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io Pages TODAY ♦ Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By mall, per year (In advance) 9X80 Carrier, per year (In advance) 9S.00 VOL. XXXV, No. 136 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, NOV. id, 1920 I LATENEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per pound _ He Cotton Seed, per bu. ...43c * Fair And Colder. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Fair tonight and Tuesday. Colder tonight, possibly light frost in interior. . ’ t Killed In Explosion. Oxford, N. C., Not. 27.—Two men were burned to death by explosion of two barrels of commercial alcohol at a filling station here today. A third man was seriously burned. The dead are Harold Freeman, 20, and Gilbert Overton, 20. Raymond Freeman, a brother of Harold, is In a hospital here not expected to live. Gary New Head Teachers Grou.p Succeeds Ledford At Meeting Here. To Have Spelling Contests. .vt the county-wide meeting of school teachers held at the Central school hers Saturday Prof: W. R. Gary, of Fallston, was elected presi dent of the county association to succeed Prof. C. A. Ledford, of Bel wood. Prof. H. M. Loy, Casar principal, was named vice-president, and Miss Belle Elliott, of the Piedmont school, was elected secretary. Plan Contest. Plans were made by the teachers for holding a county-wide spelling test on Wednesday, November 2i, At that time a spelling test will be given all students in the county schools, one test being used for the elementary grades, three through seven, and the other for high school pupils. A record of the results will be preserved as to the rating made by individual students, by grades, and also by schools. Although all the rural schools opened today J. H. Grigg, c'o> nty superintendent, stated that at Sat urday's meeting it was decided that in a number of schools this week, where patrons desire it, that school will start early in the morning and have just one session to permit students to leave school at noon and aid in picking the late cotton crop. One or two schools may call off school work for a day or so to aid in getting th» crp out. Supt. Ben L. Smith, of the Shel by schools, was a speaker to the county teachers, explaining the ben efits to be derived from and by the future work to be done by the North Carolina association of teachers, and urging county teachers to en roll in the organization. Professor Gary, of Fallston, dis cussed methods of improving the teaching of spelling in the schools of the county. Cotton Pickers Sent Out Here In Manner Of Old Southern Days Over 300 Sooth Carolina and Wades boro Negroes Brought Here To Pick Cleveland Cotton. An employment bureau resem bling somewhat the slave marts of the old days, except that the co1 ored laborers price themselves and collect their own hire, is operated each Monday during cotton-pic King season on the Courtview corner in Shelby. Such is the activity of the street labor bureau that before 10 o'clock this morning more than 300 South Carolina and Eastern North Caro lina negroes, old, young and of all shades, had been trucked out to the fields about Shelby to aid in picking the county’s greatest cotton crop. Several South Carolina and East ern Carolina men. realizing that because of the boll ’weevil tha;a sections could not utilize all of their piqkers during the cotton season and that this county with a big season on cannot get out its crop with its own labor, have for several weeks been bringing one motor truck load after another of negroes from their plantations and adjoining planta tions to Shelby where they are em ployed by Cleveland farmers. The big gathering of colored people, ad ded to as other trucks came in, is k dumped on one of the city’s main business streets early in the day and to that point some Cleveland farmers shy on pickers to employ anywhere from 10 to 75 plcxers each. The rush today for pickem was greater than, ever before as the picking season is now in full sway in the county and very littlb cotton could be picked last week because I of the continued rains. “Shelby Night” At Meeting On Tuesday Tuesday night is to be "Shelby Night’’ at the big tabernacle meet ing being held by Rev. George Stephens at Spindale. A delegation > from the churches of Shelby will leave here about 6:30 o’clock. Every one is invited to go along.' A Cleveland Regains State Cotton Lead Despite Handicap Of Wet Weather This County Climbs Ahead Of Robeson In Production. Although cotton picking has greatly retarded of recent weeks in Cleveland county because of continued rainy weather, this county had regained the cotton ^production lead in the State from Robeson county at the time of the last ginning report. " Up to November 1, as has hereto fore been published, Cleveland had ginned 30,611 bales. Pull ginning figures just received show that to the same date Robeson county had ginned 27,658, or 2,953 bales less than Cleveland. At the time of the ginning report previous to the last one, in mid October, Robeson was leading Cleve land by 1,791 bales. But the last re port shows that in the interim Cleveland has picked and ginned 4.744 more bales than Robeson, which is now second in the State. Ginning Figures. The leading counties and their ginnings, to November 1, this year and last follow; County 1929 1928 Cleveland .. 