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THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW. _ _—__M Shelby’s school attendance has jumped up remarkably in the past years, yet an article in The Star today says that a night school is being planned. * * * Teachers of this section are plan ning to attend a district meeting Friday and Saturday at Salisbury, according to a news item. The big news of the week here abouts was the visit of S. Davies Warfield, president of the Seaboard railroad. President Warfield spent Tuesday in this section with hi private train on a Shelby siding. It is one of the few times a rail road president has ever visited here and the debate now centers a« to the reason behind the visit,— will the Seaboard be extended to Hendersonville by Chimney Rock? Is the Seaboard planning on tak ing over the Fleetwood hotel ? The Star today is the first paper to publish known details of the visit. A A * The November term of court, convening here on November 1, is pot expected to have many big cases on the docket. * * <* Shelby’s premier athletic day of the season comes on Friday after noon when the Shelby Highs meet Charlotte here. The locals are doped to lose, hut several thou sad will be on hand hoping to see the prediction upset. * # * The Methodist ministers are in Gastonia this week attending the annual conference. Reports have it that Dr. Boyer is wanted as presid ing elder of the Asheville district. The article appears in this Star. * * * A Fallston boy spent a time in Texas and left the great, open spaces with some mazuma only to be held up and robbed when near ing home, according to a news story in today’s paper. * A * Water was today let into th^ new reservoir at the new Shelby water station. Mayor Weathers tells The Star that- the city water supply by sometime next week will come from the new plant. ♦ • * The colored fair is ip sway this week—opening today and contin uing through Saturday. , Methodists Attend Gastonia Meeting, Boyer May Leave Reported Here That Asheville Church Seeks Central Pastor. Fine Report Church The Methodist ministers of Cleveland county, including three from Shelby, were planning to leave for the Western Carolina conference, convening at Gas tonia, either yesterday or this morning. The conference held its first ses sion this morning. Those who will attend from Shelby were, Rev. II. K. Boyer, of the Central, Rev. A. S. Raper, of the Lafayette street, and Rev. D. 0. Waters, of the Shelby circuit. William Lineberger, superin tendent of the Central Sunday school and member of the confer ence board, planned to leave for Gastonia this afternoon. Rev. Dr. Boyer, it is said, is ■'aking one of the finest reports from the Central ever read to a conference body in the state. The report will show a church member ship of eight hundred, a Sunday tt'hool enrollment of 904, and a col lection of $35,925 raised during th" year. There is a great deal of specula tion as to whether or not Dr. Royer will be returned to the Shelby charge. It is said he is anxious to return, that he likes the people here, and would like to continue his work, which has been eminently successful, but that ■Asheville is making a strong bid for him as presiding elder of the Asheville district, which may get the sanction of the powers that he. It is suggested that the Shelby delegation make an effort to have the conference meet in this city next year, it having been ten or twelve years since the city was so favored. Ar.d there are ample fac ilities, it is pointed out, to take varc of the host of visitors. Hester Blanton Is Paralysis Victim kittle Hester Blanton, one year "Id daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Blanton died Tuesday ev cning about 8 o’clock at the home its parents, following an 111 *!*&* with infantile paralysis. The l'ttle child had been sick for sev fral davs and two nurses. Misses Carrie Babington and Margaret Crowder were at its bedside with Ihe best medical treatment avail ^>'e, but all that could be done, a‘led to prolong its little life. The rarents have the deepest sympathy of their host of friends. Funeral "fll take place this afternoon at 3 "clock and interment will be at 2>on Baptist church where the par ents hold their membership. r.. 8 Pages Today i ... - ■■ I ■■■ .. VOL. XXXIV, No. 126 U_'JO SHELBY, N. C. WED. OCT. 20, 1026. Published Monday/ Wednesday and Friday Afternoons Citizens Urged To Vote By County School Pupils Shill ) (.irl V\ ins first Prize For Letter to \ o>rs. Creates Voting Interest In the days before cotton be came king only to recently tumble from the throne, politics perhaps centered more interest than any one thing in Cleveland county. However, of recent yearh voting interest has been at low tide. Last week an effort was made to com bat this apathy among citizens and at the same time to instill