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VOL. XXXIV, No. 87
SHELBY, N. C.
FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1927
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons
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THE STAR’S REVIEW -
The diamonds milady wears on
e tapering fingers are boosting
' taxable income of Cleveland
,unty» tax assessors say.
a man who had been confined in
There is talk now of opposition
|or othen county officers.
^ new principal for the Shelby
Lh school has not been selected
.. vet, but may be soon.
Superior court convenes here
Monday with no big cases docket
ed.
• * *
Yes, Dempsey kayoe^STiai1^ in
the seventh. ^ ^
Local marriages are on the de
cline; Ebeltoft is nearing another
milepost; a pageant will be staged
,t the First Baptist open air meet
ing ground Sunday evening—and
io on through a newsy paper. Read
tvery page.
Search Continue*
For Missing Man
Officers Trailing Beeveedee Run
ner Again. Deane’s Mother
Writes Letter Here.
Two escaped convicts froni the
No. 6 gang camp are still being
•ought by officers. There isn’t any
trace of Dillard Deane, who made
his second escape Sunday, but re
ports are that officers picked up a
trail again Wednesday of Louis
Turner, who made his getaway a
week before Deane.
This time it is said Turner was
teen in the Ninety-Nine Islands
•ection, the officers missing him
only about 30 minutes. With the
desire to have Turner, who obtain
ed some publicity by his getaway
in his beeveedees, tried on another
charge in next week’s court offic
ers are hoping to catch him by
Monday or Tuesday.
Well Planned Skip.
It seems from surface indications
that Deane made a well planned
getaway. He had visitors Sunday.
Some time after they left he de
parted also. Since then he hasn’t
been heard from. On his last jaunt
Deane got to Ohio and New York,
but became tired of running from
his own shadow and came back.
This time perhaps he will tarry
longer after three more months of
summer time labor on the gang.
Since Deane’s unannounced depart
ure officers, it is said, have receiv
ed a letter from his mother asking
it is said about a pardon, stating
*80 that she intended to come and
»ee him last Sunday but did not
hut to do so. According to officers
her letter sounds “as if she didn’t
know he was gone.”
The years roll on; mile posts on
7prt?tyd PaSS With increasing
It seems hardly a year ago tha:
lw taI/'halked up No. 78 for Mr.
79 ■ Ebeltoft. Now it is numbe*
Ebeltoft Chalk*
bp Another Year
A visitor to the establishmei
B mormng. wished him 21 mor
He Sald: “Why wish that on m
. , Ut'' .t0 a hundred I would 1.
enepit you would have to cart
®e around.”
Last year his friends handed hi
nJ,'] ,'r'<*£')als- This year it
th ? T,u"ts. They «,e sayir
youh’7ar ‘S looKlnK younger aT
v evvry 'lay. and spryer. D
irouvh aSSertS he is Kr°win
2 thL"'r antl grouchier, but th
the, here nor there- Those o
the f”Slf e«aj Mitchell is jealous .
«ve ,Mr' Ebelt0ft SO h
nt,pds a doctor.
th* il 7ta,r w'shes the bookselle
’ °^nson of these part
the t m°r<' happy years- And
C i/V* neglected to mentio
"at l-nday was the big day-7
kJh'S 's one of the best sales I
«p,ri,B7/.Ut °'eF; in 23 years of
Cincin„ ,sa,d Harry Wolpa, of
Alexann *’ here Putting over Geo.
nun'1 >,nd his merchandise to
the m.Kir 18 merchandise to
nr, b ?'• ,w»'p* ith w. wif.
^dMiiK Sunday for Russelvilie,
&y* Star Helped
Sale Greatly
Val,™!*1? credit do you K'VC
a'l'i‘itisina: for the results,”
h'!;e was asked.'
“Ynu rl a rwCfnt‘’ he 8naPPed
of it"
k* kind,,,. tjle Shelby people are
^ found a[’d most hosPitable he
und- they treated him with
* W0uu",|Tatlon' he said, he feel-s
* into } ' * to ret“rn here and
t ? S,nM8- “And I am con,
some day,” he said.
