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What’s
the
News
STAR’S REVIEW.
business deal of general
tide interest is announced
first time today in The
criminal docket of Superior
still under way. For the
tJf news watch The Star.
Ltear-old boy helped his dad
’ so went the evidence in
this week.
- fhappeh «f Chapel Hill, is
'^principal of the Shelby
h„0l Information concern
isto be found in the news
Irop
is shown in personal
ty over
the county.
Tunney isn't dead; cotton is
chest here in a year’s time;
lawyers banqueted yesterday
roadwork will start soon
(hwav 18; five years for a
breaker; a Confederate vet
a ncw song to a blind gui
layer—all the news of the
jud county in The Star.
risters Hear
ustice Clarkson
At Banquet Here
lawyers Have Three Jurists
Ls Their Guests. Clarkson
Speaker
cn lawyers banquet together,
happens? Very little of the
„] if enough judges are
esday evening the Cleveland
itv Bar association staged a
Uet at Cleveland Springs
with Associate Justice Her
Tarkson as the honor guest.
«nt also as the guests of the
sters were Judges Michael
nek and James L. Webb, and
itor Spurgeon Spurling.
art talks were made by
e Schenck, Solicitor Spurling,
> R. Hoey, and Speight Beam,
the main speech of the even
was delivered by Justice
bon, who was fittingly intro
d by Judge Webb. Attorney R.
yburn, dean of the legal tal
in this section, acted as toast
atice Clarkson proved himself
t a very entertaining talker—
that, if you fathom it, is some
for anybody to orate in a,
tt enough fashion to enter
men who make their living by
mg and hear oratory and near
ary as a part of the dhily
i Justice Clarkson paid
erous tributes to the state and
bn, cited various statistics
ing the state and its citizen
ft, mixing in human interest and
■or enough to keep the mpst
pi of the barristers highly in
ftsted.
>m all reports it was one'of
most interesting meetings the
' bar association has held
its organization. Justice
k*°n with his son drove down
! Little Switzerland yesterday
moon and back after the ban
in the evening.
o Tie For High
tooting Honors On
Camp Glenn Range
-'nd Corp. Green
Wke F,rst Place In Local
Offerings Of Prizes
if' ![ C. (Shorty) Long, who
“e soc°nd consecutive year
regimental shooting honors
Company K at Camp Glenn,
0 the only prize winner of
company.
'fore the company left for
sf'oral Shelby merchants of
prizes for the best range
, made by non-commissioned
nI;,?' privates- Sergt. Fred
f 1, a'K* Corp. Grady Green
of 2fto tl prize with a rec*
nt l The f'rst prize was
L F George Alexander,
and he gaVe a watch to
fond
at bv th l- 3 *5 saving ac
won KvPc'1St National b«nk,
i on > sergt. Loy Huffman
7 recor,i- Sergt. Clarence
kin? uW°n third prize> 8 *3
account at the Cleveland
fth „‘rUSt comPany, with 206.
« rp- a *5 bat from Fan
;w L*on Sergt. Arthur
■ **th prize, $6 shoes by
*0 7SLW°n by Private An
J, 7aker; Sixth prize, a $5
, *lnv<- by the Shelby Hard
apion c8Warded t0 Marion
pf_-,,Seventh prize, $2 shirt
Cla h v,WPnt t0* First Serg
H ■ * °nnor. The eighth
St.., safety razor outfit
■fftri-mt store, was
1,1 Pri7(.SPr ?aymond Lewis
hrme*’ * ps.havtinK set from
won k t Hunters Hardware,
" bV Corp. Harry G. Nob
*a| *,n winning the regi
250 tlima<1° 238 out of 8 P°s
. ?u' ‘he same scnr» ^
«p last Same score h« rbalk
kl ty7' The Shelby °ffi
joints competitor b>
M MK TO
SHOT ON NO J
II Ely DOTE
Construction Camp Site Arranged
For On The Rufus Gardner
Plantation Above
Shelby
Mr. Carter of the Carter Con
struction Company was in the coun
ty this week making arrange,
ments for the transfer here of his
construction force which will be
engaged at an early date on the
grading of Highway No. 18 from
Shelby to Toluca. The Carter
Construction Co. was recently
awarded the contract for the grad
ing of this link in Highway No. 18
by the state highway commission
and he came this week to make ar
rangements for a camp.
