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VOL Sts.** 'North Carolina v* PRESS ASSOCIATION XXXIV, No. 30 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY. MARCH 11. 1927. 1’ublished Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoona. Pull up the easy chair, throw on another chunk of coal, and don’t get excited—The Star offers a few! more mayors for your attention and: approval. • * - From Forest City comes the word' that the ghost house at Alexander! is made ghostly by rum runners. * * * The final dramatic contest with three schools in it will be held this' evening at Centra* school audito rium it is announced. * * * | How many laws were passed by the recent legislature? The Star! gives that information today. j * • • The new county audit law is ex plained in this issue by Represen tative Falls, back from legislature.! Mr. Falls also has words of praise for the local county government. ; • * . The extra court term for Cleve- ; land will come on the second week ! in January, it’ is learned. * * * Frank Lindsay, sent up from this county to serve a term for man slaughter, was paroled yesterday by Governor McLean so that he could attend the funeral of his wife at Kings Mountain. * * * The New Orleans Mardi Gras is described in The Star today by a Shelby citizen. * * • A new manager for a local store is one of the announcements in the news today. * * * Will the next mayor be a hen-egg mayor, or a duck-egg mayor? Around Our Town column asks the question in this issue? * * * Full community correspondence from all sections of Cleveland: Watch the Kings Mountain news. rnmmi GILMER'S STORE : (’. A. Rhodes of Winston-Salem Succeeds Paul Wootten. Other Moves on West Warren. Paul Wootten who has been man ager of the local Gilmer store for a number of years has resigned nis position and C. A. Rhodes of Win ston-Salem has been transferred here to take up the helm. Mr. Rhodes has assumed his duties and * comes highly recommended, having been with the Gilmer organization for ten years. At Winston-Salem he was assistant manager of the parent store there. Other Stores Change. A number of changes are being made in the stock and arrange-j , ment at the Gilmer store to meet new conditions brought about by a! } change in the buying methods of j the Gilmer organization. Gilmer has ; three store fronts on West Warren and one on S. LnFayette. The store room on West Warren has been' sub-let to the Shelby Quick Lunch j where George, the restaurant man i will open an up-to-date eating place | which he expects to make one of the largest in town, Basil Goode, now operating a grocery in the Gardner building on West Warren has leased the John McKnight * building to be vacated by the Quick ■ Lunch. In the McKnight building' Mr. Goode will operate his grocery and Mrs. Goode will open a tea! room, serving meals to individuals j and parties. ! Officials Here. In sub-leasing one of its store rooms, the big stock at the Gil mer store will bo maintained and [ no department will be abolished, tender the new method of buying, fresh merchandise is received every week from the various markets and r the mammoth stock room at Win-, ston-Salem, A half dozen or more buyers and managers have been here going through the stock, mark ing down the merchandise to prices that will move it fast and re-ar ranging the display. High officials in the organization have been here, | including It. L. Burgin buyer of toil et articles, gents underwear and funrishings; W. H, McCullom, mer-j chandise man: A. K. Merrian, as-j distant merchandise man;' D. L. Reese buyer of household goods and novelties; J. H. Wimhish buy er of clothing and shoes; II. F. Bobo buyer of furniture and R. F.*Wyatt construction man. New display shelves are being erected, the stock rearranged and prices put on merchandise tnat will: move it fast. 1-utI’cran Church of the Ascension ? Sunday school at 10 o’clock We, together with the other churches ini town, offer a sacred privilege to everybody. The Word is necessary, to eternal life. Let us know it. Morning worship 11 o’clock, suh Jo'-t “Tested Faith.” Evening wor sen 7:30 o’clock subject “Near to find.” And the place, the Central school building, where you’ll find Plenty of room and a hearty wel- j come. Some girls are constantly in l"ve, though not necessarily con stant. Babington And Elam In Race For Shelby MayorI County Government Here Operated At Small Cost To Average Taxpayers Representative Falls, Discussing Audit Law, Says Officers Handle Countv Affairs Well. “Tlie Cleveland county govern ment operates at about the lowest cost to taxpayers of any county in the state,” was the declaration of Representative B. T. Falls, back home from legislature, in discuss ing the r.evy audit law for the county. Continuing the thought he stated that a survey of county government hero revealed that holders of county offices each year collect in fees, fines and for feitures and turned over to the county treasury a sum exceeding all their salaries by several thou sand dollars each year. The county audit bill sent through and enacted into a law by Representative Falls calls for an audit to be made of all the county offices from October 1. 