Two Killed When Roadster Crashed into Car Parked By Side of Road, Aug. 9, 1926

Two Young Men Killed in Auto Accident Today

High Point, Aug. 9 (AP)—Two young men were killed and two others seriously injured this morning shortly after 12 o’clock on the highway leading from Asheboro to Franklinville, when the roadster in which they were riding crashed into an automobile parked by the side of the road, according to information received her this morning.

The dead are Joseph York, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Maness, both of Ramseur. The injured are Guy York, 19, and Everett Manness, brothers of the dead boys.

The two boys died at an Asheboro hospital early this morning where they were taken immediately after the accident by a party in a passing automobile.

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From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, August 9, 1926

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B. L. Jay, Real Estate Man, Dies in Car Accident, Aug. 9, 1926

Real Estate Man Killed by Auto. . . B.L. Jay, Formerly with Thomas L. Dixon’s Wildacres Development Co., Head of Shelby Office

B.L. Jay, prominent real estate man and well known in Shelby, met sudden death Wednesday afternoon in an automobile accident that occurred while he was traveling rom Augusta to Monticello, Ga. Mr. Jay was on his way to see his wife when the accident occurred, details of which have not as yet been received in Shelby.

Mr. Jay was for some time local sales agent for Wildacres Developments, belonging to Thomas Dixon, and in this capacity was a familiar figure to Shelby people. He had previously been connected with the Laurel Park Estates as manager of the Asheville office, and at the time of his death was with Thomas E. Thrower Inc., selling Folly Beach, at Charleston.

Mr. Jay was a member of a prominent New York family, being a nephew of Ambassador Jay, who represented the United States at the British court during the Cleveland administration. He had been a resident of the western North Carolina district for some time before his death. He married a southern girl, Miss Bessie Pope, of a prominent Georgia family, living in Monticello. They had no children.

The funeral took place at Monticello Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m.

From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, Aug. 9, 1926

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Opening Dates for Schools Will Range from Aug. 10 to Late October, Aug. 9, 1926

Schools Are Beginning to Open. . . 30 School Trucks. . . 13,660 Pupils in County Last Year. . . Dr. Highsmith Proposes Shake-Up in Courses of Study

School terms for 1926-27 will begin opening over the county Tuesday when the courses offered at Piedmont, Fallston, Lattimore and Mooresboro schools will get under way. Others will have their openings at later days, Waco the 16th of this month, Grover the 23rd, and others up until the latter part of October. While the exact date for the beginning of the Shelby City Schools has not as yet been decided, it will be some time about the middle of September.

The county schools, under the policy inaugurated during the past two or three years, will be more closely bound together than before by the consolidation of six schools at Belwood, to go into effect this term, and the combining of the Roberts and Elizabeth schools recently decided upon. Thirty trucks will take care of the pupils living at a distance from the schools which they attend.

The total enrollment this year is expected to exceed that of last year, which figured for the county exclusive of Shelby and Kings Mountain, 7,219 whites and 2,752 colored. This number is increased by the enrollment of 2,070 white and 425 colored pupils in Shelby and 971 whites with 230 colored at Kings Mountain. School facilities in the section have been increased to take care of the expected growing in enrollment. . . . .

From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, Aug. 9, 1926

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Bate Philbeck, 63, To Be Buried Aug. 10, 1926

Bate Philbeck Paralysis Victim. . . Substantial Farmer and Well Known Teacher Died This Morning. . . Funeral Tuesday

Mr. J. Bate Philbeck, prominent citizen of the county, died Monday morning about 12:25 at his home about four miles west of Shelby, as a result of a stroke of paralysis in his left side, which came on him suddenly Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. Mr. Philbeck’s health had been gradually failing for about two years, but his death came as a surprise to his family and host of friends. He never regained consciousness from the time of his affliction to the death hour.

Mr. Philbeck has 63 years old at the time of his death, having been born in the midst of the Civil War in the year 1863. He married Miss Susan Doggett and is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. Bynum E. Weathers, Joe and Chrles Philbeck, aged 13 and 10 years respectively. He leaves a valuable 200-acre farm surrounding his home, as well as other property over the county, being a very progressive farmer and substantial citizens.

Mr. Philbeck was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the oldest and best fraternities. Although his course was one of the hardest in the curriculum, he was an honor student, and upon his graduation around 1885 he took a position as teacher in a Texas school. Later he returned to North Carolina, where he taught many years in Gibsonville, Earl, Fallston, and in other schools over the state and county. Members of the school board during his career as instructor rated him as one of the best teachers in the county. His last position was at Earl a few years ago, immediately following Prof. Lawton Blanton, and afterwards he retired to pursue farming.

Mr. Philbeck’s family, both on his own and his wife’s side, is related to the most prominent in the county, and he leaves a host of friends and relatives to mourn his death. A brother, Irvin Philbeck, died early in the spring.

Funeral services will take place Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 at Beaver Dam Church. Rev. D. G. Washburn, assisted by Rev. Zeno Wall, will officiate.

From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, Aug. 9, 1926

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Mrs. Ed L. Kerr Dies in Plainview, Tex., Aug. 9, 1926

Mrs. Ed L. Kerr Dies in Plainview, Tex.

Mr. Henry Kerr and Miss Lill Kerr of Shelby have received information that their brother’s wife, Mrs. Ed L. Kerr died recently in Plainview, Texas. Husband of the deceased has quit ea few relatives and friends back in North Carolina who sympathize with him in his bereavement. Mr. Ed Kerr left his state in 1886 and has been a contractor in Texas. He was in North Carolina on a visit in 1910, the third trip he had made back home since he went West. Mrs. Kerr is survived by her husband and six or seven children.

From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, Aug. 9, 1926

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Albert Vance Weaver Brought Home for Burial, Aug. 9, 1926

Cleveland Boy Dies of Accident. . . Vance Weaver, Formely of Lawndale, Killed by Street Car in Indiana. . . Funeral Today

Albert Vance Weaver, former Cleveland County boy, was killed by a street car in Evansville, Ind., one day last week. Young Weaver, according to the meager reports reaching Shelby, was driving a truck in the Indiana city, where he had been located for about a year, when he was struck by the street car. It was not known whether or not death was instantaneous.

Mr. Weaver was the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Weaver, both deceased but formerly of the Lawndale section, and is prominently connected over the county. He is survived by one brother, Paul, and two sisters, Pearl and Mattie, all of whom are married. He also has an uncle living in Shelby, Mr. F.B. Weaver who is connected with the Shelby Corn Mill. The victim of the accident, boy of about 25 years, was himself unmarried, and had spent some time in the Navy, before going to Indiana.

His body will arrive in Shelby about 8 o’clock this afternoon, and interment will take place some time Tuesday at New Bethel Church.

From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, Aug. 9, 1926

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Dr. Richard H. Lewis Has Died in Raleigh, Aug. 9, 1926

Dr. Richard Lewis Dead in Raleigh

Raleigh, Aug. 7—Dr. Richard Henry Lewis, for many years secretary of the State Board of Health, and for the past several years a member of the Board of Health, died here at the age of 75. He had been ill over an extended period of time.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, August 9, 1926

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