PRINCIPAL HERE
NOT PICKED YET
GRIFFIN SMS
May Be Selected At Early Date.
School Head Dives Informa
tion About Teachers.
The new principal for the Shel
by high school to succeed Prof A.
C. Lovelace has not been selected
as yet, according to Supt I. C.
Griffin, now heading the normal
school at Chapel Hill. He may be
selected at an early date however,
it is added.
Mr. Griffin gives some interest
ing information about the new
teachers coming to the city
schools next year. By schools the
information follows:
Washington School
Mrs. D. H. Harris, second grade,
is a graduate of the Mississippi
State college. She has taught pri
mary grades and done kindergar
ten work in the city schools of Col
umbus, Miss., and of Asheville.
She is highly recommended by her
superintendents.
Miss Frances McArthur, Spar
tanburg, S. C., graduated last June
from Winthrop college. Miss Mc
Arthur has many friends in Shelby
to welcome her to our city.
Miss Flora Pettit, Spartanburg,
S. C., also a graduate of Winthrop,
comes highly recommended as a
grammar grade teacher,
Miss Laura Weatherspoon, Ra
leigh, graduated this year from
Meredith college. Miss Weather
spoon’s people are well known by
many citizens of Shelby.
Marion School
Mrs. J. L. Blanton is a Shelby
girl, whd graduated from the
Asheville Normal School. She has
been teaching very successfully in
Kings Mountain.
Miss Lena Maxwell, Laurinburg,
graduated from Carolina college at
Maxton. She has been teaching
(Continued on page two.)
Grier Friday Up To
His Old Standard
Smaeks Out Home Run At Local
Park Like Unto Hig'i School
Days. Jack Wins.
A little ancient higlv school his
tory came floating back to' the
city park here yesterday after
noon when Gastonia defeated Mc
Murry’s Shelby clan 9 to 3. Grier
Friday, erstwhile Cherryville high
school sensation, and Jack Hoyle,
one-time Shelby high star hurler,
furnished the fireworks—but, sad
ly enough, they furnished ’em for
Gastonia.
Hoyle, whose slow hooks once
turned in victories for Shelby high
hurled for Gastonia and did a
fairly good job of it. Friday, who
once was a pitcher himself and a
heavy hitter along with it, slap
ped one of Anthony’s shoots for a
drive to the “tin can’’ in deep cen
ter and a jaunt around the paths.
Friday, the rabid fans will remem
ber, hit four-base swats back in
the day when he was still in high
school and had never played pro
ball. Other features included a
triple by George Dedmon, local
performer, and Fred Morris, broth
er of Casey the coach.
Rain interfered after the Gas
tonians had secured two of their
nine runs in the first half of the
seventh and the locals did not get
to bat in their half.
Box Score:
Shelby Ab. R. H. A. E.
Bridges, lb —3 0
I Conner, 2b --.2 1
| Dedmond, If-3 2
Bumgardner, cf —3 0
Keeter, rf — --—--2 0
Sanders, ss -2 0
McMurry, c__ — 1 0
Anthony, D, 3b — 2 0
Anthony, R, p —2 0
Totals
.20 3 3 6 1
Gastonia
AB. R. H. A. E.
1 0
1 1
1 1
Laney, 3b -3 1
Jackson, ss and 2b__4 2
Morris, 2b, ss- 3 2
Parnell, cf-4 110 0
Benson, If — --—-1 0 10 0
Withers, If--2 110 0
Friday, lb--4 1
Beam, c-- --4 0
Nagel, rf —-4 0 0 0 0
Hoyle, p ... ——3 10 0 0
2 1
1 2
Totals.. — — 32 0 13 0 2
Score by innings. R. H. E.
