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u 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXX VI, No. 54 SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY, MAY 5, 1930. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. S.m THE STAR’S CIRCULATION EXCEEDS THAT OF ANY OF 190 WEEKLY PAPERS AND 20 OF THE 37 DAILIES IN NORTH CAROLINA LA TE NEWS THF MARKET. Cotton, per lb._____ 15c Cotton Seed, per bu._43’,4c Fair Tuesday. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. Drought Hurting. There is a small shower of rain in Shelby and over the county Sat urday, the first rain In exactly .a month, but farmers In town today stated that crops over the county arc suffering from a lack of rain and that the situation will be seri ous unless there is some rain this week. Gardens in Shelby and over ihe county are also badly in need of a good shower. Thirty Nine In Com Contests In This County County Farmers To Compete In Corn-Growing: Contest. Staged By Board. When the entry lists were closed Friday In the county-wide corn contests being staged this year by the Cleveland county board of agri culture thirty-nine farmers had en tered to compete for the prizes. There are four separate contests and the entrants were divided in the several groups. Thirteen farmers entered the one acre contest, 14 entered the two acre contest, eight enterd the three acre contest, and four entered the five-acre contest. Talks were also made by A. E. Cline of Shelby and H. Anderson of Hickory. Piedmont Program Is On This Week Newton Speaks Thursday Night To Graduates. Operetta On Friday Night. The closing exercises of the Pied mont high school at Lawndale be gan yestecday with the annual ser mon by Rev. Sankey L. Blanton, of ( Louisburg, and will continue through the operetta Friday night The reading and declamation con tests will be held Tuesday evening, May 6, at 8 o’clock, and -the class day exercises on Wednesday even ing, May 7, at the same hour. On Thursday night at 8 o’clo-k the diplomas will be awarded to the giaduates and the annual address will be made by Attorney D. Z Newton, of Shelby. The closing op eretta will be Friday night at 8 * o’clock. Know Your Country Cleveland county in 1929, for the second consecutive year, was the leading cotton producing county in North Carolina—with a production 3f 64.287 bales. Cleveland county ranks as one of the five leading live at-home counties in North Carolina. One make of Shelby butter is among the best known brands in the south. Large potato storage houses and creameries give the county a wide reputation as a potato and dairy products center. Cleveland county farmers each year sell their poultry for a sum that exceeds the total cash crop income of many other counties. With 1,000 rural farm homes electrically lighted, Cleveland county is the best lighted county in the South. The Cleveland county tax rate is the second lowest in North Carolina. The school tax rate of Cleveland is 54 cents. 3,200 Cleveland county school chil dren ride to and from consoli dated schools each day on motor trucks at a per pupil cost per year of $5,75, or $2.25 less than state allowance. The school enrollment of the coun ty totals more than 15,000 with an average of more than 200 boys and girls graduating frcm high school each year. Cleveland county has 24 textile plants with an annual payroll runing high into the millions. The bank resources of Shel by total seven million dollars, and in the county nine mill lion dollars. Shelby with a population of 10,867 people in 1930 showed a gain of 201 percent in ten years over the 3,609 popula tion of 1920, and may rank as America’s fastest growing town in the 10-year period. Cleveland county is one of the three leading counties in the South in rural church and Sunday school membership. Record Number Pupils Gruduate In High School Two Hundred Fifty One In Cleveland. High School Enrollment This Year Greatest In History Cleve land County. Two bnndred and fifty-one Cleveland county boys and girls have graduated or will graduate from high school this year. Figures assembled today show that more students completed their high school work and will receive diplomas this year than in any previous school year in the history of the county. How Divided. One hundred and fifty of the graduates are from the 12 rural consolidated schools of the county, 67 will graduate in Shelby, and 34 at Kings Mountain. Enrollment Gain. The general high school enroll ment shows a similar gain. Last year there were only 847 students in the rural high schools of the county, while this year there were I, 029. The total school enrollment for all the county schools this year was approximately 15,000 pupils. A big percentage of the rural high schools and six - months schools have already closed for the year. Among the larger schools al ready closed are Mooresboro, Gro ver, Lattimore, Polkville, Belwood and Falls ton. The Casar school will close tonight, Monday, and Waco, Piedmont, Earl and Patterson will close this week. Practically all of the six months schools closed last week or will close this week, according to Prof. J. H. Grigg, county superintendent