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VOL. XXXV, No. 49
THE CLEVELAND
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SHELLY. N. C.
U'KHNKSU’Y. APR. ‘24, 1929
Published Monday, Wednesday, ami Friday Afternoons
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LATE NEWS
'l'hc Markets.
Colton, spot _........... 20c
Cotton Seed, per bu. ..55!3c
Cloudy Thursday.
Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Increasing cloudiness and
warmer, possibly showers in ex
treme west portion tonight. Thurs
day mostly cloudy with showers
and thunder storms in west and
central portions, and slightly
warmer.
Vanderburg Case.
At the noon recess in Gastonia
today, according to a message to
The Star, only four jurors had been
selected In the case of Jake Van
derburg, farm youth, charged with
murdering five members of his
own family.
Illinois Votes W’et?
Springfield, April 23.—The Illi
nois house of representatives today
passed the W'eber-O'Grady bill
which provides for repeal of the
Illinois search and seizure act,
backbone of prohibition enforce
ment In the state. The vote was 77
to 65. Corraling the exact number
of votes necessary for passage of
the bill, the "wets" started the
measure on Its path to the senate.
If passed by that body, it will go
to the governor for approval and
then wilt be subject to a referendum
vote of the people.
Shelby Enters
Title Race In
Game On Friday
Morris’ Boys Flay Cliffside Here In
First Championship Scrap.
Schedule Made.
The Shelby highs, this year mak
ing a strong bid for the school's
third state baseball title, will play
their first championship game here
Friday afternoon with Cliffside.
This was decided at a meeting of
coaches, attended by Moach Casey
Morris, at Salisbury Tuesday night
where the schedule for the cham
pionship was worked out.
The Shelby group, or group seven,
Is made up of the following schools.
Shelby, Cliffside, Fallston, Hen
rietta-Caroleen, and Lincolnton.
Fallston plays Lincolnton at Lin
colnton Friday afternoon and Heu
rletta-Caroleen draws a bye in the
first round.
Game On Tuesday.
The winner of the Shelby-Cliff
side game here Friday will play
Henrletta-Caroleen Tuesday, and if
Shelby is the winner in the Cliff
side clash the game will be played
here, with the Fallston-Lincolnton
winner Friday drawing a bye for
Tuesday.
The final group title game will be
played Friday week, May 3, and if
Shelby remains in the game will
likely be played here.
Forest City, Gastonia, Hickory,
Kings Mountain and Rutherfordton
did not enter the title series.
Hamrick Will Not
Make Board Race
Present No. 4 Alderman Not To
Seek Reelection This
Time.
Mr. Alger V. Hamrick, present
city alderman in ward four, will
not be a candidate for reelection he
informed The Star today.
“I have definitely made up my
mind not to run,” he said, "and my
decision is due entirely to private
business reasons as I feel as if it
will not be fair to my business and
to my family for me to continue
taking so much time from my
business. I have never worked with
any group I liked better than the
present aldermen and the admin
istration officials and it is not be
cause of any hard feeling between
me and anyone else that X am not
running; my decision is due solely
to business reasons.”
Mr. Hamrick's decision not to run
leaves only one candidate for al
derman in ward four—Zollle J.
Thompson.
Allen Adds Four
Deputies To List
Mead Replaces Plato Ledford, Re
tired Deputy ir No. Ten
Township.
Sheriff Irvin M. Allen announc
ed this week that he had added
four new deputy sheriffs to those
already named by him since he
took office.
In No. 10 township Andy Mead
has been named a deputy to re
place Deputy Plato Ledford, who
Rave up the office because of ill
health. Other new deputies arc:
John B. Newton, at Casar; Odus
Elmore, In No. 11 township: and
J. B. Jones, in No. 2 township.
Clye Nolan visited in Lenoir to
day cn a business mission.
! May Dixon To
Write Book On
Harding Term
Gaston Means Gives "Inside Facts”
To Oaughter Of I-atr
Rev. Tom Olson.
Mrs. May Dixon Thacker, native
Cleveland county girl, is going to
I write a book giving the “inside facts
on the administration of President
Harding. Mrs. Thacker is the
daughter ot the late Ke\ Tom
Dixon, of Shelby, and a sister of
Torn Dixon, the author
The following Washington dis
patch by H. E. C. Bryant tells about
Mrs. Thacker’s prospective book:
Gaston B. Means, former resi
dent of Concord who was a con
spicuous figure in the scandals
surrounding the Harding adminis
tration and himself took a “rap'" for
conspiracy, is preparing to reveal
some of the “inside facts" sur
rounding those turbulent times. He
is furnishing The materials for a
book now being prepared by May
Dixon Thacker. another former
North Carolinian who is the wile oi
a Presbyterian evangelist and sis
ter of Thomas Dixon, noted author.
