SHELBY, N. C. WED. APRIL 6. 1927. Published
Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ?y ***' ye&r
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What’s
THE
News
.THE STAR’S REVIEW.
Several big damage cases are
being heard in the civil grind of Su
perior court here this week. The
Huntsinger case from Rutherford
county being taken up today is one
of those attracting widest interest.
Another baseball game is on
here today, and then two more dur
ing the week. Shelby won from
Cherryville here yesterday.
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Shelby’s likelihood of getting i:i
the Western Carolina league is
cited in an article in today’s paper.:
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A tax supervision board for the!
county was named this week by j
the county commissioners, and the!
county school boare. named school j
committeemen for the various j
schools of the county.
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A small child was struck by a
car in front of one of the city
schools yesterday.
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The date of the town election is j
ejveh by Hie Star today.
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Keep abreast with Shelby and !
Cleveland county events by reading ,
The Star three times each week.
SHELBY OEFEITS
CHERBY1LE HIGH
Hichs Play Three More Games
Here This Week. New Park
Makes Fine Field
With Gold keeping the Cherry -
ville hits well scattered and sup
ported ably by his infield Shelby
defeated Cherryville here Tues
day afternoon 4 to 2. The game
ended in the eighth inning when
the rain that had threatened all
afternoon began to fall. At the
time Shelby had several men on
with only one out and several
other scores seemed likely.
The game yesterday was the
first played this season on the re
novated school park and fans
were high in their praise for the
work done. The diamond has been
switched about, the field graded,
and new bleachers erected with
the result that the field is now one
of the best high school parks in
the state.
The Highs are playing Lenoir
here this afternoon, and on Thurs
day they will play Boiling
Springs. Friday they play again at
■ Home when Hickory comes here
! for a game, and on Saturday Bel
mont Abbey comes here for the
fourth home game of the v/eek.
Features of Tuesday’s game in
cluded the hurling of Gold, a new
moundsman on the local staff. The
youngster has a neat delivery
seldom seen in high school ball
but is erratic at times in his side
arm delivery. Other than his oc
casional wildness he hurled a fine
game. Cherryville’s heavy-hitting
pitcher, Smith, got in one of his
usual blows near the end of the
game. The fielding of Lee, nifty
performing little Shelby short
stop, furnished the fielding thrills
of the afternoon.
The box score:
\ nerryvme ad. tv. n. r>.
Short, c_ 4 0 0 0|
Dellinger, 2b ___ 4 0 0 0
Boggs, ss __4 112
Smith, lf-p_ 3 0 10
Dellinger, If __ 10 10
Beam, 3b_ 4 0 2 0
Harrelson, rf___ 4 0 0 0
Henderson, If.._ 4 0 0 1
Carpenter, lb__ 3 1 0 0
Jarrett, p __ ..._ 3 0 0 1
Total_ 34 2 5 4
Shelby ABRHE
►-.Kerr, 2b___ 3 12 0
[ *>ee, ss _ „_ 4 0 0 0
'Cline, lb __ 4 0 0 0
Gillespie, c __ __ 4 12 1
Sparks, rf_ 4 0 10
Gold, p .. _ 4 111
Anthony, 3b __ _ 4 0 2 0
Harris, cf___ 3 1 1 1
Mauney, If _•_ 3 0 1 0 j
Total_ 34 4 10 8 j
Examination For
Teachers 12-13th
examination for elementary
teachers will be held in the office
*'f the county superintendent J. H.
Grigg April 12th and 13th. Those
" ho expect to take this elementary
examination should report by 9
a- m. April 12th. There will be no
examination for High school certi
ficates will be issued on the basis of
examination, according to Mr
Crigg,
Good Program For
Ladies Night Fete
Mr. Franklin of Crossnore school,
the Goodfellows quartet of Char
lotte and the Shelby High school
'•and will furnish entertainment at
the Kiwanis ladies night program
&t Cleveland Springs Thursday
’"ght. It is expected that. 125 men
and ladies will attend. Mr. Frank
lin of the faculty of Crossnore is
said to be a most delightful hum
orist and mimic of birds and ani
mals and he will be the chief speak
er.
