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IcbrUtni) tar VOL. XXXVI, No. 72 SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1930, 8 PAGES TODAY r,. , . , _ . . . By mall, per year On advance) $f.30 ubusnea Mondnyi \\ cdncsdsy slid I4 rid&y Attcrnoons* cirrtcrf per year (t |^do I LATE NEWS THE MARKET. Cotton, per lb. ................ 15c Cotton Seed, per bo. ........ 40!4c Showers Tuesday. Today’s North Carolina Weather Report: Showers late tonight or t Tuesday. Not much change in tem perature. Two Die In Crash. Goldsboro, June 15.—Two persons were killed and seven injured in an automobile wreck on highway No. 10 near Pine Level early today. The dead are M. J. Barker and Miss . Vailie King, ot Willow Springs. Of the seven injured, Arthur Eisman, of Dillon, S. C., is not expected to live. He was injured internally. Schedule For Carolina Loop Arranged Here Four Clubs Prepare Schedule For Remainder of Year In 'j Meet Here. At a meeting; held In Shelby Saturday night representatives of the four clubs in the new Carolina semi-pro league ar ranged their schedule for the remainder of the season. The schedule, showing where Shelby, Spartanburg, Forest City and Spindale play their remaining games, follows: Saturday, June 14.—Spartanburg at Shelby: Spindale at Forest City. , Thursday, June 19.—Forest City at Spartanburg; Spindale at Shelby. Saturday, June 21.—Spartanburg at Forest City; Shelby at Spindale. Thursday, June 26.—Shelby at Forest City; Spindale at Spartan burg. Saturday, June 28—Forest City at Shelby; Spartanburg at Spindale. Thursday, July 3.—Forest City at * Spartanburg; Shelby at Spindale. Saturday, July 5.—Spartanburg at Forest City; Spindale at Shelby. Thursday, July 10.—Spindale et Forest City; Shelby at Spartanburg Saturday, July 12.—Forest City at Spindale; Spartanburg at Shelby. i Thursday, July 17.—Spindale at Spartanburg; Forest City at Shel by. Saturday, July 19.—Spartanburg at Spindale; Shelby at Forest City. Thursday July 24.—Shelby at Spindale; Forest City at Spartan burg. Saturday, July 26.—Spindale at CONTINUED ON PAQS THREE ) . S. C. Governor Coming To City Tennessee Governor Unable To At tend Celebration Program Session. Charlotte, June 16.—Gov. John G. Richards of South Carolina has notified Chairman Clarence Kues _ ter of the Kings Mountain cele bration committee in Shelby, June 27. Gov. H. H. Horton, of Tennessee, wrote the Charlotte man that he cannot attend the meeting because of previous engagements for that date. Governor Gardner of North Carolina has not yet replied to the invitation. The executives of the three states were Invited to attend the meeting to approve final plans for the ses ' qui-centennial celebration, at which President Hoover has agreed to speak. Miss McKnight Is Worse, Stated Today Miss Dorothy McKnight, popular young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John S. McKnight, who has been ill for some time, seems to be stead ily growing worse, it was stated at i he Shelby hospital at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Last week Miss Mc Knight rallied somewhat after be ing seriously ill, but since then she lias failed to hold the ground gain ed and her condition is now ser ious, Carver Wood Hurt In Automobile Crash Has Ribs Fractured In Collision. Hurt. ’ Mr. J. Carver Wood, of Shelby, l ad two ribs fractured and other minor injuries about six o’clock Saturday afternoon when his auto mobile and one driven by several negroes collided in the Zoax church section. The colored men, who work on the Sam Lattimore farm, were also injured, but not seriously. Mr. Wood was taken to the Shelby hospital lor treatment but was able to re uim to his home Sunday morning. «. Loth cars were badly damaged in the crash. Cleveland County Crop In 1929 Valued Over 8 Million Dollars Value Of Farm Crop* In County Equal To $222 Per Person. Cotton First, Dairy Products Second, Corn Third And Poultry Fourth. Interesting Farm Figures. Cleveland County retains her position as one of the leading agricultural counties in North Carolina, and, also, as one of the wealthiest. The 1929 summary issue of the Farm Forecast, issued by the Department of Agriculture, shows that in 1929 the farm crops of this county, including dairy and poultry products, were valued at a little over eight mil lion dollars. I r The figures to be exact are $8, 263,285. Cotton, of course, led the way as the most valuable of all the county crops despite the fact that the average price for the year was set at 17 cents. Dairy products ranked second, corn third and poultry fourth with wheat stepping inth fifth place. How They Ranked. The crops and their values by rank in this county follow: Cotton and Cotton seed_$6,021,400 Dairy products_ 980,000 Corn -- 767,000 Poultry and eggs- 121,000 Wheat... 