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VOL. XXXIV, No. 62 SHELBY, N. 0. WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1927 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoona. per ye“ (i/" 8d^a£a*>--W^ ____ By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.04 THE News THE STAR'S REVIEW Should sob stuff have anything do with meting out justice to _|ills Moore who killed Policeman enninger, father of a Shelby fan. ? Corn Cracker doesn't think so falling the Billy Covington inci. •Lucky” Lindbergh—and the of the man who taught the „ing young eagle to fly—in The today. ■„ * * * Commencement finals get under iy Friday evening at Central ,h school here. !Dt. x big increase in city revenue old of in this issue. Route 20 from Rutherfordton to himney Rock will be paved and ■opened to the motoring public be fore so many weeks, according to news letter from J. R. Norris to The Star. Company K is getting ready for he summer encampment by the ea. New recruits are being taken i and Lieutenant Long crack regi onal shot, is training the local illitia, hoping to win the shoot Bg honors. Camp Call is to have an eight icre lake. * * • A big liquor raid was made this *eek by Deputy Plato Ledford and others. ^ . . How did the flapper of a half a centurv ago dress? Around Our Town today tells of the styles of that day. EIGHT ACRE liKE Eibridge Weathers Completes a Fresh W; er Lake Where Re creation Center is Built. Ethridge Weathers of Camp Call has finished a fresh water lake near the Mauney store at Camp Call, nice miles north of Shelby where he expects to provide for fishing, boating, dancing and pie nicing. On Saturday afternoon and night of this week he will hold an opening when visitors syill be re ceived without charge to any of the attraction". Since February Mr. Weathers has been building the lake dam which is 60 feet wide and 20 feet high, backing two streams of wa ter over an eight acre area. The government has promised 20,000 game fish with which to stock the lake and these will arrive next week. A pavilion will be built out over the water for dancing and mo tor boats will be put on the lake for water excursions. Although nine miles in the country, the grounds are electrically lighted from one of the rural lighting system which per nieate the county. Mr. Weathers says hundreds of visitors have been at the new lake site for the past few days and all have expressed surprise at the beauty of the spot and size of the body of water. A pretty grove of pines surrounds the lake, hence the name Pineview Lake has been se lected. The lake is fed by two streams of water and every precaution has been taken to keep out the surface water. Eventually he expects to make the lake cover twenty acres of ground. Home Agent Work Help To Students Girls trained in home demonstra tion work are leading: the graduat ing classes at the public schools of Cleveland county, reports Mrs. Irma P. Wallace, home agent. The entire class of ten girls at the Bel Wood school had two or more years in club work. Each girl selected the Material, designed her dress, and either made it or helped make it. According to Mrs. Wallace, these girls are leaders in their respective clubs and will become valuable community leaders upon gradua tion. Delay In School Contracts In County Contracts for the construction of new, outside auditoriums at Waco and Grover high schools are be'nK up f°r a time pending a decision by the state loan board. County Superintendent J. H. Crigg says that the contracts for the new auditoriums were to have occn let this week or last, but the ®*lay by the state fund investiga ,n prevention. The auditoriums *ill be built, it is said, thouhg here may be a week or so of de lay. Negro Revival. Rev. H. Daniel Rook, D.D., is conducting a revival meeting at the Rev. Sister Ida Roberts church. BIG BASE IN GUY REVENUE Eight Hundred Per Cent Increase in Water and Light Plants In Past Nine Years. In feathering some figures to furnish a prominent citizen in Danville, Va., who wishes to use Shelby’s success with municipal ownership of its light plant in ol der to oppose the City of Dan ville selling its light plant to a private corporation, it was re vealed yesterday in the city hall that there was an increase of eight hundred per cent in the re ceipts from the water and light plants during the nine years Mrs. O. M. Suttle has been city clerk. 