a bet ter knowledge of government in the school children of Cleveland county. The result was that the Demo cratic executive committee offered prizes totalling $25 to the high school pupils of the county writ ing the best letter to citizens urg ing that everybody vote on Nov ember 2. No partisan feeling had to do with the contest, the idea being to create more interest in the election, educate the school children to the methdo and why of civil government. So far as is known it was the first move of the type ever made ir< the country and considerable interest has been aroused over the contest. All letters were turned into the office of J. H. Grigg, county superintendent, by this week and practically every school in the county had at least one en trant for the honors. Winners Divided The winner of the first prize, $10, was Charlie Mae Laughridge, of the Shelby high school; Clare Royster, of Piedmont. won the second prize of $5, and Marzona Hoyle, of the Fallston school, won the third prize of $2. Eight other prizes of SI each were awarded to the letters of the following students: Lounette Wort man, Casar; Irene Smalley, Pied mont; Alma Bell. Boiling Springs; Kathleen Hard, Shelby; Lee Pow ell, Boiling Springs; Edith Ran dall, Grover; William Elzie Ford, Boiling Springs, and Montrose Mull, Shelby. Six schools were represented among the prize winners. The judges of the letters, J. C. Newton, of the chamber 'of com mrcce and Rer n Drum, of The Star, round considerable trouble :r, deciding between the first and sec ond letters, while the winner of the third piize came out by only a scant margin over one of the other eight. Quite a number cf those among the eight winners present ed thoughts and reasoning prac tically on par with the three high winners, hut their facts were not quite as well presented, or as well written. That considerable thought was expended on the winning let ters is easily seen, considering that they were written by school child ren. Not until the winning letters were selected were the names of the writers learned. Each letter bore a number and with the letter was a sealed envelope containing the name of the writer. Likewise the judges did not know until after the selection what school the letters came from. The eleven winning numbers were selected and then the envelopes opened and by the numbers the names of the win ners learned. Publish Letters The Star feels that it would be of general interest to readers to hear the reasons for voting as presented by the school children and the three prise winning let ters are published as follows: To the Voters of Cleveland- Coun ty: It uught not to l>e necessary to urge anyone to register and vote in our elections. That is a pri\i lege that every patriotic citizen should he only too glad to exer cise. While we, the masses, do not often take part in the enactment of laws, we do choose the repres entatives who act for us. So un less we, who believe in good, clean government, take enough interest to help select our representatives and officials, those persons who are seeking selfish interests will out vote us, and some day we may wake up to find that we have lost control of our government. Too many of you perhaps think that your vote is not needed be cause the party and nominees are certain of election anyway. But you do not know how many others kre thinking the same thing. Don’t depend on the other fellow *to do what is your own duty. Every qualified * citizen should not only register and vote himself, but should urge his neighbors and friends to register and vote on November 2. Have you ever noticed how in larger cities, our adopted citizens (Continued to page 8) Planning Night School Here for Working Young. Kiw.' iis Club Hoping to I'ndrrtako Something for I'ndcrprivi leged One. At a meeting of ihe directors of the Kiwanis club a few days ago at which there was a discussion- of various activities that the club might undertake to do something of a constructive nature ,it was de | t ided that one <A the most needed an-d urgent lines of endeavor is a right school for hoys and girls 14 years of age and over who work during the day and cannot attend a day school. There are a number j of working boys and girls whose | employers allow them a short time off each day to attend day school and thus improve their education, hut there are other youngtsers who are compelled to work all dur ing the day because they are the sole support of a family. To en courage this class of youngsters and better fit them for life’s duties, the Kiwanis club has appointed a committee to canvass the town immediately with a view of enlist ing all boys and girls 14 years of age and over, who wor.':, and would like to pursue studies in a night ■ohool. If a sufficient number is s'cured, the Kiwanis club will un dertake to organize, conduct and finance a real good