North Carolina Newspapers

Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoon#. By mail, per year (in advance)_f2.5L By carrier, per year (in advance) |3 (R What’i THE News .THE STAR’S REVIEW. While a cold wave sweeps over the country, dropping far below zero at some points, Shelby is well fonte’it with the mercury at the free ing point along with frozen automobile and icy streets. Only 17 North Carolina counties have smaller debts than this coun ty, The debt per Cleveland county inhabitant is very low according to statistics in today's Star. Mr. A. V. Washburn, one of the best known and most successful chinch and Sunday school workers in the state, will change his field of work, it is announced in this paper. During his service to the Kings Mountain Baptist association the Stmday. sehool enrollment has pass ed the ehwrch enrollment. An important trade announce ment of today is'that A. V. Wray and six sons have bought out the interests of W. H. Hudson in thy Wray-Hudson firm. Trie new Superior court solici tor, Spurgeon Spurling, native of this county, will prosecute at the next term of court here, according to a news item. Can you guess how much gaso line Cleveland county burns in o ie year? Read the figures given by The Star today and mind how “you step on it.” Castonia is pulling for Shelby to get the P. & N. Extension. Shelby shouldn’t let any slack get in her ♦wn pulling. The second session of the exten sion school here begins next week. * * * New' officers of the Cleveland Springs Golf club were elected on Thursday night and a big spring and summer of golf is expected here. » * » Has a divorce case ever been con tested in this county? Local law yers do not think so. The Star says today that one may be contested next court. * * * Inquiries about tobacco sales centers of Shelby reveal that very few Shcdby girls smoke—or at least, very few of them buy their own cigarettes. * * * Shelby is to back the Boy Scout movement it is learned froju .a re port of last night’s Kiwanis meet ing. Several minor wrecks have been reported in Shelby today. A Mor ganton man was right painfully in jured early in the morning when his truck skidded and turned over. * * * Interesting items on every page of this issue. The Star today has more “home news” than any aver age newspaper published in the state. S. S. Membership More Than Church Roll Of Baptists In the two years A. V, Wash h'.ir has been Sunday school worker in the Kings Mountain Baptist association. the Sunday school enrollment has increased 2720 and now exceeds the combin ed church membership of the for.v odd churches in the associa te according to latest statistics available. This record is equall ed or exceeded by few associations in the Southern Baptist Conven ’ on Usually the Sunday school enrollment is considerably under tha church membership, but due to t’r" active and effective work of Mr. Washburn, this situation has been reversed. In 1924 when he became assoeiational worker there no- 9.499 church members with in the association and 6,9^4 on the 'l| - of the various Sunday school?. T^r« has been an in ncasc the church rolls " le thtSfljicreases on the Sunday ^hool r<jlbt has jumped from ■C.91M to 9,754. Church membership n ",707 against 9,754 fof the Sun- j nay school, giving thi Sunday I Slhools a majority of 45. Consolidation Is Far From Ending Although many schools have j hen consolidated in Cleveland county and general improvement J lfi already noted by the improved ach,ol facilities of consolidation, the county consolidation plan is the perfect program, ac corling to Supt. J. II. Grigg. It •'■ay take several years yet to car r u '1 coml,*et'e program. »ith consolidation, as planned, 'a effect over the entire county t 'ere would be only 25 schools dis tncts. There are about 61, the number moving down from some Where around 90. Local Bottler Buvt* Wilkesboro Plant r in1* Wilkesboro.—The Chero ola Boiling company here has “'em sold by A. E. Spainhour, of "is city, to E. Holcomb, of Shel ly The new owner has arrived to ■ake charge of the plant. i ONLY 17 COUNTIES HAVE A LOWER BONDED DEBT THAN THIS COUNTY --—- . ut the 100 counties in North Carolina only 17 have a lower bonded debt than Cleveland county, according to statistics prepared by the department of Rural Social Economics of the State university. That is, a lowered bonded debt considering the listed wealth of the county. The bonded debt of Cleveland county is *939,000, or only 2.45 per cent, of the county wealth list ed for taxation. The bonded debt per inhabitant in Cleveland county is $25.10, while in some counties the debt per in habitant runs over $100. Although Mecklenburg has a lower percent of indebtedness the debt per inhab-1 itant there is $30.73. In adjoining counties the bonded debt per 'n habitant is: Rutherford, $03; Lin