116,814 Sweet potatoes_ 83,334 Oats . ..„. 71.683 Hay . .. 50,000 Irish potatoes__ 28,000 Rye.-. 7,212 Soy Beans _■_—*- 6,127 Cow peas_ 3,841 Peanuts-- 1,868 Tobacco _ .- 878 Total.. $8,263,285 Is Good Income. One of the surprising items in the list, assembled by agricultural stat isticians, will be that there were seven acres in tobacco in the coun ty last year. Estimating that 36,000 of the 52, 000 people in Cleveland county live on the farm, or are dependent on the farm, the eight million dollar total farm crop values of 1929 means approximately $220 per man, woman and child. Tfco of the big gains showjf in 1929 were in dairy products and poultry. Coton gained also, but there was a decrease in price. There was considerable decrease in the corn crop, sweet potatoes, soy beans, and the hay crop. jno county in me state approacn ed Cleveland in the value of the 1929 cotton crop. In producing 64, 000 bales Cleveland farmers averag ed 316 pounds per acre, their best average, on 79,428 acres of land de voted to cotton. The total acreage in 1929 was five thousand acres more than in 1928. The com acreage in 1929 in the county in the county was two thousand acres less than in 1928 but the yield of 21 bushels per acre was better than the 1928 yield and the value of the com crop was about $50,000 more than in 1928. The 7,054 acres in wheat averag ed 12 bushels to the acre or 84,648 bushels in all. This was a gain of about one thousands bushels over 1928, but was 16 thousand bushels less than in 1927. The 1929 oat crop totall ing 94,320 bushels, was considerably larger than the crop of 1927 or 1928. The rye crop of 4,840 bushels was also slightly ahead of the crops of 1927 and 1928. The 26,680 pounds of peanuts in 1929 was a gain over 1928, but a decrease over 1927. Most In Cotton. The figures on the distribution of the crops show that Cleveland is first of all a cotton county with 61.7 percent of the farm acreage in cotton, while 26.3 percent of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT, t Old Dobbin Not Done In County The automobile hasn’t sup planted Old Dobbin, the car riage hone, and the tractor hasn't pot an end to the plow in Cleveland county. Farm statistics for th«# county for 1929, just issued, show that there were 366 more horses and mules in the county In 1929 than in 1928. Chautauqua To Close This Eve Cathedral Choir Puts On final Programs This Afternoon And Tonight. The Redpath Chautauqua will close a five-day program in Shel by tonight. This afternoon there will be a concert by the widely-known Ca thedral Choir. The program will in clude popular music, vocal and in strumental, with special scenery, entertaining sketches, and stirring melodies. Tonight the same choir will close tiie Chautauqua season with a three-section program. An operetta, “Tokahoma Maid,” and the “West Point Revue" will be the closing number. The crowds attending have been on the increase since the initial program and it Is believed that the attendance will be large for the two fine programs this afternoon and evening. Negro Woman Shot at Lawndale On Friday Man Shoots Woman Who Had Been Quarreling With Wife. In Serious Shape. Eva Tindell, negro woman of Lawndale, is in the Shelby hospital in a serious condition as the re sult of being shot through the ab domen Friday afternoon by Doc Dillard, negro man. Dillard’s wife and the Tindell woman, officers say, had been quar reling when Dillard came home and was* told about it. He then went to the Tindell woman’s home and shot her, It Is said. The bullet ploughed