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SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, OCT. 29, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mall, per year (In advance)— $2.5(1 By carrier, per year (In advance) S3 OQ Good- evening! Be sure aid vote Tuesday. * * * Superior court convenes here Monday and will take up a short criminal docket. Two killing affai-s will come up, according u, The Star. * * * Hon. Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy, was a Shel by visitor yesterday and while here ho shook wiih a former gob. |t’s told in a news item today. * * * Politics, Oh Boy! They’re ■ n T1 o Sun today. Political leader; are of the opinion that The Star will be in demand ere night falls due to seven 1 political stories today. Read them, including the upper Cleveland controversy and the candidate on the wrong ticket. A normal college is in the <.fling fir Shelby, th creport ol' a i>. i v.aiijs meeting here. H<>n. A. L. Brooks speaks in the court house here tonight, and The Star today urges all citizens to hear him. Another suit has been instituted against the city, according to an article in today’s paper. * s Irvin Allen is again on the police: force at Kings Mountain; the Shel by High will play several more foot hall games even if defeated in the state race; Lyle, Cleveland Springs pro, has turned in a new low score at the Cleveland Cpirngs golf course; ihe banks will be closed Tuesday here—that’s a brief sum mary of several interesting items in today’s paper. * * * Frankly, today’s Star is one of the "newsiest” issued in several months. Don’t miss any of the im portant events, always keep tab on time in The Star. Beloved Woman Passes Away Aft er Protracted Illness. Funeral to Be Held Sunday. Mrs. Emma Ola Shull, wife of Mr. Charles H. Shull died Thurs day evening at 6:30 at the Shelby hesiptal following a decline in health which extended over a period cf two years. On September 8th it was found necessary to perform nn operation and from this she rallied somewhat, but her condition grew worse and another operation was found necessary on Wednesday of this week. The best medical skill and nursing attention could not pro long her life, Mrs. Shull before marriage was : Miss Emma Ola Heavener of Ashe ville, daughter of John M and Eli zabeth Heavener. She joined the Methodist church in girlhood. Eigh- j teen years ago she and Mr. Shull j were married and have lived m •Shfelby since that time. Mrs. Shull became endeared to many people: and was a most consistent Chris-} tiun and active church worker, b° ing interested in all the woman’s work of the church. She was a de voted wife and mother, a kind and ; thoughtful neighbor and a patient sufferer during her illness. Surviv-! ing are her husband, father and two children, Lallage and Keith,! f ix step-sons and one step-daugh- J tor, all of whcm were devoted to i her. Ur. Rush Shull, of Charlotte; | * ha lies R.. Birmingham, Ala.; Mrs J ' hristine Carpenter, of St. Louis; j b Robert and H. H. of Winston-! Salem; W. Frank of Passaic, N. j., and Evans of Shelby. Her father and three sisters are here now, Mrs. Hubert M. Miller, of Asheville; Mrs 1'annie Noblitt o> A'obington, Va.: Miss Bertie Heavener of Asheville. Funeral will not be held unt't Sunday to await the arrival of the the other children who are coming from distant points. The funeral will be conducted from the resi dence on N. LaFayette street at *:'30 o’clock b yher pastor, Ur. H. K- Boyer of Central Methodise church and interment will be in Sunset cemetery. Will Shelby Man Succeed Solicitor T here is considerable talk about ^elby as to what attorney will fill uut the term of R. L. Huffman, *e tued solicitor of this Superior eourt district (the 16th.) Last week Mr. Huffman resign 'd and the appointment for the re mainder of the term was tendered to Spurgeon Spurlirvg, Democratic "ominee from the recent primary. However, Mr. Spurying declined to .‘.' I but the term and so far no so lc|tor has been appointed. Hereabouts many are wondering Just who will get the appointment 0 c°nipiete the term. Several folks a>e of the opinion that a Shelby »ian will get the appointment, "hile others say it will be a Lin oolnton attorney. Upper County Democrats Not Supporting Richards Four Democrats Says G. W. Peeler, Present Democratic Commissioner, Offered Paper Urging Commissioner For Section i no old pot. !h Lolling. onl.v one week-end to go ('!