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r 12 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV, No. 20 THE CLEVELAND STAR SHELBY, N. C. FRIDAY. FEB. 15, 1920* Pul )li .Monday, Wednesday, ami Friday Afternoons n.v mnlt, per year On advance) $2.80 farrier, per year (tn advance) $3.00 LA TE NEWS The Markets. Cotton. Shelby __... 19(4c Cotton Seed, bii. 70).jc (tain Saturday. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Rain tonight and Satur day. Rising temperature. Coddlngton's Million. The will of the late C. C. Cod dington, prominent auto distribu tor, filed yesterday in Charlotte 1 leaves property valued at $1,050,000, with an annual rental of about $75,000, to his three sons, 14, 13 and | 12 years of age respeetlvely. Much Interest Over Monazite Meeting Here Neighboring Counties To Have Delegations Here This Saturday. From the interest being shown by neighboring counties ever this section the meeting here Saturday in the interest of reviving the monazite industry in North and South Carolina should be largely attended. Mr. F. B. Hamrick, of Boiling Springs, who is chairman of the fight to restore monazite mining by placing a duty on foreign monazite, this week has visited several nearby towns and counties urging business men and leaders to attend the meeting, at which definite plans will be made for presenting a plea before the ways and means com mittee for a monazite tariff. This rommittee adjourns its tariff ses sions the first of next month and delegations must appear before the committee prior to that time if aid is to be hoped for by the next con gress. . _ Since the meeting here last "Sat urday newspapers and service clubs in Cherokee, Rutherford, Burke, Lincoln and other counties have supported the movement, urging their citizen to attend the meeting this Saturday. First National In New Banking Home New Building: One Of Best Equip ped Bank Quarters In The Section. The First National bank back “on the comer’’ yesterday did not stage a formal opening of the new bank home, but throughout the day bank officials and employees were constantly entertaining and show ing about visitors who called to in spect the building and to congratu late the institution. The main floor of the building is very conveniently arranged, and furnished and equipped entirely new. First on the right entrance of the spacious lobby comes the of fices of the president and acting vice-president, Chas. C. and George Blanton. Then begins the series of teller's counters with the window of the note teller and assistant cashier, Clarence S. Mull, coming first. At the end of the series of tellers’ counters on the right is the counter and desk of Roy Sisk, who, as assistant cashier, handles the collections window. Opening the offices and tellers’ windows on the left is the desk of the cashier, Forrest Eskridge, fol lowed by the main teller's counter and other tellers back to the sav ings window. The remainder of the main floor space is taken up with the accounting and bookkeeping de partments, while on each side of the main floor at the rear is a new vault. A stairway leading to the semi-basement floor at the rear connects with the general clerical department, the newly established directors’ rooms, and baths, cloak rooms and other conveniences for bank employees. Officers Land H?m In A Double Haul Trank Sadler, colored, got a dou ble dose of the law Saturday, which resulted today in his receiving a heavy fine in county court. Last Saturday evening Policeman Ed Dixon chased Sadler about the alleys of the uptown business sec tion and took four pints of whiskey from him at the end of the chase. About the same hour Officers Mike Austell, Harvey Harrelson. Bob Kendrick, and Buren Dedmon searched Sadler's home in the Flatrock section and found around three gallons of booze hid under the house. ' Judge Horace Kennedy today fined Sadler $350 and the costs and upon payment of which he must leave the county, and. if the fine is not paid must take a two year term on the roads. Messrs Norman Harris and Boyce Wakefield were Charlotte visitors Thursday night Mr. and Mrs. Lee B. Weathers are ■pending t^jlay in Charlotte. Chemist Asks ForEmbalming Fluid In Case Slat* Chemist Testing Cor Poison In Mrs. King. Needs Em balming Fluid. York, Feb. 14—Request for a specimen of the embalming fluid used by the undertaker in embalm ing the body of Mrs. Faye King, Sharon school teacher, found dead . in an out-house January 24, was received tonight by Coroner Paul1 G. McCorkle from Prof. R. N. ' Brackett, chief chemist oi Clemson college, who is analyzing the stom-1 ach of the dead woman to deter minte if traces of poison can be found. Professor Brackett said It would be helpful if he were sent eight ounces of the embalming fluid. I Upon receipts of a letter from the chemist Coroner McCorkle tele phoned H. T. Fulton, undertaker of