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SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD’Y, NOV. 21, 1928 Published Monday, Wednesday. and Fridav Afternoons By mail, per year (in advance) 1150
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VOL. XXXV, No. 13!)
THE CLEVELAND STAR
LATE NEWS
The Market*.
Shelby Cotton 1 :*«•
Slielby, seed per bu. ......_til'^e
Jallstnn. seed per bu._ lil'jC
Pair And Warmer.
Today's North Carolina Weather
Itrport: Pair and somewhat warmer
tonight and Thursday, Possibly light
frost tonight.
Somebody Careless.
In the New Vnrk investigation
yesterday of the sinking of the liner
Vestris, in which 100 or more lives
were lost, two members of the crew
stated that the sunken vessel had
been leaking at the ports and doors
for months and that nothing had
been done about it although it had
been reported once in writing. Gov
ernment inspectors on the stand
just before said that their exam
• (nations theretofore had found the
ship fit. A letter read before the in
vestigation declared that the two
inspectors were drunk when they
examined the ship the last time be
fore it sunk.
Armed Possee Of Polk And Ruth
erford Hunt Negro Who Kill
ed White f armer.
Try on, Nov. 20.—Peeling contin
ued to run high in Polk county to
night as a posse of 300 men contin
ued a fruitless search for Cliff Whis
iiant. negro, accused of killing EUas
Moore, 45. prominent farmer, at, his
home near here yesterday.
F The negro was declared to have
shot Moore to death after tire farm
er rebuked, Nathan Moore. follow
ing an argument over cattle.
Leaving Moore on the.ground, his.
heart punctured with shot, vvhis
nant fled into the mountains
News Spreads.
When the news spread, armed
mountaineers from Polk and Ruther
lord counties gathered and organ
ised the posse that is making a re
lentless search for the fugitive, j
Several times today it appeared that
capture of the negro would be a,
matter of only a few hours. Tonight,
however, the hunters were following
cold trails and it is believed by some
that Whisnant has succeeded In
making his way out of the moun
tains and headed tor South Caro- j
lina.
Feared Lynching.
Anger raged at white heat today
throughout Polk and Rutherford
counties. Officers feared that the i
negro would be lynched if he were
.captured unless they were able to
spirit him away,
Moore was well known through- j
out Polk county.: He is survived by
his widow, three children and his
aged parents. Funeral services were
field today, a crowd of several thou
sand gathering at Grays Chapel
church.
Odd Concoctions Go
In Modern Bootleg,
Deputies Declare
Headache Tablets Ai*.In Starting A
Headache These Days.
Lye I'sed.
Aspirin tablets arc perhaps the
only boomerang known to medical
science today. They give ai.d takc
^-meaning a headache.
Local deputy sheriffs say that
raids on distilleries hereabouts in
recent months have' revealed that
the products going into the modern
bootleg, sold as corn whiskey are
not limited to corn, .sugar and the
ingredients used by the bldckadrrs
of other years They reached such
a conclusion after finding empty
lye cans, canned h"at receptacles,
and aspirin tablet boxes scattered
about distillery sites.
"Whiskey as it is made now,” say
those who spend their spare time
about the sheriff’s office, "is made
with only one thing in view: to give
a kick, and the makers seemingly
do not care just where it kicks the
customer."
Aspirin. Sterno, lye! What a
throw-back in the memory that
must be to the old fellows who were
once on speaking acquaintance, and
perhaps more, with Laurel Valley,
and Cooper's Cool Corn, Haig &
Haig and Four Roses?
Cotton And Affray
Trials Here Today
The county court spent most of
the morning today hearing a cotton
stealing case from the upper sec
tion of the county.
A charge of assault against Crawl
Hicks was booked for trial before
Judge Mull but had not been reach
ed at 1 o'clock this alternou Hicks
according to reports had an en
counter with a man by the i ame of
Champion who lives on his farm
Champion, who was here lor the
tral this morning, appear, d to be
considerably lacerated and brulsvd
about the face and head.
IX BEST LIKED
C10ITE SINCE
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Loyalty To Party, However, Cost
Notes, Says Bost. Hoover
May Lead.
