Too Much Efficiency
By E.J.®)Rath '
BEGIN HERE TODAY
JOHN W. BROOKE, widower
and hardware magnate, arranges
with a firm of efficiency engi
neers to operate his home while
he is away for two months. His
three grown children, Constance,
Billy and Alice, combine to fight.
II. Hedge, efficiency expert,
assigned to take charge. They
fight a losing fight until Con
stance decides to turn spy and
becomes Hedge’s secretary. She
finds notes on a book which
Hedge intends to write, refer
ring to the Brooke children as
examples of the idle rich. She
denounces Hedge and throws
his notes into the open fireplace.
Hedge acts as if demented for
the next few minutes. He throws
all files into the open fireplace.
Then he orders Constance to
write two letters: One tenders
his resignation to the Economy
and Efficiency Corp. and the
other her own resignation to
him. He insists she sign her let
ter “affectionately.”
NOW GO ON' WITH THE STORY
“There! That ends the business—
the efficiency part. You resign; I re
sign. It's all off. Now we’re ready
to take up the other matter. Here—
where are you going? Not much; sit
right where you are—Connie. Don't
forget that you're mine ‘affection
ately.' ”
Constance sank back and stared at
b'm. As she did so. the wild look
faded from his eyes and he smiled
at her.
“Now, Connie,” he said, seating
himself oh the desk and looking dow
at her. ‘ I’m sop-y if 1 scared yon
hut it had to be done. I'm not crazy:
I've just become sane. I've chopped
six years of efficiency out of my life
and I'm beginning all over again.”
She was simultaneously relieved
rind alarmed.
“Last night.” said H. Hedge, “you
turned the lights out on m?. I don't
blame you. I was still an efficiency
engineer. I’m just plain Henry now
and as suc-K I'm entitled to a hearing
I love you.”
Constance watched him curiously,
lie was utterly unlike the efficiency
man. Somehow, his dark eyes had
changed. They were ardent. They
carried an appeal that even his voice
lacked.
“Yes, Connie, I love you. Of course
1 had to. Everybody ha - t<>. I sup
pose that's one of the things I’ll have
to put up with after we're married."
She gasped and turned pink.
"Certainly; after we’re married.
We’re going to he. you know. No:
you mustn't run. dear. You must
listen a minute or two, I love you.
That’s three times I vy said it; it
proves I’ve cast economy to the
winds. Doesn’t it? I'll never econo
mize again, especially on that. 1
love you—I love you."
And Constance, for all her bewil
derment, could see that H. Hedge
meant it.
“You see,” he went on, “it explains
lots of things. It explains why 1
ordered one young man after another
out of the house. I was afraid one of
them would really get you. I don't
suppose I was giving them a spart
an j'ehance. But sow cruhl I ? I
just had to have you, Connie. You
don’t mind mv saving 'Connie,” do
you?”
She made no reply, being a trifle
uncertain.
“Now, as to the other part of it,”
he said. “I mean the part about you
fooling me and making tee ;< wve
that you really like all that effi
ciency stuff. You did fool me. of
course. But before you got through
you fooled yourself, Connie."
Constance was watching him
sharply.
"Didn’t you fool yourself?”
"How?” she asked unwarily.
"By pretending that I was your
enemy and that you hated me, and
then winding up by loving me.”
“I—why—”
Her face flamed again.
“How dare you say I love you?"
“Because I’m sure of it,” he an
swered happily. <
“You —you presume, Mr. Hedge!”
“I do not presume—and my name
is Henry. Sometimes I used to he
called Harry,” he added a little wist
fully. “Honestly, Connie, I think
you love me.”
“You think it? You said before—",
He made a gesture of despair and
laughed.
“That just shows you how mixed a
titan gets when he’s in love. But I
am sure of it. And you'll be if you’ll
only stop to consider.”
Constance Brooke had received
proposals before, but never one that
carried with it such brazen assur
ance. She knew that she ought to
put H. Hedge aright without delay—
hut she waited.
“I can’t give any reason for be
lieving so, I admit,” he continued
rather lamely. "But I just feel it in
my bones. I just feel—oh, I guess
it’s a hunch, Connie.”
He slid down front the table and
stood in front of her, his hands out
stretched, as he had the evening be
fore. But this time she did not
laugh at him. She felt serious and
disquieted. It was like having an ut
ter stranger lay his heart in her
hands—for there wa* no doubt that
the efficiency man had vanished. As
for the stranger, why—
“If you don’t love me, I think you
oujrht to deny it,” he suggested i
meekly.
"I deny—"
“Stop!”
She stopped and was annoyed -when
she became aware of it.
”1 deny—”
lie reached over and placed his
hand across her lips.
"Don’t dear," he pleaded.
