VOL. XXXVIII, No. 10R
SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESD'Y, SEIT 7, l‘>S
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Late News
TUT MARKET
Cotton, Npot |
Cotton Seed, per ton in ear
lad* F. O. R *11.00 j
Cooler Weather
Today1* North Carolina Weather
Report: Grnrrallv fair tonight and
Thursday, except for rain on thr
northeast roa*t tonight Slightly
rooter tonight.
Probe Suicide
Bollywood. Calif., Sept, 7.—Jean
Harlow of the films assured police
detectives last night she knew no
reason why her husband, Paul Bern,
hrilliant motion picture executive,
should hare killed himself. After a
day and a half of effort, detectives
gained admittance to the home of
Jean Harlow's parents to question
• he star. They were accompanied
to the home by Marino Bello, Mi.*s
Harlow's stepfather, who was ques
tioned by police earlier in the day
in the effort to learn the reason for
Rem's death by a pistol bullet in
the luxurious Benedict canyon
home he deeded to Miss Harlow
when they were married last July
Roosevelt Will
Go 8,000 Miles
On Western Trip
Candidate* Will Make Three l^ead
lat Addresses Of Campaign Ok
Proposed Journey:
Hyde Park, N, Y , Sept- Next
Tuesday Governor Roosevelt leaves
on the maw tup of bus campaign
fnr the presidency, an 8 (>oo-mtlc,
|niim»y to t.hr .west where he will
make three of his major sp'e< hi s:
At Topeko, Kas . on September
14, the Demoeratir candidate will
talk on the farm question The olh
er major speeches will oe made at
Portland, September 21 and Sioux
Pity, Town, September 20.
Announcement was mad-' thi
week of the details of the western
■rip which had been delayed by the
tincertain termination of the May
or; Walker hearing
Mr Roosevelt ended he doublr
holiday visit, to his country home
last night fntraimng for the -cae
fair at Syracuse, He earn" here
from Bridgeport. Conn where nr
spoke last Saturday nigh!
To Make Manv Addresses.
Tn addition to the three maior,
speeches of the western trip ifoosr
veft will make seve*al o'her ad
dresses in hr journey to the coast ,
and his return through- the south
west and Ihe middle west The
candidate considers the three of hi.:
part speeches, the nomination ac
'epiante at Columbus and on prohr
Hition at, Seagrrist were of major,
caliber What topics he will sneak,
on at Portland and Sioux City were .
net announced.
The details nf the western swing i
show: he will make 20 stops: He will I
oe away from Albany 24 days, yw- j
turning to the capital on October Vi
after spending the last two days, a’
the state convention tentatively
scheduled for October 2 anci 4 a'
Buffalo On next Friday the rv-mo
ergtic state committee will meet at
Albany to name the convention
city
Most or .Mr. Roosevelt- s traveling
will he done at night Tn only six j
Instances will he have overnight |
stops at. cities. They are Denver
September IS; Salt Lake City. Sep
tember If, and 17; San Francisco.
September 32; Los Angeles, Sep
' ember 34 and Chicago. .September
so;
At Williams Aria, the governor
grid his party will motor to the
ranch of Mrs. John C. Greenway.
Arizona national committee woman,
s long time friend of toe R.cose
• eps Mrs. Roosevelt will join the
party at, Williams,
She cannot make the fr t pail o;
the trip it was explained because
her two younger sons. John ana
Franklin, jr., will be starting to
school at that time. With the gov
c nor on the rtip will b? his son
.’ernes and Mrs. lames Roosevelt j
and the Roosevelt daughter: Mrs 1
C i tis Dalil.
County Court Heard
160 Cases In. Month
__
Total Of 1,025 Cases Have Beer.
Tried Before Recorder In Fight
Months.
The Cleevland county recorders
court tried 160 cases during month
of August according to the court
records of William Osborne deputy
clerk.
The record also shows that tor
the first eight months o; the year
ending with August, tin court had
disposed of 1 025 cases, an average
of 128 eases per month during the
i ear.
