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What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW TT 7 The big news of today and tho woek—Lindbergh. Ihc (I’tidani) VOL. XXXIV, No. 64 tut #* North Carciina^ PPESS*ASS0C1ATK3N SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MAY 30, 1927. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons, j?* pOT year (i" _ _. °y earner, per year (in advance) |3,W p~ • • • X review of the Weathers ad ministration is carried in this issue. Savor-elect Dorsey takes charge municipal affairs Wednesday J^ning with his new city employes jnd department heads. ^hat about taking a stroll about n,e Shelby of 1905? Many things have changed since the day 22 Srs ago when Tom Gold published g •■Glimpses”; See Around Our Town today. ^ # The graduating exercises of the Shelby High school will be held to morrow night wtih Max Gardner tt speaker. The junior debate is on tonight and the commencement ser mon was preached last night by Dr H. K. Boyer. ^ # # George D. Washburn is the new worshipful master of the local Ma Wnic lodge. Other officers in to day's news. ^ ^ ^ The season’s record of the Shel hv Highs in their best baseball jgtfson reviewed today. . • » A Bessemer City man was killed tv the Crescent limited at Kings Mountain last night. *** .-• West Shelby may have a new gohool building. The present school hoard recommends one. * * • County news and community Events in The Star. Widow of Late R. F. Leonard In terred at Sunsci Cemetery. Funeral By Dr^ Boyer. Mrs. Emma Leonard, widow rf the late R. F. Leonard ia being buried this afternoon at Sunset Semetery beside her husbajid who ; »asscd away here in Shelby thre e I"ears ago. The funeral was held at he Leonard home on N. Washing on street at 3 o’clock by-. Rev. Dr. Hugh K. Boyer, pastor or'Central llethodist church of which she was t member. I The Leonard family came to fhelby hr 1903 frwwjlgnryt Ltn loin county, Mr. Leonard being an btpert miller for the old flour mill I the Seaboard depot near the iagle roller mill. Mrs. Leonard be >re marriage was Miss Emma tamey. a devoted mother and wife ho centered her affections in her Mne. She was a consecrated Chris an and a kindly neighbor, big earted, sweet-tempered and sym ithetic. Six years ago she was ricken with paralysis. Since that me she has been virtually an in tlid. At the time of her death she as 72 years of age. Surviving are the following chil en, Mrs. Texie Goodnight of Her. r, Mrs. Algerius Costner and rover Leonard of Shelby; Pink ionard of Gastonia; Clarence, of lelhy; Roy, of Charlotte and Fred, New York city. One sister, Mrs. M. Goodman of Catawba county bo survives. |N'ews dispatches of the past rk stated that Pat Crawford, pst°nia athletic director, has re ped hi3 position there to accept Head coaching position at Guil- I p college. Crawford, former Da pon star, is considered one of the P hail players in minor league F aad has established a good pro at Gastonia. rCasey’’ Morris, present Shelby peic director and rated as one 17 most successful high school Ptors in the state, has been 1*7 at Gastonia as Crawford’s r*SSOr, Nothing definite has Re ap however ,n connection with [,1s other than a friendly fed Hbere for him as the old Caro P athlete is a native son of Gas L ' *s no^ Publicly known, E. is thought that Morris will P charge of Shelby athletics F, n next year. n Of Shelby Mil PREACHES 1H GRADUATES ON SUNDAY NIGHT Declares In Commencement Ser mon That Young Folks Are Not Going to Devil. Preaching to 64 members of th« Shelby High school graduating class and a packed auditorium of friends and relatives last night at Central Methodist church, Dr. Hugh K. Boyer, the pastor, declared that, contrary to the pessimists, “the young folks of today are not going to the devil.” “Look back into your youth,” he urged elders of the big congrega tion, “and you will find that they are no worse today than you were. They just have the impetuousness of youth. You had it. They also have desires, purpose and faith, the fun damental principles that carried another youngster, the world-famed Lindbergh in his hop across tha Atlantic.” The Methodist pastor in his thoughtful talk to the graduates, who lined the front pews of the center aisle, used as his text the words of Jesus found in Matthew, 4:16, “Follow Me.” “The world of today has changed from the world of other days,'1 Dr. Boyer stated in informing the grad uates that their future, the life be fore them, depends upon their in dividual efforts and ideals. "Once was your ancestry was question ed. You were asked ‘Who was your grandfather?’, and ‘How much money has your father?’ but it is different today. The question you will face is ‘Who are you?’ and ‘What can you do?’ and ‘Whither do you go?”’ The minister pointed out that success doesnt merely happen, neither does failure. Both come as a climax anything else than chance. And in success he pointed out that the greatest danger is a sense of security, warning the youngsters just facing life that the little things, that sometimes go unnotic ed, are the most dangerous in wreck iag live*. He pointed out the feeling of security enjoyed bv the 1.600 souls perishing on the Titanic, “The vessel that couldn’t sink.” Youth, and the desire and faith of youth, is exemplified in the life of Christ. Neither you nor I can conceive of Christ other than as a young mar. ITis youth goes on forever as does ell youth. In Him is exemplified the faith and purpose of all youth.” In concluding Dr. Boyer remind the 64 young people, whom he freouently referred to as “young ladies and gentlemen at the com mencement of life,” that service to fellow men is the real service in this world and through it all that ideals must be Set and held . Rev. H. N. McDiarmid, Presby terian pastor, conducted the open ing prayer and also read the Scripture passages in the absence of Dr. Zeno Wall, Baptist pastor who is away assisting in a revival at Spindale. The musical program was an un usual treat. Jhe services opened with a group of undergraduates fil ing in and singing and filling the choir loft, closely followed by the seniors, in caps and gowns, who took the front seats of the audi torium. Special musical numbers were rendered by the young choir assisted by Professors Sinsclair and Buchanan, Mrs. A1 Bennett, Miss Bessie Clark, and Miss Ruth Howie at the organ. Such was the large crowd at tending the service that both the main auditorium and Sunday school rooms were filled and many were unable to fintj seats. -«--— Very Few New Cases Smallpox Reported Very few new eases of smallpox are being reported in the county during the past week or so, it is announced. Although numerous cases were reported during the first weeks of the month toe epi demic seems to have been on the decline since mid-month, it is said New cases, it is thought, arc smaller in number now than at any time in two months. To Present Pupils In Music Recitals 'Three music recitals will be given this week to which the public is cordially invited. Mrs. Wm. Mc Cord will nresent her high school pupils on Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock: Miss Bertha Bostick will present her high school pupils on Friday night at 8 o’clock and Mrs. McCord and Miss Bostic will joint ly present their elementary pupils Friday night at 8 o’clock. The three programs will be held in the high school auditorium. Aged Wilkes Woman j Doesn’t Believe In North Wilkesboro, (INS.)— Laurels of North Carolina's long distance women hikers now attempting to establish new long distance walking rec ords are menaced by a Wilkes county entrant. Mrs. Anne Barnes, 80, widow of the late S. D. Barnes, of Boomer, doesn't think anything of a six-mile jaunt over the mountains in fact, she takes the little hike everytime she decided to visit his sister Mrs. William Ferguson and other \fter Hiking Honors; Horseless Carriages relatives across the mountain ous country. Despite her age, Mrs. Barnes says she is never exhausted after making the six-mile hikes. She has never been in an automobile, and what’s more, she never intends to. “1 don’t intend to risk life and limb riding in one of those horseless contraptions as long as my walking facilities are as good as they are at present,” she said. Junior Debate On Tonight j With Senior Night Tuesday ! Sophia Hunt, Freshman Debater, Wins Le Grand Medal. Juniors Contest For Gard ner Medal. Gardner To Speak Tuesday Night At Graduating Exercises. Medals To Be Given. Lindbergh Coming Back On A Warship Detroit.— Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh announce* that her son. Captain Charles Lind Lindbergh, trans - Atlantic flier, has accepted President Coolidge’s invitation to return home on a warship and would sail for home oir or about June 16. He so informed her by cable, she said. Father 94, Son 74 Hear Gardner Speak Dr. Zeno Wall, be'ing a minister of the gospel might be believed when he tells this one. Last w / k he motored up to Mars Hill with Max Gardner who was to deliver the literary address at the school finals. Dr. Wall is an alumnus of Mars Hill and presMflfct of the al umni association to which posi tion he was re-elected. That moun tain folks just naturally live to ripe ages is illustrated by this experience of Dr. Wall. He saw’ an old mountaineer on the school campus, a little stooped and feeble. Mars Hill is a familiar spot to Dr. Wall and he likes to recognize old acquaintances. In speaking to the old gentleman and inquiring about his health, the 74-year.o!d replied that he was not feeling so well on that particular day and that his father was in much bet ter health. Dr. Wall’s eye opened in wonder that a man so old should have a living father. But presently the father came trip ping by with an air of eternal youth. The father was 94. "Can you beat it,” as they cay on the comic strip. Father 94, and son 74, had w’alked a considerable distance to hear Max Gardner, they said, and added they would walk ten miles to vote for him for governor. Tom Webb Has Big Mountain Orchard The beautiful laurel in bloom on Buffalo mountain, a development I owned by Mr. Tom Webb of Shel- * by, has been attracting many visi tors. The flowers have shed off now, but in their height of glory, the white and pink mass literally covered one side of the mountain and presented a site that was beau tiful to behold. Buffalo Mountain is just north of Laurel Hill church on a 1,000 acre tract of land which Mr. Webb purchased a year or more ago. Mr. Webb has in mind to make a beautiful play ground. The pin nacle of the mountain is 800 or more feet above Shelby and on a clear day with binoculars, one can see the water tank to the rear of the city hall in Shelby. Mr. Webb has planted 2,500 peach trees, 600 apple trees and a variety of other fruits which will be in bearing within a few years. Death Of Child Under Two Years Charles Hubert Russ, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Russ died Saturday May 21st at the age of one year, eight months and seven days. The little fellow was sick 13 days and, during this time suffered intense-1 ly. He was the only child of Mr. ’ and Mrs. Irvin Russ and was dear-' ly loved not only by the parents. | but by many friends and relatives of the family. He was buried at Buffalo cemetery on Sunday May 22nd. The bereaved family has the sympathy of their many friends. The annual junior debate will feature the high school finals pro gram here tonight at 8 o’clock in the Central school auditorium. Music for the evening will be furn ished by the High school orchestra. The young debaters, who will contest for the O. Max Gardner medal, will debate the immigration policy of the United States. The affirmative will be represented By Kathleen Young and Milan Bridges while Billy McKnight and Benton Champion will be the negative de baters. Fresh-Soph Debate. Sophia Hunt, freshman debater on the negative side, won the R. T. LeGrand medal in the freshman sophomore debase last Friday even ing. The debate subject was “Re solved, that the United States Should Enter the League of Na tions.” The affirmative debaters from the sophopiore class were Grace Green, Ruth Waldrop, ai.d Mary Sue Borders. The freshman debaters taking the negative side were Elizabeth LeGrand, Sophia Hunt and Mary Etta Hoyle. Senior Night. The big night of the school finals is scheduled for tomorrow, Tues day, evening at 8 o’clock. At that time parents, relatives and friends of 64 young graduates will gather in the big auditoroum to witness the graduating exercises and the award of honors and medals. The graduating address will be made by O. Max Gardner. “Senior night” is plways a big treat to Shelby and surrounding section and with the second larg est class of the school graduating, more than ordinary importance is attached to the event. Another thing of exceptional interest is the award of honors. Winners of hon ors and medals are not made known until the final night of the school closing and every award tomorrow night will come as a surprise to every one outside of the school faculty. These awards include scholarships, improvement, and also the two most coveted honors going to the best all yaround boy and giri in the class. Wake Forest To Get Best Athletes In County This Fall Alumni of Wake Forest college hereabouts are elated over the fact that three of the most promising young athletes ever turned out in Cleveland county schools plan to enter Wake Forest this fall.' They are Arthur Hord, .Kings Mountain; Ralph