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SHKLBY, N. C. MONDAY, OCT. 27; 1980 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons *« •» "«. «« •d*»o«e> _ **.«>
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LA TE NEWS |!
THE MARKET.
Cotton, per lb.—.. 70c
Cotton Seed, bu. .37r
Rain Likely.
Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Increasing cloudiness prob
ably followed by rain in extreme
west portion tonight and in north
and west portions Tuesday. Slowly
rising temperature.
Flier Dies In Car.
St. Louis. Oct. 26.—Errold G. Bahl
35, aviator and former flying in
structor of CoL Charles A. Lind
bergh, was killed here today when
a is motor car collided with another
nachine.
Circus Tuesday
To Have Parade
Oownie Brothers Coming To Shelby
Tomorrow For Two Perform
ances. Parade at Noon.
Adhering to one of the oldest of
circus features, the parade. and
•combining all of the old with the
improvement of the new, Downie
Brothers circus under the manage
ment of Charles Sparks will arrive
bright and early tomorrow morn
ing to give two shows here Tuesday,
one at 2 in the afternoon and
another at 8 o’clock at night.
Promptly at tne noon nour, me
mile long street parade, a repeca
of the circus of old, will wind its
way through the principle business
streets, with all its streaming ban
ners, Us lofty tableau cars and band
wagons, its cages of wild animals
and of course the ciephants^camels,
ponies, horses, zebras- and all that
go to make a circus parade and a
circus one of the greatest of life's
events.
Under the snow while b'ig top,
three big rings of animals, cornice!
clowns and spangled artists, 300 of
them, take part in this gigantic cir
cus program. To top it all off will
be the three circus bancs rendering
those alluring strain-, of old time,
circus music.
Outstanding among the acts are
the Famous Morales family of Mex
ico, six aces of the tight and slack
wire, three young men and three of
i he prettiest of Spanish scnorltas
that will thrill and amaze with their
skill and daring. The stellar part of
> their offering will be the head and
foot slides of th ee of these artfctsj
on slender threads of steel from the
very top of the tent to the ground
The Hodgini family. Europe’s
greatest equestrians imported for
.this special engagement with Downle
Brothers after starring for the past
two years at the Olympic circus in
London. These unusual bareback
artists that have thrilled all Europe
will hold while these agile men and
women display the finest of riding
ability mingled with the daring
stunts and the hilarious comedy of
that incomparable riding comedian
, Joe. The horses employed by the
Hodgini family are said to be the
finest horse flesh that lias ever
been brought to these shores.
The matinee will start promptly
at 2 and the night show at 8. The
parade leaves the circus grounds at
11:45 and ample free parking space
has been provided for those that
choose to motor.
Former Citizen Of
Earl Buried Thursday
Martin Wheeler Roberts Dies At
Blacksburg. Buried at Sulphur
Springs >1. £. Church.
<Special to The Star.)
Fart, Oct. 25.—Mr. Martin Wheel
*er Roberts died at his home in
Blacksburg, S. C. Sunday evening
October 19 at 7 o'clock. He had
been in bad health for more than
a year and had been confined to
his room only a few days when the
end came. He was 54 years of age
. and was a member of the Sulphur
Springs Methodist church. Mr. Rob
erts was reared here but for the
past several years has made his
home in Blacksburg, S. C. When a
young man he was married to Miss
Sara Rippy, who survives with one
daughter, Mrs. Sam Williams, of
Dillon. S. C., and one grandchild,
also his mother, Mrs. P. M. Roberts,
five sisters as follows: Mesdames W.
A. Hamrick, of Landrum, S. C., Jack
Gladden, of Shelby. Claude Nich
ols, of Earl and Misses Maggie and
Nora Roberts of Earl. and four
brothers. Messrs. Step Roberts, of
Inman, 8. C., Tom Roberts of Kings
Creek, S. C., and Jim and Prank, of
Earl, also one aunt. Miss Linsey
Roberts of Earl.
Mr. Roberts was a kind and lov
ing father and a devoted husband
and was loved by all who knew him.
