North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXXIV, No. 141 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1, 1926. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per yerr (in advance) By carrier, per year (in advance) $3 (« What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW — «. ■pa—nmmwa/w-inwH ^ The holidav month arrived today j .alone with the bill collectors. Shelby L t0 havc anotht'r new ‘ -j firm according to a new? busint item in The Star today. Diversification on the farm as presented by Bob Turner of the L'action is told in a poultry farmartich in The Star this ... f very farmer m Cleveland conn tv should follow the example out lined- • » - , Yesterday was the final discount dav on county taxes and front the. sheriffs office it is learned that n-.anv paid their taxes during the d*y- . « . Y very disastrous fire at ienfoir yesterday is recorded in the iWy's news. - „ . The first graduates of the She!-1 by hospital received their license asnurms from the state board-this 1 week' Don't forget the old-time square dance 1 rklay' night. Two fatalities resulted in Lin coln county recently as the result of accidents. Will the county make 40,000 bad ? of cotton'.’ Indications now are that such may come about The Star rav? in a news item in this issue. Superior court judges proving so popular. arc no A meeting of the school teacher of the county will be held here Sat urday. More about the celebration of the opening of Highway No. 23. appear in this issue. Will bar ball be the same minus Cobb and Speaker? Read the edi torials. Cling Helms Killed at Gin in Hen ry Section. Fred Camp Elec trocuted by Wires. Lincolnton—Two citizens of tbit | county met with sudden death re cently. Cling Helms, of this county, wa: killed at the gin onerated by Hoes or and Pain, at what is known a Cat Square, located between He^> "• section and Trinity church ir. this county. According to information gained, Mr. Helms was in the act of putting a belt on a pulley in the gin build ing. and that a set screw on the main drive shaft caught in the hack of his sweater and his body was ■whirled around the rapidly revolv mc shaft, inflicting injuries from which he died shortly after the ac cident. it is though that his head struck • large, post near the shaft, this injury probably being the cause of hi death. irr. Helms it is said, was net working at the gin at th? time of tte distressing accident, though he had formerly- been employed there. He was there Thursday with a wad of cotton from his farm to be Pitted for market, and volunteer *d to right the belting, and the fa ta! accident followed. kred P. Camp, electrician for the *}' °i Jdncolnton, was instantly tolled when 2,300 volts of electro *®atnt passed through his bodv while he was at yvork repairing , wiring of the arc circuit trans 8|ssion lines of the street lighting •Tstem. K !?1 wa,s ^ years of age. He is ifvivni by his widow, who was bo ■" °-e marriage Miss Ruth Rudisill, Er t"r(fe daughters, Helen, age 11; lsc, age 7; Sarah, age 5. Also Reviving is his mother, Mrs. Laura ^ this city, and four sister.-, f-- 1’ress S.troupe, Alexis; Mrs. ■ nirik, Mrs. Mae Rhodes, Mrs «hn Mitchem. ev/ Furniture Store To Open ' party of Rock Hill business u<r'r""Pen a furniture store ir jv(..,ln<‘*ierKor building next to the , ’> bicctric company the last H hsnrtv"60^ °r t*1P first of next, he! I lr,tr :1 comldete line of house goods and musical instruments 8hplt!'ait-e ' ^ ne'v si°r<-' will be r%« i , a;,'n>tnr<* comouny. ft is _ f* W Marshal) of Cam K, 1 ■ R. Marshall, Clnr-i S. f^vr ” of Rock Hill jfu‘‘ [' "r- J- Hopkins will be in pp H tf,ar*r<‘ °? the store with Mr "i the - 3r<*nPr as Raie8TtlaT1 Bot r Sh<,u ' gentlemen are moving te ‘5 witii (heir families. Iso f,nWnprs of the Shelby store Jtock j?.‘!rate a furniture store ir are experienced Dior *s .''nWhH have considered Shell's ;• ew field for some months. Bcl 1 arner Gets Value Of Bale Of Cotton Frotr His Poultry Every Two Days HCC Layers Hatched Last Of May Now Leave 500 “White Nickels” Daily At Poultry Farm (By UR NX DRUM.) One docsn ) see ni; ny smiles "he;) a group of Cleveland county farmers get together nowadays despite the fact that Cleveland county farmers are considered leaders to be watch ed by other counties. And one can gain little optimism from htaring one of these farmers talk, particularly if he happens to be a cotton farmer. lint the above will not apply to a group that numbers in its midst Rob Turner, who lives down in the Earl section of southern Cleveland. Perhaps Bob Turner is not one of the best known farmers in the county today, but mark it down as a prediction that Bob Turner’s ex ample will be a regular beacon light to this and other