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10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXV, No. 105 SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1920. Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons canto^pSTjw (to advance) ”jw LATE NEWS The Markets. Cotton, per pound--lUc Coton Seed, per bu. .......... 40'i Showers Tonight. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Cloudy tonight and Thurs day. Showers tonight. Still Seek Jurors. Not a single juror was added to the lb already selected In the Ad derholt case at Charlotte yesterday. A third venire of 159 prospective jurors were ordered early in the day after venires totalling 500 men had already been exhausted. It Is hoped, with court taking up early today, that the two remaining jurors will be found during the day. _\ Monroe Blanton Buried Monday, Wed 3 Hoppers rib Second And Third Wives Were Half Sisters. Was 78 Years Old. Buried At Sharon. The funeral of Mr. Monroe Blan ton who died Sunday afternoon at his home In South Shelby, was held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Sharon church where he had been a member since boyhood. The serv ices were conducted by his former pastor Rev. Beverly Wilson of the Catawba charge, assisted by the present pastor, Rev. R. L. Forbis and assisted by Revs. T. B. Johnson and Rush Padgett. A large crowd at tended the funeral and the floral offerings were a rich tribute to the high esteem in which he was held. Mr. Blanton was 78 years of age and was first married to Miss Mary Hopper. To this union two children were born, one of whom survives, Mrs. Dovie Moore of South Shelby. In 1875 his wife preceded him to the grave. Later he married Miss Eliza Hopper and to this union two chil dren were born, both of whom pre ceded him to the grave. Upon the death of his serond wife he mar ried Miss Delola Hopper, a half sis ter of his second wife, and to this union nine children were born, sev en of whom are living: Hudson Blanton of Shelby, Thurman, Car ver and Eric Blanton and Mrs. Foy Lemons of the Sharon community, Mrs. J. M. Ponder of Patterson Springs, and Miss Johnsie Blanton who lived with her father at the time pf his death. So in his passing tie leaves elgfrTTTuIcfrtfft', T4 jjfkiid children and 14 great grandchildren, a large number of other relatives and a host of friends. Mr. Blanton was converted in early life and joined the Sharon Methodist church in which he was one of the most zealous workers un til he was afflicted with rheuma tism a few years ago. Although crippled, Mr. Blanton attended church regularly. He possessed a wonderful degree of faith and was a most devoted friend and neighbor. Commissioners Hear Requests For'Bridges Very Little Important Business Transacted At Monthly Session. The Cleveland county commis sioners in their regular monthly session Monday devoted the major portion of their time to hearing and deciding upon appeals for bridges, bridge repairs, and culverts. Yester day the commission chairman, A. E. Cline, spent some time with road commissioners visiting several of the sites where bridges or repairs were asked. At Beaver Dam. One request came from residents of the section just north of the highway 20 bridge over Beaver Dam Creek. Prior to the paving of the highway it crossed the creek some distance above its present location and the old bridge remains therein, being used by the people of the sec tion to reach highway 20. At pres ent the bridge needs flooring if con tinued in use, but there is some likelihood, it is said, that the old road will be so routed into high way 20 that the continued upkeep of the old bridge may not be neces sary. Locates Here For Practice Of Law Joe Whisnant. formerly a mem ber of the faculty of the Shelby high school, has located in Shelby for the practice of law. Mr. Whis nant is the son of Dr. J. F. Whis nant of Henrietta and a graduate of Duke university. He has successful ly passed his examination for the practice of law and received his license. After receiving his license, he took a post-graduate course in law at Duke university at Durham. Mr. Whisnant has located in the law officers of Rybum and Hoey, one of the oldest and best known law firms in Western Carolina. While not a member of the firm, he is practicing law from the Rv burn and Hoey offices. Mr. Whis nant has many friends and relatives in Cleveland and Rutherford coun ts V Girl Says Man Did Not Succeed In