Funeral services were held at the
New Hope Baptist church Tuesday
morning at 11 o'clock. He was laid
to rest beneath a mound of beau
tiful flowers. His nieces served as
flower girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lever and
Miss Carobel Lever attended a tex
tile show in Greenville S. C. la;t
Saturday.
Plan Pay- Up Campaign In County I
To Revive Business And Presarve j
Individual Credit For Next Year
Business Men Plan
Movement
Meeting Of Business Men Scheduled
To Be Held In Court House
Wednesday Evening.
A county-wide pay-up cam
paign is being planned by mer
chants and business men in or
der to revive business and en
able individuals and others to
preserve their credit for use in
future years. A meeting has been
railed to be held in the court
house Wednesday evening at 7:30
o'clock to which all firms who
operate a credit business are in
vited and urged to attend in
order to lay plans for the cam
paign.
Begin Nov. 1st.
It is hoped to inaugurate a coun
ty-wide pay-up campaign begin
ning Nov. 1st when everybody, In
dividuals, firms, corporations and
business men generally will be asked
to pay un their obligations in full
or in part, in order to clear the cred
it slate for next year.
One prominent credit man In
talking about the situation this
morni"g said:
Would Revive Business.
"A few dollars paid, will release
money that enab’es several to meet
their obligations. Right now we are
In the heart of the cotton selling
season with cotton back to a ten
cent basis, Credit is the back-bone
of business and wnth a new year
just around the corner, some con
certed effort should be made to cleat
the sale of charge accounts so that
credit can be extended again next
year.
“There Is a naUon-wide effort to
revive business. This effort is not
for political purposes, but has pure
ly an economic basis. Bond issues
are being voted to carry on public
work throughout the nation so that
unemployed might be given jobs.
Great factories are resuming oper
ations and a recent survey of the
state shows that the number of un*
emoloyed is considerably less than
It was in the summer.
“Just now is the most logical time
to start somethin^. A general pay
no campaign wou’d put money in
circulation, enable everybody to
square off or at least reduce their
indebtedness and set the stage for
future credit, Unless something
along this line is done, manv peo
plg will be asking for credit next
vear and merchants who have their
finances already tied up on past due
accounts, will be unable to extend
credit."
It is hoped that every man in
Cleveland countv who ooerates a
credit business of anv kind, will at
tend this meeting where plans will
be made for a systematic pay-up
campaign. The hour of the meeting
is 7:30 o’clock and the place is the
court house.
M’s* Duckett D’es.
Holds Funeral Today
Miss Nallie Duckett, 28 died at
the Rutherford hospital Saturday
morning at 5:30 o'clock after an
illness of six weeks. Funeral services
and burial were held at Clover Hil1
church, Cleveland county, Monday
at 2 p. m.
She is the daughter of R. L.
Duckett of near Lawndale and
leaves her parents, three sisters and
two brothers.
New Pasture Fences.
There is a new pasture fence to
be found on nearly every road out
of Rockingham in Richmond county
observes J. L. Dover, county agent
Average Cost
Per Pupil For
Books 84 Cents
Books Cost Average Of
72 Cents Per Pupil In
Elementary Grades
Shelby Schools.
The Star, desiring to know exact
ly what the outlay for text-books
in the local schools is because the
cost of school books is being used
as a political football, asked the
teachers and the superintendent of
the schools to make a survey of the
purchase of books in the city
schools.
This survey discloses that the
average cost per pupil per grade for
books is only 72 cents to the ele
mentary grades, in the high school
$2.01, or an average for the entire
school system of only 83 3-10 cents
per pupil.
All second-hand books pave been
eliminated in their calculations for
the reason that the purchase price
to each case has a corresponding
sale price. When all new books have
been multiplied by the purchase
price, the totals added together and
divided by the pupils in the grades.
it is found that the average outlay
per child per grade is sixty and
three-tenths cents in the elementary
school. If the numbers required for
the remainder of the year corres
pond to the numbers purchased at
the outset, all required books for the
year will bring the average to a
fraction under seventy-two cents
per child.
The lowest cost is in the first,
grade where the average is twenty
three cents; the highest in the fifth
grade where the average is one dol
lar and she cents.