Means says he is pledged to secrecy
on the contents of the book until
it is published, but admits that it
contains many “cold facts” which
have heretofore never been reveal
ed. Moreover, he says that it will
not be a criticism or a defense of
the Harding regime but rather an
attempt to give some of the facts
as he saw them. The former de
partment of justice operative, who
is admitted to be cue of the best
investigators m the country, be
lieves that conditions are unchang
ed by the revelations of the Hard
ing regime and that the court sys
tem is just as corrupt. Many of his
denials will go into the book.
Means is now a resident of Beth
esda. Md., having recently given up
his connection with William J.
Burns under whom he worked in
the department of justic?.
Casar Finals To
Be Held May 3rd
The Senior Class Commencement
Exercises Will Be Held
Friday May 3rd.
Closing exercises of the Casar
Consolidated school will begin Fri
day April 26 and continue through
Friday May 3 when the seniors will
be graduated. The graduating class
is composed of. Zelna Lucile Downs,
Eliza McNeilly, Mattie Lee Mull,
Lillian Pauline Pruett, Oscar Glenn
Queen, Mary Lou Richards, Bon
nie Lee Walker, Ivo A. Wortman.
Prof. H. M. Loy is the beloved
principal of the school and furnish
es The Star with the following pro
gram :
Friday. April 26. 8: p. m.—Exer
cises by intermediate grades.
Sunday, April 28. 3:00 p. m.—
Commencement sermon, Rev. H N.
McDiarmid.
Tuesday, April 30, 8:00 p. m.—
Contests in reading and declama
tion.
Wednesday afternoon. May 1, 2
p. m.—Contests in reading and
declamation by sixth and seventh
grades.
Thursday, May 3, 8:00 p. m —
Graduating exercises and literary
address—presentation of diplomas.
Cleveland Couples
Lead Gaffney Pairs
In Number Weddings
Only 10 couples were married at
Gaffney, S. C., last week and every
couple was from North Carolina,
while six couples were from Cleve
land county. The Cleveland couples
were:
Willie England and Irene Tate,
of Kings Mountain: Jasper Roper
and Gertie Ballard, of Kings Moun
tain; Julius Williams of York, and
Lena Mae Champion, of Shelby;
William Odel Byers and Grace
Brannon, of Grover; Oscar Mathis,
of New House, and Marie Ham
rick, of Earl; Arvin Cooper, of
Earl, and Mae Mathis, of New'
House.
Shelby Girls Given
Honors At Colleges
Two Shelby high school gradu
ates have recently been honored at
two North Carolina colleges. At
Meredith college last week Miss
Charlotte Tedder, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. D. A. Tedder, was elect
ed viee president of the V W , while
at the State collegiate press meet
ing Miss Margaret Blantcn. daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ceph Blanton
and a student at Queens college,
was elected vice president of the
collegiate press group.
Sticks With Torch Slayer Husband
The mmy accusations of the police against Henry G. Campbell,
self-confessed torch riayc, do rot shake the confidence of his
wile, shown leaving Union County, N. ]., jail with her attorney
after a visit to her husband. The crimes of which Henry C.
Colin, allegedly Campbell's real name, is accused, include some
of the most heinous in modern criminal history.
(Ia’troaiiona1 lv#w*;t«j)
Hoover Appeals For
Observance Of Laws
Says Murder Can Hr < omniittrri
With Impunity In larger
Cities.
Ne'v York, April 24.—President
Hoover stated Monday that In many
large American cities murder ear.
apparently be committed with im
punity. and he appealed for obcdi*
ence to laws of all kinds.
Speaking at the annual luncheon
of the Associated Press, the presi
dent said in his first public address
since his inauguration that rob
bery and burglary are far more
common here than in Great Britain
and that even in such p-.emediated
crimes as embezzlement and for
gery, our record stands no compari
son with stabe nations.
"No part of the country, rural or
urban, is immune.'’ he said. "Life
and property are relatively more
unsafe than in any other civilized
country in the world.”
Prefacing his remarks with a
tribute to the late Melville E. Stone,
former general manager of the As
sociated Press, the president began
the reading of his prepared ad
dress with the statement that he
considered enforcement and obedi
ence to the laws the dominant is
sue before the American people.