< veland county may have?! o’u o: t *\ o hot. issues to ■discuss eve the ballot boxes are closed! Tuesdov evening. I he latest move presenting the first “hot issue’’ the! campaign developed Thursday afternoon. On the surface it I appears that the issue may change a slight interest over the comity into a general controversy prior to Tuesday. I he pit of it is this: At least four upper Cleveland county Democrats declare that they are not supporting T. B. Rich aal.% Republican candidate for county commissioner. And the\ go tart her and state that the only paper they signed was presenteu to them by G. \Y. Peeler, present Democratic com missioner, who was defeated in the recent primary by Sam C. Lattimore, present Democratic nominee. It these disclosures of the past' few days arc not calculated j to go. local politics back to a pre-war interest, nothing will. | In Wednesday s issue of Tha Star there appeared an ad vertisement signed by H. Clay Cox, Republican chairman, wr.ich was an endorsement of Richards by a number of upper coum\ citizens, including the names of several Democrats. The advertisement created quite a stir in political circles, es pecially in that section. This Tells It Plainly Thu following communication handed to this paper yester-1 day and signed properly by the four citizens speaks for itself! in Clearing the situation and needs no further interpretation: i To the Editor Cleveland Star: ! \\ c see in Wednesday’s issue Cleveland Star an article sign- j ed by H. Clay Cox, chairman of Republican Executive Com mittee endorsing 1. 1>. Richards, of Lawndale for County! Commissioner. On it were names of some Democrats which! we w ish to explain. G. YV. Peeler, our present County Com missioner, presented a paper to us asking for a County Com missioner in the upper part of the county, which we signed We did not understand we were endorsing a Republican. We want it understood we are still Democrats and don’t see anv, reason for a change. YV. A. GANTT, Fallston E. H. Ll'TZ, Fallston ( . S. ELLIOTT, Fallston YATES LUTZ, Fallston S. GARDNER, Rout 6, Shelby. Hedged Himself To Party Support Geo. YV. Peeler in filing his notice of eandidaev in the Dem ocratic primary, signed on May 3rd, 1926, the following state ment, I hereby file my notice as candidate for the nomina tion as County Commissioner in the Primary election to be held June 5th. 1926 I affiliate with the Democratic party1 and I hereby pledge myself to abide by the results of and to ] support the party candidate nominated for the above named' office in said primary election.” $925,000 Already Subscribed To Aid Cotton Farmers Over North Carolina Raleigh.—Governor McLean, just before leaving for his speaking en gagement in Liliington, announced that he had succeeded in procur ing definite subscription aggregat ing $925,000 for the cap'tal stock of the Cotton Finance Corporation for North Carolina. and that he was satisfied that the balance of $75,000 in order to make the capi tal stock one million dollars would be subscribed as soon as he could communicate with some other bankers in the state. He stated that the organization of the corporation as an additional facility for carrying the cotton I crop in North Carolina is now a 1 certainty. It was necessary to act i quickly in securing subscriptions ' and it was impossible to give all \ \ an opportunity to subscribe. The i banking interests represented by ' ! Mr. J. W. Cone, of Greensboro,: ! underwrote §000,000 and the hank- ! !big interests and others in Char-J | lotto $2.)0,000 of the total sub- | j scription. Governor McLean expressed the '■ | greatest satisfaction at the! : prompt response of the bankers of ; this state to provide this addition- | al facility for financing cotton on j longer time than the commercial' banks can provide. “Gawge,” Former Gob, Shakes with Former* Head of United States Navy on Visit Here, The land of equality—where or-! dinar}' man “puts it there” and! shakes with the mighty—that’s j America. “Gawge,” officially handed the title of George G, Abernathy, once ! Ring Lardner correspondent of The 1 Star and at the same time a “gob”| in Uncle Sam’s navy, yesterday! shook hands with Josephus Daniels, j head of the American navy during the World war. And both charge-! ters got a laugh out of the proceed ing. Not so many weeks since “Gawge” snatched his fern togeth er,, his body upright and sported a snappy salute to lieutenant-com manders, captains, ensigns ami what-nots. He was in the navy then, j Had such a great personage as) the Secretary of ihe Navy passed j by then “Gawge” perhaps would; have had to stand for hours cramp- . ed up like a wooden Indian in j front of a cigar store. That was j several weeks ago, remember. This, is another day. I Thursday, Josephus Daniels, well! known editor and Secretary of the' Navy under Woodrow Wilson, j strode into The Star office and edi tors and their assistants jumped to their feet and kow-towed as do mlr.