Applause r';. . ' s,. ...... ,t;. . . We’re all human. We all like applause. All of us, however, .can’t be actors m or speech-makers or high “muckamucks.” Still,-xncft pi ik can make a good im W? f I t i *? |j| 11 4$ l: 1 press®# in our own favorite circles, M me. ^f 11 - .V ; merely.by wearing the right clothes. Griffon Clothes, for instance. Plenty of style to them. That well-tailored, correct manner to them. They give an air of character and smartness to the man who wears them. Appraising eyes have nothing but good things to see about Griffon Clothes. There’s applause for you. t Suits. Oxfords Hats..... $15.0011 $42.50 $4.451 ’ $9.00 $3.00tJ $10.00 Shirts 95c1? $2.50 EVANS E. McBRAYER OPPOSITE BAPTIST CHURCH POLICEMAN WHO USED RELIGION EFFECTIVELY WHEN FORCE FAILED Everett A. Houser, formerly on the staff of the Cleveland Star and son of Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Houser has ap i peared as a magazine contributor. At ; present he is on the Greensboro Daily News and has written an ar ticle which has won its way into the American Magazine. The article is quite interesting and follows: A few years ago the negro slum section of Greensboro, North Carolina was nicknamed “The Bull Pen”. Des perate negroes from all over North Carolina, and many from Virginia, •congregated in this district. There were dens of all kinds where vice reigned supreme. Whiskey was easily obtained, though North Carolina had been a prohibition state for years, and cocaine, officers said, could be had without much trouble. A policeman, Robert Y. Skene?, who was assigned to the district, de cided in 1914 to try some practical re ligion. So he rented a dilapidated* house on Washington alley, in the heart of the Bull Pen, knocked out the partitions and started a church. A negro woman preacher, A lose Lew is, who had been conducting services in the central section of North Caro lina, consented to hold a series of meetings in this old building. She started preaching in May, 1914. She is preaching there yet, twice every Sunday. Somehow or other Skenes’s chapel—as it was called from the outset—was kept in shape by the negroes who attended the serv ices. Skenes himself paid the rent for several months, and the woman preached lived on the small sums of money received each Sunday in the collection plate. In the early days, the services were frequently interrupted by disorderly gatherings in the neighborhood. Of ficers, including Mr. Skenes, who reg ularly attended the services, were often compelled to rush from the "hapd to arrest some denizen of the district who had wielded knife or re volver with savage ferocity. When the prisoner had been locked' up in the nolice station. ,the officers would re turn to the eh a D-d and see that the Services continued. But gradually conditions began fp mprove. The undersirabies from bth '■r cities ceased to come to the Bull Pen because it welcomed them no more. And negroes who lived in the district wCre soon taking pride in the improvement. The woman preacher did more than nreach. She was probably the first so-1 cial service worker in Greensbord ] “Slater" Lewis, as she is known to practically every negro of Greens-] boro, visited many negro families in the city. She talked with them, dis cussed their problems with them, gave them coun el, and her advice] was good. It was, briefly, to work j honestly and to behave. It wasn’t long j before results began to be seen. The benefit to the city resulting from the policeman’s chapel in the, Bull Pen was first manifest in the municipal court. A great decrease in the number of negro defendants was ■ noticed. then the city became interested,! and learned tjiat a patrolman of its j own police force and a negro woman : preacher were doing things that the j entire police force had been unable to! do—making the negroes of the Bull Pen behave. It was also discovered j that “Bob" Skenes, patrolman, mak ing less than one hundred dollars, per month, was financing, to a great ex tent, the work of the chapd. When people heard what was being done they came forward with offers of money and time. Not only member:! of the better class of negroes in the eity became interes t'd, but also white people rallied to the assistance of the policeman. But there was never an? organized campaign; contributions were received by the preacher and by the police?nan and turned into the chapel treasury. By U)1C the membership had in creased to such a point that the church was self-s?:; portintr. The