the countv system, and will also enable a comparison to be , made of schools in this county with those of other counties. To Sell Sites The board also authorized the sale 0f the following school pron- j erties on the first Monday in November: the former Padgett -ite in No. 7 township: the former Roberts site in No. fi; the Pleasant Ridge site in No. 7; the former Royster site in No. 0, and the old Ware building and site in No. 4. Two new trucks for transport ing school children of the county were also bought at this meeting. The two trucks, both Fords, run the total of county school trucks in use up to 31. Editor Page To Speak Here On Kings Mtn. Battle' Editor 0. G. Pago, of the Kings Mountain Herald will speak before the Kiwanis club Thursday night at Cleveland Springs on the Battle of Kings Mountain. Thursday night is the anniversary of the battle and there is perhaps no man in this section so thoroughly familiar with the troops who fought back Col. Ferguson and the mountain haunts from which they came with their muzzle loading muskets than Mr. Page. He was secured by Dr. Pitt Beam who has charge of the program this week. Mr. Page had written a booklet on the battle which was the turning point in the American revolution and he depicts in vivid fashion the position of the troops on both sides when Col. Isaac Shelby and Col. Benjamine Cleveland overcame the British leader Col. Ferguson and felled him on the side of that historic spot. Much information of historic value is to be gained from Editor Page who is an engaging speaker with unusual wit and brilliance. "J s MR. FRANK DELLINGER PASSED ON SATURDAY Mr. Frank Dellinger, aged sixty five, who lived near Waco, and who had many relatives and friends in the Shelby district, died at his home Saturday afternoon at one o’clock, and was buried Sunday at Mt. Sinai church. The deceased is survived by his widow, an only child having pass ed away several years ago. John Dellinger of the Waco district, Alexander Dellinger, of Cherry ville; and Let Dellinger of the Shelby neighborhood, are surviv ing brothers. He also had a sister living in the Polkville district. Artificial leather made in Amer ica is becoming popular in France. Pushcart markets in New York city sell produce valued at $45,000, 000 annually. Creating A New Water Supply For Citizens Of Shelby Photos by Ellis. Large, New Pump Station And City Water Plant Will Be Complete With*n Fortnight Municipal Officials Declare Court Term Is Scheduled To Come On Election Week Here. No Court Election Day The county commissioners at their regular meeting this week gave out the list of jurors for the Fall term of Superior court. Court is scheduled to open on November 1, the day prior to the election, but barristers here are of the opinion that no court will be held on election day, and that the sessions will take a day’s recess for the usual ballot battle. Jurors drawn for the first week were: Quay Mostela. T. Carl Ham rick, G. M. Blanton, J. C. Beason, Baxter Bettis, Sam Runyons, Dav id Champion, W. D. McDaniel, R. C. Early, J. Pat McDaniel, Hugh Ware, J. R. Houser, Claud Ham bright, C. C. Carpenter, A. C. Deadmon, C. S. Thompson, A. H. Galloway, L. Z. Hoffman, L. S. Hastin, C. H. Bowen, W. E. Stubbs, R. D. Smith, Lane Brooks, D. M. Curtis, Whit M. Blanton, J. A. Webb, Roy P. Crowder, Lawrence L. Normal. W. E. Lee, R. A. Mc Entire, A. B. Wright, W. E. Bing ham, A. S. Spangler, V. A. Hoyle, J. C. White, A. R. McNeely. Second week—J. W. Potter, S. A. Green, J. M. Runyons, L. W. Mc Swain, Grady Dixon, Harvey Har rison, O. C. Black, D. M. Cline, D. R. Clarey, G. I. Morchead. Lee Jenkins, Cliff C. Blanton, Forrest C. Peeler, B. I. Towery, R. Lee McMurry, D. A. Cline, George Martin, Lester Self. COTTON TAKES A SLIGHT RISE IN SHELBY TODAY Cheer up! Cotton has started up again. It hit the bottom so hard it bounded. Went up 35 points Tuesday, which fetched an advance of half a cent on the Shelby market, according to the McMurry’s, who at this writing —Wednesday afternoon—are quoi - ing the staple at 12 cents. Just as an aside—the market went off seven points Wednesday morning, which was not enough ap parently to affect the local price. Within another two weeks Shelby’s w'ater supply will come through one of the most modern municipal water plants in Western,-Carolina. City officials stated today that the water mains should be carrying water from the new plant within that time. The three photos above give some impression of the great size of the plant now under construction. The top photo gives a generaLputline of the plant from one angle, while the middle photo presents another view of the plant and tanks nearing completion. The lower photo shows a view of the huge re servoir, which will hold the water surplus. At the completion of the plant visiting experts say that Shelby will have an unexcelled supply