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There are those who ray the
groundhog will have his clay. Any
way, the woodchurch is having sev
eral days his way.
* * *
One other candidate is announced
for mayor today in this paper,
with several other likely candidates
mentioned, including the possibil
jtv of a woman being in the race.
* * *
Shelby is to be a real Boy Scout
town judging from the success of
the campaign to raise necessary
funds to inaugurate eight new
troops here.
• • •
Revaluation year is here, accord
ing to a news article in this issue
that taxpayers will be highly in
terested in reading.
• * *
The Poole bill, better known as
the “monkey’ bill, lias very little
chance of getting by the present
legislature, according to Raleigh
articles, yet the INS. says today
that Poole knows nothing of his
hill being revamped. For the poli
tical news from Raleigh and Wash
ington keep up with The Star’s INS.
articles.
• • •
An item from Winston says that
several folks theer are “agin Sun
dae laws.”
» * *
North Carolina farmers can se
cure a profitable income other than
cotton, says a Raleigh news item,
while still another article says bet
ter markets w!*l help. Cleveland
county farmers should read tho*?
two items at least.
Careful, now. Don’t be breaking
into jail. It’ll be harder anyhow for
the commissioners have decided to
build a high fence around the back
side of the new jail to keep thosa
on the outside from bothering those
in the inside looking out.
* * •
A Shelby dentist was named
president-elect of the Firit District
society at the recent convention at
Cleveland Springs, says a news item
in The Star.
* * *
Kings Mountain drubbed Shelby
in basket ball last night and as
Kings Mountain is in the state
race local fans are of the opinion
that they’ll make somebody work
for the state title.
* * *
Another new business for Shelby
Read the news today.
*99
A report of the meeting of the
county board of education is
among the various news of this
issue.
* * *
The Star leads because it pub
lishes all the news while it is news.
Elizabeth Folks
To Vote On Two
Sites For School
Straw Vote To Be Taken In Rob
erts and Elizabeth School
Districts
To determine the site for the
proposed new brick school building
to serve the Elizabeth and Rob
erts school districts east of Shel
by, a straw vote will be taken
among the of-age citizens of the
two districts on Saturday. One
faction is favoring the Bite of the
present Elizabeth school building
near the county home, while an
other faction favors a site adjoin
ing the Elizabeth church property
and overlooking highway No. 20.
I ho district school committeemen
and the county board of cornmis
[ sinners did not care to settle the
controversy without first obtaining
4 he sentiment of the majority of
the citizens in the two districts,
therefore, the straw ballot propo
sition was resorted to. All patrons
seem in good humor about the af
fair and whatever the outcome on
Saturday, they are determined that
there shall be no hard feelings in
the matter.
It is proposed to build a brick
school house, either five or seven
rooms with a large auditorium for
the convenience of the patrons in
the district, the estimated cost to
he around $25,000.
To Have Audit Of
School Fund Here
At the regular monthly meeting
°f the county board of education
the board employed F. A. Edmur.d
f0,i. Durham auditor, to audit the
hooks of the county school fund.
It is understood that the audit will
hf gin right away so that it may be
mede semi-annually.
At the same meeting it was de
rided to advertise the St. Paul
xchool building and lot for sale on
ihe next first Monday. The same
"ill apply to the old Mooresboro
colored school site.
Several new district committee
men were appointed it is said to
take the places of several resign
ed.
Any newly married couple in
Shelby can, tell you how to be hap
py though married.
Former Register of Deeds and Va
liant Soldier of Civil War to
Be Buried Here Today.
William Harrison Eskridge, vet
eran who lost an arm in the Civil ;
war, but who had the distinction!
of capturing Col. Rutherford B. j
Hayes, who later became President 1
of the United States, '"'died this i
morning at the home of his daugh
ter Mrs. B. T. Falls, on West War
ren street. In ten days he would
have been 87 years of age. Mr.
Eskridge was the father of distin
guished children served for six
years as register of deeds for Clev
eland county was one of the
county’s ...mogtvjSfrominent citizens.
The funeral will be held Thurs
day afternoon from the First Bap
tist church of which he has been a
member since young manhood and
where he was a consecrated Chris
tian in regular attendance until the
weight of years and feeble health
confined him to his room. Rev. John
W. Suttle will havfc charge of fu
neral services in the absence of the
pastor Rev. Zeno Wall, who is sick,
j Other ministers will take a part and
the following friends will serve as
pall bearers: J. R. Dover, S. A.
