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"North Carolina . PRESS ASSOCIATION By mail, per year (in advance)..$2.61 By carrier, per year (in advance) $3 01 Within four days. Sunshine, rain, sloct and snow, frost—and sunshine again. * * * Representative B. T. Falls' Aus tralian ballot bill comes up for a vote in legislature Wednesday. The judge, home 'for the week-end gives The Star a few views and a bit of information on legislative Mortgages on the farms of North Carolina are going to hurt the state more than the temporary slump in cotton, says Max Gardner in a speech at Statesville. Ev'ery farmer should read the portions of hi- speech as reproduced in The Star today. * * * Do you know what "fontanel” means? Why not get a dictionary and look it up? Had you noticed the remarkable offer this paper makes in offering you a dictionary? Get in before they are u*( gone. • * • Senator Tom Fulton, of Kings Mountain, is the only undertaker in the North Carolina senate. * * * Several fine basketball games are scheduled for the local gymnasium this week, according to a sports ar ticle. * * * Nothing about that primary-talk ed county manager for Cleveland has leaked in to Raleigh, says Rep rt tentative Falls. • • • A new form of coop cotton con tract is now out, says a news item in this paper. » • * Shelby will at an early date have a very modern abattoir and inciner ator, the purchase being announced in The Star today. * * * A car stolen in South Carolina was recovered here last week and the thieves returned to that state yesterday. * * * So far this month license have been issued for the marriage of 16 couples. The names of those re ceiving license last week may be found in today’s paper. * * * Weather report for the week (judging by the week-end): May be, and maybe not. Three Men From Ware Shoals Con fess After Being Arrested on Suspicion Here. Two deputies from Greenville county. South Carolina, came to Shelby yesterday after three alleg ed auto bandits were arrested by local officers Friday. The three men were Charlie Lowry, Paul Norwood, and Clyde Hanna, it is said. One of the trio claimed that he had nothing to do with taking the car they drove here and the other supported his statements. Friday afternoon Policeman Post on and Officer Kendrick became suspicious of the actions of the trio who were attempting to sell auto accessories in South Shelby end acting upon the suspicions the three men were arrested. Shortly after being taken In to custody, it is said, that they readily admit ted that the new Ford in which they were riding had been stolen from Ware Shoals, S. C„ having t'cen taken from the warehouse of the auto agency there. The sheriff’s office here communicated with the auto agency there and learned that the new car had not been missed un til then. Big Dictionary Offer Going Fine *>n Saturday, the first day after Tin Star’s bijsr dictionary offer a number of subscribers came in and took advantage of it. The Star is offering a 1,200 page dictionary for R year’s subscription to the paper find ;o cents. Publishers price on tn<‘ dictionary is $3.50, but The ^tar managed to pick up 100 at a hig bargain and is passing them along. Parents who have children in school declare it to be a remarkable offer. The dictionary Is absolutely a .new edition with all radio and •ireless terms, auto and radio ‘Orris with 60.000 words in the general vocabulary, 12,000 synon :'ms !>nd antonyms as well as the institution of the United States, "‘eights and measures, interest 'ites and calculations, presidents the United States, abbreviations ■ "°rds, population of all towns nver 3,000 population in the United States, Renew or subscribe for a year an'l add 70 cents to your remittance ®n'i one of these 1.200 page die taries will be mailed to your ad b’ess oj- delivered to you at The htar office. City To Install Modern Abattoir For Slaughter Slaughter Of All Cattle And Hors So d In Town To Be Bandied In Sanitary Manner Sav Aldermen The board of aldermen and mayor of Shelby upon the recom mendation of Dr. J. S. Dorton, city meat and milk inspector, last week purchased machinery for a modern abattoir, or sanitary slaughter equipment, for Shelby. The machinery is now being ship ped from Chicago and will prob ably be installed and ready for use in three weeks or a month. Incinerator Also Along with the uoattoir will be an incinerator for the sanitary dis posal of all trash ar.d rubbage of the town wf/ch is now dumped about in various places. The abattoir and incinerator will be located at the old pump sta tion site, which is suitably fitted for it and will save additional ex pense. The abattoir will be conducted by the latest sanitary methods and it will be required that all cattle and hogs slaughtered in the town be slaughtered