VOL. XXXIV, No. 138
SHELBY, N. C. WED. NOVEMBER 17, 192
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
By mail, per yetr (in advance)
By carrier, per year (in advance) $2 Ot
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What’s
THE
News
THE STAR’S REVIEW-^
shell y is to have another drug
‘ ' 'savs a news ite^rtoday, tel).
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injJ ,,f an uptown siore to be open
, i bv UeWitt Quinn.
Have you a son, or daughter, in
the Shelby High School 7 If so, Ho
‘ toif how much IT costs dailv
| *.? educate him or her? The Star
j „]p, y„:, in on" that information,
today together with the deelara
i tioI1 that local high school students
al . educated at a cheaper cost
Uian any other high school students
! in the state.
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Having a big Cotton crop this
i about as much worthwhile
as "having several thousand dollanc
in Confederate hills. Vet Cleveland
countv a far is fifth in ginning
the state. The Star gives the
figures today. ^
The county’s "Tech-Georgia” foot
ball classic of the year will be play
ed here Friday when Kings Moun
tain and Sl'-Sby meet for the second
time ih.is year. Prospects concern
ing the game are cited in today's
paper
pr Zeno Wall, Shelby pastor,
was elected as one -of the vice-pre;
blent? at the Baptist convention,
and Dr. Johnson ha-1 something to
say about Al Smith—read it in
Tiie Star's convention news today.
Shelby may or may not Ret an
other railroad, but no one seems to
be able to railroad’luch rumors.
Every time three couples get mar
rie in Cleveland county one couple
„ets a divorce—can that be true
It is of this month anyway and
on the basis of estimation The Star
ha. an article today saying that
tho other could be true.
Quite a number of folks are si -
curing good advertising from the
collapse of cotton. The latest, told
today, is that of a>< automobile
manufacturer who will receive
much publicity and in a way boost
cotton attention.
you’ll have a good “chaser” fov
Christinas, provided you can git
the other. The new city water plant
is in operation.
Ereniccr. From Slate Heard Of
Health Here—Missing Valve
Arrives and Installed
ft. is expected now that water
vrilJ.be put through the new pump
station and' filter plant on Thurs
day of this week. The missing
valve which caused a delay of two
weeks has arrived hut in install
ing it yesterday, the workmen for
Tucker and Laxton, contractors,
broke a drain valve. The breaking,
of this valve, however, is not ex
pected to cause any delay for this
valve is a stock part which lias
been ordered cUt of Charlotte and
by the time the cement sets on th"
valve which has been holding up
■th’ plait but is now installed, the
additional part will have arrived
ard be installed.
fupt. Toms of the water and
light plants says that Mr. Catlett,
head engineer of the State board
of health and Mr. Ridenhour, one
of his assistants arc here ready to
start the new $165,000 plant off.
Mr. Kider.hour will remain here for
several months to teach the men
who are to be in charge, the oper
ating details of the new plant and
instruct them in the use of the
laboratory which is very import
ant in determining the quality of
th' water which the new plant
will furnish. Expensive and the
eery latest machinery has been ir
staled at the new plant to meas
ure the treatment of the raw
water which varies in proportion
to th<- condition of the river from
"h;ch the supply is obtained.
Ihe new water plant was starts
'd in the spring of this year with
Tucker and Laxton. of Charlotte,
general contractors.
Blacksburg Begins
A Paving Program
Blacksburg, S. :sTov. 16.—The
;*rolina Construction company ol'
* harlotte represented before the
‘,'ty council here today by H. H.
Martz, of Spartanburg, was suc
cessful bidder for the Blacksburg
tifcct paving contract at SIT,120.
the work will beg^i as soon ns the
engineers arrive and the paving h
” he sheet asphalt. The Southern
company bi« was §47,925.
u Noli Construction company, of
•astonia, was a close bidder, but
' city fathers refused the coin
'n u'. Out of 1.3 bidders three were
asPbalt and 10 for concrete. The
'‘■"tittet specifies that work must
^ completed in 50 days and also
oc.o workmen will be employed and
*■ a san<l used if up to specif ica.
th >'rti ^ayor Charles Baber and
fit- achsburg engmeer will leave
wit1 ?um.hia tomorrow to meet
v itt' * H highway commissioners
i)i-ui erence to further paving
Pilgrim Hen
This hen is to he one of the World's
first air pilgrims. Biddy is l.-eiiij?
taken from CohforaH.i. Calif.. to
South America to establish her race
Ikyond the Andes. the trip to
taken lay airplane. She is a Plym
outh Rock, .and Dorothy Dryden
is holding her.
