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8 PAGES TODAY «- * ■ ■'-iJL ■il.1IL'L.. "-■! .r-l1'?"1 By mail, per year (in advarce)- $2.5* By carrier, per year (in advance) 13.00 What’s THE News .THE STAR’S REVIEW. Frank Hoyle, at the end of the tra\v . tat season, throws his som kr(,ril in tile political ring for sher iff- * * . Ott',1) loses $5 a hale on boll (e,\il report of the government census bureau. Two rural letter carriers out from Shelby will have finished 25 years of continuous service on September 1st. new .real estate and insurance firm; barber shop changes owner ship ami one merchant finds that publicity helps eheck evil. 'stop worthless * * * County farmers mutual fire in jurants'"company record is tribute s of mutual organizations. to sucre. House numbers and mail recen ta,b are necessary to get cily mail delivery service extended over 24 city blocks. You see in The Star today a pic ture of little Miss Roberts who has six living grandmothers. T F Another Candidate Announces Him self tv Succeed Retiring Sheriff Hugh Logan. “Are .you running for sheriff ?” The Star asked Frank L. Hoyle yes terday in the postoffice when The Star undertook to check up on ru mors that Mr. Hoyle who served for 12 years as clerk of the Superior court was in.politics again. 'That’s my intention now,” announced Mr. Hoyle. "1 have had lots of people urging nit to run for several months and within the past few weeks I have- made up my mind positively to l>e a candidate and have so announced the fact to a few friends who have talked to n:e about the matter, says air. Hoyle. This makes the fourth candi date already out for the position of high .-he! ;ff of Cleveland county and .-till there are others in whose bonnet the sheriff’s bee is buzzing. Mr. Hoyle is one of the county’s mo: inf. mntial men. After serving t> <ic; ut> clerk of court under his beloved father the late Capt. Lem uel J. linjle, Frank was elected as clerk and held the position for a dozer, years. His last term of of fice, expiree! nine years ago and then he quit. He was not defeated but he. quit in the good graces of the people whom he served s'l faithfully for a dozen years. His knowledge of law placed him in position to render the public a splendid service which they fully appreciated. Mr. Hoyle says it is a bit early to announce but that since others are in the race, he has made up his mind to enur the fight early. The primary is hot until next year and the election..a year from this fall. Puts Bad Checks In Show Window Quinn'. Drug Store Finds This Ef fective Way to Stop Bad ( heck Practice. If von see a “covey” of people P line in the window at Quinn’s rue store, you may think they are “’k'OK at an advertisement of a sreairi offer, but no, they are scan wne a frame-full of worthless "hich the store accepted in t°wi faith from its customers ard „oun'* them to be “without suffi lerjL funds’ when presented to the anc Quinn says the display of the orthless checks in the window's * 0Wlne the signatures of men who J*'e caused a number of signers to come in and redeem ’ s'n(,c he had adopted this - ‘0<* exposure of worthless h s experience is that all I necks now accepted are good, ‘he people who give them d,".surt' they have the funds in nit ',"''‘r<*er to keep their names Inwi ■ ,mhlic frame in the win . 1 ,,u 1,1,1 sa>'s he thinks they will J *le Wl|rthless check practice lri1 1 "hich has been so common ,2* tlle I,ast year. Other mer " '',HJld use his method to II advantage. “It may drive a away>” aays Quinn, , 'hi not want the business individual who will take ntv r<;haiidt.se away and give me htun' ^, >Ut a worthlesa check in Mrs. Jane Stewart To Buried Thursday J, '1 -Jane Stewart, mother of g, i .1 .ik 1 in Harrill, died at the ^'.' hospital this morning at H, l at the age of 73 years Lri ‘ ' he buried at Double f!,;,Ptist church Thursday ,rvi at 3 O’clock. The funeral 11) n ,0 conducted by Rev. (,.n and Rev. D. G. Wash I, , l ' !s- Stewart had been mak er v ,<>n,1e w‘tb her only daugh Its u ^ ranklin Harrill since an'iH was married. Prof. Grigg Says District Special Would Be Abolished And New Tax Voted For Extra. Some misunderstanding resulted from the recent proposal by Coun-1 ty Supt. J. Horace Grigg for aj county-wide eight months school j term before the Kiwanis club when j Mr. Grigg was quoted as saying that a “forty cent county-wide tax” would finance the schools. The proposition has created con siderable interest and Mr. Grigg says “numerous questions concern ing the eight months term indicate a genuine