next stap was to buy the property on which the congregation had been pav ipg rent for two year*. This was done in 1910. The purchase price was eight hundred dollar.. At present a movement is »**,der way to tear down the old dwelling house, which has lieen outgrown, and to erect a real church. There will lie nothing ornate about it, but it will be eomfortuhleand larg" enough to hold the people. The new build, like the old one. v i*l be “Skenes’s Chap rl”, “Boh" Skenes, fifty-five year old, has f .r 19 years been an officer. From h - pay of not much over one hun dred dollar? a month he supports his family, contributes to the chapel, and has accumulated rime property. The pride, of his life is Skanei’s Chapel and the reformation of the Bull Pen. \ Mrc. Crawfcrd Buried At Pleasant Grove Fo. rs! OHy Wwnnn W.o Ha Has Sister Living In Shelly. Mrj; .1. H. Cl »'.vrfo'-fl d!ed fc-._ the P i h-vfo' d Ilo-pital Thursday .4>nril drd(. the cause of her death being bided ppisoniTsg and erysipelas. Mrs Crawford was greatly loved in com ; luritv in v-'i.-h she lived, vis't'ng ’•'"h and poor alike to administer comfort unto them. She wn bur;ed at Pleas ant Grove church, Rev. Parker Hu’nf es of Forest City conducting the funeral s^n ices. Pail bearers were Messrs. Ambrose Ilardin. Rastus Har din, Walter Settlcmyre, Tom Morrow. Frank Settlomyre, barbers who >vcrk ed for Mr. Crawford. Surviving are her husband J. H. Crawford of Forest City, a mother MrspJ. p. Griffin of Shelby, six sisters and three brothers: Mrs. M. A. Pruett of South Shelby, Mrs. J. H. Dy*r, Mrs. W. D. Hardin, Mrs. J. D. Sansbig -of Bostic, Mrs. Wi M. Rippy of S. De Kalb street, Shelby. Mrs. William Hayes of Coalina. Calif., was unable to get thcro- in time for the funeral She also leaves three brothers,. Am brose Griffin of .Spartanburg, 8. C-, J. T. Griffin of .Kansas City, Mo.,, D. H. Griffin of Shelby. H n . T lappers are now having their hair cut, “boyish style” or shingled,. Some of them are being ahingjed in the wrong place.-—New York. American. Being the party in power means lit tle unless there is power in the party. —Baltimore Sun, V NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Having this day fiualifiod as execu tor of the will of ,G, L. Moore, deceas ed, late of Cleveland county, notice is hereby given to all persons holding claims against said estate to present them properly proven, to the under signed at Grover, N. C. or B. T. Falls attorney, Shelby, N. C., on or before the 10th day of April, F924. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of any recovery on same. All persons indebt ed to said estate will make immediate payment to the undersigned. This the !8th day of April, 1924. •I. 11. MOORE, Executor G. L. Moore’s Will. Avoid Using Castor Oil —W. L. Hand. Nobody like* to give or take castor oil. There is really hardly any nerd fer it since the invention oi Liv-o-hix. And Liv-o-lax fills a double n < -’. It has a marked action ort the liver a°i well as the digestive tract, ar.d so ;t can be used in eases of biiiouj att^~'.\ and when a cold is coming on, it t.t# a the place of calomel and castor o'l. Literally hundreds of Tuothers have ear nestly thanked me for putting this good remedy on the market. Children love to take Liv-olax an 1 it is just as good for the same condi tions in adults. A bottle of Liv-o-lax costs but 3Cc it any drug store. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY COMPANY Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains at Shelby, N. C. Lv. No. Between No. Ar. 7:40a 5:47p 34 31 4:50p 11:02a 15 16 Rutherfordton-Raleigh and Wilmington Wilmington-Raleigh and Rutherford ton Monroe-Rutherfordton Rutherfordton-Monro? 34 31 7:40a 5:47p 15 16 4:50p 11:02a Schedules published as infonnation and are not guaranteed. E. W. LONG, D. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. or G. SMART, Local Ticket Agent Poultry Cars Is More Than Filled Car Filled in Rutherford and Cleve land Counties with 25,000 Pounds of Hens, Roosters, and Ducks. The car of live poultry filled Friday and Saturday in Rutherford and Clev eland counties brought the farmers of the two counties $5,185.85 according to figures made public yesterday. The car was filled to capacity, having 25, 000 pound- of hens, roosters fryers j and ducks but hens were in the ma jority and when the car arrived in : Shelby Saturday afternoon the hens, were laying so fast it required much of the time of the farmers to gather in the egg'. Prices