1926, to October 1, 1927. The only require ment about time is that it be com pleted by the latter date. This audit he estimates, should cost from $2,000 to $2,500, and will cover the following offices: sheriff, clerk, register, recorder, and treasurer. The auditors are to be selected by the county Commissioners, ac cording to the bill. The audit thereafter is to be made every year or every two years as thought necessary. The bill also provides that should there be any state-wide lav. enacted requiring an audit of all county offices the county audit law for Cleveland will be automatically repealed. The petition back of the audit did not hint of any thought con cerning anything that might be wrong with county finances, nor did he encounter such ideas in sending through the bill, Repres entative Falls stated. In speaking of the new county audit Mr. Falls expressed the hope that it would work itself into a general system whereby the daily records would be self check ing, giving county affairs a more systematized procedure that would require no extensive annual audit. Although county government in practically all counties is consid ered somewhat slipshod as far as efficient and modern methods are concerned the county representa tive was of the opinion that the i local county system was mighty well handled and would rank with the best governed counties in the state, recalling that it had been many years since anything fun damentally wrong has come to light in county matters. Texas Pastor Writes “Love, Honor, Obey” Part Marriage Ceremony To Suit Himself Tourist Torn of Camden Feels Like Dayton, Tennessee, As Uni que Affair Starts. Camden. S. C„ Mar. 11.—(INS.)— This little South Carolina tourist town feels something like Dayton, Term., did the day before the open ing of the colorful Bryan-Darrow fuel. For. at 10 o’clock today eight lo 'al golfers will go before Magis trate W. L. DePass here and stand trial for playing Sunday golf in violation of South Carolina’s three ?cntury old blue laws. A. Fletcher Spigner, Camden county’s “fightiV solicitor’ himself will be unable to appear on tho scene, due to press of other duties. However, reports have it that Attorney General John M. Daniel will come down from Columbia and prosecute the cases personally. This is regarded as probable on the fact that the trial was postponed Monday morning at the request of, Governor Richards. The eight defendants, who were arrested by Sheriff J. II. McLeod Sunday afternoon, were released on their own recognizance. The men arrested are: James De Loache, jr., insurance agent; Ralph N. Shannon, merchant; John Whit aker, jr., banker; W. T. Redfearn, motor car dealer; J. F. McDowell, newspaperman; M. L. Smith jr.. private secretary; Hugh Tindal, oil commission agent and Fred Har low, New York. The arrest of the eight Sundav golfers was made after Governor Richards had instructed all offi cers of the state to arrest all per sons violating South Carolina’s an cient blue law in any way or form. The law makes it a misdemeanor to take part in any kind of sport on Sunday, or to operate drug stores, newspapers or any other store or business house. However, the governor is permitting, news napers to publish for the time be ing. Interest here was attached to the fact that four Sunday golfers ar rested at Aiken, another South Car olina resort, were aeppitted when they were brought to trial, and Judge Hayne F. Rice issued a re straining order against the gover nor’s constables from molesting Sunday golfers at Aiken. The governor sent a squad of con stables to the resort Sunday, but after the judge had warned them that they would be jailed if they violated the restraining order, they were recelled by the governor. By I N S Beaumont, Texas.—It used to be “until death do us part.’’ Now it is “as long as this union shall last.” Believing that the traditional phrase used in marriage ceremon ies deliberately places men and women in a position that later may cause one or both to vilate their marriage oaths or tell a lie, Rev. Aubrey Hess, pastor of the First Congregational church, here, has rewritten the word he uses in ceremonies. There might be a divorce or a separation, Rev. Hess says, either of which would result in a viola don of the oath if the old phrase were used. Instead of the worlds “love, honor, and obey,” Hess uses “to love, forgive for, to make a home for and to remain clean, true and spotless.” Extra Court Term Will Come Second Week Of January The extra term of Superior court given this county by the recent legislature will come on the second week in January, according to Representative B. T. Falls. The bill passed during the clos ing hours of the legislature for four court terms each year instead of three for this county, the bar association asking for another term and stating that the dockets were getting behind under the three term system. It was found when the bill came up that the judge for this district has only two vacant weeks in January, these being the first and second weeks. Mr. Falls consider ing that the first week would not be convenient decided upon the second week. Another Golden Wedding Couple Mr. and Mrs. A. €. Miller, of Shelby, wish to be passengers, they say, on the 50th marriage anniver sary “band wagon.” Their marri age took place in Shelby December 1, 1874, and the pleasant anniver sary event was celebrated in a quiet manner December 1, 1924. And Mr. Miller adds “there were no special features and no invita tions sent to friends dunning for a little piece of gold.” Mr. Miller, one of the youngest men in town, vigorous in body and mind, says he and his good wife are on their journey for the cele bration of the second golden wed ding anniversary—or the century —not quite 50 years hence. Tennessee’s legislature has re jected a bill for the regulation of barbers. Anywny tha conversation could hardly be regulated. Three Schools Met*! Here For Coun ty Honors in Staging Dra matic Plays. Prospective -performers for Car olina playmaker eas's, or even the box office stag - efforts. Wilj ap pear at the Central school audito rium here this evening at 8 o’clock when three county schools contest for dramatic honors. The throe schools in the < ontest are Grover, Casar and I.attimore. Grover will present “Too Much of a Good Thing.” Casar will present “Ghost Stories,’ and Lattimore will present "Peggy.’' Each offering will ho a one-act play, the three school-; being picked in dramatic contest-; held earlier in the year. Dramatic work in the rural schools of Cleveland is a new un dertaking and had its inception this year in the general state-wide dra matic contests for rural schools. One of the County's 1.1ailing Citi zens Died at Hospital Here. Funeral Saturday. Mr. David C. Beam, one cf the most substantial and leading citl ! zens of Fallston, died Thursday night at the Shelby hosptial to which place he was brought as a patient about a week ago. Mr. Beam was 74 years of age and had been in declining health for some time. He was a farmer and prominent ! in religious, fraternal and civic ai | fairs. On all public questions he was I found on the right side, being a I man of high morals and fine Chri - tian character. Mr. Beam had many friends to whom the news of his death is a source of deep sorrow. Mr. Beam was twice married, the first time to Miss Josie Alexander, a sister of Will and Charlie Alex ander, a sister of Will and Charlie Alexander. The following children survive from this union. Misses Lenna, Cora and Curtis Beam of Fallston, Mrs.-Annie Trexler of Salisbury; Augustus and Claude Beam who live in Arkansas, Her man and Homer Beam, twins of Fallston and Stough Beam, IT - first wife died about 12 years ago and he was later married to Mis. Hattie Biggerstaff who survives, together with one brother Mr. Luther Beam who lives south of Shelby and one sister, Mrs. Mike P. Harrelson of near Waco. The funeral will be conducted Sunday afternon at 2 o’clock by Re * G. P. Abernethy and interment will take place at the Fallston Bap to f church. Little Is Coming Sunday; Plyler Is Unable To Get Here Prominent Charlotte Pastor t;> Preach at First Baptist. Editor is Detained. Dr. Luther Little, pastor of the First Baptist church Charlotte, will preach at the Sunday morning set ice at the First Baptist church here. Dr. Little and Dr. Zeno Wail will exchange pulpits for the morn ing service, Dr. Wall preaching in Charlotte. Shelby folks will hear of Dr. Lit tle’s coming with interest. He is one of the outstanding ministers of the; Baptist faith in the state and h been heard here before. Many radio fans have “listened in" on his sei mons which are regularly broadcast ed from Charlotte. Plyler Not Coming. Dr. A. W. Plyler, editor of the North Carolina Christian Ad vocal who was to preach at Central Meth odist church Sunday morning, will, not be able to come, it is learned. Rev. H. K. Boyer will preach at both morning and evening services. Lady Astor, former