McMurry, Frank Hoyle, L. U. Ar
rowood, C C Blanton, Paul Webb, B
A. Lefler and Coleman Doggett. In
j terment will be in Sunset cemetery
! beside his beloved life companion
j who died December 27th, 1919.
His Children.
Mr. Eskridge is survived by the
following children: Rev. T. J.
Eskridge, presiding elder in the
Methodist denomination at Big
Stone Gap, Va., Reid Eskridge, of
Wynnewood, Okla., Rev. Randolph
Eskridge, Presbyterian pastor at
Swannanoa; Gordon Eskridge of
Oklahoma City, Okla.; Mrs. Jessie
Ramseur teacher in the city schools
Mrs. Mary Lou Yarboro. county
treasurer; Mrs. B. T. Falls, wife of
Hon. B. T. Falls representative
from Cleveland county in the gen
eral assembly at Raleigh; and Will
Eskridge of Chester, S. C.
Also surviving are two sisters,
Mrs. W. Y. Weathers of Shelby and
Mrs. A. J. R. Hoyle of near Double
Shoals.
W'ounded at Fishers Hill.
Mr. Eskridge was born February
19th, 1840 near Double Shoals, the
son of Green Eskridge and Eliza
Thompson Eskridge. At the age of
21 he was in school in Rutherford
county when he learned that Capt.
Gus. Burton had organized the
Cleveland Guards Co. E 12th regi
ment and left Shelby April 22nd
1861. He went to Raleigh and join
ed the company and in his long
service he was in many bat+les and
skirmishes in Virginia and Mary
land, being made a sharpshooter
under Capt. Plato Durham. On Sep
tember 23rd 1864 he left his com
i mand and went about a half mile
in front on picket duty where he
i stayed for two days and a night.
His command was ordered in and as
! it was flanked by the Yankees, he
| was wounded. Artery in his rigth
' arm was cut. He ran about 75 yards
| to Mr. W. F. Gold, now living near
I Double Shoals and Mr. Gold corded
| it up with his suspenders, me Yan
kees captured both of them, car
ried Mr. Eskridge to a spring where
he was put down in front of a fire
as bloody as a hog. Soon he was
given a cozy bed and nourishing
food. When he became conscious he
saw girls sitting by his bed crying
! and he begged them all night to cut
I the cord that bound his wound so
I that he might die. Next morning
I Mr. Gold came in to tell him good
bye. He was put in an ambulance
and taken two miles to a point be
tween Strausburg and Winchester.
His shattered aim was placed
across his body but the jolt of the
wagon caused it to fall limply to
his side. His arm was taken off in
an old field, after which he was
placed in a wagon and carried 18
miles to Winchester where he was
placed in a Yankee hospital for n
stay of six weeks.
Captures Colonel Hayes.
Colonel Hayes who later became
President Rutherford B. Hayes, was
at one time captured by Mr. Esk
ridge in his Civil war experiences.
Captain Randolph, aide to General
D. H. Hill asked for a- party of
sharpshooters to accompany him
down the road on a mission. Mr.
Eskridge was one of the group and
after a test of their bravery, Mr.
Eskridge sat down on the side of
the road to rest awwile. He was
wearing a Yankee overcoat. While
! sitting there a man came toward
ihim from the Yankee lines. Mr.
Eskridge was apparently uncon
cerned till the man was within ten
steps, then Mr. Eskridge drew his
gun and ordered him to surrender.
Words were exchanged and when
(Continued On Page Four)
Poole Knows Nothing Of
Revisal Of “Monkey” Bill
Yet Rumors Keep Running
By Henry Lesesne.
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 9.—If com
promise anti-evolution legislation is
going to be introduced at this ses
sion of the legislature, Rep. D.
Scott Poole, author of North Car
olina’s 1925 and 1927 “monkey”
bills hasn’t heard the news yet.
In an interview With Interna
tional News Service today, the
Raeford editor-legislator scoffed at
the idea of a split in the funda
mentalist ranks, with the “insurg
ents” out to frame a less drastic
proposal than the Poole bill.
