VOL. XXXIV, No. 40 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1927. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ®J ^[i'e^r year (i^dvanca7»3 o! Another new business building js to be erected in Shelby it is an nounced in The Star today. Read the details. * * * Judge McElroy handed down a decision Saturday favoring th; county board of education’s pick for the new Elizabeth school site. * * * W. A. Ridenhour of Kings Mountain is the new chairman of j the county board of education. * * The criminal docket of superior \ court was completed last week and the court grind is now being devot ed to civil issues with a $30,000 suit up today. Five prisoners have already been taken to Raleigh. mm* A young Mooresboro boy, serving in the army, was killed last week in Fayetteville. Funeral services held at Mt. Pleasant yesterday were largely attended. Meantime Fayetteville officers are running down his slayer. The youth was a brother of Broad Simmons, noted Wake Forest baseball player, it is said. • * * Shelby won and lost in the trian gular debate, but both Belwood teams won and t*-ey will go to Chapel Hill. • * * The governor of Mississippi, who died recently, was a nephew of a former Cleveland county legisla tor who gave county the old court house bell now in use. .* • * The Shelby Highs have three games on here this week. They will be played on the city ball park, which has been renovated, it is an nounced. * * * Other smallpox cases have been reported in the county, it is learn ed. Many are being vaccinated. SHELBY WINS ID LOSES IW DEBATE Ga: tonia and Shelby Knock Each Other Out of Chapel Hill Trip. 411 Boys For Once. ,n the state-wide triangular de bates Friday night the Gastonia and j Shelby debating teams eliminated! each other as far as a trip to Chapel Hill is concerned. The Shel-' by affirmative team debating Ga3-! tonia’s negative here lost by a judges’ decision of two to one, while the Shelby negative debating Gas ■, tonia’s affirmative in Gastonia won by a similar decision. Troy McKinney and Milan Bridg es made up the Shelby affirmative team, while Milton Loy and Thom as Kerr were the Shelby negative debaters. Judges for the contest here came from the Central High school at Rutherford. Prof. A. C. Lovelace, high school principal, ac-j rompanied the negative team to, Gastonia. Very small crowds heard the two debates, it is said. The subject of the stale-wide debate was “Resolved. That Con gress Should Enact the Curtiss Peed Bill, Providing for a Federrl Department of Education.” Both1 debating teams of either school would have had to win for the I school to send the representatives j on to Chapel Hill. In bygone years I Shelby teams have usually made: the tri pto Chapel Hill with a fine showing in the semi-finals. Lin-; colnton was in the group with Gas tonia and Shelby but later dropped out leaving the two towns to com pete with each other. An unusual sidelight of the de bates was that all the Shelby de baters were boys. It was the first time in several years, school offi cials say, that the fair sex was not } represented on the debating teams. Tt has been the custom for the de bating teams to have one boy and one girl on each, but this year the | boys apparently led in the forensic ! line. _ Bel wood T o Get. In Semi-Finals Debater* Of School Win Over (•rover and Hollis T earns. Trip to Chapel Hill. The two debating teams of the Bejwood high school will make the trip to Chapel Hill for the semi finals, and perhaps, the finals in the state-wide debating contest. Belwood earned that honor bv de feating a Grover and a Hollis teem Friday night. Belwood’s negative won over Grover’s affirmative, and the af firmative won over the Hollis rjigative. The Grover negative won from the Hollis affirmative. All the debates were held in neu ir->l territory. Hollis, the third school in the triangle, is in Ruth erford county. Belwood by the double victory is the onlv county debating team to make the Chapel Hill trip and 'he young debaters of that school a»'e to be congratulated together with their trainers. A child’s idea of happiness: A bucket of candy. Campbell And Lutz Start $40,000 Store Building Oyster Queen lie no Cole. Omaha society run on and accomplished mtsician, 'lias toraiken (he social whirl to enter the business world. She will manage a milUon-dollar oys ter business. HIGHS WILL PLAY HERE 01 TUESDAY Contest With Cherryville. Lenoir Conies Here Wednesday, and Belmont Abbey Saturday. Local baseball fans will be given three treats this weeks, the Shelby Highs having just that many^ games on the home lot. The first will be tomorrow, Tues day afternoon, and the Cherryville Highs will furnish the opposition. Shelby has defeated Cherryville one time so far this season and the Highs are