Y« Engineer Survey For Gas Completed Lincolnton To Have A Gas riant ] And Estimates Cost To Be $80,000. Lincoln Times. J Mr. C. F. Blount, who was in Lln colnton recently making a survey for Gr.s for Lincolnton returned to his home office in Atlanta and submit ted his report. The gas company, upon receipt of Mr. Blounts report, sent their engineer here to make a survey of the engineering work necessary to lay their gas mains from Dallas to Lincolnton. The Engineer, upon completion of his survey, reported that the amount which would be necessary to lay the mains from Dallas to Lln colnton and to put down the net work of pipes in Lincolnton neces sary to supply gas to the town would be $80,000.00, No final plans have been agreed upon as yet by the gas company but something definite should be learn ed in the near future, states C'erk R. H. Harrill. Bowman Is Growing More Cotton Locks A E Bowman who works the Forrest Eskridge farm on Buffalo is improving on Coker's 855 cotton. This cotton is ordinarily a five lock cotton, yet Mr Bowman was. show ing in Shelby Saturday some beauti ful white fluffy bolls with six to seven locks to the boll. He is hand picking the choicest cotton and pre serving the seed for planting pur poses. In spite of the unfavorable weather the cotton is white and pretty He has 25 or 30 acres of this strain under cultivation this year. A. A Clcninger of Gaston coun ty has developed a herd of 38 mire bred Jersey cows from one pure bred heifer purchased in 1017, A Well Baby Is A Hkppy Baby Dr. Thornton's Easy Teether la used to destroy the germs that cause stomach and bowel diseases of teething babies and older children. It acts on the Liver, Kidneys, etc., ridding the blood and system of impurities. Pleasant to take os loaf sugar. Contains no opiates. Sold by druggists or sent direct for 25c. EAST TEETHER MEDICINE CO., Westminster, S. C. «* * ' - GEO. P. WEBB —REAL ESTATE — Farms and City Properly UNION TRUST BLDG. SHELBY — Telephone 454-J — — „ — Special Excursion Fares To Washington, D. C. Via Southern Railway System Friday Oct. 18,1929 Round Trip Fare From Shelby, N. C. $13.001 Final Limit 5 Days.! Ask Ticket Agents. § Have Your Eyes Examined Regularly DRS. H. D. & R. L. WILSON OPTOMETRISTS Office Over Paul Webb & Son’s Drug Store. ROOD CONTROL Ml FINDS BIG DAMAGE Probably As Extensive In Eastern (ami in a As Last Year, Says Engineer. Wilmington, Oct. 12:—Returning from the flood district near Fay etteville. Goldsboro and a number of points on the Cape Fear. Ncuse, and Tar rivers. R. G. West, flood con trol engineer of the North Carolina district of army engineers, slated this morning that the damage from the high waters womd be approxi mately as great as that of last yea>\ being greater in the upper sections and less on the lower part of the Cape Fear. Mr West said that the larger par? of the flood was in the upper reach es of the eastern Carolina streams, due to heavier rains, than in the lower sections where the waterfall was not as great this year as ’ast. in summing up the situation, he stated that the crest of the flood on the Cape Fear has almost^dlsap peared but the highwater would be experienced here late this afternoon. There is a possibility of tt coming over the government docks if the tide is high-and there is a strong northeast wind. No official estimate of the damage in the district has been made since waters have not gone down in the farming lowlands of the rivers, ac cording to Mr. West, but the great est damage has been made in and near Gpldsboro. Acres of farm land were covered, although farmers be ing warned by the weather bureau several days before the rise of the river, harvested part of their crops. The preliminary report of the dis trict engineers concerning the Neuse river will be filed the early part of November and the one for the Cape Fear is expected to be com pleted the first of February Much valuable information is being gath ered by three surveying parlies in different parts of the section and will be used in making the initial as well as later reports. Harry Sinclair wrote to the iew'1 papers to say that there was no sinister purpose in having that jury shadowed. Probably merely an in teresting bit of research work for the Smithsonian Institution? Trustee's Sale. By virtue of the power and au , thority vested in me? as trustee in ' a certain deed of trust, executed the 16th day of March, 1928, by Ida Al 1 lison Humphries to secure an In 1 debtedness to J A. Mc-Craw, which deed of trust is recorded in book I 152, page 12, of the office of the 1 register for Cleveland county, N. C. i and default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured, and demand hav ing been made upon me to execute the trust, I will sell to the highest bidder at the court house door in Shelby, on, Monday, November 4, 1929, at - 12 o'clock, or within legal horns, the following described real estate to-wit: All that certain parcel of land situate in Cleveland county. North Carolina, In No. 1 township, adjoin ing lands of S. Bridges, Kester Hamrick, A. G Humphries. Estate of Plato Allison, and others; con taining 16.62 1-2 acres of land more or less. Being a portion of the land . conveyed to Ida Allison by Plate Allison, Commissioner, in deed dat ed January 11. 