SHELBY, N. *J. FRIDAY, MARC H 18, 1927. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By mail, per year (in ad var.ce)—12.51 By carrier, per year (in advance) |3 (H Shelby and Cleveland county “Questions and Answers” in this issue. Try out your memory. • • • A detailed account of the open ing of the new “Big Store” is car ped in this issue. “The Big Store” js commercial landmark of Cleve land county. ♦ * • Anything that is forbidden al ways is in demand. Read of the high school advertisement of a glee club visit in this paper. * * » Whoopee! “0, y’robbin’ umpire” —“Smack it Over the Fence,” and sundry other such cries. Baseball is here for a season. Two games this week and three next. Federal court will convene here Monday and several new court of ficers will take part in their first court under their new titles. * * ♦ Think of rolling a wheelbarrow 10 miles at night to catch a train, and ;i trunk and other things in the wheelbarrow. A county farmhand turned the trick. Read the story to day in The Sfar. • • - The youth who attempted an assault on a No. 10 girl this week is being held in jail here without bond, says a news item. * • • A man with a painful ailment says that he is now able to go about after praying 10 hours for relief. * * • Will there be a primary and an election both in the coming mayor alty ? The Star tells how such is possible in this issue. • • • A new Southern station for Shelby hovers on the horizon, says another item today. Mrs. Hester Byers Buried Thursday Widow of Former County Treasur er and Daughter of Ex Sheriff—Eight Survive (Special to The Star) On March 16, 1927 God in his infinite wisdom saw fit to remove from earth the gentle spirit of Mrs. Hester M. Byers who was born Dec. 29, 1859. being 67 years, 2 months and 27 days old. She was the daughter of the late Mott and Margaret Elizabeth Runyans. Her father was a volunteer in the Con federate army and lost his life in the Battle of Gettysburg. Her mother was later married to Dixon Randoll and lived until March 16. 1912. From early girlhood Mrs. Byers has been an active and loyal mem ber of the Methodist church. The influence of her noble Christian life was felt not only in her home and her church but by her neigh bors and friends and acquaintances, hers was a life of activity always deeming it a joy to minister to her family and friends. Phe was ever ready to lend a helping hand or speak a cheering or encouraging word when needed, and no home was too humble for her to enter if there was a service her willing hands could find to do, and no home so proud that her presence was not welcome at all times. In the midst of sickness or sorrow her influence was one of peace and comfort. On August 9. 1874 she was mar ried to James B. Byers, son of the lamented Sheriff J. C. Byers. To this union were born the following eight children all of whom survive. Messrs. Daivo P.. Shelby, David, of Smyrna, S. C., Mrs. Maggie Elliott, Shelby, Mrs. John Byers, Char lotte; Mrs. Dottie Byers and Mrs. Josie Hardin, Shelby; Messrs. Hackett, dacksburg, S. C. and Fred who with his family has been living with and caring for his mother the past two years. In the lives of all these devoted children can be seen the impress of the kind and noble lives of the father and mother. Forty grand children and eight great grand children also survive. Mr. Byers was one time county treasurer and preeeeded his wif to the grave by 28 years. For a number of years Mrs. Byers has suffered from rheuma tism and heart trouble and on March 6th she suffered a stroke of paralysis from which she died. Intorment was at Sulphur Springs Methodist church Thursday at 3 o’clock with Rev. B. Wilson con ducting the funeral services as sisted by the pastor Rev. D. P. Waters. The following grandsons acted as pall bearers: Messrs. David and James Byers, Knox Hardin, James, Spencer, and John Elliott. OCEAN UNERS TO GIVE WATER PLANE JOY RIDES (By International News Service) Berlin.—Joy rides in a water plane will be the latest entertain ment of pasengers of the North German Llyd liner “Luetzow” cn Imps to the United States and the Mediterranean. The water plane accommodations for twenty passengers in addition to the crew. These rides are scheduled for the time when the liner stays in port enroute for its destination. S Don’t Look—Fine J Advertising Pla:i +**.” **-■ ‘'t#«»#«#4/»#»rvs#w *-• •Jf* ' ( l ( I About a* old as Confucius the Chinese philosopher, is the proverb that “forbid a child to do anything and that is the very thing the child will do first.” Grown-ups are just over grown children, and children are just children. The real desire for anything comes when it is forbidden. Over at the Shelby school yesterday and today an empty old nail keg wa splaced on the walk at the school entrance. Hanging on the keg was a sign “Don’t Look in Here”— and naturally that sign arous ed curiosity and every one who trod the path, from fac ; ulty down to the children in the primary grades, couldn’t refuse the temptation and I took a glance in the keg. They saw something like this: “The Converse College Glee Club Will Appear in Con i cert in Shelby Friday Night.” That’s tonight, you know, and a fine advertising scheme it was. Some Talk Of Two Races In Mayor’s Tilt Heretofore Election