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jrtember I „ North Carolina PRESS ASSOCIATION VOL. XXXIV, No. 141 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24,1926 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advance) —?2.5( By carrier, per year (in advance) $3(H What’s THE News TIIE STAR’S REVIEW. The weather bureaus are predict inp 'pood weather for Thauksgiv The news Friday should be ir, teresting. Once was trie papers or the day after told of the scores killed while “rabbit hunting”. Fri day it will tell of those killed In auto accidents. The S: r tells today of the op ting of th<‘ now city PumP sta‘ ti0n, and also of a survey to be roade of a highway that will be rebuik. , , , Ti e Gaffney side of ilie P. an X. railway extension is given in this issue. Who will be the next congress man from-.this-district? Will Ma jor Bulw:’ kle have opposition? Ru. mors are already going the round, and today’s paper gives a few oi them. * * * The city schools of Shelby closi today for the Thanksgiving holi days. opening again on Monday However, a news item says that ; full ISO days will be taught this year. The football season locally seems to be over with many Shelby fans journeying away tomorrow for the Thanksgiving games. These games mark the last appearance of two Shelby' boys on the college gridiron. For the first time yet tht3 year's.cotton- crop in Cleveland county has surpassed that of last year; The figures are given by The Star in this issue, and they should bring on more predictions as to the size of the full crop. » * < Community events, personal mention—all the news of Shelby and Cleveland county—That’s The Star three times each week. Weekly Weather By U. S. Report Government reports say today: In the northwestern portion of the cotton belt picking and gining made slow progress because of unfavor ably cool and cloudy weather. With considerable rain or snow picking was hampered especially in Ar kansas. eastern Oklahoma and con siderable open cotton was blown out by high winds in the latter state. In Texas conditions were more favorable for field work and the harvest of cotton made fair to good progress though there also some was blown out by high winds. East of Mississippi river crop has been practically gathered in most districts but reports indi cate slow ginning in some sections. Picking made fairly good progress in the more northern portions of the belt. The gathering of corn made slow progress in most sections of the Mississippi valley eastward he came of unfavorable weather for field work except that picking was resumed in Iowa, the latter part of the week, and very good progress was made thereafter in that state. COTTON MARKETS (By Jno. F. Clari. and Co > Cotton was quoted on New York exchange at noprv tdoya. January 12.49; March 12.71; May 12-"T; July 13.14; October 13.30 De cember 12.42. Liverpool 12:30 p. m.—December 10 January 10, March 14 American Points lower than due, spot sales 0,000 middling 687 against 003 yes terday. No particular cotton news. Moderate business in- Worth street, prices steady. Southern spot markets sold 38,000 bales, quota “?ns easier, Dallas J150; Augusta . ■ This is first December no tlce d;iy. about 75,000 bales will Probably be tendered, presumably ,.v the leading southwestern spot interest, Gossip is that the cotton wnl be taken by two or three other sPot firms. Prices today will be gov crnt'd mostly by the action of De cember. uu- BATTERY opening a RIG SALE ON FRIDAY tv f16 Baltery >s opening a sale ri<ay °f this week, which the anagement describes as the su pcrathe sales effort of this es • 1 lshment in the history of its bu ness here. A two page advertise t!untn’unt in this issue of Tho star • ‘s tae details of the big offer mg. „ ant‘c*pati°n of a big rush to thi ■/ 'e "p°tton money’ bargains, for A S lB ? People are advertised cH *A musical concert is announc o entertain the shoppers, cut il Sa*° 's based on the cotton a ’ p management of the Battery aniwnne.ng, it is meeting the low Ifm ° • staPle with an equally Pnce of merchandise. #Pp![' ’"'lu! Mrs. Fred Mora:a w m !nfy*in,?aflftey with M •t.’’. h. A. Morgan. Vevsff A'.rA1*en of Cumberland un Thirv , hh-i WH1 spend th his fKIV'ne holidays here wit * slster, Mrs. Jap Suttle. Big Ear From Tall Com Country Out In Iowa this year the corn is tall and the ears are large This ear. being held by Miss Betty Bno o**V)es Moines, weighs two pounds Thirty such ears make a bushel. Gaffney Is Active About Extension Of P & N Road Shelby Reports About Charlotte Notion For Road This Way Is Not Worrying Cherokee Folks Gaffney, Nov. 23.