The average cost in the high
school is two dollars and one cent.
The highest grade cost Is two dol
lars and ninety-three cerfts and
comes in the tenth grade; the low
est is one dollar and twenty-two
cents and comes in the ninth
grade.
If the elementary and high
school books are all averaged, the
cost per pupil per grade Is eighty
four and three-tenths cents.
Not Over $3,000.
Hepublican campaigners, attempt
ing to make campaign thunder of
school book costs, have declared
that thousands and thousands ci
dollars are spent each year in this
county, as in other counties, for
excessively high priced school books.
The facts do not support these dec
larations. T. W. Ebeltoft, Shelby
book dealer, sells practically all of
the text books used by the elemen
tary school students of Shelby, many
of those used by the elementary
pupils in the county schools, and
quite a few books to Rutherford
county schools. To date he says that
his total book sales for the year is
not in excess of $3,000. In other
words the total purchase price of all
school books sold to more than 5,
000 elementary school children here
Is not more than $3,000. or an aver
age of approximately 60 cents per
pupil. There are 3,600 elementary
school students in the Shelby sys
tem alone, approximately 3,000 ele
mentary students already attending
county schools, and several hundred
elementary students tn Rutherford
schools, many of whom have pur
chased their books this year. Yet
all the books sold do not total over
13,000, and that figure includes
some books sold to higher grades.
Part Of Highway 20 In Rutherford
County Will Be Re-Located Soon
Will Eliminate Bad Curves On The
Rutherford ton-SpIndalc
Road Soon
Rutherfordton, Oct, 27.—The work
of straightening and widening High
way No. 20 between Rutherfordton
and Spindale will start at once, it
was announced here by State High
way engineers. Tire “Main Street of
North Carolina” for nearly a mile
will be re-located and made an
eighteeh-foot wide road. The State
Highway Commission will spend
from $20,000 to $30,000 in this com
munity to make this highway safer
and better for travel. Two sharp
curves will be eliminated.
The new road will start near the
residence of Mr. Robt. L. Hovis and
go up the old road 1 option, in a
hollow and through the present lo
cation of an oil company. It i3
likely that one or two small build
ings will be moved in order to get a
straight road. It will come back into
the present highway near the city
limits of Rutherfordton at the Sea
board depot.
This will fill a long felt need. The
town board of Rutherfordton, as well
as civic clubs have been working to
get this part of highway No. 20
widened and straightened for'some
time. Last week they were assured
by state highway officials that work
on this project would begin at once.
This will eliminate two of the sharp
est and most dangerous curves, also
a steep grade, on this highway,
which runs from the mountains to
the sea.
The survey has been completed
and the road has been staked off.
It is reported that the state high
way commission force will do the
grading, though this is not official.
Rally At Fallston
For Tuesday Night
Three Speakers On
Fulwitikle, Spnrlin and Newton *o
Close Campaign at Fallston
Tuesday livening.
A. L. Bulwinkle, Democratic nom
inee for congress, Spurgeon Spurlln,
nominee for district solicitor and J.
Clint Newton, nominee for county
solicitor will be the three speakers
Tuesday evening October 28th, be
ginning at 1:30 in a big rally to be
staged in the high school auditorium
Announcement of thCse speaking
engagements was made Saturday by
O. S. Anthony, chairman of the
Democratic executive committee who
stated that these speakings wilt
close the campaign at Fallston and
probably be the la«' party rally for
the county. Fallston is the home of
Mr. Spurlln, who now lives at Lenoir
in Caldwell countv. while Mr. New
ton is a native of the upper part of
the county. All thice gentlemen are
able speakers and will present na
tional, state and county Issues to th^
voters for their consideration when
they vote in the general election to
take place Tuesday November 4th.
Birthday Dinner.
A birthday dinner was given Mrs.
Martha Franklin Sunday by her
daughter. Mrs. Doc Wesson, at the
latter’s home on Shelby route 2.
Mrs. Franklin was celebrating her
71st birthday and all of her chil
dren and grandchildren were pres
ent with one or twa exceptions.
