AROUND OUR TOWN
"* —SHELBY SIDELIGHTS—
i
—BY RENN DRUM—
THINGGS ARE not.
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LIKE THEY usterbe.
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THAT’S A certainty.
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AND IS the cause
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FOR MUCH WORRY
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HERE IN Shelby.
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AND JUST what.
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IT ALL means.
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NO ONE seems to know.
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THE WORLD may be.
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COMING TO an end.
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OR ANOTHER war.
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IS HEADED our way.
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OR SOMETHING terrible.
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IS BOUND to happen.
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AND PITY the children.
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FOR BELOVED Santa Glaus.
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MAY HAVE passed on.
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ANYWAY SOMETHING is wrong.
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BAD WRONG, hereabouts.
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\ FOR HERE it is.
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\ ONLY EIGHT short weeks.
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there'll Ik* a flavor with the kick.
r>on’t he surprised one of these
•lays if the package of collars com
ing hack from the laundry tinkles
like a ukelelc. Bobby Rudasill is
pushing one of the Snowflake trucks
and Bobby has a habit of making
music out of anything. Leave enough
collar buttons in your shirts and Bob
by will soon have a neck-band orches
tra.
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In nnming Cleveland county hoys
who are starring in football else- J
where The Star unintentionally make
a mistake. A' youngster from up in
the hill country, who was caught
after a four hour chase by.prohibi
tion officers and convicted in court,
was left out. lie’s the star half back,
reports say, on the prison eleven at
Atlanta.
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One thing puzzles Traffic Officer
Poston. Barnum, the human nature
philosopher, opined that only one
sucker was born every minute. Four
people are said to be heading towards
Florida every minute, many of whom
arc passing through Shelby. Mac’s
wondering where the other throe are
coming from.
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No, the new electric light signals
will not be flapper dolled up in a
“sinful red’’ dress.
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Regarding the new traffic signs it
was cot stated in the last issue that
the Leil changing traffic directions
will not sound all night. Shelby is
not considered quite that big. The
only folks out after midnight here
are the bootleggers, homeless and a
tea hound who has been on a petting
party wh re he was out petted. The
police will determine at what luur
of the night the hell will be silenced
although the signals will operate all
night.
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UNTIL CHRISTMAS!
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AND NOT a merchant.
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HAS STARTED urging us.
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TO SHOP early.
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AND AVOID the rush.
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AND THE postofTice
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HASN’T SAID anythin*.
...
ABOUT MAILING packages.
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FOR WHICH we will
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OFFER THANKS at Thanksgiving. I
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(With apologies to Dec. 25)
I
For the sake of prosperity the
colyutn desires that every pessimist
aiid dispenser of hard-time “blues”
in Cleveland county read the follow
up: “THIS SEASON, UP TO NOV
EMBER MS EAR AHEAD OF ANY
PAST RECORD. OUR BUSINESS
AT BOTH STORES HAS BEEN EX
CKEDINGLY GOOD—AND WE RE
HOPING TO MAKE NOVEMBER
AND DECEMBER THE BIGGEST
MONTHS OF THE YEAR.” The
statement was signed by The Stanley
Company, of Fullston and PoJkville,
in an advertisement appearing in the
Inst issue of The Star.
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Now whoever said business was
bad can talk back to the Stanley’s—
and in busines s matters they usually
know what they’re talking about.
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When the new traffic signals get
here won’t one of them make a fine
Christmas tree for an anti-prohibi
tian party ?
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Pete Grigg has what the uptown
folks term the most successful me
thod of collecting bills ever seen in
operation in Shelby. Pete was seen
around the first of the month on
Shelby streets with a folder of hills
under his arm and a shotgun in his
hands.
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Hearing of no sudden and unexpect
ed deaths this week we presume
everybody met their installment on
the Nash.
Americanism: A woman using the
Mann Act to get blackmail; an agent
helping a man break the law to get
evidence against him.
Th'! fellow down at Monos Georges’ j
fruit stand says ho don’t know what
kind of skins make the best shoos, j
but banana peels muke the best slip- j
pers.
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And discarded chewing gum will
stop a procession almost as quick as
Lackey's four-wheel breaks.
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. Numerous citizens and other inha
bitants of the town are debating a
suit against official Shelby and a
long-winded whistle at the Eastside
.Mill. It is estimated that one of the
bigg^t crowds ever to turn out over'
nothing dressed hurriedly Tuesday
alight for the supposed bad fire at
Eastside, Even the firemen wore dis
appointed.