Shelby —. 201 000 x—3 3 1
Gastonia_ 001 060 2—9 13 2
Summary:
Two base hits, Bumgardner, Par
nell. Three base hits, Dedmond, Mor
ris. Home runs, Friday. Stolen
bases, Dedmond, Morris (2), Beam.
Bases on balls, off Hoyle 1; off
Anthony, 1. Struck out by Hoyle,
7; by Anthony 6. Hits off Hoyle 3;
in six innings, off Anthony 13 ,n
seven vpnings.
Milady’s Diamonds Boost
Shelby’s Tax Values $10,000
Tax Assessors Find Enough ‘‘Rocks’' In City
To Push Up Total Valuation
Quite A Bit.
Luxury property, in a way of
speaking may keep Shelby’s person
al property values from skidding
in a business year that was not the
best one on record.
Unofficial rumors from the tax
assessors of No. 6 township are to
the effect that at least $10,000
worth of diamonds worn by Shel
by womanhood in wedding, engage
ment and dinner rings, will be tax
ed this year for the first time. Hus
bands, whose wives were last
month saying ‘John paid son and so
for this, don’t it sparkle?” are
saying themselves to the tax as
ses-ors “John didn’t do any such a
thing.”
Very few family skeletons, or,
cheap jewelry store buys have been
uncovered, it is said, but quite a
number of fine stones have been
valued by the assessors.
Just how much jewelry the Don
Juans of Shelby have bedecked
their wives with is not known Tax
assessors are conservative, regrard- ^
less of numerous howls, yet the in
come from $10,000 worth of dia-j
monds may come in handy at the
time when public expenses demandl
quite a sum from taxable sources.
Whether or not many diamonds
in the county have been assessed]
is not known and probably will not
be until the tax records for the new
year are complete, but in town an^
assessor says “at least $10,000
worth of rin^s have been assessed.” j
The tax assessments and valua-;
tions complete may be ready some!
time next week, it is stated.
AUTOS FRIGHTEN
CONVICT IN OPEN
AFTER 10 YEARS
Placed in Prison 10 Years Ago He
Was Not So Acquainted with
Cars. Scared of Traffic.
Observers on the street here this
week noticed an unusual sight—
a grown man apparently afraid to
cross a street where automobiles
were hanking and whizzing. When
he did start it was in a hurry, or
a “dog trot” as they say out on tne
farm.
Passersby looked at one another
wonderingly. Hadn’t the fellow ever
^een automobiles before? Was it
possible that a mahyhad lived back
in a lost province and had never
become accustomed tX the motor
age? 1
Later during the day, it wai
learned that the auto-frightened
man was on his way back home to
start life anew after 10 long years
in the state prison.
His home was in the hill section
between Rutherfordton and Marion
a decade back when the war was
the talk of the day. Automobiles
were plentiful then but good roads
were not known in the mountains
and thereabouts automobiles were
rather strange sights even just 10
years ago. One day at a ball game,
or carnival, a row came up, a man
was killed—but ttyit is another
story. The man who came through
here this week and “done his bit”
For 10 years all he saw of civiliza
tion was from the standpoint of a
man closely confined except when
being moved from one job of work
to another. In those 10 years auto
mobiles became necessities instead
of luxuries and so plentiful that
back in the most remote section
of the state a street full does not
attract a second look. Pedestrians
with 10 years experience in life
saving (their own lives) no longer
fear to dodge across a street filled
with traffic. But the man who had
heard very little other than silence
and the thud of hammer for 10
years did not know that.
If some unseen hand could pick
you up now and remove you to a
day 10 years hence with the air full
of flying machines, how would you
feel ?
When the fellow was first seen
to flit across a street there weie
those who laughed, yet when they
learned why the sneers gave away
to pity. Ten good years gone. Noth
ing to show for them except the
inability to cope readily with the
changes of time.
The fellow was on his way back
home—back to the fresh mountain
air and freedom, back to start all
over again, but not prepared for
such changes. Even before he left
Shelby his tough luck increased.