800 Percent Increase Mrs. Suttle had all figures and data so she could readily place her hand on it. In September 1928 the receipts from water during that month was the princely sum of $351.39. From lights and power the receipts were $299.59, making total receipts from . these two municipally owned plants $750.98. To prove that Shelby’s growth I has been remarkable during the | past nine years, let your mind grasp the receipts for April, 1927. Water patrons paid $3,227.29. Light patrons paid $5,831.13, mak ing a total of $9,058.42, an in crease of 800 per cent April was by no means the largest month, j During the winter when the lights ! burn more, there have been many | months when the total receipts from these two departments i amounted to over $10,000. It was more than a decade ago when the city purchased the light plant for private ownership. A small bond issue paid for the plant, but all of the extensions have been made out of the profits operation. Now the light plant is worth many times what it origi nally cost and the profits are enough each year to take care of necessary extensions, many of which are required because of the extension in the city limits, giv ing Shelby a total population of about 10,000. But eliminate water and speaK for awhile about the light plant alone which aside from making a •profit sufficient to lake care of extension costs, gives additional, revenue to the town, thus enabl ing the tax rate to be low. The rate is $1.20 on the $100 property valuation* * * Without the profits from the light plant to help run the municipality, the tax rate would certainly be much higher. Receipts from the light depart ment were as follows: 1910-20 _ __$20,260.86 1920- 21 __---- 24,978.85 1921- 22 _31,721.35 1922- 23 — _- 39,041.42 1923- 24 51,485.18 1924- 25 __ .,_- 78,608.25 The cost of operating the plant has never been as much as the re ceipts, but has allowed a neat sum each year to make extensions to serve many people in growing Shelby. In 1921-20 the cost of these extensions was $5,537.72. In 1921 22, $6,387.46; in 1922-23, $6,081. 93; in 1923-24, $10,185.01; in 1924 25, $9,596.94; in 1925-26, $9,078. 08. So it will be seen that Shelby now has a very valuable light plant. Two Men, Two Stills, 81 Gallons Taken Deputy Plato Ledford of No. 10 township working with D. D. Pitts, U. S. revenue officer of Glen Al pine arrested two men, captured two stills and con.tscated 81 gal lons of whiskey over the week end, according to reports learned in Shelby. In addition to this they got a Ford car in which Dawson and Ramsey of Shelby were riding with several gallons of whiskey and they were brought to Shelby for a hear ing Tuesday. Dawson drew six months on the roads and Ramsey four months. Seventy-five gallons of the 81 captured over the week end was found in Burke county. Masons To Elect Officers At Meet At the regular meeting of Clev eland lodge No. 202 A. F. and A. M., Friday evening of this week in th<* Masonic temple new officers will be elected, it is announced by Russell Laughridge, secretary of the lodge. Mr. Carr E. Cline is now wor shipful master of the local lodge, which has shown remarkable growth and progress in recent years. All members are urged to at tend this important meeting. Where Nearly 40 Children Were Killed ( The dynamite-torn schoolhouso at Bath, Mich., where 36 pupils and five adults were killed »ii.n the building was dynamited by Andrew Kehoe, demented farmer, is pictured above. Kehoe, believed to have lost his mind when mortgages were foreclosed on his farm, was treasurer of the school board. He met death when dvnamlte in his car exploded aftei the detonation wrecked the schoc SOB STUFF IS NOT NEEDED IN MOORE F i Since Myis Moore, who killed Policeman Penninger, has been re turned to South Carolina there have been numerous queries as ro what Moore was serving time heie I for several years previous when he | attacked McBride Poston, then a l convict guard. The following eom i m unication from • Corn Cracker, (Melvin L. White), answers the query and passes on a few thoughts: The recent capture of Col. Mills Moore iin Arkansas and delivery to authorities of South Carolina suggests an episode in which the late “Uncle Billy’’ Covington fea tured. Uncle Billy Covington died about three weeks ago at the ripe age of 85. He wad a brave Confed erate veteran and featured at the battle where'1‘Stonewall’ Jackson j ‘crpssed over the river and rested under the shade of the trees’. He also secured one gauntlet of the dying chieftain and sent it to his wife; receiving in return a grate ful note and a Bible which he kept and cherished. One evening, while driving on an unfrequented road in his buggy, I he was stopped by this modern Chesterfield, his wrist broken with a heavy buldgeon, ore eye fiutdUt, and all the money taken from the unfortunate traveler. The dashing chevalier colonel was apprehended in South Carolina, delivered at Shel by by Sheriff W. D. Lackey, and ( received a five-year sentence oni the