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The doctors, however, will not com
plain. Too many folks caught a
cold.
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It’s hard to recognize notables.
This week a passing motorist halted
his car in front of the position where
The Star scatters its twinkles and
satellites, stuck his head in the door
and inquired the route to Gaffney. He
was told “to go straight out and
straight down—Anybody should find
the road to Gaffney,” and rather
curtly at that. A short time later
it was learned that the motorist
was a big official of a special motor
ist routing firm that specializes in
directing folks to Florida.
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One can’t never tell who the fellow
is on the other end of a discussion.
Some years ago J. 1). Lineberger and
Frank Sherill were on a fishing trip
in Florida—not Cuba—and while at
a certain club were invited to go out
boat fishing with two other gentle
men. The Carolinians accepted ami
talked and joshed with their new
made acquaintances as they would
prospective nail-buyers back in the
hardware store at home. Coming
in from the fishing trip Mr. Lineber
ger noticed that the party was in
lor considerable attention. He didn’t
undestand it. latter in the evening he
received the shock of his life when he
learned that his fishing companions
were Zane Grey, the famous novelist,
and his brother. Lineberger and Sher
ill packed their baggage and hied
away from the club before the Grey’s
arose next morning. They couldn’t
brave the situation next morning
after being out all the previous day
with one of America’s most noted
writers and showing him no more
Coilrtesy (than an ordinary pick-up
acquaintance.
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That’s a tip to the bootleggers
about selling their fluid to unknowns.
Some of the customers may prove
to be a special representative of an
extract firm trying to help the gov
ernment cleah up the liquor so that
NOTICE
ADMINISTRATORS SALE OF
PERSONAL PROPERTY.
As administrator of the estates of
Henry F. Hastings and Sarah Hast
ings, 1 will offer for sale, to the high
est bidder, for cash, at the home of
the late Henry F. Hastings, on the
farm of Forest Eskridge, on Satur
day, at 10: A. M., November 28th,
1925, the following described proper
ty:
1 mule, 1 cow, Farm tools, corn,
and some household goods, etc.
This the 5th day' of November.
1925.
I). Z. Newton, J. V. Hastings.
Attorney. Administrator
4f pd.
How Doctors Treat
Colds and the Flu
To break up a cold overnight or
to cut short an attack of grippe, in
fluenza, sore throat or tonsillitis, phy
sicians and druggists are now reborn
mending Ca’.otalw, the purified and
refined calomel compound tablet tha'
gives you the effects of calomel and
r.alts combined, without the unpleas
ant effects of either.
One or two Calotah3 at bed-time
with a swallow of water,—that’s all.
No salts, no nausea nor the slightest
interference with your eating, work
or pleasure. Next r,»orning your cold
has vanished, your system is thor
oughly purified and you are feeling
fine with a hearty appetite for break
fast Eat what you please,—no dan
ger.
Get a family package, containing
full directions, only 35 cents. At any
^rug store (adv)
Physical Inspection
Of School Children
Is Now A Necessity
By Miss Irma Bowman, R. N.
Appreciating the interest mani
fested in the work I have been doing,
by the many que. tiohs that have
been asked me about it in the past
few weeks, am glad to avail myself
of the opportunity to answer some
of them.
Dr. Milton J. Rosennu, Professor
of preventive medicine and hygiene
of Harvard says,” The Physical In
spection of scnool children is no long
er an experiment but a pressing ne
cessity." It is founded on a recogi
tion of the close connection which
exists between the physical and the
mental condition of children in tile
whole process of education.
The object of inspection of schools
is not primarily thn treatment of di
sease, but rather their prevention.
One of the principal objects is the
early recognition of physical defects
such as errors of refraction, imper
fect hearing, malformation of the
body, <from abnormal positions), ade
noids, enlarged or diseased tonsils.
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Dentist
Office Shelby National Bank,
Building.
Phone 421. Shelby, N. C.j
j. o. u. A. M.
Meets Every Tuesdav Niarht
WEBB’S HALL
Visiting Brethren Welcome.
ECK & STEPHENS
Certified Public Accountants
Gastonia, N. C.
Systems — Audits — In
vestigations.
Income Tax Specialists.
NOTICE!
