10 PAGES TODAY i, 15)29. Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons ny mn11. per year (In advance) $2.50 Carrier, per year on advance) $3 00 ' LATE NEWS The Market-*. Cotton, Shelby . _.19' a- | Cotton Seed,‘per hu.__tni^c Rain Then Fair. Today's North Carolina Weather Report: Rain this afternoon follow ed by generally fair and roldcr weather tonight and Saturday. No Volunteers. Not a single citizen appeared be fore the recorder's court here Thursday afternoon to give any in formation concerning violation of the prohibition laws although offi cials of the county court extended an invitation for citizens who pos sessed such information to come in and tell the court as an aftermath of Wednesday's court of inquiry. DETECTIVE HELD ON SAME CHARGE - ITeferred Rad Check Charge Against Lady Then Wrote One Himself. D. B. Boyles, termed a detective ! and said to hail from Greensboro, i no doubt realizes by mow that a bad check is a bad check even if tendered by a detective. Tuesday Detective Boyles came to Shelby to testify in a case against Mrs. Clara Davis Sherrill, a register ed nurse, the charge* of a worth less check being preferred against her by Boyles. After hearing the evidence Recorder Horace Kennedy acquitted Mrs. Sherrill. That was Tuesday, and when the trial was over Detective Boyles started to check out of Hotel Vic tor, where he had been staying. In settling up with the proprietor. George Johnson, Boyles tendered a $41 check, but, before lie got out of town Mr. Johnson got in touch witlt^,officers and had Boyles ar rested. Wednesday before Squire Syl vanus Gardner the detective was ordered to pay the $11 check and the costs or take a road sentence, being remanded to jail until Thurs day when the money was produced. The Greensboro bank upon which the check was written declared that the Writer of the check was unknown to them and had no account in the j,bank. Squire Gardner • was in formed. Road Terms Given Boys From Gaffney Tried To Sell Deputy Hamrick Bocze, Then Ran. Caught With Cadillac. Last Wednesday afternoon Dep uty Kester Hamrick noticed a fruit jar in a Cadillac auto in the Boil ing Springs section and asked what it contained. “Liquor,” replied one of the three young fellows at the car. Whereupon they, entered nego tiations. it is said, with the view of selling some to the officer, whom they did not know. Finally Mi Hamrick told them he would not take the whiskey but would take them, and immediately they piled in the Cadillac auto and attempted to escape. Two of the trio were cap tured. but the third said to be the .owner of the car made his getaway. In county court here today the two captured. Roy Maynard and a young man by the name of Spencer, “came clean,” to use a court term and related the whole aifair. May nard was given a four months road sentence anjl Spencer was given six months. Both appealed and May nard's bond was. set at $250 and Spencer's at $500> Both men, court officials learned have been charg ed with a connection with rum running tiiflic in South Carolina before. They are said to be from Gaffney, and in addition to the sentences Judge Kennedy ordered the car confiscated and sold. ‘If ON PRESCRIPTION MEANS OR. IS PRAYING Goldsboro.—“The practice of med icine' dates back 7.000 years," Dr. A. G. Woodard told the. Kiwanis duly at their last meeting. "At one time’’ he said, “a man who was classed as a physician was auto matically an elder in the church. The mysterious “R” with a cross over the lower part of it ••appear ing on the upper left hand corner of prescriptions, signifies that, the physician remembers his patient in his prayers." These “Birdies” Easy. San Francisco.—Golfers on the Harding park links here find it easy on winter mornings to make a •birdie." Flocks of sea gulls, mud hens and even stray wild ducks alight on the greens and golfers wilh long range drives frequently ■.hoot a ball into the birds. Masonic Meeting. Cleveland lodge 202 A. F. & A. M kill ho'd its regular monthly cota nunicatiev tonight at 7:30. FEES III COUNTY COURT HEBE RM December Of 1928 Saw Rigifcist Business In Recorder's Court. January Low. The fees in the Cleveland county recorder's court last year totalled $7,986.45, according to the records in the office of the county treas urer. Of this amount $5,183 50 was soli citor's fees, while the remainder $2,802.95, was the recorder's fees. The recorder is paid a fixed salary of $2,000 per