through her abdomen, puncturing her' Intestines at eight places it was said today at the hospital. Dillard was placed in jail here by Deputy Lorin E. Hoyle and Chief Harvey Ouin, of Lawndale. Protective Group To Meet Tuesday Night A meeting of the Cleveland Coun ty Mutual Protective association will be held Tuesday night at eight o’clock at Campbell's department store, It was announced today. Highway Patrolmen Stop Many Cars Without Tags; Very Active Fines and Costs Collected by Patrol men Total Over $6,000 in Single Month. Raleigh—A total of 302 drivers without automobile license plates, 319 with improper licenses, 63 with lost tags, and 12 dealers' tags used for private purposes, when appre hended by highway patrolmen last month turned in a revenue of $9, 810 80 to the state, according to the monthly report issued from Capt. Charles D. Farmer’s office. In addition, fines and costs paid by 445 offenders, who were arrested, amounted to $0,317.85, while senten ces totaling 93 months were also given offenders. A total of 12,374 cars were stopped bv patrolmen dur ing the month 5,302 of these being “one-eyed’' cars or cars without the regulation lights required by law. Lights on these cars were fixed at near-by filling stations. There were 411 cards issued to drivers of cars without proper lights and 327 to cars with improper brakes, mirrors, or other equipment, all of which cards were ( returned after defects had been corrected, warnings were issued to 3,796 driv ers, and courtesies of the road ex tended to 879. Drivers were warned of the following offenses: Parking on traveled portion of highway, 1, 807; passing on curves, 484; passing on hills, 118; “hearse driving” or driving so slowly as to impede traf fice, 167; overloaded trucks 20. Patrolmen traveled 104535 miles in the performance of their duties, working 10,602 hours. Attempted Safe Robbery Here Try To Rob Seaboard Safe Early Saturday Morn. Enter Shull’s Market. A weed-end of robberies and attempted robberies In Shelby was featured by the attempt to enter the safe at the Seaboard station about 3 o’clock Satur day moraine. Other robberies reported on Fri day night or Saturday morning were at ^hull’s market and the new pool room near the Carolina theatre. Burst Combination. ai me seaboard tne combination was knocked off the safe with an ax, but the thieves, thought to be negroes, were frightened away be fore the robbery was completed. A passer-by about 2 In the morning saw three negroes hurriedly leav ing the station and police offloers are of the opinion that they were the men who attempted to enter the safe. So hurriedly did the ne groes leave that they left their tools, consisting of a short ax, two chisels and a pair of pliers, by the safe. Some money In a desk near the safe was overlooked. Two ne groes were arrested upon suspicion Saturday but were later freed when officers could not connect them with the safe bursting at the Sea board. dome time during the night the steefcle on'the front door of the Shull market, on 8outh LaFayette street, was pried loose and some groceries stoleh. Just how much was taken Mr. Shull could not defi nitely determine. On the same night the pool room in the same block was entered and the cash register torn up, but no valuables taken. MasonsHere Hold Interesting Meet Grand Master Tlmberlake Addresses Gathering. Other Promin ent Visitors. The Masons of Shelby and sur rounding section were hosts at the Cleveland lodge 202 A. F. and A. M. here Saturday night to Mr. E. W. Timberlake, state grand master, and with Grand Master Timberlake as the honor guest and speaker the meeting was one of the best held here In many months. Prominent visitors in addition to Mr. Timberlake were Grand Secre tary John H. Anderson and deputy Grand Master J. W. Winboroe. Tabu were made to the gathering by all the visitors. The address of welcome to the visitors was made by Clyde R. Hoey and Attorney J. O. Newton introduced the grand master. Music was furnished prior to the meeting by John Best's Trouba dours. and refreshments were serv ed by the ladies of the Eastern Star chapter. The meeting, according to Capt. J. Frank Roberts, worshipful mas ter