30.611 28.537 Robeson - ___ 27,658 28,213 Johnston _ _... 23.299 27,40! Harnett.. 23,046 26.089 The "big four" of the cotton coun ties above all show a decrease over last year except Cleveland county. In the western section of the State the majority of the counties are showing a crop increase this year while a decrease is general in the east. Rutherford, Lincoln, Mecklen burg. Gaston and Catawba, all ad joining Cleveland, show Increase for the year so far. It has been two weeks since the last ginning report was issued and it is now estimated that more than 40,000 bales have been ginned in this county. 'IVct Weather Hurts. However, continuous rain last week has held fanners back In their picking and has, also, hurt the grade of cotton. Last week ordinarily should have been one of the biggest weeks for getting cotton out for the year and it was the final week school children might aid In pick ing, but rain nearly every day,re sulted in a small amount of cotton being taken from the fields. Over the week-end farmers were some what pessimistic about the week of rain. Their .worry was not so much that the amount of the crop would be lessened by the wet weather but that the grade would be lowered thus cutting down the price anticipated for the crop. Southern Will Have Train To Big Game Vernon Proctor, Southern ticket agent here, stated today that the Southern Railway will operato spe cial trains throughout this settion to the Carolina-Virginia Thanksgiv ing game. Shelby people who wish to make the trip to Chapel Hill by train may catch the football special at Kings Mountain at 7:22 on the morning of the game. They will leave Chapel Hill after the game getting back to Kings Mountain at 11:35. The fare on the special there and back will be one-way. fare plus 25 cents. This Family Keeps Surgeons Stepping Three Members Of Mr. Gus Hen drick's Family Operated On In Two Weeks. Mr. Gus Kendrick, of East Gra ham street, no doubt feels as If he has done his part by the Snelby hospital of recent weeks, or, per haps, that the hospital has wrell served him. On Tuesday October 29, Mr. Ken drick's daughter, Dorothy, aged eight years, entered ’ the hospital for a tonsil operation. On the fol lowing Thursday, October 31, she was able to return home, and on that day her father came in for appendicitis operation. Gradually the father recovered from his op eration and just a short time back he was able to leave the hospital. Last Friday, November 15. Mr. Kendrick's son, James, aged 11 years, entered the hospital and underwent an appendicitis opera tion. He is still in the hospital, but doing nicely. Other members of the family are hoping that the surgical game in played somewhat along baseball rules where three is considered enough outs for one team and ■ hrec strikes enough for any batter. Blaze At Cleveland Springs Biggest In State In October Charlotte Led In Fire Losses But Shelby Hotel Fire Largest. No Fires Inside Town. Raleigh.—Losses from 178 fires in 1 October totaled $337,376, the state insurance department reported. In the same month last year, the num ber of fires was less, being only 160, but the loss of $389,015 was great :r. Charlotte led the state In fires, with 54 causing a damage of *47, 656. Winston-Salem was second, with 17 fires, causing a damage of $4,410. Charlotte was the only ’arge town in the state in which the fire loss exceeded $5,000. tVo drug store fires, in Kinston and Charlotte, and three hotel fires in Cleveland county, Burnsville, and Hendersonville caused a total dam age of 156,102, nearly half the total fire damage for the state. | Tobacco Houses Burn. An unusually large number of to bacco packhouse fires were reported accounting for 14 of the rural fires, and a total loss of $12,500. There was a total loss of $125,006. The largest fire in the state was a hotel in Cleveland coUnty, which caused $90,000 damage. A drug -.tore fire in Kinston caused $34,000 dam-' age, and a freight depot fire in Lexington $25,000 damage. The Charlotte warehouse fire caused $13,715 damage, and the Hender sonville hotel fire $10,600 dama?e. Among the town reporting no fires were Chapel Hill, Henderson, Roxboro, Edenton, Waynesville, Spencer, Burlington, Monroe, Shel by, and Lincoln ton. Among the town with less ..han $150 fire loss were Elizabeth City $10, Goldsboro, $40, Wilson, $75 and Rocky Mount $125. Old Santa To Take Millions Out Of Saving Accounts In 2 Weeks Christmas Savings Accounts At Banks Will Send 600 Million Into Santa’s Sack. New York.