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Cotton, per lb._*___. 10c up
Cotton seed, per bushel ... ....33c
Continued Cold.
Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Fair and continued cold to
night. Thursday fair frith slowly
rising temperature.
Boy Gets Life.
Valparaiso, Ind., March 11.—Virgil
Kirkland was convicted of murder
by a jury last night in connection
with the death of Arlene (Babe)
Braves and a sentence of life im
prisonment was recommended by
the jurors. The verdict was return
ed less than four hours after the
jurors had retired to decide whether
an attack by Kirkland upon the
young high school graduate caused
her death. It was charged that Kirk
land, young football player, and
several pals ravished the girl at a
party of young people where there
was considerable drinking.
School Honors
Cage Champions
Shelby High Basketball Quint Hon
ored At a Chapel
Program.
snemy mgn s cnampion cagers,
the basketball quint which won the
county championship and followed
it up by winning the class A title
and cup in the State college tourna
ment, was fittingly honored at a
program in Central school auditor
ium yesterday morning.
The entire high school student
body joined In paying tribute to 'he
basketball squad and Coaches Mor
ris and Falls.
The silver loving cup won at State
college was presented, to the school
for the trophy room by Capt. Shorty
?/wain. The pup was received for
the school by Prof. Walter Aberne
thy. high school principal. Mr. Aber
nethy in his ta’k paid tribute not
only to the winning record of the
school's athletic teams but also to
their fame elsewhere for good
sportsmanship. He referred to the
football season last year when Gas
tonia fans and players declared the
Shelby team to be the cleanest and
most sportrmanlike eleven seen in
action there, and also to letters re
ceived from Fallston and Kings
Mountain about the high type play
of the Shelby tossers in the county
tournament and the Kings Moun
tain tournament. Incidentally, the
captain of the class A basketball
champs was co-captain of the foot
ball team lart fall.
Talks on the State college tour
ney were made by John Corbett, Alf
Eskridge and C. L. Austell, mem
bers of the squad. Other talks were
made bv Supt. B. 1,. Smith, Coach
Tilden Falls and Mayor S. A. Mc
Murry.
200 Students Go To
Hear Dr. Truett,
Faculty And Student Body of Boiling
Springs Hear Great
Minister.
Two hundred men and women,
who constitute the faculty and stu
dent body of Boiling Springs Jun-j
ior college motored to Charlotte j
Tuesday night to hear Dr. Geo. W.
Truett, noted Baptirt minister of
Dallas, Texas, who is conducting a
series of meetings in Charlotte. The
motorcade was sponsored by Dr.
Zeno Wall, president of the college.
Many Shelby people readily offered
their cars to take the faculty and
students to Charlotte. The proces
sions was headed by a state highway
patrolman who piloted them to the
Queen City.
Seats were reserved in the mam- I
moth armory auditorium where the j
meeting is being held. It has a seat
ing capacity of nearly 5 000 and each
evening the auditorium is packed to
hear Dr. Truett. Hundreds of people
attend the services from the nearby
towns, but the delegation of 203
from Boiling Springs junior college
and Shelby is declared to be the
largest crowd to attend In a body
since the Truett meeting started on
Monday of last week.
Fire Chief F'nrhts
Fire At His Home
Just before noon today the fire
siren sounded and the red trucks,
with sirens shrieking and bells
clanging, whirred down South De
Kalb street.
J. L. McDowell, assistant fire
chief, hopped into his fire-llghtmg
coat and sped after the trucks. The
nearer he came to the scene jf the
blaze the faster he traveled, It was
his house that was on fire, and a
few minutes later it was his .urn to
pat the fire laddies and himself on
the back for quick action.
A small blaze, started perhaps by j
& spark, did slight damage to tm*
Mr. Baker Improves
Mr. D. M. Baker, prominent Kings
Mountain citizen and widely known
throughout Cleveland county, nas
been confined to his home for If)
days with rheumatism. He is im
proving now, however, his rnanv
ids will be pleased to heai ;
| Only 12 Counties In State
i More Densely Populated Than
I Cleveland; Forty-four Larger
County Is Densely
Populated
Cleveland lias 10'.7 Inhabitants Per
Square .Mile. Hither Than
“ Average.