counties come another cotton crop of 18 million bales to be sold at 12 cents per pound. Even today he is the pride of Alvin Hardin, the county agent, and Alvin Hardin is one of the soundest booster,; for farm di versification the-writer has ever on Countered. Picks Bale in 2 Days. Get this scene: About 5 o’clock one, or any afternoon Ihis week Bob Turner picked up two. half bushel bucket- from his back porch and walked down to his poultry houses. Fifteen minutes later he emerged with the two buckets over flowing with “white nickels.” To be exact there were exactly 502 five-cent pieces in those buckets and they came from layers still in the flapper classification of pu'lets. Eggs, yes! And bv the middle of January Mr. Turner will, or should bo, collecting seven and eight hun dred. for it’s about that time when the 1100 birds will be hitting then stride, as they say in baseball par lance. Even now they’re doing some pinch hitting for old King Cotion that may move the latter from the forefront in the batting order. To vplify it all Bob Turner ? icks the value of one bale of cot ton, at present prices, from his poultry houses every two days. And the che-ring part about it is that h goes back and pets the bale of eggs every day whereas no cotton fields have been discovered that can boast such steady production. If every Cleveland county farmer who has his head above ground, or has had. should follow Bob Turn er’s example Cleveland county by another winter would have an in come that would shock the Bethle hem steel mills. Don’t say it is im possible, half of what each average farmer spends for fertilizer on his cotton would start him off on an even basis with the Turner Poultiy farm. Cry This Off. Owing to generations of training along that line farmers seldom talk i publicly about what they make, but on a good conservative estimate put it down that on a $1,500 invest ment, or less, and a half day’s work each ’day Bob Turner is clearing anywhere from $10 to $15 daily. And this isn’t being told for the benfit of an income tax collector. ; hut with the hope that scores of Cleveland county farmers may see the light that gleams from the preening rows of white layers in 1 the hen houses on the Turner ponl ! try farm. rcrnnps you ble. Alright, figure for yourself. Turner collected 502 eggs MondaV. At five cents each that is $25.10; Turner is a bookkeeper anil a shrewd thinker as well as a good farmer and he tells you in exact figures that his feed bill is $7.20 per dav. Lights and all other ex* penses' may total about SI.80 per day. which is a total expense of $!>. Subtract that from the $25.10 and you would have $16.10 for less than a half day’s work on an investment of $1,500 and $1,509 placed away at 6 percent, interest would bi inp in something like -10 cents each day. . . Isn’t that plain and simple enough. If it’s not just journey down to the Turner farm and sec it for yourself on the books the proprietor keeps. There s no catch in it either if a farmer is willing to take the chance and put out r little earnest work. How It Started. Some months ago Mr. T. C Hitchcock proprietor of the Chero kee Poultry farm, decided to retire and at the time County Agent liar din motored down the Earl way am had a chat with Turner and B Austell. “Here's your chance. ITarciu told them. “I’ll see that you go ! started. What do you say?. The; I talked figures awhile and it’s har; to get around any arguhent by the former Tennessee farmer for he has experience on his side and after a bit the two enterprising farmers decided to take the chance --.vet it couldn’t hardly be called ;i chance. So they purchased the poultry houses, an incubator and other first class equipment from Hitchcock. In May they started their incubator on the task of a mechanical “set ting her.”. On the last day of May Turner took forth a beautiful ar ray of White Leghorn chicks. In an other week the incubator gave a machine cluck and left another downy little buuch. Another week and a day passed and the third hatching came forth. That was just last May and June,'mind you. It takes a time for a chick, biddy or dib as you’ll have it, to develop into a layer, but they are already. laying 500 eggs daily. In other words 1100 of the chicks hatched early June are leaving 500 nickels or a half bale of cotton, daily at the Turner home. In another month or so they will develop more, bar ring disease, and come into regular lr ;ng qualities. Then the real egg laying season does not open unt'l January, So, isn’t it easy to see how upwards of 700 eggs will be gathered daily in two months? Mr. Turner hasn't devoted any great space'or any great time to his poultry business. There are those,, too, who say one must know something about the