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SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, NOV. 14, 1927. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons 8 PAGES TODAY .— - J By mail, per year (in advarm)—$2.5. By carrier, per year (in advance) $3.C* late News (hJS c. Blanton, president of the first National bank and one of the post popular and influential men ^ the county, is doing as well as •pdil be expected at the Shelby hos jt#l where he underwent an oper |tjen for appendicitis Thursday jjjM- His temperature is above nor I and lie suffers considerably, but so sis,,s of complications have aris 1 and his physicians and,, family I(fl fncouraged that his condition is -A alarming since his operation was I drainage case. It ii the possum-sweet 'later sea n of the year in this section. From son'll Lafayette street comes the re " rl that Willis Mc.Murry, superin undent of the Belmont cotton mill, h»s a pack of possum hounds with , nr ir approach to a record recent lf According to the report McMurry ,ith his hounds has... captured 72 possums in the section about Shelby pnd up in the hills about Bens Knob Is it a record.? KcjHirt Shows 2,594 Pupils Now in Attendance. Central and Mor gan Schools Lead. • According to the last monthly re port issued by the Shelby city scliwl system there are 2,594 stu dents enrolled in the local schools. Four hundred and ninety of the number.are m high school. Morgan school is second with 458 and the La - Fayette school is third. . The enrollment and attendance by schools follow together with the scholarship honor roll average: School Enroll- Av. Attend, ment 490 .235 .276 .458 High school - Sumter school Marion school Morgan, school LaFayette school 313 Jefferson school 251 Washington sch. 199 Colored school -.372 Per Ct. 97 92 99 94 95 96 96 06 Totals 2.594 This time last year, meet was 2(337; gain. 257. Scholarship; Honor roll School Boys High school 6 92 our enroll 8um:er . Marion ...... Morgan . LaFayette Jeff'rson . 9 .. 8 Washington .. ..11 Colored.--5 Girls 20 17 16 16 6 0 13 16 Totals 26 26 24 18 14 3 36 21 Totals ... Failures. School High chocl . Sumter . .. _ Marion . Morgan ... LaFayette . Jaiferson _ Washington Colored . .49 106 155 Boys Girls Totals 64 13 77 0 2 0 0 0 0 8 4 -. 9 0 ... 3 ... 0 - 6 _7 4 11 0 3 0 6 15 . Totals 23 116 Telephone Rates To Be Reduced Soon Will Apply, However, Only To Long Distance Calls After Decem ber First Telephones rates will soon be low er. That does not apply to local rates, however Beginning December 1st, the day station to station rates lor long distance calls to points 400 °; “’lore miles distant will be gener lll-v reduced. It is understood there be no reduction for less than I miles, which rates will remain I *e same, but the long distance calls 'ill be reduced on stations 400 or ®ore miles apart as a result of im Prmed devices and methods devcl oped bv the Southern Bell system, tbich devices have effected econo applying especially to the **8er circuits. According to the announcement rr lf-sult- "ill be a saving to tele Pbcne users of the United States of ‘Pproximately $1,500,000 a year, the ?-ater the distance the greater the Auction. Apple Orchard Said To Be In Full Bloom Tbe apple orchards of C. W. Mc u!ry 01 the Bel wood section is to be in full bloom. A Shelby ®an "ho visited Mr. McMurry Sat Qay says he never saw quite such . oddity. Blooms and second crop Jits have been reported from var us sections. These are not un bal vuth a pretty Fall season like •ls section has experienced. but •r McMurry’s entire orchard has Brandy and Horse apples au<t much second crop fruit . 