—SHELBY SIDELIGHTS—
_ By Renn Drum.
The limelight of popularity has a
bewitching glow. It’s wonderful. But
bad you ever thought of the silent
tragedy thaat lies in the shadows be
yond the Wane popularity?
There may be found the greatest
living tragedies, those you never
hear of.
l^ast week old .Jim Thorpe, in h s
day the greatest of all versatile
athletes, shuffled off the stage—not
the stage of life, but it mi^ht as well
have been.. Colorful because he was
of Indian orig'n, the Carlisle womb r
not many years back was the talk
of the athletic world. Last week he
played football in Florida and only
a few hundred turned out to see th
once great Jim. Then he announced
he was through. Back to t te Indian
reservation to hunt and fish for the
remaining span of life. Back to the
solitude and the stolidi'y of the red
skin’s forgetfulness.
There was tragedy in that story. A
few years back his name graced every
sport page America over. Today the
limelight hr.s switched and now the
shadows.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, once the
toast of gay Broadway, the beauty
of another decade, lies forgotten in
a hospital ward. Another shadow be
yond the blaze of glory. In her day |
she was the secret envy of American (
womanhood.
Clemencau, “The Tiger of France,"
once the greatest military and poli
tical ower of his great nation, today
lives in solitude rebuffed by his
countryman. Trusted not by the peo
ple who once would have died for
him.
Are not the shadows beyond the
limelight just tragedies after all.
After popularity, what?
To three classes of livers it must
be sorrow. To these three—athletes,
beautiful women, and statesmen,
there is no greater tragedy than
losing power.
To the ordinary folks there is as I
much joy in the downgrade of life as
on the upward climb, but to these
three distinct classes there is one
brief period of greatness, then the
slipping into forgetfulness.
Think how bare the last of life
must be to those who once were the
toasts of beauty, brains and physl
cal prowess?
Nothing pains more n once beauti
ful woman than to be overlooked;
nothing stings more the heart of a
statesman that erstwhile followers
who forget when the hey-day of life |
ia over; nothing takes out the pep of
a one-time athlete more than the
fact that Ids fans are f«"ing by the
wayside.
The path of glory is great at the
peak. On the other side it is tragic.
Drop it to home ties. What of the
girl that was five years ago the
belle? A younger girl has taken her |
place. The boy that was the greatest
star a half decade back? He’s for
gotten now, other stars are coming
on. The political leader of war days?
He”s slipped now. Young blood and,
modern methods have supplanted
him.
There can be only one answer; The
great must get, or should, a life
time of living out of one brief span.
The girl, who only a few short
years back was the mecca of the
dance floor, how does she feel today
as she sees the wall flower slipping
over the boutonniere of beauty—as
the boys fill up the dance card of a
younger girl? “Catch"#" galore were
hers for the asking not many months
gone. Now—
Every boy cannot be a great atn
lete, or president—they all dream of
the day—and it’s disappointing when
the realization comes that to only
one out of ten can such honors go.
But to them there must be some sat
isfaction in knowing that disappoint
ment after glory must carry more
bitterness than realization never at
tained. Every girl cannot be the
sweetheart of her circle, the belle of
the ball. But the girls that are not
never have to suffer the tinge of sad
ness that comes with the realization
that the hold on romantic heaits i,
slipping, and a younger girl nas U'.k
©n her place.
After all, when you think of it,
the popularity and the tragedies, life
is retty well balanced.
Those who dance must pay the
piper. The price sometimes is terri
ble.
So anyway you look at ii this shuf
fle on the planet perhaps railed
^Frolic” by{ ; neighboring planets
spining in the nothingness has its
sweets and bitters. There’s as much
in one shuffle as another—the street
gweejxjr and the jtatusmai..
And he who is despondent is not
justified in being so.
The colyum has received another
communication from G. G. Aberne
thy, the Lardner of Uncle Sam’s
navy in Florida—and it came after
the decision had about been reached
that some realtor had even robbed
George of postage stamps. The com
munication—they're always enter
taining—will be carried-in the next
issue.