coln, $49,50; Catawba, $27.42. Rutherford county’s bonded debt is $2,104,000, and Lincoln’s is $909,500. The bonded debt per inhabitant in Cleveland county is $15.25 less than the average bonded debt per inhabitant for all the counties in the state, which is $40.35. The state average of total wealth and the percentage of debt is 4.10, while in this county it is only 2.46. GOLF CLUB ELECTS VEARLY OFFICERS Judge Webb, Dr. Wall, Dr. Me Braver and John Schenck Tell of the Virtues of Game. Chas. L. Eskridge was re-elect ed president of the Cleveland Springs Golf club Thursday night at a meeting at Cleveland Springs. R. T. LeGrand vice-president, Max Washburn secretary-treasurer and the following board ,_of_ directors: John Schenck, O. M. Mull, Jack Do ver, Oliver Anthony and Earl Ham rick. The meeting of the club mem bers was held following a meeting of the Kiwanis club where short but interesting talks were made by Rev. Zeno Wall, Judge E. Y. Webb, Dr. Reuben McBrayer and John Schenck, sr. Each speaker stressed the importance of play and recrea tion in human life and declared that a man whose job is more or less confining should adopt golf as a regular means of moderate exercise and recreation, keeping the mind and body alert and active. It is par ticularly recommended for those who have reached the age of forty. Each speaker told of outside golf players who had played the new course at Cleveland and found it to be equal to the best and better than many. The talks were practical and helpful and found attentive listen ers. The local club has a member ship of 36 and the dues in he local club are lower than anywhere else because the course is furnished by the Cleveland Springs estates. Mr. Eskridge who presided at both meetings, the Kiwanis club and the golf club, told of a number of im provements which should be made on the course this year if a wav can be found to finance them. Wa ter will be piped to each green, more hazai’ds built, each hazard will have sand on the bottoms of the pits, fertilizer will be pur chased and used on the greens and fairways, a new tractor mower will be purchased for use when the grass comes out. While a membership committee was appointed, each member is urged to solicit more golfers to join the club. President Eskridge au pointed the following committees: on membership, E. Y. Webb, Reu ben McBrayer, Earl Hamrick and Pitt Beam: on fairways and greens 0. M. Mull, John Schenck, Oliver Anthony; on club house J. F. Jen kins, Jack Dover, Hal Schenck and Lee B. Weathers. Words of praise were spoken for Mr. Lyle, the pro fessional who has done so much for the club and the course. He will be re-elected by the directors at a subsequent meeting. Wall To Assist Ordaining Pastor Spindale—Oh next. Tuesday aft ernoon the Presbytery will convene here at four o’clock and at seven in the evening Mr. Watson Abrams, of Boiling Springs, a candidate for the ministry of the Baptist church, will be ordained with impressive ceremonies in the Spindale church. Among those who will take part in the ordination are the Dr. Zeno Wall, of Shelby; Dr. W. A. Ayers, of Forest City; Rev M. A. Adams, D. D., of Rutherfordton; Rev. J. R. Green, of Boiling Springs; Rev. R. C. Smith, of Cliffside, and Profes sor J. D. Hudgins, of Boiling Springs. Mr. P. L. Hennessa Died At 2:45 Today Mr. P. L. Hennessa, one of Shel by’s best known business men and ! a member of the Paragon Furniture company, died at his home here abodt 2:45 this after noon, his hundreds of friends will regret to learn. Funeral arrangements had not been made when The Star went to press. .Baptist Associate nal Worker Re-j signed Here; Will Do Re- j gional Work West A. V. Washburn, associational worker of the Kings Mountain Baptist'association has tendered his resignaton and accepted a larger and more promising field of labor. After the first week in March he will move with Mrs. Washburn to their new field em br’c'ng six associations west of Asheville from Haywood to Cher okee counties and do similar work to that he has been doing in the Kings Mountain association. Here he has been under the local as sociation and the state board of i missions. In his new field he will j be under the state board which has recognized his wonderful achievements and elevated him to a broader field of usefulness. Since Mr. Washburn has been serving the Baptists of the Kings j Mountain association for a little over two years, he has raised the dumber of standard Sunday school from one to 16. When he took the work, the Double Springs church from which he comes, had l the only “A” grand standard Sunday school in this association. He is an untiring worker and has had much to do with the teacher; training courses and young peoples j work in this association, showing ] the results ever accomplished. Mrs. Washburn is also a