1 hangs in clusters like grapes. . c huit. however, has not matUr . and probably will not, but the Bt 15 unusual, nevertheless. The e'b,v man also ventured the opin that Mr. McMurry has five of - largest hogs in the county, the exception being the John aia porker shown during the *K«ty fair. ■ Child Burns; Man Dies At Auto Wheel « _ LITTLE FALLSTII GIL IS FATALLY B1KG AT HOME Sevcn-Vear-Old Daughter of Dr. Lackey Dies in Hospital. Gown Caught On Fire. Eileen Lackey, seven year-old daughter of Dr. F. II. Lackey of Falistcn was burned to death on Sunday morning when her out ing night-gown caught fire from the open fire-place, enveloping its little body in a mass of flames which inflicted burns from which it died three hours later in the Shelby hospital. The little child was a grand daughter of Ex-Sheriff \V. D. Lackey. Last December its moth er died and its grand-mother, Mrs. Rufus Lackey was at the home at the time of the acci dent. Lived Only Three Hours. Dr. Lackey had five children and on Sunday morning, his mother had finished dressing several of them and went to the kitchen to give them their morning meal. Eileen, ac customed to dressing herself, was standing in front of the open fire when her outing gown caught and was a mass cf flames in a moment. £>he rushed to the kitchen where her grandmother was, but there was nothing convenient to smother the flames, so Mis. Lackey rushed into another room where she got a quilt and threw it around her, but the charred gown was dropping from the child's body when she got to it. The child was burned from head to ankle and suffered torture, but was conscious 10 The last. Attending physicians say that the child breath ed in the flames which reached its lungs and hastened the end. Playing Part of Mother. Eileen was a very bright and at tractive child. &mce her mother’s death she was a great help in the household, being a perfect little mother to the younger brothers and sisters. Since age five she had at tended the public school and was a very pretty child, well grown for her age and popular among old and young. The many friends of the fam ily are deeply touched over her trag ic passing. Funeral services are being held Monday afternoon at Fallston by Rev. J. M. Morgan. pastor of Friendship Methodist Protestant chure, assisted by Rev. J. W. Fitz gerald. Interment will be beside her beloved mother. Many beautiful floral ofierings were sent to ihe horn? this morning. Surviving are her father, her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Lackey, Mr. W. D. Lackey, one sister and three broth ers. Brunettes And Blondes Are Alike i' study Of Traits In The Two Kind Of Girls Reveal There Is Little Difference. j -There is nothing in the current? j belief that the blond is positive, driving, hopeful, loving, and the | brunette negative, plodding, submis sive and static, R. B. Wilson, as jsistant secretary of the state board of nealth, says. Mr. Wilson tells of a study made by Professor D. G. Patterson, Uni versity of Minnesota, of such so called blond and brunette traits and gave this to 100 mature students of psychology, each of whom was re quested to pick out from among his acquaintances two pronounced blonds and two pronounced bru nettes and to judge them with re spect to each of the characteris tics. These students were presumably not aware of any scheme of analysis based on sets of distinct traits for the blond and the brunette and therefore were not prejudiced. The results for the entire number of 374 individuals, half brunette and half blond, shows: 1. —Brunette# were found to pos sess the blond traits to the same ex tent that blonds do. 2. —Blonds were found to possess the brunette traits to the same ex tent that brunettes dp. “The results are scientific and not speculative," Mr. Wilson smiled. 110 On Honor Roll In I City Schools Of Shelby Judge And Alibi Agree On Cotton Crop Of County -. Jurist and Guesser Look For Cleve land Crop to Go over 43,000 Bale Mark. What will the Cleveland county cotton crop total this year? Will it go up to last year's record mark, or fall short? County Judge John Mull, aft er reading the last ginning re port showing over 33,000 bales, says that he will stick to his September estimate of 43,000 bales. Alibi Al, football dopestcr for The Star, takes a hand in the guessing and points out a figure on his memo pad said to have been set down many weeks back. That figure is 43,100 bales Several cotton men predict a total crop of around 45,000 bales, but the major portion of the c~t‘on buyers think the county w.ll do well to barely go over 40,000 bales, arguing that most of the crop has been ginned. SCOUT CMH F00 FOB SOON Gastonia —November 22 and 23 have been designated as the dates for the annual campaign by the Piedmont Council Boy scouts of America for funds for the support of this work during the year 1928 in Gastonia. Gastonia’s quota is $4,030. Scout Executive R. M. Schiele an nounces that Rev. J. H. Henderlite pastoi of the First Presbyterian i church, has accepted the chairman ship of the campaign and will be assisted by teams from the various civic clubs, the chamber of com merce and probably other local or ganizations. The Piedmont council is composed of five counties, Gaston. Cleveland. Lincoln, Polk and Rutherford and has about 1.200 boy scouts. A per manent camp is maintained at Lake I Lanier, Tryon, where during the summer every boy scout in these counties has an opportunity to ; spend from one to two weeks. The entire cost of operating the council in the five counties is ap proximately $12,000 a year. William Lineberger Has Narrow Escape Mr. William Lineberger had a nar row escape from serious injury Fri day when the horse he was riding fell through a wooden bridge over a creek three miles east of town. As it was the banker sustained painful 'bruises; oddly enough the horse, al though all four of his feet went through the frail wooden structure, was practically uninjured. The accident occur Jd early in the day when Mr. Lineberger, in com pany with Will Arey and Oliver An thony were on a pleasure jaunt over the countryside. As Mr. Lineberger drove his mount on the boards the animal's front feet broke through, throwing his rider over his head. Mr. Lineberger landing several feet be yond the horse, a blow sufficient to struggled to free himself his hind feet also broke through the boards. Aside from minor scratches, how ever, the animal was uninjured. It was Mr .Lineberger’s first fall. Shelby Stars Will Play In Contest £onnor And Caldwell In Morganton Game Between Oak Ridge and Rutherford College. Quite a number of Shelby foot ball fans plan to make a trip to Morganton Friday November 13, to see the football game billed there be tween Rutherford college’ and the Oak Ridge prep school. The Morgan ton business section will close up for the afternoon and a large attend ance is expected. Interest here in the game cen ters about the announcement by Coach Marvin Ritch. of Rutherford, that Max Connor and Big Jim Cald well will play for the college outfit. Connor was an All-State halfback in high school here and Caldwell was a star tackle. Both elevens have fast j outfits and a good grid tussle is ex pected. ! - Twenty-Six High School Students i Attain Coveted Honor White 84 Graders Make Mark. One hundred and ten students in j the high school and lower grades I of the Shelby city school attained 'the honor roll for the month ending [November 5, according to a state jment from the office of Supt. I. C. Griffin. I Of the 110. the high school hah 26, while the other grades down to the | primary grades, not included, had 81. As lias been the custom here for [several years, the girls led the boys. The roll for the high school fol lows by grades: High School. Grade 8-A: Mabel Green. May Lattimore, Sarah Wray Thompson. Grade 8-B 1: Vera Arwood. Grade 8-A 2: Elizabeth Blanton. Felix O. Gee, jr.. Walter Taylor. Grade 9-1: Mildred McKinney, Helen Roberts, Aileen Webb, Ray Gibbs, Mary Frances Dellinger. Een nett Teele. Grade 10-A: Lula Agnes Arey, Mary Frances Carpenter. Martha Eskridge, Dorothy King. Mae Ellen McBrayer. Alex Gee. Robert Gidney. Grade 10-B: Florine Richardson. Grade 11-A: Kate Bridges. Min nie King, Sara Richbourg, Lalage Shull, William Webb. Lafayette School. Grade 4: Mary Bowman. Pearl Me Kee. Grade 5: George Peters. Grade 6: Jack McWhirter, Charles Colquitt, Hazel Putnam, Ruth Smith Marion School. Grade 4: Will Arey, jr., Jack Pal mer. jr., James Kendrick, Constance Dellinger, Marie King, Helen Sue Kendrick. Helen Queen. Grade 7: Franklin Jenkins. Her man Best, Mary Louise Dorsey, Ida Mae Brydges, Edwina Gidney, Mil dred Laughridge. Grade 6: Richard LcGrand, Bob by Hoyle. Morgan SchooL Grade 4: Herman Hamrick, Ver nie Newton, Mary Stawart, Lillie Mae Oakes. Grade 5: Mary Sue Hill, Mary Sue Hastings. Mable Sanders. Max Hill. West Shelby School Grade 4: Jeff Connor, Loy Weav er, Edwin Hamrick. Nancy McGow an Sallie Mullinax, R. Sarah Thonip son. . Grade 5: Millicent Brackett, Vir ginia Mintz, Margaret Thompson. Ruth Hamrick. Barney Lou Smith, Paul Dover. Charles Philbeck. Grade 6: Sarah Lee Norman. An nie R. Dellinger, Isabel