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By mail, per year (in advance )~f 2.51 By carrier, per year (in advance) J —^ What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW-_ Xhe latest cotton report places a prediction well over 18 million ! bales, with practically 14 million bales’ ginned- King Cotton is right but somebody may have to put the I crown jewels in pawn. Over 2,500 children are irt the i Shelby city schools, according to a report from the superintendent’s office- , . , }[r, A. E. Cline is again chair man of the county board of com missioners. • • • The Way suit against a local church is to go in court again, ac- | cording to Judge^ Falls. prohibition is the best enforced ]aw in the country, considering the , long period of unrestarined appe-: tite—that’s the opinion of Federal Judge Yates Webb, of Shelby. Shelby High students, boys and girls, need an indoor basketball court badly, according to athletic supporters of the school. Postal receipts at the Shelby postoffice show a gain. An odd legal question to the lay man not acquainted with technical ities of law came up in a recent case before the recorder. • • • j The Lattimore High has out a winning basketball quint, and among other athletic news today is an All-county football eleven. * * * The business news of today is in the advertisements—welcome news of how to save on your Christ mas gifts. Every Member Canvass Inaugura ted Sunday is Going Over No Pressure Brought In the every member canvass which was begun Sunday among the members of the congregation of the First Baptist church here, j an effort was made to raise . $24,000 and the campaign is just a little short of the goal with quite a few members yet to turn in their pledges. The finance com mittee of which W. H. Hudson is chairman, together with the board of deacons agreed on a budget of $12,000 for church expenses and $12,000 for outside causes. In the local expense budget a raise in salaries for the pastor, Dr. Zeno Wall, and his assistant Mr. H. M. Pippin is provided, out of apprec iation for their splendid work dur- ■ ing the past year. Forty-five can vassers made their own pledges ar.d took pledges from members of the congregation who were pres ent at the Sunday morning service, j In the afternoon the pledge cards j were presented to members who j were absent from the Sunday morning service. By receiving the pledges at the morning service, the j work of the canvassers was great- j ly facilitated and when the cam-1 paign is over this week, it will be i found that more members are contributing than ever before. No pressure whatever has been j put on any member, each one being allowed to give as his or her con science dictates. The result has been most gratifying and indica tions are that the entire budget will be raised. During the Thanksgiving season over $1,100 was given to the or phanage at Thomasville. It is -J? known yet how this amount cor respond w(th other Baptist churches of the state, but last year the First Baptist church hero was ihe second largest contribut ing church in North Carolina to the Thomasville orphanage. Cline Again Head Of County Board Kings Mountain Business Man to Direct Affairs of County For Another Term. Mr. A. E. Cline of Kings Moun tain, will again head the comiftis sion board of Cleveland county. Ac the first meeting of the county commissioners held Monday Mr. fline' was again named chairman °f the board by his associates. Mr. Hine who is one of the county’.! shrewdest business men and also head of the big Cleveland county tair, has been chairman of the board and his able direction of covn ty affair has wo nthe commenda tion of citizens generally. A called meeting of the board was *n session again today to con fer important business matters °f the county. One of the first n'oves of today’s meeting was to s"ear in former Senator Sam (’. tattiniore as the new commissioner ^weeding Mr. George W. Peeler. Messrs. Cline, Lattimore and YV. " Washburn .the third member,, were of the opinion that some ini P°rtant county business would be cansacted at the meeting today, or following meetings. Six-Feet-Four n; Julia Quinonez, ft feet 4 inches tall. In the champion largest woman passen ger ever to leave the port of San Fran-! cisco That's what the ship's officers said when she looarded the Steamer City of San Francisco recently going home to Nicaragua We'il think the ladies down there would soon break up the revolution It they're all that, size Fine Material At Hif>h School Go ins To \\ a:;te Through Lack Of Available Flocr Shelby needs an .indoor - basket ball court badly in the opinion ol athletic followers of the town. Over at the Central high school Coach Casey Morris has consider ably better basketball material than he had with which to build a football eleven, but so far, like unto past