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What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW. Record warm weather for Febru ary and the trees a'budding. The groundhog's prophecy will be all the harder, believers say. * * * Evolution, it seems, just will be the big topic at the present legisla ture according to the INS. dispatch. • * -It The Shelby High basketeers scored a second victory over Bel mont Abbey here last week and play two big games with Kings Mountain this week. Meantime Lat timore reversed things and beat Kings Mountain. • * • Two Shelby high school girls won both Webb medals in the annual contests held here Friday night. * * * A man suggested that bobbed han should be taxed and now an other reader comes along and would tack a tax on shaves. • * * A citizen of Three County Corn ers was killed in an automobile wreck near Belwood Saturday, the wreck resulting from an overturn ed car. ♦ * * Cotton brought 14 cents per pound last week in Gastonia ac cording to a news item in this is sue. * * * Is sidewalk skating prohibited in Shelby? You should know after reading all the news today. A rainbow in the early morning was a freak of nature noticed here today, says an item. • • • The water supply of Cleveland county is getting scarce as many wells remain dry. Prayer is urged in a communication today. • # • Officers along the South Caro lina line are nabbing quite a num ber of stills, recent news items in dicate. * * * Grover’s industry is related in The Star today. * * * The spring sunshine of Saturday, brought many shoppers to town. * * * Personal items, visits, church news, community happenings—in brief, all the news of Cleveland county—in The Star three times each week. Sunshine Brings Shopping Crowds Regular Spring Weather In Feb ruary Gives Streets Packed Appearance Saturday Saturday was a spring day as *o weather and also shopping as local merchants look at it., The business streets here were packed with what was estimated as the biggest crowd since the holiday shopping season late in the old year. And that despite the fact that it was only three days following the bobbing out. and back in. of the ground hog. Just what amount of shop ping the Saturday crowds did i§ not known but a big percentage of those swarming the streets car ried packages and such means that the marchants are doing busi ness. Quite a number of merchants r''”ort a big demand for Spring clothing. Meantime the ground hog in a reluctant interview says “Just wait. It’ll be all the harder when my prophecy comes true.” ^ et many still give the weather woodchuck the hee-haw. Woman’s Exchange Opened Saturday 'Vnrrrn May Now Sell Their Sur Commodities at Quinn’s I)ruR Store for 10 Percent The members of the Home Economics department of the Wo ioho's club will open a Woman’s Exchange for the purpose of help i iff the Cleveland county women, both town and country, to dispose cf their surplus commodities, and also to encourage home production b” furnishing a market for such thuigs. This exchange will he opened at Eewitt Quinn’s new drug store, ’us' around the corner on South ■';b’ngton street. The hours arc '' to 12 and 2 to 5, Saturdays. The Exchange will open Saturday, February 5th at 9 o’clock. Eules: Ten percent will he charged for everything sold. ‘ '’"re will be no reduction in the Price of anything offered for sale, u he Exchange will not be respon sihlo for anything not sold. It will be run on a strictly cash basis. So many Shelby ladies have requested a curb market, that we aro expecting wonderful coopera tion in this project. All ladies are tnvited to attend the opening on Saturday, whether you wish to buy or sell, or just come to see what we have. T obacco seed was treated for ^10 farmers at a meeting held in Keidsville by County Agent F. S. .Walker recently. Shelby High Girls Take Both Selma Webb Medals Mary Sue Borders Wins Recitation Contest And Maude Rollins Wins Essay. Good Crowd The two annual Selma C. Webb medals went to two Shelby high school students Friday night when Mary Sue Borders won the recita tion contest and Maude Rollins j copped high honors in the essay contest. Eight young high school girls of the county contested for the reci tation medal and all made fine impression on the judges who aft er some consideration awarded the honor to Miss Eorders. Her subject was “Angels’ Wickedness.’ The auditorium, main floor and gallery, of the school was packed with friends and relatives of the contestants, it being or.e of the | biggest crowds assembled at the local school this year. Judges of the recitation contest were Prof. 0. L. Normant. and Misses Gladys Commander and Jeanette Davis, of the Gastonia schools factulty. The medal was presented by Mr. Nor mstpt. Miss Margaret Dhreitz berg, of Kings Mountain, acted as judge in the essay contest, being assisted by two members of the Kings Mountain high school fac ulty. The subject of Maude Rol lins’ wining essay was “Are We Equal to Our Task.” In addition to the regular pro gram there were musical selec tions. Two numbers were offered by the boys quartet of Lattimore and two by. the girls chorus of Boiling Springs. Their Subjects The following were in the reci tation contest, their subjects also being given: Alma Bell, “The Lit tle Reb^l,” Boiling Springs; Lu cre tia Hord, “The Other Wise Men,” Piedmont; Aileen Whit worth, “The Death Disc,” Waco; Leatha Boheler, “The Soul of the^ Violin,” Grover; Mary Agnes Lat-' timore, “Hannah Tripe in Court,” Lattimore; Lucy Sain, “Tommy Brown," Belwood; Madge Downs, “Good Night Papa,” Casar; Mary Sue Borders, “Angels’ Wicked ness,” Shelby. PINE TREES BEAR LOADS BE SWEET John Hunk Borders Says His Bees Are Feasting on Sweet Sap From Pine Trees Pino trees are bearing “scads” of sweetness on which the bees ate feasting like as unto a balmy Soring May-day. according to -John Bunk Borders who was in town Saturday from his farm helow Shelby. He brought with him a few pine tops, seeking information which The Star could not give. On the other hand The Star listened to John Burk and was convinced that most of what he said was true because he had the evidence with him. In the nine tops, a sort of weevil—a “boll weevil” if you please is working on the bark. When the weevil punctures the bark, a sap oozes out. One would think this sap was rosin because I that’s what The Star found it to i be when he was a boy. Not so with John Bunk’s specimen. The j sap seems to crystalize when ex posed to the air and wlim tasted, ! i£ is “as sweet as sugar.” John Bunk has 17 hives of bees. They are leaving their home every dav and go straight to the pine boughs to get this new nectar which is found in abundance. Mr. Lawson A. Gettvs who raised bees back up in Rutherford county in the nineties is somewhat of an au thority on bee culture. He dropped into the office about the time John Bunk was here and declared that pine tree sweetness is an at traction to bees hut honey made from this stays in the comb and crystalizes so hard it is unfit to use. When John Bunk hove upon the scene and poured out his story, our first conclusion was that he had discovered a new pest that is spelling death and destruction to the pine forests, or that he had discovered a new source of sugar supply of that John was just try ing to pull a stunt by bringing in a pine bough which he had dipped into a barrel of molasses. But Mr. Borders has discovered something entirely row and furnishes proof that pine trees are oozing sweet nectar for the bees to feast on. Mrs. Vic Roberts Is Badly Burned Blacksburg Woman is Severely Burned When Gasoline Ex plodes. Patient Here. Mrs. Vic Roberts, wife of Dr. Roberts of Blacksburg is a patient in the Shelby hospital where she was brought Saturday with severe burns about the body, sustained when a can of gasoline exploded as: she was pouring the contents into the fire box of the kitchen stove. Mrs. Roberts was making a fire and thought she picked up a can of kerosene, but it proved to be a more volatile substance. When the ex plosion took place she screamed [ and her husband rushed to her side,, carried her into the yard where he applied sand to the flames. Neigh bors heard screams and came to their assistance, but it was not un tile Mrs. Roberts was severely j burned before the flaming clothes j were extinguished. Dr. Roberts was j burned about the hands in fighting the fire and his injuries were dress-! ed when both came to the hospital Saturday. NOVELTY MILLS HAS 1 SALESMEN OUT Grover Has a Factory Selling Bed spreads in Thousands of Homes In Nation Grover has a textile plam that is turning out popular priced bed spreads that are sold in thousands of homes throughout the nation. This plant is Grover’s biggest in dustry and also the biggest patron of Uncle Sam’s postoffice at that place. In fact it buys more stamps than all other Grover patrons put together. Charlie Harry started the Minette Mills a number of years ago and it has been very successful. There was a time when he sold the entire output to Sears, Roebuck and company, shipping his bed spreads to them in car lots. Now he ships to jobbers and wholesalers, but some years ago the Rainbow Novelty Mills was formed to sell some of the pro duct of the mill direct to the trade. F. B. Edwards is in charge of this department and he is as i busy as a one-eyed