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JUST KIDS
Learning By Leaps And Bounds.
By AD CARTER
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A Smoke On The House!
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Sundown Stories
For The Kiddies!
Christmas Eve
By MARY GRAHAM BO.YN/R
Listen very carefully, ' will you
please?
Do you hear sounds, almost like
music, almost like sleigh-bells, al
most like the wind, almost like
some one skipping over the crisp
snow, almost like the runners of a
sleigh lightly skimming the snowy i
earth?
Santa Claus , is passing over the
world tonight!
Do you hear little chuckles of
glee, bounding hoofs, something
that sounds like tlfe laughter of!
reindeer even though you’ve never!
actually heard reindeer laugh?
Santa Claus Is passing over the 1
world tonight!
Do you feel there is something
glowing all around you. making you
so happy, so that little shivers of
joy go running up and down your
spine and you feel as though you
couldn’t wait for the morning?
Santa Claus is passing over the
world tonight!
You are tring |o he*ig up your
stockings now, and don’t you love
that absolutely certain feeling that
in a few more hours, you’ll find
them filled to overflowing?
Now you aye in bed and it al-,
most seems as thouah vou could-1
n't go to sleep. But soon a delicious
sleepiness comes over you and eyen'
as you sleep it seems that you can
hear creaking sounds through the
house you don’t hear on other
nights of the year.
■Santa Claus has reached the
place where you live!
The early morning light is com-1
tag through the windows. You are
going to get up now. 1
And you know — you absolutely
know—that SANTA HAS COME!
Just Ten Years
Ago
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(Taken From The Cleveland Star
Of Friday, December 24, 1926).
A county-wide campaign among
the farmers to diversify farming in
Cleveland county, will be launched
Tuesday, January 4, according to
announcements made by Alvin Har
din, farm demonstrator, and J. C.
Newton, secretary of the chamber
of commerce. Every farmer in
Cleveland county 1s invited to at
tend.
Attorney D. Z. Newton, former
state senator, is the new president
of the Cleveland County University
• club, named at a banquet of Caro
lina alumni and students held at
Cleveland Springs Wednesday even
ing.
Reports are that Zeb V. Turling
ton of Mooresville is being groomed i
for the next governor’s race. Tur
lington fathered the prohibition bill
that bears his name in this state.
Raleigh.—North Carolina during
the past year produced more tobac
co and peanuts than any other state
in the union, ranked second in the
production of soy beans and sor- j
ghum and third in the production
of sweet potatoes.
Holland Eskridge, better known to
his Shelby friends as "Bush” will on
the first of the year resign his posi
tion with the American Express com
pany to go with Liggett-Myers To
bacco company as salesman with
headquarters here.
coraiai interest here is the
wedding of Howard P. Hamrick, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Hamrick, to
Miss Louise Hammer of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, which was solemnized at
the home of the bride’s parents on
Wednesday evening at 7:30 in Tus
caloosa.
Oooose Judges A*
Political Reward
WINSTON-SALEM, Dec. 24.—{8) 1
—Judge Roy L. Deal, president of
the Forsyth county bar association,
said today that every bar associa
tion in the state would be asked to
opopse appointments to the bench
“by reason of party or political
service.” ,
The Forsyth bar Saturday adopt
ed a resolution embodying that sen
timent.
The resolution said that controll
ing consideration should be given
to th% judicial qualiilactions of ap
pointees in appointments to the
Supreme court or Superior courts.
