North Carolina Newspapers

^lebehmib MONDAY. AUG. 24, 1931 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Alternoons. 8 PAGES TODAY •»? Mail «»r rair. U» ilrtin) _ |«.km «!arrt*r. a<rr vaar. <tn advaneai sxa« Late News ! Mirmfr Tuesday. Today* North Carolina Weather Report Partly cloudy tonight and i Tuesday, Warmer Tneaday and In. west portion tonight. Lindys In Japan Nemurn, Japan. Aug. 24.—Colonel i and Mrs. Ctwles A. Undbergh j brought their powerful black mono-1 plane to rest on Nemuro Harbor at j 7:51 a. m. today (5:51 p. m. Sun day eastern standard time), suc cessfully completing the next to the last leg of their hazardous flight (Tom the eastern t'nited States to Tokyo. They came here from An noro Lake, on Kunashlrl island, fifty miles to the north, where they spent the night. They were unable to land here Sunday because of heavy fog. BigGainShown In High School In This County >00 Percent. Increase In 5 Years Over 110 Percent Enrollment In crease In County Since 1924-25 Period. 'Specie! U> The Star.' Raleigh, Aug. 24.-7Enrt>llment of •white children in the high schools of North Carolina increased 613 per , rent In the rural and 36.7 per cent in the charter schools, or a state wide increase of 51 3 per cent in the fiveyear period from 1924-25 to 1929 30, It is shown in a table in "State f^chopl Facts," monthly publication of state Superintendent A. T Allen. White enrollment increased from 67.068 to 101,486 in all school,s. the rural enrollment, increasing from 39 832 to 64,332 and the charter echoot enrollment from 27,254 to 37.254 In the fiveyear period, the report shows. Negro enrollment for the state at large increased 129.3 per cent in the high schools in that period, or from 6.507 to 14.924. the rural school showing an Increase from 1,237 to 4, 813, or 289 1 per cent, while the charter schools showed an increase from 5,370 to 10.111. or 191.9 per tent. In the white schools, 16 7 per cent of those enrolled were m hign school while 5 7 per cent, of the negroes en rolled were in high school. The per centage of high school pupils in -’•white charter schools was 23. as compared with 14.4 per cent m ru jral schools. Only 2.5 percent of rural negro enrollment was in high schools, and 147 per cent of the enrollment In charter schools was rn high schools. High schools in the state number 913, of which 778 are for wnite and 335 for colored children. Accredited white high schools number 608, while 170 are unaccredited, and 68 are accredited and 67 unaccredited of the negro schools. The state has 4.904 high school teachers. 4 295 in the white and 609 in the colored schools Cleveland county, the report shows increased 110.8 per cent in white School enrollment in the five-year period, or from *93 to 1,039. Of the total enrollment. 13 7 per cent of the pupils were in high school, the rounty taking 59th place in this re spect. In 1930 this county graduated 142 pupils from high school. The Shelby charter school enroll ment increased 17.1 per cent. or from 433 to 507 in the same five |ear period. Cleveland Farmers To Visit Cabarrus Friday This Week Will Go To Concord To See l.e*pe de*a Work Being Carried On There. A delegation of Cleveland county farmers—as many as can possibly go—will leave the court house in Shelby about 7 o’clock Friday morn ing for a farm tour to Cabarrus county. The delegation, headed »y B. W. Phoffner, farm agent, is making the trip to Concord and Cabarrus coun ty with the particular aim of seeing how lespedeza is grown and har vested there. Cabarrus is one of the leading lespedeza counties in the South and it is believed that Cleve land farmers, muchly interested in this crop, can learn much of value Friday. The tour is made that day for the reason that it is the day when the Cabarrus farmers will stage the annual tour of their own county and thus the Cleveland visit ors will profit by the itinerary. Those who can make Friday’s trip should get in touch with the coun ty agent or report egrlv Friday morning Tomorrow Tuesday. morning Cleveland farmers will assemble at the county home at fl o'clock to -sake a tour of their own county. CountyFarmers Favor Bagging Made Of Cotton ] Will Meet Again On Thursday Here All Fanners And dinners Urfcrd To Attend Merlin*. To Ask Ra**in* Experts. If Cleveland count? farmers ran be shown that the cost of cotton barsing is in proportion »o the jnte barring now in gen- i eral use, the? are highl? in fav or of wrapping ever? Cleveland i rounty bale in it. This appeared to be the prevail-; triR sentiment at a gathering of farmers at the Central high school here Friday afternoon Due to the fact that court was in session the i meeting was moved to the school j | auditorium and as a result the i j attendance was small. 