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AROUND OUR TOWN —SHELBY SIDELIGHTS— * * ;—BY RENN DRUM— With another two years just like those flicked off the calendar Shel ly will quit measuring distance by blocks. Instead when a stranger asks directions for a certain business! house natives will say: “Co down; this street three grocery stores, turn to the right and go one grocery store. I 1 here you are.’’ Grocery stores to the right of us. yrocery stores to the left of us, in front and to the rear. If an cffieie r.ey advertising expert should hap- j pen to select a suitable motto for Shelby the colyum has a hunch that i it would be “The City of Grocery' Stores." Which is good. A town must be | -rowing rapidly when it eats enough at home to support so many grocery j -tores. The wise fellows—those who. have money, making their advice sound more sensible—say that postal. receipts furnish the best indication; of a town’s growth. To which the] colyum disagrees. We’ll bark on the! grocery stores every time. If a town odds so many grocery stores in a j car then it means that so many new j people have moved in. Some folks do not use the mails, but ; well—that’s different. A fellow may I not lick a postage stamp more than, twice in three months, but if in that' time he does not dispose of a quarter] of ton of groceries he’ll never lick another postage stamp. No more groceries are eaten per person now-a-days than five year? aco, hut look how many more grocciy, stores there are in Shelby. Now, say y.-’rc not growing. Naming every grocery store in t iwn would bo no easy task, for it's fact that there are more grocery stores than there are folks who pay income tax to any amount. Maybe that's why, but a fellow well-fed cares little about the income tax business. The only fear the colyuni has about the grocery business is that they're opening ’em up so fast they’ll soon run out of odd names to call them. Another complaint is that they're com log in such gobs that sometimes more than one store has its opening on the a me night and all the housewives can’t get to both and corral the free stuff. But there's one good thing about it. Housewives who have attended all the recent openings have enough free gro ciries by this time to run an ordinary family for eight months. It's a sight when there are more grocery stores on one side of the street than there were saloons when dad was a boy. They all seem to be thriving, but they better watch drug store compe tition The druh stores sell very few "roceries as yet, for a wonder, but it's hard telling when they'll add a new !'ne or so. A high school student would have a harder time trying to describe a drug store than in describing the birthplace of the Prince of Wales’; wife. Menthology gives the best de scription in the following item: A motorist stopped at a filling station no the outskirts of a village on bis way to visit one of his wife’s rela tives that he had never seen. He had heard that the relative had a flour ishing business, and he decided to use the opportunity to learn some thing about him. “What kind of store bees Joab Miller run at Toad R>ck?” 1 e asked the service man. “Well I don't know exactly how to describe it,” was the slow reply “He has Ford parts for sale; buys butter, eggs undj loultry; deals in real estate; paints bouses, marries folks as justice of peace; runs the postoffice; sells stamps, hams and molasses, and takes in hoarders. I guess you'd call it a drug store.” One of Shelby’s and Cleveland county’s richest sons was buried at Zion Saturday—that's the sentiment of Shelby, one expressed often on the streets over the week-end. . He never made over $1,000 in one year during his life. He labored long for $40 per year and from one position never receivel mere than *250 annually. He wasn 't a miser or money grab her. It is doubtful that at the tinm of death after 83 years of living if be left as much as $5,000. Yet he left a gift to this section irreater than a half million dollar li brary, or mammoth playground for <hildren. or a university for the young. No bank or big business firm will carry his name on for