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VOL. XXXIV, No. 68 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1927 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. ?y mal1-’ per year (i/" _ _ ' By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.04 What’s THE News THE STAR’S REVIEW «,T4ral Shelby and Cleveland people will go to Washing „ Saturday for the Captain Lind t»h reception. * * * Mayor \V. N- Dorsey is asking the board for a concrete overhead on LaFayette street. The water and light departments j noW operate under two super tendents, a new man being em OJed for the light^department. The county schools will hereaft have a garage of their own for 'pair ami upkeep of school trucks. North Carolina Democrats think I Smith cannot carry the South. 1 * * * A sale of property for taxes was by the county commission „ Monday. The majority of the ,'j.ing was done^the county. The driver in the auto crash Sun niKht that injured six is now ider a $1,000 bond. Two of those irt are still in serious condition. Who'll he the next sheriff? Poli cal prophets are already picking list 0f likely candidates mention in the talk arc given in an arti i in The Star. • * * Why did Washington take the innr of welcoming "Lindy” away dm New York? Did the Al-and ,1 matter have anything to do th it ? Kead the editorial columns day. C » « City and rural news of all see ms in this issue. a fis i SEE U» HOME onhippers of ^ oung Aviator Here Trlk of Chartering Pull man Car to Washington. Quito a number of Shelby and ; eveland folks are planning to j lit Washington late this week for j t purno.se of being among the ] msandf to greet Capt. Charles ldbcreh when he arrived from ris aboard the Memphis. Just how many local people will to Washington is not known but J tut the Legion club rooms, talk : getting a special PulTmah^rar r a Shelby party is being heard. Announcement was made last ek by Ii. H. Graham. division ssenger agent, that the South n railway will operate excursion tins from this section next Fri y night. The rate to Washington id return is lower than the ordi ry one-way charge. About 700 people from the Caro las went to Washington last Fri- . y on tho excursion run by the inthern. hain Takes Over Store In Shelby Announcement was made Wed- j nday that the local Nifty-Jiffy ; ire has been sold. It has been ten over by the Nifty-Jiffy arcs, Inc., of Asheville, a corpor ion operating three stores in the urivt f >tv. G. W. Patterson, of the Asheville oup, was in Shelby Wednesday j king stock in the local store, and > ranging the details of the trans r. This purchase of a local store by chain enterprise, is another evi nce of the growing importance of ®lby, and the reputation the city ccquiring abroad as a big trad ? center, The Nifty-Jjffv was owned by M. Mauney, Fred Baber, J. B. ,lson and S. M. Weathers. The >re is located on South LaFayette reet The new management announces 6 establishment will be run as a sn-delivery enterprise, giving rv'ce to patrons after the mod n, efficient idea. ^till Cap Made Of Two Lard Buckets deputy Bob Kendrick was cx i ing on the streets yesterday a c-model distiller cap. The cap 5 °f a small lard bucket the lid of a large lard can. A ^ hud been cut in the lid of the can. which fitted over the .and the bucket turned up » down was placed in the lid and Wered there. E>c newfangled still cap was d in the Broad River section. uKgegts Big Outing For Scouts-Parents [k',ry Edwards, local scout suggests the* all the scout Ps of Shelby should hike out to c nearby point some evening cook a scout supper and invite ntir Kuests their parents Thc t* supper together, Edwards t rPS’ c °uld *ncrea8® interest in °y -scout movement which is 01'?* rapid Progress here now. in T s<!out news n»ay be found inside scout column. It Took Fight to Catch This Giant i After an hour and a half battle. tMs 195-po ”>rl tarpon was landed by XV. H. Debold (left) and Harold Ryder at Fort Lr.uderdale, Fla. Th<* f’airn was made on the light rod shown here, aUhocsh a man’s Uiti would nt into the tarpon'* movtlfc , Dopesters Talk Next Sheriff Who will succeed Sheriff Hugh A. Logan as high sher iff of Cleveland county? That’s the query being fre quently heard about the bar bershops, hotel lobbies, and nfhor conversation centers of Shelby. The next county election is many months off—in fact, far enough off to make talk of the "next, sheriff” a little pre mature— but Cleveland county likes its politics and ' such talk is on regardles of the wear