roads. He soon escaped, killed a policeman in South Carolina; i and has been an object of compas-| sion ever since by every sob-sister and mollycoddle man, and these comprise a majority of our popu-j lation. Commend me to the drivel ing writer to find true nobility of character in Dick Turpin, Robin Hood, Jesse James, Doctor Pea cock, Otto Wood and Mills Moon —just like J. Fennimore Cooper saw devoteees of the Great Spirit in the murdering, scalping Indians j of his period. There are people all j over Cleveland county (and it is no' worse than anywhere else) who would favor a long term of impris onment for suggesting vaccination against smallpox, or any interfer ence with a dog for barking at the moon, contracting hydrophobia and biting a poor white man. Among a certain class, it would be very easy) to secure a life sentence of impris onment for one to approve of an eight months’ term of school for every district in North Carolina. Consult the pages of history, and ! you will find it was very easy to i torture an heritic by law, burn an old, friendless woman as a witch with sanction of Church and State. John the Baptist lost his head by telling the truth to an infamous woman and Jesus of Nazareth suf fered the degrading death upon the cross because He interfered with the nefarious practices of the ex tortionate money changers; and from the dawn of history until now the chief commandment is “thou shalt not interfere with the privi leges of Money Bags.' I get sun dry rebukes for this; but nobody cares how much you rail against the poor, the weak and the unfor tunate. “While they are poor keep ’em poor’ is the language of the purse-proud and the snobocracy. If a poor man expresses an opinion as to the course of justice, as to what is real patriotism, he is very presumptuous and must be muzzled But a man who had a father that could bequeath him some land, bank stock and coin of the realm is truly what John Bunyan called ‘Worldly Wiseman’. Bunyan has been cannonized by the Baptist church and other oithoucx people South To Try Diversified Crops As Farmers Turn Away From Cotton ‘Flying Fool’ Not Accepting His Pot Of Gold at Present Paris,—Capt. Chas A. Lind | bergh has not accepted any of the hundreds of offers—al ready running above $1,000, 000—-that have come to him and he has no intention of do ing so until after return to the United States. “We didn’t make the flight with that idea in mind,” ho said “and we did not corns over here with any million dol lar ambitions.” Light On Vehicles Required July 1st Less than six weeks from today fell vehicles on the highway at night will be required to carry a light but to date owners of horse drawn vehicles have not stormed the stores to buy lanterns nor has the state highway commission nuade public any announcement regarding approved reflectors. This fact was pointed out by C. W. Roberts, vice president of the Carolina Motor club in discussing the “lights on wagons bill” as one section of the uniform nlotor ve*. hide act is often referred to. “The law Requires that all horse drawn vehicles shall carry on the left side one or more lighted lamps or lanterns,” said Mr. Roberts, “vis ible under normal atmospheric con ditions from a distance of not less than 500 feet to the front of such vehicle and visible under like con ditions from a distance of not less than 500 feet to the rear of such vehicle, or in lieu of said lights shall be equipped with reflectors of a type approved by the state highway commission. “Under the bill introduced by Senator Rivers Johnson and en acted into law entitled ‘An act to protect human life by requiring all vehicles operated or driven upon the public highways of this state to carry lights at night’ no provis ion was made for reflectors. The uniform act will be followed in enforcement of the ‘tail light’ legis lation as it was passed after the Johnson bill and carries the pro vision that all laws or clauses of laws in conflict with the act are repealed. “Just what type of reflector will meet the requirements of the law and be approved by the State High way commission will be awaited with interest as it will have to have two reflecting surfaces in order to be visible both from front and rear.” Newton Will Speak Today In Scotland Former State Senator D. Z. Newton left Shelby yesterday aft ernoon by motor for Gibson, Scot land county, where today he will make the annual address at the closing of the high school. Mr. Newton was accompanied by Prof. Horace Grigg, county super intendent, whose brother, Prof. Claude Grigg, is principal of the Gibson school The latter will come to Kings Mountain next year as head of the city schools there, suc ceeding J. Y. Irvin, who returns to the Shelby High school. after spending 12 years in Bedford jail; but another Bunyan of pres ent year of grace would he just about as popular as the illustrious Tinker. Again feeling that I have shed luster on a falling reputation and shed glory on a dimmed escut fi eon, I shall yield the case, i. ■ ; ■■ '■ ' (By International News Service.) Atlanta.