1 Those present at the meeting, however, were enthusiastic about! the proposal to wrap all cotton ini cotton bagging and decided that) another meeting should be held ail 2:30 o'cktk Thursday afternoon ml the court house here. At this meeting it is hoped to’ have every'ginner in Cleveland county and as many farmers as possible, present. A representative of some of the mills making cotton bagging wtil be invited and the general discussion will center about the cost. A big percentage of textile plants and buyers in the South have al ready agf?d to allow farmers seven pounds extra on each bale wrap ped in cotton bagging. The amount of cotton used for bagging, if the entire crop were so trapped, would increase the consumption of cotton! considerably, it is argued, and thus I boost the price At the meeting here last week every man present expressed him self as ‘soid" on the pian. and con siderable interest is being shown in the meeting for this week, R. W. Shoffner. farm agent savs that Friday * meeting expressed tht ;View that the gathering this week should be well attended so that j girniera might get ah idea about ; what to do before putting in their I bagging stock for the approaching1 ginning season. ■ i Judge Orders More Dignity In Court Wrangling between lawyers and witnesses in county court this morn ing brought a stern rebuke from j Recorder Maurice R. Weathers. ! "Such wrangling wouldn’t be tried, he said, "in Superior court, and if this court cannot be conduct ed with any more respect and dig nity it should be abolished. I’ve had enough of this bickering." The order came during the trial of Dean Davis in connection with a garage robbery. Judge B. T. Palls was representing another defend ant implicated in the affair and some controversy arose wnen ob jections were entered by Solicitor W. S. Beam. The witness on the stand. Davis, also joined m the cross-fire of rather heated ques tions and answers. County s School Budget Cut Down Near 10 Percent Allotment Permitted By State Board , Slashes Total Teachers Pay, Truck Expense. Tor general school purposes, with allotments to be made yet for several other Items, the ! six months schools of Cleveland county will have to set alone this year on a little morr than 10 percent lass than they did last year. Prom Raleigh Saturday it- was an-1 nounced that the State board of equalization's allotment for Cleve-j land county, under the new school law, was $179,162. This was about four to five thousand dollars less than the application budget prepar ed and filed by J H. Grigg, county superintendent The above allot ment, however, does not Include such items as maintenance of plants, attendance work, supervision and health, and when these are tak en up the total school budget for the county may be close to the am ount asked for by the county board ; Two Cuts Made, Supt. Grigg said today that the allotment given by the board ap proved a majority of the items in his budget. There were two notice able exceptions: Total salaries al-i lotted for teachers was approxi mately $2,000 less than the total salaries anticipated in the county even with the 10 percent reduction i in salary; the allotment trucks and I maintenance was also about. $2,000' under the amount applied for Several other items were reduced ; slightly, the total difference between , the amount asked for by the coun-! ty and that allowed by the State ! being approximately 10 percent. The county school officials figured it * would take around $200,000, other than the items yet to be filed, to 1 operate the schools, this sum being' a little more than $20,000 over the ■ allotment given Charter District*. The special charter districts were given allotments as follows for the six months operation by the State i Shelby $54,394.48, and King.e Moun- j tain $28,083.44. The slash over last, year's operation costs for these two , districts is about the same as that j made in the general county allot ment Lieut. Col. McBrayer On A Vuit Home Lieutenant Colonel Chas B. Mc Brayer, son of the late Dr. Evans McBrayer, arrived yesterday to spend about ten days on a visit to 1 his brother, C. B. McBrayer and his sister, Mrs Gerald Morgan. Col. McBrayer has been in army medical service for a quarter of a century. He is now executive officer for the Portland, Oregon, recruiting district which includes the territory of Ore gon. Southern Washington and Northern California. Col. McBrayer is stationed at Portland, Oregon ! Dr. and Mrs. N. E. Pendleton, ofi Baltimore, visited Mr. and Mrs. W ! A. Pendleton last week Summon Wood, Others In Probe Of Cannon’s Anti-Smith Finances Charlotte Banker Told To Appear Before Nye Investigating Committee. Washington, Aug. 24.