man at a three ring circus, directing the affairs of this department. Mr. Edwards, by the way is the son of a missionary who served for 17 years in Mexico under the Presbyterian church. He is a ouick, courteous, young fellow—business ( every minute. Two hundred and ; fifty salesmen are covering the j South and every state north from I New York to Arizona selling Rain i bow Novelty bod spreads from house-to-house. These salesman have a full line of samples and the patterns are changed every sea i son. All shades and colors are of fered and many patterns have that silky rayon finish. The spread cloth comes from the Minette Mill nearby. Men cut off the lengths, then women run the edges through machines at a ranid rate to put in the scallop. It takes about two minutes to scallop a spread. Then the spreads are neat ly folded, packed carefully, wrap ped in heavy blue paper, labelled and sent to the customers in var ious states. A negro man is kept busy from morning until night hauling the packages to the post office and express office. The Rainbow Novelty Mills is a big little industry for Cleveland. It has brought Grover into prom inence more than any other one thing and the way Harry and Ed wards work, the two plants ' are destined to grow much larger. Texas Physician Visits In Shelby I)r. Anderson, Head of Texas Health Department, Visits Gidney Families Here. Dr. James C. Anderson of Plain view, Texas, was a distinguished visitor Saturday and Sunday in the homes of Dr. R. M. Gidney and Mrs Lamar C. Gidney. Dr. Anderson is head of the health department of Texas, and is on a tour of inspection of that de partment of the states of Tennes see, Alabama, and North Carolina He says these states have the best health organization of any of the Southern states. Dr. Anderson and Dr. Charles C. Gidney have been partners in the practise of medicine for 33 years. Accident Saturday Morning Near; Htlwood Claims l.ife of One. Injuries Others George Pruett. age about 40 years and a native of Three ! County Corners, is dead as the result of his car turning over about 10:30 Saturday morn'ng near the home of Randolph I’eeler about two mites north of Be 1 wood. According to information learn ed by telephone the iadiu;' rod suddenly broke and the car, occu pied by Pruett, his hro her and another, hurdled over. In the im pact it is said that P'uett’s head was crushed, his neck broken, and his arm fractured. It is reported from the section that he breathed for about five minutes following the crash but was in a hopeless condition. Car Caught Fire. Added t otho Seriousness of the occasion it is said was the fact htat the car caught on fire immediate ly after turning over. hut the flames were extinguished before any of the occupants were burn ed. it is said. The two other occupants of the car were injured also, it is said, one report having it that their in juries were severe while ano.her was to the effect that they were little more than painful. ft was said on the streets here that one of the others was in the hospital here but hospital officials said niether had been entered up un til late Saturday evening. The car at the time of the fatal accident was en route to Shelby it was learned. The man fatally injured is well known in the Three County Cor ners section and is said to 1m? a | brother of Mrs. Evitt Crowder, ! who lives in the Polkville section. j Mr. Williamson | Claimed By Death i Brother-in-law of Former Chief of Police Here Dies in South Carolina Home. Mr. Bright Williamson, one of the best known agricultural leaders of South Carolina, died suddenly at his home in Darlington, S. €., Saturday. Mr. Williamson married a Shelby girl, Miss Maggie Jones a sirter of the late Chief Shelton Jones of Shelby and has visited here on a number of occasions : where he had friends among the j older people. Bright Williamson was interested in many of the business enterprises, of the Pee Dee section of the state. | and was recognized as a leader ill state affairs. Until the dissolution of the Tri-State Tobacco Growers association a few months ago, he: was one of the directors of that: body. He was engaged in the bank- j ing business, and also was interest-' ed in the oil, phosphate and brie k j industries. Born near Darlington on March1 3, 1861, Mr. Williamson was ti c j son of Benjamin Franklin an 1 Martha (Mclver) Williamson. He! received his education at Sandy j Ridge academy, Kings Mountain j Military school, the University of i Virginia.and Eastman’s Business, college. In 1889, he became cashier of the Bank of Darlington, later becoming I president. Raleigh.