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VOL XXXIX. No. 89
SHELBY, N. C WEDNESD’Y, JULY' 26, 1933 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons.
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Showers Likely
"^v', North Carolina Weather
gfpflrt occasional showers tonight
,n<l Thursday.
Prisoner and
Officer Slain
By Gun Mob
Bv united press
Chariest on, W. Va„ July 26—A
police ear en route to the State
penitentiary with a prisoner was
ambushed today by four gunmen
„ho killed a deputy, and wounded
another In order to capture and
,)ar the prisoner. The body of the
convicted man. Homer Harper, 19
,ti!l handcuffed, was found later in
an automobile abandoned in an alley
a( Huntington. Deputy Roy Sham- ;
Min was killed and Deputy D. L. I
Dudley, driver of the police car.;
,as wounded. A State-wide search
for the killers has been started.
FfcrM Rental
On Legality
R* UNITED PRESS
W>5bfpgton; July 2fi. — Prohibi
Roni'Is revealed today that they j
honed to block repeal of the 18th j
Xmrndnient by eontesting the legal-i
itv nf State conventions in which
the rrnepl amendment had been
ratified by delegates eleeted at
large. i
School Election
Is Called Here
On Special Tax
Election Will Be Held On Tuesday
Aug. 29th On 20c Special Tax
For 9-Month School.
A special election was called last!
nipht, by the board of Aldermen fori
the voters In the Shelby School
District to vote for or against a
twenty cent, tax on the $100 property
•valuation to extend the school term
one month.
The election was called by the
beard of aldermen at the request
cf the City School Trustees who de
nied last week that the matter
■’’d be submitted »o the voters '
on Tuesday, August. 29th.
■ will be recalled that the last
General Assembly took over the en
tire public school system which will
be operated largely from the sales
tax The State, however, will op
erate air schools for eight months
and no longer. School districts,
k-wever. mar vote a special tax for
extension of the eight months term!
tf such political sub-division has;
not defaulted in any of its ob!i-|
gallons.
At the called meeting of the board,
of aldermen last night, the time
for the election was set, the bound - i
aries of the special school district
were outlined and the election of
ficials were appointed.
A special registration is called for,
and the registrars will be at their
polling place No. 1; Zemri Kistler!
to sunset on each day from July
31st to August 19th where qualified
voters may register.
Marvin Blanton is registrar for:
polling place No. 7; Zemri Kistler
for polling place No. 2; H. T. Bess
is registrar for polling place No. 3;
L z Hoffman for No. 4; and Mrs !
Annie Smith Long registrar for pol
ling place No. 5.
Election judges who will have
oharge of the special election on
Tuesday. Sept. 5th are: A. W. Dun-!
ran and B. O. Dodd for No. 1; Tild-,
en Falls and D. M. Freeman No. 2; i
Randolph Logan and H. L. Toms '
for No. 3; Frank McKee and M. Q
Hamrick for No. 4; Fred Bablng
■on and Baxter Kirkpatrick for No
Piedmont Holds
Standard Rating
for High School
r"1np*1 Corrects Erroneous Rumor
Regarding School At
Lawndale.
Special to The Stan
huh^S81",' July 26 -The Piedmont
acctertfr^1 at Lawndale is still an
th.oucb f stand^rd hi«h school al
f£ ntmcrs have been circulated
iodav HC°n^My> il was announced
In air"'' F M' Bi8gerstaff
today Prof
eircuiauH Sald' ‘ReP°rts have been
»« Sh‘Uh' ,en"1 tl"“Pled
and as th 81001 15 not standard,
are makioffreSUlt’ SOme ot the PuPlls
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sbsolumiv fai' These reports are
Bied1>d'„rifdmKnt iS a
graduates ma d pnfh scto,°o1’ whos*
out examinTn ter °°11{*e wlth‘
«Trect uy.1^ PIease helP ns to
118 misunderstanding.”
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farmers Plowing Up
Cotton Over County
Around 6,000 Acres
Plowed Up
Around 1.500 Plowing Permits Al
ready Issued. Planting Other
Crops.
It was estimated today that
farmers of Cleveland county have
already plowed up between six and
seven thousand acres of cotton in
carrying out the government's cot
ton acreage reduction program and
more would have been plowed up
had the ground not been too hard
Around 1.500 plowing permits
have already been issued through
'.he office of. the farm agent here
and through township committees.
