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taf 8 PAGES TODAY Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By mail, per year (in advarca)—$2JMl By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.09 What’s THE News ,HE STAR’S REVIEW ,r„lf tournament will like . t;.|!l|. 400 attended the rc ° f thr Beam clan yesterday ^■Bn-t-cet. Read the high ‘ ut- the occasion in today’s *■ * * * fhe Soutlierii is remodelling the ,1 station. . Congrt from this district are ea(Iy lining up; Supt. Allen is speak here; Lattimore is to Build tin can' t Gee McGee tells of his Bt Jove affair in a feature to an(l a special article .tells why Irido hlu.'hcs; all the community r< antl personal events of the tnty. -t.nis assured. irvey: Tax values in ar will do well to t year; A party of s has returned from ina tour; candidates Hljllcr of state. Orthopedic Hospital, Gastonia. Acquaints Kiwanians of Work. Kiwaniafis and a few ladies sat lazed last i irht at the Kiwanis lb luncheon when Dr. W. O. Mil , surgeon of. the Orthopedic hos al of Gastonia, gave a lecture on ■ work of this iristittion. Lantern di's were used o show tne ch’l en that appeared to be hopeless erijipled when admitted, but had en rehabilitated in an almost per-natural way and turned out earn their own livelihood. Most the children treated are crippled mi disease, some free from acci nt, others from birth. In the pro s of rehabilitation- the children > made nearly normal and when e Kiwamans looked at their pic res before and after their freat >nt, they marvelled at me trans rmation. George Blanton of Shelby is airman of the board of directors d has held a position on the. ard'since the institution was es blished in 1021 through a gift an .'hi. R. B. Babington and the ate. A-, the present there are 35 tier.'.? in the institution and afly 300 on the waiting list, ith a recent state appropriation, e number of beds is being in eased to. fiO. Mr. Duke recently evided a ward for colored chii en with 25 beds. Crippled children whose parents e unable to pay, are admitted ami sated free of charge. During eir - stay they are taught by a blic school teacher and by a voca mai trainer so that they can go > in the world and earn their n living rather than be a charge their parents or the community. ■ Miller is a wonderful surgeon d the pictures showed where w skin had been grafted, bones ul beer, transplanted: and tissues d been taken from one part of the dy and made to grow elsewhere order to correct deformities. rogram for W. M. U. Meet On Aug. 25th TV following is the program for M. I . meeting of the Kings ountam association at Sandy »'ns on August 251 9:.i0 devotional services, Mrs. “Ph Padgett; address of wel w—Miss Donis Gold; response "r7 W. X. Cooke; roll call of Conizations; recognition of new ^tieties; reports of supt., treasur mission study supt. and divi su’p-ts,-; presentation of ban 's, demonstration from division ~-lrs. S. B. Hamrick in charge; unL' peoples hour, led hy Miss hngston; address, Miss Dorothy am' Kaleigh; appointment of *>mitu'(s; announcements; lunch, 'otional service; address—Miss ® Grayson; duet—Mrs. Carl lVlos°n and Miss Zona Hord; de "^tratiou fr(,m division I, Mrs. • Mrifd jr, rharge; standard of e t'oee; demonstration by dl |Tn I!*. led by Mrs. Frank ’ '‘port of committees; min ■ > closing service. (faith Officer In ounty Needed, Says it i , ^ "n: t*1e history and pres working of medicine at th 'fh today Dr. Ben GoI< •It/' ur?od a full tim top/./.' f'Ccr for the county an lill • conducted clinics fo ( | Ihe value of a traine f Was shown in gpeafc lire . l^< r c°unties in the st^t I l( thh conditions arc h*»tte JV DhiWren are >n school. l VI<R'-ayer and Boh Hot ttyer and Bob i Bj,,/ Shelby club, wt ttrift ,U yfste,'day attending Itricf ■ .".V kioh (■•■ .!"* executives j,. ' v* v accu tivn; bn, Strict governors • "ere present. WRITE ’EM REGULAR “It Won't Fie Long Now” um.l the boys and girls will be going away to college. Some of them will be leaving home for the first time. Those first weeks away from the home folks and the accustomed events will prove trying. Are you. going to help make it easier for them ? If so, you’ll write them regularly, those boys and girls. They will appreciate it. And while you’re think nig about it had you thought that 1 he Star going to them three times each week wil. carry far more news than you will be able, to write. It will tell thtm of events in the high schools back home, of the goings and comings of the other boys.and girls they know. You can’t think to tell them everything in your let ters, but The Star will. If you’ve ever