1912, and recorded in office of register of deeds for Cleveland county. North Carolina, in book 3-P. page 225. This the 28th day of September, 1929. B. T. FALLS, Trustee. Plant Shrubs NOW! 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International Newareel Ground Continues To Sink In Oil Well I Section Of Texas | Some Of Wells In Texas ..Fields Yielding Salt Water. Several Acres Sink. Beaumont. Tex. Oct. 14— Oil men who honey-combed the ground in the Sour Lake Field in their rush to rob the earth of its treasu-es stood bv helplessly today as the earth sank away under their feet and a giant fissure which appeared in the field Tuesday night continued to grow. The damage extended not only to the 50 odd acres which 'were sinking. The natural forces under the surface which have made the wells in the district productive seemed to have been disarranged by the same readjustment that caused the fissure and production was fall ing off. They estimated that production of the field had been cut at least 30 per cent by the vaguely expiat ed phenomenum Wells counted three days ago as good producers are flowing salt w'ater instead of oil. The physics of the field seemed to have been turned upside down, be cause a few wells increased their flow with the appearance of the sink hole. No one was able to predict how deep or how wide the depression would grow'. Geologists were inclined to believe that sand pockets ir. harder formations, washed empty by the flow of waters, disturbed by drilling or blown out by wild wells, were collapsing under the surface. At the center of the big crater a space of about three acres, which has dropped away faster and Is much deeper than the rest of *he hole, is filled with water. Cracks in the earth completely circle this deeper depression, making a rough 2.000 feet. The depression Is in what Is known as the "Shoestring Section,” which was drilled extensively early in the century. Estimates as to the depth of the crater have varied from 90 to 150 feet. Peeler, Kannaolis Merchant found Dead Salisbury—Harvey J. Peeler, merchant of Kannapolis, was found dead on his farm three miles south of Salisbury, near the Char lotte highway, this evening about 6 o’clock. His body was discovered in a creek face down. The discovery was made by two negro tenants on the Peelftr farm. Near him was a single bar reled shotgun, empty, and there was a terrible wound in his neck. Sheriff Lyerly’s force was sum moned and Coroner Brown began an investigation which will be con tinued tomorrow. Mr. Peeler was squirrel hunting and all Indications so far point to accidental death. Mr. Peeler was a ■well known business man of Kan napolis and leaves a widow- and several children. He was a brother of Rev. Shuford Peeler, dean of Catawba college. Star Advejctisigg P|jfi A And Seventh Man May Not live. Tilden L. Carver Woundrd At Gate, Dies. Marion, Oct. 12.—The list of dead in the battle between deputy sner iffs and mill strikers In front of the gatd|l|of the Marion Manufac turing company on the morning of October 2, was swelled today when Tilden L. Carver, one of the union ist strikers, died from the effects of a gunshot wound in the neck, The death of Carver at the locr.l hospital at noon today brings tiie total death list to six. The five oth ers mortally wounded in the fight ing were John Jonas. Sam ViokSrs, Luther Bryson. Randolph Hall and Jim Roberts. Roberts died two days after the shooting. It is expected that the death list will grow to at least one more, W. S. Black, also of the striker’s side, Is in the hospital with a bullet’ wound in his abdomen. On account of the man's weakened condition It is impossible to operate and it is not believed that he can recover. Reports from the hospital are to the effect that the patient is grow ing weaker. It is barely possible that Carver has people in the north. Judge Harding this week received a let ter from a lady in Marion, Jnd., making inquiry concerning the man Carver. She had seen his name in the list of wounded and wrote Judge Harding that her son left home several years ago and It was thought he was somewhere in this section. The mother seemed to think that the man shot during the trouble here might be her son. GAMBLER HELD AS A SWINDLER New York.—Samuel Garou. 67 year-old participant in a fight be tween professional gamblers aboard the Leviathan was held by police on a charge of grand larceny in con nection with a $37,000 swindle in St. Augustine, Fla., three years ago. Another gambler, described by police as George Hobert, left the ship when she docked yesterday with 17 stitches in his face and neck to close a cut inflicted when he was struck with a chair in the main foyer of the ship. Detectives who went aboard the liner to question the participants in the fight arrest Garou because of his resemblace to the man who Wm G. Moore described as one of three who obtained $27,000 from him in a pool room swindle in St. Augus tine. Police said Garou was knowrj as a member of one of the oldest* confi dence gangs that ride trans-Atlan tic liners preying on tourists. The trouble between Garou and Hobert was said by police to have begun in Paris over a $135 debt. The quarrel was renewed on the ship and ended in Hobert being struck with a chair. Passengers said nine professional gambler aboard the liner were ob liged to play among themselves as their usual victims were warned against them. SMALL CHILDREN DIE IN FLAMES Ragland, Ala.