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Burned lo Death (■V. f ^Representative 0. .1. Kvule of Min • nesota is reported to have hern ; 'tromed to death in a tiro w hich de ! atroyed his cottage on the chores of I Otter Lake, Michigan. It is under I stood that Mr. Kvale was alone in the cottage when the fire began. International N#«-*r#el District Meeting Woman’s Clubs In Rutherfordton Soon Rutherford ton.—The annual dis trict meeting of the Federation of i. Woman's clubs will be held in Ruth ’’ferfordton on October 10 and the lo ’feal club members are to be hostesses to over two hundred visitors who , are expected to attend. Luncheon will bo served about noon or per haps a little later. The session, which will begin at ten o'clock, will continue through out the day. Among some of the more prominent club women who have signified their intentions to ? bo present are- Mrs. Edward M. Land. Statesville, the state presi dent; Mrs. J. M. Hobgood. Farm vtlle. second vice president of the ! National Federation: Mrs. W. F. ( Alexander. Shelby, district presi dent; Mrs. J. A. Costner, forme district president, and It Is expect ed that. Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, Raleigh, will also be present. The president of the Rutherford'on Woman's club is Mrs B D Wilson Cotton Market Cotton was quoted at noon to ( day on New York exchange: | Dec. Yesterday's close I Dec. 18 60. I | Eight p. m weather map mostly clear or part cloudy, forecast Caro lina® and Georgia showers. West 1 Texas. Part cloudy balance of the belt fair. Tropical storm in Ba hamas. intensisity apparently de f creasing, no rapid movement In any direction indicated. Dallas News report not In, Pair business Worth street. Print cloth business for week reported as run t‘ ning into large yardages. Look for continued merchandising market with consumers absorbing hed«« sales. Probably have good advance after hedge pressure ceases. CLEVENBURG. COMING RACK TO SING at clover hill church Writing from Crewe. Ya . Mr. Geo. A. Oold who conducted sing ing schools and conventions in Cleveland county 36 years ago. will return soon to lead a singing at Clover Hill church in upper Cleve land. Mr. Gold has written a new song which will be sung at the event to be held the first Sunday in October. I Jl'NlOR ORDER TO VOTE (t ON IMPORTANT MATTER There will be an important meet ing of 1he Shelby council Junior Order next Tuesday night. A matter of vital importance will come up Bays Mr. John A Liles, councilor', and all members are asked to at I tend. t--— * Clerk Identification Plan At Wray Store i - This Is a day of new ideas, and the firm of A V. Wray has thrown a lasso around one. and hauled it into the emporium. When you en ter Wrays now you will see firm • member and clerk equipped with a lapel identification card, called of ficially and in trade parlance an acquaintance badge. For instance. i If Vic Wrav waits on you—-and you ; will of course be lucky to draw this ’ lanky suave fellow to pass you out the dope—if Vic waits on you you will see on his lapel a little slip with Victor Wray written upon it. A. V. Wray has one: they all have one. The idea is said to have been brought to Shelby by George Wray who recently returned from Balti more, George having developed into the contact man for the establish ment—the liaison member of the firm touching the outside world o! affair*. Woman s Slayer A Red-Headed Person, Stated I’robr Into Ileatli Of Mrs. Uigsins (lor* Over To October lb. Hold Our. Gastonia Ai'ii thr mud who shot Mrs Kl 1 a May Wifgms In l been Identified by one wtincs.. Wed nesday as',a •.rd lie: ded man with a floppy panama hut' and as a “blond: man without a ha' by ;> Mlbsi (|:a r.l mim • I hr mqur : m •> I ho doath of thr Hrs omoi (fit y rol lon mill striker u.r oontuiHod until October Hi by Coroner J F. Wal lace. George I.mu'oi loll driver of thr tnirk on which. the Bessemer Ci;v woman was riding when she was . shot, was released by Srtlteilor John (i Carpenter .after testimony, bn: W. M Borders aged watchman ; I he Loruv cotton null, was ordered held fin $3,000 bonds. One wiine.v testified he saw Borders fire at men fleeing from the scene of the shoot ing. Mrs. Wiggins