EISTSIOE ITEMS
m EVENTS
(Special to The Star.)
Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Waldrop and
family visited relatives in Green
ville, S. C., last week.
Misses Lottie and Helen Wright
apent last week in Double Shoals
with relatives.
Mr. Ralph Morrow has returned
from a visit to Atlanta, Ga. lie
now iR visiting his sister, Mrs. E.
G. Gladden.
Mr. and Mrs. John Southards and
children of Dover and Mr. Burgin
Southards of Lawndale .visited Mr.
and Mrs. T. D. Lattimore, Sunday.
Mrs. E. L. Buchanan has return
ed from a viait with relatives at
Linville Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Waldrop and
Children spent the week end in
Spartanburg, S. C.
Mrs. Wallace McGrow ami Misr.
Thelma McGraw of Rutherfordton
and ehikiren of Lawndale were
last week. Mr. and Mrs. Gladden
and little daughter accompanied
them home Sunday and spent the
Ay.
Mr. and Mr*. Charles Lattimore
•dn children of Lawndale were
lucent visitor* in Eastside.
H< Mrs. Clyde Daves, K is tier
Brooks and R, A. Bunchanan of
'Alexander were Eautside visitors
on Sunday.
Miss Edith L. Knight of Ashe
ville, is visiting Mrs. J. F. Alexan
der.
. Mrs. B. E. Price and family of
Do^pr spent Sunday here with rela
tives.
Little Herbert Holliday continues
very ill at the home o fhi* parents
here. He has been very seriously ill
for about two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Murray and
children spent Saturday in Monroe
With his sister Mrs. fid Hill, who
4* seriously sick.
Mr. and Mrs. George Scruggs and
children are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Shepherd,
Misses Orrie and VHvie Wilkie
of South Shelby snent Saturday
night with Mrs. C. H. Morner. \
t Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Grigg and
children spent Several days las!
Week wiiJl Mr. and Mrs. Dave York
«f Beams Mill.
Mr. and Mra. Harry Mosley, Mrs
lizzie Murray and Mr. Ernest Fan
fther spent Saturday night with Mr
and Mffif®. J. Murray.
r Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Waldrop and
their children and guests are spend
ing same time at Ridgecrest and
other points in tile mountain*. ,
The W. 'M. S. of the East side
Baptist church held their regular
tnonthly meeting wi«h Mrs. E.,A».
Gladden Tuesday night. The pro
gram on “Our Euntmer Assemblies'
Was very much enjoyed. After the
program was laid aside Mrs. Glad
den served delicious refreshments.
‘ Mr. sum! Mrs. W T Seeley are the
proud parents of a son, Bom July
-20th.
The Young Man** Day
.jChnrlotte News.
> This is the young man’* tiny .al
though nanny of them do not seem
to think ao.
The disposition with all to large
a part of manhood and womanhood
pf the generation is to contend that
the ground haa already been ao
thoroughly covered, so milch has
already been accomplished, that
there la really not much left for
them to do but to browse over the
telies of other men's attainments.
There never was a greater fal
Wy.
Charles U. Schwab, the steel
master, is one who has no patience
with that type of young men of
'this day and ha ought to be in su
* perior position to pass excellent
judgment on the issue.
He rose himself from a place of
obscurity to eminence and did it by
seizing the opportunities of his
own generation as a young man
.and mounting higher and higher
fcy taking vigorous and unrelent
ing hold upon his everyday chance.
In an address to the students of
Penn State college the other day,
.this old man or renown and dis
tinction declared , “Right now I
arch^ld gladly exchange positions
with any of you boys because I
aee in the next 25 years the great
est industrial development the
world has ever known. What a
chanoe you yanug fellows have!”
And what a chance they do have.
The pky of it is that so many of
thorn are lamenting the lack of it
*ven while they stand neck-deep in
the midst of a multitude of golden
opportunities.
BAD LIQUOR TARES
TOUR LIVES AFTER
PARTY IN RALEIGH
ar - • —
* Raleigh, July 21.—Death toll of
m week-end party in a Rale’gh ne
grre ham* wa» brought to four to
night, three wegno women and a
degro man. Coroner Waring ex
pressed the opinion Hut all died
After drinking denatured alcohol.
