m*+t*+t+++ttt++t++++( TRADE WITH YOUR HOME MERCHANTS Kings Mountain Herald ++++*+**+*+*****++♦+♦4* READ THE ADS IN THIS PAPER VOL. 33 NO. 3S KJNQS MOUNTAIN, N. C. THURSDAY, SEPT., 12, 1935 *1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE eSfUSlSiT »HUUT HELD HERE MI83 GRACE NEISLER MADE THIRD FROM HIGHE8T SCORE their first The Twenty-three entrants tried skill at shooting skeet in the program here last Saturday, meet was staged by Bridges & Ham rick Hardware. The following were declared win ners of the trophies which are now on display at Bridges & Hamrick: Class A J. C. Parker of Winston-Salem, with a score of 94. Class B O. J. Hill of Salisbury, with a score of 86. Class C J. E. Crawford of Spartanburg, 8. C., with a score of 84. Class D David Warlick, of Lincolnton, wit! a score of 79. I In the class C shoot an extra round had to be shot to determine the win ner between Messrs Crawford, Paul Neisler, and Gene Neisler, as they had tied in the first go-round. The outstanding shooting of the meet was done by Miss Grace Neis ler who lead the Kings Mountain shooters by a score of 88. This was also the third highest score made by any of the twenty-three entrants. Miss Neisler has only been shooting/ skeet for a short time, but has re^ ceived quite a reputation with her -consecutive high gcores. It is hoped by some of the skeet shooters that Miss Neisler will enter the State Skeet Meet as a representative of the Kings Mountain Club. This meet is to be held in Winston-Salem, N. C, on Sept. 27 and 28. William Short, 12 year old boy of Icard, N. C„ did some mighty good shooting with a score of 87. Among the twenty three entrants in the skeet shoot, the following from Kings Mountain participated: W. A. Ridenhour, Paul Neisler, C. C. Edens, Joe Neisler, G. A Bridges, Gene NeiBler, Arnold Kiser, Hunter and Miss Grace Neisler. ONE DOLLAR Will send The Herald to that boy or girl, young man or young woman, away at school for the entire school year. See that they are satisfied— send them the home-town newspaper. Call— PHONE 223 X FIRST BALE OF COTTON GINNED The first bale of cotton of the 1935 crop was ginned Saturday, Sept. 7, by the Victory Gin Company. The cotton was raised by Mr. Jim M. Smith of Route 1, Kings Mountain. Mr. Smith started to gin with his cot ton on Friday which was Sept. 6th, but his wagon broke down and ha did not get his cotton to the gin un til Saturday, Sept. 7th. '"'Sir. P. D. Herndon of the Victory Gin, says that the cotton will run about 15-16 middling grade. OVER 400 APPLY FOR DRIVERS’ LICENSE / Over 400 had applied for a drivers' /icense through the Kings Mountain ' office b y Tuesday. Applications are' being made at George Allen's Ser'j s^ice Station on Railroad avenue. The license will be furnished free until Nov. first, after then there will be a charge. Mr. Allen asked the Herald to an nounce that there is no charge for filling out the application when It is received from the highway patrol' man, but when he fills out the apph cation the notary public fee of 26C will be charged. The patrolman has no set time to be in Kings Mountain but will be here several times be tween now and Nov 1 to receive ap1 plications. He will be at Allen’s Sei* vice Station. Drivers may also get their licenses from Hord ’Furniture Co. New Highway For Kings Mountain Approved -* The town council in a called meet ing last week approved the new highway tor Kings Mountain. Ail) members of 'the council were pres ent except W. K. Mauney who could not he located. The meeting was pre sided over by Mayor J. E. Herndon. The plan approved by the council is for thd highway to go west in King street and cross the railroad tracks by an overhead bridge, providing that highway 29 (present road from Grover) can be tied into the new highway at the corner of Railroad avenue and King street and that Railroad avenue can ~ cross over King street instead of under King street by an underpass. The State Highway Commission has been notified of the approval of the above plan. No Information has been received from the State High way Commission. Below is a copy of the telegram that was sent to the State Highway Commission: “If you will construct at King street and Railroad Avenue a four-way bridge so that inter section of highway numbers 74 and 29 is on bridge the town will furnish right-of-way.” BOV8 BEING RETURNED Two teen aged boys of Kings Mountain are being returned from Charlotte by the local police depart ment for the robbery of the Gulf Filling Station on King street Mon day night. About 95.00 worth of >candy and cigarettes were stolen. The boys are about 14 years old and one ia named West and the other is named Hawkins, the first name of the boys could not be learned. TWO NEW CLERKS AT KEETER‘3 Miss