Cleveland Grand Jury Indicts Two Bankers
Shelby July 28 J J Lattimore former secretary or cashier of the Cleveland Bank and Trust company under $10 000 bond and L McCord former cashier of the Bank of Mooresboro under $5 000 bond face embezzlement and false entry charges. True bills allege about 25000 shortage tied to the Cleveland bank and drafts involving Mooresboro and Boiling Springs. Case details and bonds set. arrests voluntary. next court term to hear the indictments.
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Lattimore
Cleveland
Union ‘Trust Company
Cleveland Bank and Trust Company
Union Trust Company
McCardwell
Bank of Mooresboro
Mooresboro
Star
Webb
Cleveland Star
Covington Gurley announce Rutherford county wedding
Mr. and Mrs. C B Gurley of Bostic announce the marriage of their daughter Lillian Lucretia to Ross B Covington son of Mr and Mrs T S Covington of Tarrytown New York The announcement came as a surprise to many friends of the contracting parties The bride is a talented young lady and is well known in Rutherford county.
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Bostic
C. B. Gurley
Lillian Lucretia
Ross B. Covington
T. 8. Covington
Tarrytown
N. Y
Rutherford County
North Carolina population reaches 3,165,146 in 1930
North Carolina’s 1930 population stood at 3,165,146 per census tabulation by the Associated Press. The state added 606,023 residents since 1920, a 28.08 percent rise. Final counts align closely with state papers, with 10 of 12 districts completed and estimates for the others.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
A. P
Griffin Reunion Set for August 10 at Griffin Homestead
A reunion of William L. Griffin descendants will be held Sunday, August 10, at the old Griffin homestead at the head of Floyds Creek in Cool Springs Township. The all day event invites attendees to bring Joncheon to be shared at noon in picnic fashion. Those able should come Saturday afternoon, August 9, to help clear the family cemetery. William L. Griffin, born 1797 and died 1886, son of Chishlend Frances Terrell Griffin, served as Rutherford County register of deeds for nearly twenty years before the Civil War.
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William L. Griffin
Chiseln Lend Frances Terrell Griffin
Rutherford County
James Lovelace Disappearance Shocks Ellenboro
In Ellenboro on July 28, a 21 year old man named James Lovelace from the Walls area vanished after saying he would trade cows and not returning. The family and relatives are baffled by the abrupt disappearance noted as unexplained with no evident cause. Lovelace is the son of Crate Lovelace and Mrs. Crate Lovelace, married with two children whom his wife is caring for with her parents near Ellenboro.
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Ellenboro
James Lovelace
Mr. Lovelace
Walls
Crate Lovelace
Leo Melton
Thief with Conscience Returns Car to Owner
Ellenboro July 28 William Pike admitted stealing a Ford and a gun from Arthur Turner after claiming bad luck. He fled in August 1920 but surrendered Saturday, saying his conscience would not rest.
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Ellenboro
William Pike
Arthur Turner
Cleveland Star Wins Savory Cup for Best North Carolina Weekly
The Cleveland Star of Shelby won the Savory Cup as North Carolina’s best weekly, judged on news, editorials, make-up, and appearance. The award was presented at the North Carolina Press Association meeting in Blowing Rock, with Star editor Leena Weathers in attendance.
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Blowing Rock
Cleveland Star
Shelby Tri-Weekly
North Carolina
Walter H. Savory
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
North Carolina Press Association
Leena Weathers
Star
Shelby Youth Drowns in Lake
Eight year old Eugene Eskridge, son of Mr and Mrs Charles L Eskridge, drowned Saturday afternoon at a private lake in Shelby. Funeral services were held Monday at 10 AM from the parents home led by Rev Zeno Wall of the First Baptist church. The boy and his cousin Elva Ann Thompson were playing by the lake when a sudden collapse caused him to fall in before help could reach him. His father, a local automobile dealer, was away in Hot SpringsArkansas for his health and returned Sunday evening.
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Shelby
Eugene Eskridge
Charles L. Eskridge
Zeno Wall
First Baptist Church
Elva Ann Thompson
Hot Springs
Ark
Pasture Shortage Prompts Early Grain Feeding for Dairies
A July 16 USDA feed report shows pastures east of the Rockies at 74.6 percent of normal, well below the 10 year average of 82.6. The dry hot week means dairymen must shift to grain rations earlier, possibly boosting winter-like feeding now. The recommended dairy cow diet includes 200 pounds ground oats, 100 pounds corn gluten feed, 200 pounds wheat bran, 100 pounds linseed meal, plus legume hay and silage.
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Rocky Mountains
United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Ferry News Highlights Local Visits and Birth
The Ferry column notes visitors from Gaffney and Duncan and Chesnee relations around H G Wall and J L Hames. Lucile Sherlin heads to Burlington for work, with Keeter Sherlin and others accompanying. a ten pound boy is born to W P Alexander. Kennedy family attend Macedonia church’s singing, while R C Kennedy visits Charlotte. A historical line remarks on machine gun menace versus Boy Scouts.
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J. L. Hames
Carl Spake
Chesness
S. C
Ernest Ingle
Gastonia
Reuben Tate
W. P. Alexder
Messrs
Clyde
Robert Gordon Kennedy
Macedonia Church
Gaffney
R. C. Kennedy
Charlotte
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Y. L. McCardwell
J. J. Lattimore
Covington-Gurley
James T. Padgett
Padgett and
King Undertakers
Forest City
N. C
U. S
Fletcher Auto Service
Care Broadway
Broadway and
Gray Sts
Forest City, N. C
Griffin
Germany
Big Assortment Turnip Seed
Farmers HardWare Co
G.C. Burns
Buna
Texas
Thedford
Vou
Uso
Ferry News
Taylor Alexander
Duncan, S. C
W. P. Alexander
Jack Alexander
Miles
Industrial Loangi Investment Bank
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