hopeful of making it two straight. On the following afternoon Le noir will be here for a game with the Morris aggregation, and on Sat urday afternoon Belmont Abbey will send over a heavy-hitting prep outfit to compete with the locals. The Highs have two other games on tap for the week-end, making a total of five. On Thursday Shelby will play Boiling Springs at Boil ing Springs, and on Friday wiL play Hickory at Hickory. "Casey” Morris by his method of staging many early season games is rapidly smoothing the wrinkles out of the performance offered by his youngsters and if some ne-.v hurling talent should crop up Shel by’s baseball outlook should be very bright. One spot in the outer garden is none too strong on de fensive play, but otherwise the outstanding weakness seems to be in the hurling staff. One or two of the young pitchers are coming through in a creditable manner, while another one or so have been handicapped in early play by sore arms due to smallpox vaccination. Cline counted on as one of the mainstays has been shifted to first base, but may take his turn on the mound. So far the moundwork de pends on “Dutch” Whisnant sup ported by Gold and Moore, the lat ter a southpaw. Child Bit By Mad Dog Has Treatment Oh First Birthday Little Gladys Camp, one-year-old girl of the Sharon section, isn’t having such a pleasant birthday. She was given a treatment for rabies today and the day among other things was her first birthday. The little girl was bitten by a dog at her home last Friday after noon, it is said. Reports have it that the dog had been having fits and it was killed a short time later by the father of the little girl and the head sent to Raleigh for exam ination. No report had been heard from Raleigh this morning, and the small child is apparently get ting along all right, it is said. Ben Curtis Comes Back From Florida Ben Curtis, former Shelby con tractor and builder, has returned to town, it is learned. Mr. Curtis, it is understood, came in yesterday. It will be remembered that the contractor after a hearing in Fed eral court here two years ago was given a banishment decree and since that time has been living else where. For some months Mr. Cur tis made his home at Deland, Flor ida* 4 M Soft soap: “You really are good looking.” Ground is Broken for Three Slory Brick Building to House the Campbell Store. Shelby seems to be taking on an-| other building spurt. Ground is being broken for the erection of a $40,000 store build ing on N. LaFayctte street by R. E. Campbell and J. Ogburn Lutz, the building to be three stories high | with a full basement. When com-! pleted it will house Campbell’s department store which now oc cupies two store rooms at the corn er of LaFayette and Sumter streets, owned by Mrs. Esther MeBrayer. While the name of the Shelby and Lawndale stores operate under the name of Mr. Campbell, Mr. Ogburn Lutz is already a half owner. Mr. Campbell owns the Court view hotel property which he pur chased nearly two years ago for around $100,000. He has sold to his partner, Mr. Lutz, a half interest in a frontage of 50 feet on N. La F'ayette street adjacent the First Baptist church and extending to the full depth of the lot, 130 feet. It is on this site where the Drive In filling station has been located, but is being abandoned to make war for the handsome new building. Mr. Campbell speaking to a Sta renorter today says the building will be 50x130 feet, three stories above ground with a basement un *der the entire floor. The entire first . floor will be together with a mezze i nine floor around the side walls. | The building will be of brick coh j struction, hardwood floors, steam . heat, electric freight elevator, plate ; glass show windows, etc. Altogeth I er the building will have over 20. ! 000 square feet of floor space, and j be used as the home of Campbell’s ' Shelby store. Furniture and other * lines will be added. , Although the real estate and ! building will represent an invest ment of approximately $65,000 ac cording to Mr. Campbell. No contract has as yet been let. Plans and specifications are being drawn by Architect Hermann of , Hickory. Mr. Campbell says the i building will be erected under the , personal supervision of himself and J Mr. Lutz by day labor and that no ] general contract will be let, al i though they will secure a foreman j to superintend its erection. Gastonia Woman Injured In Wreck Near Here Sunday Reported That Daughter Coming To See Her in Hospital Here Was in Another W’reck. Mrs. H. M. Herrick, of Gastonia, and her 13-year-old daughter, Nor ma, are in the Shelby hospital un dergoing treatment for injuries re ceived about 7 o’clock Sunday ev ening when the car in which they were riding collided with a car oc cupied by Messrs. Stowe Wray and J. Connley