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SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, NOV. 1, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advance)—$2. Bv carrier, oer year (in advance) S31 What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW. This “first Monday” has about all the kick of bygone “first Mon day’s” when the crowds swarmed the court square, “the boneyard” and “Pop corner.” What with court in session, the county boards meet jpg and the election tomorrow the court house is a-buzz. • * * Shelby and Kings Mountain tied in their football game in the state race and it is now necessary for the two teams to draw to see which will be the winner, says The Star today. The drawing will be tonight in Charlotte. $ * * Ii has been a good many years since enough of the unusual broke about Shelby for The Star to hard its readers “hot eelction news,” but this year it has happened, and happened in gobs. Today’s paper is crammed with election statements, ticket discoveries, and about every thing that would tend to make an election interesting. Even if we do say it, today’s paper should be in teresting. The Star will be praised and “cussed” tonight, but, above all, it will be read. • * * The suit of Rev. C. B. Way against the Shelby Methodist Pro estant church comes up on appetu in the State Supreme court this week, according to an item today. # * » Seventy county schools open to day. says a news item in The Star that will not appeal so much to the children. * * * Mr. G. W. Peeler, county com missioner, makes a statement in today's paper about his stand in the upper Cleveland election contro versy, and H. Clay Cox, Republican chairman, has an explanation for the “bogus ticket” jffair. The schools of Cleveland county will take a collection to the World war memorial, says a report from the county teachers meet. These teachers also decided to issue a monthly school paper in which much interest was shown. The principals of the county hign schools organized into a club. • * * For school news, election news, community events, political notices, feature stories, and county hap penings, always read The Star. Tiachers -Here Saturday In Regu lar Meeting Endorse War Memorial—Collection A unanimous endorsement ot tne effort to provide a memorial on the square to the Cleveland conn tv soldiers who served in the World War was given by the teachers of the public schools of the county in regular session Saturday. They pledged themselves to present the cause to the pupils who in turn will carry the message home to their parents a few days before Ar mistice day, then on Armistice day Nov. 11th, each school pupil will be asked to bring, five, ten, twenty-five or fifty cents in money to help provide the memorial to the boys who fought that great victory, which came to the Allies eight years ago. The contributions made by the school pupils through their schools, will be duly acknowledged by The Star and turned over to the treasurer of the War Memorial fund. By receiving contributions from the school children although they may be small, it is hoped that every home in the county will he represented in this war mem orial. The people of Cleveland have been recreant in their duty in not providing a suitable memorial to the soldiers, but now that the campaign is on, it is hoped to put it over and have the memorial un coiled with appropriate exercises next year. Parents are urged to keep this in mind. Make the contribution on Armistice day as liberal as possi ble. If you cannot give a large sum, give something. The fund continues to grow slow ly from the publicity given to it hi' The Star. Ben Shytle, formerly of Shelby", has sent $5 up from Coldsboro where he lives, Paul Lucas sent $5 from Sanford where he is connected with a flour mill. Mrs. Minnie L. Spangler sent $5 1'riday before leaving today for Florida, S. S. Mauney of the Un ion section left $1 while a number contributed small amounts and asked that their names be with held. To date the total is about *160. If y0u want to have a part ’n this memorial, send in some thing to The Star War Memorial und and the same wilt be duly ac knowledged. Peeler, An Officer-Holder, Admits He Is Supporting Richards, A Republican Democrat Who Has Held Office 10 Years Does Not Deny Support To Repub licans in Attempted Party ‘Bolt.’ His Statement. George W. Peeler, for 10 years a Democratic office holder in this county and now county commissioner, does not deny that he is supporting Richards, a Republican candidate I for county commissioner in the coming election. Mr. Peeler is not himself a candidate, being defeated in the Democratic j primary by Mr. Sam C. Lattimore. In a lei ter to The Star Mr. Peeler expresses dissatisfaction ! concerning the primary outcome in which he was defeated and plainly states that he supports a Republican Mr. Peeler a®ks the same publicity as “your recent attack on me.” The Star made r.o attack on Mr. Peeler, merely carrying as a news paper a petition brought in and properly signed by Democrats befuddled by another petition. However. Mr. Peeler’s com plete statement, verbatim, is carried below for his benefit and also for the information of Cleveland county voters who i may wish to know how he stands: To the Editor of The Star:— I trust that in fairness to me that you will give this letter the same publicity that you gave your recent attack upon me. I have always been a Democrat and expect to remain so in the future. However, as a free American citizen I reserve the right to vote for whom I please. In the recent Democratic primary I do not feel that I re ceived a square deal from those who had control of the pri mary. Mr. Lattimore did not have a majority of the votes cast in the primary, and I asked the officials for a second pri mary which was refused me. Lots of my friends felt that I received more votes than Lattimore did, but that through certain manipulations it Was finally decided by the board of elections that Lattimore had more votes than I did. It is only sufficient here to call your attention to the fact that the re turns, ballots, and etc. from that election wrere carried around over town from one office to the other and counted and checked over by Lattimore’s friends until finally it was announced by them that Lattimore was in the lead. I feel that l am under no obligation to support any man on the Democratic ticket that secured his rumination by ques tionable means. If I had been granted the privilege of a sec ond race then I would have nothing to say about this matter I do not hesitate to say that I am supporting T. B. Richards for commissioner as many other good and loyal Democrats are going to do who are opposed to one or two men in Shelby controlling the Democratic party and trying to name all of its candidates. Respectfully yours, G. W. PEELER. The Star To Give Election Returns Following The Star’s custom, election returns from the coun ty and judicial district will be posted on a bulletin board in front of The Sta: office Tues day night. Those interested are welcome to come and read the returns as they are received and posted. Election officials in the various precincts are ask ed to telephone the results to The Star office, I’hone No. 11 as quickly as the counts are made. Mrs. George Byers Of B. S. Is Dead Prominent Woman of No. 2 Town ship Passes Away at the Rutherford Hospital. Mrs. George W. C. Byars, one of the most prominent women of the Boiling Springs section, died this morning at the Rutherford hos pital where she was taken on Fri day suffering with a severe ki.l nev trouble. Mrs. Byers was a daughter of the late Jack Elliott and has many friends and relatives in the county to whom the news of her death comes as a great shock. She was about 00 years of age and is survived by her husband, one daughter Mrs. John Mintz, two sisters, Mrs. Mary Lattimore, Mis. Fannie Packard and one brother Mr. Andrew Elliott. The funeral will be held Tues day afternoon at 2 o’clock at Bail ing Springs. Beam Home Was Burned Monday According to reports receiv ed here at noon tixlay. the home of Mr. Dave Beam in the Waco section was completely destroyed by fire this morning about 9 o’clock. Practically all the furnishings and furniture was also destroyed it is said. The well was os the porch and such was the advance of the flames that no one could get to the well and e/eure w ater to fight the fire. The report has it that the disc ti'ous blaze ori ginated from a chimney. i Admits That Supply of Fraudulent Tickets were Printed But Did Not Mean “Democratic” Chairman Cox of the Republt ; can Executive committee admits ! that fraudulent tickets were print ed and says it ia “unfortunate” ' that the heading “Democratic | County Ballot” was not left off. Mr. Cox should know that if the Demo | erats should perpetrate fraud and deception such as has been under ; taken in this case, the Republican ; papers and speakers would condemn ; it all over the fair state of