years, the team has no place to perform except on an outdoor court. When the football season rolls around Shelby athletic fol lowers would consider it the worst of disgraces rot to' have a football field and equipment equal to that of any town or city in the state, vet after the football season there is e long lapse until spring during which time athletics at the Shelby high are a dead number. With the reputation Shelbv has made in football and baseball the local team is offered numerous games on the basketball schedules of the larger cities and towns of the stele. If the invitations are ac cepted Coach Morris can only play away from home and when he does so has nothing to present except a quintet trained or, the ground and utterly lost on an indoor floor. It is the definite conviction of high school authorities that Shelby could have or.e of the best basket ball teams in the state were there a building that could be utilized for a basket ball court. There is some movement. it is understood, now among fans to find if possible a building in town that could be converted into a h/sketball floor. Moreover the same floor could he used by the girls for basketball ar.d as for athletic facilities for the girls in school Shelby has practically noth ing, say supporters of school ath letics. Mrs, Martin Dies At Elienboro, N. C. The many friends of Mrs. M. S. Leverett, West Marion street sympathise with her in her be reavement occasioned by the deatli of her mother, Mrs. Martin Le: Martin at Elienboro. Mrs'. Martin died Tuesday morning about 0 o’clock at the age of 67 years. She was buried this afternoon at Hope well church in Rutherford county the funeral being conducted at the home of her daughter. Mrs. O. R Cofield of Elienboro. Her husband died about ten years ago, surviving Mrs. Martin are the following chil dren: Mrs. O. R. Cofield of Ellen boro; Mrs. M. S. Leverett, of Shel by Mrs. A. H. Horton and Mrs. E A. King of Hamlet; Adolphus Mar tin of Laureneeville, Ya. and Rob ert’Martin of Elienboro. Mrs. Mar tin belonged to one of Rutherford county’s most prominent families Cifv Schools Will Close December 17, For The Holidays The Shelby schools will close for the Christmas holidays on Friday afternoon, December 17, it is learned. School work following the holiday season will be resumed Monday morn ing, January 3. Thinks Farmers Know Best In Not Picking All Of The Cotton In Fields Statesville Writer Says Farmers May Know As Much About What To I)o As Experts And Writers Should all of the present cotton cron be picked ? The question has been discussed considerably recently by farmers, agricultural experts, and newspap er writers. Many farmers appar ently take the view that it is not worth picking. Not long since County Agent Hardin, of the coun ty, said that in his opinion all the cotton should be picked, since the money has already been spent t i !>:y for it. Writers and so-called farm experts have agreed. Mean time nothing has been publicly heard from the farmers. The men who till the soil seldom write or express their views publicly. In stead they carry out their ideas and let the other man do as he pleases. However, an editorial writer in the Statesville Daily sides to a certain extent with the farmer who is leaving some of his cotton in the fields. Perhaps the farmer knows just about as well what he is doing as some of those who would tell, thinks the Statesville writer. There are two sides to all questions and usually there is sound logic on both sides. The Star after presenting the belief that cotton should be picked feels as if it is nothing but right to present the other side as explained by the Statesville paper: “Talk comes from all about the fl ~te that much of the cotton will be left, to rot in the fields; which seems entirely probably, if not a settled fact. The final returns may not show the more than eighteen million bales estimated by the crop reporting board. If the cotton baled is short the estimate that will not mean that the cotton was not produced but that much of ;t was not gathered. Many news paper people and others, who are in the habit of telling the farmers i just what they should do, arc dis | turbed that the cotton should not: all be picked, since all the expense I of the crop has been incurred ex ' cept the gathering. Does seem a ; pity to let anything go to waste after it has been produced at muon cost. But the farmers know that as well as anybody. The farmers also know, what many of their ad visers do not know, that in many instances it is pracvally impossi ble to get the cotton picked. The farm children are in school. That's : where they should be, and if they were not the farmers would b\ criticised for denying their off springs school advantages. In many localities help can’t be ob tained at any price. In some in stances it is