Do your Kin Folks
Drop in at the Most
Inconvenient Time?
Did you ever feel as thought your
kin and ulleged kindred imposed up
on you ?
Did you ever think they piled in on
you to suit their own sweet conven
ience? For instance, if you lived in
a winter resort d'd they visit you in
winter and if you lived in a summer j
resort did they visit you in summer
when your time should be taken up
with other things?
Or, if you lived in the country did
they pile in on you about 11 o'clock
Sunday morning without invitation
or warning?
■ If any of these circumstances fit
your case you will get a great deal
of- comfort and satisfaction and you
will echo a few amens after reading
the following supposed conversation
of the bank clerk and soda jerker
from the Independent, published at
Elizabeth City, which is a comfort
able Sunday spin from Norfolk to
Hartford.
The Soda Jerker was as cross as
i married man who has just been
forced to admit to his wife that he
was in the wrong about something,
rhe Bank Clerk, eyed him apprais
nglv before opening conversation.
“You look like Cal Coolidge wean
ed on a pickle,” said the Bank Clerk;
‘Tell me your troubles.”
“I'm going to tell somebody my
troubles if this Sunday comnany
business keeps up,” said the Soda
Jerker. "Henry Ford made enough
trouble for the country when he
made the flivver, but the man who
invented hard surface roads ought
to be shot at sunrise.”
“You talk like a nut," said the
Bank Clerk.
“Yes nnd I’ll be a nut if things
don’t change. I’m just a poor man;
1 draw a salary of $1S a week at
this soda fountain and I have to
help carry the family. When I pay
the grocery bill, the moat bill the
coal bill and the gas bill there ain’t
much left for me to buy clothes and
l-ave a little loose change from day
to day.
“1 have to watch the grocery bill
because when the grocery bill runs
up the least, bit over regular I’m
all out of luck and don’t have a
cent to run on until next pay day.
Now you wonder whata that’s got
to do with flivvers and hard sur
face roads! Well. I'll tell you; since
they got good roads between here and
Norfolk all the kin folks I’ve got in
Virginia think it’s their duty to run
down every Sunday and spend the
day and have dinner with us.
“And 1 never knew 1 had so darn
many kin folks in the world. Al
most everv other family in Berkley,
Port Norfolk, Brambleton and Lam
berts Point, has discovered that it
is related to me and lias found out
just where I live. It's nothing for
a whole lizzie load of strangers to
roll right up in front of the house
on Sunday morning and introduce
themselves as second cousins bv the
marriage of mV late Aunt Meh.tabel
to Uncle Hezekiah Somebodv. And
all I can do is make believe I'm glad
to see ’em and sit on pins and need
les while they sauat in mv sitting
room and wait for the dinner to
come on,
“And they never fail to bring
their appetites with ’em. They seem
to th'nk that they’ve got to show
♦ heir appreciation of your hospitality
by fasting for a week before they
come to see you, so ns they can lay
rway a ton of grub and make you
feel good. They nass theii plates for
second and third helpings with a
glad smile just as if they were do
ing you a favor; that’s a way they
have of assuring you that they are
enjoying their visit.
“These Sunday foraging expedi
tions from Virgina are getting my
goat and I’m getting dam tired of
them I’d rather the country wal
lowed in mud like it used to, and
there were no flivvers and no fast
roads. Then I could spend my Sun
days in peace and not feel like I was
tak ng bread out of the mouths of
my second cousins from Virgina
when I sit down to my Sunday din
“Well, what are you going to do
about it?” asked the Bank Clerk.
“There ain’t nothin’ 1 can do.”
said the Soda Jerker with a groan.
"I thought I'd get even last Sunday
by closing up the house and taking
the family down to Hertford to
spend a day with some kin folks I ve
got down there and eat on them for
a change.”
“Did you do that?” asked the
Bank Clerk.