A camp site has been arranged
for on the Rufus Gardner planta
tion about eight miles nortji of
Shelby. A drove of 100 mules,
heavy construction machinery and
70 laborers will leave Franklin
county in a few days for Cleveland
and set up camp on the ^Gardner
farm. Mr. Carter has secured a
six month lease on the camp, site
with the privilege of renewing the
lease for six months longer. He
says that with the force of hands
and mules he will have to feed, he
will furnish one of the best mar
kets for eatibles that section has
ever had and that everything will
be bought locally. Mr. Carter's
home is in Mebane but he expects
to move his family to Shelby where
they will live while he is working
! Tunney Not
Dead a Bit
He Reports
Speculator, N. Y„ July 2(5.—
! Gene Tunney took time from his
! training today to deny a report
i-fee had been killed in an automo
| bile accident.
Spiking rumors that worried all
i the newspaper offices in eastern
! New York, the.world’s heavyweight,
champion, smilingly amused, said he
was “all right and feeling fine.”
“Maybe some other fellow named
! Tunney was hurt,” he suggested.
Rumor had it that Tunney was
; struck by a car while doing road
j work in the Adirondack mountains,
j wh'^h surrounded his training camp
I on Lake Pleasant.
Gene wTas out for a walk, but it
was a stroll through the woods with
j a newspaper reporter. Earlier in
the day he did a little light work
j on the road.
The report of Tunney’s death
\ spread about Shelby yesterday aft
ernoon and was talked by seres.
About 6 o’clock The Star found
that the rumor could not be veri
I fied, and posted a bulletin to that
j effect.
Cotton Highest In
Past Eleven Months
Cotton is bringing the highest
price in Shelby market it has
brought in the past eleven months,
I according to Avery McMurry of the
cotton form of J. J. McMurry and
Sons. This firm is offering 18 1-2
cents per pound but has not
bought any at this price because
none has been offered. Just be
fore harvest last year the price de
clined started and continued as
low as eleven cents, the prevailing
price during the harvest season
J when most of it was sold, being
around the twelve cent level. Since
the Mississippi Flood, the reduced
acreage reports and the bool weevil
damage, the price has steadily
climbed up since the first of the
year.
Man Who Attacked
Senator Lattimore
Completes His Term
Gaffney,—Fred Rice, last of a
group of men involved in an at
tack on former State Senator Sam
C. Lattimore, of Shelby, at Thick
ety several years ago, Friday com
pleted his sentence and was dis
charged from the Cherokee county
chaingang. He went to Great
Falls to join his family, it was re
ported. Rice received n sentence
of 14 months for his part in the
affair. He escaped from the chain
gang and a few months ago volun
untarily returned to complete the
sentence. He told officers he had
hobboed his way from Texas to
surrender, but information secured
later created doubt about this part
of his story, it was said.
Paragon Interests Buy
. Big Fanning Store And
Will Take Up Business
Big Business Deal Completed Here This
Morning By William Lineberger. Joe
Nash Will Manage Store.
One of the biggest deals—and
when all is said, one of the most
surprising in the history of later
day Shelby was consummated this
morning when arrangements were
finally ocmpleted whereby the own
ers of the Paragon Furniture Cob
pany, William Lineberger, M. A.
■ Spangler and Meredith Hennessa,
. bought out Fanning's Department
t Store.
The formal annoucement of the
i close of the deal was made just
before noon, following a long con
l ference between the Paragon owr
■ ers, and representatives of the big
j department store, including Joe E.
I Nash, the Fanning manager. But
' the deal has really been in process
of growth for some days.
Nash To Manage
The Paragon owners announced
the following plans:
That Joe E. Nash will be the
manager of the new store:
That the old stock will be sold
■ off at a big general sale, after
which a thorough re-stocking will
ta)<e place. Concerning this re
stocking, it was said that the new
enterprise will be run pretty gen
erally along the old lines, except
that a larger and more varied
stock will be carried. The same
three story floor space will be used.
* The Store’s Name.
Asked what the name of the new
store will be, Wiliam Lineberger
speaking for the purchasing group
said this is a mo.ot question that
has not yet been decided. Private
ly Mr. Lineberger is said to have
remarked that maybe the same
name as the furniture store—Th2
Paragon—will be used.
However, this is a point to be
settled later.
The big store was closed at noon.
When it is re-opened, which will
occur in a few days, the sale wil'
be held. Then, following the sale
the re-stocking will commence.
The Paragon owners are said to
be planning a high class depart
ment store, one of the best in
North Carolina, and one that will
reflect credit upon the town.
