By mail, per year (in advance)__$2.6l By carrier, per year (in advance) $3 congregation will escape having its church sold at auction. “The material consideration in this suit is comparatively small hid the legal principle established is im portant and far reaching.’’ Renders Service? The Enterprise comments: “A congregation’s ruling hoard is responsible for the debts of the church and the church building m»y he sold to force payment of a judg ment. These points arc resolved in the case of Rev. C. B. Way, Metb (Continucd On Page Four) | Figures Show Corn And Hogs More Profitable Than Cotton Raleigh.—Another shot in the revolution now brewing in North Carolina against one of the leading tropical rulers was fired by the publication this week at State col lege of a folder showing how corn and hogs make more profits for the farmer than cotton. The fold er was prepared by W. W. Shay, swine extension specialist, and shows that corn and hogs, rightly handled will make r/ire clear prof its per day of man *abor than will the late king who has ruled so long and so disastrously over the farm lands of the state. Mr. Shay points out that the profit per day of man labor with cotton amounts to $2.39 when cot ton sold at about 19 cents per pound. During this same period the profit per day of man labor with corn fed to hogs amounts to $5.02. He shows too, that the average of lint cotton per acre in North Car olina during the past 16 years has been only $48. In 1916, a survey of 48 cotton growing farms show ed that it cost $54.42 per acre to produce cotton. The average value of pork per acre of corn, during the same period amounts to $33.97 while it cost only $22.41 per acre to produce the corn. He has other figures which are just as enlightening and nov^that farmers are co-operating to sell their pork in carlots on the larger markets, there is no reason why more of them should not produce and fatten hogs this year. All of these facts, as developed by Mr. Shay, are brought out in the fold er and copies may be had free of charge as long as the supply lasts. The publication is Extension Fold | er number 26, “Corn and Hogs vs. | Cotton For Profit.” An edition of 20,000 copies has been printed and those citizens of North Carolina who would like to have a copy may obtain it by writing to F. H. Jeter, agricutlural editor. State college, i Rnleigh. BRUSH FACTORY IS NEW INDUSTRY STARTED HERE' Maurice Weathers Has New Plant i Making 25 Different Kinds of Brushes and Mops. Tlu> Elizabeth Brush company is Shelby’s newest industry. For sev eral months Mr. Maurice Weath ers has been quietly learning the art of manufacturing household ‘ and personal brushes, buving mu- j chinery and supplies for their man-: ufacture. Trie plant is located near! the Seaboard depot in the block of! property owned by Z. B. Weather i and Sons where concrete products are manufactured. Mr. Wtatheis, says he has had an expert from Canada here for several months in structing the help that is employed in the manufacture of these brushes and now the plant is in operation and salesmen are being employed to sell the product in a house-to-house canvass to house wives. The local territory will be covered first and gradually sales men will be added to cover other : states. Mr. Weathers is convinced that he has a product that is equal ly as good and much cheaper than any competitor and that the house wives will find that the material and workmanship are everything that they can expect. While the factory starts in a small way, it has great possibili ties for expansion. Household and personal brushes of every kind aie manufactured, including hair and clothes brushes, wet and dry yarn mops and cleaning brushes made from bristles, hair and fibre. Shelby is proud of its new in dustry and hopes itiat it will grow t so that it will employ many people | and furnish a tig payroll for the | town. i - SCOUT CAMPAIGN HERE GOES OVER u Hi WORK ISON Campaigners Raise Around $1,000 for Work. Plan to Have Eight Scout Troops. Boy Scout work in Shelby is one step nearer its anticipated goal. Last week representatives of civic clubs and churches put over a campaign to raise funds neces sary for a real start in scout work and preliminary preparations for organizing several new troops are now underway. The proposal to make Shelby a better scouting town came up at a recent meeting of the Kiwanis club and was heartily endorsed by ministers and textile heads. Not long after heads of the various tex tile plants here said that they would contribute $500 to the fund neces sary if the remainder of the town would put up the rest. Whereupon a whirlwind campaign was staged for the remaining sum and I. C. Grif fin, head of the Shelby schools, says that in the neighborhood of $1, 000 is now on hands or subscribed. To Have School. Members of the Scout committee are now working to secure eight suitable scoutmasters after which Mr. Shiel, scout officials, of Gas tonia will come here to conduct a scoutmasters’ school. l ne eigni troops, u is unoeiBwun, will be divided among the textile sections and the churches of the town. It is planned according to re ports to have a full, or part time, scout master later to direct all the work, and this summer Shelby will begin to note the beneficial results of scout work among the youth of the town. Kings Mountain Wins From Shelby Fast Quint Runs up Score in Final Half. Kings Mountain in State Race. Late information has it that the strong Kings Mountain basket ball team will play Shelby in the new gym here Thursday night at 7:30. It is the last game before Kings Mountain gets in the state race. Playing at Kings Mountain Tues day night the Shelby Highs were given a severe licking by Kings Mountain 36 to 19. The Shelby five performed well in the first half at the end of which Kings Mountain held a lead of only two points, but in the second half the fast five pushed on to the front with Stowe leading in