A Shelby business man starting
to drive his car in the garage Wed
nesday night noticed a figure slip
ping about the garage. Officers
were brought and the moving shad
ow in the shadows proved to be the
man who hadn’t experineced the
air of freedom for 10 years. He
was placed in jail, spent the night
there and set out again for home
the next day. His story was that he
was looking for a place to sleep.
Wanderers 10 years ago slept in a
barn when they did not have the
nrice of sleeping anywhere else.
The barns have given away to ga
rages in town and perhaps the fel
low was truthful' after all in hi"
seeking-a-bed story.
It is hard to imagine a man out
on the Shelby streets afraid of the
automobiles and unusual noises, yet
it happened this week.
DEMPSEY KNOCKS
' SHARKEY SILENT
Shout* Here Hail Come-Back of
Defeated Tiger Champion.
Rounds Stand 3 To 2.
jack Dempsey, the tiger of the
ring, is on his way to the first
come-back in the history of the
fighting game.
His first big step came in the
seventh round of his fight Thurs
day night with Jack Sharkey, the
Boston sailor, in the Yankee sta
dium, when his right crashed to
Sharkey’s stomach and then flitted
like a pile-driver to the sailor’s
jaw. It was a knock-out. Sharkey
nlunged to his knees, hung there
for a count of nine and fell forward
on his face. It was the punch that
made Dempsey famous and Shark
ey was just one more it made mis-'
erable.
According to the latest dispatches
the rounds stood three and two for
Dempsey, not counting, of course,
that fatal seventh. Sharkey gets
credit for the first and sixth
rounds, Dempsey for the third,
fourth and fifth, and the second
was termed even. At the outset the
former champion seemed to be the
same man who lost to Tunney, but
thereafter the old ferocity came:
from behind and the ripping lung°s
began to tell. With Dempsey tear
ing Sharkey down amidships it
only a matter of time until the
guard dropped from the jaw op
ening up a hole for the so-called
haymaker.
Eighty—two thousand people
paid one million and one hundred
thousand dollars to see the fight,
one of the most spectacular in ring
history. Tunney watched it and he
saw the man who will fight him for
his title. It was a fight, both men
in to win every round instead of
stalling.
Listen in Here.
Radio fans of Shelby and the
county listened in over private out
fits or at three points here in town
where programs were given. Seem
ingly Dempsey, once called a slack
er and unpopular as champion, was
the sentimental favorite, but far
from the betting favorite. Yes, the
Shelby shekels, like many other
shekels, were shekeles on Sharkey,
but there was an inner urge for old
Jack to pull something new to ring
history and come back. He did in
a quick slashing fight that kept
fans on their toes hundreds of miles
away from the big stadium.
Now it’s Tunney and Dempsey
; again. Maybe in September.
Pageant At Open
Air Tract Here
Sunday Evening
Mrs. Vera Goode to Have Charge
Of Big Affair. Thirty-Five
Shelby Children In.
A big religious pageant will be
given at the open air tabernacle of
the First Baptist church here Sun
day evening, July 24, at 8 o’clock,
the pageant to be in charge of Mrs.
Vera Little Goode, who is well
known here.
Local Children.
Thirty-five Shelby children will
take part on the program represent
ing innocence. One hundred and
fifty from Lincolnton will also be
on. A silver offering will be taken.
Mrs. Marion Wise, of Lincolnton
will be here Saturday and wants to
meet the children at 10 o'clock at
the tabernacle Mrs. DeVVitt Quinn
and Mrs. J. D. Lineberger are chair
men of the children’s committees.
ML NIK
GETS 1R0UND TO
Informal Confab** Of Dopesters
Say County Officers Will
Have Opposition.
A season cannot wend it’s weary
Or joyful way without some poli
tical talk about Cleveland county.
This time it has to do with several
of the swivel chairs over to the
Court house and about the county
feat lobbies.