Gillespie and “Dutch’’ Whis nant, of Shelby. All three of the youngsters are star baseball and football players as well as likely young students. The trio were stars on the football teams of the Shelby and King3 Mountain high schools for several years, and were even greater stars in baseball, at least two of them refusing professional baseball con tracts so as to be eligible for col lege baseball. Hord, a shortstop, has been playing summer ball and is one of the best natural hitters ever seen in the county in addition to being an almost perfect fielder and speedy on the base paths. Gil lespie is perhaps the best high school catcher in the state and is one of the heaviest hitters in the state as wel as a good receiver and possessing « crack throwing arm. Whisnant this year won 11 game for the Shelby high school, turning in one of the best hurling records in state scholastic circles ever. The entire trio has been placed on all! state high school team. Succeeds Carr E. Cline an Worship iul Master of Cleveland Lodge. Others Move lip. At an election of officers of the Cleveland Lodge 202 A. F. and A. iti., Friday mgnt George D. Wash buat was elected worshipful nias ter'|to hagd the lodge for the com ing JfearC^Mr- Washburn succeeds Carr ft flPne as master, having moved up from senior warden to the master's chair. James F. Roberts was named sen ior warden to succeed Washburn; LaittVence P. Holland is the new’ junior warden succeeding Roberts. C S. Young was re-elected treas urer and Russell G. Laughridge waV reelected secretary. Mr. Washburn will within tha next month appoint his other offi cers of the lodge. Of recent years younger Masons have been taking a more active interest in the work of the lodge and the elective officers have been rotating from chair to chair while moving to the master’s chair. WESTSlBYlO SET NEW SCHOOL BUILDING, SI West Shelby may by the open ing of the next school year have a new school building on the type of the new school structure in North Shelby. This was learned by The Star fol lowing a recent meeting of the school board. At this meeting, it is said, the old board recommended that such a structure be built in West Shelby, but the actual decis ion will be up to the new school board, which goes into office Wed nesday, it is added. A sum of about 120,000 was left ■ over from the buildings erected from the last school bond issue and it is planned to use this money for the new building. At the recent board meeting plans and financial angles of the proposed building were taken up. Many Visit Opening At Casket Factory Local Ladies and Men, as Well as Visiting Undertakers go Through Factory. Several hundred local ladies and men and many undertakers from I the two Carolinas visited the op ening of the Shelby Casket com I pany on Thursday on N. Washing ! ton street. The opening was held j in order to give the local people an | insight into the class of merchan dise this new industrial plant is I making and enable them to answer questions put to them by outsiders about Shelby industrial plants. The Shelby Casket Co., started just a few months ago and is just now turning out fifteen or more hand some designs of caskets. It is the only factory of its kind in this sec tion and all visitors spoke in high est terms of the variety, the style and the workmanship on the cas kets. Mrs. W. R. Caastevens and Miss Olive Singleton served punch to the visitors while Mrs. Z. J. Thompson and Mrs. W. F Wright conducted the ladies through the display and work j rooms. The men were conducted through and the process of manu facture explained by Z. J. Thomp son and Mr. W. F. Wright. During and since the opening, the factory has enjoyed unusuc.l business, 25 or more jobs being | shipped out within the past few days to undertakers in the Pied mont section of the two Carolinas. Find Parts Of Human Body On Train Tracks Charlie Woodson, local cloth ing salesman, stated here just after noon today that he was at Forest City this morning and while near there noticed a crowd along the railroad tracks of the Clinchfield road. Investigating he found that an arm, chin and other portions of a human body had been found scattered along the track. The body had apparently been ground to pieces by a train about one mile and a half be low Forest City. Latest reports indicate that the body was that of a hobo who had apparently fallen from the train and under the wheels where he met a hor rible death. ENDS MAYORALTY TERM TUESDAY MAYOR A. P. WEATHERS Weathers