By the end of the week, if there is
some rain, it is estimated that
n retically rll of the 14,600 acres
pledged for destruction will have
been plowed up. This week, how
ever farmers have found it a diffi
cult task to plow up the cotton
pledged for destruction due to the
feet that the ground is too hard for
plowing. The rain last night helped |
this situation in some sections of
the county but not generally, and
in some communities It has been
impossible to do any plowing at all.
R. W. Shoffner, farm agent, said
foday that in several Instances
farmers were finding it a good
idea where the ground is hard to
use a turning plow with a new
.hear. Others are using a stalk cut
ter before plowing. Quite a number
of the near 2,000 farmers cooperat
ing in the reduction program are
conserving the stalks for hay while
others are permitting them to re
main in the fields.
Approximately two-thirds of the
iCONTINUKH ON PAfih
Joseph Johnson Of
Buffalo Mill Dead j
Had Been An Invalid For Five j
Years—Funeral Today At
Zion- Church.
William Joseph Johnson, age 70
• ears, died in the Buffalo Mill vil
age Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock.
He suffered a stroke of paralysis
lour weeks ago.
Mr. Robinson was born in Ruth
?rford county but had been living
n Cleveland for forty "years. He
vas married to Miss Martha Arro
jvood who survives with the fol
owing children: Melvin of Latti
nore. Zero of Fallston, Forest of
Lockhart, S. C., Coen of Kings
Mountain, Essie and Dulcenia of
3uffalo Mill village.
The funeral was conducted this
ifternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. H. E.
Waldrop and interment was at Zion
3aptist church six miles north of
Shelby.
Discount Allowed
On ’30, ’31 Taxes
Way Be Taken Off Later If Com
missioners Decide. Also Save
Penalty.
Cleveland county residents who
lave not paid their 1930 and 1931
:ounty taxes may do so now with
)ut having to pay a penalty and
rlso may receive a 10 percent dis
:ount, but there is a probability
hat the discount may later be re
noved.
The last legislature regulated it
so that commissioners at their dis
iretion might refuse to allow the
iiscount, and for that reason it
s pointed out that those who can
iay these delinquent taxes should
Jo so now to be certain that they
:an get the discount and also avoid
i penalty and interest.
Local Aid Asked
In Government’s
Recovery Drive
Wants All Civic Organizations To
Aid Roosevelt Program To
Boost Wages, Prices.
Olficials of Shelby clubs and civic
organizations have been asked by
General Hugh S. Johnson, admin
istrator of the government’s busi
ness recovery program, to form an
organization to aid in the nation
wide movement.
General Johnson, in his telegram
asked that heads of the several
organizations in Shelby — Kt
wanls. Rotary, Lions, Woman’s Club
ect.—hold a meeting and organize
He was wired in return that these
organizations would be glad to co
operate In any manner desired and
within a day or so It Is expected!
that he will forward instructions!
as to how these organizations may!
function in the movement.
In his telegram he said: “We
want this committee, composed of
these organizations representative
of an important element in the ec
onomic life in your community, to i
direct a campaign of education and *
organization which i? to be a part
of a national movement to speed
the return of prosperity through *
the expansion of consumer pur
chasing power. I appeal to you to 5
marshall all the forces of your
community in one united effort to
get rid of unemployment.”
The original message was sent to
Henry B. Edwards, head of the
Shelby Kiwanis club, who ascertain
ed that other organizations would r
cooperate and wired the administra- 1
tor of the recovery program for def- *
inite instructions as to what moves *
to make.
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Flood Roosevelt With Pledges Of |
Support In His Recovery Program
President Hardly Gets Through
Speaking Until Pledges Start
Coming.
Washington, July 26— A flood oi
telegraphed pledges, hundreds upon
hundreds of them, answered yester
day President Roosevelt’s appeal to
the nation for immediate enroll
ment of all employers under the
alanket agreement to raise wages
•md create new jobs.
Hardly had he finished Mon!;,,
light tise plain-worded, direct call
for patriotic and unquestioning ac
jeptance of the voluntary and in
dividual employer-pledges to raise
pay and shorten hours before the
answers began to :ome in. Within
an hour 300 promises had come, a
few more minutes and the number
doubled and still there appeared no
End to the flow.
The President and Hugh S. John-,
son, the man who is running the;^
Industrial recovery unit, were re-:
ported profoundly gratified. A White
House secretary said it was the j
yreate t spontaneous outburst that1
had greeted any of the President’s'
id terances.
