Thomas-Snead
Announcement
Made Recently
Well Known Rock Spring* Couple
Are Married In Gaffney;
Personals.
(Special te The Star)
ROCK SPRINGS, Dec. 10.—Mrs
Abram Davis and son James re
turned home Tuesday after spend
ing awhile with relatives in Atlanta
Ga.
Misses Mary and Dorothy Thomp
son and Beona Sapoch, Zeb Thomp
son, Gage Sapoch and Clyde Wil
son visited Clyde Thompson in Fort
Bragg recently.
Mrs. Emmie Byers spent last week
with Mrs. J. H. Moore and family.
Miss Ollie Thomas and John
Snead surprised their friends Sat
urday by motoring to Gaffney, S
C. where they were married by the
probate judge Lake W. Stroup. Mrs
Snead is the only daughter of Mr
and Mrs. Ed Thomas of the Holl>
Grove section. Mr. Snead is the eld
est son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Snead
of the Hopewell community and for
merly of this community. •
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Bolin and
llttel daughter, Patsy Anne, ol
Easley, S. C. spent a few days last
week with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Se
poch and Mr. and Mrs. John Bolin
Pleasant Hill
Farmers Prepare
For Hard Winter
PLEASANT HILL, Dec. 8.—The
farmers of this community are
through gathering and sowing, and
are cutting their winter wood, kill
ing hogs and getting ready for
Christmas and a hard winter.
Mrs. Clyde Kendrick was taken
to a Charlotte hospital last week,
had an operation and Is getting
along nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Gantt and
little son. Billie, of Shelby visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos
Gantt Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Lowery and
family spent the day Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Dillingham.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Neal and Mr.
Clyde Kendriak and children vis
ited Mrs. Cljfle Kendrick at Char
lotte Sunday.
The officers and teachers of the
Sunday school and officers of the
S. Y. P. U. met at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Kendrick Thursday
night to plan a Christmas program.
Way nick Doing
> Much Work In
Highway Position
RALEIGH, Dec. 10.—Capus M.
Waynlck, new assistant chairman of
the state highway and public works
commission, has assumed his new
duties, and in connection with the
numerous visitors bearing congratu
lations and good wishes, had been
able to turn off some of the work
that has accumulated in the office
during the four months or more
since Chairman E. B. Jeffreys has
been sick.
Closer knitting together of the
highway and the prison divisions
was one of the first tasks facing the
new assistant chairman and he was
in conference with Jack Roach,
head of the prison division; Sam
Smith, auditor, and W. Vance Baise,
acting state highway engineer since
the death of John D. Waldrop. A
closer utilization of prison labor
available is expected in the future,
in the maintenance of state and
county highways, although prison
labor cannot be used in the con
struction of federal aid roads, now
being built.
Livestock Poisoned
By Acorns and Leaves
Young Animals That Do Not Have
Enough Nourishing Food, Us
ually The Victims.
By Extension Department
The danger of livestock being
poisoned by oak leaves and acorns
is increased when undernourished
animals are permitted to range in
the woods, warns Dr. C. D. Grin
nells, who is in charge of dairy in
vestigations at State college.
Well nourished cattle seldom eat
enough leaves or acorns to cause
serious injury, he said, but under
fed animals will eat large quanti
ties of oak leaves, acorns, and
young sprouts in an effort to satis
fy their hunger.
Young cattle, especially, are liable
to suffer serious, digestive diseases
when this oak feed becomes a prom
inent part of their diet. Loss of
appetite, decreased or discontinued
rumination, constipation, lowered
milk production, and a disinclina
tion to move are some of the more
obvious symptoms.
It is thought that the tannin, or
the substances which produce tan
nin, is the poison which affects
young, undernourished animals
when it is eaten in large quantities.
Some observers are of the opinion
that half-ripe acorns, which fall
from trees before maturing in times
of drouth, are more injurious than
those which have ripened.
Animals over three years of age.
sheep, and hogs are seldom both
ered by oak poisoning, Dr. Grinnells
says, although they too may become
susceptible If forced to eat too many
leaves and acorns
Wendel Mansion Is Wrecked
n
•i Th. WencUl
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Wrpckprs are demolishing the Wendel mansion in New York City,
home of the recluse Wendels, who amassed a real estate fortune ex
ceeding $50,000,000 through almost half a century of continual
purchase. The late John G. Wendel, brother of the Wendel sisters,
insisted they remain unmarried, and dwell in the four-story house,
even while skyscrapers rose around thpm. Miss Ella Wendel, last
of the family, who died in 1031, exercised hpr poodle, Tobey, in the
yard outside. Following her death, litigation arose over the disposi
tion of the vast Wtnd*l fortune, with claimants appearing from the
four corners of the earth.