* T*o of the dead became totally
blind before death. A fifth mem
Jtor of the party, a negro girl, was
•line today, but was pronounced
totally blind.
A WUdi statesman suggests
that an election be held Among the
; Hungarians in Europe under Amer
ican control. Well the marines could
get away with it if anybody could.
MILLS NOME I
[ OWN STORY MI
South Carolina Killer Tells Of
Shooting Policeman Pcmiin
ger. Family Lives Here.
Yorkville Enquirer.'
Mills Moore, 42, a real Soutli
Carolina had man, according to his
own admissions and tliey were
made voluntarily, who submitted
last week to a plea of murder for
'his killing of Special Policeman T.
R. Penninger, of Sharon, in Sep
tember, 1918, with the under
standing that he get a sentence of
i life imprisonment, talked freely
to a representative of The York
ville Enquirer last Sunday night a
; week ago, the newspaper man be
ing allowed to accompany Deputy
Sheriff Toni Quinn to Columbia,
to bring back William McKinley
Thomasson, negro murderer of
a white woman and Mills Moore,
slayer of an officer, to Yorkville
for trial. The two had been hold
in the state penitentiary for safe
keeping since their capture, Sheriff
Quinn electing to take no chances
in the less secure and safe York
county jail. Moore, who is said to
have been born at Clifton, Spar
tanburg county, where he spent
his early youth-, is said to have
spent much of his early manhood
around Greenville, where some of
his sisters and mayhap other rela
tives live.
Speeding back to the county scat
of York county for trial on the
night of Sunday, July 10,. he talk
ed freely of how nearly nine years
ago he dodged officers of the law
after he had shot and killed spec
ial officer Penningcr. He told 'Hie
York Enquirer representative,
Lewis M. Grist:
“As soon as Frank, my broth
er, hit Mr. Penninger with a pis
.to!, ho (Fennjnger) darted hack
into his blacksmith shop. I thought
he was going; after a gun. I had a
pistol and I shot him—in the back.
Not knowing whether he was dead
or not; but having a pretty good
idea he was, I made for the auto
mobile. So did Frank. We drove
off toward Lockhart. We did not
go into the town, but hid in the
brush. Toward morning my broth
er Frank said he was getting
hungry and was going to rob a
store for something to cat. He did;
but upon first entry he did not
get enough for both of us. He cante
back to me and gave me some of
the cats he had stolen. He said he
wa» going back and get some more
giving me his coat to hold, and
told me to wait. 1 did. An hour
passed and still Frank did not
come back. I waited patiently.
Still he didn’t come back. I waited
for bis return another hour and a
half and still he didn’t come. I
figured that the officers were aft
er us for the shooting of Mr- Pen
ninger and ^hat maybe they had
captured Frank. I beat it, then to
ward Greenville. I got there all O.
K. I^et me say, right here, thpqgh,
I have never seen Frank Moore
from the time he returned from
the first robbery of that store un
til this day. I hung around Green
ville for several days and then
shoved off.
“I went to Arkansas,” Mills
Moore continued, “and there I got
into trouble—lots of it. They put
me in the penitentiary. The stony
lonesome out there is a different
proposition from what it is in
South Carolina even. While in the
penitentiury there I had my left
1 eye taken out. I did my time and
got out again. They had a little
: charge of lifting baggage at the
| railroad station there in Little
Rock. Prison discipline and con
trol is different in Arkansas,
from South Carolina. They make
certain trusties guards. 1 was no
trusty. If a prisoner tries to escape
and one of these trusty guards
kills him, that guard is pardoned.
So I understand. Well, I didn’t
want to be shot. Some times they
shoot regardless of whether or not
the convict is running away or is
attempting to run away, in order
that they might be pardoned—this
is, the guards.
“So,” Mills Moore went on, ns
the automobile sped toward York*
ville, “I decided to confess ,hut I
was wanted in York county for
the killing of a special officer at
Sharon; “and take my chance in
York county and South Carolina.
That is about all of my story. My
two young sisters who lived at
Sharon with mother awhile, I un
derstand are now living in Pau
ville, Va. So far as 1 am concern
ed I guess I will get life. I had
nothing against Mr. Penninger, the
man I killed. I had never seen him
before the killing. I don’t think the
people at Sharon treated me right.
