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Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By mail, per year (in advance)— By carrier, per year (in advanca) $3 Of ) What’s THE News the STAR’S REVIEW-^ ■ —in-^ Take a glance over today’s issue and see if you have ever read a newsier paper published in this ’ section of North Carolina. On the front page is a nation wide story published in The Star | before appearing in any other newspaper. It is the second nation wide scoop The Star has scored within one year The other being the Charlie Ross affair. * * * A deathbed confession, made 2!) years ago telling of a strange kill l!Ur of a church founder and Presi dential candidate in 1844 came to; light yesterday in Shelby. Tornor ’ row the story will be broadcasted | 0n front pages the nation over. * * • An oil well owner for mayor. Stub is possible for Shelby. It is announced in The Star today that oil has been struck on five lands of W. N. Dorsey in Texas. • • • After a controversy that swept over several counties cigarettes may be sold again at Boiling Springs. The state senate passed a hill yesterday that repealed the ban put on in 1007. February summertime is being experienced in Shelby. How does Cleveland county rank in high school graduates? A news item,in today’s paper gives the ex act rating. * * * Auto owners of the county will buy two license plates this year. One for six months in July and an other for 12 months before next January. The change in registra tion was passed by Raleigh law makers yesterday. * * * Sports, community items, month ly meetings, club gatherings, so cial news—covering every cross section of life in Cleveland coun ty. Today’s news in today’s Star. Cleveland Ranks Well In School Graduate Total Had 150 Graduates Last Year in High Schools. Ranked 32nd in This State. Cleveland county had 158 High' school graduates in 1926 and rank ed 32nd in this classification in the entire state according to the Uni versity News Letter. The average number of grad uates per 10,000 white population wrs 50 which leads Gaston, Ruth erford and Lincoln. In Ga3ton there were 227 graduates or a rat ine of 48.5 per 10,000 white pop ulation. In Lincoln there were 77 graduates for a rating of 476., and in Rutherford there were 98 grad uates for a 34.5 rating per 10,000 white population-. Above State Mark The county rating is consider ably above the general state rat '"g, there being 9,166 graduates in the state for an average of 47 per 10,000 white ip habitants. Girls In Lead It is noted that 5,785 of the 9.166 graduates in the state were girls, or nearly two girls for each boy. Pretty Cashiers Respond To Call Of New Cafe “Ad” I'.rnest Johnson, proprietor of Shelhy’s newest eating house, had to play the Flo Ziegfield role yes terday except that Ziegfield picks dancers from his feminine appli cants while Johnson was seeking a change-maker and a waitress. Johnson recently took over the former DeLuxe cafe adjoining the 'Vel>b theatre and today formally opened it to the public as the Picd niont cafe. Wednesday he ran a small “ad" in The Star for a wait ress and cashier and Thursdy morn lng, it is said, he had seven appli cants to choose from before he had hardly completed his breakfast. To day the new cafe was serving food seekers with his two picks in charge of the sale end. Australian Ballot Head Of Calendar Raleigh—The Australian ballot bill, written by Representative B. 1 Falls, of Shelby, may get an early decision in the house. The bill, reported favorably by the house committee on election laws, now stands at the head of the Public calendar in the house. It may •ha,. it will be set as a special orfler, however, as the house has plenty of bills on its calendar to *ecP it busy for several days. There are 44 bills on the public calendar Pot including the special orders, and the ones acted on yesterday by the various House committees, near 'v all of which had meetings yes terday. _ Candidate For Mayor Has Oil Well Flowing In Texas Understood That Drillers Have Struck Oil On W. N. Dorsey Property. Scene: Shelby. Time: Wednesday night. Enter Aladdin with his lamp. Al addin hunts-up W. N. Dorsey, can didate for mayor. Aladdin: “Mr. Dorsey, I have | new's for you from Texas. You have been elected a member of the In-Right club of the Texas oil coun try. Rub the lamp and make your wishes known.” Business of Mr. Dorsey rubbing his eyes to make sure his friend | Aladdin isn’t kidding him. Mr. Dor- | sey: “So I am a member of the In-Right club of the Texas oil fields ?” I Aladdin: “Rub the lamp and make your wishes known.” Mr. Dorsey, rubbing the lamp: ( “Come Genii and make me mayor of Shelby, and my happiness will l>«* complete.” You have guessed it. W. N. Dor sey, candidate for mayor of this progressive burg, has hit oil in Texas. And from all accounts he has hit it big. Authentic news has i come from the oil fields that a stream of oil hs pouring out of a , well on the property Dorsey is in terested in, to the tune of fifty ; barrels an hour. Mr. Dorsey, in an interview with The Star Friday morning, confirm I ed the news that oil has been hit on his Texas property. Asked if un der the circumstances he will con tinue in the race for Mayor, he said: “I certainly shall continue in the race. The Texas oil will merely ei.