North Carolina
PRESS ASSOCIATION'
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VOL. XXXIV, No. 32
SHELBY, N. C. WED. MARCH 16, 1927.
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1 What’s
THE
News
.THE STAR’S REVIEW.
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The news column today, for the
second time in recent weeks, fail
to announce a single candidate for
mayor. However, there are a few
Either items of more or less mter
*st' . . •
How much were the farm crops
of Cleveland county valued at in
1926 ? What wi\ the increase cr
decrease in land values in the coun
ty? According to value how do the
crops of the county rank? Read an
article with these farm statistics in
today’s Star, and keep the paper
w for reference later.
* • *
And, by the way, The Star has
several more dictionaries for its
subscribers who w«ro unable to
secure one in the first shipment.
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Married 50 years without a fuss
' in the family “and content to live
together for another 50 without
wanting a divorce”—is the story cf
a Cleveland county couple as re
lated in The Star today.
* * *
Old Dobbin, the family carriage
horse, is fast passing away in Clevc
land county, according to a news
article in this issue. Mules are also
decreasing in number in this coun
ty.
* * *
A modest Shelby youth, who in
his high school days attained the
highest honor of the local schools,
was yesterday accorded the high
est honor of the Slurient body at
Davidson college, The Star an
nounces.
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A car stolen in Charlotte Sunday
was located here yesterday and a
boy named White arrested after
he hud painted the car white.
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Georgia folks are pulling for this
county to have Highway 18 paved.
The road would open a trunk line
j from the northwest through Shelby
i the letter states.
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The Cleveland News, Shelby’s
other newspaper, is moving this
week to Kings Mountain.
* * *
A new use for cotton is related
in Around Our Town today.
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Georgia Roosters Say Highway 18
Would Open Trunk Line
Travel From North.
Tlie paving of Highway 18 froin
Morganton to Shelby and on to the
South Carolina line would open ur
a big trunk line highway from the
northwest through Shelby to the
South.
J. C. Newton, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce here has re
ceived a letter from the Augusta
Georgia, chamber of commerce,
saying that it is the desire of Au
gusta that Highway 18 be paved
through this state so that it would
or,cn up a main throughfare from
the northwest straight to Augusta, I
giving Shelby one of the heaviest!
travelled routes in the section. j
The letter from L. S. Moody fol
lows:
“Congratulations on passage of
your state highway bond issue for
thirty million dollars. Hope you can
unite and get the road paved from
South Carolina line below S'neiby
through Shelby, Morganton, Lenoir,
Boone to Virginia line toward Bris
tol and from Boone to Sparta.
“This would open a trunk line
from west through Bristol to Clev
eland, Ohio, Cincinnati, etc. Also
from east via Black Bear trail,
which starts at Quebec, Canada, and
comes down via Hillsville, Sparta,
West Jefferson and Boone.
“If this road is paved across
North Carolina we are satisfied
South Carolina will take it up and
pave it through Gaffney, Union,
Newberry, Saluda to Augusta con
necting here with the road Georgia
1: now paving from here to Way
fross via Louisville, Swainsboro,
Lyons, Baxley, Alma. At Waycross
it will connect with continuous
paving to all important parts of
Florida.
Riviere Company
Now Handles Oil
Announcement is made in tlie
advertising columns of today’s Star
that the Riviere Oil company is
under wav operating in full
swing, with Zollie Riviere on his
new job as head of the enterprise,
giving all of his attention to its
dc-olopment.
It is ia twenty-five thosuand dol
lar organization formed by Mr.
i Riviere, who took over the Arey or
I ganization. Mr. Riviere was for
merly of the Riviere Drug com
pany. Headquarters for the com
pany are at the old creamery,
where offices are maintained.
The new firm is handling the
T"raco products, and has as its dis
tribution territory, Cleveland and
Rutherford counties.
Lackey Withdraws from Mayor’s Race Today
WILL RET! HIS
OFFICE flN SCHOOL
BOARD OF COOHTY
Can Not Go Rack On Friends
Voting For Him To Hold
First Office.