it may have before the next election rolls around. When Sheriff Logan, for years one of the state’s most efficient county officers and very popular voter his domain, announced that he would not be in the next race the politi cal dopesters-.those who mix the brew in the political pot predicted candidates galore at the next ballot battle and a closer race than any election since the day the persent sheriff started out for office. Numerous names have been passed around in connection with the race now months off, but insofar as can be learned the men named have not ex pressed themselves. Neverthe less, names are interesting and the list “talked by friends” in clude* _the following: W: C. Harris, local reiil estfete 'deal er; Frank L. Hoyle, insurance man and former court clerk; J. L. Lackey, automobile deal er and son of a former sher iff; Ed Dixon, former deputy; E. A. Wellmon, local business man, and B. O. Hamrick, for 10 years police chief of Shel by and also a son of a former sheriff. There may be others, but this sextet gets in the ma jority of the political conver sation. So, if you’re an early bird— FARMERS SET MO HERE Final Settlement To Be To Mem bership Of Cotton Growers Association. 1 Checks totaling $33,000 will be < distributed here Thursday of this week when final settlement will be made to members of the Cleve land Cotton Growers association on the 192G crop, according: to a tele gram received today by The Star from Mr. B. T. Melvin, one of the officials at Raleigh. Postal cards have been mailed to all Cleveland county members of the association inviting them to at* j tend a special meeting of the coun ty membership in the court house Thursday at 10:30 o’clock when the checks will be distributed and cither Mr. U. V. Blalock or Mr. M. G. Mann will deliver an ad dress. The cost of handling cot ton through the association has j been greatly reduced and the sales j have been much more satisfac- j tory than where cotton was sold independently. As a result of this lowered cost of handling, the membership in the association has crown rapidly all over North Caro-; lina. The speaker who will address i the members and others interested here on Thursday morning will; report to the membership the op- J erations during the past year and will discuss plans now in pro-; gress for development of the or ganization. All members who have cotton in; short pools will receive checks at , this meeting. Settlement for long; time pools will follow later. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Frick of Charlotte, spent Sunday here with Miss Emma Frick at the Cen tral hotel. CHEROKEE PUS TO BUILD HD TO Hi. C. LIRE At a meeting of the Cherokee county highway commissioners held in Gaffney yesterday, it was unanimously voted to build a high- J way from the Dravo bridge up the I ridge to the North Carolina state j line at a point near the Val j Thomason store. This is already a ' road from the Dravo bridge to j the state line along this route, but j the route will be re-graded and re-1 surfaced and put in excellent con dition for travel. The Star has not been able to learn definitely just where North Carolina state highway No. 18 will touch the state line when this part of the road in North Caro lina is definitely located, but it’ fs understood unofficially that the North Carolina highway commis sion has made one survey which reaches the state line near the road which the South Carolina j body agreed to build yesterday. In the event highway No. 18 connects with this new road, the distance from Shelby to Gaffney will be shortened. Several efforts have been made to locate highway 18 via Patter son Springs and Earl and also down the Zoar route. It is under stood that several surveys have been made, but just which route will be finally selected has not been learned. Flood Contributions Quite a number of contributions for Red Cross relief in flooded Mississippi districts still come in to D. Z. Newton treasurer. ’ Contributions have been received from the following recently: J. D. S. Carpenter__$2.00 Order Eastern Star, Shelby.. 