12 PAG
TODAY
Monday, Wednesday , and Friday Afternoons By mail, per year (in advance) $2.50
__ Carrier, per year (In advance) *3 00
LATENEWS
The Market.
Cotton . ____19c
Seed, per bu.__ 69c
Colder On Tuesday.
Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Rain tonight and possibly
In east portion Tuesday morning, i
Colder tonight in extreme west
portion. Much colder Tuesday.
Train lilts Store.
About 7:40 Sunday morning a
crack fly eg on the Seaboard rail
way hit a Ford coupe on a crossing
in Wake Forest, jumped the track
and ploughed Into the rear end of
a drug sto-e there. Charlie Lyman,
driver of the auto was kitted in
stantly. No one was in the drug
store, and the locomotive stopped
about half-way through the store,
which was a mass of brick and
mortar. Two day coaches and a
baggage car were derailed.
-Key” Men Of Mill In Annual
Banquet—Wholesome Revel
ry Prevails.
Wholesome revelry prevailed Sat
urday night at the Blue Parrott
Tea room where sixty of the "key”
men of the Shelby Cotton mill en
joyed their annual banquet with R.
T. LcGrand, the popular secretary
treasurer as toastmaster. Ur. W. H.
Fraser, president of Querns college,
Charlotte, was the speaker for the
occasion and after stressing co-op
erating in business, pointed out the
importance of competition in busi
ness, where one man tries to excel
the other. In this effort to excel,
mankind moves upward and for
ward and one generation improves
over another. Inventions and dis
coveries are made end living con
ditions are improved
Dr. Fraser is me aumor oi
a couple of books on stories of ne
groes in the old South and tells a
better negro story than any one
since the days of Polk Milter of
Richmond. He brought forth
hearty laughs when he told three
side-splitting negro stories In his
inimitable style. Dr. Fraser waif in
troduced by Lee B Weathers, edi
tor of The* Star.
The banquet table w as beauti
fully decorated for the Christmas
season with holly, Christmas trees.
Santa Clauses, etc. A delicious four
course turkey dimftr was served and
cigars were passed arotind.
Prizes were drawn and a knife
was given to the guest who would
make the ‘•ugliest" face.” One fel
low was awarded the prize, in spite
of the fact that he stated he was
"not playing." Music was furnished
Dy a local orchestra.
Litton Buys Dodge
Agency In Gastonia
Mr. F. B. Litton, head of the
Dodge agency in Shelby, announc
ed Saturday, before leaving the
city for Detroit, that he had pur
chased the Dodge agency in Gas
tonia, and was preparing to take
immediate charge.
He will operate the Gastonia
business from this city, as an ad
junct of his Shelby headquarters.
It so happens that Mr. Litton
came to Shelby from Gastonia,
having sold the agency which he
has now re-acquired. Immediately
after making the purchase he left
for Detroit, to spend a week, to get
the inside dope on the new' Dodge
model, which is due the first of the
year.
Aged Negro Servant
Dies At Age 93 Yrs.
"Uncle” Jesse Coxan, ninety
three year old negro servant who
lived with the Linebergcrs for forty
years, died Saturday night follow
ing a brief illness. "Uncle Jesse”
was a familiar figure about town, a
courteous old negro of ante-bellum
days, thrifty and loyal. For forty
years he lived with the late John
D. Lineberger. Since Mr. Lineber
ger's death he lived with Wm. Line
berger and worked around the
house, doing outside work.
The Final
Week
—In which to buy your
Christmas gifts is here. A
week from today is Christ
mas eve—have you complet
ed your Christmas shopping?
If not, do it tomorrow—
make it easier on business
house employees and your
self, meantime those who
shop early in the week will
find a more varied array to
select from.
Read what the SheHiy
merchants are offering for
Christmas in the columns of
The Star—Shop Early, and
in Shelby.
mCWS HERE
EXPECT BIG WEEK
OF TRADING M
Half Of Ertlre Christmas Shopping
In Shelby This Week,
Thought.
If the local merchants calculate
aright this will be one big week
in Shelby. It is anticipated that
the Christmas business, held up in
a measure by the flu epidemic, will
break forth in a flood between now
and next Monday.
The days of the calendar have
floated by calmly until we have ar
j rived at a period when only six
shopping days intervene' before the
I big day.