W. D. Lackey, “champion
runner" of Cleveland county, is
out of the race for mayor of
Shelby, he announces today
through The Star.
Mr. Lackey, whose announce
ment created considerable in
terest when he came out sev
eral days ago, retired from the
race because he learn he cannot
hold a place on the county
school board and also as mayor
and he does not wish to go
back on the hundreds who vot
ed for him as a member of the
board of education.
Mr. Lackey, who has been mayor
of the town before and also sheriff
of the county, was considered gen
erally as one of the strongest can
didates in the race. Running fr.r|
the school board last fall he led he ■
county ticket.
His statement filed with The
Star just before press hour reads:
When announcement of my can
didacy for mayor was made, I wa#
under the impression that because
my office on the County Board of
Education was an appointive one,
I would be allowed, by law, to hold
both offices, and as neither would
conflict in any way, so far as car
rying out plans or attention, I
could attend both and there would
be no objection on the part of my
friends, if I did. Since announcing
and on investigating further the leg
ajity of holding two offices, I find
to comply with the Jaw, I can only
hold one office; and while I ap
preciate very much the urgent re
quest from- my good * friends in
Shelby, for the interest in me and
the honor which they confer on me
at the same time I remember and
appreciate the large and compli
mentary vote of my friends in
Shelby, and all over the county so
generously bestowed on me in the
last primary election, and I feel 1
canot be true to my own conscience
and also my good and loyal friends
to place myself where I could not
carry out the duty as a- member of
the County Board of Education. ,
I, therefore, for the above rea
son wish to announce that I have
withdrawn my name as a candi
date for ma'yor of Shelby.
Assuring all my friends of my
appreciation and the many acts of
kindness shown me in the past and j
with very best wishes to all, I an.
W. D. LACKEY
Paragon Puts On
Sale Of Sellers
Beginning Friday and continu- ,
ing for a week, the Paragon Fur
niture Co. will hold a sale of the
well known Sellers Klear-Front
kitchen cabinets which are exten
sively advertised in magazines ar.d
while the sale is on, a lot or groc
eries will be given away and along
with packages groceries will be
given free a 32 piece set of china
ware, a ten piece set of kitchen
cutlery and a 12 piece set of glass
ware. The new Sellers offers many
labor saving advantages to the
housewife and the Paragon boys
sav the extras have never been as
many as the customers will get at
this big sale. A car load of Sellers ,
has just been received, in several
different patterns and customers
may buy on liberal terms.
A factory representative will be
here during the week of the sale to
demonstrate the advantage of the
Sellers.
Spring Seems To
Be On Hand Here
Springtime apparently has ar
rived now that the groundhog and
his prophecy are feared no more
The mercury in local thermo
meters has been dangling in the
spring section for several days and
the flower gardens an dtrees art
showing all irfflications of the ar
rival of springtime. Added to these
signs are those of the usual spring
fever that puts a drag into some
folks and romantic feeling into
others. Likewise the old horsehidc
of the world’s greatest sport is be
ing tossed about on the ball parks
and back lots. And while the birds
twitter here and there local golf
ers are hiking to the Cleveland
j Springs golf course with the an
i nual hope of registering a birdie or
so during the warm months.
Farm Crop This County
Totalled Over 3 Million
In Value—1926 Report
Cotton Valued At Two And Quarter Million Dollars. Sweet
Potatoes Ranked Third. Land Value
892.00 Per Acre
The nine major farm crops of
Cleveland county in 1926 were val-;
ued at $3,230,200, according to the
recent issue of the Farm Forecast
covering all crop statistics of 1926
in North Carolina.
Cotton as usual led the way with
a value of $2,227,336. Corn valued
at $597,622 ranked second, and
sweet potatoes, valued at $121,460,
moved up to third place in farm
ranking values.
