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VOL. 33 NO. 33
KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. THURSDAY. AUG. 22, 1935
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Condensed In Brief Form
—State News
RALEIGH, Aug. 21.-—Reports at
the office of C. H. Brannon, exten
sion entomologist at N. C. State Col
lege, today showed virtually at cot
ton fields In Eastern North Carolina
infested with boll weevils. Brannon
said the pest was spreading rapidly.
Weather conditions, he said, had
been favorable to weevils in nearly
every section of the State and par
ticularly during the first ten days
of August.
LUMjBERTON, Aug. 21.—Airplan
es, armed citizens and officers today
had failed to locate Jim Watson, ne
gro farmhand, accused of attempting
assau
uppn a four year old girl.
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on; who escaped. Sunday from
•^uilding amid a flurry of
bullet^ ffom the pistol of J. B_. Bru-,
ton, Jr., brother of the girl, wa3
thought to be armed. A group of cit
izens ' reported yesterday they fired
on Watson and inflicted a minor
wound. Three airplanes yesterday
circled over a wid area but failed
to find a trace of the fugitive.
JR.ALEIGH, Aug. 21.—Counsel for
two men convicted on whiskey char
ges here last month today planned a
Supreme Court test of provisions of
the 1935 liquor acts as they apply
to dry counties.
Charles U. Harris, attorney for
the two men, J. E. Jones and Clar
ence C. Hamilton, has filed formal
appeal, contending the acts repealea
parts of the state-wide Turlingto.i
act under which the men were con
victed of possessing liquor.
RALEIGH, Aug. 21.—The infantile
paralysis epidemic is apparently fast
dying out in North Carolina.
Records at the State board of
health office showed there only 30 of
the 549 cases which have been re
ported this year are still in an in
fectious stage.
Two new cases were reported yes
terday to run the August total to
03. There were 229 cases in July.
Aboard S. S. Reliance, En Rout-J
to Norfolk, Va., Aug. 21.—J. M.
Broughton, of Raleigh, was elected
president of the North Carolina Bai
association for the coming year at
the closing session today of its con
vention cruise to Novia Scotia.
RALEIGH, Aug. 21.—One hundred
and thirty prospective lawyers wait
ed today to learn whether they had
passed bar examinations held by tn«
state board of law examiners.
The tests were concluded here
yesterday, but it will be several
weeks before the successful applica
nts are announced. Last January a
bout 40 percent of the candidates
were licensed.
RALEIGH, Aug. 21.—The North
Carolina eugenics board today au
thorized the sterilization of nine per
sons, seven of which were consent
cases under the new 1935 law.
R. E. Brown, secretary, said the
board under the old and new laws
has authorized 294 perations, and
237 have actually been performed.
Of the operations completed, 122
have been this year.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21— Mrs.
Grover C. Bergdoll said she planned
to seek an interview with President
Roosevelt in Washington soon to
asK for a pardon for her husband,
World War draft dodger, now in ex
ile in Germany.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21— Discon
tinuance of the cotton processing
tax was opposed today by the special
cabinet committee which has been
studying ills of the textile industry.
The committee suggested control
of imports of Japanese cotton goods,
preferably by means of a "voluntar
ily and friendly agreement” with Ja
pan. It also recommended establish
ing of a continuing committee 0
study the problem of regional wage
differentials in the textile industry.
—National News—
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22.—'The
Rogers family will be together again
here today with a vast, sad differ
ence.
Mrs. Will Rogers and the children
Will, Jr., Mary and Jim, were hurry
ing by train from the east, due to
arrive about noon.
They were speeding to a funeral
instead of a happy reunion after
gay aerial adventures. The body of
the famous comedian, who kidded
the great and the near-great and
made them like it, awaited them in a
simple bronze casket in Forest
Lawn Cliapel.
ADDIS ABABA, Aug. ■ 2l — R^jiflble
sources said today Emperor Njple
Selassie has a large secret fund fef
gold and silver to pour out in fight
ing Italy in the event of hostilities! i
The money, amounting to several
million dollars, had been left by the
late Emperor Menelik In his Iasi !
testament for the defense of country
and is deposited in secret caves
known only to- the emperor.