Without Pri mary Has Been Held. Power With Committee There is a possibility that Shelby may have a double- I header for the next mayor. Some talk heard about town is to the effect that a primary and an election both may be held in the city race this Spring. T«'ie power to call for a primary in April to be followed by an elri-tion in May lies with the executive committee of the town. Whether or net they will call a primary has not been learn ed by The Star. Heretofore it has been the cus- j tom to hold an election onlv, all ; citizens being entitled to vote, and j the high man winning. Despite j the talk of a primary this time there are others who say that the custom will be followed. Under the primary plan it would be necesary, acording to O. M. Mull, city attorney, for the ex ecutive committee to call a pri mary for April. Then at the regu lar election time in May the two high candidates, unless there were other party entrants would run it off, as The Star understands the explanation of the city attorney. However, it is made plain that the primary cannot he called unless this committee deems it advisable. The question then is: Do they? In the last mayoralty contest there were three candidates, but no primary was called and the outcome was that the high man in the race won. The question of whether or not there will be two races has been talked considerable about the town. Buck Redfern Has Hard Luck Getting In Major Leagues Hundreds of Shelby baseball fans who watch with interest th? career of George (Buck) Redfern. former State college star and Shelby player, will read, this dis patch from Detroit with regret: “George Redfern, shortstop ob tained from Nashville and re garded by Manager George Mor iarty as one of the best infielders turned out by the minors in years, is the victim of unusually hard luck, in that he joined the Tigers at the wrong time. He is confront ed with the Herculean task of displacing Tavener, who Moriarty believes will be the class of the league. “Moriarty, if forced to let the former Southern League player go will retain title, it was said. He is considering assigning the short stop to a good class A A team lor further seasoning, possibly Toron I to.” Redfern it is believed here could make the grade at short with several major league teams but has the tough luck of going up to a team that has a star short fielder. In addition to his other touch luck George had an attack of the flu after. leaving Shelby for the southern training camp, according to a letter receiv ed from him by C. R. Hoey, jr., a 1 college mate. Trundled Wheelbarrow With Trunk In It For 10 Miles To Catch Train In Shelby Farmhand In Debt To Employer For $17 Gets Away At Niijht And liolls Bclon^in^s To Catch Train Here While the rest of the world gets excited over coffee-drink ing aind flapjack contests a Cleveland county farmhand that was should step forward and claim world honors for trundling a loaded wheelbar- | row—or as the colored folks say it, for “rolling a Georgia buggy." Sometime Wednesday night Dolph Lenair, white farm laborer loaded his trunk, three sacks, and other articles on his employer's wheelbarrow and rolled the outfit all of the 10 miles to Shelby where he caught the early morning train for Blacksburg, taking the trunk and belongings with him and leav ing the wheelbarrow in a vacant lot. Several hours after the train roared out of the station the man’s employer, Mr. W. D. Mauney, of' route 5, came to the Southern sta tion looking for him—and thus it was that the unusual story came out. The farm hand had borrowed, or in some manner secured $17, it is said, from his employer, who thought perhaps a getaway would be made. However, Mauney said that he worked Lenair hard Wed nesday and did not expect him to leave Wednesday night. Yet w'hen the farmer woke Thursday morn ing and looked in Lenair’s shanty, Lenair had vanished. A little tour of inspection revealed that the hand’s trunk and belongings were also gone as was Mauney’s wheel barrow. It was at that junction that Mauney came to town and visited the Southern station where he learned from Agent Vernon Proctor that a man answering Lenair’s de scription had boarded the train with a ticket' to Rlacksb.rg. K C. but he assured Maimey that Lenair had not taken the wHcelbCirov* aboard although he did the ti unk and sacks. Some time later the farmer lo cated his wheelbarrow in a vacant lot, and, it is said that he will not seek the vanished farm hand now that he has the wheelbarrow back. And the station agent seemed to agree that a fellow who would roll a wheelbarrow 10 miles at night with a trunk and other things in the “Georgia buggy” should not be prosecuted. Clears up Mystery. Still there was a little mystery about the getaway that finally Mr. Mauney figured out. After learning that his wheelbarrow and farm hand both were missing he began to look for the wheelbarrow tracks, hoping to get a trace of the missing man, but there were no wheeelbar row tracks within several hundred yards of the house, it is said. The supposition is that Lenair carried the wheelbarrow on his back a good distance from the house, set 't down in the road, returned and cai - ried out the trunk, then his other belongings, and loaded them up on the wheelbarrow