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VOL. XXXV11, No. 15
SHELBY, N. C.
WEDNES1VY. FEB. t, 198!
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Cotton, per .b._to lOlic
Cotton Seed, per bu. ...._34-Vjc
Fair And Colder.
Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Fair tonight and slightly
eolder. Thursday fair and colder in
east portion.
Cannon Trial,
Washington, Feb. 3. — Leaning
heavily upon a pair of crutches, his
face drawn and pale, Bishop Janies
Cannon, Jr., hobbled through a side
door of the Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Episcopal church, south,
today and dropped heavily into a
chair before the 12 clergymen-juror-,
who comprise the tribunal that is to
pass upon his alleged derelictions as
an officer of the church. The
place Itself was familiar to the ac
cused bishop, for he is a regular at
tendant at Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Episcopal church when in
Washington, and, not infrequently,
he has preached there. The opening
session lasted three hours. It was
understood that the accusers of
Bishop Cannon did not compile
presentation of their case at the
opening session.
Mull Job Goes
To Towns 2nd;
N. C. ’s Highest
Former Holder Gets
Office Back
Judge Townsend Becomes Executive
Counsellor As Mull Takes
Mill Job.
One of the state’s highest sal
aried jobs. If not the highest—
that of executive counsellor to
the governor and pardon com
missioner—goes back to the man
who formerly held it, Judge Nat
A. Townsend, of Charlotte.
When Mr. Odus M. Mull, who has
been executive counsellor to Gov
ernor Gardner since the Townsend
resignation some time ago, quit the
Job this week to return to Shelby
to manage the Cleveland Cloth mill.
Governor Gardner immediately
named Townsend to the office.
Judge Townsend, who has been
practising law in Charlotte since re
signing, will hold the office at least
until the present legislature ends.
Popular Officer.
Of the Mull service Tom Bost has
the following to say in The Greens
boro News:
“The office of Mr. Mull has be
come under his administration one
of the most popular. Though a
partisan in every drop of his blood
and a fighter for party prestige ,the
highest tributes which have been
paid him as executive counsellor
have come from Republicans. The
call back to Shelby comes from
numerous enterprises of farm and
factory. The change does not af
fect party status. Mr. Mull will see
the Democracy through and will
continue to serve it as chairman.
Judge Townsend, who Is practicing
law in Charlotte, has been here as
sisting the state in its fiscal policy.
He is one of the three or four indi
viduals in North Carolina who can
write a revenue bill. He will return
to Charlotte when his service is
over here.”
Miss McSwaiit
Buried At Earl
Died In State Sanitorimn With
Tuberculosis. Buried At New
Hope Monday.
Earl, Feb. 3.—Miss Edessa Mc
Swain died Saturday at 2:45 o’clw.k
at the state Sanitarium, following
a protracted illness of tuberculosis.
She had been confined to her bed
fo rthe past 3 1-2 years but seemed
to be getting along nicely. Her
death came as a great shock to her
relatives and host of friends.
Miss McSwain was the youngest
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
W. G. McSwain, who lived south of
Earl. At the age of 14 she joined txie
New Hope Baptist church where she
was active In church and Sunday
school work, and was a fine Chris
tian character, known for her tl
delity and radiant spirit.
Her father, mother, four brothers
and two sister have already preced
ed her to the grave. Surviving are
one sister, Miss Addie McSwain. of
Earl and three brothers, Sam and
Ralph McSwain, of Monyer, this
slate, and Thurston McSwain of
Earl.
Funeral services were held at New
Hope church Monday afternoon at
3 o’clock with Rev. J. L. Jenkins, he •
pastor, in charge.
The floral offering was beautiful
Serving as flower girls were: Misses
Jessie Borders, Lortne Blantfn,
Milly Sepaugh, Ruth Runyan, Mctr
Sensing, Ollie and Emma Bechtlt"
and Mrs. Odell Sepaugh. The no’;
bearers were as follows Messrs Set1*
Runyan, J. C. Runyan, Trent '
Swain, Edward Bechtler, E. M. and
Marvin McSwain.
Bread Line Will Harass County
Again Next Year If “Works Is
Shot On Cotton ” With No Food
Next Winter Will Be Worse Than This One
Unless Cleveland Tenant Farmers Grow
Enough Food, Feed For Home Use. Land
lords Urged To Back Movement.
