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th in HOB , cheek niii Crops Are Looking Fine. Good Yield of Irish Potatoes Are Reported. (Special to The Star.) Toluea, July 16.—Crops are cer tainly looking fine since the good shower*. Mr. F. A. Boyles is the champion Irish potato raiser in Toluca. H ' gathered 14 bushels from n small patch of which he sold $22 worth and kept plenty for home use. - Mrs. S. A. Boyles was the first to gather new corn. She served roasting ears for breakfast Inst Sunday morning. The young people of the com munity gave Miss Selma Propst a surprise party last Saturday nigh*.. A large crowd was present and a good time was enjoyed by all. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sain attend ed the wedding at Bel wood last Wednesday of Miss Inez Lutz and Mr. Guy Brown. Miss Gertrude Seism of Cherry-' villa spent FHiay night with Miss es Note and ftelma Costner, also Saturday night with Miss Vaunita Boyles. Mrs. Leanne Boyles spent Satur day night with her daughter, M-. and Mrs. Andy Willis. Mrs. A. G. Boyles visited Mrs. S. A. Sain Tuesday evening. Misses Ruth Costner and Oar.i1 Yarboro spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Vaunita Boyles. Mr. Warren ami daughter Ijjellc and niece Bernice, of Tennessee spent Monday night at the home of Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Edwards. Master Howard Young son of Mr. and Mrs. Reehei Young of 1 Newton soent the past week with his uncle Mr. Leon Young. Mr. Jim Peeler of Belwood spent Saturday night at the home of his uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sain. Mm. Elias Hartman and children of Cherryville spent last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cadfpe. Mr. and Mrs, Lois Hartman spent the past week at their grandparents Mr. hnd Mrs. J. O. Hartman. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Norman vis ited at the home of their daughter Mr. and Mrs. Guess Boyles Snnrtay. Mrs. Oseare King and daughter Inez visited her daughter Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Boyles Sunday. Misses Blanche and Pauline Eaker of Shelby spent a few days the past week with Miss Merril Ed wards. 'We presume the bootlegger wondering why Chicago is making such a lot of fuss over a little kwater. What has become of the old fashioned farmer who use to tote the town scribe a little farm pro- i dace along about this season of the Debunking The Sob Gushing Over N. C. Concerning The Star’s recent objection to the criticism of Burke county over the Broadus Miller af fair The Hickory Record says edi torially: The debunking Cleveland Star come forth again with a scalding for the editors who have been pointing in derision at the citizens of Morganton and Burke county because the dead body of Broadus Miller was not treated overly tender ly. The Star says that these edi tors, because of a few indis creet acts of rash individuals, have attempted to place a blot against the citizenship of the town and county. The ghastli ness of the crime is retold suf ficiently to convince The Star that the people of Morganton an’ Burke are not harharious. And if the truth were known, any other community in North Carolina, or any other stat’, would have done itself no bet ter under the circumstances. The Charlotte Observer com menting on the same topic says: The Cleveland Star, which by the way, has developed into a three-days-a-week paper with every column originalin ed in vivacious manner, is utk ing up the cudgels for the peo ple of Morganton on account of recent exhibition of the body of an outlaw slain in combat. The cause of the peo ple of that town is ejuito intel ligently championed, for, as a matter of fact, what other con duct could have been expected of an outraged people? Why should they not have mani fested a desire to view the body of the outlaw whose acts had brought so much distress upon that community? Some of the accounts of the action of the people on the day in question were so manifestly "sob stuff,” as to have carried discount on its face. The Ob server had been revolving in its mind the probability that the conduct of people of some other towns might have been less restrained than was that of the people of Morganton. There was. as The Star sug gests, too much of the nped Menckenism in some of the criticisms hurled at that town. It is exactly true, as contend ed by the Shelby paper, that there are examples of more barbarity than shown at Mor ganton in the daity life of our towns and