Virginia] girl who is now a member of the ! British parliament, was recently I surprised at her London home by a transatlantic radio call from a party of Baltimore, including Gov ernor Byrd, who extended greet ings across the sea. Miss Martha Draper is being prged by the women’s organiza tions for appointment to fill a vacancy on the board of regents of New York state. Sees Little Hope For Women Wearing Cotton- Pipe Dream TO ( (INDICT HKYIVAI, Rev. C. C. Matheny risv-va! To Start At Secg:id Baptist : Forest City Pastor To Conduct Sun ices Beginning Sunday • At Church Here Revival services will begin | Sunday, March 13, at the Second j Baptist church here with Rev. C. , C. Matheny, pastor of Alexander Baptist church, of Forest City, ; conducting the services. Rev. Mr. Matheny is one of the leading pastors of Rutherford county and is moderator of the Sandy Run association. Prof. Will Blanton will direct the choir, and special music, in ' eluding many old Chrisiian har mony7 songs, will feature almost every service. Services, it is an ■ riounced, will be held each evening at 7:15 o’clock. Asheville Deputy Bands Appoint ment After Hartness Recon siders. Office There. Judge E. Yate< Webb, of the United States District court, in fomed l'The Star here today that he would appoint .T. Y. Jordan. of Asheville, as Federal court clerk for the new western district by the recent session of congress. Mr. Jordan, who has been the efficient deputy clerk at the Ashe ville office for four or five years, is highly regarded by Judge Webb, who considers him the best man available for the clerkship. The new clerk, who will receive his formal appointment soon, is ex perienced in handling the Federal court procedure and the appoint ment of him will mean that the clerical work in the western dis trict will move smoothly on. Office At Asheville. The appointment of Mr. Jordan automatically means that the rlerks’ office for the western dis trict will be located at Asheville. Several cities, including, Charlotte, Asheville and Statesville, made a hid for the clerk’s headquarters. | What Lawmakers I Did In Raleigh \ > - { The 1027 Legislature pass ed 1203 acts and 43 resolu tions as compared for the 1025 legislature, its imme diate predecessor. The total hills and resolu tions for the 1927 session was 1216 as compared with 1243 for the last session, a net in crease of three. Robert Wilson, of Yancyville, who has served efficiently as enrolling clerk, turned over the last of the ratified acts to secretary of State W. N. Everette, be wire leaving for ' his home. The secretary of state al ready has 100 chapters of the public laws in type, and hopes to have the laws ready for publication witSfin a month. Goldsboro* March !*. Refusal 101 heed the ever-changing demands of the public means doom for any be siness or industry just as it means i the disear I for any man or metis -, ure out of tune with present condi tions, said S. K. Honey, of Raleigh, j in an address heie before th North Carolina Ice exchange meetiitg in ' its 27th annual convention. “Public Relations and Publicity ’; was the subject discussed by Mr Bouev, who is director of the Pub lic utilities information bureau i f the two Carolinas. Must be Watched. “The mess or mob will of th-.' public,” said the speaker, “is abso lute master of the fate of any en terprise such as yours. The man ufacturer who keeps his eyes and ears open to the constantly -chang ing wants and desires of the public and succeeds in supplying those needs and demands is assured i f success. Refusal to heed those de mands for change means failure. “Some twenty years ago there I wore numbers of immensely suc cessful buggy factories in the Unit- j ed States. The automobile came! along and the wise manufacturers j turned to wagon-making or to the manufacture of automobile'bodies! and parts. Some failed to see the j new order of things and insisted on selling buggies. Buggies had been good enough in the past; they argue. But you can not argue with mob mind for it is possessed of a composite will all its own. “With no intent to criticize our able and distinguished governor, I am tempted nevertheless to quest tion the utility of his recent appeal to the women of North Carolina ! that they make more liberal use of ; cotton goods in the ensemble of their appeal. “It is told of an old Ihmisb ! King—I believe it was-—King Ca nute, that he stood by the shores of the great sea and forbade the on rushing waves to proceed further. I fear that anyone in this good year of grace, who attempts to urge or even advise a preference for the sufficiency of cotton over the ca ressing delights of silk is bidding fair to qualify as a modern Canute. I know some men intimately, yes