His Assualt Story Of Kings Mountain Girl In Court Here Weakens Assault Charge. The young married man, Hubert Lambeth, of Kings Mountain and Burlington, who was placed In jail here Saturday charged with assault ing a 15-year-old white girl at Kings Mountain last week, is free under a $300 bond after bfclng given a hearing in county court here. The bloody assault, or rape story first told in connection with the af fair dwindled as the aetual evidence was heard, court observers say, un til the alleged offence did not seem anything like as serious as was the charge. At the outset of the hearing Capt. Peyton McSwain, attorney for Lambeth, had the girl and her mother separated so that they could not hear the testimony of each other, and the story related on the stand by the girl varied quite a bit from the story her mother related as it had been told to her, she sa‘d, by the girl. Went Willingly. The girl admitted on the stand that she met Lambeth at her aunt'3 house and accompanied him to the spot near the Dilling water tank in Kings Mountain where the assault is alleged to have taken place. Reaching a wooded spot she said Lambeth pulled her into the woods, picked her up and placed her on the ground, but before he proceeded further, she said, some boys were heard nearby and Lambeth got up and assisted her to her feet. After which, it was testified, she walked back with him to town and in go ing back passed her aunt's home but did not stop. The defense con tended that if there had been a forcible assault the girl would not have walked batk with Lambeth, and had there been she surely would have stopped at the aunt's house to tell about it. However, her evidence about Lambeth picking her up in the woods was considered enough by Judge Horace Kennedy to bind him over to superior court. Attorney McSwain argued for outright acquittal since he, brought the admission from the girl that her clothing was neither torn nor bloody and that she did not re ceive any injuries. It was also brought out by the defense that the girl did not make any outcry to summon aid while the alleged at tempt was going on. Another con tention advanced was that the girl had asked to get off from work at the mill Friday afternoon so that she might go up to her aunt’s house where she met Lambeth, and it was pointed out that after she and Lambeth came back to town to gether the girl went to the mill and came out with the other hands at quitting time so that her mother would not know that she had been off. In the plea for acquit tal it was further argued that nothing was said about the alleged assault until the mother learned that the girl had been seen in the water tank section with Lambeth. Takes Class of Boys On Trip To Raleigh Mr. John D. Eskridge, teacher df a class of 12 year old boys at the First Baptist church took the youngsters on a motor trip to Ra leigh this morning. They will visit the places of interest in Raleigh and see the new plant at Duke univer sity, Durham. Accompanying Mr. Eskridge to help chaperone the boys was Mr. Fred Simmons. The youngsters who went are Irvin Ded mon, Mai Spangler, jr„ Lawrence Dover, Woodrow Wall,' Fred Sim mons and James Beam. Gin First Bale Of Cotton Today At Hamrick Gin The first bale of cotton of what promises to be Cleve land county’s largest cotton crop was finned this morn ing at the fin of C. J. Ham rick and Sons at Boilinf Sprinfs. The cotton was raised and broufht to the gin by S. W. Conley of Shelby route 2, who Uvea on the Vat Thomaason plantation In the Mt. Sinai section. The bale weighed 388 pounds. This is about ten days ear lier than the first bale gin ned last year when Mr. R. B. Patrick took the honor In 1928. Fortune Reviews Postmastership Both Times When Democratic President Was Elected He Ten dered Resignation. "The mistake of my life was not to have accepted the postmastership In Shelby when McKinley was elected," says Mr. Jule B. Fortune who was In Shelby a few days last week. Mr. Fortune was here from Chicago, after an absence of thirty years. In all these thirty years he had not been in Shelby but one time and that was 25 years ago. "I had served under two presi dents and was offered re-appoint ment when McKinley was elected, but I had a better Job offered to me as clerk of the Easterp circuit court with headquarters in Raleigh, but I never got the circuit court posi tion. I should have taken the post mastership in Shelby again as I had a large