Lackey, Jean M. Thompson, Florine Wilson, J. L. Dover, Louise Dover, Clyde Weaver, James Eskridge. Grade 7: Elizabeth Thompson, Edith Ledford, Mary Sue Thompson, Sarah Louise Falls. Washington School. Grade 4: Carr Cline. Keith Shull. Clyde Trammel, Rufus Weathers, An nie Cline, Alphonsine Harris. Grade 5: Veva Armour, Ellen Ford Catherine McMurry. Grade 6: Margaret Ford, Colbert McKnight, Junior Post. Grade 7: Evelyn Smawley, Virgin ia McMurry,, Eleanor Morrison. Amanda Harris, Motheson Haiick, Billy Quinn. . Jefferrson School. Grade 4: D. C. Black, Ernest Greenway, Annie Da berry. Maggie Myrr Chapman, Ruby Taylor, Ka tie Lou Endey. Grade 0: Geneva Ross, Griffin Holland, Caleb McSwain. Grade 7: Ruth Walker. COTTON MARKET (By Jno. F. Clark & Co) Cotton was quoted at noon today on New York exchange: December 1972, January 19.80, March 19.97. Saturday's close, Dec. 19.91; January 1995; March 20.16. New York. Nov. 14.—Forecast fair east, rain and colder west; heavy rain at Corpus Christi. Business in Worth street for week is described as fairly satisfactory in a good many quarters, substantial sales having gone through. Man chester cable reports business for week limited, inquiry better but bids too low. Manchester, N, H„ special says millions of yards of fabrics aft er being held up for a week in Man chester, Lowell and Lawrence are now moving to (Western points. Oc tober consumption was 612.935, com pared with 568,000 October last year. Rather favor purchases on soft spots based on probability that spin ners will be inclined to fix prices on all reactions and that the pressure of sales against the aetual is shout over. 118 Solid Cars Gasoline Received In This County * _r |C|e\e!aml County Received 156.000 | Gallons of Gasoline Cast Week j No Slump in Consumption. If one would look up and down the streets of Shelby on any Satur day afternoon and see the automo i biles nosed in to the curb for blocks and blocks, there would be no won ider at the amount of gasoline used jin their operation Last week 18 solid ] car leads of gasoline were checked jin for distribution in Cleveland I county. Twelve of these cars con tained approximately 8,000 gallons 'each, while six cars contained 10, 000 or more gallons, according to R. ! A. Hoyle, of Shelby, gasoline inspec ,tortor far the state. This makes a | total of 156,000 gallons received in a single week. Mr. Hoyle says when the tourist travel is on in the summer the con sumption Is high and one would ex pect it to slump when fall comes on, (but in a prosperous season like this, 1 the local consumption mounts high er and maintains a high record of consumption.. * Automobile dealers report that car sales are good. Most of the dealers find a market for all new cars they can get Second hand cars especially in good demand and dealers are sell ing all they can get. Mr. Hoyle has ten counties in his district and Cleveland is right at the top in gasoline consumption, ranking with Gaston and Catawba two of the more populous counties in his territory. 1 Presiding Elder’s ! District Calls District Stewards, Lay Leaders and Pastors to Meet at Gastonia November 29th. The following is a list of the ap pointments of Rev. W. A. Newell, i presiding elder of the Shelby dis trict on his first round: Shelby, Central, 11 a. m. Novem ber 20. Gastonia, West End, night, No vember 21. ( Gastonia, Franklin, night, Novem ber 22. Gastonia, Trinity, night, Novem ber 23. Gastonia, East End, night, Novem ber 24. South Fork, Vernon, 11 a. m. No vember 26 and 27. Lincolnton, night, November 27. District Stewards meeting, 10 a. m. November 29. Shelby Circuit, 1 Bethell, 11 a. m., Decembers and 4. ' LaFayette Street, night, December 4th. Rock Springs, Bethel’ll a. m., De cember 5. Maylo, night, December 5. South Fork, Vernon, 11 a. m. December 6. Goodsonville. night, December 6. Lincoln Circuit, Pisgah, 11 a. m. December 7. Smyre. night, December 7. Belwood. Palm Tree, 11 a. m . De cember 8. Kings Mountain, night. Dec., 8. Stanley, 11 a. m., December 10. Mt. Holly, 11 a. m.. December 11. McAdenville, night, December 11. Cramerton, night, December 12. Lowesville. 