3.00 Mrs. Susan Lattimore _1.00 Miss Lucy Lattimore-2.00 Cradle roll, Central M. E. church-----— 5.00 DEPARTMENT HERE roms Will Head Water Depart ment and Gordon, of Hen derson, the Lights Hereafter the water and light department of the Shel by municipal administration will be handled as two separ ate departments, it was an nounced this morning by May or W. .N Dorsey. The water di vision w ill be headed by R. V. Toms, present water : nd light superintendent, and the light, or electric, department by T. L. Gordon, now employed in Henderson, The new administration has been contemplating this change since going into office, but only reach ed a definite conclusion last night, it is said. Heretofore in the opinion of the mayof the management of both departments has been too much of a task for any one man. By the new plan it is hoped to rentier more efficient service in both do -! partments and the expense will not j be much more, if any, municipal heads believe. Inspection Change. Under the new plan Mr. Toms will have complete charge of every thing connected with water de partment—the water plant, water mains, sewerage, and water meter rading. Likewise he will be inspec tor of all plumbing installed in the city. A nominal charge for plumb ing inspection will be made, it is said, and no plumbing job will be passed unless properly inspected. The same will apply to the light department. Mr. Gordon must in sect all wiring before a building is passed and there will be a nominal charge for this. With the fees for inspection coming in and more con centrated work in both depart ments it is felt by the mayor that the handling of the two depart ments will not cost any more, and perhaps not as much as the present system. v “I do not want the profile to think this change for more efficient work in the departmentse will be more expensive. In my mind it will be less expensive than the system used heretofore,” Mayor Dorsey stated. Mr. Toms, who has served as head of both departments and will con tinue in that capacity until June 10, was offered the refusal of either department and accepted the head p# th« water department. Mr. Gor don who comes from Henderson to lake charge June 10, brings num erous fine references from former employers and others. One reeorn dation from W. T. Crafton, sup erintendent of the Virginia Railway and Power company, referred to Gordon as one of the most efficient, steady, and level-headed men ever employed by them. He is generally referred to as an expert electrician, and from advance informaiton con cerning him Mayor Dorsey feels as if a good man has been secured. Lincolnton ]\1en Kiwanis Guests Twenty or more members of the Lincolnton Kiwanis club were guests Monday evening of the Shelby Kiwanis club at Cleveland Springs hotel, the Shelby club having lost to the visitors in an at tendance record contest. In the Contest which lasted several weeks, the Lincolnton club had 93 per cent perfect attendance record, while the Shelby club had only 83 per cent. Therefore Shelby lost and had to entertain the visitors ut a dinner. The program was in charge of J. S. Dorton who read the annual message from the President of the Kiwanis International in ob servance of “Zero Hour.” At the moment the message was read here it was being read at every other club in the United States and Canada and the convention was in session in Memphis. Tele grams were read from J. F. Led ford and Max Washburn, dele gates from the Shelby club at Memphis. J. D. Lineberger deliv ered the address of welcome to the I visitors. Less than half of each clubs’ membership was present because of inclement weather. Lattimore To Plan Next Fall’s Fair A mass meeting of the people in the Lattimore school building Fri day night of this week to discuss plans for the community fair to be held next fall. The meeting is called by order of the president Mr. W. A. Crowder and the secre tary Prof. V. C. Taylor. It is hoped that all interested will be on hand to formulate early plans for the fair which the leaders hope to make the best ever held munity in any com --.1, Jtlvi Tar Heel May Fly To Honolulu Raleigh, (INS.)— Raleigh may have an entrant in the proposed trans-Paeifie flight to Honolulu, it appeared hero today. Alton Stewart, Raleigh com mercial flyer, would like to try the flight if he had the financial hacking. I've got a wife and three babies,’’ he said, “but if I could know' they would be taken care of if I failed, l wouldn't mind trying the flight." .1 Robert Lunc Placed Cnder Big Bond Pending Condition Of Injured in Hospital. Robert Luna, of Rutherford coun ty, driver of the auto which crash ed into a Henrietta car Sunday night west of Shelby and injured six people, has been placed under a bond of SI,000 pending the change in condition of three pa tients at the Shelby hospital. It will be remembered that Luna and Charles Huntley were in a car which is said to have struck tho Henrietta car