night school, offering courses in the ordinary studies, commercial studies, home economics and perhaps mechanics. Employers are asked to taka the matter up with any boys and girls in their ejnploy and encour age them to improve themselves by attending this night school. Names and addreses should be handed to Supt. I. C Griffin- of the Shelby public schools, J. C. Newton, sec retary of the chamber of commerce or J. H. Grigg, county snuperinten dent of education. Mail Carriers Asks That Rural Roads Be Improved Soon Carriers Will Make Their Rounds Regardless *>f Weather But Want Roads Improved At the recent quarterly meeting of • the Cleveland county postal sprvioe council, the following pre ambles and resolutions were unani mously adopted by the council: Whereas, the United States gov ernment is furnishing rural mail service to every section of our great county at a very heavy cost; and, Whereas, it is desirable that the carriers render the best service possible and reach each home as nearly on schedule time as possi ble; and, Whereas, the carriers must make their daily tours regardless of the condition of the roads or weather, if physically possible; and, Whereas, a great many of the roads of the county last win ter at times became almost im passable, materially delaying the service and inflicting a heavy and unjust loss upon the carriers through the wear and tair of ve hicles; therefore, Be it Resolved by the Cleveland county postal service council in regular meeting assembled at Bel wood high school building assem bled, on this the 12th day of Oc tober, 1926, that we most earnest ly appeal to the various township highway commissions and to the board of county commissioners, of Cleveland county, to take immed iate steps to put all roads in the county, that are traversed by rural routes, in first class condi tion before the beginning of the bad weathers of winter to the end '.hat better service be rendered and unnecessary damage to vehi cles avoided. L. L. Taylor Attends Ice Cream Meeting Mr. Leslie L. Taylor of the Blue Ride lee Cream company has returned from Detroit, Mich., where he attended a meeting of the national association of ice cream manufacturers. Hundreds of dele gates were present from every state in the Union as well as a number of foreign countries and for the first time in the history of the association a Southern man was elected president, Mr. Camp Bell, of Shreveport, La. Mr. Tay lor says many improvements have been made on ice cream making machinery, but the changes arc not radical. No new ice cream pro duct was offered other than what has already been on the local market. CITY TO OPEBSTE NEW WATER PHUT Will FEW DAYS Place Water in Big New Reservoir Today for First Time. Plant Working Next Week. Some time next week Shelby will drink and bathe in water cowing from the new $165,000 water and pump station now under construc tion. That’s the news of a state ment made today by Mayor A. P. Weathers after checking up with■ construction officials. Water was today for the first time let into the new reservoir at the plant just west of town. This means that the only delay now will, Ire due to the installation of pump ing equipment. __ ~ ..The work at the station has beer, handicapped for several days owing to the wait for the pumps. This equipment has arrived-- now and workmen are rushing the installa tion of the same. Just as soon as, the pumps are installed the water mains of the city will-- be filled from the new plant. The news should be welcomed by the city in general. The old pumpj station has served its dav and is no longer capable of handling the water supply for a growing town and for several weeks the city has literally “been limping along” on the inadequate supply of the old plant. County Teachers to Attend Dist Meet _ i Conference Will Be Held In Sails- ^ bury On Friday and Saturday Of This Week The Piedmont district teachers’ \ meeting comprising the teachers of twelve or thirteen counties in the Piedmont section of North .Carolina will convene in Salisbury, Friday October 22, for a two days session. The programs begins at noon on Friday and continues until noon on Saturday 23rd. School officials, chamber of com merce and other civic organiza tions of Salisbury have been send- , ing out personal invitations to teachers of the district to attend. The invitations to teachers of this county are extended through the county superintendent. It is ex pected that many teachers of the county will attend the meetines of t.h- htssoclatjari. These district me-'in-- h.