All itemg intended for this depart
ment must be telephoned or sent in
to the Society Editor before ii a.
m., the day before publication. All
news items of interest to women
are welcomed.
By Mrs. Made* Webb Riley
Telephone No. SO
fMrs. George Thompkins
Qtves ‘Surprise Birthdav
Mrs! Qcorge Thom pains gave u
dMlghtfu! surprise birthday party
fi lter husband on his birthday on
Monday evening at eight o’clock
TBe rooms of the attractive home
were beautifully decorated with a
wealth of beautiful fall flowers used
most: artistically. A number of Mr
Thompkins friends had been invit
c^y^pome in and surprise the host.
t Thompkins served delicious
shnients and a most pleasant
ing was spent.
rk On
re fair Is on this week and from
aunts it will be a great sue
The club and church women
fce booths ami are selling all
is of good things to eat on the
grounds' The Presbyterian wo
nre selling “sure enougn" din
. The Methodist classes, sand
Jies. candies, and other tooth
se dainties, and the club with all
divisions are keeping open house
selling most everything that
would want at the fair. Meet
friends at these booths and
the good cause along.
ire Non Club
Delightful Meeting
St the attractive home of Mrs.
do Short in Belvedere Heights
‘Friday afternoon, the members
.the Entre Nou held a most dc
atful meeting. The charming
were most beautiful with
ous fall roses, and on each
were the quaintest little
cry TKiii , ’ holding the loveliest
J-pmisies and ferns. Bridge was
ycd by the club members until
then thq hostess served the
St drflicious refreshments. Mrs.
T. Alexander was the lucky
rer of high score and received
eautiful gjjt.
wnan-Gricc
idjng .
eautiful In its simplicity was
adding of Miss Eva Lois Grice
youngest daughter of Mrs. James
<5rlce. ter "Mr. Carl Franklin New
town, txf Wilson, on Tuesday morn
at seven o’clock at the home of
e bride's mother. The home was
sttily decorated with ferns, ivy
,id golden rod with lighted yellow
kpdlcr, tncamffig softly between tho
..{•emery. l»~ibe bay window an
improvised altar had been made of
Bolden *fbd &hd handsome ferns
&J»d here the impressive ring cere
mony was performed by the Rev.
2^efro Wall, pastor of the First Bap
l£t church. Down the ivy and fern
ltwincd stairway the bride and
iom ctvme as Miss Ruth Howie
iyed mast exquisitely Mendlts
slin's wedding march. During the
sremony "To a Wild Rose" was
dwtly rendered. Before the marriage
tpws were taken. Miss Egbert a
rth saVig sweetly "Always.*’
jMaster James Bly Hamrick, pre
?ed the bride and groom acting
ring bearer. He was hand
le in a costume of black velvet
^ic bride was lovely in a handsome
stume of blue crepe back satin,
ijith tan hat, shoes, and accessories
match. She wore an exquisite
wilder corsage of pink rose buds
valley lilies. The bride Is one of
lelby's.. most charming ybung wo
^en witjh a sweet and winsome
inner a&d her many friends rc
Tt that she will leave, to live in
stem Carolina. Mr. Newman is a
|>n of Mrs. Bass of Wilson. He
a young man of many fine part*
ad is also a nephew of Mrs. Bessie
Oray, of Shelby. After their honey
lioon Mr. and Mrs Newman will
;*»ake their home in Fran kiln ton.
fheir many friends wish them
nuch happiness. Mr. and Mrs. O. L.
Jrice and family were among the
Ogit-of-town guests coming from
Jicnoir.
Mundy Contests
For Charlotte Prize
Atiss Ouida Mundy of Shelby has
elected as a contestant in a
contest for the purpose
the Elks Christmas
The winner in the
& presented with en
supyB Six coach and given the
of "M^ss North Carolina.'* The
and third awards are a dia
and platinum dinner ring,
watch, etc. The ten youug
receiving ttttlklgheet num
votes will be eelected to
as "hostesses and models for
show during the week of
Club de la Noche”, which is
for “the Club of the Night ’
of Charlotte who is an
invited to croar
North Carolina and present
young women with their
“El Club de la Noche” will
typical Broadway • night
a revue direct from one of
clubs will furnish the enter
the patrons dine
Advertise in The 'Star
Us
WILL ASK MCLEAN
FOR QUICK 111
OF WOMAN SLAYER
Reidsville—(INS.v—Odds today
were that pretty Mrs. Eugene Gat
lin. 20-year-old bride of Reidsville s
fire chief and alleged patricide,
will learn her ultima Ve before
the next session • -ham
county criminal ecu: c {•, .»
