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TEXACO
Clean, Clear, Full
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USE
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Crystalite
Kerosene
When it comes to
Clothing, Shoes,
Hats and Furnish
ings for men
EVANS E
McBRAYER
Leads ’Em All
EVANS E.
McBRAYER
r or your new
Spring Suit, Hat
and Shoes.
He will sell you
your outfit for less
m
EVANS E.
McBRAYER
For Shirts, Ties,
Garters, Belts,
Gloves, Suspend
ers, Socks and
Underwear. H e
carries the best
stock and sells for
less.
EVANS E. ‘
McBRAYER
Says look all over
the city, then look
here and it will be
no trouble to de
ll cide where to buy
your suit of cloth
es, hat and shoes.
EVANS E.
McBRAYER
Is going to Sell
$100,000.00
Cash During 1924.
Watch Him do it.
Quality and Low
Price? Is His
Motto.
THE ONLY
Up-to-date
Exclusive, Head
to-Foot Men’s
store in the city is
owned by
EVANS E.
McBRAYER
The Famous
Clothing Man.
This Fine Closed Car
The Coach $975
Touring Mode* *850 Tax and Freight Extra
A 30 minute ride will win you to the
new Essex
And you will join the legions who know
this new Six, that is built by Hudson, in
saying it prov.Jes ideal transportation.
It continues the well known l>.,ex quali
fies of economy and reliability. It adds a
smoothness of performance which here
tofore was exclusively Hudson's. Both
carsarealike in all details that count forking
satisfactory service at small operating cost.
Steering is like guiding a bicycle. Gear*
shift easily. Care of the car calls forlittlo
more than keeping it lubricated. For the
most part that is done with an oil can.
Fuel economy is impressive. Oil con
nimption is unusually low and tire mile
age surprisingly high.
The New Lssex is backed by a service
policy that keeps maintenance down to
the minimum.
I
A Six— Euilt by Hudson
~ \
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Hi;'
HOEY MOTOR CO-h
Negro Trie* Suicide
When Near Capture
| William Montgomery, a negro driv
ing a large Packard car bearing a
New York tag, gave Chief of Police
Gallimore and Motorcycle Cop Smith
of Salisbury the chase of their lives
Monday morning and when he saw
he was about to be taken threw him
self in front of a passing car evident
ly with suicidal intent. The negro
drove off from a filling station north
of the Yadkin river without paying
for gas and when Salisbury officers
were advised by* telephone and at
tempted to flag the car the driver
stepped or.the gas and went through
the business section of the city at a
rapid rate. Officers Gallimore and
Smith mounted a motorcycle and {.he
race was on. Several miles north of
Concord the negro had his way
i blocked by an unfinished rnilroad
, underpass and deserted his car. Be
| fore the officers could overtake him
j as he ran he threw himself in front
; of a Studebaker, driven by T. H. Col
lins, of Charlotte, and received injur
ies that aparently rendered him un
conscious. He was taken to Salisbury
and his car is being held. While it
bore a New York tag there was a
North Carolina tag in the car and it
developed that the car was stolen in
Durham.
Victor Robert Barnett
Is Buried At Bessemer
fp"r»al to The Star.
Victor Knl'ert Barnett was born
March 4th, 1880 and died January 24,
1924. He was married to Miss Bessie
Weaver on September 17th, 1904. He
is survived by four brothers and six
sister besides his wife and three
Children, Virgil. Alma and Vida.
H«* united with the Zoar Baptist
church about 20 years ago moving his
membership to Bessemer City some
years am. Hex W. W. Williams con
ducted l.'s funm-a! and his body was
laid to rest in the Bessemer City cem
etery.
He bore his sickness with marvel
ous patience and pn-ed awav with im
plicit faith in his Savior. Our hearts
grt. out to the loved ones in this hour
of trouble.
(Continued From Page One.)
his church knows. Bishop Freeman
concluded the service, repeating vers
es from Tennyson’s “Crossing of the
Bar’’ with its message of resignation
and faith in God’s goodness. Then the
casket sank slowly into the stone
work and from outside, beyond the
double walls and Where the gray end
of a gray day was doming swiftly, the
bugle rang out in “taps”, the soldier
farewell to a fallen comrade. There
were only a few remaining about the
DO YOU KNOW?
! n
How many Tribes composed
the Children of Israel?
Why they were detained
forty years in the wilderness?
Has anyone fn Shelby been
i detained in the wilderness ?
These, and other interest
ing questions will be discussed
by the teacher of the Men’s
Bible Class at the First Bap
tist Church Sunday morning
at 10 o’clock.
If you were one of the 106
present last Sunday you will
want to come a^id bring a
friend. If you were absent,
come and help to make your
class 150 strong.
STILL SELLING
THE BEST
SOCKS •
In the city at 15c,
25c, 50c and 75c a
pair.
- EVANS E.