With 102.7 inhabitants per square
mile Cleveland county ranks as the
13th most densely populated county
in North Carolina. Which Is to sa>
that only 12 North Carolina coun
, ties, have more inhabitants per
|square mile than this county. These:
i facts are given In the current issue
| of The University News Letter.
A lull review of the population
density of the state shows that only
12 ’counties have more inhabitants
per square mile despite the fact that
there are 44 counties in the state
with a larger area in square miles.
Tops Average.
The average population of the
state per square mile Is 05 people, or
only a little more than half of the
population per square mile in
Cleveland county.
The area of Cleveland county is:
496 miles, normaly half the urea of
Robeson county which has 990 j
square miles.
■X'arnv counties.
CataWba county with 107.8 inhabi
tants per square mile ranks just
ahead of Cleveland. Lincoln county,
which has an area of only 299 square
miles, has 76.5 Inhabitants per
square mile and is more densely
populated than Rutherford county
with an area of 544 square miles
and 74.4 inhabitants per square
mile. Gaston with an area of 363
square miles and 215.1 Inhabitants
per square mile ranks third in the
state in density of population.
Other Facts.
The land area of North Carolina
is 48,740 square miles. Twenty-seven
states are larger. The state averages
65 inhabitants to the square mile.
There are only thirteen states that
have more people per square mile
than has North Carolina. No south
ern state is more densely settled
than North Carolina, unless Mary
land and West Virginia are classed
as southern. In 1900 there were
twenty states that were more dense
ly settled.
Forsyth county has more people
to the square mile than any other
county, averaging 287.8. Other
densely populated counties are Dur
ham with .215*4; Gaston with 215.1;
Mecklenburg with 214.4; New Han
over with 199.1; and Guilford with
192.5.
Tyrrell has the sparsest popula
tion, averaging 13.2 people to the
square mile. Other sparsely settled
counties are Dare with 13.8; Hyde
with 13.8; Pender with 19.2; Gra
ham with 19.6; Brunswick with 20;
Onslow with 20.6; and Swain with
20:9.
Guilford, with 133,010 inhabitants,
is the state’s most populous county,
Mecklenburg .with 137,971, and For
syth with 111,681 inhabitants are
the only other counties with more
than one hundred thousand popu
lation.
Tyrrell, with 5,164 inhabitants,
has the smallest population of any
CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT. I
Scouts Sponsoring Picture Tonight
Troop number 2 of the Shelby Boy
Scouts is sponsoring the showing of
“Tol'able David" at the Lyric thea
tre Thursday and Friday.
Airplane Scared
His Mules Away;
Fail To Return
Charge this up to a pro
gressive world:
R. I.. Westbrook, assistant
postmaster at Blacksburg, was
in Cleveland county today
looking for a pair of fine
mules which an airplane ran
away from his home.
Cast Thursday night Paul
Miller, Smyrna, S'. C.t rural
mail carrier who flies a plane
of ills own when off duty j
flew over the Westbrook stock
lot The roar of the low flying j
plane, zooming just above
them, so frightened the Wests
brook mules that they took to
their heels and haven't been
seen or heard of by him since
He wants them back. They
represent $250 cold cash.
So the world moves, .lust
two decades ago horses and
mules were becoming fright
ened at and running away
from ehug-ehugging automo
biles. Now it's airplanes.
Legion Plans
Good Program j
Several Prominent Speakers Coming
For Mass Meeting Here
Saturday Night.
An unusually interesting program
has been arranged for the general
mass meeting, called by the Amer
ican Legion, to be held in the coun
ty court house here Saturday at
7:30 o’clock. Veterans of the World
war and other wars along with their
relatives and friends are urged to
attend.
Humorist Coming.
The chief speaker will be R. G.
Cherry, of Gastonia, former state
commander.
Of considerable interest to those
who have heard him is the an
nouncement that Ward Threat!,
Charlotte ex-service man, often
termed "the Will Rogers of North
Carolina,” will make a humorous
talk to the gathering. Other speak
ers will include F A. Hutchinson,
service officer of the veterans bu
reau, and Russell Yount, of Newton,
district commander of the legion.
Mother Mr. Cline
Buried On Tuesday
The many friends of Mr. A. E.
Cline, chairman of the Cleveland
county commission board, will re
gret to hear that his mother, Mrs.
Reuben F. Cline, died late Sunday
night at her home in Statesville.
Funeral services were held at St.