In fact decision t.i r <;i;i . . . iv
ernor McLean to or<cr a • rcia',
term for the s'nsat onal
ready has been made 1 . r • .-.e
although the finishing to-u.:'
not yet been applied to ^ c-.t • i
was revealed here ted-y by So'
tor Allen Gwyn.
Solicitor Owyn was th • huu ..v
ure in the investigation wh)'-1.
to the discovery of the <tr.worr.;
murder of Smith T. Petty
pearing cotton mill loremar -rv
the1 arrest of his young da ehi-*r
who was charged with the c, Ime
According to the county sc icltor
only two things will preven
state from demanding a ijiecv
term to try the case, which, i, mi*
opinion will last for more 'iu.v
week. They are: (1) That the sr»
cial term will conflict in n '«vy
with other sessions of court, ad
That an emergency Judge v ” ’
available for the holding i
term.
It was expected that thes >■ •.
items would be determined 1 - <..*■)
near future, and a request wot j I
sent to the governor to order a .
ciul term of court for some tun • i
tween now and the next re
session of Rockingham Superior
court, which convenes early in
1927.
The special term question nos
been before Rockingham county
prosecutors for two weeks. It wa>
fust revealed by International
News service two weeks ago that the
prosecution was seriously consid
ering making a request upon Gov
ernor McLean to call a special term
of court.
The docket for the January ses
sion Is unusually large, according tc
the solicitor, and unless a spec in'
term of court is obtained, many of
the cases now docketed will have to
go over to the next term. It was es
timated that the Gatlin trial itself
might consume as much as two
weeks' time.
Numerous witnesses will be pre -
sented by each side. The defense,
however has shrouded its case in
secrecy, and so as not to divulge
their course to the state, they waiv
ed preliminary hearing. The state
has ben examining witnesses in its
long investigation of the case and
all of these, it was expected, would
be plaoed on the stand when the
time ariver.
The star witness for the prosecu
tion will be Rev Thomas P. "Thun
derbolt" Jardue, erstwhile Reidsvlilc
minister who instigated the sensa
tional probe when he divulged to
authorities that the youthful alleg
ed murderess confessed the crime
to him.
Direct wireless communication be
tween Germany and the Philippines
(Nauen-Manila) has now been
opened for commercial use by the
Transradio company.
Ordinary, urgent, halfrate and
press radiograms can be handled it
any aerman postoffice or tele
graph office for transmission. The
rate for ordinary messages is about
77 cents a word.
DIOGENES, HERE IS
YOUR HONEST MAX
Chicago —If you will go to Ciceio
and to the home there of George A.
Tuna, you will find him whom you
have sought lo, these many cen
turies.
Tuna bet $150 on Tunney to beat
Dempsey. Yesterday he paid his
wager. He said he counted 14 1-2
seconds while Tunney was down U)
the seventh rCund, and thinks
Dempsey' was entitled to a knockout
victory.
COLORADO DAILY’S WANT AD
SAVES A WOMAN NEAR DEATH
Denver, Colo—A want ad In the
columns of the Colorado Spring]
Telegraph recently was accredited
with saving a woman's life. A youn*
lady, the mother of several children
was near death and only a blood
transfusion according to physicians
could 6ave her. Doctors could find
no one both willing and healthy
enough to supply the pint of blood
so a want ad was placed In the
Classified department of the Daily
Telegraph and within a few hours
15 persons bad volunteered to give
their blood in assistance. This
*®ns to be the first time on record
for an occurrence of this kind, but
it clearly shows the value of want1
ad columns if properly kept up tc
date.
LAUNCH ATTACK
Copenhagen, Denmark—Three fa
I mous Danish physicians ha\e
| launched an attack on the electric
j chair, which they term "an Amer
j lean barbarity."