interest in the plan.” In seeking more light on the “forty cents” county-wide tax, Mr. Grigg tells The Star: “At present we have a countv wide tax of 57 cents levied by the commissioners for the support of the six months school term requir ed hv our State constitution. Inas much as many districts have found it expedient to operate their schools for a longer period than six months they have voted local taxes as high as 50 cents in order to run their schools two months longer. Shelhv and Kings Moun tain n-w'-rate three months longer or a total of nine months. “Since some districts have only a small amount of taxable proner ty. comparativrly sneaking, they experience much difficulty in oper ating an e!ght months term even with a rather high rate of local tax Other districts which fortun ately have a large amount of tar-j eh]e property are able to operate the;r schools for eight or 0 months —;*h • local **>x much lower than the weaker d:str:ots. \\ nnifi Abolish Di«fnrt “UruW the propound r»]*n n11 *}f Al- ** 1 *>/■»o 1 ip ■+ho vqpoufs dis trict** would b<* abolished and a I county-widp tax ha^ided, t*M>P?Xs* fUrt <?choo^ two months lor'*'or than tho ronui^^d s:x nonfUc ^hc.n tborr> would ho th^ o7 cor*+<* to «oir>no~t tho ^^oscpt js’X months term and possibly 40 cen-s to (Continued on pape eight.) »— • ■— McWhirter Boys Buy Palace Barber Shop — I Ambrose and Roscoe McWhirter, i two of Shelby's most popular bar ‘ hors have purchased the Palace ! Barber shop from Cook & Boyles and took charge this morning. Am I brose has been one of the tonsoria! artists at Jim Austell’s shop for five years, while Roscoe has been identified with the Autsell shop for over a continuous period of ten ! years. The Palace barber shop which they have acquired is lo cated in i.he basement of the Union Trust company building and is ideally located for a business of this kind. It is understood that Messrs. Cook and Boyles have pur chased shops at Valdese and Tay j lorsville to which places they will move. Audit Of County School Books Ready Prof. F. A. EfTrnundson. who ha? been making an audit of the county school finances for the past year came up Saturday from Charlotte and completed his work, according tn County Superintendent J. H. Grigg and a summary of the audit will be published in a few days for the information of the tax payers. Mr. Edmonson, when he began the audit, was connected with the staie department of education, but re cently accepted position as super intendent of the county schools of Mecklenburg. Since the schools re quire the greater part of the coun ty’s tax rvenue, the information will be interesting to the tax pay ers. Short Term Schools To Start In October All of the rural schools of the county that operate eight months are already running and the city schools at Kings Mountain will start September 5th and the city schools of Shelby will start Sep tember 12th. The schools that run only six months will start between the middle of October and the first of November, depending on the harvest season. If harvest is late, schools will be late opening, and vice versa. When the county board of education meets Monday, a ten tative date for the opening of the six months school will probably be set, hut this date will be subject to change to suit the convenience of the farm patrons of the schools. The Chaplins These are now pie'u res ot cnarlid Chaplin and Lita Gray Chaplin, whose divorce suit has been the year’s choicest morsel of new3 • in the Hollywood movie colony. The lines in Chaplin’s face indtca*o he has afced con iierably in the last yean Burleson-Dula Suit Reaches Compromise I)ula Pays One Penny And Costs In Settling Action For Alleged Libel. Blowing Rock.—The $30,000 damage suit of Commodore Burle son, of Morganton, against C. L. Dula, of Blowing Rock, has been settled out of court for one cent it was said by Mr. Dula here. Mr. Dula said his attorneys and those of Burleson reached a com promise by which the suit would be discontinued if Dula would pay the costs and a nominal amount of damages to Burleson. Thereupon Mr. Dula gave Mr. Burleson one cent and the case ended. Burleson filed the suit seeking damages because Dula had been quoted in newspapers as saying that Broadus Miller, negro slayer of Gladys Kincaid of Morganton, hp.d been slafin apparently while he offered no resistence. Burleson maintained that Miller fired on him first w’ith a shotgun, and that he killed Miller in self-defense, On this ground Burleson demand id the $30,000 damages. Mail Service cannot In; Extended