North Carolina Newspapers

SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MARCH 7. 1927. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoon*. By mail, per year (in advarce)—$2.61 By carrier, per year (in advance) $3 0* VOL. XXXIV, No. 23 What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW. Had you noticed it in the news that real estate in this section of Western Carolina is moving just about as good as this time last year Ixo pL that the boomish back ground is missing? Big sales were r(! . ted in the Lake Lure section ]asl week, and there’s a right inter ring item abdut the moving of business property in Shelby today. * * * P iand N. officials were here S itu day looking over this section. Set it down that if the P. and N. (Xt, - mi comes this wray real es tate will move faster than ever. + * ♦ Only a few years ago Jasper Bar nette was a farmer in this county. Today he’s one of the best known Sunday school workers in the North Carolina Baptist church. An article in this issue has a brief history of his work. * * * Autos may legally speed up to 4a.miles per hour on the highways of tiiis state now, according to Ra leigh news telling of the latest laws. • * * A big portion of the county fruit was damaged by the recent cold spell, farmers say. * * * Work on Highway 20 will be rushed.' at night under blazing el ectric lights, says The Star today, so that summer traffic on the fa mous highway will not be held up. * * * Figures on Shelby’s bonded debt, as issued by the University News Letter, are cited today. • * * Woodmen of three states may hold their annual encampment in iShelBy, reads an item in today's news. • » Community events, town happen ings, farm items, deaths, sickness, visitors', building—all the Cleveland county news every other day in The Star. SHIES Mil MEET III SHELBY SB The annual district encampment of Woodmen of the World coming from three states, the Carolinas and Virginia, will be held in Shel by dui ing the summer, it was learn ed to day from Dr. T. O. Grigg, prominent Shelby fraternal leader. A movement was underway last year to have the big district en campment here, but the movement failed at that time. However, Dr. Grigg recently received a letter from one of the prominent officials of the district covering three states saying that Shelby was fa vorably considered as the encamp ment site this y<ar, adding that the encampment would likely come here if Shelby displayed the same interest in it this year as last. j Realizing that 300 to 500 delegates Will likely attend spending from six to ten thousand dollars, local leaders and Chamber of Commerce j officials are interesting themselves in securing the encampment. Hennessa Takes Up Work At Paragon —_ Meredith H. Hennessa, son of I he late P. L, Hennessa, took off j his number seven and hung it on; the rack at the Paragon Furniture j company Monday morning, rolled; up his sleeves, and tackled his new i job. Which is to say that henceforth | the genial countenance of this well | known young man will be seen at I the Paragon, where his late esteem- j ed father so long served the pat- j rons of the firm, of which he was a j member. Some question has existed in the, minds of the local business com-; munity as to what change in the personnel of the Paragon would occur after the death of Mr. Hen-J nessa. The Paragon announcement of the employment of young Hen nessa answers the query. The ownership of the Paragon will remain unchanged, according to a formal notice made in the ad vertising columns of this paper. William Lineberger will continue j as president; M. A. Spangler as; secretary-treasurer and general; manager, with the Hennessas the I third party owners. it is said that Roscoue Lutz and i young Hennessa are both licensed' ombalmers. Messrs. I. C. Griffin and Horaca Grigg, have returned from Dallas, I Texas, where they attended the school superintendents’ conference , of the National Educational asso ciation. Mrs. and Mr Columbus C. Mize and Mr. Claude Webb were Chim ney Rock and Asheville visitors Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mash, of Hickory, were week-end jruests We spending; the time with Mrs. Nash’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McCord. Bonded Debt of Town 11.7 Percent Of Assessed Value. K'n^s Mountain Very Low The bonded debt of Shelby considering assessed value falls below that of 01 other North Caro lina towns and cities, according to statistics issued by the University News Letter. Shelby's bonded debt is set at $1, 234,500, or 14.7 per cent of the assessed value of the town. Andrews, where the bonded debt is 43,3 per cent of the assessed value has the highest bonded debt considering valuation, while Bel mont with a bonded debt that is only 1.3 per cent of the assessed valuation ranks as the lowest in the state. Kings Mountain, Cleveland coun ty’s second thriving