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What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW. jht' weather—improving. Yes, Horatio, there were divoces bark in yc olden days. A divorce was granted at the first term of court in this county the record shows. An interesting account of the first Cleveland county court may be found in this issue. See it vou recognize any of the jurors. • • * Shelby High school students made a fine record in the recent state wide Latin contest according to a belated announcement from Chapel Hill. * * • Still another 50-year married couple is reported in The Star to day. * * • Superior court is in session here today SO years and 10 days after the first court ever held in the county. Watch The Star this week for complete court news. • » * Shelby lost a game to Charlotte here Saturday. Sport fans will find an account of the game on this page. • • There are several more questionj hi around Our Town today. Can you answer them? The president of State college addressed members of the Hoey and Gardner Bible classes at the First Baptist church here yester day. • * * A Cleveland county man, alleged to be a yegg broke jail Sunday in Charlotte, says a news item. Another candidate for alderman today. What’s wrong with activity in the mayoralty race? 1, BiiSIKS TO MEN'S CLASSES Joint Meeting Of Men’s Bible ( lasses Of First Baptist And Central Methodist Churches. A crowd packed the church audi torium of the First Baptist church Sunday morning at the Sunday school hour, when the pens strong Bible classes of the First Bantist taught by Max Gardner and of the Central Methodist church taught by Clyde R. Hoey, heard Dr. E. C Brooks, president of N. C. State College, Raleigh. It was one of the largest gatherings of Christian men interested in Bible study that has assembled here, for each class has a membership of from two to three hundred and added to this were many visitors and ladies. Dr. Brooks complimented the “spirit” of Shelby which he de clared to be its best asset and is j illustrated by the unity of its! leaders in political, business, indus- j trial and religious matters. Dr. Brooks took for his subject a quo tation from Tennyson’s Locksley Hall, “Through the ages one in creasing purpose runs. And the thought of men is widened in the process of the sun.” Briefly Dr. Brooks traced the development in ! thought and ideas that have been brought about by changed con ditions. What was thought right years ago, is considered wrong to day and the thoughts of men have so widened that no mind can com prehend all. This development has not only come in religion, law, medicine, but it has come in gov ernment. A few decades ago the purpose of government was to pro tect property, but as the thoughts of men have widened, the present conception of government has shifted from property to humanity. Society sets certain standards to which men must measure up to in all of the professions and in pub lic office and at this point Dr. Brooks touched on county govern ment of which he has made a spe cial study. He would have the an tiquated methods abandoned and more modern and satisfactory sys tems applied, s f Lems that are uni form throughout the state in order that business principles might 1 applied that will measure up to standards set b\r society. Because of limited time, Dr. Brooks was unable to finish his discussion, but the thought running through his re marks was a prayer, “Teach no to know the right and I will do it.” With the Methodist men’s class present the attendance of the First Baptist Sunday school was boosted to over 1,000. A mission program "as rendered at the close of the Sunday School hour. Kings Mt. Hurler Turns In No-Hit And No-Run Game Kings Mountain, Mar. 25.—Doc Ledford, premier southpaw hurler of the Kings Mountain high team, turned in a no-hit, no-run per formance today, the first of the season. He shut Boiling Springs out by 5 to 0. Ford, Kings Mountain, got ihree hits out of five trips, and f alls, also of the local team, got two out of three. Beach i O"0 vi l:.e irjx,ii5 wk;’ the I boa J.