11 a. m, Dec. 13. Belmont, Park St., night, Decem ber 13. Polkville, Rehobeth, 11 a. m.. De cember 14. Bessemer, night, December 14. Crouse, 11 a. m. December 15. Dallas, night, December 15. Cherryville Circuit, St. Paul, 11 a. m., December 16. Cherryville. night, December ifi. Belmont. Main St.. 11 a. m„ De cember 18. Gastonia. Main St., night, Decem ber 18. Lowell, night. December 19. The district stewards, lay leaders, and pastors will meet at Main St. Church, Gastonia,-on Tuesday, No vember 29th. No further notice will be issued. Pastor are urged to bring a full representation to this impor tant meeting. Beat Bascom Now On Late Vegetables Bascom Martin, The Stars janitor, takes time between whisks of the broom to look over tl\£ paper. Just the other day in his cleaning up he noticed on a discarded paper that some person had string beans for dinner in October. Whereupon Bas com informs that he is quite a gard ener himself. According to Bascom he has a half dozen late tomatoes now, three watermelons—one weigh ing 15 pounds—ripened recently, while on Saturday he had green beans and cucumbers for dinner. HIGIiS LOSE GAME FIGHT TO GO OUT OF STATE BATTLE _ Crippled Shelby Hat kfield Falls to | Cope With Passing Attack. Harris and Beam Star. Five years ago a vaunted Asheville High football eleven took a detour to Shelby en route to Chapel Hill. When dusk ended a rainy, wintry day, Asheville journeyed back tc the mountains licked. Saturday Asheville wrought a sweet revenge by putting Casey Mor ris' lighting blue eleven out of the state rao? by a 13 to 0 score The score fails to tell the story oi the bitter fight Morris' light crew staged in that grim afternoon of football in the fine Memorial sta dium tucked on the Asheville moun tainside. Asheville won. but fans who attended the game brought home memories of a little line that would not give and of two backs. Captain Harris and Laymon Beam, playing their last official game for Shelby High and playing in a manner that they alone gained more ground from a running attack than did the entire Asheville eleven. Asheville licked Shelby in the air. Ten completed forward passes from little Scotty Chakles and his pal Es tes turned the trick. Outside oi Jack McDowall and his State col lege receivers this writer has seen nothing to equal the air game of the Asheville eleven. Pases zipped through the air from whistle to whistle but in the final quarter it resembled a basketball game as both teams passed in desperation. In the air duel Asheville won because the two main cogs of Casey Morris' ae rial attack could not perform. nan uoes uui. Expecting to meet a stronger team Coach Monis built up a strategic ’parsing attack lor his Highs, then I Pate stepped in and broke almost every pass. Saturday morning when ;the boys boarded a bus here it was I found that Irish Bridges, sterling passer and pass receiver, had a large water knot on his elbow . Blow No. 1, (that was. When the game started 'the famous "four pony” combina tion was broken up. McSwaln fak ing the field instead of Bridges. On the first play the wiry little Zeno Wall took a head-on tackle for Chak ales and was knocked cold. That left only half of the pony crew, Harris and Beam, but it will be years be fore their play Saturday afternoon will be forgotten. With Wall, the field general gone, and Bridges, steady little defense player out. things looked hopeless for Shelby from the outset. Asheville started unsteady march down the field and ran their first three downs over the Shelby line. Then something happened. The little blue wall dug in the turf and held. Only one more first down was made over the Shelby line that day. Pushed back under their own goal posts Shelby took the ball. Cline knifed the line for five yards, but could go no more. Then Harris slung through the Maroon team for seven yards. A first down was registered, up in the Asheville stadium a group of fans though seven-yard runs of fans thought seven-yard runs “Where's that All-Southern back?” Two seconds later he saw him as Beam sneaked around left end arid spilled would-be-tackters who tried to halt him before he covered 26 yards and planted the pigskin in Asheville territory. The drive kept up with Harris and Beam alternating on short runs. Then with a touch down in sight the ball was jostled out of Harris' arms, Beam recover ing. but the play marred the lirst real chance to