—A number of bankers, including w. it Wood, president of the American Trust company at Charlotte, have been subpoenaed to appear before the Nye investigating committee in con nection with the Bishop Cannon in vestigation. The committee is seek ing to ascertain, primarily, what went with the money collected from E. C. Jamison, of New York, and others, for use in the anti-Smith campaign during 1928. Bishop Cannon, during the last presidential campaign, deposited in various banks private campaign funds, as James Cannon, Jr., execu tor. The senate committee has, there fore summoned Mr. Wood and oth er bankers tq|come here with their bank books on Friday, the 28th. and explain just what banking relations they had with the bishop, who was a leader in the anti-Smith cam paign. Failure of the anti-Smith cam paign committee to make a report of receipts and expenditures was something of an issue In the state for a time, Mr. Wood finally making the explanation that he had re ceived some financial assistance from Republicans, and this had em barrassed the situation because there had been an agreement with Chairman Prank R. McNinch that financial assistance would not be solicited from Republican sources, Ireland Treasurer. No report, therefore, was ever made of the total amount expended by the anti-Smith forces, but it is understood that between $30,000 and $40,000 was so used. Charles H. Ire land, of Greensboro, was treasurer of the committee, while Mr. Wood served as assistant. Persons more or less familiar with these financial operations do not* understand that any of the Jamison money, received by Bishop Cannon, found its way into North Carolina, or into Mr. Wood's Charlotte bank. The bankers summoned were. W. H. Wood, president of the American Trust company, Charlotte; P. W. Sheffield, cashier of the Bank of Crewe, at Crewe, Va.. and S. L. Bor row. president of First National bank, Blackstone, Va. C. Bascom Slemp, Virginia Repub lican leader and former secretary to President Coolidge; Eugene L. Craw ford, general secretary of the board of temperance of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and Miss Ada L. Burroughs of Richmond, treasurer of Bishop Cannon’s anti Smith committee in 1938, were also summoned. The inquiry will be re sumed next Thursday. ( Next Governor Discussed With EhringhausOut Brummitt, Maxwell To Enter Race Four Candidate* Certain For Ouher natoriai Rare. Morrison Speak* Of Hoe*. 'By M R Dunnagan, Star New, Bureau.* Raleigh, Aug 24.- Political com ment for several days has centered largely around the announcement of J. C. B. Khringhaus. Elizabein City, for the Govern# ship, and his "confession of faith" which followed last week, close upon the heels of the announcement of Lieutenant Governor R. T, Fountain. With two candidates definitely in the field, the question arises as to what others and when the others will do. It begins to look now as if there will be four candidates cer tainly. and possibly six before fil ing time expires, even though much can hapen in the nearly ten months until the June primary. • Brommitt, Maxwell. Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt, his friends say. is ex pected to announce his candidacy soon, although he has made no definite statement Commissioner of Revenue A J. Maxwell, it may be definitely said, intends now to enter the race, but his announce ment may be some weeks in coming.' It is known that Willis Smith, speaker of the House, is still giving (serious consideration 10 entering the race. Josephus Daniels, Raleigh publisher, is still considered a pros-1 pect, although at present in the background. Khringhaus. The Khringhaus statement has iCONTTNUin ON PAOE SIX l Rain Cuts Crowd At Elliott Reunion Oldest Man Present Was laa. C. Elliott. War Veteran Among S50 There, Rain cut the attendance at the Elliott reunion held in No. 8 town ship on Saturday. Friday was some thing of a deluge and no cessation in rain until Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Mr. U. L. White who was in Shelby this morning stated that the crowd was estimated to number 200 to 250. The raih compensation, however, for the small attendance for it was worth at least $1,000 to the crops of ihe township. James Finch was one of the •‘eelebreties ’ present, according to Mr. White He featured in the Spanish-American war. in the Phil ippine insurrection and five years with the Philippine insurgents. James C. Elliott, age 86. was th» oldest visitor present. He stays well and strong and has no hesitancy In facing the weather. Of course the mean was typiA-i of \re bounty of the Elliott clan and relatives Mr. Lutz To Give Watermelon Feast To Kiddies Tuesday Roftccw Lutz, county coroner, will give a watermelon least to the kid dies on Tuesday afternoon. He issues a public invitation to all children 15 years and under to meet at the Luts and Jackson funeral home Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. They will be carried on trucks to a nice shady spot near town and offered an abundance of watermelons. He has an ample supply on hand and parents who wish to eccompany their children to the feast are also invited Coaches Of State Gollege In Shelby Clipper Smith and Prank Reese new football coaches at N. C. State college, were visitors in Shelby this morning. While here