All three concur in the belief
I that the electric chair does not kilt.
I It merely paralyses the victim, tlie
! physicians declare, and the prison
j doctor completes the execution by
i failing to revive the person shocked
Dr. Marius Claudius, chief of the
laboratory of one of Copenhagen'?
largest hospitals. denounces the
electric chair in an article in the
journal Politiken.
Dr. Viggi Christiansen, famous
nerve specialist, president of .the
Danish Medical society, Danish
government medical counsellor and
a member of the American League
of Mental Hygiene, supports Dr.
Claudius in another article, in
which he says:
“The stopping of breathing and
the heart beat is not sign whatever
of death. Death rigidity or spots
gives the only safe right to declare
a man dead. Thus in our hospitals
nobody must be removed from bed
oclv're six hours after the supposed
c'.Nw( .
Whether the victim suffers aft
er v.he eUctrccjtiun is a hard ques
tion to • oswf /, but, of course, there
no ruffe: ig if the consciousness
v hi h nvirt be supposed—is para,
too'
- j. Jr: dius calls death in the
. V -.ric • nair “incredible rudeness,
• . • -xorutiener work on the part
i st-'ae doctors, who befoul
the. united -cience.” *
' t z rper* cf death in the electric
.'i-nir ... humane," he writes, “is a
as nobody dies in the
chair. The greatest author
1l*-. rcphysiology. Professor.
. V of Vienna, says that elec
hi.'h Ulls, but only paraly
•• ' .r^ers of breathing and the
. tions. Even persons hit bv
iu'htcan be saved if help
“',T' H fime. Dissection never
‘•'■’’v • u’1 changes in the body
- - . • current, and the elec
.;!c chair therefore only acts like
• he st -ping of the pendulum of a
vci .t :->t spoiling the main work.
T’k -v -cutioners' work in America
,-jally done by physicians."
Professor Knud Sand, heads of the
Law-Medical institute, adds his
voice of protest.
"The point is,” he declares, “that
death by electricity In most cases
must be considered uncertain. It is
absolutely wrong to declare a man
dead after the electric chair has
s toped his breathing and hear;
beat.”
I
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To thousands upon thousands
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g-^r1' i __ _
ATTEND THE CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR BIGGER
AND BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE. !
____ • r
An Open Letter to the Editor
From the President of General Motors
Last SPRING I wrote you that my belief
in the country newspaper had led us in General
Motors to decide to advertise our products
together in the small-city press of the country.
The returns from the Series of the messages
recently published have justified that faith;
and we shall continue to advertise in your
community through your newspaper this fall.
It occurs to me, however, that some of your
readers may be asking: “What Is General
Motors?’* and “Why is General Motors?”
These are fair questions and I should like to
answer them as frankly as I can.
General Motors was organized some years
•go oh the theory that a group of large com
panies. working together, could render a better
service than they could separately. In this wc
simply applied to industry a principle that is
as old as civilisation as regerds the human
family and human progress.
Original members of the General Motors
family were Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oak
land and Oidsmobile, together with the Delco
Light Company and other'well-known com
panies manufacturing automotive equipment.
By joining together their resources, we were
able to establish great Research Laboratories,
• 1245-acre Proving Ground and the GMAC
Plan of credit purchase; to effect vast econ
omies in purchase and manufacture and
distribatian; to aaaure and maintain the quality
of every product in the General Motors family.
Has the General Motors family principle
proved itself in practice?
The beet answer, I think, is to compare the
Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, Oidsmobile and
Oakland of today with the models of five or
ten years ago.
Then edd Poritiac, a General Motors crea
tion. Add LaSalle, another General Motors
creation. And then consider how General
Motors has developed these cars into a com
plete line, within which any family may find
a suitable quality car at the price it plans to
pay: “A Car for Every Purse and Purpose.”
Another example is Frigidaire, the electric
refrigerator. General Motors had the resources
to spend millions to develop u satisfactory
refrigerator, and then to apply to its manu
facture the same processes which have in
creased the utility and lowered the cost of the
automobile.