Mr. Hoover made it plain early in
his address that his concern was
with all laws, with law itself, as law
and not particularly with the 18th
amendment or any single piece of
legislation.
"In order to dispel certain illu
sions in the public mind on the sub
ject,” he said, "let me say at once
that while violations of law have
been increased by inclusion of
crimes under the eighteenth amend
ment and by the vast sums that are
poured into the hands of the crim
inal classes by the patronage of il
licit liquor by otherwise responsi
ble citizens, yet this is but one
segment of our problem. 7 have pur
posely cited the extent of murder,
burgary, robbery, forgery and em
bezzlement, for but a small per
centage of these can be attributed
to the eighteenth amendment."
Suggestion To Press.
The president suggested as a
crime deterrent that newspaper
publishers invest the acts of en
forcement officers with some of the
glamor of romance and heroism
'which our American imaginative
those who
i minds throw around
break the law "
| As he did in his inaugural ad
dress seven weeks ago, the presi
dent placed squarely before the
'people their responsibility ill the
matter of law observance and said
the rcalproblem was to awaken the
consciousness, the moral sense, of
the citizen and, if necessary, to seg
regate where they could do no
1 further harm ‘degenerate minds,"
! which have not the intelligence and
the moral instinct to obey the law
as a matter of conscience.
‘‘If a law Is wrong, its rigid en
foreemen is the surest guaranty of
its repeal." he said. "If it Is right,
its enforcement Is the quickest me
thod of compelling respect for it.”
In his address, which was broad
cast to th? county over two nation
al radio chains, Mr. Hoover warned
that in the desire of the people to
be merciful the pendulum had
swung in favor of the prisoner and
far away from the protection of so
ciey; that the sympathetic mind of
the American people has swung too
far from the family of the murder
ed to the family of the murderer.
Steady Process.
From his own administration, the
chief executive pledged a strength
ening of the law enforcement
agencies by orderly processes, week
by week, month by month, year by
year, by steady pressure. steady
weeding out of incapable and neg
ligent officials, by promotion and
recognition for those who do their |
duty, and by the most rigid scru
tiny of the records and mental atti
tudes of all persons suggested bv
appointment to official posts In the
law enforcement machinery.
Registration Picks
Up For City Voting
Quite a number of new voters
have registered in the last day or
so for the approaching city elec
tion, according to Registrar Mike
H. Austell, and the number of new
voters registered since the books
opened total between 75 and 100.
he says. He also reminds that reg
istration for county or school elec
tions does not entitle a Shelby cit
izen to vote in the city election un
less he or she is also registered on
the city book.
Young Shelby Pitcher Hurls
Three-Hit Game, Yet He Loses
One Of Three Forest City Hits
A llomrr And Forest City
Won 1-0.
Hamrick, hurling ace of Casey I
Morris' high school team, came very;
near pitching, or rather getting;
knocked out of a record baseball|
game Monday when Forest City de
feated Shelby at Forest City 1 to 0.
The Shelby hurler gave up only
three hits during tile entire game,
and only five Forest City players'
reached first base in the nine frames
—one being walked and another
on by an error—yet lie lost his
game as one of the tiiree hits
garnered off his delivery was a home
run in the fourth frame by F.
Blanton. Forest City thnd-sacker.
bee Hits Heavy.
While Forest City was scoring
their lone and winning tall on three
hits the SJtelby outfit was securing
■even hits and no runs Three of
Shelby's seven hits were made by
Capt. Owens Lee who Was at bat
only three times. Two of Lee's
tContinued ■ n page nine >
Gardner Backs
Search For Mob
In Strike Area
<.i'\ Destruction Of Strikers' Build
in c Not To Be Tolrrated. Kf
portrr llit.
I t'harlotte. April '.’2. The arrest ot
!nion and women strikers ot tlie
i Loray mill at Gastonia and a gub
j.ernaterial protest against the re
(cent .destruction of union he ad*
i quarters there by a masked mob
I-were events along an otherwise
(quiet, strike front today,
i lie turning today from New York
(Governor O Ma\ Gardner received
| an official report of the mob vlol
i once last Thursday and immediate
ly wired Solicitor John G. C'&rpen
i ter of Gastonia to use every effort
j to discover the Identity of parttcl- j
pants in the raid and to prosecute i
them
At the same time he issued a
statement declaring, "such lawless
conduct from any source is Inde
fensible and will ‘not.' be tolerated
in North Carolina."