North j Carolina. Here is his weak explan i ation of the fraudulent ticket: “The Shelby correspondent of the daily press, on Saturday,, gave out to the daily press, under bold head-lines, a report of a “discov ery” of spurious, deceptive, or bog us tickets which were being distri i buted by Republicans as if an ef I fort was being made by the latter to deceive Democratic voters, by some clandestine scheme. If this reporter had given all the fact3, I the purpose of his report would, of ; course, have been defeated. These i are the facts: i “Literally hundreds of Derno j-. | (Continued on page three.) Superior Court In Grind Here Superior court convened hero this morning: with Judge Harwood presiding and R. L. Huffman pro secuting. The morning session was devoted to straightening out the docket, hearing good behavror reports, and generally clearing way for the grind of the criminal docket. No court will be held tomorrow (Tues day) owing tothe Section. It is expected that the criminal docket will be completed by Thurs day. Fajr sized crowds ar?T in Shelby today for the opening of court and the “first Monday” meetings rf the county boards, together with a per tain attraction on the “day be fore” election. neLLvj6u#?ieN&yITfte Biq 1SSUJ3 CGNPI&hTwG IAiS H£!?E NAHom '.5- 15-TRe B»G ISSUE is- leT A1E > IAjNK-IS-^h-h-H-IS *1he issue is /y. CANA PREACHER SUE CHURCH FOR Uniouo Suit of Rev. C. B. Way Comes Up Before Supreme Court This Week Can a preacher sue a church for unpaid salary? “Yes,” answers Rev. C. B. Way, who cla'vrs that (he {rustees of the Methodist Protestant church of Shelby owe him $328.0t>. ’“No,” declare the officials of the church, who claim the pas tor’s salary' comes from voluntary contributions and that a church cannot be sued except in regards to church property. The question is one which will be propounded to the State Su preme court next week among six teen cases on anpeal from the Twelft judicial district, says the Raleigh Times. Is Interesting Matter Shelby folks will be considerably interested in the outcome of the appeal. It will be remembered that the case has been “aired” several times. Rev. Mr. Way left the local church some months back and after going to Lexington brought the suit, that is after the matte; was brought up here once. Then nnother hearing resulted in David son county in which - the church trustees were represented by At torney B. T. Falls The outcome of the last hearing was considered by the public as a general mix-up, lawyers on both sides claiming a victory. The merits of the case are gen erally known here from newspaper accounts of previous hearings and to this section the decision of the State Supreme court on the mat ter will be most- interesting among the batch of opinions to be hand ed down. Gardner Lands Bring $145 Acre The 164 acre farm of the late Rufus Gardner which was sold at auction Saturday near Fallston on highway No. 18 by the execu-1 tors, V. A. and S, Gardner, was bid in by the heirs |tt $145 per acre. The heirs, it is Understood have a standing and bona fide bid of $150 per acre. Just what will be done with the land remains to be seen as the bid remains opens for awhile, subject to a raise. The farm is ,bne of the most desirable in Cleveland county and was divided into tracts of from 50 to 60 acres each, all with highway frontage. Hatcher Webb cried the sale while the Shelby high school band fur jnished music. Highs And Kings Mountain To Draw For Tie Game Two Eleven* Battle To Scoreless Tie In Fri day’s Game of State Race. Bridges And Hord Are Stars. ■ __ t . . By playing one of their most listless games of the year here Friday afternoon the Shelby Highs perhaps lost their chance to continue in the state j title race. In the first series game with Kings Mountain a scoreless tie resulted. After the game Coaches Morris and Christenbury agreed, with state authorities permitting, that the tie would be played off here Tuesday. However, Coach Morris spent the week end at Chapel Hill and Mr. Rankin, who is m charge of high school athletics, declared that he would permit none of the teams to play two games in one week. This would have been the result had Shelby and Kings Mountain played Tues day with the winner having to play again Friday. INSTEAD OF PLAYING OFF THE TIE Mr. Rankin said that the two coaches would have to meet to night (Mondey) in Charlotte with the athletic committee and draw.to see which remained in the race. So, whether or not Shelby remains in the race