very intimately, whose great am bition is to be able to wear silk pajamas. Over in South Carolina —and South Carolina is a good State in spite of its recent afflictions—a j newly installed governor has turn- j ed his head and heart backward \ two centuries and forbids his peo-; pie indulgence in habits and prae- | tices they have known all their lives—habits and customs passed j down to them from past genera- ; tions. Governor Richards has fail-j ed to sense the mind and thought i of a changel public. The conse-! quence is public ,condemnation of that failure and open defiance not j merely on the part of South Caro-1 lina citizenship.but defiance by the courts of justice of the state. “Our ponderous-thinking nation al Congress is a most striking example of failure to sense and appraise the mutability of things. For more than eight years Con gress has burdened the nation with a pyrotechnic display of its ig norance of the manufacture of ni trates for fertilizer. For more than eight years 300,000 horsepower of j electricity has gone over the rocks of Muscle Shoals, wasted, while Congress talked. And while Congress talked, the German per fected a new synthetic process for the making of nitrates; while Con gress talked, the Germans perfect ment at Muscle Shoals became an tiquated; while Congress talked a private corporation, after spending $4,500,000 on experiments, began building the greatest nitrate plant in the world over in our neighbor ing State of Virginia. And still Congress talks about Muscle Shoals with its plans and specifi cations that compare with this new chemical process just as the old-fashioned buggy compares with the modern high-speed automobile. Cherrvville Youth Paralysis Victim Merton Beam. formerly of Shelby, now of Forest city, passed through here Thursday en route to Cherryville to attend the funeral of his first cousin Garland Beam, who died at Cherryville yesterday following a second stroke of paral ysis. Mr. Beam was onlv lfi years of age and a fine physical speci men of manhood, weighing about 175 pounds. His mother before hdr marriage was Lola Harrelson of Cleveland county. He is a grand son of C. P. Beam, of Cherryville. Lindsay Paroled To Attend Wife’* Funeral Service Governor McLean Lets Cleveland M; a Come Home to Arrange For Children. It. Frank Lindsay, of this county, serving seven years for manslaughter, was yesterday granted freedom for 10 days in order that he might come home and attend the funeral of his *■ wife at Kings Mountain and make provision for his children according to news dispatches from Raleigh. The parole lasts until March 17. Mrs. Lindsay died at her Kings Mountain home Thurs day morning, it is learned, after a lingering illness. Quite a number of children are left motherless. Lindsay, it will he remember ed here, was serving time for a manslaughter charge preferred against him in court heer after Edgar Harmon, Oak Grove farmer, died of injuries when his grain drill was struck on highway 20 by a car driven by Lirdsay. Glims OP DALLAS TRIP Visits Historic City and On Trip West Sees Sugar Cane, Rice And Cotton Fields. Smith Richardson of the Vick Chemical Co. of Greensboro1 who was scheduled to fill the program at Kiwanis Thursday night was interrupted in his cominer because of a sudden call to Florida on ' business and instead I. C. Griffin ; of the Shelby high schools told of his trip to Dallas. Texas, to attend the superintendents conference of the National Educational associa tion. He was accompanied by Horace Grigg, county superintend ent. and the two were gone a week Prof. Griffin’s travelogue was very interesting. He advised all travel ers going West to route via New Orleans, the "play city” of Amer ica and one of the finest ports in this hemisphere. He and Mr. Grigg found that the Mardi Gras, the famous celebration was in pre paration and the city in gala at tire but just missed the “big day” when people representing every walk of life paraded the streets and celebrate "fat Tuesday.” A tribute was paid to French cooking that makes New Orleans famous and a description was given of the room they visited where the papers were signed whereby the United States under Jefferson acquired from Napoleon the Louisiana ter ritory. The great docks and ships from every port were seen on a trip down the “big river.” Speeding West from New Or leans Mr. Griffin described the sugar cane fields, then the rice fields and rice culture, the broad expanse of cotton and the oil fields around Beaumont. Arriving at Dallas they found a city of a quarter of a million people. There were gathered 15,000 school heads, from every state in the union and many foreign countries to discuss education and he gave a graphic