Johns Lutheran church there yes
terday and interment was in Sha
ron cemetery. Mrs. Cline, 82 years
of age, was the widow of a Confed
erate veteran.
A Birth.
Bom Sunday afternoon to Mr, and
Mrs. Yates McBrayer a little son,
David Yates.
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COMPARE COST
A 30 inch advertisement In
The Star costs only $10.50 and
you contact with 20,000 buyers
in 5,000 homes.
Suppose you a circular
equivalent in size to a 30 inch
advertisement in The Star. 5,000
circulars would cost you for
printing at least $12.00. Distri
bution by mail would cost lc
each or $50. To this should be
added $15.00 for envelopes, ad
dressing, etc.
You save $67.50
in the operation and get the
newspaper’s prestige, its reading
.matter, etc., to support your mes
sage. Otherwise, your circular Is
a circular and nothing more.
Dover Mill Pays Out
! S38,000 Dividends;
Nine New Structures
srfir*
List Of Winners
In Webb Contest
During 14 Years
First Essay Contest
Held In 1918
Recitation Contest Started Four
Teats Cater. All Winners Are
tilven.
What girt won the first annual
Selma C. Webb essay contest for
the high schools of Cleveland coun
ty?
What girl won the tlrst Selma C.
Webb recitation contest for the
county schools?
These questions are answered in
a complete list of winners, assem
bled by Miss Webb, since the con
test first started.
The first essay contest was held
in 1918 and was won by Gertie Esk
ridge, of Shelby. The first recitation
contest came four years later, in
1922, and was won by Ruby Mich
ael, of Boiling Springs
The Leaders.
tn the number of winners In the
fourteen years of tire essay contest
and 10 years of the recitation con
test Shelby high school and Bbiltng
Springs lead in the essay contest
and Shelby ties with Kings Moun
tain in the recitation contest.
In the essay contest students of
Shelby and Bolling Springs have
won five times each. Piedmont stu
dents have won twice, and Lattl
more and Kings Mountain one each,
Tn the recitation contest Shelby
and Kings Mountain students have
won three times each, and Piedmont
and Bolling Springs students have
won twice each.
Winners Given,
All the winners of the essay con
test follow:
1—Gertie Eskridge (1918) subject:
"The Work of the Red Cross," Shel
by high school.
2. —May Washburn (1919), sub
ject: "Woodrow Wilson,” Shelby
high school.
3. —Emily Sue Hollifield <1920),
subject: "N’er the Rose Without the
Thorn," Bojl^uig Springs high school
4 —Thelma Earl (1921), subject:
"America’s God's Israel,” Boiling
Springs high school,
5.--Johnnie May McBrayer (1922),
subject: "Life Symbolized in a
Day,” Boiling Springs high school.
6—Margaret Lackey (1923), sub
ject: "Battle of Kings Mountain/'
Kings Mountain high school.
7. —Hugh Beam, (1924), subject:
"School Consolidation," Piedmont
high school.
8. —Letha Branton (1925), sub
ject: “The Cleveland County of To
morrow.” Shelby high school.
9. —Grover Spawn (1926>. subject:
"The Highway of Success,” Boiling
Springs high school.
10. —Maude Rollins (1927), sub
CONTTNTTKn ON **AOF EIGHT.)
Will Try Woman
Apain Tn Burke
On Killing Count
Mrs. Florence Benton In Court Over
HushancTs Death. Man
Involved.
Morgahton, Mar. il —The Burks
county grand Jury selected to serve
the 'March term of superior court
Tuesday returned true bills in four
capital cases, three for murder a:.d
one for criminal assault. The murder
case, which will likely attract the
most attention, is that of Florence
Benton charged with the murder of
her husband, John Benton. When
Benton died at his home tiere last
April of pistol wounds Mrs. Ben* on
claimed he had committed suicide
Later she was arrested and tried
but the murder charge was dismiss
ed largely because of a statement
made by a neighbor, Mrs, Lee Clark,
to the effect that she saw John
Benton kill himself. At successive
terms of court Mrs. Benton and her
alleged paramour, W. M. Adams, of
Hickory, have been tried on mior
al relation charges. During these
trials Solicitor Spurting believes that
sufficient evidence, coupled with
new evidence which is said to nave
been uncovered recently has devel
oped to warrant sending a new till
to the grand Jury, Fate this after
noon a true bill was returned.