Miss Lucretia Hold of Lawndale
sr>e.nt ]a5t Wpek visiting friends and
relatives at Kings Mountain. She
was accompanied home Sunday by
Mr and Mrs l^wrenee Putnam and
children.
Best Year At Boiling Springs Seen
As Junior College Opens Term; Gain
In Students Shown By Enrollment
The formal opening of the 1932-33.
term at Boiling Springs junior rol- j
lege, this county, was held this i
morning at 10 30 in the college j
auditorium but registration and
enrollment of students began ves- ;
terday.
Reports from the eollege today i
indicated that the Baptist institu
tion anticipates its greatest year
Although registration of new stu
dents and returning students is not
near complete an increase of around
3r> percent of last year's enrollment j
is expected ,
The facultv of tlie school this :
year is made up of graduates of the j
best colleges of North Carolina and
adjoining states Rn .! L. Jenkins
the new president, thinks that the
standard of teaching will be as high
as in any junior Institution, and he
is also pleased with the class of
students coming % from various
sections
Reception Saturday.
The annual reception for new
Students will be held Saturday aft
ernoon from 4 until fi o'clock
Rooms are being assigned daily
to the incoming students in lha
two dormitories and it was said
today that every room in the boy s
dormitory has already been a. sign
ed. College officials, however have
made plans to accommodate all
other boys who enter and do not
get room in the regular dormitory
Lower Power Rates In State Seem
Assured For October By Commission
Mrs. Killmcycr Of
Lawndale Passes
Burial Took Place al 1*n(m Tree
Church Husband and Parent*
Survive.
Lawndale Sept. 6.—The funeral
services of Mrs Everard Kilimeyer
was conducted last Sunday morn
ing at 1! o'clock at Palm Tree
church. Rev E. E Snow preached
the funeral sermon A large host ot
friends and relatives were present.
Mrs. Killmcycr was. 46 vears old
and is survived by her husband Mr
Mr Everard Kilimeyer father and
mother Mr. and Mrs Andy Peeler,
three brothers. .John 'Peeler. Forest
Peeler, and Guy Peeler, and one
sister Mrs Oliver Wall
Mrs. Kilimeyer has oeen a loyal
and faithful member of Palm Tree
church since 1900. Her sweet Chris
tian life won for her many friends
throughout: the community in which
she lived. As her pastor expressed
it, she w as a .bush; and shining
star.
The many and beautliul flowers
showed the love .and respect of all
her friends and loved cnes.
Her neices were flower bearers
Amte Lee Peeler, Elizabeth Peeler
May both Peeler. Esther Jones Marv
bell Jones Doris Blanton and Annie
Lee.
Pall beard's were: n- A C. Ed
wards. R B Wilson J w Lee. .1
R. -Jones s. c Duncan, P P Rich
ard.
Cicero Patterson
Taken To Charlotte
Cicero Patterson, Shelby sales
man, who was seriously injured ity
an auto-ambulance crash more than
two weeks ago was taken to the
Charlotte hospital today. There
a shoulder that was fractured will
be x-rayed and probably operated
upon, it wav said Other than the
shoulder Mr. Patterson is said to be
recovering rapidly.
JUDGE WEBB RETURNS
FROM ASHEVILLE HOMt
Judge E. Y Webb has returned to
Shelby with his family from Ashe
ville where they have been living
during the summer Each summer
Judge Webb holds federal court
continuously in the mountain city
and moved his family there to be
close to his work
CortMirntion Commission Studies
Mailer And Hopes To Lower
Rate.
Raleigh. Sept 7 -The North Car
olina corporation commission yes
, terdav completed its series of con
ferences with the state's lour major
electrical companies and intimated
action to lower the rates mav be
taken by October
W. T. Lee, chairman said the
commission already had begun an
exhaustive study of data presented
at. the conference and hoped to low
er rales by the first of next month
Sure Of Reduction.