Ex-Service Men
To Buy Tablet
For War Memorial
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Local Legion Members Strong for
Memorial and Will Contribute
Bronze Slab.
Members of the Warren Iloyie
post of the American legion List
night decided to purchase and con
tribute the bronze tablet for the
World war memorTal as proposed
by The Star’s campaign fund.
The proposed memorial will be
of regular monrnn.nt type topped
off by a bronze figure of a world
war soldier. The entire memorial
will be dedicated to those who
served front the county, while on
one side a tablet will be inserted
carrying the list of those who gave
their lives while in the service. It is
this marker that the Legion mem
bers will buy, according to Vernon
Proctor, commander of the Post.
So now it remains up to the citi
zenship of the county—fathers,
mothers, brothers and sisters of the
boys—to raise enough money to
make possible the memorial.
Quinn Will Open
Uptown Pharmacy
Another Drug Store for Business
Section of Shelby Now Be
ing Prepared.
Shelby is to have another “up
town” drug store. Mr. T)e\\ itt
Quinn, proprietor of the South Shel
by pharmacy, isjiow equipping and
preparing a drug store in the Roys
u r building on South Washington
street preparatory to opening some
time before the Christmas holidays.
Workmen are now engaged in
putting in the fountain, show eases
and other drug store equipment
and Mr. Quinn hopes to open just
as soon as the equipping of the
store is completed. The new busi
ness will carry the complete drug
store line and will be modornly ar
ranged. It will he officially known
as Quinn’s Drug store, “Just a
Whisper off the Square”, it is said.
The store is located in the voomt
formerly occupied by the Cleveland
Springs estates in one of the New
Royster buildings on that street and
approximately opposite the Jor
don Motor company..
Colds Coming I p.
An added feature or the new drug
business is that Drs, Tom and Ben
Gold will equip and occupy a suite
of offices just over the drug store
in the same building. Dr. Ben Gold,
well known physician now located
in South Shelby, will unite there
with his brother. Dr. Tom Gold,
[eye, ear. nose and throat -special
j ist now located in the Linebergcr
building.
Mr. Quinn says mat h'.s South
Shelby pharmacy will continue in
I operation, but that he will be per
sonally in charge of the new store.
Murder Case At
Newton Court
Newton, Nov. 1C.—The criminal
term of the Catawba superior court
convened at Newton Monday morn
ing with Judge John H. Harwood
presiding and Solicitor R. L. HoiT
man prosecuting.
On Thursday Glenn Holland, a
young wTiite man, is scheduled to be
placed on trial for his life for shoot
ing another white man, Paul Dun
can in a Brookford cafe several
weeks ago. It will be recalled that
after Holland killed Duncan he
made his escape and was at large
until a few weeks later when he
walked intothe sheriff’s office in
Newton with the r.-mark, “Here I
am. sheriff.” Whereupon Sheriff
Host took him into custody and
placed him in jail. ..
DR. WALL ELECTED
OFEICES BiPTISI
Dr. Johnson Takes a ('rack at Al
Smith on Convention Floor.
Names His Three "Rs”.
Wilmington, Nov. 10.—Election
of officers, the hearing of the re
ports of the mission and educa
tional boards, ano -;c.«:iiing denun
ciation of Alfred E. Smith, a pros
pective candidate for the presidency
in the r ext presidential election,
featured the opening session of the
Edith annual meeting of the North
Carolina Baptist stats convention,
which convened in the First Baptist
church here this afternono.
The following officers were elect
ed:
Vice presidents, Dr. Zeno Wali.