She pushtd the hand away, hut did
iio‘. finish the sentence. Instead, .-he
rose from the chair and started to- 1
ward the hallway. Then she changed
her course, for no conscious reason,
and went over to one of the windows
where .she stood with her hack to- |
ward him. H. Hedge followed.
The floundering uncertainty went
1 ut of his eyes and he beamed at Ire
hack bl her head. He took her gent
ly hy the shoulders and turned her :
around.
“Let’s quit foling,” he said,
“So—so you’ve been fooling, th.tr-.“
she murmured. "Then I "
i The rest of the sentence was
smothered as H. Hedge stood there
with -Constance in his- arms his. heart
pounding a hundred heat>• to the min
ute. He did not dare speak. (ion
stance did not try; it was too— am;.;:
ing.
After several mintc-s he ventured
a pleading appeal.
“I don't know whether 1 can talk :
straight yet," he said. "I suppose '
I'm due for another bungle. But I’ve '
kissed the top of your head so often
that I just wondered if you'd let
me—"
She lifted her- .head—and let , him
“I don't deserve this." he said
humbly after an interval.
"I don't think 1 do, either—after'
"Connie—I love you.**
the way you treated me,” rho an
swered faintly. "1—1 think I must
be crazy.”
“Why?”
“For loving you.”
“Connie!” He held her off at arm’s
length. “Honestly,—do you?”
She looked at him in amazement.
“H. Hedge, you are insufferable.”
she exclaimed. “Do you. think I’d
let you —kiss me—and almost crush
me to death—if—j didn't love you?”
He seixed her again, and they be
gan once more, front the point where
TRUSTEE'S SALE.
By virtue of the power of pale
contained in a certain Deed of Trust
executed hy J. J. McSwain and wife
Sallie McSwain. to the undersigned
tt us tee for \V. G. McSwain on May
21st. 102-1, which Deed of Trust i
registered in the office of the Regis
ter of Deeds of Cleveland county. N.
C„ in book . page 231. as .secur
ity for $1,000.00 due May 21st, 1D2D.
and tile same not having been paid
when due, and the undersigned hav
ing been called upon to execute the
trust therein specified. tiie under
signed will offer for sale at public
unction, to the highest bidder, for
cash, at 12 M..
Monday, February 3th, 1*20.
the- following described property:
Ly ing in No. a township, Cleveland
county. North Carolina, and being lot
No. 2 of the old Adams land (Adams
estate) anil bounded as follows:
Beginning at a large stone, the obi
corner and runs with the old Title S,
"4 1-2 W. 50 )>o1ps to a stone in the
old line, corner of Lot No. 1: thence
with the line of said Lot S. 19 W. S2
poles to an “aldetng" corner of said
lot in the old line: thence with the
old line S. 48 E. 32 noles to a stake
and pointers, the old corner: thene'*
with the old line N. 17 1-2 E. 38 1-4
poles to astone. the old corner:
thence with the old line N 76 5-6 E.
32 poles to a large hickory in tin old
line; thence a new line X 15 3-4 E.
07 poles to a stone nile in the old line:
♦ hence wtih the old line N. 66 1-4 W.
10 poles to the beginning con
taining 26 1-2 acres.
Said land is the same as that de
scribed in deed registered in office of
register of deeds of Cleveland county,
N. C. in Book of Deeds, “SS”, page
428.
This January 4th. 19?6.
D. 7, NEWTON. Trustee.
they ltiul quit fooling.
Il was Constance who broke the
silence finally.
"It seems to me,” she said as she
ran her finger lightly almost curi
ously, over his hair, "that for a per
son who has abandoned efficiency,
you are still a rather scientific man
ager. 0-o-oh! There—didn't I tell
you so, dear?”
Half an hour later Constance and
H. Hedge were gravely wondering
how they could ever explain it to
anybody. They could not even ex
plain it to themselves.
"There's absolutely no sense in it,"
she said,
“Absolutely none,” he agreed.
"It's impossible to give, any good
reason.”
‘‘Impossible."
“And'vet —well, it’s done."
" I hat’s the only explainable part
of it- it’s done. Nobody knows how;
not even us."
‘A e.t we've got to tell them, of
eour: e."
"You bet we have! I'm going to
(Continued on page two.)
NOTH E OF SPECIAL SCHOOL
TAX ELECTION.
Whereas, a petition has been pre
sented to the Board of Commission
ers of Cleveland county' signed by
more than 25 qualified voters within
the proposed special school tax dis
trict. tiie metes and bounds of which
are hereinafter set forth, requesting
this hoard to order an election in the
territory embraced within the bound
aries of said proposed school tax dis
trict, said boundaries comprising the
; on sent boundaries of Cabaniss Local
, Tax district No. 42. the exact metes
:end bounds of which special school
tax district are as follows:
Beginning with arid including the
arm of. doe S. Blanton anil running
thence with and including the follow
ing farms, viz: Nash Magnuss, F. \Y.