improbable that enough pickers could be found t > gather the crop if they were given all they ^picked. If, then, it is im-‘ possible to get the cotton gather ed the cost will not leave a mat-' gin of profit, what’s to be done ' about it? Of course it is distress ing to see the ungathered crop go to waste in the fields. But if help can’t be obtained to gather the cotton at any price, of if the cost gathering is in excess of, or equal to, the value of the iotton after it is gathered, it would seem a matter of economy to let the unnicked cotton rot in the fields. “The farmers’ advisers mean well, but if they think they know more about how to manage the I business than he does, could make in succes at it. the way is open for I them to try their hands. It will be | admitted that in many instances tenants who owe more than than the crop will pay after it is pick ed, have left the landlord with the bag to hold,'or other creditors ns the case may be. But what’s to be done about that?” COTTON MARKETS (By Jno. F. Clar* and O.i Cotton was quoted on the New York exchange at 11:30 Wednes day: January 12.12; March 12.32; May 12.53; July 12.74; October 12.1*2; - December 12.50. Liverpool 12:15 p. m.—January 8, March 4, May 6 American points lower than due, spot sales 8,000 middling 656 against 654 yester day. Nothing of fresh interest in the cotton column. Light business in Worth street awaiting report. Southern spot markets firmer, light sales because of coming re port. Dallas 11.05 Augusta 11.50. Journal of Commerce says: “The fear that the big crop as a trade or speculative issue is burnt pow | der seemed to Haunt the shorts in 1 the afternoon. There is no bull ; speculation on a big scale but it is j felt that the cheapness of raw will < exemplify the law of compensation j in a great awakening sooner or la- j : ter in the textile industry. Govern ' r.ient report expected to be around 1 18.8 and ginning around 15 mil lion.” J. L. ALEXANDER. THE DODGE MAN, OPTIMISTIC I Business is as good as you make it. } Such is the philosophy of J. L. Alexander, head of the Dodge Bros, agency in Shelby. Mr. Alex ander says that there is a rumble I of tight times in the cotton belt, ibut he sold more Dodge cars in No | vember than any month lately— ; more than in September or Octo ber. “If you have got something to offer, and will work, ypu will get results,” Mr. Alexander told The i Star. “This cry of poor business j comes apparently from those who used to get things too easy. “We are working and we are gel i ting results. j “My belief is, this is what we call a psychological depression. When i people heard of the drop in cotton they made up their minds they were broke right then and there. Then slowly the realization has come to them that they are not nearly so badly off as they thought they were—which is the truth.” All-County Team An All-County football ele ven composed of Cl-velsnd county high school football players is selected in this is sue. The selection appears in the “Around Our Town” column and is made after seeing all the players named in action. A pick by a reader of The Star also appears. Boiling Springs, Kings Mountain and Shelby have three players each on the eleven and Lattimore two. SEVERAL REPORTS OF WRECK CHOSE -1 SOUTHERN RY. According to reports here several versions are givev concerning the cause of the derailment of the have it that the wreck was caused Monday morning. Some reports down Southern passenger train just just on this side of Rutherfordton by loosened rails* while others have it that the derailment came about through no intentional causes. A dispatch from Rutherfordton states: Investigation of the cause of the spikes had been withdrawn from wreck di^losed that a number of the ties, evidently in the use of a crowbar in the hands of vandals. Engineer George Hammeresly who has been on this run for 10 years was in charge of the train with Conductor McK Abergotti. The front trucks of the engine were first to leave the track, fol lowed by the tank and other cars. One negro was slightly cut on the chin by a fall inside the car, and two negro worrien leaped for safety through windows. About 300 feet of track was torn up. P & N Extension May Be Ratified At Meeting Today Greenville, S. C., Dec. 7.