Eskridge on the river hill west of town. Reports heard of the wreck are that the Cadillac in which the Her ricks were riding collided with the other car at Byers' filling station. The Eskridge car was turning in when the other car came up the hill around the curve and the two struck j together. Both cars are said to be I considerably damaged. | Hospital authorities say that the j injured lady and her daughter are 1 not seriously injured and are ap parently suffering from cuts ard j bruises. It is reported about town that ! another daughter of Mrs. Herrick 1 after hearing that her mother was injured started from Gastonia here | to see her and was in a wreck her 1 self between Kings Mountain and 1 Shelby. However, hospital offt i cials say that a second daughter | was not brought in for treatment. The two were the only ones to remain at the hospital last night for treatment although others in 1 the two cars were bruised or jarred it is said. ' VKI Next Sheriff Gets In Political Talk Political Dopesters Not Satisfied With Discussing Six Prob able Mayors Spread Out Who’ll be the next sheriff of Cleveland county? That’s one for the gentle read er to answer. But despite the fact that Shelby has six mayoralty can didates to talk about as well as several lilfely “city dads’’ the dopesters are also spreading out , and talking of the next sheriff. It ! is heard about the court house I corridors that there will be any | where from three to a dozen in the race. Some of the dopesters are already naming names al though the naming is a little pre mature. Three New Cases Of Smallpox This Month In County Many Folks Are Being Vaccinated Now, Physicians Say. Some Chickenpox About. The smallpox epidemic continued over Cleveland county. Three new cases have been reported so far this month, it is understood, and only three days of the month are gone. Unofficially it is learned from the county physician, Dr. D. F. Moore, that approximately 12 cases were reported during March and six in February, or a total of 21 cases j in a period of two months and two , days. Physicians of Shelby and the. county report that scores of peo ple are being vaccinated foh small pox and it is their advice that oth ers be vaccinated as a precaution. The smallpox vaccination “lasts from one year to a lifetime1' and, it is said, the best precaution is to be vaccinated again as the new vaccinaton will not take if a prei vious one Btill holds. Six cases of chickenpox were also reported during the past month, it. { is learned. Other than the small pox and chickenpox cases an da few attacks of the “flu” contagious di seases are very scarce in the coun ty JUDGE APPROVES ELIZABETH SITE Injunction Against School Board Dissolved by Court Order. Held For Appeal. j The new location for the Eliza beth school as recently decided by the county board of education is the proper site for the new school building, according to a decision rendered Saturday by Judge P. A. McElroy in the first legal bout of the school site dispute. It will be remembered that some time back after a straw vote the location of the new school was placed on Highway 20, cast of th? fair grounds, or at the so-called , “church site.” Opposition to the location developed and citizens in the the district secured an injunc tion and restraining order against construction or tax levy for a build ing on the proposed site. The in junction was made returnable be fore Judge McElroy, who heard the briefs early last week and the ar guments Saturday. His judgment rendered Saturday morning ordered that the injunction and restraining order be dissolved and vacated, declaring the election legal and valid in every respect, and that the action of the two coun ty boards conformed with the lav.' in the matter, the costs of the ac tion being placed against the plain tiffs. However an added paragraph stated that the restraining order was continued pending a review of the decision by Supreme court, at torney for the plaintiffs having filed notice of an appeal. R. L. Ryburn, county attorney, represented the county commission ers and John P. Mull, county re corder. the board of education, while Peyton McSwain was counsel for the plaintiffs and Speight Beam for citizens interested in the de fense action. Former Shelby Woman Dies In Asheville Sunday ——i— ! Mrs. H. A. Ellis, nee Stella Scrogg* I Daughter of Former Pre Siding Elder Here. The many Shelby friends of Mrs. H. A. Ellis, nee Stella Seroggs will regret to learn of her death in Asheville Sunday morning at 4:40 o’clock. The funeral will take place ! in Asheville this afternoon at 3:30, .o’clock and interment will be ini . the cemetery there. | Mrs. Ellis is pleasantly remem bered here as Miss Stella Seroggs Her father was at one time pre siding elder of