The average value per acre for
all farm lands in Cleveland county
(including farm buildings, etc.)
was set at $92. The average of all
plow lands was set at $83. The in
crease in average value from 1926
to 1926 was $10 per acre. Value
on unimproved land in the county
wras ranked $3 per acre higher than
in 1926.
t leveland county’s land is 279,148
acres. There are 3,289 farms in the
county, according to the report, and
48,472 acres of the farm lands cul
tivated by the owners. The 2,476
tenants in the county cultivate 71,
811 acres.
The Various Yields
Cleveland county had 65,645
acres in cotton during 1926 and the
yield per acre was estimated at 290
pounds. The average price of the
cotton was set at 11.7 cents per
pound for a value of $33.93 per
acre.
The total corn acreage was 37,
i 445 acres and the average yield was
21 bushels per acre for a total crop
o$ 786,345 bushels which brought
in'$597,622, or a value of $15.96 per
acre*
Five thousand six hundred and
ninety-six acres were given to
wheat and the average yield per
acre was 15 bushels, or a total pro-,
duction of 85,440 bushels, which,
sold for $117,007, or a value per |
acre of $20.70.
The county oats crop covered 8,-!
096 acres with an average yield!
of 22 bushels per acre, or 178,1121
bushels in all for a value of $121,-1
116, or $14.96 per acre value.
Cowpcas were given only 4C2'
acres for a total production in the
county of 6,544 bushels, or 12
bushels per acre, with a value oil
$11,698, or $25.32 per acre.
One hundred and eleven acres J
were devoted to soybeans, with
yield of 11 bushels per acre for a
total production of 1,221, or $2,320,
a value of $20.90 per acre.
The peanut crop covered 28
acres with a yield of 990 pounds
per acre, or a value of $1 386, or
$49.50 per acre.
Two hundred and seventy three
acres were turned to Irish potatoes
| at a yield of 70 bushels per acre for
! a total of 19,110 bushels, and a val
ue of 35,354, or $130 per acre,
i Sweet potatoes cad a total acre
age in the county of 1,195 acres
and with a yield of 84 bushels pc-i
| acre the crop totalled 100,380
, bushels for a value of $121,460 or
a per acre value of $102.
The value of Irish potatoes per
acre $130, it will be noted leads
1 the list in acre vaiue. Sweet pota
jtoes rank second, peanuts third, and
I cotton fourth.
Woman Tours State In Old-Time Surrey
Looking For Hubby Who Departed Home
A tourist stopped in front of the
city hall here yesterday and asked
for directions and routes, but the
tourist outfit offered a contrast
of years to the heavily-laden auto
tourists stopping a little farther
down street at the tea room for
lunch.
This particular tourist was a wo
man driving a horse to a surrey.
For the benefit of the children,
whose memory does not go back
that far, a surrey is a “two-seated
pleasure carriage'1 according to
Webster, or in leality a two-seated
buggy. It was the favorite mode of
transportation back in dad’s boy
hood when the family became too
large to make trips in the buggy.
The woman had packed the rear
seat of the surrey full of boxes and
baggage, every nook and corner be
ing filled as if for a long journey.
The rear end of the surrey was the
resting place of an oat box for the
horse, and everything seemed ship
shape for a transcontinental trip.
However, queries from traffic offi
cers revealed that the woman was
out seeking for “Rev. Wood” and
ti was surmised by the conversa
tion that he was none other than a
husband away from home doing
evangelical work.
Further queries revealed that
her home was in the Wilkesboro
section of the Brushy mountains
and that she had travelled “heaps”,
visiting Charlotte , Hickory, Mor
ganton, and several “other big
towns” before reaching Shelby.
All in all there was a time dif
ference of 30 years in her tourist
paraphernalia and that of the mod
ern auto tourist.
Another Lot Of
Webster’* Here
Those who have been waiting to
renew to get one of the Webster’s
home, college, office dictionaries
being distributed by The Star can
get one now, by paying a year’s
subscription and 70 cents addition
al. The first shipment of 100 dic
tionaries was exhausted in four
weeks, The Star has been unable
to supply the demand for a week,
but the second shipment came in
yesterday. It’s a 1200 page, 12,000
word illustrated dictionary that re
tails for $3.50, yet readers of The
Star can secure one by paying a
year’s subscription and 70 cents ad- j
ditional.