—The southern farmer threatens to take diversification | more seriously this year than ever before. With nearly half of the year gone, reports here show that except in the flood-swept districts | the farmers have come to realize ' they cannot depend wholly upon ■ cotton again. Specially in Georgia is this true, although this state has never been a one-crop section exclusively and ! many farmers have grown truck, wheat and feed and even poultry in addition to cotton. Cotton has not been a paying crop for years, owing to overproduction. Tobacco has taken an import | ant place among Georgia crops, and a tobacco "belt fair is planned in Coffee eounty, October 24 to 28. Georgia grows a Bwghf leaf said to be more popular than the dark , leaf grown in other states. Geor 1 gia grew about 49,000,000 pounds last year and this was sold on the market for $9,000,000. i A more promising Circumstance is the fact that thousands of boys and girls in Georgia are being taught practical’ diversification in town aud rural schools. They are not being taught by the book but by actual problems of handling stock and poultry and planting, harvesting and marketing of crops. The results of these practical lessons are considered excjell^nt. In the Sale City, Ga., high school ten boys under a teacher in voca tional agriculture fed 85 hogs as a study from January to April and total or a net profit of $3.85 on each made a profit of $325.57 on the hogs. Much better results would have been obtained had the boys been able to use home-grown feed, it was said. The pigs fed were ani mals that could be purchased eas ily and si'/je made poor gains on account of being scrub stock. Another promising sign of di versification is the .growing pe can industry in this state. Thous ands of pounds of pecans were sold in the state last year, and rec ently 5 acres near Leesburg, Ga., which were planted with pecans, brought about $400 an acre. Company ‘K’ Gets In Shape for Camp Lieutenant Lon?, Crack Shot, Wants Regimental Prize for This Organization. Officers and non commissioned officers of Company K are putting forth every effort to qualify all men in drill before going to the summer camp, which will be held at Morehead City July 10 to 24. Leiut. Henry C. Long, the cham pion rifle shot of the regiment is instructing every drill night in rifle marksmanship this summer. I The following re-enlistments and new enlistments are announc ed: Sergeant Fred W. Noblitt who has served in the company four years, re-enlists for another year; Sergeant Clarence F. Leonard, who has served four years re-enlisted for another year; Marion Champion who has served three years enlist ed for one year. Ellis Moss, Orie M. Valentine, William Gregory and Manley Terry, each enlisted for three years. The company will hold its next regular drill Monday night May 30, and after this drill no new men will be taken until after encampment. Why He Killed Her Poplar Bluff, Mo.—“Because she wanted to be killed,” Earl Jack son, 16 year old farm boy, con fessed that he had killed his step mother saying he “blew her brains out” and buried her body home. ROUTE TWENTY TO BE CONCRETED IN FULL BY JULY 15 Road to be Finished by July 1, But Concrete Must Hare Time to “Set up" Before Using. Rutherfordton, May 25.—It hns been learned on reliable authority that route 20 will be completely finished from here to Chimney Rock by July 15 unless come en tirely i\iforseen circumstances should arise. On Wednesday morn ing less than four and a half miles remained to be concreted, and work, according to the contractors, Zeigler Brothers, and confirmed by the state highway commission of fice hare, is proceeding on sched uled time. Approximately a mile is being paved in the six working days of the week. This will bring the construction of the highway to completion about the first of July but the new concrete will be given a thorough chance to set up. Practically all the available re sources of the county in road build ing are now at work on a new de tour which will be ready for traf —-fic probably by June 1. It begilns at the junction of the Mountain Creek church road and route 19 on the way to Gilkey. This road, the upper part of which was put in good condition some time ago, is four and seven-tenths miles in length and comes out on route 20 at or near McGinnis' store. This part of the