- j able me to keep my lamps trimmed and burning.” Mr. Dorsey has been interested for several years in property in the Texas oil fields. He owns on big acreage, including an entire section, outright and producing oil wells are in sight all around this property, advanced to within five miles of his property line. But the oil was struck on a prop erty of which he is interested with a company. A producer named Frank M. Greene is doing the drill ing. Thanksgiving day Greene hit oil on the property, but the gusher did not come into its own at once. It has been developing. It has now developed. Mr. Dorsey has got the news. And it is some big news. A fifty barrel well in Texas is a big well. The value of wells in this district is a thousand dollars a barrel, based on daily production of twenty-four hour-s. In that case this well alone is worth a million two hundred thousand dollars. And that is one well on a 160 acre tract. Thermometer At 66 And Flowers Bloom And Trees Bud About County Groundhog In Missing Prophecy So Far Brings Weather That Nears Record For County Unusual A February that may be history in Shelby! The thermometer at Ebeltoft’s registering 60 above; loiterers and retired business men sunning on court square benches, their vests unbuttoned for th eultra-violet rays conducive to content; flowers bloom ing, grass greening, trees budding and some few blooming. This in the middle of February, usually the South’s most severe month, and coming on the heels of the groundhog legend of six weeks of bad weather. Many old-timers proclaim unre servedly that the weather tops any February in their recollection. Business men and others stroll ing the court square in their shirt sleeves; feminine Shelby . strut ting out in spring dresses minus coats and wraps. A gentle breeze that bespeaks spring despite the calendar. From many sections of the town and county come reports of pear and other trees blooming; one plum tree is fully adorned in a white spring dress; rose leaves are ma turing and may blossom out soon; dandelions smiling in their yellow dresses; buttercups out, pink peach blossoms—warm sunshine. As an offset to about the most pleasant winter weather ever ex perienced here there comes the prophecies of the groundhog fol - lowers that can hardly dampen the joy of living in such weather—pro phecies that we will not have any fruit this year. A cold snap and a killing frost will get everything that has bloomed. For every bit of the “borrowed weather” we must pav dearly. But up until yesterday, with the thermometer still at 66. the pre dicted had not happened and one block was being walked upon by six men in their shirt sleeves. Abolish Lawndale Road District Representative B. T. Falls has a request to introduce a bill abol ishing the Lawndale Road district and transferring its duties to the Highway commission of No. 0 township. He wants to know if any citizens in the district desire file objections to this proposed piece of legislaton. If there s any objecton, kindly write to Mr. Falls, care of The Capitol at Raleigh and Mr. Falls will arrange a hearing upon request. Shelby To Play Fallston Tonight The Shelby High quint will play the strong Fallston school basket ball team tonight at 8 o’clock in the new gymnasium here, it is an nounced. So far this season the Shelby quint has met the outstanding teams in this section and although defeated on several occasions the schedule is giving local fans the opportunity of seeing some of the best teams in the section in action. A good crowd is expected for to night’s game. _ Why Diet? Doctors Like Their Turkey The ordinary mortal who is fond of turkey and doesn’t get the delectable fowl so often shouldn’t worry about his di gestion and go ahead'and eat The idea is this: The doctors themselves like turkey, and there is sufficient proof that they eat the fowl. The regular monthly meet ing of the Cleveland County Medical society was held Mon day night at the Shelby hos pital, one of the features of the meeting being a fine turkey dinner tendered them by Miss Ella McNichols, hospital super intendent. Nothing other than the professional routine topics was taken up by the numerous medicos in attendance, it is re ported. Boiling Springs Wins Fast Game Basketball Gets to Fever Heat Over County. Shelby Meets Latti more Tuesday. With Kings Mountain, Boiling Springs, Lattimore, Fallston and Shelby all boasting unusually good high school cage teams a merry little mix-up has developed in the local