splendid work er, devoted to the cause and coh secrated to young peoples work. She will continue to do elementary work when they move to the moun tain section. The local association has taken no steps as yet to select a suc cessor to Mr. Washburn. Cold Snap Makes Driving Hard For Shelby Autoists Thursday Radiators, Wheels and What-nots Were Frozen. To day Cars Need Spikes. The thermometer took a plunge downward in Shelby Wednesday night with the result that motorists of Shelby and the county enjoyed anything but perfect driving thurs day and Friday. Garage men and service station proprietors say that alcohol wa3 in great demand Thursday, but that radiators and new batteries were in greater demand. Several service stations vPere completely out of oil Thursday night, and one station had so many rent batteries out while the others were being charg ed that they ran out of batteries. Ebeltoft’s thermometer register ed only about 28 Thursday morn ing but a cutting wind made it one of the most unpleasant forenoons Shelby has ever experienced. Not only were radiators frozen but sev eral cars would not even budge when pulled, water on the brakes having frozen so as to prevent the wheels turning. An unusual incident for Shelby weather was that one car'Trozen up in front of the court view hotel could not be pulled by another car and a truck had to be called into use. As it was the rear wheels would not turn and they slid on the pavement all the wry to the service station, damaging the tires considerably. Friday morning the biting wind of Thursday was missing but the thermometer was again down to 28, somewhat below freezing, and a steady drizzle of the night and morning froze on the streets and sidewalks almost as fast as it felt, the result being that numerous minor wrecks were reported during the morning. Pedestrians on the sidewalks, although ver ycareful, took repeated flops, and numerous horses slipped and fell on the icy streets in the morning, including the horse driven by Moses Taub, veteran mail deliveryman. PULLING FOR SHELBY. < (Gastonia Gazette.) Here's hoping Shelby will , win the I’, and N. railroad. | The Cleveland county folks | are putting up some mighty I strong arguments why the I road should be routed by j Shelby. The remarkable growth during the past five | years is cited as one of the | principal arguments, irias- | much as the and N. her I expressed the view that fo- l ture growth ami expansion j constitute one of the big . factors in tin- dec:sion. , Shelby is one of the best | towns in Piedmont North I Carolina and w ■ \v >uli like I to see the electric line run- J ning through the < runty of Cleveland. 1 Effort Will be Made by the Manu facturing Plants and liiwanis Club to Sponsor Scouts. Following the report of a cor..-j mittee composed of John W. Har-j bison, R. T. LeGrand and I. C ! Griffin who had held conferences j with the pastors of the various, churches and heads of local indus trial plants recommending that an effort be made to sponsor bojr; scout troops in Shelby that $500 be raised from the industrial plants and $500 by the Kiwanis club, President George Blanton appoint-; ea unver Anthony, Jonn McHnignt. and O. M. Mull, a committee from j the churches and John Torus, J. R. | Wyckle, Jack Dover, I. €. Griffin' and R. T. LeGrand a committee : from the industrial plants. Each' corhmittee will endeavor to raise i a $500, thus establishing a fund to j support the cause. It was recommended that scout troops be organized in the various churches and in the several indus-: trial sections with a view of train ing the youth in scout affairs. A! ready there are two troops her 1 and a third was organized at the Presbyterian church Wednesday night of this week with Jimmie , Blanton as scout master. The effort the Kiwanis club ;s ; putting forth is in line with the an nounced » nr pose of Kiwanis Inter national to do something for un derprivileged children. The two committees will set to work at once and if the $1,000 is! available, steps will be taken to per feet a number of organizations. -. Cupid Minds Not Age In Business Of recent weeks Cupid’s pranks in Cleveland county seem to have been centered on the elderly folks, j Yet hearts of any age never seem j puncture proof against his shafts.! One of the first license issued here this year was to a couple far beyond the half century mark, while on Wednesday of this week Register Andy Newton sold the necessary marriage papers to a colored man of 67 and his happy bride of only 70 years. The couple came from the Poik ville section of the county, it is said, and returned to that section to be married. Here To Establish Automobile Agency J. C. Park, special field repres entative of the Oakland and Pon tiac automobiles and J. J. Barnes, of the Barnes-Young Motor com pany, Charlotte distributors