— (INS)—Collections of gasoline taxes, automobile licenses and title registration fees are i coming in faster this year than | they did last year. This information was contained I in figures furnished today by the ' Automobile bureau of Lhe State*! department of revenue1. Collections for the first seven j months of the current fiscal year J totalled $10,631,278, compared with ! $7,984,326 for the corresponding j period in the preceding fiscal year it was announced. THE “BOBBER” WAR APPEARS ON NOW ( Not long since a reader (; wrote to The Star and stated f j that Shelby should . have a J tow’n tax on all hair bobbed in j the local barbershops. Ap- j! parently the feminine follow- { ers of the bob feel that they f have the privilege of having ( their hair cut just as they {1 please without taxation. Any J j way here’s the reply of one: 5 “If one woman Could have <; her way no man over 16 years (| of age would have his upper ( lip and chin shaved without J [ paying a tax.” River Steamers Right at Your Door I-——. ■ ..— ■ I .III ---- ——■ .. I . .J Hi. in'n flood wn of the Ohio river invert into the Rlrcctu of Cincinnati end other Ohio cities re* ecu’Iv Mere is one of the bis river steamers which went visiting in the business district at the foot >f v. ■. coi Cincinnati Mercury Climbed Above 70 Sunday For Near Record February Heat Sprint? bonnets might have been worn to Sunday services yesterday ! in Shelby such was the unusual February weather. Likewise the groundhog lost the third inning'xf his game with the weather man. As for the heat, old-timers arc; arguing about whether or not it, was the “hottest February day’’; the remember and the Ebeltoft ther-, mometer lines up with those who think it was. The highest point reached by the mercury and noticed by Mr. F.beltoft was 72 degrees. That may, or may not, be a record here but few folks remember when the mercury was higher than 72 on February 5. From Charlotte comes the iti formation that the weather bureau there recorded Sunday as the hot test February day ever. The mer cury climbed to 79 degrees before it halted at 3:30 in the afternoon. The next hottest day on record there was February 25, 1890, when the thermometer registered 78.0. Wilmington reported 71 degrees, the hottest February day there since 1880 when the same level was reached. Trees Hud; Flowers Out. With such unusual weather for February local students of nature are wonder inf? as to the result on trees and flowers. About Shelby many trees, pears and early peach es, are budding and seem about to burst in bloom. A tour of the city will reveal many spring flowers already in bloom and lawns are tak ing on a general spring appearance Does this mean that another cold snap will kill the trees and flowers for the spring? Among the old timers are those who remember when the trees budded early ai:d then pulled a freak of nature by budding again when the real sprin;; arrived. Such however happens only a few times in a century, and the budding elms on the court square, the pear and peach trees may not bud again this year. Of course the warm weather may hold and suck will not be necessary. But such isn't likely. Cotton Was Worth 14 Cents Pound Last Week On Market At Gastonia “What’s the price of cotton?” That’s the near approach to the fighting words in Cleveland county these days with a 45,000-bale crop hovering over to be sold at an even dozen cents per pound or maybe- a cent or two more. Out in No. 1 township it is said several farmers were offered 14 cents per pound last week, but generally speaking the county markets were weaker. More to the tune of 13 cents than 14. Over in Gaston the market reached J4 cents per pound. Be lieve it i\ not, but here’s the ac tual dope from an issue of the Gastonia Gazette of late in the week: “Cotton jumped up one-fourth of a cent and the price is now 14 1-4 cents per pound. The farmers evidently knew of the increase coming this way because a dozen or more loads of seed cotton have been seen in several parts of the city, all headed towards the local gin. Something like 35 or 40 bales of cotton were seen at one time or another, and these were headed for the platform. “The price of lint cotton has been increasing gradually from the lowest price of 11 cents to the ' present price over n range of sev eral months. In spite of all talk about the enormous carry-over of ten million bales or more, the market appears to be stabilized as to present rice, and those growers who have held their bales over a few weeks are receiving a much better price. ‘‘Cottonseed is now felling at 3fi cents per bushel, having advanced to that figure from the lowest price of 27 cents. The price on local cotton in Charlotte as given out in The Observer, is