cities. Barbarity, selfish curiosity, and animal tendencies that never get crit icised in the newspapers,” Tteally though, defends The Star, "such unjustified criti cism of so-called barbarity among such hospitab','*. friend ly, square-shooting hill people as those of Burke doesn’t need Any used car seen on our floor , is good for more than enough • satisfactory miles to assure the owner of his money’s worth. You can always count on that LITTON MOTOR CO, Shelby, N. C. * A Ude>D CAR 15 ONLY A5 DEPENDABLE AS THE DEALER WHO SELLS IT FUNNY THING ABOUT YOUR CAR ;; Htft you ever noticed —- sometimes ycmr ear is eager to go, anxious to get there! Then sometimes it acts just lazy and tired! The secret of your car’s disposition is often determined by the gasoline you use. Sinclair Gaso line, because of its high grade, gives your car a feeling of perpetual eager ness. Try it. It’s Power-Full! SINCLAIR GASOLINE OfocGraufe that makes the Gratis CLEVELAND OIL CO. p Distributors-Shelby, N. C. any defence. But writers at i times seeking something to I criticise in a sanctimonious I style of Uplift make up want to say somethin? plain in re turn.” Auto Expenses Are 75 Million For Single Year iCasoline, Cas Tax. Oil And l.iccn-e Total Big Cost For Whole State. North Carolina automobile driv ers spent 75,000,000 dollars during | the twelve months ending Jute* 30, 1927, for gasoline, ga-olin • taxes, state licenses, title registra j tion and oil, according to a com pilation by Thy Raleigh Times, us ing fifiure* furnished by the stat: ! revenue department. The figure are conservative and the aetuul cost was nearer $80, 000,000, The Times says. Four cents a gallon is the state tax or, gasoline. This tax netted the state $8,120,804 in 12 months. This means that tax was paid on 203,015,100 gallons of gits. I This gasoline would drive a small automobile 30 miles pc r hour for more than three billion miles in 101,507,550 hours, or 4,229,481 days or 11,587 years. ' Automobile drivers in North Carolina in the last 12 months spent $68,663,322 for gasoline in cluding the tax figuring the cost of the gasoline plus the tax at 22 rents per gallon. They spent $3, 383,585 for motor oil figuring that at a rate of one quart per 15 gal : Ions at a quarter a quart, i They also spent $5,894,468 to get licenses to operate their automo biles and spent $160,000 for title registrations. Record Old Deed In Lincoln County ; Lincoln Times. ! Probably the oldest deed ever to l be recorded in the county was fil ed Tuesday with the register of 1 deeds by D. A. Troutman. The ' deed was made August 0, 1824, ! more than one hundred years ago. , by Joseph Graham, and conveyed to Henry Link eighteen acres of I land on “the waters of Leper’s i Crpek.” The consideration named in the deed was $27. A New Jersey school girl found a dime eoined in 1783. The coin is worth about $300. As a plea for rain the natives of Angola, on the west coast of Af rica, cut off a man’s arm at i ho i shoulder and plant it in the ground with the hand sticking up. Observer Takes Note Of Asheville Visit And How I’rtpers There Flayed Him. < harjottc Observer. Senator Thomas Heflin went up «o Ashevifl • the other day for one stop in hist national barnstormir expedition, asked the Asheville ehamber of commerce radio sta tion to broadcast his speech, afid wr.s promptly refused. Whereupon he took to the platform of hi.-- na tive fury, and launched into a tirade against Asheville, her radio station and the “Catholics that owned it.” Asheville papers in pointing out that the radio station was owned hy the citizens of the city and controlled by a board which had no Catholic member, which Inst would have been all right anyway, gave Mr. Heflin to understand that if he never came back to Asheville it would be sat isfactory. After classing Senator Helin as a demagogue and bigot, the t't'e of “Ui init'gatsd Pest,” was hand* ed him in bold type*. Alabama was scouraged for •(derating, him, and it was more than intimated that his membership Was not healthful for the Democratic party. Along about the same tirrJ\ one Edgar R. May, of Kansas City, got up before the Baptist Young People’s Union of America in Philadelphia, and after a bitter round of accusations against the young people of “our church,” is quoted as saying: "I made a tour of the Southern States and when in Savannah was introduced to your.g people sup posed to he the elevating group in the Baptist church. I went on a party with them. T saw a young lady smoking cigarets, and