Main street of North Carolina has been paved. The forces of men and machines are engaged in making the detour wider, eliminating the few dangerous curves, top-soil ing the road and getting it gener ally in shape for the heavy traffic which it will bear. The state high way commission is aiding in the work. This new detour will mako the time required to travel to Lake Lure only about 15 minute* longer than would be necessary if the entire route 20 was open tr traffic. ... Rutherford Sun. Warm Dayt Luring Shelby Folks To Swimming Pools With a steady spring sun eras ing the freakish Cool May days to vanish the svfimming pools about Shelby ar& eh joying a belated rush. Kings pool arid the Cleveland Springs pool, both fitted with all conveniences for amusement, have been patronized well this week fol lowing formal openings. Bathing suits, the small boy’s jerk-fit, dne piece to the flapper’s abbreviated water outfit of similar pieces, have been rescued from the moth balls and are now cutting the air from diving boards. In other words, the great season of the year is here for the young ster—and everybody has a little bit of the youngster left in him or her when the ole swimmin’ hole casts its lure. Added Gifts For Flood Relief Fund Several new contributions to the Red Cross relief fund for Missis-: sippi flood sufferers have come in to D. Z. Newton, treasurer, within the past day or so. Has your name appeared yet? The total local fund to date is $794.23. It is hoped that the fund will move well into the $800 mark this week. New contributors are: Mt. Pleasant Baptist Sunday— School___$ 10.35 Kadesh Sunday school (Bel wood) — __18.00 Shelby Order Eastern Star_ 3.00 Hoey Speaker At Blacksburg Finals Blacksburg, May 25.—Former Congressman Clyde Hoey, of Shel by, who is a distinguished orator of wide note, will be the commence ment speaker at the graduation ex ercises of the Centralized high school at Blacksburg next Satur day night. The graduation exercises will precede the baccalaureate service, which will be held next Sunday night with Dr. J. T. Dendy, Pres byterian minister of Belmont, preaching the sermon. The senior class play will be pre sented Thursday night and elass day will be held Saturday morn ing. Educate a man and you educate an individual, but educate a wo man and you educate a family.— Charles Mclver. High School Finals Get Underway On Friday Eve With Fresh-Soph Debate Second Largest Graduating Class, 64 or 65, To Get Diplomas Next Tuesday Evening. Gardner Will Maake Senior Night Address. The Program. “Lucky” Satisfied For Time At Least Lindbergh is Not Planning to Try Australian Flight Right Away, hecks no New Worlds. Pajri^.—<Jrj>tain Lrngbergh is not sighing for any more oceans to conquer. When he was asked if it were true that he intended to try to hop across the Pacific he replied: ‘There is no foundation for thm*. rumor. I have no inten tion of making another long flight for a good while. It will be several months before I think of anything like that.” ‘‘You should get some rest,” was suggested to him. “Colum bus did not go out again for five years.” “But he took four months for his trip,” Lindbergh countered. “According to that 1 should be ready in three weeks.” After he has seen his moth er, the first place Lindbergh wants to go when he returns to America is St. Louis. “That is myTioBnrtown,” he said. “Of course, I want to go out to the coast, but that can come later on. I want to go home to St Louis first.” I June Session of Court Will Sc# Bif Controversy Tested. One Jurist for Selling. (By International News Service.) Columbia, S. C., May 25.—South Carolina’s now famous blue law controversy will soon wreak its fury on the State Supreme toiKrt. The Sunday gasoline appeal case has been docketed for argument at the June session of the tribunal under an order just issued by Chief Justice R. C. Watts. The Supreme court convenes for ita June session on June 14. The teBt case has been set for that same week. In a case at Charleston, heard by Judge W. H. Brimball, an injunc tion was granted by the circuit court judge against interference by officers in the sale of gasoline on Sunday. The jurist held that the sale of gasoline was necessary and there fore was, under the statute, legal. Attorney General John W. Dan iel, however ,did not hold this view, and recently filed his appeal with the Supreme court. The “blue law” controversy started a few months ago when Governor John G. Richards, the Palmetto state's new governor, started his crusade for a tight Sun day, instructing all his constables to arrest anyone participating in sDorts, buying gasoline, or soft drinks. - Cotton Acreage To Be Reduced, Said Raleigh, May 24.—(INS.)