family of children to edu cate and while the job did not pay much, it would have enabled me to give them better advantages.” Mr. Fortune was first made post master of Shelby when this was a fourth class office. "The postoffice was on the site of The Star office from 1881 to 85. Shelby had a pop ulation of 700 then and I was ap pointed by Thomas James under President Garfield," says Mr. For tune. “When Cleveland was elected, I resigned and told my Democratic friends in Shelby that I would get out Just as soon as they agreed among themselves who should suc ceed me. Ben Logan was appointed. ‘‘I was a presidential’biFotonrlth Tom Vance when Harrison ran in 1888 and was re-appointed to serve four years. After Cleveland was elected the second time, I resigned again to turn the job over to some Democrat, but there was a contest on between the Democrats and I served six months longer than I had expected. T. K. Barnett was finally appointed and I stepped aside. “After I left Shelby I went to Raleigh to live in 1887. A. E. Holton, father of Mrs. Oliver Anthony who now lives in Shelby was U. S. dis trict attorney from this district and I was asked to move to Raleigh to take a court position. Finally, I moved to Louisville. Ky. and later to Chicago, where I went into the real estate business with one of my sons who later died.” Mr. Fortune left Shelby a few days ago for Louisville, Ky. where he will visit before returning to his home in'Chicago. He was looking fide and enjoyed his visit to Shelby. He was astounded at the marvelous growth and development on all sides in Shelby and surrounding country, especially the fine system of roads and the industrial develop ment that has been made since his departure from Shelby. Thinks Cotton Price Will Go Up To 24 Cents By January Gaffney Man Predicts That It WUl Advance To 24 Or 23 Cents Ter round. Greensboro.—Prediction that the price of cotton will advance to 24 cents and perhaps as much as 25 cents per pound by January 1, 1930 ■was embraced in a communication received by a Greensboro man from George B. Lay, former member of the staff of the Daily News and now publisher of the Cherokee Times, a semi-weekly newspaper nt Gaffney, S. C. Although a recent government es timate placed the yield from the American cotton crop for 1928 a bout a million bales in excess of last year's production. Mr. Lay express es the opinion that shorter crops will prevail- in some of the other cotton growing countries and this reduc* tion will be an important price fac tor, he believes. Mr. Lay also refers to a tendency among cotton mills to operate on more extensive schedules than those which have prevailed In recent months. He has been informed that many mills have purchased large quantities of cotton at low prices in evident anticipation of sharp price upturns. Cotton has not sold as high as 20 cents a pound in recent months, it was said, but the Gaffney publisher is convinced that the next few months will witness decided advan ces. He also believes that a larger measure of general prosperity will prevail. Grigg Succeeds Lineberger As Head Of Central S. S. J. HORACE GRIGG Wm. LINEBERGER Enrollment Of Methodist Sunday School Triples Under Lineberger. William Llnberger resigned as su perintendent of the Central Meth odist church Sunday school last Sunday after a continuous service of eleven years and J. Horace Grlgg was elected as his successor. During the 11 years Mr. Llneberg er headed the Central Methodist church Sunday school, the enroll ment climbed from 337 to 901. Eleven years ago the teachers and officers number 31. Now the official staff of the Sunday school numbers 71. The collections mounted from $271 per year eleven year* «go to $3,000 annually and for the paet seven years It has averaged this amount. There has also been a gratifying Increase In the amount of money raised by the church. Eleven years ago the congregation contributed $5,800 for all purpose. Last year the total budget of the church reached $33,000. Dr. Hugh K. Boyer, the pop ular pastor of the Central Metho dist church says the growth and progress has been very gratifying. City Fathers Get Interested In Gas Plant Proposed Lawndale Couple* Married In Gaffney More Cleveland County Couple* Wed At Gaffney Than Do Cherokee Couples. Cleveland county last week fur nished more material for the mar riage mart at Gaffney's Gretna Green than did Gaffney’s own coun ty of Cherokee, and the Lawndale