Meantime estimates that still
more than half the local Christ
mas shopping remains to be done,
are considered to be accurate.
The stores are figuratively, and
almost literally in scale cases,
bursting with Christmas merchan
dise. It is by no means an exag
geration to say the local stores are
better merchandised for this holiday
season than ever before. With a
fifty thousand bale cotton crop in
sight, at. a good price, the merchants
felt safe in predicting the biggest
Christmas season ever.
And then came the flu.
In consequence of the epidemic,
this is the buyers’ year. They've
got a big pick, and then some. It
has been said that the purchaser
is as well off in Shelby this year
as If he lived in a town of forty
thousand people.
A number of new' stores have
joined the Shelby family since the
last glad season, which adds to the
glamor of the season.
The stores will be open evenings
from now until Christmas.
J. L. Nix And Wife
In Narrow Escape
At Salisbury Home
Brother Of Shelby Men Overcome
With Gas In His Bath
Salisbury, Dec. 16.—Mr. and Mrs.
J. L. Nix missed death by only a
few minutes early this morning at
their home on South Fulton street.
Mr. Nix was overcome with mon
oxide gas in the bath room and
Mrs. Nix phoned for a physician
and (hen went to her husband's
aid. When the physician arrived
I he could not get in the house and
i a policeman was called.
When they and the physician
broke in they found both Mr. and
Mrs. Nix in a serious condition and
apparently only a few minutes from
death. They were removed from the
gas filled room and recussitated.
Mr. Nix is a brother of Messrs.
Abner and W. B. Nix of Shelby.
Mrs. Nancy Justice,
Is Buried Sunday
Widow Of The hate Bn> F. Justice,
Confederate Soldier. Dies At
Home Of Daughter.
Mrs. Nancy Justice, widow of the
late Ben F. Justice. well known
Confederate veteran who preceded
her to the grave six years ago. died
Saturday morning at 3:30 o’clock at
the home of her son-in-law Mr.
Charlie Ellis in the Mount Sinai
section. Mrs. Justice was nearing
eighty years of age and had been
helpless for the past-ten months.
She was the second wife of Mr.
Justice and a fine Christian char
acter.
The remains were taken Sunday
to Fallston for interment at
Friendship Methodist church, the
services being conducted by Rev. J.
M. Morgan, pastor. Mrs. Justice is
survived by two children, Mrs.
Charlie Ellis and Sidney Greene,
also three step-children. Friends of
the family extend their deepest
sympathy.
Highs Win Second
Cage Game Friday
Defeat Piedmont To Even Sea
son, No Games Until After
Christmas.
Playing in the “tin can' here
Friday night the Shelby High
quint defeated the Piedmont
cagers 18 to 11. Losing their first
game to Cliffside the High are now
fifty-fifty for the season.
The first five, composed of Gold.
Wail, Bridges, Rippy and Hulick,
ran up Shelby's lead during the
first half before substitutes were
sent in.
No other games will be played
until after the hr’ , vs. it is an
nounced by Coaeh Morris and
Falls
father Gone, Four Children
May Not Get Visit From Santa
This Year-Charity Fund Is On
“Flu" Hits Needy Homes In Shelby,
Where Christmas Fund
May Aid.
There is a little house on a side
street in Shelby whleh Santa Claus
with his bag of good theer may
not find this Christmas unless
kindly soul helps get him there.
In the home are four young chil
dren and their overworked mother.
AJ1 the tots know is that "Daddy
is gone.”. The loyal mother, who
has been working for $5 a week
maintaining her home meantime,
will not tell them that .their father
deserted them and her. but he is
gone, and life Is f complex Jumble
of hard work, poverty and misery
for her.
Will Santa Come.
Last week the kiddies began talk
ing of Santa. The youngest is a
babe of only eight months, while
the oldest just started to school
this year. The mother, with tears
in her eyes as she turns her back
when they talk of Santa’s coming,
knows not how she will answer
them. They haven’t comfortable
shoes and clothing. To them Santa
could bring no finer present than
warm clothes and a good, warm
meal. The $5 weekly pittance the
mother earns is just enough to keep
life in their little bodies, while she
often goes without in the role of a
mother martyr.
Will Santa find their house a
week from this evening? It all de
pends upon YOU. and how much
you contribute along with your
friends to The Star's Christmas
fund for the poor.
Many Oothcr Cases.
