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I Tn«mb«r | North Carolina PRESS ASSOCIATION H VOL. XXXIV, No. 4 SHELBY, N. «J. MONDAY, JAN. 10, 1927. •*«*•»* Monday. Wedneaday and Friday Afternoon-. r THE News .TIIE STAR’S REVIEW. Snow! Smiles for the youngsters and frowns for their elders.. Such is life. A leading citizen says the coun ty should accept the proposal of Commissioner Kistler, lend the high way commission five hundred thou sand dollars and get more paved roads for this county. A big snake wrapped around a pump shaft temporarily held up Shelby’s water supply last week. A mass meeting of the women of Cleveland county will be held Wed nesday afternoon at the high school auditorium here. Every wo Representative Falls will likely attempt to put over his Australian ballot bill at this session of the legislature according to news dis patches from Raleigh. Young teachers—old teachbrs! Read what a former Shelby news paperman has to say about school teachers in this county. The Baptist banquet at Boiling Springs last week was considered a big success according to a dis patch from that town. • * * man in the county is urged to at tend. The big Masonic meeting will be held tomorrow night at the temple here. * * • An important real estate deal of recent weeks is announced in this issue. * * * The Battery, a Shelby business firm, was closed Saturday evening. • » * Spurgeon Spurling is now' the solicitor of this court district, suc ceeding R. L. Huffman, who serv ed for 11 years. Mercantile Firm Owned by Ike Berger and M. S. Darholt Closed Its Doors. The Battery, a general merchan dise store occupying the.W,.C Whisnant building on N. LaFay ette street and owned by Ike Ber ger and M. S. Darholt, was locked up by authorities Saturday night about G o’clock. Creditors were pushing their claims so the store went into receivership, W. C. Whis nant being appointed receiver. This store had operated in Shelby for several years and until recently was thought to be getting along nicely since it did a cash business. It is estimated that creditors have claims amounting to $21,000, while toe stock of goods is inventoried at about $9,000. Recently letters were sent out t: the creditors offering to settle ac counts on a 25 per cent basis ii all would accept that in full. Many of the creditors refused to settle on this basis, demanding all or willing to accept nothing. ADout a year ago Berger anu Oarholt opened the Edwin store, an installment plan clothing store, which did not succeed ad this was closed some weeks ago with many unpaid accounts owing to the store. Berger and Darholt say they have been in business 17 years and that thi? is the first assignment they have made. ' COTTON MARKETS illy Jno. F. Clark and 0> Cotton was quoted at noon today on New York exchange: January March 13.12; May 13.29; October 13.63. /ork, Jan. 10.—Liverpool m. as due except October 4 American points lower than duo( spot sales 8,000, middling 6.96 vs. 6.98. Saturday. Southern weather last night most 1" dear, temperatures 28 to 44. North Carolina had showers. Of ficial exports last week were 323, 455 hales vs. 226,800 last year and for season 5,776,078 vs. 4,798,373 bales last year. Oood business in Worth street Saturday prices about 1-8 up, sales for the week estimated over half a million pieces. New Bedford re ports more inquiry by mills but spinners turning to lower grades because of high basis for good grades. Receipts cotton at five New Eng land mill centers in December were 106,000 vs. 168,000 bales last year. Manchester cable reports marked increase in inquiries for cotton goods. Buy cotton conservatively, mills are apparently poorly supplied and have to buy a lot. Mrs. Locke, Mrs. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Hord of Hickory, were here Saturday to attend the funeral of Billy Shuford, the elev en months old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Shuford. Several Leaders for Lending Sum to Highway. Would Better Conditions With I*. & N. “The best thing that could hap pen to Cleveland county now would 1 be to accept the proposal of Com I missioner Kistler and lend $500, | 0C0 to the highway commission for j completing road paving in Cleve ! land at the same time work to 1 bring the P. and N. extension i through Shelby,” was the senti ment expressed today by one of the leading business men of the | town and county. “We should not hesitate about I making the loan for the rbads. We , will get our money back—with 5 : per cent interest—and we will get ; some fine paved roads that will mean much to the county. This will be in addition to the added | work for men and stock by the 1 road program that would pave all ! Highway 18 and one or two other routes. Then if wt could get the | P. and N. extension it would mean ; all the work our folks could do and | at the same time it would thor oughly open up our county to motor and rail traffic. Such a move, mean ! ing that of making the loan, woul d ; be the best thing to be done now to | steady labor conditions,” the busi ness man continued. Leaders Favor It. General, street talk is that coun ty leaders as well as the major portion of the citizenship would favor the move. However, therv is