—Six hundred million dollars for Christmas shopping will be poured into Santa Claus’ sack during the next two week| by 8,000 banks in all parts of the country. The amount represents the savings by members of Christmas clubs operated by banking institutions. Payments will be made to 9,000,000 persons who have maintained Christmas accounts during the last year. The amount made availabU through this channel for Chrismas shopping is 10 per cent, larger than in any previous year, representatives of the banks reported, and it is five times the amount deposited in Christmas club accounts in 1320. The average amount receivd this year by each depositor will be $09.50. which is slightly higher than a year ago. Payments run from $12.50, the least anyone will receive, to $1,000 In addition there are a few special funds which sun as high as $25,000, maintained by individuals and cor porations for special purposes. The Christmas clubs are organized each year by banks which maintain special accounts In which the club members deposits a stated sum weekly or monthly. The money is paid out the last of November *o be available for Christmas buying. New York State leads the list this year with $151,000,000 which will be paid in the next two weeks to Christmas club depositors. Massa chusetts, which has deposited $70, 000.000, has the largest amount per capita, while $65,000,000 will be paid out in Pennsylvania. Illinois deposits amoimj, to $59,000,000, of which $29 - 000.000 will be paid out. in Chicago and Cook county. The Bank of America in New York which with its affiliated institutions including the Bank of America of California and the Bank of Italy, will distribute the largest amount to any individual banking house, pay ing $8,000,000 to 130,000 depos'tors School Cost 22 Cents Each Day Per Child Hen That I* Instructional Cost For Shel by High Students. Only 14 Cents For Elementary Children. The dally cost of Instructing each pupil in the Shelby High school Is 22 cents, or $40.52 per year, according to summarised facta concerning school work Issued last week by school of ficials as a part of the educa tional week program. The dally Instructional cost per pupil in th*. elementary schools is 14 cents, or $25.03 for the year. Enrollment Less. ' There are 2,727 children en rolled In the city schools now. the report also shows, a total somewhat less than the total enrollment last year. Eighty sir teachers are employed for instructing1 the 2,727 children and the yearly budget for op erating the schools for the present year Is $103,999.28. In regards to attendance the figures show that one pupil of every four in the city schools last year was out of school every day. CasarMan To Get Well, Said Information Received Here Indicate Will Robinson May Recover. Wife Reported There. At the sheriff's office here today it was stated that the latest infor mation received from Chase City, i Va., had it that Will Robinson Cleveland county man, shot there Thursday night by officers, was im proving and would likely live. On the morning after the shoot ing, Friday, Sheriff Allen received a message from the Chase City po lice chief telling Of the shooting and stating that very little chance was held out for Robinsons recovery. He was shot in the right shoulder, it was said, with a shotgun when of ficers' attempted to arrest him the second time after he had escaped from jail after his first arrest. Robinson, whose home is in the Casar section, left the county sev eral weeks back and officers under stood that he was accompanied by a woman. However it was stated1 here this week that his wife left lor Virginia to be at his bedside im mediately after she heard about him being shot. Little Girl Struck By Auto Here Today Crossing Highway When Hit. Father Of Dr. Harbison Operated On Here. Inez Gaskey, small scl\ooi girl who lives On Lineberger street, was struck and injured by an automo bile shortly after noon today as she was crossing the street intersection where Lineberger street enters th? Cleveland Springs road. The driver of the passing car stopped, picked the injured child up, placed her in another car and rushed her to the hospital. There ; It was said that she had suffered a cerebral concussion and was un j conscious for a few minutes after being brought in. Harbison's Father Here. Mr. J. H. Harbison. of Burke county, father of Dr. John Harbison of the Shelby hospital staff, was operated upon this morning at the hospital here and early this after noon was said to be getitng along nicely. John Norwood, colored man, was brought to the hospital here yes terday for treatment of injuries re ceived when struck by a car, but was not thought to be seriously hurt. Loctfl Doctors Off For Miami Meeting Half Dozen Cleveland Physicians To Medical Session At Miami This Week. Dr. and Mrs. Ben Gold. Dr. and Mrs. Tom Gold, and Dr. D. F, Moore of Shelby; Dr. Dwight Bridg es, of Lattimore; Dr. Sherrill, of Lawndale; Dr. F. H. Lackey and his i brother, of Fa 11ston. left Shelby yes- \ terday and today for Miami. Fla. to attend the medical convention. Sev eral of the physicians travelled down by motor while others went by rail. Several of the party, if no: ; U,! will visit Cuba while in Florida. j Heir to Millions Finds Happiness with Mother’s Chambermaid Once more It has been demonstrated that heart and mind, despite materialistic findings, can win happiness thranch followier the dictates of the God of Ixtve. A few daya ago, the social world was startled by the manage of William Willoek, Jr. (left), heir to millions and hie mother’s chambermaid. The upper picture shows the humble dwelling where the youthful heir brought his Norwegian bride. At the right la a facsimile of the license to wed which was filed in Brooklyn. N. Y. The lower pietur' show, the mansion of his father, where the young man first met his twenty-yeas-old Norwegian bride. inurn.ttooal New««i Bird And Rabbit Season Will Open Here Wednesday Big Bays Just Ahead For Hunters. Convict Eight Hunting Out Of Season. The heavy artillery of scores of Cleveland county hunters will open up in full blast