> s toe rvciiiC an nice j pieces is ::iio'.vii above. ’i bo young . lady is Xi;,s Jo.1.1 Fair.".eld, and this picture was taken at Cslboa ; BeacU. Miss Mary Roberts, severly injured when she fell from a : moving car on the Fallston road, is slightly better accord ing to reports early this after noon from the Shelby hospital where she is a patient. A complete examination of her injuries were made last week ar.d several fractures of facial bones, including the nose, were found, it is said. How ever, unofficial reports are that no serious injury of the spine was located, such an injury be ing feared somewhat it is said. The young girl still remains in a semi-stupor and is only partly conscious at times. Her face and head is badly swollen and she is considerably bruis ed. Geo. Hoyle Joins Frank In Business George A . Hoyle, well known in business circles in Shelby where he has been in the mercantile business for many years, has purchased a half interest with his brother Frank L. Hoyle in insurance and risks of all kinds. Together they have pur. chased the fire insurance business of Rev. C. J. Woodson and combin ed it with the agencies held by Mr Frank Hoyle who bought out A. C. Miller some years ago when Mr. Hoyle quit the office of clerk of superior court. They begin busi ness as Frank L. and George A. Hoyle the first of April1 in Tooms over the Shelby and Cleveland County Building and Loan asso ciation where Mr. Frank L. Hoyle has been conducting an insurance business for a number of years. With the companies represented by Mr. Woodson and those represented by Mr. Hoyle, the new firm has some of the strongest companies in America, handling fire, health, cas ualty and public liability insurance. Heavy To Operate Rooms At Arcade — The Arcade rooming house, in the Arcade building of the Hamricks on East Marion street, is now being operated by Mr. Earl Lybrand, bel ter known as “Heavy” the propie tor of the cafe of the same name. Mr. Lybrand announces that the Arcade will cater to regular room ers and tourist travel and that all of the 20 rooms will be prepar ed completely for occupancy. In ad dition to continuing the operation of the rooming house he will also continue the operation of the big Arcade dining room. Mr. C. L. Eskridge left Shelby! Monday afternoon for Newberry, S. C., on a business trip. At New berry Mr. Eskridge will join his brother, Mr. L. G. Eskridge. Later the Shelby Ford genius will visit Charleston, and look around gen-i erally over the sights of his neigh bor state. County’s First Divotcee Charged With Retailing At Next Term Of Court One Of First Cases Disposed Of In This County Was Divorce. First Court In 1851. Judges, Jurors, Sheriff And Clerk. Back in the infancy of Cleveland county folks were much like they are today. They loved, fought, drank a little, and got into debt just as they do nowadays. The first court records of the county prove it. The first court ever held in Clev eland county, after the county wa; established was on March 8, 1841 at Squire William Weathers place, northwest of Shelby, and incident ally a lot of gossip must have beer, created by court cases in those days just as they are in these—for the woman granted the first di vorce in this county was charge! with retailing without license at the next term of court. That the world changes very lit tle in its fundamental events is shown by the old court record, which is remarkably well preserv ed and written clearly. The elder ly folks who worry about the “car rying on” of the present youth should remember that 86 years, ag ■ petting parties were not known but still the extreme equivalent of such parties brought several boys and girls into court on such charges! as adultery. An Early Divorce. One of the first cases on record was a divorce. It came up for trial at the first court, but as the erring husband failed to show up it was continued until the next term, A1 year later the complaining wife; came in the court and petitioned: for a divorce saying that “the do-1 fendant is a drunkard and a spendthrift and has definitely abandoned his wife and family and failed to provide for them, and that said conditions have existed for a period of six months.” A jury found that all the issues in the petition were correct and the divorce decree was granted. It read like this: “It is ordered, adjudged and decree by the cjurt that plain tiff be divorced from the bad and board of her husband, and that she may hereafter sue and be sued with out joining the name of her hus-: band, and have and hold all prop erty which she may hereafter ac-, quire or receive by decent device or, bequest or otherwise free from the! power and control or aebts of her \ husband, and subject to her own, control and such rules as govern tha property of a single woman.” BacK &ne came. The decree apparently pleased | the divorced woman but no doubt she found it hard to provide fcr the. family after divorcing her husband,' for