VOL. XXXIV, No. 108 SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPT. 9, 1927. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons
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What's
THE
News
Cotton prices up again. The fore
, m The Star today.
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fc-onor court opens for a two
£5 session here Monday devot
to civil calendar.
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ThP suit of Rev. C. B. Way vs.
■thodist Protestant church of W.
lf]by has ben compromised. Read
out it in this issue.
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yore than 2.000 Shelby young
(is will be heading back to the
hoo! room Monday.
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Trustees of Boiling Springs high
tool have endorsed the alumni
ovement for a junior college, says
1 announcement today.
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Mrs WilUs and Henry Townsend
ere arqtAed of the murder of
icriff Stifla Willis.
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A gain in postal receipts during
ugust ofthis year is announced by
postoffice department for the
lelby office.
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Weekly news letters from leading
»ns and communities of the coun
f may be found in this issue to
iler with numerous items of ma
r and minor importance to the
tople of the city and county.
chool Election
In No. 8 Township
To Be Held Monday
Election Tarries New School
Building Will Be Built Near
Frank Lee’s
Much interest centers in the
hool election in No. 8 township
tondav. Sept 12th when the voters
111 decide on proposed tax of fifty
mts on the *100 property valua
on for a new school building to be
ected near Frank Lee’s garage.
Dr several years the citizens of the
slight and Polkville precincts
sve been trying to get together on
itter school facilities, but they
isagreed as to the site and the
atter has been delayed. It was
question over whether the pro
ved new building would be erect
1 near Union or near Polkville.
his time when the citizens vote,
if site is settled upon. Interest is
*n in the election and a full vote
expected at the polls.
There are two voting precincts.
Marvin Eaker has been registrar
i the Delight precinct and W. J.
ridges in me Polkville precinct
emn Kister and B I. Towery will
'rve as judges over the box at De
lhi and S C Lattlmore and Bob
ridges over the Polkville box.
Cotton Estimate
Like Dividend To
Folks Of County
"That crowd acted like it was get
ing a big dividend off the mar
et, remarked one of the bystand
rs yesterday when the crowds
Pronging the market here staged
^demonstration with the giving of
he government estimate of 12,692
» bales
"It was a dividend to the entire
wnty, man" replied another by
tander. "Had you thought that
eport means thousands of dollars
3 Cleveland county?"
The report during the day was
wtcd with more interest per
P- than any cotton report in a
Z A eoo<1 year- or rather a
h .1 1 BOOd cotton prices, is seen
head for the people of this county,
M the general feeling of better
orms or h1”8- t0 ** Pleating all
of business. Cotton conditions
Scateri \ ar,e. not so sood as was in
ert hi .b'V, the Iow government re
„„ , 11 local men, including cot
hP wrhs- who have traveled over
on c2n,reCently state that cot
Jn ondUions are better In this
l„n ' thdn m m°st any other Sec
ore Eariv°tt0n iS not the 1)651 ever
it an. : the year a big season
« am cipated, 5ut „ the month,
et at nr prosPects have dimmed,
otter, thK 0t PriCes one ba,e of
* two lam iCar WUI brln* 45 rnuch
ksimistic rt6ar 8nd even the mosc
SS? foresee only a
he averLe ^?° 10 4°'000 baIe*
he eoimtv °JhiVinatCC* heard about
‘»2e!hlle;he ‘W among
beting 3o clend rarmers are pre
*>. 8 30 cent 6<>tton before Jan
fcsnged'' rnn^0 conditlons have
*onth farmn erably ln the past
“id other ”;Say- The red »P‘der
bve cut downnraVOraWe e,ements
twtir.n whj.n on the county pro
tiled to in a 0t ol tbe eotton
an to a " expected- m
“>er useri ;^ er amount of ferti
this year.
Destroy* Crib
At Home P. F. Gri,
(i,,'1 ' early Thursday
Pfc£Pairt*e Cr‘b at thel
Intern s ,°r 88 ln the ext
IkhcK of n of Shelby- Se
Ci tK0"1' 11 18 “W.
iJust , the crtb
tot be ,’0W the started <
«ty iire°ajred A truck tTOtr
re department was a
Rdf008 aft6r ‘he alarn
Boiling Springs Trustees
Back Junior College Idea
Trustees Of Baptist School Adopt Resolu
tions Petitioning Three Church Associa
tions To Establish College. Commend
Alumni For Supporting Colleve Movement
Cotton Jumps $10
Bale With Report
Of Crop Shortage
Crop of 12,692,000 Bairs Forecast.
