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VOL. XXXV, No. 123 THE CLEVELAND STAR
SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, OCT. 15, 1928.
Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons
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Dirigible
Is Over
K , -
* A message over market
wires here shortly after noon
today stated that the Graf
Zeppelin, monster German dir
igible, passed over Baltimore,
Md., en route to Lakehurst,
New Jersey, where it is to
land after its flight over the
Atlantic.
The big dirigible left Fried
richshafen, Germany, last
Thursday with 60 people, in
cluding one woman, aboard.
LATENEWS
Showers Likely.
Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Partly cloudy, possibly
showers In extreme west portion to
night and Tuesday. Rising tempera
ture In central and west portions
Tuesday.
Hoey To Virginia.
Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, Democratic
campaigner, returns this week for
another speech in Virginia. Thurs
day night he will speak at a big
Democratic rally at Richmond.
mrs.MweIthers
IS BURIED TODAY
Widely Connected Woman Passes
From Paralytic Stroke. Bur
ied At Zion.
At 7 o'clock Sunday evening.
Mrs. Amelia Eskridge Weathers,
wife of Mr. W. Yan Weathers died
at her home on S. DeKalb Street
following a third stroke of paraly
sis which she suffered a week ago
and since which time she never re
gained consciousnegTlor was able to
take nourishmenf/Vor these long
days and nights, menjbers of the
family watched closely over her
bedside, rendering every possible
attention and hoping that her life
might be spared. The end came
quietly at the close of an anxious
day,
Before marriage Mrs. Weathers
was Miss Amelia Eskridge, daugh
ter of Greene and Elizabeth Esk
born 1855 and was married to W.
Yan Weathers in 1878. In girlhood
she joined the Zion Baptist church
and was a faithful member, a con
sistent Bible reader, a gentle, de
voted mother, wife and neighbor
Her spirit was calm and her love
for home deep seated. Nearly ten
years ago she suffered her first
stroke of paralysis and since then,
her health has been greatly im
» paired.
The funeral was conducted this
afternoon at 3 o’clock by Dr. Zeno
Wall, assisted by Rev. D. P. Putnam
with a short service at the home,
continued at Zion where she was
buried ..."Surviving are her husband
and five children, Curtis Weathers
of High Point, Mrs. Addie Moss of
Asheville, Miss Avie Weathers, of
Shelby, Mrs. Fred Costner of Mon
roe, Mrs. Roscoe Shaw of Troy, al
so one sister, Mrs. Jane Hoyle,
wife of John R. Hoyle.
Pall bearers were John Eskridge
D. A. Whisanant. Elzie Wellman. A
P. Poston, Q. H. Metcalf, R. L. Hen
drick, J. H. Blanton and the flow
er girls carrying the flowers sent in
by friends were Mrs. Griffin Smith,
Mrs. Lawrence Roberts, Misses Ver
tle and Frances Hendrick and Addie
May Eskridge.
Mrs. A. L. Champion
Buried On Saturday
Esteemed Woman Of Tlie Zion
Community Dies At Age 63.
Five Children.
Mrs. Sara Elizabeth Champion,
wife of A. L. Champiomof the Zion
community died Friday afternoon
at her home and was buried Satur
day at Zion church which she
joined at the age of 42. Mrs.
Champion was a faithful member
of the church, a dutiful mother and
devoted wife and neighbor and will
be greatly missed in the commun
ity where she lived.
Mrs. Champion is survived by her
husband and five children. Forrest,
Edgar. Leonard, Robert and Miss
Katherine Champion, together with
fourteen grandchildren. The fu
neral was largely attended and a
beautiful display of flowers attested
the esteem iin which she was held
by all who knew her.
Red Cross Fund Is
Still Growing Here
Contributions to the Red Cross
fund for relief work in Florida con
tinue to come in to D. Z. Newton,
treasurer. Among recent contribu
tions were the following: Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Eskridge, $2; Graham
street school, $11.50; Shelby colored
school, $1.29.
1 1 i 4 A
COMPETITION NOW
IS CHANGED, SAYS
ROM SPEAKER
Hugh Murrill Speaks At Joint
Meeting Of Kiwanis And
Rotary Clubs.