They made me mad and they made
Frank mad. That is the reason wo
shot. I reckon that is about all.”.
Mills Moore admitted t that he
had served gang sentences in
Cleveland, Gaston and Mecklen
burg counties in North Carolina
and that he had been sentenced to
serve five years in Greenville
county, S. C. . (
“Funny about that conviction of
me in Greenville,” he said. “It was
like this: *I had a difficulty with
a couple of fellows and shot both
of ’em. Had to do it or it so seem
ed. When I came back from Ark
ansas, Sheriff Quinn sent me to the
pen for safe keeping. And do you
know I saw both of those birds I
had the difficulty with arid had
stiot in Greenville down there.
And,” he concluded with a gleam
of his pearl teeth—“those babies
are in for life.”
Parker Tells Of Cotton Crop.
Prospects Fairly Good State
Man Declares.
Raleigh.—(INS)—The prelimin
ary acreage for North Carolina’s
1927 cotton crop shows a 10 per
cent reduction, which that for the
entire Cotton belt is given at 12.4
percent reduction, according 10
Frank Parker, State agricultural
statistician.
“Oddly,’ Parker commented, ‘the
least reduction was from North
Carolina to Alabama. All of i'ne
remaining states had more than 10
percent reductions. This state's
acreage is 1,814,000 as Compared
with 2,015,000 planted last year.
The entire belt's acreage is esti
mated at 42,683,000 acres.”
According to the statistician, boll
weevil infestation appears to be
much more general and intensive
than for several years. This, it was
said, was indicated by the report
ed average of 20 percent complete
infestation over the State’s entire
cotton area.
“Inasmuch as entomologists ad
vocate dusting when 15 percent in
festation occurs,” Parker declar
ed, “this indicates a serious situa
tion. “Many areas report squares
dropping off profusely, w^h others
claiming that the drop is due to
boll weevil damages. County agents
report that considerable interest is
manifested toward dusting this
year."
Prom Harnett county to Bruns
wick county, Parker said, farm
ers reported a 34 percent infesta
tion. Damage also seemed to he
heavy, he declared, along the
Southern border to Hoke county.
“According to North Carolina
indications,” Parker said, “the
stand is estimated at 87 percent as
compared with 70 percent reported
for the same time last year. The
average date of first blooms is esti
mated to be July 6 as compared
with July 11 last year. Of course,
the earliest blooms begin in the
Southwestern counties, centering
around Bladen, where a date oi
June 30 was given for their first
blooms. The poorest stand apponrs
to be in this same Southwestern
area where 84 percent is reported.’
The most frequent cement from
more than 627 farmers queried
was “Cool nights holding back Cot
ton growth,” Parker said. “Too
much rain,” has also been harmful
by encouraging boll weevils, he re
ported.
Most farmers, according to Parker,
indicated that there are either no
bool weevils this year or that it is
too early for them to be noticed.
Due to wet weather, lice damage is
serious from Union county to
Beaufort county, he said.
Concluding, the statistician re
ported :
“The crop is in fairly good con
dition so far as cultivation and
healthfulness is concerned. Pros
pects appear to be good. The early
dry conditions permitted the roots
to get a good hold deep into the
soil. Fertilization has been heavy,
but top dressing will be reduced.”
New* That I* Fit
To Print And That
Which I* Ju*t Kept
The Asheville Times. .
Many years now an eminent
American newspaper has worn
across its breast as a ribbon of
! honor the ideal legend “All the
; News That's Fit to Print.” Nor
! would there be lacking among its
| l eaders a host to testify that the
' dignified boast is made good. If
| they are right .they are right part
j ly because public sentiment is an
! elastic thing that shrinks and
.‘.wells according as the customs of
i the day are narrow or broad, con
ventional or liberal; what is today’s
fault may be tomorrow’s fashion.
And a newspaper whose aim is not
to mirror its day is less than it
holds itself out to be.
But there is another and quite
different gauge by which the fit
ness of news to he published is
measured, and it does not change
with the times, nor ever. It is the
gauge of personal interest applied
by the individual who holds himself
harmed or hurt hy that which is, or
is about to be, printed. To him such
news can never be “fit to print.”