of education. Lee’s Followers Meet Satan’ “Boys In Gray’’ Assemble Here This Week For the Annual U. D. C. Dinner. Shelby will act as host Saturday to the remaining gallant boys in gray who followed Lee and Jackson as a part of Confederacy’s Immor tal army. All Confederate veterans, their wives, and widows of veterans will assemble Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at the young peoples’ de partment of the First Baptist church, and at noon the annual dinner, tendered the veterans by the United Daughters of the Confed eracy, will be served there. Decorate Graves. One custom of the annual gath ering wilj be changed this year. In stead of decorating the Confeder ate graves in Sunset cemetery on the day of the reunion dinner, the decoration services will be held at 5 o’clock in the afternoon Friday. At that time the living vets, the U. D. C. and the citizens of the county will gather to cover with flowers the graves of those of Lee's army who have already been gath ered to him. Following the custom of bygone years all entertainment and amuse ment will be tendered free by Shel by citizens to the thinning ranks. Gruesome Find Was , Calf And Not Baby Last Saturday the section north of Grover on the Shelby-Grover road became considerably aroused over a mysterious suit case found in a ditch near the road, first supposi tion that the suit case tossed into the ditch contained the body of a newly-born white baby. Subsequent investigation, how ever, by officers revealed, according to Deputy Sheriff Charlie Shep pard, that the suit case contained the head and entrails of a yearling calf killed several days before in the community, and the find was not made until the portions of the calf had so decomposed that it was hard to establish the identity of the head as that of a calf for some time. Local School Given Honorable Mention Supt. B. L. Smith, of the city schools, has received a leter from Mr. E. A. Rankin, of the University of North Carolina, complimenting him upon the ability shown by the three Shelby students who entered the state-wide French contest. The Shelby team was given honorable mention in the decision of the French judges. Dempsey Has Minor Operation No visit to the twin cities is < complete so far as Jack Demp sey is concerned without a visit to his old friend, John L. Sul livan (center), warden of the State penal institution at Still water, Minn. Sullivan has seen every fight the Manassa maul er has engaged in and the ex ehamp has always appreciated • hi* warm support. At tha war den’* left is Mike Collin*, noted fight promoter and manager. From Stillwater, Dempsey pro ceeded to the Mayo Brothers Clinic at Rochester, where, what was called a “minor operation,” was performed presumably as a first step in the former champ’s return to the ring. HrrarMt) Champion Cotton Farmer Lives At Home; Other Fine Records Of Successful County Farmers T. F. Sellers Grows Cotton With Best But Makes Own Food And Feed. These Farm ers Produce Own Corn, Wheat And Meat. Records Are Given. If Cleveland county farmers, North Carolina's champion cotton growers, depended entirely upon cotton, this would be another story, or, perhaps, no story at all. But they do not. Instead they make their own “hog and hominy,” live at home, feed themselves, and then go after cotton records. A few live-at-home records, assembled by The Star, and pub lished below, offer ample proof: Prominent Woman Of Grover Is Dead Mrs. Fannie Gold Harry Burled Sunday. Death Caused By Fneumonla Attack. Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Gold Harry, one of -the best known women In lower Cleveland county, were held Sunday at the Grove* Presbyterian church. Sudden Illness. Mrs. Harry, who was 82 years of age, died Friday at Newton, where she was visiting her son, Rev. Grady Harry. Death resulted from a sudden illness which developed into pneumonia. The deceased, a mother of one of the county’s best families, was a noble Christian woman, a fine char acter and was widely known and loved. Her husband preceded her to the grave five years ago. Nearly a half century ago Mrs. Harry became a member of the church and has since been a loyal church worker and member, being affiliated with the Presbyterian church at the time of her death. Four children, all prominent survive. They are Mr. C. F. Harry, Grover manufacturer; Mr. B. A. Harry, with whom she made her home; Rev. Grady Harry, Newton minister, and Miss M. L. Harry, a register nurse of Walhala, 8. C. Webb Breaks Record On Cleveland Course Snook Webb Shoots 31, Five Under Par, On Nine Holes Here. New Record. There’s something new for golfers and dubs of this section to shoot at now on the Cleveland Springs golf course. Over the week-end Fred (Snook) Webb, one member of the famous Webb brothers golfing team of Pete and Fred, established a new low score record on the difficult 9-hole Cleveland Springs course by shoot ing a 31, which is five under par The former record was a 32 held by Pete Webb. In establishing the record young Webb shot one eagle, two under par, on the long fifth hole, three birdies, which is one under par on a hole, and five pars. His score