The Poole bill, which is set for
hearing Thursday before the House
Education Committee, is being
sponsored by the North Carolina
Bible League, the outgrowth of the
once militant “committee of 100”
that stirred up an ephemeral mod
ernist controversy two years ago.
Rumors have been persistent
here that a compromise bill, de
signed to make the school teachers
of the state pledge their belief in
the Bible before they are jy*rmit
ted to teach, would be introduced
in the house or the senate within
the next few days.
But if such is the intention of
one faction of fundamentalists line,
the Hoke representative hasn’t
heard of it, and is inclined to look
upon the talk with an I’m from
Missouri attitude.
Representative oPole’s bill, if en
acted into law, would prohibit the
teaching of the so-called evolution
theory in North Carolina state -
supported schools, and would mean
a prison sentence for any school1
teacher convicted of teaching “evo
lution.”
Representative Poole believes
that his bill is entirely constitu
tional, in view of the recent Tenn
essee supreme court decision. He
said he took particular pains to
iron out any “doubtful” points in
his bill before it was ever dumped
ii to the house hopper.
“I believe that my bill is entire- j
ly within the constitution,” Poole'
said, “and I do not think that any.
effort will be made to introduce a
bill in place of mine that would be j
more so.”
Fundamentalists are lining up
an imposing galaxy of speakers1
for the committee Thursday and a 1
bombastical combat of no small
proportion is expected when the!
house education committee takes up
the anti-evolution bill.
The Bible league also has been
flooding the state with petitions,
calling on the legislature to enact
anti-Darwin legislation, and claim
that one petition from one county
alone contains more than 1,000
names.
These petitions, which the Bible
league officials say arc numerous,
aie expected to be laid before the
education committee Thursday,
Will Shelby Church Be Sold On
Auction Block To Pay Preacher
Suit Of Rev. C. B. Way Against Methodist Protestant
Church Here Being Discussed
Again.
Will a Shelby church be sold on
the auction block to pay salary pa?t
due that is claimed by a former
pastor ?
That is the question that is be
ing: asked by editorial writers of
North Carolina and at least one
national news photo service.
The case is that of Rev. C. B.
Way against the Methodist Prot s
tant church here, which has been
“aired” in various courts several
times. Just what the next move
may be is not definitely remember
ed here. Judge B. T. Falls, who re
presents church interests, is attend
ing legislature as the representa
tive of this county, but it is remem
bered that his last discussion of
the suit hinted of the fact that he
still was of the opinion that the
church would come out winner ir.
the case.
Newspaper readers noticed dur
ing the past week tTiat the former
pastor, now living in Lexington,
has been receiving nation-wide pub
licity through a news service that
broadcasts his photo and brief de
tails of the suit. Meantime editorial
writers here and there discuss the
unique controversy.
Two opinions, seemingly inclin
ed to the Way attitude, are by the
High Point Enterprise and the
Lexington Dispatch. The Dispatch
says:
“Rev. Charles B. Way, of this
city, is receiving national attention
by reason of winning his suit for
$328 unpaid salary from the Meth
odist Protestant church of Shelby.
One of the big newspaper feature
services is carrying a picture of the
local minister and a brief account
of his suit, which was recently up
held by the Supreme court.
“The High Point Enterprise last
Thursday contained an editorial re*
view of the case in which Mr. Way
recently secured a judgment in a
local court that in effect is,said
to amount to a lien on the church
building of the congregation at Shel
by. He might be forced to sell th?
church at auction and bid it in him
self in order to collect his judg
ment, says the High Point paper,
but that editor declares that the
minister is right in forcing the is
sue. Too long, it says, congrega
tions have had the habit of forcing
out preachers with part of the
agreed salary unpaid and until now
the victim has had no recourse. In
many of these cases the total salary
is small ard the non-payment of a
portion of it is a serious matter,
even more so than would be a larg
er amount of a really living salary.
_.“The supreme court in passing
on this case recently held that
church trustees are mere guar
dians of the property of the con
gregation and are not liable to be
sued for the debt of the church as
a whole, but congregations can be
sued for unpaid salary and a judg
ment so secured is valid against
any property the church may own.
“There have been indication?
lately that the matter will be set
tled up so that the minister will
get back pay and th<> 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
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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