Back in the spring- the dopesterr,
Were discussing numerous likely
Successors to Sheriff Hugh Logan,
seeing as how he isn’t going to do
the gentle sheriffing longer after
many years of fin:* service. Friends
were not even adverse to naming
[several of the candidates, and al
though many of them stated they
hadn’t give the situation any
►thought two years in advance, not
So many denied that they might
run. And after a week or so the
talk about the next sheriff pass
ed along.
I Since then idle speculation, and
pome not so idle, has been confined
to crops, Lindbergh achievements,
and so on, but recently murmurs
and rumors come , of prospective
statesmen that may be out a'seek
ing first laurels in other county of
fices. i
This time the speculation deals
quite a bit with the legal frater
nity. With a rain or a drizzle near
ly every day there has been ample
time for speculation in the court
house lobbies and also on the
benches under the trees, and this
week came the unverified news—
political forecasts are always so—
that there may be another Demo
cratic candidate as well as a Re
publican candidate for recorder.
Likewise the same report hinted
that one or two barristers may
toss their legal headgear into the
ring labelled for the county attor
ney’s votes. Such may. or may not
be, yet the reports are from a more
direct source than all those talked
of candidates for sheriff. One
county officer expresses the per
sonal belief that the next election
may see more county candidates
than ever before. That remains to
be seen.
As it is, it isn’t for the primary
doesn’t come along until next
June. That is nearly a year, but
stop the political dopesters ? No.
Lake Lure—The Southern Rail
way company has just issued a
large edition of a beautiful folder
called “Lake Lure and How to Get
There.” It contains fourteen fine
pictures of Lake Lure and the sur
rounding country, and gives a rail
way map from all points in the two
Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee.
Not to be outdone the Seaboard
Air Line Railway has brought out
an edition of over two hundred
thousand handsome folders giving
time tables from all important
towns and cities, and connections,
west, east, south and north, to Lake
Lure.
Shelby Is Mentioned.
Shelby, “The Friendly City” ai^o
has a picture of a representative
street in the folder. All the hotels
with their prices of Rutherfordton
and Chimney Rock section are giv
en.
That the possibilities of Lake
Lure as the greatest inland moun
tain lake resort in the south are
now becoming fully realized is em
phasized by the fight for business
here which has just begun between
two of the greatest railway sys
tems in the Southland, the South
ern and the Seaboard,
Local Marriages
Still On Decrease
Wedding bells hardly tinkle
these days in Cleveland county
if the records kept atth ereg
iater of deeds’ office here may
be taken as an indication.
More and more, day by day. it
seems as if the love-lorn cou
ples are hieing away to South
Carolina or elsewhere for the
official reunion of connubial
bliss.
With nearly three-fourths of
July gone only three marriage
licenses hive been issued by
Register Newton, two of those
were to colored couples.
“I have issued license to
about 113 couples since I took
office in December,” Mr. New
ton says. ‘‘Since that time
how many Cleveland couples
do you suppose have been mar
ried in South Carolina?”
The World’s Strangest Dairy
Leonard Keeler (left), a junior at Stanford University, runs the
world's weirdest dairy at Palo Alto. Calif. In his laboratory Keeler
•'milks'' Texas rattlers twice a month and sells the poison from their
fansts to chemists for manufacture into a serum. Here Kector pad
iii) sHiitut sto getting ready to milk one of the queer bossies.
State Health Men Tell
How To Avoid Typhoid
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Keep The Flies Out; Keep Water Pure,
Watch Milk, And Be Clean With Every
thing Used. Vaccination Urged And Ex
plained.
Last week Mr. H. E. Miller, sani
tary engineer of the state board of
health, and Dr. F. M. Register,
state epidemiologist of the state
board of health were in Shelby on
their way to Lawndale to investi
gate an outbreak of typhoid fever
in that town. In a conversation with
Dr. D. F. Moore, health officer of
Cleveland county, they pointed out
the importance of things that house
holds could do to prevent typhoid
fever::
i 1.—Screen the house so that
! flies cannot enter for every fly is
dangerous.
