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•M KINGS MOUNTAIN NEWS MRS. W. K. CROOK, Reporter. —- Items Of News Will Be Appreciated — Tck|>i<inc 177 Kings Mountain Mar. 20.—Miss Bryte Richardson of the Grover school faculty spent the past week «nd! here with her parents Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Richardson. Mr. J. K. Willis was in Shelby Thursday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Mason Barber and children, Mason jr., and Myra La deU of Chester, S. C., spent the lat tpart of the week here with Mrs. ber’s mother Mrs. N. F. Wat terson. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Campbell, Mr fend Mrs. Charles Campbell and children, Charles jr., Colleen and fcdd arrived home Friday morning from Palm Harbor, Fla., where they have spent the pnst three months •t their winter home. At an executive meeting of the V. D. C., held Wednesday after noon, plans were made for Memor ial day the 10th of May. Mr. Aubrey Mauney was in Shel by Thursday on business. Miss Pruncll Houser of Lenoir Rhyne college spent last week end here with her parents Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Houser. Mrs. Ed Lovell of Charlotte spent the past week here with her par ents. Miss Dorris Hood of the West End school faculty spent the week «md in Charlotte with relatives. Miss Gertrude Ware of Miami, Fla., who has been spending some time here with her mother Mrs. Mary Ware, returned to her work there Friday. Civitan Banquet. The Civitans entertained at a banquet Wednesday at 12:30 in the Pythian club room. The table was Attractively arranged with baskets of purple and white iris Civitan «fc>e Neisler, chairman of the pro. Oram committee, was in charge. Miss Pearle Fulton delighted th„; dub with the singing of two mim •rs “Morning” and ‘Swallows.’ She teas accompanied by Mrs. N. F. Mc Cill. Rudynrd Kipling’s “Pink Dominoes” was charmingly read by Miss Vergie Harmon. Senator H. T. Fulton spoke on the issues of the past session of the. N. C. senat \ The legion auxiliary will hold a Meeting Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock with Mrs. C. Troy Carpen ter, at her home on W. Gold St. Mrs. Ware Hostess. Mrs. M. A. Wore was hostess at • charming meeting of the Social Club, Thursday afternoon at 3:30 •t her home on Gaston St. The Kou** was attractively arranged With quantities of spring flowers. The favors and tally* emphasized the Easter season. Mrs. Ed Lov «11 of Charlotte greeted the guests At the door. Rook Wtt'4 played at live tables. After the game the hostess assisted by Mrs. Ed Lov •11, Mrs. C. E. Carpenter and Mrs. R. C. Baker served an elaborate Mlad, sweet course. Guests pres ent were Mrs. Ed Lovell of Char otte, Mrs. Harry Falls, Mrs, C. E. Carpenter, Mrs. Byron Keeter, Mrs Arthur Hays, Mrs. Harry Keeter, Havne Blackmer, Mrs. E. A. Smith, sr., Mrs. J. D. Smith, Mrs. U, W. Kings. Mrs. H. H. Houston and Mrs. A. H. Patterson. Members Ecsent were: Mrs. B. M. Ormon. rs. J. Pd. Patterson, Mrs. U. C. Baker, Mrs. D. C. Mauney, Mrs. J. C. Patrick, Mrs. W. A. Ridenhour, Mrs. J. C. Mason, Mrs. J. E. An thony, Mrs. R. L. Mauney and Mrs. B. S. Plonk sr. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Boozer most delightfully entertained at a bridge dinner, Thursday evening at their home on Piedmont avenue. The rooms were attractively arranged with numerous baskets an - vases of gay colored spring flowers with the same idea carried out in the place cards. Bridge was played at six tables. Those playing were: Mr and Mrs. Hayne Blackmer, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Hilling, Mr. and Mrs j. E. Herndon, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Smith, Mrs. Paul Peterson. Mr. and Mrs. 0. B. Carpenter, Miss Fannie Carpenter, Miss Dorris Hood, Miss Wheeler, Miss Annie Armstrong, Miss McDaniel, Miss Nesbitt and Messrs Kenneth Kirby, Charles New, Christenborry, George Web ber and Aubrey Mauney. Sunday School (Mass Entertained. Miss Mcryle Wimberly was the most delightful hostess to her Sun day school class lust Thursday ev ening from eight until 10 at the home of Mr. Joe llord on W. Gold atreot. The living room was attractively decorated with baskets of spring flowers. The evening was spent in playing various games and contests after which a short business me* t |ng was held. The hostess served a tempting salad course to the fol lowing: Mrs. Lester Hoke and sis ter, Mrs. M. SI. Berber of Chester, E. C., Mrs. Moffatte Wolfe, Mrs. J. L. Allran, Mrs. P. B. Stokes, Mrs. J. L. Settlemeyer, Mrs. Ben Go forth, Mrs.