they conferred with State alumni and talked ovei prospective gridders in this section who may enter the institution. Smith was an all-American guard while playing at Notre Dame and Shelby alumni of State were im pressed with the appearance of both new coaches. Dr. Dorton Made A Member State Board Dr. J. S. Dorton has been appoint ed a member of state board of ex aminers for the profession of vet erinary surgery. His selection was made recently and his term of office runs for severaJ years. Dr. Dorton was at one time president of the State Association of Veterinary Sur geona New Road Plan Gets Praise In County Sections Vtfr«l Sftliont Report Rnari* In But Shape In Two Year*, foremen Named. The general upkeep and mainten ance of rural roads In Cleveland county under the new State-wide system 1» attracting much favorable comment. People, from a number of sections say that their roads are tn the best, shape they have been tn two years. W A Broadway, assistant district engineer, states that the system has not, had time to work smoothly as yet but the forces in this county are gradually forming a harmonious or ganization. Emergence Work. A list of the various section fore men in the county was announced today by Mr Broadway so that these men may be called In ease of •n emergency ‘ At any time where there la a Washout of a bridge or road or any-1 thing else that needs Immediate at tention. I wish the people of that particular section would get in touch With ihe section foreman In their Community. These foremen will re pair the damage at once, or will consult with me " th* engtneeer stated The county section foremen are listed as follows: J H Centner. Sec tion 14, Casar: W. W. l.attimore. 15, Lawndale: Will Jonas. 1*. Polkville; Will Devine 17. Shelby: D J Bar Sorghum Made Of Watermelon New Cleveland Trick Watermelon nrihum! In other word*, molaaaea or a ayrup made of watermelon - ever heard of It? It I*, an far aa known, a new Cleveland county db covery. J. r. (Julr) Brackett *» the originator thereof and he wan In .Shelby Saturday exhibiting some of the ayrup he made from watermelon juice much In the xame man ner molasae* la made from cane juice. “One medium-sited water* melon,” Jnle said, "will make about a pint and a half of ayrup. And it I* good? Well try aome of It wtth hot hi*, cuita and you'll never awap It for ordinary molaaaea 01 in* of the imported ayrup ” Jule. who did hi* ex perimenting in the Boiling Spring* aection. a a y a he aqueeaeo the juice from the melon* and boll* it Juat aa ■»ne ayrup it boiled. Keer* one who hax tried the melon ayrup haa liked H. he sura, and now Jule't wondering how df a thing he haa atarted. rett. IS, Waco; F. Y. Jone*. IS, UK timore; Pres McQIU. 30 Kings Mountain. C X. Ptitnam, 21, Boil ing Springs R b. House, 33. Bari; Hal Morris, 33. Kings Mountain; R U Stookton, general bridge and right of way foreman. Shelby Claire Harril]. foreman of right of way, Shelby. Foreman of the mam State high way sections are R. R, Yarbrough Kings Mountain; *. b Whitworth Waco, and R. b. Mr Bee Polkville County Schools To Close Sept. 18 So Children Can Help Pick Cotton To Canvass For Books For Needy In City Tuesday Bor Voil* To AM Uoh dab In AMembHnf Stetiii-llud Book* In Shelby. On Tuesday of this week Ihs Boy Scouus of Shelby are going to do ' i heir daily good torn by helping 'the Lions club gather up second hand school books for needy school ! children. Last week the club decided to : stage a drive to collect second-hand i books in homes where they will not be used again and turn them over i to school officials for distribution ; among children thi* fall whose par ’ ents cannot afford to buy books. The j drive will be centered this week In a house-to-house, canvass of Shelby bv the Scouts and members of the club. Shelby people who have school books in their homes which thev will not need again are. asked to . get them together to deliver to the i Scouts Tuesday Those who have (no books and feel like helping In ! the movement may contribute the | price of a book if they do desire. it is hoped to kill two birds with j one stone in the drive. Discarded novels and other fiction or histori cal books may be donated in the. drive to be adde.d to the circulating libraries given rural school* by the club. I _ _ !Violin Institute Opened In Shelby Affiliates With Mrs. F. C. Michael Of Gastonia Who Is Well Known Here. The First National Institute of Violin has opened a branch here in the bank building with Mis. F. C. Michael of Gastonia as head direc tor and instructor. Mrs. Michael Is well known in Shelby to the music loving public. The studio is located on the sec ond floor of the Bank Building and lias for its regional superintendent Mr. M. C. Pattlson of Charlotte who made the selection of Shelby for a branch school. He is being assisted in his work by M. F. Nall, dtstrict superintendent and J. M. Batson, local manager with