Kings Mountain, who prepared the body for burial, and requested him to send the fluid to Professor Brackett. Sends Specimens. Mr. Fulton advised Coroner Mc Corkle that he used two pounds on this body, one for arterial and the other for the abdominal cavities. He said he would send specimens of both fluid and the formula to Clemson college tomorrow. In his letter to Coroner McCorkle Professor Brackett gave no indica tion when the analysis would be complete. Shelby Is Fourth In High Graduates Fifty-Eight Percent Entering Eighth Grade Finish High School Here. j In group two, made up of 10 North Carolina high schools, the Shelby schools ranks first in grad uating the majority of the pupils who enter the eighth grade of the school, according to the last issue of School Facts. One hundred and thirteen stu dents entered the eighth grade of the high school here apd in 1927-28, 66 students, or 58.4 percertt of the eighth grade enrollment, graduat ed. V The school ranking next was Fayetteville which graduated 47.7 percent of the class which entered the eighth grade in 1924-25. Salis bury, Henderson and Wilson came next In order. The local school ranked fourth in attendance based upon enrollment, 82.7 percent of the 568 high school enrollment be ing in regular attendance. For 1927-28 the enrollment in grades for the Shelby school was: eighth, 185; ninth, 127; tenth, 123; eleventh, 133. In County Schools. In the rural high schools of Cleveland county 115 of the 217 students, who entered in the eighth grade in 1924-25, were graduated in J827-28, which was 53 percent. Eighty-one percent of the rural' high school enrollment for 1927-28 was in regular attendance. The average percent of the eighth grade enrollment for the, state which graduated in 1927-28 for group two, Shelby's group, was' 40.1 percent, or 17.3 percent less! than the Shelby average The state average for rural schools was 47.7 percent, or 5.3 pereent less than the Cleveland county average. Fair Stockholders Gather Here Monday The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cleveland coun ty fair association will be held in the court house here Monday, Feb ruary 18, at 11 o'clock in the morn ing, according to announcements sent out today by Dr. J. S. Dorton, secretary and treasurer of the as sociation. The gathering will elect new directors and attend to other fair business that may come up. Will Not Run Paul Webb, Shelby business -.an and former mayor, an ounced today, t,hat due to his many business interests, he had decided he would riot e a cand date for mayor in the May city election. “Many, many citizens, men and wom en, all sections of, the town have urged me to be a candi date, and it certainly makes a fellow feel good to krow that he has so many friends and to be assured such fine sup ort. In some ways I feel as if I would like to follow their wishes, but Shelby is growing and necessitates more and more time of the mayor, and I’m afraid that it would not he fair to my private business interests now to take the of-s fice, if I should be elected, end, therefore, I have decided not to run.” Mr. Webb’s rather definite announcement caused the po Utical dopeslers to shift to Mr. R. E. Carpenter and for mer Jud"e John P. Mull as the most likely rivals of Mayor Dorsey*. Shelby School Band Praised Forty Young Musicians Under Sinclair Being Booked Over Section. The Shelby high school concert band, trained by Prof. W. T. Sin clair and rated as one of the best scholastic musical organizations in North Carolina, seems this year to be attracting the attention of the home folks more than ever before. In addition to their local concerts the young musicians have already this year given a program at the Piedmont high school and tonight are appearing in a concert at Boil ing Springs college. Other bookings just ahead include an appearance at Kings Mountain, and a dinner concert at the formal opening of the new Hotel Charles. At present approximately forty pieces perform in the band and praise coming in from recent per formances has it that the young sters will rate with most any pro fessional band in the section. If arrangement" are completed for a Shelby hour each week over radio station WBT at Charlotte it may be that the band will broadcast there some night within the next few weeks. , “ Road Meet On. All the highway commissioners of Cleveland county are meeting this, afternoon at the court house dis cussing the new highway bill dhd the proposed chain gang abolish ing here. Lindy’s Girl, Anne, Gets Famous Overnight-Shy, Dodges Publicity Mexico City.