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S S-SSh Listen To This By Dem O. Crat Advertising does pay. The cigarette company that gets 5 name on more billboards usuai ’ sells more puffs and rakes in lore -dimes. Likewise ihe candi ate who gets his name on all ckets hasn't but one chance of wing—that's for nobody at all to cte. It’s an odd campaign: This one jiewr heretofore has Cleveland DUnty not I t en promised anything, or some reason or another the poll-binders haven’t got out and remised the voter everything from is wife to his favorite set of dice, r his marked deck of cards. According to reports leaking in p our head through Jim Austell’s air tonic only one campaign prom 1C has been made, and it isn’t a ertaint.v. There are those who say the Re iublican.-i have promised certain temccrats' that if they “bolt” the onkey ride that a Republican itamissioner MAY wander into the ourt house and cause the stately M structure to fall over in a dead aint of surprise. However, the premise has that JAY in it, and every sensible voter incws May is a spring month and hat such promises then will be as bad as Kaiser Wilyum’s hopes of uiing the world are now. II. Clay Cox, the Republican logul, has had much experience in ding out extracts—that being his rofession—and he thinks the time 5 now ripe to extract some Dem icrat from a county office. Remember, however, that a dead lan once thought Nellie Freeman ras a kind-hearted little girl. The Kiwanians of Shelby put on* little sticker reading: “VOTE lection day as you please BUT i'OTE.” P.eai'y these good Kiwanians neant to vote the Democratic tick t, for their motto is “We Build” nd who ever heard of a Republi an building ? Or anybody else for hat matter with the money coming i from Ccolidge’s economical 11 ent cotton ? The good citizens of upper Cleve land may want a county comniis ioner, but they’ve made it plain hat they DO NOT WANT a Re ublican commissioner, and take t from us they’ll make it plainer 'uesday. There’ll be a big crowd over at he court house Tuesday, but Sher ff Logan won’t be lonesome when he Crowd leaves, for his old bunch f pals will still be back with him tid there’ll be no strangers in any f the offices across the hall. Men have various ideas about at amtng fame. Some hitch their wa tons to stars, and quite a number eally get along in the world. But they tell it about Shelby hat one fellow has realized his unbition of a lifetime. He got his lame or, the Democratic ticket — !ven it wasn’t the regular ticket )ut out by the election board. Ina going to vote for Sam Lat 'more if it knocks Coclidge off his kCiiic hobby horse with surprise,” kited a loyal Republican yester ;*>'• 1 d like to see a Republican or. he county board, but I’d like to be noud of the way he got there.” In conclusion , take a tip from ?• ” you’ve been picking losers ■ year don't get sour on the world pick them for vne rest of your 1K‘. Go to the polls Tuesday, dig 'Ut a Democratic ticket, look over carefully and be sure no Repub 'can got his name on the wrong »P, then VOTE it. In the meantime carefully note nt one or two would-be politi cs in Cleveland county have ass:(?ned to the political grave ard. This county has witnessed any clever election fights, but . tbe biggest blunders, a puny * *tion and a spurious, fraud tick , ever recorded in Cleveland his °ry, were made this year. S° long! See you at the celebra ,°n alter it’s over, provided you 0 e *"e democratic ticket. Olher you’H hardly be there unless “re a bear for punishment. ■ ‘ • Lest some gain the wrong t~n. there are a lot of fine ^Publicans in this county. The y reason they are not represent ho!!' Cl unty office is that the men p se'ect to do'their headwork °'v as much about campaigning *x. Wa.ll, McDiarmid, or Boyer about Playing poker. \ Catches Bomb. ulkt'r ’ N‘ Y—?Ut for th,J *t action of Louise Constantin# r mber °f lives and valuable would have been destroy iami* n a dozen sticks of dy imn t w'red together, with an ig fuse attached and wrapped in newspaper, were hurled through , jymdow of the home of Con 8caP«L wou^'be assassin;* (Continued from first page.) COX IN STATEMENT about THE BALLOT crats were clamour,* for an oppor tU"'ty to vote for two of the Re publican nominees while voting f01 the remainder of the Democrat it iicKet. Jo accommodate these Dem )crat.i who had become embittered at the use of the same tactics , n them that the party had so often used on the Republicans, the idea was conceived of printing a ticket that combined all r.e other Demo cratic nominees with the two R«. publicans that the Democrats de sired to vote for. This was