"All business today is confronted
with the fact that we have passed
from the production age to the dis
tribution age,” declared Hugh A.
Murrill, Jr., a business expert and
engineer of Charlotte who spoke
Friday night at Cleveland Springs
hotel before the members of the
Kiwanis and Rotary clubs when the
Rotarians had the Kiwanis mem
bers as their guests. The meet was
presided over by E. E. Scott, presi
dent. Mr. Murrill said in continu
ing:
“Every industry today Is capable
of producing more than its normal
market can absorb.
“Production has outstripped dis
tribution.
"Modern machinery and manufac
turing efficiency make it possible
for every woorkman to produce more
goods.
"Distribution, a closer analysis
and study of public demand, a more
intelligent co-operation between re
tail merchants and manufacturers
are the outstanding problems of
business today.
“There are three new forces
which are injecting into business
new problems—fashion, invention,
and discoveries, and the changing
habits of the people.
“Style has upset old established
industries over night.
“This is a day of style, of color,
and of beauty and every business
must consider the effect of style on
itself.
“The new Ford car is one of the
outstanding examples of the recog
nition of the influence of color and
beauty in present day merchandis
ing.
“Science and invention is upset
ting and revolutionizing industries.
Electric refrigeration, radio and
aviation, for example, are develop
ing new methods and upsetting old.
Quickened transportation facilities,
the increased wealth of our popula
tion have given people new ideag,
new standards, and the widened
shopping radius imposes a new ob
ligation on manufacturers and re
tail merchants.
"Business is becoming more scien
tific. No individual and no indus
try can succeed with the methods
of five years ago. The prizes today
go to the alert, to those who are
thinking and planning ahead, and
recognizing the new forces effect
ing the public mind.
"Business is changing, and only
the alert, the aggressive profit by
change.
“Every man today must look out
side of his own business —must be
on the alert for new and better ways
of serving the public. None of us
can go ahead on old program and
old methods."
| Commenting on the subject of
advertising, Mr. Murrlll stressed
the fact that advertising today is
selling and the purpose of all ad
vertising is to have a favorably im
pressed customers with money to
buy, go into a well arranged store
then to come in contact with well
informed salespeople, have the
merchandise shown quickly, intel
ligently and attractively. Advertis
ing follows through all the way
down the line from the manufac
turer's production department to
the dealer’s delivery department. It
Ls not a matter of attractive illus
trations, color pages or mechanical
details. Advertising to be profitable
must be selling.
"He spoke briefly of the work of
his oivn organization in sales me
thods. of sales schools conducted by
manufifcturers and retail mer
chants and special programs for
training of retail salespeople.
Game Warden After
The ’Possum Hunters
State Offers Bounty For Killing
Crows And Hawks
Here.
Those who wander about after
dusk in Cleveland county on the
trail of grinning Mr. OTossums
should be considerate enbngh of
their finances to purchase hunting
licenses in advance according to
Mike H. Austell, county game war
den.
Four possum hunters were hail
ed before a magistrate’s court last
week for hunting without license
They were taxed with the cost and
made to purchase license.
The state will pay 15 cents boun
ty for crows and 25 cents for Coop
er hawks and sharp-shined hawks.
The bounty will be paid when
heads of haw’ks and .rows are
brought in to the game warden.
A hick town is a place where
nobody ever saw a rich police
man.—Washington Post.
Stockings? Ach, Ja! Jeritza
;i Has Fife Hoondert Pairs
Three poses of Mme. Jeritza, taffy-haired beauty of the operatic stage,
who says she has “much too much” clothes and envies the shopgirl who
has a work dress and a Sunday best. Left, the star in hsr Carmen
costume; right, as she appeared arriving in United States for opening
of her season and, below, close-up of madame in the floppy felt hat she
affects.
t N. Carolina Sure
Big Newspapermen Believe He Will
Be Elected. Positive Of
North Carolina,
(Baskervill in Charlotte News.)