score. Thereafter Asheville tried the ’.ine again, and the try was a failure. Then Asheville took to the air and remained until the game was won. The first score in the second quar ter came from three passes and a short plunge by Chakales. Put it down now that this Chakales can do everything that is to be donfe in football, and do it well. In the third quarter Asheville threatened twice, but no more. In lhat period Ed Harris tor off three runs from 10 to 20 yards, while Beam was a con sistent gainer. In the meantime how ever Chakales wfas lost to the Ashe ville team when he nabbed a pass in the Shelby backfield and was fiercely tackled by the Shelby sec ondary' defense. In the final quar ter with the score standing 6-0 Ashe ville took to the air again. Miss the Air Defense. In that air attack Shelby saw de feat. With Bridges and Wall out of the fray only two experienced backs were left to break up the air game. Asheville passing over for the second (Continued on page eight.) Hen Takes Hobo Trip And Rides TrainTo Shelby White lien Calmly Hides Pilot of Southern Train Into Shelbv t Yard. Caught Here. This seems to be a day of freakish hoboes. Just the other day a dog was taken from the rods under a box ear in the rail- ! road yards at Spencer and men tion was made of a new-type j hobo. Shelby goes it one better. Friday of last week, yard officials at the Southern here noticed a strange sight as the Southern pas senger train from Marion rolled into the yard with a hen perched caimly on the pilot of the engine. 'When the locomotive came to a standstill a yard employe walked up to the pilot and pulled the blinking chicken off without any attempt at a getaway. The white hen was streaked with soot from the engine, but apparent ly unmindful of the soot, noise or anything else. The chicken, inci dentally, lost her neck a few min utes later and was carried away by the baggage master intent on mak ing the hobo pay for the ride in the form of a good chicken dinner. Sug gestion is that the hen started to fly across the track somewhere between Marion and Shfelby, but was forced to alight on the pilot and thus rode to town in the manner of the boes of old. Anyway. Shelby boosts a hen hobo. State Baptist Convention To Be Held In Durham This Week, Beginning Tuesday. Many ministers and laymen of the Baptist churches of Shelby and Cleveland county will go to Durham today and tomorrow^ to attend the State Baptist convention which opens there at the First Baptist church and continues through Thursday. Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First Baptist church of Shelby is to deliver the convention sermon which will be one of the outstand ing parts of the program. The president of the convention is Dr. C I. Mercer, formerly pastor at Wilson, who recently resigned this work to go to another field. Other officers will be elected at the opening session. Worship periods will be in charge of the following: Tuesday afternoon, Dr. J. B. Tur ner. of Haves-Barton Baptist church Raleigh; Tuesday evening. Rev. C. R. Pittard, of Apex; Wednesday morning, Rev. B. F. Bray, of Wades boro; Wednesday afternoon, Rev. A. B. Bass, of Scotland Neck; Wednes day night, Rev. R. T Vann, of Ra leigh; Thursday morning, Rev. Coy Muckle, of Wingate; Thursday aft ernoon. Rev. E. C. Dean, of Burling ton. Wednesday night the principal speaker will be Dr, E. Y. Mullins, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Louisville, Ky., former president of the South ern Baptist convention and now president of the Baptist World Al liance, and known in Europe, it is said, as ‘'the outstanding Baptist of America;" and the annual meeting of the alumni association of Louis ville Seminary, where Rev. J. A. Gaines, of Charlotte, will preside, j and Dr. Mullins will be honor guest. Most of the Baptist ministers in North Carolina are graduates of this seminary, it is stated. The educational program of Wed nesday night will include discus sion of the campaign for $1,500,000, now under way In the stats, for the benefit of Msredith college, Wake Forest college and other church schools It is hoped that the cam paign will be completed by March I, it is said, and the fund in use be fore the centennial of the North I Carolina Baptist convention, which waa^ organized in 1830. Mr. Cookson Goes To Burlington Mills Mr. J. H. Cookson one of the builders of the Cleveland Cloth Mill started here several years ago, has accepted a position as superintend ent of three textile mills at Burling ton and goes today to enter upon his duties there. Mr. Cookson is a man of outstanding ability. He was associated with Mr. E. T.