the Shelby district j and at two different occasions was] pastor of Central Methodist church. During their stay here Miss] Seroggs took a very active interest in religious affairs and possessed n wonderful voice which she used as soloist in Central Methodist church choir. Dr. and Mrs. Seroggs, her par ents are buried in Sunset cemetery Shelby. One brother Clarence Seroggs on the staff of one of the Asheville newspapers and a sister, Mrs. W. G. Fortune, together with : her husband survive. [ Radio manufacturers are wateh j ing the wild waves. Many a smoker helps to keep up ! the price on tobacco. Civilization is being sent to China , , in the shape of fast cruisers. STABBED TO DEATH WHILE II SERVICE It™ roe Simmons. Stationed Fort Bragg. Meet* Death In Fayetteville At Roscoe Simmons, 21-year-old boy of Moorrsboro R-2 this coun ty, was fatally cut in Fayette ville last Thursday night. He was found in a serious condition on a street there and died while en route to the hospital from knife Wounds in his neck and heart. , Young Simmons was a private in the field artillery stationed at Fort Bragg. He is the son of Mrs. (I. F,. Simmons, of Mooresboro. Route 2, and he is survived by his mother, two sisters and three brothers. The father of the youthful sol flier was killed eight or nine years tpo, it is said, when he was struck wy a train at Cliffside. t A dispatch from Fayetteville fiad the following to say concern ing the finding of the fatally in ured boy: “Police here are holding several rsons in connection with the tabbing to death of Roscoe Sim mons, of Mooresboro. a private in battery C, field artillery. Fort Bragg, who was found on Frank lin street late last night. “Simmons died on the way to the hospital from two knife wounds, one in the neck and one over the heart. Two men seen with him earlier in the night and four other persons are being de tained, but Chief J. Ross Jones de clined to give their names until the investigation is concluded. “The soldier was found by po lice officers, near the Carolina Grocery company’s building, aft er the pastor of a negro church at Franklin and Maxwell streets had phoned headquarters that a man in the vicinity was sick or injur ed. j Simmons was a son of Mrs. G. i E. Simmons, rural route 2, Moores i boro.” Funeral at Mt. Pleasant, r*- Funeral services for yotmg Sim ! moDs were held at Mt. Pleasanl : church Sunday afternoon at three o’clock. Hundreds attended the services and the church was filled with scores outside, and cars pack ed the road for a considerable dis tance from the church. One Arrested. According to a dispatch from Fayetteville Saturday one person has been arrested in connection with the killing of the Cleveland county boy. This dispatch says: “Chief of Police J. Ross Jones today announced that one person had been arrested, charged with the killing of Roscoe Simmons, Fort Bragg soldier. Thursday night, and that another is being sought on the same charge. Nan Jackson, a negro woman with a long police record, is in jail. “She is thought to have inflicted one of the knife wounds which caused Simmons’ death. The name of the man charged withlnHicting the other cut was not revealed, but his arrest is expected hourly. Six persons are being held as material witnesses. These include C. B. Mar tin and A. J. Dominick, members of Simmons’ battery, who were with him some time before the homicide occurred. The other four are all ne groes.” warn HEADS mm board Mr. W. A. Ridenhour, of Kings Mountain, is the new chairman of the Cleveland county school board. He tvas named by his fellow mem bers at the first meeting of the new board today at the court house. The new members of the board going into office at this meeting were Ex-sheriff W. D. Lackey and Mr. Ivey Willis .they succeeding Messrs. A. P. Spake, former chair man and J. T. S. Mauney on the board. Other members of the pres ent board are Messrs. J. L. Hord and C.. D. Forney. Mr. Hudson Goes To Sister’s Funeral Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hudson left this morning for Louisville, Ga.t to attend the funeral of Mr. Hudsons youngest sister Mrs. Arthur Daniel who died Sunday morning at 3 o’clock at her home in Jacksonville, Fla. The funeral will take place at the old Hudson home in Louisville, Ga., Wednesday morning, after which Mr. and Mrs. Hudson will re turn to Shelby. Particulars of the death of Mrs. Daniel were not con veyed in the telegram which Mr. Hudson received here yesterday. It is understood that Mrs. Daniel was only 28 years of age and is sur vived by her husband, a number of brothers and sisters. Mrs. Bob an Evangelist Now Mff Philip Kelner, vi CnKago. thu widow of the fOTnier famous 'prlsn'.i-hter, Bob Mtr-- 1 o-.v iw an evangelist. Mrs. Ittintr sms horn a Freuth count*« u:.