Market Hits Trading Limit.
Farmers to Profit.
New Orleans.—The second gov
ernment cotton forecast of the sea
son followed the trail blazed by its
predecessor yesterday and brought
a two hundred point rise to the cot
ton market.
Both the New Orleans and the
New York exchanges saw prices
mount until the $10 a bale trading
limit for the day had been regis
tered.
The maximum gain for one day
achieved, the markets settled down
for a period of comparative inac
tivity. Both exchanges saw prices
slump below the high marks on
realizing in the later trading, but
both closed with gains of almost
$7.50 a bale for the day.
The government crop estimate of
12,692,000 bales almost 800.000 bales
below the first forecast which on
August 1, had started cotton on the
upgrade, was half a million bales
less than many traders had antici
pated.
New York, Sept. 8.—A govern
ment crop report indicating a yield
of only 12,692.000 bales sent the
price of cotton up the permitted
limit of $10 a bale on the New York
Cotton exchange. The advance was
cut to approximately $6'a bale be
fore the market closed, but even this
figure, as applied to the govern
ment report, represents an increase
of about $76,000,000 in the value ot ;
the crop, and if prices are main
tained should benefit materially |
the Southern planters, many of ;
whom are believed to have market- ,
ed last season's crop at unsatisfac- '
tory prices.
COTTON MARKET
(By Jno. F. Clark ft Co.)
Cotton was quoted on New York !
exchange at H o'clock today:
October 23.63; December 23.92;
January 23.95. Yesterday's close
October 23.95; December 24.05; Jan
uary 24.09.
New York. Sept. 9.—Eight p. m.
weather raining at Raleigh, .76, oth
1 erwise mostly clear. Memphis had
.38 rain. Forecast North Carolina, j
showers west portion fair tomorrow
South Carolina, Georiga, Alabama
Mississippi and Arkansas, fair; Ok
lahoma local showers and cooler to
north portion,
Worth street article says govern
ment confirmed worst fears, crop
substantially under requirements of
spinners. Journal of Commerce
says yesterdays trading eclipsed any
thing ever before seen in history of
New York Cotton exchange. Heavy |
realizing, including sales of fifty !
thousand by one house coupled
wdth some hedge selling broke tilt
market from the high limit. Think
market purchased on all sharp re
actions as consumers needs for sea
son constitutes a big short interest i
and they will be found buyers on ev
ery dip. Should the current good
weather continue, however, through
September and lrost be delayed un
til the late west Texas crop can
be realized, crop ideas will increase.
Osborne Gets In
On Chevrolet Club
Shelby Salesman for Jordon Chev
rolet Co., Wins Honors Sell
ing Automobiles.
Tom Osborne, auto salesman for
the Jordon Chevrolet Motor Co., of
this place has not only sold
72 Chevrolet cars within a year
which entitled him to membership
in the salesman's honorary organi
zation, but he exceeded this num
ber of cars. In the nation as a
whole. 2.790 retail salesmen quali
fied for membership which is three
times the list for 1926 when only
873 salesmen qualified. A holiday
topped off with a banquet was held
in Charlotte this week for the
salesmen in this territory and Tom
Osborne attended
The program for the day con
sisted of a business meeting in the
morning, luncheon at Hotel Char
lotte, speedboat races in the after
noon, a banquet in the evening at
which C. O. Kuester, secretary of
the Charlotte chamber of commerce
and Clyde S. Armstrong spoke, fol
lowed by a 42 round boxing exhibi
tion at the city auditorium.
Trustees of Boiling Springs
high school meeting this week
endorsed the movement start
ed by alumni for transforming
the school into a Jwnior college
and will petition the three Bap
tist associations supporting the
school to make it into a col
lege.
The well known Baptist high
school is supported by the Kings
Mountain, Sandy Run, and Gaston
county associations and has estab
lished quite a record as a prepara
tory school. But with state high
schools spreading in the program of
education the work of Boilin:;
Springs has lessened. Rather than
have the quarter of a million dol
lar school plant become a total
loss if the high school was sus
pended loyal alumpi began a move
ment to establish a jounier college
The trustees in their meeting
heartily endorsed the sentiment and j
expressed the opinion that the more j
than 1,000 high school graduates in
this territory annually would find
a need of such a college. Therefore
the trustees adopted a petition ask
ing the three associations at their
next meeting to put over a junior
college at the Cleveland county
town. Furthermore the State Bap
tist convention will be asked to
support the movement with the
guarantee that it will n6t conflict
with the state-wide campaign.