Until Citizens Have Provided Mail Receptacles. In order to get the city delivery of mails extended over 25 city blocks, the patrons in the new ter ritory to be served, must do two things, number their houses with permanent figures and provide re ceptacles in which the carrier can deposit the mail, says Postmatser •I. H. Quinn, The failure of pat rons to co-operate in this way is delaying the inauguration of the service which cannot be started un til these two things are done. Some weeks ago a survey of the city was made by an inspector from the postoffice department and he recommended that extension of the service to cover 24 city blocks. The additional ■ territory proposed is: One block North Clegg street, one-half block West Gardner street, one-half block North LaFayette street, four blocks East Marion street, three blocks Cresent ave nue, one block West Blanton street, six and one-half blocks South La Fayette street, one bldck North Washington street, two blocks, Bel vedere avenue, four blocks Line berger street. Other streets failed to get the desired service for the reason that 'hey did not have proper side.walks. There is no hope for city service in a territory that does not have good side-walks, either paved or graveled. Boxes and Numbers. Postmaster Quinn in urging that each house be provided with boxes and numbers has the following to ; say about the new service: “By order of the city authorities, all houses on the proposed additions lo the area of city delivery in Shel by have been numbered and the numbers written on houses in crayon. The occupants of the houses are requested to provide and place proper numbers and to provide some kind of receptacles for mail at once. A slot in or near a door i is satisfactory. The department will ^iot install the service within the new territory until this order li ; complied with. Let every resident of : the new territory act promptly in this matter and see that his neigh bors do not overlook it. The pai orns can now hasten or retard the j starting of the service over the new territory as they choose.” Farmer Enters Suit Against Power Line W. J. Riley, through his attor ney Peyton McSwain has entered a civil action for damages against ihe Fallston Electric Light am) Power company, alleging that his son Paul Riley, was seriously in jured on July 14th this year when the youth was shocked by the elec tric current of the said power com pany when he was ploughing in a cotton field where one of the de fendant's poles is located. The com plaint alleges that when young Riley was ploughing in the field, the force of the electric current drew to the pole, knocked him un conscious and that as a result of the shock he was ill in bed for 12 days and is still unable to work.” Damages in the sum of $10,000 for alleged permanent injury of the youth and $10,000 for the cost of the action is asked for In the com plaint. Fatmers Mutual Fire Has Only $4,000 Loss Last Year A loss of only $4,400 was sus tained by fire -’during the past year, it was reported Saturday at the annual meeting of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance association of Cleveland County held in the court house. The company is in fine financial condition due to tbe splendid management accorded it by W. R. Newton who has served as secretary-treasurer there was no reserve fund, but in these years, a reserve fund of $12,000 has been ac cumulated by laying aside a little money year after year. This re serve is kept to meet any conting ency that might arise. Mull Succeeds Wray O. M. Mull, who has served as vice president for many years was elected president, succeeding the late John S. Wray who was presi dent for thirty years. To the tire less efforts of Mr. Wray is also due much of the credit of the suc cess of the company and a com mittee composed of O. M. Mull. Joe E. Blanton and W. R. Newton was appointed to draft suitable re solutions in memory of the dead president. The company has in force a mil | lion, six hundred and fifty thous and dollars worth of fire insur ance on property belonging entirely to farmers in Cleveland county. This is about the same amount of insurance the company carried the year before. “The past year was n I bad year for collections, but a i good year from the standpoint of losses,’’ says Mr. Newton who adds that a rate of thirty dents on the $100 worth of property has j been set for the ensuing year. The Officers E. C. Borders has been elected vice president, Joe E. Blanton, I county agent. There is a director from each township and