Shelby; Dr. L. T. Wilson, Hign
Point, and Rev. W. D. Poe, Oxford;
recording secretary, Rev. Walter
M. Gilmore, Raleigh; corresponding
secretary, Dr. Charles K. Maddry,
Raleigh; treasurer, Walters Dur
ham, Raleigh. Dr. Maddry and Rev.
Gilmore and Mr. Durham have fill
ed the offices to which they were
elected for some time.
The denunciation of Governor
Smith came when Dr. Livingston
Johnson, of Raleigh, editor of the
Bibilical Recorder, took the floor
to discuss the functions of the Bap
tist organ.
“Should Al Smith be nominated
his slogan would be ‘rum, Roman
ism and rebellion’,’* the speaker
Stated amid much applause from
the great assemblage. “We do ni t
censure Smith because of his re
ligion’’ the speaker continued, “bur
because of what his religion stands
for. He believes in a union of
church and state, while we Bap
tists are as far from that as the
cast is from the west.”
The convention passed a resolu
tion endorsing the principles set
forth in the address delivered by
Dr. Johnson.
Old Fire Truck
Is Worked Over
Two brand new looking five
trucks now stand in waiting at the
fire department for any emergency
that might arise and this week the
new pump station will be filtering
water, furnishing an ample supply
to meet all needs, tie; only for do
mestic use, but for fire fighting
purpose. The old .*merican-Lu
France truck which has been in use
for five years was seat to Charlotte
when the new six clyinder Ameri
can LaFrance arrived and there
it underwent a complete overhaul
ing. New paint war applied and
new tires, the same size as the new
truck so the tires on the two
trucks are interchangeable. The
old and new truck stand side ny
side for any emergency call and
booth look very much alike except
the old truck has a four clyinder
engine while the new truck is a six.
While the town has liar two trucks
for several weeks, one has b>-m
to the shop and it was yesterday
before both were on duty.
Gaffney Gets In
For Title Again
Local football fans who will not
witness the Shelby-Kings Mountain
frame here Friday will likely journ
ey down to Gaffney for the frame
there that afternoon between Gaff
ney and the Bailey military aca
demy for the up-state champion
ship ; f South Carolina. Gaffney’s
strong eleven has \,von this honor
for three years and will make a
desperate fight agj-nst Bailey to
secure the title the fourth time.
Gaf£pey has not lost a game at
home this year and the South Car
1 olina’s record is well known here
abouts, it being considered one of
the best, perhaps the best, high
team to ever appear here. Shelby
I fans are of the opinion that Gaff
ney will win despite the reported
| strength of the prep school.
Shelby Circuit
Quarterly Meeting
Rev. D. P. Waters, pastor rid
ing the Shelby Methodist circuit
hands ' in the following program
for the first quarterly conference
to be held at Sharon on November
20th :
10:30 devotional; 10:45 The Lay
men’s work in Revivals and Finan
ces, Thsd C. Ford; 11:15 The Re
vival, C. S.‘'Kirkpatrick; 12 Din
ner: 1:15 devotional; 1:30 Family
Religion. D. P. Waters; 1:45
Children’s Home, L. B,. Johnson;
2:00 Financing the Kingdom, H.
K. Boyer; 2:30 quarterly confer
ence.
! Public cordially invited.
Down to His Last Ear of Com
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Jr:!. „:i Harnett is slid i i I o tin* world'*■ richest
*ou :.t i.nancial Aid i n the [mlian Bnls-n at
< s.'tt in Oklahoma is ti d uj> in litigntirn end i
' l.iirna. He says I., _ dawn to his last t ar of < ot;h
wife are shown hold r e
Indian, hot in' recently
Washington. L>. «\ Hi.- j
doing I m no good, ho
which lift ai d his white
Much Interest Centers In
Football Game Here Friday
Kings Mcuniain-Shelby Clash Is County’s
Grid Classic Resembling Georgia
And Tech Game
When two football elevens meet
the second time in a season to play
off a tie the game generally goes
by another monicker and is known
as a classic. Which is to say Shel
by and Cleveland county fans may
expect to see a gridiron classic here
Friday afternoon when Kings
Mountain and Shelby crouch on the
city field and face each other for
the second timei this year.