Stanley Winborne, one of the
three commissioners. declared
There woll be rale reductions for
consumers, for electrical power
served by the major utility com
panies in the state." when asked fot
an opinion as to what the outcome
of the conference would be
' I am sure reduction,; in rates
w iil tie ordered by the i omnnssion.
Winbourhe declared. 'Fhe commis
sion will go to work ngbl awav on
its reduction proposals and we hope
to have definite action ir a very
short time
Tuesdays final cpnierence was
with representatives wi'h the Tide
water Power company -ervlOR a
number of communiue . in eastern
North Carolina. Previous conferenc
es were held with representatives of ,
the Carolina Power and Light com
pany, the Durham Public Service
company and the Southern Public
'Utilities company
Hearings On Gas Next.
With the power contcicnce out.of
ihe way the commission prepared
to call representatives rf gas com
panies in its effort to secure lower
rates for customers ol all utilities in
the stale. Dates for ihtse sessions
will be announced shortly After the
gas companies, telephone compan
ies will be called
Should the commission decide to
order rate reductions ioi power
companies, they would not be uni
form, Chairman Lee explained, as
the decreases would be based on the
varying casts of the services charg
ed by the utilities
The commission has a hearing set
lor September 15 on the complaint
of the Southern Hotel association,
j seeking lower power rates for hos
telrle.' A hearing scheduled for that
date on the petition of the Moun
[tain Power company of Lake Lure
to increase rates has been indefi
nitely postponed
No More Cotton Will Be Dumped On
Market By Farm Board Until March
Decision Of Board Comes As Aid
To Farmer With Crop
To Sell.
Washington, Sept 7 -The fed
eral farm board this week came to
the aid of the cott-on farmer pre
paring to market his crop and an
nounced the Cotton Stabilization
corporation would sell no more of
its holdings until March 1, 1933. and
the American Cotton Co-operative
association would withdraw its
present stocks of the 1930 crop
until July 31, 1933.
At the same time. it was an
Bounced that the Grain Stabiliza
tion corporation would sell no more
of its remaining holdings before
January 1, 1933.
.Chairman James C. Stone of the
board said he was hopeful that the
action would result in a better mar
ket for cotton growers and wheat
producers than would ordinarily
exist at this time
Follows R. F. C, loans
The board's announcement tol
lowed action by the Reconstruction
Finance corporation in granting a
loan ol $15,000,000 to the Cotton
Stabilization corporation and $35,
000.000 to the American Cotton Co
operative association in order that
these organizations might hold then
cotton off the market
The Cotton Stabilization corpora
tion already has sold more than
300.000 of the 650.000 bales which
it proposed to market before July
31. 1933. The remaining stocks will
be withdrawn from sale immediate
ly, with the exception of certain
small amounts now on consign
ment in foreign countries, and such
cotton as may be sold at 12 cents
a pound or better based on the fu
ture prices on the New York Cot
ton exchange.
To Decide On Sale*
Stone explained that the corpo
ration and the co-operative associ
ation would be given the privilege
of deciding whether to sell should
cotton rise to 12 cents a pound
4CONTINUEP Ofi PAGE IlGHI J |
Other Schools
In County Will
Close This Week
County Board* Hold
Routine Meet*
No Business Of Major Importance
Transacted R» Two Boards
This Week
With the county schools 'ioou,*
for the cot ton-picking season an<
no important county problems to
consider, the meetings of the two
county boards this week were dr
scribed as routine sessions
The county commissioners mad
their usual check of monthly ex
pendltures and other routine mat
ters and devoted the remainder of
their session to hearing and pass
ing upon charity appeal
The School Board
The session of the county bo*re
of education was- equally as un
eventful- with a portion of tin
schools already closed and others
closing this Week, the usual number
of district rielegalions were not
present nt the board meeting, and
no matter of general importance
was passed upon
Schools closing last Friday to
pick cotton for six weeks or longer
were around 10 elementary school#
all the colored schools there we;
running, and the larger schools at
Boiling Springs. Mooresboro. Latti
more, No. 3. Fa list on andJPiedmom
The Waco school had intended to
continue school work through this
week but there was such a smal'
attendance Monday morning th«
the school closed
Schools which will close this Week
are Grover. Bethware Belwood
Cesar. PolfcviUe. Dover Mill a nr,
others
Can you answei 14 of these test
questions? Turn to page two for the
answers;
1. What, welt known children
poem was written bv Clement C j
Moore'’
2. What Indian prime-, did John;
R*>Ne m*m 1
3 Who were Lewis and Clarke'’
4 What does the word pestlferou ,
mean"’