town, ranks far down the bonded debt list with a debt of only $376,000, or 7.1 per cent of the assessed valuation. Rutherfordto.'i with 34.1 percent, Hendersonville with 28.8, Forest City with 23.6 and Cherryville with 10.4 bonded debt for assessed valu ation all have a higher bonded debt per centage than Shelby. Other neighboring towns having a small er bonded debt percentage than Shelby are Gastonia and Lincoln ton. Widow of the Late Barrett Turner Succumbs After Short Illness Was 67 Years Old. Mrs. Mary Turner, widow of the late W. Barrett Turner, died Satur day at 12:45 o’clock following a brief illness with rheumatism. On Monday preceding her death, a rheu matic pain started in her finger tips, rapidly worked to her side and hips and death came to relieve her suffering on Saturday. Mrs. Turner was Mary Jane Austell, daughter of the late Amos Austell and was 67 years of age. Her hus band died in July 1925 and her bodjt was interred beside her beloved companion at Zoar Baptist church cemetery Sunday afternoon at two o'clock, the funeral sendees being conducted by Revs. John W. Suttle and Zeno Wall, the services being held in the church building. Mrs. Turner was a fine Christian character whose life has radiated with a wholesome influence upon all with whom she came in contact. She was a devoted wife and mother, patient and thoughtful and tender in all her cares and affections. She as a kind neighbor and a conse crated Christian who will be greatly missed by her host of friends. Surviving are two sons Fred Turner of Sfielby; Hazel Turner of Earl; one daughter, Mrs. Susan Moss of Ninety-Nine, S. C., and two brothers, John and Will Austell of Gaffney, S. C. To Talk On Cotton Seed And Grading Ur. R. Y. Winters, an expert from the state department of agriculture will be in Shelby Friday March 11 and talk on the various varieties of cotton seed at the Planters aud Merchants Cotton Warehouse near the Southern depot. Ur. Winters has a very helpful message to farmers and those interested in better cotton seed are cordially in vited to hear him. An expert in the grading of cotton will accompany Ur. Winters to Shelby and give a demonstration that day at the bonded warehouse on the grading of cotton. Farmers and others in terest in these topics are invited to hear these authorities on cotton. Company Merger On Autos Planned A movement is «-foot here to form a stock company to handle Pontiac and Oakland automobiles. The plan is an expansive one. Five local business men will, insofar as the plan is now matured, form the company, with th# Arey brothers, Will and Ward, taking a leading hand. Mr. Barnes of the Barnes,, Young Motor company, of Charlotte, was in Shelby the latter part of last week, perfecting details for the new venture, and Monday (today) ill Arey went to Charlotte to put further pegs in the deal. t is said the local company will compose some of the best rated business men in town. To Rush Work On Highway 20 At Night With Lights Contractors Will Work I'nder Blazing Electric Lights To Complete Stretch Tor Spring Travel Highway construction at night is something new for this terri tory but it will be introduced in a week or two on Highway No. 20 in hardsurfacing a 25-mile link be tween Rutherfordton and Lake Lure, according to reports in Shelby. In order that traffic will not have to detour for long in the Spring when the heavy tarvel sets in, it is learned ihat the con tractors are bound to complete the 25 mile stretch in 90 days from March 15th and in order to do this, electric lights are being placed along the route so that con struction work can go right along without interruption when night comes. Work Night Shift It is understood that two or three shifts of workmen will be on the job and that construction work will not let up after it starts unless weather conditions render it impossible to continue. The grading has been let to three com panies, 9 miles to one, 11 miles to another and 5 miles to another. Lavendar Brothers of Earl are said to have one of the contracts. The route will be changed somewhat in the mountainous section where curves will be eliminated, but (be present route of highway No. 2.0 will be followed closely from Rutherfordton West, a distance of nine or ten miles. Detour Via Marien Material is being placed along j the route r.ow so there wiil be no j delay in the construction work when it once begins for the idea is 1 to avoid a detour for the union r j travel. When highway No. 20 is closed for construction work, traf-! fie to Asheville will be detoured via highway No. 10 via GUbey and Marion. It is understood that Lake Lure, is about filled with water and that a big building program will be instituted in the Spring, so in order that the development might not be delayed and highway traf fic inconvenienced, the building of this 25 mile link will be rushed day and night to completion. Power to light the road at night will he furnished from the Lake Lure dam. When this 25 mile link from Rutherfordton to Lake I.ure is completed, highway No. 20 will he one unbroken stretch of hard sur face from Asheville to Wilming ton. ; Worry Over School Standing Is Blamed For Suicides Among Youth I By International News Service Bloomington, Ind.