The citizens of Cleveland county, witnessing a lengthy
and pitiful bread line for the first time in history this win
ter, can prevent a repetition of such poverty-stricken pic
tures, if they go about it in the right manner and right
away. That’s the idea of J. B. Smith, county welfare officer,
after several conferences with farmers and business men
about, the charity problem.
The way to do it Is to .see that
tenant farmers of the county put
enough food and feed crops into the
ground this spring for home con
sumption not only for next summer
but. also, for next winter.
The Only Way Out.
'‘Existing conditions, the worst
we've ever had. will never clear up,"
the welfare officer said, until more
food is produced on the farms of
this county; The landlords of the
county can bring this .about bet ter
than any other class. Many of them
tell me so and I am appealing to
them. Unless we do see that our
tenant farmers grow enough to
feed their families this year we will
have another winter such as we
have been going through with, and
it will be necessary once again to
take fund", from the cltv and coun
ty treasuries to feed and take care
of the scores of '-mgry people who
come to us for aid.
"The wav to cure such conditions
is to go to the seat of the trouble.
This winter it was only humanitar
ian thing to do to provide food for
the hungry as the countv and city
and charitable citizens did. But we
can prevent such a situation next
winter, Why not do it instead of go
ing nonchalantly along knowing
that ruch conditions wi'l a"ain ex
ist unless we »roduce enough t oeat.?’
I "n Umitnitr It. a
One of the fairest drains on the
public char it'- fund here this win
ter. Mr. Smith raid, was that ef
taking care of the tenant^farrar
cia«s. In Shelby a majority of the
industrial plants have been running
enough to provide their employes
with enough wa g-s to secure suffi
cient food and clothing, but out on
the farms many tenant farmers
failed to grow anything to eat.
When cotton prices took a flop they
’were in a pitiful state. Nothing -to
eat, and nothing with which to
purchase the food thev should have
grown. Then the charity line began
growing.
With spring just around the cor
ner foresMited landlords are join
ing with the welfare officer in urg
ing that all landlords see that their
tenants plan for and lav aside
enough acreage to assure .sufficient
food for home consumption. Tire
! acreage set aside, It is said, for food
and feed crons should not be limit
ed to producing food for the sum
mer but should be larg& enough to
provide for next winter.
Every tenant farmer, and all
other farmers as well, are urged, as
! they prepare for their spring work,
to get Irish and sweet potatoes in
| the ground, have a sorphum patch,
and a hog and cow where po"sible.
Likewise there should be vegetables
and fruit canned for the approach
ing winter, and the vegetable pro
duction should not be limited to a
mere summer supply.
“If Cleveland county farmers cio
this there will be mighty little want
and hunger in the county next fall
and winter,” welfare officials say.
“We may not have any great
amount of cash money and the
cotton crop mav not pan out, but
| we certainly will not have so many
hungry people.”
The Smile That Won
Big Movie Contrat
Although t.M never nas appeared
on the stage or in the moviea. Miss
Loretta Sayers, young society girl
of Larchmont, N. Y., has a long
term nmvM, cwtHact 'With CUnfM
bia Pictures. The smile she wears
above dawtled the camera and the
film magnates
Farmers Cut Extra
Wood Thus Giving
Unemployed Jobs
Many Idle Negroes tnd Other La
borers Could Be Paid With
Food.
“If the farmers of Cleveland
county who are in position to ilo
so would have enough wood cut
and corded now for the remain
der of this winter and also for
next winter, it would mean
much to unemployed negroes
and laborers in the county,” one
well known fanner tells The
Star.. .
! All fanners, he said, know that a
supply of wood cut a year In ad
I vance is better wood. Never, he ad
ded, can those who have wood to cut
| yet it done cheaper than at (he
present time, and many unemployed
I Icborers and farm hands would now
J be glad to do such work and be paid
off in food and other necessities.
Mr. W. W. Washburn, prominent
• farmer and former county com in. s
I sioner. Is one who has already oad
I enough wood cut and corded to d >
| him this winter and next. In doing
1 so he helped a numher of workers
I who were in need but would rather
| work for something to eat than ac
cept charity.
Early Spring Predictzd Desp'te
Groundhog From His Shadow;
Cloudy Some Places, Char Others
It All Depended Upon Where
Groundhog Came Out. Good
Fruit Year Seen.
I. Big bout—to go six weAs—
principals. Kid Groundhog vs.
