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For Supreme Bargains IN LADIES’ APPAREL COME TO THE McNeely Clearance Reductions from 25 to 50 per cent on the biggest clearance stock McNeely has ever offered. YOU HAVE A CHOICEC)F 400 GARMENTS. The confidence the public places in this big clearance sale was attested Saturday when the McNeely store did the largest one day’s business in its his tory. A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE I DRESSES ARE MARKED DOWN 1/2 PRICE MANY COATS ARE 1/2 PRICE MANY OF THE HATS ARE CUT BELOW 1/2 PRICE Hosiery substantially reduced; also Raincoats, Kid Gloves, Silk Under wear, Sweaters, Costume Jewelry, Leather Goods, Kimonos, Bath Robes, Estc* THE HUGE SALE IS NOW ON IN FULL SWING. COME, WHILE YOU CAN GET A CHOICE OF STOCK. J. C. McNEELY CO. Five and Ten Tears Ago The Following Items Were Gleaned From Issues Ol * The Cleveland Star Of Five And 10 Years Ago. FIVE YEARS AGO. December 28, 1923. State Senator Sam Lattimore, prominent Cleveland county farm er, was badly beaten up about one o’clock Wednesday morning on the national highway between Spar tanburg and Gaffney near the vil lage of Thlckety by five men said to have been Intoxicated. The as sault followed a collision between Lattimore's Bulck and a Ford tour ing car driven by the men. Charlie Black, young white man, who works ! for Senator Lattimore, was with him at the time and w-as also in jured during the fracas. The new year which begins at midnight Monday promises to be a banner year in the erection of business houses in Shelby. The town has witnessed remarkable | growth during the year which is closing, but the coming year will be one that may surpass any year in the town's history. The First Na tional bank has definitely decided to erect a bank building on the corner where the Miller block now stands. S. S. Royster and sons, Wythe and Ralph who bought the property where Chief B. O. Ham ; rick now lives, fronting 100 feet on S. LaFayette street, will develop this property sometime during the com ing year. D. E. Honeycutt proprie i tor of the Shelby Coca Cola Bot tling company will erect a brick building on his lot next to the Shelby Grocery Co. on West War ren street. A career oi eu years oi puduc me which began with a brilliant mili tary record in the War between the States was brought to an end with the death at 4:35 o’clock Monday morning in Raleigh of Major W. A. Graham, state commissioner of ag riculture. Ernest Kennedy, colored, is dead ; and "Doc" Williamson and his ne phew, Roosevelt Young, also color ed are under bond for his murder as a result of a holiday wrangle Saturday over domestic affairs at the home of Ike Williamson near I Hopewell church car the Fallston road. A very peculiar angle devel oped in the killing when William son gave himself up and admitted the deed only to have the coro ner's jury decide Young was the killer with the result that both ne groes were bound over to superior court. Clyde R. Hoey was unanimously chosen president of the Kiwanis club, Dr. Reuben McBrayer vice president-and J. C. Newton district trustee at the regular meeting Thursday night of last week. Max Gardner had served since the or ganization of the club and it was his sincere desire to retire and let some one else guide the organza tion through the next 12 months. Included among the twenty mem bers of. the State college football squad who were last week awarded the coveted monogram or stars was Randolph Logan, son of Sher iff and Mrs. Hugh Logan of Shelby. Mr. John T. Borders, who had been the efficient keeper of the county home for several years has moved to Earl with his family. Mr. Lawson Cabaniss who was elected keeper some time ago. moved to the county home this month to assume control. There w ere 38,547 bales of cotton ginned in Cleveland county prior to December 13th this year as com pared with 35,743 bales prior to the same date last year, according to statistics gathered by Miles H. Ware, special agent for the gov ernment. • l TEN YEARS AGO. December 31, 1918. The financial and industrial out look for Cleveland has never been brighter than with the dawning of 1919. Instead of falling behind in the production of cotton, the coun ty has gradually stepped ahead of its neighbors and in the class with the best cotton counties in North Carolina. The last ginners report showed 21,797 bales ginned this year and Lieut.