a sentiment that the loan should be made to the highway commission for the purpose of paving our roads and then the remainder of the pow er should be with <»ie commission to survey and pave the routes the surveys show to be the best. Gen erally it is also thought that the construction work that would be offered by the paving of two or three roads would greatly tide labor conditions over a strenuous period. Billy Shuford Is Pneumonia Victim Billy Shuford. the 11-months-cld child of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Shuford, died Friday at the home of Mr. John A. Weaver, its grandfather on East Marion street following an illness of a week or ten days with bronchial pneumonia. The child v.as born February 1st of last year and was the jphfile and joy of the home, being the* first and only child. For awhile the parents lived in Hickory but returned to Shelby three or four months ago, the mother being formerly Miss Gertrude Weaver, daughter of Mr. John A. Weaver, popular city postman. The funeral was conducted Sat urday afternoon from the Weaver residence by by Rev. Zeno Wad D. D., and the interment was in Sun set cemetery. The bereaved family has the sympathy of their host of friends. Steals A Bale Of Cotton, Is Caught As A Coal Miner Richard McDowell who stole a bale of cotton from Paul Allen in No. 5 township, sold it and pocket ed the money, thought he was safe underground in a coal mine down in Lee county where he got a job, but Deputy Tom Sweezy learned of his whereabouts, went down to the mine last week and placed him un der arrest. McDowell stole a bale of cotton in the seed, drove it to Carpenters gin in Gaston county a few weeks ago, had the bale gin ned and sold it to the cotton buy er. After he got the money, he left for parts unknown at the time, but Deputy Sweezy learned that he had gotten a job in the Comnock mine down in Lee county, so last week the deputy went down and placed the negro under arrest, bringing him to Shelby where he is now in jail to await a hearing this week. . McDowell, it is understood, is al so wanted in Gastort county to ans wer charges of false pretense, be ing charged with giving a moit gage on cows which he did not own. Cow Thief Must Work Four Months Andy Brown, colored, who last week was charged with stealing a ! cow, trading her for a gray mule and $5, was given a sentence oi | four months by Recorder John 1 ■ ' Mull, according to officers. Brown it is remembered turned 'the mule loose and had only vl.e when arrested. 2 BARNETTE SPEAKS TO BAPTIST MEET OF CHURCH HEADS Association Will Send Washburn to Conference. Annual Banquet Of Worker and Pastors. Boiling Springs, Jan. 8.—The second annual banquet for pastors and Sunday-school superintendents of Kings Mountain Baptist associa tio, which was held Friday night, January Tth in the dining room of the Boiling Springs high school was pronounced a decided success. Seated about the banquet table, which presented a very festive ap pearance with its potted plants and | evergreens, and white candles tied with bright red bows, were about 75 representatives of the various churches of the association. Mrs. Ritch, the school dietitian, who prepared the appetizing dinner merited the numerous remarks of ! praise and appreciation for the de licious repast which was faultlessly served by a number of the stu dents who looked very bright and attractive in their uniforms of white. During the dinner hour, mem bers of the choral club accompanied by the school orchestra rendered I several delightful musical selec ! tions. V V. Washburn, the association i al field worker, who had charge of the program, was complimented upon his faithful work among the churches during the past two ears, in which he has served—and upon the suggestion ot jtev. j. »iactt, pastor of the First church, Kings Mountain, a purse was made, ade quate to send Mr. Washburn to the Southwide Sunday school confer ence, which meets in Memphis. Tenn., January 18th. Rev. J. W. Suttle, perhaps had the largest number of members present from his field of six church es, but Rev. Mr. Black, of Kings Mountain had the largest represen tation from any one church, his t delegation being 16. ! The outstanding speaker of the evening was Mr. Jasper N. Bar nette, of Hickory, Sunday school secretary of Western North Caro lina, Mr. Barnette, gave his inter ested listeners a backward and for ward look of the great work of Sunday school teaching and train ing, showing what had been ac complished in the past, with a view | of the mammoth work yet to be Hon". He stressed the importance of following our worthy Baptist Sunday school program, which if definitely and closely adhered to. will result in better Sunday j school work. His address was im ■ mensely enjoyed by those present ; and all went away feeling that “It | was good to have been there.” Spurling Goes In As New Solicitor i Former Cleveland County Boy Suc ceeds Huffman Who Has Served Eleven Years. i _ Morganton,—After nearly eleven years of service as solicitor in this district Mr. R. L. Huffman’s term of office expired last Friday and he was succeeded by Mr. L. S. Spurling of Lenoir, who was nominated in the primary last July and elected in