Rev. Sankey Blanton
Gets Important Call
C«oes To Big Church Near Vale As
Pastor. Well Known
Here.
Rev. Sankry L Blanton, former
pastor of the Louts!)urg Baptist
church and a^graduale of Piedmont
High school, Lawndale, Wake For
est college, class of 192S and the
Southern Baptist Theological Sem
inary of Louisville, Ky., and a stu
dent the past year at Newton The
ological institute of Boston, Mass.,
and Harvard University has been
elected pastor of the Calvary Bap- |
tist church of New Haven, Conn. He
has accepted the call and ■will, as
sume his new duties in June.
He has been elected alumni sec
retary of Wt ke Forest College but
will decline that position In opder
to accept the call of the Calvary
church, which Is located alongside
the campus of Yale university. It
has a large membership and Is one
of the Baptist centers of the New
England states. Many students and
faculty members of Yale university
attend this church. Rev. William
Lyon Phelps, who occupies the
unique position of honorary pastor
Is a member of this church.
Rafe Kings Gets
Many Flowers
•CONTINUID PROM RAGS ONS *
pies of the famous Lancaster coun
ty cooking. and he managed to dls
"Judge C. C. Featherstone will
preside on the bench for tne ten
days of the trial, and both sides ex
press their satisfaction with him as
a jurist. The records of the case,
which are now voluminous, were
transferred from Chester to Lancas
ter ovef a week ago. Both sets of
lawyers say they are satisfied With
the quality of the jury venire of 36
men from which a panel of 13 will i
be selected to try the famous case
the second time.
•The grand Jury was called In the
order of Chief Justice Blease tor the
special term of court at Lancaster,
just In case It were needed, which
Solicitor Finley says he does not
expect, However, if there be any
prisoners in the Lancaster Jail, they
will be Indicted and arraigned at the
beginning of the term, which will
not take over an hour, and then
TClegated back to their comparative
obscurity as defendants at the bar ’
Quarterly Conference
At Fallston Church
ner Will Be Served In
Picnic Style.
The third quarterly conference of
the Belwood circuit M- E. church,
South, Will be held at Fallston
Church on next Saturday and Sun
day. May 2 and 3. The conference
will open Saturday morning at 11
o’clock with preaching by Rev. R.
M. Courtney, presiding elder of the
Gastonia district. At 12 o’clock din
ner will be served on the grounds
of the church and the business ses
sion will follow at 1:15 p- m
Mr. Courtney will preach again
Sunday morning at 11:15. Brother
Courtney Is In high favor with all
the Belwood circuit people and the
hour of preaching has been fixed
at 11:15 so that members from other
churches of the circuit will have
time to get to the service. The gen
eral public Is given a cordial invi
tation to attend these services.
Presiding Elder To Be Present. Bin
NOT III or SALE 01 NOTTS
ggg 000.00
COl’NTY or CliRVELAND. north
CAROLINA.
Sealed bid* for above notes win be re
reived until 10 o’clock a. m , May Oth,
1931 by tile local government commission
of North Caroline, at its office In Ra
leigh, for the above notes dated May 4th.
1931 and maturing July 30th. 1931 with
out option of prior payment. There will
be no auction. The notes will be awarded
at the lowest Interest rate, for which s
bid of par and accrued Interest is made
Principal and interest payable at Union
Trust Co.. Bhelbjt North Carolina Inter
est payable at mnturly. Notes will be in
denomination of 935,000,00 or denomina
tions of 95.000.00 to suit purchaser II
aoectllod at time bid is made Bidders
must present with their bids a ceotlftrd
check upon an Incorporated bank or trus’
company, payable unconditionally to the
order of the Btate Treasurer for 9135 00
The approving opinion <*f Mr R L. By
burn will be furnished the purchaser. Tt
right to reject all bids is reserved
LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION
By: Chss. M. Johnson. Director of
Local Government and Ex-Officio Bee
retary of the Commtss.on, U 39
NOTICE OF M MSIONS
North Carolina, Cleveland County.
In the Superior Court B?”ore the Clerk
Harry Jtmmersoli. et al.. Petitioner!
v«.
George Hippy, Forrest Rlppy, el al , De
fendants.
To Ed Rlppy and wife, Utile Hippy.