2. —Have one or more sanitary
privies for each home (for homes
that do not have sewer connection)
and see that these are used,
3. —Have a good water supply.
If you have a well and have not
already done so, install a pump.
With the old rope and bucket, it is
so easy to contaminate the water
by those drawing the water The
well must be so situated that sur
face water cannot drain into it or
water that has been drawn cannot
run back into the well. Be careful
about using water from springs,
unless they are protected against
drainage from the surface, espec
ially after big rains. So often
springs are covered by an over
flow after rains. This is very
dangerous.
4—Milk should be handled in a
cleanly manner. All buckets and
bottles should be sterilised either
by boiling or by live cseam. Stables
should be cleaned daily. Cows' ud
ders should be cleaned before each
milicing. Those milking and hand
ling the milk should have clean
hands and the only way to have
clean hands is to wash them often.
Handling milk in a cleanly manner
is just as important for the one
cow man as for the dairy man.
5.—Vaccinate your family against
typhoid. There has been a wrong
impression in regard to typhoid
vaccination. Some people that al
ready have the typhoid germs in
them take the vaccination and im
mediately come down with typhoid
They and their friends immediately
think that the vaccination gave
them typhoid. This is impossible. If
this were true, every man in the
ranvy and navy in the late world
war would have typhoid fever for
they were all vaccinated.
Convicts Legally Free Kept At
Work On Roads In Some Counties
Raleigh.--Hundreds of convicts on
county roads in North Carolina arc
being kept in custody despite the
fact that their sentences have ex
pired. This was disclosed by Par
don Commissioner Edwin Bridges
just back from a field tour of west
ern counties. The whole trouble
arose, Commissioner Bridges ex
plained, through ignorance of coun
ty authorities of a statute passed
by the 1927 legislature.
The statute placed county prison
ers on the same commutation basis
as state prisoners. It became effec
tive July 1, and by ruling of As
sistant Attorney General Frank
Nash, is retroactive because it is
of a redemial nature.
The gist of the new law is that
county prisoners must be divided
into three grades “A” grades, or
trusties, “B’ grade, and ‘C grade, or
incorrigibles. All convicts are first
made ‘B’ grade, and ‘C’ grade, or
made .‘B’ grade and then advanced,
left as they are, or demoted as
their conduct dictates. The advan
tage of being an ‘A’ grade prisoner
is that 104 days a year are lopped
off th sentence, ‘B’ grade prisoners
gain 78 days a year and ‘C’ grade
convicts none.
As very few prisoners have terms
of more than two vears on the
roads, and there are 4,000 county
prisoners in the state, the imme
diate effect of the law, according
to Commissioner Bridges, would
have been to free several hundred
had'the county authorities known
of it.
But they apparently didn’t save
in a few of the more populace coun
ties. and let the prisoners keep
right on serving time although le
psllv thev would have been free by
deducting the time allowed off for
good behavior.
Conseouently one of the first
things the pardon commissioner
did upon his return was to frame
a mimeographed letter to be sent
out to county authorities having to
do with convicts advising them of
the provisions of the new law.
Another provision of the statute
that Mr. Bridges is calling atten
tion to is that county road camp
supervisors are now required to
grade and keep records of all con
victs on the same basis as requir
ed for state prisoners.
Typhoid Epidemic
On Decline Now,
Reports Have It
No New Cases Since Tuesday In
Lawndale Section, Said. Major
ity Improving In County*
The typhoid fever epidemic
seems to be on a general decline in
the Lawndale section, according to
telephone reports early this morn
ing.
No new' cases have been report
ed since Tuesday, according to the
report, and the situation seems weli
in hand as to combatting the spread
of the fever.
From the same source it was
learned that the majority of cases
in that section are on the upward
swing, although it was said that
several of the patients are not do
ing so well. Those in the hospital,
including the wife and two child
ren of the man who died of fever,
are improving.