Fanning's Good Name
This morning’s transaction brings
to an end, for the time being at
least, the W. L. Fanning regime in
Shelby, a name long and highly
honorably associated with Shelby
business. Mr. Fanning, some months
back was taken ill with a malady
of the nature that will require a
lengthy process of cure, and under
the' circumstances it was deemed
wisest by his family and adviser?
that he relinquish active business
until such time as he is securely
upon his feet.
At the time he was the head of
the enterprise operating big de
partment stores in Shelby and Hick
ory. Recently the announcement
was made of the sale of the Hickory
store to the Efird’s chain. William
Lineberger is given the credit for
engineering that transaction, and it
is believed that it was through th's
deal that Mr. Lineberger himself
became interested, and later inter
ested his associates, in the pur
chase of the local store.
Typhoid Epidemic At Lawndale About
Over—No Water Infection In Shelby
I
PUPS SUBJECT TO
LARCENY Of) NOT
QUERY COMES UP
Whether Or Not Man Can Be
Charged With Larceny For
Stealing Young Dog
Is Debated •
If you have a dog and the canine
is not six months old and some
one should steal/him, could he be
charged with larceny ? Is a dog
under six months of age subject
to larceny if he is not listed for
taxes?
Those questions have developed
into a minor debate at the court
house here as an aftermath of a
country court case wherein such
details came up. The decision will
be of interest generally in the
county where fox hounds are rated
highly.
In the meantime County Solici
tor P. Cleveland Gardner is await
ing a reply from the attorney
general who has been asked about
it. The solicitor’s advice is to list
all dogs for taxation whether or
not they ard six months of age.
According to the solicitor the
law does not require that a dog be
listed for taxation until six months
of age. But the law goes ahead
and says that a dog not listed for
taxation is not subject to larceny
That applies, of course, to the
grown dog not listed by his owner.
Whether or not it applies to the
pup is the matter of debate. The
solicitor thinks so and believes that
when a man steals a dog unden
six months of age that he is guilty
only of a misdemeanor unless the
dog has been listed, which is not
required but is voluntary. Witn
the matter under debate the solici
tor advises that all dogs regard
less of age should be listed if
owners hope to collect for them
if shot, run down by an auto
mobile, or stolen.
To Celebrate Hi#
88th Birthday Soon
Squire J. Y. Hord doesn’t move
and think and act like a man who
has passed eighty-eight winters,
but- on the 28th of July he will
have reached this milepost along
life’s journey and he is still hale
and hardy. There will be a birth
day dinner and celebration in his
honor at the J. Yv Beulah farm
where B. F. Hord now lives east
of Shelby on July 31. The public
is cordially *invited to be present
and share the occasion with Mr.
Hord.
The wave of tyhpoid fever abotr
Lawndale seems to have about
spent itself, according to reports
from the textile town this morn
ing.
No new cases have been reported
this week, and general information
is that all those down with ty
phoid are improving. There are
it is said, only one or two seribus
cases now in the section and some
hope is held out in both cases.
The fever patients at the hospital
are also said to be recovering as
rapidly as could be expected.
Vaccine has played a big role
in heading the epidemic. Practical
ly all county physicians are being
kept busy giving the vaccine,and
on Saturday nights especially the
doctors are rushed with patients
wanting to be vaccinated.
No Fever Here
Traveling men say that reports
over the state have left the im
pression that there is fever in Shel
by but health officers say such re
ports without foundation. One or
two cases were said to have been
reported near the city limits but
proved not to be fever. The city
water, which is purified daily witn
chlorine gas, is free from any
germs and infection the regular
tests show. Each day R. V. Toms.!
water superintendent^ makes a
test and has .done so since the es
tablishment of the new pump sta
tion. In addition to this the state i
chemists test the city water twice !
each month and the latest report
from the state analysis shows that
there is no germ coli in the city
water. In fact, the city water
here ranks as about the purest in i
the state, few towns and cities hav-1
ing better or more sanitary water. !
Cotton Afire On
A Transfer Truck
Eight bales of cotton being haul
ed on one of the Ellis Transfer
Co. trucks yesterday cought fire
along the road near Metcalf’s and
about 200 pouds of cotton was de
stroyed. The cotton was being i
hauled from the Dover to Lawn- |
dale mill and on the highway be-i
side the railroad, the cotton was |
covered in flames from some cause.
Seeing the truck in distress, the
crew on the Lawndale train which
was passing at the time, stopped
and with water from the engine
tender, the flames were extinguish
ed, after the bagging had been
burned off and the truck cab !
damaged.