-| ions of Democracy. While the greetings were being passed “Gawge,” wearing his “civies” again, strode in nonchalantly, stuck out his hand with a grin that seemed to say: “Josephus, old fel low, put ’er there.'* Josephus put. j Then ‘‘Gawge’’ made known his former role to the one time big1 boss of all the dreadnaughts, and Mr. Daniels asked: “Well, why! didn’t you salute?” George grinned from ear to ear and replied: “It’s a grand old navy, but we ain’t what we uster be, me and you.” And they parted on that, agree ing with each other that they were mighty fine fellows. y Which is encouraging. . Queen Marie may stop over now and tell one of ihe girls how to put a curl in their hair while they sleep. MCSWIIN IN 3RD SUIT AFTER HIS DEFESTII POLLS Represents Property Om tiers S\ So Object To ( ily Borrowing Tom ■ poriiy from Hater Funds. Attorney Peyton MeSwa n this week began hi. thinl civil suit "gainst the Town of t'ho’by sip <• Inst June when he wes lew man in a thr;"' cori'ercd race for ni iv >r of Shelby. Attorney Mi Swain declar es his suits have no political sig nificance, but the present adminis tration has had thro.: civil notions Irought agfibj't it uneijit is a sin* giear coine:dence that each of the th’te suits were brough. by Mr. Tl-Suam. This time In* has as-o ciaKd with him Attorney C B. MeBrayer and they represent “eight or ten’’ property owners who petitioned for paved streets on East and West Graham and West Warren streets and have so fai failed to Rev said streets. Yester day Attorney MeSwfl’h went to Gastonia with papers, seeking Judge Michael Sehencks’ order to compel the city to refund to the street paying fund, money borrow ed from the s*rcet paving fund temporarily, to complete * the new water plant. Lawyers Agree. City Attorney O. M. Mu'l and Attorney ■ McSwain who re present both sides of the ouestion each agree that it is permissible for the town to borrow from one fund and apply it to another, the money of course to be refunded to the de partment for which the bonds were issued. The city issued la«t year two sets '.)f bonds, $200,000 for a new water plant and the purchase of munici oal improvements privately owned •n the territory added to the town by extension of the corporate lim its: $125,000 for street and side walk improvements. It took ap proximately $85,000 to pay for the water and sewer equii men*, etc., teken over hy the town from the individuals in the new territory. In hn'ldiarr th: new water plant there was no! enough of the <200.000 bond issue left to pay the cost, hone" the city officials borrowed enough from the street improve ment fund, giving a note to this fund for the amount. The comple tion of the water plant to provide an ample supply was considered most urgent as the cite has beCn without ample water lor adequate fire protection for several months. Taking the position that the street paving work could better wait until more bonds could he issued to rin ish paying the cost of the water plant, the city borrowed from this fund, suspending the street work only temporarily until spring when !he weather is more suitable for laying concrete. The city officials had officially decided to issue more water bonds within the next 50 or 00 days with which the refund the amount borrowed from the street department and thus resume the street work in early spring. The unfinished steets on the paving 1 rograni are East Graham from he e ,t. of the present pavement through the John Beam develop ment to the rock quarry; Wesc Graham from where the new pav ing stops to McBraver, six feet ad ditional on both sides of West ^ arron from the junction to state highway No. 20, a distance of 2. 