section of this county led the way. The following county couples se cured license at Gaffney last week: Carl Wells and Eunice Gidney, of Lawndale; Lee Jenkins, of Latti more, and Ruby Johnson, of Ellen boro; Crawford Fortenberry, of Bel wood, and Minnie Smith, of Lawn dale; Elzajo Flack and Mattie Ar rowoed, of Union Mills. License For Eight August Marriages Only eight couples secured mar riage license in Cleveland county during the month of August, ac cording to the marriage records at the court house. Of the eight cou ples two were under 21 years of age, and one of the two couples had to post notice of intention to wed five days prior to securing license. The other under-age young people were accompanied by their parents who consented to the marriage. No license has been issued thto month. Guy Smith Injured In Wreck Yesterday Guy Smith, janitor for the No. 8 township school at Polkville, was injured in an auto accident yester day while going to dinner, accord ing tcun report made to the office of the county superintendent here. Several stitches, it is understood, were required to sew up a head wound. .Radiator Co. Moves, Radio Store To Open Leroy Ledford has rented the Chas. Hoey brick building on S. Washington street and will operate his Shelby Radiator company in the rear of the building, while Ralph and Bailey Mauney will operate a radio store in the front. The new radio store has not determined just what line of radios will be sold, but will make an announcement later. This store will operate under the name of Mauney Bros. Miss Emma Post left Tuesday for her home in Fairmont, W. Va. aft er a months visit to her brother ! Mr. Ed Post and Mrs. Post rhiUdrlV&U nrm Makm PrapMI (ion Which Interests City Board. At a meeting of the Shelby City council held last night at (he City Hall, Engineer Bishop, representing a Philadelphia gas firm, made a proposition to the city officials concerning a mu nicipal gas plant which so In terested the city fathers that they have decided to make a thorough investigation of the demand here for a gas plant and also the Bishop proposition. The Bishop proposal, it is under stood, is that the city issue bonds and erect a municipal gas plant, turning the plant franchise over to his firm for a period of 25 years. During this franchise or rent per iod Mr. Bishop said his firm would operate the plant, pay the interest on the bonds, the taxes upon the plant and also the serial bonds as they came due, turning the plant back over to the city at the end of the 25-year period. No Definite Answer. The aldermen did not give a defi nite answer to the proposition but let it be known, after some discus sion, that they were interested and would make an answer after going deeper into the plan as advanced. For a year or two now there has been some agitation here, by local and outside interests. for a gas plant, but the. move made by the council iast night is the nearest ap proach to definite action. Epworth Leaguers To Gather In Rutherford Forest City .-Jibe Rutherford ■ County Spworlh League associa I tion will meet Friday- evening r.t j 7:30 in the new Sunday school 'building or the Splndale Methodist church, at Spiridate, for the regular monthly business and devotional meeting. The president, R. W, Eaves, will preside at the business meeting. The devotional program will be hi charge of the Splndale Epworth League. The association is making good progress at present. There were more than 200 young people pres ent at the August, meeting of the association held et Caroleen, repre senting practically every church In Rutherford county. New Epworth Leagues have been recently formed at Oak Grove, Salem, Rutherfordton and Bostic. Approximately 300 young people are expected to attend the meeting Friday night. The many friends of Mr. William F. Yelton will be glad to know that he is getting along nicely following an operation at the Charlotte sani tarium Monday morning Shoffner New County Agent For Cleveland New Agent Installed In Office Left Vacant By Alvin Hardin. R W Shoffner. a native of Guil ford county, is the new farm agent for Cleveland county, at least, for the time being. Mr. Shoffner came to Shelby Monday and was lasts lied as farm agent by Mr. E. 8. Millsaps, of Statesville, district agent, to take the office which has been vacant for two weeks since Alvin Hardin resigned as agent The new agent, an agricultural graduate of State college, has been serving