LONDON, Aug. 21.—A British bi.l
for American cooperation for solu
tion of the Italo-Ethiopian crisis
may be the next move from Down
ing street, it was indicated today a»
the political drama was Intensified
In preparation for the emergency
meeting of the cabinet tomorrow.
PARIS, Aug. 21.—Premier Laval
is negotiating secretly with Premier
Mussolini in an effort to limit war
against Ethiopia if he cannot pre
vent it, it was learned today.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Con
gress still is bent on going home
by Saturday night, but in their dash
toward adjournment legislators have
delivered two jolts to majir parts of
the Roosevelt administration's pro
gram.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 21.—Ok
lahoma paid solemn, silent tribute
today to Wiley Post, whose home
coming for the first time was not a
joyous one.
Tlie body of the dauntless little
airman was borne here late yester
day in a giant airliner, ending the
longest funeral flight in history.
A large crowd lined municipal air
port as the ship arrived and the body
was transferred to a hearse.
There was no disorder, only a
great silence and a reverent uncov
ering of heads. Relatives were not
present at the field.
In the ship, though not at the con
trols, was Joe Crosson, modest Alas
kan file? who brought the bodies of
Will -Rogers, America’s favorite hu
morist, and her foremost stratsphern
adventure from lonely Point Barrow.
BOSTON. Aug. 21.—The probable
loss of four lives was reported today
as four surviving members of the
crew of the wrecked New York fish
ing schooner Juneal reached Boston
aboard a Norwegian freighter.
The surviivors expressed fears
that three Brooklyn, N. Y„ men anl
another from Boston had been lost
when the Juneal sank off Nantucket
yesterday.
PUTNAM, Conn., Aug. 21.—Police
Captain Harry Wallen said today
Briggs, 21, had confessed to partici
pation in the hold up of a bank in
Smoalcs, S. C., early this month.
Briggs walked into the office of
Prosecuting Attorney Archibald Mac
Donald this afternoon and made the
confession. Wallen said.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—Speaker
Byrns assured President Roosevel'
today of adjournment of congress by
Saturday in reviewing the progress
made yesterday by the house.
He said it was now certain that
final agreement would be reached bn
the amendments to the Tennessee
i Valley Authority, but still described
the utilities holding company regulx
tion bill as uncertain.
He was hopeful, however, that a
compromise would be worked out
on it, too.
“We are doing things up there now
with ofle thing in mind, that is to
adjourn," ire said.
MRS. W. L. HARRILL
JURIED LAST WEEK
The following account of the
death and burial of Mrs. W. I>. Har
fill. mother of Attorney E. A. Har
rill of this place is taken from
Friday’s issue of the Cleveland Star:
Funeral services lor Mrs. W. L.
Harrill, 71 year old resident and
mother, of the Mt. Sinai community
were held Friday at the Ml. Sina.
Baptist church.
Mrs. Harrill had been a member of
the cnuiou for nearly t»u years, and
is one ot the best known women in
the southjr part of the county.
Death came quietly at 9:30 Thura
day morning, after a lingering ill
ness of two years and a serious ill
ness of about a week. Paralysis was
the immediate cause of ber-dtath.
In charge of funeral rites were Ke\
Rush Padgett and Kev. J. L. Jenkins
pastor of Mrs. Harrill.
Surviving Mrs. Harrill are two
sons, Attorney E. A. Harrill of Kings
Mountain and Clive Harrill, at home;
five daughters, Mrs. M. O. Moore,
Shelby; Mrs. A. T. Hamrick, route
3, Shelby, and Misses Essie, Mignon
and Ocie Harrill, all at home. A sis
ter, Mrs. Josie Craning lives at Oaf
ney and a brother, David Champion
on Blacksburg, route 1.
Her husband, the late Wyatt L.
Harrill, died some two aud a hall
years ago.
