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—SHELBY SIDELIGHTS— By Renn Drum. TWO MEN from Maine. * * * STRUCK SHELBY last week. * ♦ • WHILE THE fair was on KNOWING NOTHING of the event. * * • THEY COULD not understand. AFTER COVERING the town *" * * * WHY THEY couldn't find. • * A SINGLE hotel room. OR MAYBE double. • » • AND AFTER so long. , • * * ONE HAPPENED to think. • * • THAT THEY were in. * * • THE WESTERN North Carolina. BOOSTED SO much in Maine. AS A hip resort center. • * * “Oil. YES,” he said. * * * “THIS IS a resort town. • * • AN!) VVIIAT we’ve heard. * * * OF THIS section. • w • MUST ALL he true. * * ¥ FOR IT is impossible. * * ♦ j TO GET a hotel room. * * • IN THE middle of the week.” *. * * ANI) WHAT he said. WAS PARTLY correct. BUT HE didn’t know * * • ABOUT THE big fair. AND IT is to be hoped. • • * UK RETURNS to Ma:nc. * » * BY SOME other route. • * * RATHER THAN have. * * * 1IIS ILLUSION of resort Shelby. ■ DISILLUSIONED somewhat. (With apologies to Sir Hospitality ) Since one reader said the eo'yjtt. did nothing but boo t it is hoped that this one will please him—impossible! - but at least not displease bin by boosting. Shelby school patrons win visited' tin fair together w• t*' several thou-' sand other folks learned that the school has a new department. One card in the school booth reading— ‘THYSIC1AL cultivation." Some thought that right above i should have been the department of spelling. Who known, mayhaps that was why the booth did not get the blue rbibon .’ "Heavy” Lyhrand may ehange his cafe to a delicatessen. He heard' “Happy Jack" call himself dedicate el the fair last week— and if Happy's delicate Heavy think; Ire must be the u|u rlative of dedicate, or something! like delicatessen. The chestnut season is now here, j end it« advent is being' celebrated by the association of early birds who get tile worms. Friday night a fa r visitor paid his admission and went in to see the so-called biggest snake in the world. After one look he turned ■ iU'cartically to his companion nnd remarked: “Huh! That's a small mut ter compared with what I got out of the pint of chestnuts i just finished. There’s another drawback to chest nut season. When you hear grown man plead seriously: “He good," you don't, no whether lie’s talking to on-; ol his children, or to a chestnut just before biting it open. Hearing that, this is to be a critical eolyum Hack Hardin butts in by sav ing that although the postoffice clerks 1 sometimes get mail in the wrong box es they never, fail to get the “Hex Rent Due” slips in the right place:. Loans On Cleveland County Farms THE ATLANTIC JOINT STOCK LAND BANK OF RALEIGH IS IN POSITION TO MAKE PROMPT LOANS ON CLEVELAND COUNTY FARM LANDS. $1,000.00 to $50,000.00 loans nego tiated. Five year to thirty-three year per iod. Communicate With The ATLANTIC JOINT STOCK LAND BANK, Raleigh, N. C. If someone had asked Happy Jack how he got that way he might have replied “by not living in Shelby and having to push open those swinging postoffice doors.” Had such been the case he might have been the living skeleton instead of the fat man. The horse show Thursday evening was a good attraction, but the horn it filled on the program did not take so well considering comments heard in the grandstand. Apparently a good percentage of the several thousand packed in the grandstand were theta, to see the skyrocket and the pole bend and not the horse step. Such was the crowd that many could see nothing hut the moon shining through the crack. in the roof, ar.d the babies cheereo lustily. One man who came 42 mile, to se the daredevile on the bending pole was mad as blazes arid seeing stars long before the fireworks bega •. The Cleveland county fair is at Che worst a democratic event. Those who couldn’t afford to pay the price of going up in the air with the aviator paid a dime and went “Through The Clouds”. While those who envied the owners of the rihbon winners at the dog show, passed on to a lun?h stand slipped a dime up on the county and demanded a “hot dog.” And those who had no horse ti ride in the horse show', mounted the galloping steeds on the