McBRAYER
chapel entrance as the last, clear mes
sage was sounded. They stood bare
headed and the soldier and marine
guards at salute until the last note
died.
Widow Returns Home.
Rehind thc-m in the chaoel, Mrs.
Wilson was sobbing as she turned
from the vault withthe members of
the family to go back to the vacant,'
still house on “S” street, where the
great chair stood vacant beside the
fireplace and the books waited for the
friend to come no more. She took
heart a little to greet the handful of
close friends who had waited without
to offer her comfort in her sadness,
but it was a grief-bowed woman who
went back down the long hill into the
city.
And at the vault still stood the
friend and physician who had been
with Woodrow Wilson through the
years of greatness and world-wide
acclaim and the yeftrs of pain endur
ed w;*h stoic fortitude that followed:
the friend who had pledged his word
to another woman in the White House
vears before, ere she came to her
death, that he would watch over his
ch’pf to the end.
Not until the great stone had sunk
again into its place did this friend
turn awav his pledge redeemed to the
uttermost.
If fo’ks took as much interest in
politics in this country as they do in
how to make the second payment, we
would have a real election.
An automobile went through lake
ice and six were drowned. More evi
dence that drivers ought to have men
tal tests before being issued licenses.
By Rev. B. Wilson.
Some time ago, in the “ready-to
wear department” of Gilmer’s .de
partment store, Shelby, there occur
red a very strnnge and unusual inci
dent. It was like this: One of the
sales ladies observed the store cat
intensely interested in something be
hind a box, whereupon she called for
help and a gallant young man from
another department of the^store,
quickly responded tothc call. As the
„ oung man removed the box from it'
wall, the salesladies of that depart
ment, took refuge on chairs and dis
play tables, while Madame Tabby
groome hersalf for an excit
ing chase across the flo<y. But lo, and
behold an aged rat and unbelievable
dimensions and less believable nerve,
came out, reared up on his haunches,
brandished his front pawst screamed
'ike an Indian warrior going to bat
tle and presented himself for a fight.
Madame Tabby, not being accus
tomed to rats of such nerve and au
dacity, hesitated as if she were about
fo give up the fight and retreat from
'he field of battle in defeat. Thinking
that Madame Tabby was sufficiently
bluffed, Mr. Fighting Rat began a
slow but sure retreat.' still walking on
his haunches, brandishing his front
paws and screaming defiance in the
face of the faithful Cat whose nerve
had never failed her before. Ills lord
ship, evidently thinking that he had
retreated by degrees to a position
from which, he could make a success
ful get-away, undertook to take re
fuge in flight. But this was Madame
Tabby’s opportunity, and seizing it,
she pounced upon the venerable back
of her retreating foe and the fight
was over.
This is a true story and can be ver -
fied by any who work in that depart
ment of Gilmer’s store.
But who ever heard of a fighting
rat? And how could he possess such
i vast amount of nerve? Had this oc
curred in a back alley in other days,
^r some other town or place, we woul l
ha"e concluded that this fighting rat
had obtained something to bolster up
his nerves. We have heard of a nenm
Atrengthening fluid that would “make
i jack rabbit stand on his hind legv
•>nd spit in a bull dog’s face,” but in
the dry town of Shelby, in the days of
prohibition, and in an up-to-date de
nartment store, we are forced to the
conclusion that this ancient and ven
erable rodent was standing on his own
man, without any artificial means to
holster up his nerves.
The girl who leaped on* of the win
low of a hotel the other day ^took
eap year at its word.
Success awaits the automobile
manufacturer who can build a car
hat will last until it’s paid for.
American cities are reported to be
living beyond their incomes. In that
they have nothing on the most of us.
Mary Garden has had the same
maid for fourteen years. So all of
his talk about artistic temperament
must be pure bosh.
A TIMELY WARNING
On your decision at this time rests absolutely
the success of your entire farming operations
and still more, the means of a livelihood for
yourself and family.
The boll weevil, cotton’s greatest foe; Blight,
Rust and Sand Drown, foes of the tobacco
grower, have Been and are now being studied
scientifically and remedies have been and are
now being found, reducing their danger to a
minimum.
The farmer has with him today a much great
er danger—one that jeopardizes the success
ful production of cotton and tobacco. That •
danger is the use of cheap fertilizers. There is
too much at stake to risk a failure. Fight
danger at the planting time by using
FISCO
FISCO FERTILIZERS stand pre-eminent in
their field. They grow larger yields of high
quality crops with the use of less per acre.
Thousands of farmers know this—have proved
it by using FISCO. Destroy that danger today
by the use of FISCO Fertilizers. Place your
order at once in order to avoid delay.
Don’t be fooled by imitations- use the fertilizer
with the reputation.
THE FISHERIES PRODUCTS
COMPANY
Wilmington, N. C.
;; ^SHEfilEB^ .
Norfolk, Va.
TRADE HARK
“BUY THE BEST AND USE LESS.”