George Rlppy, Avery Rlppy and wife, Mrs
Avery Hippy Jesse Hippy and wife Mrs
Jesse Rlppy. Robert Rlppy and wife, Mrs
Robert Rlppy, Crayton Rlppy, Loletar
George Rlppy. Ella Mae Gordon, Esther
Rjppy and husband, whose name is un
known. OUet McSweln. Lesr.der McSwaln
and wile, Mra. Leandtr McSwaln. Jennie
McSweln and huaband whose name Is cot
known. Bubb McSwaln and wife. Mra.
Bubb McSwaln. Alonao McSwaln and wife.
Mrs. Alonao McSwaln. Senora McSwaln,
and Cephas McSwaln, non-rasldent da
You and aaeh of yon ora baraby not>
tlad that a special proceeding hat beer
begun before the clerk of euo*r’or com
Of Clevel-nd ccntv, N C. to o'rlt o>
lots Nos 335. 3-3. end "37 o’ the R—
Add‘t on to the town of Ph»‘iv a d 'x tl.
tenant* In common. In wh’ch you have »’
Interest, and that petition Is on tile Ir
the office of olerk of superior court o'
i OUvaland county, and that you are ra
1 qulred to appear and answer or demur
: to said petition on dr before June «. 1911.
or the relief prayed for will be granted.
This the 37th day of April. 1931
A M. HAMRICK Clerk Superior
Court
%r l w»U», Akty. U April 3*r
Police Get Clues
To Store Robbery
Find Pant!* Discarded By Thief. Had
Name Written In
Pocket.
City police arc pretty sure that
they know the name of the robber
who entered two or three Forth
Shelby stores last week-end but they
have not been able as yet to locate
him.
Yesterday and last night officers
found some of the articles t«fc*n
from the C. H. Reinhardt and Craig
Lewis stores. Clothing and canned
goods from the two stores were
found west of Shelby-scattered about
on the Bob Lackey and LeancVr
Hamrick farms. At one spot the sus
pected thief had apparently discard
ed the clothing he was wearing and
had put on some taken from one of
the stores. In the pocket of the dis
carded trousers was the pressing
club label giving the name of J. K,
Foust. As a result of that discovery
officers believe that the pants were
worn and discarded by Ralph Foust,
whose father's name was In the
trousers.
Ralph Foust. Police Chief Poston
says, escaped from the chain gang
.hero- last week He was serving a
sentence for breaking in the Flr*t
Baptist church.
Quarterly B. Y. P. U.
Sandy Pfains May 8
(Special to The Star.)
The B. Y. P. U. quarterly meet
lng of District No. 1 will be hi’d at
Sandy Plains church Friday night
before the second Sunday, May 8th
at 8 p. m. Program for the everuig
as follow^:
Devotional by Rev. W. A. Elam.
Special song.
Address of Welcome by Stella
Walker.
Response by Annette Blanton,
Special song.
Sermon by Rev. W. C. Lynch,
Rehnbeth Memorial
First May Sunday
♦ Special to The Star.)
There will be memorial services
at Rehobeth Methodist church the
first Sunday in May. Tire program
Is as follows:
. 9:30 o’clock—Sunday school.
10:30—Short program by the Sun
day school.
11 a. m.—Sermon by pastor
12—Lunch.
1:30—Song service.
2:30—Sermon by Rev. J. W
Combs, of Goodsonvllle.
California Visitors
Return to Their Home
——
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Shaw
and son. Master Joe Ned, of Bak
ersfield, California, who have been
visiting Mrs. Shaw’s uncle, Mr. T.
M. Sweeny and aunt, Mra. O. 8
Royster of Falluton, as well ** othar
relatives In this part of the state,
left Tuesday for their home. They
will return by way of Washington,
D, C., New York City and visit
relatives and friends In Reading,
Pa., Kansas City, Mo., Steamboat
Springs. Colorado, and Salt Lake,
City, Utah.
* May 10 Is Mother’s
I Day
How To Vmt
YOUR MOTHER
Every Day
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Studio.
Don’t Delay. Make that ap
pointment today.
This Is National
BABY WEEK
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SHELBY, N. C.
Cotton Market
New York, April 29.—Last night's
weather map cloudy west. Rain re
corded at Abilene, Amarillo, San
Antonio and Palestine. Clear East.