- Dewey Falls and Miss Viva McDaniel, Miss Nella Ever hart, Miss Hasel Settlemeyer and Miss Vera Falls. The Otis D. Green post of the American legion gave a banquet on Thursday evening at the Pythian cjub, honoring Mr. C. G. Montgom ery and Mr. J. D. DeRemus of the U. S. Veterans bureau of Charlotte. A large number of legionaires and Auxiliary members attended. J. M. Rhea, post commander acted as toastmaster. The main features of the program was the interesting flits made by Messrs Montgomery and DeRamus explaining the work at the Veterans bureau. EASTS! NEWS OF THE WEEK END! Funeral of Mrs. M. A. Cline Held Sunday. Personal Mention of People on the GGo. (Special to The Star.) The funeral of Mrs. M. A. Cline was held at the Eastside Baptist church on Sunday morning; nt li o’clock. Rev. H. E. Waldrop preach ed the funeral assisted by Rev. Wnlter Harrison of Greer, «S. Both spoke the highest praise of Mrs. Cline’s life. She was a char ter member of the church here. Mis Cline wait well loved in Eastside and the whole community is saddened bv her death. She is survived by six children all of fhom weer here for the funeral. Mrs. Cline, who had been in ill health for the past two years, died at the home of her son Mr. Will i lino on Saturday morn-1 ing at seven o’clock. A lat-ge imm-1 her of Eastside people went to High ; Shoals where interment took place. Mr. Charley LnUitnore of Lawn dale spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. '1'. D. Lattiinore. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Padgett-and children and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Tate motored to Chimney Rock re cently. Misses V lolet Weaver of South Shelby and Jettie Barber of Kings Mountain were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Vetus Weaver. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Sweety and ; children and Eunice Lamb spent the week end with Mrs. Sweezy’s parents Mr, and Mrs. Gantt in th j Pleasant Hill section. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Waldrop and children were recent visitors to Spartanburg, S.^C. Mrs. R. O. Bumgurdner and chil dren spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. W, S. Smith. Born to Mr. arid Mrs. Den Pritch ard a son, last wee*.. Mr. and Mrs. II. E. Lee and chil dren of South Morgan street spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Buchanan. Mr. J. B. Daves who has been sick with flu is able to be out now.1 Miss Thelnm Wall and mother of Henrietta visited Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Wall Iasi week. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cline spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs.; J. C. Lazenby. • Mr. and Mrs. llilt Vaughn of Cowpetis, S. spent the week end (with Mr. and Mrs. James Vaughn. ; Mr. and Mrs. Burgin Southards and children of Lawndale and Mrs! Doe Willis visited Mr. and Mrs. T.; D. Lattimore Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Pritehurd of 'Lawndale visited Mr. and Mrs. Lonj VVorthman Sunday. Miss Getanna Gladden was a j charming hostess to a large num-, ber of her friends at a party Satur-! day night. The young folks spent seevral hours of pleasure and fun, after which Miss Gladden served them with delicious refreshments., Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Devine have recently moved to Eastside from ' West Shelby. They are living in the house formerly occupied by Mr and Mrs. J. C. Lattimore. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Sanders and children recently visited points in the mountains. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Panther of Double Shoals spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Daberry. Mrs. A. T. Luck spent the week end in Kings mountain with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gladden. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Gladden mo tored to Gastonia Sunday. If SO percent of the Filipinos are prosperous and content, as assert | ed by Henry L. Stinison, then some of us had bettor travel that COM MISSION HR S SALE By virtue of an order of re-sale, made by the Clerk of Superior Court in Special Proceedings, en titled “Bessie Grigg, widow), G. P. Grigg and wife, Zudie Grigg, F. S. Philbeck and wife, Lee Philbeck, Ex Parte,“I will sell to the highest bidder at the Court House door in Shelby on Monday, April 11, 1927, at 12 o’clock, or within legal hours, | the following described real estate: I Situated in No. 7 township, and i known as the Hamrick lands as 'conveyed to Irvin Philbeck and I bounded by a line as follows: Beginning on a white oak, Wig 1 gins corner on the north bank of j the branch and runs thence N. 22 j E. 40 poles to a post oak: thence ! S. 75 E. 144 poles to a pointer, Mrs Jenkins corner; thence S, 8 W. 108 poles to a stone, Jas. Wright’s corner; thence 8. 