Don’t wait, but come before this
supply is exhausted. We are send
ing them from Chicago to Texas,
from Baltimore to Florida to Star
subscribers who realize what a won
derful value we are offering.
Almost Deaf She
Hears Radio At 85
Mrs. Withrow Hears Dr. Wall’s
Sermon in Charlotte With
Ear Pieces Over Radio
It has been contended for some
time that deaf people could heat
over the radio with ear sets and this
was definitely proven on Sunday
when Mrs. S. K. Withrow heard dis
tinctly the sermon by Dr. Zeno Wall
pastor of the First Baptist church
here, broadcast over the radio froip
the Charlotte station. Mrs. With
row is in her 85th year and very
feeble and almost deaf. She is mak
ing her home with her daughter.
Mrs. W. A. Royster near Fallston.
A few days ago a radio was in
stalled in the Royster home and on
Sunday Mrs. Withrow got her first
sound over this wonderful inven
tion. She had read in The Star that
Dr. Wall would broadcast frorr
Charlotte so the radio was tuned
in and as she listened she nodded in
approval of what Dr. Wall said for
she heard distinctly. She had heard
Dr. Wall preach on several occa
sions before she lost her hearing so
she considered it a great treat to
be able to hear him again even
though her sense of hearing is
about gone.
Later in the afternoon friends
of the family tuned the instrument j
in with other stations where ser
mons were being broadcast and sh?
enjoyed other gospel messages.
Gilmer’s Remodels
Under New Leader
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The Gilmer store is being rapid-1
ly remodeled to conform to the \
ideas of the new manager, C. A.;
Rhodes, who is a believer in con-1
densed space, and a full shop. He!
has taken hold of his new job with 1
a vim and energy, and iudg^ng j
from the start he has made it 1?
believed he will be very popular
here.
Mr. Rhodes says he believes in j
condensing floor space, and carry- j
ing a “fluid” stock, by which he j
means, keeping it moving in and
out of the store—fresh goods. The !
interior is being repainted, the
stock rearranged and re-set, and1
there is said to be a new spirit with- j
in the establishment.
Announcement will be made, it j
is said, within a few days as to
who the new assistant manager of
the store will be.
Mrs. Charles Wall, of Lexing
ton, is spending this week here
with her Barents, Mr. and Mrs. L.
P. Holland. . **?»
17 YEAfl OLD BOr
rare mit
ffl LITTLE GIRL)
White Youth Brought in From
Asheville to Work on Farm
Attempts Criminal Assault.
I>eputy Plato Ledford and others!
of No. 10 township are in search
of a 17-year-old white boy who at
tempted a criminal assault Monday
afternoon on the 8-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Canipe ;
in No. 10 township. The youth was I
tracked between Buffalo and Car- ■
pouters Knob but had not been ap-!
prehended today to answer for the
crime which he committed.
The name of the youth was not I
learned, but it is said that Mr. Ca-1
nipe hired him in Asheville a week i
or ten days ago and brought him
to his home in No. 10 township to
work on the farm this summer.
The father was away from home
on Monday and Mrs. Canipe had to
go to a a‘.ore near-by to do some
shopping. The seventeen-year-old
boy was left in the yard chopping
wood and her two children, a boy
about 10 years old and a girl eight'
were left in the house. After Mrs.
Canipe walked away from the house
about yards in the direction of
the store, the thought occurred to
her that it was unwise to have her
children at the house with a strange
hoy, so she turned and went back.
The strange youth had sent tho
Canipe boy out of the house and
wSen the mother reached the scene,
the newly hired youth was at
tempting a criminal assault on the
8-jjear-old girl in o/ie of the rooms
of ;the house. The girl was trying
to fscream but the youth had hi3
hand over her mouth to prevent any
.outcry. Officers were quickly sum
moned and the boy had made his
get-away without accomplishing his
■flltrposc.
Boy Paints Car
But Gets Caught
Here Second Time
Theft is Traced Down When Young
ster is Seen Getting Gas
From Another Car.