'Special to Tlie Star.)
Raleigh. Nov. 21.—Governor-elect
O. .Max Gardner has a majority of
12,000 or more over any other
(andid.ite given a state-wide vote.
Near complete returns here show
that Mr. Gardner’s majority over
Seawell is 7;{,l(il, he having rereiv
ed 362,007 votes. As the first count
w.ts made it was thought that per
haps President-elect Hoover would
receive the largest vote in the slate,
hut the count -.hows that Mr. Hoo
ver with ■">•13,615 votes, or 12,382 less
than Shelby's next governor.
(Tom Bost in <' re'.'ii.sboro News'.
Ualeiglit Herbert Hoover carried
North Carolina by 63.208 majority
and 349.615 North Carolinians voted
for him against 286,407 who stuck
to Smith.
Heavy, as this voting was, it fell
short about 65,000 ;6f the contemplat
ed poll in the state. The Democrats
did slightly better by Smith than
bv Davis four, years ago, but the
Republicans went nearly 160,000
ahead of their vote for Coolidgc in
the same election. The Democrats
fell approximately 19,000 below their
Cox strength hr 1920, the Republi
cans adding 115.00 to their 232.000
given Harding eignt years ago.
The last county, Swain, came in
today and carried the Hoover ma
jority far ahead ot the Simmons
guess, on toward the conjecture of
Frank Hampton, the Simmons of
ficial spokesman in the state. Mr.
Hamption figured Hoover the favor
ite by 80.000. The miss is only 17.000.
Senator Simmons thought Hoover
would win by 30.000. The senator
missed it 33.000. He likewise failed
on the prophecy that three members
ot congress would lose in the elec
tion. Two went down, but Senator
Simmons never was able to 'beat
Charles L. Abernethy, of the old
the home of Mr. Simmons, the old
easterners worked on him with Iris
own instruments. On the whole,
however. Mr Simmons had a most
successful season. He guessed that
the state Democratic ticket would
win by a reduced majority. There is
no trouble about that. Max Gardner,
most popular candidate ottered by
the Democrats since Aycock in 1900.
probably will not get the majority
that was given Hoover, Fifty-five
counties have .been reported today,
but the majority in them is most
unimpressive. However,the great
east has not spoken and Gardner
'Continued on page fifteen.)
Asheville Has Snow;
Cold Weather Here
Freezing Weather Descends On
Southland, As Temperatures
Hover At 30.
The coldest snap of the season
struck. Shelby and section last night,
and early today. The Ebcltoft ther
lometer dropped early this morning
to 30 degrees above, although it
hung about 40 during the early
hours of the night. This morning
the mercury had climbed no high
er than the 38-dcgrec mark at 9:90.
In addition to the mow at Asheville,
flurries, were reported last night in
other Western Carolina sections,
and in the mountain sections of
Virginia-.
A. ucwlle, Nov 20. - Whisps Ot
Know were still curling down along
Asheville streets tonight at ? o'clock
as the mercury gradually dropped
lower, but no heavy snow was re
ported from west North Carolina
towns and mountain localities.
Apparently there had been but
little snow during the day on either
Mount Mitchell or Mount Pisgah.
The mercury was standing at 32 de
grees at 8 o'clock tonight and T. R.
Taylor, weather bureau official, said
that it might go as low at 27 or 28
during the night. Lower tempera
tures were expected in the event
the skies cleared, but at 8 o'clock
they were overcast.
Thieves Take Slot
Machine And Money
Some time during the late hours
of Saturday night, according to re
ports at police headquarters,thieves
broke into the H. K Roberts eat'e
at the Southern station arid made
away with : the slot machine and
the cash therein. Entrance, it is
said, was made through a window'
and presumably the intruders
thought that it would make too
much noise to remove the money
there so the, machine was carried
along. ;,
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Future Elections
May Be Very Close
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Figure Juggling With Votes Cast
As They Were Interests
Many.
Washington.—Perhaps we are
traveling back Howard the good old
days when election results were sure
to be close in a large number of
important states.