poultry busi ness to make a success of it. Prior to May Mr. Turner knew no mere about chickens than the ordinary farmer who has a few hens laying about the barn, or a few fryers for the Sunday dinner occasionally. The proprietor says he spends no more time away from his farming duties than before—and a half day would do the biggest daily task about the poultry houses. I he details ot the turner tarm are about like those of other chick-] en farms and hardly valuable enough to go into—that is, unless ! one plans to enter the game, and in the connection it might be said some several fundred farmers could make far poorer plans. Starts Young. Mr. Turner might have known little about chickens, hut he has a young son on the farm who should be a poultry expert when he grows up, and that will be 10 years or more from now. When the chickens were hatched Mr. Turner picked out a half dozen that dis played signs of not being any too promising. The youngster asked for those thicks, took them off to an other corner of the barnyard and built him a little poultry house of his own. He constructed a water ing basin and a trough for his mash and daily watched after the welfare of his “birds.” Monday when Mr. Turner finished collect ing his nickels he called the boy j and the youngster delved into his nests and' found three eggs—a fif ty percent, production from his six pullets in the off season of Novem ber. mere are nunureus 01 utnei m tie bits of information that might be recited about the Turner poultry farm. However, those buckets fill ed with nice white eggs that sell for five cents each tell enough of the story to interest anyone in mak ing a trip to the farm. The green est of newly-wed brides wouldn’t worry about the purity or fresh ness of her eggs if she could see ^those clean, airy poultry-houses and the more than one thousand hens that look as if they were bathed twice daily. Farther down the Earl highway B. Austell is duplicating the Turn er policy and on a smaller scale his father, Mr. E. A. Austell, has join ed the procession of folks who do not give a hang what happens to cotton. The Turner eggs supply many •’ tables in Shelby, Gastonia and i neighboring towns, and quite a number of cafes when they send up “two scrambled” or “over” do it with Turner eggs. If the mer chants of Shelby and the boosters of the county would take a trip down to Bob Turner’s place and begi n spreading the news of what ! they will see then the folks of Clev i eland county Will realize that the | past talk of such as Alvin Hardin Clarence Cabaniss. Wm. Linebergei , and others was far from foolish ness. (|\ S—EDITOR’S NOTE: The Star plans at an early date to pub i lish other poultry facts of the Aus i fell farm and others and to each week or so present interesting do i tails as to how Cleveland countv farmers are diversifying and mah ri ing money under the program ol 11 a wide-awake county agent.) ! Ill LOCI STORES AS Eli! as Shelby Merchants Have Display Window: Ablaze With (Jay Christmas Colors. A score and four days until the biK annual event the coming of Kris Kringle and the Vuletide spir it that ushers the old gent in. In preparation for the event Shel by merchants have apparently out done former records. Display win dows and rooms have already taken on a varied array of Christ mas tints and hues. The reason just naturally peeps out at one from all angles about business Shelby. The hardware store has its roller coasters, wagons, rifles and vari ous gifts for the boys on display, the jewelry stores are .showing \ “gifts that last’’ with the intent of ! breaking last year’s records and all j down the line through the depart-! ment stores, drug stores, furniture ! houses the gift stock is swelling all j over the floors. It’s really worth the time this j evening, or any other evening soon j to take a jaunt down the Shelby j streets and “window shop.’’ And: the jaunt will likely sell several i ?xtra gifts from toe tactful and attractive displays in the many j windows. Already Shopping. The merchants of the town say that dozens of folks are following [heir individual custom of shop ping early and avoiding the rush of .he final week and days. They are [jetting the big pick of the many gifts and are benefiting by shop ping on time. From now r n until the big day Shelby merchants will list their Yuletide bargains with rhe Star with the urge for early auying. Watch the display window's, Star ‘acF.’’ and pick over your gifts by 1 picking them before some one else : Joes the picking. Lincolnfcon Has Peep At Otto Lincolnton—City Mail Carrier Evan- Rudisill last Tuesday saw j Otto Wood who escaped from the j Raleigh pen, in this city, he is al most positive Wood stepped from ! a Ford touring car on North