400 feet. City Attorney Mull and Mayor Weathers state that regardless of the outcome of this new litigation the entire street paving project will he completed in the spring and that the city was entirely within its rights in borrowing on note for the \\uter plant from the street pav ing department. Lyle Establishes Low Golf Score Playing on the new and difficult Cleveland Springs golf course yes terday' W. H. Lyle, club profession al, turned in a new low card for the course. His score was 37 for the nine holes, or one above the par 36. The new course recently opened there by Alfred Marshall in addi tion to being one of the best plan ned in the state is also one of the most difficult to play, and even among ihe best golfers cards read over 40 oftener than below for the nine. ’ ; Someone Has Lee On Wrong Ticket No. S Man Whoso is On <i. O. I*, i Ticket for Constable Declare* Doesn't Voir That Wa> | i ho latest political tnix-up in 1 this county corning to lifcht een j tors around Mr. ('. S. I.ee, of No. i H township. i When the recent ballots lor Tuesday’s election were printed the : Republican ticket for No. n town* I ship bore the name of Mr. Lee as Kepuhliean candidate for constable. This week comes a statement I foom Mr. I.ee saying that he “did j not vote the Republican ticket and certainly was not running for of* I lice on that ticket.” Apparently an error was made' somewhere. I Two Killing Affairs Come Up.' Criminal Docket to Continue Over Three Daya. The fall term of Superior court convenes here Monday morning! with .Judge John II. Ilarwood pre siding. Judge Harwood, of Bryson City, was appointed to fill out the term of the late Judge Bryson. Members of the local bar say thu!' the criminal docket will likely be ■ completed in three days, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. No court will be held 'fuesday, it is under stood, owing to the general election. No criminal ctyws of general im portance come up it is said. Two minor killing affairs are on the docket. One is the case in which Euzelia Jones, colored woman, is charged with the slaying of Walter 1 Gaines, colored, the slaying taking ; place in Red Row about the middle, ; of August. Confined in the jail" since the killing the woman has odd of being visited by "Gaines’ ghost’. In the other case Clyde Morris, young Kings Mountain man, faces a charge in connection with the death of Andrew York, upper Clev eland farmer, who died following an auto wreck during the fair when 2 car driven by Morris and Deputy | Tom Sweezy, of Fallston, collided. I Other criminal cases run the usual gauntlet from auto stealing to ni nor liquor affairs. Divorce Cases lTp. The civil docket will not take up any great time it is said. However, abor.t a half dozen .iivoicc cases are scheduled for trial Long and Short of Bobbed Hair All Women With Long Hair Not Fools, One Says. Bub Or Not to Bob Omaha, Neb.—Mme. Luella Mel- ! ius, prima donna coloratura of the Chicago and Paris opera, wants to i 'bet Mary Garden $10,000 there are > no microbes in Miss Melius’ un-. bobbed tresses and to bet her another piece of money of the same size that all women with long hair are not fools. This is Miss Melius’ answer to the reported attacks by Miss Gar den on long hair when she arriv ed in New York from Europe. “I will just bet Mary Garden $10,000 dollars there are no mic robes in my.unbobbed hair and I'll bet Mary another ten thousand that all women who wear long hair are not fools,” Miss Melius said. “The published reports of Miss Garden’s statement make me su premely angry and give me a pain,’ the blond diva continued. “Marie Jeritza has a wonderful head of hair although it is not as long as mine. I have never worn a wig in any part of my opera role because I have ample hair to meet any re quirements of operatic head dress. Spurlin To Speak In South Shelby Hon. L. Spurgeon Spurling, Dem ocratic nominee for solicitor in this district will speak in South Shelby Saturday night October 30th be ginning at 7:.‘50 o’clock in the South , Shelby school building. Mr. Spur ling is now living at Lenoir, but is a native of Cleveland county and won the nomination over five other, candidates. He is a convincing' speaker, a fine young man and a j very talented lawyer. All voters are ! urged to hear Mr. Spurling who* will be the next solicitor in this J fliiitfiet. -v Normal College For Shelby Suggested At Kiwanis Meet; New School Plans *. He’s a Swell —USA. Chicago Bureau Capt. J. A'_ Murdocke. hailed a* London'* beat dressed man, and an ••tuliorlty on men* fashion*, la •’•own a* he arrived tn Chicago re ently. -4 Highs Will Play Other Grid Games If Eliminated Early Shelby Will Mret Boiling Springs and Other Elevens, Report. Should Kings Mountain eliminate the Shelby High eleven from the state race this afternoon, or should