at the next term of court, in 1843, the divorced woman but noj doubt she found it hard to provide | for the family after divorcing her j husband, for at the next term of j court, in 1843, the divorcee wa.si charged with retailing, or selling liquor without license, it is pre sumed. However, the case ended in a mistrial by the jury and no fur ther record of the county’s first di vorce is to be found in the book. At the same term another wife secured a divorce on the muchly used, present day grounds of adul tery. On the same docket the err ing husband and his paramour were charged with adultery, but the man failed to show up although his mistress did. By the coming of the next court in 1843 the bondsmen of the divorced husband had brought him back to the county and on the adultery charges he was fined $50 , and the woman in the case $10. A good percentage of the cases j listed contained adultery and other, free-living charges—the world isn t growing bad so fast—but the aver- | age fine recorded was $25 and a ; good behavior bond to show that; the man and woman had not been ( living together again. Usually the! records reveal the womun was not fined. I Debts and Affrays. The civil calendar and the crim inal docket were apparently taken up together and the cases disposed of alike. The charges for the most! part concerned debts, affrays, andj ejectment. The first case ever listed forj trial in the county was that of a debt. The defendant, the record says, admitted the debt and the court order was that he pay the plaintiff the sum of $236.78, of the amount $120 being the principal. The second case was also a debt case, while the third was a crimin al charge preferred by the state, but the nature of the charge is not recorded, the fine being $10 and the costs. Moved to Shelby. The second court was held in Shelby, the minute book says,, in an old log house. Old timers here say‘ that during the term of court large crowds attended and one day the floor of the court room fell through. An incident of the falling floor was that one hig fellow shouted with! an oath as the floor fell “Court has broke , now.’” Older residents say that he was tried for court con tempt, and the records show that .1 man of the same name was tried : at that term for “contempt of court’ j and ‘riot’ but he was found not guilty and the county was liable for the costs. Another defendant at the same term was given a day i:i jail for contempt of court, but the nature of the charge is not reveal ed. Maiiley First Judge. At the first term of court ever held in the county Judge Matthias E. Manley presided. C. C. Durham was the first clerk of court and the minutes were recorded by him. Charles Blanton was the first high sheriff and Jacob Collins was set down in one place as a deputy sher iff. John L. Bailey Was the judge presiding at the term in 1812 in Shelby, according to the record. G. B. Palmer was the foreman of the county’s first grand jury and the following men were members of the jury: Willis McKinney, Nathan Hamrick jr.. Sanford Hughes, Pe ter Lewis, Willis Putnam, Thomas J. Lackey, Willfam Wellmon, Wil liam McSwain, John Nolan, Adam Towery, A. G. Harrill, Daniel Horn, Thomas Dickson, Mapes Black, Bar nabas Tules, James McEntirc, and Charles Durham. The first jury venire of the coun ty was as follows: Gil lam Price, Christopher Stroup, David McBray er, William Putnam, James Altum, David Collins, David Carpenter, Tynatious McDaniel, Alpeus Hous er, Joshua Bcadley, Jacob G. Maun ey, Jacob Giffins, James Hamrick, Green Hamoright and William Gardner. —R. D. SHELBY STUDENTS HIKE HIGH HONRS Local C.irl An-1 Boy Take Second And Third Honors In State Latin Contest Chapel Hill.—The Wilson b'gh school, represented by Harper Barnes, won first prize in the third annual high school Latin contest held over the state recently under the auspices of the Extension Di vision and Latin department of the University of North Carolina, tt is announced. Judges for the contest were Prof. George Howe, i G. A. Harrer, S. G. Sanders ar.d M. H. Griffin of the Latin de partment. Wilson will be presented with a trophy cup by the University Ex tension Division. Thirty-two schools took part in the contest. First honorable mention went to Roxboro high school, ' repres ented by William D. Merritt, jr. Shelby high school, represented by Maude Rollins, won second hon orable mention, while third hon orablc mention also went to Sind- j by, represented by Milan Bridges, j Fourth honorable mention was won by Roxboro