Knox Team Is Unvictorious
Captain Louia Vitale " Coach Lloyd S. Burdick
A unique record about which loyal students don’t care to boast has
been set up by the football team of Knox college, of Galesburg, 111.
Knox has lost 20 games in a row. This photo shows Captain Louis
Vitale, left, and Coach Lloyd S. Burdick of the Knox team
Cotton Yield Determined
By The Available Nitrogen
COLLEGE STATION, • Raleigh,
I Dec. 10.—Yields of cotton on many
soils in this state are determined
more by the available nitrogen
: supply than by any other control
able soil fertility, factors says C B
Williams, head of the agronomy de
partment at State college.
In this region, the yield can be
! doubled, sometimes tripled, through
: the appplication of large quantities
I of commercial nitrogen with miner
, al fertilizers, he said.
Most of the soils are low in ni
trogen content, he continued, and it
is being reculed in many cases by
cultivation and climatic conditions
favoring a rapid loss.
; However, he continued, crop rota
tion and the growing of legumes
will help build up the nitrogen con
I tent of the soil and" overcome the
• natural tendencies for losing nitro
gen.
: Nevertheless, applications of good
i fertilizer are essential to the pro
, duction of maximum yields, Wil
, liams pointed out.
I Experiments made with various
type; of nitrogen fertilizers on dif
ferent North Carolina soils have
; been written into a pub'Jcation of
1 the United States department ot
agriculture by Williams and Dr. H
B. Mann, the latter an agronomist
■ at the North Carolina experiment
i station.
; Lawrence Roberts
i Ross Grove Pastor
i R»v. Lawrence Roberts has been
unanimously elected pastor of the
. Ross Grove Baptist church and will
. preach there at 11 o’clock on the
; first and third Sunday mornings.
: Rev. Mr. Roberts is the son of Mr.
r and Mrs. S. Lester Roberts of the
Elizabeth section and is a graduate
of the seminary. He has been fill
ing pastorates in South Carolim
since completing his education. Re
cently he and his wife, who is ala
a native of the county, moved bacl
to Cleveland.
Sentenced to life imprisonmen
in 1931, Will Strickland. Horry coun
i ty farmer, received a full pardoi
' from Governor Blackwood followini
’ another clemency which had short
1 ened his prison term to a year am
j nine months.
I SAt.E OF VAl.l'ABl.E FARM PROPERT
Under and by virtue of the authorlt
conferred upon us in a deed of trust ei
eciited by J. F. Blanton and wi'e. Lai
Blanton, on the 14th day of Aorll. 1921
and recorded in book 141, page 27. we wl
on Saturday, the
12th day or January, 193.1
12 o'clock noon
at the court house door in Clevelan
countv, Shelby, N. c.. sell at public auc
tion for cash to th" highest bidder th
following land, to-wit:
All that D’ece. perfp| or tract of lane
situate, lying and being in No 3 towr
rhlp. Cleveland county, state of N. C.. a £
loin’ng lands of Mrs. Ton Hamrick. Clli
{ Dcvls. C>e-o Al’rn. nod b^ing more pal
ticularlv described ar.'1 defined as follow?
Beginning on a willow on th* bank <
T 'tt«e Hickom* creev. Mrs. Mary Jar
Hughes’ comer, and runs with Cicei
'’ten’s 3, 1*S to 9 stone 1
Turner's line. Cliff Davis’ comer; then*
"Mth hi* line V M’fc poles’ to a stakt
j thence N. ?6Vm T V>* notes to a stake o
{north bank of Little Hickory creek: thenc
with Mrs. Tom H*mr-ck’a line n. 62 V
t’fll1'-* po’es to a white oak: thence dow
Little Hickory creek as it meanders 1
the beyi’^n'*'0’. cont^The mo?
w**' -•*'-p •- bef#bv m-d- to th'
deed from R. A. Putnam, et al, to J. 1
Blanton and wife. T . Blanton, recorde
*' uook 3-P et o"g.'* fill.
'T'hi" -ate i- '"'•4" b" reason of the fai
ure of J. F Blanton and w«fe Lale Bbr
ton. to pav off and discharge the lr
dehtednes* secured bv said deed of tm*
A denosit of 10 percent will be require
from tb*» purchaser at the sale.
Th!* the 6th d*«' of DeramK#*. 1934.