Resolutions adopted by the trus
tees followed:
'Whereas. The preponderance of
the Baptist denomination in this
section of North Carolina long
called for the establishing of a
Baptist high school here to train
our Baptist boys and girls for life
work and kingdom service, which
call, under the leadership of the
Holy Spirit, as we believe, culmin
ated in the building of the Boiling
Springs high school through the
prayers and sacrifices of these as
sociations; and.
Whereas. We have now a plant
which could not be duplicated for
less than $250,000 to $300,000 today
all of which would be practically
lost to the denomination and to the
cause of Christian education should 1
it cease to exist as a high school or
a junior college, thus inflicting an
irreparable loss upon the Baptist
cause in this territory where there
are more Baptists to the square mile
than can be found elsewhere on
earth; and,
Whereas, The field of activity, as
a high school, has been gradually
contracting in recent years as the
State high schools have continued
to increase in number within its
territory; and,
Whereas, There is a growing de •
mand within these three associa
tions for a junior college to receive
a large per cent of the 1,000 to
1,200 annual graduates of the twen
ty-five or more high schools within
our territory who must attend a
junior college or go without any
college training, on account of the
excessive cost in a senior college,
and others who desire to spend the
first two years in a junior college to
reduce the cost of a four-year
course: therefore,
Be it resolved by the board or
trustees of the Boiling Springs
high school, in special meeting as
sembled. on this the 7th day of Sep
tember, 1927, as follows:
First. That we request each of
our three associations — Kings
Mountain. Sandy Run, and Gaston
county—to take definite steps at
their next meetings to convert
Boiling Springs high school into a
junior college for the session be
ginning in the fall of 1928, and that
each of our said associations peti
tion the Baptist State convention,
at the annual session at Durham,
this fall, to approve and cooperate
with us to this end.
Second. That we pledge to the
leaders of the Centennial move
ment our whole-hearted support
and say to them that we will see
to it that the campaign for a
junior college shall not. in any
wise, interfere with our big State
wide campaign for one and a half
million dollars be launched in fall.
Third. That we endorse and
commend mast heartily the activi
ties of the alumni association of
said school in raising endowment
funds, and that we greatly apprec
iate their spirit of loyalty.
Beauties Survive Judges.
Atlantic City. N. J., Sept. 8 —
Fifteen inter-city beauties passed
safely through the preliminary judg
ing at the senior high school today
and one of their number will be se
lected by the jury of artists acting
as judges to be “Miss America—
1927.” Under the rules there is no
first, second or third place in the
division judging, but each contest
ants ranks equally with the other
two in her division.
Kings Mt. Cases
Feature Docket
Of Civil Court
Judge Clayton Moore Will Preside
Over Two Weeks Term of
Court Starting Monday.
A batch of -suits against the town
of Kings Mountain in regard to
sewage disposal will feature the
term of Superior court which will
convene here Monday to dispose of
the civil calendar.
These suits have been carried
over for some time and will likely
reach culmination at this court, it
is said.
Judge Clayton Moore, of Williain
ston, will preside over the twoweeks
term, which will be devoted entire
ly to disposing of civil cases.
Rig Civil Case Jam.
One of the biggest jams ever is
the condition of the civil calendar
here now. Barristers say that the
fortnight of court will nothing like
clean up the civil litigation on the
calendar. The term of court con
vening Monday is a special session
called for the purpose of disposing
cases that have been carried over
year after year because of the con
gestion. Considerable inconvenience
has been experienced by court liti
gants because of this Jam and the
special session is hailed with joy. It
is hoped that enough cases may be
cleared from the calendar that the
next regular term of court will be
able to handle cases developing in
recent months.
Numerous divorces will as usual
feature the grind next week and the
week following.
The two suits against a Shelby
physician and a Shelby surgeon, at*§
trading some interest, are not on
the calendar to come up this term
fibstIeStd
M FUND OK
Baptists Lining np for Million and
Half Drive for Schools and
Colleges in State.
Hon. O. Max Gardner, chairman
of the Baptist.State Centennial
campaign committee, has called the
first meeting of the committee to
be held at Meredith college Thurs
day. evening. September 15th.
Three hundred are expected to at
tend. and supper will be served by
the Meredith college girls.