year, with $802 95 of hislecs'going into the county trcas i ury after his salary is paid. Since a bill has been introduced in legislature by Representative Mull by which the solicitor of the county court here would be placed bn a salary basis instead of being paid by fees many citizens have in quired about the amount of the court fees each year. The solicitor it is understood gets $3.50 for each con victim, which, according to the records in the treasurer’s office, to talled the $5,183.50 in 1928. A re corder's fee of $1 60 for every case is charged with the fee being $2.60 when the warrant is issued by the recorder, the total of these fees be ing $2,802.95 in 1928. Christmas Month. December, the holiday celebra tion month; was the biggest month in the court during 1928, the re corder's fees for the month being listed at $313.75 and th° solicitor’s fees at $675.50. January was the dullest month of the year for the court, the recorder's fees for the month totalling $14870 and the solicitor's fees $241.50. October was the second month with November ranking third. Attorneys Think Court Solicitor Should Remaia On A Fee Basis. If anything at all needs to be done about the salary of the soli citor of recorder’s court here, the amount of the fees should be cut rather than place the solicitor on a salary basis, according to one or two barristers who have comment ed upon the proposed change. “The solicitor should not go on a salary basis as better prosecution service is assured on the fee basis,’’ •they say. Those holding this view think that the $3.50 solicitor’s fee for each conviction in the county court might be cut to $2, $2.50, or $3 with better results than placing a fixed salary on the office. Thereby it is argued court costs would be lessen ed for those who have to pay the costs, while if the solicitor was placed on a salary basis and the fees not changed would make the court costs no lighter for defend ants although it would probably meao^more fees would go into the general county fund. Citizens May Send Petitions To Mull Since a committee hearing is likely in the legislature at Raleigh upon the proposed change in the method of paying the county solici tor here, The Star understands that citizens who desire to support or op pose the measure may forward peti tions to the county representative who will present them at the hear ing. Masonic Services At Hamrick Burial Funeral services for Mr. Burwell H. Hamrick were held there Thurs day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Masonic honors and Rev. Mr. Jen kins and Rev. Mr. Green officiated Mr. Hamrick, who was 52 years of age, died at his home in the Boiling Springs community Wed nesday morning. He was never married, and a brother and sister survive. Medicine Whiskey Bill Goes Down Raleigh.—The senate held a short session Wednesday in which seven bills were introduced, and several committee reports were made in cluding an unfavorable report on the bill of Senator W. M Person to allow druggists to sell whiskey un der a physician’s prescription. Hearing Asked On Solicitor's Bill In Assembly The mutter of p’acing the solicitor of recorders court here u|»on a tirxd salary in stead of the present fee basis 1 will he fought out before a legislative committee in I!a leigh next Thursday • This was learned this morning when a telegram from Raleigh informed that Me 5’is 1*. Gardner and Peyton McSwain had re quested a committee hearing on the salary bill introduced by Representative Odux M Mull. The hearing, the mes sage added, was set for Thurs day of next week. Whether or not those sup porting the change will ap pear at the committee hear ing could not be learned to day. Sunday Schools To Meet At Kings Mi. Kings Mountain, Jan. 25. -There will be an association-wide Sunday school conference at the First Bap tist church here Sunday afternoon and, evening to which all Sunday school workers, pastors, and inter mediate pupils in the Kings Merun- ' tain association are cordially invit ed. The conference is under the special supervision of G. G. Page, associational superintendent, and it will displace the regular group meetings for the day also the reg ular monthly meeting slated for the first Sunday in February. This is a special conference pro vided for by the Baptist Sunday school board at Nashville, Tenn . cooperating with state Sunday school secretary, Perry Morgan, of Raleigh, and the local associational