The other meeting resulted in a
scoreless tie. Kings Mountain shot
the pigskin once toward the post
fora field goal and failed and Shel
by rammed at the line for four
yards and failed. Jutt how much
the game this Friday will differ
from that day remains 10 be seen.
There were those who said after
the game that Shelby should have
won, maybe by two touchdowns, but
since that time the Fast county
youngsters have battled the big
Asheville eleven to a tie and the
situation is perplexing for the dope
stare,-Chat lie Austell, former State
end, who officiated in the A-bevill
game, say, tb> Cleveland county
boys outplayed the touted Asheville
squad, and a team that can turn
that trie knppears dangerous to
the fluctuating o'-* anu-on eleven
“Casey” Morris has this year. If
the Shelby deceit performs as i'
has on one or two occasions tills
year the local should win easily.
However, on the other hand, if t!*
Highs display a spiritless game ns
they have on several occasions this
year it will be mevdy'ji matter of
counting up how many times Horci.
Stowe and Skates ramble over the
white line. And don’t think for a
minute that the trio mentioned arc
hot threats. Give either one a had
of a getaway and look for a touch
down. In the same light the side
lines artist's are-going to watch the
work of the Kings Mountain center.
He makes the sidelines think < f
the days when Harry Grigg and
Harry .‘■'c* wart;: performed before
large Shelby crowds. Gardner, or
Billy Grigg, whichever gets the call
will have about as'much to do in
curbing him as the defense will in
stopping Hord and his pals.
Morris tried out his Singleton
Beam combination in the Boiling
Springs game and everybody, par
ticularly out Boiling Springs way
remembers the result. Not that
“Big Joe" and the clever Beam foil
down in their roles, hut a lin,
minus those wasn’t hardly what
a line should be. Singleton threw
his passes far and wide—and even i
accurate—but his receivers were
nil. And too the big fellow explain
ed clearly to spectators that it does
not necessarily take a little man to
run off and leave a half dozen
tacklers. Beam gained practically
all of Shelby’s yar.jnge' that day,
but Shelby didn’t have as much
I yardage after the game as the
I modern flipper has in her skirt,
i The last gaiuo alsj revealed that
■ Ralph Gillespie has finally found
the place he really fits on a fool
I ball team. His game at guard was
| one of the best seen here, but thi
.tame game revealed many weak
nesses. Tom Kerr was the second
ary defense and there wasn’t much
other. Coach Morris did not have
much material this, year however
u seemed as if he had developed i'
to a winning point several weeks
back, then Came the spiritless de
cline of the eleven.
The result of Friday’s game wil1
determine just how much Shelby
will remember the present High
outfit. If they win many will call
them pretty good. If they lose only
one or two players will be men
tioned in coming years. The boys, ii:
is said, know that and intend to
play thinking such thoughts. Yet
(tou t forget that it means even
more than that to Kings Mountain
to win, for Kings-Mountain would
just about us soon tramp Shelby
as win the state title. They have
a mighty good chance of doing it,
lay to that.
Which is a good background for
a good football game and a good
crowd Friday. There is talk of the
winner taking home the gaie re
ceipts.
Sniawley and Bridges Lost (Jarage
Lumber Plant, Mill and
Crusher Saturday.
The fire loss at Lawndale early
Saturday morning' is reported to he
¥rt,000 with no insurance. W. M.
Smawley and Ernest Bridges who
operated the Smawley and Bridges
garage, also operated a small lum
ber plant and a niitl and crusher.
Their garage euipment consisted of
a fine lathe and other machinery,
and all of this was tost in the fire,
together with three cars and a two
ton truck, A corn mill and rrusher,
three engines and a small lumber
plant were all ruined by the fire,
which is said to be one of the worst
that ever visited Lawndale.
Smawley and Bridges did not
carry any insurance because the
rate on the type of business they
conducted was very rlgh. Both aic
hard workers and practically all
of their savings were wiped out m
the short space of an hour. The ori
gin of the fire is not known. It was
discovered about 5 o’clock Saturday
morning and because of the heavy
type of the machinery and equip
ment, practically nothing was sat
ed.