—To allay any fears that may exist that the Gaff ney chamber of commerce is not doing anything towards securing the proposed connection of the Piedmont and Northern electric railway from Spartanburg to Gas tonia for this city, Secretary J. B. Johnstun yesterday Issued a state ment in which he asserted the or ganization, with the assistance of interested citizens, is “not asleep on this matter, I can a-sure you.” lie continued that whc.-. any informa tion that can be given the public by the chamber, proper announce ment will be made. The stockholders of the Piedmont and Northern have been called to meet ?.t Greenville December 8 to pass on a resolution adopted by the d'rectors a few weeits ago propos ing the construction of the connect ing link and the extension of the line northward from Charlotte to Durham and Winston-Salem. In his statement Mr, Johnstun takv.- cognizance of the reported ac tivities of Shelby towards securing the lien- for that city, but declares he “is not frightened” by the ef forts of the neighboring city. His statement follows: “Questions have seen fired at me for the last week in regard to the possibility cf the P. and N. road bc-ir.g built through Gaffney or some other route. My attention was called to an article in the Cleveland county paper which rather intimat ed that the P. & N. would go bv way of Shelby: that ,$40,000 of bonds which Cleveland county had voted years age was still standing good for an electric line from Kings Mountain to Shelby, and that a motion was made and carried at a meeting in Charlotte of the Char lotte chamber of commerce with many Shelby people being present, to the effect that the road be built to Spartanburg hv the way of Shel by “It is not my intention to say positively what will he done or I know what will be done, because I do not know, but will say ihat the article in the Cleveland county pa per and the meeting at Charlotte and motion made does not frighten me in the least, nor does it do away with the actual facts that now ex ist. The Gaffney chamber of com merce with prominent and actiVe citizens are not asleep on this mat ter, I can assure you. No big dem onstration is being made, but actual efforts and conditions have been and arc being seriously considered and the situation closely watched. “I make this statement for the benefit of the public • who are afraid that nothing is being done by this organization and people of Gaffney on this important question. “When there is any information of importance that can he given to the public at our hands such an nouncements will be made, but un til some degree of certainty is as certained we do not fee 1 free to break into print. 33 Cents a Day. Washington, D. C.—As a result of the inability to cut the. “garri son ration” of the army from 36.12 cents a day to the 33 cents allowed by the budget, the army has found it impossible to main tain its average strength of 118, 000 enlisted men, Gen. B. F. ( heat ham.. quartermaster general hav ing been forced to cut tile average strength down to 110,000. Local Boys Play In Final Game In two of the most important football games for North Carolina on Thanksgiving two Shelby boys will sing -their swan song in col lege athletics—Captain Fred Lo gan, of N. C. State, and "Jay" Mc Murry, of the University of North Carolina. Captain Logan, son of Sheriff and Mrs. Hugh Logan, will lead his team against Wake Forest for his final appearance, and McMurr;, Carolina end and son of Mr. an i Mrs. A. W. Me Murry, will stage his farewell performance facing Friedburg, the mighty Virginia end in the Carolina-Vrrginia classic. Both have been performing in stellar fashion during their final year. Gaffney Negro Gets Bravery Citation Gaffney, Nov. 23.—Hezekiah Gist, Gaffney negro who operates Gist’s Electric Laundry, yesterday received citation from the French government for gallantry in ac tion durmg the World War on the Campagne front. He was awarded the croix de guerre while in France. The citation and cross were in recognition of his heroism in suc coring the wounded while under heavy gun fire on the front. Hezekiah was a private in the medical detachment assigned to the 371 t Infantry, 93rd Division, American Expeditionary Forces. He was in France about nine months. He Was orderly at the City Hospital here for several years before the war. The citation, which bears a pic ture of the croix de guerre and is written in French, was signed by General E. Dumont at Paris Jan ury 23. 