No such luck.” said the Soda Jer
kor. “I got the family down to Hert
ford all right but found thaat mv kin
folks in Hertford had locked up their
house and were gone for the day.
And there we were 18 miles away
from home with nothing to eat, and
not a thing to eat at home.”
“Where were you Hertford folks?
asked the Bank Clerk.
“Dammit, they I ad gone to Cen
ter Hill to eat a ham and chicken
dinner on some kin folks they’ve
got over there,” said the Soda Jer
kei.
FRIEND’S ADVICE
BROUGHT GOOD
RESULTS
Now He Is Thankful For The
Blessed Belief He Enjoys
Since Taking HERB Jl'K'E.
‘‘The'saying that one never knows
how to appreciate anything until it
is gone is absolutely true. Such was
my experience when I lost my good
health and was in such a condition
that I never knew what it was to he
entirely free from pain. A good
friend told me how much HERB
JUICE had helped him and he in
sisted that I try it by all means.
Said he was sure it would help me,
now I am glad I took his advice, for
since taking this great medicine I am
enjoying the best of health and I
know it is responsible for the great
improvement in my condition, as
other remedies utterly failed to give
me any satisfaction.” “Mr. Bill Webb,
well known confectioner, Shelby, N.
C., volunteered this statement a few
days ago while in conversation with
the HERB JUICE man. “My trouble,”
Mr. Webb continued, “started with
constipation, which soon became
chronic, causing me to have terrific
headaches, billious attacks and dizzy
spells. I never had any appetite to
eat anything, consequently 1 was los
ing in weight and strength every day.
It seemed ns though my w'hole sys
tem was full of poison and out of or
der in every way. It is quite natural
that when a person’s system is in
this condition to absolutely detest
even the smell of food, and what
little I dared eat T just forced it on
myself, the result was it brought me
no nourishment. After I had used
HERB JUICE for only a very short
time, I realized that I had at last
found the right medicine. It was
surprising to me how quick’v I be
gan to improve and after taking sev
eral bottles my condition of health is
one hundred per cent improved in
every way. I have a good appetite
now, in fact I eat heartily and my
food is properly digested for the
first time in years. My liver is very
active, bowels regular which means
that I am no longer bothered with
constipation, I have more energy than
I have had in a long time. HERB
JUICE is without a doubt the great
est laxative and system purifier I
have ever used and l do not hesitate
one moment to recommend it to all
sUffererr as the greatest medicine
on the market today for constipation
and kindred ailments.”
For sale by Riviere Drug Co., and
leading Druggists Everywhere, adv.
We’ve never tasted tlve Coolidge
applesauce but we’ve listened to some
of it on the radio.
TRUSTEE'S UK-SM.K.
Ry virtue, of the power of sale con
tinued in a iiced of Trust, executed to
pie on December 11th, 1920, by
George R. Champion accuirng the b d
nce of the purchase price of real e*
if to to Gallic .1. Maunev, guardian ..<>»
Elizabeth O. Moss, and default hav
ing been made in the payment of said
indebtedness and being called upon to
execute the trust, I, as trustee, will
roll for cash at public auction to the
l.'ghest bidder, at the court house
door in the town, of Shelby, N. C., on
Saturday, February fith, 1926,
within legal hours the following de
scribed real estate, situated in No. 5
Township. Cleveland county, N. C.,
and bounded as follows:
Beginning on a large hickory, the
old corner and runs thence with the
rid line North 52 1-2 West 75 poles
to a stone in said line, thence a new
l:n:> North 50 1-2 Fast 87 poles to a
t-tono in Dr. Goode’s line: thence with
his line South 36 R"st 49 nolcs to a
stone bis corner in the old line, thence
with the old line S. 38 W. 69 1-5 poles
to the beginning, containing 30 1-8
acres more or less, the same being the
southern portion of (he M. Moss tract
of land, being ore-half.of said land
end being all of the J. F. and George
>[. Moss’ entire interest in said tract
of land and being that tfaCt
which wns conveyed to W. H. Moss by
Jno. F. Moss and George M. Moss and
wife by deed dated February 6th 1901
end recorded in <ho office of the reg
ister of deeds for Cleveland countv
N. C.. in book of deeds, “NN” nage
269. Bidding will begin at. $787.50.
This .Innnarv 20th. 1926.
