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Serious Fire Sweeps County Home Houses (CONTINUED FROM PAD* ON* > Tented a complete disaster As the was?* house and small buildings caught near the large stock bam It was feared that the barn might also catch. The stock was removed, and a line of men guarded the barn, stamping out sparks, thus holding the blase to the colored structure •nd five small outbuildings which were already a mass of flames. City Behaves Itself. One cheering angle to the big! county home fire, which attracted ■cores of people out Highway 20 cast, was the orderliness that pre vailed as the city fire truck tore its way to the institution. Apparently the reiterated requests of city offi cials for local motorists to give the lire trucks the righ-away and to co operate instead of hindering fire fighters have borne fruit. The main fire siren was not sounded when the alarm came in. Many heard of the alarm and fire, however yet no where In the three-mile run was the fire truck held up by traffic, and no car* followed the truck and volun teer fire cars closer than one block behind. At the fire, too, no cars were parked near the blase to block the work of fire-fighters. Policemen were observant to see that the new regulations about clearing the streets for the firemen were observed, and ihey report that all motorists and citizens cooperated In a fine man ner. Just what arrangements will be made to rebuild and repair the damage at county home were not ready to be made public today. There was $750 lnsurdhce on the col ored building and $50 on another of the outhouses, totalling 000. Shelly School# To Stage Big Pafadc (CounNoro raoM page onei log pictures along with color study. Physical education, which plays an Important part in all grades of the school system, will be repres ented in its many phases by Jeffer son school and the high school. Sportsmanship and play are stress ed, along with an excellent health program in connection with base ball. football, basketball and other athletic activities. The schools also consider the leisure time of its pupils and try to guide and direct them in using their spare moments to a decided advantages. An inmature child is faced with the eternal question— what to read? To create an inter est in good literature is one objec tive of the school. Character from history and the study readers will be presented by Graham and Mar ion schools. The schools lend a helping hand to mothers by .stressing worthy home membership. The Garden clubs, represented by Morgan school, and the home economics de partments, represented by the high school, will show the progress be ing made along these lines. The various departments of the high school win give the public an Idea of the work that is being ac complished. The English depart ment will have a queen of the code of good English. The Latin de partment will depict a scene from a Latin play. The mathematics de partment will represent the friends with which the students work graphs, geometric figures, equations and unknown. The history depart ment will give a picture of the Westward movement. The science department -will give practical dem onstration of the practical work that is being done in the labora tory. The Trench department will picture the different periods and classes of Trench life. The com mercial department will demon strate some of the work that is be ing done. Dr. J. S. Dorton, head of the rid ing club, will clear the way for the parade and will direct the pageant In the course it is to follow. Prohibition Polls (CONTINUE) FROM PAOE ONE.) per cent for enforcement. Lately the 25 Scrlpps-Howard newspapers have been conducting a prohibition poll designed as a check on the Literary Digest poll, whose accuracy had been questioned by drys. At this writing wet votes are leading dry votes by more than 1C to 1 and votes for repeal represent more than 70 per cent of those cast. Roughly speaking, the Pathfinder poll might be construed as Indica tive of rural sentiment and the Scrlpps-Howard poll of urban sen timent. The drys, hitting at the Digest vote, at first said their folks were not voting, but they dropped that in favor of more cogent arguments. They charged that more men than women were receiving ballots and the Digest hasn’t adequately an swered that one yet. Most lately the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition and pub-, he morals has had its statisticians busy, preparing broadsides. It says that near 48 per cent of the Di gest’s votes so far have come from the wet states of New York, Penn-1 sylvanla, Illinois, New Jersey