"The supreme authority of the
| state has already been put in
| force to this discovery and prose
cution ol (lie parties responsible for
this high-handed and manifest ex
hibition of mob spirit and mob
vengeance." his statement said.
T take this occasion to serve no
tice on the mob spirit that there
is absolutely no room in North
Carolina for its vicious and destruc
tion .demonstration.”
The Loray strikers, including nine
women, were jailed following a mass
meeting and what sheriff's officers
who arrested them described as a
parade Tom P. Jimlson, attorney
for the National Textile Workers'
union, denied here tonight that
there was a parade and said the
strikers were merely returning to
their picket lines.
Itepoter Slugged.
They are scheduled to be tried to
morrow on a charge of violating a
i city ordinance which requires per
mits for street parades. No resist
ance to the arrests was reported by
police and Leggett Blythe, Char
lotte newspaper reporter, who was
i knocked unconscious w hen a dep
! uty struck him with his pistol as
i he entered the strike zone, was the
only victim of violence.
He was not seriously injured. The
Gaston county sheriff declined and
the reporter said he was unable to
explain the attack.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: An editorial
in today's Star, written piior to the
return of Governor Gardner from
New York and Ills subsequent de
nunciation of the destruction of
strike headquarters at Oastonia,
urges that lie give state assistance
in ferreting out the men who de
stroyed the building. His announce
ment that the state of North Caro
lina will rot tolerate such conduct
is commendable and The Star, in
view of his frank stand, reiterates
the hope that Governor Gardner
remains behind the investigation
until the proper persons are caught
and punished.)
Beal Jailed At
Gastonia Strike
Grand Jury To Investigate Violence
—lillrn Dawson Arresed
For Parading.
Gastonia, April 23— Unable to
furnish bond, Fred Ervin Beal, gen
eralissimo of the activities of the
National Textile Workers’ union at
the strike in Loray mill, was in
Gaston county Jail tonight after
having been arrested in Charlotte
today on a warrant in an arrest
and bail suit.
The arrest of Beal occurred about
the same time that an attempt by
strikers to parade in the streets of
the Loray mill village ended in a
larger gathering of onlookers and
few paraders. Miss Ellen Dawson,
one of the strike leaders, was ar
rested for directing the demonstra
tion, but was released upon her own
recognizance to appear in Gastonia
city court Saturday morning to an
swer charges of violating the re
cently passed city ordinance pro
hibiting public parades without a
permit.
Beal was arrested in Charlotte
by Sheriff John K. Irvin, Jr., of
Mecklenburg county, to answer a
civil suit for $5,000 brought by Troy
Jones, who alleges that his wife
was enticed away from her home to
New York to aid in securing funds
for the relief of Loray strikers. The
warrant, which was issued several
days ago, had not been served as
Beal did not present himself in
Gastonia for several days. After
reports that the strike leader would
surrender failed to materialize
Mecklenburg offices were instruct
ed to apprehend the union organ
iser. • ,
?
Bob Kendrick Is
Driving New Auto
Around, And Why
Deputy Sheriff Boh Kendrick.
I perhaps the bc.st known officer of
(the law in Cleveland county and
|iorhai»s the most feared, has a new
automobile and therein is a story
Deputy Bob, although it is likc
I ly that he has never been in Cam
| ada. has a slogan much like t hat
j of the Koyal Mounted Police, which
i.s to say that Bob "gets his man"
ordinarily if such is'hunvanlv-possi
ble.
But the- other day the deputy
was out travelling in his car. a
model not manufactured any more
of recent montlis, and he ran tip
on an auto-load of colored people
he happened to be looking for. The
auto was of the same make as was
the car piloted by the deputy, but
It w as of the new model which ; up
planted the model driven by the of
ficer. So, flip race began And it
was at tlie Mid of the race that the
deputy must have made his decision
about a new car. for onr of the oc
cupants of flip car in front, which
was getting a little farther away
from tlie car behind each mile,
finally waved the officer a merry
adetu.
An hour or so later Deputy Krn
dreck drove his car iht.o the sales
room of an auto distributor, left it.
planked down die difference, and
drove away in "a spanking new
boat "
And now lie's looking for some
body else to try a farewell wave at
him.
Dog Wa* Not Mad
But Owner Took
Rabies Treatment
George Johnson, Manager Isaac
Shelby Hotel, Takes No
Chances At All.