It is a fact, fresh as each arriv
ing day is fresh, that more of that
sort of news is voluntarily withheld
from a newspaper’s columns than
is put into them. If such were not
literally the case, society wotild be
upheaved and neighborhoods wreck
ed. In the plain it is the human
sense of decency toward individuals
and the community, not any fear
of libel, that dictates the suppres
sion, for a skillful newspaper man
can write “around” any fact a
eroun of facts in very alluring
fashion and keep within the law.
In the manager’s room of a cer
tain news office in Washington is
a large specially locked, fire proof
cabinet whose deep dAwers are
packed with indexed sheets of mem
oranda relating to unpublished
acts am! faetfc of more or less im
! portant men. Home of the very
; Iil*.-host in the land are there re
! presented... though they may not
know it, by thetr secrets. Prac
tically all of these “stories’ would
i pass the newspaper public’s test of
j what is fit to print, yet that eab
i inot is loaded with personality dy
namite that would blow careers and
sonic lives to pieces. It’s secrets
are not on fiie as threats. Most of
i them never will “see type.’’ Many
! of them r.re verified or partly ven
i fied “tips’ obtained unsought,
brought in as information is in
1 thousands of fragments to the mor*
| nower/ul and least faithless of all
j hcuses of secrets your daily news
j paper.
(Continued from first page.)
PRINCIPAL HERE
NOT PICKED YEr
successfuly at Welcome.
LaCayette School
Miss Jewell Askew (Mrs. Henry
Edwards) graduated in June from
Meredith college. Her professors
recommended her very highly as a
primary teacher.
Miss Elizabeth Edwards, Scot
land Neck, is also a Meredith col
lege girl. She is completing the re
quirement for her certificate at
the University of North Carolina
summer school this summer.
Miss Clara Babb, Anderson. S.
C., graduated in June from Win
throp college. Her college record
gives promise of a good record as
a teacher.
Sumter School
Mrs. Henry Mills, Shelby, is a
graduate of Salem college, and has
j taught successfully in Mooresville
- and in Lumberton.
Miss Helen Dixon, Raeford, was
I educated at Flora McDonald col
lege. She has attended summer
school at the University of Cali
fornia and at the University of
I North Carolina. She has been
j teaching for several years at Lit
itleton.
Miss Frances Jennings, Shelby,
graduated from Brenau college,
and has taught very successfully
for several years in the city
schools of Wadesboro.
Morgan School
Mrs. Kimmie Falls, Shelby,
comes to us from the Cherryville
|city schools, where she taughc suc
cessfully for several years.
| Miss Josephine Ramsey, R-C,
Shelby has attended the Appala
! cian Normal school and Lenoir
Rhyne college. She has been teach
ing successfully at Fairview.
Miss Louise Latta, Chapel Hill,
is a graduate of the University of
North Carolina, where she made an
| excellent record as a student.
Miss Winnie Blanton, Shelby,
graduated Training class of Shei
|by last June. She had a year of ex
1 perience, and during the school
year she frequently substituted
: verj^ satisfactorily on several occa
! sionS.
! Miss Edna Parker, Shelby,
graduated from Limestone college
in 1926, and taught successfully in
Piedmont, S. C. last year.
Miss Mildred Thompson, Chnr-1
lotte, graduated from Queens col
| lege in home economics. She comes
j very highly recommended as a
(home economics teacher.
! Mr. V. B. Cooper, Nashville,
Tenn., is a graduate of Peaboady
college. He has been teaching for
two years in Sylvia.
High School
Mr. Tilden Falls, Shelby, is a
graduate of Wake Forest college,
j For two years he has been teach
; ing and coaching in hte Lattimore
liigh school. He will teach French
1 and assist Mr. Morris in athletics.
Mr. J. Y. Irvin is well known as
| our former county superintendent
of schools, more recently as super
intendent of Kings Mountain city
schools. His many friends wil wel
come him back to Shelby. He will
teach mathematics.
Mr. J. B. Hatley, Albemarle, is a
; graduate of the university. During
his senior year be was captaiu of
the baseball team. For several
year he has been engaged in band
and orchestra work. He will'teach
English and assist Mr. Sinclair in
; music.
Miss Ora Upshaw, Covington, Ga.
is a graduate of Shorter college,
i years he has been engaged in band
ience as a teacher. She will teach
English and have" charge of the
high school dramatics.