Walloping Weathcrman~dccis
ion to be rendered March 15. 1
The official weather observers
have been saying since Monday that
ithe woocichucjt’s dach back into hie
j hole when he saw his shadow in this
section does not mean a thing. In
some parts pf the country, say the
weather men, the groundhog saw his
shadow while in others he did not.
In other words, the men Who pre
dict an advance weather by instru
ments and scientific methods say it
I will be an early Spring. The ground
j hog prophecy, it worked out here
contends that idee a wash-out and
that Spring will not get here for 40
days, or until March 15, Many
homespun weather prophets, who go
by other signs and omens, believe
the groundhog wrote a bad check.
Another weather forecast advanc
ed by some of the old-timers has it
that it will be a bountiful fruit
season, because the smoke from
chimneys travelled straight up on
February 1. That, they say, is a sure
sign.
But returning to the groundhog
prediction, here's what a New York
observer says:
“Unless some sturdy, lynx-eyed
citizen with a flair for early rising
actually laid'eyes on Mr. Ground
hog Monday morning as he emerged
for his annual job of weather fore
casting, the future is still a guess.
For the whole business depends
^CONTINUED ON PAOR KIOKT t
Sixty Cleveland
Men Leave Today
| For Bank Trials
1 Big Hank ('Mts Start At Kuther
fordton This Afternoon With
Cleveland Jurors.
Sheriff Irvin M. Allen left
Shelby today with sixty Cleve
land county citizens from whom
a jury will be picked at Kutlier
fordton this afternoon to bear
the charges against eight lead
ing Rutherford county citizens
in connection with the failure
of six banks in that county last
i year.
| All of the defendants, the major -
| ity of whom are wMl known in this
; county, face a general charge of re
ceiving deposits knowing the banks
to be insolvent. Two of them face
the additional charges of publishing
false statements of the condition of
the banks and of embezzlement
Monday Judge Hoyle Sink, who is
presiding at the court term, order
ed that a juhy be drawn from this
county to hear the cares, this move
being made because of the general
Interest throughout Rutherford oveT
the bank affairs. The sheriff’s office
here spent Monday afternoon and
Tuesday rounding up the 60 men
sent to Rutherfordton today, AH of
them will receive jury service fees
for One day and the others will re
turn to their homes in this coun
ty after the 12 Jurors are selected
this afternoon.
The sixty men from whom the
jury will be picked follow:
John Martin. Robert N. Jolly,
Grady McSwaln, J. D. Elliott, E. L.
Holland. R. M. White, J. V. Love
lace, E. G. Roberts, J. B. Hamrick;
J. I. Morehead, T. H. Lowry. J. E.
Randle. J. L. Loden, W. P. Pulton,
C. F. Stowe.
W. F. Goforth, W. C. Ware, R. C.
Baker, Stoke Miller, Joe Kendrick,
G. M. Moss, J. L. Spangler. W, H.
Olascoe, A, J. Dedtnon, A. A. Hor
ton, Tom Cornwell, A. O. Higgins.
C. D. Hicks. Cliff Carpenter, O, C.
Dixon, Grady Wilson.
E. W. Sanders, R. L. Whitesides,
A. P. Ramsey, J. O- Blanton, J. L.
l Hunt, W. J, Bridges. W, T. Powell.
' E- L. Weathers, W. R. Potter. R. w.
; Wilson, C. C. Falls, D. L. Martin, C.
; R. Wright, Vance Royster, J, M,
j Sparks.
i W. C. Seism, J. G. Spurling, Laur
[al Hoyle, C. G. Boyles, J. B. Ram
sey. T. A. Bridges, J. w. Lucas,
| James B. Horn, Ivey Willis, J. c.
! Washburn, F. B. Blanton, J. h.
j Greene, R. C. White. O. C. 'Downs.
Fo*°st Fir*s Get
i Bad In Rutherford
j f Ire-Fighting Patrols Organized,
Efforts Made to Curb Travel
Ins Flame*.
j ttutheriordton, Feb 4.—Mrs.
T. C. Holland, 39, wife of a well
known farmer and citizen of
near Henrietta, dropped dead
Sunday while fighting forest
fire near her home.
Funeral services and burial were
held at Floyd's Creek Baptist church
Rutherfordton, Feb. 4.—Ruther
ford county wood’ands are being
laid waste by forest fires. County
Fire Warden J. E. Trammel says.