was killed as she and 22 other union members^ wen returning to Bessemer City from South Gastonia. where they had marie an attempt to attend a labor speaking, The shot- that, killed her was fired by a mob member at al most the same tune the truck in which site was riding collided with an automobile which had stopped suddenly in front, i F.lght (live Testimony. Although only eight men testi fied In the inquest, the testimony 1 was ol a more direct, nature than ! that which was given in the first sitting of the coroner's Jury on September lf>, ttie day after Mrs. Wiggins was shot Julius Fowler, union member o' Gastonia. Rave the first description of the killer, "A bunch of men cot out and stood on the side of the road,' tie said "When the truck ran into the passenger car, a red headed man with a floppy hat, shot into th ' crowd. ' "Did the shot hit anybody?" So licitor Carpenter asked "Yes, I think that was the shot that killed Mrs Wiggins " When (he witness said lie had seen the "red headed man" nround Gastonia," Solicitor Carpenter said "1 wish you would find him " Onlv a few' minutes later, D, I. Case testified he had seen a "small bare-headed. r'.ightly bald" men whose hair was not red but blond1' walk around the truek after th“ crash had occurred, step up on the hank at tht*side of the road and deliberately fire into the crowd. Mrs Wiggins fell, he testified screaming, ‘ Oh, Lordy, they ve shot me now." Case was positive he had seen W M. Borders whom lie called "Old Man" Borders, firing at men as they fled after Mrs. Wiggins was shot. Livestock, Poultry Shows Are Better (Continued From Page Onei ‘ judged the beef cattle, hogs, horse | and mules. Swine Show" Winners. The following were winners In the swine show: Best boar and sow over two yeais —Zeb V. Cline Brst herd swine—C. W, Mayfield. Forest City. Best sow and litter—C W May field. Best Berkshire boar—J. C. Wash burn. Shrlby route 4 Horse And Mules. ! Best pair horses and mules Otho I Cline Best pair big mules—Bass Buttle Best plantation saddler—Ganv't Poston. Best single mule- John M Bor • ders of county home. Colin Edwards was director of the beef cattle show, while Joe Blan ton and E B. Herndon were in charge of the swine depart men* Shuford Beam of the sheep depart - ment. Bass Suttle and Dr F B Lattimore of the horse department. Praises Entries. "The county cattle entered In the show this year were In better con dition than ever before, and it was easily the biggest and best livestock show we've ever had.'' declared Tom Cornwell, director of the cattle de partment Pony Race Winners. Jim Allen. jr„ came in first in the pony rare Wednesday, while Pack ard Elliott, son of Dal ha Elliott, came in second and Charles Rob erts. son of Will M Roberts, came in third, I Auctijva Sale Season Opens In The Section After the equinox the auction. The .season for the big doings in the real estate game is on The J. B Nolan Company are announcing their first auction for next Friday. October fourth, to be held at Grover. Two tracts will be sold, one at 1:30 o'clock and the second at two One is a residence property, the second the Dr. Oates farm. There will be a band, grand prizes, a big jamboree. I and much oratory Next Friday. j Star Advertising Pays DofVmls ll<*r Daughter at Trial -■ -1 ^ ' C. Above is Artist Berdanier’s conception of Mrs. Adelaide Heinzelrnan, mother of Dorothy Peacox, as she told on the stand many things which worn designed to show her murdered daughter was not as bad as she was painted by the lawyers for the defense. Earl Peacox will take the witness chair in his own behalf during the trial which is expected to be brought to a close soon, at the court house in White Plains, N. Y. International News real Liquor Was Served Senators At Party, Brookhart States ! Flask For Every Guest At F.ihv's Party, Senator Tell* N. V. World. Washington, Sept 25 There was i liquor a flask for every guest at , the dinner Walter ,1. Fairy, New | York stock broker, Rave for 20 sen | a tors -and representatives’here three • years aco. Senator Smith W. Brook ! hart. Informed the New York World ; News service m amplifying the re I relations he made in debating the Hoover-Howell controversy. Ftut