The centennial campaign is a !
movement among the Baptists of i
North Carolina to celebrate the one ;
hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the state convention
in 1830. by raising a fund to clear
their seven colleges and schools
from indebtedness and to add new
equipment which is vitally needed I
in order to take care of the rapidly
increasing number of students at
these schools. The seven colleges
and schools owned and operated by
the Baptists of North Carolina are
as follows, in order of their found- :
ing: Wake Forest, Chowan. Mars
Hill. Campbell, Wingate. Meredith.
Boiling Springs high school.
The meeting at Meredith on Sep
tember 15, has been called by Mr.
Gardner for the purpose of explain
ing to a group of leaders the plans i
for the centennial campaign. To the
meeting are being invited the mem
bers of the state centennial com
mittee. the trustees and faculties of
the seven schools, all the Baptist
pastors and many men and women
of the churches in the nine as
sociations in the central part of the
state, including Raleigh, Central,
Mt. Zion, Flat River, Tar River
Johnston, Little River, Beulah and
Sandy Creek.
Dr. Charles K. Maddry, general
secretary of the State convention,
will speak at the meeting, and
other speakers will be Mrs. Weslev
N. Jones, president of the State W.
M. U. and Dr. Francis’ P. Gaines,
the new president of Wake Forest
college.
Quarterly Conference
At Mary’s Grove
Fourth Quarterly Conference of
Cherryville Circuit of the
Methodist Church.
The fourth quarterly conference
for Cherryville circuit will be held
at fyfary’s Grove. Saturday, Sept
10. Our esteemed presiding elder
will preach at 11 o'clock. There will
be dinner on the ground. The busi
ness session of the quarterly con
ference will be held in the after
noon. Every member of the circuit
is requested and especially the
members of the quarterly confer
ence are urged to be present. Let
us get the inspiration and enthus
iasm of the quarterly conference
The public is cordially invited to
meet with us.
J. E. B. HOUSER.
Why School Teachers Grow Gray
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“It Won’t Be Long Now” For School Youth;
Thousands Back To City Schools Monday
stal Receipts
how Large Gain
In August Here
Gain in One Month of 23 Per Cent.
Over last Year Reported
11^ From Shelby Office.
ue near approach of Shelby’s
tjor business season is shown iu
most recent report issued from
Office of Postmaster J. H. Quinn j
re. j
Ir. Quinn announced today that j
|tal receipts during August of j
year at the local office show a
of 23 per cent, over the receipts
just^of lagt year.
This gain is considered a fore
runner of muchly improved busi
ness as the receipts of the summer
months prior to August slumped
quite a bit. July barely going abote
July of last year.
As usual one of the big factors in
the postal receipts gain this year
has been the shipping by parcel post
of goods manufactured in Shelby,
thread and hosiery being among
the leaders.
Taking Backache
Of Cotton Picking
Belwood Man Has Patent Knee
Pad To Help Make Life Easier
For Cotton Pickers.
I
Taking the backache out of cot
ton picking is the latest contribu
tion offered to mankind by a citi
zen of the county.
The news, perhaps, will be of |
more interest to the women and !
children of the county than to the
men, for the men really do very lit- !
tie picking.
Up at Belwood. where the Bel
wood Collar company manufac
tures leather goods. Mr. Hoyle has
worked out a leather knee pad
which will prove a back saver to
cotton pickers, he says.
Despite the many cotton pickin '
inventions of recent years the old
hand method remains as the best
and the ache of continually bend- I
ing all day has proved one of the
biggest banes of cotton picking sec
tions. Therefore the up-county firm
believes it has a rushing business
ahead. One person who has already
used the pads says that he can
pick one-fourth more cotton per
day and not feel half as tired as
picking the old way made him.
About 5^000 Bales
Bought Before Rise
Approximately 5.000 bales of cot
ton were bought on margin by Shel
by men before the government re
port came out Thursday estimating
the yield at 12,682.000 bales. These
contracts w'ere carried through the
two local brokerage firms of R. J.
McCarley and John F. Clark St Co.,
and if the holders of these fifty
contracts were to accept profits at
$7.50 per bale the amount of the
day’s upward swing in the market,
it would represent a total of $36,
500 to the holders of these contracts
This is based on the assumption
that all contracts were bought just
before the bu’dsh government re
port and that the purchasers had a
profit of $7.50 per bale. Many of
them, however, had bought days
and weeks ago when the market was
lower, so the contracts on margin
would represent a greater profit
than estimated.