Last week nine fires burned ora/
J the wooded areas, taking a toll of
$25,000 to $35,000 worth of timber
and several farm houses have iraen
reported destroyed by the llame;
Patrols and fife-fighting banus
have been organized, and other for
estry officials of the state have
come to this counfy to assist Mr
Tramme* in combatting the fires.
Funeral Service*
Of Athlete Today
| Junius Auten Was Killed At BalU
timore Sunday. Once Lived
Here.
Funeral services for Junius Auf
jen, 26. a former captain of the
I Shelby High football team, weie
> held at the Presbyterian church
here this morning at 10 o'clock. R- v.
H N. McDiarmid was In charge of
the services and was assisted by
Rev. C. E. Clark, pastor of the Lee
Memorial Presbyterian church at
Winston-Salem, where young Aul
en’s parents now live.
The former athlete, a popular
young man here, was killed In a,
train-auto collision at Baltimore,
where he had been employed, ’’st
Sunday morning. The body was
scheduled to have arrived here yes
terday morning but did not arrive
until late yesterday evening.
Young Auten, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. Auten', who moved away
from Shelby several yean ago, left
Shelby soon after finishing school
A sister, Mrs Roy Tiddy, lives here
The young man who was riditp
i with him when the car was struck
by the caboose of a train is still Bv
ing but is said to be in a crit'cai
condition in a Baltimore hospital.
Revaluation In
County Is Off
Until March 15
Select Union Tru*t
As Depository
; Work of Revaluation Off Until Leg
islature Dwldw About
Matter.
Revaluation of property in
Cleveland county, which was to
have started the first of the
year, will not be started until
March 15, If then, It was an
nounced after the meeting of
thr county commissioners this
week.
The organization was perfected
here for carrying on the revaluation
work but county officials and many
citizens were of the opinion that un
der existing conditions the estimat
ed cost. $10,000. of the revaluation
task would not be worth the price
just now. As a result the commis
sioners delayed the work until a
bill could be> introduced in the leg
islature post;Mining the job.
No Expense,
The legislature has already in
formed counties to delay the work
until March 15 by which time the
legislature will have decided Just
when the work will go on. As a re
sult of tire postponement here there
Is no expense at all being incurred
by the county. Some preliminary
work in the revaluation task had
been carried out, but; as it is now
the entire task is suspended for the
time being.
Name Depository.
The commissioners in their meet
ing here designated the Union
Trust company as depository tor
county funds and took precautions,
which some counties, it is said, have
not made, to assure themselves of
the safety of county money.
In designating the bank to be
used as depository for county funds
the commissioners required the bank,
to give a surety bond of $550,000 in'
United States government bonds or
other safe bonds.
’ ®b Charlotte Bank.
The Union Trust company met
the requirements of the officials by
placing $50,000 worth of government
bonds in the American Trust com
pany at Charlotte as a surety bond.
Wrong Date Line
Causes Stir Here
• Shelby Pastor," Man Who Had
Never Lived Here, Reported
Head.
Shelby Presbyterians and Shelby
Masons were perplexed Monday and
Tuesday to know that a former
minister of the Presbyterirn church
and a high official of the Masonic
order had died in Shelby without
representatives of either organiza
tion visiting him during his fatal
illness.
Their perplexed queries brought
out the information that such hadn’t
happened. It was merely a newspa
per error on the part of Charlotte’s
two daily papers.
Monday morning !s Charlotte Ob
server carried a news item under a
Shelby date-line stating that Rev
John S. Wood, native Englishman,
retired Presbyterian minister of
note and a former official of the
Masonic lodge had died here. The
afternoon paper carried approxi
mately the same story also under a
Shelby date-line. The heading over
one of the two items referred to the
death of a ‘‘Shelby Paste/.”
The fact, of the matter was that
Rev. Mr Wood never lived In Shel
by and never served a pastorate
here. He lived In recent years In
Forest City and died there, By some
error, naturally an Inadvertent one,
the news story was carried as com
ing from Shelby’ instead of from
Forest City.
Catch Three Rabbits
With Bare Hands
C. M. Crow is entitled to mem
bership in the “Tall Story Club”
of Lowell Thomas, radio broad
caster, for Mr, Crow brings this
one to town from No. 1 town
ship. He and his two boys and
John Davis use their hands In
stead of dogs to catch wild rab
bits.