-v- r-'-ved of much. pv*"r v life than the sfatc mc-t-' ings as he.hi formally, due to that' fact that, at the State meetings j the number of teachers was so ; large that it was difficult for in- j dividual teachers to take part in any of the discussions. This meeting is of added inter est because of the fact the teach ers will be given the opportunity to inspect the new high school building, which is one of the finest j in the State, and bpeause (he school officials of Salisbury have 'arranged for demonstration classes i in various of the public schools of ^ the city. Then, too, several persons of both State and National repute are to appear on the program. Teachers planning to go to Salis bury for the occasion will prob ably find it wise to make resrerva t'ons in advance for hotel accomo da'i-n. Reservations may be secur ed through th- secretary chamber of commerce, Salisbury, N. C. Hugh Toms Heads New Pump Station At a called meeting: of the city officials Tuesday night, Mr. .1. Hugh Toms, now master mechanic at the Ella mill division of the Con solidated Textile corporation, was elected water station superinten dent at a salary of $150 per month. Mr. Toms will enter upon his new duties as soon as he can get reliev ed at the Ella mill. Since Mr. Crane resigned a few weeks ngo, Mr. W. V. Toms, superintendent of the water and light plants, has been operating the pump station. A chemist from the State board ot health will come to Shelby when the new water plant is put in op eration and stay with Mr. Toms a month or more, teaching him the operation of the plant and especial ly how to test water in the labora tory to determine what proportions of chemicals to use. It ia thought by that time Mr. Toms will have had sufficient instruction to make the laboratory tests and operate the plant, the plant operation re quiring one well versed in mechan ics, an acquirement which Mi. Toms already has. The city officials also authoriz ed the payment of $77,50 to fire men who answered three fire calls —one in September and two in Oc tober. This Fad Might Get Your Goat Tiie girls of Hollywood, Calif, haw rtis, rdrf} poiKi'e ci,» s i.mt 1 -r. you* as pets. Ann Roik, i f ttie movie Colony, n nii.e u> ciiwj *1.1 so’.t Poiv, but wait till it gipv.a up: __ Shelby To Be In Shape1 For Hard Charlotte Game Fans Expect Colorful Performance With Morris Eleven Trying to Hold Down Queen City Score Shelby’s colorful gridiron con test of the year on Friday after noon is expected to draw the -sea son's largest crowd to the city ath letie fiekl when the “Casey” Morris eleven meets the husky Charlotte Highs. Every effort will be evade to ac commodate the-large crowds along the sidelines of the pari: vnv un der renovation. Contrary to bygone years there are no seats, hut if there were seats fc ,v would be used Friday afternoon. Fact Is there will be few who will use the same standing space for more than 20 seconds at a time. That’s an idea as to the type of gaipe expected. Charlotte is doped to win— some say by two touchdowns. others pushing it up to 30 points. Loyal supporters of the Shelby Highs may do their own figurinc. Dope has erred more this year than the weather man: Dempsey wa* sched uled to kayo Tunney; Bobbv .Jones should have retained his golf title; Wall street said the Yanks would beat St, Louis; everybody expect ed Georgia to beat Furman, Wake Forest to beat Presbyterian, and so on. As Rob Roy, peer of snort writers, said in days gone by “Yon pay your money and you take vour choice.” Charlotte may beat Shel by like the experts say, but if they do Charlotte has one whale of a football team. Casey Morris is saying no mere than ever and each afternoon this week he is driving 25 young sters at top speed until thv' envel oping darkness become so thick a football can’t be seen. Supposedly he’s getting a few kinks out of the play of his first string eleven. In recent games the^ Shelby line has not been showing up so well, fail ing to hold occasionally on the de fense and likewise falling to open up on the offense, Should the line fail to make an improved showing Friday the experts have made a good prediction. Charlotte has dis played a habit this year of tearing through opposing lines and block ing punts, a dangerous thing for the opposition, ami the Charlotte backs have been running through wagon paths made bv their forward wall. What Shelbv docs FfVlay de pends considerably on how the local line stands up under the on slaught of. the ChavTotte charge. The backfield problem for Fri day isn’t worrying the Shelby coach to any great extent, it seems. Ho has a half dozen of light speedy backs and he believes, as they ex hibited in the Morganton game, that they can flash away for first downs regularly provided the line gives them the opportunity to get off. The one outstanding'A|eakness this year has been the lack of in terference in the bee*;field. This trouble seems about over. So should the Shelby line hold when the She! - by hacks are on the offense the highly-touted Charlotte eleven may be scored on, and on the other hand if the Shelby line Isn’t too easily punctured Charlotte may find itaelf shy