Gri^K Reelected Superintendent
For Two Years. Many Im
provement Planned.
Further consolidation, new
buildings, and improvements
featured the first meeting of
the new county board of edu
cation here this week, leaving
the impression that the new
year for the board will wit
ness considerable progress in
the schools cc the counfy.
One of th° outstanding features
of the meeting Monday, at which
new members of the board were
present for the first time, was the
petition for a special tax election
in No. 1 township for the purpose
of consolidating three school dis
tricts and erecting a modern seven
room building with auditorium.
Several No. 1 citizens with the
plan on foot came to the meeting
and asked for an election. Learn
ing that a signed petition was
legally necessary they returned
home and brought back the peti
tion before the board meeting ad
journed, The election, it is
thought, will be held some time
about the middle of May. The
proposed consolidation in No. 1
would greatly increase the school
facilities of the township, accord
ing to school observers and would
i>e another forward step in the
?ounty-wide consolidation plan.
Kceiect i.rigg
I J. Horace Grigg, who succeeded
| J. C. Newton as county superin
tendent, was reappointed for a
term of. two years by the board.
All in all the board enjoyed a
very busy day, numerous petitions
for improvements being' heard.
Among other things the board
named school committeemen for
the various districts—names of
new committeemen may be found
elsewhere in this paper.
The board authorized the pur
chase of additional land for the
Waco school with the purpose, it is
understood, of building improve
ments there soon. Mr. Blair, of the
state school building department,
was in the county last week and
he is going to submit plans for a
new auditorium and a renovation
of the building at Waco. The con
tract for the work, wh’ch will cost
about $15,000, will probably be let
at the meeting of the board on the
next first Monday.
Reports at the board meeting
also indicated that the Grover
school considers similar improve
ments, and it is likely that plans
for a new auditorium and renova
tion for the building there may be
submitted soon. The new audi
torium, it is understood. will be
built separate from the main
building possibly with a connecting
walkway. The old -uditorium will
be cut up into classrooms as nec
essitated by growing school en
rollment.
The granting of an additional j
room for the Zion school building
was another item in the day’s j
work of the board.
Gets Fishing Tags
But Nothing Else
Clerk Hamrick at Loss to Know
How To Issue License To
Fishers Of County
With spring in the air, brooks
streams and lakes, supposed to be
inhabited by fish, are having lure
for local Isaac Waltons, but it is
necessary to have a license before
fishing these days and the proper
paraphernalia hasn’t arrived at the
court clerk’s office here.
The new fishing license law be
came effective when it was passed
March 2, and it requires a license
for all fishing. Recently Clerk A.
M. Hamrick received the fishing
tags to be used but no license
blanks or information concerning
the tags accompanied them. Until
something additional arrives Clerk
Hamrick naturally cannot issue
fishing license.
It is understood in counties
where proper blanks have been re
ceived that the license prices are
as follows:
Resident county license, $t.
Resident state license, $2.
Non-resident state license, $3.
In addition to this, the clerk is '
to be paid ten cents for each li-|
cense issued.
GARDNER STREET FIRE
DOES LITTLE DAMAGE
The city fire department respond
ed to an alarm about 2:30 this aft
ernoon from a residence on Gard
ner street .where a blaze had
started on the roof. The flames
were extinquished, it is said, with
out any great amount of damage
being done. The house, it is said,
belonged to Lane Putnam.
Lita to Go Back to Movies
Declarin'; that Charlie Chaplin has failed to cij her (Inane
her separation from the famous comedian. Lit a Grey Cbapiiu
she will re-enier the movies to earn her llvh\g. Ijcrc* the 1
.Wjth her two children. Charles. J;„ and Sydney
laity since
ttutuiutic ?»
pictured
■racist
BEING HEARD NOW
Suit For Damages Over Death of
Man on Railroad Tracks at
Forest City.
One of the most interesting cases
of the Superior court civil docket
was taken up shortly before noon
here today and is now being given
the time of the court.