of the local lodge, was a gen eral success. Cleveland Boy* To Enter Wheat Field* Five Youths To Visit West And Work In Wheat Harvest There. A party of five Cleveland county youths will leave Saturday night for a tour of the middle vest and the west coast. They are Wyan Washburn, Reburn Washburn, Olin Green, Everett Brooks, and Wood row Humphries. They will go first to Hillsboro, Kansas, where they plan to work in wheat harvest for several weeks, after which they will travel about the west for several weeks before returning home. Tomatoes Grow On ' Irish Potato Stalk Here’s one for the record books hereabouts; Tomatoes growing on an Irish potato stalk. Mr. C. C. Bridges, who lives in No. 4 township on Kings Mountain route 2, was eAibit , ing in Shelby today a full grown Irish potato stalk on which were several young to matoes. He found the freak early today while in his potato patch. There were seven small tomatoes en the stalk when it first noticed. Democrats Hold County Meeting Here June 28 Precinct Meetings To Be June 21 Cleveland Democrats Meet Then To Name Delegates To State Meet July 3. With the primary a thing of - the past political conventions will be rather tame affairs, but on Saturday( June 38. the Dem erits of Cleveland county are scheduled to hold their annual county convention at the court house here for the purpose of naming delegates to the state convention on July 3, In Ra leigh. Mr. Oliver S. Anthony, chair man of the county Democrats, an nounces that Democratic precinct meetings will be held all over Cleve land county next Saturday, June 21, for the purpose of naming dele gates to the county convention here the following Saturday, June 28. State Convention. Cleveland county is entitled to 43 votes at the state convention, and the major items to face the con vention will be the naming of a party chairman and the framing of the 6tate platform. Odus M. Mull, of Shelby, is the present state chair man and will likely be named again but there is a likelihood, of course, that a new chairman may be sel ected. Concerning the state convention Raleigh dispatches say the follow ing: “The state Democratic conven tion, meeting in Raleigh July 3, will (CONTINUE) ON PAGE EIGHT.) New Bank Will OpenAtGaffney Peeples Bunk Ot South Carolina Will Open Doom Tuesday. Gaffney, S. C., June 16—Once served toy five banks but with only one for the past four months. Gaff ney will have two in operation when the local branch of the Peoples State Bank of South Carolina opens Tuesday. s The official personnel of the local branch will Include J. Claude Fort, vice president; Joe H. Hall, cashier; Claude LittjeJohn, assistant cashier; James McSwain, bookkeeper, and Mrs. O. N. Mullinax, stenographer. The local boards of directors is headed by Dr. W. C. Hamrick, state senator and textile executive, who is vice president of the Merchants and Planters National bank. The other members are C. L. Chandler, superintendent of the Gaffney Manufacturing company, and Mr. Fort and Mr. Hall. Arrest Woman In Drive On Chicken Stealing In County Bertie Batler Arrested At Forest City. Towery Given Two Months. Cleveland county officers are keeping up their drive to rid this county and section of chicken stealing gangs who have been play ing havoc with roosts in several counties. Saturday county officers arrest ed Bertie Butler, a white woman, at Forest City and she is to be giv en a hearing here today as officers suspect that she knows something about the operations of Bob Tow ery’s group of chicken bandits. Towery was given two months on the road here last week. Identify Chickens. A number of the score or so of .chickens found by county officers at Towery’s home have been iden tified by R. V. Tate, who lives near Harris station in Rutherford coun ty. The chickens were being kept at the home of Deputy Tom Sweezy. Mr. Sweezy has four of the chick ens left—three reds and a yellow chicken—and hopes that they may be Identified in order to build up additional cases against the thieves. I —_ Hamrick Youth Hurt In Fall On Sunday Archie Hamrick, 10-year-old son of David Hamrick who lives south of Shelby, was painfully injured Sunday afternoon in a