represented by i Edwin Long, jr. Roxboro had the highest aver- : age for the three papers submit-! ted in the contest./ In addition, the following I schools sent in at least one paper the grade of which was Do or bet ter: Asheville, Charlotte, Concord, Morganton, Greensboro. Dr. Gold Enters Alderman Race — Dr. G. M. Gold, well known South Shelby physician announced this morning that he had yielded to the urgency of friends and would become a candidate for alderman in ward three since John Schenek jr., has declined to run again. This is the first contest that has devel oped for alderman in the spring election of city officials, Mr. Sam Morrison having declared a few weeks ago that he is a candidate. Dr. Gold is one of the most in floential citizens of South Shelbr and a man of mature judgment with a host of followers. It is nh first entry in politics. It is not much trouble to poison cutworms as a little poisoned and sweetened bran will do the work. Locals Outhit Visitors Hut Kick . Hull About Field. Weather Better for Football Loose playing by the outfield lost a game for Shelby High here' Saturday when Charlotte adminis- j tered :t 14 to 9 defeat on the < locals. The game was played on the j Ella park and the roughness of th? field together with the cool weath- \ er aided both teams in making er rors with the result that a poor ! game the some 1,000 and more spectators was offered. Wood, small southpaw hurler for Charlotte, worked out a creditable game after the first frame when Shelby drove in five runs on five hits and an error. On the other hand Casey Morris called all four of his pitchers to the mound, Cline the first to handle the mound duties performing as well as any. Several pitiful errors by the Shelby outfield however were responsible for exactly half of the Charlotte runs although all the Shelby hurlers were hit hard at times. Luts, starting the game in left, dropped a couple that let in sev eral runs. Harris stumbled and dropped one to let in another and a bobble or so by Bridges contri bute to several more runs. The brilliant fielding of Lee, Shelby short, and the hitting of Gillespie were features for the locals, while Mason, Charlotte firstsacker, performed well in the field and with Henderson and Cribble led the Charlotte hitting. Gillespie drove out four hits and scored two of the Shelby runs. Tommy Kerr played a nice game at second but was not up to his old form of getting on the major ity of his trips to the plate. Shelby outhit the visiting team and on runs earned led by one marker. Charlotte scored four to start off the game then Shelby hit around in their half for five hits. In the fourth, sixth and seventh frame the Shelby defense already weakening tottered to extent of permitting six more Charlotte runs. Two of Gillespie’s hits were doubles while Spark drove out a double and turned it into a homer on several bad throws. With the team back on the city park, which is being renovated, the errors of Saturday will not like ly show up again and if ihe local hurling staff can come through n very good season is in prospect. The Shelby infield, all veterans from last year, looks even better than a year ago. The entire team can hit is tiie opinion of fans aft er witnessing two games here. Charlotte, AB. R. H. O. A. Wilkie, ss __ _6 2 Mason, lb __ __5 3 Hinson, rf _--4 3 Gribble. cf __— 5 3 Shelby, If___5 1 2 1 2 2 12 1 2 2 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 Wood, p _4 0 0 0 1 Sharpe. 2b Ashbury, 2b Rogers, 2b _-3 004 _1 1 0 1 _0 0 0 0 ■3 Shore, 3b _4 0 1 1 Scott, c_ _5 1 0 4 Totals — - _42 14 10 29 Shelby Kerr. 2b_ T ee, ss Cline, p-lf Gillespie, c .6 1 9 j AB. R. H.O. A. 3| 9 , ..5 1 __5 2 1 1 ,.:.b 2 4 Harris, cf_5 0 1 1 2 Anthony, 3b . Sparks, rf ___5 1 1 Lutz, If -- __ Whisnant, p _ 10 0 0 10 0 0 Moore, p Gold, p .--1 000 ..1110 Bridges, lb _„4 0 0 14 0 ?! 2 0 ■O', 1 1; o! Totals_ 44 9 11 27 9 Errors—Wilkie 2. Sharpe 2, An-: :>n, 2, Lutz 2, Bridges 2. Home runs. Gribble. Three-base is, Mason, Scott, Gillespie. Two se hits, Mson, Shore, Cline. Uin •e, Long. Another Couple Married 59 Years Names of Cleveland county couples who have been married 50 years or longer continue to be re ported to this office. The ,latest half century couples is Mr. and Mis' T. H. Poteet, who live on Route 3—but Mr. and Mrs. Poteet have been married longer than 50 years. To be exact they will have been married 59 years in the coming May. Mrs. Poteet before marriage ivas Mary Foster, The demand for good dairy cows ■ontinues. Tarheel dairymen will and added profit from their herds >y growing out the best heifers. That Million Dollar Libel Suit i Aaron Sapiro. organiser of a nuia>r of farm co-operative orgniit rations, is suing Henry Ford tor a mii.ion dollars in Detroit federal court, charging Ford, through his newspaper, the Dearborn Inde pendent. libeled hint Sapiro•cited articles accusing him <* !