on Highway 20. The Henrietta car, occupied by four young men, had stopped, it is said, to fix a puncture and was standing still when hit by the other car. Five were brought to the hospital here for treatment, three remaining Pink Bright, a man by the name of Morgan, and Robert Lovelace, young son of Fred Lovelace, are still in the hospital. Grady Haynes and Fred Lovelace were treated and returned to their homes. Huntley, agforapanied Luna, is said to have been injured and is under treat j ment at Forest City. Hospital authorities here today stated that the condition of Bright and Morgan is still serious although it is thought that both are a little better. Bright, who has a fractured skull, is still semi-conscious at times. Morgan has a compound fracture of one leg and fractured ribs. The young Lovelace boy who suffered cuts and bruises was not so seriously injured and is improv ing, it is said. Luna's bond returned to the sheriff’s office here was signed by Dr. George P. Reid, Forest City physician. COTTON MARKET (By Jno. F. Clark & Co.) Cotton was quoted on New' York exchange at 10:30 today. July 16.28; October 16.63; Decem ber 16.88. New York, June 8.—8 p. m. Southern weather, cloudy, raining at Macon, Charleston, Montgomery and Galveston, Raleigh had .52 rain Macon .58, San Antonio .04. Fore cast: Carolinas, part cloudy; Ala-i barna, Mississippi, showers; Ar aknsas, Oklahoma and west Texas fair, warmer; east Texas party1 cloudy, warmer. Manchester cable says relief is< being experienced in Lancashire and satisfaction is expressed on lo- 1 cal cotton exchange over decision of ; Indian government to reject pro- j posal of Indian tariff board for i general increase in import duty on cotton goods. Corn Cracker Gets Younger; Just 70 “This is the first day you’ve scenj me just like I am today,” was the favorite greeting given to friends! by Corn Cracker on Shelby streets today., “Com Cracker’,, whose real name is Melvin L. White, is 70 years of age today. The veteran teacher and newspaper contributor says that many accused him of being 70 a score of years ago, while others say that he doesn’t look over 50, but personally he pleads guilty to beginning his 70th year on June 8. j CORN TAKEN FROM LINCOLN CHILD’S THROAT IN EAST Philadelphia, June 7.—Phy sicians in Chevalier Jackson bronchoscopic clinic at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania hos pital today removed a grain of corn from the right bronchus of Pansy Huss, 6 years old, after she had been hurried here from a hospital at Lincolnton. The child a daughter of Oscar Huss of Cherryville. N. C., in haled the grain of corn while playing near her home on Sun day. COUNTY SCHOOLS TO HAVE GARAGE BY BOARD ORDER Board of Education Finds County Cpkocp of Bust* Will Prove I SavinR. New High School. At their regular meeting held this week the county hoard of education decided that here after rt county garage will be maintained for the upkeep of the motor buses used by the schools of the county. This move was made after figures were presented showing the system a money-saver in other counties of the state. A building belonging to II. T.! Falls in the Beam automotive block ! was rented and Tom Lee, expeii-i enced auto repair man, will have ! charge, it was announced. Supt. J. H. Grigg staes that in ' counties where 20 or more school trucks are operated it has been j found economical to maintain a gar-' age for the upkeep of the motors and inspection of the trucks. Sev eral counties report a saving of around $5,000 per year by the method. Rutherford county, recent ly visited by Grigg, A. E. Cline, commission chairman, and others, keeps four full-time mechanics for 1 work on school trucks. Cleveland ebunty has 33 school trucks in use now and the upkeep of the trucks is a Mr item in school expenditures. The school garage, it is understood will overhaul the trucks during the I summer and paint several of them. School in No. 8. The board at its meeting gave notice of a meeting on Monday, July 4, at which time school com mitteemen from the following dis tricts are t be present: Lattimorc, C-abaniss, New House, Fairview, Union and Delight. The meeting is for the purpose of modifying the county-wide school plan with the view of a standard high school in ; No. 8 township at some time in the future. COOMSSlE OF PROPERTY FOR TAXES NOT PI Property Sold To Cover About $4,000 In Taxes. County Big gest Buyer At Sale. The county of Cleveland bought and sold property for taxes Mon day in compliance