David White, young white boy saw
to be about 15 years of age, is in
the county fail here awaiting offi
cers from Charlotte following his
second capture here in connection
with a stolen automobile.
About a year ago the youngster
was charged with picking up a
Kings Mountain car here and mak
ing away with it. Some time later
he was apprehended at York, S. C.,
and returned here and placed in
jail. Shortly thereafter he managed
to escape from tje jail and has
since been at large.
Sunday night, it is thought, tne
youngster took a Ford coupe from
the streets in Charlotte and drove
here with it. Monday night some
boys noticed a youth attempting to
get gas from some cars near Webb
theatre, it is said, and following
him they traced him to a Ford
coupe. Tuesday local policemen
working on the tip picked up the
youth and the Ford, a part of which
he had painted white. It is said that
the boy partly confessed to taking
the car.
Crude Painting.
It was learned the attempt to dis
guise the stolen car was made lata
in the evening Monday, the painting
taking place in a local alley. The
youth, it is said, borrowed a paint
brush, from a lunch stand, and the
car when taken over by the offi
cers was crudely daubed with white
paint over the body.
Issue Injunction
On School Board
Judge Schenck, holding court at
Statesville, yesterday signed an
injunction restraining the Cleve
land county board of education
from levying tax in the Elisabeth
school districts for a new building
and also restraining the school
board from purchasing a site for a
new building.
The injunction sought by attor
neys for certain taxpayers ir\ the
district is njade returnable before
Judge P. A. McElroy here Monday,
March 28, when Superior court
opens.
A complaint had previously been
filed by attorneys for the com
plainant alleging that a recent
straw vote election held in the dis
trict to determine the site for a
new building w'as not legal. It is j
presumed that all phases of the
affair; will be threshed out by
Judge McElroy Monday week.
This 50- Year Couple Uses
Butter From Same Churn
Of Initial Housekeeping
Never Had A Fuss And Wouldn't WanJ. Divorce In 50 More
Years. “Stay Out Of Dent And
Deep Water.”
SHORT SKIRT HORRIBLE
SAYS LONDON MERCHANT
(By International News Service)
London.—“I think -t h e
short skirt and the hare-leg
vogue is horrible and barbar
ous, and I cannot believe it is
going to last. If 1 had a daugh
ter of fifteen or sixteen and
I met her with skirts stop
ping at the knee—well, there
would be a lively scene.”
Thus John Lewis, London’s
oldest soft-goods merchant
and owner of a large London
store.
‘‘I think the world is bet
ter than it used to be,” de
clared Lewis on his ninety
first birthday. “But there is
one thing I cannot stand, and
that is modern women’s fash
ions.”
Shelby Youth
Student Head
At Davidson
Hugh Arrowood Given Highest
Honor in Power of Student
Body There.
A Shelby boy was tendered
the highest honor in the hands
of the Davidson college sin
dent body yesterday when
Hugh M. Arrowood w as elected
president of the Davidson stu
dent body for 1927-28.
Arrowood, veteran end on the
Wildcat football eleven, was elect
ed to the high position by a ma
jority of about 30 votes over W. O.
Nisbet, jr„ of Charlotte. The SLar
learns in a wire from Johnny Mc
Knight, another Shelby boy at
Davidson.
Young Arrowood, who will be in
his senior year next year, has re
ceived many honors since enrolling
at Davidson. He was first an offi
cer in his class, and when elected
to the highest honor there he was
vice-president of the student body
and also vice president of the col
lege athletic association. This in
addition to several other class of
fices he has held. At Davidson the
entire student body is governed oy
student government, the head of
the student government being in di
rect charge of all student activities
and influences.
The president-elect of the David
son student body is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. U. Arrowood and was
educated at Shelby High, where in
his senior year he was accorded the
highest honor in the Shelby high
school—being awarded the cup as
the “best all around boy’’ in school.
Cleveland New* Is
Moving Plant Here
To Kings Mountain
Semi-Weekly Being Published Here
Will Hereafter be Published
There, Tiddy Says.
