The Cleveland Star
ft SHELBY, N. C.
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~~ THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.
USB B. WEATHERS_-.President and Editor
S. ERNEST HOEY__-.. Secretary and Foreman
RENN DRUM...News Editor
A. D. JAMES..Advertising Manager
Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the postoffice at
ibalby, North Carolina, under the Act cf Congress March 3, 1879.
We wish to call your attention to the fact that It ‘s. and has been oui
jostom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of
ymnWs and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published.
Ibis will be strictly adhered to.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1928.
TWINKLES
The scholarly Ben Dixon MacNeill, who covered the re
i
cent tragedy here for his newspaper the Raleigh News & I
Observer, perhaps realized that the town of Casar. in upper;
Cleveland should have been “Caesar." Jumping Julius, so1
it should have been. As the legend goes it was mispelled;
when first named, but through the years it has come to be
know-n, and is on the records, as Casar, and so we say it will j
continue to be even a century from now. that is, if the South
Mountain section is in existence then. Time after time we've
been called down by the wdse ones who just knew we were
spelling it wrong, and now it’s “et tu, Ben Dixon."
RENDERING NEWS SERVICE
IN TIME of disaster the peopre or a community look to their
newspaper for first and accurate information, and when
tragedy swooped down upon the community Tuesday The Star
dropped everything else and did its best to render such a
service. Such was the confusion about the tragic scene on
West Warren street that hundreds looking on could not
definitely know just what had taken place, or how many had
been killed and injured, and many of them never knew
definitely until they read full accounts in the two extra edi
tions. The Star by placing a reporter at the hospital and an
other at the undertaking shops, while two others watched
the .rescue work, was so prepared that within a few hours
enough'was known of the tragedy and its toll to issue a paper
giving the anxious hundreds definite news. The work con
tinued into the night and through the next day as Wednes
day’s Star was compiled with complete details.
That the Star extra carried valuable information, al
though the paper is not in. the daily field and prepared for
suet}“ipfrfdfkencies, is shown by the following letter addressed
to the publisher, Lee B. Weathers, by David Rankin Barbee,
managing editor of The Asheville Citizen and one of the
state’s best known newspapermen:
“Some traveller passing through Shelby brought us a
copy of your extra. I have just finished reading it. Per
fectly splendid. I don’t think I ever saw as much enter
prise in a weekly newspaper, and I have never seen a story
better covered for an extra than you covered this one. Very
little was overlooked, and it was so well handled that I had
to read all of it. Please give my compliments to your staff.”
A newspaper, especially out of the daily field, loses money
rather than profits by issuing an extra. Yet a newspaper
that would really serve its community must do so in the face
of odds and cost. The majority of The Star staff did not
take time to halt for anything for near 12 hours, and some
members of the staff remained on duty, rush duty, for 18
hours. Which is just another instance in which The Star
attempted to render the best service possible. It is not only
in the show world but also in the newspaper game that “the
show must go on regardless,” and the thousands of copies j
of the two extras sold assure us that the rush service given
was demanded, and appreciated. j
OUR SECOND TRAGEDY
’■pHE HEAVY hand of disaster and death falls unexpectedly
'and-often in a manner that few can fathom. For the see
on fl Time in a short six months Shelby is a town of sorrow.
A main section of the city’s business is in ruins, and six peo
ple who were a part of the daily life of the town and sur
rounding community just the other day are no more.
Six months ago the relentless hand of death, gloved it^
fire and smoke, reached down into the heart of Shelby and
snatched cut four lives. The city staggered that day in its;
greatest sorrow. The dead were buried, the mourning were i
consoled, and little by little as time passed the wound was
healing. Then came the second blow, far heavier than the
first. Six lives was the toll exacted, and in hospital beds to
day are six more suffering victims. The second blow, com
ing just on the heels of the first, very near brought Shelby, i
which was holding its head up in the bitter task of moving :
on, to the ground.
The two tragedies, claiming 10 lives, touched in one way i
or another, by blood or close, friendly relations, nearly every i
household in Shelby and the county. The hand of misfor
tune, for the time being at least, seems to be hovering over
Shelly despite the remarkable growth of the little city in the
past year and the friendly, hospitable spirit.that has caused j
the town to be termed “the Friendly City.’’
Yesterday afternoon the town and county completed the
sad task cf burying their dead. Today it is time to carry on
again. For a time the onward march will be. hard. For
many mornings the daily job of living another day through
will be laced with tear-dimmed eyes. Yet it is a lug-hearted,
Sympathetic community. All have been stricken more or
less, but those feeling least the sting of sorrow will, and are
extending their all in comforting those who felt the direct
blow of the catastrophe. : i
Into every stricken household and business, to every sor
rowing relative and friend, The Star, speaking for the.com
tnunlty it serves, would send a word of sympathy. It is a
common grief. And to those who linger on pain-tortured
bedswe would send a prayer and wish for the best of luck
in recovery. Stricken Shelby will move on again with per
sonal ties bound tighter due to the grief in which the heads
af high and low were bowed together.
Five and Ten Years Ago
The Following Items Were Gleaned From Issues 01
The Cleveland Star Of Five And
10 Years Ago.
FIVE YEARS AGO.
August 31. 1923.
One of the largest Masonic meet
ings ever held in Cleveland county
will be that to be held in the lodge
room of Cleveland lodge No. 202
Tuesday afternoon and night when
Dr. W. C. Wicker, of Elan college,
educational field secretary of the
grand lodge of North Carolina, will
deliver a lecture and display films
of interest to MasorW'
Pink Shytles. confessed slayer of
Speed Cop Reuben Lee. Rutherford
officer, waived preluimmYJieanng.
before recorder In&SSSraffordton
Wednesday morning and was roc
ommended to jail to await trial at
the next term of Rutherford su
perior court.