as assistant, agent in Madi son county, and was sent here by District Agent, Millsaps because a farm agent was badly needed at the present time to assist in preparing farm exhibits for the fair this month and to help close up the several farm contests started early in the year by Mr. Hardin. la A Try-Out. Mr. Shoffner'* work during the next month or two will be in the nature of a try-out. His salary now is being paid entirely by the ex tension department, but if he mak es good in his contest with the. farm ers it. is likely that he will be re tained as the regular farm agent and on the salary basis of other agents. Fair This Fall To Be Largest Of All Says Fair President Think* More People Will Attend Than Ever Before. New Feature*. "The cotton Is cracking open all over the county and that Is Just another Indication that our county fair.thia fall will be the biggest we've put on yet,” said A. E. Cline, pres ident of the Cleveland County Fair association, yesterday. Some people get the Idea, Mr. Cline noted, that a fair loses its ap peal and gradually drys up after the first few years, but the Cleve land County Fair he reminded has Increased in size and drawing power each year, and according to his predictions will be "the biggest and best ever this year.” Fair of ficials. he says, realize that you have to give the crowds a little something new each year and keen adding things to interest them, and for that reason the biggest of all shows playing fairs will be here this year an entirely new show, while there will be numerous other new features which will make It. r. big week even for the fo'.ks who haven't missed any of the events In the past. Rotary Will Stage Ladies Night Event The semi-annual ladies night will be observed by the Shelby Rotary club at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night in the Woman's club room at the Masonic temp'.e. Masonic Meeting. Third degree work will be put on by the Cleveland lodge 202 A. F. & A. M. Friday night of this wee*. The communication, Russell Laugh ridge, secretary, urges Masons to note, will begin promptly at 7:30 In stead of 8. Take* Secret To Grave With Him In Potter’* Field Pictured above is Shelby’* "mys tery man," known here as “Fred W. Andrews,’’ whose true identity can not be learned although officers have for two weeks, since he was burled in potter’s field, been mak ing every effort to learn something of his past. Andrews, a quiet, re fined elderly man, died suddenly here, and he carried with him to hi* pauper's grave the secrets of hit past which he guarded so closely thtrtirg HMs -life. Edmondson Buried On His Birthday Farmer Who Came From Georgia Dird At The Age Of 65 Years Near Latlimore. George Thomas Edmondson who lived on the plantation of E, Hoyle on Shelby route 4 was buried on his 65th birthday when his funeral was held Tuesday at the Lattimore Bap tist church, the services being con ducted by Rev. I. D. Harrill at 3 o'clock p. m. Mr. Edmundson died Monday at 8 o'clock p. mfl follow ing an illness of two years. He was born in Dawson county, Georgia, and moved to Cleveland county a number of years ago where he made a valuable citizen. Mr. Edmondson is survived by his wife, MaUnda Edmondson. and nine children. Four children pre ceded him to the grave. Home Coming At Clover Hill Church Home coming exercises will be held at Clover Hill church in upper Cleveland the first Sunday In Oc tober. Singing will be led by Prof. Geo. A. Gold of Virginia with songs from the old class choir and congre gational book. Mr. Gold taught singing schools many years ago in the county and wants to meet all of his former students at the Clover Hill home coming. Clever Hiding Places For Booze Baffling To Officers Deputy Kendrick Finds Whiskey Hidden In All Types Of Places About Homes. The world may not be getting any dryer, but it certainly is getting smarter, particularly about hiding its booze supply. That's the opinion of Deputy Sheriff Bob Kenrick, who perhaps ha* been on more whiskey hunts in and about Shelby than any other one man. In fact, Deputy Kendrick believes that many of the hiding places used about Shelby and Cleve* land county would worry Sherlock Holmes quite a bit before he can find them. Since prohibition came in the deputy says that he has uncovered hiding places about homes a® the way from the roof to the basement. Not so long back he found a trap door in the floor of one house clever ly covered with