POLKVILLE WOMEN ELECT MRS. GOLD Mrs. Rom Bridges Celebrates 80th Birthday ■ Special to The Star.) rOLKVILLE, Dec. 22.—The Polk vlj|f Woman's club met Tuesday ,/ternoon, Dec. 8. in the club room for a regular monthly meeting with Mrs h H. Gold, president, presid ing and Mrs. Plato Elliott render ing the devotitnal ptogram. Mi.ss Frances MA3regor gave a Tery interesting demonstration on the making of gifts for every mem j.»r of the family and how to deco rale the home and table for the Christmas holidays. Officers for the coming year were jjfcted as following, president. Mrs. H H. Gold: vice president, Mrs. J. A Kiser; seerr/ary, Mrs. V. A. Pow ell: treasurer, Mrs. Ben Jenkins. After the business session a social hour was enjoyed while Mrs. R. A. Johnson, Misses Elva Deitz, Marde fjs raker, Odessa Moss and Gwen doiyn Doggett served delicious re freshments of which the Christmas Idea was very • beautifully carried out A birthday party was given on Friday aiternoon. Dec. 18, at the home of C. M. Bridges in honor of Mrs Ross Bridges on her 80th birthday. and the honoree is still very active. She received many use ful gifts. Mi s Elva Deitz, home economics teacher of Polkvillc school was 111 for several- days last Week. Misses Eula Withrow, Hattie Gibb.' Hazel and Beulah Lee re turned home Friday from Asheville Teachers College to spend the Christmas holidays. Mrs. .Jonn Murray, wno n&s Dcen In the Shelby hospital for the past nock Is Improving. Polkville school will close Wednes day, Dec. 23 for Christmas holidays and will begin December 28. Horace Covington, Jr. student at Brevard College is spending the Christmas holidays with his par ents, Mr and Mrs. W. H. Coving Mrs. Fred Mintz returned from the Shelby hospital last week. A Christmas play will be given at Polkville church on Thursday night, Dee. 24 under the direction of Miss Lizzie Mae Lee, advisor of the young people's division. A Christ mas tree is also being prepared. Robert Crowder is confined to his ted with flu at this writing. In Alabama, giving a bad check In payment of an open account or an old debt is not a law violation. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Nnrth Carolina. Cleveland County. Hs inj; qualified as administrator of the m»i» of Henry Oantt. deceased, lata of Cleveland county, North Carolina. This to notify all persons having claims ijamat the estate of the said deceased, to cvhibit ihem to the undersigned at Lawn dale North Carolina, route 3. on or he re the 15th day of Decembec. 1937, or this notice will be pleaded In bar of their r-eovery All persons indebted to laid es ii” » II please make immediate payment f 'aid obligations. This he 15t day of December, 1939. IFE A. OANTT. Administrator of —Henry M. London, secretary of the State Bar association, said the barristers would hold their 1937 convention on shipboard, cruising either to Ber muda or Cuba. SALE or CAR Pursuant and by the power contained In a certain mechanics lain executed by Lee Morrison of route 3. Lawndale. N. C. dated October 34th, 1936. In the amoutit of $334.51 default havlns been made In the payment of tame, the underslfned wlU sell at public auction, for cash, at the court house door In Shelby. N. C. on Thursday. January 14th, 1937 at 10 a. m. or later, one Ford couple motor number 11-1493351. This December 14. 193S. 13t dee 15c ROGERS MOTORS. We Gin Cotton 6 Days A Week We pay market prices for your cotton seed. See us before you trade your seed. We have cotton seed meal and hulls at all times. Southern Cotton Oil Co. SHELBY, N. C. TALK TO PARENTS Foster!ng Fear By BROOKE PETERS CHURCH Scarcely a hospital where chil dren are patients which does not echo with the cries of youngsters on the way to the operating room. Often the operation is nothing more critical than a removal of adenoids or tonsils, but from the commotion which goes on it might be an am putation of an arm or leg. The emotional outburst is not only an annoyance and hindrance to nurses, surgeons and anesthet ists, but a drain on the child’s ner vous system. Who knows what vis ions of horror are preying on him. what fears of pain or death? It is not the child's fault. Left to himself, he faces an operation with the calmness born of ignorance. Unless his mind has been filled with gruesome tales, stories of the oper ating room, dread of doctors and hospitals, he walks in and takes his medicine like a stoic. It is generally the parents who are to blame when he cries and acts the part of a coward. Most fathers and mothers seem to feel that hypersensitiveness to a child’s pain expresses affection. They do not go so far as to cry or whimper, but they express emotion in long drawn farewells, much last-min ute hugging and kissing, adjura tions to be brave, and an attitude of heroic sacrifice. They are hurt ing the child, not helping him, in thus expressing their love, and the emotion is really a form of self satisfaction. They themselves like to be martyrs. It is, of course, equally wrong to promise a child that he will have no pain, or assure him that he is going to an ice cream party. The more calm and matter of fact parents are about the opera tion, the better. Tonsillectomies are all in the day's work, like colds and bad medicine. Kiss the child as if he were go ing for a walk and wave him into the operating room with a smile. Saint Paul Holiday Visitors ST. PAUL, Dec. 22 —John Lavery of New York, returned home Sun day to spend the holidays with his family. Dewey Craft, of Norfolk, Va.. will return home Thursday to spend Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. CraTt. Mr. and Mrs. Vance Dellinger and family, of Belmont, spent the day 8unday with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. L. Dellinger. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Harrelson and family of Kings Mountain were the guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs M. P. Harrelson. Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Snellings, Mrs. W. A. Canipe and Boyd Can ipe, were the Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Will Wehunt and family of Play. Mrs. Wehunt. who underwer a serious operation et the Unroln ton Hospital several weeks go. is still showing some tmprovemer' Miss Elisabeth Cra't, who I * student in Brevard O liege, return ed home Friday to spend Christmas with her parents. Mr. and Mrs ~ W. Craft. Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Self and son. and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dalton of Shelby, visited their mother and sister, Mrs. E. A. Dalton and Miss Essie Dalton Sunday. The latter has Just returned home from Hender son. Mr .and Mrs. A. E. Elliott and son, Jeff, spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lackey of Flay. W. C. Murray, Jr., spent Satur day night with a friend, Dan Har relson of Rock Cut section. Lem Hamrick and sons, Clifford. W. A. James and Olenn Hamrick visited Mr. and Mrs. Grady Smith Sunday. Julius McNeely n i a a I n I Inna v v a v v m ii w |# ^ a County At Age 69 Julius McNeely, age 89 years and eight months, died Dec. 17 in upper Cleveland after an Illness of only a few weeks. He had been a patient In the Shelby Hospital a few days before his passing. Funeral services were held at Corinth Baptist church near Casar. Mr. McNeely was a church leader and was largely responsible for the building of Corinth church. He was a good neighbor—a respected citi zen. a Christian gentleman. Mr. McNeely was married to Miss Eliza Hoyle, who survives with the following children, Marvin McNee ly of Lawndale, R-l; Austin of Chase City, Va.; Lero, and Alvin of Casar; Forest and Grady of Lawn dale, R-l; Miss Sallie McNeely. a! home, Mrs. Hickman Turner and Mrs John Reid McFarland of Mo riah section. There are also a num ber of grandchildren snd great grandchildren. One brother, Ambrose McNeely of Casar and one sister, Mrs. Dock Gantt, of Kings Mountain, also survive. NORBECK DEATH CAUSE OF STIR REDFIELD, S. D. Dec 22.—(>P)— The dr nth of United States Sena tor Peter Norbeck, who rose from pennileas well-driller to become the first native born governor and se nator of his state, intensified poli tical complications In South Dako ta today. Norbeck, who was 66 years old, died at his home here yesterday of a heart disease complicated by a cancerous condition of the tongue and jaw. Prominently mentioned as a pos i sible successor was Oov. Thomas Berry, Democrat, who will retire from office in two weeks Governor Berry, asked whether; he planned to resign from office and have himself appointed to fill Senator Norbeck's unexpected term, declined to comment. He did, how ever, arrange a conference with Herbert H. Hitchcock, Democratic j state chairman. Lt. Governor Robert Peterson,; Democrats, who would become gov- \ ernor if Berry resigned, was himself ready to resign today. He was ar rested Saturday on an embezzle ment charge and Federal Deposit j Insurance officials said there was a $170,000 shortage In the First Na- i tlonal bank of Centerville, of which he was president. His attorney said Peterson’s resignation would be handed to the state legislature at a special session today. Gov. Berry said he would name a successor to Peterson. Leslie Jensen, Republican, who defeated Berry in November, will take office as Governor on Jan. 5. Roosevelt Wants Little Change In White House Plan WASHINGTON. Dec, ».—(*•) - Aside from a new personal body guard. President Roosevelt’s second ; term will see little Immediate charge in the White House staff. Thomas E. Qualters, 32-ycar-old Massachusetts state trooper, suo ceeds the late Gus Genncrlch as Mr. Roa'-evelt's own attendant. In some pasts, veterans who have helped make the wheels go round since McKinley’s administration will be at their accustomed White House desks on January 30, inauguration day. Stephen T. Early and Marvin H. McIntyre will continue as presi dential secretaries at least during the next session of congress. Mc Intyre is In charge of appointments with the president, and Early to press contact man. There has been some talk about James Roosevelt, eldest son of the president, serving in a dual capacity as secretary and aide, as he did on the recent South American tour, but that still lacks confirmation. Col. Edmund H. Starling, will continue as chief of the presiden tial protective force, assisted by Russell Wood. | Colonel Edward M. Watson, the military aide with a perpetual smile, also will be found at the president's side on his future travels and at social functions, as will scholarly appearing Capt. Paul Bastedo, naval aide. 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