Lighting Plant For
Grover Is Purchaser!
an .'s Fnra.j:,
i imer bor iowfn. Social And
Personal Mention.
Racial to the Star. "--‘
Grover, Jan. 2.—Here’s wishing a
happy New Year to everybody!
Miss Odessa Moss returned Tues
day to school at Mountain View col
lege.
Among the soeiafs of the younger
set during the holidays was a social
party given hy Miss Hassftl Career at
■ the home of her sinter Mrs. E.D. Moss
in. Grover la t Saturday evening, and
a New Year's party at’ the home of
Miss Ruth Anthony Monday night.
Those who attended‘these social re
port a fine time.
Mrs. W. B. Turner has been con
fined to her home for several days
by sickness.
Mr. and Mrs. W. .1. Moss spent
Monday in Charlotte.
The merchants of Grover have'
bsor> tnkjjf; stock .since Christmas,
but it her. reused very little incon
venience l$"the »-.bKc since \i ere
time S>'N.
Alu c. r Hun j t.as bough., a .nr r
er generator for bis lighting and
power plant anti 5 going to furnish
pow- r to' the town when lie lias it' In
stolled which we under: .t and v.j)l tie
only a few days. Several of the basi
n’ ,k house;! have already been wired
and the .setting of poles and ramie ;
lines is'gntng rera rntJMtyw- possb
ble. W'e under ;tan<l that Mr. llarry
also ■plan I to furnish .the people .of
the town with witter from n <lr 'j> w II
at lb duitaurk mill.
Mr. I). J. K.eler war, kept in it few
days last week by- sickness but we
arc glad to learn that be is f.hle to
he out again.
The town official : did some mini#
needed work on the streets in the bus
sine-! part of.town at the beginning
of (ho holiday.
Mi:-s M. N. Livingston attended th
funeral of Mr.. I>. J. Hunt .at Glen
wood last Sunday. Mrs. Hunt who
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CHARLESTON DIVISION
No. 113 Marion to Rock Hill
No. 30 Rock Hill to Marion
No. 35 Marion to Rock Kill
No. 114 Rock Hill to Marion
7:10 a. m.
0:57 a. m.
0:36 p. rn.
8:08 p. rn.
No. 35 maUfcs. connection at Blacksburg with No. 38 for
north.
L. E. LIGON, Agent,
SHELBY,.N. C.
SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY COMPANY
Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains at
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and Wilmington
Wiltnington-Iialeigh
and Ruthcrfordton
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Schedules published as information and are not
guaranteed.
E. W. LONG, D. P. A., Charlotte, N. C.
.or G. SMART, Local Ticket Agent
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[died at Glenwood on Saturday afterj
| an Hines.-. of only a few days was the j
i sier-nioT': t of Miss Mary Sue Hunt
' •• iu Graver with |
'! !,:v gston. Miss Hunt
. V.no has neon ui delicate heath for
i several, months was not aide to a'i
[ tend the funeral. Rev. Mr. Hunt and
j his family have the sympathy of their
1 many fri ads in Grover in this hr
: tvaxencnl.
Little,J. H. Ellis jr.. was able to
| return fr an 1he hospital at Spartan
burg, S. Ci; today, lie 1 s report S3 to
h' doi •' well after an operation for
hernia.
! t’evral young people from Grover
enjoyed a dinner party at the homo
(/'.Mr. 1’. C. Lavender on Thar.-.day
I of last week at six o’clock. They were
the guest; ul Mr. Lavender'. pra i!
ilnughf.er .Mi;" ! ■ rie Gordo:.;, Awong
.1 ;e attending v." re Mr. and Mrs. 11. ;
Keefer, Mj : :es Ruth Anthony, Te
l:., h ?’eklc/oM ami Aline Mullinnx and
Messrs Avery Hardin, Marvin Ham
riel; and porritts Moss.
Grover hiph school will begin its
, - oik! term on Thursday January
Hr. mid Mrs. George Oates spent
Tuesday afternoon in RuthiufordFon.
We n vli.d to learn that Mr , C.
' C. Wai’as who has bectj, confined to
her home for nvora! months hy sit k-1
ness is improving.
Mr. J. A. Reblnson and family
moved Tuesday to Cbnriolte, where
they will make their future home.
Mrs. Ki&fb'U White has fought the
hour near the Baptist church, which
wx. owned hy Mrs. Conic Johnson,
and will make her home there as soon
a ■ it if vacated.
Mr. W. P. Turner > having a nice
little four rpom bungalow built on his,
lot ju t acros ■. the street f ym the
home of Mr. W. J. Moss. He hopes to
have it neatly for' oeeupanay hy the
lest of the month.
* Messrs. T. H. and II. S. Keeler spent!
Monday in' Charlotte on business.