there was more than liquor at. the dinner There was discus sion of railroad legislation then ' pending, and of the interstate com merce commission, and among the other 13 guests were t wo promfinent. ! but as yet. unnamed New York rail road magnates, a banker of the house of Morgan and several other men of large financial interests, i These additional farts are likely, it seemed, to take the story told by Senator Brookhart out of the pro hibition category and make it n i matter for investigation by those I who are looking into the activities of lobbyists. It was obvious that several of his colleagues were In a panic at the senator’s threat that he might tell the names of those senators ari l | representatives who aoeepted Pah vs invitation and sat down at a table equipped with individual flasks of whiskey. "I said all T care to say Just now ,” Senator Brookhart said, "but on some other occasion T may tell the whole story of the Fnhy ’to-do.’ ” ‘‘It. did not take me long to find out why I had been invited to it. A - I said yesterday, there was plenty of liquor and it was in neat and nifty bottles—they looked like silver to me- with 'Wall street on the labels. There must have been 35 of them, at least. There were 33 I guests. “I have no doubt I could conic pretty near naming all the .sena tors and all the big fellows from New York who were there, but I i shall wait." EIGHT WAVES TO tllEE DISTANCE IN DEVICE Washington,—Light wave’ s as a standard for stepping off dis tances will be used in a machine be ing constructed by the bureau of standards to rule scales one meter ; or 40 inches, in length. With the device It is planned ♦<> make scales with an error not greater than two one-millionths Of an inch. A similar contrivance, for ruling bars six inches long, re cently was completed. The large machine has six steel j ways five feet in length. they have been made straight and par allel within one one-hundred thou saridth of an inch to carry mov able carriages. The basis of operation is Dr. A A. Michelson's experiment in which he found that there is a const an number of light waves in the rat given off by each heated gaseous element. Wouldn't it be a boon if the fruit 1 cooperative couid arrange to take cate of the Chicago "pineapple' . crop?—Manchester Union. We can fight down the theory of ! app ancestry as long as convention makes men keep their legs covered j •Arkansas Gazette OLD NEWSPAPERS FOR oale at The Star office. Twen ty cents per hundred. Call at; the press room. tf-26.\ Charges Capital Wet Senator Robert B. Howell has aroused the ire of President Hoover by his statements that Washington, 1>. C., is not enforcing the prohibi tion law. The President has called on Senator Howell to prove his statements. International Newsreel Will Entertain Premier IPvJ Mrs. Herbert Hoover, first lady ot the land, will entertain Premier Ramsay MacDonald and his daugh ter during their visit in Washing ton, Since news of the British states man’s trip to this country has been confirmed, Washington society is fearful that the question of seating will again come up as it is probabl* that Mrs. Dolly Gann, sister *f Vies President Curtis will demand that she outrank Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the British Ambassador, who will be hostess to the Mac Donalds. Internstionil Newir*«l BIBLE CLASS HERE TO HEAR DR. J. B. DAVIS The meat’s Bible classes of the First Baptist church will Sunday morning be addressed by Dr. J. B Davis, president of Boiling Springs college. All members are urged to present. First National Bank Invited In Billion Dollar Merger ’(Continued from page one.)' Citizens National bank. Gastonia First National bank, Shrlbv. Ifi Banks In New York. Only recently it was announced in New York that the Marine Mid land corporation was completing plan., for the acquisition of 16 large New York state banks. The new corporation ha;; been chartered un der the laws of Delaware. The announcement from New York said that the corporation con templated taking over banks In var ious states and it is a signal tribute io North Carolina, said Mr. Cox. that the New York financiers fum ed to this state as the first move toward expansion outside of