—Worry over grades and general school condi tions are not responsible for the wave of suicides among college students, according to Dr. G. S. Sr.oddy, head of the psychology department of the University of Indiana. “Suggestion is the biggest fac tor back of the enormous in crease in suicides,” Dr., Snoddy said. “A stronger element of in j stability runs through it all. The individual becomes weak, discour aged,, sometime ‘broke’, and his future is not altogether bright. Because somebody else does it, he does it; and so, we have the excit able, neurotic, queer and unsoc iable types killing themselvse. Too much excitement and over indulgence also are resposible, he said. “There is something in the spirit of ‘flaming youth’ today,” he said. “Young people lack the older, stabilizing theories of con duct and get so filled up on pleas ures that there is nothing left. The psychology of suicide is too much ease. If it were possible for continually to face the problem of self-preservation, there would be no suicides,” i Women Voters Will Check Up On Wovk Of Lawmakers Li Meet Soon j Raleigh, (INS.)—The accom | plishment of the 1927 legislature ' will undergo the careful scrutiny of | the North Carolina league of Wo ' men voters here on March 10, 11 | and 12. i This and a forecast of what the legislature is likely to do two years hence, will be one of the main features cf the women vot ers’ annual school of citizenship here. The citizenship school will be be held here in connection with the voters’ league annual convention. Numerous speakers from the state and all parts of the country have been obtained to address the school and the convention, accord ing to announcements made here. READERS TAKING TO WEBSTER I By another week or so Cleve land county people could peruse the Congressional Record from cover to cover and not be “stump ed” by some of the outlandish words used by the congressmen who run to words of many syll ables. The reason is this: There are 100 more dictionaries in Cleve land county today than there were just a short month ago—and Feb ruary is a short month. Which may be taken to mean that the citizens of Cleveland county and the school students are “from Miss ouri” for when they encounter a hard word to pronounce, spell, or define they are going to be shown by looking it up in the lat est edition of the college diction ary still known under the name of t'^e fellow who started defining things, Noah Webster. A month ago The Star secured 100 of the new dictionaries with all the new words, and by secur ing them at a bargain offered to give one with each yearly sub scription to the paper for 70 cents extra. Since that time 100 have subscribed, and, presto, the dic tionaries are practically gone. An order for another 100 has already been forwarded to the bookmakers —and that’s the big news. One fellow was so pleased with his dictionay that he termed the offer the best news he had seen in The Star in many moons. So, if you still haven’t subscribed and have not a late dictionary in your home drink in this news: A sub scription of one year to The Star with just 70 cents extra will give you a Webster’s College Dictionary which has a sale value of $3.50. Remember March is longer than February and this 100 may not last so long. Boy Scout Meeting Here Tuesday Night The Shelby Boy Scout or ganization here will effect an or ganization at a meeting to be hel l Tuesday night at 7 o’clock in the Scout hall on the second floor of the Royster building, it is announced ; by I)r. Reuben McBrayer, vice president of the Piedmont counci1. R. M. Schiele, scout executive for the Piedmont council, will at tend the meeting and assist in the organization as well as discus - scout work with those present. De tails concerning the training course for scout masters will also be taken up at the meeting. The necessary $1,000 for addi tional scout work here has been i raised, it is further announced, and there are now’ seven organized troops in the town. ■ New Speed Limit On Highways 45 Miles Per Hour e Raleigh.