85 W. 100 poles to a stake and pointers in Bridge’s line; thence N. 54 W. 80 poles to a maple on the east bank of the creek; thence nearly north up the creek as it meanders 40 1-2 poles to the mouth of a branch or ditch; thence up the branch or ditch N. i . 58 E. 8 poles; thence N. 47 E. (i j I poles thence N. 83 E. 4 poles; 1 thence N. 49 E 2*9 poles to begin ning, containing 128 1-1 acres more I or less. Terms of sale—One-fourth cash One-fourth in December, 1927; One fourth in December, 1928; one-, i fourth in December, 1929. With the privilege of paying all 'cash upon confirmation; deferred ; payments to bear 6 per cent inter est. The purchasers to pay taxes and receive the rents for 1927. Bid jding will begin at $5,500.00 This ithe 26th day of March, 1927. B. T. FALLS, Commissioner, j Societies Are Holding Contests Prior To Commencement— French Playette Given (Special to The Star) Lawndale, March 26.*—The Pier ian Liternry society of Piedmont high school held its annual con test for improvement in debate on Friday evening. March 24. The name of the winner of the medal will not be known until com mencement. The negative won the decision. The query being, Re solved, that ..he amendment to the child labor law should be ratiffed by the states. The Musigmaronian society will hold its annual contest next Thursday night. Announcement of the program will be found else where in this issue. The two divisions of the Emer sonian Literary society will hold their improvement contests soon. Fut.her announcements will be made later. On March 17. the French class conducted chapel exercises with a French playctte portraying the circumstances of the composition of the Marsailles hymn. Tf the language of the select'd! was not quite clear to all the audience, the facial expression and the French accent in the gestures aided greatly in piecing out the fabric of the imagination. On last Thursday morning, the seniors occupied the stage during chapel period with a mock faculty meeting. Their sketch was greet ed with hearty applause. Mr. Dewey Beattie, who has been very ill is at home now and recovering rapidly. Mrs. Mauney, of Lawndale, who has been ill for several weeks, is imnroving. Mrs. Irma Wallace, county home demonstration agent, accompanied by the district agent. Miss Credit*, were recent visitors at Piedmont. On last Tuesday, Mrs. Wallace made a talk on house decoration to the members of Miss Toller’s do mestic science classes. Shelby Minister In Two Adventures Rev. H. K. Boyer, I). D., pastor of Central Methodist church, pot ba^k to Shelby Monday afternoon from a trip to Mt. Airy, having had two adventures on the way. One was a near tragedy—when the very popular Shelby divine came near to losing his life in an auto capsize on the highway. Me had a very narrow escape and was scarred Up. The second adventure was a com edy, when police of Charlotte, see ing the wrecked ear on the streets, parked in the vicinity of some bootleg tracks, and viewing it3 wrecked state, confiscated it. I>r. Boyer was returning Sun day morning from Mt. Airy to Charlotte when his auto careened on a crooked piece of highway not far from Harmony, and capsized. It was being driven at 35 miles an hour, and Dr. Boyer had an ex tremenly narrow escape from doath. Coming out of the accident with some schatches, and some new res olutions. he proceeded to Charlotte to visit his son, Hugh G. Boyer. His son undertook to have the car re paired, and preliminary to the jour ney to the garage, parked it in the rear of his warehouse. It was there the police found it. When the Charlotte gum-shoe artists discovered their error, the Dodge was returned to its owner, and brought Dr. Boyer safely to Shelby Monday. Strangely enough he said, while in the serious plight following the capsize, there drove un to the scene one of his closest friends, J. Hartness, clerk of the court at Statesville. He was helped out of his difficulties bv Mr. Hartness and a number of volunteers. The spring gardens ar« looking very good to the neighbor’s hens. Prosperity: The U. S. Steel Corporation earned $199,058,868 net in 1926. Prune apple trees so that the sunlight can reach the leaves and fruit. A small cooperative selling or ganization jn Brunswick county will handle over 100 cars of truck crops for its members this season. Chinese ‘Healers’ Bother California Medical Examiners (By International News Service) San Francisco.