JOHN 1'. MULL, Trustee.
Ryburn & Hoey Attys. 2!
“Clothes Make The
Pirate.”
AND THEY GO A LONG WAY TO
WARD THE MAKING OF A
GENTLEMAN.
Here is the last and final word on
this sale.
It is marked off the calendar Sat
urday night. After that we will begin
to display spring goods.
It is a fact which every shrewd buy
er knows that the best time to pick up
good values in clothes is just at this
between season, when one line of
goods is going off the market and an
other coming on. Merchants don’t
like to carry stocks over; it is unprofit
able for many reasons. And rather
than carry them over they cut the
price to try to sell them.
We are offering stock here now
upon which positively a buyer can
save as much as twenty dollars on a
garment. The goods are worth every
cent we asked for them when the sea
son was on; they were a good buy
then. But we don’t want to carry
them over; and we are sacrificing
them.
But we are not going to advertise
them further. We are going to turn
our attention to other goods after this
week.
The cut affects four lines: Over
coats, Suits, Shirts and Sweaters.
Consider the Overcoats: We have
about twenty-five of these, some of
them carried over from the Me Bray er
stock. Some of them are heavy
weight, and seme are light weight top
coats. These sold formerly from
$25.00 up to $39.50.
We are offering them now for
$19,50.
The Suits: There is a lot of about
a hundred, medium year around
weight, in serge, whipcord and plain
and fancy worsteds. The former
price of these ran up to $39.50, and
we are offering the same cut as on the
coats, reducing them to $19.50.
We have about fifty Sweaters, all
weights, in a variety of colors, both
coat and slip overs—TWENTY
FIVE PER CENT OFF.
Also one lot of neck band Wilson
Brothers madras shirts in a variety of
patterns, stripes and checks. Marked
down to HALF PRICE.
Gocds on sale until Saturday night.
Blanton-Wright Clothing
Company
SAM BLANTON. W. L. WRIGHT.
(Successors to Evans E. McBrayer.)
AT KELLY’S
You are cordially invited to visit the special exhibit of Spring
and Summer suitings featured in our line of fine Quality Tailor
ing for men, which will be held with
KELLY CLOTHING COMPANY
Monday and Tuesday, January 25th and 26th.
The very latest and choicest creations in fabrics will be shown.
Mr. E. B. Matthews will cheerfully serve you. It will be well
worth your while to see them. The prices are moderate. There is
nothing finer in quality. Be sure to come and, if possible, bring a
friend. Orders placed during this special display will be deliver
ed whenever you desire.
Sincerely Yours,
THE STORRS-SCHAEFER CO.
Buy Through Your Home Merchants Who Are Trying To Help
Build Up Your Town. J P
HOME FOR SALE BY THE
J. B. NOLAN CO.
9 room modern residence, <11 Sunny
side Ave., Charlotte, rents for $115.00 per
month, we will sell this ]property at a bar
gain or will trade for Shelby property or a
Cleveland County farm.
7 Room house on North Washington
St., bath, hall, 3 porches, basement, ga
rage, lot 57x150 feet. Price $7,000.00.
6 room house on East Sumter St., bath,
double garage, lot 50x150 feet, Price
$4,250.00.
- LOTS —
On Cleveland Springs road and East
side road, corner lot 105x178 feet.
78x200 feet on Cleveland Springs road
fronting Belvedere Heights, corner lot
Price $3,200.00.
South LaFayette St., 53x175 feet. This
is one of the best buys in Shelby. Price
$1,500.00.
North Washington St., 75x250 feet.
Price $2,000.00.
J. B. Nolan Co.
31 Lmeberger Building, Phone 70.
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