Aspin and asked Mr. Rudisill the way to Hickory. Mr. Rudes'ill says that when ap proached lie was looking at a pic ture cf .Word 'v n pewspatw r. and that when Wood confronted him he glanced again at the picture in the paper, and that unless his vision is defective Wood was the man who approached him here Tuesday. The city mail man made no attempt to arrest the fellow, in fact he was engaged in delivery of Uncle Sam’s mail and making an arrest was rot on his list for the day and the $250 reward had no charm for him. There was another man in the car with Wood says Mr. Rudisill, the two leaving immediately after in quiring the way, journeying to ward Newton. Four Nurses Here Get Their License Greensboro, Nov. 29.—One hun dred and seventy-one applicants for nurses’ license in North Carolina passed the state board in the last examination, according to an an nouncement tonight of Mrs. Z. V. Conyers, secretary of the board. The examination was held on last October 13-26, in Raleigh. In addition. 36 nurses from other ity. Miss Hazel Johnson, of High Point hospital, High Point, led the class with a general average of 95. Miss Lottie Meyers of St. Leo’s hospital Greensboro, and Miss ! Gladys Pfaff of Winston-Salem tied for second place with general avcr , ages of ^>4. j Among the number passed by the board were all four of the Shei by applicants, graduates of the I Shelby public hospital. They are Misses Margaret Chowder, Sarah | Roberts, Maggie Atkinson and Min | nie McCoy. County Teachers, To Meet Saturday A general meeting of the teach ers of Cleveland county will be held Saturday here, according to Super I intendent J. H. Grigg. j The meeting will open at 10 o’clock and will be held in the 'county court house. Several mat 1 ters of importance to the teaching : profession will be taken up. | Mortality from measles in Eng i land in the past fifteen years has i been twice as great as that from I scarlet fever. lr.' Governors Visit President in -in l II--1-—111 ■mm ■■■■—■■.— _--—,-----—.-.. When thp governors lit Id (heir recent convention in Washington, the executive committee, s.l.-vv. n ..hove, Visited President Coollilfic. They are (left to right) Gov. John Ilammill. Iowa; Gov. John W. Martin, Florid* (who seems to he having trouble with his necktie); Gov. Kellie Tay'.oc Ross, Wyoming; Gov. Ralph Brew iter, Maine, and former Gov. Cary Ilardee, Georgia, 10 CELEBRATE AT Practically all of the members < f the Shelby Kiwanis club will journey Thursday evening: to For est City where a joint meeting: will be held With the Forest City and Kutherfordton Kiwanis clubs in n program celebrating the comple tion of the link in Highway No. 20 from Shelby to Forest City. Each club is working up some fea ture and will have a part on the program. J. F. Ledford of the Shel by club has been appointed a cora tguttee from the local dub to pro vide “stunts" as Shelby’s contri bution. 1 he link in the highway was com pleted last month and traffic was turned on two weeks ago today. The project from Shelby to the Rutherford county line was built at a cost of S t-10,000 including bridges and grading. Approximate ly 1,000 car loads of material, sand, stone and cement were used in the Cleveland county link. It is not known what the Rutherford county link cost as the road from Clev eland line to Forest City was built under a different project, although the contracting was executed by the Wilson Construction company which built the Cleveland county stretch. Because of the limited facilities for serving the dinner at Forest City, the ladies were not invited. It is expected that the entire mem bership of the three clubs will be present. William Peeler Dies At Ellenborc Native of Cleveland and Influential Political Worker Dies Day After Brothers Funeral Squire B'll Peeler, native of No. 10 township but later a citizen of No. 2 township where he was a farmer and influential political worker for many years, died this morning at his Home in Ellenboro at 4:20 o’clock, following a pro tracted illness with paralysis and qinpiimnnia. Mr. Peeler dind-on-the day following the burial of his brother. Squire Alf Peeler at Cher ryville. Deceased was 7!) years of age. He was twice married, the first time to a Miss Price, to which un ion two children survive. His second ; marriage was to Miss Amanda ‘ Padgett and from/ this union one child survives. His wife and three children are : John Peeler, Miss Georgia Peeler, and Mrs. Julia Low ranee. Three or four years ago Squire Peeler moved from Cleve land county to Ellenboro where he 1 has since lived. He is survived by the following brothers and sisters: County Com missioner Geo. Peeler: Mr. P. I., of I upper Cleveland, Mrs. P. A. Hayes and Mrs. Fannie Lineberry of Ran dleman, Mrs. Frank Mull of Mulls Grove, and Mrs. J. D. Hull of Char lotte. The funeral will take place Thurs day afternoon about 1:30 o’clock at Race Path church in Rutherford county and a number of relatives and friends from Cleveland county j will attend. Greenland is sinking into the sea at the rate of six feet six inches each century, according to the re. I port made by a Danish expedition Emergency Judge In Great Disfavor Over State Now Lawyers Think Dignity Of Superior Court Judgeship Lowered By Act Permitting Variety Raleigh.