41,290 Bales
Cotton Ginned
in County Now
!Thr (inning report for
Cleveland county up to Octo
ber IK indicates that the coun
ty's 1930 cotton crop may not
mis* last year's record crop by
a great number of bales.
tip to Oct. 18, this year, 41,
396 bales had been ginned in
the county a* compared tc
only 17.883 bales to the sam< ;
date last year, according tc j
tire report of Miles 11. Ware
special agent, as given to The
Star at noon.
This Is an increase of 23,
401 bales over last year. The
crop this year, however. Is two
to three weeks ahead of the
1939 crop. Quite a bit of cot
tou remains to be picked In
the county, some fields not
having been picked over one
Uakr as yet.
A record amount of cotton
ha* been picked and ginned In
the last ginning period. Up to
October 1, this year only 17,
279 bales had been ginned. In
other words 24,011 hales have
beeii ginned in the county
from October 1 through Octo
ber 17, or more than had been
ginned altogether up to Octo
ber 18, last year.
Gipsy Bands In Big Controversy |
Here Give Shelby Colorful Time
Gaily Dressed Wanderers Flood The Shelby
Streets. Tribe Princess Gets Kidnapped.
A band of wandering gypsies and
stragglers from another tribe or
band gave Shelby an unexpected yet
colcrtbl five-ring circus over the
week-end and today.
. Ctaabawd trf gyrated Mi,
colored fair here last week. The
entire trouble, which lias brought
gypsies into Shelby today from far
and wide, started, officers believe,
on Friday night when Wand,.
Evans, gypsy man. disappeared
about the same time as did Baby
Mitchell, princess of the tribe and
14-year-old daughter of King John
Mitchell, head of this section of the
tribe. Missing, too, according to
King Mitchell and bis sons, was
$500. A warrant was sworn out for
Evans charging him with kidnap
ping the girl princess and stealing
the $500. City and county officers
found Evans, but failed to find the
money, and then it is said, located
the brown-eyed daughter of the
sypfy chief in an uptown rooming,,
house. V
Bat that only started the jabber
ing and excitemenjt, and today at
11 o’clock local officers were so
mixed up in the scores of excited
and controversial gypsy men and
women that they hardly knew how
to make heads and tails of the
trouble. Warrants were being sworn
lout right and left as Evans' rela
| lives flocked to him In big auto
mobiles laden with women, children
and blankets. Early today the Evans
; band started counter charging. One
; warrant charged John Mitchell and
■his son George with robbing some
•CONTIN'UED ON PAGE EIGHT .
Herbert Washburn,
Of Double Springs,
Buried On Friday
Nine Year Old Double Spring's
Youth, Son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Washburn Passes.
f Special to The Star.i
Double Springs. Oct. 27.—Master
Herbert Dixon Washburn, age nine
years, the only son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred R. Washburn died Thursday
evening about six o’clock. Though
he had been sick more than a
month his death was quite a shock
to his many friends and relatives.
He was an obedient and devoted
child, interested in the activities of
the home and farm, unusually
bright and manly, a very keen ob
server and possessed a cheerful and
brave disposition which he retained
unto the end. He was much loved
by all his associates.
His remains were buried Friday
afternoon in the Double Springs
cemetery. The very impressive fur
neral service was conducted by his
pastor, Rev. J. W. Suttle assisted by
Rev. I. D. Harrill and great uncle of
the deceased, Rev. D. G. Washburn.
A large crowd was present to pay
their last tribute of respect and
love to this dear one. The new
made mound was covered with the
most beautiful flowers, which show
ed the high esteem in which he was
held by all who knew him.
The pallbearers were boys of the
junior department of the Sunday
school, of which he was a member,
James Greene, Johnny Bridges, W.
H. Gardner. Charles Gardner, W.
S. Davis, jr„ J. V. Blanton and
Howard Lee. Flower girls were also
members of the junior department,
Misses Virginia and Evelyn Greene.
Elizabeth Humphries, Mary Francis
Davis, Francis Lee, Carrie May
Blanton, Irene Lovelace, Ann*
Katherine Jones and Marie Wright.
Surviving are his father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Fred R.
Wachbum, also grandparents, Mis.