>■ lu* parv of a ■ conspiracy of J->»* 'v controi the world’s food markets.'’ A!m>co iltfl to rtthti ai» t'eurfeu ' B-d defense »tio»u-v, and i .)• A v ;,.vk it<M *o ... i . _ , . of . - * \ t'ap.c..'. .; 'ii..' end ft. o DUELS LEANING TO SMITH TICKET RALEIGH REPORTS ! Anyway Supposition Has That Trend. May Be Possible Running Mate. Raleigh.—Is there a possibility that Josephus Daniels, former sec retary of the navy ami editor of the “Old Reliable,” could be a candidate for vice-president on the A1 Smith ticket? Interesting rumors to that idea are playing about Raleigh. The Raleigh Times enumerates three reasons for believing that such is likely. The Times in an editorial speaking of the Smith leaning says: “One is a recent failure to de nounce as anarchists in accord ance with the Bryan ultimatum all who suggests n lack of virtue in the Volstead act. “Another is the advocacy of the abolition of the two-thirds rule in the Democratic convention. “Another is a care restraint in applause of the Anti-Saloon lea gue. of which he once was state president, and a significant ab sence from the recent meeting at which Tom Heflin denounced the Catholic religion. This position has been diluted onlv by a faint criticism of the abolition of the presidential nrimarv and an in dorsement of Heflin’s platitude that ‘wet’ money could not buy up North Carolina ‘dry morals.’’ The Durham Herald points the suggestion even more broadly, in its analysis of what Mr. Daniels told the women: “The McAdoo followers can find little comfort in the Daniels sug gestion. Too many of the objec tions set forth by the former sec retary of the navy fit Mr. Mc Adoo. While some of his objec tions to fit Smith. a careful weighing of ihe qualifications set forth by Mr. Daniels will show a slight preference . to Smith as against McAdoo. One question asked by Daniels is significant. In telling of the qualifications that the party’s candidate should have, he emphatically declared that the nominee should he the comnosile of Tilden, Cleveland and Wilson, and then he asked: ‘Is there any; significance in the fact that all' three went from the gubernatorial I chair to the presidency?’ That isj significant in view of the fact; that Smith, Ritchie. Dohaney and j McLean are governors, while Mc Adoo, Walsh, Meredith and Reed1 and Daniels himself are not. “Perhaps there’s nothing to j the suggestion, but we are glad : that it is at last in the open air and no longer clouded by cigar smoke j in hotel lobbies. It is clear, how-1 jver, that the Daniels shirt is no j longer splitting for McAdoo and it) is certain that whoever is the SHELBY YEGG IN CHARLOTTE JAIL BREAK ON SUNDAY Brady Barren, of King* Mountain', l*irks Lock of Mecklenburg Rural Station and Departs. Charlotte, Mar. 28.—Brady Bar rett, 22, described by police as a notorious safe-cracker of Kings Mountain arrested here Saturday made a daylight escape from the Macklenburg rural police joil early yesterday. Picking the lock to his cell door with a flat piece of metal, Barrett is believed to have walked to free dom from a window in the base ment where the cells are located. His absence was discovered at lunch hour, when chief Vic Fesper man found the door flung open and the cell empty. How Barrett walked to freedom after escaping from the barred-ce'l could not be explained by police. Mrs. E. J. Killian, day desk ser geant, went on duty after the es cape. She had been ill recently and did not come to work at her usual hour. Chief Fesperman was not at head quarters when the escape was made and he was unable to say who was on duty. It was not believed that Barrett walked through the police station when he escaped, but in stead climbed front a basement window. The basement is a half story above ground and the win dows are even with the ground. The lock picked by Barrett is cov ered with a heavy coat of steel and was considered burglar proof. There was one witness to the escape, an unidentified drunken negro who oc cupied a cell in the row opposite Barrett. No information could be ob tained from the negro, who remem bers only that Barrett left his cell. Barrett was arrested by Rural