All-Stars Victorious
In First Engagement
With Semi-Pro Club
Dover-Ora-Lily Nine
Takes Fray 8-5
To Play Again On Saturday, Fowl
er Gold Cwncet For
Circuit Blows.
Hie Shelby All-Star outfit. J
Composite team made up from fh<
players of the Dover-Ora and U'j
Min teams, yesterday aftemoor
Mushed through with an 8 to I
•Micejr over the Shelby Semi
VBR In the first of their challengt
series.
Lander Farris of the Lily mil
and Hal Farris, manager of th<
Dover-Ora aggregation, were th<
brother-managens whose tearr
bunched eight hits for eight count
ers to lick the former Cleveland
Cloth Mill outfit.
Fowler, Gold Homer.
Fowler, pitcher, and Qold. thirc
baseman for the semi-pros, botl
hit home runs, but they avtilei
little since they came at inoppor
tune moments.
Glenn Short, sturdy rightfieidei
was the only semi-pro man to ge
more than one safety, and hi
counted for two out of five at
tempts.
Btddix, first baseman and Well
man. second sacker for the All
Stars each got two safeties.
Use Four Pitchers.
The Semi-Pros used a total o
four pitchers against their rival?
IV mrlck, Fowler. Short and 8ta;i
ings. Duncan, Aii-atar nurier, gavi
up only seven hits.
The two nines play again Satur
day at the City Park. The game 1
scheduled to start at four o’clock
and by all means, should produci
plenty of fireworks.
This afternoon, the locals take r<i
Lancaster here. The Red Rose
took the first game Wednesday li
what was said to have been tb
fastest game played at Lancastc
this year.
No. 3 High Swamps
Ellenboro Outfi
Border* limits EUenboro To On
Hit; Mall And Morehead
Pace Hitters.
especial to The Star.)
ELLENBORO. Aug. 23— No.
high school located half and hal
between Earl and Patterson com
munitlee. yesterday smashed out i
total of 14 base hits, which com
bined with errors by Ellenboro, gavi
them a 19 to 0 victory over the la
cals here
The visitors started their scorini
barrage in the first brackett, anc
continued the pace throughout thi
remainder of the game.
Only seven Innings were played
half of them in a drizzling ralr
' which made pitching difficult. Bor
der*. however, hurled superb ball
striking out 12 Ellenbofo hitters
and giving up one one hit. He waa
given good support In the field.
HarriU was on the mound for the
locals, and gave up 14 hits. Bryar
Mull, No. 3 first sacker. connected
for three as did his mate. More
head. The entire visiting aggrega
tion hit well. Smalley got the onlj
hit Tor Ellenboro.
The two outfits clash again at No
3 Tuesday afternoon.
Grover High Beats
Polkville Nine 5-1
'Special to The Star'
POLKVILLE, Aug. 24—Behtnc
the four hit pitching of Cook, Gro
ver high school yesterday batter1
their way to a 5 to 1 victory ov»i
Polkville high school here.
B. Mauney, on the mound foi
Polkville, pitched a good ball game
with the exception of one bad in
ning.
A. McEntyre starred in the field
for Polkville, while Gold was the
leading slugger for the Pete Moe
teller-coached Groverite*.
Polkville plays Falls ton on Tues
day. August 28.
Fallston Mound Ace
It Out For Seaton
(Special to The Stan
FALLSTON. Aug. 24 —Fred Ken
drick. rallsbon’s pitching ace, is
out for the rest of the fall season
due to a split index finger on his
pitching hand. This puts the club
In a tough spot for Its hardest
game today with Polkville. The
rest of the boys, however, will try
to slug it out to make up for the
loss. *
Rev. Mr. Shoffner
To Preach Sunday
The Rev. Kendall B. Shoffner of
Ibom&sville will supply the pulpit
at the regular morning services at
the local Presbyterian church. The
Rev. Mr. Shoffner Is a cousin of R.
W. Shoffner, county farm agent.
Athletics Winner
(n Play-Off Tilt
With Shelby Mill
Game Called la Sixth Because Of
Rain; Athletics-Goodfellows
Series To Start.
The Kings Mountain Athletics,
managed Dy the colorful Red Or
mand, yesterday afternoon defeat
ed the Shelby Millers 6 to 1 to move
Into a deadlock with their fcllow
, townsmen the Goodfellows for the
second half rag of the Twin-State
! league.
As in the game Saturday, rain
almqst broke it up again yesterday.
It was called In the sixth, but not
until the Athletics had rolled up a
comfortable majority.
Hinson was on the mound for
the Athletics, and was backed up
i well by Earl. Baumgardner and
I Silvers constituted the batteries for
Shelby.