A week or so ago a pot bulldog
belonging to George Johnson, oj>er
ator of the Isaac Shelby hotel, be
came sick and Mr. Johnson along
with his brother, Ernest Johnson,
were attempting to give the dog
some medicine when the dog bit
both of them. Later In the night the
dog died, and. fearing that the dog
had rabies. Dr. J S. Dorton was
called and it was the veterinarians
opinion that the dog might have
been Infected. The head of the dog
was Immediately sent to Raleigh
for examination but Mr. Johnson,
the owner of the dog, was taking
no chances and began the rabies
treatment, although his brother,
Ernest, decided to await the Ra
leigh report. When the report came
it read “No evidence of rabies dis
covered." Mr. Johnson had taken
only one “shot" of the treatment.
Haye*, Movie Czar,
Sullivan, Ind.—Will II. Hays,
president of the motion picture
producers and distributors of
America, has filed a petition in
circuit court for divorce from
Helen Thomas Hsys, of this
city, to whom he was married
in 1902. Incompatibility was
given as the basis for the di
vorce petition. Hays asked cus
tody of their 14 year old son.
Mr. and Mrs. Hays were mar
ried at Orawfordvtlle. Ind.,
where Mrs. Hays' father. Judge
A. D. Thomas, resided. They
have not lived together for sev
eral years.
Hays was Republiean national '
chairman in 1929 and was
postmaster general under Pres
Divorce
! Motorcades And Band
Boost Shelby Dollar
Days To 25 Towns
No Negroes In
Jail Here Now
All Are Whites
Of Nino Prisoners In < Irveland
Jail Four Are White
Women.
W. O. Saunders, mngir. me writer
of nation-aide note,■ recently wrote
an editorial in his Klteaboth City
Independent aitli the title "laugh
ter Is Now Clone From Southern
Jails ''
Ilis point was that, the jails of
the South are now filled with whites
Instead of blacks, and his editorial
applies till: week to the Cleveland
county jail.
All nine prisoners being led
three times each day at the county
bast lie by .Sheriff Irvin M Allen
ure white, and of the number four
are women young women, young
in years, at least, if not in experi
ence A lew nre up on liquor
charges the other, for disorderly
conduct
Dull Crime Season.
The number of prisoners in the
counly Jail is the least in many
mom I is it is said, and the small
number is attributed to two things:
the season of the year, and he dis
position of the new- recorder, Judge
Horace Kennedy, to let Ills court
''menu card ' have its way in all
cases.
Former Belwood
Student Passes
Mrs. V«rnon Houser Dies In I.ln
eolnton Hospital. Buried At
Kadesli Church.
Mrs. Vernon Houser died after a
short illness at Ltneolnton hospital
| Wednesday April 17. Her death
came as a shock and great bereave
ment to her many relatives and
host of trends.
Prior to her marriage less than
a year ago, she was Miss Ollle Ruth
Dellinger. She was born at Bel
wood and received her education
at Belwood high school
She was held in high esteem by
both faculty and student body. Mrs.
Houser was only 17 years of age
and although her life was short,
she cast many rays of sunshine in
the lives of all she was near.
She was laid to rest Thursday,
April 18. at Kadesh near her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Dellin
ger who preceded her to the grave.
Rev. J. W. Fitzgerald her pastor,
officiated, assisted by Rev. Mr.
Henderson of the M. P. church.
She is survived by her husband,
Vernon Frank Houser, her step
mother, Mrs. Bessie Dellinger, one
sister, Addie: four brothers, John,
Summle, Merle and Chas. Dellin
ger,
The many beautiful floral de
signs bespoke how she was loved by
all who knew her. The flower
girls were cousins of Mrs. Houser
and pall bearers were Mr Houser's
cousins.
Dr. Zeno Wall Is conducting a re
vival meeting at Morganton this
week.
Thousands Homeless In Flood
Along Rivers In Arkansas
| Approximately 14,000 Acres l nder
Water In Arkansas Due To
River Overflow.
Snow Lake, Ark., April 23 —Move
than 5.000 persons in Phillips and
Desha counties were homeless to
day and at least 14.000 acres of rich
farming lands were inundated, the
result of a break In the Laconia
Circle levee and high water around
the main Mississippi river levee at
Know It on's Landing, where a force
of workmen was waging a winnui?
fight to prevent a crevasse
High water from the White river,
banked against the circular dyke
for several weeks, yesterday forced
a gap in the levee more than 200
feet wide Residents after receiving
warnings by telephone and farm
bells quickly gathered part of their
belongings and hurrird to safety. No
loss of life was reported. All live
stock was saved.