these were elected from the townships in the order named: ,T. A. McCraw. \V. C. i Hamrick. W. A. Gladden. J. Bur I Patterson, M. P. Harrelson, l.a Fayette Roberts. A. B. Jones. An drew A. Elliott, P. L. Peeler, A. T. Mull and George W. Peeler, i The success of this mutual fire insurance company has been phe nbminal and has been the ohjeet rf praise all over North Carolina. There are only a few mutual fire insurance companies in the state ami none has been quite as sre : eessful as the one in Cleveland. Little Lady, Janice Roberts, With Six Living Grandmothers Reading left to right, standing: Mrs. F. C. Borders, a great grand mother: Mrs. K. E. Roberts, grandmother; Mrs. .1. N. Smith, grand mother, Mrs, Sara Huffsietler, great giandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Houser, great great grandmother, !Mi years old, Mrs. Sara Roberts, great grandmother. Baby in lap of Mrs. Elizabeth Houser is Miss Janice Roberts; 9 -months-old child of Mr. and Mrs, Guy Roberts. Boll Weevil Report Sends Cotton Down $5 A Bale New Orleans, Aug. 30.—The cotton market broke 100 to 108 points, or $5 to §5.25 a bale on the government weevil report today. Fifteen mniutes reception of the weevil report the market was still dropping with no indication of a cessation in the selling move ment. An opening rally, which had car ried October to 23.30, December to 23.60 and January to 23.67 al ready been checked by profit tak ing when the weight of the weevil ^report made itself felt. Under the added impetus tV the downward movement, October dropped to 22.30. December to 22.52 and Jan j uary to 22,65. Government Report Washington, Aug. 30— The I eleventh boll weevil report of the i department of agriculture issued ! today includes the following: i Texas, Eastern section, had far ' more boll weevil injury than usual according to reports from 59 coun ties for the period August 1 to 15. In Central Texas there appears to be an area of 8 or 10 counties where boll weevils have not been abundant except in wooded see i tions. The crop in this area is a little better than average. Arkansas reports on August 1G say boll weevils appear to be more abundant in Western portions of the State this year than in any year since 1923. Records for the Eastern portion of the State are not so complete as usual, but ap parently the boll weevil is not pro portionately as serious as in West ern portions. Louisiana: Tallulah reported August 8 to 13 average infestation 65.9 per cent, infesta tion ranging from 56.6 to 75.0 per cent. Raton Rouge on August 20 reported infestation has been com plete in many fields for at least ten days and is rapidly reaching complete infestation in majority of undusted fields. Infestation has been so spotted in the earlier part of the season that some fields are still making cotton. | Mississippi reported on August 20 that boll weevils in that State broke all previous records of the season during the previous week, ! with an average of 40 per cent of the squares punehtured in the hill counties. This marked an increase over the preceding week when the ; infestation average was 30 per cent, and that of 18 per cent two weeks ago. The weevils are four times as abundant as on this date : last year. The flooded area of the delta is still practically free of weevils. Alabama: On August 16th boll weevils had continued to multiply in enormous number in Central and South Alabama. In some of the Piedmont region cotton fields there will not be over 50 bolls of cotton to the acre. Of 6,489 squares countyed on undusted plants 65 per cent were punctured. South Carolina: The average in festation on 12 plantations in the vicinity of Florence on August 10 was 77.36 per cent as compared with 66.64 on August 22, the re port said. Clcmson College on Aug ust 15 reported weevil infestation light and found only in scattered areas in the lower and middle Piedmont sections. No weevils have | been reported in the extreme up per section of the state. North Carolina: On August 15 increasing damage was reported throughout the cotton section. In the souihern counties from the coast to the middle Piedmont, the average infestation of squares ap pear to he about forty per cent. In the upper coastal plain counties the average infestation , is about 8 per cent with a heavier infes tation expected. New Realty Firm Opens In Shelby George P. Webb And His Brother E. I.. Webb Form Insurance And Realty Company. George P. Webb for eight years clerk of the superior court of Cleveland county and his brother E. L. Webb, who fpr a number of