there with the requirement that all meat sold in the town come under ihe abattoir inspection. The abattoir, to be one of the most modern and valuable in the state, will properly dispose of all the offal and usually offen sive parts of the slaughterhouse. The offal from the slaughter will go into a mammoth rendering vat under steam and be disposed of without odors. In the end this of fal is so treated that it is sold as grease, tallow, etc., with a high market value as ingredients for poultry and other feeds. The complete plan will contain many sanitary and modern ma chines for slaughter use.including a dehairing machine that will de hair a hog per minute. The old steam boiler of the old water plant site will be renovated into an incinerator for the disposal of trash and garbage. With the site and equipment of , the old water station to begin and the addition of the purchased ma chinery it is said that the local abattoir and incinerator will rank as one of the best plants in the j state at a very low cost consider i ing the value in dollars and from the standpoint of health. Licence Issued Here for That Many Couples Within Nine teen I)s*ys Time. The inclement weather predicted and struck on certain days, by the groundhog has not held marriage i plans of Cleveland county youth. Through Saturday, February 19, Register Andy Newton had issued j license to 16 county couples, his ! record books reveal. This, it might be added, is exceptionally good business on the marriage mart for February. In fact many months known as better marrying months seldom have more than 16 marri age records and this month has a \ week to go over the 16. ' During the past week license? were issued to four couples, three i white and one colored. The white I couples were: Lester Everett Wil , lis and Lela Alvertine Ross; Pink ! Horton and Dessie Newton; Sum ! mey Augustus Grayson and Carrie ! Alice McSwain. Three Big Games On At Local Gym Here During Week ! Big Crowd Expected To Witness Lattimore-Shelby Game Tues day Night. Two Others j The Shelby Highs have their hardest week of basketball on be ginning Tuesday night with Lat timore playing the locals in the Tin Can here. On the following night, Wednesday, the fast Cher ryville team just now eliminated from the state race will play Morris’ boys, and on Friday night the remarkable quint from the1 deaf school at Morganton will play here. The three games are expected to draw the largest crowds of the season. The Lattimore-Shelby game Tuesday night should be the top-notcher as the Lattimore five j is considered about the cream of[ basketball teams in this section, I but despite this Shelby plans to [ carry Coach Falls’ boys to the limit before losing and a large number of supporters are expected : to pack the sidelines in the local j gymnasium. The Cherryville game j should be an almost equal attrac- | tion, while the crowds should in- j crease for. the game Friday with I the deaf team, members of which J cannot hear the referee’s whistle, | I x starting and stopping the play. 1 — Starts Manufacture Of Novelty Furniture —-— Loy Thompson, son of Z. J. | Thompson was here for the week-! end from Brevard where he oper- j ates a lumber plant and does gen- j eral mill shop. He announces that j beginning right away the Bre- j vard plant will manufacture nov-! elty furniture such as fancy tables, chairs, etc., which will be turned out without the paint finish so the purchasers who buy from the deal ers handling his line can apply whatever finish is desired. Dick Henniessea, well known Shelby boy, has gone to Brevard to ac cept a position with the new fur niture plant which Mr. Thompson is starting. Blacksburg Womcjt Succumbs to Burns at the Shelby Hospital. Burial in Alabama Mrs. Vic Roberts, wife of Dr. Vic Roberts of Blacksburg, S. C., died at the Shelby hospital Monday morning from burns received two weeks ago when gasoline which she was pouring in a stove to make a fire, exploded and set her cloth ing aflame. Mrs. Roberts was 37 years of age and before mar riage was Mrs. Arlinc Taylor of Alabama. Besides her husband who is a prominent physician of Blacks burg, one daughter 18 years old survives. Her body was taken this afternoon to her home in Blacks burg. S. C., and at 11 o’clock it will be taken on a southbound train to Montgomery, Ala., where the in terment will fake place. It will be recalled that Mrs. Rob erts had picked up a can which she thought to contain kerosene to make a fire in the kitchen stove. The can contained gasoline and when it poured on the hot coals, an explosion took place and her clothing caught fire. Dr. Roberts rushed to her aid and carried her into the yard where he tried to extinguish the flames with sand and and in his rescue efforts, hi3 hands were severely burned. She