Miss Grace Padgett of Spartan
burg was a Shelby visitor on Tues
dav.
Mrs. May Wells Connor has re
turned home after attending sum
mer school at the Normal. Ashe
ville, N. C.
THE HITS OF
CRIMINAL CASES
INSTEAD OF TWO
One Mistrial So Far. Odessa Wil
son, Kings Mountain Girl,
Fails To Show Up.
The current term of Superior
court will 1 fi likely complete the
criminal docket before late today
or Thursday. It was originally
thought ihe criminal cases would
be disposed of with two days work,
but more actions have been con
tested than was expected.
Criminal cases disposed of so
far were not of major interest and
dealt with liquor matters and
other minor crimes for the most
part, including appeals from the
recorder.
The jury trying the’liquor and
booze manufacturihg charges
against Genous McKinney, John
Arrowood, and Ben Lail, could not
reach a decision after a half day
of consultation with each other
and late Tuesday evening Judge
Schenck ordered a mistrial and the
ca^e was continued to the next
term of court with the defendants
under bond, it appearing to the
court that the jurors would not be
able to reach a decision.
Girl Not Here
Odessa Wilson. young( Kings
Mountain girl, about whom center
ed much of the gallery interest at
the term failed to answer to her
name this morning when the case
was called. The judge ordered that
the bondsmen be notified and it
may be that the case will come up
during the' term. The girl is of
ficially charged with tqjieealing
the birth of her child. Nignpaper
readers will remember the sordid
story of the finding of the child's
body in an outhouse. OffitSbrs Ir
vin Allen and Greel Ware told the
court that they understood the girl
and her family moved to Marion
from Kings Mountain some weeks
ago.
Boosting Booze Price
Judge Schenck added a bit of
philosophy on illicit handling of
liquor in commenting on a case in
court today. Attorney?,for the de
fendant plead for a finei or sus
pended sentence, whereupon the
Hendersonville jurist remarked
that for “20 years we have been
trying to curb the sale of liquor
by fines and suspended sentences.”
“Every time a man is let off
with a fine for handling liquor the
price of bootleg goes up and the
quality goes down,” he nmiarked.
Numerous divorce cases—and
the Cleveland county court is get
ting quite a number of heavy di
vorce dockets—were shuffled along
for trial later in the week owing
to the unexpected length of the
crimihal docket. Several divordes
were billed for Tuesday but the
court did not find time to get to
them. And in response to a plea
for hearing the divorces Judge
Schenck remarked “that if the
witnesses are anxious enough to
come such a long distance to get a
divorce they should be content
enough to wait a day or so.”
SKHB
GETS GIG TERM
Negro Who Broke In Store On
Night Freed From Gang Gets
Five Years in Prison.
Some months hack Doug Ray.
colored, was freed from the coun
ty chain gang one evening after
serving his sentence for stealing
chickens, That night he broke into
the stb’re of P. M. Mauey and car
ried away some goods, nor so he ad
mitted in court yesterday.
It will be five years now before
Doug will be freed from the state
prison so that he may break into
something again that night when
it does come along. That was the
sentence—five years at labor—im
posed upon him by Judge Sehenck.
Ray came into the court without
a lawyer and plead guilty to the
storebreaking charge, but claimed
that he only entered the store one
time.
The hearing of the evidence
took perhaps 15 miniates, but it
will take somewhere around two
and one half million minutes for
Doug to get over it—if you care to
figure it up.
Vacation Ahead
For Mill People
Several hundred employees of
the Shelby Cotton Mills will next
week enjoy their annual vacation,
it is learned. The big mills, fol
lowing a custom, will close Satur
day and remain closed for a week
enabling all employees to tal e
a week of rest and vacation.
Convicts Get Venereal
Diseases From Others,
They Tell Grand Jury
Claim Some Enter With No Disease And
Catch Same After Entering Camp. Judge
Orders Solicitor To Investigate.
Full Grand Jury Report.
' Convicts on the No. 6 road gang
] tered camp free from veneral dis
| eases and have Caught such-dis
1 eases after entering camp, or so it
I is to be judged from the report of
.the grand jury submitted yester
jday afternoon to Judge Michael
Schenck.
The judge called the matter to
the attention of Solicitor Spurling
and asked that he investigate and
make such regulations as deemed
[necessary and that a report of the
! recommendations and how carried
(out be submitted at the next
; court. He also called the attention
] of the solicitor to the notation by
the grand jury that guardian.; of
'several minors in the county have
| not made the reports required of
] them by law.