on Wednesday morning as the quail and rabbit season opens In this section. Hunting licenses in view of the fact that the two big local hunting seasons are Just around the corner are selling fast, according to Mike H. Austell, county game warden. In connection with the announce ment of the opening pf the bird and rabbit season, the game war den states that nine people were arrested in the county last week for hunting rabbits out of season or for hunting without licenses. Eight of the nine were convicted. Was Nitrate First* Used In Cleveland? Effort Being Made To Find First Carolina Farmer Who Used Nitrate Of Soda. An attempt is being made to find some of the farmers who pioneered in using nitrate of soda as a ferti lizer in North Carolina. As a fea ture of the centennial celebration of Chilean nitrate of soda, suitable recognition is to be conferred on the farmer now living in this state who first used "Soda" and also on the farmer who lias used it for the longest period of time. It Is thought that Cleveland county will have several representa tives among the early users of ni trate. Any farmer who has used ni trate of soda for 25 years or more should report his experience, for he may. unknow'ingly, be the first or the oldest user in the state. Names may be sent to County Agent ft. W. Shoffner, who will forward them to the committee which will make the awards. The use of mineral fertilizers in the United States, according to County Agent Shoffner, runs back to the last half of the past century. When the first farmers used min eral fertilizers there was much doubt about the value of the prac tice. It was a "newfangled" idea, about which very little was known. But as a result of modest farm tests and experimental research, it has now become an economic neces sity In the agriculture of the coun ty. The first shipment of nitrate of soda was brought to the United States in 1830. Since then it has been used by four generations of American farmers. Today, with the exception of lime and marl, it has probably been utilized the longest of the inorganic substances now used for agricultural purposes. D. H, ClINE TO DETROIT. Mr D H. Cline, local dealer for Hudson and Essex cars, left Satur day night for Detroit where he will attend a meeting of dealers. Hud son dealers outstanding in their sections were incited to the factory' conference. Red Cross Roll l Dollar Each In S Shelby Ministers Talk On Education Local Pastor* Preach On Education -1 al Topic* And Value of In structing: Youth. The pastors of the Shelby ch trch- j es Sunday Joined the school folks hi! observing appropriately American Education Week. Rev. Hi N. McDlarmld of the Presbyterian church had as his sub ject for American Education Week "The Trust of Youth.” Rev. L. B. Hayes, pastor of the Central Methodist church, spore on the subject, "The A. B. C.,‘s of Re ligion.” Rev. Rush Padgett of the oouth Shelby Baptist church used “Char acter Building” as his subject. Dr. Zeno Wall of the First Bap tist church was confronted with the necessity of reviewing the great convention held in his church dur ing the week, and therefore had sim ply to make incidental mention or American Education Week in the public schools. Shelby Birds Win In Spartanburg Fair Shelby chickens carried off three prizes at the recent Spartanburg fair. E. Holcomb, of 411 South De Kalb street, won the sweepstakes on his dark cornish, also taking first on young pen entry, second on young cockerel, and the best young pen in the show of 1,000 birds. Mr. George Wray has returned from a business trip to Baltimore, Maryland. Mrs. Sue Austell of Charlotte spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Crowder. '.all To Ask For helby This Week Annual Drive For Funds For Great est Relief Organisation In World Begins Tuesday. Shelby's quota for American Red Cross work this year is WOO. representing 900 annual mem berships at 91 each, according to Attorney Henry B. Edwards, chairman of the Rod Cross Roll Call committee. Chairman Edwards has designat ed this week, from Tuesday through Saturday, as Roll Call week with intensive drives to be made on Tri day and Saturday, and it is honed to secure' the entire quota during the period. Officers of the Roll Call campaign in addition to the chairman are Dewitt Quinn, vice chairman; D. Z. Newton, secretary-treasurer; C. B McBrayer, Home Service chairman; Miss Selma Webb, Junior Red Cross chairman; Wm. Lineberger, disaster chairman, and Renn Drum, pub licity chairman. Women To Canvass. On Friday and Saturday a dele gation of Shelby women headed by Miss Selma Webb will make a can vass of the uptown business section in the effort to secure the required quota during the two days. Chair man Edwards will endeavor to have the Lions, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs mention the roll call at ihelr (Continued on page ten.) Giant Turnip Shown By Cleveland Farmer Mr. W. W. Covington, Cleveland comity farmer, was in Shelby Sat urday exhibiting a giant Purple Top turnip which weighed six pounds and seven ounces. Mr. Covington lives five miles above Lawndale on Lawndale Route 1. Flaws Found. In North Carolina *s Secret Ballot Law; To Clarify It Three Ways To Vote Straight Ticket. Attorney General Will Straighten Errors Out. Raleigh.