was rushed to the Shelby hospital where her condition was serious for a fortnight until death reliev ed her suffering. Dr. Roberts has a number of rel atives in the lower section of Clev eland county. Cleveland Girls With Opera Star Three-year-old Gloria Cornwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Cornwell, of Kings Mountain, may relate in after years of the unus ual experience of having “her pic ture made” with Madame Schu mann-Heink, famous opera star. Madame Schumann-Heink, gave a concert in Charlotte Friday night made tours of the city Thursday and during the dav she was photographed with the Kings Mountain girl and another small child. Later in the day numerous young singers appeared before her for an appraisal of their voice and one of her highest compliments was to the sister of the small girl with whom she was photographed. Af ter hearing Miss Lorene Cornwell sing the famous singer said: “You are of the Italian school of sing ing,” and commented upon the pe culiarity of that type of vocal cul ture. King Boris Gives Medal. By International News Service Sofia.—King Boris has award ed Dr. E. B. Hatkell, one of the two oldest American missionaries in the Balkans, a medal for meri torious service on the occasion of Dr. Haskell’s thirty-fifth anniver sary of his coming to Bulgaria. A noted preacher and educator Dr. Haskell is shortly leaving for the United States, where, owing to his great age, he plans to make his permanent home. We fail to see where popular government needs any defender. Luck Changes Former Congresswoman Alice Robertson of Muskogee, Okla., has suffered much at the hands of fate the last few years. Reduced from a comfortable position to poverty, now she la prosperous again. A million-foot gas well was brought in on the site of the burned ruins of her former home LADIES' FIBERY Silk Dresses. Hose, Bloomers and Cosmetics Missing. Crge for New Spring Clothes With the balmy spring weather of last week it is presumed that somebody just could not resist the desire for new spring finery. Any way the ladies clothing establish ment operated in South Shelby by Miss Azelia Roberts was broken into last Friday night and between $150 and $200 worth of finery stolen. Police officials have been work ing on the case since,and several searching raids for the missing clothes may be made at an eariy date, it is hinted by the police de partment. On the same night, it is said, an entrance was made into Quinn’s South Shelby Pharmacy by a back window, but as the window only I opened to a rear office the thieves were unable to get in the main section of the store. The entrance into the clothing store establish ment was also by way of a rear window. | Police officers say that the miss ing clothing from Miss Roberts’ store included silk and satin dress es, silk hosiery, bloomers, face powders, cosmetics and other things. Getting New Coffin Plant In Readiness Will F. Wright Arrived Sunday To Become General Superintendent Of The Plant. Will F. Wright arrived Sunday from Fort Smith, Ark., to become general superintendent of the new coffin and casket factory which is being started here by Z. J. Thomp son and Rochel Hendrick. The starting of this new industry for Shelby was delayed somewhat be cause Mr. Wright could not leave the coffin factory at Fort Smith until his successor came upon the job. Now' that he is here, the ma chinery w’ill be set in motion and men started to work in turning oui coffins and caskets. Mr. Wright is a native of Cleveland county, the son of Mr. Amos Wright. He has had long practical experience in the manufacture of coffins and caskets and Messrs. Hendrick and Thompson consider themselves for tunate in securing Iris services. At present t;he three w'ho hold an interest in this new industry are Messrs. Thompson, Hendrick and Wright. Whether other stockhold ers will be taken in or not, remains to be decided later. The coffin and casket factory will operate nt the Thompson lumber shop on North Washington street. Mrs. Jesse Hawkins Dies On Grover St Mrs. Jesse Hawkins died at 2 o’clock at her home on Grover street, adjacent the hospital. Mrs. Hawkins had been ill for a long time, bed-ridden for several months with an intestinal trouble. Surviv ing are her husband, Jesse Haw kins., two osns, Paul and Dewey Hawkins, local automobile dealers and two daughter, Mrs. J. N. Bar nett of Hickory and Miss Edna Hawkins of Shelby. Funeral will be conducted from the residence at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, by Rev. Zeno Wall and Rev. J. W. Suttle. Interment will be at Sunset cemetery. Some people read everything in their newspaper except the sub scription label. They know that it is nothing to be proud about. 