Like Convict Bosses
According to the report the con
; viets are satisfied with their
bosses, sleeping: quarter* and ent
!ing, and had no kicks to make ex
Jcept in regard to venereal dis
| eases and medical attention, and
[kicking on having to deep with
|the diseased. Although they did
add that they did not get all the
[good things to eat they would like,
| but were well fed.
The jail was found to be sani
tary and prisoners well cared for,
a similar good report being made
of the county home and county
records.
The body of the grand jury re
port as signed by the foreman,
Moffitt Ware, follows:
.... We found the county jail
sanitary, well kept, and the pri
soners well cared for. The court
house and grounds are in good con
1 dition.
| “We also found the county home
j in good condition, "having talked
to all inmates. They are treated
! kindly, well fed, well cared for,
. and take great pleasure in having
! such a place to spend their last
days. The grounds are well kept.
| All crops and livestock are in
good condition. We do recommend
[that the walls be painted and some
: of the rooms refloored,
j ‘The county records are neatly
- kept. In regard to the guardian
| ship of minors, we found tha* the
reports have been very inadequate.
[There are 13 guardians who have
not reported since appointed.
! Seven who are due one report;
six who are due two reports, and
four who are due three reports,
j We recommend that the clerk in
charge be asked to notify guar
dians in a reasonable time after
reports are due.
“After inspecting the convicts
I near the river at work we went to
the convict camp and found the!
j following conditions: The men as a
whole are doing well with the labor
end. All seems to be doing very
well with their respective jobs. The
men report that they are not get
ting as many good things to eat as
they like, but that the food end of
it is all O. K. They reported that1
the treatment received from the j
boss men is good, and that the
sleeping compartments .are as
good as could be expected. But as 1
to the medical end of this inspec- j
tion we found quite a lot of kick- j
ing, as to the medical attention, -
and as to the amount of the boys!
that were infected with the differ-:
ent kinds of venereal diseases.
They claim that some of them |
come into the camp with no dis-[
ease and that they catch some aft- j
er entering camp. They also claim ■
that they are all mixed up in their I
sleeping compartments. They claim
that they should be separated—
that is, that the diseased men
should be placed in one end of the
compartment and the well in the
other end. We found the camp
quarters in good condition. We
therefore recommend that these
men have proper medical attention
and that the diseased be separated
from those not diseased.”
Drop Shown
In Personal
Properties
Increased Land Values In County
May Just Taske Care Of Per
sonal Property Decrease
An increase in taxable land
over Cleveland county was ev
pected this year and advance
information from the county
tax board is that the expec
tations will be fulfilled, but
along: comes the additional in
formation that the increased
land values may barely take
care of a decrease in value of
personal property over the
county.
A. fc. Cline, county account
ant, stated yesterday that he
understood from preliminary
reports that personal property
had slumped considerably be
low values last year. In fact
the slump, according to ad
vice, is almost equal to the in
crease in general property as
sessments.
Just what decline in per
sonal property is accountable
1 cannot be determined so far,
| from the assessment reports,
it is said.
It is also understood that
only two townships, Nos. 1
and 2 perhaps, have personal
property values up to that of
last year.
This decline in personal prop
erty will offset the predicted
general increase of county
property values. Just how
much remains to be seen. .
Football Prospects
Here Appear Good
Tilden Falls To Assist Coach Casey
Morris In Rebuilding
Gridiron Team
With the opening of school not
so many weeks off football fans
about town have begun discussing
prospects for the Shelby High
eleven. Regardless of other amuse
ments the Shelby High football
teams have ranked as one of the
main features of the year in Shel
by for a half dozen or more years.
Although many sterling per
former on last year’s squad grad
uated hopes for a good team are
high. Numerous youngsters have
added to their poundage since last
year and will make strong bids
for team berths. This year Tilden
Falls, former Lattimore coach, will
assist Coach Casey Morris in build
ing up the Shelby High eleven
Falls enjoyed a marked success
with his athletic teams at Latti
more and is expected to prove very
valuable as an aid to Morris, who
in recent years has been taxed to
handle all athletics and physical
culture in the schools. Coach
Morris is now at Harvard taking a
course in physical education.
10-Year-Old Boy Admits He Sold
Bootleg For Dad—Father Gets Term
They start them young these
days of fast living.
That is they teach ’em an old
trade when they are quite young.