250 Expected At
Bible Class Feed
Plates will be provided for 2f>0
men who are expected to attend the
Men’s Bible class banquet of the
First Baptist church to be given at
Cleveland Springs hotel Friday
night of this week. President Fields
Young and other officers of the
class have been busy mailing out
invitations to all members and
prospective members, and arrang
ing for the delightful menu which
includes dill pickles, sweet pickles,
tomato soup, turkey and cranberry
sauce, dressing, rice, gravy, celery,
green peas, candled yams, potato
salad, ice cream and cake, hot rolls
and coffee.
Max Gardner, teacher of the class
will be toastmaster, while short,
snappy speeches will be made by
Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the church
and Mr. Claude Lovelace, superin
tendent of the Sunday school. A
quartet and a duet of singers will
furnish music for the occasion. Cars
will be provided a: the church at
7 o’clock to take out members and
prospective members wTio do not
have a conveyance.
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Robeson Countv Leads With Over
.'>0,000 Halt"*, And lias Sur
passed 1925 dinning.
In this year, whi n it isn't con
sidered an honor to product' a hi'.;
crop of cotton, Cleveland count?’
is ranking fifth in the s>ate ac-!
cording to the latest gin report, j
This county up to November 1,>
had ginned 28,195 bales of cotton, I
four other counties have ginned 1
more and still four other counties
are slightly behind Cleveland.
Robeson led on November 1, with
51,255 hales; Johnston with 18.127
bales was second; Harnett, .'17,52(1,
third; Sampson, "1,922 fourth.
Contrary to the majority of oth
er counties in the state Robeson
county had ginned more cotton up
to November 1. this year, than up
to the same date Iasi year. The
four other leading counties are be
hind their last year's ginning.
Cotton ginned in counties adjoin
ing Cleveland up to November 1,
was as follows: Gaston, (5,715 bales ;
Rutherford. 5.194; Lincoln, 9.071;
Catawba, 8,029.
Aged Divine To
Have A Birthday
Rev. J, Ed Tho-upson, Methodist
minister, well known and beloved
all over toe western Carolina sec
tion, long time resident of Shelby,
and once pastor of the Co!\
Methodist church here, will tomo» '
row celebrate his seventy-third
birthday.
lie retired this year front active
duty in the pulpit, after forty-scvtn
years in the ministry. ‘‘Uncle Joe”
Cannon has .iusi died, and much
was made of the fact that the vet
eran legislator was 46 years in
congress. Rev. Mr, Thompson’s
service to the churt-n goes Mr. Can
non one year better.
Forty-Seven years, friends of the
| minister assert, is a long time in
harness.
Wm. I.ineherger. prominent
Methodist, discussing Wednesday
the career of the mrnister, paid a I
glowing tribute to his service and !
to his character. ‘‘He is a man of J
whom we may say,” declared Mr. |
Lineerger, “he is pure gold.” j
Rev. Mr. Thomnson has two
daughters, one living in Shelby, I
Mrs. Lamar Gidttey, and Mrs. J. W. j
Kearns of High Point. He makes ,
his homp alter nttery with these
two daughters. At present he is at
High Point with Mrs. Kearns, and
it is there he will receive congratr.- I
iations on his arrival at the seven
ty-third milepost.
COTTON MARKETS
(By Jno. F. ClarK and Co.)
Cotton was quoted ut noon today
on New York exchange:
January 12.70: March 12.00; May
13.12; July 13.20; October 13.41;
December 12.63.
Liverpool, 12:30 p. m.—January
December and March 4 American
points better than due, spot sales
8,000 middling 600 against 608.
British exports of cotton yarn and
piece goods are off 10.65 per cent
for 10 month's compared with last
year. U. S. imports of cotton goods !
| shows gain in all divisions.
Memphis special says outstand
! ing feature of cotton situation is
the excellent demand for strict low
middling and higher grudes of all
■ lengths and staples. There is a
[ growing realization that the supply
; of these descriptions is relatively;
j small as compared wrtfi the qunn
1 tity wanted. There is no pressure on
I Lhese grades on the market and
|buyers are more on the defensive
| than the owners who are finding do
| mand sufficient for what they arc*
are willing to sell so there is yet
j no occasion for emergency finane
I ing.