—Cot ton acreage undoubtedly will be re duced in North Carolina this year, according to a statement today from the North Carolina Co-oper ative crop reporting service. Most of the crop, it was report ed, is planted, and chopping is un der way. The stands are far bet ter than a year ago, and dry condi tions are aiding in the cultivation it is said. The tobacco outlook was reported optimistic, with an increase in acreage. Planting, held back by dry conditions, probably will af fect the stands, it was reported. i PROF. BLANTON SPEAKS AT BEULAH MAY 29TH Prof. La«(ton Blanton of the Lattimore high school will address the audience at Beulah church on the fifth Sunday in May, the oc casion being memorial day. He speaks at 11 o’clock. Picnic dinner on the ground. The King3 Moun tain choir has been invited to sing. There will be a talk or sermon by the presiding elder at 2 p. m., fol lowed by quarterly conference, fhe public is cordially invite 3. This is examination and com mencement week at the Shelby High school. Friday evening at 8 o’clock whe n the freshmen and sophomores mix in debate for the R. T. LeGrand medal the Shelby High commence ment will be formally underway. Elimination in the spelling contest for the T. W. Hamrick medal is al ready near completion. Tom Kerr will be master of cere monies at the freshman-sophomoro debate and Robert Gidncy will act as secretary. Th<> subject of the de bate is: Resolved that the United States should enter the League of Nations.” On old topic but the high school youngsters intend to reveal a few new ideas to those who at tend. The affirmative will be taken by the sophomores, who will be re presented by Grace Green, Ruth Waldrop and Mary Sue Borders The freshmen will uphold the nega tive and debaters are Elizabeth LeGrand, Sophia Hunt and Mary Etta Hoyle. Music will be furnish ed during the evening by the widely renowned Shelby school orchestra. The commencement sermon will be preached Sunday evening, May 29th, by Dr. Hugh K. Boyer^ of Central church. On Monday evening at 8 o’clock comes the junior debate for the O. Max Gardner medal. William Webb is the debate chairman and Lalage Shull is the secretary. The subject is “Resolved, that the United States should adopt a policy for further restriction of immigration.” The? affirmative debaters are Kathleen Young and Milan Bridges. The negative tgam will be made up of Billy McKnight and Benton Chant* pion. The high school orchestra will furnish music for the occasion. Big Senior Night. Graduating exercises will come on senior night, Tuesday evening* May 31, at 8 o’clock, at:whieh tima the auditorium will be, packed with fathers, mothers and'friends to see another -Urge class depart the local school as graduates. Another high light of the evening will be the | presentation of medals and honors of the school year—the big honors that the students work for all year, and some for four years. The graduating address Wit! be made by Hon. O. Max Gardner —the entire commencement this year sticking to “home products.’’ It has been a long time since Shel by failed to pack the auditorium to hail with cheers the graduating class, the best all-around boy and girl, and the other honored students and the largest crcwd yet is anti cipated this year. Dr. Luther Little To Address Seniors Seniors of the Shelby High school will be guests Thursday night at Cleveland Springs of the Shelby Kiwanis club when- Dr. Luther Little, pastor of the First Baptist church of Charlotte will address the audience. Forrest Esk ridge, chairman of the committee on Kiwanis education will have charge of the program. It is expect ed that some 126 or more guests will be present. Each year the Ki wanis club has the graduating class as its guests Just before tho school finals and this year a most excellent program is assured. COTTON MARKET (By Jno. F. Clark & Co.) Cotton was quoted at 11 o’clock today on New York exchange: July 16.38; October 16.66; De cember 16.88. * New York, May 25.—8 p. m. Southern weather all clear except) cloudy at Memphis, Vicksburg and Raleigh. Folrecast: West Texas and Oklahoma generally fair, east Texas showers northeast- portion and showers predicted for parts all over cotton states. Memphis special to Journal of Commerce says weather develop* ments during past week were quito mixed but on the whole averaged somewhat better than nrevioua week. Salisbury of Mississippi pre dicts staple cotton crop will be only* 40 per cent of normal. Moderate, business in Worth street. Yesterdays reaction due ta profit taking and easier technical position. Would buy on any fur ther downturn keeping eve or we^K Texas weather. . ^
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