for these popular makes of cars, were in Shelby yesterday looking to the establishment here of an agency for these Genera] Motor products. They have a number of prospec tive dealers in mind and in all probability will close in a few days thus establishing an agency for both the Portiac and Oakland here in Shelby. The Pontiac is a new product of the General Motors company and has met with won- ] derful success since it was intro- ] Firemen Answer Early 'Morn Call, •The city fire department answer- i ed an alarm about 6 o’clock this j morning at the home of Mr. Nat i Bowman on West Warren street, where a small fire had started un der the floor below the grate. The blaze was extinguished with very little damage. It is thought that coals sifting through below the floor caused it to catch. in guvs out OKI im FOB OIS 0 BOSS Big Retail Store Hereafter Opera te:! by A. V. Wray and His Six Sons. In a large transaction consum mated thin week whereby A. V. \\ ray purchased- the half interest of \\ . If. Hudson in the retail de partment of the Wray-Hudson com pany, A. V. Wray becomes sole owner; takes in as his partners in bn"iness his six sons, Victor, George. Robert Lee, Harvey, Char les and Slough Wray. Mr. Wray has seven children and the new firm would have another . partner except for the fact that one son is a girl,-Sara Ellen. When she finish es school, however, she may become book-keeper, saleswoman or take some active part tn the business. It hns been suggested as a matter of alliteration and oddness that the firm luma be “A V. Wray and Six Sons.' However Mr. Wray prefers that the pome go as “A. V. Wr.-y and Rons.” Mr. Hudson retains a half inter* est in the wholesale and iobbing department which will continue as Wrav.Hudson Co., Messrs. Wray and Hudson remaining as partners in this business. Mr. Hudson will continue to travel on the road in this territory for Armstrong Ca to*- eomnarty. a large Baltimore wholesale jobbing house with which he has been connected for a num ber of years, leading the list of salesmen in volume of business for this house. Ho will give a part of his t'me on the road to Wray-Hud son Co., wholesalers and jobbers, sellintr a stanle line of merchandise that does not conflict with the lines he jhnndles for the Armstrong, Ca ■for,. company. vv raj ano nuoson have been as sociated together in the retail bu siness here for six and a half years. It was a weil matched team, p;uh partner holding no secrets fni* the other. They have worked ‘n fterfect harmony and the Wray IIiBson Co., last year did the larg esBjbusiness in its history. The di issjhn of interests in the retail ljn-» was made in order that Mr. Wray might give his boys a chance to learn the business and enable Mr. Hudson to devote more time to the development of the wholesale end which has grown at a very grati fying rate during the past year or two it has been in operation. Sir. Hudson has been on the road for the Baltimore house for ten years and is declared to be one of the best salesmen on the road, while Mr. Wray has devoted his time to the retail end and is con sidered one of the best buyers and at the same time a top-notch sales man. The trade was made yesterday, so hereafter the Wray-Hudson com pany is the wholesale department and A. V. Wray and Sons make up the retail department, both lines of business being conducted in the same stand as heretofore. Driver Hurt When Truck Turns Over On Frozen Street Morganton Man Gets Foot Crush ed. Mules Will Not Enjoy Car Rides Again. ! R. V. Cope, Morganton lumber | dealer, is in the Shelby hospital | suffering with a painfully cut foot | which he received about 8:15 this morning when a big truck driven j by him slipped and turned over on the icy street just off the Cleve land Springs on the Eastside road. Cope, who was accompanied by a man named Smith, -was pinned in the cab of his tiucfc until pass iy attracted by his screams of agony assisted in getting him out. He w'as plased in a passing car and rushed to the hospital. In the rear end of the big truck were two mules being transported by Mr. Cope and it is presumed that hereafter they will be content to travel by their own horse-power instead of by automobile. The mules were partly thrown from the truck bed when the truck turned over, but both were extricated without any apparent serious hurts. Weather Forecast The following weather forecast was issued at 10:45 today by the weather bureau at Washington: Louisiana, Arkansas: Part cloudy rains. Oklahoma: Yonight and to morrow part cloudy. East Texas: Tonight and tomorrow generally fair and warmer. West Texas: To night and tomorrow generally fair. North and South Carolina, arn^ Georgia, slowly rising temperatures tonight and tomorrow. Florida: Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably rains and slowly rising temperatures. Alabama: Occasion al rains with slowly rising temper atures tonight and tomorrow. Miss issippi: Rains with slowly rising temperatures tonight and to mor row, warmer eastern and southern portion. T: ” on Quake Shook the Border' * —— - ———■— -ua T'.