College prolessors and newspa
permen with mathematical minds
have discovered that if Smith could
have switched 500.000 additional
votes in the right places he would
have been elected, thanks to the
electoral college system, and that
150.000 more properly switched votes
for Hoover would have given him
every single electoral vote. Yet. in
the first instance, Hoover could
still have had a popular majority
of more than 5,000.000 and lost and.
in the second case, Smith would
still have had 15,000.000 popular
votes without a single electoral vote.
All sorts of funny and seemingly
unfair things can happen under the
electoral college system. Fortunate
ly for the system, they seldom do.
Until the Harding and Coolidge
landslides, however, one election
after another showed that a switch
of a few thousand votes—sometimes
even a fewr hundred—changed the
election result. But in 1920 and 1924
Republican pluralities were so huge
in so many of the most important
states that there was little nourish
ment in such figuring.
This year the result was so
relatively close in so many states
that the boys once more got out
pencil and paper.
Well, Smith’s present yearning
for that switch of a half million
votes is probably nowhere near as
poignant as that of James G.
Blaine, who with e change of 600
votes in New York in 1884. would
have been elected over Cleveland.
Those were the days when the
Solid South was good and solid
and most of the northern and
western states were invariably
doubtful.
In that year Cleveland carried
Connecticut 67,000 to 65,000, Dela
ware 16,000 to 12,000, Indiana 244.
000 to 238,000, Maryland 96,000 to
85.000. Missouri 235.000 to 202,000,
New Jersey 127,000 to 123.000, Ten
nessee 133,000 to 124.000 and so on.
Blaine had California 102,000 to
89.000. Illinois 337 000 to 312,000.
Iowa 197.000 to 177,000, Massachus
etts 146,000 to 122,000, New Hamp
shire 43.000 to 39,000, Ohio 400,000
to 368.000 and so on again.
The two Cleveland-Harrison con
tests show even closer results in
some states. In 1888 California was
carried by 70000, Connecticut by
13.000. In 1892 Cleveland carried
California by 290 votes, Delaware by
500, Indiana by 7000. Wisconsin by
70000 and lost Ohio by but 1072.
In 1888 a change of 7200 votes
in New York alone would have
elected Cleveland over Harrison and
in 1892 a switch of 26.000 in seven
states would have elected Harrison
over Cleveland.
In 1880 Hancock would have been
elected if he could have picked up
10.517 Garfield votes in New York
or changed 11,452 others in Maine,
New Hampshire, Connecticut, Indi
ana and Oregon.
In 1876 Tilden had more than
250.000 more popular votes and
needed no more until the attempt
was made to pilfer soma of his
electoral college votes.
Many more instances would be
tedious, but it may be noted that
Such interesting figures have been
consistently announfied as some
thing of a sensation for a loot'
way back. A switch of 2200 Penn
sylvania votes from Van Buren in
1836, for instaance, would have
thrown that election into the house.
Joins Catholic Church.
London, Nov. 20.—'The Catholic
Times announced today that Dor
othy Nickson, eldest daughter of the
Rt. Rev. George Nickson, Anglican
Bishop of Bristol, had been receiv
ed into the Roman Catholic church.
Philbeck’s Wife
Seeks Divorce
In Court Here
Divorce Action Names Jessie Mae
Francis As Her Husband’s
Partner.
After three years of waiting, dur
ing which her inind was troubled
with visions of her husband being
soothed by the love of another wo
man, Mrs. Laura Philbeck, of Earl,
is seeking freedom from her hus
band, B. I, (Sloan) Phi}beck, charg
ing in her complaint that he has
been intimate with other women,
including Jessie Mae Francis.
Thus returns to the limelight a
case that keep Cleveland county
people talking over the back-fence
month after month.
The divorce action was docketed
for trial in superior court here Mon
day but as yet Iras not been taken
up.
Happened In 1925.
The entire affair goes gack to
1925, when Sloan Phi!beck left his
wife and family and journeyed far
south with Jessie Mae Francis, her
self a married woman and mother.
The long arm of the law reached
out to their love nest and brought
them back. A road sentence for
Philbeck and a jail sentence for his
companion was the result. For a
time thereafter it seemed as if the
two torn families would be reunit
ed. but more things happened, there
was more talk, and a few? months
back there was a general rumor
that another elopement had been
halted at Gastonia where the Fran
cis family, reunited, was living.