5 What states border On Chesa •!
pcakr Bav?
B How many times was Calvin;
Coolidge elected president"
7 What Egyptian water plant
Used to make a writing material '
8. Who were eligible for mem be
ship in the Grand Army of the Re
public ?
9. What public office n held to j
Huev p Lone1 j
. id. For what, do the initials V D I
B on a Lincoln head penny stand1
11 Of what botanical family j
the bamboo?
12. Who wrote the poem The!
Grey Monk "?
13. Is theer a finished motor road
from Mexico through Central
America to Brazil?
1 ry Answering
H Does an American man lose:
his citizenship if he married an!
alien woman ?
15. Who coined the phrase, p
triotism , is the last refuge of • j
scoundrel?"
16. Of what country-is ihe white!
elephant a symbol?
17. What dors status qu<» an'
mean?
Ifl. What, is the political statu-j
of Hawaii?
19 What event leading to tlv
World war occurred at Sarajevo’
20 Of what, state is Boise the
capital?
Upturn Shown In
Deeds Recorded In
Court House Here
Register Newton Says Increase K
Shown During Last Month
Farm Land Trade.
The upturn in business conditions
is reflected in the increasing num
ber of deeds being re.oided at the
courthouse here. Regivi.ri Andv F
Newton says that, there has been
quite an increase during the last
month
The majority of the trading be
ing done, according to the deeds re
corded, is in farm land
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Singing Convention Sunday
The annual singing convention
composed of Oak Grove, Mt. Har
mony, and First Broad chons, will
be held at First Broad church, ui
the Golden Valley section, Sunday
September 11. There will be an ali
day session. Mr. Am Palmer is
president of this convention The
public is cordially invited to at
tend this meeting.
Miss Louise Bailey of Washing
ton, D. C., is the guest, of her sister
Mrs. H B Miller in Cleveland
Springs Estate,
Walker’s Successor Takes Post
i
following th* sensational resignation of James J. Walker as Mayor of
Nen \ork. his temporary suocesaor, Mayor Joseph V'. McKee, former
I resident of the Board of Aldermen, is shown at his desk m City Hall
s* he took ver the task of running the largest city in the world. Up to
'h" present " is not determined how long McKee will hold the post, as
Walker hns announced that he will seek re-election this Fall. But the
ity chartri says that McKee will fill out Walker’* uneiptred term,
which ends in December, 1093.
Local Man Held
As A Suspect In
Alleged Robbery
Asheville Man Charge* Green And
Patterson With Robbing Rim,
«»■, Hitch Hiker
officers here today said t hat the
Pete Green being held by Charlotte
officer!, as a suspect In the alleged
robberv of n hitch biker is the
former vbung Shelby man known
here a.s Quay Green Tost October
Green was tried and given a thrre
months sentence on the charge ot
robbing the East Warren street Gulf
station on thp Sunday after the
fair live Charlotte story telling ot
the alleged hitch-hiker's robbery!
follows:
Took His R«(.