There arc many other deplorable
cases about Shelby as listed in the
work of the county welfare officer.
With the influenza epidemic on the
need for help is greater than ever
before.
wnoie ramny «rcn.
In another home nearly every
member of the family is sick, or
has been sick this fall. The father
makes only $13 a week on which
to support his wife, who is a mute,
and four children, aged 9, 7, 5 and 2.
Medicine is needed, the house rent
is far behind, coal and grocery
bills must be met.
What will Santa leave at this
home? It all depends upon the
Christmas fund.
Out another street the father died
of the dreaded tuberculosis two
years ago. In this home there are
six children and the sole income is
that of the oldest boy who makes
about $15 per week. This young
ster, at the age most boys are hav
ing the best time in life, works
over time so that his brothers and
sisters and his mother may have
something to eat. He is unable to
clothe them, and with sickness in
the family the burden is more than
he can carry. Already this year
the welfare officer has purchased
clothes for some members of the
family, but more are needed.
Dozens and dozens of such cases
right here in Shelby, not away off
somewhere in a btg city.
This is the final week before
Christmas. Clothes, coal, shoes,
groceries and other needs must be
purchased and distributed a week
from today if these families are to
be comfortable.' nothing more
Christmas. Give now so that the
committee, made up of members of
several civic clubs, may know just
how much they can aid each fam
ily.
The committee as composed to
date is made up of Rev. Zeno Wall,
Rev. H. N. McDiarmid. Rev. H. K.
Boyer, Mr. John R. Dover, Mr.
Elmer E. Scott, Mrs. Fred Morgan,
and Mr. J. B. Smith, county wel*
fare officer. They will investigate
the charity cases already listed and
be on the lookout for the others.
Contributions may be left with
them or at The Star office. The
first large gift, $34, came from
members 01 the Kiwanis club. In
dividual donations will be published
Wednesday, as well as a list of busi
ness firms who will contribute ar
ticles needed in the scores of homes
Help Santa make it a real Christ
mas in homes that he might oth
erwise overlook.
Vari-Colored Lights
Give Christmas Glow i
Colored Electric Bulbs Swung About I
Court Square Makes
Pretty Scene.
In the slang of the day “Shelby j
is all lit up and waiting for Christ- ;
mas.”
Late last weel| city electrical I
workers, under Supt. Ted Gordon
completed a string of electric tights
about the Shelby court square and
each evening as dusk falls the
beautiful array of colored bulbs
give a pleasing Yulettde glow to
the stately square park.
Together with the community
Christmas tree on the ' northwesf
side of the square the lighted plot
makes, amid the shopping scctiorfe
one of the most beautiful nocturnal:
displays ever seen here.
Shelby Boy With
Hoover Writes Home
William P. Carter. son of Mr.
Mrs. J. P. Carter, of Shelby, who Is
a seaman on the battleship Mary
land, which is carrying President
elect Hoover on his Latin-Ameri
can tour, has written a letter to his
father telling of the trip.
The letter was w-ritten on the
ship December 3, and states that
the ship had just passed the equa
tor and the weather was cooling
down somewhat. According to
young Carter, he and others who
had been across the equator before
gave those going over the first
time a merry hazing. He had very
little to say about the distinguish
ed guest his ship is transporting,
but spoke of the speed of the ship
in touching the various countries
on the tour.
Many People Sick
Over Section. Now |
Billy Hord, young sou of Mr. and
Mrs. Julian Hord of Cliffside and
grandson of Mrs. W. N. Dorsey, is
ill with pneumonia at his parents’
home there. C. T. Hord, his older
brother, is also sick with influenza.
Mrs. R. B. McBrayer. of Monroe,
who is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Billy
Lowery at Patterson Springs after
visiting Mayor and Mrs. W. N. Dor
sey here, is seriously sick, it was
learned today. Mrs. Lowery is sick
with influenza.
Mrs. Ret Reinhardt is also ser
iously sick at her home here. She
has double pneumonia according to
reports.
Mrs. Hambright, Age
80 Is Buried Today
Respected Woman Of Shelby Passes
Away With Pneumonia. Bur
ial At Kings Mountain.