anoth er stirring a punch bow! which contained everything but punch. When I refused to drink and smoke, I was refused a ‘date’ witli any of the girls. The crowd refu. ed to admit nu* because I refused the influence of evil.” Even without the denial of the leader of the B. Y. P. U. in Sav annah, who was on the same party, we would have recognized some thing seriously wrong with his picture. He refused to drink the punch, yet he looked at it being stirred and recognized it as too potent for a church gathering. He saw one girl smoking, which those present deny, and all the other girls refused him dates. Maylte the girls Just recognized in him the kind of fellow who would make such, sweeping indictments without knowing what he was talking about, and didn't want him around purely because he was personally distasteful. Here are two cases of the rank est kind of fanaticism and there : are plenty more like them. State-' ments of the type are being' made practically every day, mostly with jus, aw little to substantiate them. They are fruitless of good and often harmful, serving to spread the impression that the existing order m worse than it really is, and thereby making folks feel easier being worse than they really ere. When a man believes everybody in the world is worse 1 • h.tri l>imr>lf, soon he will believe, he has n right to be somewhat like all the rest. It is time a brake was being ap plied fo such stuff. There are laws against a newspaper publishing unsubstantiated libelous charges against a man or organization, and own editorial criticism of any or ganization immediately arises a storm. And yet uninformed and hot-headed surfaee-seratchers hop o)’ a public platform and immed iately assume to themselves the right to attack everything and anybody without the slightest re gard for verity. ,The right of free speech has been prostituted into the right of shooting off verbal poppycock—a menaee to the sanc tity of that same free speech of which it is an illegitimate off spring. Lmcolnion Slump In Postal Receipts Lincoln Times. Receipts at the Lincolnton post office for the fiscal year ending: JwTje dll, 1027, showed a falling off of $228.82, a.-; compared with re ceipts for 1020, according to fig ures secured at the local office. The receipts for the year ending dune .70, 172(3, amounted to $1(3, 004.53, while the total receipts for this year weer only $15,775.82. A Fine Season (Hickory Record.) We learn from over Shelby way that blackberries are plentiful and! young yams are on the market, I and yet there are those grouchy souls who are not satisfied with things and conditions about them. | Not a few tables hereabouts have as our rural correspondents so aptly express ‘it, groaned under the delicious burden of young1 yams, scotched by a juicy black berry roll, and decorated with fresh buttermilk. A man who talks hard times now does not appreciate real artistry in eating. I (By International News H rviee.) Asheville.—A home - owning movement, world-wide in scope as a “nceesary step toward world peace’ is expected to be proposed here this month before the doth annua' convention of the United States League of local building and loan associations. This movement, it was learned here, will be proposed by Mis* Ann E. Rae, Niagara Falls, N. Y., as chairman of a committee' on “An International Congress.” The association’s annual conven tion will be held July 19-20. More than a score of speakers at the convention will describe the pro gress of the association, an t how building and loan association: help the American people into homes of their own. George E. McKinnis, president of the league, stressed in his con vention call that building and loan associations during 11>27 will pay out in dividends and interest more than $.200,000,000. Ex-Congressman Walter B. Hil ton, Wheeling. W. Va.. will dis cuss “Zoning Laws.” Robert Greenfield, Miami, Fla., will ad dress the convention on "The Practical Features of Construc tion.” “The Importance and Value of Real Estate Appraisals” will he discussed by William .1. Fr.n key, Gary, Ind. Cameron Beck, personnel director of the New York Stock Exchange]) also will speak. Spelling Champ Is Like Lindy Over Attention To Him (P.y International News Service.) Akron, O.—Dean Lucas, of Wayne county. Ohio, the 13-ycar old hoy who recently won the na tional spelling championship at Washington, D. C., in' competition with 1G other district champions, agrees with Lindbergh. Too much attention is boring, if not painful, Dean says. “Gee, I’ll be glad when all of these presentations and receptions are over. It’s embarrassing to have so many people pay so much attention to you. I’m not. used to it and I can't make speeches.’’ Lowe f Yield In 26 Years Indicated In 5Y, recast—Other Crops Ai o Curtailed. Wa.mii'gmn.—The shortest corn crop in 26 years was indicated by the dc partment of agriculture in its .fitly civ|> report which fore-. cast n production of 2,'.lY..^4*,uiK> bushels. The figure is almost half a billion bushels below the aver age production of the lust five years. “Crop prospects ns .a whole are far from premising,” was the com-’ rnent of the crop reporting board in j its .review of conditions. Wh'lc it j is still too early to forecast ac curately the production of late sown crops, the present outlook is for a very short crop of fruits, for a material reduction it: the pro duction of tobacco; for about aver age production of potatoes, wheat, sugar beets, flaxseed and feed grains other than corn; for rather large crops of beans, peanuts and sweet potatoes. and for a record produetkm of hay. Crop prospects are fairly good in the western state s hut very unpromising in the eastern part of the corn belt. ‘The area in crops Ibis season shows a reduction of around -even million acres or 2 per cent below the acreage in crop3 at this time last year.” Large shifts in the relative acre-' age of the various crops wore noted by ihe board, the largest be-: ing the six million acredecrease in cotton, the two million acre de c-ream; in corn and the two million acre increase in wheat. Low corn prices in 1026, to gether with unfavorable planting! conditions were held responsible for a decline of more than 5 per cent in acreage in the north central state, which was partially offset by increased corn planting in the south. The corn crop was reported late in nearly every state while in 1 some of the most northern states, due to late planting, only a long growing season, it was said, would avert danger of frost damage. This year’s indicated total wheat, crop was placed at 853,634,000 bushels or about 22,000,000 bush els more than produced last year. Stocks of wheat on farms on July 1 were relatively low, beipg 27, 339,000 bushels, compared with the five year average of 29,913,000. An 11 per cent increase in the white potato acreage was noted, with all late potato states showing increases, and a total crop of 393, 000,000 bushel* were h That is 37,000,000 bushels than produced last year. Tobacco acreage decreased 4 cent, the board holding 1 the widely differing ec, tliuons affecting the variously Indicated production was u\ ,cl\ 1,009,114,000 pounds, the w since 1921, and the second lm. since 1915. Very short crops of most fro were i,.dieat«d. with apple- a,,v ing to be the small,. •„ yoit's wit and pend lurt year’: Found Moonshine Instead Of 0 Drilling Operations If ad Dear! Depth of 700 Feet Who* Drill Struck In Rock Clinton.—Although oil was , produced from an oil v.oll bon ntar here early last month un the partial financing hv local pi pic. liquor was produce 1 from a gallon moonshine still within ' yards of the drilling machine and O. Orr, member of the fi promoting .he well, and t wo of employes have been urre. chavged with operating the still Sheriff McD. Morrison of .Saa son county holds warrant other men connected with i scheme, two of whom, Whorry q Marion Carver, the prompt “geologist,’* arc missing. Orr, gether with Jackson and Jetn employes of Orr and Whorry, p noting concern, have been rob od on $500 bonds each. Sheriff Morrison has (widen he says, that the oil operators! been shipping liquor to New ft and into Virginia." The well, located about thi miles from Clinton, was I randu “wildcat” scheme by state get gist Herman Bryson when wi was started. The drilling opentw had reached a depth of 7<*0 ? and the drill point had been lodged in rock, necessitating a lay in work, the promoters aid No trace had been f< und of. • trio still sought in connection w the liquor manufacturing opr tions. $8,000.00* factory roit YELLOW COACH COMPA1 (Dy International News Servier Pontiac, Mich.—Excavation I started on the site of the $H,0< 000 factory to be erected here the Yellow Truck & Coach Maj facturing company. Ground was broken by Paul Seiler, president of the comps and it is expected the plant t be in operation by January 1,1! Our Windows For DAILY BARGAINS During This Sale GEO. ALEXANDER SHELBY, N.C
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