The Cleveland News, a senu
wcekly that has been published
here by Milton Tiddy, is moving its
plant this week to Kings Mountain,
and the publisher announces that
beginning with Tuesday’s issue the
paper hereafter will be published
there.
The move of the publishing loca
tion, it is announced, was brought
about after negotiations started by
Kings Mountain business interests
desiring another paper there. Addi
tions to the news staff will be made
at Kings Mountain, the announce
ment continues.
The Clevelad News is a successor
to the Highlandei-News, which was
in turn a successor to the Shelby
Aurora. The paper for several
years as been published by Mr.
Tiddy who will continue the direc
tion of it at Kings Mountain.
Word has been received that the
Arey family, Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Arey, and Mr. Ward Arey, who
recently joined his parents in the
tourist state, are returning to
Shelby the first of next week, from
Florida.
This is a presentation of one of
the most unusual couples in Cleve
land county.
“We've been married 50 years
November 3, last year and we have
not had a fuss and if we were to
live 60 more years we wouldn’t
want a divorce,” that’s the opening
wedge to the 50 yeurs of married
life as revealed by Mr. and Mre.
Chancey C. Grigg, “up in their
eighties now,” but still alert in mind j
and body and apparently headed
for several other anniversaries. Mr.
and Mrs. Grigg live in the Rehobeth
section near by to New House and
are among the best known couples
of the section.
In that 50 years of wedded happi
ness are several maxims that
should he of great value to youth.
In other words Mr. and Mrs. Grigg
haven't lived for nothing and they
are willing to pass along the ad
vice of experience.
Mr. Grigg, who could write a
check and have it cashed for the
the price of most any automobile
made and then have a nice fortune
left untouched in addition to his
farmlands, stock and other hold
ings, doesn’t even own an automo
bile. Fact is, he does not seem to
see the need for one and he’s made
a habit, together with his comrade
I of 50 years, of not buying anything
they do not need.
Debt and Deep Water.
“There are two dangerous things
in life," says the supposed boss of
the family. And he ought to know
seeing as how he has been married
practically as long as all the 18
couples put together who are being
divorced here this month. The
things he refers to are never “to get
in debt and deep water.*
“I've never been in either,” he
'added. And what’s more he tacked
a statement onto that even more
interesting: ‘I’ve never borrowed a
dime of money, and I have never
paid a cent of interest * * * but,
by gum, I've collected quite a bit
of the latter.” He has.
In discussing finances, buying
things and going into debt he added
several other bits of homespun phil
osophy sound as that passed out
years ago by Poor Richard:
"There’s nothing in the world to
keep a man from succeeding if he is
willing to work hard and does.”
"Fortune passes everybody's
door, but you’ve got to reach out
and get it. or it’ll keep moving
along," soliloquized the old fellow
as he stroked his whiskers and
winked a sill active eye. (Perhaps
he’s had to keep that eye active ir«
winking at Mrs. Grigg to preserve
peace in the family for 50 years
and then some).
Cooks at 83. ,
But here are some of the out'
standing facts about the career of
this young married couple. Mrs.
Grigg bids for only one honor. That
was to tell the newspaperman that
she churned her butter this week
out of the same homemade churn
she started housekeeping with 50
years ago. What's more she is still
using a considerable hit of the other
equipment. Mrs. Grigg celebrated
her 83rd birth anniversary March
7, 1927, but she still does her own
cooking, washing and churning—
and she is of the frank opinion
that her way is happier than that
of the almony seekers.
Before marriage Mrs. Grigg was
Miss Margaret Philbeck, daughter
of John Philbeck, of the New House
section. She and her husband of 60
years were married at the home of
her father by Elder Barrett, well
known minister of that day.
Knows Economy.
His first cotton crop netted him
$30, according to Mr. Grigg, and
he never spent a cent of the money
—making the sidelines on has farm
carry the living expenses.
In all of his 50 married years he
has never purchased a pound of
meat, but in that time he has pro
duced his own meat and sold hun
dreds of pounds.