‘Switzer in the operation of the Art Cloth Mill at Gastonia before coming to Shel by. Prior to that time he had spent his life with some of the largest and most successful mills of the East. Shelby regrets to give up the estimable Cookson family. FARMER DIES IN CAR DRIVING HOME FROM HIS CRH Husband of Miss Essie Elliot of the Beams Mill Section Died in Gaston County. Ed Crawford, well to do Gaston county farmer and son-in-law of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jim Elliott of the I warns Min section oi Cleveland I county died at the wheel of his car i Saturday night as he was driving I home from preaching at Union | Presbyterian church near the Lin j wood college property. Mr. Crawford felt a stroke of apoplexy coming on ns he sat at the steering wheel, turned off the switch, pushed in the clutch and pulled out to the side of the road, where he fell over on the shoulder of his wife sitting by his side. By the time Mr. Crawford was taken to the City Hospital in Gas tonia he was dead. He w’as a man about 40 years old, a hard worker, with a fine lot of hogs and cattle beside the other things raised on a model farm. He had been subject to attacks but on Saturday was feeling unusually well and took his wife and two children to the Union Presby terian i church of which he was a member. After the services he start ed norne. Two small children were asleep on the back seat. When Mrs. Crawford who was Miss Essie EJliott realized that something serious was the matter with her husband, she screamed at the passing cars but could not attract notice. One of the small children was awakened and sent back up the road to a filling station, Some ladies passing in an other car, seeing the child walking along the road at night, thought something was the matter and stopped to inquire. They went to the assistance of Mrs. Crawford and helped her take her husband to the hospital, but ha was dead before they got him there. The funeral was held Sunday aft ernoon at Union Presbyterian church, Rev. J. E. Berryhili conduct ing the services. A large crowd of friends and relatives from Cleve land and Gaston counties were present for Mr. Crawford was one of the most popular farmers in Gas ton. 9 True Definition Of Cotton Staple Planted In The Spring, Mortgaged In Summer And Left In Field In The Winter. The Star's good friend, J. R. Moore of the Alexander Manufac turing Co. at Forest City ran across a very humorous but true defini tion of cotton which he has handed along for our readers to ponder over and while the man who wrote the definition was striking at hu mor, he “said a mouthful' as the New York mayor once remarked. Here's a definition of cotton, not by Webster, but by Mr. Anonymous; read and ponder: Cotton is the overcoat of a seed that is planted and grown in the Southern States to keep the produc er broke and the buyer crazy. The fibre varies in color and weight, and the man who can guess nearest to the length of the fibre is called a cotton man by the pijUolic, a fool by the farmer, and a poor business man by his creditors. The price of cotton is fixed in New York, and goes up when you have sold and down when you have bought. A buyer working for a group of mills in the South was sent to New York to watch the cotton market, and after a few days deliberation he wired his firm as follows: “Some think it will go up, some think it will go down, I do too. Whatever you do will be wrong act at once.” Cotton is planted in the spring, mortgaged in the summer, and left in the field in the winter. POTATO WEIGHING 15 POUNDS GROWN HERE Gaffney.—A sweet potato weigh ing 15'i pounds, grown by J. 8. Huffstetler at his home on the Chesnee road a few miles from Gaffney, was sent to Gaffney. Mr. Huffstetler has not taken up his potatoes yet, but he has found another of approximately the same size in his patch. He planted the Porto Rico variety in a sandy, loan soiL *