Martha Francis McGill and Mrs. Deck Fulton have been added to the sales staff of Keefer's Dept. Store. Both Miss McGill and Mrs.. Fulton extend a cordial Invitation tq all their friends to visit them »t Keeter‘8. / LARGE AUDIENCE AT LAST UNION SERVICE A capacity crowd of over 400 heard Rev. L. B. Hamm of St. Mat thews Lutheran Church In the last of the planned union services. Mr. Hamm preached to the delight and benefit of his hearers in this first appearance outside his own church in Kings Mountain. The audience was expressive of its appreciation of the spirit and strength of the rn^ts’ sage. In the eight services held by the co-operating churches, Kings Moun tain has voted her hearty approval by packed congregations. Several times ever? available seat having been taken, chairs were crowded in to aisles and vestibules. It is a com mon pleasure to note the spirit of brotherliness illustrated in these “family unions.” LEAVE FOR GEORGIA Mrs. Richard C. Wilson, her moth er, Mrs. Hughes, and her son, Billy, left Tuesday for their old home in Rome, Ga„ where they will reside. Miss Jane Wilson has returned to Asheville Normal. Hank Wilson has entered school at Banner Elk and Richard Wilson will remain in Kings Mountain for awhile. The WTson family have made ma ny friends in Kings Mountain who are sorry to see them leave. SERIOUSLY ILL AT OTEEN Mr. W. H. Thomasson, of Gastonia wh in early life lived with his par ents in Kings Mountain, is seriously ill in the hospital at Oteen and all hope for his recovery has been a bandoned. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Thomasson and Mr. and MrB. Charles Thomasson of this place and members of his fami ly elsewhere have been at his bjt*> side. State And National News Condensed In Brief Form —State News— RALEIGH, Sept. 11.—Because leth al *as equipment has not been in stalled in the state’s new death cham her, George Frank, Rockingham ne gro convicted of assaulting a white woman, will not die Friday, P. D. McLean, assistant parole commis sioner, said here yesterday. Mc: Lean estimated it would be .several weeks before the gas chamber was GASTONIA, Sept. 11.—The case a fainst Agammemnon Koutro, 22 fear old cafe employee who is charg ed with second degree murder or manslaughter in the death ot Cecil Hookout, 18, was expected to be in the hands of the jury in Gaston su perior court early this afternoon. Presentation of evidence on both' sides was completed shortly after 10 o’clock this morning and argu ments of Solicitor John G. Carpen- ' ter and Defense Attorney Ernes' Warren were expected to be com pleted by noon. ■ RALEIGH, Sept. 11.—Convicted in Robeson county superior court yes terday of an attempted attack on a four year old white girl, Jim Wat son negro today began a fourteen td fifteen-year sentence In state's pris on here. Watson pleaded guilty. DAVIDSON, Sept. 11.—Registra tion for Davidson college fresbmen was completed here last night, with one of the largest classes in the hist ory oF'tfie college entering. Figu.es' on the number of new men enrolled were not complete, but the indica tions were that the new class would break records for the past several years. RALEIGH, Sept. 11.—George W. Coan, Jr., state WPA administrator* told the Raleigh Rotary club here yesterday that North Carolina was entitled to $50,000,000 from the works progress administration funds ‘‘If we get much less than that I’ll feel very much discouraged ano believe that North Carolina did not get T31I benefits from the Program,” Coan said. RALEIGH, Sept. 11.—To protect the interest of its creditors while a bond refunding plan is worked out, the town of Benson in Johnston county has filed a petition in Fed eral court here under the 1934 bank rujfffcy act. RALEIGH, Sept. 11.—Senator Bailey announced yesterday he had been informed by C. A. Cobb, di rector of the cotton division of AAa that North Carolina cotton growers received $57,118,927.11 in 1934-36, in cluding AAA payments, compared with $27,048,000 received in 1932-33. RALEIGH, Sept. 11.—An executive committee appoipted to select ma terials and designs has decided on native aluminum for the new histor ical markers to be erected on North' Carolina highways. The 1935 legisla ture appropriated $10,000 for the work during the biennium. MARS HILL, Sept. 11.—Four men today held up the branch here of the ClfTiens Bank of Marshall and es caped with an undetermined sum. A number of shotB were fired as the bandits sped out of the commun ity and first reports said a negro girl, who was walking along the street was wounded. HATTERAS,'Sept. 11.—The De' pendent, a freight boftt plying be tween Belhaven and Hatteras, burn ed off Hatteras Inlet Sunday morn ing while the crew of three were rescued by the Hatteras Inlet coast guard. ASHEVILLE, Sept. Jl.