and Connecticut, which have but 2A5f per cent of the population, where as only 3.30 per cent of the poll comes fro mthe five dry states of Texas, South Carolina, Oklahoma. Tennessee and Georgia, although they, have 13/W per cent of the pqpiitottoa. , ., *«**,*,,,, .. . *. a M Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Dr. Copeland’s Health Topic Today Disaster from This Odorless end Tasteless Gas Comes' W ithout Warning, Says Authority, Urging Diligent lr c By ROYAL 9. COPELAND, M. D. \ United States Senator from New York. ro former Commissioner o/ Health. Netc York dtp. OVE can scarcely pick up a newspaper nowadays without seeing the account of some fatality from carbon monoxide gas. ■July recently a man in Cleveland lighted the gas burner under a hot water heater in the kitchen of his apartment, and also I OR. COPELAND the three burners of the gas range. While stand ing in another room he suddenly felt ill, and realising the gas was escaping, ran to turn It out' He neglected to turn out the burner under the hot water heater. At this point he was entirely overcome and sank to the floor, but at just that moment a neighbor luckily appeared, and saved his life. iou perhaps read of the cook who put some thing on the gas stove to boil, and then pro ceeded to lie down and go to sleep. The water boiled over, put out the gas flame, and the whole family was asphyxiated by carbon monoxide. I There are hundreds of such cases, and what is to be done about it? The very fact that carbon monoxide gas has neither odor nor taste makes it a real menace to j public health. Disaster comes without warning, i The wmufarfured gas for heating and cobk lna used in almost every city where natural gas Is not available con tains as much as 20 per cent of carbon monoxide. Natural gas con tains a negligible amount of it. Illuminating gas contains much of it. The hazards from this poisonous gas lie not alone in the boiling over or me ramny coney poi. Tnere-t is dancer from the turner# closed ; too tightly. In any leaking of a valve of the gas range or from the hot water heater. There Is a menace, too. In the closed garage with the motor running, and on the congest cd city streets where so much traf fic lies. Civilisation -has brought these new methods of heating and lighting and motive power With It has come new dangers to public healih. The danger from carbon monoxide Is very great. In spite of repeated warnings some persons will perslai without thinking. In starting the motor of an automobile running In the garage. with trlndows and doors shut tight. Without realising the deadly menace' in the escaping carbon monox • gas. they are overcome and. explri It is a serious thing when there | is a leakage or break in your gas: range. If you have one of the old fashioned flexible tubes to a gas heater you should make sure there Is no escaping of gas from it 8ee that your water heater is in good condition Pollution of the air from the ex haust of automobiles on congested city streets la a problem hard to con trol. We hope It will soon be solved by the automobile and gas manu facturers themselves Alreadv there are under way experiments on cer tain devices to lessen the trouble. In cases of carbon monoxide pois oning there are certain things that must be done for the victim. A doctor should bo called at once. Prevention la evei better than the cure. W# con rive warnings of th* danger but the public must take heed of the fact that careless use of these agents may result la 111 health and even death. [ Answers lo Health Queries | C. R Q.—How can piles be cured? A.—Constipation must be cleared up first and an operation Is some times necessary. • « e A. C. R. O— Is it good to sat oranges every day? A.—Tea. • • • S C 8 Q.—How can I reduco? A.—Weight reduction Is chiefly a matter of self-control as regards diet. R>t very sparingly of starches, sugars and fats. • • • C. F. Q—What will rare (wiy fever? A.—Consult your doctor for treat ment 8. 0. r. circulation? • • • Q —What causes pdsr A.—Run down state of health Build up your general health and your circulation will Improve. • • • 0. O. Q.—What do you advise far dizziness? A.—This may be due to a circula tory disturbance, to an eye or egr condition, or to some intestinal dis turbance. An examination will de termine the exact cause and than definite treatment can bo prescribed. • • e A. D Q.—Would noae and throat trouble also an tnactiva Uver, cauee mental trouble? A.—No. e e e 0 M O. Q.—What would clear up blackheads and pimples? A.