1926, and was forwarded to Gaffney through the French embassy at Washington. Takes $4 Pension And Bites Finger Willie Friday, colored girl of Shelby, staged r. hectic week-end and as the result will likely be in the county jail until the next term of court. Last Saturday, according to the charges, the girl was sent to the Southern oCtton oil mill to get the weekly pension of Frank Parks, veteran negro employe now retir ed. The girl, it is alleged, got the money but Frank never saw it. Of ficers called on her, bringing an invitation to Judge Mull’s court and when the girl dashed out of the doorway and was liaTted by Officer McBride Poston she promptly closed her teeth on one of the of ficers thumbs. Hor.ever, she was shaken loose before any serious damage was done to the digit. Parks, the old negro whose money was concerned, was employed by the Southern Cotton oil company for practically all of his life and is now receiving a pension at the end of his faithful service. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Borders, Miss Frankie Borders and Mr. Tom Bor ders were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Roberts in their new home on the old Kings Mountain road, Sunday. 1 THANKSGIVING 1 DAY < ; V I c i November 25, 1926 Mininr-tur, Record. On this d‘.v of national thank-giving for the boundless blessings with which the Almighty has crowned this country, it is appropriate that the peo rlc of every i lass, should at the call of the Presi dent of the United States, render unto God their profoanfi anil grateful thanksgiving for individual anu national blessings. When we contrast the. amazing material advance ment of Ameri. ; with the desvxrate poverty which prevails throughout much of the world; When we realize the comforts and privileges vouchsafed to the laboring men of this county, and think of the starvation wages which rule in other lands; When we contemplate the prosperity which has been given to this nation, and out of which hundred;; of millions arevbeing expended in the erection ol church s and schools «*nd the advancement of educa tiand religious activities; When we think of the vastness of the sums that work, and realize that the rich men of America are are being given to charitable and philanthropic more and more coming to a realization of the re sponsibility that red,; upon them to recognize that their wealth is held in trust for the benefit of man kind ; When we see hospitals of every character being founded and others endowed with the utmost lib erality as an expression of a realization of steward ship. Then surely the people of our country, with re verence and grateful hearts, may well bow before the throne of God, and in spirit and in truth render praise unto Him from whom all blessings flow. “Unto whom much has been given, of him shall much be required,” should bring to all who are privileged to enjoy the blessings of life in America, a call to dedicate their talents, whether they be of time or money, or the consecration of soul and body to the service of Him who has left to His followers here the responsibility of carrying forward the work which in person He began on earth more than 1000 years ago. Let us, therefore, as a nation and as individuals, reverently bow before the throne of the Almighty and pledge renewed consecration to the good of our fellow men to every nation and every dime and every race: for in its broadest sense they are all children of one Creator, and fellow men for whose welfare materially and spiritually this nation will the individuals which compose it, will largely be held responsible in the last Great Day when we shall all stand before the Judgment Sent of the Eternal. I Former Shelby Editor Has Predict ed Two Wars. Now Looks for One in Central America. Hickory, Nov. r.l.—Staking .1 prophetic reputation that saw him safely through predictions of the Mexican trouble and the world war, Lieut. Col. Warren A. Fair, of Lin colnton, a member of the officers reserve corpe, told members of the local guard unit at a banquet here last night that “You may expect to see active service within six months,” as a result of the trouble in Central America. Colonel Fair said plainly that he was predicting war which would in volve the L^nited States, although he went no further than that, nor did he name the powers with which the country would engage in war fare. Denounces Cuts. The remainder of his talk before the guard members was in denun ciation of the plan which has strip ped the standing army of the Un ited States to a mere' shadow. lie emphasized that the national guard was the mainstay of protection to the