Forecast: Oklahoma cold wave:
I Arkansas, local rains, colder; Tex
■ as fair colder, eastern belt, fair
| warmer toilay, rain tomorrow.
Light business in Worth street,
j .Southern spot markets sold 50,000
I bales. Dallas 11.60; Augusta 12.31.
I Look for steady market.
Year Of Plenty
On State Farms
| This is truly a year of plenty.
Mr. C. W. Beam, one of North
' Brooks leading farmers, was it*
| town one day last week ami brought
j to our office a cluster of three sec
I ond growth red June apples pluck*
; od from a tree in his orchard. One
| was about the size of|a he i’s egg.
j the other tw*o were smaller, but all
three were matured. He also, had a
(twig with four second growth pears
jon it, buf'they were not matured.—
^ Cherryville tiagle.
Shelby High School Has
Low Cost Of Operation
Average Cost Of Instruction Lower Here
Than In Any Classified High School
In North Carolina
Railroad Rumors
Still Heard Here!
Itailr»au4, and prospect ixe
railroads, are furnishing Shel
by with its rumors of late
weeks.
With talk of Seaboard and
I*. & N. extension and ; shift
in a Southern system route
Shelby is experiencing w hat
might be called a "railroad
boom”—meaning that exeryonc
talks railroads, but few know i
anything definite.
So many special cars and
prominent r. 1 x-*~-ior,s have
stopped over or passed by re
cently that it seems to he the
general impression that some
thing is going to happen. One
rumor has one road definitely |
decided , while others have an
other road settled.
So far as The Mar can learn
nothing definite has been de
cided, or exen planned, so far
as the public knows, concern
ing local changes >1 either of
the three routes. Nevertheless i
even a section motor car pass
ing by on one of the roads
starts a rumor.
Divorces Surpass
Local Marriages
Records Disclose
Most as Many I'ntied in Week as
Married in Entire Month.
Hard on Homes
The building and loan associa
tions of Cleveland county should
pet interested in divorce rfeform.
At the present rate of getting un
tied as compared with those getting
tied there'll be few folks in several
years who will want homes.
Three times as many couples
have been divorced in this county
this month as have been married.
However, don't let that worry you
some other couples motored over
to the South Carolina Gretnu Green
A survey of the recent court
grind here shows that 11 couples
were granted divorces, while the
marriage book in Reg. Weathers I
office shows that only four couples
have been married. Furthermore
only 12 couples were married in '
the entire month of October, or or.e
more couple than was divorced dur-1
ing one week this month,
year and on the basis of estimation
around 40, or more, couples are di
vorced. By the same estimate some
thing over 120 couples are married
—which is to say that around one
third the number of those married
are getting divorcee. Yet the opti
mistic point to South Carolina.
“Enough to make the difference are
getting married there.’” Which !
shouldn’t be altogether pleasing to
Squire Eskridge. He gets some
thing for marrying ’em, but noth
ing of the divorces, unless there is
a family squabble before hand in
his court, and the marriages in
South Carolina do not swell treas
uries here.
The majority of the divorces
granted during the court term
came through the charge of adul
tery and abandonment, while the
others were granted on the ground
of separation. One of the 12 coming
up resulted in a mistrial, and di
vorce was not refused in any of the
others.
Quarterly Meet
At Saint Peters
Rev. J. W. Fitzgerald, new pas
tor on the Belwood circuit of the
Methodist conference moved his
family to Fallston about ten days
ago and Mr. Fitzgerald finds his
first impressions of that commun
ity very favorable. He anticipates
a good year. On Nov. 28th, quar
terly conference will be held at St.
Peters church. Preaching by the
presiding elder, Rev. C. S. Kirk
patrick at 11 o’clock. Dinner from
12 to 1 o’clock. Mr. Fitzgerald
will preach at 1 o’clock and Rev.