their own state. Same Officers. Mr, Cox emphasized the fart that eac-h bank in tlie alliance will con tinue to operate without change in their official personnel, and withou* change in operating and business policies. Thp Marine Midland cor poration will purchase 61 per cent or all of tlie stock of the banks as the directorate may decide. It will require perhaps three months to comp’rte details. The national banks will have to be converted into state banks; valuation of stock of the in dividual banks will require much time Mr. Cox said that in each i state the affiliated banks will be formed into operating units. For ex ! ample in North Carolina, it has been | suggested that the name of thp or ganization may be the Carolina I Midland company. 10 Million Sharp*. The capital stock of the holding ! corporation. Mr. Cox said, consist., of 10.000,000 shares of which 1,000 | 000 will be sold Immediately to : raise $00,000,000 capital needed. Twenty-five million dollars of the ! proceeds of the sale of the stock will become the capital of the Ma rine Trust company of New York ; city, a bank formed to Rive the bier corporation a New York city con nection. The other $.'12,000,000 will remain in the treasury of the Ma rine Midland corporation for use as revolving fund to lend to banks which they will control. Sound Investment. This revolving fund may be ln j vested only in government securities and Wall street loans and bankers' acceptances for which cash may t>’ available any day, Mr. Cox empha i sized this part of his Statement bc i cause it indicates the soundness of I the basic structure of the corpora ; lion. The new corporation will be built i around the Marine Trust company of Buffalo. N. Y , the largest bank ing institution in the state of New York outside of New York city. It will be underwritten by five na tionally known groups of financiers. The five groups are. Stone, Web ster and Biodget. Inc. White. Weld and company, Charles n. Barney and company. Marine Union ln ! vestors, Inc . and fjchoelkopf, Hul j ton and Pomeroy, Inc. Of the capitalization of 10,000,000 : shares, all of one class of stock, j about 1,000.000 will be used for ex I change- with bank stocks, 1,000.000 i 'vi>l be publicly offered at about $60 a share, and the balance of 5 - i 000,000 shares retained in the treas ury and available lor further ex- ; pansion The corporation plans to take over the following New York state , banks whose resources are more than $500,000,000: The Marine Trust company, of Buffalo The Union Trust company, of , Rochester. Manufacturers National bank. Troy. Cortland Trust company. Oort- ! land, N Y. Lackawanna National bank. Lack awanna. Niagara Falls Trust company. Ni agara Falls. Niagara County National Bank and Trust company. Lockport State Trust company, Nortn Ton a wan da. Workers Trust company, John- j son City. Bank of East Aurora. Bank of LaSalle. First. Trust company. Tonowanda Peoples Trust company, James town. Orleans County Trust company.! Albion. Bank of Snyder George F Rand, of Buffalo, L president of the newly formed or ganization; Ernest Stauffen, jr, chairman of the board, and Harrai S. Tenney, vice president,. These men are recognized among the na tion's foremast financial geniuses having been long connected with some of the largest banks in New York state. Directors, fn addition to the of ficers, will include Mayard F Popr. A B. Griffin, Faris R. Russell. Gil bert W. Hanes, J P Schoelkopf jr.. and R, J. H. Hot ton. Other di-. rectors will be chosen from the , banks to bp acquired hnormous Project, To get, a glimpse of the enormity of the combination in North Caro lina the following approximate fig ures on the 17 interested banks are given: Capital. $6,000,000: surplus and profits, S7.SOOO.OOO; deposits' I $68.000 000, total resources, $80,000. j 000. Mrs. Nancy Hamrick Buried At Mt. Olivet Aged Lady Dies While On Visit To Her Daughter At Lenoir. Was 88 Years. Mrs. Nancy Hamrick, widow of Abram Hamrick, died September 5 at Lenoir while on a visit to her daughter. Mrs. Evle Putnam after an illness of 18 days. Mrs. Hamrick -would have been 88 years of age had she lived 28 days longer. Her hus band preceded her to the grave 14 years