, C abanis;:, E. E. Cabaniss. Plena
fiiidges. W. P. Hawkins, J. M. Brooks,
the Covington farm owned by F. Bate
Blanton, Lee Cabaniss. Mrs. White’?
; farm owned by Tout Greene. W. T.
Weathers Frank Connor Mrs. C. G.
Poston. J. C. Pruett, J. W. Irvin, El
ide n Wilson. F. P. Gold. L. A. Blanton,
ti c Perry Wellmon place; T. P. Cab
1 tmiss,. and thence to the beginning:
! to ascertain the w ill of a majoi ity
of the qualified electors residing i:t
aid district upon the question of
creating a special school tax district
I < ornprising the said boundaries end
of levying a tax of not exceeding (50)
rents on the one hundred doPars val
uation of property, both rial and
.personal, in said district, and where
as, said petition has been uthy pp
proved and endorsed by the county
beard of education.
Now, therefore, the boaml of com
n issioners, of Cleveland county, at
their regular session held on January
;th. 1020 do grant said petition arid
order that an election be held at the
u-ual polling place at the Cabaniss
chool house, in the aforesaid district,
on Monday. February 22nd. lt*2i*, foi
the nurpo-p of ascertaining the will
or the electors within the proposed
special school tax district upon the
question of levying a special tax, not
exceeding (50) cents on the One
Hundred dollars valuation of all prop
erty, real ami personal, in said dis
trict, in addition to the county tax
lor the'six months school term.
It is further ordered that G. T.
Cabaniss lie and he is lieitby ap
pointed registrar of said election and
that he be furnished with a copy of
this order, and that Coleman Blantor,
nid Pink Irvin he and they are here
by appointed judges of said election.
It is further ordered that at said
flection these who are in favor of said
boundary becoming a Special School
Tax district and of levying a special
school tax in said district to an
amount not exceeding (50) cents on
the One Hundred Dollars valuation of
property, both real and personal, in
said district shall vote a ticket ret
which shall he nrintod or written the
words, “FOR SPECIAL TAX” and
those who are opposed .shall vote a
ticket on which shall be nrinted or
written the words. “AGAINST SPE
CIAL TAX." it being understood that
if a majority of the qualified elect,:!' •
at said election shall vote in favor of
said special tax, then said boundaries
shall constitute a special tax district
known as the Cabaniss School Tax
District, in which a special tax not
exceeding (50) rents on the One Hun
dred Dollars’ worth of property ;;;ay
be levied for school purposes.
It is further ordered that a new
registration of voters residing within
said special tax district shall be had
and that the registration books shall
be kept open between the hours of lJ
a. m., and sunset on each day, Sun
days excepted, for twenty days pre
ceding the day for the closing of the
registration books, for the regisira
tion of any electors residing within
the aforesaid boundary entitled to
register, and that said books shall be
opened for registration on January
21st, 1920, and close Saturday, Feb
ruary 12th, 1920, before said election
and that on each Saturday during the
period of registration the registrar
shall attend with his registration
books at the polling place in said dis
trict for the registration of voters
and that on the day of election the
polls shall be open from sunrise to
sunset and the election shall be held
as near as mav be under the law gov
erning general elections.
It is further ordered that, after the
closing of the polls, the registrar and
poll holders shall duly certify over
their bands the number of registered
voters at said election and the num
ber of votes for and against the spe
cial tax and transmit same to the
Board of Commissioners, and same
shall be filed and the board of com
missioners shall canvass and judi
cially determine the result of said el
ection and record such determination
on their records.
It is further ordered that due pub
lication of this order and of said el
ection and new registration be made
by publishing this order In the Cleve
land Star once a week for three weeks,
the first publication hereof to he
made in the issue of January 6th,
19*6.
R. T,. WEATHERS, Clerk to Board.
Rock Mill, S. C.—That other sec
tions of the country and world have
l ot anything on the Carolina* when it
conies to outlandish names for vil
lages, towns and cities is proved by a
casual survey of any li-t of pos’d'
fives in the two states. Anything one
is looking for is right in the ('aro
linas.
Taking a glance- down alphabeti
cally on the list of .South Carolina
postoffices, for instance, one fouls
such names as the following, some 01
which the average ci'izeu would in
undecided whether to de'in? a patent
medicines. I’ullman coach names, or
Chinese crossword puzzle «ynoi-.v;i’<:
Blue Brick, GreeZewood, Burklici.,
Cateechee, Choppee. CiSosawnatchie,
Itaufuskk* Island. IKinvegnn, Kastu
toee, Fingerville. Frog more* Helen i
(Montana has one. too). Horse Pood,
Hospital. Jocnsee, Montmoienci, Nino
Time. Okatie, Pinopolis. Poll P«m,
ftalkehntchie. Sieginvillc. Thickely.