—Announcement of the approaching marriage between Miss Anne Morrow and Col. Charles A Lindbergh brought a deluge cf congratulatory messages addressed to Ambassador Morrow’s 22-year old daughter from all parts of the world. Miss Morrow, blushingly unaccus tomed to such a dizzy height of in ternational fame, spent mest of the 'ay noting the signatures of her well-wishers. These included former 'chool friends, relatives, friends ol her family and a distinguished list of men and women known in world I affairs. Some messages were re ceived even from persons whom Miss | Morrow did net know and whose chief reason for sending the mes sages wr s their interest in Colonel Lindbergh and his romantic digress ion from aviation. Ambassador Morrow, despite his prominence, probably never before has been subjected to such an aval anche cf messages, addressed to him as well rs to his happy daughter. Miss Morrow spent the busiest day of her life but nightfall found her still beaming and surroundeu by token of her new fame. Attendance At Local Schools, Roll Of Hone . Over 3,000 Now Enrolled. Seven:; Four Make Fifth Month Honor Roll. Of the 2,536 students in regut attendance in the Shelby c; schools during the fifth month, made the honor roll and 122 fall The attendance School En. Marlon 310 Washington 197 Graham 278 Lafayette 306 ! Jefferson 380 Morgan 529 High School 518 , Col. School 500 figures follow: Av. At. U. R. F. 277 20 19 173 18 2 217 15 8 217 3 4 289 10 0 435 No. R'pt. 8 424 No. R'pt. 79 404 8 2 3024 2536 74 122 The Honor Roll. Marlon schhool: Fourth grade— Elizabeth Harris, Germaine Oold, Jaunita Isler, Louise Lybrand. Jane Washburn, Inez Roop, Harry Robinson, Roy Bridges. I Fifth grade — Agnes Borders, ' Constance Dellinger. Helen Sue ! Kendrick, Marie King. Will Arey. Walter Fanning, James Kendrick. Sixth grade—Esther Ann Quinn, Sarah White. Seventh grade—Ruth Forbis. Dick LeGrande, Jack McWhirter. Washington School. Fourth grade—Earle Hamrick, Richard Jones, Annabeth Jones, Marjorie Lutz. Catherine Wellman, Pautha Weathers. Fifth grade—Keith Shull. Marg arett Hamrick, Alphonsine Harris, Louise Ramsaur. Sixth grade—Viva Armour, Cath erine McMurry, Helen Jean Jor dan, Millicent Brackett, Jack Hu lick. Seventh grade — Colbert Mc Knlght, Cornelia Sparks, Lucille Whisnant. Graham School. Fourth grade—N. C. Blanton, Helen Carrlck. Fifth grade—Elizabeth Dodd, An na Lutz, Sallie Mulllnax, Sarah Reid Thompson, Lamar Young, i Wm. Carson. Sixth grade—Edna Earle Grigg. Mary Lewis Wilson, Margaret Thompson, Virginia Mlntz. Seventh grade — Jean Moore Thompson, Isabel Lackey. LaFayette School. Tdurth grade—Mary Davis, Mary Eleven Gardner, Clyde Gardner. Fourth grade — Riley Taylor, Loetta Bragg, Annie Dayberry, Katie Lou Ensley, Ruth Newton, Pauline Smith, Evelyn Teele, Ruby Taylor. Seventh grade—Griffin Holland, John Fair. VTarry Wolpa Sings To Kiwanians Here Harry Wolpa,. formerly a singer in the grand opera, was the head liner last night at the Shelby Ki wanis club at Cleveland Springs hotel when the music committee had charge of the program. He has an exceptionally fine high tenor voice and delighted the audi ence with a number of popular sel ections, receiving a number of calls for encores to which he gracefully responded. The progranj was in the nature of a minstrel with Horace Easom as Interlocutor and Josh Lattlmore, end man. C. A. Burros, Wm. McCord and Rush Hamrick assisted in the program. Next Thursday night the club will be served by the home econo mics department at the high school building where the band will fur nish music. Vitaphone Coming To Shelby Theatre, Mr. Webb Announces /According to an announce ment made Thursday by Claude Webb, proprietor of the Webb theatre, Shelby Is to step up and take Its place with the foremost cities of the country in theatre entertainment. Which is preliminary to the statement that Mr. Webb has bought a Vitaphone for his showhouse. The contract for the new instrument was sealed, signed and delivered in Char lotte Wednesday. It will he in stalled the first week in April. Mr. Webb said not only is it the most modern Instrument of its kind known, equal to those in the larger cities, which will af ford vast entertainment in it self, but another advantage is, it will enable him to play the very latest Vitaphone pictures. Famous “WE” Takes on a Co-Pilot Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, shortly »fter arrival of his wife and daughter at Mexico City, announced the engagement-of his daughter, Ann* Spencer, left, to Colonel ^Charles Lindbergh, the idol of most girl®. Ac cording to friends Anne Morrow will make an ideal Mrs. Charier. A. Lindbergh, being a good student, popular and of a retirintr disoosition. iA«i«rnAtiov*i zstwartti) Secret Ballot Passes Sanate Gardner Australian Ballot Now Be fore House. Two Atnend meats Made. Rajfigh, Feb. 14.