now 13 1-2 cents. Growers in this section have always claimed that more can be secured for the staple here in Gastonia than in any neighboring tow'n. The above figures seem to prove it. “With this unseasonable weath er, warm as April, farmers are willing to let loose of their last year’s crop in order to buy seed, fertilizer for the preparing of another crop, most of them through this part of the county are not unmindful of the dangers at tendant upon another huge cotton crop, and have diversification in view as a mean of helping with the good work.” Triple Electrocution Seems Likely For North Carolina On 11th March Officers Capture Two Booze Plants Deputies Buren Dedmon and Charlie Shepherd added two dis tilleries to their lists by captures made last week. Dr. Friday the two officers nab bed one^ still somewhere in the Grover section and on Saturday they annexed another. One was of about 90 gallons capacity and the other of about 35 gallons. Complete information concern ing the captures was not made known as the officers appear to be keeping an eye open for results. Gafney—A still was destroyed in Antioch section last Wednesday, February 2, and 2,000 gallons of beer was poured out. Again Thursday, February 3, of ficers made another raid in the An tioch section. This time two stills were destroyed and 900 gallons of beer was poured out, making a to tal of 2,900 gallons of beer and three stills being destroyed in two days work east of Broad river. (By International News'Sei vice.) Raleigh.—Will North Carolina, for the first time in history, have a triple electrocution. It now appears that it will on March 11, unless the hand of Fate intervenes. March 11 is the day on which Robert Lumpkin and Booker T. Wil liams, now enjoying a brief lease on life on the strength of an executive reprieve, are sentenced to die. It is also the doom date of Pearle Mitchell, Chatham county negro, convicted and sentenced to die for the slaying of William Foglemar., aged white merchant of the same county. Lumpkin and Williams are under sentence of death for the alleged slaying of a Lumberton policeman. $250 For a Dance London.—Put up at auction as a “dance partner” at a benefit dance, Miss Adele Astaire, Ameri can stage and dancing star, was ‘knocked down to Gordon Sel fridge, millionaire American de partment store owner, for the sum of $250 for one waltz. i ! ABBEY QUINTET Lattimore Breaks Kings Mountain Kush By Wide Win. Big Games This Week. Basketball as a major sport in ' Cleveland county high school flash | cd into the limelight last week and i brought with its performances sev i eral surprises and two or three con i tests of more than usual interest. The lag end of the week turned ; in several interesting games; Shel ! by high’s second close victory over i the fast Belmont Abbey five, Lat ! timore’s defeat at the hands of | Kings Mountain, and the defeat ; turned into a stinging victory Fri day when Lattimore returned the | compliments by a double score. On For This Week. Locally fans are assured sev eral attractive tilts this week. On i Tuesday Shelby meets the strong Kings Mountain team there, and, playing at home, Kings Mountain i is given the odds. Then on Friday I Kings Mountain returns here for a night game. Those two mix-ups will go far towards deciding the county championship. However, Lattimore will still be to be disposed of, a considerable task. Somewhere in the week a game with Lattimore may be sandwiched in here. If not, the Lattimore-Shelby game will come next week. Good Passing Game Shelby’s game here Friday night with Belmont Abbey was the sec ond of the week and the narrow margin was increased by just one point. In the first clash Shelby won 21 to 19, and Friday night the end of the game found the score dead locked at 18-18. A five-minute ex tra period was allowed and in that time Mauney, speedy Shelby for ward, caged one foul shot and drib bled his way acros the floor for two other points on a field goal. And that was the game 21-18. Shelby stock took a jump with the victory for the Abbey quint is undoubtedly the best passing \ school aggregation ever seen ir: action in these parts. Long shots that struck the rafters hurt the scoring chances of the visitors, tvho made up in part for their handi cap by keeping the ball for three fourths of the game. In accurate, consistent, short-shooting was Shel by’s win. The locals attempted few long shots and likewise missed very few short ones. Madigan, husky center of the visitors, was the class of the game —an excellent team leader, a re markable passes, a fine dribbler and a fair short. His point total , ran up to seven and was equalled | only by the