merry-go-rcund. Also many children who pave thc:r dad a merry-go-round for not giving them a ride on the whip, pet a whlp I inp when they pet home. And those who couldn’t win at the five-lettei “Binpo” took a slide down the cross word puzzle. Those who did Mot believe in evolu tion wouldn't po in to see the monkey man, hut after lookinp over the ra:e car drivers in the Monkey Speedway they are heter friends of Darwin. B tr ncy Oldfield drove with considerably mor safety than did the link after the missing link in his car out on the highway. ANOTHER HALF DAY POWER GUT ORDER Further Curtailment of Power to Mills Necessary. Caused by Continued Drought. I Charlotte, Oct. 3.—A further pon j er curtailment of a half Hay a week by customers of the Southern Power | company is asked in letters mailed to i them yesterday by Charles I. Burk holder, vice president of the com pany. This will make two and a half days a week that users of the curiort will stop its consumption, two pre vious curtailments of a day each hav ing gone into effect since August 2b Inadequate rainfall and the attendant lack of water in the Catawba river are given as the reason for the latest re guest. The letter signed by Mr. Burk holder reads: Situation Worse. “There having been no relief thrangh rainfall since the curtail ment has been in effect, power st ation has become gradually worse*. The amount of power available in the river becomes less every day that the drought continues. This brings about a condition which leaves us no alter native but to ask for an additional curtailment, amounting to a halt day a week, as follows: “Beginning Monday, October 5, all power consumers in zones Nos. 15, 1 and 5 will please curtail from G a. m. .Monday to 12 noon Wednesday of ea,-h week, and all power consumers in zones Nos 1 and 2 will please curtail from G a. m. Thursday to 12 noon Saturday of each week. Cotton grn 'curtailment to remain as at present. “We wish to thank our customers for the splendid co-operation they nave accorded us, and regret that it has become necessary to ask this ad ditional curtailment.” Counties in Zones. The zones mentioned arc as fed CMctkes dtightDriving SAFE The Controllable Beam on the Better Buick Night driving (train, the blind insecurity when you dim to keep glare out of the eye* of an approaching driver—both have been eliminated by the Controllable Beam Head* light, a feature of the Better Buick. Daytime visibility every bich of the way I Bright light all the time! A simple control on tne steering wheel lowers the beam when you near another car. And this is only one of many 1926 im* provemcrtta which Buick engineering has given to the Better Buick. 75 horsepower and more; Duotone in Duco finish; Triple Sealed Valve-in-Hcad engine; light-pedal* pressure clutch; approved mechanical 4 wheel brakes; and many other exclusive ad* vancements now make the Better Buick the better car to own and drive. BUICK MOTOR CO., FLINT, MICH. Division of General Motors Corporation When better automobiles are built, Guick will build them Shelby, N. C. lews: No. 1.—Davidson, Fo. s-yth, Guilford, Rockingham. Alamance Orange and Durham counties in this state. No. 2—Rowan. Stanly, Cabarns Mecklenburg and Union counties, In North Carolina, and \ork county, in South Carolina. No 3—Gaston countv i No. 4—Rutherford, Cleveland, Lin-1 coin, Catawba, Iredell, Caldwell arm Burke counties in North Carolina, and i Cherokee and Spartanburg countier, in South Carolina. No. 5—Lancaster, Kershaw, Chester, Newberry, Laurens. | Greenwood Abbeville, Anderson Gre ■! ville, Pickens and Oconee counties in South Carolina. While the “heads" of water at t. e hydro-electric plants are being nmat tained at a high level, the water siip ply is not being used. All the auxil iary steam plants of the southern lower company nr- operating fu«l blast. The rain deficiency this year amounts to 18.33 irvbes The initial curtailment oi power this year by the Southern Power company began August 2*>, being for cine day a week. This was increased to t’vu days a woo’. tv.r wet k ! iter, and row the third curtailment is a-kf'd, beginning next Monday. It ap*v«: ; • > r.'l