years. But what he gave the world during bis course of living will linger long er and be building worthwhile things when the marble of the tombstone at Zion has crumbled. No hospital will iarry on greater assi»£ance to man kind through bequests from his for tenc, no corporations will enter law suits over his will. But his legacy was a benefaction to be counted in mone tary terms in advancing the great put work -x tii*. v. Mid—lit tee til* of tlie world Some may wonder how a man that never made over *1,000 in one year was wealthy when he died. They would not understand, perhaps, that he is wealthier now than before iie died. Itev. A. C. Irvin in serving as pas tor of country churches, the houses oi worship from which the greatest of worthwhile i?t.ngs emanate, nev er received over *250 a year from any of the churches. Ilis name never tfiacod the income tax columns of a newspaper, but the men whose names do would readily trade the honor tar hit wealth. Let's make an estimate of his for tune: “Uncle Abe” Irvin in some 50 years ol service to his Master baptized 000 or more people, what’s a soul worth? When you decide on a Jefin ate amount—estimate on your ovr — multiply it by 5,000. In the course of those years the poiheer preacher con verted hundred of wayward men and women. If it were in the power of a physician to take the scars out of a Soul and give it a chance with the aid of God, wiiat would he charge? Take tlie price and multiply it by the hundreds of feet "Uncle Abe” placed back on the right path. Consider the happy homes in this section where the parents remember the day when they were united in matrimony by him. Remember the funerals he has preached and the tributes he has tendered, rain or shine, for the peo ple he has loved. Make an estimate of the worth of such, if it’s possil to and total the column. Was it TO millions or in the bil lions? I’crchanee it can't be express ed in gold and silver. “Uncle Abe’s’’ name may be for gotten. but a feeling he inspired will carry on through the ages. Years ago he may have pointed the way to Christ for some girl or boy. Later they might have married. To their children they gave the story he gave them; The children grew up and in iluenccd children about them in the v.ays of right living. It spread. The next generation perhaps saw liuh dieds affected by the story of the Cross related to one years hack by the old minister. That may be this generation. How many by the next generation? How many 500 years from now ? Fifty years, when you love a king and know the worth of its.inspiration, p. not, after all, too much to give. Not too much for real men. And now “Uncle Abe” is drawing the differ ence in salary between the $250 per year and what lu was worth to his section. Yes, few folks ,‘n-this sc. tio'n have 1 cen “worth as much” when they died as the saintly old fellow loft in the snow at 7,ion Saturday. Davis, Lineman For Weathers Is Killed J. W. Davis lineman for the city electrical denartment of Fayetteville died in the Ilighsmith Hospital there Friday from a fractured skull sus tained in a fall from an ice coverc 1 electric light pole. Davis lost his foot ing while at the top of a pole at the Corner of Rohs and Elm streets ac cording to J. L. Weathers, city sup erintendent of water and lights, and fell head foremost to the pavement, suffering fractures of the skull and arm and was having hemorrhages fro mthe mouth ears and nose when carried to the hospital. He was unmarried, his family liv ed in Robeson county. SupertenHent Weathers stated Davis was provided with all necessary safety equipment when he mounted the pole. Mr. Wea thers. The superintendent is a na tive of Shelby and former superin tendent of the light and water plant here. Is Writing History Kings Mtn. Church Rev, C. J. Black, the versatile and gifted pastor of the First Baptist church of Kings Mountain is wrtting a history of his church which will not only be of interest and help to his conogrogation but to the ten thou sand Baptists in the Kings Mountain Association. He has all of the min utes of the Kings Mountain associ; - tion except for the year 1903, 1904 and 