several of the pre I dieted touchdowns. To oflftxrb the prediction* of the j experts Shelby fans may find ao»ne j enthusiasm^ in remembering that ' Charlotte came up two years ago ! scheduled to win nnd after one ef | the greatest games played here ■ a Queen Cry team journeyed back home defeated. Add to that tha fact that Morris has a fighting lit ! tie team—those who aaw the Mor | ganton game know that any eleven ! that can come-back and make a I touchdown in two minutes Is capa ' ble of doing some desperate things against a supposedly much strong er eleven. Landis, a brother of the Landis who ploughed through Shelby two years ago. will be the big threat t}f the Charlotte eleven, and he will be ably supported by Cook and Mason together with two linemen advertised as being real punt blockers. Nobody ever knows who Morris will start until the gam* itself starts and then they don’t know how long that eleven will play, but taking a guess the blue-clad Shelby eleven should face the starting whistle like this: Gardner, or Grigg, center; “Dutch” Whis nant and Gillespie. guartTs; Mocre and Singleton, tackles; Laymon Beam and Cleve Cline, ends; Tom Kerr, quarter; Gold and Bridges, or Rippy, half backs; Ed Ham's, full back. County Negro Fair Gets Going Today The Cleveland county negro fair opened at the county fair grounds east of Shelby today, and the op ening at an early hour was con, sidered successful. The fair is slated to continue through Saturday with fine pro grams for the afternoons and nights. The fair officials are banking considerably on their fireworks programs in the evening. Among the features will be a head-on col lision, New York skyline, Ameri can beauty rose, a bombardment, and other features. Races are scheduled for each afternoon at 2 o'clock. No Big Cases On Superior Docket No cases of outstanding interest will come up on the superior court docket here the first of next month and the term is not expected to | take up any great length of time. Court is scheduled to convene on November 2, but as this is election day it is thought likely that the following day. Seaboard Prei For Visit S. Davies Warfield Spends Day In Thii tend Seaboard T< Jesse J times Hold-up. Cultured Somewhat, Knncted on Train Just Out of Gaffney. Are the days of .Jesse James comini? hack? It looks that way. And this is what makes it seem so. Reid Tillman, a youngster, and lately of the oil fields of Texas, but now residing at his home out near Falbton, had the experience Tuesday of being robbed in whet one might term a modern train robbery. Here is the story. It seems that this youngster left the Old North State about two months ago for Texas. He arrived in Texas all right. He worked there for about a month and a half, and then it was that he got a little homesick and decided to come back to his native state. He had saved up his money and with a part of it he bought a ticket | home and when that was over he found that he had around $60 left. He boarded a train and everything went all right until he came with n ten miles of Gaffney, S. C. It was here that he met the modern Jesse James, or James; ns there was a second party in the holdup outfit. Aft he sat gazing out at the land scape in the passenger coach a gentleman, it would seem, came up to him and asked him for a match and a eiganstte. Tillman did not have a cigarette but gave the man a match. The man then en gaged in a conversation with the young man, asking where he came from and where he was going, and in general found out quite a bit of history. He then invited the bey back into the smoker, the young ster accepted, When they got to the rear of the car the man asked Tillman it he gambled. The boy said he did not. He kept talking about the fact that he should start or something to that effect. And as he was talk ing he was joined by another man, presumably his confederate. They had a little conversation. And as the train rolled into Gaffney they called the boy back to the rear of the car and held him up, lifting from the young man around $60. he says. They had about finished the operation when the train pull ed out of the Gaffney station. They jumped off and left the boy behind. He could not find the conductor at that time but when he did he told him of the hold-up. The conductor confirmed the boy’s statement when they arrived in Blacksburg and told officers of the robbery. The boy got off at Blacksburg ar.d went back to Gaffney with the of ficers. They searched around Gaff ney for the two men but neither could be found. They gave up, and the boy came on to Shelby and late last night started to his home near Fallston, none the worse from the hold-up— except that he was broke. Mrs. Jane Herndon Buried On Monday Beloved Citizen _.of Bethelehem Community Passes At Age Of 73 Years Mrs. Jane Herndon, widow of the late A. H. Herndon, who died about