users of pow-r except 5« r strict :y • public use, for handling | cm. ..ab.t predicts and for fire prop 'id. When the other fellow loses his tem per, stop the argument; you have won. When the movie actor can't get much publicity, there is always the u vorce court. A horse’s mouth reveals his age; a man’s reveals his mental range and a woman’s reveals her secrets. A. L. McFarland Dies In Charlotte Editor Cleveland Star. On the morning of September 26th 1925, at his home in Charlotte all that was mortal of Adolphus Logan Mc Farland aged 68; was called from la bor to refreshment. D6ath resulted i from sudden heart attack. Deceased was son of the late Sher iff John F.. McFarland, and leaves e wife, two sons and four daughters, two brothers and five sisters to mourn his sudden death. He was born in Rutn j erford county, N. C. near Duncan creek; and his widow is the daughter of the late Jefferson Hampton of j Kutherfordton. His surviving brothers, and sisters live in Cleveland Ruthcr- j ford counties of this state and in Texas and Georgia. He had lived in | Charlotte 14 years and was popular, and efficient inspector of city rail-; ways. His high order of personal j courage, blended with a pleasing per sonality made him a popular and ef ficient business manager of traffic. He was burned in Charlotte on Sun day afternoon, in presence of immense concourse of people. Among his broth- ] ers and sisters present at ohsequies ! were Sheriff James McFarland, of ; Kutherfordton, John E. McFarland, o' I Duncan, Mrs. Andrew J. Elliott of near I’olkville. M. L. WHITE. Teeth are handy things. What would you grit if you had no teeth, when an agent comes to the front i door. Red Cross Health Booth Has Appeal Miss Irma Bowman’s health booth at the county fair was one that drov home a vital subject to the thousand* that passed through the exhibit hah Miss Bowman as Red Cross |,uy.'(! health nurse for the Shelby puJ' Schools worked out the idea, pjc»u C ed by a nurse holding ribbons cor' necting with smaller figures reprp senting human beings from the little tots to aged people. It was a plea f.» “light, more light,” representedV'a nurse carrying a light, illuminating the way up the steps of health The work of the nurse was represented b characters and posters showing h„.‘, health education is carried out in th school and in the home as well >| welfare and charity work among the people on the outside. It also repre sented the spirit of the nurse friend to all and happy in makim! others happy. This exhibit attracted as much at tention or more than any other Vn the large exhibit hall. FORGER LEAPS 12 stories TO DEATH, ESCAPING f»0Uf R Richmond, Va., Oct. 1.—Joseph I> Stokes, 25, escaped the hands of the l;.w tonight by leaping 12 stories t> his death after he har been captured i y a local detective agency on charges of forgery and turned over to the p> lice. Cornered in the detectives office in the Mutual building, Stokes jumped through the heavy plate glass window and was instantly killed. (4 RATION-WIDE INSTITUTION enney DEPARTMENT STORES Vivacious Frocks of Silk For the Junior Miss and the Small Woman Style has found its home in these Frocks I The first thing you’ll notice in them is their unusual pep. Then their true worth—the ma terials and workmanship - will cfarul miff The Junicr Miss—from 15 to 19 years will find just the styles she demands herel A.nd the email woman who has difficulty n being fitted will find her size among hese Dresses. ALL GASTONIA MERCHANTS INVITE YOU TO GASTONIA’S BIG DOLLAR DAY and SPECIAL BARGAIN SALE j§ ■ .: .1 -ON- I FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9TH MAKE YOUR VISIT TO THE BIG GASTON COUNTY FAIR ONE OF PLEASURE AND PROFIT BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SPECIAL. VALUES OFFERED BY GASTONIA’S MERCHANTS ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9TH. “BUY IT IN GASTONIA THE CITY OF SPINDLES.” - - - - MERCHANTS DIVISION GASTONIA CHAMBER O F COMMERCE ^ ^TJfjyHUc? ILrauajguciuaL^JSiranjauemjeiUEluaUcSUHnjaUiauaLrPn R=>n n=m r=n tr=n n=>n rF’niF’nrpniF’n tr^n fr* ir ---
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