Mrs. Maggie Lee Hambright, age
80,died Sunday morning at 9:45
o'clock at her home on Suttle
street following an attack of in
fluenza from which she developed
pneumonia. Mrs. Hambright was
sick about two weeks. She was a
member of the First Baptist church
here and Dr. Zeno Wall, her pastor,
and Rev. H. E. Waldrop, her neigh
bor, conducted the funeral services
from the residence this morning at
10:30 o’clock. Her remains were
taken to Kings Mountain for in
terment.
Mrs. Hambright was a beautiful
Christian character, a devoted wife
and mother and a kindly neighbor.
Before marriage she was Maggie
Lee Dgjlinger of Cherryville.
Her husband and daughter, Mr.
C. P. Goforth are both right sick
and were unable to attend the fu
neral services today. Mrs. Ham
bright is survived by three sons,!
H. L., C. C.t D. D. Hambright. Mrs.
C. P. Goforth, Mrs. G. C. Pruett,
and Mrs. J. B. Hambright. Four
. sons preceded her to the grave.
Voting On School Election—
Shelby is today voting on the in
creased tax levy for the city school
district, and due to the inclement
weather the voting this morning
was mjt heavy.
Shortly after noon the registra
tion books showed that 530 people
had voted out of a total registration
of 1,643. Unless a heavier vote is
cast during the afternoon the
weather will have worked against
the passage of the measure As it
is a majority vote election those
who do not vote will count as votes
irrninst the rnernoiie. in pnss go?,
people must vote for the Increase.
At noon observers about the voting
booth were of the opinion that
during the forenoon more had vot
ed for the measure than against,
but to supporters the big problem
during the afternoon, they said,
would be to get the others out.
their opinion being that many of
those who had not voted were for
the measure but had remained in
during the, drizzle of the morning
hours. Apparently the afternoon
ballots will decide the fate of the
measure, end in the f> v | cheek tin
f>vtr*r»rn*> is pyKnoir'l jn ho o
M, s. Evelyn Hoyle Files Suit For
§50,000 As r.esult Of
Collapse.
Another damage suit in con
nection with Shelby’s building
disaster on August 28 was filed
in the Superior court clerk’s
office here Saturday.
In the complaint Mrs. Eve
lyn Hoyle, widow and adminis
trate of the estate of Alex
Ifoyle, young teller of the First
National bank who was killed
in the crash, asks damages to
talling $50,000.
The defendants named are
"John S. McKnight; Tom Webb
and Cicero Lutz, individually
and trading as Webb & Lutz;
and E. A. Kudasill.” Attorneys
for Mrs. Hoyle are Byhum E.
Weathers, of Shelby, and Con
gressman-elect Chas A, Jonas,
of Lincolnton.
Mrs. Lucinda Kerr
Passed On Saturda
Mother Of Tom Kerr, Star Athlete
Is Buried Sunday At Ellen
boro Church.
Mrs. Lucinda Kerr, age 63 years,
died Saturday fnorning to her home
on Broad street in South Shelby, 1
following an attack of influenza.
Mrs. Kerr's husband died some
twenty years ago. She was a ten- ■
der mother, whose affection was
wrapped in her children In the
neighborhood where she lived, she
was held in high esteem for her
many fine traits of character.
She was a member of the Me- ]
thodist church and the funeral i
was conducted from LaFayette
Street Methodist church Sunday ■
by Rev. T. B. Johnson, assisted by
Rev. Rush Padgett and Rev. Mr.
Lawman. Her remains were carried
to Ellenboro for interment.
Mrs. Kerr is survived by two
sons, Frank: Kerr and Tom Kerr,
the latter a star on the athletic
field of Shelby high school a few
years ago and now a State college
student, and two daughters, Mrs.
W. R. Crissom of Gainesville, Ga.
and Mrs. H. R. Barrett, of Shelby.
Shelby Captain May
Not Play In All Star
Game New Year’s
Lame Shoulder May Keep Gold
Out Of Mt. Airy Game
With Ridgers.
“Milky” Gold, captain of thw
Shelby High and an AlLStatc and
All-Southern football player, may
not play in the All-State High and
Oak Ridge game at Mt. Air}' on
New Year’s clay due to a lame
shoulder.