country now, arid that if war came the burden of the early fight ing would fall upon that organiza tion. Visiting officers attending the banquet held at Hotel Hickory were: Colonel Fair, Major John F. Fall. U. R. calvary instructor for North Carolina, Capt. R. R. Rein hardt, troop E. Lincolnton, and Capt. A. S. Lineberger, of Lincoln ton. Miss Ruth Hopper the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Major Honner will spent Thanksgiving holidays with her sister in Chav j lotte, Miss Pauline Hopper. Mrs. J. B. Tweed and children of I Marshall are visiting Dr. and Mrs. Zeno Wall. Mrs. Tweed is a sister 'of Mrs. Wall. Shelby Schools To Close Today Thanksgiving Holidays Start This Afternoon. Schools Open Again on Monday. The Shelby city schools will close this afternoon for the Thanksgiving holidays. Ac cording to Superintendent I. C. Griffin two days will be given, Thursday and Friday, with school opening again on Monday morning. These two days, it is an nounced will be made up next spring together with other holidays, the requirements call ing for 180 teaching days in the city schools. Subscribers Are Asked To Renew Expiration notices are now going out to Star subscrib ers and if your time has ex pired and you have not al ready renewed your paper, please do so. With our farm readers, we make our drive for collection in the fall. We realize money is not so plen tiful, but do not overlook this small obligation to your pa per. It is as necessary to-have wholesome reading and keep informed about the happen ings of the county, as it is to have the essentials of life. The Star is cheaper now than it has been in ten years. It publishes three times a week and delivers the paper to sub scribers at five cents per week which is less than two cents per copy. No other, news paper in any adjoining count ty in North or South Caro olina is as cheap per copy as The Star is now. For your convenience, we are sending out with all ex piration notices, self-address ed envelopes. Enclose a check, stamp the envelope and mai? it back to us. Your label will be promptly changed. ! Slate Highway Commission \tt-! t Surveys of Road From Khclbv to S. C. Line. — More good m'vs. The State! Highway Commission lias author-1 imi its engin<’< t ine department, | now located iti Shelby, to remain I here and )>ogin at an early date I th - loco Hen of highway No. 18' front Shelby to the South Caro lina line. Just which . route this j road will take* remains to be de- j cide'd. It will begin at Shelby and: connect*with a new road which South Carolina has built to Dravo on Proud River. Whether it will go directly South by way of 7onr church or include Patterson Springs and Far! remains to be reon. At any rate the new road will have less curves than cither of th° j present roads leading south. It may follow one of the old road#} most of the wnv. Mr. R. M. Clrnhafn, state high way engineer stationed in Shelby, snvs the survey will not be start ed until after the holidays as his department is now engaged in checking up the work on highway No. 20 west from Shelby to the Rutherford county line, which road j was recently completed at a cost of I 84-10.000. Several surveys will he! made and the route will he pass ed npon by high-up highway offi cials. There is no indication that this road will be paved any time soon. The purpose now is to locate it with a ^ iew of letting the con tract later for its grading. High way 18 as it extends north through j Failston ami Toluca to Morganton has already been located and even tually it is hoped that the road will be pave I from Morganton to the South Carolina line through Shel hy. Already the state lias author ized one hundred million dollars in , road bonds and the last approprin ! k'oin of this huge sum is now be ; ing spent, but if other road bond ] issues are authorized, it is felt that Cleveland county has some chance of having No. 18 paved. Want* County To Loan State Money McSwain Suggests That County Make Loan for Road Con struction in Cleveland To the Editor of The Star: As a private citizen, who is in* ! tcrested in the growth and devel opment of our county and town. I am writing this letter for publica tion in order that the apparent lethargy of our people may be awakened to the necessity of do ing something toward getting the state highways paved in this county. The limit will soon be reached in the amount of bonds that the state ma.v issue, and we as yet have only one road paved through the coun ty. 1 would suggest that the coun ty commissioners on behalf of the county offer to loan the state