for their convenience. To that end,, Mr. W R- Casstevens, the Republican nominee lor Clerk Superior eour' called on the Cleveland Star, which had printed the county officiri ticket, for a copy of the Demo cratic county ticket and was giver what he supposed to be a correct ticket, but which did not contain the Democratic nominee for solid tor, as has since developed. There was no purpose to omit the solici tor. A supply of tickets wa.; print ed, containing the names of Cass tevens and Richard; with the Dem ocratic nominees for the other of fices. It was intended that thr beading of the official Democratic ticket “Democratic County Ticket’ should be omitted fr<*.n the combin ation ticket, but, unfortunately, i4 was rot omitted. “Every one of the combination tickets that were distributed were sent by letter and in the same en velopes with the tickets were two letters, one from W. R. Casstevens and one from T. B. Richards, ex plaining their candidacy and, near the end of the Casstevens letter ! "’as the following paragraph: | “ ‘I am enclosing some tickets j for your use on election day. In the event you do not wish to vote the full Republican ticket, for your corvenicnee I am enclosing sonic Democratic tickets with my name inserted fer clerk. If your prefer you can use one of the enclosed slips by pasting it over the nom inee for clerk of the Superior couit on the regular Democratic ticket “The Richards letter that ac companied the above letter contain ed a similar paragraph and en ! closed with these two letters were some regular Republican county tickets, some of the above-describ ed combination tickets, and some stickers for each of the two men. “Where was any attempt to de ceive any man? Due notice was given of the purpose and plan of the combined ticket. The closing phrase in above quotation was suf ficient to show any man of. common sense' that the combination ticket was not the official Democratic ticket. The stickers were enclosed for use, if they preferred the “Re gular Democratic ticket.” “The undersigned was out of town last week and did not see the tickets in question until they had been mailed out, but clearly under stands the situation. It is unfor tunate that the three words at the top of the Democratic ticket were not omitted, as intended, but knows .hat no deception was practiced or intended. Whether any other than a regular party ticket would Le valid is a question for the courts and not for me, but I see no reason why they should not be perfectly valid. “This appears to he nn effort or. the part of certain Democratic poli ticians to settle their factional dif ferences by raising a false alarm. “H. CLAY COX, Chairman Re publican Executive Commi.tee of Cleveland County.” SKYSCRAPER’S LIFE IS BUT 27 YEARS. DECLARES EXPERT White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. _The average skyscraper outlives its usefulness in 27 years, accord ing to Frank W. Skinner, of New York. The modern trend, he told dele gates Extending the convention here of the American Institute of Steel construction, was to erect build ings, not for perpetuity as in an cient days, but for investment with view to replacement when their estimated was over. Research has shown. he said, that the life span of the modern building i3 many times the length of its estimated service ability. 14 MODER--N inside -- hryf Kansas City, Mo.—Women are not seeking: to stimulate the inter est of men through new dress crea tions, in the opinion of Dr. Valeria H. Parker, of New York, national director of social morality of the W. C. T. U., and president of the National Council of Women’s clubs. / t “‘It is harder to arouse a mans interest now in an exposed knee than it was twenty years ago in the flash of an ankle beneath the billowy folds of a clinoline dress,” she said here last night. The whole situation is more healthful, more frank. The principle of most girls’ dress is simplicity, not sex appeal." About the only way to avoid automobile accidents is to use air planes. (Continued from first page.) HIGHS AND KINGS MTN. TO DRAW FOR GAME | capped the needed drive of the lo cals. In the final period a rejuven ;ated Kings Mountain team started | a drive across the field that pos | cessed as. much brilliance as any i .king seen here this year. Hord, j Skates and Stowe tore through the Shelby line frequently, while Hord and Skates displayed flashes of real speed on sweeping end runs. In this quarter Kings Mountain | < ompletely outplayed Shelby, and , it was only by the great defensive work of "Decker” Gardner, Shelby I center. Beam and Bridges that the ripping visiting backs were stop