Colon Falls and Jake Early were
• the outstanding hitters for the Ath
letics.
! The two Kings Mountain teams
will have to play-off a series for
the second half honors. The Ath
letics took the first section of the
pennant, and if they win the series,
will be the undisputed champs
However, should the Goodfellows
, take the second division, another
series will be played for the entire
; year pennant.
It is not known exactly when the
series will start.
■ Blanton Tells How
; Bandits Stole Car
> Pretending To Be Injured, Robben
r Stopped Him For Help, Then
Produced Their Gum.
j B. 8cott Blanton of Charlotte
formerly of Mooresboro, Cleveland
t county, yesterday related how hts
automobile was stolen by four ban
. dlts after they had wrecked thelt
own gun-laden machine near the
McDowell county line.
Two of the desperadoes were cut
and bleeding as they made off with
I the car, he said.
> { Mr. Blanton and his son had
. ' stopped to take the wreck victims
i, to a hospital when the holdup oc
. curred.
Pointing pistols at him and his
son, Mr. Blanton said, two of the
quartet commanded them to "stop
: the car." when he did so. thev
; ordered him and young Blanton
out. Then keeping the two Char
lotte men covered, the bandits sped
away in the Blanton machine,
"The men were so covered with
blood from the wreck of their ea
and their clothes were so badly
torn, I didn't get a very good im
pression of how they looked.” the
elder Blanton said. "In the excite
ment of trying to get the wreck
victims to a hospital, we of course
never thought they might be ban
dits until they pulled their pistols
on us.”
Mr. Blanton is state manager for
the Phoenix Life Insurance com
pany. He and his son were due In
: Hickory today on a business trip.
Irving Bingham, local agent for
the insurance company, wus noti
fied this morning of the holdup
and immediately went to Old Fort
where he Joined the Blantons.
Later, upon getting word the
Blanton car had oecn found on a
mountain road near Micaville, Bing
ham and the two Charlotte men
left for Spruce Pine to recover It
Bingham said he did not know
how long they would be In Spruce
Pine, but he intended to return to
Hickory tonight.
Seventy Enroll In
Salesmanship Class
The Salesmanship class formed
to tkke Edward Lee Hawk’s course,
"Human Analysis In Selling.” was
organised last Wednesday night
with seventy members present. Aft
er hearing the report of those in
the class and seeing their enthus
iasm over the first lesson, quite
a number of others have said they
intend to enter the class tonight
(Friday). At the meeting last Wed
nesday night it was asked if new
members could enroll in the class
later and Mr. Hawk announced
that they could and that he would
make up the first lessen. It is ex
pected that quite a number of new
students will enroll tonight.
The group asked Wednesday
night to have the class sessions be
gin at 7:30 o’clock in the evening
instead of at 8:00. So as to get out
at 9 o'clock instead of at 9:30 and
it was decided to meet at that ear
lier hour. The remaining sessions
will be held in the court house to
night and on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday nights of next week.
Houser Sees Racket
In Firm Questions
(Continued from Page 1)
about local financing was taken
with him to Goldsboro to the meet
ing last week of North Carolina
commercial secretaries and it was
found, without exception, that
every firm who had enquired of
Shelby's willingness to finance en
terprises in order to get them to
move had made similar enquiries
of at least half a dozen othei cities
and that they, likewise, had made
Investigations and advised no ac
tion.
While the local organization is
greatly interested in securing new
industries and additional payroll?
for 8helby it is pointed out that
only those that will be an asset to
the city are sought.
Under present conditions, it has
been learned, any industrial plant
which is now operating at a profit
can hardly be tempted to move
Those that cannot operate at a
profit are not wanted.
However, considerable correspond
ence is being carried on with in
dustries which are profitable and
which, it is believed, can move to
Shelby with benefit to themselves
and the city and when the present
uncertainty in business is more or
less cleared up it is believed that
the gmund work now being laid
will be of value to Shelby and
Cleveland county.
Director* of the local organiza
tion believe that Shelby people can
help themselves by promoting en
terprises that are profitable more
than they can by getting outsiders
to do it anyway. In the meantime,
while Industries as a whole are not
on the move, the Shelby organiza- :
tion is malting every effort to be
of value and lervice to Shelby citi
zens and to industries and busi
ness enterprises who are already
here.
Tinkle Of Silver
Echo To Concert
(Continued from page one.)
therefore probably more than 603
were In the audience. A number of
people looked In through the win
dows and heard the concert. Their
behavior was so good and their at
tention was apparently so rapt that
no effort was made by the spon
sors to have them removed.