MEMBERS OF
COTTON
ASSOCIATION
This Bank will be glad to
handle your cotton drafts, ie
ceipts and bill of ladings,
without cost to you. Bring
or send your receipts or bill
of ladings to this Bank just
as quickly as possible after
cotton is delivered.
Cleveland Bank &
Trust Co.
Shelby, N. C.
IT'S IN THE
SPINE
That many ailments from
which mankind suffers —
start Too few people realize
its importance to the body and
that such illnesses as severe
headaches, nausea, catarrh,
rheumatism, stomach trouble,
etc., are directly traceable to
if.
CHIROPRACTIC
ADJUSTMENTS
Alone can bring relief. If
you’ve been troubled for some
time with some puzzling ail
ment—visit us for an ex
amination and enlightening
information.
Dr. B. M. Jarrett
Palmer Graduate li>17.
Palmer Post-Graduate 1922.
Office Hours Dailv
9-12. — __ 1:30-6. __
VY’oolworth Bldg. Head Steps.
Lady Attendant.
Phone 515.
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land other obstructions of breathing,]
I and sources of inflamations, infec
tion etc. Ari important object of the
inspection of school children is to
determine their fitness to be in
school. To recognize nervous and
mental disorders, also the early re
cognition of tne communcable dis
eases and measures to prevent their
spread; the teaching of personal hy
giene to pupils and the sanitation and
(leanliness of the school building
and its surroundings; tne adjustment
of the seats and desks etc.
'1 he movement has made clow
but sure progress. A systematic
school inspection was started in Brus
sels iii 1M/4, and in Paris in 1884,
since which time the movement has
become world wide. In America the
nrst systematic inspection of school
children was begun in 1894 after
iour years of effort by Dr. Samuel
H. Durgin, Commissioner of Health
of Boston, who is regarded as (he
lamer ot the system througnout
America. The first scientific and
extensive examination of school
children was made by Dr. Henry P.
Bov/ditch who has written several
classics of great interest on the
growth of children etc. In 1908
there were only seventy cities out
side of Massachusetts having inspec
tion of schools. Massachusetts has a
compulsory inspection law; New Jer
sey has ap emissive one; Vermont
has a Jaw requiring an annual test
ing of the vision and hearing of all
school children, and Connecticut one
providing for such tests triennially.
There has been much discussion
concerning who shall conduct the in
spection. It is plain that in any
system the teacher must be the ulti
mate inspector, and teachers are
quite competent to carry out simple
tests for determining the acuteness
of vision and hearing. In one sense
the teacher its the foster mother of
the child and lrcquently knows the
child better than its own mother. The
teacher should report to the school
nurse, (or medical inspector if the
school is so fortunate as to have
both), children who have any of the
following symptoms—Loss of weight,
pallor, puffiness of the face, short
ness of breath, swelling in the neck,
general lassitude, growing pains,
rheumatism, flushing of tne face,
eruptions of any sort, cold in the
head, especially running eyes, irrita
ting discharge from the nose, evidence
of sore throat, cough, vomiting or
frequent requests to be excused from
the room. AH of these are symptoms
ihat should be followed lip. The nurse
is able to detect the beginning symp
tom.:. of disease and can be treated to
care for simple troubles. The wise
nurse never wants responsibility
that can be handed over to the physi
cian and unless in very minor condi
tions she gives first aid and then re
fers the patients to their family
physicians.
The chief value of the nurse per
haps is in establishing communica
tion with the homo and securing
friendly co-operation with the par
ents. Parental neglect is rarely due
to the lack of parental affection, but
because they do not know. The nurse
is frequently able to gain the confi
dence of both the child and the par
ents and in this way assist in carry
ing out treatment. One of the chief
duties of the school nurse is social
service.
It is the duty of. the nurse to try
to detect defects, not to treat them.
Who shall treat the child is a matter
for the parents or guardian to de
cide. It is not sufficient merely to
notify parents that the child needs
treatment, for frequently these no
tices are laid aside and forgotten,
but if followed up by a friendly vi
sit, usually the desired impression is
made, the family physician is consult
ed and results follow.
We have been a'stonishcd at the
number of defects found among our
children, and parents are beginning
to wake up to the realization of the
duty of caring more closely for the
health of their children, and it is
likely that good health will soon
rank first in the minds of teachers
und parents among the things prere
quisite to a good education.
School nurses have wonderful op
portunities for health teaching. In
visiting the home she comes in di
rect contact with the people, she sees
them in their natural surroundings.