-Gov. O. Max Gard ner who is himself a big fanner and interested in a number of cotton mills, says the crop this year will reach 24,000 bales, exceeding any I previous year. Cleveland will stand about sixth with the other coun-, ties of the state in the production' of cotton, her entire crop bringing, over four million dollars. Shelby friends will be interested to learn of the wedding of Miss tula Corbett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. \V. C. Corbet of Houston, Texas, and sister of Mrs. Jack Pal mer of this place, to Mr. Ogle L. Baker on Wednesday evening De cember 18 at the First Presbyter-1 ian church of Houston. While Miss Ella Harmon of Kings; Mountain was visiting her brother Mr. Jim Harmon two miles south of Shelby last week, she started to Shelby in a buggy with several children. The holding back strap; broke and the horse ran away with the result that Miss Harmon sus tained a broken jaw bone. Mrs. Fannie Packard, one of the most esteemed ladies of the Sharon community died suddenly Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lawton Blanton where she had gone cm a visit. Congressman E. Y. Webb after spending the holidays here with his family, returned Sunday night to Washington, D. C. Mr. D. F. McSwain, the popular salesman for P. B. McMurry and company, has resigned and wrent yesterday to the Belmont store in South Shelby where he and Mr. C. S. Caveny are associated together. Mr. Charlie Whisnant who oper ated the Oak Grove dairy has aban doned the delivery of bottled milk in town because he found that his loss of bottles was too great. Until springs opens he will patronize the local creamery with his cows, at which time he will begin the man ufacture of ice cream for local and out of town soda fountains. Mr. David Honeycutt moved last week into the home of Mi-. C. A. Washburn on North Morgan street, which he recently purchased. Mr, Washburn who owns the house formerly occupied by Mr. Honey cutt moved into that. The first snow of the season fell Saturday morning. It covered the ground to a depth of nearly an inch, but the sun came out about noon and melted it away except on ■ nortliside places. Mr. William W. Heavner of Shel ! by was instantly killed by an east I bound Seaboard passenger train | Thursday evening shortly after : dark at a grade crossing a mile this I side of Cherryville. Mr. Heavener I who with his wife came home from ! Portsmouth, Va.. last Monday night where he has been working in a j shipyard for the past six months, had just been on a visit to his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam H. Heav ner in Lincoln county and was re turning home alone in the car when the engine struck him. His body was badly mangled, the fatal blow being a concussion of the skull behind the right ear. Lattimore Batch Of News Double Wedding Reported (Special to The Star.) Lattimore. Dec. 30.—The wedding . Jjells, still ring around Lattimore. Three more weddings have taken place during the holiday season. Mr. George Blanton and Miss Allie Walker of Forest City were married in Gaffney, Dec. 19. Mrs. Blanton was lormealy of Kinston but had been making her home with relatives, in Forest City for some time. Mr. Blanton is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Blanton, Mr. and Mrs. Blanton are with the groom’s parents at present. Mr. Aubrey Green and Miss Bessie Hapaugh of Earl were mar ried in Gaffney. Saturday Dec. 22. Mr. and Mrs. Greene are making their home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Greene of Latti more. Mr. Henry Slierrcr and Miss Au gusta Head. both of Lattimore. were married in Chester, S. C. Sat urday. December 22. They are both popular young people and will make their home in Lattimore. Missouri Visitor. Mr. Thomas Magness of St. Jos eph. 111., spent the holidays with his mother. Mrs. Ella Magness. Miss Mozelle Yelton of Lawndale spent Thursday night with Miss j Wiloree Calton. Messrs. Leary and Howard Har f; rill have return'd to Raleigh after j spending several days with their mother, Mrs. R. M. Harnll. The many friends of Dr. D. T. Bridges are glad to know that he is improving at the Shelby hospi tal from injuries received in an automobile accident last Sunday. The enidemic of flu seems to be about over here, only a few cases have been reported lately. Mrs. T. C. Stockton has been confined to her bed for several days with tonsilitis. Miss Germaine Gold of Shelby spent several days of the past week with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Walker. Miss Grace Walker her cousin ac companied her home Friday to spend the week-end. Mr. Horace Brooks of Haschton, Ga., is visiting his brother, Mr. Er nest Brooks who has recently mov ed here from Georgia. Mr. C. C. Hawkins and bride of Jeffersonville, Ga., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hawkins. Misses