Raleigh.—North Carolina will
give Governor Alfred E. Smith
good majority for president in
the November election. There
is no longer any doubt about
it.
This was the almost unanimous
concensus of opinion here among
Democratic party and campaign
leaders, the rank and file of Demo
crats generally, as well as the opin
ion of the 45 or more press rep
resentatives from all sections of the
United States who accompanied
Governor Smith on his trip through
North Carolina last week.
In fact, one of the most signifi
cant aspects of Governor Smith's
visit to the state was the manner
in which the generally more or less
calloused press correspondents,
from New York to the Pacific coast,
were impressed with the genuine
ness, the spontaneousness and the
copiousness of the enthusiasm for
Smith in North Carolina.
The crowds, the enthusiasm, the
clamorous receptions, continued on
beyond Raleigh, and crowds lined
the track at every town and ham
let, even where there were no stops.
"And thus is in North Carolina!
Why, I have not seen such spontane
ous enthusiasm as this anywhere in
the United States since Governor
Smith has been on tour,” said
George R. Holmes, International
News Service man on the Smith
tour. "And some reports from down
here have been to the effect that
North Carolina was still a doubt
ful state—but that can't be-^not aft
er this all-day example of Smith
sentiment.”
Correspondents Surprised.
"We have been hearing during the
last week that conditions in North
| Carolina were getting better, but I
had no idea that sentiment in the
state had changed within the last
three weeks as it apparently has,
judging from these demonstrations
today,” said Robert Barry, of The
New York Evening World. ‘‘I was
through the state some three weeks
ago and at that time the outlook
for Smith was dark. But I do not
see how North Carolina can any
longer be counted as a doubtful
state.”
Similar expressions were heard
: from almost a score of other press
correspondents, all of them seasoned
political obsoirvers and writers, ac
customed to careful and cautious
analysis of situations. So when they
express an opinion, it generally has
significance.
Another most significant thing
among the newspaper correspond
ents making these tours with Gov
ernor Smith is the growing convic
tion among many of them that
Smith is going to be elected presi
dent. Many of them frankly ad
mit that two weeks ago they did not
think he had a chance—that it was
almost prepostrous to think of his
being elected president. But in the
last two weeks, they feel that the
tide has turned definitely toward
Smith throughout the entire coun
try—in the West and Northwest,
then more recently in the Middle
West—and that now the sentiment
in the South for Smith is growing
by leaps and bounds.
Great Expeditions.
‘‘In the last few days I have even
gotten a hunch that Smith will car
ry Indiana, Ohio and even Pennsyl
vania,” said a New York correspon
dent who is a native of Indiana. "I
know that sounds crazy, and the
other boys laugh at me and tell me
(Continued on page ten.)
Cotton Estimates Center About
45,000-Bale Mark--Your Guess
Warm Weather Of Recent Days
Likely To Increase Crop.
Estimates Made.
Another week or two similar to
last week and Cleveland county's
cotton crop may fool those who say
it will not go beyond the 45,000
bale mark.
Recent estimates given The Star
on the county crop seem to swin0
about the 45,000 figure.
When the final ginning report
issued The Star will give $5 cash
the person making the best esti
mate of the county crop. The esti
mate must be written on a slip of
paper with the name and address of
the writer.
Recent estimates: H. L. Hunt. 42,
156; John M. Best, 41,896: Virginia
Hunt, 46.151; Max Washburn. 46 -
183; L. A. Cabani«s, 39,876. J. A
Ellis, 43,250, G. T. Sweezy, 44,727.
O K*
“OUR BOB” COMING
TUESDAY; GARDNER
RESTING AT HOME
Asheville Man Speaks Tomorrow
Night. Gardner Is
Tiring.
Robert R. Reynolds, more
familiarly known to the voters
of North Carolina as "Our Bob,”
will speak in the court house
here Tuesday night. The well
known Asheville campaigner
comes at the request of the
young Democratic voters of the
county but all Democrats, men
and women, are urged to hear
him.
O. Max Gardner, Shelby’s Demo
ftic candidate for governor, was
ting at his home today alter be
forced to call off his speech at
Lattimore Saturday night due to
exhaustion resulting from his
whirlwind campaign of the state.