J. T. Matthews, L. J. Waldrop and C. S. Elliott,- spe cial organizers for the institute. A copyrighted and simplified course will be offered in an effort to bring a musical education to people with moderate means. This institute, is said to operate over 250 branch schools in as many towns and cities throughout the United States. , Oartomai-T Otoatag To AM In Col ton Harvest ftopcnd* Vpnn Bow Drop Open*. Cleveland county eoWon fwrmeri »« not only opposed to plowing •very third row under, but they furthermore. pUfn to eloae down their schools at cotton-picking tim? so that several thousand rural school children may assist in har veating ths cotton crop /. H Origg, superintendent of Ole re land's rural schools, stated to day that the long-term schools and the negro schools, which opened July 37 in order to make up time for the closing, will likely shut down Friday, September 18, to aid m picking cotton. "The county board,” he said, ha.; not definitely fixed the date. It ail depends, of course, upon how the cotton opens, but the tentative date set is the 18th ” The hot weather -of recent weeks has caused the cotton crop over the county to develop rapidly and the big cotton harvest season may be a bit earlier than in recent years For a number of years the rural schools of the county have opened aound two months earlier than other schools so that the children may be let out for several weeks at the rush period of the rear on Cleveland farms County Had $16,676 On Deposit In Kings Mtn. Bank When It Was Closed; All Recovered But $2,006 The Star Makes A Check-up At Court House. Deposit Was Protected To Amount Of $8, 000 Surety Bond. Two Dividends Receiv ed And Possibility Of No Loss To County. Hearing rumors that. Cleveland countv lost a “large” I sum of money in the failure of the Commercial Bank and Trust Co., of Kings Mountain when it closed in April 1929. 1 he Star undertook to get the facts as near as possible from the office of the county treasurer and accountant. Phillips Widow Seeking Damage From Mrs. Yount Her'Husband Shot Tn noth While Ridint Wllh Other Woman In County. The death of Tom Phillip*, I enoir automobile dealer, near King* Mountain in this rouniy. «wne eeekj ago has bobbed bark into the pnblte limelight This Ume Iti the form of a damage suit with hi# widow seeking alienation damage* from the roang widow with whom He was r»d*n* when he fame to his death. Saturday Mr* Beatrice Phillips of Lenoir filed a $.V),00(1 suit against Mr*. Charlotte Young, young widow of Newton and Kings Mountain, who was with the former's husband, T. J. Phillips, when he was fatally wounded in an automobile near Rings Mountain a few weeks ago. The suit charges alienation of Phillips' affections and debauching of the Phillips home. A Cleveland county coroner’* jury returned a verdict that Phillip*, an automobile dealer of Lenoir, came to his death at the hands of unknown parties, although Mrs. Yount testi fied that he shot himself, after ask ing her to get out of the car to see if a tire was flat. Also Testified. Another witness, a six-year-old j boy, also testified to seeing Phillips j shoot himself with a pistol j Solicitor L. 8. Spurling made a personal investigation shortly after the tragedy but announced he was unable to obtain evidence to pre sent to the grand jury then in ses sion. In her complaint, Mrs. PhUlipo al leges that Mrs. Yount had frequent i rendesvous with her husband and that the two made 'love trips'1 to gether and exchanged love letters. When the suit will be tried Is in definite. The next term of civil court in Caldwell county will meet thts fall Mrs. H. Poxworth Horne and two children, Foxworth. jr, and Mar ceile, of Jacksonville. Fla., arrived yesterday to visit Mrs. J. C. Smith, Dr. Horne will arrive by airplane on Wednesday and join Mrs. Horne for a further visit with Mrs 8mith. State Legislature Asked To Forbid Cotton Planting In South In 1932 N««r Or team Conference Would Prohibit Planting Or Gathering Cotton. New Orleans, Aug. 34. State leg islatures of the south were called upon Friday by the New Orleans cotton conference to pass acts to prevent the planting of cotton in 1933 The conference also adopted » proposal of United States Senator Thaddeus Caraway of Arkansas that the federal farm board purchased 8. 