been away from home you will understand bow much they will appre ciate The Star and the tri weekly messages it takes to them. f The Star for a week or so * !is making a special subscrip- j tion price for school boys { } and girls of SI.50 for the nine ( | months. That is cheaper than | | postage. If you wrote throe f letters per week for the 30 > ; weeks that would be 108 let- [ ) tors, nr $2.10—The Star with ( | ail the news for $1.50. Get < | in on the offer. Do not per- j ' niit a single college gill or { j boy to be without The Star ( ) duri;.g those nine months at ( )___i soirralEPdr” BEK liWEO Extensive Improvements Being .Wade—Offices Moved to Freight Depot For Present. A force of fifteen railroad car penters started this week over hauling and remodelling the South ern railway passenger depot, In ac cordance with plans submitted to and approved by the mayor and board of aldermen. Agent A. H. Morgan says the ticket office, bag gage and express offices which have been housed in the passenger station have been temporarily mov ed to the freight depot. The local station force is working under somewhat of a handicap but Mr. Morgan asks the public to bear with them until the new station is completed and occupied. Practically all of the old depot is being torn down except the frame work. The steeple has been remov ed, the floor will be elevated, the new ticket office will be between the white waiting room on the north and the colored waiting room on the south side. The bag gage and express room will be lo cated where the colored waiting | room has been. 1 IIL‘ I1UW > UK M Ml Will uc |»iav - i finally new when finished. It will he of frame construction but new j ly painted, convenient and neat, j says Mr. Morgan. — Mr. A. Webb Owens Dies In Asheville : Former Cleveland County Man’s Body Brought to Ross Grove For Interment Yesterday. ■ In Asheville Tuesday morning. ; Aug. 16th, Mr. Alfred Webb Owens i died at the home of his son after a declining health extending over a j period of several years. On Thurs day of last week he became serious and the end came Tuesday morn ing at 5 o'clock. Mr. Owens was well known in and around Shelby where he spent most of his life. He was a faithful worker, a kind hearted Christian man who will be greatly missed. For the past few years he had been making his home with the children. Two months ago his wife preceded him to the grave and his body was brought from Asheville for interment at Ross Grove Baptist church Thurs day. the funeral services being conducted by Revs. Padgett and Jones. Mr. Owens was 76 years, 8* months old. Mr. Owens is survived by four sons. C. C. Owens who lives north of Shelby. J. F. Owens of the Ml. Sinai section, Z. W. Owens of Asheville and M. TV. Owens ot Lattimore. Also surviving is one sister, Mrs. Dovie Glasco, widow ot the late Dock Glasco. Over 400 Beam Kith And Kin Gather In Reunion; One 71-Year Couple There 304 Descendants Of John Peter Baum As semble At New Prospect Church, Where Ancestor Built First Church. Many Come From Afar- Mr. and Mrs. Putnam Mar ried 71 Years. Under the shade of the ni a mouth oaks about New Prospect church north Tf Shelby more than 400 members of the Beam family in this state gathered Thursday for the annual reunion of the clan. There, near the spot where the first Beam in this section, John Teter, built the first Prospect church, hundreds of his descen dants staged one of their biggest reunions. Four. counties, Cleve land, Lincoln, Rutherford and Gas ton, sent large delegations, while there were many others there from other counties and states. The reunion in the program was much like other reunions—just a big family get together, with rem iniscence swapping, relation of family legends, blood friendships, and at noon the big picnic dinner. In the absence of L. Berge Beam, president of the clan, the meeting was presided over by Dr. A. Pitt Beam, of Shelby. ^riop to the big family dinner there were songs and other in formal entertainments. Short talks were made by Postmaster .1. H.Quinn, of Shelby; Attorney Speight Beam, Shelby; and Prof. J. A. Beam, school superintendent of i of Person county. L. Berge Beam, head of the fam ily, was unable to be present Out sent a message expressing his re gards to the members of the family assembled. Despite his absence the Salisbury school man was made permanent president of the big family clan. Other clan officers were Dr. A. Pitt Beam, Shelby, vice president, and Mists Velma Beam, Lincoln county, secretary and treasurer.' * Old ramily scenes It was also decided that here after the annual reunion of the Beam descendants