—Stock holders of the Piedmont and North ern railway meeting here tomor row in the offices of the company, will consider ratification of the pro posal of the board of directors for extension of the railway’s lines in South Carolina and North Carolina. Working for the fulfillment of a dream of the late James B. Duke, whereby the tobacco growing sec tion of North Carolina and the fer tile cotton belt of South Carolina would be connected by an electric railway, the P. and N. stockholders are expected to give their endorse ment to at least that part of the proposal, whereby construction of a connecting link of the Piedmont and Northern railway between ; gin in the near future. For undertaking at a later date the proposal of the board of direc tors includes the construction of an extension of the electric railway’s lines from Charlotte to Durham, or Winston-Salem, via Greensboro. According to information made public after the directors meeting | here last month, the proposed ex j tension of the P. and N. would, when finished, represent an ex jpenditure of something like $20, 1000,000. The two parts of the P. and N, are now separated by lack j of tracks between Spartanburg and I Gastonia. i I 2.500 IN SCHOOL IN SHELBY BOOING MONTH NOVEMBER Morgan School I.cads Others Willi 471 Students. Washington School Best Attendance TCi? Shelby school system had 2,500 students in school during the month of November, according to a report issued from the offices of city superintendent I. C. Grif fin. From the standpoint of total at tendance the Morgan school, in South Shelby, led with 471. Next was the Central high school with 404. while the colored schools had an attendance of 373. The average attendance for the ! entire school system fo rfchc month | was 94 percent. The Marion school was next and the high school third. Four branches of the school s>8 tem ranked above i\e general aver age. the colored school having th'' lowest attendance percentage of 85 percent. The full enrollment and attend ance figures for the month follow: School Enroll. Att. Pet High school_404 97 Jefferson _<255 91 Sumter . __238 95 LaFayette -_.322 91 Washington_ 153 99 Marion_ -292 98 Morgan __ 471 92 Colored school_--373 85 2,508 94 Total Must Curb Appetites of Men Long Unrestrained Declares Fed* eral Judge Webb. Greensboro,—Considering that the prohibition law is one that af fects the appetites of men, long ' unrestrained, “it is the best en forced of all laws,” Judge E. Yates Webb, of United States court, West ern North Carolina district, said in charging the grand jury at the opening of a two-weeks' term o/ court. Judge Webb in his charge went back to the days when liquor flow ed freely, contrasting them with the present days of gool roads, good schools and prosperity in North Carolina. Never was there such a transformation as has come about because of prohibition, he said, with the people who used to say I that taxes from the liquor business ! were needed for education being ut terly confounded. Why, the fine school buildings in the rural dis tricts, built since prohibition be came effective, would have been a few years ago a credit to such un iversities as Yale and Harvard, he : declared. | And if liquor were again free, I he said, the good roads would be a ! menace, not a blessing to the peo , pie, with drunken drivers on them, i The judge said that he would take to the woods, instead of using the roads, if there was sale of liquor legalized. The economic effects have been wonderful, he said, with North Car olina solid in prosperity and pro gress, along with the rest of the United States, because of prohibi tion. Besides, he said, the rest of the world, seeing what has been done in America, will come to_ prohibi i tion, already restricting the sale of I liquor in many countries. Preacher’? Suit ' Coming Up Again Says Judge Falls Suit of Rev. C. B. Wray Against Church Here Likely to be Heard Again Soon Some of these days, perhaps, the Way suit against the Shelby Me thodist Protestant church will come to an end. The suit has been in court sev eral times, the latest move being its return from an appeal to the State Supreme court. Representa tive B. T. Falls, of Shelby, who re presents and has represented the defendants, says that he expects a preliminary hearing before the Davidson county recorder at Lex ington at an early date. "More than likely,” Mr, Falls t said, “the case will move on again • to Superior court after the hearing before the recorder. The decision of the Supreme court was that the minister, who is suing for salary alleged due, can not sue the truestees or individuals, I but must sue the church as a quasi | corporation. .This Little Pig Is Worth *56500 . *— ■ ■ ■ .■’’■■'■'.'I* THFi pisj v.oin it, nmi.it f..r a i>rko « f fCSOth That was »l-.» amount ?altl for Nlsht Hawk, At,iJ y.