Then again for’ a period the af
fair dropped out of the limelight.
Now it bobs up again. Whether 'or
not it will be contested is not known.
The complaint charges “that the
defendant t Philbeck) committed
adultery with one Jessie Mae Fran
cis and other parties unknown to
the plaintiff during 1925, before
and since."
Friday Family In
An Auto Smash-Up
Ask Mr. L. S. Friday the defini
tion of the subtle autoing term of
“sideswipe" and he can giv^ you the
answer. It is understood he is cap
able of making it quite complete.
He was initiated in sideswiping
last Sunday afternoon.
He, with his family. Mrs, Friday
and Miss Olive Singleton, were driv
ing toward Shelby in the vicinity of
Belmont Abbey. A Ford occupied by
a negro, describing himself as a di
vine. was going the other way.
The preacher thought lie deserv
ed at least two-thirds of the road,
which left Mr. Friday the choice ol
a ditch or taking a lesson in tire
aforementioned sideswiping. He took
the lesson. Both the wheels on his
ear next the Ford were removed, his
running board and his fenders. The
job was complete
He had the negro arrested, and
told him to explain it to the judge
how a preacher and a load hog
could exist under the same hats
Harding Funeral.
Santa Ana, Calif.. Nov. 20—Sim
ple funeral services attended only
by intimate friends and relatives,
were field here today for Dr. George
T. Harding, father of the late pres
ident Warren G. Harding. Dr.
Harding died Monday following a
paralytic stroke.
\ Record Frieo.
New York. Nov. 20.—A New Yolk
stock exchange membership was
sold today for $495,000, equalling the
record price established yesterday
.when three seats changed hands.
Watch Your Chicks, Policemen
And Parsons; Albert Out Again
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Kings Mountain Colored Man, Who
Looted Roosts, Has Escaped
From Gang.
Policemen, preaches, mayors, and
others who keep well-stocked poul
try roosts should be particular
about their flocks nowadays. All
because Albert Partlowe, king of the
ehicken bandits, has escaped from
tlie county chain gang.
Back in October Partlowe was
rounded up, by Chief Irvin Aden and
brought into court here where h i
was sentenced to a year on the
roads by Judge John Mull.
Recently at the Baptist atvjcw
tion at Beaver Dam Rev. C. J. Black
approached Judge Mull and remark
ed: “I suppose I had better be
watching my chickens again as I
hear Albert escaped.”
And so he has, and what adds
flavor to the chick n thievery is that
Albert is somewhat particular about
whose chickens he gets. In round
ing up one hundred or more chicken
dinners at Kings Mountain he visit
ed the coops and reosts oi Preacher
Black. Mayor McGinnis, Policeman
Hedrick, County Commissioner Cline
i and other notables.
Governor-Elect Is
Target For Scores
Who Seek For Jobs
; Scores Of Letters Pile In Gardner’s
Office Here Oaily Asking
For .lob.
Shelby friends who call on Gov
ernor-elect O. Max Gardner during
the few weeks ahead, before he
moves to Raleigh, should not be sur
prised if they find hanging on his
door a sign reading; “No Help
Wanted.’’
Still that wouldn’t do so much
good. It's not the home folks who
are troubling "Governor Max.’’ Very
few of them have asked for jobs,
but every mail that comes in brings
him scores of letters from people
who believe Mr. Gardner could get
along considerably better at Raleigh
if he would be kind enough to ac
cept their services.
Some want this, some want that,
but if every applicant who lias fil
ed so far were to get a job, the
next governor would not only have
to clean house with everybody at
Raleigh but he would also have to
create several new positions.
No Jobs Promised.
Prior to his election and after his
nomination Mr. Gardner told the
State Democratic convention that
he had bartered no officer and had
made no promises to get the nom
ination and therefore owed no in
dividual, or no clique anything ex
cept his natural gratitude to Iris
party. Apparently several hundred
people took him at his word and
have decided that since he hadn't
given out any jobs prior to getting
his own that he vftmld have an un
limited number now.