R. F. Mock of Cherryville, at 1:30
o’clock. The quarterly conference
will be held at 2 o’clock and Mr.
Fitzgerald asks all church officers
and other who wish, to be on hand.
Pupils To Stage
f A Rummage Sale
The children of the Marion street
school will stage a rummage sale all
day Saturday in the old Best store
Stand on South LaFayette street, it
is announced by school officials.
The sale will lie centered around
second-hand clothinjv and the pro
ceeds go to the school. The young
sters are expecting a good businesc.
The Shelby High school is open. -j
a ted at a lower cost per pupils than
any high school in North Caro.inal
Such are the facts shown by « j
recent issue of “tNahool Facts” and
Shelby educational leaders are '
justified in feeling somewhat proud %
of the rating.
The average daily cost per high
school pupil in North Carolina for j
instruction is 34.8 cents. In Shelby j
the average cost per pupil is 18.8 j
cents per day.
In Shelby’s section, Group three,:|
made up of 1(5 towns Reidsville 1
has the highest daily cost per pupil i
of 46.8 cents, nearly 30 cents more
per pupils than in Shelby. The av- A
erage cost for- the group is I’l |
cents, or 13 cents more than Shel |
by’s.
Teuchers Get Less.
Moreover the average monthly
salary of Shelby teachers is $116.7,3
considerably lower than that of any
other school in any rtroop. The av
erage state salary is $156.04, and
the average for Shelby’s group is
$158.06.
Shelby has on an average of 24 3
pupils for each teacher, which is
two more than the group average
and six more than the state aver-j
age. One lowerihg disadvantage irv
the report is where Shelby’s at
tendance is considered. Only 77.4 )
per cent, of Shelbys enrollment is ]
in attendance, which is 10 per |
cent, below the group average and
seven per cent, below the state av*|
erage. II
Ho» Much and How State Taxc*
Will be Raised Perplexing
Question. Tax Talk.
, . '-T
Raleigh—Inheritance taxes ad
mittedly furnish the easiest source
for increased revenue for the state
of North Carolina at the hunds of
the 1927 General assembly and that
is admittedly the first source to
which the Budget bureau and tne
state board of assessment, boih of
whom are charged wTfn the duty
of presenting a revenue bill to the
general assembly will return says
the News and Observer.
Due to the credA features of the
United States estate tax North
Carolina inheritance taxes can lie
increased substantially without in
creased substantially without in
craesing at all the amount of taxes
paid by North Carolinians, the dif
ference merely being that th«,
state will get the money which1
now goes into the federal treasury.
Due to the reductions made in fed
eral estate taxes by the act of Feb
ruary 10, 1926, the North Carolina
inheritance taxes could be increas
ed even more without increasing
the amount of taxes paid on North
Carolina estates before the passage
of the new federal law.
But the question o? how much
and in what manner the state taxes
should be raised is one that has pro
duced much scratching of heads.
The federal government never al
lowed any rebates prior to 1924. In
that year the prtncjpte was intro
duced with a provision In the bill
that all state inheritance taxes
should be rebate!? up to 25 per cent
of the federal tax. In 1926 the fed
eral government raisdfHts exemp
tion from $50,000 to $100,000 re
duced the maximum rjjte of tax
from 25 to 20 per cent and increas
ed the rebate allowed from 25 to
80 per cent.
Although the new act was oper
ated only four months and 20 days
of the last fiscal year it served to
reduce the amount of estate tax
collected in North Carolina during
the year $606,759,111 as against $2.
403,015,21, the mount collected din
ing the previous year by United
States Collector Gilliam Grissom.
Last year the state collected only
$.65,862.80 while the year before
Commissioner R. A. Doughton re
ported only $765,862.80.
Studebaker Will
Buy Bale Cotton
South Bend, Ind„ Nov. 1G,—A. It,
Erskine, president of the Studc
haker corporation today announced
that for every car sold during Nm
vember and December in the coW
ton belt, Stud®bako7 will purchas*
a bale of cofch at market price*
and store it for at least stx month*.
Advertisements will be publishe*
throughout the South tomorrow it
which this plan will be announce*
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