The orchestra received its $106
guarantee plus half the gross re
ceipts over $100, or a total of
$153.50. Other expenses included
$9.80 for advertising, $5.00 for the
use of the high school auditorium
and $1.35 for telegrams and post- 1
age, a total expense of $16.15 which]
added to the $153.50 paid the or-(
chestra made a total of $169.65. '
This subtracted from gross receipts
of $207.00 left a net profit to the
clubs of $37.75, which is being di
vided between the Shelby Public
library and the High School It- 1
brary;- $18.67 going to the city li
brary and $18.66 to the high school 1
library.
Sunday Service*
At Second Baptist
The Rev. C. V. Martin announces
the following services at the Sec
ond Baptist church Sunday: 9:45 :
I o’clock, Bible school; 11:00, public
'worship with a sermon by the pas- ■
tor on the fifth chapter of James;
,6:30 o’clock p. m.. B. Y. P. U.; 7:30.
|song of praise service; 7:45, bap
tismal services, and 8:00 o’clock,
sermon on the Apostle Peter.
Regular prayer service will be
held Wednesday night.
Salvation Army
Sunday Service*
Services will be held at. the Sal
vation Army Hall near the South
ern depot on Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock with Capt. Jack Wynn
doing the preaching. Cottage pray
er meetings are held each Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday nights and
nraver'services -ir» halri at h>ii
Thursday and Saturday nights.
During the six weeks the Army
has been working in Shelby, 94
meals have been served to trans
ients and lodging furnished to 47
people. Many appeals have been
made to the Army for shoes, cloth
ing. etc., so if anyone has any dis
carded clothes or shoes to contri
bute to the Army, notify the post
and someone will call.
Plan To Organize
Club In Mooresboro
Women of the Mooresboro com
munity are invited to attend an or
ganisation meeting of a Home Dem
onstration club on Monday after
noon at 2:30 o'dbck. Miss Prances
MacGregor, county home agent, will
attend the meeting.
N. C. Supreme Court
Reconvenes Aug. 27
RALEIGH, Aug. 22—The N. C.
Supreme court, which has been in
adjournment for a few weeks, will
reconvene August 27 for the pur
pose of taking up the fall calendar.
Cases from the first and 20th Judi
cial districts will be argued on
Tuesday, August 28th. and Wed
nesday, August 29.
Century Of History
Passes Mrs. Gantt
(Continued from Page 1)
all my life, and I still do.
“Young folks today, why they
don’t work at all. Hard work never
killed anybody, but laziness kills a
heap or ’em "
When she was younger, she sa’d
she used to get up at'4 a. m., but
recently, feeling a little older, she's
been sleeping until 5.
The other stock question to ask
people 100 years old is what they
think of young folks today. Well.
Mrs. Gantt hasn't any high opinion
of them. They’re lazy. More than
that, they won’t wear hats, and
that's not right. As for the girls,
she said she'd rather not be asked
about them, but being pressed, ad
mitted that she thought they were
thoroughly trifling—and a lot of
’em downright bad “smoking cig
arettes and drinking."
Mrs. Gantt looks back on a lif<>
of toil, mostly on the farm, a life
that was hard—but it was lots of
fun, at that she says.
She recalls Bethel church, near
her home in upper Cleveland,
where her father farmed, and
where she was baptized at 14 by the
Rev. Mr. Pilgrim. She recalls hear
ing the Rev. Tom Dixon—young
Tom's father—and remembers go
ing to school two months and
studying the old Blue Back Speller.
WAl't la* 1___<_9 I
rident of the Civil War, when her
young husband, J. A. Gantt, was in
the army under Major Schenck. ITe
left her to run the farm, a young
woman with four children. One day
as she was working in the field, a
Yankee officer rode up "and took
my best mare right out of the plow
larness.” That was a tough blow,
but she worked hard, and when the
uisband returned three years la
ter, she had spun and carded
planted and reaped and sold corn
0 such good advantage that they
were richer than when he left.
She farmed 200 acres then. She
remembers a lot of talk about Ab- 1
raham Lincoln, but nothing very
definite. He's the first President
that made much impression on her, 1
ror her life has always been close 1
to the soil, and her dates have '
been those of harvest time rather :
than those of the men and events 1
Jf history.
The next important event in her
He occured in 1866 or '67, when a 1
lumber of Cleveland county farm- I
?rs Brew weary of the hard task of 1
bearing land and decided that the
ilalns of the west were more fer
tile. Lured by legends of good
'arming lands to be had cheap, ten
amilies set, out by wagon to make
he difficult trek across the Blue i
Sddge Mountains through the Ten
lessee valleys, across the rolling
dopes of Kentucky and the flats of
Indiana to the good acres of Illin
The Gantts were among them, in j
heir creaking wagon, with UHr
labies and young children, 3ix 1
veeks they struggled on, fording 1
itreams. prying vehicles out of I
nud. one wagon. caught in the |
•urrent of a river, was swept away |
But somehow, these hardy folk i
nanaged to arrive. .