Applications continue to arrive
in every mail, and the next gover
nor, who always had time to see
the lowliest of his callers, is taking
time to read through them all. One
of them gave him a chuckle. And
no doubt Governor Angus McLean
chuckled over it before he sent it
along to Shelby.
A Few Lines Dropped.
The postal card, carrying the ap
dressed to the “Governor df North
Carolina, Raleigh.’’ Apparently Gov.
McLean or his secretary placed an
other address On it for when it
reached Shelby it wras addressed to
Mr. Gardner.
"Dear Sir,” it opened,."I drop you
a few lines, with the hope that you
are in the best of health,” and so
on until it explained that the writer
would like to have a job down at
some of the State buildings and
could do most anything if needed.
Seemingly the writer became so
mixed up in the election, hulabaloo
that he didn't remember just who
was governor for he didn't take any
chances by addressing it to the
wrong man.
Incidentally, if there are those
who read witli interest, Mr. Gard
ner hasn’t signed up any of the ap
licants in the letters he lias an
swered—at least he hasn’t said so.
Farm Board Plans
Larger 1929 Program
Will Triple Number Of Members
On County Hoard Agriculture.
Two Meetings.
The Cleveland county board of
agriculture plans io go about things
on a larger scale in 1929. Likewise
it has been decided to increase the
membership to 33 members, three
from each township instead of one
as heretofore.
These plans were devolved at a
meeting held Saturday with Coun
ty Farm Agent Hardin. Another
meeting of a special committee is
booked lor tonight at which time
the broadened farm program for
the year will be outlined. The com
mittee scheduled io meet tonight is
made up of Wayne Ware, Eldridge
Weathers, Slniford Beam, Card
Hamrick and the county agent. At
a meeting of the board on Friday
night the committee is to report the
program outlined.
College Faculty To
Be Kiwanis Guests
The faculty of the Boiling Springs
junior college will be the guests
Thursday evening at Cleveland
Springs ol the Shelby Kiwanis
c’ub. ThC college president, Rev, J.
| B. Davis will deliver the principal
| address.
Kiwanis members wall hold a pri
mary Thursday night to nominate
officers for the ensuing year which
will be elected during December.
Few County Couples
Wed At Gretna Green
The-South Carolina Gretna Green
at Gaffney was not as popular as
usual last week for Cleveland coun
ty couples, A list of marriage li
censes sold there carried only two
Cleveland couples. They were:
Clarence Towery, 19, and Lois
Jackson, both of Double Shoals:
James Hartsoe, 21, and Ruih Glad
den, 18, both of Kings Mountain,
Man Whose Pitiful Story Caused
Spcetators To Pay Him Out,
Gets Drunk Again.
J. H. Davis came back tor a call
on the county -reorders court here
again yesterday, and for the third
time Judge John Mull wrote opposite
his name the charge of drunken
ness.
Davis talked his way out of the
first charge, and the spectators even
paid his costs, but the last two times,
he appeared in court cost him 90
days out of life's own treasury—
perhaps because Judge Mull doesn't
like to be spoofed and doesn't like
for his court spectators to be spoof
ed, and perchance because he real
izes that Davis just cannot stay
away from the cup that cheers as
it creates*hew hands for the rock
pile.
Touched Spectators.
The interesting portion ot Davis’
story, insofar as Shelby knows it,
goes back to fair week.
During the big farm exposition
Davis, a man beyond middle-age
and now plodding down hill, came
into the court and when he took
the stand it was a pitiful story he
told. A story of hard luck, swift
kicks by an ill-natured fate; a story,
too, that brought, in a waiting wife
and hungry children down *Z South
Carolina.
Some of the spectators almost boo
hooed.
"Judge, just give me a chance to
go home to them and I’ll never do
it again.”
The judge had heard a few such
stories before, but he admits that
Davis knew how to toucli hearts,
and pocketbooks. But the specta
tors, some pf them, were not so
hardened. They told the judge if
he would let the poor man off with
the costs so he could go home to
his folks, they would pay them.