paid were above the local market so 75 cr more farm ers fro mCleveland brought in coon fulls. The car had nearly b"en filled; in Rutherford county and there was not room here to accommodate all that we"- offered in Cleveland. so many of the coops were shipped bv cx press to Hamlet where the chickens were loaded with a car starting from Brthvoe. ^ C , with the- understanding that the cos car of chickens was promoted by Mr. Robertson, indus trial agent of the Seaboard and it was so successful that he intends to Refrigerators At Moderate Prices NTOW is the rime to | buy refrigerators. Our line is com plete, We are showing attractive models at at tractive prices We have exactly what you want. Let ii< show 'he Leonard Cteonatie kefri. rr ulor—the only one cnanu ;.c tirred with one-pieceporcc am linii^r extending eirurcly aipand the door frame and over the edges. The Leonard Cleanablehas rounded inside front corners. Held automatically air-tight ,by Leonard \ civet Lock, • Rear cing doors if desiretL You'll find what you «. want in our display. The Paragon Furniture Company. ship several cars the first four months of next* year. BACK HOME AFTER AN ABSENCE OF 35 YEARS Morgantoo News-Herald. An interesting and interested visi tor here ns Mr. Jim McNeely* of Dal las, Texas, who is on a visit “back home" after an absence of nearly 35 years. He is a half brother of Mr. Wal ter McNeely and has other relatives days of tha M organic n newspaper, and many friends who have been glad to welcome him home. As a young man Mr. McNeely worked on the Blue Ridge Blade. He and the late editor of the News-Her ald were staunch friends and it is or.e of Mr. Mf Neely’s proudest boasts that it was he who taught “Teddie” Cobb to set h's first “stick” of typ_\ He entered* the Blade office in IS?'}, a lad of 14, when W. B. Avery was editor and H. H. Crowson publisher and the paper was printed on an o!i Washington hand press He relates ir tererting experiences of those early Nothing but Indies Coats and Suits are offered in this sale, but note the big reduc tion. All coats priced up to $39.50 Cf| special this week at.. All coats priced up to $29.50 <£ Q special this week at..^ 10.OU All coats priced up to $19.75 & 1 A Cf| special this week at.^ 25 PER CENT OFF ON SUITS About.t.wenty-five of,the newest things in Spring Suits at twenty five per cent re du£Qo‘n for this week only. Don’t wait, but other tasks could fiira nt ; •■'•cr to rnn 5.200 strcc' c.’i-a or puli forty -c.^ht pas senger train*. A mountain of solid rock 5.000 feet high r.nd the, sa;nc distance' through the base. ti piueeij on art immense jack, couid be Kited by the force required to c;*rsf9 the vessels, at the rite of a foot a day. Connected to pumps, it is enough In drain Luke Michigan at such spee-.t that the level would be reduced ten fee* a year, or it could light, heat, and furnish power to 0C0 towns with populations of 5,000. Were it possible to Use <'£?* SPACING PEG 'Tips, and s0 on to the end. The sec ond row of knots is bc;tim tiy tvi'ijr the second and bird ,r, ... vfn *he fo„rth anti utli .-trips r. u. 'v Loo:, art- all tied in the same way, and the method of doing this ig pia,nly sliowfc «i the detail. A spacing peg mwt »■ tired, so that all the knots will be of the s^nje size; the knot is tied around the jteg. which is then slipped out. The peg should tc about 1 in. square and tapered to a point. * '* * Lead-In Fits under Windows lilting under a closed window, a jfltx ibie lead-in now on the market should prove popular with radio fans. The lead m is turn and flat, and can be bent to any shape to fit closely to the win dow ledges. It is covered with a fire proof, insulating material which pre vents grounding of circuits onswet win dow sills, and elim inates the necessity of drilling holes and fitting porcelain tubes in the,Win dow framdr Tabs are provided at the ends for soldering the down lead from, the aerial and the lead to the instru ment. fhe fitting will prove of special benefit to radio enthusiasts living in apartments, where the drilling of window frames is usually prohibited. Preventing Windows from Steamed and .frosted windows are a source of annoyance to many housewives as the moisture not only obstructs the view but also soils the glass through the accumulation of dust when sweeping or c caning A doth bag containing a few spoonfuls of tobacco, placed in the water U>ed to wash the windows, will overcome this trouble and w:'*l also impart a dear, L nar‘ * * * Steaming