- fiMnd chani.ion bit>o> roi0t:4 C!i!n*J }vuiHit' boar, lit ill AUcrton >arm« ot MontiCtllo, IlL* l^act January! t?f(» aoj if a* ooiit fo. iiCO. NEW LEGAL PROBLEM, OR ODDITY, BOBS UP IN RECORDER’S COURT Defendant Convicted Of Being Drunk Is Freed Because He Was Not Disorderly And Did Not Receive, Jury Reports A cross-word puzzle in law has amanated from the Cleveland coun ty recorder's court. It presents sev eral oddities to the legal profession and will more than likely enliven several discussions among citizens ! not thoroughly acquainted with the technicalities of law. In n recent court case, as infor mation has it, a defendant was charged by the county solicitor with being drunk and disorderly, and with receiving and possessing. The defense attorney asked for a jury trial. Following the evi. dence the jury returned a verdict saying that the defendant was “guilty of being drunk, but not guilty of being disorderly, or of receiving and possessing." An odd verdict though not to be questioned as it was returned by a jury that heard all the evidence and side issues of the case. How ever, it left a problem for County Judge J. P. Mull. If a man has been drunk did he receive or pos sess liquor in becoming so? Is be ing drunk no violation of any law in a bone dry state and nation be cause the defendant is not disor derly? Those were a few of the questions debated by spectators who heard the evidence and talked the matter prior to the sentence. The judgment of the judge brought full acquittal to the defend ant. According to Judge Mull’s opinion, backed by the version of his law books, the defendant could | not be punished for anything by the jury’s verdict. There could be : no punishment for receiving and possessing for the jury declared him not guilty of such; likewise there he was not disorderly and could not be punished for not being An odd happening, that, and a good problem for law students. Under different discussions the legal technicalities of the case as sumes varying views. It was the position of the state in the trial that by a local law a man who is drunk in a public place is also guilty of being disorderly. A gen eral state law has it that he must be “drunk and disorderly” and ap parently with this view was the judgment of Judge Mull. County Solicitor C. A. Burrus says that the case will not be ap pealed but that the ruling in the technical count will be placed be for Superior court by the state. Bureau Estimate Puts Cotton Up About 20 Points When the cotton market opened today ten minutes after the govern ment's estimate was issued on the cotton yield, it showed an advance of about 20 points, but some of this gain was being lost at noon. The crop reporting bureau estimated the yield at 18,618,000 bales. Some of the students in cotton affair?, had expected front 19 to 20.million bales. Two weeks ago the bureau’s estimate was 18,399,000. As the entire crop is practically harvest ed, more importance is being at tached to this report that) any of the others for it shows mofe nearly what the final crop will be. There has been ginned 14,655. 966 bales, showing if government is right in its forecast, four million bales must be ginned yet from the crop to bring it up to the govern ment’s estimate. The acreage was given in the government report to day at 47,653,000. T. W. Hamrick says the fellow who used to have such a time wind ing his Waterbury watch is now spending his time cranking his old Ford. POSTAL RECEIPTS Substantial Gains Arc Shown Month After Month at Shelby Post Office Says Quinn “Looks like business is not suf fering so much from the low price of cotton” says Postmaster Quinn who has finished a check-up in postal receipts of the local office. Postal receipts are usually the best barometer of business condi tions and the following facts should prove encouraging: The receipts of this office for the fiscal quarter ending Sept/30, 1926, showed an increase of $967. 71, or 13.2 per cent over the same period last year, and the first two months of the present quarter show a gain of $719.78, or 13,8 percent over the same months last year. When December receipts for this year are added to October and November, the percentage of gain for this quarter will exceed that of the September quarter. Coran Campbell Sets 4,192 Eggs Spring Broilers—Suttle Hatch ery Has 4.000 Order Suttle’s hatchery in the Carl Thompson building started up thia week and beginning soon, will turn out baby chicks once a week for customers—both those who furnish their own eggs and those who wish to buy chicks of any breed. This hatchery and the other incubators in the county, give promise of making Cleveland county one of the largest poultry counties in North Carolina. Coran Campbell who lives in the Polkville section brought down 4192 eggs from reds, rocks and wyan dottes and these will be hatched in three weeks. Mr. Campbell who is one of the most entorprfcing farm ers of the county and produces more individual farm products than any other farmer in the county, ex pects to raise from 3,000 to 4,000 broilers for sale in the early spring when the priees are at the top. Mr. Suttle stated yesterday that he has an order to deliver 4,000 baby chicks to Mr. H. McConnell who recently came here from Hen derson and is now engaged in building a poultry yard on the Joe (E. Blanton farm just north of I Shelby on the FaHston road. Mr. McConnell is said to be