twenty-five years ago, pass ed avray Sunday afternoon at her home in the Bethelehem commun ity following a protracted illness. Mrs Herndon was 73 years of age and had been a long and faithful member of the Bethlehem church where her funeral was conducted Monday morning at 11 o’clock by the pastor. Rev. Mr. Cook, the in terment taking place in the ceme tery there. Mrs. Herndon is survived by six children, J. M., Lee, Pink, Hub ert and Misses Pearl and Edna Herndon. Also surviving are one sister, Mrs. J. Lee White, of Miami, Florida and two brothers, John and James Poston who live just east of Shelby. Dr. Allen McBrayer, of Florida, is visiting his brother, Attorney C. B. McBrayer and sister Mrs. Gerald Morgan. ident Here Tours Section With High Officials i Section. May Ex ► Hendersonville. The section from Shelby we.^t to Hendersonville is agog today with excitement and curiosity over the visit of financial and railroad powers on Tuesday. The visit may mean the extern, sion of the Seaboard from Ruth erfordton to Hendersonville, c? it may mean a dozen things—but any way it was of sufficient Importance to bring the realization that West ern Carolina has some attraction worthy of drawing here S. Davies Warfield, president of the Seaboard Air Line railway and a corps of assistants and advisors. President! Warfield with hta ad visors arrived here at 2:.10 yester day morning on a special train from Columbia, being en route from Florida, where he supervised rail relief work, to his Baltimore headquarters. Soon after arriving the railroad head and three of hia staff secured a large taxi here and immediately left over the moun tains to the westward, visiting; Chimney Rock, Hendersonville and other points in the course of' thu day. The private train pulled on to Elienboro during the day carrying along about a score of special agents, experts and advisors. Pres ident Warfield and his party board ed the train there late in the aft ernoon and came Vac"* through Shelby about 6:15. The entire visit and its purpose were shrouded in secrecy, It being said that no one west of Shelby knew the identity of the party in the taxu Seaboard officials here and elsewhere in this section refuse t,o talk, having been ordered to hold back anything of an informing nature. Newspapermen were un able here to gain an interview with President Warfield or any of hia party. However, bits of information, leaked out from various sources* the most encouraging being the report that the Seaboard president was highly enthusiastic over the mountain country and its Othef, report*. bad) jflBufrW favorably, impressed, .with Chimney Rock and Lake j.ure, consider?! Hendersonville as a coming) jesojp metropolis, while ShelVyJand Rut|a erfordtpn. were viewed a# ‘ u^pbjl tent shipping points fpr a cnyenW fied agricultural an£' manufacture ing program in the hill an^ mdun* tain country. 58 May Get Fleetwood. In addition to the reports of th« railroad extension another rumor had it that the Seaboard company was considering taking over the mammoth Fleetwood hotel ut Hen*] dersonville, while another ruraon connected Warfield with some Ofl the projects afoot at the Chimney! Rock resort. However, nothing au«J thentic on either report Is knownd Warfield did not talk publicly duv»j ing his visit and those with whonal he talked have nothing to stif. An agitation has been on foot for several years urging the e» tension of the road to Ilendersort ville and Asheville and the gen eral opinion is that Warfield wa* looking over possibilities personal* ly- " ' The visit came even as a surprise to Seaboard officials here. They were notified late in the night Monday to be on the look out foi the president’s train. Why, they did not know, nor seem not to know yet. The conception here Is Ifiai during his visit to Florida prom inent Floridians must have toU him of the possibilitUa of the sec tion. Marshalls Return To Florida Home Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P. Marshal will leave tomorrow for thei>- win ter home at Clearwater, Fla., ac cording to reports from the Cleve land SpringB hotel. Mr. Marshall, the developer a Cleveland Springs estates Cara lina’s most successful real estat project, will spend the winter* then in connection with his real nstat enterprises and return to Shelb; in the spring for continued devel opment of the Shelby res identic section. It is worthy of note at Mr. Mai shali’s departure ^that C’.evelan Springs estates has enjoyed a grew er success than other realty enter prises. There is already a hom life in the estates and more home are building. Next spring Mi. Mai shall expects to see a dozer or s more homes go up. Mrs. F. B. Williams returne Friday from Atlanta where si visited her daughter. Miss Ma garet Williams who is taking business course there.
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