Born, reared, married and having
lived in the same community all of
her life, Mrs, Harrill leaves a host
of friends and acquaintances who
know her as an ideal mother, gener
ous neighbor and friend.
FORMER KINGS MTN.
PASTOR IN ASHEVILLE
Kings Mountain people will be
interested to know that Rev. M. C.
Connor of High Point, has recently
accepted a call to the Wesleyan
Methodist church of West Asheville
to succeed Rev. E. L. Henderson,
who resigned to accept a charge »u
Roanoke, Va.
Rev. and Mrs. Connor have many
friends in Kings Mountain where
he was pastor of the Wesleyan chur
ch for a number of years.
CHILD ACCIDENT
VICTIM
The three-year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Saunders of Charlotte
had the misfortune to have his leg
broken Monday when the family
were packing in preparation for mov
ing to Burlington.
A piece of furniture dropped acci
dentally, fell on the child who was
standing nearby. He was carried to
the Presbyterian Hospital where ha
is resting as comfortably as could
be expected under the circumstances
Mrs. Saunders is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Cornwell and the
many friends of the family regret to
hear of the accident.
MRS. MARY MILLER
BURIED SUNDAY
Mrs. Mary E. Miller, 85, died early
Saturday fnoruing at the home of hei
daughter, Mrs. J. A. Burgin, in Lin
colnton, following an illness of sever
al months.
Mrs. Miller, who was a member of
one of Clevealand county's oldest
and most prominent families, was
well known in Kings Mountain
where she lived for some time, with
her daughter, Mrs. Sam Southard,
nee Miss Stella Miller, for mauv
years registered nurse of this place.
Surviving Mrs. Miller are four
daughters, Mrs. J. A. Burgin and
Mrs. M. H. Hoyle of Lincolnton, Mrs
Sam Southard of Washington, D. C„
and Mrs. W. A Gamble of Bessemer
City, five sons, Jo'shua Miller, of Ual
eigh, L. H. Miller of Florence, S. C„
Walter Miller of Spray, Plato and
Herbert Miller of Lincolnton. She
was a widow of the late Francis Ma
rion Miller who has been dead for
many years.
Funeral and interment took place
at Waco, the old home of the Miller
family Sunday afternoon and was
attended by a large crowd of rela
tives and friends.
Among those attending from Kings
Mountain were Mr. and Mrs. Will
Byrd and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Craw
ford.
UNION SERVICE AT
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
The sixth Union service will be
held at the Presbyterian church Sun
tiay evening at 8 o’clock. Rev. J. s.
Hiatt of Gastonia, Presiding Eldet
of the Southern Methodist Church,
Gastonia District, will bring ths
message oi the evening.
The interest in the Union services
continue to grow. An overflowing
congregation attended the services
last Sunday evening at the Central
Methodist church. Rev. P. D. Pat
rick, brought the message of the
hour.
SPONSORS MAJESTIC
PROGRAM
The Woman's Club of Mauney
‘•ill . will sponsor the Majestic Quar*
.et program at Park-Grace Saturday
flight.
'■-This quartet is_ composed of Radio
stage, artists from the Crazy Barn
Dance, Station-WBT, and their pro
gram consists of singing, instrumen
tal selections and black-face skits.
WHISNANT
REUNION
The annual reunion of the Whis
nant Clan will be held this year on
Friday August Si, at Mount Harmony
Church, which is about 3 ini!e3 nor
thwest of Polkville, N. C'., and about
15 miles northwest of Shelyy. This
reunion has been growing from year
to year, and a particular invitation
is given to al friends and relatives
to attend the same. As the name
Whisuant, or' this group, has a num
ber of wavs of spelling the name It
is made clear that regardless of
spelling or of the locality, that all
are urged and invited to come.
A urogram will be arranged and
caeried out for the day with J. H,
Grigg, County Supt., of Public
Schools as the speaker for the day
Dinner will be served on the grounds
and the proverbial “Well-Filled Bas
ket" should be brought.