-.o dawn of l327. iironr.it a iue-slsed eartnquaxo to toe Mexico California border. *”jtTh it allow what happened to a blj war* house at Mexicali, ■Ill No Divorce Case Contested Here In Years—One Likely Next Court Answers Have Been Filed To Several But No Open Court Contest For Divorces On Record Here | No lurid divorce testimony like that of the “Peaches” Browning separation suit hits ever been heard in a Shelby court for thp main reason that it has been years since a divorce suit in a local court has been contested. And sev I eral lawyers say that they do not ever remember one being openly contested in the court room here. In bygone years answers have been filed to several divorce ne j tions by the partner being “given ■ the air” but in every case the | contest was not carried to the court room floor, legal lights here say. Some times a compromise of some ■ kind would be arranged before ; trial and in other contemplated re sistance the one offering to con test the divorce would back out before the trial, or the same de sire not to have too much court “airing” would cause the suing I partner to call off a divorce. Anyway it seems that no one in Shelby ever remembers a divorce being resisted here and for that reason divorce trials have not drawn any big crowds to the pub lic hearing, because usually there is just one side and nothing more than legally necessary of that. The fact that no divorces have been contested appears rather odd, however, since it will be remem bered that scores of divorces have been sought and secured in the local court rooms of recent years. But—to get flown to the pith of this news item—a report is heard indicating that one of the several divorce suits coming up in the March term will be contested. No check-up is possible on the report as yet because the attorney said to be handling the case for the life partner who will resist divorce is out of town. Shelby Ha* Very Few Feminine Cigarettes Smokers Sales Show Cigarette smoking with milady of Shelby hasn’t become a very popular fad as yet, judging by the j small sale of cigarettes here to women and girls. A report recently emanated from I Charlotte saying that one-fifth of the cigarettes sold there are smoked by feminine followers of the great god nicotine. Shelby apparently is still just a country town then if class is de noted by the increasing users of cigarettes. One local drug store says that it has sold quite a number of cig arettes to girls and women of re cent months, but in an added statement it is said that most of j the sales were to “women passing through town,” such as tourists, j motorists en route between the larger Carolina cities, and a few school girls having a lark be- ( tween home and school, or' vice | versa. Yet it was also admitted , upon questioning that a few packs of puffs have been sold to Shelby | girls and women. Just how many wasn’t remembered, but it lacked a considerable amount of ap proaching one-fifth of all the cig arettes sold by the store. An added item of interest by the cigarette sales folks was the information that those who do buy them usually have a favorite brand and call for it instead of: just a mere pack of cigarettes. So,! what few there are in town must be discriminating smokers. Taylor* Build New Home Plant Rutherfordton, Jan. 27.—The People’s Ice and Fuel Co., of this place is erecting: a new office building adjoining the plant. It will be 20x44 feet, one story. Work is going forward rapidly on it now. It will be the home office for the five plants of this firm which now has plants located here, Spin dale, Shelby, Marion and Morgan ton. The firm owns three ice cream plants and is among the largest manufacturers of ice cream in the state. J. L. Taylor and son, Leslie L., are the owners and promoters. Life Term* For Doctor’s Murder Two of the four officers in the party that killed Dr. Robert Lee Lattimore, native of Cleveland county, in Pineville, Kentucky on Christmas day, were given life terms in the state penitentiary of that state, when they were tried a few days ago. It will be re membered that Dr. Lattimore was shot when officers went to his house to place him under arrest in a coal mining district. The evidence tended to show that Dr. Lattimore was in no wise at fault and that the murder was cold blooded. One paper carried the report that a number of the county officers had resigned in resentment o fthe verdict against the two officers for the killing of Dr. Lattimore. Spurling Appears In First Docket Here Next Term Newly Elected Solicitor is Now Prosecuting in