—Correct your diet and avoid constipation. Their Achievements Mark Aviatibn Progress R C FOWLER, 151 DAYS ART GOE.B&& I8HBS * 58 MIN. \ JOJOTA MKRCAffT 96HQS<BOM>m. Co CONE L- LrNDRCRGK 14-HRS f I7MIK. ».!/ MAUGHAM 2»HRS jAOitMIML | fcVKEYNARO ftOONO TH1P-22 OYS I FRAN* n HAWK*' 10 MRS 0 59 MIN- % The transcontinental speed rec ord has been the goal of noted aviators ever since the pioneer days of aviation. Above is pic tured the various transconti > nental flights made sines 1912 1 when R. C. Fowler biased the trail with various stops, making the first flight across the Ameri can Continent Los Angeles to New York eighteen yean later waa the great achievement of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh in 14 hoars, 45 minntes and 82 seconds. (Uiwutttul Honmt Central African Missions No Longer Confronted With Jungle But Materialistic Civilization Selnce and Invention Facilitates Mission Work in'Heart of Congo. Great Contrast. Africa as a mission territory was not painted as a dark, dismal, Jangle-like country by Rev. R. D. Be dinger, a Presby terian missionary who address ed the Presbyterial here a few nights ago at the Shelby Pres byterian church. Mr. Bedinger spent IS or more years of his life in the Belgium Congo in Central Africa and he represent ed his story without the usual appeal which missionaries bring. 100 Years Hence The Africa of today is the ‘‘em erging Africa” and it is predicted that within the next century will be one of the richest and most pow erful continents on the globe. The progress that is being made is due largely to mission work which is not only soul-winning but furnishing' the natives with medical and edu cational advantages. This is enab ling them to support their own work, more and more year after year. A missionary’s life is one of sac rifice, self-denial ahd loneliness, but gradually these are not so great as they were when Mr. Bedinger en tered the foreign field 15 years ago Keep in Touch by Radio. The radio in the mission is bring ing In the news from his native America. When the reeul* of the last presidential election was known in this country, it was known In the remotest mission stations of the world. When Babe Ruth hit his first home run in 1928 against the St Lcupis Cardinals, the American mis stonaries were l!rt-nl*ig In and got a thrill from the game. Missionaries live together At a base with preaching stations scat tered over the territory they serve. lr the territory served by Mr. Bed inger there are 700 preaching sta tions. Fifteen years ago the mission aries had to be carried to the inter ior by the strong natives. Today they ride in automobiles over fairly lood roads. Airplanes Galore. Fifteen years ago they traversed the Congo river In crude boats, un safe for travel, but today ttyey in vade this once dark continent on palatial steamers and ride in Pull man cars. There are more airplanes in the Belgium Congo than any civilized nation of the world and there has not been a fatality from flying in five years. Six diamond mines are working at full blast and these airplanes carry the “dia monds in the rough” to the markets of Europe. ' Rich In Resources But the American people should not get the idea that the heathen have all been won to Christ. What progress has been made is due large ly to railroads, radios, airplanes, au tomobiles and these only make it possible for the missionaries to work with greater result^ and work faster. Africa has the largest copper, gold, tin, radium and diamond mines in the world. The mahogany timber alone is worth millions. > Learn All Sorts of Vice. This materialistic civilization which has swept into Africa has brought 4 different situation. Mis sionaries do not get the response from the natives they once got and it is due to this. Recruiting agents take the youhg negroes into the mines. These redoes are sign'd un der contract to wcrk tor a certain number of years. The pay to them is bountiful. Death alone takes them back home until the term of serv ice is ended. In these corrals where: thousands are herded together, they learn things which make one blush with shame to repeat. After seven years service they go back to their tribes, but they have lost all tribal loyalty, all respect for their chiefs and are full of pride and ar rogance. This makes it difficult for missionaries to win them. Where Mr. Bedlnger baptized > 1,600 in a three weeks’ meeting ten years ago,1 the missionaries have to be satisfied with five dr ten at a time. For this reason the day of expanslcji Is one in mission work. It Is not.a matter ol concentration. Sleeping Sickness Curable. All schools are filled to capacity with an urgent need for more buildings in