basketball world. Lattimore and Kings Mountain have met twice each winning game. Lattimore this week beat Boiling Springs, a team defeated earlier by Kings Mountain but last night Boiling Springs beat Kings Mountain. Tonight Shelby plays Fallston and Lattimore comes for a corking good game Tuesday night. The Boiling Springs-Kings Moun tain game was one of the hottest of the season the score being Boil ing Springs 36 and Kings Moun tain 32. Stowe was the big per former for Kings Mountain, while McIntyre, DePriest, Donald and Thompson played well for Boiling Springs. Central high, of Rutherfordton, and Boiling Springs hook up to night. Singing Features Kiwanis Meeting Singing featured the Kiwanis club meeting Thursday night at Cleveland Springs hotel when Bill McCord had charge of the program. After talks were made by Dr. Reuben McBrayer and Bill McCord, emphasizing the importance of mass singing and the effect it has on the spirits of the members, Harry Pippin lead the group in singing a number of Kiwanis songs which were full of pep and ginger. Every member sang more heartily than ever before and learned a number of new Kiwanis songs from the Kiwanis official song book. Mrs Bill McCord was piano accompan 1 Cigarettes, the sale of which has been banned at Boiling Springs rod for three miles around since 1907, may now be sold there. The State Senate yesterday adopted without opposition a bill introduced by Representa tive Falls lifting the cigarette ban. according to inf< metion from Raleigh. The bill had pre-. viously passed a vote in the house. This ends a controversy that has been waged since the j bill was first introduced a week or so Dgo, merchants and citi zens of the Boiling Springs section having asked that the old ban be lifted while members of three Baptist associations fought the repeal saying that they did not wish cigarettes sold in reach of the boys at tending the big Baptist high school supported by the three. Editor Page, of Kings Moun tain, was one of the leaders protesting the lifting of the ban. HUGGINS LINED l'P TO FIGHT REPEAL OF BILL Opposes It Now But Not ^ heu | Falls First Introduced Re peal. It Is Said The Boiling Springs cigarette war has advanced another step. Prof J. D. Huggins, head of the school, is now opposing the repeal of the anti-cigarette law, accord ing to Editor Page, of Kings Moun tain, although information would have it that the school head did not oppose the repeal when it was first mentioned at about the time the repeal bill was introduced in the legislature by P*. T. Falls, county representative. At the time, it was rP;Q, Prof. Huggins expressed r.o Intention of fighting the repeal as it is under stood he considered it ineffective. However, such has been the move, of things and such opposition has developed to the repeal that the school head now proclaims himself as opposed to the lifting of the cigarette ban that r.ow prevents, or is supposed to, the soiling of cigarettes within three miles of the institution. Anyway the Kings Mountain Herald of Thursday quotes Hug gins as saying: “Under the cir cumstances I am now opposed, to the repeal of the Boiling Springs anti-cigarette law.’’ Continuing The Herald, which is making a strong fight against the repeal, says: “A signed letter front Represen tative B. T. Falls who introduced ■ the bill to repeal the law states that Prof. Huggins “Write that he did not oppose the bill.’ The edi tor of the Herald called Prof Huggins over phone to learn just ■how he felt about it after the agi tation has been started lo have the bill killed in the senate. He said to the Herald that sentiment ex pressing itself from different sec tions against the present oil! and in favor of keeping the three mile limit about ihe school and that he is now opposed to the bill going through. “Whether the law' is effective or not is not the question for 25,000 Baptists, owners of Roiling Springs high school to decide. The question >s whether or not we shall retrench and cede ground to the devil already gained. Our conten tion is that it is effective to some extent. It places cigarettes three miles farther aWay from the scnooi noys than they would be it the law was repealed. Three miles from temntation is enough to save many a boy from forming the habit. Many boys will go to Boil ing Springs just for this protec tion and if it is taken .uvay they will not go. And we might just as well face the issue of protecting the girls against this devilish hab it The contention is made that some may bootleg the cigarettes into the territory. One answer to that is they should he punished i"st as much so as if they had bootlegged anything else contrary to law and is not an excuse for lifting the ban. “Our information is that the anti-cigarette law was enacted in 1907. That was before many of the merchants of the town set up business there. They went into business in 1he town knowing the law existed.” Bill On Primary Change Up Tuesday Raleigh.