The judge wrote down "judgment
suspended upon payment of costs,”
and the spectators, some of them
inclined to weep at the pitiful
scene, marched up and paid the
bill.
Davis was to head for hom.e the
wife and kiddies, that very day, but
before he could get out of town he
got tanked up again.” When they
brought him back into court the
soft-hearted spectators were not
there, and Judge Mull, remember
ing how' he had promised to step
along the straight and narrow,
promptly gave him 60 days out on
the No. 6 rock pile.
That was visit No. Two.
Last week Davis completed his
time and was again a free man. If
he had a wife and children waiting
down in South Carolina, surely he
would go to them now. But Tues
day morning he was led back into
the court room. It was the same old
charge.
“Thirty more days,” said Judge
Mull.
No kind spectators were present
to help Davis plead, and in his own
plea he had his wife and children
waiting this time down in Alabama
instead of South Carolina. Perhaps
they moved. Be that as it may,
Davis himself is back sleeping in
his old bunk.
A sob story told once should not
be repeated the second time in the
same court room.
LATTIMORE WINS OPENF-R
OF BASKETBALL SEASON
The Lattimore high school quin
tet opened the basketball season
last night by defeating North Brook
in the Lattimore tin can by a score
of 16-9. These two teams meet
again tomorrow (Thursday) in the
tin can at Lattimore and a good
game is expected.
Dutch Whisnant
In Serious Shape
Horace (Dutch) Whisnant,
former Shelby high baseball
star, is in a rather serious
condition today at the Shelby
hospital where he was brought
early Sunday morning after
having been shot in the leg
during the night at Lawndale.
The bullet, which ploughed
Into his leg, struck blood ves
sels there and Whisnant bled
profusely before he could be i
given attention. Just what his
exact condition is was not
definitely '■aid at the hospital
today except that lie was rest
ing as well as he has been.
P. A. McEntire and \V. .1. Lit
tlejohn are under S5O0 and
$50 bonds, respectively as an
aftermath of the shooting.
Mew Hostelry Here Is Named
“Hotel Charles”For 2Blantons
Name new hotel lor An Cmirles
C. Blanton, above.
Hoey And Webb
Contest Dates
Are Fixed Now
Hoey Oratorical Contest February
22; Webb Contest On
March 1.
The dates for the big events of
the scholastic year for Cleveland
county school children have been
set. They are the Hoey oratorical
contest, which will be held February
22. and the Selma Webb recitation
and essay contests, sets for March
1.
Definite dates for the events were
decided upon at a meeting of the
Schoolmasters club at the Victor
hotel Monday night. The same reg
ultions as applied to t,he contests
last year will hold forth this year,
and a copy of the regulations will
be mailed to each principal in a few
days. These regulations in brief are
that each school may have two en
trants in the Hoey contest, one in
Webb recitation contest, while the
three best essays from each school
may be submitted in the essay con
test, and may be written bv boys or
girls. The essays must be in to the
judges by February 20.
Oother Business.
The club, made up of principals
and school superintendents of the
county, also discussed other school
matters of interest, including the
teaching of writing in the public
schools and reports front the dis
trict teachers meeting at Charlotte
and the educational conference at
Chapel Hill. Prof. H. M. Loy. prin
cipal of the Casa;- school, who
teaches writing at the Boone sum
mer school, led in the discussion ot
public school writing.
The Schoolmasters meet each
month and the organization. of
which I. C. Griffin is now. head, has
proven a great aid to the general
school work
Cleveland B And L
Matures First Series
Over $60,000 In Cash Paid (hit And
Mortgages Cancelled To The
. Amount Ot $63,000.
The Cleveland Building and Loan
Association has matured ‘its..fir
series and has just: paid out; to
shareholders $61,508 and cancelled
mortgages on homes to the amount
of $63,692. This association was or
ganized six years ago last July and
has constantly grown and served the
community well. The shares were
matured in 332 weeks and the
mortgages cancelled were bn 43
homes, the average amount on each
homo being $1,470. There was re
joicing by the home owners when
the mortgages were cancelled and a
boost, felt in business channels 'When
1 the $61,500 was paid out to . the
j .shareholder'.