Tigerville. Yauduse. Wampce ami
Vruhaijfiah.
Of course there are others, hut thi
was just a casual glance!
Then North Carolina also has to of
fer the following:
Ahoskie. Altanrahnw, Bat Cave.
Rearwallow. Bee Tree. Bowditeh. Bug
hill. Buladean, Calypso, Cash Corner.
Cataloochee, Chocah, Chinquapin.
Chocowinity, Cognas (gone hut not
forgotten), Cullasaja. Dundarrach.
!iysartsvillc, Grimshawex, Gum Nee,
llivva .see, Makatoka, Ma-hoes. Nays
Head. Nutahala, Ohisko,. Old Tran,
1-fuff-town, Potecasi, Quinine, QuiGna,;
Sacoro. Saniumutd, Saxapnh.iw.!
Short Off, Solola, Tore; ita. 1 via'
(eia, Ilah, Unaka, t'ree. Waku'.hi,!
Warmish. Wiinchcsc anil W «rry.
Vex sir. Mime towns in far-away,
states certainly il*> have strange
names!
STOCKHOLDERS MFETING.
Notice is hereby giveii tiiat the an-1
mini stockholders meeting of the Clev
land Bank and Trust Co., v ill he l.eld |
hi the director's room of the hank on I
Tuesday January 1-th, at 11 o'clock
,>r the election of officers and ‘he!
transaction of an? other business that;
may come before the meeting. This
December 20th. 1025.
.1. J. L VlTIMOTlE, Seey.-Treas.
NOTICE TO STOCK HOLDERS.
The annual meeting of the sto ’
holders of the Union Trust Company
i f Shelby, for the election of directors j
tor the ensuing year and any other
business coinin'"- before the meeting, |
will he held Tuesday January 19th,
1P2C at 11 o'clock a. m. at their bunk- j
in;" room in Shelby.
FORREST ESKRIDGE, Cashier
Asi efficiency expert, can do it as
well a. anybody if you'll give him
time to prepare a blue print.
—INSURANCE—
Immediately after a fire or a death you think of
insurance. Very nice if they had it. A pity it they did
not. Then why wait if you are not properly insured. We
write all kinds. We make loans. Phone 200 for your
Insurance Wants.
THE M. P. COLEY AGENCY
ROOMS 13 AND 1(5. ROYSTER BUILDING.
SHELBY, N. C.
SERVICE THAT SATISFIES
-AT THE
DRIVE IN FILLING STATION
TEXACO GAS AND OILS
We have a few Tires for Fords at a
VERY LOW PRICE
DRIVE IN FILLING STATION
JAMES F. ROBERTS, Proprietor
SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY COMPANY
Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains at
Shelby, N. C
Lv. No. _BetweenNo_Ar.
4:50 16 Monroe Rutherfordton 16 4:50
12:27 15 RutherfordtonJMonroe 15 12:27
Schedules published as information and are not
guaranteed.
E. W. LONG, D. P. A., Charlotte. N. C.
or H. A. HARRIS, Local Ticket Agent
NEW SOUTHERN SCHEDULE
No. 113
No. 36
No. 35
No. 114
CHARLESTON DIVISION
Marion to Rock Hill
Rock Hill to Marion
Marion to Rock Hill
Rock Hill to Marion
7:26 a. m.
9:37 a. m.
6:41 p. m.
8:08 p. m.
No. 35 makes connection at Blacksburg with No. 40 for
north.
A. H. MORGAN, Agent
SHELBY, N. C.
2?
-SCHEDULES
INTER-CAROLINAS MOTOR BUS COMPANY
Leaves Shelby for Charlotte 7 a. m., 9 u. m., 11 a. m., 1 p. m.
3 p. m., 5 p. m., 8 p. m.-Leaves Charlotte for Shelby 8 a. m.,
10 a. m., 12 Noon, 2 p. m., 4 p. m., 6 p. m.
SCHEDULE LINCOLNTON-SHELBY BUS
Leaves Shelby 7:20 a. m., 10 a. m., 1 p. m., 4:30 p. m.—Leaves
Lincolnton 8:30 a. m., II a. m., 3:00 p. m., 6:30 p. m. ZEB
COSTNER, Manager.
SCHEDULE SHELBY-RUTHERFORDTON BUS
Leaves Shelby 8 a. m., 1 p. m., Leaves Rutherfordton 9:55 a. m.,
2:15 p. m. Z. V. COSTNER, Manager.
SCHEDULE SHELBY-ASHEVILLE BUS
Leaves Shelby 10 a. in., 12 Noon, 2 p. m., 4 p. in., 6 p. m. RED
TOP CAB CO., and BLUE RIDGE LINES, Owners, Asheville,
N. C.
For Information Phone 450—Union Bus Terminal. Shelby, N. C.
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