GASTONIA MILL WORKER
IS KILLED IN FALL
Gastonia, July 21.—Sam L. Pet
'tus, aged 28, fell from a ladder
where he was working in Grove j
Mill Number 1, early this morning
and wus dead before any of the
other workers could reach him. He
was lacing up a belt in the spin- j
ning room where he was a section |
hand. It is thought that his death;
was due to heart failure or apop
lexy as there were no bruises nor
broken bones. He leaves a widow
and one child.
Rutherford Poultry
Rutherford News.
The poultry cars of last week
bought 2,506 pounds of poultry in
the county. The cars make regu
lar stops at Ruthwfordton and
Ellenboro. The 2,506 pounds of
poultry brought their sellers $436.
69. Since December' more than
83.000 pounds of poultry has beea
shipped from the county, bringing
the highest market prices to the
poultry raisers.
f7rj f y>
Jim. £4 Ld JLj 1
THIRD
' %
Profit Sharing Anniversary Sale
The usual custom of the Kelly Stores will be carried out during these Special
offerings. Everything as represented. No mark-ups on anything that’s mentioned.
A straight bona-fide Reduction. These special offerings go on sale Saturday mor.i
July 23rd and will continue through Saturday, July 30th. Our object for putting
on this Clearance is to clean up our stock for the new Fall lines.'
-NO. 1 —
NO. 1-LOT OF MEN’S 2 PIECE SUITS
Flannel, Tropical Worsteds and Gabar
dines, $24.50 suits at..$15.00
NO. 2—LOT OF HIQH GRADE
TRIPLE WEAVE TROPICALS, ZEF
IRETTES and WEAR-EVER FABRICS
AT OFF.
$24.50 Suits at.$19.50
$29.50 Suits at. $23.50
NO. 3—LOT PALM BEACH AND
MOHAIRS
$15.00 Suits at
$12.50
NO. 4—LOT LINEN SUITS
$18.50 Suits at.. $14.50
$17.50 Suits at.$13.50
$16.50 Suits at.. $13.00
$12.50 Suits at...$8.95
-PANTS
AH pants in stock very new snappy pat
terns at 20% OFF.
$10.00 Pants at.$8.00
$7.50 Pants at...$6.00
$6.50 Pants at..$5.00
$6.00 Pants at.$4.75
$5.00 Pants at. $4.00
$3.95 Pants at..$3.00
All Linen Pants, Linen Knickers,
Men's and Boys at 20% OFF.
-3-PIECE SUITS
Including Society Brand, Griffon and
othe • good makes at 20% REDUCTION.
-NECKWEAR
A Beautiful Line.
$2.50 and $3.00 Neck Ties at.$2.00
$1.50 Neck Ties at.$1.19
$1.00 Neck Ties at. 79c
-SHIRTS
All colored shirts, neck band and col
lar attached. Manhattan, Artistic a id
Ide.
$3.50 Shirts at..$2.75
$3.00 Shirts at.. ... $2.25
$2.50 Shirts at.$1.75
$2.00 Shirts at..$1.50
-PAJAMAS
A wonderful selection at 20% Re
duction.
-BATHING SUITS
Jantzen make at 20% Reduction.
$6.00 Suits at. $4.80
$5.00 Suits at. $4.00
-STRAW HATS AT £ PRICE —
$6.00 Hats at .. $3.00
55.00 Hats at.. $2.50
$4.00 Hats at. $2.00
$3.50 Hats at.. .,,... $1.75
$3.00 Hats at. $1.50
1* Lot small tizes at ..!.... 79c
-FELT HATS
ScHofele $7.00 Hair at.$5.50
Schoble $6.00 Hats at.. $4.75
CHELSON & WALKILL FELTS
$5.00 Hats, all new styles at.$3.25
»tor^CFt^ber/°UarCbUyi"*r Standard Nationally Advertised Merchandise at this
take kXa ^v° ** °f thei?est *«% money c«m buy. You should
at THInTiT OVER™8- YOU Can ‘ make 20% to **> ~ money ®very
# * ’ f -'if! f '*• ' . i
CORRECT DRESSERS FOR MEN AND BOYS. r
SHELBY’S LEADING HABERDASHER.