Mrs. W. A. Moc spent part of the
Christmas holidays visiting relatives
■nr rr Kings Mountain.
Mis Mary IW-len Keefer returned
Tuesday to school at Boding Springs.
We arc sorry to renort that Miss
Mir /• Deal has been confined to her
hi me for several days by sickness.
Wo are pleaded to .learn that Mr.
; Hoyle Allen who had bis log broken
several weeks ago when he fell from
a iruck V improving nicely.
Master Curtis Nance, a boy about
12 years of age who lives between
Grover and Kings Mountain battle
ground, suffered the breaking of an
arm la.-t Sunday morning while at
tempting to crank a car. We are glad
to know that he is getting on well.
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NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS TO
ALL
During the coming year resolve
I that you" auto electrical troubles
shall be turned over to us. We
are auto electricians par excel
lence and ca nlocate and repair
[electrical trouble in short order.
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COMPANY
Automotive 'Building.
Wants Better Library
Facilities In Shelby
Importance of an Adequate Public
Library it: Detailed by High
School Teacher.
To The Editor:
The leisure moments provided bv
the holiday season have given the
writer opportunity for a rattier be
lated. appeal in behalf of one -ofthe
■‘>vn. moat valuable assets, the pub
lic library.
.-'onetime ago there was some hes
itancy on the part of the board of al
dermen as to whether it should con
tinue the appropriation for the main
tenance of the public library. This
1 e. iiancy, it is supposed, due to
uncertainty as to the number of indi
viduals who read the books obtained
at the library. Fortunately the boar !
.decided to continue the appropriation.
Ator* ;•<• i lly a Kiwanian at a regu
lar Kiwanis meeting expressed i
hone that during the corning year-the
Kiwanis club will take steps to make
eo" ■•dcrahtc improvements in the li
brary facilities of the town.
A a high school teacher tire writer
rea.lir.es the vast importance of the
out ! library. Ministers arq constant
ly reminding us that care should be
taken in the selection of reading ma
t< rial foe our young people; educa
tor tell us that no ones -education is
complete until he has read largely
and widely, teachers observe that
pupils interested in books—not mere
ly text books—arc almost invariably
most efficient in class work. Then,
too, there are in history numerous in
‘where individuals .deprived
of school opportunities, have acquir
ed a liberal education through exten
sive* reading.
Mo experl calculator is needed to
conclude that the average child’s
parents cannot afford to buy all the
standard books the child should read;
‘he cost is to proiiibitive. So in the
majority of instances there is ojily
one alternative; either the child must
be denied the privilege of reading? or
the town must procide the reading
matter. In the writers estimation the
town's duty is clear; it should pro
vide the books.
It will be readily admitted that at
Frequent
Headaches
*‘I suffered with chronic
constipation that would bring on
very severe headaches,” ays
Mrs. Stephen H. Kincer, of
R. F. D. 1, Cripple Creek, Va.
**+tried different medicines and
did not get relief. The head
aches becamtfvery frequent I
heard of
Thedford’s
BUCK-DRAUGHT
and took it for a headache, and
tiie relief was very quick, and
it was so long before I had
another headache. Now I just
keep the Black-Draught, and
don’t let myself get in that
condition.”
Thedford’s Black-Draught
(purely vegetable) has been
found to relieve constipation,
and by stimulating the action of
the liver, when ihstorpid, helps
to drive many poisons out of
your system. Biliousness,
indigestion, headache, and
similar Roubles are oiten
relieved in this way. It is the
natural way. Be natural! Try
Black-Draught. ,
Sold everywhere.
EXECUTRIX’S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that I have
; tjiialififxt as executrix of the will of
L T. Jolley, deceased, late of Cleve
land county, N. C., and all persons in
debted to said estate will make im
mediate payment to the undersigned
and ail persons having claims against
:,'id estate will present them to me
properly proven for payment on or
before December 14t,h, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their recov
This December 14th, 1923.
K. GALENA JOLLEY, Executrix
of the will of ,T. T. Jolley, dec’d.
Ryburn & Hcey, Attys.
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Whichv assures an annual return
of not less than 7 per cent.
which pays an additional 2 per
cent annually when net earnings
on the total capital amount to 9
per cent in a corporation under
the direct management of a
[group from among the most suc
cessful executives in the Pied
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Secured by one cf the most mod
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mills in the south manufactur
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For l ull Particulars Wrrite
(Bond Department)
AMERICAN TRUST COMPANY
Charlotte, N. C.
Frank B. Green, Manager.
cry.
and
present the library facilities at Shel-1'
by are inadequate. In the first place;
the majority of books are of one
type, the recent novel. Many of these
books have been donated by persons
interested in the library. This ac
counts for" the fact that the books
arc moatlv of one type. Now there is
no objection to the recent novel; ev
ery library shuld have a collection
of the latest fiction.