November. Mr. Huffman was not a candidate for reelection. Mr. [■purling took the oath of office on Saturday in Lenoir. Mr. Huffman was appointed so licitor by Governor Craig almost eleven years ago to succeed the late Thomas M. Newland, of Lenoir. Following his appointment he was elected to the office at four succeed ing elections. This judicial district comprises the counties of Burkt, Caldwell. Lincoln, Cleveland and Catawba. Mr. Huffman has been a fear less prosecutor for the state and has given himself unreservedly to the exacting duties of solicitor. He will devote his time now altogeth er to private practice. Dr. Hoyle Dixon was a visitor in Gastonia Sunday. j NEW INDUSTRY FOR TOWN IS NEARING According to information considered definite, Shelby within a short time will hear of a new industry that will be located here. With real estate moving at good prices, as evidenced by recent trades, and with tl.e likely paving of three more hard-surfaced roads in the county business conditions are expected to continue on the improve in the county, business leaders seem to ihmk. SNOW/ n n Big Snake And Catfish Cut Off Shelby fs Water Supply Pump At Water Station Refuse To Work And Water Moccasin Found Wrapped Around Shaft A big water moccasin., and a good-sized catfish cut off Shelby’s water supply from one pump at the new water station last Friday, it is learned. Which is the latest—and the biggest—of nature freaks. The desire for a meal of catfish , he followed into an enclosure cost the water snake his life together with that of a fish and offered city water officials one of the big gest puzzles. Friday R. V'. Toms, superinten dent of the water plant, was called to the station and informed that one of the big pumps driving wa ter from the river up to the settling baoin refused to work. Mr. Toms journeyed down to the river took the pump apart and on the inner shaft found an ike and fish wrap ed around it. Both were dead. Therein came the puzzle: How did the two-and-one-half foot snake and the fish get into the pump? Superintendent Toms has only one explanation. That is that the snake chasing the fish ran into the pump while it was being erected last sum mer and has since that time wrap ped itself about the shaft. That the snake could have entered the pump since it has been closed up is an impossibility. The pump is shut off from the water by a thick wire screen, which permits nothing larg er than one-fourth of an inch to pass through—making it impossible for either the snake or fish to have entered since the screen was put up. Although the odd freak cut off the pump supply until the snake was removed it did not in reality cut off the city’s water supply as the big basins were full and the pump was soon back at work. Lexington. EditorJTakes Hat Off To Old Teachers In This County The following from an editorial' by E. E. Witherspoon, former Shelby newspaperman, in the Lex ington Dispatch will be of inter est in this county as it discusses tha “need” cited by a Star reader for “older teachers:” If there are any young women in ! the teaching profession who have begun to look with pity upon themselves as “old maid school teachers,” let them take heart from a little incident that is re ported from Shelby. A newspaper j is asking for a list of “needs” for I the “city of springs” and the coun I ty of which it is capital, and of ! fers prizes for the best sugges i tions. One contributor listed | among the needs “older and more j experienced teachers.” i The bright young women coming out of college and beginning their I work as teachers may not apprec j iate this desire of the Clevelander, I but the veterans will really get a ! kick out of it. Seriously though, ‘ any community that is fortunate | enough to have among its teach ers a group of earnest women who ! have stuck to the school room for | several years and to whom teach ing is vocation and not mere avo cation, possesses a splendid asset. It doesn’t matter whether these teachers are wives, widows or maids by design or accident, their value is beyond estimation. And it is a fortunate thing too for young womon teaching for the first time to find themselves work ing alongside those of solid exper ience. It is hard indeed to make a good teacher without proper founu ation training and a knowledge of the theory of instruction, but to these things experience must be added to obtain the best result. Our hat is off to those teachers who have stood by the desk for years and given of the choicest period of their lives to the new generation, and we are glad that someone in Shelby gave force to this point by putting them down as a community “need.” And all honor, too, to these fine young women who leave the classic walls 1 our colleges each year and go forth hopefully to the task of moulding and directing young , minds into the ways of usefulness, i Yes sir, we’ll take ours mixed! ! Oscar Palmer Buys Nice Business L ot One of the largest realty deals in recent weeks was con sumated when Mr. Oscar Pal mer groceryman, bought from Mr. Wilbur Baber the Baber residence at the corner of Sum ter and N- LaFayette streets. The lot has a frontage of 65 feet and a depth of 130 feet, close enough in to be consid ered business property. Con sideration is given at $12,800. In the transaction Mr. Palmer traded to Mr. Baber seven lots in the Cleveland Springs Park estate. Mr. Palmer says he has no immediate plans for the devel opment of this property, hut contemplates some time in the J future, building a couple of i store rooms thereon. Just Add Teamster To His Other Fame The fame of Max Gardner is varying. Such develops from news dispatches. Says the Durham Sun editorial ly: “What’s the matter with Shel by’s correspondent to the state press? A story went out recently telljng of a speech by O. Max Gard ner, ‘a local attorney.’ Gosh! Is that all the fame he has?” So for the benefit of the Bull town editors it might be added that Gardner during the Spanish-Ameri can war was a teamster in an Il linois regiment. FIRST SNOWFALL OF SEASON HERE Shelby anil Cleveland county awoke this morning to find a one and one-half inch blanket of snow covering the ground—the section’s first snowfall of the 1926-27 sea son, rather the first snow to cover the ground. Those out late last night, of course, were aware of the falling flakes before this morning, but t.» the major portion of the county the white-capped landscape this morn ing came as a surprise. Asheville, Jan. 9.—Snow which started falling shortly after dark is covering the western North Car olina plateau with a heavy white blanket tonight. Reports from Murphy to Black Mountain indicates that the fall is general. This is the first real snow fall of the winter in Asheville, al though the mountains around the city have been covered much of the time. Prominent Woman Guilty Killing Lad With Auto Greensboro, Jan. 19.—Mrs. Frank i P. Morton, prominent Greensboro i woman, was Friday afternoon in Guilford superior court convicted of the charge of manslaughter, which was the outgrowth of fatal injuries inflicted upon William Hat taway, G-year-old white boy, on ! May 20, 1926, when he was knock ed down and run over by Mrs. Mor ton’s car which was coasting back ward down a street in the residen tial section of the city. Mrs. Morton collapsed when the jury returned with a verdict of guil- ' ty with a recommendation for j mercy after having had the case ' for but 55 minutes. At the time of the accident Mrs. Morton was permitting her car to coast backwards with its engine j idle. She testified that she looked j back as she entered her car in front j of a son’s home and saw no one on the street at all, therefore she did not think it necessary to continue looking backward, or in the direc tion the car was going. Mrs. Morton is a widow, her hus band, a well known hotel man who had operated hotels at a number of places in the state, having died a few years ago. She has two sons, Frank and Joseph, both grown. She is prominently connected in this section. On the witness stand Fri day she gave her age as 48. Several local people say that Mis. Morton is the wife of the late Frank Morton who at one time operated Cleveland Springs hotel here. Meeting Health Board Deferred The scheduled meeting of the county board of health was not held this morning owing to the unavoid able absence of two members of the board. It was planned at the time to name the county physician for the next year, but this was not done as all members were not pres ent. The meeting, it is said, will be held here Friday. i; Farm Women Of Cleveland Will Meet Here Wednesday Mass Meeting Of Farm Wives And Club Women Scheduled For 2 In Afternoon, Want Big Attendance. W. H. Jennings Died at 3 O’clock The large circle of friend* of former Mayor W. H. Jennings will he grieved to learn that he died at three o'clock this afternoon. No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral serv ice. FM.LSEXPECTEB TO STURT FIGHT FOB HIS BILLOT l i Cleveland Reresentative Will Try to Get Australian Over A (fain. On Committee. The following news article in the Raleigh News and Observer should be of interest to Cleveland county citizens: Representative B. T. Falls, of Cleveland county, who led the fight for the Australian ballot in the last legislature, is back in Raleigh for another session of the general as ! sembly. He is receiving much encourage ment from members of the legis lature. Severarmembers ofTFTe last legislature, who opposed the Aus tralian ballot, have announced that they will support such a bill in the present session. Representative Falls was in con ference with a number of friends of the Australian ballot yesterday, and work was begun on the prepara tion of a bill. Virginia has the Aus tralian ballot law, and this is being studied. It will probably be sev eral days yet before the bill is put in final shape for presentation to the legislature. The Guilford delegation comes to Raleigh pledged to support the Australian ballot, and if they can not secure the passage of such u law for the state it will be put into operation for that county. Several members of the Legislature are re ported to have come with bills pro-, viding for the Australian ballot. The vote on the Australian ballot bill was so close in the House that it was defeated only by a parlia mentary move, and with the grow-j ing sentiment favoring such an el- j ection law for the state it is be lieved that the