Cipt. Peyton McSwain spoke to the
large Lattimore gathering to Mr.
Gardner’s place. The next gover
nor's physician informed him Sat
urday evening that a speech Satur
day night in his exhausted condi
tion might endanger his health for
the remainder of the campaign and
It was considered the only wise
thing to do in sending a substi
tute. After several days rest here
the gubernatorial candidate will
likely fill his speaking engage
ments in eastern Carolina during
the latter part of the week.
Reynolds And Hoey.
There is a likelihood that there
Will be two major speakings in the
county Tuesday night as Clyde R.
Hoey may deliver an address to the
voters at Kings Mountain.
A1 Bennett, organizer of the
young Democrats in the county,
says that he expects a large dele
gation from each club to hear “Our
Bob.” It will be rally night not
only for the new club members in
the recent Shelby drive but for all
clubs in the county. Democratic wo
men voters are also planning to fill
a section of the court house for the
Reynolds speech.
Mrs. Dunn Receives
Sentence To Jail
Aged White Woman, Who Featur
ed In Cline Case, Convicted
On Rum Charge.
In county court this morning
Judge John Mull sentenced Mrs.
Elizabeth Dunn, gray-haired white
woman, to four months in jail on
a charge of whiskey selling.
Chief Richards made the arrest
Sunday after some sleuthing about
the house in west Shelby where
Mrs. Dunn lived.
The aged woman was used as a
state’s witness in convicting Fur
man Cline on a liquor charge in
the county court some months back.
At the time she pleaded that she
herself had nothing to do with li
quor traffic and passed the burden
of the charges then to Cline.
Jonas To Speak In
County This Week
Republican National Committeeman
And Nominee For Congress
To Speak
Hon. Chas. A. Jonas, Republican
national committeeman and nomi
nee for congress in this the ninth
congressional district has been bill
ed to speak twice in Cleveland
county this week. Mr. Jonas will
speak In the Lawndale theatre at
Lawndale on Thursday evening and
again in the South Shelby school
house on Friday evening. The hour
is 7:30 o’clock at both places.
Mr. Jonas is a speaker of power
and has been in great demand dur
ing this campaign in various parts
of the state where he has been
speaking in behalf of his party
ticket.
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ROBERTS TAKEN IN
HONORARY FRATERNITY
Louis C. Roberts of Shelby, has
been pledged to the Gamma Sigma
Epsilian fraternitv at Davidson
college. The fraternity is an honor
ary chemical fraternity, ar.d only
32, Davidson boys were pledged to
the six honor frats.
Young Roberts is the son of
Capt. and Mrs. J. F. Roberts.
MOORE AND HAMRICK
REUNION OCTOBER 21
The Moore and Hamrick families
will have a reunion on October 21
at the home of W. F. Moore near
Earl. All members of these two
families as well as kith, kin and
friends are invited to be present
with well filled baskets and spend
the day. I
Dancer Is Divorced
Lyova Yates, 22, of Brooklyn,
musical comedy danseuse, who
has been granted a divorce
from her dancing partner
husband. They were married
in 1921 and lived together only
three months.
Highs Lose 14 To 0. Big Charlotte
Team Here This
Week.
The Shelby highs face their -major
football tussle of the year here Fri
day afternoon when they meet the
strong Charlotte high eleven. Al
though doped to lose to the heavy
Queen City outfit Coach Morris is
this week working to bring his
cripples around for the big Friday’s
game.
First Defeat.
Gastonia.—Gastonia fans and stu
dents were overjoyed, and perhaps
a little bit surprised, when Gas
tonia Hi team took the Shelby high
school boys for a ride and wan
the day’s game by a 14 to 0 score.
Many is the time when students
ha.ve rooted in vain, fans have yell
ed themselves hoarse, and players
have strained themselves almost to
the breaking point to no avail
against the Cleveland county boys.
Shelby has grown to be the most
bitter football rival of the local
school, and the yearly game with
this institution is always anticipat
ed a hope—a hope that has almost
invariably glimmered and passed
away as scores were stacked up
against the Gastonia squad.