depends upon how lucky Coach Morris is in the drawing. The Shelby coach says that if Shelby is eliminated by the draw' tonight that future games will be ar ranged and that in likelihood a game will be played here Fri day in that event. If Shelby wins in the draw the Highs will meet Dallas, or some other team in the race. Poorly Played Game. The game Friday, attended by a fair crowd, was one of the most listless played here this year, the Shelby offense was unexplainably absent and fumbles by both teams marred the afternoon’s play. Shelby threatened seriously to score on two occasions, but failed to marshall the necessary punch once and lost by uncalled for fum ble* ond the other opportunity. In the final quarter Kings Mountain threw a fear into local supporters by an offense which lost its mo mentum when nearing the goal line. However, an attempted field goal by the visiting quarterback at one of these periods held the side lines breathless. For the first three quarters Shelby outplayed Kings Mountain, marching steadily down the field only to falter near the goal postjs when the usual steady ends fum bled perfect passes. That weakness together with the uncertainty of the Shelby backs in holding punts (Continued on page three.^ ! COUNTY TEACHERS WILL EDIT PAPER Between 150 and 200 teachers of Cleveland county schools attended the first general county teachers' meeting of the year held in Shelby Saturday. The high light of the meeting was the decision of the teachers to ! publish a county-wide school paper once each month. Three schools started off with promising 100 subscribers each and a part of i the staff for the monthly paper I was selected. Supt. I. C. Griffin, of the Shelby city schools, made a talk to the teachers in which he discussed membership in the North Carolina educational association. About 75 teachers joined at the meeting and quite a number of others ex pressed their intention of joining later. Before the meeting closed various detail matters were taken up and discussed. School Masters After the general meeting had udjourned a meeting of the high school teachers of the county was held and it was decided to organ ize a School Masters' club. Meet ings will be held one night each month and the meeting place will be alternated each month. The club will be for the social and pro fessional interests of high school leaders and the home economics departments of the various schools will serve banquets when the club meets at their school. Seventy Schools In County Open Approximately 70 Cleveland county schools opened for the reg ular term today, according to J. H. Grigg, county superintendent. About 45 of the 70 are white schools and about 25 are schools for the colored children. Approximate ly 10 county schools were already in session prior to this week. Some four or five white schools and three or four colored schools did not open this morning, it was stated by Mr. Grigg, and will not open until next Monday, Novem ber 8. School committees of these schools met and decided they wish ed to defer opening one week to permit children to aid in the cot ton picking rush. They petitioned the school board and the request i was granted. Eleventh Hour Attempt To Deceive Democratic Voters By Republican Candidatei Duplicate Ticket, Privately Printed, Circul ated Over Cleveland. Voters Should Read Tickets Closely. Indict ments Talked Of A brazen nnd blatant attempt to deceive Democratic voters in Tuei day's election was discovered Saturday morning when it was found thfl Republican candidates for county offices had sent out bogus and illegl county ballots in an effort to get Democrats to unknowingly vote f< two Republicans, W. R, Casstevens for clerk of court and T. B. Richan for county commissioner. Politics was at fever heat in Shelby Saturday when the shrewd R publicun trick came to light. In party circles, threats were made < prosecuting the parties who are responsible for this effort to gain D mocratic votes for Republican candidates if any voters should be 4 ceived by this device. The bogus tickets were sent out in letters sign* by W. R. Casstevens, republican candidate for clerk of court and T. Richards, republican candidate for county commissioner, ptacing a blame that might attach to them. Plain Deception Telephone messages and runners quickly notified every election jud in every precinct in Cleveland county, notifying them that bogus tick* are being circulated by Republicans in an effort to deceive and mislei electors