But every library should also be
provided with a large number of
standard books, books that have
stood the test of time and are still
considered excellent. Our library
needs more books on travel and bio
grapny and of course it needs more
of the so-called standard fictioa.
The second great need of improve
ment is that the library be open more
frequently. At present it is only open
two hours on Tuesday and Saturday
afternoons. The librarian makes
good use of what facilities the library
affords. She has been kind enough to
lend quite a few books to the high
school classes when the high school
library v/ap unable to supply the de
mands for books. Her pay is almost
negligible except for the gratifica
tion she feels for being of service to
the patrons.
The short-comings of the public li
brary have not been set forth in the
nature of a complaint but with the
hope that some steps may be taken
to remove them. The librarian cannot
make the improvement; the board ot
■aldermen .should not be expected to
do all. But these working together
with the various clubs and with the
public-spirited men and women of the
town can provide a library which will
meet all the requirements of a good
public library. The writer hopes that
the new year will bring just such a
library.
A High School Teacher.
Billy Sunday Flays
The Church Of Today
Lam basis The High Brows And The
Perfumed, Jewelled And Un
dressed (Jirls.
“Pray for Old Time Revival,” was
Billy Sunday’s theme at his six week’s
revival in Charlotte this week. He
said, “The churches need a baptism of
the old time religion. There are two
ruts in every church, the ruts and the
anti-ruts. Somebody is scared to death
that somebody will do something out
of the ordinary that will keep a sin
jier out of hell. Some of them would
rather see him go to hell than that
things should be done not decently
and in order. The church is assaulted
by isms and chisms, and there is not
enough religion in them to float their
dirty fallacies.
“I want to say now at the kick-off
that I believe the Bible is the word of
God from cover to cover, so you high
brow mutt preachers know where 1
stand. You can have a revival now if
you will do what God tells you if your
men arc staggering and reeling down
your-street,s if girls are selling their
womanhood, girls hanging round cab
arets, hotels and restaurants, over
perfumed, over jewelled, over fed, and
undressed its your fault. Why a^,nvan
couldn’t look at one of them with
prayer meeting thoughts very long, I
wonder there are as many fellows
keep their decency and their morals as
they do with what is flaunted in their
'faces today. If tho church is degener
ating into a third rate amusement
bureau and reducing religion to form
and ceremony, the trouble isn’t with
God. I plead for an old pentecostal re
vival that will make drunkards sober;
will have thieves honest; will make
men who are keeping somebody on the
side and disgracing their wives and
•children go home and be decent and
which will transform the old God for
saken Whiskey soaked Sabbath
breaking Lord damning harlot ridden
old world into a paradise of peace and
beendiction and blessing.”
The afternoon subject was: “The
Pharisee, and the Publican.” Special
I points were:
iou can’t thank Ood with one
breath and turn around and assassi
nate your neighbor with the next.
“A lot of people go to church and
do no more than gratify their vanity,
to show off their hats and their
clothes, they don’t go to hear any
thing to make them decent, ami if
they did they would not be any dif-»
ferent from what they are so they
join the church with no higher mo
tive than a yegg cracks a safe.
“Every church that I have ever had
anything to do with or have known
about is cursed with a few men and
women who want to run the whole
works, a little bunch of pharisees.”
“It doesn’t do any good to make
war on a skunk with cologne water.”
“And if I find a man that’s drunk
it’s none of my husiness whether it
was hereditary, whether it was the re
sult of his environment, whether it
was the result of his being a fool; it’s
my business to help make him sober.
“Gratitude to God is never coupled
with defamation of His creatures.
“You’ve got Persian rugs and the
candelabra of wealth on your floor of
' your home but your church is good
with a 35 cent ingrain.”
A Card of Thanks.
We wish to express our anm-o^is
tion for the sympathy add kindness
shown us by our friends during our
bereavement of Depember 28th in the
loss of our 10-year-old daughter.
Geo. M. Moss and Family,
Waco, N. C.
Dr. Thorek, of Chicago, has a new
cure for bone trouble. It could be
tried on political heads .
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your earnings when you took out that policy, then ask
yourself if yfltL have properly-provided for the protection
of your family.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company will gladly
recommend the policy that will best fit your present re
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Shelby, N. C.
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Keep your system
in fighting trim /
Y°UR liver, kidneys, and other organs are
engaged -in a constant battle against infec
tion and body poisons. When they are sluggish
these poisons “back up” and collect in the
blood. Headaches, backaches, constipation,
dizziness, biliousness, foul breath, and cpated
tongue are the danger signs. Don’t neglect
them. Drive out the poisons, r v# **
Help the fighting f/iC id/HOUS
the kidneys, liver, bowels and
pores of the skin. Keep them
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