—Despite all the hours and weeks of debate devoted to the Australian Ballot bill passed by the 1929 general assembly, and the numerous times it was written and re-written, it seems that a good many errors of one sort of another slipped into the bill, study of this law now reveals. What effect these errors may have in the operation of the law or on the result of the elections is not known. Some think they may in validate the entire law and ser iously hamper the holding of ejec tions under it, while others think that these irregularities in the law may serve only to give judges of elections greater leeway In decid ing whether or not ballots are prop erly marked. If the matter of in terpreting the law is left up to the individual judges in the various pre cincts, there is little doubt but j 4 that they can make or break can didates according as they may de cide to interpret the law. Three Ways To Vote. One ot the most noticeable errors discovered so far in the directions given in the law for the marking of ballots and especially in voting straight party tickets. The law as it now stands directs three instinct and separate methods of marking the ticket, any one of which may be either correct or incorrect;, de pending on how the law is inter preted and which method is ad judged to be the correct method of marking the ballot. To vote a straight party ticket, one clause directs the voter to make' a cross mark in the circle be low the name of the party; fhe second to make a cross mark in the circle at the left of the name of the party, and the third to make the cross mark In the circle at the top of the party column. It is expected that the attorney (Continued on page ten.) A Farmers Gather For Big Meeting Here Tuesday % ____ All-Day Session For Depicting County's Farm Progress At Court House. Quite an assemblage of Cleve land county farmers are expect ed here tomorrow, Tuesday, for an agricultural program In the court house, a program which will take up the major portion or the day in depicting agricul tural changes in this county during the last eight years. The gathering will get underway it 10 o’clock with a session until noon and another program in the afternoon. County Agent R. W. Shoffner says that he believes that every farmer in the county will be Interested In and will benefit by the Information given out. He like vise urges that business men of 9helby and the county attend as veil ns farmers and farm wives. To Show Changes Here. The big feature of the meeting will be the presentation of facts and figures showing Just how the farm life of this county has changed since 1020. The amount of cotton made eight years ago will be com pared with the amount made last year, and the gain or decrease of each year will also be shown. The same will be done in connection with other farm crops and activities Agricultural experts present for the meeting will explain Just how the county has benefitted or been dam aged by the increase or decrease <n the various farm lines. A portion of the meeting will be given over to planning a farm pro gram for the county for the ap proaching year. Among the visitors who will be present for the meeting will be Mr. C. A. Sheffield, of the agricultural department at Raleigh. Confederate Vet Is Dead In Rutherford Funeral Of William Philbeck, Cleve land County Native, Held At Walls Church. William Philbeck, 88, Confederate veteran and well known citizen who lived near Walls Baptist church, about 14 miles east of Rutherford ton, died Saturday morning after an illness of several years. Funeral services were held at Walls church Sunday at 3 p. m. He leaves three daughters, Mrs. Caleb Smart, Cleveland county, and Misses Resale and Susan Philbeck, at home; also one sister, Miss Dina Philbeck, of Cleveland county. Mr. Philbeck, a native of Cleve land county, though he has made Rutherford his home for .nany years, served three and a half years in the War Between the States and was a member of company O, 34th N. C. regiment. He was a member of the Baptist church for many years. Goes To Jail For Writing Bad Check On His Sister Hero Just In From California, Harold Burelson Goes To Jail Over Bad Chock. Harold Burleson, attractive young white man, was placed in jail here Saturday morning after he had written a worthless check at the Paragon department store t'gning the name of his sister to the caeck. Young Burleson, who had Just ar rived in Shelby from California, purchased a pair erf shoes and of fered the $10 check with the name of his sister, Grace Sides, who lives here, upon it. Department store of ficials were on the alert and in a short time Burleson was headed for jail to await trial. Clean Up Tra*h, And Burn Papers, Urges Shelby’s Fire Chief “None of the citisens of Shelby want to see a fire,” said City Fire Chief J. R. Robinson today, “and if they will all cooperate with the fire department and the garbage de partment we may keep the number of Shelby fires low during the next few months when there are usual ly many fires.” The fire chief urged that piles of rubbish and paper in both the business and residential sectors be cleared up. Some of the rubb «h and trash may be burned and thus , ave the trouble of moving It, while the remainder should be placed whera it can be loaded by the city trash trucks. A M
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