—The Australian ballot measure, providing lor secret voting In North Carolina elections, was passed on third reading by the senate today. The vote was not by roll call. The bill now goes to the house for consideration. Two amendments were injected into the bill today in addition to those added, Tuesday and Wednes day after the the bill had bepn drawn as a sub-measure by th* committee on election laws for the one introduced by Senators Johnson and Broughton. Separate ballots will be printed for candidates for senate and con gress, and for state offices, under one of the amendments adopted to day, submitted by Senator Whcd bee of Perquimans county, a Dem ocrat. Originally the bill provided for but five type of ballots. In supporting the Whedbee pro posal, Senator Lawrence, Demo crat, of Hartford, said that he would not state the reason for the separation of the state candidates from the congressional and sena torial candidates, but that the senators should be able to read be tween the lines.” One senator said that the rea son for thd amendment was that if Senator F. M. Simmons should run for the senate again, his name would not appear on the ballot with state and congressional can didates. The other amcnament provides for alternation in the order of can didates appearing on the primary ballots. It was pirr.ented by Worn ble. Democrat, oi Forsyth, who said that if the candidates’ names ap peared alphabetically, the first candidate would receive an advan tage Western Union Is Open Hour Longer The local Western Union tele graph office here is to remain open hereafter until 10 o'clock at night, it was announced today by Mana ger R. E. Biackwelder. Heretofore the office opened at 7:30 in the morning and closed at 9 in the evening, but the extra hour was decided upon to take care of in creasing night letters and wires from Shelby radio fans to their broadcasting stations. Another improvement underway at the office is the installs m of head receiving sets for telephone messenges, which within a sT.ort time will be copied by typewriter instead of pencil as is now being done. Negro In Jail Here May Rival Bluebeard Wives Wad* Fullenwider. 55-yrar old negro man, held in Jail hrre In connection with the fatal burning nf his wifr. Cora Fullenwider, a week ago, may turn out to br a Blue beard, or a nrar Bluebeard. fora, the wife who died from her burns a wrek ba<'k, was his eighth wife, the aged colored mail told court offi cials. Questioned further about lUs numerous wives. Fullenwider said that four of the eight were dead and four divorerd. He denied that he had been accused of making away with any of the others, a suspic ion that came up after a preliminary investigation re vealed that his eighth wife died from burns received while a family row was in progres. s The muchly married negro had only been married to his last wife a few weeks when she was burned, having been married during the Christmas season. Fullenwider is now In the county jail In default of a $2,000 bond to superior court in connection with the death of the eighth wife. That's The Question. Kindly Old Lady—And whose lit tle boy are you? Uurchin—So you've been wonder ing, too!—Life. Shelby Cagers In State Race Meet Stanley Btsketcdrs Here To night tn First Game. Defeat l.nUlmnpe Team. Tlie Shelby high cagers undergo their big test in the 'tin can” here tonight, when in their first game of the state title race the locals face Stanley, fieri: Gaston county quint and one of- the strongest outfits In the state. The sport dopesters rate Forest City, Stanley and Shelby as the strongest teams ui group seven, while Stanley and Forest, City are considered among the leading con tenders for the western crown. Stanley's reputation came from a win over the strong Gastonia quint, and the local lads coached by Mor ris and Falls will have to exhibit their best form of the year tonight, or go out of the race tn the first game. Ne:;t Tuesday night the winner ol the Stanley-Shelby game here tonight will meet the winner of the Fallston-Claremont gome, the con test to be staged in the Shelby high “tin can." Best Form Yet. Playing here Wednesday night Capt. Gold and his teammates dis played the best shooting game of the year and defeated the flashy L,attimore outfit, tutored by Coach Hood, by a 19-11 score. If the youngsters maintain the form shown Wednesday night the local coaches are hopeful for their chances in the state race. Rural Church In Danger Of Extinction, Branson Thinks Atlanta.