—The speed limit of North Carolina’s highways will be forty-five miles an hour under the provisions of the traffic regulation bill | which has passed by tiie House | of Representative. This bill fixes the speed limit in cities at 20 miles per hour and the speed limit in busines districts at 15 miles per hour. Until four years ago the speed lipiit was thirty miles per hour. The last General Assembly boosted it to 35 miles. I I L PEI FRONT FOOT Business Property (Jets Back in Trading Here With Bineber Ker Sale to lloey. Shelby let out a notch in its economic belt Saturday when the price of the "key” property of the town, the old Masonic building, was boosted from forty to forty-five thousand dollars in a trade for the' transfer of the parcel from William Lineherger to Clyde It. Hoey. The Star is informed the deal involved “approximately” forty five thousand, and from inside in formation it may be stated this is so close to the actual figure, us to leave not many prices for a dope between. When this property was last sold it fetched the tidy sum of forty thousand, this being the transfer as between the Masonic lodge and Messrs Cox and Riviere. What William Lineberger paid these pur chasers for the holding has not been revealed. But the fact remains that this parcel has a frontage of but 26 feet which totals the front foot cost at around eighteen hundred dollars, which it is agreed as fast stepping main street price for property in a town the size of Shelby. As a matter of fact, it is said, that price would look good in real j estate circles for nm.'n street prop ; erty, in towns much larger than I Shelby in many of the rapidly de j veloping cities of the country. Mr. Hoey told The Star he made the purchase as an investment. The lower story of the structure, which is two stories Jiigh, is occupied by Rose’s five and ten cents store and the second floor by offices. i Beloved South Shelby Woman Was Buried Sunday at Sharon Methodist Church. Mrs. Acquilla Moore Blanton, wife of Mr. Coel Blanton of South Shelby died Saturday afternoon at 4:20 following an illness of five months duration, a sufferer with leakage of the heart. She had been confined to her bed for some time but was a patient and uncomplain ing sufferer. Mrs. Blanton was 43 years of age and was born and reared in the Sharon community, a sister of Marshall Moore of the Shelby police department. While Mrs. Moore held her church membership at Sharon she was active in the religious affairs of the LaFayette Street Methodise church and had a host of friends where she was known. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Sharon church by Rev. Frank Putnam, assisted by Rev. T. B. Johnson. She was marriedl to Mr. Coel Blanton eighteen years ago and they have been living in South Shelby for a number of years where Mr. Blanton is overseer of the cloth room of the Ella mill and a very influential and highly esteemed cit izen. He survives together with three brothers, Marshall, Dovie and Olive Moore, three sisters, Mrs. G. I. Blanton, Mrs. Lawton Blanton and Mrs. J. E. Morehead. Exquisite floral tributes added testimony to the high esteem in which she was held. MOST OF Hffi FRUIT IS KILLED Cleveland county’s 1927 peach crop will be far short of the bump er 1926, crop, according to farm ers of the county, who s:fy that prac tically all the early peaches were killed bv the recent cold snap. The three straight cold nights Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week were too much for the blooms of the early fruit and with one os two exceptions it is said that all the peaches were killed. In addition to nipping the future of the fruit trees already in bloom several farmers state that the cold snap also killed this season’s pro ductiveness of many trees where the buds had swelled and not bloom ed. Early peaches where the swell ing had,not started are saved, it is thought. The early pear crop was also killed, but as pears have a strong er durability against cold the de structiveness against pears is not believed to be so extensive as that of the peach crop. P & N Heads Inspect Shelby Section Of Proposed Route Of Railroad Extension How Many 50 Year Couples? £ 'WWmjrwwww ^ i I How many couples a re ' there living in Cleveland county who have been mar ried 50 years or longer? In mention**,!? two golden 1 'wedding anniversaries re cently The Star made such .» query and one reader sent in , a list of ten such couples j living in his section of the county. Judging by this in formation there must be at least 25 or 30 half-century marriages in Cleveland coun ty. Will you as a reader help The Star secure the names qt all such couples in your com munity or in your acquaint ance? Australian Ballot Now tion Committee Has the Other Bill. An Australian ballot low for Cleveland County still hangs fire. A wire received at noon to day by The Star from State Senator H. T. Fulton stated that the bill is now before the I committee on election laws in the senate, which is taken to i mean that it will be voted upon in »• very short time. The bill providing an Australian ballot for this county it will he re membered has already passed the house. It is now up to the senate whether or not the bill becomes a law. After the bill passed the house quite a bit of opposition developed here it seems. Leaders and citizens were for a state-wide Australian