Just two more days of free
dom andsinore than 2,000 Shel
by school children will trek
back to the school room Mon
day morning.
Supt. 1. C. Griffin stated to
day that he expected at least
2,300 children to enroll in the
city schools on the opening day,
and maybe more. Last year
around 2,200 were present on
the “first day of school.”
Although it doesn't seem
longer than day before yester
day that school closed to some
of the youngsters the short va
cation is over and it is back to
work next week.
Same Districts.
It was announced from the
city school office this week
that the boundary lines of the
various city school districts
would be the same as last year,
except that children in Sum
ter district living east of the
railroad will attend the North
Shelby school.
The children of the Sumter I
building will continue to meet
in old building until it is com
pleted. School officials have
been assured that the new West
Shelby building will be ready
for occupancy about September
30. I
The various grades will meet
in their respective buildings on
Monday morning at 9 o’clock
ready for assignments and the
plunge back to books.
Teachers Meeting.
The principals of the various
school branches held a session
Thursday morning with Super
intendent Griffin.
Saturday morning at 9:30
o’clock all the city teachers will
gather at the Central school au
ditorium.
Urges Home For
Erring Youth Of
Cleveland County
Comity Judge John P. Mull ad
dressing the Shelby Rotary club to
day urged the starting of a move
ment for a reform home in this
county for delinquent youth and wo
men.
"The majority of the cases coming
into my court have as defendants
young white boys. If convicted I
have no place to send them except
to the chaingang. where they will
become criminally hardened, or turn
them loose. A white woman con
victed of any serious crime in Clev
eland county must lie in jail at the
expense of the taxpayers or be turn
ed loose on the community,” he
stated. “This county should do
something to reform these young
sters and women,” he urged.
During his talk Judge Mull cited
county crime figures giving unusual
ly interesting information. In Mon
day's Star this survey of his work
and deductions therefrom will be
published.
Mr. Brown To Speak
At Lattimore Fair
Mr. T. E. Brown, state supervisor
of vocational education, has been
secured by Prof. V. C. Taylor of
the agricultural department of the
Lattimore high school to speak at
Lattimore on the occasion of the
community fair to be held there
Sept. 23rd. Mr. Brown is a very in
teresting speaker and has a worth
while message for all to hear. He
will speak at 10 o'clock in the high
school auditorium.
Free Widow And
Deputy In Trial
Of Willis Killing
Mrs. Willis Kays She Will Find Per
son Who Killed Husband. Ver
dict Comes Quickly.
Greenville. S C.. Sept. 8—Mrs.
Ethel Willis, 31-year-old widow and
Henry S. Townsend, formed deputy
sheriff, today were cleared of the
charge ol slaying the former's hus
band. Sheriff Sam D. Willis, of
Greenville county.
The verdict came at 3:28 o’clock
this afternoon after a trial last
ing two weeks.
It took the jury less than one
hour ol formal deliberation to agree
upon the verdict. They were out an
hour and forty minutes but more
than a half hour of this time was
spent at lunch.
Mother Faints.
Mrs. C H. Gray of Americus, Ga..
mother of the woman defendant
fainted when the verdict was read.
Her daughter, dressed in deep black
seized the fainting woman imme
diately and her concern over her
mother wiped out any signs on her
face of relief that might have shown
at the outcome of the trial.
The slain sheriff's mother, Mrs.
Julia Hollis Willis of Greenville,
who had sat beside her daughter
in-law throughout the long trial
was not in the courtroom when the
verdict was read. She had gone
home after the long morning ses
sion during which the final argu
ments of attorneys and the judge's
charge had been heard by the jury.
Widow to Seek Guilty.
"While I was vindicated in the
eyes of the law by the jury today,
I will never be fully vindicated un
til I know the slayer of Sam Willis
has been brought to justice.”
This was the comment of Mrs.
Ethel Willis at her home tonight.
Mrs. Willis stated that her free
dom of murder charges gave her
lee-way to aid in hunting the real
murderer, adding “I'll never rest un
til that's done."
Better Out-Going
Mail Service Urged
Postmaster J. II. Quinn Wants One
Way Star Route to Kings Mtn.
Made Two-Way Route.