would he held each year at New Prospect. The church site is important in the history of the Beam family. Long years ago, when all this region was a part of Lincoln count, John Teter Baum (later changed to Beam) came to North Carolina and settled in what was then east Lincoln. Later he mov ed to the New Prospect region and there back in the pioneer days he built the first Prospect church. Near the church now is the old Beam homestead, occupied at pres ent by Columbus Beam. A measure of the spread of the Beam race since John Teter Baum’s more than 400 attended the reun ion Thursday is only an indication as to the number of descendants the first Beam in this seetior has. Three hundred and four register ed on the clan register but more than one hundred others wer^ pres ent and failed to register, i* is said. And scores were unable to attend. Married 71 Years The .annual awarding of family prizes was one of the big events of the day. The oldest member of Beam clan present was none other than Mrs. Elizabeth Houser, Cleve land county’s oldest woman who recently celebrated her 96th birth anniversary. She is a grand daughter of John Teter Beam. But the big honors of the day were perhaps for Mr. and Mrs. VV. R. Putnam, the former in the nine ties and the latter in the eighties. They were the oldest married cou ple present. And in this day of divorce courts it is quite a bit of news that Mr. and Mrs. Putnam have been married happily so, for 71 years. The old time couples competing in The Star not so long since for length of marriage re lations will have to step aside momentarily for this couple. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Beam, of Mar ion, carried away the honors of be ing the yougest ^married couple, or the newly weds, of the reunion. They were married only 11 months prior to the reunion. Miss Gladys Elliott, who trkert all the way from Golden. Colora do. for the event won the honot of being the member of the clan to come the longest distance to at tend. The largest family to be in at tendance was that of Mrs. Wilson Dellinger, of Lincoln county, with 10 children present. Cleveland county won the banner for the largest county delegation present with 100 members of the family registered. Other counties were rcpcsented in the banner contest as follows: Lincoln, 98; Rutherford, 28, and Gaston 18. The ten living grand children of John Teter Beam were all pres ent. Another Coming At the end of an eventful day for all present it was the general opinion *hat next year’s clan re union would be even bigger and better. A movement is now on foot to have an orchestra made up by that time. Mrs. Hudson Suing Husband’s Partner Claims Washington Member Of Tax Firms Refuses to Show Business Records. Washington.—Chas.r J. Brown, Washington, had only one steno grapher in his employ nut he has a payroll of $14,500 monthly, ac cording to papers in a suit brought in equity court here Thursday r>y Mrs. Fannie W. Hudson, of Shelby, and John, IT.'Crabtree, Yonkers, N. Y. Mrs. Hudson’s late husband, Mr. Crabtree and Mr. Brown at one time were partners in a general tax accountancy. Mrs. Hudson is now acting as administrator of her husband’s estate and has been do ing so since June 1920. The controversy arose when the Yonkers man asked Mr. Brown for a statement of ihe financial status of the concern. Mrs. Hudson Join ed in the request. Brown, however, refused to give one, the court is asked to force him to give it. According to papers in the suit, when the North Carolina widow and the Yonkers man asked Brown for an accounting of the partner, ship, point out that we employed only one stenographer, although his payroll showed $16,500 expend ed for salaries. Orphans To Sing On Monday Night The Oxford Orphanage singing class will appear in a program at the Central high school auditor ium here next Monday night, Aug ust 22. The orphans appear under the auspices of local Masons nut aft the proceeds are for Uie orphans and orphanage. Reports from other towns and cities where they have appeared are to the effect that the singing class this year is one of the best ever seen from the orphanage and a good crowd is expected for the pro gram Monday night. Mrs. Ford of Kannapolis anil daughter, of Kannapolis, are visit ing friends in Shelby. CAR PAINTED RED GOES ON RAMPAGE Hits Another Car, Turns Turtle. And Gets Smashed Hut Driver Not Injured Some people wind up in the wreckage after painting the town red. John Lineberger, young son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lineberger, wound up in the wreckage yester day after painting his car red. About