whatever amount of money that it will take to pave all the highways in the county. And get the roads build soon as possible. Other coun ties over the state are doing this, and are getting their roads while we are doing nothing, and getting nothing. Unless some action as suggested above is taken we need not expect to get any more roads paved. Would like to see you ad vocate in your paper the proposi | tion that the county loan the state ; the money to build our roads, and I would also like to see the cham ber of commerce and other civic I organizations get behind this move. ' We can get the roads and get them now, if we will put up the money. | Respectfully yours, PEYTON MeSWAIN Passes Suddenly Of Heart Trouble Employee of Cleveland Cloth Mills Died Sunday Night. Funeral Held Tuesday Mr. J. R. Medlin, aged about 40 years, died suddenly Sunday night at his home in the Cleveland Cloth mill village in the eastern section of Shelby, death resulting from, heart trouble. Mr. Medlin was one of the most valued employees of the plant and had been with the mill since a short ti ne after its opening. He leaves a wife and five children. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at High Shoals in Lincoln county. Mr. Medlin came to Shelbv from the Artcloth Mills at Lowell. According to information receiv ed death was unexpected although he had been sick on Saturday. City Water Now Ample From New Pump Station There were :>4,0:S0 bales of cotton pinned in Cleveland county prior to Nov. 14th this year as conipnred with 33, 366 ball s up to the same date last year, according: to stat istics pathered by Miles H. Ware, special agent for the c.ensus department of the U. S. department of agriculture. The crop is said to be from two to three weeks later this year than last and ever since the gin figures have been gathered this fall, they were smaller than the same period of a year ago when the season was about normal. This is the first time, therefore, that the ginnings up to the same per iod have gone ahead of a year ago. Indications hov. are that the crop will go slightly above 40, 000 hales. Last year the coun ty produced in the face of a severe drought approximately 3H.000 bales and two months ago many Cleveland county citizens dared to predict that the harvest this year would reach 40,000 bales. Much of the cotton, however, is not opening and because of the low price much of it is being left in the fields. Another gin report is due in two weeks. Race For Congress In This District Seen By Hickory Carpenter and Pharr May Oppose Bulwinkle in Next Kace is Opinion Passed About. Will Cleveland county folks in the next congressional race cast their ballots for Major A. L. Bul winkle as in elections gone by? Mebbe so, mebbe not. Rumors are in the air. The Hickory Record in its editorial columns has the following to say about the next con gressional race: “Well, well, well! And then an other well. It appears as »f it is time for the little birdies to arouse themselves and sliaTce away the heavy layer of dust. The grand old Ninth district is about to hear the rumble of fireworks once more. “On Sunday the news broke that Solicitor John G. Carpenter of Gar ton county would be a candidate in the next Democratic primary for the nomination habitunlly given to Major Bulwinkle. 7-iat was not ov erly newsy news, because the ma jor is known from one end of his district to the other and Carpenter isn’t. Carpenter is a strong man but he w;ould oppose vastly unequal led odds against a man so general ly popular as Bulwinkle. “But today we hear that Edgar W. Pharr of Mecklenburg county is balancing his hat on the edge of the ring. And the wind is blowing toward the center. That condition presents a situation requiring the most expert Wattsology. If the three enter the race it is foreor dained that Carpt,n:er will take some of Bulwinkle’s strength out of Gaston, and Pharr, being a form er speaker of the house and a mem her of the crowd that can take a generous slice of Cleveland’s vote, would push Bulwinkle mightily. “The whole situation smacks of a considerable contest. So the little political birdies must wake up and shake off the dust.” No Football Here For Thanksgiving Kings Mountain «nd Shelby Will Not Likely Meet on Gridiron This Year Again. Although it has not been def initely decided it is the general opinion of Coach “Casey” Morris that the Shelby High will not play any more football this year. There was sonic talk Qf a turkey day game with Kings Mountain to play off the two tie games, but somehow the contest has not mater