the point scoring. Stowe, flashy forward, easily led (Continued On Page Four) Babington To Be In Race For Mayor Friends State; Talk Of A Woman Entering Several Others Now Get Talked For Hizzon er’s Seat. Babington Friends Active. A Feminine Mayor. (By Ror.n Drum.) l-'or your approval, voters of Shelby, The Star today takes along the news from friends and announc es that Mr. Tom J. Babington well known citizen of the town, will he a candidate for the next mayor of Shelby to succeed Mayor A. P. Weathers, who has declined to run a jrain. And the friends insist that this isn’t one of those '•being talked” candidates. Mr. Babington, they contend, is going to he a real can didate, out to get the votes and with the serious intention of stop ping over at the City hall for at least two years. The formal an nouncement came yesterday when friends of the new candidate im pressed their man to that extent and so notified this paper. Legal announcement in the form of a paid advertisement will come within a short time, they say, and in the meantime the latest addition to the real list of entrants is to he active himself and by the medium of his friends, who are already practising themselves up on caging votes. Babington, it might be added, is from one of iShelby’s oldest and best known families. Unless it would he for the benefit of a few newcomers there is little reason to detail any historic information con cerning him. That’s the way his supporters look at it. “The an nouncement that Tom Babington >s | in the race is news enough,' they say. And taking them at their word the political discussion will pass on to the other likelihoods and aspects of the next political brewery for tho town. Still Talk Many. It may be that within a month or so the real list of candidates for mayor will dwindle down to two or three entrants—that is, when for mal announcements are the order of the day—but in the meantime Shel by is being introduced to a't least two candidates of the “being talk ed” type almost every week. Why They Do. One reason for the winter dis cussion of the next mayor is at tributed to a dull season. Football ended early in the fall, baseball i will not open until spring, and ! there hasn’t been a session of couit I for three months and it is at least a month until another. All of which may be taken to mean that the re tired business fellows and those who just love politics and specula tion must have something to do in ! the interim. And they have it: Mak j ing mayors for Shelby although the real manufacture will not turn out a product until May. The Young Bloods in. It was mentioned in naming sev eral of the talked candidates re I cently that the young fellows of the | town are getting highly interested j in politics. During the recent week | the interest seems to he on the in | crease even to the point that can ! didates possessing all the winning 1 qualities are being sought. When a | list of such is arranged tho young fellows says, they’ll pick out the best fitted for the place and back him through the home stretch. To date the gentle wind of that selec tion seems to hinge on the decision of one man. Name him, you say? Well, it is said as how this faction would be pleased to announce Charles Hoey, prominent young bu siness man, as their candidates, provided Charles says the word— men, familiarly termed me city dads.” Both have qualities, friends think, that would fit admirably to the role. So, until something else develops check them up on the list (Continued On Page Six) mWM FROM BOTHERING THOSE IN JAIL The county, meaning that officinl bit of government that functions at the court house, has decided that it is tired of having free folks bother pris oners in the county jail, and at a meeting of the county com missioners this week an order was made to have a high fence erected around the back of the jail structure. The fence, which is to be erected soon, will keep friends of prisoners from throwing things to them through the window's and will also keep enemies and others from taunt ing those “doing time.” The fence will be around the back side only as it is impossible to get anything to the prisoners from the front side, it is said. The fence will be of the stockade type hanging over on the inside top so that it cannot be scaled from the interior, and it will be more than 20 feet, it is said, from the rear jail wall. Would Build Up Fine Markets For Diversified Crops Of N. C. Raleigh.—To prevent the diversi fied agricultural program, active I ly advocated by the department of ■ agriculture and the >tate adminis tration, from causing the farmers serious loss through a lack of ade quate markets, a movement has been started by George Ross, chief of the division of markets of the department of agriculture, to ap ply $20,000, saved from the opera tion of cotton warehouses since Mr. Ross has been in office, to build ing up markets for diversified pro ducts, it was learned yesterday. That the markets in North Caro lina are unable to handle the large diversified crop which is anticipat ed this year and that the facilities of the division of markets are in sufficient to build up the markets without more aid, is true, Mr. Ross stated yesterday. The $20,000 will help a great deal in building up markets, he said both through the establishment of cream routes in the eastern part of the state, and by providing more men to grade produce and see that carlot ship ments are properly packed for shipment. If produce is collected and shipped In carload lots there is always a market, Mr. Ross explain ed, but it takes trained men to do this work. However, if the horizontal cut contemplated by the department of agriculture in view of the reduced revenue from fertilizer fees, is put into effect, division of mar* kets with the additional $20,000 will have only slightly more than the $60,000 which was available for this work last year. Owing to the reduction in fertilizer