noon Young Lineberger got his newly painted car out of the garage, a car painted in the most brilliant red hues. Out to wards his home* on West Warren street he meandered in the red coupe and near his home his gaze left the street for a moment, swerved into another coupe parked at the curb. The car hit was knock ed almost to the next corner and the Lineberger coupe did the well known turtle stunt, and out of the grind of smashed fenders climbed the driver uninjured. Oddly enough not a glass in ei ther car was broken despite the fact'that one turned over. “She’ll be red again when I get her out of the shop,’’ John stated today, and from the “she" it is to be supposed the red car was a Liz zie. % .. 8hf"'v f><>||*-<- Officer Has AImhiI IJiccUkd To Enter Race. Makes Two r.i. Marshal M. Moore, Shelby po liceman, is the latest practically certain entrant for the coming contest to decide Hugh Kogan’s successor as high sheriff of Cieve land county. Mr. Moore dfccus mg the next county clcctioihaatfeidav informed it Star lenorpf (Kfit ho had about made up his mind to get in the race I ‘4, nloss sometWfTg un'orscon (le ! t'clops I think I will run,” he de clared. l-ong An Officer Mr. Moore, who has been on the Shelby police force for several years, is a native of the Boiling Springs section and was educated at Boiling Springs. For about I three years he has served effi ciently here as an officer under Qhicf Hamrick and Chief Richards.! rtior to coming to Shelby Poheematy Moore was an officer for many ! years. In fact, he states that he i has been an officer of the! l*w almost continuously since Ms 22nd birthday, serving as| deputy sheriff. As a resident ofj the county and city he is well j known and popular in both as a.t Officer and man. Mr. Moore’s decision to enter the sheriff’s race brings in two police figures. From Kings Moun tain the word has already come that Police Chief Irvin Allen, of that place plans to toss his blue-' coat cap into the ring. Numerous others, as is known,; have been discussed and are dis-: cussing and other decisions and; announcements no doubt will be! made as the months pass. Wootton’s New Shop Opens For Public The formal opening of Wootton’s The Ladies Shop, the latest addi tion 10 Shelby’s establishments ot the first''rank, occurring Tils nforn ing, and drew a very representa tive assemblage of the women of the city. The shop inaugurates an innova tion in this that it ts located on. the second floor^-over the Blanton Wright store—and is reached by elevator. It is Shelby’s first attempt at ruhning a shop serviced exclusive ly by elevator, and is therefore m •i way the first step of the town toward the big town idea. If the first day’s business is a criterion, the attempt will succeed. The shop was very well patronized. The merchandise was very well dis-; played, and the appearance of the show room, done in cream and blue, and tastefully arranged, was very pleasing. To Start Remodeling At Fanning’s Soon Joe E. Nash, manager of the! Paragon Department store, made the announcement before leaving Shelby for New York Thursday that work on the remodeling of the mezzanine floor of the big Para gon store will be begun Monday, i Plans for the additTon have been drawn by A. L. Anderson, of Grand Rapids. These plans call for the ex sion of the mezzanine along both walls over the main floor, on which will be located both the millinery and the ready-to-wear depart ments It is said to be likely that Mrs. Flay Hamrick’s beauty show now located on the mezzanine floor, will be located on the third floor, which1 is now given over to ready-to-wear.! This change will give Mrs. Ham-1 rick added space for physical cul-1 ture work, in connection with the! regular beauty shop service. | - A Twinkle - Despite the seven-year Sac co-Vanzetti case there is still a glammer of hope that Ameri can law will hold the respect , it should have. Up in Wilkes , county a defendant was re turned guilty of second degree murder in a period of 14 min utes. .Sounds more like Eng lish justice than the usual run in this country where defen dants almost die of natural causes before being punished for killing others. Now that some of the trans oceanic planes are making wa ter stops perhaps some of the channel swimmers will get back in the limelight by going as far as possible by air and swimming the rest of the way. THE TWINKLER. A Pair of Aces There's very little anyone eculrl teach either of these two young men about golf—very little Indeed. For they happen to be Joe Kirkwood (left) and Cobby Jones. photographed together on their return to America from England, where Join ®, for the second sue* Wessive year, won the British Ocui (Mi tm r: merit. Bulwinkle And Carpenter Talking Of Congress Now Charlotte,—Congressional cam paign ialk in the Ninth District had begun to thaw out considerably Tuesday—to the extent that it al most looked as if the candidates might soon begin to admit, with reservations, that perhaps a cam paign might, probably, seem to be brewing—maybe according to The Charlotte News. Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle in tjie preliminary stages of the game stood as the central figure, with the warmest of the talk coupling him and Solicitor John G. Carpen ter, his fellow townsman in Gas tonia, in speculation as to what they would do with each other in Gaston county. Both have an nounced thei** entry in 4he mara thon which ends with the pri maries next Summer. Hastening Slowly Major Bulwinkle was making haste slowly, and said that he was confident of the nomination and election. . There will “not be much diffi culty” in securing the nomination and election, he said to a repre sentative of The News. He called attention to the fact that Solicitor Carpenter was the only announced candidate opposing him. He said that he did not know whether Solicitor Carpenter would be in the race to the end. The statement was at variance with that of Solicitor Carpenter, who recently expressed the idea here that he would win the nomina tion by an excellent majority. The fight between the Gastonians is viewed by Mecklenburg politici ans with keen interest and this county is almost certain to intro duce an entry, perhaps several, in the field this Fall. Jones? Redd? Hell? Xo announcement had been made Tuesday. Former Senator Hamil ton C. Jones was known to be giving serious consideration to the fascinating idea of being a Con gressman. Mayor F. Marion Redd was mentioned as one who might be induced to make the race if the proper pressure was brought to bear on him. James A. Bell, promi nent lawyer, had not /sufficiently discournged Congressional talk con cerning him as to end it. Edgar W. Pharr, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, was out West somewhere, but his friends, in his absence, continued to specu late on his possible reaction to the discussions relative to his entry. How the campaign will develop was a question of consequence. Local politicians foresaw that Messrs. Carpenter and Bulwinkle, both of Gaston county, might fight to a stalemate, leaving the way open for a Mecklenburger to walk in without great difficulty. Others held in the view that Major Bul winkle Will'lead the field by reason of his fortified position of already being *i‘,” \vhile still others in sisted that Solicitor Carpenter’s wide acquaintance up and down the districts puts him practically on an equality with the Major and that the fight is without a handicap. The campaign will open for fair probably in October or November, the experienced ones said, and will increase in intensity until the pri maries. BOLL WEEVIL DAMPENED VACATION County Farmers Hack From South Carolina Tour Report Many Scenes Of Interest. Visited Famous Coker Farms. The boll weevil, that bugaboo of a farmer's dreams, cast a shadow over the recent vacation tour of 25 Cleveland county farmers Into South Carolina. “Yes, we had a whale of a time , and saw many things of interest end picked up valuable Informa tion about farming, bua that boll weevil—he’s a terror.” That’s what they say. The farm party headed by Al vin Hardin, county agent, motored j first to Myrtle Beach after leav ing Shelby. There they rode the waves and rolicked in the surf, several of the party for the firs? time. On the ensuing days of the' jaunt they visited Charleston, the Pee Dee experimental station, and ihe famous Coker seed farms. They saw' tobacco houses, watched tobae- j co sales, overlooked Cokers way of, raising cotton, and in a general! way witnessed many new things, but then they saw field after field where the weevil pest had ruined the cotton. That spoiled part of the trip for many of them. “We do not want that thing to visit Cleveland,' they remarked. Two of the oddities of the trip to mam of the party were the tak ing of turpentine from the long leaf pines and the lack of chickens. Rotween Shelby and Myrtle Beach County Agent Hardin says the party did not see more than a dozen chickens. Seeing the ocean, fishing for big fish, seeing good and bad and even “raw” land, the farmers were highly eluted over their trip upon their return they saw with their own eyes the value of crop rota tion. Next year another and bigger party of county farmers will likely