Charlotte Sept. 7 The storv of
how an 18-year-old hitch Inker hart
been robbed on the outskirts ot j
Charlotte .last-..Friday night by two'
motorists who hart given him a Tiff'j
from Greensboro and ins later iden
tification of them in Asheville was
unfolded at police headquarters yes- j
ter day afterniSbh bv David Bennett j
the victim
» The alleged robbers were arrested
m Asheville bv detective? of that)
city after Bennett had recognized j
them as they rode down a street in
the same automobile in which he
said they were riding when they
gave him a lift near Greensboro
The two men. who wer* returned to
Charlotte for trial, gave their nam
es as G H Patterson of Greet S
C and Pete Green of Shelby. Boih
denied ever having seen Bennett. |
Left Bag In Car
Bennett said the two men had
offered to give him a lift as far as
Rutherfordtnn when they picked
him up and learned from him that
hr was returning toward his home
in Asheville When he was given
the lift, he said, he had a traveling
bag in which were his personal ef- ]
feels and a flute valued at S200
When the two men passed through
Charlotte Bennett said, they stop-j
ped at the intersection of Tucka- i
regee road and Wilkinson bor^evard !
and asked him to go to a nearby j
filling station and purchase drinks
While Bennett was in the filling
station the car drove away
Bennett notified Charlotte police ,
and asked Gastonia authorities to
have the tar stopped when it passed ’
through that city. Saturday he went
on to his home ir. Asheville The
next day he said he recognized the
two men riding down to Asheville
street He notified police and the
men were arrested In the car of
ficers found a key to t. room in a
hotel In the room they found Ben
netts hag with all his clothing In
tact hut the flute was gone
Gel Hearing Today.
; The hotel manager told officers,
according to Bennett, that the men
had not paid their hotel bills, and
later he caused a warrant of at
tachment to be issued on the car
Asheville officers returned the vic
tim and the alleged robbers to
Charlotte yesterday to face prelimi
nary examination before the city
recorder today on charges of grand
larceny.
Both men stoutly denied ever -lia
ing seen Bennett Boih maintained i
they were not registered in the ho
tel and said they were at loss to un
derstand how the toom key hap
pened to be in their car The own- i
or of'the car. Patterson -aid he had .
purchased it in Virginia, but had
lust the title and could not remem
ber the number of the license.
Police last night were lnvestigat-!
ing the ownership of Me car,
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Wind From Storm
Cools Section As
Mercury Drops FI ere
Mercury This Mornin* fell To 72
Degrees, Coolest Since Spring
No Rain Vri.
A driving wind, believed io he
an inland sweep of the hurri
cane off the Atlantic coast,
struck the Shelby section last
night and brought the coolest
weather of the summer. Met
cupy In local thermometer*
dropped from the low IMI's lo 72
early this morning, a drop of
near W degrees.
By 2 this afternoon however, the
mercury was creeping back into the
BO s and hot. weather war. again an
ticipated after the interruption
Needing Rain.
Although the sudden weather
change brought some relief from (he
heat, this area * in dire need of
rain.
farmers in town today stated that
"tops and gardens wer<- still suffer
ing from a lack of rant The show
ers of the last week-end helped a
little in some sections, but the rain
fall was not heavy in any section
As a result conservative estimates
have it that the heat. :,n'd drought
have cut the Cleveland county cot
ton crop 4(1 percent, and garden*
have been practically ruined
Mr*. B. L. Smith I*
Slightly Burned In
Stove Short Circuit
Fire Trucks Are Called To School
Superintendent's Home. Ham
age Is Slight.
City fire trucks were called to the
home of B L. Smith. Shelby school
superintendent, on West Marion
stiect. yesterday morning where a
small blaze started from a short cir
cuit or connection, it is said, of an
electric ♦.sieve There was only a
slight damage
Mrs Smith received a slight burn
on her arm as the result of the ex
plosion.
Mr Bill Gamble, son of Mrs,
Gene Gamble, continues serioualv
ill He has been confined to his bed
for a vear or longer.
Shelby Party Drives Into Recent Gulf
Coast Storm; Bridge Hid Under Water
Wilbur Babers Kncmmter I’rnswrola
Storm in Auto 'I rip
From Texas
Mr. ant) Mrs. Wilbur Baber have
returned from a vacation trip to
Texas, durinR the course of which
they passed through an area of de
vastation produced by one of the
late gulf hurricanes, and were
caught in a second
As they were homeward hound,
heading eastward along the gull
coast, they were caugnt almost
(airly in the storm that lately
wrought such havoc in Pensacola.