and shuffled long with the load over a 10-mile stretch to Shelby. Estimating that a man rolling a wheelbarrow' would make about four miles per hour it must have taken Lenair about two and one-half hours to reach Shelby. But he made his train. Star Starts Ouestion And Answer Box In This Issue Of The Paper What all do yon know about Shelby and Cleveland county? If a stranger were to lift your latchstring and spend the night with you tonight, and while there begin to ask you questions about your town and county could you answer every one? The Around Our Town column in this issue starts a question and answer box, asking questions about the town and county that every one should know. See if you do, but do not look up the an swers until you think awhile. Questions and answers have succeeded cross-word puzzles as the latest fad and The Star in each issue will publish a list of questions about Shelby and Cleve land county people and events: If you can make a mark of 100 on all the tests then you are well versed on the history of the town and county. Today’s questions should be easy. BOY JAILED FOR HIS ASSAULT 01 GIRL-NO BOND Eugene Hoyes Held Without Bond For Attempted Attack. Ad mits Intention Eugene Hayes, white youth of about 17 years, is being held in the county jail here without bond for Superior court on the charge of an attempted criminal attack of a six year-old girls of No. 10 township. Hayes, who court officers say seems none too bright, admitted the attempt at the preliminary hearing before Recorder John 1*. Mull Wednesday. Following the hearing he was carried back to jail, where * he will remain until i court Monday week. It will be remembered that last! Monday the mother of the little i girl left her home to go to the store i and Hayes, a farm hand, was left] with the little girl and her brother. Going a short distance the mother thought it not wise to leave the children alone with the strange youth. Returning she surprised ( Hayes in an attempted assault on her small daughter, it is said. The! youth fled when the mother re- j turned without carrying out his in-; tentions. Officers were notified and a search got underway. Tuesday De puty Plato Ledford caught Hayes beyond Casar, the boy apoarently being en route to Asheville. I Highs Play Two Games This Week, Three Next Week Meets Kings Mountain Today, Charlotte Tomorrow. Three Teams Next Week Shelby baseball fans who can hardly await action with the rec ent soring fever weather have several big days ahead. In fact, the local baseball sea son breaks out its winter quarters today, but the breaking out will be in the Kings Mountain vicinity, where at 4 o’clock this afternoon the Shelby Highs contest with the speedy Kings Mountain team. The old dope pot has it that Kings Mountain will win, but that same pot has been overturned so much that nothing is a certainty in baseball anymore. Tomorrow aft ernoon, Saturday, the Highs take a little longer trip and go to Charlotte for a game with the Queen City lads. Quite a number of local fans are expected to ac company the team to both con tests. Playing Here Then next week Shelby fans ran rrowrl the hometown baselines when the Highs come home for three games. The first local con test. will be on Tuesday afternoon when the Kings Mountain team comes here for a game. The old park is expected to see one of the biggest crowds since the football season as the town turns out to see if there is any likelihood of Casey Morris winning a third championship for the town. Then on Thursday afiernoon Cherryville comes here for a game. On the next afternoon, Fri day, Charlotte plays a return game here. That’s three games in one week, two on consecutive days. A real opening treat for the baseball fans. iHowever, numerous games is the method Coach Morris has of training baseball into his boys. That method won Shelby two state titles. Of course there is a lot a coach can tell the youngster, but after they get the rudiments > the fine points must be picked up ' by experience in actual play. The Highs .may not look like world beaters in their first game, but let them play 15 or 20 games be fore the state series and if there’s any basebal in them it will begin to crop out when victories mean titles. And unknown to the major portion of the town the Highs have been practising several days for today’s opening game. Mr. Joe Nash, of Hickory, spent Thursday here on business at the Fanning store. I I’rayi-d For 10 Hour* Straight While In Agony and Was Completely Cured I). J. I.aughridgc, n Shelby man up in year#, unfolded a Jftory here this week that Wads like a medicine testi iftmial—except that the cura tive qualities came from pray er. And Mr. Langhridgc is Working regularly new at the fHive Hosiery mill, where he a been cmplovcd since the fmarkable change in his alth. which he says was ought about by prayer no. "or rosnv years the man has been afflicted with hernia the bowels, or rupture, one of the roost painful afflictions known to man. Three tiroes he has under Cone operations, he says, for the ailment and all to no apparent avail. j Following the third oneration be remained in bed for a time and ithon perhaps feeling that the operatk l had been successful end his affliction was gone he left his I bed only to