Administration In Building Record In Regime City Regime Going Out of Office Tomorrow Handled Affair* During Greatest Period Of Construction and Expansion in History Of Town. Built Water Plant, Streets, Sidewalk, Abattoir, and Smaller Improve ments All At Low Cost. (BY RENN DRUSJ) Tomorrow evening at dusk a city administration under which Shel by's greatest period of construc tion and expansion was estab lshcd will come to a close when Mayor A. P. Weathers find Aider men T. W. Hamrick, John Schenck, jr., John Toms, and M. D. Hopper relinquish the municipal reins to Mayor-elect W. N. Dorsey and his new board of aldermen. Look about the Shelby of today, and then, if your memory is work ing smoothly, take a glance at the Shelby of May 30, 1925. The re sults of a progressive adminis tration, under a mayor who goes to work in his shirt sleeves with the milk wagons before 7 o'clock, can easily be seen. New school buildings, one of the finest water plants of any town out of the city class in the South, new water mains, new streets, new sidewalks, additional fire fighting equipment, modern abattoir and incinerator, traffic signs, and so on. And, the high light of that pro gress is financial stability. Ordi narily when improvements are added and money is spent-the fin ancial source isn’t as strong as it was before the spending, but dur ing the past two years city bonds have sold better than ever before in the history of the town. Limits Extended One of the high lights of the ad ministration was the extension of the city limits to a one and one half mile radius, giving Shelby a population of 8,854 at the special census taken in September 1926. Yet from the standpoint of benefit to the entire town the new water plant is the greatest monu ment to the outgoing administra tion. 8150,000 Water Plant Prior to the building of the new plant, the old plant built 20 years ago by the late L. J. Wagner could not supply household needs, much less meet requirements in case of fire. Today the present plant has a seven million gallon reservoir, complete laboratory, filter plant and built in units to enable addi tions that will take care of phen omenal growth in the future. This mammoth new, modern plant cost approximtely $150,000. The loca tion of the plant was changed so that the intake from the river is above the mouth of the drain wat ershed of North Shelby, enabling this section to have sewer con veniences without polluting the general city water supply. Two big water mains lead into Shelby from the present station and in case one should break or become damaged the city will not be helpless with a curbed water supply. Many thousands of dol lars were saved by cutting down the size of one main in the engi neer's specifications and utiliz ing the old main hy connecting it with the new plant. Low Cost Street Work To say it briefly, and nothing | beats actual figures for brevity, here are some of the construc i tion records .of the administration going out of office tomorrow: Put down 20,541 feet of gal vanized water piping, j Installed 23,000 feet of sewer > mains. j Installed 23,600 lineal feet of ' water mains. i Built 12,000 feet of sidewalks. Built 11,500 lineal feet of street paving. j Modern septic tank and piping : at cost of $14,000. It is of importance to taxpayers I to note that the big street paving | contract was at the lowest cost of any street paving in the history of the town. i From the standpoint of health ; the new abattoir, being installed at a cost of $7,000, will prove one of the best memories of the admin istration. The abattoir is the lat est word in sanitation and its . value from the angle of safe ' guarding health is hardly to be estimated. The abattoir was j erected on the site of, and muchly out of the old pump station, there i by saving a considerable amount of money by making use of a : seemingly worthless antique. It is expected that the tankage of j the plant will sell for enough to pay for the actual outlay in build i ing and installing. lity Is Growing There are now 2,950 water and j light patrons in the town, an al most unbelievable increase during the past 10 years. The water and 1 light plant, city owned and man aged by the municipal governing powers is one of the town’s out standing official assets. Another item of importance that is credited to the Weathers regime is the modernized fire de partment. During the two years the latest type of fire truck, cost ing $12,500 was purchased, giving the city two trucks and other