ago and she is survived by the following children. O A. and J. L Hamrick of Rutherford county, E, M Hamrick of R-l. Lattimorr, Mrs Julia Withrow of Rutherford coun ty and Mrs. Evie Putnam of Cleve land. The remains were buried at Mt. Olive Baptist church on September 7. the funeral services being con ducted bv Revs. Washburn, Hunt, and Swofford. A large crowd attend ed the funeral and a beautiful dis play of flowers attested the higa esteem In which she was held. OUU patrons arp men who like the finer things in clothes. They are men who insist upon faultless fit, exclusive patterns, perfect tailor ing. And because we know our business, because we hand-tailor garments with unique skill without exorbitant charges, our patrons re turn to us again and again. We are proud of our work. A TAILORED SUIT FROM UP. Kelly Clothing Co. 'CORRECT 1)RES$ERS BOR MEN AND BOVS." V-____ Dr. Moore Preaches Here On Sunday President Of Mars Hill To Fill Pulpit At First Baptist C hurch On Sunday. Dr. R. L. Moore, president of Mars Hill college, will be present at The First Baptist church on nest Sunday morning and speak at the 11 o'clock hour. Dr. Moore is Sup plying in the absence of the pas tor, Dr. Wall, who is in Oxford, in special revival services. Dr. Wall will be home the latter part of next i week. Mr Easom, the educational and ** musical director will speak at the evening hour. 7:30 o'clock, on the ; subject, "The First Wreck " He j announces that special musical pro* S grams will oe heard in all services j of the day. Everyone is invited to the Sunday school which opens at 9:30 o'clock. s The B Y. P. U.'s will meet at 6 39 9 1 o'clock in the evening and the ! leaders say that more than Ao members are expected to attend All members of the choir will ; meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock i for rehearsal of Sunday's programs. ACORN STORE NEW LOT OF SLICKERS i JUST ARRIVED. THEY ARE MADE OF THE BEST MA TERIAL AND FLEECE LINED. ALL SIZES. < $3.95 to $4.95 Eskridge News VOL. 1. SEPT. 27, 1029 NO. 35. Well. I think everybody will I agree with us that, the Pair this ;; year is the best that we have ever had. All previous attend ! ance records were broken Tur - day in spite of the inclement I weather. i The Weather Man certainly I did hand us a dirty deal for Fair I Week, but it does not look like it has made a great deal of diff'T ence We want to take this op * portunity to extend our thanks and congratulations to Doctor] Dorton fr,r giving us the biggest j and best Fair that we haye ever had. Highway Patrolman "What's your name?'’ Flapper: Mabel, what's yours?' ; He—"I want to marry your! daughter." Father—"Have you seen my wife?" He—"Yes, but, nevertheless, I prefer your daughter." Automobile radiators will soon be craving tlfeir supply of Christ ] mas alcchol Do not forget, that I we have the kind of alcohol your radiator craves, no matter what kind of a car you own. Female Patient—‘'Doctor, what, shall I do for water on the knee?" Doctor—"Wear pumps." I don't see why some of us did not think of that during the first three days of the Fair. Hrve you inspected the exhibit of the Shelby Creamery in tIt Exhibit Hall at the Fair Ground? Do not miss it. if is one of the best exhibits we have ever seen When you get through looking a* the best exhibit turn around and look at tch best car oil the mar ket. We want to invite you to visit our booth and look over our ex hibit of the New Model "A" Ford. You had better accept this j invitation as this will hP the last | f time we are going to invite you i to visit us at the Fair,Ground DeWitt Quinn says: "It seems peculiar ihat none of the cook books say a word about that traf fic jam." _ M All of our customers are telling us about the satisfactory service hey are receiving. That, of cours* makes us want to give more. I .hink you can help us out a great deal if you would only come in and give us a chance to l| serve you. i Prospect- "What is the CA3H , price of that car?" j Salesman—“I don't think It | has one." I guess that will be about all for this week. We are looking forward to seeing you at our booth tonight and tomorrow. i CHAS. . ESKRIDGE I
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