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.
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From Forest City comes the word'
that the ghost house at Alexander!
is made ghostly by rum runners.
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The final dramatic contest with
three schools in it will be held this'
evening at Centra* school audito
rium it is announced.
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How many laws were passed by
the recent legislature? The Star!
gives that information today. j
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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. ;
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The extra court term for Cleve- ;
land will come on the second week !
in January, it’ is learned.
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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.
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The New Orleans Mardi Gras is
described in The Star today by a
Shelby citizen.
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A new manager for a local store
is one of the announcements in the
news today.
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Will the next mayor be a hen-egg
mayor, or a duck-egg mayor?
Around Our Town column asks the
question in this issue?
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Full community correspondence
from all sections of Cleveland:
Watch the Kings Mountain news.
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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 \
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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.