WEEVIL INFESTA
TIONS REACH SERIOUS
STAGE
Boll weevil infestations in North
Carolina are becoming serious in
many sectioss, according to C. H.
Brannon, extension entomologist it
State College.
Recent observations have shown
that the weevils have spread over
most of the Piedmont area. This
year weevils are attacking many
farms where they have not appeared
in appreciable numbers before.
Over practically all the cotton
growing area of Kasteru North Caro
lina weevils are now being found.
Brannon said, and the increase has
been heavy within the past two
weeks.
If cloudy, warm weather prevails
during the rest of August, he eontin
ued, weevil damage over most ot
the State will be really serious un
less effective control measures are
started at once.
tie recommended that growers
who find weevils in their cotton
should start dusting with calcium ar
senate or a half and half mixture of
lime and calcium arsenate. Since
the infestations are so widely spread
he urged that every farmer keep a
close lookout for weevils.
Six pounds of dust should be
sprayed on each acre of cotton,
Brannon stated. The plants do not
need to be coated with a heavy lay
er of dust, but the spray should be
heavy enough to send a good fog of
dust about the plants.
Brannon also urged the growers to
keep a sharp watch for red spider,
which is being found in a large num
ber of fields this year. As a control
measure, he stated that at least two
dustings of sulphur should be made
about a week apart. Ten pounds
should be applied to the acre.
SHEET SHOOT
TO BE STAGED
JThe Kings Mountain Skeet club
has announced that their first skeet
; match will be staged Saturday, Sep
tember 7th. Full details of this firs’
[ program will be made later.
Adult Schools Of City
Render Much Service
LOCAL MAN PRESI
DENT OF CLAN
At a reunion of the Keeter elan
held at Union Mills, S. C., Sunday
Mr. D. J. Keeter of Kings Mountain
and Grover was elected president of
ihe family organization.
j The reunion was largely attended
| l>y members of the Keeter family
! from Grover, Kings Mountain, Shel
| by. Forest City, York, Greenwood, S
j <\, Greenville, Raleigh and else
I where.
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REUNION TO BE
HELD
The annual reunion of the Thomas
j son Clan will be held at Union chur
| ch, Thursday, August 29 beginning
i it ten o'clock.
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Other Plans
For Highway
Being Studied
Mr. Rosa M. Sigmon, Assistant
Highway Commissioner of North
Carolina was in Kings Mountain
Wednesday afternoon conferring
with Mayor J. E. Herndon and the
Town Board about the highyay pro
posals.
A new plan was discussed where
by the highway would eotne as origi
nally submitted with the exception
of how highway No. 29 woull enter
the Gastonia to Shelby highway. It
was thought that Highway No. 29
could come down Railroad avenu“
and join at King street. Railroad
avenue could cross over King street
instead of by an underpass as was
originally planned. By this plan the
damage to the property owners
would be considerable less, as the
filling stations on both corners of
King street and Railroad avenue
could be raised to the level of the
new highway.
The second plan discussed was for
the highway to come into Kings
Mountain by the Sadie Mill down
Kails street at Cherokeeu street and
go under the railroad at Kalis street
by an underpass. Highway 29 would
come into the Gastonia-Shelby road
just east of the underpass. This
route would keep the trucks and
heavy traffic off the main business
and residential section of Kings
Mountain. This would open up new
property and give Kings Mountain
more hard surfaced street. .
The third proposal: The highway
would enter Kings Mountain up the
valley by McGill Branch to the pow
er house into Railroad avenue. Then
down Railroad Avenue to where the
overhead bridge now stands, and
cross the railroad by an overhead
bridge at the same place where the
overhead "bridge is nof located. A
new overhead bridge would have to
be erected, one at an angle so that
it would not be sharp turn enter
ing the overhead bridge. Highway
No. 29 would continue on down
Railroad avenue.
The fourth plan: Enter Kings
Mountain the same as in plan three,
but when the highway reached the
power house go under the railroad
by an underpass just east of tlile
depot. file highway would then
come out about Mrs. Floyd Mauney's
place. Highway No. 29 Instead of
going under the underpass would
continue on down Railroad avenue,
through town as. it now does.