Lula Hamrick, and Mr. and Mrs. W.
W. Washburn and a host of rein
live.'.
i
Shaw Ouens Court
Here Today; Manv
Big Cases Come Up
Six Killing faxes And Two Bank
Affairs On Docket. Latter May
Be Combined.
Judge Thomas J. Shaw, of
Greensboro, dean of North Car
olina Superior court jurists, con
vened the fall session of Super
ior court here today for the dis
posal of the largest criminal
docket in the history of Cleve
land county.
Not only Is it the largest doekrt
ever, but it contains many import
ant cases, including six death cas
es, two bank embezzlement cases,
rape and assault cclarges.
The outstanding death ease Is
that In which young Hugh Brittain,
of Casar. is charged with killing
Deputy Sheriff Sanford A. Pruett,
the latter being killed when hit. It
is alleged, by a car driven by Brit
tain which Pruett and other offic
ers thought to be a liquor car.
Indications today had It that the
bank embezzlement and false entry
charges against J. J. Lattimore, of
Shelby, and Y. L. McCardwell. of
Mooresboro, might be continued.
Such is the Jam of cases that it will
be impossible to take up everythin?
on the dockett although the crimi
nal session continues into the time
of the civil calendar cases next
week.
Solicitor Spurgeon Spurling, of
Lenoir is prosecuting Mr. J. M. Wil -
liams. of Kings Mountain. Is fore
man of the grand jury and Deputy
John Wilkins 1$ the officer in charge
Deputy Gus Jolley is serving as court
officer.
HAS TURNIP LEAF SHAPED
BY NATURE INTO A FUNNEL
Funnels grow in turnip patches.
Mrs. Doc Wesson, of Shelby, route
2, has in her garden a turnip leaf
which has grown Into a perfect
cone-shaped funnel, the leaf being j
closed all the way around except a!!
the large opening at the top.
| Cleveland Gets
$38,829Oat Of
Gas Tax Fund
Expended For Roadsj
And Bonds
—_
Speculation At To Whether Ga* Tax I
Will Run As Mich A* Last Year, j
Game Fee Receipts. |
(Special To 'Die Star
RalClgh, Oct. 27. Although the
highway fund for counties from th'‘
one cent additional tax placed on
gasoline by the 1928 general assem
bly nmoim-ted to slightly more than
$2,500,000 last year and is estimat
ed at the same figure this year, plus
the $500,000 special fund to counties,
doubt Is beginning to arise as to
whether the fund will reach that
figure, due to the decrease in use
of gasoline and the increased re
funds made on non-highway gaso
line using machinery
indications of the extent of the
decrease are shown by the drop for
the first three months Of the pres
ent fiscal year, which was $151,741
48, as compared with last, year,
when the amount, was $3,381,036-36
from the five-cent tax. The alloca
tion of the $3,000,000 to the coun
ties is made on a basis of area and
population and will be the same for
all counties, unless the drop in tax
gasoline revenues carries the total
below $3 000,000. Last year the a
mount was above that figure, due
to collections for a month or more
from the preceding year, and this
year all of the counties had a small
credit balance from last year .
Cleveland County's Part.
Cleveland county’s allotted amount
was $35,430. but the county actually
received $38,829.38, of which $28,
285 was used for debt service, $11.
597.68 for maintenance and $946.70
was brought over into this year as
a credit balance.
North Carolina received $203,433,
00 In receipts from hunting licenses
for the past fiscal year from 1,275
non-resident hunters. $27S08 with
state-wide licenses and 96.320 who
secured licenses for one county only
Meanses. Forsyth county led with
$7,849.50 !n toal game receipts and
Outlford was second with $7,754.25.
Game Fee Receipts.
Cleveland county game receipts
totaled $2,863,75 received from 432
state licenses issued. 1,530 county
licenses and no non-resident licens
es, and none from fur dealers' li
censes, the report of Charles H,
England, state game warden, shows.