We believe that this record justifies General
Motors as an economic institution. Its prod
ucts are quality products, first of all. Their
prices represent the economies of united effort
passed on to the purchaser. In the last year one
in each three automobiles chosen by the public
has been a General Motors car. The service of
Delco-Light electric plants has extended to
more than a quarter million homes, while
Frigidaire has become the world’s largest sell
ing Convenience of its kind.
We believe also that the values now offered
in the current General Motors products
(which are listed below) prove anew that
“many minds are better than one” and that •
family of companies, working together, can
produce results which are decidedly in the
public interest and of increasing hen^fit to the
individual family.
Very truly yours,
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President
General Motors Corporation
Detroit, September 23, 1927
GENERAL MOTORS
CHEVROLET• PONTIAC- OLDSMOBILE OAKLAND • BUICK- LASALLE- CADILLAC
r*JGlD4I*B—Tke Electric Refrigerator • DELCO-LIGHT-Electric Plants
GM4C Plan of Tima Payments
iFire brills Are
Required In All „
2-Story Schools
A bulletin recently Issued bv
Stacy W. Wade, state insurance
commissioner reveals some startling
facts with reference to loss from
fire in North Carolina during the
year 1926. This loss was Incurred in
spite of an intensive campaign for
the prevention of fires.
During the year 286 people were
burned to death while more than
twice that number were injured.
There was a total loss from fires
amounting to $6,649,039. In all -2,436
buildings were destroyed by fires.
This number includes 1,330 resi
dents, 140 stores, 26 school houses,
17 churches and 61 factories.
An investLngaticn by the state in
surance department reveals eleven
causes of property loss from fire.
Among these are defective flues,
carelessness with matches, starting
fires with kerosene, accumulation of
trash and spontaneous combustion,
rats and cigar and cigaret butts.
From the survey it is also revealed
that 75 per cent of North Carolina,
losses in life and property in 1926
was caused by carelessness.
The insurance department is
waging a campaign throughout the
state for the prevention of lires. A!i
teachers are urged to devote some1
time in classes to discussion of the
enormous loss together with the im
portance of the proper safeguard
against fire. The slogan “Make
North Carolina safe for life and
property,” it is hoped, will do much
for the preservation of both life
and property.
Attention is called to the fact the.',
in a 2-story building teachers are
required by law during each month
to have a fire drill. This is to be
done only after the pupils haw;
been notified that there will be a
special drill and after a commonly
understood signal for the drill has
been given. The last is necessary in
order to prevent disorder during the
drill.
MY MILK COW GOT AWAY
last night. She is a red cow with
horns. Reward if returned to Philip
Wilson, Shelby, N. C. l-28c
T
SPECIAL EXCURSION
Account v
FAIR OF THE IRON
HORSE & PAGEANT
To
WASHINGTON, D. C.
And
HALETHORPE, MD.
Via
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
SYSTEM
And
Baltimore & Ohio R. R.
WEDNESDAY. OCT. 5TH,
1927.
Round trip fare from
Shelby, N. C._
Washington, D. C., $12.50
Halothorpe, Md., __ $13.50
Tickets on sale Oct. 5th,
final return limit good to"
reach original starting
point prior to midnight
October 10th, 1927. Tickets
good going and returning
on all regular trains except
Crescent Limited.
Pullman sleeping cars
and day coaches.
For detail#d information
call on any Southern Rail
way agent or address:
R.\H. GRAHAM,
Division Passenger Agent,
Charlotte, N. C.
YOU CAN’T BEAT
B. & L. SHARES—
Come in now and start a
few shares and see how
fast your savings will grow
—One Share, 25 cents a
week, four shares $1,00 a
week and so on. How much
can you save? It’s easy af
ter you start
SAVE— .
To Build A Home.
SAVE—
For Future Needs.
OUR OCTOBER SERIES
OFENS SATURDAY, OCT
OBER FIRST.
Start a Few Shares To
day.
J. L. SUTTLE, Secretary.
CLEVELAND
BUILDING &
LOAN
ASSOCIATION
Office With
CLEVELAND BANK &
TRUST CO.
SHELBY, N. C.