—Chinese herb healers may be respected citizens in the Orient, but the California board of medical examiners is ; watching their work with critical eyes. The healers, who modestly claim to cure every human ail ment froni dandruff to diabetes, use rare and aromatic ungents and lotions. Investigators for the state board have found that the Chinese herb “doctors” are in most cases practising medicine without a li cense. A court decision has held that the herb-sellers can function a? merchants, selling their goods upon specific demand. They can not however, make a physical examination of their patient nor No Birth There In Four Years And No Death Within 15 Months, Say Reports fBy International News Service) Deersville, O.—This little in corporated Harison county village of 9G citizens, smuggling on the | old Morvarian Indian trail in the wooded Eastern Ohio Hills, holds a birth and death record that chal- i lenges the world. There has not been a birth here for four years nor a death for 15 months. Of the inhabitants 55 are over 50 years old, and fourteen of i school age. There are 17 widows,! eight bachelors, and five spin sters. The village has two churches, a high and a grade school, two gen eral stores, a flour mill, a doctor, a barber, music teacher, black-. smith, several radio tinkers and a j combination grocery postoffice which receives mail from the rural route daily. But five persons live in rented houses as a large dwelling mrv be purchased for a thousand dol lars. Property is assessed far more than its real value to obtain suffi cient revenue. The ^neighboring settlement of Cassville has 119 residents, has no widows, no spinsters, no doctor, no churches, schools or postoffice. Cassville has had but one death in the past ten years, when the body of a strange man was found hanging to a tree late last year. Youth Gees Up To Big Ccurt About Auto And Chase Business District of Shclhy Wit nessed ‘’Babbit Race” Satur day Night. Many in Chase. Henry Tessner, or Henry Davis, just as you desire to have it, wiil ho given a hearing this week in Su perior court on the charges of lar ceny of an auto and for the lar ceny of a flash light and other things. Young Tessner, by the way, is the yuoih wh > gave the crowd in the business district Saturday night a little excitement. There was very little to it, but while it lasted it was the big thrill er < f a big ..bopping Saturday. A Mr. Padgett 1,eft his car near Ah Jackson's grocery only t > return and find it missing. Shortly there after he saw tl e car coming back, Tessner at the ■wheel. Inquiry was made of the youth and lie was taken to the store where it was planned to call officers, but just as the others stepped into the door Tess ner stepped the other v.ay and the race was on. It led up town through the main business section, and as it moved the crowd gained and the speed picked up. But by the time the fleeing youth and his pursuers reached the Eskridge garage un official estimates have it that 1 nearly 100 folks were chasing hint —Saturday night shoppers drop ping their packages to get in the race. After the uptown jaunt the youth was cornered in the L. E. Ligon garden and captured. Tessner’s stateinent was that he hired the car front a Spurling boy, but somehow the story didn’t go so well with Recorder Mull and the youth was sent up to the Superior court under a bond of §500 in each of the two cases. ask him questions. If they so much as touch his pulse they have assumed the office of physician. There are a score or more of these “healing joints” in San bVanciscn and Oakland and more than 200 in the state. The healers are in many cases wealthy, as sick persons, hunting a cure, arc willing to try something new. Virtually every disease in the catalogue is said to be curable by the administration, internally or otherwise, of Chinese herbs. Raid ers once found a bottle of dead beetles in one herb shop. The pro prietor said they were valuable as a cure for baldness. PRANK —\ PLENTY ru saA OF MILK' we was