other teams eliminate the locals early in the race it will not end local football season, according to Coach ‘'Casey" Morris. If Shelby is eliminated' he says that the locals will meet Boiling Springs at an early date and pos sibly several other high teams in the section. The Shelby^coach sees no reason why the state series should be the entire football pro gram. School athletics are to de velop the boys regardless of titles, Morris thinks, and athletic pro grams go on in the local school when football fans know nothing about it. May Get Out. About town one hears rumors to the effect that Shelby officials may also decide not to enter the state elimination series after this year. Charlotte, Gastonia and other schools thinks it is too hard on the team and that regular ex hibition games should he played instead. Scores of fans in Shelby have a similar opinion and it may be that Shelby will join in with the others by another year for a series of exhibition games among them selves. Coach Morris, however, along with other school officials has expressed no opinion in the matter. \ Irvin Allen Again On Police Force at Kings Mountain The Kings Mountain Herald of this week says that Irvin Allen is back on the police force in Kings Mountain. He resigned last spring and went down east near Ivanhoe, and farmed. Night Policeman Geo. Boone resigned to go back to the cotton mill business where more money was offered #ml a daylight job. So Whitney Wells and Irvin are swatting the evildoers. Cooking Girls Serve Kiwanians Students in the Home Economics department of the Shelby High school served dinner Thursday night to 60 Kiwanis members and it was a most bountiful and well prepared four-course affair. Hal lowe’en decorations were every where and spooks and witches par aded the halls, ^rtunes were told and contests held, while the high school band furnished music. A comedy play, spook singing and black face comedy act by Whis nant and Harriss added to the enjoy ment of the evening. Miss Jordon and her economic class prepared the meal, while Miss Bussey and Mr. Buchanan helped in the ar rangement of the entertainment. Mr. Herman Wade gave a number of splendid piano rejections. A New High School Building Also Shown Among “Needs” of Present School Sys tem. To Make Better Cooks A new high school building, a normal college and a homo economics class in each school in Shelby, were suggested] rhursday night to the Kiwanis club when it was ‘‘fed” at thd higli school building by the Home Economics department stu< dents. At each plate when; Kiwanis mejnbers sat, there was a card showing what Shelby “has” in the way of schools am what Shelby “needs." No immediate campaign will la started for the three outstanding needs, but the needs were suggested in order that the tax payers might be giving con sideration to them as goals to work toward. BROOKS TO SPEAK HERE IS EVE A large gathering of Shelby citizens are expected in the court house here tonight (Fri day) to hear Hon. A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro, in a campaign speech. Mr. Brooks is one of the state's most gift ed orators and local Democrats are urged to hear him. Two other political gather ings will also be held in the county tonight when Hon. Clyde R. Hoey speaks at Kings Mountain. and Hon. Spurgeon Spurting, nominee for solicitor, comes back to hiH "home town" section for an address at Fallston. Josephus Daniels Visits In Shelby Former Cabinet Official Spends Several Hours Here Chatting With Local Friends. Hon. Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy, was a Shelby visitor for several hours Thursday, taking lunch here while en route from Forest City to Lincolnton. The former cabinet official ar rived early in che morning ami passed about town talking with old political friends ai*» among them old-timers who harked back to the day when Daniel's newspaper, “The Old Reliable’’ led nome of the hot est Democratic fights in the state. Mr. Daniels left at 3 o’clock for Lincolnton and a press dispatch from that place states: Josephus Daniels, addressed a large audience of men and women from all sections of Lincoln county at the court house tonight discuss ing state and national political is sues. Mr. Daniels paid a glowing tribute to the late chief justice W. A. Hoke of the Supreme coart, a native son of Lincoln. This waj the first cam paign speech of the navy secretary in Lincolnton, and he was heard by a crowd, that judging by the frequent applause, was in full ac cord with his political views. Cleveland Girl’s Husband Building Large Apartment According to the Salisbury Post, Mr. Sam T. Traxler is erecting a handsome apartment house, 90x!