card gave him five threes and four fours. For the 18 holes he shot a -65-34, for an 18-hole record. T. P, Sellers, who won first prize for making the most cotton on a five acre plot last year, ts a live-at home farmer whose record shows that he does not let cotton get all of hte Interest and attention. He lives out In No. 5 township and has been farming for 35 years. Nothing has been bought for family or stock to eat for 25 years in the nature of flour, grain, hay and meat. Mr. Sellers Is truly a "variety farmer,” growing wheat, oats, barley, rye. soja beans, vetch, corn and cotton. He keeps five or six milk cows, 300 to 400 chickens, a stock hog, and brood sow. Shelton J. Cabanlss has been farming for 20 years and has never bought any wheat, corn or oats ex cept in 1916 when the flood devast ed the crops and drove him to it. Last fall the heavy, continuous rains made it impossible to sow any wheat for this year, but as a rule Mr. Cabanlss grows enough food for family and stock and is always selling a surplus of eggs, butter and milk. Next, The Star hears of a farm er of the "old school” who grew up during the period following the Civil war when it was a reflection on a (CONTINUED ON PAGE KIOHT> w New State Road From Shelby To Marion Assured New State Road To Marion Assured District CnmmfsMnnrr A. M. Kistlcr Assures That Itoad Hill Be Taken Over by State. A state maintained road from Shelby via Polkville to Marion is now assured, according to indirect information learned from Mr. A. M. Klstler, district highway commis sioner of Morganton. Already there U a state maintained road from Shelby to Polkville and the plan is to branch off at Polkville, go by Lees Chapel over the mountain at Boldin Gap in McDowell county and on through Dysartville to Mar ion. This would cut the distance be tween Shelby and Marion by 10 or 12 miles. Mr. Klstler recently went over this proposed route and assured the advocates that the road would be taken over by the state as soon as Rutherford county completed two or three miles of road. The convict force and volunteer labor of Ruth erford have been working on this two mile gap and will have it com pleted within a week or ten days. This is said to be a beautiful scenic route. Boldin Gap Is where Rutherford. Burke and McDowell counties have a Joint comer and re cently there was a picnic at this point in celebration of the coming of the new highway. It will be open up to Shelby a fine trading section, furnishing a good road for those living in the northwestern section of Cleveland, Golden Valley and Duncan creek township of Rutherford, Lower Burke and Mc Dowell counties. Fourteen miles of the road is in Rutherford county and it is hoped that with the con sent of Rutherford people to spend part of their allotment of highway funds on this road. the entire Jrtretch from Shelby to Marlon may be treated to a black-top hard sur face. Colored Man Swats Another Because He Got Tune Too High Paul Degree and another colored man attended services at a colored church in the county last week, nnd as a result of their attendance both were present at this morning ses sion of county court, where they Kave Recorder Horace Kennedy a rouple demonstrations In the art of singing and pitchin’ tunes. At the church service, according to evidence in the case, Paul did not like the manner in which the other fellow was singing, and the oth<*r fellow, in turn, was not wild over Foul’s vocal efforts. The other fel low, by Paul’s version was "pitchin' the tune too high," but the other fellow contended that Paul Just couldn’t ‘hist’ his voice to the upper chords. The argument grew heated and wound up with Paul smacking j tarnation out of the other fellow with the plank. During the trial they both sang a bit for the county judge so that he might see just which pitched the tune in the proper manner. After hearing a couple verses from each, Judge Kennedy plaster ed a $10 fine on Paul for plastering the other fellow with a plank, and the other fellow was taxed with the costa. Baber Candidate For Sheriff Mr. Sam Baber {above) Is the lat est candidate for sheriff of Cleve land county to enter the race here. For years a merchant in South Shelby, Mr. Baber is widely known In the city and county, and after filing with the election board last week he began an active cam paign. Other candidate in the Dem ocratic primary are Sheriff Irvin Allen, Mr. Marvin Blanton, and Mr. Pink E. Lackey. (Star photo by Ellis.) Mrs. Jones Of Lattimore Dies Mother of Mrs. J. Broad us La til more .Succumbs After Long Illnes*. The funeral of Mrs. J. A. Jones of Lattimore takes place this after noon, services to be conducted,by Rev. L D. Harrlll and Rev. W. C. Lynch, the Interment to be in tire cemetery at the Lattimore Baptist church. Mrs. Jones died Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. J. Broad us Lattimore. Mrs. Jones be fore marriage was Miss Mary June Jolly and was born, May ll, 1857. She was 73 years of age. Mrs. Jones joined Sandy Run Baptist church in early girlhood and remained a consistent Christian ever since. She was married to J. A. Jones In 1880 and to this union one daughter, Suzie, was