with the new state-wide county law for adver tising and selling property for un paid taxes. Property to cover about $4,000 in taxes was sold, the commis sioners say. Approximately 75 per cent of that sold was bought in by the county, it is said, while the other 25 percent was bought in by individuals. Eventually all the purchases will be taken over by individuals. A. E. Cline, chairman of the commissioners, says “All we want is to get the county’s money out of it so that the sher iff’s books may be settled up nronerly. The land sold included both town and rural property. Other than the sale of proper ty for taxes very few matters of public importance were transact ed by the commissioners. It was voted to continue the Mothers’ Aid appropriation in the county for another year, and $10 was also allowed for the support of Cordie Smith. County Bills Paid Bills of the county ordered paid were as follows: J. C. Weathers, bridge work, $1,680.59; on motion W. F. Cline allowed $10 burial expenses of Gus Sarratt; J. A. Buff, bridge work $43.30; A. V. Calton, bridge work $3; D. P. Washburn, bridge! work $2.50; J. W. Wesson, 3 mow-; ers for court house $1.50; D. L. Wallace, lumber for Hendrick bridge, $144.48; D. L. Wallace, lumber for bridge, $99.20; G. L. Hamrick, piping for road $14; J. A. Lee, bridge lumber $71.04; D. B. Whisnant, bridge lumber $41.76; D. D. Lattimore, bridge lumber $94.56; A. C. Brackett, lumber for Broad River bridge $56.76; R. B. Dixon, county home $16; C. R. Dixon, bridge lumber $13.44; Mc Knight & Co., county home $66.58; Mauney Auto Supply Co., county home $24.85; H. A. Logan, office supplies $26.50; Electric Service Co., lamps and work at jail $2.10; C. O, Hamrick, bridge work $123; D. F. Moore, county physician; Standard Oil Co., county home $34; H. A. Logan, jail expenses $146 40; gtephenson Drug Co., sup plies $25.35. Oscar W. Powell, bridge work (Continued to page six) Dorsey Asks For Concrete Bridge On LaFayette St. In Letter To Seaboard Road Mayor Demands That Present Dilapidated Overhead Bridge Be Replaced. Writes to Division Superintendent. To Build City Garages and Storeroom. Think A1 Can't Win Over South l Washington.—A n i m- I promptu assemblage here i composed of Representative I Hammer, of the seventh I district; Zev. V. Long, of | I States, and Frank A. Hamp- I ! t. n, private secretary to I Senator Simmons, decided that Governor A1 Smith of J I New York could not carry | I the south. I These working democrats | are opposed to Mr. Smith. ' I tney assert that he would I not only lose the country | but break up the solid south. READING METERS Dorsey And Toms Believe Outside Meters Would End Com* plaints. Will Move Free. Mayor W. N. Dorsey after con ferring with R. V. Toms, water and light superintendent, believes that a plan has been developed to lessen complaints about reading of light meters. Many of the complaints now I coming into the city hall about | light bills result from the location of light meters, it is said. In I numerous instances meters in | homes are in the interior * of the house, probably on the second floor, and there are times when the meter reader cannot find any one at home to get in. On occa sions like this the minimum is charged for the month. Perhaps the same thing occurs on the next month and by the third month all the kilowats are totalled on one bill causing the light patron to be lieve there has been an error. Another trouble about inside meters, it is said at the city hall, is mat mere are tnose wno ao not I like for a meter reader to be j prowling through the house, or on occasions track up the floors. All of this trouble, even to a three months bill in one, can be elimin ated by having the meters placed outside where the meter reader can get to them easily each month. In view of that decision it is an nounced that all light patrons who wish to haev meters changed should have an electrician run the meter wire to the outside or to a back porch. Patrons doing this wrill have the meters changed and swung outside by city electricians at no cost other than that paid to the electrician who changes the wiring. Mr. Dorsey in commenting about city affairs says that he is well pleased with the work of Fred Culbreth, new city clerk, and his assistant, Miss Bessie Reinhardt. “Culbreth is catching up with hi3 work fine after being behind by the extra work piling up during the change in administration. Al though new to the routine here he would be practically up except that he had to get out