His appeal was terse:
• We are not going through an
other winter like the last. . .It is
time for courageous action, and the
recovery bill gives us the means to
nquer unemployment.
i’:e -reposition is simply this:
“If all employers will act togeth
er .o shorten hours and raise wages
we can put people back to work. No
employer will suffer, because the
relative level ol competitive cost will
advance by the same amount for
all. But if any considerable group
hould lag c>r shirk, this great op
portunity will pass us by and w<
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I j<WS Will Aid In
Recovery Program
Appoint Committee To Help Get
Public Work Projects For This
Section.
At a meeting held last night the
Shelby Lions club appointed a com
mittee to cooperate in the govern
ment’s general business recovery
program and the public works drive
for unemployment.
This committee will cooperate
with General Johnson’s recovery
program in every way possible and
will attempt in doing so to do what
can be done to secure a portion of
the public works building project
fund for needed construction in the
Shelby section. The committee nam
ed is composed ok Frank L. Hoyle,
jr.. chairman; Ernest Gardner and
Arthur Benoy.
J. Horace Grigg, superintendent
of the county schools, was a guest
speaker at the club meeting and
outlined to the Lions the set-up of
the new State-wide school system.
In connection with Supt. Grigg’s
talk the club decided to put on a
drive to increase the number of
books in the circulating library
which the club started several years
ago for school children in the rural
districts. The library has been of
great value to children of elemen
tary school age not able to secure
good books elsewhere, Mr. Grigg
said, and the club is making appeal
that more books be donated for the
library. Any one having suitable
books for children of that age
which they will donate to the li
brary are asked to communicate
with Dr. Robert Wilson.
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One In, Other Out
Marc Connelly (above), American
playwright, and four other Amer
eans were refused viaas to enter
Russia by the Soviet consul at Co
penhagen, Denmark. Edna Ferber
(top) was given an official okey.
Jonnelly. Pulitzer prize winner,
said he did not understand the rea
son for the ban.
Dor ton Declines
State Fair Post
helby Man, Tentatively Given
Managership. Will Devote Time
To Cleveland Fair.
J. S. Dorton of Shelby, tentative
11 retained recently as secretary
lanager of this year's Raleigh State
'air, announced here yesterday that
e has decided against taking the
ositiori.
"In view of the fact that I have
he job of getting up the Cleveland
bounty Fair, whicjtx. comes, two.
reeks after the date for the State
'air, and taking into consideration
he short time left in which to
repare for the State Fair, I have
ecided against taking the post as
ecretary,” said Mr. Dorton. "I want
y give a square deal to the people
f the State and to officials con
ected.with the fair, and I don’t
?el that I would have sufficient
me to devote to the State Fair.
Mr. Dorton was in Raleigh to con
;r with Commissioner of Agricul
jre W. A. Graham, H. B. Branch,
f the Chamber of Commerce, and
layor George Iseley.
Miss Effie McGinnis, who was in
harge of the Fair office last year,
as set up offices in the Depart
>ent of Agriculture building.
The contract for this year's fair,
'hlch is to be operated by George
[amid. New York, and State Sena
>r W. H. Joyner, of Northampton
ounty, has been approved by At
>mey General Dennis Brummitt
ut has not been returned as yet.
Under the contract, the State is
) get 25 percent of the profits. If
ny, and the lesees 75 per cent.
Trv Answering
These
Can you answer 14 of these test
uestions? Turn to page two for
le answers.
1. Who rkn for President on the
epublican ticket against Grover
ieveland in 1884?
2. Where is the volcanic crater
ilauea?
3. Which is the most used letter
f the English Alphabet?
4. In what country do the various
inds of cactus grow most abund
ntly?
5. Where are the Sandwich
ilands,
8. How is vinegar made?
7. Is a whale a fish?
8. Where is the city of Kilkenny,
9. When was St. Augustine. Pla.
sttled by the Spaniards
10. Who was Jack Cade?
11. Name the gulf at the mouth
[ the St. Lawrence River.
12. What is the stringed instru
lent midway in size and compass
;tween the violin and the violon
:llo?
13. In what city did Christopher
olumbus die?
14. What is a structure used for
irning brick, earthenware, or pot
iry called?
15. In which state is the Moffat
mnel?
16. Who founded the city of De- <
oit, Mich.? i
17. Who was Thurlow Weed?
18. In which state is the city of ]
)plin?
19. How many Presidents of the i
S have been assassinated? I
20. How rreny watts are there ini i
le Kilowatt?