—(IXp)—The bill pro viding for the changing of the North Carolina primary date from June to August will be taken up in the Senate next Tuesday. MITOIMBSTO GET 2 LUESES Automobile owners of Cleveland County and elsewhere over North Carolina must buy two state license taps this year, according to an im portant bit of legislation passed at Raleigh yesterday. The outstanding action of the day there was the making of a law by the house of a senate bill chang ing the date of auto registration from July 1 to January 1. This means that 400.000 car owners must buy two licenses during this year. One of these will be for six months on July 1, and another for 12 months prior to January 1, 1928. Experts estimate that the change will cost auto owners of the state £10,000 for an additional value of 25 cents on each six months license plate. The important reason cited for the change was that it would move the payment from mid-summer when the farmers are usually shy on money to January and keep an even date on yearly bills. Opposi tion to the bill was that just after Christmas car owners w'ould have less money than ever to buy license. This argument was answered by Kverette, of Durham, who replied that persons without the price of a license have no business with a car. Elizabeth Light Line Organized A new rural electric light plane is being organized in the Elizabeth section just west of Shelby, the line to extend from the Gardner Mull development to the fair grounds. Seven patrons have taken stock and the contract was awarded last night to the Shelby Electric Co., of which George Tompkins is manager. Work will begin right away. The line will extend through the Lee B. Weathers property and the Jim Allen tract and serve at the start about eight patrons. Thre* So. 4 wires will be strung to carry i 2,300 volts of power, sufficient to 1 care for all the needs of the fair interests. It will also serve the Elizabeth church and the new school building which will be locat ed near the church, according to the result of an election in the Eliza beth and Roberts school districts held last Saturday. Jack Hoyle Signs With Pro Baseball Asheville.—One by one signed contracts from members of the Tourist baseball club are floating in to the office of President Dan Hill. Wednesday, a young catcher Larry Kirby, recommended by Mat ty Matthews coach of the Cleveland Indians, sent in his signed papers as did A1 Green outfielder. Red Thomas outfielder; Harry Sinvthe, pitcher; Mack Orrelly, second sack er; Larry Schact, pitcher and a brother to the comedian with the Washington Senators; Minor Hor ton pitcher; Jack Hoyle pitcher and Don Hicks, outfielder. Spring training Will open March 20 while Larry Gardner, manager of the club, will report here March 1 to prepare fo the summer’s cam paign. Lattimore Takes Another Contest The Lattimore quintet defeated the Boiling Springs high school basketball team last night by the decisive score of 33 to 21. The Lattimore lads lead all the way through the game and won by their accurate passing and deadly shots. The game was played on the Forest City court. Star Offers Big Dictionary For 70c Notice the large advertisement in today’s Star, offering a 1,200 page Webster’s colleg, home and office dictionary for only 70c. You can get one of these post-paid to your address by adding 70c to the price of a year’s subscription to The Star. Publisher’s price on this dis tionary is $3.50 but The Star man aged to pick up 100 at a real bar gain to pass on to Star readers. It contains 60,000 words, 12,000 syno nyms, radio and wireless terms, dictionary of latest words, over 1,200 pages, handsomely bound in super-quality fahcikoid and stamp ed in gold. Correct this sentence: “I would like to have the job, but my op ponent is better qualified than I am.” Deathbed Confession To Shelby Minister Made Public After Years Sheds Light On Murder Mystery Mormon Church Founder Like Shelby So Well They Stay j L. Where the sun shines in February, the air is invigor ating and the people hospita ble for 12 months, and health building mineral water is unexcelled—that’s Shelby. Yesterday an automobile with a Detroit, Michigan, li cense drove into Shelby uiul toured the town. The occu pants, a man and his wife, ex pressed to citizens their fond ness for the town and their intention of so-journing for a month of the winter in the South. But they were of the opinion that the month’s va cation would be better spert in a little larger town and they drove on to Charlotte. Last night the car returned and it is now parked under the shade trees at the home of Mrs. W. L. Packard, on Morgan street, and today the vacationists announced that it would be there for a month at least. The entire vacation ing world.ought to know about Shelby, they say. They are Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cunningham, of Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Cunningham being a prominent business man. force pIH of STREET T1X BE Monday Feb. 21st. is Lest Day To Pay Before Property Mill Be Advertised At a called meeting of the city council held this week, the fol 1 lowing resolution was passed and signed by the mayor and four al dermen: “It is ordered by the board of aldermen of the town of Shelby that the treasurer and the tax collector of said town collect all street paving tax now in ar rears and it is further ordered that property subject to street paying tax in arrears on Monday Feb. 21st, 1927, be advertised for sale for said taxes. Signed A. P. Weathers, mayor; T. W. Hamrick, J. P. Toms, Johp F. Schenck and M. D. Hopper.” The city has been bringing pres sure to bear for sometime on prop erty owners who have not paid street paving assessments already past due but met with little suc cess, so in order to get the money to meet outstanding paving bonds, the city will re-sort to legal me thods. Some property owners have not paid anything since their streets were paved; others have kept up their annual installments; while theer are others who are be - j hind. This order means thut every property owner must pay all hack due assessments or their property will he advertsied for sale after February 21st. This order hy tne council noes not effect the property frontage streets that were paved under the last project executed in 1926 as the year is not out and the first in stallment is not due. After the paving projects were finished and the assessments fell due, enough property owners would pay to meet the bonds fall ing due, so previous administra tions made no effort to collect from the property owners after enough war. in the treasury to meet the bonds. As the year go by, the bonds falling due are larger in amounts and this year the city has more than $37,000 due in Febru ary. Since this money has not been paid by the property owners the city has been compelled to borrow $12,500 for a short period of time from a local bank to meet the bonds due. The city officials dislike to put on this pressure at this time, but finds itself compelled to do so in order to maintain the city’s credit and place every tax payer on an equal basis. If some other way was found to meet these bonds and wait on the property owners to pay at the end of ten years the full amount, no end of confusion would result in determinnig the parties responsible for the pay ment of certain installments since property is constantly changing hands). The property, howiever, stands for the obligation. Dr. Boyer Tells For First Time That In 1898 Mt. Ai**y Man Dying Confessed Part In Slaying Of Presidential Candidate (Editor’s note: Joseph Smith was the founder of the Mormon Church, and the author of “The Book of Mormon," the Bible of the Mormon church. This religious leader was murdered, as he languished in jail in Carthage, III., in 1844. the same year that he ran for Presi dent of the United States. His murderers were never apprehended. ' This narrative «hich follows, throws light for the first time, on the identity of at least cue of the men who killed him—revealed in Shelby Thursday by Itev. H. K. Bover, pastor of the Central Methodist church of this city, who, answering a letter of inquiry from a man in Tioga, 111., who had mysteriously learned the facta, stated that he preached the funeral of one of Smith's slayers—a man who made a deathbed confession to him that he was a member of the murder party.) (By A. D. JAMES) Roy. H. K. Boyer, pastor of the Central Methodist church of Shelby, in a remarkable interview with The Star Thurs day. stated that he preached the funeral in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, in 1898, of Corporal Belton, who confesesd to him on his death bed that he was one of the four conspirators who slew Joseph Smith, head and founder of the Mormon Church. This fact, insofar as is known, has never before been re vealed, owing to the trust the Shelby minister has held with a dying man. The name of the man who aided in killing one of the most § notorious men of the last century in this country, was dug from the archives of the memory’ of the Methodist pastor through a letter addressed to him from J, A. Cook, of Tioga. 