While grubbing in a j/rld the
other day, a rabbit which had bean
chased by dogs until he was tired
came into the old field where the
men were working. They picked him
up easily. Looking round they found
two more rabbits in the same field
and caught them with very little
footwork. Mr. Crow ani his boys fc.T
that dogs are useless for rabbit
hunting, ,-y
Jazz King and Male, Apart
The loveliest romance on Broad- -
way has ended, according to the
report that I’aul Whiteman, king
of jaw, and his wife, Vanda Hoff,
the dancer, are separated. While
I’aul is in Indianapolis with his
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► L’itfid, Vuiuiu and ri-« i ;stXyvsu-olrt
soft, Paul, Jr., sun themselves on
Palin Reach sand*. An atsre*-'
m**nt between the two it is r«
ported nets Vanda $600 weekly
out of Paul’s paycheck.
McSwain Offers Bill To Tax
All Retail Merchants; Shot
At Chain Stores, He States
Tax Would Be Levied On Scale Bas:g Ac
cording To Volume Of Business.
Raleigh, Feb. 4.—Senator Peyton McSwain. of Shelby,
attracted interest in the Senate here yesterday by introduc
ducing n bill, another “sales tax” measure, in which he pro
poses to tax all retail merchants in North Carolina.
Hard Times A
Blow To Cupid
Among the up-and-coming
young men Of the community
who li jut M anxious, If not
more so, for more business to
perk up and for general pros
perity to reign again Is a
young fellow by the name ol
Dan Cupid.
Matrimonial business is on
the toboggan hereabouts, and
has been since the young neve
year, resembling, as cartooned,
Dan Cupid himself, made his
entry.
. In January marriage li
censes were issued at the
gounty court house here to
just two couples. And Febru
ary has started sliding along
without a single entry being
made on the marriage record
County League To
Meet At Lawndale
The Cleveland County Epworth
League union will meet at Lawnda'^
Methodist church Friday’ night lit
7:30 p. m. The Lawndale league will
give a program. An address will be
given by Rev. E. E Snow, president
of the Gastonia District League Un
ion, on the subject "The Pastor's
Relation to the Young People’':
Work.” Every league in the county
Is urjjed to attend this meeting.
Golf Meeting.
A meeting of all members of the
Cleveland Springs golf club will be
held at the Hotel Charles Thursday
night at 8 o’clock, Immediately after
the Kiwanis program.
He explained on the floor of the
upper house that the principal vir
tue: in his measure, as he saw it, is
the rich harvest that it will reap
from the chain stores.
Part With Teeth.
Til* portion of the McSwuln bill
i termed the “biting part” follows:
“Every retail merchant who opens
operates, or maintains in this state
any store or stores, place or places
of business shall first apply for and
procure from the commissioner of
revenue a state license for each ol
said stores or places of business fox
i the privilege of engaging in such
business in this state and shall pas
for such license a tax in accordance
with the annual gross sales of said
store or places of business as follow.
•■Annual gfoss sales *20.000 or less
—*15.
“Annual gross sales mores than
*20,000 and which amount to $100,
000 or less—*25.
“Annual gross sales more than
*100,000 and not more than $200000
—*50.
“Annual gross sales more than
$200,000 and which amount to not
more than *400,000—*100.
“Annual gross sales more than
$400,000 and which amount to hot
more than $000,000-.$200.
“Annual gross sales more than
$600,000 and which amount to not
more than *800,000—$300.
“That in addition to the license
tax levied in the preceding subjec
tion every retail merchant owning,
operating, or maintaining any store
or stores, any place or places of
business in this state whose annual
gross sales shall exceed *800,000,
■shall pay a license tax equivalent to
one per cent of his, their or its an
nual gross sales in excess of $80T
000 for the privilege of engaging hi
such bualensS'in this state.” *
Legion Doing Wrong To Deride
Andrew Mellon For Opposition
{ To Vets’ Bonus, Jonas Thinks
l.incoLnton Congressman Quoted As
Saying: "Fool Friends” Are In
juring Cause.
The lact that American Le
gion posts in North Carolina
and other ea-serviee men. in
chiding those of Shelby, have
criticised Andrew Mellon, Sec
retary of the Treasury and al
leged boss of the Republican
party .isn’t sitting so well with
Congressman Chas. A. Jonas, of
Llncolnton, Republican nation
al committeeman for North
Carolina.