Whitworth Trial
Has 2 Defendants
Testify On Stand
Hold To Story Of
Accident
Evklrnce Show* Dead Woman
"Framed" For Evidence Indi
cating Immorality.
Gastiona, July 28-Phillip Falls
former deputy sheriff, and his 28
year-old son. Fort, accused with her
widower of slaying Mrs. Maude E
Whitworth, 40-year-old dressmaker
after framing her on a charge of
disorderly conduct, stuck through a
gruelling cross-examination yester
day to their story she was ktiled by
Jumping from their ear.
The deceased woman and her
husband were natives of Cleveland
county and formerly lived In Shelby.
As they testified, their co-defend
ant. A. F. Whitworth, one-armed
father of three children, sat calmy
In the courtroom, displaying no
emotion. He is expected to take the
stand today when testimony In the
case may be wound up. The elder
Fort was on the stand when court
adjourned for the day.
Solicitor John G. Carpenter ham
mered at the testimony of the Forts
through a hot afternoon In a stifling
courtroom but failed to shake their
story of how Mrs. Whitworth was
killed.
Holding up the white and red
striped dress Mrs. Whitworth wore
the night of May 27 when she was
fatally injured, Carpenter shouted
at the younger Fort;
"Tell me why there are no holes
or torn places In this dress if Mrs.
Whitworth, this little woman, fell
or jumped from a moving car?”
Later with the former deputy
sheriff on the stand he lashed at
the witness about the alleged frame
up of the dressmaker.
“And you don't feel bad about
being a party to this frame-up
charge?” he shouted. "Do you think
she did anything wrong because a
man had his arm around her. Have
not you done the same thing. Don’t
you know that a magistrate had
CONTINUED ON ►*Af}|r i'em
Mechanical Man
To Appear Here
M. T. Oakes, owner of the “Clev
er Dummy” or “Mechanical Man”
has made arrangements to give a
series of performances in the center
window of Cohen’s Department store
Friday morning, beginning at 10
o’clock for one hour, again Friday
afternoon at 2:30, and three per
formances of an hour each on Sat
urday.
Mr. Oakes guarantees that you
can’t tell whether this is a man,
a doll, or hypnotized or electric
ally operated. He offers a prize of
*10 to the first person who can
make him change hie mask-llke
countenance. Some lady In the
audience will be given a free per
manent wave at the Nixie Beauty
shop. Several business firms are
sponsoring the performance.
B. Y. P. U. Meeting
In Shelby Sunday
Asaociational Program Will Be Held
At Second Baptist
Church.
An associations! young people’s
program of the Kings Mountain
Association will be held at the
second Baptist church In Shelby on
Sunday, July 30 at 2:30 o’clock
The program will be featured by
* stewardship declamation contest,
srganizatlon reports, playlets, songs,
etc.
Pro Tem Mayor Is
Better, Gains Weight
Mayor Pro Tem J. P. Austell who
was taken 111 the day following his
installation as alderman and has
i)een advised by hts physicians to
stay quietly at home for several
months, is improving. He has gain
st eight pounds in weight and is
ible to walk out on the porch of
ils home on West Warren street,
I is many friends will be glad to
earn.
Cotton Ginners To
Gather On Saturday
Cotton gin operators of Cleveland
»nd Gaston counties will meet at
he court house in Shelby Satur
lay afternoon, July 29, at 3:30
>’clock.
This meeting will be for the pur
)ose of drafting a code of ethics
n line with type government’s in
lustrial recovery program and also
o discuss other matters of interest
n connection with the opening of
he ginning season in September.
UNIFORM
SALES TAX SCHEDULE
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Applies to Every Retoil Merchant
less than 10 cents , -> Ne Tax
10 cents* to 35 cents' . * , I cut
3S cents to 70 cents. . , . 2 cents
H'cnts'ti $1.05 , . . , 3 cents
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JKB, itrorght 1 ptr ctnt, froction* yortrntd by mojor trorhon
Tbis*schedule to be applied to total sales at
one trading period
Illustration. TK« to* of oat (tut on a ton (tot*
>ur(h«M tntitlt* Hit cuitomtr to boy otht>
ntrthonditt op to 35 (tnti ot tbt taint trad
ing period without additional tat.
NO TAX
ON FLOUR. MIAL, MEAT,'LARD..