organization, MisiNMary Alice Biby, associate secretary of the intermed iate department o\the Sunday school board, and Mrs. C. R, Pit tard, approved intermediate worker for North Carolina, and Ben Favel of Charlotte, another approved in termedite worker, will be the spe cial speakers for the occasion. The conference will open at 3:00 : p. m. with devotionals conducted by Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First BapMst church of Shelby. At 3:15 the niti rmediute boys and girls will have a conference led by Mr. Favel and the adults will have another conference led by Miss Biby and Mrs. Pittard. The after noon session will adjourn at 4:30. The evening session will open at seven o’clock with devotionals by Ben Favel of Charlotte. Miss Biby and Mrs. Pittard will address the conferen ’ at this horn. Dr. Harrill Gets Books For Library Within the last few days Dr. C. H. Harrill, lccal dentist, lias secur ed 107 volumes for the Boiling Springs library through personal efforts. One hundred oi the books were tendered through Dr. Harrill by Baptists and others of Lincqlnton* while Mr. Eph Whisenhunt, of the First Baptist church at Elkin, for warded seven volumes. P. E. Grigg Is Dead, Burial On Saturday Mr. P. E. Grigg. fifty-six, an em ployee of the Cleveland Cloth mill, who lived on Linebergcr street, this city, died this morning. Mr. Grigg is survived by nine children, also three brothers and three sisters.’ — Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock, interment to be made at Beaver Dam church. Rev. Rush Padgett will officiate at the burial service, Mr. C.ngg is mourned by many friends. NEW ELECTRIC FIRM ORGANIZED IN TOWN Messrs. H, W. Harmon and W. W. Moss, both broadly known herebouts, have formed a partner ship under the firm name of Har mon and Moss to do a general elec trical business. both contracting and repair (work. Both men have bropd experience in electrical work, and it is antioipntcd they will do well. They making headquar ters in a basement shop under the Chocolate shop. The Question Mark made its mark all right, but there is no longer any question about it.—San* Diego Union. Inventor has perfected a gas-en gine which needs nothing but water ier lubrication. We own stock in an oil well that can kee > this engine tell greased.—Arka'ieas Gazette. Figures in Coast Divorce Tangle v e* • « • * » * • • • « Hlandte Sweet (left), movie star, has parked tip Iter bag and left hubby, Marshall Neiian (right), hlru director, as a result of learn ing that tie figured in role of co-respondent. in Jim 'fully'$ divorce suit. In the-critter is Mis. Margaret fully, whom writer accuses ot being too. 11 icnclly with -Neiian. Will Bonds Be Voted To Pay School Deficit, Hamrick Says j t ermer Alderman l)lMO'St>i Sey-.j era! ( ily Problems New City Hall, Mayor's 1’av. Since the school tax levy in crease w s defeated how will the deficit of the city .school .system be paid? ‘ T. W Jlamriek. former alderman and local buxine's bun, Is of the | opinion that a bond is.yie will be j the host plan. e In a letter to The Star Mr. Ham rick discusses numerous matters ol J interest, including the proposed new city hall, the mayoralty con- i test, changing the city charter, the ! Mayor's salary and who should set it, and other topics of public Im port. The letter follows: Editor Cleveland &iar The “Around Our Town" column wants to know, ns v. .1 as several other people, just where “we are going” since the school audit has been published. I'm thinking that we arc “go-tne" to have to pay that deficit, and about the best way, to my mind, is to vote bonds the next election to cover it, and start the next board out with a clean slate. What do you think ■about ft? *' No City Hall Now. One man asked me recently why I was advocating a new city hall? Some mistake somewhere. I didn't favor building a new' city hall at the present time. Merely wanted the town to look ahead and be pre pared for it .when the time arriv ed. You, nor I, may rot benefit from a little foresight, but our children will. No "Hire And Fire." The mayoralty contest, il say contest, because, from the street talk, there will be several In the race) promises to furnish just as much interest for the people as us ual. However, I’m hoping it wont be a “hire and fire” affair. There may be times when such an issue is justifiable, but it isn’t always! good for a town to make that an issue every election. Still, there is th