>5 feet, three stories high, that will contain nine apartments, each hav ing all the latest improvements. The item is of peculiar interest in Cleveland county because Mr. Trexler married Miss Mattie Beam of Fallston who is a most popular young lady with many relatives and friends in the county. The apartments on the ground floor will have sun parlors, a liv ing room, dining room, breakfast alcove, kitchen and bed rooms with connecting bath, completely fitted with the latest equipment for aptr ment houses, it being the desire of the owner to furnish the most home-like apartment possible. The second floor will contain apartments with all the facilities of the first floor, but of somewhat smaller scale, and the third floor is proposed to have small apart - ments suitable for bachelor’s quar ter and business couples. The first floor will be of fire proof construction, and underneath same will be boiler room from which a complete and up-to-date heating system will be supplied with the necessary heat and hot and cold water, maintaining a supply of hoc water at ail times, also under this floor will be a large and commodious garage for the use of the tenants of this building. A Normal College. .1 The state is approving normal colleges at strategic point! throughout the state. Alrcadl Shelby has a teaeher training de purtment maintained by the stat* 1 so an effort will be made later ft establish a normal college heri similar to the normals which a| j provided in other f«uces. Last ye» there were 708 high school gradu ates within a radius of 40 miles o Shelby and the card states tha more than half of these would aft tend such a college established i Shelby. This would insure amp attendance. In the event the com ing legislature provides the mono with which to establish more nor* mal colleges, Shelby will put foi ward its claims. The present high school buildin has only 12 class rooms to accon modate nearly 600 high school pa pils. Therefore, there are I high school pupils knocking at door of each high school class r< each day in Shelby. Facilities not adequate for their accomm tion, it is pointed out. As for the Home Economics c! in each school, it is pointed that through such a class, than a thousand future homes Shelby, making girls into j cooks and housewives. "As is home of the child, so will be citizen of the future.” l ost 17 l*nts Per Day The operating cost of the She city schools last year was 126.06 or $32.36 for each pupil rolled or 17 cents per school according to official figures ished by the city school board compiled by Supt. I. C. Grif for buildings 1176,000 was sj lust year or $4,500 per class including auditoriums, iibrar equipment, etc. Shelby now has eight school bt ings, 83 class rooms. Two tl sand six hundred and ninety-, pupils wore enrolled last year, average of 32 pupils for each cl room. Twenty-three hundred c dren are enrolled today, an aver of over 28 children per class ro showing that although $176, was spent last year in new bu ings, the number of children class room is only four less last year. Seventy-six teachers are nowi ployed, an average of over 30 pils per teacher. The figures furnished the wanis club members are intcr_ ing to the public generally' for soil of the facts have never been giv out heretofore. Pilot Weekly Has Likeness Of We! Carl Webb, head of the Pilot L Insurance company in this ha. wick, has got a reproduction of ] genial features plus his record the front page of the “PE Weekly” for the current issue. He has become a member of Pilot club again, and one of . three leaders in production of b« ness for that organization. According to his records he written $229,500 worth of busir.,, from October 1st to October 2Si which is the figure that put hit the Pilot club. He says this probably will pr to be the best month he has with the company since he bt_ general agent. Which is a comr... tary upon the business gloom th some declare is with us. Banks To Close Here on Tuesdli The banks of Shelby will be ed all day next Tuesday, Nove 2, it was announced today. ' closing will be for the election will be observed here as a holi( Those having business with local financial institutions si note the announcement of the ing. I
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