MOLA5SES, SALT/SUGAR. COFFEE. GASO
LINE. FERTILIZER, PUBLIC SCHOOL BOOKS
Thu xhtdult it pramulgottd undo authority ef law, tfftctirt Irom and alttr Augutl
I, 1933, and it it mandatory upon tvtry mtrthont to calltd Hut tot, and no mart,
in addition to Hit taltt prict at mtrehanditt Thu placard it furnithtd by Hit Statt
Otparfmtnt of Rtvtnut, to prtvtnt unfair tradt procticti. Rtjulotioni rrquirt that
this placard tholl bt htpt potttd by trtry mtrehont whtrt it moy bt conveniently
tttn by tht cuttomtr, and it inttndtd to prottet both mtrehont and (uttomtr
au^
tauten w Mill tu arnint
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(Full Story on Piff Four)
reeler bets 2 Years
In Court Here Today
Man Charged With Illicit Relational
With Young Nefce la
Tried.
Carl Peeler, 3fl-year-old Shelby
textile worker, was sentenced today]
to two years hard labor on the State
road forces on charges developing
from relations he had with his 13
year-old netce, Viola Thackerson.
Sentence, the meet severe possible
under the charge, was passed by
Judge Wilson Warlick after evi
dence had been heard and Peeler
had pled guilty to fbrnloation and
adultery.
Peeler was originally charged
with kidnapping, statutory rape and
seduction. The affair grew out of
a trip made by Peeler and the young
girl to Catawba county where It Is
alleged they lived together. They
disappeared In an automobile be
longing to the young girl’s father,
a brother-in-law of Peeler, and
were not located for several days.,)
during which time a search was
made for her by newspaper and
radio. Due to a hitch in the evi
dence it was thought that a con
viction on the other charges might
not be secured, and Judge Warlick
in passing sentence said that he
would not hesitate a moment In in
iCONTINUEU ON IW
Recover Stolen Car
Left At Mooresboro
An automobile stolen In Gastonia
on July 13 and abandoned the same
day on the road between Shelby and
Mooresboro has been identified and
returned to Its owner, Police Chief
D. D. Wilkins stated here today.
The car, a Chevrolet coupe, belong
ed to Mrs. T. H. Tyson, Gastonia,
and was apparently abandoned in
this county when it ran out of gas.
Cotton Closes Up
Fifteen Points
Cotton closed up fifteen points on
the New York Exchange today, Oc
tober ending the day’s trading at
10.76 and December at 10.95. Stocks
were fairly strong, many of them
showing slight gains.
School Congestion Here Pictured
If Special Election Is Failure
supplementary lax win Add Needed
Teachers, Not Raise Salaries
Is Explained.
(This Is the first of a series of
articles In which Shelby school
authorities explain the conditions
faced by local schools which nec
essitate a special tax election).
The superintendent of the Bhelby
schools has Just received a noti
fication from the 8tate School Com
mission that the Shelby unit will
be allotted this year 52 white ele
mentary teachers; 14 white high
school teachers; 10 colored elemen
tary teachers; 4 colored high school
teachers. The colored schools are
deprived of five teachers on account
of lack of room.
If no supplementary tax is pro
vided the white high school will
have to operate with two fewer]
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teachers than during the year 1932
33. When the anticipated increase
is added to the enrollment of 1932
33, the average number of pupils
per teacher allotted would be 53.7
in the elementary schools and 38
in the high school. The normal
size class for the high school would
be 57. If the number of classes is
raised 25 per cent above the normal
allotment per teacher the average
size class would be 46 This reveals
one of the prime necessities for a
supplementary tax. The largest
single item of supplementary ex
pense during the state term of
school is that incurred in provid
ing extra teachers to keep down the
congestion of class rooms. During
the past year the school board has
provided at local expense three!
Elementary teachers and on# high
tCUMTWUJUJ OM FAQ* IBM
White Boy Shot By
Negro Youth Here
IZ-Year Old Boy Still Eluding Of
ficers. Developed In (loyt*h
Row. >v
Homer Dee*, white youth who*
lives in north Shelby beyond the
hospital, was shot in the left shoul
der Monday afternoon by L. C.
Palmer. 13-year-old negro boy. as
the climax of a boyish row between
the two.
They were erecting a tent and
playing together, it Is said, when
they got into an argument. The
little negro, officers were told, ran
into the house, secured his father's
32 pistol, returned to the spot
where they had been playing and
shot one time. The bullet entered
the Dees boy's shoulder Just above
the heart but the wound is not re
garded as overly Berious, it is said.