—William Dudley Pelley, founder of the Silver Shirts Legion, has announced his candidacy for president on a plat form of “For Christ and the Consti tution.” Pamphlets announcing the candi dacy were received here today and carried the caption: ‘‘At sign o? cross. I propose to serve my coun try as its next president. Announce ment you have been waiting for." —National News— NEW YORK, Sept. XI.—Ameri ca's textile industry, forever beset' by some economic terror, has ap parently turned into what analysts believe should be a period of stren. gth and expansion. More fhan two years ago the en tire industry struggled with un precedentedly high production sched ujes just before the advent of NRA codes, and in following months the trade suffered from the excess out put. ; About a year ago, strikes tied manufacturers into a tight knot, pro cessing taxes began to chafe, Jap ^pese Competition pinched more tightly on export markets, and prof its were something to boast about. But in the past few weeks, there has been a progressive change not ed in major branches o f the textile industry. NEW YORK. Sept. 11—Bullish fires leapt up In the stock exchange today with a heat reminiscent of pre-depression days. Several issued advanced $1 to $4 a share and the turnover approximated 2,400,00(1 shares, making it one of the big gest days of the year. BATON ROUGE, La.. Sept. 11 — Dynamic, fervid Huey P. Long, swept from the peak of power by an assassin's bullet, lay in death today* amid the monuments of his legthy political reign over Louisiana's af fairs. This stunned capitol city, scenet of his unprecedented rise to domina; tion in an American state, his mas terful legislative coups that made; him a dictator, his use of the militia, to force his will, turned out to pay homage at his bier and gave him a leader's burial. HYDE PARK, N. Y„ Sept. 11. — President Roosevelt went into the role of peacemaker and conciliator agafn today with Secretary Ickes, public works administrator, coming here for a showdown on the works relief program. HYDE PARK, N. Y„ Sept. 11. — President Roosevelt and Father Charles E. Conghlin, the priest, had a talk here yesterday, it was learned today. Just what the President and the Father talked about was not ascer/ talned today. /• It was discovered that Joseph B. Kennedy, the chairman of the Feder al securities and exchange commis-v sion telephoned to the home of Mri Roosevelt and requested an appoint-^ ment for Father Coughlin. This ap pointment was granted and Kennedy and the Father visited here. COLOMBIA, S. C„ Sept. 11—A voice from the clouds was expected to call out directions today for C. B. Coward, 67, of McBee, unseen in the dense Santee river swamp where he has been lost for five days, to find his way out. An airplane equipped with a loud speaker left here to fly over the ■ vast waste of cypress, underbrush, and water in search of the elderly railroad section foreman, who was last seen Friday morning. NEW YORK. Sept. 11.—An attrac tive young woman whom police said was a sympathizer of striking ship ping clerks had herself chained to a street pole at Broadway and 38th street today and addressed the large crowd that gathered while police hacked the padlocks away. MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 11.—As 200 men scoured the Florida keys today in search of the last of the storm dead, veterans’ groups pressed their claim that the tiny islands could have been evacuated in time to have pre vented the disaster. Their demands continued in the face of reports from three separate investigations that there was no negligence involved in the death of' ' more than 400 persons in the storm’ IwindB that swept over the keys on' the night of September 2. NEW PA8T0R Above is pictured Rev. L. Boyd Hamm, new pastor of St. Matthewr, Lutheran church. Mr. Hamm comes to Kings Mountain from Macon, Ga., where he took an active part in both the civic and religious ' life of the city. MEN’S CLUB MEET" AT EL BETHEL About 75 attended the supper at El Bethel Methodist church last Thursday evening, glfen for the Men’s Club and their wives and sweethearts. The attendance was very good and even though the rain kept some members away. As one member said that attended, "It Just made more food for us that came, by some staying away.’’ From all re ports the country ham was the best ever, and in the biggest quantities. It was announced that the next meeting and supper will be held at Patterson Grove Baptist church, Thursday, September 19th. RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL The six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Falls who underwent a n operation in a Charlotte hospital early last week, was brought home Tuesday and is recovering nicely. THE* GLORY ROAD” PLEASES LARGE AUDIENCE "The Glory Road", written by J. U Settlemyre, Jr., and directed by Miss Lucile Cansler, which was pre1 sented last Friday evening at the High School auditorium, was well rd ceived by the large audience. The ail-colored cast did some very4 good acting, especially Annie Ma3 Hiekmond, who played the part of Pauline, and Lola Cherry, who play ed the part of Mammy Johnson. * The chorus composed of about 30 voices from the choirs of the color* ed churches of Kings Mountain add ed the necessary background to the spiritual and religious play. The balcony of the auditorium was reserved for the colored people of Kings Mountain and a large crowd attended. MRS. H. W. GALLIMORE DIES Funeral services for Mrs. H. W. Galllmore, 64, prominent woman 'of the El Bethel community, were held at El Bethel church, Tuesday after noon at 2:30. Rev. J. N. Wise, the pastor, was in charge and was as sisted by Rev. C. J. Black of Besse mer City, pastor of Bethlehem Bap tist church. Mrs. Gallimore had been suffering with cancer for the past six months and during that time, was for a whlle a patient in the Shelby Hospi tal. She was carried to the City Hos pital, Gastonia last Sunday, where she passed away Monday morning. Mrs. GaTi'more was a member of Bethlehem Baptist church but at tended El Bethel church near her home and was greatly interested in the work of her own and her adopted church. She is survived by her husband, Hj. W. Gallimore, and two sons, Smith Gallimore and "¥8168 Gaslit more. She is also survived by three grandchildren. W. W. Cobb, Aged Citizen Is Buried Today KEETER’S ANNOUN CES PALL SELLING CAMPAIGN { In a double page ad in this issue of the Herald Keeler's Dept. Store announce their Fall Selling Cam paign. Mr. Byron Keeter has re cently returned from the northern markets, where he purchased the newest in fall merchandise for every member of the family. A Chevrolet Automobile will be .given away during this special sell event. Mr. Keeter invites everyone to visit their store and participate in the many values they have to offer. EAGLE STORE REMODELED The first of Eagle 5, 10 and 25c chain of stores was opened over 11 years ago. This chain is headed by Mrs. Rush Stroup of Shelby, presi dent. Mr. S. R. Wallace of Morgan ton, general manager. This store has been redecorated which includes repainting entire store, refinishing counters, windows and all fixtures. We have a full line of highest grade five, ten and twenty-five cent merchandise which is on display. Mr. B. T. Turner of Gastonia had charge of remodeling the store. Mr. J. R. Moore, local manager, ex tends an invitation to every one to visit tie remodeled store. ATTEND CONFERENCE Messrs W. A. RIdenhour, W. K. Mauney, Rev. L. Boyd Hamm and others of Kings Mountain will at tend the Southern Conference of the United Lutheran Synod of North Carolina at Daniels Lutheran church of Lincolnton, N. C., next Thursday, September 15. Mr. W. K. Itauncy is ou the pro gram for Thursday afternoon at 3:30 p. m. Mr. W. A. RIdenhour is treasurer of the Conference. Mr. W. W. Cobb, 78, one of Kings Mountain’s oldest and best-loved cit izens passed away at his home on izens passed away at his home on the Cherryville road in the northern limits of town, Wednesday morning following an illness extending over a period or several years. During the past two weeks his condition had grown steadily worse until the end come. Funeral services were held at the home with Rev. J. W. Williams, paa tor of Central Methodist cnurch, in charge and interment made in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Cobb was twice married. Sur viving are his widow, who before marriage was Miss Sue Sneed. Four sons by his first marriage survive as follows: Fred and Doris Cobb, of Greenville, S. C.; Lawrence and Clarence Cobb, twin sons, who live at the home of their father in Kings Mountain. He is also survived by one sister, Mrs. J. M. Hayes of this place. Since coming to Kings Mountain' many years ago Mr. Cobb has been a faithful member of Central Meth odist church, where he brought his children in their youth. After lit health prevented him from attending' he was Interested in the progress of his church and enjoyed the visits of his pastor and the laymen. Of a genial, friendly disposition, he numbered his friends by his ac quaintances. He bore his affliction with unusual patience and fortitude and near the end expressed his readiness and willingness to meef his Maker. ACCEPTS POSITION AT BELK’S ' Mrs. D. Goforth has accepted a rposition as saleslady at Belk's. Mrs Goforth is recognized as an author’ j ty on style designing and materia j selections, and Belk’s feels ver\ j fortunate in having secured her ser vices. I