Inundation Continues.
The on-rushing waters today had
[ inundated Snow Lake, the only vil
; lage within the protected area, wa
j ter in some places being nearly fif
; teen ieet deep. The Laconia Circle
section, a low lying area, at one
;time was believed to have been a
lake. There is no levee protection
for the White River and the region
| around it had been under water for
• several weeks;
, The refugees have been housed in
box cars and on a string of flat
cars belonging to the Missouri
Pacific railroad. For several days
the railroad has kept a train near
Snow Lake for such an emergency,
At Knowiton's Landing engineers
with a force of 500 laborers today
believed they had won their fight
to prevent, a break in the levee
there. The break in the Laconia
Circle Ic\e was not expected to en
danger the main levee to which the
circle dyke joins. Levee engineers
believed the break would tend to
equalize the pressure against the
main levee.
Bargain Event Here Widely Adver
tised. Two Big Days Are
Expected.
The two motorcades bearing mer
chants and business men on a gooc
" ill tour of Cleveland and adjacent
counties, returned Tuesday evening
thoroughly satisfied with the splen
did reception they had at the 25 o
more towns they called and satis
fled that the two big bargain day;
for Thursday and Friday Of thi:
week are well advertised
It is expected that grea crowd
will be in Shelby Thursday ant
IT id ay to take advantage of tin
wonderful bargains that are offered
in every line of merchandise. Spe
cial preparation has been made at
the many Shelby stores to glyt
bargains that will warrant one*
coming for miles to secure.
On the two motorcades, groups of
merchants headed by two divisions
of the Shelby high school band
distributed advertising matter her
alding the bargains that are offer
ed On the northern route tht
motorcade stopped at Waco, Cher
ryville. North Brook school No. 1;
Fallston, Bclwood, Toluca, Casar
Piedmont and Lawndale, Polkvilic
Lattimore and Moorcsboro. Henn
Massey was captain of this group
while l,ee B. Weathers w*as in
charge of distribution of advertis
ing.
On the southern trip, Paul Woot
ton was captain with E. E. Scott in
charge of advertising. Kings Moun
tain, Grover, Blacksburg, Earl, pjjt
terson Springs. Sharon, Boilm|
Springs, Cltffside, Henrietta, Avon
dale, Caroleen, Rutherfordton.
Spindale, Forest City and Ellen
boro were included. At hese places
advertising matter was distributed
and a band concert rendered.
Altogether 10.000 pieces of co
operative advertising matter were
distributed and a warm welcome
was given the caravans at the var
ious places, evidencing the best of
feeling between the various com
munities.
Will R. Tessener
Passes At Age 65
j Prominent Farmer Of Near Latti
More Dies. Burial Today At
Zion Church.
Mr Will R. Tessener, prominent
farmer of near Lattlmorc is being
burled this afternoon at Zion Bap
tist church, tHe funeral services be
ing conducted by Rev, D. O. Wash
burn. Mr. Tessener died Tuesday of
pneumonia with which he was ill
for one week. He was married to
Nancy Davis and leaves surviving
his wife and the following children:
Griffin, Artie, Dane, Yadle, Ever
ett, Clarence, James and Miss
Malley Ina Tessener. One child pre
ceded him to the grave. Also sur
viving are twelve grand children.
Mr. Tessener was an industrious
farmer and well liked by all who
knew him. His untimely death is a
shock to his host of friend3
throughout the county.
Attendant To May
Queen At College
Miss Kathlen Hord, daughter of
Mrs. W. N. Dorsey and step-daugh
ter of Mayor Dorsey, has been
elected by her class as one of the
attendants to the May Queen for
the May Day exercises, May 1, at
Brenau college. There are 100 stu
dents of the sophomore class and
Miss Hord for one of the Queen's
attendants received 59 \otes from
her class.
Girls Win Honors
In State Contests
In recent state-wide Latin and
French contests Miss Miidred Mc
Kinney, in the Latin contest, and
Miss Alice Saunders, in the French,
contest, both Shelby high students
were given honorable mention
Both girls were also members of
the two debating teams sent to
Chapel Hill by the local high
school.
Two Candidates In
Statements Today
Two of the three candidates tor
mayor, Enos L. Beam and W. N.
! Dorsey, make statements to the
voters of Shelby today in adver
tisements appearing on the sixth
page of the paper. Mr. Beam's
statement i» an open letter to vot
ers. while Mayor Dorsey’s state men:
has to do with city finance