years has been bookkeeper for Z. B. Weathers and Sons, manufac turers of concrete products, have formed a partnership to be known as Webb and Webb and will open today a firo insurance and realty office in the Union Trust building. They made up their decision this week to launch into this business, the senior Mr. Webb having been taking a needed rest since his term of office expired last Decem ber. It is understood they will sell no other form of insurance but policies that Cover fire losses fpr the present, although other forms of insurance may be taken on later. The new firm bad wanted to take the name of Webb Brothers, but since there is already a firm operating here under that name, they selected W'ebb and Webb, the name of the old law firm when Judges J. L. and E. Y. Webb were partners in practice. Mrs. Claude Grigg 111 In Richmond Hospital Dr. W. T. Grigg of Lawndale left early this week for Richmond, Va. to be at the bedside of his daughter-in-law Mrs, Claude Grigg Who is seriously ill in a hospital there. Mrs. Grigg lives at Free mont, this state, and was taken to a Richmond hospital where a ser ious operation was found neces sary. Friends of the family are alarmed over her condition. Mr. Claude Grigg has been elected superintendent of the Kings Moun tain graded schools which open September 5th. UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB ON SUCCESSFUL TRIP Chapel Hill, Aug. 30.—(INS.— [ The University of North Carolina I Glee club, at present on a tour l of Europe, apparently is meeting with the same success that ranked them among the leading glee clubs ; o( this country. R. B. House, executive secretare of the university, has received from Carrol! Downes, a member <>f I the American club in London, a jletier raiding the G1 ■-s Club. “With ‘l.indv,’ Bob'-v -Tones end your t oys.” Downes wrote “we j are indeed sending t«i the Old Wo Id acceptable ambassadors of o rc* wiil.” V s Two Shelby Rural Cariers Round Out 25 Years Service George A. Khun, rural let ter carrier on Shelby Route 1 ami (I. V. Hawkins on Shel by Route 2 will round out 2.r> years of service with the lepartmeht on September 1st. They have been carrying continually since the routes were established a quarter century ago rarely missing I heir schedules through all kinds of weather. “Both have always been and still are faithful and efficient carriers and very popular with their patron*,” says Postmaster Quinn, When the first rural service was inaugurated from Shelby, three routes were es tablished. In addition to routes one and two carried by Elam and Hawkins, Mere dith White started! Route 3. Mr. White resigned a number of years ago and was suc ceeded by George Dover, present carrier. It is thought Carrier Go. forth on Kings Mountain Route 1 is the oldest carrier in point of service in Cleve land eoumy. His route was authorized a short time be fore the Shelby routes, and he has been in continuous service. With horse and buggy iver almost impassable roads, that required almost a full day to make a trip, the men contrast those days with to day when they ride in cars over good roads and complete heir trip in three hours or less time. j Kings Mountain Baptist Associa tion to Meet at Double Shoals October 1th and 5th. (Special to The Star.) The Kings Mountain Baptist as sociation will meet with the Double Shoals church October 4th and 5th. Below is the list of the homes for the delegates of the different churches: Beaver. Dam—T. W. Spangler. Bethlehem—J. W. Costner. Boiling Springs—II. C. Royster. Buffalo-—Ed. Spangler. Casar—J. R. Peeler. Carpenters Grove—Andy Warlick Double Springs—S. C. Wilson. Dover— R. L. Eskridge. Elizabeth—W S. Spangler. Eastside—-G. C. Eskridge. Fallston—Cletus Royster. Flint Hill—C. D. Seism. Grover—W. F. Yelton and A. L. Spangler. Kings Mountain, (1st)—A. D. Spangler. Kings Mountain (2nd)—Joe Lankford. Lattimore-J. T. Spangler. Lawndale—Mrs. Mary Deitz. Macedonia—Mrs. J. W. Spingler. Mt. Sinai—H. L. Francis. New Bethel—J. W. Eskridge. New Hope—C. R. Spangler. New Prospect—W. E. Cornwell. Normans Grove—Everett Spang North Brook—Alex Costner. Oake Grove—S. B. Eskridge. Patterson Grove—W. C. Seism. j Patterson Springs—Lee Eskridge! Poplar Springs—J. M. Gold. Pleasant Hill—A. P. Spangler. Pleasant Ridge—C. D. Spangler. Pleasant Grove—Plato Cham pion. Ross Grove—Clem Royster. Sandy Plains—L. G. Bowen. Shelby (1st)—J. A. Horn. Shelby (2nd)—Mrs. A. A. Toney. Union—G. L. Cornwell. Waco—Clyde Cornwell. Wallace Grove—Evans and Frank Lankford. Zion—Mischeau Harrill. Zoar—J .M. Wilson. Gardner Says War Spirit Still There Raleigh, Aug. 30,—The war spirit is still dominant in Geneva ! and ‘I have grave apprehension j for the future peace of Europe,” | reads a letter from O. Max Gard ner, prominent Shelby lawyer, who is now touring Europe, to the News and Observer. Accompanying the published let ter is a photograph of Mr. Gard ner and Federal Judge E. Yates Webb, also of Shelby, showing them standing before the Woodrow Wilson tablet at the Palace of the League of Nation^ at Geneva. “The tablet of Wilson made me ! nyoud of him.” Mr. Gardner wrote i‘‘but it is my judgment that our i failure to become a party to the pact accounts for its instability.” < Preacher Tells Of Seeing Couple* In Dork Room ‘C lose Together’ —Intimacy Told Of. Greenville, S. C., Aug. 30.—Mrs. Ethel Willis and Henry Townsend, the latter apparently intoxicated, were riding together ten days be fore Sheriff Sam D. Willis was killed, W. A. Green testified today at their trial for the murder. Green said they drove up to his filling station, 11 miles from Green v'He on the Woodruff Hoad, nnd after Mrs. Willis had bought gaso line, she asked the way to Spar tanburg and they left in that di rection. Townsend, he said, was slumped down in their closed automobile and seemed to have been “drinking hard.” * The Rev. J. A. Willis, preacher deputy, recalled as a witness, told of seeing Mrs. Willis and Town send together in a semi-dark room at the Willis home in 1924. They separated quickly, he said, when he called Mrs. Willis, leaving a mes sage for her from her husband who was ill in bed. 1 ovvnsend visited the Willis home frequently when the sheriff was absent, according to C. C. f loud, automobile mechanic, who testified he occupied an apartment in the Willis home in July and August last year. The witness said the two often went to the rear of the garage ostensibly to feed a dog which Townsend kept at the Willis home. One time, he testified, they went to feed the dog at midnight. Footprints and cigfyret stumps found at the rear of the garage were not there four hours after the killing, Reuben Gosnell, real estate dealer and former prohibi tion officer, testified. Gosnel said he made an investigation back of the garage, as soo nas it was day light, and saw no signs. Gosnell also told of seeing the two defendants together on numer ous occasions. One time Townsend had his arms around Mrs. Willis, he said. The witness said Mrs. Willis remarked while visiting at his home about three years ago that her husband had toid her she would be talked about if she con tinued to stay out until midnight with Townsend. W. R. Neeley, Gosnell’s partner, corroborated the testimony about seeing the defendants together of ten. ^ Former Deputy Ben Paris re called, testified Townsend at dif ferent times had owned several .32 calibre pistols. Sheriff Willis was shot with a weapon of that calibre, which has never been located, ac cording to Detective W. W. Rogers testimony. Indications that the State may rest its case today prompted the defense to prepare for introduction of fifty to sixty witnesses. Testimony yesterday by almost every State witness centered around the alleged intimacy be tween the two defendants, princi pally during the several months preceding the slaying. Coroner John L. Parks testified to seeing the two together in an automobile on two occasions, and declared also that the defendants were together frequently in conversation behind the courthouse, where her hus band’s offices were located. Town send was his chief deputy and the sheriff’s comrade overseas during the World War. Uther witnesses on the stand told of seeing the defendants to gether on Mrs. Willis’ bed in her home, and being constantly in each other’s company. Shelby Electric Co. Closes Up Business Makes Voluntary Assignment. Mr. George Tompkins Will. Re main in Shelby. i The Shelby Electric company made a voluntary assignment yes terday for the benefit of its credi tors and W. C. Boggs Southern re presentative of the National Credit! association has been made assignee. George Tompkins who has beeni the manager of this business on W. Marion street since it began busi ness about two years ago says there are no local creditors holding un-paid claims against the concern. Mr. Tompkins will remain in Shel by and do general electric contract ing. It is not known Just how Mr. Boggs, the assignee will dispose ol> the stock on hand, whether he will sell as a whole or in part, but he will at rive within the next few daya i to dispose of the business.