Sutton Abernetby. eastern Burke
county boy, who claims that h»
killed In self defense Shorty Tallent,
a tenant of his father's farm, will
also be tried.
Bill Lail, who is charged with the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Elmore
Wilson, will face three counts, mur
der, manufacturing liquor and car
rying a concealed weapon.
Stewart Cozart, young Burke
county soldier, tried in Newton last
week on the charge of seduc'i'vi and
having had his case remanded to
this county in which the • Jigged
crime is said to have bee rvontm"
ted. is scheduled to be tried during
this term
Stockade Where Eleven Convicts Died
" *\ t—mw~ vrr-TTsrnr
The charred ralna of the prison i
stockade near Kenansville, N.
C,, where eleven convicta per
> i&hed, trapped in their cells, as <
flames destroyed the entire 1
structure.^ Forty other prison- '
era were rescued from the Hum
in* building by guards and fol
low convicts.
Thieves Enter
I,imt Taken from F.flrd's Monday
Night Totalled Twenty-Five
Cents And Knife,
Unknown thieves went to consid
erable trouble with little rewiird
when they entered the Eflrd de
partment store, South LaFayette
street, Monday night and escaped
with exactly 25 cents and a pocket,
j knife. .
By Roof
To make their entrance Into the
department store the thieves first
entered the building formerly occu
pied by the Farmers hardware, go
ing through a basement panel. They
then climbed to the roof of the tall
building through a trap-door and
jumped down one story to the roof
of the Eflrd store. A skylight glass
was removed and the thieves used
a rope and hook to drop into a
hallwuy on the top floor. They were
then In an office floor and not In
the store. The next move was to
prize off a portion of a partition and
drop on down into the store.
All that for a quarter and a knife.
Manager Quinn Earl could find
nothing else missed Tuesday morn
ing.
| ■
Veterans Bring
$30,000 In Here
| On Service Checks
Forty-one Get Bonus Who Have
Never Borrowed Before. Much
In State.
Tom Abernethy. service .iffleer of
the local Legion post, stated today
that 41 World war veterans *vho hid
never borrowed a cent on their com
pensation certificates have applied
for half of their full certificates re
cently as authorized by the parage
of the bonus bill.
Half of the average compensation
certificate is $500 and this means
that the 41 alone who have never
borrowed before will receive approx
imately $20,000* It Is estimated that
at least 20 other county veterans
who have never borrowed before
have applied through other offices,
bringing the total to around $30,000.
This total does not Include the
scores of others applying now who
had already been advanced .'.2 1-2
percent of the value of their certifi
cates.
Million in State.
J. S. Pitman, manager of 'he
vets bureau at Charlotte, says that
approximately $1,000,000 has been
distributed to North Carolina vets
since the new bonus act went into
! effect,
Pittman estimated that between 90
and 95 per cent of the veterans in
the state would take advantage of
the act which permits them to bor
row up to 50 per cent of 'he face
value of their certificates.
Aplications continue to pour Into
the office without a let up, he said,
estimating that 25,000 already had
been received.
SMALL LIRE MONDAY EVE
AT EBELTOFT RESIDENCE
Small damage resulted early
Monday evening from a blaze that
started in the wall of the T, W.
Ebeltoft residence. South Wasnlng
ton street, from the heat of a stove
and flue. Two fire trucks answered
the alarm but the blaze was quick
ly extinguished.
tIARDrN GROCERY OPENS
ON HIGHWAY TWENTY
S. S. Hardin, popular former bar
ber of Dover Mill Is now operating
a grocery store at Riverview on
highway 20, between Sljelby and
Dover. Mr. Hardin is a nature of
Rutherford county who came to
Cleveland several years ago and is I
an-enterprising young business man
D. W. Royster Candidate For
City Alderman In Ward Two
Well Known Young business Man
Accedes To Urging Ol ills
Trleiid*.
Mr. I>, Wyelh Royster Is an
announced candidate for city
alderman in Ward Two. Tilts
was learned definitely hy The
Star at noon today.
Friends have for several days been
attempting to persuade Mr, >{oyster
to become a candidate but he reftis
! ed to, acceded to their requests un
I til today.
With his announcement there are
now four candidates for the board,
one from each ward. They are F M
Washburn. Ward One;; D. W. Roy
ster. Ward Two; John Sehenck. jr.,
Ward Three, and Z. J. Thompson,
W axd Four.