Mt. Airy folks will act as Hosts
for the game and will stage the
contest between the Charlotte Ob
server’s All-State eleven and the
Oak Ridge prep team. Gold, picked
on the eleven, has received a tele
gram asking him to play in the
contest, but due to the fact that
he is the main cog of the Shelby
High basketball quint and may in
jure his lame shoulder keeping
him out of the basketball schedule
it is likely that he will not per
form in the game
Last year Laymon Beam and Joe
Singleton, or the Shelby team, play
ed in the AP-State game at Lex
ington in which Oak Ridge defeat
ed the high school stars.
P. F. Grigg In Wreck
In Which One Died
Mr. Peter F. Grigg, of Shelby, was
driving one of the four cars which
turned over last Thursday between
Gastonia and Bessemer City, one
fatality resulting, it was learned
here today.
According to Grigg he was driv
ing along when suddenly his car
struck a slick place in the road
wheeled off and turned over. Just
a short time after he was taken
from under his car three other cars
struck the wet spot and hurtled
over, a passenger in one of the ears
dying later of injuries in a hospi
tal.
Special Bus Rates
For Gardner Trip
Mr. E. H. Grirfin, manager of the
Queen City bus line terminal here,
states that his firm will also co
operate in hauling Shelby and
Cleveland county people to and
from the inaugural ceremonies of
Governor-elect O. Max Gardner in
Rp'eigh. According to him passen
rers may make the round trip to
•' I..i >. m f,,r fit
Prince on Last Lap of Race
Here is Prince George, youngest sen of King George and Queen Mary of
England, going up gangplank of the Cunarder Berengavia in New York
after a race from Bermuda aboard, H. M. S. 'Burban. Ke will reach home
a few days ahead of his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, who is en route
to London from Capetown, South Africa.
Pass Funeral Bier Of President
Veteran Guide Has Seen Scores
(By ALLEXE SUMMER,)
NEA Service Writer.
Washington. — Rutherford B
Hayes, was president of the United
States when B. J, Cady got his
job as guide to show people through
the U. S. Capitol. That was 50
years ago. There were only three
guides then. They counted it a
good day when there were a dozen
people to show through the na
tion’s business house.
Today, aged 71. Captain B. J.
Cady does little actual guiding
himself. He merely acts as
"starter” for his 20 guides, seeing
that each gets his or her share of
the severed thousand people from
the four ends of the earth who
come to see, America's Capitol every
day.
And Captain Cady wouldn’t swap
jobs with anybody else on earth!
One learns a liveable, workable
philosophy from rubbing shoulders
with the great, he says.
He has learned that the truly
great are humble and human—
that the grouch and the critic and
the unapproachable one is not sure
of himself and shrouds his own in
feriority in a mantle of superiority.
"I’ve seen great men lying in
state on that little white star,” said
Captain Cady, pointing to the star j
in the exact center of the Capitol
where the dead presidents lie in
state.
"I've watched thousands of peo
ple streaming by with a tear for
such men as McKinley, Harding,
General Lagan, the Unknown Sol
dier, and it's made me feel that
greatness and humanness always
—Buy Booths On Installments—
Greensboro.—Keeping pace with'
other forms of merchandising, the
bootlegging business has adopted
the installment plan cm a wide |
basis, authorities here say.
A federal agent says that every
indicat in he has’ received in re
cent trcn.hs, p nits conrm ively to
the fact ti.a„ at hast .00 per cent
of the whisky which is. sold in
wholesale lots is being sold on tune
and is 'wing paid ter in instalments'
, oi't of the r .of: of th';' rc? iil dis
I Iribohon, Seme of ;iv whoh-vlon
1 • rr | * •'<’ pn {hf» r - , of
it is said, as a result of sales to un
trustworthy retailers who sign for
the goods but refuse to pay for
them.
Instalment buying of whiskey has
crept into the pint, quart and gal
lon trade also, it is said and hooze
is being delivered for $1 down and
$1 per week.
Suggestion has been heard tiiat
those, in the, business combine to
form a credit rating bureau, similar
to those established for other mer
chants, o that .a peer paying custo
mer v >U on the blacklist all
go hand in hand."
Twelve presidents have shaken
his hand since that day in 1878
when he got his job. and he's known
the coining thirteenth for a long
time.
“Hoover’s another human one,”
he says.
He has seen the dozen tourists
of Eft years ago swell into a thou
sand. He has seen muddy boots
and dusty coats of a dirt road,
horse-and-buggy era change to the
good grooming of an automobile
age.
"I've lived through a great pe
riod,” he says, "and few men h%ye
been able to see the change as I
have.