1 — LCeld Ruin, Slert, Snow and Frost Fellows February Sunshine. But It Returns. Otto Wood is back in North Car olina. So's the springtime sunshine! of February, and hereafter such 'vn.rving groundhog weather might! l ight he labelled Otto Wood weuth-, er On occasions it is here and (?i other occasions it is not. Fast Friday this section was enjoying a phenomenally early spring with the thermometer at 6*6' and the peach trees blooming. Twenty-four hours later the ther nnonif ter had dropped just 24 de grees and the steady rain of Satur- j day was replaced by an equally j steady sleet. The result was that! shirt-sleeved Shelby of Friday jour neyed home in overcoats Saturday, | pulled the heavy blankets out of the pre-spring seclusion and drop ped off to sleep believing the groundhog to be one of the out standing prophets after all. Sun day morning the belief of the night before was reinforced by a flurry j of snow that lasted for only a brief period. Monday morning a medium frost and biting cold shot the thermome ter down to 32, a drop of 34 degrees since Friday but during the fore noon the sunshine of the past w-eek began to stage a come-back and the mercury was climbing on to 40 and above with the general be lief that fairly warm weather is j in the offing. . Opinion expressed about Shelby today was that the fruit crop was not injured despite the series of changes including sleet, snow and frost and that if no colder weather sets in the crop will not be ruined. But it is hard today to get a laugh on followers of the ground hog legend. Rav And Fay Now Have A Home In Shelby; The Twins Motherless Twins Said to Be All Smiles as They Go to Their New Abode. Ray and Fay are in a home of their own today after four mother less months in the hospital. What’s more they have a proud mother and father by adoption and hereafter never a gurgle and coo will be miss | ed. It will be remembered that a few i days back The Star made mention | of the fact that twins were left at the Shelby hospital, their mother dying at their birth. For four months they remained there the father finding it inconvenient to I care for them at home and then i Welfare Officer J. B. Smith ask j ed The Star to ascertain if there ; was not a home somewhere in the j county where such healthy chaps might find a permanent abode. There was and numerous applica tions came in to home the mother less tots. A juvenile court action was held Friday and the necessary „ legal matters adjusted and today the twins—named Ray and Fay by their father—were taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Canipe, on Lineberger street, where here after it will be the home of Ray and Fay. Mr. Canipe is a well to do carpenter and Mr. Smith feels that he has been fortunate in plac ing the twins in such a fine home. ‘Supers” To Attend Educational Meet County Superintendent J. Hor aceace Grigg and City Superin tendent I. C. Griffin expect to leave the last of this week for Dallas, Texas, to attend the super intendents conference of the Na tional Education Association which convenes there for a five day ses sion. Some of the most prominent educators of the country are on the program for addresses. While the program calls for a five day ses sion Messrs. Grigg and Griffin will he there for only four days, but their absence from Shelby will ex tend over a period of a week. Higgins Sells Chrysler Agency B. B- Higgins has sold his Chrys ler agency to Decatur Elmore ar^l Mr. Elmore took charge of the place on E. Washington street this morning. Mr. Elmore and his son will continue to sell Chrysler cars which are very popular on the local market. Mr. Higgins will remain with Mr. Elmore for awhile until he gets better acquainted with the business. Carrying Soldiers to China . 7l.i- Unite*’ States transport Chaumont, which recently left r.v- It t'itf, Calif., bound for Honolulu and points in troubled China, rif urcd here. The ship tarried 1300 inart nee* Ga dner Says Mortgages On Farms More Serious Than Price Of Cotton Warns Agsxnst Waste And Extravagance. Too Many Loans Being Made. Can Be Damaging Statesville.—“We may just as well make up our minds that Mi. MeNary, Mr. Haugen and Mr. Coolid'ge can do little for us by law until we first amend the statutes of self-indulgence and come to the realization that the wages of waste and extravagance is bankruptcy, and that the way of the man who spends more than he makes is al ways hard and ultimately leads to ruin." declared O. Max Gardner, of Shelby, in an address at a farmers’ program here in which he warned of the menace of debt in North Carolina. Picturing farm mortgage indebt | edness as something very akin to an ogre hovering over the state’s pros perity, and classing the McNary Haugen bill as “sired by debt and damned by mortgage,’’ he said, “My friends, let us hope that North Carolina