But Shelby has been “licked’’
and a peace of mind rests among
the students—an earthly halo about
the helmeted and tousled heads of
(Continued on page ten.)
Best To Announce
Big Surprise Soon
John M. Best makes the an
nouncement in advertisements now
running in The Star that he is sell
ing out his furniture stock, after
which he will make announce
ment "that will cause a big sur
prise in Cleveland county.' The
merchant is carefully keeping under
his hat the nature of the surprise
he is going to spring. Meantime he
is holding a final disposal sale of
his big stock. He opened it Satur
day and had a big day. He says
he has on hand the largest stock he
has ever carried since he has been
in business in Shelby.
Paragon To Close
Out Branch Store
Paragon managers are arranging
for a furniture sale this week, pre
paring to dispose of the stock of the
Paragon bargain place, on West
Warren street. The plan is to sell
this big stock, and close out this
branch of the Paragon’s furniture
business.
This store hag been in operation
for about a year. It was inaugurat
ed, and has been operated on the
principle, of selling goods carried
over from the other stores, at a cut
rate. The sale starts Friday and
the new pine announcem uts will
be found in Wednesday's Star.
Baptists Want Candidates
Who Are For Enforcement
Young Voters Club
At Boiling Springs
C. C. Goode, chairman of the
young Democratic voters club at
Boiling Springs, announces the fol
lowing members of the club com
mittee: C. C. Moore, D. W. Moore,
S. B. Buchanan, Ralph Hamrick,
Fred Phillips, Blar.e Whisonant, E.
W. Lipscomb, O. E, Lee, J. H. Ham
rick, Grady McSwain, J. F Wal
ker, M. A. Jolley and Cliff McSwain.
CREDIT® IS
BRUIZED HERE
Number Of Merchants Join In
Move To Collect Bad Debts
And For Protection.
A credit board for the protection
of Cleveland county merchants and
professional men has been organ
ized in Shelby by the Pioneer Serv
ice Co., a North Carolina corpora
tion.
Waldo E. Mohr, state manager,
completed negotiations with busi
ness and professional men to or
ganize Cleveland county under the
Pioneer Service company’s system,
which now have an organization in
19 different states and is the largest
credit and collection service in
America.
The plan of action is very com
plete and is declared by other
counties in which they are in op
eration to be very effective.
The bureau is operated through
the state office at Statesville, where
lists of delinquent debtors are com
piled and sent out to members over
the state.
A list of bad accounts are turned
in from time to time by the mer
chants and professional men to the
bureau who arrange them as to
cities and counties and furnish a
report to their members.
When a county is completely or
ganized under this system it is
practically impossible for a person
whose credit is bad and will not pay
his obligations to obtain additional
credit until he has paid his past due
accounts.
When accounts are paid the bu
reau is notified and in return it
notifies all members on the next re
port. After a certain period of time
accounts are advertised for sale to
obtain buyers for them.
No payments are made to the bu
reau but direct to the members who
own them.
Traffic Signals On
30 Second Schedule
Traffic signals around the court
square have been changed to a
faster schedule to allow for a
swifter moving of traffic, declared
Mayor W. N. Dorsey yesterday.
Heretofore the signals have been
changing every 30 seconds which
isn't long, but when a driver stops
his car and waits for the word "go"
to flash, the time seems like an
age. A change was made Saturday
so the signals stand at “stop” for
only twenty seconds. then flash
"go” for twenty seconds.
The 30 second interval was too
slow for many and caused a jam in
traffic at times.
Kings Mountain Association Adopts
Resolution Calling For Dry
Candidates.
Although politics was not men
tioned openly on the floor of the
Kings Mountain Baptist associa
tion which met Tuesday and Wed
nesday of last week with the Bea
ver Dam Baptist church in annual
session, a resolution was adopted
calling on Baptists to support can
didates, regardless of party who
"will enforce the prohibition law-.”
The Kings Mountain Baptist as
sociation last week had 230 dele
gates representing 41 churches with
a total membership of 10,862. The
following resolution was offered by
Rev. W. N. Cook of Kings Moun
tain, chairman of the committee on
temperance and public morals. C.