of water, considering purity, quantity, and dependability of the supply. Early es timates have it that the new plant, erected to accommodate i Greater Shelby, will cost around $165,000. As the work nears completion many citizens are visiting the big plant, not hav-1 ing an idea heretofore of the vast undertaking. I Six Million Reservoir This $165,000 pump station be ing completed at a cost of $165,000 has a reservoir with a capacity of six million gallons. At the intake on the river’s edge there is a tall tower about 42 reet high, above the highest water mark ever established. Down in this huge tower whic hresenibles a silo, there are two giant pumps which force the water into the reservoir on top of the hill near the pump sta tion. The filter plant has a labora tory control, that is, all water is tested constantly to determine just what proportions of chemicals must be used. The station master will be well versed in laboratory work so that the water which comes through the new system will have no odor or taste and be entirely ffcee from disease carrying bacteria or injurious chemicals. A clear water basin has a cap acity of 200,000 gallons. The city tank to the rear of the city hall has a capacity of 100,000 gal lons, thus giving a reserve of 300, 000 gallons all the time for emer gency use. The plant itself has a daily capacity of two milion gallons of water. At present the daily re quirement is a million gallons so it will be seen that the new plant will be more than ample for pre sent requirements. Two water mains will lead into Shelby to feed the city mains. One main is ten inches in diameter and one is twelve, the double lines be ing a safety feature in case one main should burst. It is hoped that a lowW fire insurance rate can be secured because of this ! double line. In all probability the old pump station will be converted into an abbatoir where all fresh meat I will be killed and dressed and into an incinerator where the town’s j rubbish will be disposed of. Sundny Schools Of County To Meet Association to Conduct a Conven tion Saturday and Sunday at Kings Mountain. The Cleveland County Sunday School convention will be held Sat ■ urday and Sunday at Kings Moun tain with the Lutheran church of that place. This is a inter-denom inational affair to which all pas tors, superintendents, teachers and ofifeers of Sunday schools are cordially invited to attend. Similar conventions have been held with all of the up-town churches cf Shelby and resulted in marked im provement in the teaching meth ods and organization. Some of the leading men and women in Sunday school work in North Carolina are on the program for talks along the line of Sunday school work, including Miss Flora Davis of Raleigh, associate super intendent of the A'orth Carolina Sunday school association, Mr. D. W. Sims, of Raleigh, general sup erintendent of the North Carolina Sunday School association, Mr. 0. Max Gardner of Shelby, teacher of one of the largest men’s Bible classes in North Carolina, and Mr. C. B. McBrayer, another teacher of acknowledged ability. Robinson's Circus Han Sympathe tic Heart—Nit i'arade ,Hut Performance Enjoyed. John Rohinr.on's circus, Amer ica’s oldest, gave two shows here Tuesday and pleased all who wit nessed the great array of skilled performers—both man and beast. The crowd was the smallest ever see! her'1 for a circus of this magnitude. That, however, was not the fault of Robinson. Unfortun ately it followed close on the heels of the state’s biggest fair, which ran five days, came in the midst of the busiest season on the farm and when the Kings Mtn Baptist association was drawing delegates in annual convention at Kings Mtn. On the East the big Gaston fair was opening and on the west the Rutherford fair was making ready to open. With an ear an eye full of entertainment last week at the county fair, the crowd was pitifully small. 1 he show was up to its high standard, nevertheless. Robinson's is one of the four biggest circuses in America. It is in the hands of experienced showmen by reason of its age and success. Eighteen years have elapsed since Robin son’s played Shelby. The show has grown and it was because of Shelby’s rapid growth to 10,000 people that it came this year. Under the’“big top’’ there were three rings, going for two hours with various forms of show stunts —old, but always entertaining to grown-ups as well as children. Every animal in the Robinson menagerie is a performer—even to the rhinocerous who carriad his giant body around the arena on his four short legs, hurrying to get back to his water haunt. Spangled girls do the trapese acts, ride the well trained horses, walk the tight wires and sing with as much lust and volume as the ope*a artists. Clowns keep the crotvd in an uproar of langhter with their antica and yet they do contortions and dare-devil acts as good