Dorcas and Stella Walker of New House spent Thursday with Miss Acquilla Johnson. Mr. John Stanton and Mrs. Annie Brown of Deveraux, Ga., are visit ing Miss Kathleen Pound. Mr. Paris Weathers spent the holidays with his parents in the Union community. Mr. Bridges Improving, Mr. Chivious Bridges is improv ing from injuries received in an automobile accident n?ar Shelby on Christmas eve. He was ridim with his brother Mr. A. W. Bridges who died Wednesday in the Shelby hospital from Injuries received at the same time. Mrs. M. J. Stockton had the fol lowing young ladies as dinner guests on last Thursday. Misses Prances, Virginia and Mildred Mauney, Evangeline and Thelma McEntire of Union and Miss Margaret Stockton of Latti more, Mr. and Mrs. J. Z. Blanton spent several days of the past week in Lawndale visiting relatives.' Mr. and Mrs. John Rayburn of Lancaster, S. C. spent Christmas day with Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Ray burn. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Toms had as their dinner guests Friday night Mr. R. V. Toms and family of Shelby. Mr. and Mrs. Huber Gold, Mra. Georgia Gold, Miss Donnis Gold and Miss Biddie Bridges, of New House. Miss Ila Lovelace of Mooresboro spent the w’eek-end with Miss Euphra Ramsey. The many friends of Mr. B. H. Blanton sympathize with him in the death of his mother, Mrs. Hoyle Blanton, who died Christmas day. Mrs. Blanton was buried Wednes day at Sharon Methodist church. Prof. V. C. Taylor and family were dinner guests of Prof, and Mrs. Lav/ton Blanton Saturday. Miss Genevieve Blanton spent Thursday with Miss Aileene Crow der. Mrs. J. A. Bowers who has been sick some time is improving slowly. Prof. Bunyan Harrill of Glen wood and Mr. Hugh Harrill of Bostic are spending the holidays with their parents Rev. and Mrs. I. D. Harrill. Mr. Harlan Branton spent a few days of last week with his cousin Mr. Edward Branton of the Ross Grove community. Election Here Was Disaster, Paper Says Rutherford Co. News. The Cleveland Star comments editorially on Shelby’s disasters, the burning of the Central hotel, build ing crash last August and the re cent defeat of the school measure. The latter was a special election to increase the school tax enough to run the city schools nine months. The sad fact is, that out of a total registration of 1643 voters 568 did not vote, which counted against the movement, defeating it by thir ty votes. Indifference defeated the measure. Ordinarily one would think that in a progressive town like Shelby and a wealthy county like Cleveland that people would take enough interest in public af fairs to vote for* a modern school, thus keeping their schools on the accredited list. Shelby is in the limelight at present, as few towns in the country, it being the home of the next governor of this great state and the home of many noted lawyers, jurists, etc. Our observation has been that the majority of the people take lit tle interest in public matters. They are willing to criticise and object, but often unwilling to go into the matter and get the facts. They can get excited over a political election, but not over an election that. has much at stake, locally. The defeat of the school measure was indeed a disaster for Shelby should have as good schools as any municipality in the country. After It Got Its Victim. (From Catawba News-Enterprise! Indignation gatherings were fre quent yesterday morning by citi zens of Newton over the death of the young man caused by the mis erable bridge on No. 10 over the C. & N.-W. railroad. The hard surface has been completed long enough to have had 10 bridges built, but nothing has been done by highway officials toward a new bridge that we’ve ever heard of. The wonder is that many instead of one person has not been killed there. fry Star Job Printing ASSERTS LIU MID LEE RELATED Says Opposing Leaders In Great Struggle Had Same Ancestor. _ I New York.