111. The writer told Dr. Boyer that he had been informed by Rev. Curwen Mendley that he (Dr. Boyer) could throw some light on the Smith murder, and wrote asking for all the details of the famous murder mystery that he could sup ply. Dr. Boyer said he remembered having, years ago, told his friend Rev. Mr. Mendley of the facts of his having learned that Corporal Belton had a hand in the Smith murder, and had preached the funeral over his remains. The facts in the case, as relat ed by Dr. Boyer, to The Star, as he remembered them, were these: That in 1898 he was pastor of the Central Methodist church of Mt. Airy, this state. One of the members of the congregation was this Corporal Belton, then quite an aged man, who had subsequent ly been converted by an evange list who had preached in Mt. Airy. “I knew Belton slightly,” Dr. Boyer said, “but took no particu lar interest in him until he be came ill. Then I visited him. One day, after he had been ill a few days he had grown much worse, and was convinced he was going to die.. Calling me to his bedside he said: ‘There is something I want to tell you; something I have had on my conscience a long time. I am going to die, and I want to make a full confession before I pass on.’ “He' then told me,” Dr. Boyer went on, “that he and three other men murdered Joseph Smith in Carthage, Illinois in 1844. He told me that ten or a dozen men met in the town the night before the kill ing and pledged that they would neither eat nor sleep until Smith was dead. “Smith at the time was confined in the Carthage jail,, charged with perjury and adultery. His con- j duct had infuriated the Carthage j people. He was tnen the head of, the Mormons, and had that same year run for President of the j United States. ' “Belton said that he and three companions broke into the Car thage jail, and planned to murder Smith in his cell, but somehow the man escaped by jumping through a window. When he fell from the window, which was on the second floor, the blow stunned him so he lay on the ground until the four men ran around to where he was and one of the number shot him through the head and killed him. “After that Belton told me he left Illinois and made his way to the South, and eventually came to North Carolina and made his home in Mt. Airy.” Joseph Smith was one of the most remarkable characters of the nineteenth century. He was the sole founder of the Mormon Church, which, according to Dr. Boyer is the best organized and the most vigorous missionary body of religionists now existing on earth, with the possible exception of the Mohammedans. Smith’s work was taken up and carried on to great success by Brigham Young, who led the “flock” west into the fertile val leys of Utah, where the Mormon mother church and mother com munity now exists. Smith was born in 1805 in Ver mont. When still a young man—of neurotic tempermanent—such is the story of Mormonism he had a vision. An angel appeared to him in a dream, and revealed to him the whereabouts of certain gold tablets, which Smith was told to procure and which would prove to be the gospel of a great sect. The hiding place of these cele brated tablets was revealed to Smith as in the mountains of northern New York, in Ontari* county. He visited the scene, am there found an angel guarding th spot. The angel, according t< Smith's version, told him to gi home and pray, and report to th , place once a year for four year.' and at the end of that time th tablets would be given over int his custody, as the chosen of Gc( Smith kept the faith, and in fou years, the angel delivered the tab lets over to the prophet, who tool them home, copied them, and the transcript became to “Book of Mormon,” the Bible of “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.” Smith organized a church, and became a power, but his conduct with respect to young women be came so flagrant that the com munity rose up in arms against him. It is said that he preached the doctrine of all men having all things in common, and practised this faith. For years Mormonism in this country was synonymous in the popular mind with polygamy, until finally the members of the church were brought under the prohibition of a federal statute prohibiting this crime. Stamey Company In New Building Big Store Has all Modern Conven iences, Including Elevator, Water and Lights. The Stamey company at Fallaton has been moving for the past week into its large two story brick build ing just completed and without a doubt one of the most modern store buildings in the county. The build ing has plate glass front, handsome interior fixtures, an electric eleva tor, toilets for gents and ladies and every department is separate and distinct. On the main floor, dry goods, notions, shoes and grocer ies are handled. On the mezzanine floor to the left from the entrance one finds ladies ready-to-wear and millinery, while on the right, stoves, cooking utensils, glassware , and chinaware are handled. On the ! top floor there is a full line of cof fins, caskets, burial supplies and furniture. In the basement there is a giant heating plant to heat the entire building. Mr. Stamey says the old woodei store building which has been va cated will be used for wagons heavy hardware and surplus stock. The Stamey company is one of th3 largest mercantile establishments in this section and has met with remarkable success. A long cher ished dream Is realized now tfaa the new building is completed an occupied.
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