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BUY A HOME--DONT RENT Hundreds of citizens of Shelby and Cleveland County are now happy in their own home, having been helped through our Association which will be 20 years old in M ay. OUR 68TH SERIES IS NOW OPEN If you expect to build,, want to lay aside a few dollars for lat er use or for a rainy day, buy a few shares in this series. 25c a week carries one share, maturing $100. 50c a week carries two shares, maturing $200. $5.00 a week carries 20 shares, maturing $2,000. $10.00 a week carries 40 shares, maturing $4,000. t k You can buy as many or as few as you like. If you want an investment, free from taxes—an investment that will help build homes in Shelby and Cleveland County, buy a few paid up shares at $72.50 and draw out $100 at the end of 331 weeks. Last year we helped build 91 houses, jnost of them being homes in Shelby. Approximately 20,000 shares in force with total assets over a Million Dollars. Shelby Building & Loan Associaton J. F. ROBERTS, Secretary-Treasurer. Deposit your surplus money on in terest with the Cleveland Bank and Trust Co., Shelby, N. C. Start a sav ings account and keep it growing by adding to it little by little.. Savings accounts pay 4 per cent interest com pounded quarterly. For larger lump sums we issue Time Certificates. Al ways ready when you want it. Cleve land Rank and Trust Co. Ad KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING Shelby is known as the town where the largest per cent of its people own their own hom es. Our Building and Loan Associations are responsible for this (You can’t beat Shel by.) We have applications for loans from good people who want to build homes and busi ness houses amounting to $60,000. They must wait un. til enough money is paid in on shares to go ahead. Every man, woman, boy and girl can help these folks to own their own homes by taking out a few shares now and if you have a lump sum—take paid up shares—pays 6 per cent or more. No taxes. Keep the Home Fires Burning and the home building going. Now is the time. When you have Building and Loan Shares you h'elp yourself first then your neighbor, your friends, your town, your county and your state. N We have a new series open now. How many shares will you take? Come in to see us. Phone or write. J. L. SlITTLE, Sec.-Treas. Cleveland Building & Loan Association * Office With CLEVELAND BANK & TRUST CO., Shelby, N. C. DRESS WELL AND SUCCEED If You Want To Look Well And Feel Well, DRESS WELL LET KELLY’S STORE BE YOUR STORE. THE EXCLUSIVE MEN’S AND BOY’S STORE OF QUALITY. The Stadium 3955 4955 Black Why we “Fashioned” these Oxfords to Fit Snug at the Ankle ANKLE-FASHIONED oxfords were /v designed to till the wants of the thousands of men who resented wearing oxfords that began Jo gap at the ankle almost before their “newness” was gone. Because their pliable tops are fashioned in the making to gently clasp the ankle— to conform to its shape—your Nunn Bush oxtords, properly fitted, will re tain their trim neatness through life. SuauanjaustuausajaTjauf3! ic=n F>n (F>n B=«n n=n i JUST RECEIVED, BIG LINE NEWEST CREATIONS IN MANHATTAN Shirt*, Harry Berger Shirts, Wilson Bros. Shirts, Knox Hats, Mallory Hats and De Luxe Hats. OUR NEW LINES OF SPRING FOOT WEAR IS HERE. Nunn Bush,, Thompson Bros, and Arnold Glcve Grip. NEW GOODS COMING IN DAILY. Men if there s anything in the Clothing, Shoe or Furnishing line you need you will find it in our store. WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO OUR STORE. Kelly Clothing Co. CORRECT DRESSERS FOR MEN AND BOYS. Royster Building. Shelby, N. C. art cun * —SHELBY SIDELIGHTS— — R. D. — Shelby has a “Bob-tail Court!" Which is evidence a’plenty that Shelby is taking on to metropolitan manners, or becoming citified in criminality. “Bob-toil courts" have furnished column after column of human interest stories in Richmond, Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and other cities. And in recent months a “bob-tail court” has become a part of the dkily routine at the county hostelry maintained by ShcriflF Hugh Logan. Yes, this court functions at the jail. It is a part of all big prisons and jails. Like colleges have their student government, so is prison life govern ed by a code and laws made by the prisoners themselves. A year or so ago a “bob-tail court" was as un known in the local jail as was the chiropractor’s code of Kalamazoo, but recently the list of new guests at the Hotel of Confinement has included what the law calls “hardened crimi nals,” or "jail