Tall at his father’s barn. At the Shelby hos pital, where he was taken for treat ment, it was stated that he had a fractured rib and cuts about the head and face. Blessing Runaway Lovers Douglas Gilmofe, motion picture -1 actor, and his bride, Ruth Mix, daughter of the famous Tom Mix, screen star, are back home. All appeared quiet on the Beverly Hill*, Cal., front, where Mr». Olive Stokes Mix, mother of Ruth, lives, and she derided to forrive them. Photo shows i Mr*. Olive Stokes Mix meeting \ the couple after their return ! from Yuma. % | Jones Calls Second Contest For Nomination To Congress Gardner Has Not Filed For Second Solicitor's Race Second Man <v first Primary Had Not Filed At Noon Solicitor P. Cleveland Gard ner. who ran second to Attor ney J. C. Newton in the first primary race for solicitor of county court, had not at I o'clock today filed for a second race. This was the information given out by the county election board. In the first race there were three candidates—Mr. Gardner, Mr. Newton and Attorney Pat McBrayer, Newton lacking *0 votes of receiving the majority necessary for a win in that race. No. Seven Township Vote For Road Board Hoyle Named Constable. Washburn, Burras, Storkton On Board. The county election board an nounced today the complete vote In two races in No. 7 township in the recent primary. In the tabulated vote last week The Star overlooked the township race there and since there is considerable interest the vote is being given today. In the township road commission race the voting was as follows: D. P. Washburn 317, Grady Burrus 240, T. C. Stockton 232, N. M. Green 142, W. D. Walker 169, Forrest Crowder 184. In the contest for township con stable the vote was: Lorin E. Hoyle 226, S. B. Cooper 186, J. L. Dixon 35. This gives Hoyle the nomina tion with five more than a major ity. Charlotte Attorney Enter* Second Race With Major A. L. Bulwinkle. Charlotte, Jttne 16.— Hamilton C. Jones. Charlotte lawyer and recent ‘candidate in the June 7 primary for the Democratic nomination for congress from the ninth district, has definitely entered the second primary, he declared Saturday. ■'I certainly will be a candidate,” Mr, Jones said. "I'm not only en tering the second primary, but am starting at once upon the campaign to sweep the Republican party from power in the ninth congres sional district. "My friends over the district re port a popular sentiment that im pels me to go forth in my campaign I for congress. Since last Saturday l! have conferred with Democratic leaders from all parts of the dis trict and It is their opinion that a second primary to select a Demo cratic nominee for congress is not only proper but for the best inter est of the Democratic party. .‘‘For reasons which every Demo crat will understand and support I wish to. express the assurance that my campaign will be conducted on the same high, plane which will leave the Democrats united for the redemption of the district in the fall election.” In the first primary Mr. Jones and Maj. A. L. Bulwinkle lacked but 2,072 votes, which were given Dr. W. A. Sams of Marshall, of re ceiving .the. approximately 37,500 votes cast. and in this contest Major Bulwinkle led by several hundred votes. Dr. Sams has aiOTred the Meck lenburg man that he will be his en thusiastic supporter in the second race and has already begun a cam paign of enlisting additional sup port for Mr. Jones in. the western area of the district. Bulwinkle followers are equally confident that the Gastonia man, high in the first race, will carry the district. Eight Persons Killed As Result Of Storms And Floods In Texas I Bolt Of Lightning Kills Two. Heavy Rains, Streams Burst Banks. Dallas, Tex., June 16—Eight per sons were dead Saturday night and another, an aged grandmother was missing, as a result of storms and sudden floods in West Texas during the last three days. The bodies of Oscar Tidwell, his wife and their two children, Oscar, jr.. 8, and Edna Bell, 17, were re covered Saturday from the waters of Lake creek, in Knox county, aft er a sudden freshet caused by a heavy rain washed away their home near Goree. Mrs. W. M. Gil liland. 