In the big damage suit it is gen
erally reported that much will
hinge on certain evidence that may
suggest a murder.
The case is that wherein Bertie
Huntsinger, administratrix of John
R. Huntsinger, is suing the C. C. &
O. railroad for $40,000 damages al
leging the death of her husband due
to the negligence, or caused by the
railroad. Huntsinger, it will be re
membered, was found dead on the
C. C. and O. tracks at Forest City
i June 1925. It is alleged, it is said,
that he was killed by a freight
train at 2:45 in tin morning. Able
counsel are appearing on both sides
of the big suit and a stiff legal
fight is anticipated. C. R. Hoey, of
Shelby, ap^rars, it is said with the
Huntsinger counsel. The case was
removed here from Rutherford
county. , ;
Get $140 Damages.
In the damage suit of Charlie
Smith against the Shelby mills.
Smith was given $140 damages by a
jury here today, it was learned
just before press time. $5,000 dam
ages was asked owing to an injury
it is said Smith received while in
the employ of the mill.
Court reports are that the $30,- j
000 Burgin Smith suit against the
Lily mill may be appealed to Su
preme court. The case dropped this
week in a non-suit action.
Shelby’s “Georges”
Should Be Labelled
As British Kings
When it is “George this and
George that” in Shelby it might be
either one of four Georges. Mean
ing that for the sake of conven
ience' the “Georges” of Shelby
should be numerically labelled like
unto the style of England’s kings
by the same appellation. F’rinstance
George I, George II and so on.
It happens that one of the Gre
cian or Armenian blood somehow
gets that handle in early life and
it sticks especially in America. Ti e
trouble in Shelby is this: There are
four Georges and all familiarly
known by that name. First there’s
George of the ChocolP|-» shop, or
George Smyrnios to be exact. Oth
er Georges positively listed are
George Kavas, Shelby Cafe; George
Scordos, Central cafe; and George
Poulou, Central cafe.
Therein comes the tangle. When
Shelby says “Let’s go down to
George’s place” what is meant.
Smyrnios. the original, says “Oh,
boy, that’s my place,” but perhaps
three other Georges may lean back,
pat their chests and think the same
thing. So there you are. Perhaps
you can master those last names—
Smyrnios. Kavas, Scordios, and
Poulos. If you can’t, just call him
Chocolate George, and George
One, Two and Three of the cafe.
Miss Lossie Petty was a Charlotte
visitor on Sunday.
Friends of Mrs. Bessie Joiner
will be glad to learn she has re
turned home from the Presbyterian
hospital in Charlotte where she un
derwent a very serious operation j
three weeks ago.
HON. LC. DAILEY
DIES in VIRGINIA
Former Member Of Legislature In
Rutherford County—Brother
Of Mrs. Green of Sharon
Hon. L. C. Dailey, at one time a
representative o f Rutherford
county in the legislature and well
known in Cleveland and Ruther
ford counties where he was engag
ed in the lumber business, died at
his home at Skipwith, Virginia,
March 22nd at the age of 73 years,
following an illness with influenza.
Mr. Dailey was reared in Cleve
land and Rutherford counties and
his legion of friends will regret to
hear of the death of their good
friend “Cars’' Dailey, as he was
known to them when he repres
ented Rutherford county in the
House of Representatives, he was
one of the most prominent men in
the legislature at that session. He
was a Bryan Democrat, always
stood for best interest of his peo
ple and was an active and very
prominent man in the councils of
Democracy until he moved to Vir- 1
ginia several years ago, where he
has been engaged in farming and
lumbering. He was married to
Miss Josie Bridges, of Ellenboro,
and to this union there are five
children, all living, also his wife
and two sisters, Mrs. George Digh
of Cramerton and Mrs. David
Green, near Beaver Dam church in
this county He was a member of
the Baptist church and a Mason.
“Cars” Dailey made friends by
his open, frank, honest dealings
with his fellow' man and we doubt
if any one had more real friends
than he and from Virginia we
learn that in his few years resi
dence there that ho had formed
large circle of friends.