Mr. Jonas was quoted in yes
terday’s Charlotte Observer as say
ing that the passage of the veterans
bonus measure might be seriously
endangered unless the American
Legion can stop 'it's tool friends'
from criticising Mr Mellon
"It’s got to a place where people
can’t do anything without having
their motives questioned.' he was
quoted in The Observer as saying,
referring to recent criticism of
Secretary Mellon. "If the veterans
can stop their fool friends who want
to speak everywhere and upon all
occasions and do a lot oi hulking
about other people’s motives, they
would have a much better chance
of passing the bill. In the last day
or two I have heard a dozen con
gressmen say that if people didn’t
stop accusing the treasury depart
ment of having evil motives in op
posing the bill they would vote
against it. It’s a pity a man nowa
days can’t take a stand on ;otne
Lhing without having people who
oppose him say that he is doing it
because of selfish or impure mo
tiers.
Hold Boy And
Widow Of Man
In Death Case
Rutherford Couple
Get No Bail
Onr Whiter.* Says Mr*. Lynch Me*
Searcy Three Times At
Hi* Hume.
• special to The .Star.)
Ki. therturdtuu. I'eb. 4.—Mrs.
John M. Lynch and John Paul
Searcy, 19-year-old farm hand
who once worked on the Lynch
farm, were orderrd held with
out ball by a coroner’s jury here
yesterday until a superior court
grand jury takes action In con
nection with the killing of the
woman's husband Sunday night
a week ago.
Lynch, prominent middle-aged
tanner, nits, according to evidence,
railed to his front door arid shot to
fibrilh. Searcy tens arrested the next
day arid the widow several dnjtg
thereafter
Met each Other.
One portion of evidence before
the coroner's jury which attracted
considerable attention was tha
statement of a witness that Mrs.
Lynch and the young farm hand
hud been meeting each other at his
home.
After the coroner’s jury ordered
'h i th- couple be held for grand
jury action, attorneys for Mrs.
Lynch and Searcy indicated they
would ack for an immediate hear
ing under a writ of habeas corpus
in order to effect the release of th«
woman and the youth front jail un
der bond.
snerur i rstifir*,.
Sheriff McFarland told of inves*
tigatlng the murder and the story
Mrs, Lynch told of someone's shout*
lug. just before the shots were fir
ed. "John Lynch. If you don’t treat
< your family better. I’ll kill you.*
i Jack Lynch, 14. and Jeanette Lynch,
jB. clilldren of the Lynches, told prac
I tlcally the same story as theft
i mother told.
I Andy Gosnell of near WeavervlUe,
who lived on the Lynch farm from
March, 1930, to January, 1931, told
of threats of killing made by Searcy
last year and said he ar.d Searcy
had been talking about Lynch. He
told of Mrs. Lynch's meeting Searcy
three times at his home.
quarreled Over Man.
Gosnell also told of quarrels he
said the farmer and his wife had
ovCr the young farm hand and of
■ the purported statement of Mrs.
Lynch that Searcy was the “only
true friend" she hud hod "In the
last two years.”
Clarence Whiteside, 17, filling
station employe, declared that the
night of the murder Searcy came to
his station near the Lynch home
and appeared to be frightened.
; Patterson Bound
To Higher Court
Ella Mill Employe To Superior
Court On False Entry
Charge.
In county court this morning
Lem Patterson, employe of the
Ella -talH for years, was hound
over lo Superior court under a
S3,000 bond on a false eutry
! charge.
| The allegations advanced at the
j preliminary hearing were that Pat,
jtersoii. cotton weigher at the mill,
Iliad issued tickets for cotton which
had never been received by the mill.
Checks to Jim Camp were issued for
these tickets. It was alleged. The case
developed after Camp, who is serving
on the chain gang, confessed his
connection with the alleged affair.
Parents-Teachers
To Observe Event
i The Shelby Parent-Teacher s..£0
ciation council, headed by Mrs. John
Schenck, jr., is arranging an ela
borate program for Parent-Teacher
association founders day, February
17. The meeting will be held at the
high school at 7:30 o'clock in the
evening. The high school band will
play and * some entertainment fea
ture will be scheduled for each ele
mentary school. The general theme
will be ‘An Adequate Program of
Education for Shelby.” A good aud
ience is expected.
GRASS FIRE SCORCHES
GARAGE THIS AFTERNOON
A grass lire near the garage at
the Mrs. P. L, Heunessa residence
' brought out the city fire truck about
12 o’clock tlii* ufteraoon. The only
I damage resulted from the scorching
>'t the garage building.
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