Forecast fair east, showers west
journal of Commerce review Mem
phis says despite unfavorable crop
news and sizeable Increase In goods
business spot sales declined past
week, basis well maintained. Hou
ston reports Texas spot sales poor
\'t of season. Charlotte reports
elective demand. George Fooehe
iays moisture conditions best in
several years, weevil damage likely
to exceed that In 1930, heavy de
cease In fertilizer use will affect I
eastern yields, acreage reduced to!
to 13 percent. Worth street quiet,!
print cloths sold at 5 cents. Look"
for easy market awaiting buying!
incentive. March cotton quoted at
boon today 11c, December 10.68.
CLEVENBtfRG
McBraver School
Finals On April 23
Pupils Enjoy Picnic. Medal Winners
And Graduate*. 100 Per
Cent Pupils.
The McBrayer school closed on
Thursday April 23, with a success-)
ful year's work.
The teachers, Mrs Knox Hardin
and Miss Lorene Morehead with a
few friends accompanied the chil
dren on a picnic Thursday The
children enjoyed gathering tlowers
making pictures and most of all the
good dinner,
The reports were given for the'
last months work. Those taking the
county seventh grade test and re
ceiving their diplomas were Martin
Elliott and Joe Davidson.
Medal winners from the grammar
grades were Mary Bell Humphries
and Hilton Putnam.
Those winning awards from pri
mary grades were Ruby Allen, sec
ond grade pupil for not missing a
day In school or .-being tardy. Ran
dall Gibson primmer pupil for most
Improvement in class work.
The following are pupils that re
ceived awards for being 100 per
cent pupils for the past three
months, offered by thetr teacher
Miss Morehead. First grade-Ran
dall Gibson, Loren Phillips, George
Ware.,
Second grade—Beondeon Evans,
Several others were 100 per cent
pupils the first two months.
Another difference between death
and taxes la that death doesn't get
worse every time the legislature
meets.—Akron Beacotn-Journal.
Daniels Cause Of
Assembly Hang-Up
News And Observer Editor May Be
Seeking Governorship In
1932.
Three millions of North Carolin
ians anxious to see their legislature
adjourn with a tax policy fixed for
two years, must have wondered
over this two months holdout since
the expiration of the usual 60-day
setto, what keeps the statesmen
from going home and staying there,
states the Greensboro New?;’ - Ra
leigh correspondent.
The easiest and commonest ex
planation is the clash of congenital
bourbonism with blatant opportun
ism. That there are senators and
house members who never have
learned anything and have forgot- ;
ten nothing, Is evident in many a
vote. And the number of "progress
ives” who find themselves with an
audience amongst the bankrupt
millions of North Carolinians, is
alarming. But these conflicting ele
ments do not explain this protract
ed stay In Raleigh, There are too
many here by "mandate from the
people to reduce taxes” to allow'
reactionaries to stampede them, or
big business to lobby them Into an
Interminable hostility to that relief;
for among these annoying and un
reasonable reactionaries are many
senators and representatives who
are perfectly willing to vote Nr any
form of sales tax as a concession to
popular clamor, believing all the
while that relief will not come and
that the last estate of the redeem
ed will be worse than the first.
The reel cause of the ’holdout is
Josephus Daniels, editor of the Ra
leigh News and Observer. This crops
out often, and more frequently the
reason is concealed. But more men
are moved In their public action to
day by the belief that Mr. Daniels
pirns to take charge of the party
and to become Its candidate for gov
ernor in 1933 than by any "man
date from the people” or any man
date from the big Interests which
can be served handsomely by tax
ation.
“Flush Times Not
To Come Back Soon
“Old Hurrygraph,” writing lor
The Uplift, the interesting little
magazine published by the boys at
the Jackson Training School, near
Concord, truly observes:
'■I am not one of those who look
for another era of ‘flush times’
such as ended with the collapse of
the stock market. We shall have
easier times undoubtedly, but they
will come, when they do come, with
the old-fashioned economies. I be
lieve the country, in the next five
years, Is to have a ‘new birth’ of
thrirt, and that those who practice
It first, will prosper first and most
With taxation increasing as it ts,
and government separating us more
and more from our earnings, it is
going to be more and more diffi
cult to accumulate. Our standards
of living are going to be revised,
whether we like it or not. Only
those already rich may safely con
tinue their extravagances until they
also-begjn to. feel the pinch of un
necr sary cJtpeHditures.”