The old trade is that of boot
legging. The reason that it is evi
dent that they start young came
out in Superior court here Mon
day afternoon when the court was
trying a man for bootlegging.
He plead guilty and the evi
dence that was brought up includ
ed the man's ten year old son. He
was the third witness in the case.
The court called him up . and he
sat at the foot of the judge and his
hono rasked him about his little
bootlegging experience.
The boy told of how a man
came to his house one night and
wanted to buy some liquor. The
boy said that he found the liquor
and that it was hid near the house.
He gave the buyer a quart and col
lected the four dollars.
The judge sentenced the father
of the boy to six months on the
county road.
The boy after he left the stand
went out in the corridor of the
courthouse and here his courage
left him, and began to cry. It was
reported that he fainted from the
excitement of his first experience
before the big court.
The judge remarked that he
could show no mercy to a man
that would bring his child up and
start him off that early in life sell
ing whiskey.
So, it seems that they get
younger every court term.
CHAPPELL NAMED
FOR Pin
SHELBY SCHOOL
Noted University Debater And
Student Body Reform Head
Coming To Shelby.
S. G. Chappell, one of the beat
known students at the University of
North Carolina in recent years,
will be the next principal of thn
Shelby high school, it was announc
ed today as an aftermath of a
meeting of the school hoar<J Satur
day night with Supt. I. C. Griffin.
Mr. Chappell succeeds Prof. A. C.
Lovelace who resigned to become
superintendent at Henrietta.
Many Applicanta.
There were 22 applications be
fore the board at its meeting Sat
urday night, Mix Chappell being
selected from the large list. Public
announcement of the selection was
withheld for consultation with the
newiy elected principal. The elec
tion wjs unanimous, it is said.
Experienced Teacher.
The new principal is an exper
ienced teacher and lead**, It is said.
He graduated from Wm Hill col-'
lege in and then served three
years as a high school principal.
Resigning as principal, he entered
the University, of North Carolina
end completed ‘ the requirements
there for an A. B. degree. He con
tinued his studies in Afce graduate
school. . >>y
Last jttfMMf. Chappell was
president #|| Carolina student
body and acquired'a national repu
tation in the field of student gov
ernment by his work with the
student body there. Newspaper
readers will remember that he be
came well known through his stand
against gambling at the University.
Mr. Chappell represented the uni
versity in several inter-collegiate
debates. His success in this field
won for him the position as man
ager of inter-collegiate debating in
1926. He now holds an executive
position in the School of Education
there and has been assisting in the
summer school this yenr. His ap
plication came before the board
highly recommended by Dean Walk
er, of the University, and all the
members of the faculty iu the
School of Education.
War Vet Teaches
New Song To Blind
.Guitar Performer
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Court Square Scene Of UhuSiial
Incident As Court » Week
Crowds Swarm Round
About
There are various ways of help
ing a blind man.
Fo r the most part the public
lends a helping hand by dropping
a coin into the extended, hat of
the blind songster after he finishes
strumming his guitar. That is
deep as the average person goes
behind those sightless eyes.
Have you ever wondered how the
blind learn the songs they sing for
a livelihood? Who takes lime to
teach them, and hum over time and
again a song until the harmony
lodges in the brain of the blind
man? The blind songster must
necessarily strum his guitar and
sing “by ear.” Written notes are
as useless to them as cough drops
to President Coolidge.
Over on the court square yester
day was a blind man strumming his
guitar and singing the few songs
he knew for the spare change of
the court stragglers. His reper
toire was limited and exhausted
with about three selections, and ilia
old tunes were rendered over and
over. Finally a veteran of the
Civil war felt a touch of pity for
the songster, and passersby stop
ped for a time, and gazed at the
unusual as the veteran sat by the
blind man’s side and hummed over
and over again a favorite “snake
down” tune of the old days when
the boys in gray were really boys
in years. After two or three verse3
the blind man caught air and his
voice followed that of the veteran.
In an hour or so the blind man
knew a new tune and a smiel
lit his face—not a smile like or
dinary men smile for the sight
less eyes could not play their part.
Had you ever thought before who
took* the time to teach songs to
blind men?
SAMPSONS WILL TAKE
OVER COURTVIEW HOTEL
Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Sampson,
home from a trip into Virginia, an
nounced Tuesday they had leased
the Courtview hotel .which they
will conduct as a first class room
ing establishment.
Mr. Sampson said he had bought
new furnishings for the Court
view, which they will take over
about the first of the month. The
Courtview has formerly been rua
I by Mrs. Alice Boland. _ ^