- tM COW -
TIRE TUBES CHEAP AT A (j
C. Tire Shop.
FOR SALE OR WILL TRADE
for small farm, house and lot n
Shelby on paved street and rented
for $15 per month. Lee B. Weather
GO TO A. B. C. TIRE SHOP For
Tires and Tubes. '
FOR RENT NEW SIX ROOM
house, furnished. Cleveland Sprint’s
road. $30 per month.’Call 673.
2*28e
A. E. C. TIRE SHOP is ];•„
Arey Building.
STENOGRAPHER WITH THREE
years experience wants to locate in
Shelby. Familiar with general ot
fice work. Phone 345-R. 3.^,.
FOR RENT—8 ROOM RUNG A
low, practically new; on hard sur
face street, with all modern con
veniences. Available October first.
M. P. Coley, phone 200. tf-fic
FOR RENT NEW Six ROOM
house furnished. Cleveland Springs
road $30 per month. Call 673
2-28c
FOR RENT SIX ROOM HOUSE
water and lights. South DeKalb St,
Howell Transfer. Phone 718. tf-25c
FOR 10 YEAR LOANS ON
city property see Bert Price. T!f«
^Royster Co. tf-2oc
ROOMS FURNISHED FOR LIGHT
house-keeping. Modern convenience.?
Close in Phone 345-R. 3-2*>
CONTRACTING AND GENERAL
repair work. No job too large nr
small. Bids cheerfully furnished
Costner and Glasco, Phone 67-J. tf2
FOR RENT NEW SIX ROOM
house furnished. Cleveland Springs
road $30 per month. Cail 073
• 2-23C
STRAYED OR STOLEN —ONE
black back, blue breasted hound dog
September 22. Retpurn to M. P. El
liott and get reward, Shelby, N C.
3-20c
FARMERS—IF YOU HAVE
any oats or barley for sale we will
pay you highest cash prices. Clev
eland Feed Company. tf-3*
THE ONLY TEXACO STATION
flose in town is at A. B. C. Tire
Shop at Arey Building 3-26c
PINE WOOD CUT READY FOR
stove. $5 per load delivered. S. A.
Ellis. t f -14c
I AM OFFERING SOME GOOD
bar-gains in house paints and van
ishes. C. C. Green. 4-2GC
CHURCH LETTERS FOR 3AL3
at Star office. These letters are
put up in book* of 25 and 50 witt
•tubs. tf-29j
IF YOUR TIRE GOES DOWN
A. B. C. Tire Shop, Phone No. 280.
. 3-26c
WANTED TWO UNFURNISHED
rooms for light house keeping, lo
cated northeast of court house.
Write Kendrick care of The Star
2t 26p
WHEN IN NEED OF OAK OK
pine wood, ready for the stove,
phone 338, M. D, Hopper and Son.
2-:Ap
I PAY CASH FOR ROOSTERS, ,
hens, fryers, turkeys, geese, ducks
and guineas. C. C. Green, Shelby. N.
C. 4-20e
LOST DOG, LARGE, DARK
brown, long ears, white on fore
head, encircling neck also chest
forefeet and tip of tail Answer t > ‘
“Ring” $5.00 reward. V. A. Powell.
Lawndale, or John McBrayer. Moor
esboro. 2-26;)
FOR SALE—300 , ACRE FARM
In Cleveland county including equip ■
ment and five mfiles. Will sell lor
cash or terms, or will trade for
stocks, bonds, good real estate pa
per or improved property in Shel
by. For further information address
R. R. c|o Cleveland Star 6-Jst'
TWO FARMS FOR SALE
at a bargain—One 3-acre
farm five miles east of Lin
colnton on sand-clay road.
Seven-room house, new. Good
outbuildings, good orchard.
Can give terms. Near school :
and church. One 77-acre farm
on state highway No. 27, Lin
coInton-Charlotie, in the town
of Iron Station, with seven
room house and good out
buildings. 150 yards of
school- Three churches in vil- ,
lage. A No. 1 farm. Can give
erms. Write or see W. M.
McConnell, Lincolnton, R-3.
3t 2Hp
SEVEN O’CLOCK
Breakfast Coffee,
fresh , ground 25c a
pound. Guaranteed
Flour $3.75, 24 lb*.
95c. Sugar, ! 0 pound* j
75c, $6.65 per hun-,
dred. C. H. Reinhardt,
Soi7*h Shelby. 2