born. This daughter was married to Mr. J. B. Lattimore and survives, together with her father. Also surviving Mrs. Jones are four sisters, Myra and Omah Jolley. Mrs. Will Jolley and Mrs. Clementine Bland. Three brothers and three sisters preceded her to the grave. T. P. A. Group Meet On Friday Afternoon Local Traveling Men To Elect Of ficers At Meeting This Week. A meeting of the Local Travelers Protective Association will be heid Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock in ihe offices of the Kendall Medicine company here, it was announced to day by Mr. Bloom Kendall. At this meeting the organization of Shelby travelling men will elect their offic cers for the year, and will transact other business of importance to them. Shelby And Spencer Clash Here Tuesday In Title Race; Western Final Comes Saturday If Shelby Wins Game For Western Crown Here Saturday. This is to be. or, rather, could be, Shelby’s biggest baseball week. The Shelby highs 1929 state champions, and Spencer meet here Tuesday afternoon at 3:45 in the semi-finals game of the Western Carolina champion ship series. If the Morismen, with 14 wins behind them so far this season, can win, the game for the western championship will be played in Shelby Saturday afternoon with the winner of the Mt. Airy-Bessmcr game, being played tomorrow, furnishing the opposition. Should such be the case it will be the first western title game ever played here, and the only time the semi final game and the final game were ever staged in the same town in one week. Wnen the Spencer and Shelby teams trot on the field here to morrow afternoon in the crucial game Coach Casey Morris will be matching wits and baseball shrewdness with an old pupil of his, for the Spencer coach is none other than I. S. Cheek, who was assistant coach to Morris here four years ago when Shelby won her second baseball crown and the western foot ball title. It will be a day of old rivalries for it was that same season, four years ago, that Shelby’s greatest football eleven defeated Spencer in Charlotte 41 to 0 for the western football honors. Spencer, incidentally, elimin ated the strong Wades boro team from the title race, and it was Wades boro that Shelby dreaded for Wadesboro had handed a trimming to Norwood and Norwood's great pitcher, Ross. All of which means that Capt. Halt Farris and his team mates have an afternoon's task cut out for them Tuesday. Baseball enthusiasm rose to a high peak here last week when the locals defeated the fast Alt. Holly team, and the game to morrow will in all likelihood draw one of the largest base ball crowds since the days of the Bine Ridge league. Coach Morris at the schedule meeting in Salisbury Saturday night had to assure a big guarantee in order to get Tuesday’s game here, and also Saturday’s, if Shelby wins, and fans are urged to boost the game in order that the high school outfit may make expenses in bringing the big games here. In rase it rains Tuesday the game will be played Wednes day. If it should rain out Sat urday’s scheduled title game, the game will be played Mon day. Sherrill Hamrick is billed to handle the pitching duties to morrow, and today 15 Shelby lads are trying to get their eyes and bats tuned in on the left way. MOTHER BASEBALL NEWS ON 2.) County Farmers Sell Poultry For $30,000 In 4-Months Period Postal Gain At Local Office Postal rrrflpls at the local postofflee showed the largest gain over the corresponding month of the previous year as is shown in April receipts, the gain being 41 percent. Mr Quinn says he knows of no special mailing to cause this re markable inrrease, so attributes it to a revival of business. In .Tanuary this year there was a loss of 4.5 per cent over last Jan uary; in Frbruary a loss of 4.5 per cent over last February. In March there was another loss, but April stepped ahead to set up a new record. Large Crowds Hear Bailey; School Finals Speak* At Hollis and Ellenboro School Closings Friday After noon and Night. Two large audiences heard Hon. Josiah W. Bailey when he delivered eloquent addresses at the closing of Hollis and Ellenboro high schools Friday afternoon and night. Mr. Bailey had for his subject at the Hollis speech, "Adversity and Pros perity” in which he upheld adver | sity as the fiery furnace that makes | courageous and successful men and women. "The poor of today will be the rich of the future, Statesman come from humble cottages rather than mansions and in the hour of supreme need in the world, his tory proves that the men who rise to eminence are those from the ho vel and hut, the cabin and little home, rather than from the homes of the rich. Adversity makes strong men because when sorrow comes, friends come; when death comes, comforters come: when poverty comes, the helping hand In ex tended,” declared Mr. Bailey. Speaking of education Mr. Bailey declared “what ever else happens In North Carolina, we are going to take care of our children. I had rather my boy have a good educa tion than leave him a million dol lars. I know what an education would do for him. I do not know what wealth might do for him.” In closing, he diagnosed the cause of the