The three other candidates, who
had already announced, are mem
bers of the present municipal board.
Mr. Ab Jackson, the fourth mem
ber, announced some time ago that
he would not be a candidate i*r re
election and since that time a num
ber of prospective candidates have
been talked, but the Royster an
nouncement Is the first in Ward
Two.
IJUIe Activity.
Although the city election, Tues
day. May 5, is only about seven
weeks in the future little interest is
being shown in the prospective racer;
Unless other candidates announce
there will be no contest for *he four
aldermanic posts, while only two
candidates. Mayor 8. A. McMurry
and former Mayor W. N. Dorsey
have anounced for chief executive,
of the city.
Ray Gibbs Takes
Mars Hill Honors
Miss Ray Gibbs, popular Shelby
girl who is a student at Mars Hill
college has the distinction of being
one out of 17 in the entire student
body of Mars Hill college to make
the honor roll during the last sem
ester. Mars Hill hai a student body
numbering between 500 and 600
Miss Gibbs Is the attractive daugh
ter of Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Gibbs of
Shelby.
King Trial Date
Set For May 4th
Columbia, S. t\. Mar. 11.—The
supreme eourt .Monday signed
an order designating a special
term of court for Lancaster to
start May 4. Attorneys have an
nouiieed Rafe King, of Shelby,
will be given bis second trial at
that time for mnrdrr of his wife,
Faye Wilson K Ing.
Stole Paint, Then
Brought Loot Back
Thieves Fearing Arrest If it urn Paint
Night After It Was
Stolen.
The sight ot blue-garbed police
| officers strolling about their homes
Tuesday was Just too much for a
| couple young colored boys of Shel
by.
Monday night painters at work at
the Buttle drug store left some, of
their paint outside near the store
and it was stolen. Police Chief Pos
ton had a suspicion that two col
ored boys did the stealing so Tues
day he and some of his officers
searched a home or two in a color
ed residential section looking for the
paint They failed to find It, but
this morning the paint had mys
teriously returned to the spot from
which it had been stolen.
All Members First
Baptist Church To
. Meet Tonight At 7
Matters of vital Interest to every
member of the First Baptist church
will be presented in a meeting to be
held in the young peoples’ assembly
auditorium this evening at 7 o’clock.
Every member who can possibly do
so, is urged to be present promptly
at 7 in this meeting and hear the
important plans relating to the
most important period of church
life which lies immediately ahead, j
Business A t Belwood, Celebrates
Big Charlotte Merchant Started
His 50th Anniversary In Business
J. B. Ivey Started Store At Black
Rock, This County, Now Known
As Belwood.
The proprietor of one of Char
lotte and North Carolina's largest
business houses, J. B. Ivey, is this
week celebrating his fiftieth anni
versary in the mercantile business.
Fifty years ago Mr. Ivey first
started in business as a small coun
try merchant at Black Rock, now
Belwood, in this county. Many older
citizens of the county remember
when he and his associates operated
their belwood store. Later Mr. Ivey
sold out and moved to Charlotte.
In connection with his fiftieth
business anniversary Mr. Ivey
writes the following about his first
store:
"In the upper left land corner of
this page, you will see a sketch
which portrays, as nearly as I could
describe) to the artist, the little
country storehouse at Black Rock.
Cleveland county. North Carolina,
in which fifty years ago, I started
in the mercantile business; an hum
ble beginning, all will admit. The
one room, one story frame building
was about thirty feet long and six
teen feet wide. A large, open fire
place was in one end, where the
fn’Tners of the section gathered on
rainy days, sat and gossipped, dis
cussed politics and spit tobacco
Juice in the fireplace. They sat on
nail kegs, tobacco boxes, etc., and
we had a few chairs. There were
several windows with solid wood
shutters, closed each night and fast
ened with iron bars to keep out
thieves.
‘‘A solid front and top counter en
tirely cut off the shelves from the
customers. This counter was about
thirty-six inches high and one had
to be expert to vault over it. which
I frequently did to save going tq the
other end of the store to use the
gate opening. This counter, with a
couple of bolts of calico for a pillow,
made a convenient place to nap on
a long summer day when, as fre
quently happened, no customers
would be seen for hours.
“The floor was elevated with five
cteps from the ground, This was
done so that the wagons could back
up and unload on the level of the
store floor. Thus, the convenience of
the teamsters was more to be con
sidered than the customer, who had
to climb five steps.