TVTgnsv'Tr 'rpTT'^TFF CORPORA
•HO”. Substituted Trustee. Dv.rhan
N. C
Jo: -h C. WhiswaoL AUy.
U Dm II
North Carolina Employs
34,900 On State Payroll
Big business!
That phrase is almost a fetish to
modern cltlsens of the United
States.
And that's exactly what the state
of North Carolina is engaged to—
Big Business!
Imagine, if you can. an industrial
enterprise of this nation composed
of some seventy-odd vitally differ
ing departments, expending each
year more than $40,000,000 for its
necessary functions, employing an
army of around 34,000 workers whose
salaries aggregate between $17,000,
000 and $30,000,000 annually, and
operating within an area no great
er than that of this common
weal^.
Has $3,000 Teacher*
By far the largest number of
state employees in any single de
partment or agency is that requir
ed to run the state-wide, state-sup
ported eight-months school term.
More than 33,000 superintendents,
principals, teachers and other school
workers each year share among
themselves well in excess of $13,
000,000 in salaries. That large sum
amounts to almost 83 per cent of the
total appropriation of $16,000,000
granted by the 1833 general assem
bly for the new school system, leav
ing less than $3,000,000 to carry on
all other details.
Assuming that there are in the
school system an average of 23,000
teachers, Including superintendents
and principals whose salaries range
somewhat higher, the average teach
er's salary is approximately $570 an
nually, which amounts to $71.35
monthly on an eight-months basis,
but only to $47.50 monthly on a
twelve-months basis. It is expected
that the 1935 legislature, which will
convene in Raleigh early in January,
will be strongly urged to enact a
statute which will remedy a condi
tion which, leading educators say,
has created real hardship for many
of the teachers of the state.
Expect To Get Help
Other classes of state employees,
whose salaries were cut an average
of 38 per cent below 1930 levels by
the last general assembly, also are
to have their champions among the
new solons who will comprise the
membership of next year’s house
and senate. Some of them, too, have
suffered because of the drastic sal
ary reductions, which came at a
time when commodity prices were
wending their way upward under
the impetus of the New Deal.
Next to the public school system,
the most employees are to be found
connected with the state highway
and prison departments, which re
quire almost 6,000 workers and
which pay those employees each
year In salaries approximately $604,
000. The average salary runs higher
In the highway department. the
$616 figure amounting to almost an
even one hundred dollars above the
prison department average of $617.
An average of 5,600 persons sre
employed In the administration,
construction and maintenance divi
sions of the highway system, while
345 workers are necessary to keep
the prison system functioning prop
erly.
The three utilts of thS Greater
University of North Carolina give
employment to an average of 1,378
workers, whose combined salaries
for the past ftscal year amounted
to around $1,841,076, or an average
of $1,440. The Chapel Hill unit’s
average of $1,731 was the highest
with the College for Women at
Greensboro coming In sreond at $1,
320. and the 8tate College average
amounting to $1,105. The total
amount appropriated to all three
units for Its operations during the
past year was only 043.240, or about
half of their salary requirements.
The balance came from fees and
other sources of income, which were
estimated at $727,883 at Chapel
Hill; $462,000 at Raleigh, and $504,
945 at Greensboro.
Add To Growing List
At the eleven additional schools
of higher education supported by
the state, most of which are for the
training of teachers, 640 persons are
needed to keep In motion the wheels
of progress. East Carolina Teachers
college at Oreenvllle, leads with 154;
there are 96 on the rolls of the
North Carolina 8chool for the Deaf
at Morganton; 90 find employm-nt
at the Appalachian Training School
at Boone; 87 are required for the
North Carolina School for the Deaf
at Raleigh; the staff of the Negro
Agricultural and Technical College
of Greensboro numbers 48, and on
down the list to the Cherokee' In
dian Normal School of Pembroke,
where only 16 are employed. The
salary averages range from $1,145 at
the North Carolina College for Ne
groes, to only $501 at the Blind and
Deaf school.
Five hundred and thirty-six per
sons are required to attend to the
needs of the 5,850 unfortunates con
fined In the three state hospitals at
Raleigh. Morganton and Goldsboro.
The salary averages at these Insti
tutions run considerably lower than
In most other Institutions, running
from $451 at the Institution tor ne
groes at Goldsboro, $470 at the Ra
leigh unit, and $481 at Morganton.
A total of more than $050,000 Is re
quired yearly to operate the three
asylums, which have aggregate re
ceipts from various sources of ap
proximately $80,000 annually.
The state maintains six correc
tional Institutions for delinquent
minors, both male and female, their
combined staffs numbering 208.