—With dissatisfaction ! reported from numerous sources over the operation of the Emer gency Judge act passed by the 1925 General Assembly, political ob- j servers in the State Capital have predicted that one of the major ' battles before the coming legis lature will be to'repeal the act. Since the act was placed into operation—the first emergency judge was John W. Ragland pre siding over a court term in Yan cey county beginning March 23. 1925—more than one hundred weeks of court have been held by emergency judges—either regular or especially appointed under the , 1925 act. The courts were divided about equally between special i terms and terms in lieu of regular Superior court judges. Promient lawyers have openly expressed the opinion that the tem porary elevation of some lawyer to the bench for a week or two has not served to raise the dignity of the Superior judgship nor to add to its esteem in the eyes of the pub lic. Generally. they admit, the men named have been able ones and have conducted their courts well, but the principle of the mat ter is in disfavor. They frankly say that they will demand a change and suggest a« a means of remedy ing the situation, which now caljs for such a large number of emer gency judges, the creation of four or more additional judicial dis tricts. The state is now divided into twenty districts. If a widely made suggestion is followed by the leg islature there will be twenty-four after next March, and the new districts will be set up in Wake. Mecklenburg, Guilford and For syth counties a district to thern relves. This would give the state twenty-four judges instead of 20, a number regarded as sufficient to handle the largest part of the state’s present extra judicial bur den;—— -——_ These would be argumented by i»he State’s corps of regular emer ! frency judges—iurists who have re I l i I 1 i tired from active service after fifteen years or more of service. At present there is one judge friling in this class—C. C. Lyons, of Elizabethtown. hut the ranks were unduly thinned by recent deaths. Regular emergencv judges receive a pay of one ^drd the compensation of active judges. Thev are allowed expenses when holding court. Emregeney judges named under the 1925 act receive $150 a week and expenses. The principal opposition voiced | to the plan of creating the new 'districts has been that it would ! c'-eate offices for four new soli * eitors. Adherent of the plan to form the new districts back up their con tention with the argument that a judge normally can hold 40 weeks of court a year, and that with a reallignment of districts and the creation of. four new judgeships there would rarely be any cause for pressing emergency judges in to service. While he did not sponsor the Emergency Judge act, Governor i McLean stated recently that he was well pleased with the way that i ii had worked out. More lately he had compiled a i list of judges named under it and a record of courts held during the period since it became effective. Taxes Pour In On Last Day Of Discount Given Tax Payers of County Take Advan tage of One Percent. Discount For Promptness. The sheriff’s office here had what merchants call a “good day” Tuesday. The explanation is that it was the last day of November, j or the day before the first of December, A county ruling is that one per cent, discount is permitted on all county taxes paid prior to December 1, and Tuesday was the last day. It was impossible to tell yes- ' terday just how many had paid : taxes during the day, but the officer was busy serving tax I payers throughout the morn ing and afternoon. Lenoir, Nov. 30.