"I propose for awhile, to give
each day some reminiscences of
those days in the Eighties, when I
was strugglinar to learn storekeep
ing,”
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Business Men
Not In Favor
Of Sales Tax
Shelby Men Protest
Finance Plan
Will Make Thing's Harder For Hard*
Pressed Merchants and hot
Help Consumers,
I _
! Raleigh, March H.—The house
| finance committee last night voted
[14 to 3 to adopt the Day general
sales tax bill, to levy additional
franchise taxes on all corporations,
and to impose a consumers' tax of
electricity, gas, telephone and tele
rrtiph service.
Merchants doing business under
$10,000 a year would pay a tax of
’a of 1 per cent on their annual
gross sale; $10,000 to $25,000, % of
1 per cent: $25,000 to $50,000, 1 per
cent; $50,000 to $100,000, 1»4 per
cent ; $100,000 to $250,000, 2 per cent;
$250,000 to $500,000, 2H per cent?
over $500,000. 3 per cent.
The bill must pass the senate be*
fore it becomes a law.
Shelby business men did not
send a delegation to Raleigh to
protest against a gross sales tax.
yet practically every Shelby n.er
chant and business man Is op
posed to a sales tax in most any
form for the purpose of provid
ing revenue for slate-supported
schools.
Views expressed by local merchant*
In disapproving the sales tax move
rrient are similar to those advanced
before the general assembly by hun
dreds of merchants who flocked in
to Raleigh Monday.
Vo Help There.
The cry that, the sales tax Is to l>3
levied to help the farmer ,vill not
hold water. It Is contended oy mer
chants, because If a sales tax Is Im
posed to relieve a land tax the lift
ed burden will be saddled right back
on the farmers and other consumers
who will bear a portion of the sales
tax burden.
Shelby Viewy.
The following replies were offered
by Shelby business men when quer
ied by The Star as to their views on
the proposed gloss sales tax.
Campbell Department Store: “Wo
are 100 percent against any sales
tax plan yet advanced by the legis
lature. None of them offers real
relief anywhere."
W. A. Pendleton, Pendleton Musld
Store: “Hard-pressed merchants
will have to pass the tax, rr part of
it, on to the consumer. Who will
benefit? The average merchant can
not afford to pay the tax, and It
Isn’t fair for him to push it off on
the farmer.”
R. Z. Riviere and W. O. Arey, Rl
vier Oil company: “It will be the
biggest nuisance Imaginable. X
know that” Mr. Riviere says, "from
my experience In the drug iruslness
with the war tax."
D. R. Vates, J C. Penney Co.,
"Needless to say, I do not think a
single Shelby merchant will approve
such a tax.”
Jas C. Matt hat, Charles si *res{
"The sales tax Is a burden which
will be Imposed upon the neopla
who are least able to support it.’’
DeWitt Quinn, Quinn’s Drug store
"It will put the little business man
| on the rocks and out of business,
j His elimination will hurt general
j business because it will remove just
i one more distributing unit luppl'.ed
i by the wholesale element The hlgh
t way bill, It is said, will take oft ap
! proxlmately 19 cents of the land tax
| levy, but Instead of anything being
| taken off the business men more is
1 being added; and we pay every U|l
| aginable form of tax now." ’•*’
Prank Hamrick. Hamrick Jewelry:
j "Think how many collectors and in
spectors it will take to look alter and
collect such a tax. There will go the
major portion of the revenue in
jobs."
L. C. Kester, Kester-Groom": “We
are absolutely opposed to a sales tax
in any form.”
Harry Cohen, Cohen Brothers:
“The sales tax proposal is unfair
and .unjust.”
A. V. Wray, of A. V. Wray and Six
Sons: “A sales tax will be lust an
other burden on the business ar^id
of North Carolina at a time vner
(CONTrmnsD on -acif fight i
Polk County Bank,
Once Closed, Opens
Asheville, March 10.—The Pel!:
County Bank and Trust company,
which closed November 23, reopen
ed tills morning with a total of $3,
000 on deposit Fred W. BL_nton,
president of the reorganised bank,
estimated that between $10,000 and
(13 000 will be deposited before the
close of business today, saying the
institution was receiving fine co-op
eration from depository. The bank
upon reopening, increased Its cap
►*l from *15 0(10 to *33.500