description of the auditorium where they assembled and ns a prelude to the exercises heard hun dreds of negro voices led in sing ing by a daughter of the late Booker T. Washington. On next Thursday night the ladies will be the guests of the Kiwanis club and a most interest ing program is in process of pre paration. A donation of $75 was voted from the Kiwanis treasury for the Shelby high school band, the money to be used for the pur chase of instruments. Reward Offered For Light Breakers Mayojr Weathers feays he is greatly annoyed and the city is put to a right considerable ex pense because somebody makes a practice of shooting out the street lights. At one going-over of the city streets to replace the broken globes 35 were found broken and had to be replaced. Just who is practising this valdalism, no one knows, but officers are on the look-out and Mayor Weathers says a reward of $5 to any person who will furnish sufficient proof on guilty parties in the past or future to bring a conviction before the courts. Two Prominent Masons Cast Hats Into Rinjj Where Sevtral Oth ers Are Already. Tom Bsbington and Orlrndo Elam, both well known Shelby citizens, are the latest entrants into the mayoralty race here both announcements came this morning, one following the oth er only an hour or so apart. Today's announcements run the list of formally announced candi dates to a even half dozen—Dorsey, j Webb, Lackey, Hamrick, Babington | and Elam. And the talk about town is that there will be more. Somo people say talk of additional can didates is nothing but talk, but s« far the talk leads the batting aver age, every one of the candidate announced so far being talked 1 advance. A Star reporter hear last night that today’s announce ments would hail three new car didate if not four, but with pret hour on hand the two above mei ] tioned are the only new entrant Mr. Babington. Mr. Babington, first to annoum today, has been informally in th face for a week or so, a group ot \ friends having practically announc ed for him some time back. Since then the pressure of the friends has been brought to bear with the re sult that his formal card may be found in this issue. Babington is one of the leading Masons ot the town having been identified for years with the activity of the local lodge in addition to his business duties and civic interests. Although long identified with civic progress here this is though* to be the debut of this new candidate in politcs. Mr. Elam. Mr. Elam, whose announcement was made the second today, is like wise well acquainted the town over. He is a native of the county and has passed the majority of his lifa in Shelby. For years he was a lead ing merchant of the town and was a familiar figure in the Shelby busi ness world. His business career covered a long period as a furniture dealer and undertaker. Mr. Elam, like the other candi date today, is a well known Mason and active in the work of Cleveland lodge. Scout Troops Growing Here Local Committee Formed And Scoutmasters Take Training. Nine Troops Now. Boy Scout work in Shelby ia moving forward rapidly with the recent renewed interest in the wel fare of Shelby youths. A meeting of those interested in scout work was held this week in the Royster building at which time the local committee to direci the work of the Shelby branch of the Piedmont council was organiz ed. I. C. Griffin is chairman of the committee with R. T. LeGrarn’ as chairman of the finance divis ion. Other committee members wi' be announced later, according t Dr. Reuben McBrayer, vice-presi dent of the Piedmont council, which handles scout work in five coun ties. R. M. Schiele, of Gastonia was present and arranged for th< scoutmasters’ training course. Thi school will meet every Tuesde evening at 7:30 in the high schc building. There are now nine troops in t Shelby area and another will formed soon, it is said. The pr< ent troops are Central Method church, two; First Baptist, 01 Presbyterian, one; South LaF. ette school, one; Eastside, o Dover and Ora mills, one; She mills, one; Lily and Ella Mills, o Those interested in scout w< and further organization plans t gether with all news of scout a tivity should watch the Scov News column of The Star whic will start soon. Details of this new department may be secured froi Dr. McBrayer or Mr. Griffin. One New York radio station gave Mrs. McPherson the air in stead of permitting her to broad cast. Mrs. Anna Lasky. only woman member of the Oklahoma house of representative, has secured the passage through that body of a joint resolution making women eligible for the governorship and other major offices, subject to a referendum vote.
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