fire fighting equipment efficiently handled by three paid firmen, a chief and 22 volunteers. A low fire loss resulted from an efficiently organized department during the two years, and with an ample water supply coming through two mains the fire insurance rate of the town will likely be lowered soon. Among other interests for the town the present administration is, and has been, making an effort to have city delivery of mail extend ed to the section where new side walks have been put down. A Big Business Now Shelby has advanced so far the small town class that handling the business end of the town gov ernment is similar to heading a mammoth business enterprise. In fact, just how many business en terprises handle approximately $1,000 per day and at the same time safeguard the interests of near 10,000 people at every step? Approximately $300,000 is paid (Continued on Page 8) 1 mi its Mill i it cm IN i KINGS MBII Mark Short, Former Kings Moun tain Man, Dies on Tracks at Margrace Mill Crossing ' Mark Short, 33-year-<dd Besse mer City man and a foljfner citi zen of Kings Mountain, mei instant death Sunday night when his car crashed into the pilot of the north bound Cresent limited at the Mai grace mill crossing in the South ern edge of Kings Mountain, A Charlotte dispatch Bays: "Mark Short of Bessemer City, was hurled to instant death last night when his light automobile crashed into the pilot of the speed ing nortbound Creseht limited at a grade crossing near Kinjgs Moun tain. The crack train was 30 minutes late in arriving her* because of the wreck. _ News that the train had struck an automobile spread quickly among the crowd at the Southern station and hundreds of persons crowded around the green engine to view the mashed pilot. According to J. Lee Harrison, of Greenville, the train’s fireman, Short crashed into the train after skidding in the dusty side-road on which the tragedy occurred. The impact of the collision threw the small automobile about 20 feet from the track. When members of the train crew reached Short he was dead. The automobile was practically demolished. W. M. Kizziah, of Salisbury, the engineer, was not a witness to the wreck, he said. It occurred on the fireman’s side of the engine cab. Jason Cannon, of Atlanta, was the train’s conductor. 91 COUNTIES TO - GET PART SCHOOL Raleigh.—Ninety-one counties in the state will probably participate in the distribution of the $3,260,000 school equalisation fund, but jttsti what th,e size of the allotments will be to those counties has not yet beeri definitely determined, and will not be announced until the next meeting of the State board of eqaulization on June 16, it was announced by LeRoy Martin, secretary of the commission. It was at first expected that the equalization board would an announce the allotments of the fund to the counties at its meet ing here this week, but while the tentative allotments were made, it has been found necessary to check these back against the' val uations in the various counties be fore making them public. Thus the board feels that it has com plied with the law which makes it mandatory to have the allot ments made by June 1, although they will not be officially announc ed until June 15. Harrill Now Heads Club At N. C. State R. H. Harrill is Elected President Of Cleveland County Club. List of Boys at State. The Cleveland County club at State college at a call meeting on Thursday May 26, 1927 elected tha following officers for next year. President: R. H. Harrill; vice president, Geodge Dedmon; Sec retary and reporter, Steve Wood-i son; treasurer, Zeb Plonk. A talk was made President “Tommy” Har rill urging us to send more men to State college. At present Cleveland county is represented by: J. A. Anthony, T. C. Harrill, R. H. Harrill R. A. Kendrick, Brevard Lattimore, Charles Efskridge, Fred Plonk, Zeb Plonk, C. D. Forney, George Ded mon, Henry Nichols, Steve Wood son. In the past few years “upper Cleveland,” as Cleveland is called here, has had two presidents of tha student government; one vice president; captain of football team, and a number of the Golden chain, honorary fraternity. Coach Gua K Tebell will visit in Shelby*in the next few days and a warm recep tion will be appreciated by the Shelby boys at State. A professor says four hours sleep is enough, but our idea is that he had better wake up. It is said the artificial blond is passing. Yes, she passes often wocf we always recognise her,
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