Describing the experience Mr. Ba
ber said: “As we came into New
Orleans wr found a neavv wind,
with torrential rain. Wt spent the
night there and the next morning. !
despite the bad weather started
cast.
As we came out upon 'he gult
highway, leading in the direction ot I
Pensacola we ran full into the
storm. Just how high the wind was!
I cannot say. but it bitw- a hufri-j
so hard that w ayes liooi the 1
gull washed up over the paved
highway
• When we reached Mobile we
found we could go no farther. The
center of the storm had hit the
city at nine o’clock, in the morning
and we arrived there at noon. Wc
found the river so high the highway
bridge had completely disappeared
Whether it was washed away or
merely covered by the flood was not
known
We were forced to detour into
Alabama, northward where we
found the worst roads, tub deep in
mud. I ever traveled over.’’
The Baber familv including the
children, went to Hallettesville. Tex.
which is Mrs. Baber s former home
something over a hundred miles
west of Houston. She "" visited her
mother there, Mrs. R. B Allen
The travelers reported that con
aitions in the Texas area are
‘looking up" the people being hope
ful, as they are most everywhere
hat the ec: mime storm is clearing. |
There is a much better feeling I
mt there, Mi Baber said. (
Highway Head Asked
For 3 County Roads
I -.
Chairman Jeffress And Engineer Spend Day
Here. Discuss Three Proposed Roads.
Northern Route For Polkville Road Pre
ferred, Construction Cost Would Be $50,*
000 Less.
1
A row) program tor Cleveland count' was mapped out
before K R. Jeffress, stale highway coni mission chairman,
and Mi Browning, chief engineer, when they spent a few
hours in Shelby Tuesday. A number of representative men
met with the highway officials and asked that
Carolina News
Briefly Told
Denton Hank Held
I'p In Daylight
Denton Sept 7 Officers search
o*1 this section and watched alt
avenues of e*ratie In North Carolina
last night while four men fled with
$6,000 they took from the Caroline
Hank and Trust company here yes
terdav
Neat noon three unmasked men
walked into the bank while a fourth
remained outside near an automo
bile
The hank was deserted except lor
two customers and Baxter Carter,
cashier.
i After asking Carter to change ,t
I.s bill the trio phtpped pistols from
their pockets, covered Carter and
the customers, scooped up all avail
able currency and fled to the wait
tng machine
The quartet raced out of town to
ward Ashe boro with several Denton
citisens In pursuit, but. the chase
was abandonee! when the bandit car
was last after a few miles.
The robbers, witnesses said were
| driving a small wine-colored sedan
i Dfpillr 1% Klllfd
Bt Negro Vouth
Waynesvdle. Sept 1—Deputy
Sheriff Bill Raw about 25 years old
shot by Charlie Hose negro, died
in Haywood county huspital at
Waynesville at 9:30 p m. last night
A large crowd milled About the
, county Jail here last night alter
' Charlie Rose, 17-year-nld negro
! wanted tor affronting a young while
1 girl near the city, had fatally
j wounded Bill Ray, 2ft deputy sher
! iff who sought to arrest him
j Sheriff J. A Lowe said the negro
j had not, been moved to another Jail
for safekeeping because he knew the
people in the crowd and was cer
tain he could maintain order.
The sheriff said Ray, who is mar
ried and has one child, was fatally
wound from a bullet wound through
the forehead inflicted about ft p. m
Sheriff Lowe said he had not had
time to investigate the exact na
lure of the crime of which the negro
had been accused since the shoot
ing, and that it had been consider
ed of no great Importance before
I He said he was not sure, but he
! could not sav vet even that it was
attempted criminal assault.