No Hard Times.
Being economical and thrifty
means anything else than having a
hard time, he says. “I've never had
hard times in my life,” was his
statement.
In the 50 married years the
couple has never purchased a grain
of corn and with the exception of
one year. Mr. Grigg nas been abb
to sell corn to others. During the
time he has never purchased corn
(Continued on page 5)
Oil DOBBIN »
gug m to
Horses Passing Fast in County.
Tractors Also Lessen Num
ber of Mules.
Old Dobbin, the family carriage
horse and faithful pulling partner
of many a Cleveland county team,
is rapidly passing down the trail of
the Vanishing American.
Motor cars have supplanted him
as a carriage horse, and the mules
taking over his working harness
are in turn being brushed aside by
the noisy tractor.
This is indeed the motor age. Net
only in city life, but on the farm.
The latest farm statistics fer
Cleveland county, as issued by
Farm Forecast, show it.
In 1925 Ceveland county farmers
owned 1,239 horses. In 1926 only
969 were listed. Two hundred and
seventy Old Dobbins have heard the
call of progress and the purr of the
motor that takes tbetr places.
And the mules are decreasing
also. In 1925 Cleveland county had
6,676 mules, but in 1925 anly 5,531
were listed, or 1,045 less than th<
year before. At that rate the horse,
and mules of Cleveland count;
would last only five more years
but the decrease will hardly be so
fast hereafter.
Other Deertm.
Horses and mules are not the only
things to decrease in number on
Cleveland county farms within one
year. In fact every listed animal
has decreased—unless it be ’possum
dogs, and they’re not registered in
the Farm Forecast.
There are 1,295 head less cattle
now than in 1925. In that year
there were 9,146 head, but in 1926
only 7,851.
Hogs decreased at about the same
rate. There were 6,208 porkers in
1925 and only 5,166 In 1926.
The sheep and the gnats have
about become antiques in the coun
ty judging by the report.
There were only 82 sheep in
1925 and in 1926 the number had
decreased to 48, There were 70
goats in 1925, but the 1926 listing
had only 21 remaining. Hear the
farewell blahs of Old Dobbin and
his barnyard mates ?
County Timber Is
Nearly Obliterated
Forester Says Cleveland County
Woodland Not Producing a
Cord Per Ace Now.
Here is a subject for the Cleve
land county farmer to think about.
A state forester, from State col
lege, Raleigh, came to Shelby Wed
nesday and in an interview told the
Star that Cleveland county timber
is threatened with obliteration. He
said in substance, if we go as we
are going, the end of the valued
pine tree in this bailiwick is in
sight.
The visitor, m company with a
federal agent, came here in the in
terest of conservation of timber—
to teach the farmer the value of
tree, and to induce him to consider
the timber crop as a crop—just as
cotton or corn is a crop—and to
bring home to him a realization of
the nature of the loss he will sus
tain if the timber supply is ex
hausted.
The state extension forester's
name is R. W. Graeber. He was ac
companied by W. R. Matton, of the
U. S. Forest service. They did their
work here through Alvin Hardin
county agent, who arranged a meet
ing in the Bethlehem section We<
nesday afternoon.
Mr. Graeber gave facts and figu
es to bear upon his diagnosis of tl
local situation. He said there a
81,000 acres of farm woodland
the county, from which 80,000 cor
of fuel wood are cut annually. Th
is virtually a cord to the acre. A
concerning this consumption
made this significant statemer
“Cleveland county woodland
not producing a cord to the aer
In other words, you are going int
your capital. And if the course i:
kept up long enough you will ex
haust the supply.”
He went on to say that over the
country generally, timber is being
either cut or burned four and one
half times as fast as it is being
grown.
Mr. Graeber’s message to the
farm is, to look upon the timber
crop as a crop. To give to its
growth the same attention and in
telligence that is brought to bear
upon cotton and other money crops.
“If that will be done.” said th-.s
agent, “it will be found that timber
will produce an equal of net pro
fit with cotton or corn.”
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