ialized. Gastonia fans also wanted to see the mediocre Shelby eleven pitted against their average team, but from all indications the high school gridiron season is over. Quite a bit of attention will be given to basketball »>y Coach Mor ris, yet the next big plans of tbe school athletic program calls for a baseball team that will be hard to halt. Shelby’s New Water Plant at Last Completed and in Operation —Water Mains Cleaned Water from the new pump sta tion is now coming to Shelby. The first supply reached the city mains Monday afternoon and the old sta tion was shut down, to b'e convert ed later, after the machinery has tv>en moved, into an abbatoir for the slaughter of cattle and an in cinerator for the burning of re fuse from the city. Shelby’s new water station is thought to he ri (equate to meet the needs of/the town for 15 years. When the city outgrows the present equipment, additional units may be added to increase the supply as long as Shelby does not require more than the river flows . » leaning me mains I ) csterday and today there is a muddy color to the water but this is not due to improper filtration or treatment of the water plant. The water mains throughout the city arc being flushed with fresh water and a treatment that cuts out the sediment and corrosion in the pipes, hile this is being done fire hydrants are opened and flush ed. especially those on dead ends of lines. Mr. Hugh Toms is superintend ent of the new plant. An assistant will be provided by the city fath ers at an early meeting. While the new men are learning the opera tion of the plant, a chemist es | pecially trained in city water plants, is here for several weeks from the stale board of health to I instruct in the operation of the laboratory which is up-to-date in 1 every particular. } The new plant has been a long cherished dream of Shelby citi j sens. It has been needed for u i number of years, more particular ! !y since the corporate limits of the town were extended nearly two years ago and many new patrons were added to the lines. During the summer months the old plane j limped along, unable to supply enough water for domestic pur poses at times, leaving the city | almost helpless in the case of a big fire, but from now on, it is thought that the supply will be sufficient for any fire emergency, affording as much as the two giant fire en j gines can pump without drawing on the domestic supply. May Lower Insurance Rate The new station was built at a cost of approximately $165,000 The old water main that leads inti | town from the old pump station, will be cut into the new plant, this 'giving two large mains from thi source of supply into the cit; j mains. In the event one shout burst, either of the other wouh 1 forestall a water famine, j It is thought that a reduction ca I he secured in fire insurance rate in Shelby with the two wates mains, the ample supply of water and the two fire trucks manned by Ia Paid fire department. Recently I there was an arbitrary increase in fire insurance rates in North Car I olina of ten per cent, but an ef j,nrt will be made right away to get I a reduction in Shelby on the basis of the improvement in the fire ‘fighting equipment. ! Three Auto Homes To Change Jan. 1st I About the first of the year, three local automobile dealers will ex change their homes. B. B. Higgins Motor Co., which rvas the agency for the Chrysler car will occupy j the Charles Hoey garage on S. i Washington street now occupied I by the Jordon Chevrolet Motor Co. I The Jordon-Chevrolet company will i occupy the Max Gardner garage on ; S. LaFayette street now occupied by the Charles E. Lambeth Motor i company, agents for the Dodge, j The Lambeth Motor company wi'l j move into the S. A. Washburn garage building on N. Morgan j street to be vacated by the Higgins I Motor company. THANKSGIVING SERVICE AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH A Thankisgiving service will be conducted by Rev. H. N. Me Dial - mid at the Presbyterian church Thanksgiving day at 10 a. m. The subject of the sermon will be “The Riches of His Grace.” Special music appropriate to the season will be rendered by the choir. The usual Thanksgiving offering will be made for the Presbyterian i Orphans’ home at Barium Springs. Every member of the church is ask ed to give the equivalent of one day’s earnings for this worthy cause. The general public is invited i to unite in this special service Sit ! the local church, A most profitable hour of worship will be had by all •who attend.
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