First Court at Lincolnton. Here in March The next term of Superior court in addition to facing a heavy dock et here will also have as a prose cutor a new face after 11 years. For at the next term Suprgeon Spur ling, of Lenoir and a native of this county, recently elected solicitor, will handle the docket for the state. Mr. Spurling succeeds form er solicitor R. L. Huffman, of Mor ganton, who served the district as solicitor for 11 years. Solicitor Spurling is prosecutor for the state in the Superior court term now on at Lincolnton, accord ing to press dispatches. In his first appearance here as solicitor the former Cleveland boy will not face any case of great importance such as would place him in a prominent role at the outset, but his ability as a prosecutor will be tested in many cases of minor importance that are already listed on the locket. 4' * a m GASOLINE BURNED HERE EACH H TOTHS BIG Si Three md a Half Million Gallons Burned by County Motorists. Pay State $110,000. What does it cost hCftvdand county to motor ? Every year those who operate automobiles, trucks and tractors in Cleveland county pay around $840, 000 for gasoline. Robert A. Hoyle, gasoline inspec tor, Estimates that three and one half million gallons gasoline were sold in this county last year. At an estimated average of 24 certs per gallon that would mean $840, 000. One local oil firm, it is said, re ceived 110 carload* of gasoline for local distribution during 1920. The state tax per carload runs around $325 to $400, it is said. Big Tax Sum. With those figures it is estimat ed that the motorists of Cleveland county pay $140,000 taxes to the state of North Carolina on gaso line. This sum goes to the highw'ny building fund. The tax is four cents per gallon and yearly this county pays for quite a number of miles in paving for some highway. «o rarm lax. It is thought that quite a num ber of farmers in the county do not avail themselves of the privilege of a non-tax gasoline for farm work. The tax is not charged for gasoline used in tractors on the farm or w road construction. The farmers who buy gasoline for tractor use pay the full price but receive a receipt and are given a rebate for the amount of the tax. To ride over one paved highway Cleveland county motorists faj $840,000 annually for gasoline $140,000 of which goes for roads And that, in the cost of motoring does not include car repairs, tires and incidental expenses. Two Wives Of One Man Are Friendly; One Is Wed Again Two Husbands and Two Wives are Nothing Unusual to Georgia Colored, Record Shows. The only trouble about a man having two wives and a woman hav ing two husbands with no divorces in use is that the law may hear about it. # Quite a number of years ago Polk Barron, a colored tenant farm er now in this county, married a colored girl by the name of Lucile in Georgia. Later they separated and came to North Carolina. In the time that passed since becoming citizens of the Old North State, Polk became enamored of “Louis ana,’ who also had migrated up from Georgia, and last fall they happened to go back home on ». visit about the same time and, it is said, were married while there returning here and living togeth er as man and wife. Officer this week arrested them and placed them in jail charging Polk with bigamy. Questioning brought the information to officers that Lucile, Polk’s first wife, was also living in this countyand, according to re ports, was married again herself. Then Lucile was brought to jail where she formed an acquaintance with Polk’s second mate and be came friends. The double-barrelad bigamy case came up before Recorder Mull Fri day morning, but as Ladle’s report ed second husband was not in court no evidence introduced could be used to show that she had married again but for Polk things did not break so well for his two spouses were lined up beside hiM at the bar of justice. From the evidence it was decided that Polk undoubtedly had two wives—and odd enough they were not jealous of each other, one still has him and the other, it i? said, has her another man. Like wise there was hints of evidenc about Wife No. One of Polk hav ing a Husband No. 2, but no on< could say so definitely and no mar riage certificates were introduced and divorce papers were also absent. The result was that Polk will be held for Superior court on a big amy charge, although he is sai to have stated that “down honn when they get tired of each oth they separate and hunt up new m trimonial partners. The two wivi one of whom may be anoth man’s wife, or has been living wi a man in that role, left the cov room free for the present. Att< neys Horace Kennedy and Peyt McSwain represented the conglo eration of husbands and wive* such a conglomeration that it w hard at times for the court to t» just who was which, or which wa or wasn’t.