when they go to the polls to vote on Tuesday. While these 6 lots are exactly the size as the official Democratic ballot, they are I official and electors who cast them will have such spurious ball® thrown <|Jt in the counting. Democrats, be not deceived. Watch your ticket closely. Don’t V tickets which you might have received in printed letters sent you it signed by either Casstevens or Richards, the Republicans. These n are not the Democratic nominees and have no right to be on the X mocratic ballot. It constitutes an unfair effort to deceive voters in hope of having Democrats unknowningly vote for Casstevens and Rh ards instead of the Democratic nominees, A. M. Hamrick for d< and Sam C. Lattimore for county commissioner. Watch your tick closely before voting. Get your official ballot from the judges at polling place and tell your Democratic friends to watch out for 1 shrewd trick. Spurlin’s Name Off > sM1 In having these bogus tickets printed, the Republicans know! and des-rnedly left off the name of the solicitor, which furthers the ballot illegal and unofficial. L. Spurgeon Spurling is the Dei cratic candidate for solicitor in this district. Use only the Democi ballot with his name at the head of the list. This senatorial disii comprises a number of counties, some of which are Republican or i close. Mr. Spurling is a nativ'e son of Cleveland county and it will the usual strong Democratic majorty to make this election sure in district. His name was evidently left off by the Republicans who out the bogus Democrtic ticket in the hope of cutting Spurling's jority down in his home county and thereby sneeking in a Re nub 1 solicitor. Tries Unfair Methods Although professing to be a “strong believer in political races be characterized by fairness and square dealing,” Casstevens sen*, bogus ballots trying to deceive the voters. Such deception has not h attempted in t leveland coupty in many years and it is a bombs even in the camp of the Republicans. Many self-respecting Republi declare that it will hurt their party. The party was coming out of mne, but such unfair tactics are calculated to hurt when a Republi nominee for such a high and important office aa clerk of court | Cleveland county sends out a letter over his signature, “you may ! I assured that I shall resort to no unfair methods in any respect” l ™Yh",e r °Ut b°RUS ballots calculated to deceive and lead honest men and women who go to the polls on Tuesday He « ticket8 fu'**’ ^ th“ eVent J’0U d° "0t Wi8h to VOte the ful» RePubM I ket, for your convenience, I am enclosing some Democratic tit with my name inserted for clerk.” democratic t« uJneThtiCkietS ?i.Ch Sends °Ut are not “official” for three rea; (1st) They do not have the name of L. Spurgeon Spurling Democr r* -as ^ -— Use Official Ballots Only Officials ballots are printed and distributed to noil , the county board of elections, a non-partisan boa^ ! Democrats and one Republican. A voter mav “l^^3 °f either party ballot and substitute othei* but it A “T violation of the common law and the election law to deceived? 'nCT°mBP RC ba*!?tS andl7ty ba‘l0tS that are u"official and in^rr T. B. Richards, in his letter which also encloses t i J ballots, pledges himself to fairness'and honesty then It ^ T** tion and misrepresentation by enclosing ballots purporting t il' mocratic ballots when they are not. ^ *0 be Shocked Over Affair ‘ Men and women of both parties who hpli»v« s_ , . tions are shocked over the affair , n falr and bone«t l>W»» .nd finer level, i, LJk^““11 The ruse was cleverly nlanneH hv i Practices of a decade r1 t”0 these spurious ballots Friday evening late L th^ * °“ Fnday’ m Saturday morning to avoid any call dowT But Th IT ne.., is making „ „f0„ to notlfy Demoorat”' z Ere: * * s***z t tsg rr lh“ - - zszsz« Electors, be on the watch. Be not deceived r..j . , „ fully before v.,i„g. Ute only ~ * 1STl<,S,h'aded by ,he — -«- %55T2? May Run Water In New Filter Soon City officials state that water may be run in the new filtering plant at the new pump station by Thursday of this week, which means that uptown Shelby will be getting water from the new pljmt at about the same time, >1 A state official will be mi when the new filter starts mgr to inspect and pass c water and equipment. The h servoir is filling now and * be full in eight ©r ten more Just one pump has been wc during the past Week, but as pump will likely help fill the ' voir this week.
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