State Highway Commissioner Sig
man stated that ht would sent ano
ther engineer to Kings Mountain to
study the plans suggested by the cit
izens. Mayor Herndon and the board
are very desirous to serve the inter
ests of.Kit\es Mountain as sr. whole,
and will a^reciate the citizens let
ting their wishes be known so that
the best interest of the town may
be served.
Schools Have Closed For
An Indefinite Period.
The Adult Schools and Recreation
( al Programs which have been carri
ed on for the past several months
have been discontinued for the time
being and no definite plans made
for their continuance.
The general public has knows
very little of the important work car
ried on by teachers and leaders of
these clubs arid schools and w« are
giving a resume of some of. thejr ac
| complishments.
Miss Beth Randall has had charge
I of the work at the Mauney Mill vil
lage. She has had classes in honie
: making, sewing, interior decorating,
meal planning, etc. The wopjen have
| shown an especial interest in c<y
monstrations of various kinds given.
They have made and sold a large sup
ply of cottage cvrtains-, aprons, pit
low cases, etc., and have given sup
pers, using' The funds received to
ward equipping their club room.
Miss Randall and members of the
Community Club enjoyed an outing
at the seashore and also a trip to
the mountains.
Mrs. Emma Austelle has been in
charge of a school at the Pauline
Olub House and more recently at
the Second Baptist church with an
average enrollment of. il5,. the old
est of whom was 71. Some of the pu
pils were professional men, some had
never attended school and some had
been in high school. In addition to
the regular school work, these pu
pils were given an interesting cour
se in Bible Literature, by Miss Marv
Fanny Austelle who veTy ably as
sisted her mother in her work.**
Recreational progrents of various
kinds, were caffied on and a vesper
service-with Rev. P: D. Patrick as
Iead«rr was held, late in the sTttnmer.
Three clubsf - Wothers club,' Men's
club and Young Ladies club. - have
been organized and in operation for
some time and through these much
work of a civic and charitable na
ture has been done.
Pupils from the Pauline, Kings
Mountain Manufacturing Co., and
Cora mills have been included in
the above school enrollment.
Mrs. Ed. Ware has headed the
cluT3 wor!T at the Billing mill and
under her directions, two major pro
Jects, Bewing and canning have been
carried ob. A large amount of fruits
and vegetables have been canned
and the women have been busying
themselves, making necessary cloth
ing for their children in preparation
for the opening of school.
A Field Day program has been
planned for me near future.
The Woman's Club entertained
the Booster club at a supper at Lake
Montonia recently and will in turn
be entertained by the Boosters club
at the Elks Club in Gastonia.
The members of the Woman’s club
chaperoned by Mrs. M. E. Greer al
so enjoyed a trip to Carolina Beach,
Mrs. Charles Falls and Mrs. Clar
ence Carpenter have had charge of
play grounds and recreational activ
ities at Central School and later at
the Mauney Mill during the sum
mer months.
Some playground equipment wa>»
provided and play supervised by
Mrs. Falls and Mrs. Carpenter.
Mrs. E. B. Olive had charge of the
School and Community Club work
at the Park Yarn village. Besides
the regular school work, Mrs. Olive
had interesting classes in home-mak
ing, teaching, sewing, decorating,
cooking, meal planning and the va
rious arts dear to the average house
wife. This group, among other things
were hosts at a banquet given at the
Margrace Club, having as thefr
guests, Mr. Clyde ’Sorrells, head of
Adult school work in this District*
Mr. Horace Grigg. County Supt. of
Public Schools, a number of mill ex
ecutives, teachers of adult schools
and others.
Mrs. Olive recently held an im
pressive outdoor vesper service
with talks by Rev. A. G. Sargeant on
Citizenship in the School. Rev. W.
M. Boyce on Citizenship in th»
Home, and Mr. E. Garvin substi
tuting for Rev. J. W. Williams, oa
I Citizenship in the State.