which to train native workers. The hospital is always crowded with thousands seeking treatment. Sleeping sickness to now curable, due to a discovery, this dis ease caused by the bite of a fly took a heavy death toll. “Do Africans dress like Ameri cans?” Dr. Bedlnger wa* asked? “No,” he replied, “but American women come near dressing like Af rican women. My pocket handker chief would make dresses for four African women,” he said. Xylose, a rare sugar which until recently sc Id for $100 the pound, may now be produced from cotton seed hull bran. Chief virtue of Xyclose; to many plump people it la non-fattennlng. A man recently broke the record by playing twenty-eight hours on the piano without stopping. But they bad to take his word for it because no one had the strength to stay and listen. Direct taxes paid by farmers now amount to more than nine hundred million dollars annually, of which 84 per cent Is paid through general property tax. In Burlington. Va., an English ;parrow built its nest in the name , of Tommy .Woolworth’s horse. Boiling Springs Wins Two Games; Other Baseball Here Junior Baptists Win Two More. Dover- Or* Loses. Eastsfde Wins Game. The Bolling Springs junior cgl 'ege baseball team is still on the warpath after the Junior college ltle, defeating two juhlor college teams last week and losing a game to the Wake Forest freshmen. Wednesday the junior Baptists '.efeated Wingate 14 to 2. McDonald 'itched for the Baptists apd Wat ers with three hits led the batting Thursday the Baby Deacons de bated Boiling Springs 4 to 2, Barnes, Wake Forest hurler, holding the Baptist Juniors to 4 hits, two being made by MeCraw. On Saturday the Rackleyites continued their run of Junior college wins by defeating Campbell college 6 to 3 in a 12-ln ning game. Mooneyham tripled in the twelfth with two men on base to win the contest. Lose Hard One. Playing at Clover, South Carolina, Saturday the Dover-Ora mill base ball team lost a hard-played game to the strong Hawthrown mill ag gregation by the score of 8 to 5. The hitting of Wilson and Smith featured for Dover-Ora. Carr was the • star player In the victory of the Baststde team Satur day over the Patterson Springs out fit. Highs In 12th Win In Season Defeat Gastonia Second Time In Close Game Here Friday. Fielding Helps. Casey Morris’ Shelby Highs won their twelfth victory of the season and their lost exhi bition game of the year here Friday by defeating Gastonia 2 to 1 in one of the best-played games of the year. The visitlnl; team otxthlt the lo cals considerably but fast fielding by the Shelby defense, which brought about four lightning-like double plays, managed to keep the local outfit one run ahead. Fans here are of the opinion that the Gastonia outfit is when taken from pi) angles the strongest high school team Shelby has met this year, although the locals have de feated the Whisnant team by one run on two occasions this year. Mason, the Gastonia burler, with a deceptive nirve ball kept the bats cf Shelby's best sluggers tamed bet ter than has any other opposing pitcher this year—and how thoee Gastonia boys slammed that ball about the park. Lefty Moore pitched eight and one-third innings and was hit rath er freely, the score being held down by snappy playing on the part of his teammates. In the ninth inning, however, the first Gastonia player up, as was the case in every inning, banged out a hit, and Coach Morris pulled Sherrill Hamrick from the bull pen and sent him to the mound lather than take any more chances. Just tdssing Hamrick’s glove on the mound is enough to give any high school team in North Carolina the heebie-jeebies. But Hamrick “walked out with the glove and the Gastonia runner on first base went home—to Gaston!*—from where he was as Hamrick offered up his mixture of fast balls and hooks Jenkins led the hitting for Gas tonia with three out of four. Mc Swain, Harrelson and Mayhew se cured two safeties each for Shelby. McSwain and Mayhew contributed the infield features with double kill ings about the midway bag, while Rippy starred in the outfield by snagging a long fly and cutting a runner off at home as he attempt ed to tag' up at third and score Ikey-Knuckley, the little Gastonia catcher who has more pep- than Paul Whiteman’s orchestra could produce with 10. gallons of South Mountain cawn to start on, was as usual the spark plug of the Gas tonia team which Just wouldn’t be licked uirtH the last out. The box aeore : Shelby Ab.R.H. Rippy, cf ----*-* 0 0 McSwain, 2 b.4 Q 2 Farris, c-- —-4 1 1 Harr els on, lb ..... --.6 1 < 3 Mayhew, ss-- --—.3 0 2 Wilson, rf-....