Dr. S. S. Royster says, “I re
member in my last conversation
with our good frieiRT that he gave
us a little experience with his busi
, ness,in Virginia. He stated that he
; had a herd fo sheep and had gone
to the nearest market to sell his
wool and that they offered him
only a few cents a pound and he
said “it will require more wool
than I can carry to buy me a suit
of clothes that weigh only a few
pounds,” and said that if Bryan
was running this government that
he would have to sell some two
hundred pounds of wool to buy an
ordinary suit of clothes, showing
his faith ir^ his party and old
leader. Peace to his memory, may
we have others like him.”
Revival Meeting
At Eastside Begins
On Wednesday a revival meet*
ing will begin at Eastside Baptist
church of which Rev. H. E. Wal
drop is the pastor. Mr. Waldrop
will be assisted in the meeting by
Rev. Rush Padgett, pastor of the
Second Baptist church.
Prof. A. C. Lovelace, superin
tendent of the First Baptist
church Sunday school will deliver
an address at the 11 o’clock hour
at the Second Baptist church in
the absence of the pastor.
There will be no Sunday night
service at the Secondi Baptist
church, the congregation being in
vited to join in the revival serv
ices now in progress at the La
Miss Isober Hoey came home
Friday to attend the IIoey-Hamrick
[
Brand of Ball in Western Caro
lina I.oop is Cood Enough
Shelby Will Enter.
Prospects for summer baseball
in Shelby are growing brighter.
Delegates who attended the meet
ing of Western Carolina league of
ficials in Hickory this week state
that in all likelihood the town will
enter the league. ,
If two propositions are reporter!
favorably Shelby will get in the
league sponsors of club here say.
The propositions are:
—That the town within the next
#y or so shows enough interest to
psure club supporters that sum
mer baseball is wanted.
2,—That league officials reach
an agreement whereby a high class
of baseball will be ployed.
The meeting at Hickory was at
tended by Herman Eskridge, fire
department chief, and J. R. Rob
inson and by the plan here the fire
department will sponsor the local
club. That Shelby will support a
team in the loop seems likely but a
mass meeting is planned in the next
few days to discusss the team's en
trance into the league. If this meet
ing endorses it Shelby will havt
her summer baseball.
Concerning the other condition
it is learned that one club in the
league wished to restrict clubs from
hiring any men at all. This met with
the disapproval or local delegates
who feel that enough players should
be hired by each team to assure
I spectators a decent brand of base
| ball. It is the general opinion now
i that each club will be permitted to
hire three fulltime players. The
likelihood is that two of Shelby’s
hired players will be pitchers and
that local college and high schotl
tossers will compose the remainder
of the team.
The league schedule unofficially
adopted at Hickory Monday night
\ calls for each club to play 40 games
191 three, games each week. By the
schedule each club will play 20
home games during the season. So
far only five clubs have entered the
league but another entry is expect
ed before the playing season. Clubs
now in are Hickory, Newton, Shel
by, Lincolnton, and Morganton
Valdese, a combination club. The
other club in the six loop circuit
will be either Statesville, Gastonia,
or Marion, it is said.
Shelby’s opening game of the
season is set for Tuesday, May 31,
at Hickory. The season continues
through August 30.
Monroe Allen Died
Tuesday, Age 57
Mr. Monroe Allen, age 57 years
died Tuesday afternoon at 2:15
o’clock in the Dover mill village
where ^ie had been living for some
time. Mr. Allen wi«s born near
Pleasant Hill church, the son of
David Allen. For the past three
or four months he h*S been suf
fering with heart complications.
Funeral was held Wednesday morn
ing at 10:30 o’clock at New Hope
Baptist church, Earl, the services
being conducted by Rev. Frank Put
nam. Mr. Allen was a highly es
teemed citizen. Surviving are his
wife who before marriage was Miss
Georgia Nichols and three sons,
Kervey, Quary and Fred Allen, all
)f the Dover mill village.