After firing the shot the negro
youth ran and has not as yet been
apprehended He has been hiding
out in the woods northwest of the
city, It is rumored, but yesterday
police and county officers scoured
between four and six miles of
woodlands without locating him
New Working Hours
Pleases Mill Folks
Rooeevelt’s new deal has clicked
with several thousand textile em
ployes in this section Insofar as
hours are concerned.
“This eight hour working day, it's
the thing, it’s the stuff. We go to
work at six and call it a day at two
o’clock. It’s Just about perfect.’ This
is the opinion of two youthful
workers in one Shelby plant.
“The new hours give us plenty of
time for recreation We can go
swimming, go to the ball games, or
the show, or do anything we want
to do. As it was we were working
about twelve hours a day, and when
the whistle blew we were Just about
'tuckered out.’ We now have nearly
the whole afternoon off. This forty
hour a week Job is certainly the
berries—with plenty of cream.’
End Wage Strike
At Eton Mill As
Weavers Return
Strike Here Lasted
Day And Half
Weavers Sought Rooul In Pay Cn
I tier New Schedule. Cloth I
Mill In Rniar.
Minor troubles centering: about
wages tn local textile and rayon
plants In connection with the new
work schedule were said to be ad
justed today, temporarily at least,
and all workers were back on the
Job after one plant, the Eton, has
been closed for a dav and a half.
Friday of last week, at the end
of the first week of the new 40-hour
working schedule, weavers at the
Cleveland Cloth mill, local rayon
plant, stopped work long enough to
request, the mill management to in
foi-m them as to their rate of pay
under the new schedule and also
to present their decision as to the
scale they thought should be paid.
After some mlnutee discussion be
tween the committee representing
the weavers and the mill officials a
scale of pay was agreed upon and
work was resumed at an Increase In
wages It was said.
Eton Adjustment.
Monday morning at 11 o'clock the
weavers at the Kton (Bastside) sent
a delegation to the mill manage*
ment and asked that they be In
formed sb to their rate of pay un
der the new schedule so that they
might know before completing the
week just what they were making
and If It would be satisfactory to
them. At first, according to reports
from the weavers, they were told
that It would be Impoeslle to de
termine the exact wage scale for a
day or two because the rayon code
wage scale had not been definitely
-determined. It was then, It la un
derstood. that the weavers, not be
ing content with what they be
lieved thejr wage scale would be.
Inaugurated their strike rj they
put It “a wage scale could be defi
nitely announced” for them. As a
result the weaving room was clos
ed down around 11 o'clock Monday
morning and the remainder of the
plant that afternoon at 3:30, or at
about the time for the change In
day and night shifts. As a result
the mill did not operate from Mon
day afternoon until this morning
and the news of the close-down
spread about the city and lndlcatted
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Mr. Grigg I* 101
Yearg Old In Illinois
"Uncle” D. R. Orlgg, a native of
Cleveland county who left this sec
tion 75 years ago to make his home
In Illinois, Is 101 years old. While
Mr. R. T. Peeler of Belwood was on
a trip to the Chicago fair with SC
scout boys from Cleveland county,
he drove out to see Mr. Qrigg and
found him In fair condition, despite
his years. Two years ago he had a
spell of sickness and Is unable to
walk, but wished to be remembered
to his old friends In Cleveland. He
was a successful merchant In Illi
nois and frequently returned to
Cleveland to renew acquaintances.
County Court Has
Night Grind Now
The county recorder’s court has
been holding Its sessions at night
here this week due to the fact that
Superior court Is holding forth dur
ing the day In the main court room.
Monday night’s session lasted un
til midnight and last night’s grind
until 11 o'clock. Quite a number of
cases were disposed of during the
two sessions but there were no cases
of general public Importance.
Tax Of $1 For All
Retail Merchants
A notice sent from A. J. Maxwell
N. C. commissioner of revenue to
R. A. Hoyle, tax collector few the
Cleveland oounty district, informs
that all retail dealers tn anything
are required to pay a $1 per yeai
registration or privilege tax license
In addition to the sales tax This
may be sent direct to Mr Maxwell
or paid to the collector.
Man Injured By Bull
Reported Better Now
Mr. Burgin R. Dellinger, severely
injured last Friday afternoon when
attacked by an angry bull, was re
ported to be Improved today at the
Shelby hospital where he has been
a patient since being Injured. Mr
Dellinger had one leg broken at the
thigh and was otherwise bruised and
lacerated,