trek along with the county agent for a trip to Washington and back through the famous Shennandoah Valley farming region. Those making the South Caro lina trip were: Mr. Hardin, R. W. Wilson. Ley Wilson, Henry Gantt, Albert Dednion, John Plummer, Kaymon Plummer, John Blalock, Tom Blalock, B. P. Dixon Holland Dixon. Kirt Dixon, J. P. Me Dan. ials, O. Z. Morgan, Bill Moore, Zeb Blanton, J. C. Brooks, Huff Ham, rick, Broadus Hamrick. Mr. Moore, Charlie Wright, Graham Wright, Bob Turner, Clarence Cabanlss, and Mr. Hammett. Dub Golf Tourney The talked of "dul>” golf tournament is scheduled to be held at Cleveland Springs next Thursday afternoon. >To on£ who has ever played will be permitted to enter. Prizes will be given for low and high scores. Everybody »n town ts invited to go out and take part by the club. The regular club tourna ment scheduled for Friday and Saturday will not he held for a few weeks. TAX VALUES FALL * SHY OVER COUNTY OUTSIDE OF It G With No. 6 Not Totalled Yet Val ues Are Below Lent Year. May Stay There Despite the surmise of some tax l values in Cleveland county this ; year, under the new listing, will j likely fall below those of last year when everything is checked up and ! complete. In the total now, which includes ! all the county except No. 6 town j ship, a slump is shown below the 'total of last year. This Is the news | given out by Mr. W. R. Newton, head of the county tax board. Whether or not No. 6 can como up to last year’s mark and have enough gain left over to take care of the general county slump re mains to be seen. Predictions are, however, that No. C will do well to hold its own. A big slump in personal proper ty is the story about the failure | to show an increase in taxable values. Only one or two town ships in the county have held up to the mark of last year in per sonal property. Nearly every where in the county a gain is shown in real estate values, but every bit of this gain is taken up, and more too, in the personal property drop. No. fi. township, it is said, will also show a gain in real estate listing, but a drop is also expect ed in personal property for the | county seat township. With that the total taxable wealth in the county will fall shy of last year. In a way the slump in personal property values was unexpected. Early in the listing season it de veloped that a gain was to be shown in real estate. This gain continued to hold and a big gain in real estate for the entire coun ty will likely be revealed when the !total is complete, but meantime an even bigger slump in personal val ues will be shown. Such was the indicated gain in real estate values some time back that a slight slash in the tax rate was foreseen. But now that the personal property drop has assum ed such a magnitude as to envelop and swallow up the real estate gain the vision of a tax reduction seems to be vanishing. Why there is such a fall-off in personal property values is a mat-, I ter of conjecture. If a tax cut is not possible, and it doesn't seen! so likely now the personal property slump will be responsible. ALIEN 10 SPEAK E AT F A. I. Allen, state superintendent of public instruction has accepted an invitation to speak here at the opening; day of the Cleveland County Fair, according to an an nouncement made by secretary J» S. Dorton. The first day of the fair will be “educational day” and county. All school children will be ters to the superintendents of schools in adjoining counties in viting them to join with Cleveland count. All school children will be admitted free as has been the prac tice heretofore, so thousands of school children, their parents and teachers are expected to be pres ent. "V Dr. Allen will speak at the grand stand on some educational topic and thousands will no doubt hear him. Heretofore one day of the fair has been designated as “school day” but this year the scope has been broadened to include adjoin ing counties;—Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, Burke, Rutherford, Cherokee and York and a record attendance is expected. An inter esting program is in process of preparation for the opening day, September 27. f County Couples In Gaffney Marriages The following county couples were among those recorded as re ! cent marriages in the , office of Probate Judge Lake W. Stroup at Gaffney, South Carolina. Guy Peeler and Virgie Camp, of Lawndale. j Grover Rav Anthony, Hickory, ' and Virgie Margaret Burton, Kings Mountain. Elam C. Lovelace and Mary Brudges, Boiling Springs. Gaston Skinner, Boiling Springs, and Juanita Bridges, Mooresboro. Augustus Sain, Vale, and Renn^ Alwran, Lawnd.du « .