1900. There are a number of copies of these dates in Ihe hands of Baptists in Cleveland county So Mr. Black is asking for the loan of them. They will be of great service to him and he will appreciate it, if you will mail to him at Kings Mountain. He also wants to know the Presbytery that organized the first church at Kings Mountain. Perhaps noise is good tor babies, ar Brucewell says. Our infant indus tries thrived on the anvil chorus. Still, it is unfortunate that all th’.s pance-era talk was accepted too lit erally by Mr. Dempsey. The only thing that can ke-p on growing without nouri Inin lit i> an e. o. _.. CO*r»4««I |i VUtUM MWl/U PROUD MR. BEETLE “It’s a matter of pride to me," Bald Mr. Beetle. “Ves. It Is a mutter of threat pride to me. Anyone In my position would be proud, too.’’ "I am In your position." said the Ited-Wlnged Locust, "and 1 don’t Utlow that 1 am feeling particularly proud. “I am crawling slowly about my cage here In the zoo ns you are doing. "Is that a position of which to be proud "My dear lied Winged,” sai l the Beetle, “you are slow. You don't un derstand.” “Pardon me. my dear sir," said the Ited-Wlnged Locust, "but you arc thinking of my distant relatives, the snails. “That la. they are not my near rel atives. anil 1 am not really sure that they are relatives at all. “In fact, come to think of It. I don’t believe they are rela;i\-»s< at all.” "My dear Mr. Ited-Wlnged Locust.*' said Mr. Beetle, "why don't you think before you speak? “That's an old, old saying, older titan you are or than I am. "It's older than most creatures, I hf Here. “But It’s a good old saying. Just the sutiie" "Well," admitted Mr. lied Winged J.octist. slowly, "I suppose 1 should ha\e thought before I spoke. “But the snails. I suppose, do belong to the Insect class, and so do !. and so do you. s<> there must he soma sort of a family relationship.'' “No more than there is between boys and girls of entirely different families He Did Not Mind Bsing Stupid. snd from fTerent states ami countries piUril lands,” snkl Mr. Beetle. ''They're all people, but they're not I related.” ••Well.” said Mr. Red-Winged Locust, “you said 1 whs slow, and 1 couldn’t bear ,that." ; . “AH,** said Mr. Beetle, “I mean that you were slow with your mind, yotir | thought^.” ; ‘dir. Red-Winged Locust seemed to ; Wei much better at hearing that. He did not mind being stupid ns long as be wasn't considered us slow in his actions as Bio snails. “What Is a matter of pride to you?" he asked after a moment, of Mr. Beetle. "Ah. my dear Mr. Red-Winged Lo cust. listen and I will tell thee." “Fine language, helgh-ho,” said Mr. Red-Winged Locust. “I know that you come from the South,” commenced Mr. Beetle, “but 1 come from still further South. “I come from South America, and my whole name la Mr. Hercules Beetle, “I am named after h man of ancient fame who was very brave and who did very wonderful things.” “Well, well, well," said Mr. Red Winged Locust. “I aril glad you get so much joy out of that, hut for my part 1 would rather he named a red-winged ! locust, as red sounds so gay and royal and noble. “1 wouldn't care so much just being named after some one else who was tine and brave, and all that sort of thing.” i “Kadi to his own taste,” said Mr. Hercules Beetle, as lie crawled proud ly away—or rather as proudly as a creature can crawl. Which, after all. Is not so very tine, as crawling is not a lofty way of moving about. Still Mr. Hercules Beetle did his best. Father’s Knowledge Renton was bragging that his father knew “ 'bout ever’thing” lint 1'eil was not at all snre that he did. He could remember several times when he had answered right straight to some question. “Well, really, Ted, I'm sure 1 don’t know." But he wanted to brag on Ids father, too, and so be saidf “Well, my father doesn’t know everythin’, hut we got a dictionT.v that knows the rest.” Would Be a Man Suzanne's mother telephoned Ted that she was going to let her come over and play with him. When he came from the phone he said: “Oh, mother, Suzanne is cumin1 ober. Quick, take my rompers off ard put on my suit, 'cause 1 want her to see me as a man.’’ Knowledge “Polly, what did you learn In school today 7” “I '.earned the uame of the boy who &#»ed next door, nruntLa-" It is the air service France leads in not heir service, On Trial I, , SU P'»!l!4‘,n ,,x a I- nil* «>r«»Ro» Ku Klux Klun 1 ntllnna|:o!l» ,„rt or, UU.t ».t N-.bl.-vlIU-, 1*1 . ,,,,^-..1 with ili*' numl-' f>t Mis* v, < .1,. , l,oH-c i Tv aswri.it.* imii. iill with tu;,htnBori fur f !*<• IIHH ui'!. ‘Ma’s’ Opponent i k . . __ IV “■1? ; Moody. attorney :>n-r>! «f Tfx.v is- If Hi** fl :;»t af;:i1n>? .. .1.1 Miriam "Ma’’ A crju wn in. *1 'V.\vU». * There are numerous protraits of Mu soluv;, but as yet not a single marble or bronz of his great thumb. S-.150.0liu for a seat on Exchange seem high until you think about the Senate. “Well, well. Anthracite; it is nice to l ave something in this country that is let alone. j FROM CIIOISJ TO L\ S1> OPERA it + it # # w + + 1t Small Town Girl Achieves Ambition When Radio Fans ‘Applaud” Her Singing rfims is t!>#* *tor\ «*r • small town | At"*rh in mrl nou :*.*» Years nld, who with I* — ih-M' ihv mthiem «• nh<1 wuti fV(M\ih"ii‘ te.imsf hot his H.'hK'v.vl op* ! It H n oimphs Start ifni with i '«»i*e, icou*l look'' inehi*tr\ and elotn rrihation to stir reed sh*j »oi « |itl\ to 1 . vi'.l hi t fit J.il ioh .1 rohlf.li t W it h t hr Mrtinpoh tan I# rand Opera t'nrHpany It o* ihiithf I ill ivltii io i »i\\ npet ,* stli #• vr, hrwk’iil a W .!*! flit*. m lSj .short » tithe iv «1111 Mu > L* wt* ol Litth Ho* k \i K \r«<l t lemnned fot t hr 1 oho to I'fftlU hi t to t hr I height slit* ha *- < ttnihril M» i .i!•!.»• ar j finer abroad tl. V irJio.i Monte e tr io. | Part* .ithl honilon u nit hr? ri ;#»t v j friends Y*t sto w is iiti ih!* to uittn j •i plare* it* »to- i. r.in.1 o|m t i r)«i*»vj( of j thiv rount r\ iint il hot \ on • h oi U . hj l-.lt rirli Into t liiiiiS',1 Iicjs of hnt.'es j through th* r.id>#. Saim it ICrvivaU (’lllM of I doth* ’ll > 11 •' I'l'U.itiJ singing i r» ievi\ tl Let m* * t omS ;* ? j Litth Lot k it i -;t!.n\.of < :?«.» a| month At il\* am- «*t \ she had j »mm*M adopt <‘d hv Mi. 1 :♦ v \V S i Pitch ,i M'lhodtsl iMi;is!»'t I Mr I it oh Wi> V . I \ II it viral Miss I jewis sa\ s "and I th.tfk lie* wa v att t'.’o t*«l Iona t>\ tl* tot lien t-U-n ;i! I h it ,t *• I tt a*. flW .iVv v;?u; Intr Thr ttivi he i night me was .test is V\ <i t* \i* t«»• a Sun Iwani and in' first a l?l** n aiM ♦ hr foie SI MY audtrnrr VV.IV will n 1 rtOOil it]? ami that hvmh m Stintin' ►rhtKil m Lttt h Link Attn Ilf,it Mr Kill It taught me • new h-vntri fach work. ;th*l t*nja\ I !<••>, rye I know o'rrv hvinn lit thr r.’othodist hymnal I Hot hist sf< i* along thr road to tapir < ante "hen she toitied ;v chords of a val'irt \ intnpnuv that ftM«*ll 1.0 with V imlrVlllr art's iH’tWfPH |>]t t tlt rs at !n«*v ir hoUSt'S I Then raiiir a fling at tin* movies anti tirxt a pl.h r m .» thini rale mtisi i al show rw •a At ta ptril for ‘•I'olllrs” . Whi 1, thr show tlisTiatnlrcl in Los Ali^i‘le> shr Mint Hay monel II itch rot k who nft< i heating hrr heautl fill so|»i 'tM» solo* ur.ui»l hei to }4(' to Now York Lpon hri aiiival therr sh« ohiaithvl a plate' lit the* e'horus eSf thr < 1| e t'f'Vlrli Yillajio F.olliVs * t Klorettz /jrufrhi then si^ne*\l he>r for the prm ia donna role m the* •’Kolltes " Not sat lsfit'ei w ith ati> thins: h‘i*s than an opera! »e e arre t nhe gaineel a hearing with (kitti Mary Ix*ww Casazza. Impresario of the Metropoli tiiit Opera Company tin hissulvieo she went abroad lo, Study under Jean de Hesike “*• •• •''**' * • | Then followed engagement* with the Monte Carlo Opera Company. the V ienna Opera and the 1‘riliSh Na tional Opera ComiKiny When she returned to this country some time nut' she was engaged to sing over the radio from Station WKAK. New York, during the Atwater Kent liour Radio Fans Applaud From all parts of the country came letters of applause from the thousands of radio fans who had listened In on her singing. A con-^ tract was offered her by the Metro politan Grand Opera Company—sho had achieved her ambition. „ Mary Lewis is but one of four girls who have become stars in tho musical world from the “Main