Often the family does not knOw what
is wrong, but in a friendly visit the
nurse can put enough together to dis
cover where the trouble is. Almost
, unconsciously she noted the striking
things about the home, the neighbor
hood, the house, its furnishings and
general repair, its size and how it
compares with the size of the family;
the provision for light and ventila
tion and whether unclean or simrly
untidy. She learns almost without
asking, and as these problems pre
sent themselves she can, with the aid
of other organizations, straighten
them out to some extent and help the
family on their feet once more.
The value of home visiting was
early recognized. The New York
Health department has always as
serted that the care given in the
school is the ameliorative, and that
given in the homes, the preventive
work of the system. The children
i are taught the best ways of ventila
tion, the good results and how if
they do not sleep with plenty of
fresh pure air at night they will
grow pale and weak. This is of no
effect if it is not carried out. In talk
ing to « class of children I noticed
a very pale badly nourished little boy.
I learned his address and visited his
home. I found his mother of the
same type, who, in the course of con
versation, told me that she had Tuber
culosis, and was unable lots of times
to do her work. The family of rev-1
en were sleeping in two small rooms
with all windows closed, and paying
no attention whatever to the right
kind of food. The mother was allow
ing this little boy to tfrink strong
poorly made coffee anytime he wish
ed. I tried to explain to her the
harm she was doing him and I am
sure from later visits she tried to
carry out advice given her, as best
she could, not only in regard to him,
but herself and her home.
Cooperation is of utmost import
ance if results are obtained. Co
operation with the children, parents,
school authorities, public workers
and organizations. With out help
from'all,, the work is handicapped and
can never be a success.
Through the work of the school
nurse American citizens are better
physically fitted to receive the educa
tion which in its turn is to fit them
for responsibilities of citizenship. It
is her duty to so teach the value of
health both to children and parents
as to make them realize that its at
ta;nment is worth some real sacri
fice on their part; it is her duty to
strengthen parental responsibility in
new directions, also to do her part
toward making the school an institu
tion where bodies, as well as brains,
are developed for a life of usefulness
We should take courage, for the
war is being successfully waged the
world over. In city after city results
show that it is no hopeless task
which lias been undertaken, only a
difficult one.
To give a fair chance in life to
thousands, who are now hopelessly
handicapped, before the race is well
begun, are aims that cannot be light
ly set aside.
During the past two years your
school nurse has labored and planned
trying to gain the confidence of the
people, and hoping to see the work
develop and grow. The foundation
has been laid, the knowledge of the
needs are before us, and we have
just come to the point where greater
things can be accomplished. The re
cords clearly show that our effort
has not been in vain, although the
percentage of defective children has
been large, we have seen (sixty per
cent of them treated.) To public
health workers, this is an unusually
result in a town where there are no
free clinics. It is to be hoped that
some arrangement may be made, to
treat that part of the forty percent
who are not able to have this done
for them selves. Can Shelby afford
to disregard the opportunity—denj
the responsibility? This is a question
well worth your earnest consideration
and as one who has most carefully
studied the situation, I beg you to
think.
Ignorance is Bliss
(Columbia Slate.)
Princess Mary and the Dutchess of
York are wearing coats of rabbit
skin. So are any number of Ameri
can women, but they don't know it
because the creatures have beer
given fancy names.
Paint These On Your Ford
Pray as you enter.
My Galloping Goose.
Don’t rush me, I’m tired detouring.
Follow me—I drop nuts.
The Pride of a Tinner.
Honest weight—no spring?.
Fat: That auto looks pretty well
worn out.
Slim: It ought to. It’s the sole sur
vivor of four love affairs.
The investigators have discovered
a 1924 model Ford still in use.
SAYS HE KNOWS
IT IS O. K.
Mr. J. L. Coker Has Given HERB
JUICE A Fair Test And Found It
To Be Satisfactory In Every Way.
“I have given your HERB JUICE
a fair test and have found it to be 0.
K. in every way, so I do not hesitate
in recommending it to my friends.”