ped near the goal post shadows. It was in that quarter that ap parent poor headwork cost Shelby the game. “Irish” Bridges, the most consistent ground gainer of the local offense, managed to push forward for gains and finally when Shelby punted Beam tore down the field, tackled the receiver and re covered his fumble. To th'e side lines it appeared that with the game nearing an end that Slic-lby I should try what appeared to be. an easy, field goal. Instead the locals attempted to lug | the ball over and were held by the [stiffened Kings Mountain defense S Too much of the blame for the ap parent poor headwork should not j he placed at the door of Tommy Kerr, Shelby quarter, for he enter ; ed the game sick and shortly before the talked of play was knocked into a daze. Furthermore he had to handle one of the moat unruly el evens ever seen here. In critical moments various members of the team tried to show that they knew more than their leader. To that spirit more than anything else fans accredit the inability to win a game in which the locals displayed super ior play. On other occasions the two Shelby ends. Beam and Cline, drop ped forward passes, several good for touchdowns, after the ball fell squarely in their arms. Beam in a way redeemed his fumbles by re covering opposing fumbles and on one occasion running down the speedy Hord, from behind. In recent games fans have cor, iinously yelled “if we had a line we would go from here.” These fans must necessarily be silent aft er Friday’s game for the line was there with perhaps one exception! and the backfield punch was minus except when Bridges, the kid back, carried the ball. The Stars. “Irish” Bridges was the out standing performer of the game.' His end runs, in which he followed perfectly his interference, werei Hie surest gains of the game. Close behind him in this department were Hord and Stowe of Kings Mountain. The former was a ter ror on sweeping plays, and the headwork, punting and general play of the latter was one of the high lights of the game. Beam, Shelby end, tore of the longest gal lop of the game, on a lake plaj, while Bridges ranked next on the receiving end of a pass, and an end run by Hord with Skates as inter ference was the third long ground gainer. On the defense Gardner was ' easily the peer of the field. The | young Shelby center hasn’t been j playing up to form so far this j year, critics say, but he towered in; the line Friday and smothered: three out of four dne smashes— and they were line smashes, if-any eve should ask you. The noticeable point of the dead lock was the great progress of the Kings Mountain eleven. The outfit from the east county line was far from weak and displayed an of- j fense once it gets to working i smoothly will be hard to stop in j high school circles. HOOVER SAYS RADIO IS NECESSARY FOR FARMS Defining radio as a “complete ne cessity to the agricultural folks.” Secretary rf Commerce Hoover has ! expressed hope of the early pas sage by congress of a bill regulat ing radio transmission. "As I said last spring, chaos will result unless broadcasting is regulated and it is enfperative that congress take speedy action in December,” Hoover said. JIM CLAIMS TO BE UN LUCKIEST CITIZEN Peoiia. 111.—Jim Andrews nom inates himself as Peoria county’s unluckiest resident. While held in jail on charges of non-support and disorderly conduct, he was sued for separate maintenance by his wife; served with an injunction tying up a $45,000 legacy; and then notified that his estranged wife had presented him with twins. That’s Why Gunmen Get ’em. Montreal—Chemically, you are worth only 98 cents, the drug store value of the lime, sugar, iron and water that you are made of. Life insurance companies make youv economic value $5,000. The $4,999, , 02 Dr. Allen Graig, jf Chicago, told the American College of Surgeons is the value of the spirit within you. Well, if the robbers keep on making big hauls they will soon have all the cash. Our idea of a simple notion is the one that the movies will im prove our culture. I Berry Lane, Rutherford Man Made Strange Request M hen Dy ing. Carried by Oxen Rutherford Run. Golden Valley.