Lespedeza Helps
Bob White Quail
“Early In their study of the life
history of the Bib Wh ts, the field
men of the Cooperative Quail In
vestigation observed that, other fac
tors being equal, the distance be
tween bevies on natural range was
In direct ratio to the abundance
or scarcity of certain of the pod
bearing plants. A good quail popula
tion with bevies In close proximity
to one another went hand tn hand
with an abundant growth of such
plats as partridge pea, milk pea,
wild bean, butterfly pea, vetch, beg
garweed, lespedeza or alfalfa. On
the other hand the bevies were us
ually widely separated In areas giv
en chiefly to broom-sedge and wire
grass, with a scarcity of pod-bear
ing plants.
Many kinds of leguminous plants,
even at an early stage of develop
ment, have an attraction for the
Bob White equaled by other plants
only at the,time their seed }s avail
able for food. Possibly you may
have noticed an excessive amount
of whistling of Bob White In the
vicinity of an alfalfa patch and
have remarked that quail are nest
ing there in abundance. In reality,
bachelor Bob White fairly splitting
their throats in rivalry for a mate
are probably responsible for most,
if not all, of the Bob White calls;
nevertheless, a bachelor quail knows
the kind of place to choose to bring
up a family and the alfalfa field ts
a favorite place with him to await
the coming of a bride; unfortuntely,
though, it Is also a favorite nesting
place and consequently many fine
settings of eggs are destroyed by the
mower Plant the borders of corn
fields to cowpeas, soy beans or vel
vet beans, and more quail will be
found in such fields during the
nesting season than If the legumes
had not been planted. What the at
traction of certain of the legumi
nous plants apparently stimulates
reproduction, resulting In several
City Officials Deny Rumors As To Sale
Of Light And Water Plants- Will Not Build
Power Plant-Hope For Light Rate Reduction
There has beep certain rumors that the present City Officials
may sell the Water and Light Plants of the City. We wish to go on
record that we are not in favor of selling now or at any future time
either of these plants.
We have thoroughly investigated the advisability of building
a hydro-electric plant for furnishing a part of the electric current
used by the City. While the engineers report shows a net profit to
the City of about twenty percent on the cost of the plant, we do not
think it best for the City to build this proposed plant as there is such
a variation in the amount of current that would be generated on ac
count of the great variation of the quantity of water in the river
during different years and seasons of the year,
' While we fully realize the confidence the people of Shelby have
placed in us by electing us to our present positions, we will not at any
time obligate the City on any really important question without first
letting the people of Shelby decide such question for themselves by a
vote.
I
We are not making any definite promises as to lowering rates
for electric c<* rent. We hope to be able to give a reduction after
making out our budget as we will then know exactlv what we can do.
S. A. McMURRY, Mayor
P. M. WASHBURN, Alderman, Ward I
L. A JACKSON, Alderman, Ward 2
JOHN F. SCHENCK, jr., Alderman, Ward 3
Z. J. THOMPSON, Alderman, Ward 4
thrifty bevies In close proximity to
one another.
Those who are actively interested
in making conditions better fo:
quail should not overlook the possi
billties offered in Korean lespedezs
The seed of this plant is very simi
lar to Japan clover (Lespedeza stn
ata,) a staple food of the Bor
White In many sections of Virginia
Moonshiners May
Have Killed Young
Rutherford Farmer
rCONTINUED FROSi PAGE OKE>
was going to a neighbor's to see if
the ground was suitable for plow
ing and that from there he wa*
going to another neighbor’s to sit
up with a dead baby. He neve:
reached the latter place.
Funeral services were h«Jd Tues
day afternoon at 2 o’clock at the
Concord Baptist church,
Or Cuff Buttons.
A 300-pound man stood gazlne
longingly at the enticing display of
a haberdasher's window. A friend
stopped to Inquire If he was think
ing of buying the marked down lav
ender silk shirt.
“Go6h, no,” replied the fat man,
wistfully. "The only thing that fits
me ready made Is a handkerchief1'
Fish, we glean from a wild-life
note, have ears or something very
like them, and, good grief, what a
vocabulary the ones who got away
would have if they could only re
peat what they heard!—Boston Her
ald.
The wealth of the average Amer
ican has been placed at $2,977, in
dicating that quite a few average
Americans have been short-chang
ed.—Miami News.
As the Babe Came Home
Slightly crippled but still cheerful, Babe Ruth was greeted by several
hundred fans as he arrived at Grand Central Terminal, N. Y. Mrs.
Ruth is shown wheeling the King of Slam to the family auto. Baba
expects to get back in action in a short time despite his injured leg.
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