City Tax Books In
Readiness For Ca*:h
The city's tax cooks for the year
1928 have been completed and are
now m the hands of Fred t'ulbreth.
city clerk at the city hall, ready lor
tax payers to make settlement ol
their taxes.
RETURN’ FROM RAl l HOI
WATER MEETING TONIGHT
Supt. R V. Tom . Of the cit y wa
ter department, and Mf. Fred Cul
breth. city clerk, will return to
night from Raleigh, where they
have been attending a meeting o£
the North Carolina Water Works
association.
Bears Name Of County's First Sher
iff And Leading Banker Of
Seetion.
The handsome new hostelry
nearing completion, down on the
corner of Lafayette and War
ren streets, will be known as
the ‘'Hotel Charles.”
this was decided here this
week by the owners of the build
ing. the Blantons, and the op
erators of the hotel when it is
completed—Mr. and Mrs. A. D.
Brabble.
Name Pleases.
The new structure, which will be
of the most up-to-date hotel build
ing-- in the section, was named for
two Charles Blantons—the first
Charles Blanton was the first sher
ilf of Cleveland county when the
county was formed four-score years
ago from Rutherford and Lincoln
counties. The second Blanton, who
bears the same name and is the
grandson of the first, is Mr. Char
les C. Blanton,- one of the owners of
the buildings, president of the First
National bank and one of Shelby’s
first citizens.
At first the two names consider
ed were the ‘Tssaac Shelby” and th«
“Burwell Blanton,” but after some
consideration by the Brabbles and
several members of the Blanton
family it was decided to honor one
of the county's leading pioneer citi
zens and his descendant who has
done much to build up Shelby and
Cleveland county.
Mrs. Brabble, who assist her hus
band in the operation of the Sel
wyn at Charlotte, was here this
week making preparatory arrange
ments about furnishing and operat
ing the new hotel. She states that
the hotel will be one of the best fur
nished and most up-to-date struc
tures In the state.
Opens In February,
If the construction work keeps
moving along with the same rapid
ity as of recent weeks it is thought
that the big formal opening of Ho
tel Charles may be held about Feb
ruary 15.
Mil COMPROMISE
uphmd
Ten Divorces Booked, Only Two
Granted So Far. Kings Moun
tain Cases,
The superior court grind upon a
special civil term continues here
with many compromises and several
non-suits. To date no outstanding
suits have been disposed of by ac
tual trial and no outstanding suits
are docketed with one exception.
S100.000 Suit.
The one big suit, which ts on the
calendar for Friday, is the suit of
Mrs. J. T McGill and others against
the town of Kings Mountain in
which $100,000 damages is asked in
connection with ceitain sewage dis
posal there several years back. The
case has been on the calendar for
court al ter court and it is not alto
gether certain, court attendants say,
that it will be disposed of at this
term.
Barristers amt court officials state
that more compromises have been
effected at this term than in sev
eral years, while Judge Cameron
McRae, who is presiding, lias non
suited a few cases wherein - the
i-plaintiffs failed to appear.
Something 1 ike 10 divorces were
i on. the calendar but up until today
| at, noon only two had been granted,
I one separating a white couple and
! the other a colored couple.
Shelby Man Pilots
Plane First Trip
New ton I eirce May Take I p Avia
tion Seriously Now After
Handling Ship.
Shelby has. a young mari welkin?
in the footsteps of the aces. He is
Newton Ferree. now at Gilmer
He has thought flying. dreamed
flying and -studied flying. And last
Sunday lie went up in the air.
! He went to Charlotte got in a
; machine- now, mind you, it was 1ns
ir-! n ip up- and the driver Ini’ -
I mg faith in what he seemed to
| know about the game—turned the
| controls over to him, and for one
I hour by the clock Herree dipped and
soared, always at the controls him
scll, over the city of Charlotte.
It was only when he came to land
that the pilot took charg° or the
machine.
Friends say that. Ferree is plan
ning fw take up aviation seriously.
Meantime he performed Sunday
what is considered a rare stunt In
the sky—a green horn at the con
trols—flying for an hour over a
city with never the slightest mishao