“I have watched people progress
.from ignorance and lack of infor
mation on public questions to a
keen, intelligent citizenry. The au
tomobile and radio and all the
speeding up of living have made
the change. ,
“Why, folks used to come here
who didn't know who the president
of the United States was. You
couldn’t blame them. They only
got their newspapers once a week,
and sometimes not then if it was
too muddy to get to the postoffice.”
“Not that they're any too smart
right now. Lots of them come
here wanting to be shown the pres
ident's suite of rooms or his pri
vate office in the Capitol. They
think everything’s here under one
roof, and feel cheated if some
thing’s left out.”
He thinks that women seem to
know a little more about the
Capitol than men do," and ask
<Continued on page ton *
LEE'S
Confederate Veterans And Widows
Get $21,152. 77 Veterans
Listed.
The State of North Carolina is
this week playing Santa Claus to
77 Confederate veterans and 122
widows of veterans in Cleveland
county, and in so doing is leaving a
sum of money totalling $21,152.50 in
the county.
The semi-annual pension check
for veterans and their widows ar
rived in the clerk’s office late Iasi
week and, as is the custom, arc
ready for distribution this week sc
that the tottering “boys in gray,
and the widows who survived those
who have answered taps may have
something with which to enjoy the
holiday season. The checks may
be had upon application to Clerk
A. M. Hamrick at the county court
house.
Seventy-seven checks of $182.50
are listed for the surviving veterans
of the county, a total of $14,052.50.
Ten widows are listed for $150
checks each, which is $1,500, and
112 widows are listed for $50 each,
which is $5,600.
In the list forwarded there may
lie some of the veterans who have A
died since the last checks were sent
out in June of this year.
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BURIED »?
Beloved Woman Succumbs At
Home Of Daughter, Mrs. Aher
nethy. Buried at Palm Tree.
Mrs. Martha Mode Baber, widow
of John Baber and known to hei
host of friends as "Mother" Baber,
died Saturday night at 10:15 o'clock
at the home of her daughter, Mrs
Will A. Abernethy on S. LaFayette
l street, with whom she had made
her home for 25 years. Mrs. Baber
had been critically ill and her ad
! vanced years caused her friends to
feel that she could not survive this
illness. She was born in Ruther
ford county April 29, 1851 and was
married in 1869.
Mrs. Baber was a saintly char
acter whose mother instinct em
braced not only her immediate
family, but her w’ide circle of
friends. In sickness and sorrow she
was tender and kind and will be
greatly missed. -
Mrs. Baber was the mother of
eleven children, three of whom
preceded her to the grave. The sur
viving children, ail of whom were
at the funeral Sunday are:
Mrs. Ed Laughridge, Mrs. W. A.
Abernethy, S. F. Baber, of Shelby;
R. A. Baber, Gastonia, Mrs. R. E.
Byrd, Batesburg, S. C., Dolly G.
Baber, Shelby, J. C. Baber, Gas
tonia, C. B. Baber, Gaffney, S. C.
Also surviving are 39 grandchil*
dren and 32 great grandchildren.
Out of town relatives at the fu
neral were: Mr. and Mrs. E. B.
Baber, Marion; C. N. Baber and
daughter, Morganton; Mrs. Lum
Pettit, Gaffney, S. C.; Mr. and Mrs.
Chess Bostic, Forest City, Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Baber and Mrs. Jennie
Baber, Gastonia.
I
EPIDEMIC OF FLU
HERE IS UNCHANGED
No Accurate Check On New Cases.
Many In Hospital
Now.
The influenza epidemic in and
about Shelby, which necessitated
the early closing of the city schools
for the holiday period, remains
about the same, according to phy
sicians. Since the closing of the
schools there has been no definite
method of checking up on new
cases, the final school report show
ing nearly 900 cases among school
children.
Several deaths have been report
ed in sections of this and adjoining
counties due to pneumonia setting
in after influenza, but no cases
have been reported in which death
was directly due to influenza. There
are quite a number of patients in
the Shelby hospital now suffering
from pneumonia or a relapse from
influenza.
With rainy or damp weather
during recent days being a factor
in the spread of the epidemic phy
sicians urge those recovering from
' influenza to be cautious about get
I ting wet. as the worst danger from
' the present epidemic to that oi
j pneumonia, tad the present weath