may never be called upon to drink of the cup of wormwood and bitterness that is now the lot of Iowa,” a state held up by him as typical of what farm debt will do for a people. “What is our status in North Carolina? It is positively alarming | to witness the increasing bondage of economic slavery gathering around the homesteads and country sides of North Carolina, as the multitude of farm mortgages are securely—and I fear in many in stances permanently —plastered upon the lands of this state. "A few years ago it was the ex ception to find the average farm in North Carolina under mortgage. Twenty years ago the farmer felt a measure of disgrace, and he was , the talk of the community, if he j placed a lien on his land. Revival Needed. “What has taken place in Nortli Carolina that has caused us to be on such intimate and friendly terms with debt? I think we need a revival of the old-fashioned doc trine of the fear of debt, and I am beginning to believe that this re vival ought to take place, not alone on the farms of the state, but in cities, counties and commonwealths of the whole nation. “Thoughtful men are daily realiz ing that a debt can easily become a danger and a something to be handled with caution. “Credit is always costly in its fi nality, but it is today regarded so i cheap that we mortgage our cher-< ished possessions to pay not only the debts of today, but to meet thej extravagancies of other days and to acquire so many things which we could easily do without. Cotton Not Blamed. “Let us be absolutely candid and fair in this matter. The financial troubles of the cotton farmer today are not solely or primarily the re sult of 11 cents cotton for the 1926 crop. It goes back further and touches a more vital problem. For the past five years preceding 1926 the average price for upland mid dling cotton was 25 cents a pound. We now think that was a fine price. I and yet it was the accumulations of unnecessary debt during these five years of prosperity of 25 cent J cotton that caused so many farm* ers to find themselves in the mire of pending bankruptcy in 1926. “It would take 35 cents cotton to balance the budget of the aver age cotton farmer on his present basis of spending. “Did you ever stop to think, Mr. Farmer, that mighty few men or groups of people whom we are pleased to call a county, state or nation, ever sank under the burden of today? It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of to day and to that of yesterday, that the burden becomes too heavy for a neople to bear. “As an examplb of this tragic fact, let us look into Iowa, the in- j cubator of farm relief. The state i of Iowa is naturally conservative,1 with less illiteracy and inflamed ig- j norance than any other stale in the union. She is thoroughly American in her citzenship, ideals and aspira tions, yet she stands a striking il lustration of the appalling hurt of farm mortgage indebtedness and as an audacious exponent of political discontent, social unrest and agri cultural upheaval. Again I say, would never have heard of Brook hart except for the irritating and gnawing inflammation of farm debt with its attendant fever spreading throughout the body politic. “Listen to this brief story of Iowa’s ngony. It is truly stagger ; ing. She has a farm mortgage in : debtedness of a billion, eighty-nine , million, nine hundred and ninety seven thousand dollars. She is a j leading agricultural state, with an annual crop production value of five-hundred and eight million, six hundred thousand dollars. It takes 13 per cent in round numbers of | this entire crop to pay the interest : installments on the farm mortgage ; indebtedness of the state, and in i addition to this unbearable load I must be .added local, county, state and federal taxes. “The yoke is not easy, and the burden is far from light in Iowa. ' It has sapped and undermined the j foundation of this commonwealth. Is it any wonder, then, that Iowa in her mad discontent strikes wildly at everything in sight? “My friends, let us hope that our beloved state may never be called upon to drink of the cup of worm wood and bitterness that is now the lot of Iowa. “The farm mortgage indebted ness of North Carolina is small com pared to that of Iowa, and yet one of the best informed farm loan bankers in the state tells me that on December 31, 1926, he estimates the farm mortgage debt of our state around 250 million dollars; that is to say average of two and a half million for each county. It requires around fifteen million dol lars every year to pay the interest on this vast debt. This is the con servative estimate of the debt as of January 1, 1927, and yet you know and I know that every regis ter of deeds in North Carolina is busy filling his books with mort gages. on farms. “I do not know what