C. Hamrick and Clyde Cornwell
were the two other members of the
committee which offered the fol
lowing resolution which was adopt
ed unanimously:
Want Dry Officials.
"Baptists have stood for tem
perance these many years and to
day it is one of the greatest ques
tions socially, politically and reli
giously that confronts us as a Bap
tist people.
“The crying need of our country
today is for men and women who
will come out in the open and fight
this, the greatest enemy of right
eousness.
"We need men and women of
courage who will sign their names
in full to any report made to the
officers of the law. We need offi
cers who will do all in their power
to get the guilty party as wcil as his
equipment and brh g them to the
courts and convict the guilty party
and impose such punishment that
they will not repeat the crime
Therefore be it resolved, by th«
Kings Mountain association in ses
sion:
‘First, that we pray that God will
give us courage to stand against
the evil of intemperance.
“Second, that we need the very
best officers that can be had whs
will not be bribed by the fabulous
sums offered by the bootlegger.
"Third, that wc me all our power
to secure ■
tion of officers of the law who will
enforce the prohibition law regard
less of their political affiliations.
"Fourth, that we hereby expresi
our undying allegiance to the
eighteenth amendment, and stand
uncompromisingly against any nul
lification or modification of the
same.”
Mrs. Washburn Still
Critically 111 Here
Mrs. D. a. Wasnbum, wife of
Rev. D. G. Washburn of the Double
Springs community and sister of
Mr. A. M. Hamrick, clerk of court,
remains critically ill at the Shelby
hospital where she has been a pat
ient for some time. Complications
arose following an illness with
pneumonia and Sunday night it was
feared that she could not last
through the night, but this morn
ing she had revived somewhat and
the outlook is more encouraging,
her many friends will be pleased to
learn.
Some married women have steady
employment keeping their hus
bands at work.—Philadelphia In
quirer.
90-Year-Old Woman To Cast
Her Vote For Gov. Al Smith
Mrs. Borders To Vote First Nation
Ticket For Ai. Strong
For Max.
On Tuesday, November 6. if she
feels "as chirp and as spry" as she
does now, Mrs. Elvie Borders, who
will soon celebrate her 90th birth
anniversary, -will motor up to the
Cleveland county court house and
cast an "unscratched” Democratic
ticket.
Incidentally it will be the 90
year-old lady's first national vote
and she isn't at all worried because
it is going for Gov. Al Smith. In
fact, she sees no reason why any
should worry about casting a vote
for such a Democrat.
Wants To Vote.
Mrs. Borders, who makes her
home with her daughter and son
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Hopper,
informed them several days back
that they were to see to it that she
gets up to the court house where
she may vote.
Women have been voting only in
recent years and as she has been on
the shady side of life since that
event Mrs. Borders has voted only
a few times in county and local
races. This time sl.e wants to ex
ercise her entire rights because she
is envious to cast a vote for Clevc
i land county s own son, O. Max
Gardner, for governor, and for the
boy who made himself, Alfred E.
Smith, for president.
Explains Why.
“I couldn't ever bring myself to
vote anything other than a Demo
cratic ticket?" Mrs. Borders says.
"I haven’t voted all my life but I
have been a Democrat all my life.”
If some of those who talk about
forsaking the Democratic ticket
could recall things she recalls Mrs.
Borders is positive they wouldn’t
talk such foolishness.
She harks back to Civil War days
when night after night she sewed
and knitted for the ’boys in gray.”
The recollection holds on into re
construction days—terrible days for
the South, and the horrors linger
with Mrs. Borders. In those days
the Democratic party proved the
savior of the South and leaders of
the same Tammanv Hall Gov. A1
Smith comes from led the way in
giving the torn and Weeding South
a chance.
Anybody who lived then and knew
what the Democratic party meant
to the South could not and should
not have the heart to forsake the
party now, the 90-year-old grand
mother says.
For that reason she is looking
forward to November the 6th and
an opportunity to push the "whole
; Democratic ticket” into the box.