wise/ SHELBY MILK PLANT -PHONE 125 Miners’ Pick Axes Make Rough Grave For Once Beautiful Countess Minotto (By International News Service) Crown Kin^r. Am. —Though prince of the royal blood paid tri bute to the fame and beauty of Countess Agnes Minotto in the days when, as leading woman of the Imperial Theatre, Berlin, she was the toast of continental Eu rope, only a handful of veteran hard-rock miners of this isolated mountain town were in her funeral cortege to mourn at her bier. Messages of condolence from numerous friends in Europe and America poured in upon her only son, James former Count Minotto of Italy ,when the telegraph wires flashed the news of the sudden death of the countess here from heart disease, but not even her closest friends in th's newly j adopted land of her’s could be j present at the grave for a raging snowstorm that effectually block-1 ed all traffic in and out of Crown j King fell throughout the day of1 her funeral. So, with pick, drill and shovel, and carrying the casket upon their shoulders, the miners braved I the elements, fought through the blinding snow, and while the sor- j rowing son and a lone priest kept | virgil, bored and plasted into the granite heart of one of her belov ed mountains, until they had carv ed a space for her final sleep. Countess Minotto was the widow of Count Demetrious Minotto, of Rome, who died in 1926. — WEBB THEATRE TUESDAY — SAMUEL GOLDWYN PRESENTS THE HENRY KING PRODUCTION “STELLA DALLAS” By OLIVE HIGGINS PROUTY. Adapted by FRANCIS MARION. -ABOUT THE STORY “STELLA DALLAS” tells the story of a woman’s heart— is the lens through which f.'ie love life of every v.oman is X-rayed. It is a photographic recital of sacrifice that will fug at the emotions of every mother, every father, every daughter; for there is « Stella in every community. 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In our usual practical way, we shall endeavor to manifest our appre ciation during this cele bration of the support that has been so liber ally bestowed upon us by bringing our great merchandising and dis tributing service to you in even more dynamic proportions—with larg er and more varied dis plays of new goods—* with those outstanding savings which have so endeared this Company i to millions of people thruout the United States. Again, we want to express our apprecia tion and thankfulness for the privilege of serving and our desire to be of even greater service in the months and years to come. KYANIZE DEMONSTRATION A factory representative of The Boston Varnish Company, makers of the well known KYANIZF VARNISHES and ENAMELS will stage a demon rtration in our store WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK. The new shades and color combinations will be demonstrated—under actual working conditions. A special invitation is extended to the women of Shelby and Cleveland County. SHELBY HARDWARE COMPANY -Phone 330 UjpILOT MOUNTAIN-NORTH CAROLINA]// THE PILOT Tomorrow! 1. Money—‘Not the little deposits,, but the sum grown large by apprecia tion. 2. Money—Once a month, if you pre fer it so, so that when you grow tired or work and the comforts of old age call you, you simply quit work, and live in comfort and hap piness. 3. Money—-To enable you to face Old Age with a smile, and shake his ; hand, and say to him, “Old Fellow, 1 am giad you’ve ccrne, there are lots of things we want to do. I have ' laid by enough to care for you, to buy you the daily newspaper and cigar, to keep you in good clothes, well-fed and sheltered.” 4. Money—to put a swing into your stride, and a flower in your lapel, as you start living the best of life— for it ccmes last, and the first of life was made for it. 5. Money—For the boys and girls who will come to £he home you plan to establish seme day, so that they may have a fair start in life, even though Fortune turns her face from you. 6. Money—So that “the most wonder ful girl in the world” never will be fcyced to face life with the grief of your death and the children cling ing to her as her only possessions. 7. Money—So that you will feel that you have lived a comfortable life—that from the income of yes terday you have accumulated • a comfortable sum—that you were man enough, when young, not to spend it all. WEBB General Agent PILOT LIFE BIKE unrai Lineberger Bldg. Shelby, N. C. -SPECIAL AGENTS C. B. Wilson, D. G. Philbeck, B. P. Smith, H. W. Goolsby. — RESIDENT AGENTS J. G. Mauney, Marvin Blanton. the sii mmw