Car Goes Over Bank,
Melton Family Hurt
An automobile went over an am
bankmcnt Sunday afternoon on a
curve in highway No. 20 near
Mooresboro with the result that Mr. I
E. L. Melton of Cherryvllle has s
laceration over his forehead, his {
wife has a broken arm and Injuries;
on her face and scalp and a sister
in-law, Mrs. A. K. Melton has In
juries over her right eye. Air were
brought to the Shelby hospital for
medical attention, and were, dismiss
ed soon afterwards.
Taming Over * New Leaf.
“Dick you read about these folks
who were paralyzed from drinking
Jamaica?” inquired Colonel Booze
man of the storekeeper the ^therj
night,
“Yes. Terrible, wasn’t it?”
“Terrible, indeed,” replied the
Colonel. “I suppose,” he added,
wearily, “that I’ll have to reform
and go to drinking vanilla.”
The Tarheel Red farm of Salis
bury won sweepstakes prize for the
best male bird hi the State Fair
poultry show recently with a single
comb Rhode Island Red cockerel.
Jonas, Cox Criticize
Cleveland Democrats
To Speak Tonight
HON. CLYDE B. HOEY
Hoey To Speek
At Court House
Shelby Orator Speaks Tonight
Despite, Wreck Injury Thurs
day Eve.
Hon. Clyde It. lloey, who Is
perhaps North Carolina's most
popular orator, promised the
Democrats of Cleveland county
that he would speak here dur
ing the campaign and he in
tends to do so—tonight—des
pite the injuries he received in
an automobile wreck near Char
lotte last Thursday evening.
Mr. Hoey received a laceration on
the bead and Mrs. Hooy was shaken
fap”w’fte» their automobile skidded
and tuttied over on the wet pave*
ment while he was en route to Troy
for a campaign speech. Governor
Gardner will substitute for him at
several point* until Mr. Hoey Is
able to resume his full campaign
duties during the last week of the
election drive, but Mr. Hoey him
self will fill the — Toy date to
night.
limy i»n {lour.
Mr. Huey's address begins at the
court house at 7:30 o’clock, and the
meeting will last, only an hour. “We
do not want anybody to stay long
enough to get tired," Democratic of
ficials announce. "But in that brief
hour things will be said which every
citizen should know. Mr. Hoey has
no equal as a speaker In this sec
tion of the south, if anywhere, and
he never speaks better than when
talking to his home people. No one
should miss hearing him tonight.”
Leaders feel sure the usual Dem
ocratic majority will prevail in
Cleveland county next week, and it
la their opinion that the Hoey ad
dress tonight will touch off the en
thusiasm for the dash down the
home stretch.
Mr. Hoey after being treated at
the Presbyterian hospital in Char
lotte was able to return to his home
here Friday evening,
Lawndale Masons
Friday Evening
Lawndale lodge No. 486 A. F. and
A. M. will hold its regular commun
ication on Friday. October 31. An
interesting program is being pre
pared by Prof. C. A. Ledford, edu
cational secretary, and visiting
brethren are Invited to attend.
Shouse Thinks Democrats To Gain
60 Seats In Congress By Election
Committee Chairman Believes Over
turn In Congress Will Likely
Be Closer To 70
Washington, Oct. 27—Spokesmen
for both major parties are coming
out with flat predictions they would
control the house after the Novem
ber election.
Jouett Shouse, chairman of the
Democratic National Executive com
mittee, for the first time placed'his
formal declaration beside the opti
mistic pronouncements of other
members of his party.
"A dispassionate summary of the
facts, allowing full consideration to
over-optimism in some of our re
ports," led to the conclusion, he said.
Representative Will R. Wood, of
Indiana, chairman of the Republi
can Congressional Committee, im
mediately replied "the next House
of Representatives not only will be
Republican, but safely Republican/’
Shouse predicted a minimum gain
of 60 seats and added he firmly be
lieved the overturn would be closer
to 70. He counted at least seven
seats in New England, at least 15
in New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and
West Virginia, and all districts lost
in Southern States twd years ago.
To these he added 30 seats in the
Middle West from Ohio to Kansas.
"This may seem excessive," he said
“but- when it is realized that at
present we have only three seats in
Indiana, three in Ohio, six in Illi
nois. three in Kentucky and six in
Missouri, whereas we will have a
majority of the delegations in most
of these states this time it will be
seen that there is no exaggera
tion."