the farm debt is today, but I do believe that it is at least a hundred thousand dollars more today than it was yes terday. “I know, too, that hundreds of farmers in my own county in 1926 did not receive a return from their crops sufficient to pay their local taxes and interest on farm indeb tedness." Blind Man Given A Road Sentence Jess Green, who has only one eye and is said to be blind in it, was given a sentence of 60 days on a liquor charge in Judge John Mull’s county court here today. Green, Ambrose Lail, Fofrest McSwain and Ja->s Williams were in court over charges devel oped by Officers Hester and Pos ton Friday night. Green and Lai! received sentences of 60 days each over the alleged selling; McSwain received a similar sentence for re ceiving and drinking, it is said, and Williams paid the cost's. Australian Bill Reaches Assembly Action Wednesday Raleigh. (INS.)—The house will have a big number on its calendar for consideration next Wednesday. That’s the day t^at the Falls Broughton Australian ballot will come up for passage or rejection. The bill has been made a special order for Wed nesday. COUNTY MANAGER DUD DF PRIMARY ii mm NOW No Such Move Has Reached Re presentative Falls For Legis lative Action All the talk over CleVelcnc county during; the recent primary and election bustle concerning a eounty manager for Cleveland county seems to have been noth ing but talk. At the time it was reported that rumors that legislature would be asked to pass a law permitting a county manager here was only for the sake of eertai ncandidacies. o rrather for the sake of putting a halter on other candidacies. Still the rumor persisted until the reg- V ular voting period ended, but Re presentative B. T. Falls, home for the week-end, states that, so tar he has not been approached con cerning such legislation. Neither has he received any communication concerning it so that now he is of the opinion that no such move is on the boards. Local Legislation Queried os to the prospect for any legislative matters touching the county during the remainder of the term Mr. Falls stated that no further local legislation seem ed likely other than the Lawndale road commission petition now under consideration as mentioned in the last issue of The Star. Fighting For Bill The Cleveland representative is making a strong fight to carry his Australian ballot bill through the voting of next Wednesday when it , comes up for action, and he ex pressed the hope that he may be victorious. Many legislators op posing the secret voting plan at the laBt session are now for it and added to this strength he has the full support of the women voters of the state and their organisa tions. Mr. Falls together with Sec tor Tom Fulton came from •eigh Friday night with Deputy Mike Austell. NOTH COTTON GROWERS corner Members May Designate the Month or the Day They Wish Their Cotton To Be Sold. According to Mr. Hilton, distrii agent for the North Carolina Co ton Growers Association, contra* No. 3 which is a new contract f< members to sign has several sped; features which appeal to membei and on Friday and Saturday he s< cured 17 members: J. A. Horn, 3. McSwain, J. E. Hoyle, L. G. Bowe L. S. Hamrick, L. J. Blanton, B. Harris, Burwell II. Blanton, Cha P. Weir, A. Y McMurry, J G. La timore, F. Harrill, C. S. Lee, Edne Willis, R. W. Wp«on, J. Everel: Whisnant, L. Yelton, Calnm Earl, that is found in the new, is that Champion. One change from the old contract the contract signs members up for a term of ten years, but they can withdraw after any one crop has been delivered to the association. The option is also given for the members to name the month or name the day on which he wishes his cotton sold. Instead of the fees being $10 to join, this fee remains fhe same but is payable $4 the first year and $3 for each of the next two following years. Those who have signed contract No. 2 have the right to change and sign under contract No. 3 which embodies a number of other features which seem to suit the farmers better. Embalmer Senator From Cleveland Asks For A Tax Senator Tom Fulton Would Place Tax On Profession. Only Under taker At Raleigh. ' Raleigh—With other lawmakers introducing bills relating to tax on barbers, plumbers and other things too numerous to mention, Senator Horatio Thomas Fulton, of Cleve land, comes along and offers a bill to require all funeral directors and embalmers to be taxed after they have first been licensed. The Cleveland Senator, incident ally, is the only undertaker in the Senate. He can officiate, if neces sary, in the embalming of pieces of legislation. He is at present president of the North Caroliri Funeral Directors’ association. The batteries today; Me, atW Smith; Borah and Butler.
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