80, Mrs. Tidwell's mother, still was missing and searchers con tinued their efforts to find her body. Mrs. Morris Durham and Mrs. Cora Whitaker were killed when struck by a bolt of lightning during a severe storm at La Mesa Satur day night. Five others in the home of Mrs. Durham were injured. Boy Is Drowned. Lindsey Phillips, 15, was drowned Saturday when hr* automobile ran off the road into Tehuacana creek, near Fairfield. P. C. Lee, of Luling, was drowned Friday night when his automobile was swept from a creek crossing near San Angelo. Heavy rains sent freshets over highway near Westbrook. La Mesa reported the heaviest rain in years.; Flood waters of Threadgitl creek j CONTINUED ON PAGE. EIGHT.) | Geo. W. Peeler Dead; Funeral To Be Tuesday Prominent Citizen Died Sunday Former Count; Commissioner Pass* ed Last Night. Funeral At Clover Hill. Mr. George IV. Peeler, a mem ber of the board of commis sioners of Cleveland county for about 10 years and long con nected with public activities of the county, died last night at 11 o’clock at his home on North DeKalb street after an Illness of a week. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock at Clover Hill church, and Rev. L. B. Hayes, pastor of Central Methodist church here, will have charge of the services. upper Cleveland Man. Mr. Peeler, who was 73 years of age at the time of his death, was a native of the upper section of the county and lived there for years, being an active leader in that sec tion. Something like 10 years ago he moved to Shelby and has since made his home here. In addition to his years of serv ice on the commission board, in a time in which the Cleveland coun ty government was undergoing many changes and improvements, he was also a magistrate for years. Due to his long services with the county he was one of the best known figures throughout Cleve land, and highly admired and re spected by hundreds of citizens. Of recent years his health has not been so good, but when able ha was about the court house min gling with his friends. Last week his entire system was poisoned with diabetes and although ha re covered somewhat for a day or so he never regained enough strength to combat the. poison. The deceased was a valued mem ber of the Central Methodist church here, but wil be buried at Clover Hill in his old home section. . ^ Widow Survives. Surviving are the widow and two children. Mrs. Peeler before mar riage was Miss Alice Carpenter. The children are Dr. C. M. Peeler, prominent Shelby dentist, and Mrs. Evans Shull. Three other children are dead. One brother, Mr. P. L. Peeler, of Bel wood, survives along with the three following sisters: Mrs. J. D. Hull, of Charlotte; Mrs. Franklin Mull, of Catawba county; and Mhs. Fannie Lineberry, of Jamestown. Pension Money For Vets Here Over 13,000 Her* Tor Confederate Veto And Their Widow*. It is pay day again for the re maining Confederate veterans and their widows in Cleveland county. Mr. A. M. Hamrick, clerk of court, announced today that 13,550, rep resenting the semi-annual pension check for veterans, had arrived here to be distributed. The money is divided as follows: forty-two checks of 182.50 each for white veterans; two checks of $100 each for colored veterans; sixty seven checks of *50 each for wid ows, class B; eighteen checks of $150 each for widows, class A. Checks may be secured by ap plying to Mr. Hamrick at the court house either by the veterans and widows or relatives with proper af fidavits. W. W. Richards Of Belwood Passes Respected Fanner of Belwood Community Buried At Knob Creek Church. W. W. Richards, respeeted farmer of the Belwood community died June 4th at age 56 years, ten months and four days. He had been sick for several years with heart dropsy. Mr. Richards was married to Miss Ella War lick of tipper Cleveland and she survives with the following children: Mrs. Lints Bain, Mrs. Cloe Dayberry, Misses Ruby and Hazey Richard, Mrs. Lucy Buff, Messrs. John and Ralph Richards. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. M. Morgan on JUne 5th and interment was at Knob Creek Me thodist Protestant church where he was a long and faithful mem be.
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