Forest City Here
For Damage Suit
A number of prominent Forest
City men, M. E. Dorsey, D. B. Me
Murry, both former Cleveland coun
ty citizens, Till Padgett, Crowder
Scruggs, B. B. Doggett, J. M. Rob
ertson, and Chief of Police Price
came down this morning as witness
es in the case against the C. C. ar.d
O. Railroad asking $40,000 dam
ages for the death of J. R. Hunt
singer. It will be recalled by read
ers of The Star that Mr. Huntsinger
was found dead on the railroad
tracks about two years ago and
some question has arisen as to
whether he was kilted by the train
or met with foul play and was
thrown on the tracks. The case was
brought to Cleveland from Ruth
erford.
Teachers Meeting
Here On Saturday
A meeting of all the teachers in
the county is called for Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock by County
Superintendent J. H. Grigg. The
meeting will be held at the court
house here.
This will be the final meeting of
the year and all teachers are ur£“d
to attend as the program devoted
to final reports and other matters
will be very important.
Tax Supervising Board
Appointed For County
Unusual Baseball
Game Likely Here
Lawyers May Play lioctors of Shel-!
by, Provided Challenge (liven
Is Aceepted.
With u budding springtime bring
ing on baseball fever Shelby may
have opportunity of seeing a doe-1
to rob a lowyer—the word 'rob’ in I
baseball meaning to catch a ball
that looks to be a hit.
Anyway, it is understood, that
barristers of the town have chal
lenged the doctors of the town to a
baseball game to be staged at the
city park on some afternoon that
the Highs are not playing there.
Whether or not the doctors will ac
cept the challenge has not been
learned.
SUllilGE
SOU IS CLOSED
Plaintiff Forced to Non-Suit
Because Unable to Show Death
Textile Plant Defendant.
One of the first big damage suit
taken up by the civil court here end
ed in a non-suit when that action
was taken in the suit for $30,000
against the Lily textile mill by the
estate of Burgin Smith.
It will be remembered that Smith
was fatally injured about two years
ago while in the basement of the
plant, it is alleged. The case was
non-suited after it was ruled that
the evidence was insufficient to go
to the jury.
49 School Board
Members Appointed
County Board Nam^s Committee
men for Three Year Terms.
Two Districts Elect.
At their meeting this week the
county board of education named 49
school committeemen for the
schools of Cleveland county. For
the most part the committeemen
named are just one for each school
for a three year period. School com
mitteemen in the county are divid
ed into three groups, serving one,
two and three years respectively.
The committeemen named are for
all schools, one to each school board
except in two districts. Waco and '
Beams Mill, where committeemen
are elected. In the Mooresboro dis
trict three members were appoint
ed. The list of appointments by
schools follow:
Palmer school, ,S. Bridges; Holly
Springs. Ambrose Ruppe; ,Mt.
Pleasant, D. B. Matheny,; Trinity,
Grady Burrus; Boiling Springs, J.
L. Hamrick; Flint Hill, G. E.
Scruggs; Sharon, D. D. Dodd;
Shanghai, J. B. Wallace; Broad
River, Leo Putnam; McBrayer,
Cliff Davis; Earl, A. A. Bettis;
Cedar Grove, Ruffin Crawford; Par
terson Springs, G. B. Patterson:
Pleasant Hill, J. G. Hendrick; Beth
lehem, Spurgeon McSwain; Betn
ware, Jasper Ware; Dixon, Mrs.
John Stewart; Patterson Grove, A.
r. rails; orover, A. H. Koinns,
Plonk, J. S, Plonk; Marys Grove,
Jacob Sellers; Stubbs, 0. C. Black;
Ross Grove, Thad Allen; W, J. Rob
erts, O. Cline; Elizabeth, Julius
Mull; Poplar Springs, O. C. Dixon;
Zion, R. L. Spangler; Beaver Dam,
T. P. Hamrick; Cabaniss, Mnt
Brooks; Mooresboro, M. M. Greene,
J. R. Green, Cletus Walker; Latti
more, W. S. Walker; Lattimore. J.