—The building of the new South Mountain highway, which will mean so much to the citizens of this section of the coun ty, has brought to light the strange request of a dying man. its fulfill ment and now the nullification of his wish. The story was related to a reporter of The Snn by Mr. J. G. R. McCurry, one of the good farmers of this part of Rutherford county. The D.vine Request It was twenty-five or porhans ^wenty-six years ago. said Mr. McCurry. that Berry Lane, who had lived in this part of the coun try nil his life, was dying and while he had said for some time that when ho died ho wanted to be buried on the ton of Silver Creek Mountain there were but n few who took his statement seriously. On his deathbed, however. Berry Lanp repeatedly made the request and again expressed the hone that it would be fulfilled. Mr. McCurry stated as he remembered the words they are as follows: “When I die. hury me on the top of Silver Creek. I want to be alone. to be far from anyone, be sure lo burv me on the top of the mountain, bury me by the big tree.’ In the mountains the words of a dying nian are listened to with rev erence and the request of Berry seemed, was fulfilled. Silver Creek Wnunt»;n ir, nrob&bly third to Mount Mitchell, the highest moun tain east of the Rockies, and from the base of it to the huge pine in dicated as the snot where Berry f ane wanted to bo interred. is a distance of six miles and then, as now, there was no road, nnr even a trail. The indomitable soirit of the mountaineers was not to be balked. They made a trail and over it with the coffin containing the hod’* of Berry Lano nlnced upon a sledge, oxen dragged their burden slowly as far as it was possible for oxen to go. The dying wish was to be car ried out and when the oxen could eo no further then it was that men dragged the sledge foot by foot Until the great pine tree was reached. It was hard work, but thie these strong men of the mountains d“<! not mind for they were engag ed in a labo** for th" derd. When the place indicated by the late Berry Lane had been reached the grave was dug and with simnle ceremonies the casket, containing the mortal remains of the man who wished to be buried in the lonely spot, far from everyone whom he had ever known or loved, far from the graves of his mother and father and his kinsfolks, was laid in the grave, the earth was put back and a simple cross of wood we® left to mark the snot. Mr. McCurvy pointed to the sky line and showed Silver Creek Mountain and there near the crest of the great mount stood the huge pine clearly visible nr it rose in its grandeur and towered above all tb" other trees near it r.s they were silhouetted against the heavers. And now with the building of "the South Mountain highway this giant tree and the grave it guards j at its foot bids fair to become well I known and as time passes and the ! story of the lonely grnvo will doubtless give rise to many specu- i latiorts and perhaps even legends. If there was any real reason for the strange wish of the dying man Mr. McCurry did not know it. The life of Berry Lane had not been dissimilar from the lives of !he mountaineers of his time. No one probably really slate why he wish ed to be buried in surh a lonely and inaccessible place. But he did re quest it and he was interred at the spot for Mr. McOurry was one of the men of indomitable will v. ho fulfilled the strange desire of the dying man. Men Accused of Slaying Kinsmen Take Life Sentence As Mut ter Of ( curse Columbia, S. ( .. Oct. 20.— Alex Pittman, 52, and his .son, Holland, 24, today walked from the death house of the state penitentiary, where they had been held, awaiting electrocution on Friday of this week, for the murder of a nrohibi tion officer, J. Holland Howard, and we re placed in cells in the main cell block, there to spend the re mainder of their lives, according to an ojder issued'by Governor Mc Leod this afternoon, commuting their sentences from death to lift imnr:Honmer,t “Thank you," .'-aid the younger, and Gapt. Evans, of the peniten tiary guard, pushed a copy o." the governor's order through the barn of the cell. “Thank you,’’ said the elder Pittman, when a copy was slipped into him. They had no other remment. They gave r.o sign f the slightest emotion; and when the officer told them to get to gether their personal belonging - the” went about thpir little task as if they were facing no more unusual experience than eating a meal. The two men of the “dark cor ner” of Greenville county. killed ‘hoi?' own cousin. the jury said, but they deny it to this dav and if they have any sorrow in their hearts tonight, any jov at their changed status, any emotion' wha* syever, the two solendid physical rnecimcr.s didn’t show it when the officers took them their commute - tiorw rnd when they were inter viewed the representative of tiie press. Governor McLeod extended clem ency after having had the case utdiw consideration for several weeks, and having postponed the d#to of execs*';,r, *—-i Octoh"- 15 t6 fjttober 29, to allow more time. HELPING UNCLE SAM FIGHT MAIL BANDITS IN BOSTON Lincoln County New*. One Lincolnton boy is playing n part in the war declared by th'’ United States against mail car ban dits^Boyce Boggs, son of Mrs. Bes sie J. Boggs, who is a member of the Marine corps, has been sent to Boston, Mass., to aid in guarding the mails of Uncle Sam. He, like many other marines, was selected by the government, because of his markmar.ship. Prisoners Revolt. Media, Pa.