000,000 bales of cotton at a price above the present market to be al located to those farmers who agree not to plant any cotton next year, and to be sold at the farmers' order and for their benefit. Governor Huey P. Long, who call ed the conference in an effort to re lieve the over-production and low price of cotton, was chosen chair man of a standing steering commit tee of conference with authority to choose his associates later. The conference then adjourned sine die. Attended By 1.000. It was attended by more than I, 000 men and women, including thrsc governors, two United States sen ators, half a dozen United States representatives, and many southern state officials. Governor Long opened the meet-^ ing by explaining his proposal, i which he said he obtained from Representative John Standlin, of the fourth Louisiana district. It will prohibit by state law, the planting or gathering any cotton during the next year. He declared it was con stitutional and necessary and call ed on the conference to adopt it, Long Plan Indorsed. On motion of J. E McDonald, commissioner of agriculture of Tex as, a special committee was ap pointed to meet in executive ses sion to report to the full confer ence later in the day The committee voted resolution of indorsement of the Long plan and the Caraway plan, and both were accepted by the conference by an overwhelming oral vote. After adjournment. Governor Long said he would call a special session of the Louisiana legislature “very soon'1 to act on the recom mendations of the conference, Oth er governors, he said, would be urg ed to follow suit. Under the conference resolution, none of the legislative acts would become binding unless similar legis lation ‘‘shall be adopted by states producing not less than three fourths of the cotton grown in the United States. " The Star had never heard until ft few riay* ago that county hind were on deposit In th* Kings Moun tain bank when it failed. Hr fail ure was one of the flrat in thus sec tion of tltn stale ✓nd the news paper never thought to inquire as to county funds. neither was it voluntarily informed by bank nr county officials of the county's re lationship as a depositor. Insinuat ing rumors of wrong-doing were heard a few days ago and The 8tar made a check-up at the oourt house in order to Inform the tax payers correctly aad set straight some exaggerated statements. ledger Imprrtrd. Walking into the office of th* county treasurer, a representative found Mrs. Yarbrough alone, bust with her office duties. "Mrs. Yar brough. 1 hear the county loat con siderable money in the defunct hank at Kings Mountain in 1936 | that no claim was made for it and | rumor has it that the loss, if any, was kept a secret from the taxpay ers. Will you show me your ledger account with the Commercial Bank and answer a few questions?" asked The Star "Why. certainly, l will be glad to show you or anyone else, the books of this office.” she courteously re plied. She produced records extend ing over a period of years showing these facts ( S2.006.18 SMI Due At the time the bank cloned, the county had on deposit with the commercial Bank and Trust Co. the sum of S 19,676.94. about half of which amount was on oheciting ac count and half on interest bearing certificate. The account was pro tected to the extent of 09,000 by a surety bond in a recognised bond [ ‘>ig company Thirty days after the i bank closed, the county notified the | bonding company of the failure and loss of county funds protected i thereby and the 08,000 bond was | paid into the county treasury. Since : the bank fr/lure, the liquidating 1 agent for the State Corporation j commission has paid two twenty per cent dividends on the entire de posit. these dividends amounting to ♦6,670.76. which added to the 08,009 surety bond paid totals 014,070.79 the county has been reimbursed. Her books show accounts receiv able from Commercial Bank and Trust Co. the sum of 02,006.18 which the ooutjty still holds as a i claim against the defunct bank. Af fairs of the bank are still being li quidated and if another dividend amounting to as much as Ht or H percent is paid depositors, the en tire amount will have been recov ered and the county will suffer no 'loss whatever Standing Verified. "Mrs. Yarbrough, I do not ques tion the accuracy of your books, bu*. do you have other proof as to the amount the county had in the de funct bank?” she was asked by The Star. "Certainly,” said she. "here is the statement of the liquidating tCONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.. ... mi m | , Tom Webb Gets 400(1 Bushels Of Peaches Orchard Has 3,6000 Bearing Trees On His Buffalo Mountain l%m. Tom Webb's Buffalo Mounuur> orchard produced the finest crop oi peaches this year it has yielded in the four years it has been bearing Mr. Webb says the yield this year will total around 4,000 bushels He planted his orchard about seven years ago and this is the fourth har vest. It is the largest commercial or chard in this section and Ideally lo cated, close to the markets of a half dosen county seat towns. Chief among his varieties have been the Georgia Belle Hales and Albertas. Last week when the larg est peaches were at the height of harvest, he had tree after tree of fruit as large as a pint cup. The orchard is planted on virgin land on ! the rim of the Isothermal frost belt. ! and a California woman who owns a | peach orchard in her state, visiting the orchard recently stated that the Webb fruit has a finer flavor and more beautiful color than any of the California fruit.