ballot, but it seems that many of them are opposed to having the bal lot for this county alone. Petitions have gone in to Senator Fdltton, it , ia understood, protesting against i the the ballot, while still another | urges him to put it through. News I of what the senate does to the bill will be this county’s last big news I from the present legislature which 1 will likely break for home tomor ; row. Audit Plan Over. The bill that passed the house | calling for an annual audit of the | county officers here has also passed the senate, according to news dis patches covering the action of the senate during the fag end of last week. Local Golfers To See Kirkwood Play | Quite a number of Shelby golf ers are expecting to visij. Hickory Wednesday afternoon to witness a match between Jess Sweetzer, amateur champion of 1926, and Joe Kirkwood, the Australian trick shot. Kirkwood and Sweetzer will play in a foursome at the Hickory Country Club beginning at 2 o’clock. Dick Ballenger and Henry Westall will make up the remain der of the foursome. In addition to the contest be tween the two famous golfers Kirkwood will exhibit several of his trick shots, it is said, such as driving a ball off the face of a valuable w'atch wthout touching the watch. It is understood also that Sweetzer, who is recuperating from a breakdown and has been staying for some time in Ashe ville, may be invited to play the new' Cleveland Springs course by J Chas. L. Eskridge, president of the ! Cleveland Springs club. Now Up-To-Date The bus station is spreading out; —feeling its oats. Once it was only j a bus station;- somewhere to go if j it was raining, between the hacks. [ Now it has taken on the genial at mosphere of real hospitality, with K. H. Griffin, the genius in charge, establishing a lunch stand. Griffin has been in charge of the station two years He has made many friends here: folks like him. About two weeks ago he had an idea. Why not give the bun.'h com ing through town something to eat, to help them bear the burden of their journey! He put in the lunch counter, and j it. was a success from the start. | Which means he is sitting prettier j than ever, and preparing an even i softer seat. General Manager And Chief Engineer Tour Over Territory Shelby Route Would Tap Textile Business Here Perking Up Leaders Believe First Months Of Year Show Not ireahle Improvement in Tex tile World. Textile leaders here over the week-end expressed the opinion that the outlook for the textile in dustry seem to be perking up. No big change is noted or spoken of, but the first two months of this year show a decided improvement over the same period last year, and for that matter over moat any period during last year. Admitting that the trend of im provement is nothing to get too elated over textile leaders say that markets seem to be. steady ing and that the future outlook is more promising at least than it has been for sometime. Fine Tribute Paid to Sunday School Work of Jasper Barnette In North Carolina. j (Sunday School Editor of Biblical Recorder.) j Jasper Barnette resigns. This 1 statement will bring sorrow and J, regrets to thousands in North Car olina. He has served the denomina tion five years to a day, besides one summer under the former plans. No man has ever served us more faith fully or successfully. When I first knew the fact I was both distressed and happy. The former because I was losing such a co-worker and the latter because he is receiving deserving promotion which we could not give. Brother Barnette has been put In | charge of rural Sunday school ad j ministration in the department of 1 administration of our Sunday I school board, Nashville, Tenn. It is | a new position and has in it possi bilities that are unlimited. No man in the South is better equipped for this task than Brother Barnette. He will be given a free hand to work out his own policies and plans. I am sure he will announce some of these at an early d£te. Sometimes we do not appreciate sacrifices made by our general men He has declined positions four times before this one at salaries ranging from $600 to $800 more than we were paying him. The salary will be more than he is getting, but it is the larger opportunity and not salary that causes the change now. I cannot say what in my heart I want to say about Jasper Barnette. Paul called Timothy his son in the Gospel. I have not asked Brother Barnette's consent, but I am so proud of him I would like to call him my son in service. Five years ago he was a farmer thirty-three years old in Cleveland county. I had oWserved him for several years as a successful coun try Sunday school superintendent. I had faith in him. Our Brother A. L. Stephens had a big part in de veloping him and his Sunday-school When we needed a man I had confi dence to believe Barnette could do the work we wanted done. I know now God was leading him and me