—The two children of Mr. and Mrs. John Alverson, aged two and four years, were in cinerated by an early morning file which levelled the Alverson'? farm home today before they had awak ened. Mrs. Alverson was at a spring drawing water when the small house burst Into flames, presum ably from a stover. The fire spread quickly, preventing the mother's ef forts at rescue. The father had gone to his work. DR. H. C. DIXON DENTIST Office Over Woflworth’s. TELEPHONE 195 U——■—+ t ... . 1 1 ^ Dr. C. M. Peeler —DENTIST— Office Over Woolworth Residence Phone 460-W Office Phone 99-W w.-....... M — Dr. Charlie H. HarriD — — Dentist — Office in Judge Webb Bldg. Over Stephenson Drug Co. Office Phone 530, Residence 630 SHELBY, N. C. V— -n.ii j . % -BILLIARDS Cleveland Cigar Store Hotel Charles Bldg., Corner Trade and W. Warren Sts. Poor Cotton Seed Reduces Acre Yield Plant Seed .Should Bf Saved From Dry, Fluffy Cotton, Not Storm Damaged. Seed for planting next season will give poor results if saved from cotton which was open during the continued rains of the past weeks "This was demonstrated this past year when v.c had a poor stand of cotton over much of the acrengv planted," says P. H. Ktme, plant breeder and cottoji expert of the North Carolina experiment station "The poor stand was due to poor germination and low vitality Iff the seed planted. In many cases the loss In yield, due to poor seed, would have more than paid for buying good seed, and, in some instances, the Joss is equal to the fertilizer bill. In other words., had a good stand been secured, the Increased yield would have paid the fertilizer bill." Mr, Kims says that planting seed must be saved only from those bolls which open normally, have been exposed to little rain and were picked when thoroughly dry. The heavy rains of the past few weeks have caused much damage to cotton and planting seed should not be saved from cotton open tn the fields during that time Such seed are not fit for planting, will germinate poor ly and those which do germinate will produce weak plants. Tile first picking of cotton usual ly contains a high percentage of moisture and is liable to heat, ex plains Mr. Klme. Unless such cot ton is allowed to dry out for a few days, no planting seed should ce saved from it. Neither should seed Modern Mothers Help Create New Slogan Miflkxu More Each Year Torn To Famous External Method of Treating Colds Each year more and more mothers turn to Vicks VapoRub, the modem external treatment for colds, be cause it is just rubbed on and cannot upset children’s stomachs, as "dos ing” is so apt to do. Originally designed and first used largely for children's colds, this better external method gradually spread as one enthusiastic mother told another. Tears of actual use also proved it equally effective for the colds of grown-ups. Today the whole trend of medical practice is away from needless “dosing” and Vicks—a household word in Amer lea—is used in more than 60 coun tries abroad. The ever-growing demand for Vicks is shown in its familiar slo gan, expressing the number of jars used yearly. First announced when Vicks reached “17 Million Jars Yearly”—later raised to "21 Mil lion”—the figures are again being changed, as there are now "Over 26 Million Jars Used Yearly.'* be saved from frosted cotton. Aft er ginning, that seed Intended for planting should not be stored In bulk but should be bagged, says Mr. Kline. The bags should then be placed so that air will circulate freely between them. Cotton farmers are advised bv Mr Kline to pick out the storm-damag ed cotton as early as possible so that seed from bolls which open la ter will not be mixed with t.nis damaged material. KABl'T CAPTURED BY NADIR'S ARMY Peshwar, India —An extra edition of Nadir Khan’s newspaper, ‘Tslah” containing news of the fall of Ka bul, capital of Afghanistan, to his forces, arrived here. ; The newspaper says that Nadir s | army entered Kabul Sunday at two p. m., the city being occupied offi cially by Shah Wall Khan, brother of Nadir at 5:30 p. m. Habibullah Khan, erstwhile Ba cha Sakao. waterboy king, had left already and his whereabouts were unknown. Most of Habibullah $ army officers were captured, Twenty-three cars of fat ho^s fed according to the Shay method have been shipped from Onslow county this year. SPELLS OF II BACKACHE I "I HAW used Cardui at inter* val* for sixteen years, when I suf ered from weak ness, and it al ways helped me,” aaya Mrs. J. W. Jinright, H. F. D. 2, Troy, Ala. "Mostly I was afflicted with bad spells of back ache. At time* 1 iwt aa « « my back would break. I I would drag one foot after I the other, in a helpleaa aort J of a way, and once I got I down in bed. My buaband J urged me to take Cardui, ■ and I soon found what a | fine medicine it really waa. | "When my aecond child I waa little, I waa in very bad I health. I did not pick up aa 1 should have. 1 waa weak and aickly. 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