—Released from their cells in the Delaware county jail by seven “trusties,” nearly 200 prisoners, including women, drove the guards out, wrecked the inter ior of ,he jail and attempted to set fire to the building. They were subdued by special deputy sheriffs and police after a hard fight. Year Long Trance. Londbn Eng.—Although having received pills which were asserted by their senders as cure for every thing, calls from faith healers, spiritualists, herbalists and even a Japanese wrestler, Lea Doris Hin ton, of Shilwell, Nottingham, has been in a trance for 12 months. - THE PRINCESS THEATRE — Home Of High Class Attractions VAUDEVILLE and PICTURES —TONIGHT— '—SPECIAL WEDNESDAY— ^arr5 A TRIP TO PICTURE FOR MATINEE VAUDEVILLE TONIGHT. ALSO GOOD COMEDY & FOX NEWS. VAUDEVILLE TONIGHT Popular Show, Popular prices. Children 10c — Balcony 25c Main Floor 35c Matinee 10c and 25c. 94 Centenarians Passed Away In K C. During 1925 Two I'fopic Over T00 Died in Th:s County During Year. Oldest M as 126 Years. Five centenarians. (Vernons over ; 300 years old), more than in an, other counties, died in both Walo artl Vance during; the year 1025, a - cording to the annuaT rep rt of the bureau f vital statistic of the : state Board of Health now heir)' ) prepared for the pi inter. In the state as a Whole there were ;»■! }<■«. )>k ever 1.00 years old who died dur inft the year, says th- Raleigh Times. Though there is hut one classifi cation for those over the 100 marl;. Miss Margaret Junes, who compiled the report, rememters that there i was i ue old nostro whose age at dentil was reported to be 120 years. Aceoulinsr to the statist it s these Were 70 negroes und 21 whites hi | eluded in the list cf centenarian, j However. Miss Jane.- , .>riouWy doubts vhe a -curatv of the negroes’ j ages on the group l that so many : old tiarhie .. well up in the eighth ; , report- their agt - a* 100 years or more. As the bureau lias no means of checking .the m os of these old . jviipfe bom during slavery times, t hi-ir ovii distorted report must te come the official figure and go down on I he record. Only two counties. Wake and Vance, contingent wore negroes. J*rthpsuii with four colored came next. In the classification, 1*S to !M>, in clusive, which i,> thouftnt to be far more accurate, there were f>!» death of white people, 77 of ne t-roes and oae unions? the Indians’. In the list were two whites of Cleveland count)'. He Dcmet, Lincoln Will Go To (r. O. P. Raleigh. ' While | am fully aware that the Republicans have passed around the word they are going to carry l.ii coin county, yet we will show them such a diacani :'”tf (>f grave clothes and such a lively resurrection next Tuesday j that they will no longer have any doubts n to the logevfty of Lin coln Democracy,” declared Commis riotier of agriculture, upon his re turn to Raleigh. Mr. Graham went to Lincolnton to introduce Governor McLean, who, in his address there, took oc casion to commend the work of the commissioner to his home-folks declaring? that he had rendered valuable services not only as head of the department to which the people elected him but in the mat ter of co-operating? with the pres ent administration at Ralefgrh.' ' • “Our folks were greatly, pleased with the Governor’s speech,” said Mr. Graham, and I was. glad of the opportunity of introducing him as n farmer, a business man nnd a statesman, “I told them, said the commissioner, that when he got through with being Governor that he was not going to depend on cotton for a living, as he is a great advocate of diversification of crops.” Gaston county is interested in beekeeping and next CfnriQg some of the landowher® of the county plan to get into the game . A ton of alfalfa hay wlfl remove about 80 pounds of lime from the coil which is one reason why land intended for the crop should he well timed. FftOM MILLS DIRECT TO YOU MEN’S OVERCOATS Don’t let. the cold wave catch you without one of our good warm Overcoats. VYc ' ffer you a spiv cull value in this coat. New weaves, oinin a n d beited models. Most all sixes _. . MEN’S UNION SUITS Coon heavy quality unions for cold weather. “Mayo and other ‘'amour, brands. Long sleeves, ankle length. 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