as the real headliners. There is a herd of performing ele phants, a daring woman puts her head in the mouth of a lion, a trainer wrestles with a polar bear and ponies and monkeys and dogs do difficult acts with perfection and precision. Aids Storm Sufferers Robinson’s circus has a heart. To aid the Florida storm sufferers, ten cents is collected on every com plimentary ticket—not of compul sion but out of human sympathy. Each night the money is sent to the Governor of the state in which the show is playing and turned over to the Red Cross. This is a fine way of collecting a small sum from many individuals to help a stricken and distressed people. In a season, the amount reaches thousands of dollars and nobody has missed the dimes. Lack of a parade was the most disappointing thing. People have become accustomed to them that a circus is not complete without this feature. It impresses the fact that the circus is with us, but Mr. Will R. Hayes, business manager, explains why the parade has been abandoned everywhere. Its too hard on the performers, after working late the night before to be roused out early the next morn ing for the march. Then in cities, the automobile has so congested ; the streets that it is difficult for a circus parade to get through. Some cities levy a tax on a parade and this is avoided, but the circus people don’t mind paying the tax as much as they do working the performers so hard, three times a day. Since the parade has been done away with, the artists are fresher and give a much better show, as was noticed here yes terday afternoon and night. Indians Purchase Auto In Shelby Red Men Drive Their New Car About Shelby and Inquire For “Fire Water” A band of Indians—Heap Big Sixes—made merry in the streets of Shelby yesterday, citcus day, in a Pontiac car. They drove all around the town, and gave the ad jacent hills and cotton fields the once-over. They got the car from the Areys, and put it through its paces, carrying it into the show. The red skin visitors declared they liked Shelby “heaps” and hope to come back. Among many things they inquired about was, where could they get a little nip of “fire water.” Poultry Show Exceeds That Of Last Year-Winners Given Highs Will Play Lenoir Team Here Friday Afternoon 1* lest Game With Elevens Near Equal. Few Changes In Hosier Of Shelby Squad. The Shelby Highs came out of their severe drubbing by Gaffney with few injuries of a severe na ture and this week are training hard for Friday’s contest with the Lenoir eleven. The game will be played here at the city park at 3:30 o’clock and another large gathering on the sidelines is prom ised. Supporters of the local outfit are not downhearted over the de feat of last week and look at it from the standpoint that North Carolina has few, if any, elevens, to compare with Gaffney. On the other hand the game is looked for ward to with the idea that it will come nearer showing the strength of the locals than did the Gaffney game. The Lenoir outfit ranks as one of the average state teams and if the local lads can cope with the Caldwell crew their outlook is not so dark. There are those, many of ithem, who believe the young Mor ! ris eleven this year is far from a weak outfit. They are inexperienc ed of course, hut they are hard fighters and with several games to go before the state series should come around in regular Shelby form. Morris this week is driving his charges hard. His situation is quite different from that of coach es in larger cities. The latter once their teams go bad run in new men and try other combinations with new material. But Morris hasn't any other material. The boys he presented against Gaffney are the entire lot at the local school. They are younger brothers of big brothers, who starred in days gone by, and they are light and green, but they have the same make-up in their system and will make good if given proper time. Instead of running in new men Morris must make the best of what he has and this week the same backfield is being given proper in struction on developing a punch and the line is being taught how to hold without wavering regard less. The boys take it that way. It's up to htem, despite size and exper ience, to come through and the next team that hands them a se vere drubbing will pass through a football battle unsurpassed. At that there are several heart- i ening things to build on. Morris ' has in the offing an aerial attack that should prove deadly by the elimination series. Gold passes with such marksmanship on his long passes that fans already class him with Connor, and bygone teams had no ends that could surpass Beam in scooping the flying pig skin out of the air. Meantime Tom Kerr and Mauney are showing real ability in tearing through the line. Harris with several under studies shoqld develop into a real threat in a broken field, barring his fumbles, and