sales, which the board of agriculture es timated at their December meet ing, would be at least 25 per cent, the department faces a consider able reduction in revenue from fees. Commissioner of Agriculture William A. Graham favors the ap plication of this surplus to build ing up markets, it was stated, but it will take legislative action to make the transfer possible. The money is proposed to be spent in the cotton belt. and Charles as yet hasn't said it. However, that places him among .hose “being talked” and some times a lot comes from talk. So, you ■an never tell. The younger ele ment together with a sprinkling among other classes say that such a candidate will come out and the word goes that many of the veter an wise men of things political would line up that way with Hocy as the candidate. And remember that lioey in addition to inheriting a clever business head and a re markably friendly disposition might have also inherited a knack for catching votes that made a certain congressman of the past rather fa* tnous. In fact it is generally evi dent that he is still famous, but that should not deter ambition of the next generation. But the next generation doesn’t seem so fond of inclining to politics. And it is there that this particular political out look rocks along until some decis ion is made. They are not talking about it themselves, but there are those in the know who say that at least two other gentlemen may take the dive into Shelby’s mayoralty channel, a swim that from a local standpoint promises to eclipse the English and Catalina sw’ims. There’ll be no axle grease in this race, and it is to be hoped that mud-slinging will be just as prominently absent. But these two others that are being talked are Messrs. L. M. Hull and M D. Hopper. The former is a well known business and churchman of the town and the latter is at pres ent a member of the board of alder YEAR IS AT HAND FOR REVALUATION OF REAL ESTATE State Will Supervise County Val ues in Order to Insure Uni formity. $5,300 Here. Every fourth year, all real es tate is re-valued in North Carolina, so this being the fourth year, it if re-valuation year in Clevelam county. Machinery to carry out the re-valuation is now being intro duced in the Legislature at Raleigh A new lot of temporary jobs w’l be necessary to carry on the worl and provision will be made for th local boards of county commission ers to make the appointments. While revaluation La each county will be under local control, the state will have a supervising inter est In the assessment especially in the 70 odd counties which draw on the equal iration fund for help, in running their schools. The appor tionment of the fund among the counties is determined by the tax rate in each county and property values affect the tax rate. Cleve land county draws from the equalix ing state school fund about $5,300 annually, so the state will exercise some supervision over the values set upon property in Cleveland county this year. Every man s land, tenements and herlditarments will come under the scrutiny of the assessors. In some cases the result will be a boost in taxable value and in others a re duction. State assessment officials anticipate a decided increase in property values of the larger coun ties of the piedmont and western sections of the state, while tha strictly agricultural counties, par ticularly in the east, will show a decline. The increases, however, may be expected to more than off set the decreases, so that the worth of the state as a whole likely will show up considerably in excess of its 1926 valuation of some $3,799. 000,000. Under Local Boards. The job in each county will be done under the direction of the locpl ^ boards of county commissioners.“ The 1927 machinery act will author ize the appointment of each board of an assessor or revaluation super visor for the county, under whom will work the necessary number of assistants to do the job as the law directs. The appointments are ex pected to be made in April and re valuation will begin in May, all property being valued as of that month. The new lot of temporary jobs is not expected to draw heavily on the public payroll, assessment officials insured, and the total cost will not be great DENTIL SESSION COMES TO CLOSE - Dr. Pitt Beam Named Presiden Elect. Moat Successful Conven tion Ever Held. What members termed the mo successful meeting * of the Fir District Dental Society came to close Tuesday after a two-day st sion at Cleveland Springs hote The attendance, it is said, w by far the largest of any meetii ever held by the organixntic There were around 100 members ii attendance and visitors from al sections of the state numbered around 30. Among these visitors were the following members of the State Board of Dental Examiners: Dr. J. S. Spurgeon, of Hillsboro; Dr. J. S. Betts, Greensboro; Dr. J. H. Wheeler, and Dr. Dennis Keel, Greensboro, and Dr. H. O. Line-* berger, Raleigh. Each of the board members made short talks during the program complimenting the district group on the * excellent progress and the remarkable spir it of the meeting. Dr. Gene How ell, of Raleigh, was also a promi nent visitor. At the election of officers the following were named: Dr. C. A. Pless, Asheville, president; Dr. A. Pitt Beam, Shelby, president-elect; Dr. C. C. Bennett, Asheville, vice president; Dr. D. H. Crawford, Marion, secretary and treasurer. The following were elected dele gates to the state convention: Drs, C. A. Pless, R. A. Little, B. F. Hall., C. C. Bennett, A. Pitt Beam, P. R. Falls, I. R. Self, and W. F. Bell. The banquet program Monday night proved to be one of the high lights. There were reading by Dr. J. R. Osborne and fine musical se lections by the Shelby Troubadors, Mrs. Grady Lovelace, Miss Bessie Clark and Mrs. A. Pitt Beam. A short talk by Dr. John Harbison, of the hospital staff, was also enjoy ed. Banquet favors ■irere tendered by the Stephenson Drug Company