—The rural church was declared to be in danger of extinc tion unless a trained rural clergy were alerted to the menace con fronting four-fifths of the nation’s church membership and sent out to help solve this ‘major chiuch problem.” Addressing the social service con ference sponsored by the womans missionary council of the Method ist Episcopal church, south. Dr. E. C. Branson, head of the depart ment of rural economics, Univer sity of North Carolina. said the country church "too long has been a viatini of tightfisted religion.” "The country church,' he said, "is not a home mission problem: four-fifths of the whole member ship Is in rural communities, and the country church is therefore the major church problem of the south. Too long has the country church been neglected by the church papers; been the victim of a tight-fisted religion, and receiv ed Its pastors untrained, underpaid. part time men ~-v He declared the country churcn i.n the south to be in three dis tinct phases. In densely populated, intelligent, home owning • centers, he said the church was growing; in over-churched areas ol static pop ulation and oncc-a-mojith preach ing, it was marking time, and in areas of excessive tenancy, illiter acy and decreasing farm popula tion, "the country church is either dying or dead Trained Clergy. • There is need of a trained rural clergy,” he concluded, "to do Its bit in developing, and preserving in the open country a race of men which will be the stay and strength of the nation. "Churcn authorities must realize, as must country communities, that the country church is in danger; must increase the number of home owning fanners; pay better salaries lor country preachers and teachers, and increase m country wealth and willingness." Switchboard Is Enlarged Here At Local Plant Oivp Section Installed Aftowinr For 300 Additional Drop*. Instruc tor Here. Workmen for the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company which owns and operates the local telephone exchange, have finished installing a section to the switch board which allows for 300 addi tional drops. While this work was underway, the service in the of fice was somewhat hartdtcaped but Manager Sant Gault says the service in the future will be greatly Improved as there is no inside in terference because of work going on and Miss Spencer, an expert from the Charlotte office, la here in structing the local girls In the oper ation of the board. The local system now has 1,160 telephone station*, says Mr. GauU r.nd workmen are now engaged in installing sixty-six stations In the new Hotel Charles which will be opened the latter part of this month. This will give the local sta tion more than 1,300 connections, according to Manager Gault. Work Is also moving right along on the underground cable system which Is being Installed in the busi ness section of the city. This will eliminate many of the pole* la the business district. This undergraisid cable systeni will be in use In about ninety days. Dorton Not Named For Fair Manager Smith, Of Sampson County, Lands State Fair Job. No Dorton Move. Raleigh, Feb. 14.—T. B. Smith, manager of the Sampson county fair for the past 10 years and sec retary of the North Carolina as sociation of fairs, today was elect ed secretary and manager of the North Carolina state fair by the board of directors of the fair. He succeeds W. 6. Moye, recent ly resigned. Mr. Smith's salary will be 93,800 oer year. He will begin his ervlces at once. While election of a fair manager and secretary was the main busi ness before the directors, plans for the coming fair, to be held the week of October 14 were discussed. All plans hinge on the action of ' the legislature In providing funds to pay the $35,000 over-expenditure in permanent building funds, and a deficit of around $7,000 In op erating expenses for the first state owned fair last. year. Or. J. S. Dor ton, secretary and manager of the Cleveland county fair, one of the largest in the south, was prominently mentioned foe the managership of the state fair, bat after Governor Gardner stated that he would not recommend a home town man for the job, Dr. Gorton refused to place his application be fore the fair directors, although several of the fair officials and others Interested in the fair wrote, telephoned and visited him urging him to apply. Blacksburg Fails To Get Airport Bid No Contract Award For Improve ment There With Moll Stop. Blacksburg, S. C.—It Is said that all bids have been rejected by the government, and no award will be made at this time for the grading and other improvements of the Blacksburg landing field. It is be lieved, however, that this means that when further bids are called for, it will be for more extensive or permanent improvements, look ing to the possible change in the present status of Oils field, classed as an “intermediate’’ to that of a “port-of-all or regular airport, since it is said that the Blacksburg landing field is already acknowl edged to be one of the best south of Washington. Amherst Professor Is Visitor At Cleveland Dr. C. A. Peters, professor of hexnistry in the Massachusetts gricultural college at Amherst is guest at Cleveland Springs hotel >r awhile. He has with him bis ife, young son and daughter. Dr. piers has been granted a year’s ■ave of absence and 1$ spending a urtion of the time studying the >uth, this being his first trip with of Washington. Dr. and Mrs. eters are gratified over the hoe Itallty of the people and the ighly developed condition of the ledmont section.
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