chances for the pas sage of such a law at this session! are very favorable. Representative Falls has receiv-j ed assurance of support from all sections of the state. Dispatches Saturday stated that Judge Falls had been named as a member of the important legisla tive committee on education, func tioning with Connor as leader. Woman Of 60 And Man Of 70 Marry To Sart Off 1927 Only Four Couples Have Received License Here So Far This Year. Lull Now. “Better late than never” per chance was the motto of one of the first couples to be married in this county in the New Year. The record books at the county court house shows that'among the first couples to receive license on New Year’s day was a colored man of 70 years and his bride of just 60 summers. Only Few Couples The holiday rush for marriage li cense that Register Andy Newton experienced apparently fulfilled all the hurried needs of Cupid in the county for since the final spurt of December and Yuletide only four ‘couples have sought marriage li cense. During December a near record number of “hitching papers” were sold and as is customary with all business a lull appears to have fol lowed the busy season. Hon. O. Max Gardner speaks to morrow to a gathering of represen tative farmer in Wadesboro. Every farm wife and community club member in C leveland county is wanted at a big mass meeting of Cleveland county women to be held at the Central school . r.iditoritim here Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The call for the meeting cornea from Mrs. Irma Wallace, county agent, and it is desired by her to have the biggest meeting ever of farm women. The meeting merns that Cleve land county women intend to step along with their husbands in the program to make Cleveland county farms profitable. With very little time to advertise the meeting every effort possible is being made to at tract a Ir-ge crowd. •Miss bstahrook Speaks. Miss Helen Estabrook, state spe cialist in home work, will be the main speaker, and the general out line of the meeting will be similar to that of the gathering of farm men held here last week. Mrs. Wat* lace believes that the “better half' of Cleveland county farms has about as much to do with a farm’s suc cess as the men and her idea is to prove it at the meeting. The wo men are the ones who see about the vegetables, the canning, awl the other little sidelines that feed the farm family she says, and to her to appeal will b e made to have Cleveland county feed itself and diversify in the home and on the farm to prevent ruin by overpro ducton of cotton. The meeting will be directly on thu topic of home making and will branch out in other details. "YVe do not want the weather to keep down our atendance. 1Y fact, farm wives of Cleveland county are hard to stop any way, and we want every community club in the county to see that every wo man in the club section is at the meeting,” says Mrs. Wallace. The formal announcement of th gathering follows: All women of Cleveland count interested in the subject of hnn making will be glad to know thi Miss Helen Eat a brook, state sp< cialist in clothing and house fur ishing, will be with us for a mee ing on this subject next week. T meeting will be held in the an torium of the Shelby Central schc building, Wednesday afternoon ; o’clock. This meeting is in a ma ner a companion one to that of tl farmers held last Tuesday._Th farm and the home are the tw< chief cornerstones of the America) republic, and they must... always work hand in hand for the upbuild ing of this nation of ours. There fore we wish to invite all women who are interested in the home to be present, and we also extend to each the privilege of bringing her husband. Star Read Among Cleveland Farmers That The Cleveland Star is read and has drawing power among the rural sections of Cleveland county was never better evidenced than by the general farm meetings of last week. Practically all public nofire of the farm meeting here, address ed by Gardner and Millsaps, was through The Star and the main au ditorium of the court house vva. practically filled at the meeting several hundred farmers being in attendance. Similar meetings wTere held in practically all cotton counties that week and one other county reported less than 30 farmers present, while others ranged up to 150. Natural ly all cotton farmers were directly interested in the meeting, consider ing present cotton prices, and tha large crowd here, surpassing other counties even served by daily pa pers, is a pretty good indication that farming Cleveland reads Tho Star. Annual Meeting Boy Scouts Here Tuesday, Jan. 15 A meeting of the leaders of th Boy Scout movement in this see tion will be held at Clevelan Springs hotel here on Tuesda night, January 18, beginning at o’clock, it is announced by Fred Smyre, of Gastonia, head of t! Piedmont Council of Boy Scouts. Reports of the work accomplish ed in Cleveland, Gaston, Lincolj Polk and Rutherford will be hear and plans for another year’s wot ' will be outlined. A nominating to mittee will present nominations f president, treasurer and scout co missioner of the council and a chi man of each county committee. Max Gardner, of Shelby, will be i chief speaker of the evening.