have the a’lment come hack more nainful than ever. Surgeons advised another sneedy operation, he said, but Laughridge would, not consent for another one though suffering untold agony. | Following his decision pot to be j operated on again he says that he went back to bed and began, i praying to his Maker for relief i [about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. i I praved steadily from that hour until 11 o’clock that night, ten hours in all. and to my Maker I offered my future endeavors if only I could be well again and re leived of my agony. “About 11 o'clock that night I felt somehow, by an unfathomable irtuition, that my hernia was not going to bother me anymore, and I turned over and peacefully slept until morning. “That was something like six week or so ago and with the ex ception of a day or so I have been ; working steadily since. It just (came to me after 10 hours of con l sistent prayer that my pravers [ had been answered—and they : were." As proof that his ailment bothers him no more although he has not undergone another opera tion Mr. Laughridge himself may be seen any day in the week go ing about his duties at the local manufacturing plant, and he will gladly relate the story of his re markable cure. ‘‘Miss Addie” Passes Following Illness Pioneer Woman Journalist Edu cated Here Dies in Charlote. Hundreds *?ourn. A Shelby of other days that knew her in school girls days and a later Shelby that knew her through the "One-Minute Page” mourned the passing Wednesday afternoon of Mrs. J. P. Caldwell—better known to hundreds as “Miss Addie,” tr.e pioneer newspaperwoman of the South. iwrs. <. HKiwen, wno cnea rouow tng an illness with fifluenza, wr.s the wife of the late J. P. Caldwell, renowned editor and major por tion of her life had been spent in newspaper work on the two Char lotte papers. In recent years she has been widely known through her special column in The Observer. Funeral services were held Thurs day at the First Presbyterian church in Charlotte. “Miss Addie” received part of her education at Cleveland Springs for visits with friends. Outside of I Charlotte she was perhaps better known, apd loved here, more than any other town in the state. Outline Plans For Club House At the Kiwanis club meeting Thursday night at Cleveland Springs, J. D. Lineberger, outlined a plan for the erection of a $26. 000 golf club house at Cleveland Springs. According to the plan out lined local people interested in re creation and sports and what ar. up-to-date club house and golf course would mean to Shelby, would take stock which would be retired by a per cent of the green fees and club dues collected year after year. The plan was endorsed by O. M. Gardner, Chas. L. Esk ridge, O. M. Mull and C. C. Blan ton and will no doubt be presented shortly to the citizens of Shelby in the hope of securing a subscription of $12,600 in stock. A Little Wiklk Across America M.--s t M-* ■ ■■■■<} n.-Ui* > -r .Mi s Crve Henley hike* ull ih«r way Iron) Sjftn Fraiuuto to '1Wa«iiiifc'ou to meet Priv.?°ze, trade*.if *h§t be i Cleveland county, tvith very little paved roads, must include several important little funnels that turn traffic into the big funnel. High way 18 stretching down from Morganton through the mountain sections of Burke and Cleveland isn’t any little outlet in the outgo of mountain “cawn” if the inci dents recited in the Federal court rooms are true. And it’s about this season of the year that little wisps of smoke begin to curl up from points here and there in the valleys and coves. That means ac tivity later on the highways—and perhaps activity a little later ip one of the big institutions at At lanta. Judge Webb in his former ap pearances in Federal court hero has spoken of his regret that li quor is made in about the most beautiful mountain section in Eastern America— and after speaking his regret he usually does his bit well in eradicating the industry. :! Converse Glee Chib Is Coming The Converse College Glee dub, will appear in recital at the Shel by High school auditorium under the auspices of the Junior class on Friday evening, March 18, at 8 o’clock. The program is divided into two parts, solos and choruses. There wil' be first sopranos, second soprano and altos. The selections of th whole program will be varied. C especial interest will be the sol artists, Glenn Crowder Stable baritone and Peggy Thompson 1! year-old violinist, who has delightc quite a few radio audiences wit her skill in playing. The club is under the directii of the following officers: Glei Crowder Stables, director; Mat Stewart, president; Clare Kin-? business manager. The admission Tor school childre , is 35 cents the general admission is 50 cents. Store Assigns But Will Pay Creditors Justice and Dellinger who oper ate a grocery store on N. LaFay ette street made a voluntary as signment this week and Mr. John S. McKnight was named trustee. The store will continue to operate for a week or few weeks for the benefit of the creditors and Mr. Rodney Hamrick has been placed in charge. Mr. McKnight says most of the creditors are local whole sale firms and that the liabilities are estimated to be $3,000 while tho assets are about $4,000. It is ex pected, therefore, that all creditors will be paid in full. *