Streets" of Arkansas. The others are Mary McCortnlc. of the Paris and Chicago Opera Companies; Anno Itcrtner, in the concert field in New York, and Marian Mci lancy, who lias I entered upon a promising concert ca* [ reer as n pupil of Ovido Musin. o FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Shelby CONDENSED STATEMENT, DEC. 31JJT, 1»25, RESOURCES FQUR MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS RESOURCES LIABILITIES LOANS AND DISCOUNTS— The largest item of a bank’s resources are the loans made to firms, corporations aud in dividuals. Our loans are made with great care by experienced men with thorough knowledge of conditions and securities and amount to _$ OVERDRAFTS— Credit extended to customers in the form of overdrafts. This is a form of credit that banks do not approve of and we urge our cus tomers to discontinue this practice-- — U. S. BONDS— Bonds of the United States owned by us to secure our circulating notes __— OTHER STOCKS AND BONDS— Investments made by the bank in Liberty Bonds, State, County and Municipal Bonds— and stock in Federal Reserve Bank-- — REAL ESTATE OWNED— An investment in real estate, on part of which will be located the bank's home in the future REDEMPTION FUND— Funds placed with the U. S. Treasurer to re deem circulating notes when presented CASH ON HAND AND DUE FROM OTHER BANKS— The cash on hand and funds placed with the Federal Reserve Bank and larger banks in New York. Richmond and other large cities constitute the Reserve of a bank. Reserve is calculated by the proportion of these funds to the total deposits. On this basis our reserve is about eighteen per cent of our deposits or over one-sixth as much as deposits, 3,427,489.31 1,898.01 250.000. 00 211.000. 00 93.950.00 12.500.00 amount to 575,386.70 capital stock— Amount paid in by the 125 stockholders as the Bank’s Capital--; SURPLUS FUND— • -. Amount set aside by shareholders as a fur ther protection for depositors and used the same as capital — * N 1)1 VIDE I) PROFITS— Profits left on hand after setting aside ample amount for interest due depositors and in come tax ____— — - RESERVED FOR INTEREST— Reserved from profits to pay interest due to depositors ________:— — - RESERVED FOR TAXES— Reserved from Profits to cover Income Tax and other taxes —-— DIVIDEND NO. 15— A Semi-Annual Dividend declared by the di rectors of the Bank and taken from the net profits to be paid to the stockholders, Jan uarv 1st. 1926 CIRCULATION— A National Bank is allowed to issue their bank notes if secured by U. S. Bonds to the amount of their capital stock which i- called circulating notes. Ours amount to_ Secured by U. S. Bonds amounting to $250,000.00. NOTES AND BILLS RE-DISCOUNTED— At times local demand for money is heavy and the bank rediscounts certain choice notes of cotton mills, merchants and oth ers with the Federal Reserve Bank and New York Banks. Our re-discounted notes amount to______ DEPOSITS— Deposits are funds placed with a bank either on interest or checking account by other banks, corporations, firms and individuals. The Deposit account is the life of the bank and reflects the financial condition of a com munity. Our total deposits amount to__ ? 250.00U.00 • ' life 250.000.00 160,266.11 34,938.07 25.000. 00 15.000. 00 244,300.00 367,000.00 $3,258,719.60 The items above constitute the bank’s RE SOURCES, making Total Resources-__$4,605.224.71 All the above items make up the banks liabil ities, making TOTAL LIABILITIES_$4,605,224.71 People often say they can not understand the usual published bank statement, so we have made the above explanations of each item, so that any one can read and understand the statement. We are naturally pleased with this statement, as it is one of the largest we have ever published and we want our friends and customers to read it and be pleased also. We thank every one who has helped to make possible this excellent showing of your bank. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Shelby A BIG STRONG, FRIENDLY, NATIONAL BANK MEMBER OF FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
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