They receive each year more than
$114,000 In salaries for an average
of $550. The lowest average salary Is
paid at the Caswell Training school,
where It amounts to $501, and the
highest average $658. Is received by
employes of the Morrison Training
School at Hoffman.
Salary Level Low
The staff at the North Carolina
Sanatorium, where an average of
150 patients are treated for tuber
culosis, numbers 139, with an aver
age salary at the low level of $428.
Stxty-slx persons are required to op
erate the Orthopedic Hospital at
Oastonla, their aaveraage salary
amounting to an even $500 annually.
The Revenue Department, ln
I eluding the Motor Vehicle Bureau,
which formerly was a part of the
highway system, and the Depart
ment of Conservatoln and Develop
ment, run a neck-and-neck race In
| the number of employees, the money
collecting agency having 178, and
the conservationists 178. The aver
age salary In the revenue depart
ment, including those of several
higher paid officials. Is around $1,
133, while that of the conservation
department amounts to approxi
mately $893.
One hundred and forty-five em
ployees are needed to keep In mo
tion the widespread activities of the
department of agriculture, and their
salaries average $1,068 yearly, with
the highest going to the ten em
ployees of the Division of Standards
and Inspection, amounting to $1,
524.
The vitally Important functions
of the state board of health require
the services of 83 workers, many of
them highly-trained specialists, re
ceiving somewhat larger salaries
than the average, bringing the mean
figure up to $1,1578.
By far the highest average salar
ies are paid to the 50 members of
the Judiciary, Including the five
Justices of the supreme court, 24
*’>erlor court Judges, and 20 soli
citors. This average amounts to ap
proximately $0,451. Superior court
judges receive $8,050 annually, $50
more than the supreme court ar
biters, and solicitors are paid $4,
200. Many of the Judiciary, as well
as other department heads whose
salaries are fixed by law, have been
voluntarily returning portions of j
Girl Wins Verdict
Mini Bennie Vandermeulen, 87
year-old stenographer, has been
awarded a verdict of $15,000 by
a jury In Louisville, Ky., In her
ault for $100,000 against Thomas
L. Barrett, wealthy clubman,
shown above, charging breach of
promise. Barrett denied In court
that he ever had promised to
marry the girl. *
their salaries to the state treasury
to aid In a financial emergency.
The next highest average la that
of the governor’s offloe, due to that
official salary of $11,100. The aver
age Is around $5,300 for himself and
four employees.
The number of employees In the
remaining departments range from
two in the office of the paroles com
missioner, to 45 employed by the
department of public buildings and
grounds. The workers In the paroles
department receive an average of
$960, while those who render serv
ices as Janitors, gardeners and other
classes of laborers, get an average
of $618.
Compensation Cases
To Be Heard Dec. 15
RALEIGH, Deo. 10.—Ohtlnun
Harr* McMullen, of th« N. O, In
dustrial commission hu a csitvwr
of 10 workmen'* compensation eaaaa
set for hearing largely in tha moun
tain area of the itate thin week. H»e
docket Include* one at Rutherford
ton, four at Aahevllle, one each at
Burnsville. Bakersville and New
land, two at Lenoir, three at New
ton, one at Llncolnton and two at
Shelby. Tire hearings start at Ruth
erfordton Monday and end Satur
day at Shelby.
The two Shelby cases will be
heard Saturday morning, beginning
at 0 o'clock and are as follow:
John Lane vs. Eton Cotton ntDk,
and Mary Palrlee Ruff, widow of
George W. Ruff, deceased, r*. Polk
county board of education.
Ground ltmeetone and stable ma
nure aided Forsyth farmers In se
curing perfect stands of red clover
on their grain fields this fall.
VIGOR
TOR THE
“Run Down”
To really regain rabid,
energetic well Ming, yen *
must take a treatment—
not a dose of something.
Vim Herb is a treatment, a „
new scientific herb treat
ment that does much more
than merely move the bow
els. Vim Herb CLEANSES
the thirty feet of intestinal
walls atM folds of the put
rid food that gives oft eon
Ml potion poisons of head
ache. biliousness, ran dews ,
feeling, Indigestion, and
low energy. Thus Vim Herb
help* nature ton#, sending
rich rod blood * countldk
through the vein*. Appetite
picks np, firm flesh Is built.
You take on energy, get
real strength out te your
food—as Vim Herb dees Ha
work. Try Vim Herb Just
onee. You risk nothing—for
yon get your money back if
you are net delighted. VUn
Herb at year druggist. ....
Special representative la
now at Cleveland Drag Co*
Shelby, N. C.
Vim Herb
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