in this new relationship. He has made good in a great way. In these five years he has risen to one of the outstanding Sunday school men on the Southern Baptist convention. In the last three years he has been on the program of five great southwide meetings, and had thrilled his audience every time. Brother Barnette and I have worked intimately together these five years. There has never been a jar of difference. He has consulted me about engagements and plans when there was no need of it, but recognizing my seniority in service and position he has shown his beau tiful cooperative spirit. At the recent convention in Wil mington we roomed together as we always do when possible, and plan ned the biggest Sunday school pro gram we have ever tried. The Sun day school board assures me that they will let Brother Barnette help us ‘put across’ the larger enter prises planned, so we will have him six to eight weeks after March 1. I want to say again we folk3 love and honor Brother Barnette, and wish for him the largest sue Hopes of securing the extension of the Piedmont and Northern railroad by Shelby in the plan to connect the links of f.’ie road be tween Gastonia and Spartanburg were brightened during the la:.t part of the past week by the visit to Shelby and the Shclbv area of two' high officials of the road. The officials, who spent Friday and Saturday in this section, trav elling here in a private car over the Seaboard, were Ed. Thomas son, vice president and general manager, and Frank H. Cothran, chief engineer of the road. Mr, Thomasson is a native of Cleve land county and a brother of Mr. Val Thomasson. who recently moved to Shelby from the lower section of the county. Accompany ing them were W. P. Gill, an as sistant engineer, and others, it is understood. These officials of the road, it is said, were seeking all the informa tion possible concerning the con struction route of the extension from Spartanburg to Gastonia. Several routes are being consider ed by the road, one of which is the Shelby route to tap valuable tex tile industry shipments and agri cultural shipping points in this section. Tour Over Section The official party, it is under stood, came here from the Caro leen-Cliffside section, which would be tapped, it is thought, should the routing be by Shelby. The party arrived late Friday and spent the night and Saturday in this section, meeting bankers, prominent busi ness men and chamber of com merce officials here. During the day a visit was made to Boiling Springs to overlook that region. The inspection made by the party seems to be thorough and will likely be of great value in de termining the location of the road extension. No Information concerning the trip and the nature of the territory covered was made public by the party, yet hereabouts the official visit is heralded with interest as it indicates that the route by Shelby is being given due consideration. Naturally the local feeling is that the road should come by Shelby and leaders here are of the opinion that the information gained on the visit will be of real worth to this section. It is generally apparent that complete consideration will bo given all practical routes and the P & N chiefs are not going into th< extension in any haphazard man ner. Engineers Working P & N engineers are said to b< working now in Spartanburg am Cherokee counties making Survey of proposed routes, some of thei being located between Cowpen and Chesnee. According to reports from low er Cleveland engineers have also been active in that section going over likely sites for bridges and locating rock quarries necessary to the construction of the road should the routing come this way. It is known that the party here Friday and Saturday spent Thurs day night in Spartanburg and also visited, the sections between Spar tanburg and Shelby as well as in specting the Shelby region Satur day. With the visit here of the offi cials local people have taken even a deeper interest in securing the extension. . The Newspaper and Sales. Modern life is much different to day from what it was a decade ago. Today, a great deal of buying is done over the telephone. This in turn, means that oppor tunities for purchases advantage ous to the buyers are now almost completely centered in newspaper advertising. The modern housewife knoW3 what she wants, knows by brand name, and orders in that manner —becuse advertising has taught her how she should do it, and why it is profitable for her to do so. Imagine ordering from an un known grocer ‘some breakfast food,” “some bacon’ “some coffee* “some bread*’ and so on, as in the olden days before national adver tising became the powerful force it is today.—St. Petersburg Times. cess in his new field of labor. We cannot announce his successor now and do not know when we can do so. Of course we have been looking for him but he is going to be hard to find.