The Star today carries in the
news columns information on avoid
ing typhoid as given out by State
health officials.
Miss Thelma Jolly of Boiling
Springs was the guest of Miss Ruth
Dellinger the past week.
I
SUPEDIOR COURT
SMS MOH
FEW BIS TIIS
Criminal "Docket Light And Majt
Take Only Two Days. Several
Big Suits On Civil
The summer term of Superior
court convenes here Monday morn
ing with Judge Michael Schenck
presiding and Solicitor Spurgeon
Spurling prosecuting. Judge
Schenck is holding court this week
in Lincoln county.
So far as barristers can deter
mine and the docket reveals there
will be very little of a startling
nature for trial on the criminal
docket. In fact, it seems as if even
the minor cases are not so numer
ous. The court schedule calls for
only about two days of criminal
procedure and it is likely that the
docket will be completed by that
time with the civil calendar start
ing about the third day.
Trial Of Girl
There is not a case on the crim
inal docket that will attract more
than passing interest, it is said,
unless it be that the Kings Moun
tain girl, whose alleged infant was
found dead, is given a hearing at
■this term. The girl waived a pre
liminary hearing and was bound
over to this term of court. Reports
here are that Jake Newell, well
known Charlotte lawyer, will han
dle her defense if the sordid at
fair does come to trial next week.
The remainder of the criminal
docket for the most part deals
with liquor cases in one form or
another and appeals from the
county court.
Civil Suits
There are near a half dozen
litigations on the civil calendar
that will attract goodly crowds,
some because of their unusual na
ture and others because of a gen
eral interest in the litigants. Sev
eral of the suits are for consider
able sums and the rgnge of the al
legations is from bodily injuries to
character defamation, at least one
man alleging injury to his good
name. Mental anguish, of course
and as usual, figures in the dam
ages asked in several matters, it
was understood here yesterday
that the suits against, the town of
Kings Mtu. over alleged sewage
conditions will be carried over un
til the special term of civil court
called for September.
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(Special to The Star.)
Bel wood, July 22.—Belwood con
solidated school will open its sec
ond year August 1. The following
teachers will be in .service: Miss
Macie Lattimore, Shelby R-5, be
ginners. Miss Virginia Harris, Lawn
dale, R-3, first grade. Mrs. C. A.
Ledford, Belwood R-l, second
grade. Miss Clara Williams, Falls
ton, third grade. Miss Annye Hull,
Cherryville R-3, and Miss Lena
Williams, Shelby R-8, fourth grade.
Mr. J. Alvin Propst, Lawndale R-4,
fifth grade. Miss Eugenia Eliott,
Shelby R-B, sixth grade. Mr. D. S.
Devine, Shelby R-8, seventh grade
Miss Katherine Whisnant, Shelby,
R-5. departmental work in fifth,
sixth and seventh grades.
High school teachers are as fol
lows: Miss Annie Mae Lackey,
Fallston, English and French. Mr.
Gilmer Graham, ' Farmington,
science and mathematics. Miss
Fannye Parker, Gaffney, S. C. hist
ory and Latin. Mr. C. A. Ledford*
(principal) will have mathematics
and Bible.
Miss Katherine Whisnant wilf
have charge of the general school
music.
The geperal report of the people
as well as pupils, is “I am glad it’s
going to start.” All seem very anx
ious to put across another success
ful -year. The teachers and com
munity are deeply indebted to all
out-side agencies that helped us
to put across the good work last
year.
Our aim this year is to go as
far toward standardizing the ele
mentary department as we can. If
possible lets go over the top. This
will take another hard climb. Still
it is worthwhile. Such is what our
people enjoy, taking hold of »
heavy task and doing it well.
Meeting Will Start '
At Poplar Springs
The revival meeting: will begin
at Poplar Springs next Sunday, it
is announced. A cordial invitation
is extended to all the people living
in the section to attend all the serv
ices. The pastor will do the pre&cbs
ing. - •