birds with a past his tory." Some of these brought with them from other jails the working of the prison government, and a “bob tail court" is now functioning behind the bars and “run-around” in the erim brick structure at the incline on East Warren street. Just when it started operating is not known, but it is op erating. And successfully, those who arc acquainted with local jail life say. In the * Bob-tiil court” of a pri on there is a sheriff, detectives—or as criminals say “dicks”—police, judges, and everything that is in the real law —the law that placed them behind prison bars. And the prisoners are these officers, selected by their fel low “timers.” Needless to say a fel low must be a “tuff un” to hold an important office in a bunch of “tuff uns” behind the steel doors that open only from the outside. Here in Shelby the “Bob-tail court” functions only in the colored section of the jail. A big, tall, black husky is the sher^ iff—perhaps he is the best man of the prison flock and is feared by the oth ers. They have a “Chief Hamrick”, a “Policeman Hester,” a “Bob Ken drick,” a “recoduh jedge,” and a “big > jedge." Their law and ita enforce , ment is as real and tak£n as seriously as that of the regular citjr and conn [ ty law enforcement. There are no I jokes, no frivolity or fun when the “Bob-tail court” is in seBsioo. There Ls a penalty for contempt juat aa there is in the big court house on the square. The system, as it may be derived by outsiders, works somewhat as fol lows: Every prisoner who enters the jail must pay a fine of 25 cents, or as the “cote” terms it “two bits.” This is the sentence that is passed on the unlucky negro’s head before he ever starts clanking up the spiral steps. If the prisoner happens to have the ! “two bits” on his person it is turned over to the county auditor and treas urer, another black in durance vile. This treasury at times, or over big week-ends in the big court mounts rapidly. How all of the fines are dis posed of no one knows. But on Sun I days money is taken out of the treas j ury and used in buying “dopes” and i smokes for the unfortunate inmates. ! Some of it changes hands in the per I petual “crap game” that goes on be hind the bars—the money to start the game being taken from the treasury and divided among the high “bob-tail” authorities, or those who reign be cause of physical strength or the pow er of the “Bob-tail court.” But, the law of the “jail house” really functions when some new pris oner refuses to pay his “two bits” or hasn’t the money to pay. If he has it and won’t pay he is taken before the “recoduh jedge” by the “high sheriff” where he is sentenced to so-many licks with the strap—and don’t for a minute think officers of the “Bob-tail court” hesitate to dole out the sen tence. Maybe the luckless one thinks his sentence is over with the licks, but it is not. A suspended judgment is placed over him and he must eventual ly pay his fellow-prisoners the 25 cent fine for being placed in jail. If he continues to “buck” an appeal is made to the “big jedge,” a trusty prisoner in the “run-around”—and always the sentence is affirmed, with 10 cents added to the first sentence so that the "big cote” may make run ning expenses and also have a treas ury. Sometimes some of the unfortu nates who are led in jail do not have the necessary fine. And instead of be ing beat they are placed under a sus pended sentence of a week or so dur ing which time they must borrow of secure the fine from a relative, or friends who visit the jail. A condi tional sentence, which none ever vio late. Their motto is in meaning some what like that of the Texas Rangers or the Canadian Mounted—“We eithuh gits de two bits or meat.” And they do, if you care to visit the jail and hang around awhile to investigate. ‘Meat means the strap. In regular courts of the law sen tences and fines vary with the charge and the crime. The crime or why the prisoner comes in means nothing to the “Bob-tail court,” but there is a difference in fines. Ordinarily, day in and day out, the fine is 25 cents, but on Sunday it is 35 cents. Perhaps officials of the ‘‘Bob-tail court” think a negro should at least observe the Sabbath Day enough to stay out of jail, and perhaps it’s because they know more negroes get locked up on Sunday than any other’ day is there fore a source of bolstering the treas ury. You see colored folks, and some of the rest of us, usually get “paid off” on Saturday and naturally ae-' quire “flavor” over the week-end. And from the size of the Monday dockets in Recorder Mull’s court the treasury of the “Bob tail court” fol lowing a rushing business on Sunday would almost pave some of the Streets in the proposed Greater Shelby. To the spectator in court, interest in a defendant ends when the prison r is led out the door behind the bar and away to the jail. But to the prisoner the drama of the court room and tiro working of law and justice is only h - ginning. And so the “Bob-tail court.'’ When the “Ivgh sheriff,” the “jedge” or "officuhs” s;r,ve their time or for some reason leave jail the officers below them advance according to the code of the court. Prisoners may come and prisoners may go, but the “Bob tail court” moves on, unmerciful and relentless, forever. Keep your money close by and where you can get it when you want it. Our interest bearing time certifi cates will suit you. We issue them foi large or small amounts. Cleveland Bank and Trust Co., Shelby, N. C. ad NOTICE OF SUMMONS. North Carolina, Cleveland 0 ur.ty— In Superior court. Bertie Baumgardner Brooks, Plaintiff vs. Roscoe Baumgardner, Defendant, The defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled above has been commenced in the Su nerior court of Cliveland county, North Carolina, to obtain a divorce absolute upon statutory grounds and the said defendant will further take notice that he is required to appeal at the term of Superior court of said county to be he ld on the fourth Mot dav in March 1;*25, that March 23rd 1925, at the court house in Cleveland county, N. Carolina, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action; or the plaintiff will applv to the court for relief demand in ’satiCcomplaint; This 9th d-*" of February, 1925. GEO. P. WEBB. Clerk of Cleveland Superior Court. TWO ACRES IN FRUIT MOST PROFITABLE PART OF FARM I have an orchard of about two acres. In it I have about 50 peach trees which ripen from May to Sept, ember, 15 apple trees, Grimes’ Gold en and Delicious, 10 plum trees of different varieties and 3 Scuppei-nong vines, some Pineapple and Kieffer pears, G May cherries, 15 figs, an,j some pecans. I filled in between pe cans with peaches, apples, pears plums, and figs. We have an arbor for the James and Scuppernong vines. Strawberries are in the whole or. chard. We keep the trees properly pruned and sprayed. Our orchard is near the house, and as wi: live in town, we have no trou hie in selling most all of our fruits and we usually get above the mar ket value because we grade properly and have better, sounder, and nicer fruit. Folks call for it and pay a pi ni. iuni price gladly. When we have a surplus, we either can it or make .pre serves, jams, and jellies, which we have no trouble selling in winter. We have fruits fresh or in preserves ana jellies, on our table three times daily. Two fruit stands handle our fruit# retail and get it fresh daily, in sea son, W- lose no time going about noddling, because we have such nice j fruit folks come after'it. Our or chard is seven years old. We have other h.i me: .; and farming interests, ! but consider the orchard our very best paying investment, counting time, acreage and the small amount inv: ted in its upkeep. I find differ ent varieties ripening at different times, and proper attention to every ] tree, the main things that pay in the home orchard — R. L. Darnell, in The Progressive Farmer. Fortunately the . heathen are told about civilization and not shown_ .Baltimore Sun. V/e suppose if Abraham Lincoln ■ •art been Fed rally inspected out of splitting any rails, or doing any other odd jobs until he was eighteen years of age he might have become quite a prominent end ueefu^ man.—Ohio State Journal. Nationalism is the theory that if you don't grab it some other great nation will,—Anaheim Plain Dealer. The Democratic tarty is better (Qu PPf d to understand world prob lems. I: has a deficit.—Sacramento Bee. If you want a pood -talk cutter you can get it at O. L. Ford Co’s., and it >ou want the best you can get it at | the same place. a(;. PRESENTED) 0* .JESSE UA5KY James Cruze PRODUCTION ? ' nd,w#rd Harto" • Roberts Helen Jerome Lddij, Louise Dresser SPECIAL TODAY AT PRINCESS THEATRE Dr. J. R. PENTUFF, Ph. D„ D. D. iumFrTSliUn1wUpdi!hVer a1lec;ture in the graded school auditor H,?dit , f l, frUartJ3th on Da™in's Theory of Evolution. "ienUfie m,, „™“Hfr0m, he, mo"keys wiU b* flayed in a most the earth whiff' “•* WiU al?° ?1KU“ oriK>n of man, origin of trie earth what is science and what is not science n aSS has lectured and pre8lhd ‘ i
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