Won t you help buy a Victroia for
the Shelby public hospital? Miss
McNichols, the superintendent, says
music has a cheerful effect upon
convalescent patients
That the dog which bii Mr. Rob
ert Beatty ai d which was killed by
him with a pocket knife at Waco
Sunday was mad was revealed by
a telegram received by a Shelby
physician from the state laboratory
Tuesday. The dog's head was sent
to Raleigh for examination.
A number of Shelby people and
insurance men attending the .school
for agents, conducted by the Shen
andoah Life insurance company at
Cleveland Springs were guests of
the company at a banquet held :n
the hotel dining room Friday even
ing at 8 o'clock.
Miss Ella McNichols, superin
tendent of the Shelby public hos
pital says she can use several more
pupil nurses. Young ladies with a
fair education who wish to become
nurses will kindly communicate
with Miss McNichols at once.
Among the Cleveland boys who
will leave for State college at Ra
leigh next week are: Clyde R Hc^cy.
jr., Aaron Quinn, Jack Champion.
Mangum Roberts, Tom Lattimore,
Randolph and Fred Logan. Charles
Austell. Hobson Austell. Gerald
McBrayer. Ben Hendrick. John An
thony, Halus Moore. Henry Ken
dall. Ellis Morrison and Hayne Pat
terson.
Marion defeated Spindale here
today bv the score of 3 to 1, which
gave Marion the championship of
the Blue Ridge league.
TEN TEARS AGO.
August 30, 1918.
There has been organized in j (
; Cleveland county a board of In- ;
: struct ion at the request of the war',
department to give systematic per
; sonal instruction to each selected
| soldier under the army draft acts. ■]
! Little Miss Sara Harris. the ,
pretty little daughter of Mr, and !
i Mrs. Will Harris celebrated her !
sixth birthday at the pretty new !
Harris home on North LaFayette
| street.
j Pay your Red Cross pledge to
; William Lineberger at J D. Line
| bercer's sons office The pledge ;
| card you signed is there, and your
money is needed
i The Shelby public schools will
open Monday for the tall session.
Ben Abernethy made the trip
j from Shelby to Asheville on his bi
! cycle, covering a distance of over
: 160 miles. Ben says his legs did not ;
: get a bit tired.
| Josh Houser, son of Mrs. Charles ;
Houser, who lives on the Kings
Mountain road was injured in ac- j
l tion in France. August 12.
j On Saturday morning September f
7. the judges will inspect the gar- (■
dens and flowers of the Ella Mill
: and award prizes according to oiir ,
announcement in the early spring
Lieut, Governor and Mrs. O. Max
Gardner leave Monday for Badin.
where Mr. Gardner will deliver a
Labor Day address at that place.
While there they will be gu^ts of
Mr and Mrs J E S. Thorpe.
Mrs. C. B Suitle. jr . is in Spar
tanburg spending se%eral weeks .
w-ith Mr. C. B. Suttle who is in
training at Camp Wadsworth.
Little Miss Bertie Crowder has
returned home from Charlotte
where she has been spending the
summer with her sister, Mrs. Bu- .
ford Green.
Miss Margaret Anthony has re
turned from Steelys hospital at
Spartanburg. M i s s Anthony's
many friends will regret to learn
her health has necessitated her
giving up her training for the pres- !
ent. »
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ACCIDENTAL DEATH
TOLL GROWING
GREATER
I he hazard duo to accidents is growing greater day by day. Automobiles
alone took a toll of six hundred lives in North Carolina during the fiscal year while
the injuries totalled four thousand seven hundred and ninety two, (4,792.)
Accidental fatalities and injuries due to othe?' causes are greater proportion
ately.
Protect Your Earning Power
Against Loss From Accident By
Immediately Applying For Our
Complete Accident Policy.
IT PAYS
(I1 or Any Accident Occurring Excep': Suicide and Aeroplane Accidents)
For Accident on a Licensed
I* or Ordinary Accident. Public Conveyance.
$10,000.00 for loss of life. . ... $20,000.00
$10,000.00 for loss of two limbs . .. . $20,000.00
$10,000.00 for one eye and one limb .. . $20,000.00
$10,000.00 for loss of sight ...... . .... .$20,000.00
$ 5,000.00 for loss one limb . ... $10,000.00
$3,333.33 for loss one eye ... ... $ 6,666.00
$ 2,500.00 for loss of thumb and index finger..$ 5,000.00
$100.00 per week for ten weeks if attention of nurse is required
either in the home or hospital.
$75.00 per week for ten weeks if confined to hospital.
$50.00 per week for the ENTIRE PERIOD of *otal disability due
to an accident.
$25.00 per week for 26 weeks for partial disability.
$50.00 surgical allowance for non disabling injuries.
$5.00 to $200.00 surgical operation allowance.
$200.00 identification expense.
LIBERAL ELECTIVE INDEMNITIES. 7
DOUBLE INDEMNITY UPON BOTH PRINCIPAL SUM AND
WEEKLY INDEMNITY FOR ACCIDENTS OCCURRING UPON
COMMON CARRIER (Aeroplanes Excepted.)
Policies issued in amounts of $1,030.00 and Five Dollars Weekly In
demnity upwards, to fill the requirements of individual needs.
THE PILOT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY IS THE ONLY NORTH CARO
LINA COMPANY WRITING LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSUR
ANCE. PAYS ALL CLAIMS PROMPTLY.
PILOT LIFE INSURANCE CO.
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA.
C. R. WEBB General Agent
LINEBERGER BUILDING. SHELBY, N. C.
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