B. Lattimore; Pleasant Ridge, O. C.
McSwain; Fairview, A. B. C. De
Priest; Fairview, Robt. Pendleton;
Union, J. C. Campbell; Delight, F.
A. Lackey; New House, Ben Jen
kins; Belwood, Gordon Carpenter;
Piedmont, John Schenck; Pied
mon, P. P. Richard; Fallston, R. W.
Wilson; Hayes, Rufus Bingham;
Moriah, Peter White; Casar, A. A.
Parker; Casar, A. R. McNeely; Do
ver, Charlie Buice.
Wilkins Goes With
Revenue Department
D. D. Wilkins, ex-sheriff of Clev
eland county and more recently con
nected with the W. L, Fanning com -
pany has received appointment as
automobile license inspector with
the state department of revenue. He
leaves for Raleigh tomorrow to re
ceive instructions as to his duties
and will operate in Western Car
olina to see that cars have the
proper license plates. The appoint
ment to this position came from R.
A. Dougbton, state department of
revenue.
W. II. New ton, J. B. Thomusson
And Zemri Kin tier Com pone
Board. Assessors
A board composed of Messrs. W.
U. Newton, veteran tax official of
this county, and J. B. Thomasson,
of Kings Mountain, and Zemri
Kistler, of No. 9 township, will
have charge of tax supervision and
assessments in Cleveland county
this year which is revaluation
ycur.
The appointment wus announc
ed yesterday following an adjourn
ed meeting of the county commis
sioners. At this meeting the com
missioners devoted an entire day
to the tax situation and assess
ment problems.
According to the commissioners
these men will have complete
charge of the county tax situation.
This board is empowered to ap
point three assessors in each
township to assess property in
their townships, and it is likewise
presumed that the board will sup
ervise the revaluation. Just when
the appointment of assessors will
be made is not known as yet. The
members of the board are evenly
divided for the county, Mr. New
i ton being located in Shelby and
familiar with the tax problems as
[tax auditor, while Mr. Thomasson
m of Kings Mountain and Mr. Kis
fInf tQ o nenminAMt
Talk Over Audit
i A part of the day, it is under
stood, was (riven over to the dis
cussion of the county audit. The
commissioners had Representative
Falls in the meeting: during the
day anti made a preliminary sur
vey of the audit plan. However,
auditors for the task were not em
ployed.
By a state-wide law it became
necessary that each county have
a county accountant and to take
care of the situation the commis
sioners decided to have Mr. Cline,
commissioner chairman, take the
post for the present.
Elizabeth School
Matter Settled
I Appeal is Withdrawn and New El
ection Promised for July to
Vote on Repeal of Tax.
The long and stubborn fight on
the location of a new school build
ing in the consolidated Elizabeth
und Roberts districts was compro
mised Monday by the county boafd
of education and in all probability
the two districts will go back to the
starting point, which means that
years will elapse before better
school facilities are available. The
county board of education promised
to grant another election in July of
this year on the question of repeal
ing the special tax which was voted
on in the two districts last July
with a view of erecting a modern j
school building and the appeal to
the Supreme court of the restrain
ing order held last week will be dis
continued. A petition signed by
about 137 voters in the district ask
ing for another election to vote on
the repeal of the special tax which
was voted on the district last July
could not be denied, so this will be
granted the citizens of the Eliza
beth and Roberts districts and in all
probability the special tax will be
voted off. Had there been any in
debtedness against the districts.
the special tax to meet such indeb
tedness could not be voted oft but
the special school tax had never
been levied and there was no in
debtedness against the district.
Other districts are making ap
plications for building funds and
the avalable money will be spent
elsewhere until the Elizabeth
Roberts difficulty is settled.
COTTON MARKET
(By Jno. F. Clark & Co.)
Cotton was quoted on New York
exchange at 10:30 today:
May 14:03; July 14:23; October
14:46; December 14:65.
New York, April 6.—Liverpool
12:30 p. m. May and October 2
American points lower than due.