from Penn sylvania and an experienced poul tryman who picked out Cleveland county because he finds the climate here is suitable for poultry raising. It is understood that he will enter the business on a large scale and build his flock up te 5,000 hens. The Suttle incubator has a capa city of 12,000. He is constantly set ting for custom hatching and eggs which he buys locally from which fhe will sell baby chicks. He has a connection with a hatchery in Winston-Salem where there is an incubator of 36,000 capacity so that he can furnish chicks of any breed his customeis might desire on short notice. Bird Seed A little coupe, a lot of gas Two rosy lips all sweet and mellow, Two loving arms, a kiss, more gas, Oh! what a lucky fellow. Pneumonia Victim. Prominent I in Community Life. One of the saddest deaths in re cent months was that of Mrs. Pus chia Lackey, wife of Dr. F, if Lackey of Fallston who passed away at the age of 35 Tuesday morning about 5:30 o’clock in t'uf Shelby hospital where she had beer • a patient for 16 days, suffering with pneumoni. The rery best merf* ical aid could not overcome her af fliction and in the anxious days oj|' waiting, the family would now ant then find a ray of hope for her re eovery, to have such hope shatterf ed again by a turn for the worn! She had been desperately ill for afl week or ten days. Funeral at Fallston Today. J The funeral was conducted thi' afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at FalUf ton by Rev. J. M. Morgan, assists ed by Rev. J. W. Fitzgerald. A largi crowd attended in evidence of th|‘ high esteem in which she was hetfSg by her wide circle of friends and :f; rich floral offering of forty or fift.'f designs were banked on her ncv * made mound. Pall bearers wer. Talmadge Lee, Herman Beam, Et erett Spurling, Tom Stamey jr., F. Hamrick and C. C. Falls. Mrs. Lackey before marria,*, was Miss Fuschia Lackey daugl ter of Ex-sheriff and the late Mrtj W. D. Lackey, one of the county, most prominent families. After slf finished school in this county st attended Davenport college and si cialized in music, being very tL ented along this line. In 1918 sh was married to Dr. F. H. Lack* of Fallston and this union wi blessed with five children, Virgin! Eline, F. H., Edwin and Ewejf ranging in ages from 1 to 7 year, Mrs. Lackey’s mother preceded ht to the grave. Also surviving at her husband, father, Ex-Sheriff D. Lackey one sister, Mrs. C. Young and three brothers, Lay rence, Robert and Cline, all of SI by. Mrs. Lackey possessed a brii and cheerful disposition and always a companion with her dren. She entered into their was always interested in her band’s welfare and the welfare his patients, was active in chnr work and particularly interested the school work and community b terment. A doctor’s wife usual has a hard life, but Mrs. Lackr found duty a pleasure and p^ss sed a wonderful knack of dispat ing her household cares with eat and grace. She first joined the Me| odist church, but transferred hi membership to the Methodist Prf testant about a year ago to be wi j her husband of whom she was most devoted companion -.In t’’ community she was loved by and her death in the prime 1 j young womanhood is a deepest sc row throughout the county. Town* On Route Of Seaboard To Share Lake Boot Monroe—Recent developments .jp the Lake Lure and Chimney Rc country carry a hint of somethl® good for Monroe. W. M. Gordif has lately been up in that territcS : and is enthusiastic over what ft has seen and heard. Out of it M«®| roe is going to get at least a of summw traffic and eventual^ may get from it a bustle in the S#‘| board towards constructing m link between here and McBce, S. fc declares Mr. Gordon. He also states that the Lake Li|; 1 corporation has made a contrav with the Pennsylvania railroad | ; bring passengers who are prospf tive buyers from the North. 7| railroad will deliver them to f Lake Lure people in Washing: g city, thence they will be brought v' Pullman busses to Lake Lure. T| service will begin in the Spring | In the meantime the Seabofi Air line has named Lake Lure i-t Chimney Rock as its official mo tain resort and will put on a § advertising campaign. It will | Pullman cars from Washington^.' Rutherfordton and from there t S the passengers on to Chimney R f and its own bus line, which ! already been provided for. All 1 this traffic, both from the Nip and from Florida, will of co»| come through Monroe. Mr. Warfield, president of ; Seaboard, declares that the Sli board will sooner'or later havc| considerer seriously the matteif j shortening its route from mountain section to Florida, this shortening can only take by constructing the link Monroe and McBee. Since the board has just completed its link in Florida. It is now in tion to consider matters
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