seven points scored by • Laymon Beam, the veteran scoring i power of the Morris’ five. That | Beam might have led the rangy j center in scoring was the opinion of some for Beam’s desperate play | ing brought four personal fouls I down on him and removal from the | game. The guarding and pass breaking of Gillespie and the floor work of a substitute, Zeno Wall, were good, while Lee caged six points. However, the work of Mauney ranked next to that of Madigan and Beam for it was he who won the game and that’s how the scorers view a contest. In the extra five-minute period the man to-man defense of the Abbey bunch was practically impregnable and it seemed for a time if the extra period end was to find the score locked again, but Mauney get ting an opportunity for a free shot secured a point and added to it a few minutes later a beautiful (Continued on page four.) DENTISTS GATHER AT SPRINGS m ANNUALMEETING Large Crowd Attends Opening Ses sion First District Dental So ciety. Fine Program. Close to 100 dentists coming from First district and from other sections of the state are at Cleve land Springs today attending open ing sessions of the annual conven tion of the First District Dental so ciety. Many visiting dentists arrived in town yesterday while dozens of oth ers came in this morning by motor. The opening program began at 9 o’clock this morning with Dr. Self society president of Lincolnton, in charge. The address of welcome was by Hon. O. Max Gardner. The remainder of the morning was devoted to lectures and papers by prominent dentists and physi cians and reports from the conven tion arc that the majority of the papers were very interesting and worthwhile to the assemblage. Otb er scientific papers and lecture followed the luncheon. To Elect Officers. At 4:30 this afternoon a busincs session will be held at which tiir the annual election of officers wi be staged. Tonight at 7 o'clock the big a: nual banquet is scheduled and D J. R. Osborne, the humorist-dentis is toastmaster. The banquet pro gram includes several fine musict l numbers and some recitations by Osborne with his quaint dialect. Progressive clinics are in order for Tuesday morning and in the afternoon golf and other sports are billed for the entertainment of the guests. Sidewalk Skating Is Not Prohibited Children Should not Skate in The Streets Where There is Motor Traffic | There is a general impression in Shelby since Christmas and Santa Claus brought many children skates, that they are not allowed by a city ordinance to skate on sidewalks. Such a law, it is under stood, was enacted several years ago, but was later repealed and according to Mayor Weathers and Chief B. O. Hamrick there is no law that regulates skating at all. However, the children being under the impression that they are for bidden to skate on the sidewalk, have taken to the streets and this is considered quite dangerous in view of the heavy motor traffic. Children should use the sidewalks and not the streets and Mayor Weathers and Chief Hamrick will suggest to the board of aldermen at a coming meeting that a law be enacted forbidding skating in the streets. There may be some regulation about skating on the sidewalks in the business section where pedestrians are thick. The police authorities have the au thority to keep children from forming a line and skating abreast down any public street, interfering with the rights of pedestrians. Well* Dry About County; Prayerc For Water Urged* A Star Reader Says Situation Get ting Serious. Thinks Prayers Helped to Bring Rain. Cleveland county wells have been "going dry’ for months, ar still going dry and remain dry. From various sections of t! county come reports saying th the situation is -uncomfortable say the least. Not long since me tion was made of the fact th school children were carrying tin drinking water to school in mi bottles because school wells we not strong enough to supply 1 needs of the children. There comes a letter this we from a reader of The Star sayi; that the situation is getting serio u and that prayers should be offe ed for more water. The writer re minds readers that last summe during the drought prayers for rain were offered and the rain., came. —Dies in Gaston—L. E. “Dad" Dalton, a well known citizen of West Gastonia, died at his homo Friday night following a brief ill ness, aged 76. For 25 years he had been confined most of the time to his resdence by an infected lag. He had been ill. however, for only a few days. He was a native of Cleveland county and had lived in Gastonia for the past 80 years. Ha is survived by his wife and six chil dren. _i
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