-2 0 0 Hendrick, 3b .— .—-3 0 1 Philbeek, lyf.3 0 0 Moore, p--- 3 0 0 Hamrick, p —-0 0 0 Totals_... .. ---30 2 3 GASTONIA AB. B. H. Moore, U — ———. ....... -——1 2 Jenkins, 2b —— — — ...—4 l> 3 Bullard, 3b .1—-...4 0 0 Smith, rf ---—3 0 1 Knuckley, c _— ......-4 0 % 1 Black, ef-—-4 0 1 Bpargo, lb ..... —--4 0 2 8myre, ss ..... --.......4 0 1 Mason, p-—-——4 0 0 Totals.-36 1 11 Umpires—Todd and Farris. Recent rains in eastern Carolina have removed the fear of a gen eral Shortage of tobacco plants . „>ports from growers Indicate con sic’rraole damage from such insect as the flea beetle, however. Charged with possessing a gat on a bet. tee Anderson, a ne*jro, ol [Columbus, Ohio, was fined 9100. Aviation Ace Prepares For Trans-Pacific Hop A recent portrait of Lient Harold Bromley, crack airman, who ie now preparing for another attempt to •pan the Pacific Ocean from Ta coma to Japhn. Last year Brom ley cracked-up when taking eg. Bromley will use a Lockheed-Vega low-wing plane, now under con struction. (International KewarMl) Will Visit Son A* ' Cruiser Docks Soon Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Hoyle ex pect to be in Southport Saturday ot Ihis week to visit their son, Eugene Hoyle, when the U. S. S. Raleigh enters the harbor thertk" Eugene Hoyle is enlisted in the navy and is stationed on the U, S. S Raleigh named for the capital of North Car olina. It will touch the shore of North Carolina for a few days and the governor of the state is expect ed to attend exercises in celebra tion of the event. Card of Thanks I want to thank the good people of Shelby, both white and colored who showed their kindness to us upon the death of my dear mother Sallie .Shiver. Bernice Hoskins and Family *--—--~- —. Jeiress — Newsboy hi Canada Vivienne Maud Huntington, heir- i ess of a wealthy New York ] family and daughter of the late Charles Rratt Huntington, mil lionaire architect of New York, arrives at St.John, N. B., with her husband, Cecil Aldred Dur ban, newsboy of Folkestone, ' England, whom she married despite family objections. Dur ban formerly delivered news papers 8t the Huntington home in England. He says he hope* to find a job in Toronto, Can., where the couple intend to settle. Churches In Poor Membership Gain Official ' of Methodist Episcopal Church, Declare Gains In Mem bers Far From Satisfactory. Nashville, Tenn.—Dfc>W. G. Grfcm general secretary pf the board of missions of the Methodist Episcopal church,'South, declared that "with rich resources and with preachers and "workers equipped for preaching the gospel, protestantism in general and Methodism in particular has made a miserable showing in mem bership gains and in evangelism of masses.” In his annual report to the board he termed this situation "one of the scandals of American protestant ism.” Hdwever, he said he was en couraged by an advance in devel oping home mission policies and substantial gains in the foreign fields accompaied by the setting up of autonomous churches in Korea, Mexico and Brazil. Evangelistic work among foreign people in the United States, Chris tian religious education in non christlan countries; closer co-oper ation in terprises fostered by mis sionary agencies and in adequate financial plan provided by the gen eral conference and closer leader ship of the “emerging younger churches of the east,” were cited as needs of Methodism. One of Methodism's greatest home mission opportunities he said, is among the Mexicans of Texas, Arizona, New , Mexico and Cali fornia. / He recommended that the board maintain in each of its 12 foreign mission fields a superintendent of Christian religious education to car ry out a progrrm of instruction. “There is needed for foreign work,” he said, “more than $1,200,-’ 000 and $400,000 for home work to maintain the present standard, and at least another $500,000 a year should be provided to meet the nor mal advance.” ' Shelby, N. C. Clever Trimming Details Reveal Fall Fashion Trends Even in House Frodcs Unusual Value at 4 ■ Home frock* know tow to adapt the fashion touches of the season! . . . These have done it with dainty trimming details in self and contrasting colors . . . with more definite waist-lines . . . with more-feminihe-than-ever lines! Pretty clear printed patterns thst will launder satisfactorily rime and again . . . basque and straight-line styles . . • short and long set-in sleeves. A selection of styles that will make you want to pick out several •f these charming frocks at once , « , and a price which will enable you to do so, easilyl Regular and Extra Sizes
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