1 Tobacco Prires
Hop tip In State
1 Raleigh. Sept 7 - Hundreds of
( thousands of dollars poured into the
pockets of eastern North Carolina
i tobacco farmers yesterday as mar
\ ketlng of the 1932 new bright belt
crop begun with prices skyrocketing
far above initial offerings last year
! Especially were prices higher—In
some cases twice or three times last
I year's—on the low grades
ill \ road to he hnllt from
shclbv through Sharon and
Bolling Springs to Ciiffstde Con
ner ting with a hard surface mad
eytending Irani M»orr*bnrn to
< liMnrr.
'it A road hr built from, She!
l>> lo Grover. via f'altcrson
springs and Fart if poaeibla,
iSt A road bo built loom F'alU
stun through l.au ndalr and
connecting at I'nlln illr with (be
Shrlhy Polkvillr road which will
eventually be extended lo Mar
ion
l *e Rock Quarry
liie city ofterni, through Mayor
McMurry, to turn over the rcclc
quarry to the state ns a .source of
crushed stone to be usort for high
why construction in 8hi; section.
The quarry has a stone winch meets
specifications, but t* not, equipped
with drills, crushers and screen*. It
is possible, however, that the stats
will put machinery m the quarry
and use convict labor in getting
out stone for mad construction.
Another Road
! Mi del tress announced that No.
haO from Unrolnton through Denver
to Mooresvllle will be constructed
at an early date. Uhls is a road in
which Cleveland county, is very
much interested for it offers a
'short route north to Salisbury and
Greensboro.
ine stair highway head also an
nounced that the road from Kins*
. Mountain to Cherry ville which fol
I lows the line between Gaston and
Cleveland counties is being improv
ed and that, a contracj. will be let
shortly from the road from Kin**
Mountain to the South Carolina
line in the direction of York. The
South Carolina officials have built,
a road to the .state line and have
asked that the N. C. highway rotn
rmssion meet there
It, was the wishes of th# business
men who met with Mr. Jeffress that
j N. C. road officials shoutd tnaist
that South Carolina meet highway
j No. 18 at, the state line as waa
| promised t wo years ago when t his
; road was built. At. present No. 18
south is patted to the state line and
South Carolina has done nothing
toward connecting
The Polkvilic Route
it was practically unanimous that
the Shelby-PolkviUe road should
lead out of Shelby north through
Hoppers park—the route adopted
several months ago. but the letting
of the contract was withheld pend
ing a re-survey of a road out Lee
street, via the pump station to the
Dover gin. The chief highway engi
| neer stated that the Hopper's park
route would be *50,000 cheaper
than the Dover mill route because
j it is shorter, has less heavy grading
I and cheaper bridge projects. By
saving $50,000 on thus route Mr.
Jeffress stated that the money so
saved would be applied to other
roads in Cleveland county. The
pump station-Dover mill route, in
volves costly grading in order to
avoid the railroad crossings and it
was pointed out by road officials
that the federal government would
not approve this road which paral
lels highway No. 20 for the use of
federal funds. It is generally iinner*
I stood that practically all of the
! money now available for road con
! struct ion is federal money and this
j is only applicable to roads which
| come up to lederal requirements as
! lo location and specifications. As a
compromise, n was agreed that the
main Polkville road would lead out
north by Hopper's park and cut into
the present No. 150 several miles
north of Shelby To satisfy thos«
Who prefer this route, if was agreed
that tar and gravel would be used
as a surface on the present road bed
from Lee street over the present
route via Croft Hicks to the junc
tion of the new Polkviile route. This
would cost not over $15,000 and
! make it possible to have both roads
j paved at a saving of $35,000 over
J t he pump station-Dov er mill pro
! ject to Polkville
The letting of the Polkville ‘road
j has bene held up because of this re
| survey and it is learned that the
i grading contract will not be let, on
I September 10 as announced
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hul1 and son,
Fiank. jr.. of Charlotte are visiting.
Mr and Mrs. L. E. Ligon this week.
Mrs C A Morgan of West Mar
ion street has as her auest. Mrs.
Mozeiie Whealton of Spartanburg,
S. C.