Patton Also Speaks
To G. O. P Rally
Gov. Brewster of Maine Speaks '1 t
Republicans Here Thursday.
Many at Rally.
With a large crowd in attendant’
Congressman Ohas. A. Jonas, Fran
Patton, and H. Clay Cox, Cleveland
county Republican chairman, mado
oral assault .5 upon Democratic of
fice-holders and Democratic tac
tics at a county-wide Republic;',
rally held in Shelby Saturday afte -
! noon.
[ Mr. Cox the limit speaker devoted
himself to a criticism of Severn!
Democratic offlee-holders here an :1
reference to the school administra
tion in the city preceding that «■
Supt. B L. Smith. Mr. Patton, Re
publican candidate for superior
court, solicitor against Solicitor
Spurgeon Spurting. reviewed the
record of Congressman Jonas in
Washington and declared that the
record was enough to merit the re
turn of the I.incolnton man. Mr.
Jonas did not. make such a fire
eating address as he did recently
in South Shelby, but derided the
use of absentee ballots in the last
primary here, and asked for re
election upon liis record and not
upon his appeal or connection with
any group or organisation.
as tne meeting opened Mr. Cox
announced that Gov. Brewster, of
Maine, would make an address
Thursday evening at 7:30 at the
court house.
In referring to the Republican
platform as advertised in Th
Cleveland Star and the charges that
it was written by Kentucky. Ten
nessee and Indiana Republicans. Mr.
Cox did not deny that he had a
part In writing it, but declared the
our forelathers came from Tennes
see and that extraction was no dis
credit to them. He then criticised
the manipulation of the Shelbv
sehoote under Supt. I. C. Griffin
but praised the economy be In
practised under the present admin
istration. Referring to methods of'”
cutting cost in tills county he de
clared that the offices of welfare
i officer, tax supervisor, game war
den and farm agent should be abol
ished. He did not say that the of
fice of county manager should b
eliminated but charged that it wa
costing too much. He also criticised
Squire Eskridge, county coroner, and
Judge John P. Mull, election board
chairman, charging that the latter
had not been fair about registratio
and the poll books.
Mr. Patton In his address dedar
ed that Mr. Jonas had done mor
for the welfare of the people of the
district in 18 months than Mr. Bul
winkle had in eight yearn. He also
made an appeal to lndepende.i;
Democrats, some of whom, he said
were not welcomed in their own
party.
In opening liis address Mr. Jonu
stated that in 1928 he had made no
promise other than that he would
serve the people of the district,
honestly and conscientiously. Mr.
Bulwinkle, he said “has made no
other charge against me than that
I am something like half Demo
crat. If being half Democrat would
GCWriNLED ON J W.K Eton i
W. Y. Roberts
BuriedSaturday
Kespected Citizen Passes At Horn
Of Daughter, Sirs. Spake. Buried
At Pleasant Hill.
Mi'. VV. Y. “Billy ’ Roberts, age St>
years, died Thursday evening a'
8:30 o'clock at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. W. M. Spake in the
Elizabeth community, following i.
stroke of apoplexy which he suffer
ed ten days ago. Mr. Roberts had
been in bad health for several years,
but was able to be up and around
the house until he was stricken.
The funeral was conducted Sut
jrday morning at 11 o’clock at
Pleasant Hill Baptist church wher.
he was a long time member and an
active church worker. Services wer.
in charge of Rev. W. E. Lowe and
Rev. H. E. Waldr'r and a larg<
crowd was in attendance. He wa
honest in his dealings, a kind neigh
bor and friend and devoted to hr-,
family. For a number of years ho
lived in Shelby w: i?re he operated ...
corn mill. His wif?, who was Mattie
J. Long, died 14 years ago and atace
then he has been living with his
daughter, Mrs. Spake.
Surviving are two children. Mrs.
C. B. Xrick, of Rock Hill, S. C., Mis
W. M. Spake, of Shelby, and one
jrand-daughter, 'lertrude Herodor
ind one sister, Mrs. Watt Anthony.