two rugs on top of which was a safe. "I happened to \ see worn places in the rug where the safe had been rolled to and fro many times," he says, "‘or it is like ly that I never would have located that hiding place." The favorite hiding place in this section, he says, is in the ceiling, but right often he finds it buried | in the ground under the house, in I the chimneys, occasionally in with the groceries in the pantry, while on one occasion a booze cache was located under the roof, several shingles being removed to take the whiskey to and fro, a ladder being used to reach the roof and then i being removed when not in use. "There are times when we know it is there, but can't find it to save our lives. I'm looking now for what I believe is the slickest hiding place of all. Some of these days I may find It. We usually keep at it until we do. and right often we find folks who take it to bed with them, and some who hide it in cemeteries." he concluded. More Students In Schools Of Cleveland Now Ur(nl Enrollment This Year 1} History. 4,000 In Eight Months - Schools. "Tlie enrollment In the eighl months schools of Cleveland count; this year is the greatest in the his tory or the county," according to Pror. J. H. Grigs, county superin tendent of education, after check ing over the enrollment of 12 eight months schools already open. Two more eight months schools are yet to open in addition to the city high schools. ‘‘There have been more calls upon the board of education and the sup erintendent's office already this ■ year Tor desks and other school sup plies than during all three years Z have been in office combined," he added. Want Longer Terms. The 4,000 enrollment in the eight months schools Is accredited to the fact that scores of children in she months term districts are this yeaf enrolling in the longer term schools. The reported total enrollment to date of the 12 schools Is 4,207 with an average attendance of 3,908. The enrollment and attendano# by schools follow: School Enroll, At. At*. Bel wood.511 455 Falls ton.,3S8 371 Mooresboro ___ MO 385 No. 8 Township . .. 545 488 Orover. 253 336 Waco. 242 316 Casar.391 > 343 Earl. 306 171 Patterson -. 345 315 Bolling Springs . .1 186 165 Lattlmore „ . 675 630 Piedmont (estimate) 475 430 Tothal. 4,307 3,808 Hicks Bonded Out In Killing Affair After Return Here Ernest Hicks, Located In Indians, FTea Under 83,060 Bond In Grocer Case. Ernest Hicks, who was brought * hack from Indiana last night in connection with a fatal assault up on a negro man at Orover a couple of years back, was released from the county Jail today under a bond of >3,000. Sheriff Irvin Allen snd Deputy Buren Dedmon. who made the trip by motor to Wabash, Indiana, where Hicks was spprehended. reached Shelby on the return trip about 11 o'clock last night, They left here early last Sunday morning. Two others have already receiv ed ball in the same case, but the fourth man sought. Jack Westmore land. has not been apprehended. He was not In Indiana with Hick?. Sheriff Allen learned. Child Cuts Tongue And Bleeds To Death Dallas, Sept. 2.—Sustaining a fa tal loss of blood from, a severe cut inflicted on his tongue as the re sult of a fall in his home Saturday night. Ftyyd Wilton Llneberger, two year-old son of W. Carl Linebarger, farmer of Dallas, route 3. died at his home at 8:30 o'clock, this morn ing, ‘ 7 Medical assistance was brought in imiftedlately after the child was injured Saturday evening,. but ali the first aid that cpuld be summon ed failed to stay the fioW of Mood sufficiently to save the little boy’a life. Funeral services will be held at the Holy Communion Lutheran church here at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and burial will be in the cemetery here: Some Pumpkin Gets Listed In Lincoln Lincolnton.—Chalk up another freak for Lincoln county, the pro ducer of six-legged pigs, prodigious coats and the like. D. E. Wright, of the county, steps forward with the latest. He brought it to town Saturday, ft is a pumpkin, but no ordinary pumpkin. This particular fruit of the field is solid all the wkf through, and has not one single seed. Teachers To Hold Meeting Saturday The first county-wide teacher* meeting of the year for this coun ty will be held here Saturday morn ing, according to Supt. J. H. Grigg, of the county schools. Organiaetion and schedule work will be taken up in addition to professional studys; All teachers are urged to attend. J