Raining last night at Fort Worth
cloudy elsewhere, showers are fore
cast for all cotton states except Ar
kansas and Oklahoma.
Memphis special says ‘poor
progress has been made in that
section because of too much rain,
work also delayed over Arkansas,
Mississippi all of Louisiana, east
Texas and Oklahoma. Says latest
returns on fertilizer sales were
about 25 per cent under last year.
Flood stage of 42.5 feet is forecast
for Memphis April 12 and 52.5 feet
at Helena April 15.
Moderate business in Worth
street, sales at carpet auction yes
terday totalled a million and a quar
ter dollars.
Southern spot sales 19,000 bales.
Favor long side.
TOWN ELECTION
SET FI MIT 2
BT BOMB ORDER
Eskridge, Anthony and Smith Are
Named as Registrar and
Judges. Starts Friday.
Shelby's muchly talked election
is to be held on Monday, May 2,
according to au order of the board
of aldermen published today.
Officially that is the opening
play of whnt promises to be jn.
tereating ballot battk*.
At the May election a mayor,
four members of ths board of aider
men, and five members of the school
board will be elected. Four mem
bers of the school board will bo
allotted one to each ward and the
fifth will be a member at large.
To date there are six candidates
in the race for mayor and several
announced for the municipal board
with interest lagging somewhat in
the school offices.
Election Officials.
T. C. Eskridge is named as elec
tion registrar, and Oliver *Anthony
and J. L. Smith as election judges*:
The books will be open for reg
istration on Friday, April 8, and
will keep open for 20 days (Sun.
days excepted) during which time
all qualified electors shall be en
titled to register, if not duly reg
istered. The registration books
will be closed on Saturday, April
30, or on the Saturday before tho
election.
Esther Ann Quinn, small daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Dewitt Quinn
is reported as resting better today
after _ receiving injuries yesterday
morning when knocked down by a
delivery truck of the Piedmont Gro
cery company in front of the East
Marion street school .
The little girl, it is understood,
had just arrived at school yester
day morning and had started across
the street, darting out into the
street just as the truck was passing
by with the result that she was hit
and presumably knocked down by
the car. Following the accident she
was taken to the Shelby hospital,
where it was thought at first that
she might be severely injured. How
ever, later in the afternoon she was
removed to her home. Physicians
say that a preliminary examina
tion failed to show any broken
bones, and the injuries are confin
ed to the head, or about an eat;
where she received un impact.
Street reports are that the acci
dent was no doubt of the unavoid
able type.
Shelby Electric
Sells Kelvinator
Through an error in the com
posing room of The Star there ap
peared in a few issues of Monday's
paper, the name of Electric Serv
ice Co., instead of Shelby Electric I
company to the first of a series cf
Kelvinator advertisements which
are running in The Star. The Shel
by Electric Co,, of which George
Tompkins is manager, is now in-:
troducing the Kelvinator. a Droduct
of the Leonard Cleanable Refriger
ator company. The Kelvinator is
one of the most popular electric re- # .
frigerating systems on the market *
and Mr. Tompkins says his store is
stocking a number of the most pop
ular sizes for v demonstration and
sale.
Thinks College
Shieks No Good
As Booze Agents
Charlotte,—The best prohibition
agents in western North Carolina
will have a hard time passing a civ
il service examination, Ben C.
Sharpe, deputy prohibition admin
istrator for this district said:
Prohibition' agents go under
civil service control April 1 and
will be given six months to pre
pare for the test.
If many agents lost their joba |
because of failure to pass the test,
college boys will be required to take
their places, Mr. Sharpe asserted,
adding that he did not believe in "I
“rah-rah” agents.
“The rah-rah boys are all right
at a ball game but I’m afraid they
won’t do for chasing bootleggers,’*
he said.
The administration expressed fear
that some of his best agents would
fail to make the passing mark on
such a test. He explained that he
did not think “book-sense” was a
necessity in catching bootleggers.
Mr. Sharpe praised the present
force in western North Carolina.
“They all know how to get their
man and convict him,” he declared,
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