Policemen R. R. Hr.zelwood and J. E. Irvine. He is wanted in Spartan burg, S. C., for robbing a postof fice at Arlington near that city. He escaped jail, following his arrest there, authorities reported. Several charges, ranging from carrying concealed weapons to safe cracking, are held against the youth. Shelby police declare he is wanted at that place on a store breaking charge. There were 13,274 club women and girls in North Carolina last summer who canned 040,210 quarts of vegetables, fruits and meats for use during the past win ter. nominee, no Democratic candidate for viee-president will have even a mortician’s chance to (occupy the White House unless he is the tall —however ambitious a one—of an A1 Smith kite. “We wonder. Mr. Daniels knows. But will he tell?” i Pleadings in Elizabeth School Case Heard During Lull. McElroy Presiding Judge. There is considerable - activity about the county court house today with the spring grind of Superior getting underway. The court convened this morning with Judge P. A. McElroy presid ing und Spurgeon Spurling, native of Cleveland, prosecuting here for the first time since being elected solicitor to succeed R. L. Huffman. B. G. Logan, of the Kings Moun tain section, is foreman of the grand jury and Deputy Gus Jolley is the officer in charge, while De puty Jerry Runyans is court offi ce/. Early in the morning session the court took a run over the docket labelling the cases for trial and those to be continued as well as disposing of several good behuvior matters. During a lull pleadings and briefs in the Elizabeth school matter were presented. The argu ments and other details of the suit will be taken up later by Judge McElroy so as not to interfere with the criminal grind. The afternoon session of the court saw the grind getting down to active disposition of cases with the grand jury re turning true bilLs Generally speaking it was a very busy day about the court house. While the big court held sway up stairs County Recorder Mull, tern* porarily routed from the big court room, was holding forth in tho. clerk’s office below, and by the number of defendants and the large gallery of spectators he was hav ing a very interesting court of his own. Smallpox Cases In Several Sections Mild Epidemic, However, Doctors Say. “Flu” and Tonailitip Seem Prevalent. The sick list of Shelby and Clev eland county has mounted quite a bit during: the past week, it is learned. The usual spring attacks of “flu” are to be found over the town and county, and there are nu merous cases of tonsilitis, doctors say. In addition to these annual complaints there are quite a num ber of smallpox cases in various _ sections of the county. There is no smallpox scare on as usually follows in the near wake of such an epidemic, but it is learned | that a few cases are scattered over practically every section of the county and in the various manu facturing centers of Shelby are several cases. One odctor speaking of the smallpox today said that it was not the severe epidemic, but a rather mild run. Of course, there are several severe cases, but the general run is only a light touch of the dreaded disfiguring disease. Highs Play Away From Home This Week; 3 Games Take Cherryville, Belmont Abbey, and Forest City. Fifty-fifty Season so Far. The Shelby Highs, opening a baso ball season somewhat erratically, played three games away from home this week, it is announced by Alex George, manager and what not of baseball activities at the school. The first game is this afternoon with Cherryville at Cherryville, while on Wednesday the Highs jour ney up to Forest City for a tilt. On Tursday Coach Morris will take his team to Belmont Abbey for a fray with the young Catholic athletes. Next week several return james will be played here and fans have the idea that the wc>ather then wiil be more suitable. To date Shelby has a fifty-fifty rating in games played. In other words, they are just* as good as any team they have met, but not any better. Four games have been played, two with Kings Mountain and the count stands even, Shelby winning one and losing one with each team. Mr. Pink Suttle Is Dead In Asheville Mr. and Mrs. Sim McMurry went Saturday to Asheville to attend tho funeral of Mr. Pink Suttle who died there on Friday. He was born and reared in Shelby, the son of the late Dob Suttle. In Young manhood ho moved to Asheville where h® has since lived. Deceased has a number of relatives in Shelby, being a nephew of D. B. F. Suttle and a cousin of C. B. Suttle, sr.