financial crisis by saying that we have been living on wealth created by borrowing. We will get out of this problem when the farm ers get the same fair deal thRt factories get and we learn to go forward on wealth created by work rather than borrowed wealth. Mr. Bailey was introduced lu elo quent terms by Grady Withrow, one of the strongest friends the Hollis school has and the large auditor ium was filled. Boy On Pony Struck By Car, Pony Killed Archdale Youth Bruised When Passing Motorist Hit His Pony. Woman Blamed. J. I). Montgomery, seven-year-old boy of the Archdale section, north east of Grover, was bruised and his pony so badly Injured that it had to be killed when the pony he was riding Sunday afternoon was struck by an automobile occupied by two Charlotte men. Deputy Charlie Sheppard in Shel by today stated that information given him had it that the car of the Charlotte men was passing the youth on his pany when a car be hind them driven by a woman at tempted to pass the Charlotte car and in doing so force dtheir car to strike the pony the boy was riding. The Charlotte men, whose names were O. C. Boyles and W. B. Port, both of Morehead street, secured the auto license number of the wom an's car as it passed and turned the number over to Deputy Sheppard. She was driving a car with a South Carolina license. Mrs. Rachel Runyans Observes Birthday The friends and relatives of Mrs. Rachel Runyans, who is 71 years old. gave her a surprise birthday dinner yesterday. Mrs. Runyans lives in lower Cleveland county. There were about 98 present. Had a bountiful dinner served on the ground. A nice time was reported. Record Season For Poultry Seen < Irvrland Poultry Ralnere SMI 146.* 000 Pounds of Poultry In Four Months. j Judging by the start made Cleve lund county farmers this year will likely market more poultry titan In any year past, $30,706.62 worth of poultry having been marketed dur ing the first four months of the year, according to figures announc ed today by R. W. Shoffner, eoun | ty farm agent. If the poultry market continues to hold up the county agent la of the opinion that the poultry crop this year rank close to the cotton crop in value, and may mean In boosting the cash income of county fanners. For Four Months In the four months period since the first of the year 146,222 pound* of poultry have been purchased in Shelby, the majority being shipped to outside markets. The major por tion or the poultry sold here was to poultry cars brought through the county by the farm agent or to the local buying houses of the Eagi> Poultry company and the Buttle Hatchery. The biggest poultry sale of the year so far was January during which count fanners sold around 38,000 pounds of poultry. The other months ranged from 30 to 35 thou sand pound, the average price throughout the season running be tween 20 and 23 cents. The poultry car handled through the farm agent has been visiting the county once eaflh week and will continue to do so for some weeks yet, it Is sfdd, after which It will be operated only once each fortnight. Patterson Springs Finals This Week One-Hundred and Fifty Youngsters To Participate. Begins Tues day Through Friday. The commencement exercises of the Patterson Springs high school, with 150 students participating, will get underway Tuesday and continue each evening through Friday. Tuesday evening at 7:45 will come the primary grades, operetta, “The Golden Whistle,’* and a one-act play “Ma Gossip and Pa Nosey.” The two will cover a period of one hour and 45 minutes. The annual recitation and de clamation contests will be( held Wednesday evening at 7:45. Thursday evening at 7:45 will come the musical play “Sunny of Sunnyside” by the grammar grades. The play will cover two hours time. The high school play, “Judith of the Mountains," in three acts, will be put on Friday evening at 7:45 Essay Contest Here Wednesday at 2 P. M High School Youngster Compete In Cotton Marketing Subject For Prises. Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the court house here high school boys and girls of Cleveland county will participate in an essay contest sponsored by the North Caroline Cotton Cooperative association. The subject of the essay contest i Is “How can the benefits of the ag ricultural marketing act be brought to the cotton farmer.” The winner of the county-wide contests here Wednesday, according to Mr. Cobby Horn, field representative, will be entered In the western district con test at Charlotte to compete for the trip to the final state contest in Raleigh. Mr. M. G. Mann, official of the main bureau in Raleigh, will be here for the contest, which will be open to the public. Farmer* Listen To Deep Tillage Talk Between 30 and 40 farmers were In the court house here Friday night to hear E. E. Crandall, rep resenting the Kllllfer Manufacturing Co. deliver a lecture on the value o' deep tillage, the manufacture of plant foods and the growing of le gume crops and conservation of moisture in the soil. It was a very interesting and constructive address and was sponsored by the Anderson Tractor and Equipment Co., of Hickory. J. A. Adams being sales man in the Shelby territory.