—Abraham Lincoln was a descendant of the famous Lee family of Virginia and was direct iy related to the man with whom he contested the fate of the na tion, General Robert E Lee. Lincoln was not as popular be lief would have him, the product of undistinguished progenitors. Though born in a log cabin, he was but two generations removed from the stately mansion of one of the proudest names in early American history. These statements, upsetting some of the most deep-seated of Ameri can traditions, are the result of careful research conducted by Dr, j William E. Barton, an able geneo logist and one of the best known authorities cn Lincoln. They are published for the first time in 1 Good Housekeeping magazine for January. Mr. Barton, who is, incidentally, the father of Bruce Barton and the author of five widely read works on Lincoln, traces the descent of both the president and the general in a direct line back to Col. Rich ard Lee, one of the earliest of American aristocrats. The Documentary Proof. “I am about to show for the first time,” he writes, "that Abraham Lincoln sprang from the family stock that gave to the south and the nation some of its greatest and most aristicratic names. There has been romancing enough. This is a plain and truthful tale.” To establish the "plain and truthful tale” Mr. Barton spent years examining documents in musty, forgotten files in old Vir ginia, whence the Lees and Lin colns came. Old marriage records of wills and property transfers were carefully conned and sifted for a period of years. And now the blood-relation of these two men, who were thought to have nothing in common but their hold on the love of their countrymen, is reveal ed. Col. Richard Lee. the Good Housekeeping article shows, came to America from England in 1642. He has a son, Richard Lee, through whom the descent passed in a di rect male line to the famous gen eral of the Confederate forces. But Col. Richard Lee had anoth er son. whose name is not recorded and that son was named William. This William Lee hnd many sons, and one of them was named Wil liam, also. This second William had a daughter, Ann, who married one uoseph Hanks, owner of es tates contigious to the Lee planta tion. Ann Lee Hanks was the great grandmother of Nancy Hanks, "who married Lincoln, June 12, 1806. and became cn Sunday, Feb ruary 12, 1809, the mother of Abra ham Lincoln. Lincoln Himself Didn’t Knew. It is not .' t'-angr that this infor mation should have remained hid den for two generations after the deaths of both of these men it con cerns since neither was himself aware of the blood ties that bound him to his respected enemy, says Dr. Barton. "Abraham Lincoln declared him self to have descended from two of what he called ‘second’ or undis tinguished’ families of Virginia. Of his ancestry on the Hanks side he possessed little knowledge and was disinclined to discuss it. He probab ly did not keep from what country his mother’s people came.” But the Hanks ancestry, of which Lincoln knew so little and appar ently cared less, was one of the proudest lineages in America, even apart from its connection with the Lees. It goes back to Thomas Hanks, a Cromwell adherent, who fled England in 1643 and settled in Vir ginia on the land adjoining that of Col. Lee an ardent supporter of Charles I. "The loyalist ancestor of Robert E. Lee and the rebel ances tor of Abraham Lincoln were next plantation neighbors in Gloucester county.” Were They Mayflower Stock? The Goodhousekeeping author draws another conclusion of large historical interest from his Lin coln-Lee researches. "We think,” he says, "of the puri tans of New England as far remov ed from the Cavaliers of Virginia; but how many of us know that not a few of those same Puritans went South and mingled their blood with that of the first families of Virginia. Perhaps, if we' knew all the maternal fines, we should find that both Robert E Lee and Abra ham Lincoln were Mayflower des cendants.” For 1 e demonstrates. “Col. Isaa Allerton of Plymouth, whose father was Isaac Alle-ton of the May flower, moved south and made hi* home among the Lees. His daughter Sarah Allerton, became the second wife of Colonel Richard Lee's soo Hancoctc. ’ It was from Col. Richard Lee that both Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee were descended. rr Announcement We are pleased to announce to our patrons and friends that Mr. C. P. Car son is back with us as Service Manager, taking up his duties this morning. Mr. Carson will be pleasantly re membered by our customers as the ef ficient manager of our Service Depart ment in the past, and he will give the same efficient attention to this branch of our business as he formerly did. We invite your patronage. Don’t forget the New Dodge will be on display shortly. It will be the su premest of the Dodges. Look forward to seeing it. Litton Motor Co. TOOLS! cA i Home Use 1 .liijnii START 1929 OFF RIGHT BY BUYING HARDWARE FROM CLEVELAND Hardware Co. WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. WE THANK YOU. TRY STAR WANT ADS FOR RESULTS CLOSED! OUR STORE WILL BE CLOSED TWO DAYS - WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY WATCH WEDNESDAY’S PAPER For Full Particulars THE PARAGON DEPT. STORE SHELBY, N. C.
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