Better out-going mail service for
the Shelby office will be inaugurat
ed if the post office department acts
favorably on a recommendation oi
the Kiwanis club made last night
at the instigation of Postmaster
Quinn. The one-way star route
which brings in the heaviest mail of
the day from Kings Mountain
reaches here between 5 and 6
o'clock in the morning. This star
route operates only one way. Post
master Quinn wants it to take
back to Kings Mountain to be
caught from a crane alongside the
track by northbound train No. 33
which would deliver first class mall
in Philadelphia. Washington, New
York, Norfolk as well as eastern
Carolina points from six to eight
hours earlier than under the pres
ent arrangement. Mail which is dis
patched in the late afternoon via
Blacksburg connects with a late
night train at that point and there
is considerable delay in this mall
reaching northbound destinations.
The improved service can be furn
ished at a very nominal cost to the
government and Postmaster Quinn
thinks the request will be granted.
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Way Church Suit
Compromised Now
After Long Wait
Former Pastor Here Gets $100 From
Churrh. Latter Taking Over
The Court Costs.
One of North Carolina's most um
j que court litigations originating in
Shelby and hanging fire for many
months, was settled by compro
mise yesterday when Rev. C. B.
Way, former pastor of the West
Shelby Methodist Protestant church
and the church reached a compro
mise settlement in the preacher's
suit against the church.
By the compromise Rev. Mr. Wav
gets $100 from the church here and
the church pays the court costs
the minister also getting $100 from
the annual conference board of the
church. In the suit around $328
was asked for back salary.
The settlement was reached at
Lexington, where the former pastor
now lives.and the case was schedul
ed for trial in Superior court there
next Monday. It has been aired in
the minor courts several times here
to fore.
The minister in a wire to The
Star states that the agreement was
that he "receives two hundred dol
lars. Shelby church paying court
costs and one hundred dollars, and
annual conference paying one hun
dred dollars.” Judge B. T. Palls,
counsel for the church here, stated
this morning that the amount giv
en in the compromise by the churdb
is a sum raised by leaders of the
church and that the other one hun
dred dollars to be paid by the con
ference board was paid Rev. Mr.
Way before leaving Shelby.
Had the compromise not been
reached nation-wide interest was
expected to center on the legal bat
tle should it reach Supreme court,
there being considerable controversy
over the matter of whether or not
a congregation could be made pay
salary claimed due a pastor.
Rev. Mr. Way when he left the
local church claimed that a certain
back salary was due him, the
church through counsel offering in
rebuttal that the minister promised
a certain tithe, this being deducted.
The case swing this way and that
and the hearing next week was
awaited with Interest, a compromise
however ending the affair.
During the course of the .contro
versy nation wide publicity was giv
en it owing to the unique angle of
a minister suing a church.
Rain Ends LaCrosse
Game With Indians
Fair Crowd Turns Out To See Red
skins Play Their Ancient
Game. College Indians.
A heavy shower of rain yesterday
afternoon put an end to the In
dian lacrosse game between the
Cherokee and Wolf town Indians at
the city ball park. At the time the
game ended the crowd did not
know who won for, frankly, the
crowd did not know what it was all
about. Shelby baseball fans know
about as much about Indian la
crosse as Jesse James did about
Sunday school.
j Yet the Indians were interesting
although their game was somewhat
strange. On the team, it was said,
were two brothers of Henry Owl,
well known Cherokee Indian foot
ball player of Lenoir-Rhyne college.
Several of the redskins were of the
Carlisle tribe and one or two of
tium had attended school at the
j famous university, returning to the
mountain to pass their time away
j fishing. One of the Indians, who did
not play because of an injured leg,
was Ben Powell, mentioned for
| All-American football player while
| in school with Jim Thorpe, it was
stated by members of the party. The
odd names of the Indians were
about as interesting to those who
heard them as the game itself. One
player was Moses Walkingstick. and
another was Jim Standingstill. The
Indians performed here under the
auspices of the American Legion
and are from the Cherokee reserva
tion in the western part of the
state.
Heavy Rain Here
Thursday Afternoon
One of the heaviest rainstorms
of the year was experienced in tliir.
section late Friday afternoon, there
being considerable wind, lightning
and thunder along with the rain.
The official report from the Fed
eral building today was that one and
one-quarter inches of rain fell dur
, ing the afternoon.
Telephones Out.
So heavy was the wind and light
ning that numerous telephones In
the city were out of commission dur
ing the evening and Just how much
damage there was in the rural sec
tions had not been learned this
morning. Manager Sam Cault. o?
the telephone exchange, stated that
65 telephones had been reported out
of commission in the city but that
the workmen hoped to have the en
tire system back in operation uxUy,