the city water and light bills for May.” Another matter of interest learned from the mayor was that hereafter every employee of the city, from the highest salaried to the lowest, will get his or her own individual pay voucher. “Heads of the departments will not distri bute them hereafter,” Mayor Dor sey says, “and each employee will get his own.” Mr. Hudson Starts Handsome Home Mr. Hill Hudson, prominent traveling salesman and former member of the firm of Wray Hudson company broke ground to day for a handsome two story home on West Marion street on the lot adjoining Lee B. Weathers. Buff colored face briek will be used, the roof will be of tile, the floors of hardwood and the heat ing system of the new type oil burner. The home will have ten or twelve rooms with all modern and up-to-date conveniences. Mr. Gus I Branton has been secured as fore 'man of the construction. A new concrete bridge over the Seaboard railroad tracks on North LaFayette street is an early aim of Mayor W. N. Dorsey, he stated to. day. Yesterday the mayor wrote W. G. Jones, Seaboard division superin tendent at Hamlet, urging and de manding that a concrete bridge bo built there to replace the present bridge referred to as a “dilapidat ed structure.” It was pointed out in the letter that the street is now a thorough fare for considerable traffic and that the condition of the bridge now is not so good, there being frequent complaints of punctures from nails tsicking from the wood work. Other complaints being made about the noise occasioned by continuous traffic over the wooden structure* it is said. In concluding the request it-waff pointed out that Shelby is now a town of near 10,00(1 people and that a better bridge is necessary to be in keeping with the town and use the bridge is put to. New Structures. When the present clean-up at the rear of the City hall is completed the mayor and board of aldermen have planned to erect five garages and a storeroom to replace the barns and storage buildings being torn away now by workmen. R. L, Hendrick, member of the board, will have some of the supervision over the new buildings and it is likely, it is said that the buildings will be of brick. _ ! Amoffg other general improve ments planned is ■ the better light ing of the court square about the court house structure. Mayor Dor sey brought this to the attention of Mr. A. E. Cline, county account ant and commission chairman,'add Mr. Cline has agreed, Dorsey says to install more lights about the court house building. i “Those are two improvements that should aid the tbwn consid erably,” Mr. Dorsey remarked in referring to the demand for a Con crete bridge and the request to bet ter light the court square. “The present bridge on LaFayette isn’t much, and as for the court square there isn’t any use in hiding the town’s most beautiful spot at night Both these improvements ,you will note are to be without cost to tho city if secured.” * Every Shelby Car ' Must Have New Tag By July 1, Is Said Local Police Will Stop Cars From Running That Do Not Have New City Tags Just the other day city work men dumped a number of unused and unpurchased city automobile tags for last year, but such will not be the case this year accord ing to Police Chief A. L. Richards and Mayor W. N. Dorsey. “Every Shelby car that operates in Shelby after July 1 must have one of the new city tags on it, or it will not operate.” The statement is definite and citizens who do not wish to be pulled should have a tag prior to July 1. Just how many tags will be sold, or how many automobiles there are in Shelby is not known now but police officials say that the number will be known by mid summer as every car operating in the town will have a Shelby li cense on it. The tags sell for $1 each. Prominent Parties Lost In Charlotte Lost in Charlotte singing “Show Me the Way ot Go Home” wa s the experience of a party of prominent Shelby people in the Queen City last night, according to reliable in formation. The party of men and women, perfectly sober on the en tire trip, went over to a Charlotte theatre. The bright lights of the great city so bewildered them that they were completely lost when i they left the theatre and could not ' find their car. All efforts to locate ; it failed, so they finally resorted to i the chamber of commerce for help. With help and guidance on the part, j of sympathetic friends they manag ed to get out and reach home about i 4 o’clock this, morning,
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