if a lightweight backfield with these assets can de velop a punch local fans should see it by two or three more games. As to the line: something happen ed to the forward wall with Gaff ney. They were crushed by the hefty Gaffney backfield, but some how Gardner, Singleton, Cline and the other experienced linemen fail ed to dig down and hold even with their determination of last year. Friday’s game should show their real merit in a more equal test. Cars To Go In. High school officials announce that on Friday afternoon automo biles will be permitted to enter the local park and take vantage spots along the west sideline and ‘also on the high street bank overlook ing the south goal. Numerous auto ists are expected to take advan tage of the new parking regula tions and witness the game with the comfort of a car seat. Nc Drunks Caught At Robinson Circus Circus day yesterday brought out two informing facts—it was far from the circus day of old, and prohibition is getting in its results. Local officers report that not a single drunk was arrested, and only one man seen who appeared to have had a drink. What a con trast to ye circus day of bygone years, when inebriated men out numbered the balloon sellers. Mr. Wray Greene of Earl, left Saturday for Elgin, III., where he will enter the watch-makers school to take a course in watch repairing. Quality of Birds Improved. Over 800 on Exhibit. Money Paid Out to Prize Winners. j Over 800 birds were exhibited in | the poultry department of the Clev 1 eland county fair last week, ac cording to Rev. John W. Suttlo. president of the Cleveland Counly Poultry association who had charge of the exhibit. The quality of the birds was above that of any pre vious show, indicating considerable improvement in the poultry indus try. Turkeys, geese, ducks and guineas were noticeably absent but the chickens of various breeds wire there in greater array. Pre mium money was paid out by Mr. Suttle to the winners before the birds were taken from the show. Quite a number of exhibitors from a distance wanted to compete, but | it was the desire of the poultry de partment to confine the exhibits to S pouhrymen in Cleveland and ad- i joining counties as much as pos- : sible. P L. Simmons of Charlotte and A. G. Oliver of the agricultural de- I i partment, Raleigh, served as judges I of the show: Single Comb Reds. | C. Reds—Dr. F. H. Lackev, 1,1 | 2, 3, 4 ckl., 1, 2, 3, 4 pul. 1. y., 1 utility pen. Best mal<j 1 show. i ' Rpv- C. P. Aberncthy, 1 hen; ,1 ! young pen; 2 utility pen. i P. L. Hennessa, 5th ckl; 2 young pen. Barred Rocks. _____ . .1. I). Self, 1, 2 cock; 1, 3 hen; 1, ; 2, 3, 4 pul; 1 young pen. | T. F. Sellers, 2 young pen. ftf €. L. Crowder, 2 hen; 2 pullet; 5 j ckl., 3 young pen; Seth Patterson, 5 pullet. White Orphlngtons. , Dellview farm, 1 cockerel; 1. and j 2 pullet. i Buff Rocks. R. M. Gidney, 1, and 2 hen; 3 and pullet. M. L. Stowe, 1, 2 3 cockerel; St and 2 pullets. Partridge Rocks. Bert H. Hamrick 1 old pen; t| young pen. White Rocks. Walter W. Laney, 1 cockerel; hen; 1 and 2 cockereT; 1 pullet. WrC. Hamrick, 2 hen; 3, and cockerel; 1 old pen; 2 young pen Phil Stephenson, 4 cockerel; pullet. Light Brahmas. R. B. Keeter, 1 fcockerel; X and hen; 1 cockerel X and 2 pullet; old pen; 1 young pen. Best hen a (Continued on page three.) Respected Citizen Dies After „ Illness—Was Buried Tuesday At Palm Tree Mr. L. Frank Reinhardt, known and highly respected ci zen of South Shelby died Mo day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock f lowing a protracted illness wi blood pressure. Mr. Reinhardt w, 76 years of age and had liv. many years in Cleveland count coming here from Catawba. number of years he lived at_ dale where he was connected wit the Cleveland Mill and Power C Moving to Shelby he held fo\ many years an outside posh with the Lily Mill in South S by. Mr. Reinhardt waa married Miss Minnie Cobb who su together with the following ren, Joe Reinhardt, of Shelby, J. of Knoxville, Tenn, S. L. of (Ja McClellan, Charles H., So Shelby merchant, Miss Bertha Charlotte, Mrs.' Annie McMu of Shelby, Misses Bessie and sie Reinhardt and Mrs. E. Whisnant. Also surviving are grand children, two brothers, Log E. and Kale Reinhardt, of Cata ba county, Miss Laura Speigle, Catawba and Mrs. Sara Whitn of Hickory. Deceased was a quiet, ind trious citizen, a devoted hu and father and highly estet his friends who were drav him because of his noble chai ter. For many years he was a m ber of the Lutheran church Joined the Methodist church South Shelby after he moved that vieinity. The funeral conducted from the LaFayette Methodist church Tuesday by pastor, Rev. A. S. Raper, assist by Rev. Rush Padgett at 3 o’, in the presence of a large of friends and relatives and i ment took place at Palm Methodist church near Law
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