They rented land and made a
!roP- That was in April. Slowly
heir tall com came up and they t
vatched it eagerly, but living there t
vasn’t like it was in North Caro- 3
ina. The people were strange, and 1
talked queer.’ And it was pretty
■old Homesick, tired, feeling low,
the Gantts packed their children
and chattels in the wagon agatn,
and by September were back In
Cleveland, where they bought new
land for one dollar an acre.
Japan was opened for the first time
by Commodore Perry in 1854, and
Mary Gantt was then a comely,
sturdy young woman of 34. Mors
children had come—the last born
when she was 46—and they helped
on the farm. In all, there were ten
children. Now, she has five left, and
grandchildren—“Well, there must
be more than 50, I just can’t count
eat all!” Great grandchildren she’a
lost count of long ago.
Hie Panama canal was begun by
th© French in 1882, and Mary
Gantt was 48 years old, not yet
starting half of the life she was to
liv%
The battleship Maine was blown
up and Mary Gantt was M year*
old. She was 67 when McKinley
was assassinated.
Of her girlhood, she reoalls little,
save that she worked hard. She
went to no dances, never learned to
dance. She saw her first steam
train in Cherryville during the Civil
war, and recalls that town better
than Shelby.
She says this depression Is real
ty harder on people than hard
times used to be, because “in those
days, we knew how to do things for
ourselves. We made our own clothes,
stockings, and raised our own food.
People don’t know how to do for
themselves today,” she says, “they
i“'» inn »nu ouy everytmng
from the store.”
And so she runs a store. She’s
lad her little business here for al
nost 30 years now, assisted the past
'our years by her son W. H. Gantt.
The four other children are Dock,
vho’s 69 years old and lives In
■tings Mountain, Mrs. Annie New
on, who lives near Casar and is 78,
Wrs. Leila Williams of Shelby, and
\mos, who is at Pleasant Hill.
Her father, Joel Ledford, lived
o be 85, and her mother, who was
Vnrile Helms, to 83.
"I don’t know about prohibition,”
ihe said when questioned, ’’but I
:an see people drink more now.
rhey didn’t used to get drunk when
was a girl, and com sold for 35
*nts a gallon.”
Miss Ruth Beam is spending the
neek-end in Charlotte to attend the
ire-nuptials for Miss Mary Ella
owe of that place.
Penny Column
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Eight Are Baptised
At New Prospect
Prof. Hallman Trachn; Personals
Of People Visiting
About.
(Special to The Star.)
NEW PROSPECT. Aug. 23—A
large crowd gathered at New Pros
pect last Sunday afternoon for the
baptismal services. Rev. Mr. Braynt
baptised the candidates in our
pastor’s place as Dr. Davis has a
lame foot. Eight were baptised,
five boys and three girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Beam of
near Cherryvllle spent last Satur
day with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Beam.
Prof. Hallman of Earl taught the
lesson at the teachers’ meeting last
Friday night at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Julius Hord. His Inspiring
discussion was very much enjoyed
by all present. Miss Margaret Hord
will teach the lesson this week.
Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Davis and
sons, and the Rev. Mr. Braynt were
the dinner guests of Mrs. Mary
Botts and family last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Toney Ledford ol
Cherryvllle spent last week with
—mmmmrnmmmmm—B
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Howell mud
other relatives in this community.
Mr. Ledford is a victim of rheuma
tism and has to lie upon a cot or
sit in a wheel chair. But despite Ms ^
condition he is always ehearfuL
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Grieg are
spending this week with their
daughter, Mrs. John Wright and
Mr. Wright og hear Pleasant Orovs
church.
Dr. Spragenberg, of Germany, has
developed a quick method of
sprouting grain by which fodder
may be harvested after 10 to 16
days.
~lV£>ie. (nunnlnq a \eai f
HOUSE CLEANING CLEARANCE
Clean - Sweep
OF ALL
Odds and Ends
IN SUMMER MERCHANDISE
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$27.50 GLIDERS Reduced to_$17.50
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$ 6.95 DECK CHAIRS Reduced to___$ 3.95
$12.50 STEEL CHAIRS Reduced to_$ 7.50
$ 2.95 LAWN CHAIRS Reduced to_•__ $ 1.69
ENTIRE STOCK GREEN AND IVORY
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SHELBY, N. C.
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