—One man prob ably perished and six others were seriously injured here late this aft ernoon in a $325,000 fire which de stroyed the plant of the Bernhardt Chair company. Of the 1-72 men at work in the plant Joe King is the man who has not been accounted for. Six others, workers in the fin ishing department, jumped from the fourth atary-windows. Two of them, Floyd Goble and Will Cres son, are seriously injured. They are apparently suffering from injured spines which has brought on par-j alysis. They are being cared for in j a local hospital. | The fire broke out about 5:15 this afternoon. It is believed to have originated from a short cir cuit in one of the paint spray ma chines. This caused an explosion and within a few moments the en | tire finishing department was in flames. Men working in that do | partnient were forced to jump j from windows. Within less than an hour and a half the entire plant, one of the largest furniture manufacturing plants in the south, had burned to , the ground. The loss was conserva tively estimated by the owners at ! about $325,000 with about $260,000 insurance. | Joe King, who is believed to have ( perished in the fire, had not been located at 7 o’clock tonight. He had not returned home and the close search among the thousands of peo ple who witnessed the fire failed to locate him. Red Glass in former times was made by adding gold to the raw | materials. mm m be RIGHT ON GUESS OF COTTON CROP He Thinks Farmers Should Pick All Cotton That Opens in Plan of Economy. Several weeks ago Alvin Hardin, county n^ent, estimated that Clev eland county this year would make 40 000 hales of cotton and perhaps 45,000 bales. There were those who lauphed at the prediction and add ed their puesses differing: consid erably from the apent’s, some es timates fallinp below 38,000 bales. It seems now as if Mr. Hardin is to have the last lauph and it has been said for a mere fraction of three or four hundred yelirs that such is the best laugh. Thirty-four thousand bales had been pinned in the county when tha last report on November 14, was piven out and the total now should already be near the 40,000-bale mark. Moreover a jaunt over the county will show that a lot of cot ton remains to be picked while a considerable amount is piled up in out houses and spare rooms wait ing to be ginned. From general ap pearances if all the cotton produc ed this year should be picked the. pin total would come near 45,000 bales. Don’t How Under. :||| The county agent says the at* titude of some farmers in not pick ing and plowing under some of their cotton is wrong.'His argu ment is sound basically. “Even if the cotton already produced would bring only six cents per pound/’ 4 saysi “it would be cheaper to pick that already produced than to raise ■ more. The fertilizer bill that came | about through this cotton must be paid anyway and why not let the j cotton even if it does seem cheup \ help to pay it?” Capt. F. W. Joiner Buried Here Today | Son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. W. F :] Wilson on West Marion Street Died in Asheville. Capt. F. W. Joiner, age 35 prom / inent railroad employe of the At j lantic Coast Line out of Jackso ville, Fla., was buried here in Sur set cemetery this afterrtoon, the fi neral taking place at 2:30 o’cloc from the residence of his parent; in-law Mr. And Mrs. W. F. Wilso on West Marion street. Mr. Joine was married to Miss Bessie Wilson, $ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. f! Wilson about 15 years ago. They have been living in Jacksonville where Captain Joiner was conduc tor on an Atlantic Coast Line passenger train and highly esteem ed by all of his associates. His wife and two children, a son Billy, and daughter Willie Helen survive, together with two brothers and a sister. Captain Joiner’s health broke down and four months ago he went to Asheville for treatment in a pri vate sanitorium. His family has been here while he was in Asheville. He died there Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. His body was brought here for interment, the funeral be ing conducted this afternoon from the Wilson home by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church. Cloth Mill Has New York Office Local Textile Plant Now Maintains Own New York Selling Office, Under Garmisc. The Cleveland Cloth Mill, manu facturers of fine dress fabrics, now maintains its own New York selling office which was opened in 1501 Guardian Life building. Union Square recently with Mr, S. S. Garmise in charge. The local plant finds this much,to its advantage and for the convenience of its cus tomers, most of whom are in New \ ork. Mr. E. T. Switzer, treasurer, has recently returned from a busi ness trip to New York where he was engaged in opening up the new offices. Mr. Garmise who is in charge, was formerly in the office of the company here as comptroller. The New York office is factored by the Textile Banking company at. Union Square. Succeeding Mr. Garmise as coirq troller in the Shelby office is Mr Everett Houser, son of Dr. and Mr E. A. Houser. He was formerly con nected with the Greensboro Dail News on the reportorial staff an, recently editor of the Clevelaru News. The Cleveland Cloth ipill h Shelby’s newest industrial plant which makes a variety of beautlfu dress patterns, curtains, drapericf