Snttle’s Drug Store offers
FREE Sample of new High
Blood Pressure treament
Every High Blood Pressure Suf
ferer in Shelby' 1: urged to go to
Buttle s Drug Store and receive a
free sample of ALLIMIN Essence of
Garlic Parsley tablets for High
Blood Pressure as well as a valu
able booklet. These tablets are
made by a prominent Chicago con
cern and according to most reliable
reports ar being used with good re
sults by thousands <ft suflerm. A
special new process by which AL-'
T.TMTM tablets are produced makes
them both t" tales and odorless. A
two weeks’ treatment costs only
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Hollywood
Sight* And Sound*
By ROBIN COONs
HOLLYWOOD'. - Along ^
cai grapevine one hear, tha, „ *
Stewart, the pride of Inm ^
is not so greatly appreciated on
his home studio lot as h. mi ”
be, considering the e.^5 n T
pression he has made in the v
ous roles assigned to him
This may be because that 1™
the studio domicile of che ve
outstanding comet, Rober twu,*
in whose glittering wake less 'Z
"*****'- -5
Whatever the cause,
now is in a fair way to remJJ
this. He Is on loan to plav the ret
of Chico in "Seventh !icaVw.
oposite Simone Simon And movie
history has only to repeat itself J
well-behaved history should to m*
Stewart to the tcp-lf Bon, to
Dance’’ does not turn that trick re
him in advance.
Skyrocketed Janet Gaynor
Ten years ago this picture in gj.
lent form took two pracnraiiy ^
known young people, Janet Gavno:
and Charlie Farrell, and made them
the screen’s foremost romantic
team for the next six years a1
least.
TiYanlr YtarVQCPA .
The other day Henry King put the
talkie version in work in cramped
quarters: a mouldy, damp crawl?
set representing an underground
sewer in Paris.
Here the Sewer Rat 'John Qua
len) and Chico, son of the street*,
are Introduced to the camera,. Be
tween takes, they sun themselves
outside the enclosed set. and com
pare notes on costumes and make
up. And a fine pair they are ragged
and begrimed, Qualen especially
with his red nose and pink-grained
eyelids.
“It isn’t how long it takes to
put it on,” says Stewr#t “hut how
long to get clean again. 1 fee!
scrimy—apologetic when I go to the
dining room. My dirt rubs off on
the tablecloths.”
“I don’t go to the dtmng room '
says Qualen. “I live close enough
to go home for lunch—and I eat in
the backyard.”
Their clothes, sanitarily new,
have been run through the studio
dirt mill. Wrinkled and tattered, the
garments are sprayed with Puller';
earth, grease paint, and discoloring
acids. Stewart and Qualen will fee!
"scrimy” for several weeks.
Tops In Squalid Sets
Squalor more dismal is rampant
on another outdoor set, at the mo
ment, where Mark Twain’s "Thf
Prince and the Pauper” is to work
Water stands in the eobble-stonet
streets of London’s 16th century
slums, and the ill-shod poor, gaum
and lean, pursue their separatt
miseries in garments that are n<
more than shredded rags. The ex
tras are masterly types of malnu
trition and starvation, although it
reality probably -well fed But that
may be another story. . . .
Two Truckloads Of
Presents For Duke
ENZESFELD, Austria, Dec. 24. -
(sp)—Two truckloads of Christina
mail have arrived for Edward, Dukf
of Windsor, although he was rep
resented as wishing only that th<
world forget him.
So great was the interest of En
zesfelders in the mail and so deviou
their efforts to get the stamps, the.
it was announced the envelopes woul!
be destroyed immediately after the:
were opened in the castle of thf
Baron and Baroness de Rothschilf
where Edward was a guest.
Enzesfeld is doing the best it rar
to give Edward a bit of Christo®
cneer. a Dig tree wa-s piateu
town hall and school children madj
little gifts to give to Edward should
he attend the community Yul*
party.
The duke’s skiis were waxed toda'j
Snow was visible on the hillside*
few miles off.
Up In the Morning
Feeling Fine!
The refreshing relief so many MB I
say they get by taking Black* I
Draught for constipation make*I
them enthusiastic about this fsmorn. pW I
ljr vegetable laxative. __, I
Black-Draught puts the <U?estive I
la better condition/to set regularly. I
without your contlnuaU.v having »l
:• medicine to move the bowl*.
Meat time, he sure to try
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