The above statement was made to the
HERB JUICE man a few days ago
| by Mr. J. L. Coker, well-known and
popular clerk for the Jiffy Grocery
Co., 236 East Trade Street, and who
resides at 409 East Sixth Street,
Charlotte, N. C., who, like thousands
of others in this city, has found that
HERB JUICE will do all that is
claimed for it. “My trouble,” contin
ued Mr. Coker, "was all due to my
stomach, liver and kidneys. I would
have severe billious attacks and my
stomach was so upset all the time
that just the smell of food would
make me sick. Why, I could hardly eat
a thing and my kidneys were very
irregular—would be up all hours of
the night. I had severe pains across
my back and all through my body
that I thought I had a bad case of
rheumatism. I was always taking
some kind of medicine, but I must
honestly say I have never found any
thing to gi%'e me any genuine relief
until I began using HERB JUICE.
“HERB JUICE, according to my
way of thinking, is the greatest medi
cine sold today. 1 never have any
•more billious attacks or indigestion
spells and my stomach is in fine shape
and I eat anything I want, my kidneys
act regularly, which means no more
getting up at night and I have been
relieved of those severe pains across
my back and all through my body. As
I said before I have found HERB
JUICE to be all 0. K. in every way
and do not hesitate to recommend
this medicine to all my friends.”
HERB JUICE is guaranteed to give
satisfaction or monev refunded at_
riviere drug CO.,
Shelby, N. C.
(Adv.)
Conflicting Sides Of
Capital Punishment
(Raleigh News & Observer)
There was a time in England when
almost every grave crime, and some
not so grave, was punished by death.
Life was regarded aff*very cheap and
at the pleasure of the King. It was
because of the easy conviction by the
King’s court and the severe penalties
that when people has a voice in par
liament they made laws to safeguard
the rights of the accused. Sonm of
those safeguards, necessary then,
continue when the reason for them
no longer exists.
But the generation has witnessed
the swinging of the pendulum far to j
the other side and the sentiment j
against capital punishment has |
brought about laws in many states !
and countries against capital punish- j
ment for any crime. There is an
ever increasing number of people who
hold that as neither individual nor \
government can give life they have
no right to take it away.
In North Carolina the prevailing j
sentiment is in favor of a law that j
would impose the death penalty for
the most serious crimes. A proposi
tion to repeal the death sentence fori
premeditated murder and rape could j
rot command enough support to car
ry it through a General Assembly. '
But thousands who would oppose the
repeal of the law will refuse to ren-1
der a verdict that will carry it into j
effect if their personal vote on a
jury sends a man to the death chair.
Theoretically they are strong for the 1
death penalty. When it is put up to
them as individuals to vote for it
they give such undue weight to tire
charge of the judge as to
able doubt” as to let guilty m.'n ,
cape. The reason why men, guilty
murder in the first degree, are So of
ten either acquitted or iound -uiltJ
of murder in the second degree or of
manslaughter is because the jurvm.
do not want to say that a feliow nm
shall be electrocuted because tlv. '
fears, if a life sentence js imp,il!7
the affirmative power will short] •
so reduce the sentence as to <].,
adequate and deterring punishment'
In his autobiography, the'late Vice
President Marshall writes inter.. ,
ingly and wisely on the exercise 0f
the pardoning power and gives ex
amples of how by its wise exciry |,'
restored several men to useful an*1
honorable lives. Touching upon th
matter of capital punishment, jj,.
Marshall gave some suggestion Wor.’
thy of serious consideration, all .j-,
more so since they were written
shortly before his death. We quoy
This question of inflicting the
death penalty is a serious one. por.
sonally, I am opposed to capital pun
ishment. I do not believe it rests jn
human hands to say when a lip.
shall cease; and if there were some
way devised to prevent what perhaps
1, myself, did—the extension of ex.
ecutive clemency to men who were
keep them in for life, then I believe
hanged—if there were some way to
s uit up for life instead of being
all persons would be satisfied with
the abolition of capital punishment.
Perhaps modern boys grow up with
out proper discipline because a safe
ty razor is such a flimsy, inadequate
affair.
Correct this sentence: “She is for
ty end single and rich,” said ho,
"but never tries to run other peo
t>i!e"s affairs^”
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1
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J. LAWRENCE LACKEY,
_ Dealer ----- Shelby, N. C.
When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them
Full Fashioned Silk Hosd
Perfect Fit—Splendidly Durable
It would seem odd to talk about well tailored suA
Hose, but that s just the way these seem—they fib
so smoothly! Woven of
glistening, strong silk!
Full fashioned! Knit of
ten-ply silk.
Buy a Supply NqV?,
Every feature tends to
make them wear, and with
sensible laundering, you will
find these of long service.
In ail colors, the pair,