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AROUND OUR TOWN ^ —SHELBY SIDELIGHTS - r- ■ -——HY HENN 1)111 ■ M— — If you’ve ever boon to a Worli Tories and stood in line all night 1(> get a ticket and then on the follow ing day watched a game tba>. you learned later was sold, then y’know how it feels to stand in line all night to buy a select lot in Cleveland Spring, and then find that a man ahead in the line had bought, the lot. Como to think about it a new re cord has moved to Shelby men have been known to stand in line for a dav to see a big baseball game, big prize fights, and to buy Florida real estate., but for the first time in Carolina they stood it out to purchase Shelly dirt. Standing over in the doorway of the „ooi£store sage this week a bit i philosophical discussion was ne;.rd. And it brought several new thoughts. Recently, a committee of one hun dred, better known as the Committee of One Hundred, gathered in Char lotte to put the brakes m modernist talk regarding rcl'gwm, In I \.eat was the actual reason for the meeting vm’ve never been able to fathom. Si v tral rows, minor and otherwise re sulted, one report having it that a minister called somebody’s hand a ♦’ter n hectic argument. And that meeting was at Charlotte. And Charlotte is, roughly estimat ing, about t!5 miles or so from the hif - tcrie battleground of King Mountain, where was fought the turning point battle of the American Revolution, as we Carolinians proudly say. The r< - volution as we recall history bring for the purpose of seeking freedom from England where religious thought P.nd independence whs curbed by law. So, the cycle moves back again. And unless Byrd and Emundsen get the ice jam straightened out at the North Pole where will the next free thinker? and free believers migrate to start x new America of liberty and freedom 5n this and that—excepting beverage , relieion, and so on. Which is merely the new nhilo'-ft phical thought heard at Shelby’s book store. Had you thought about u ? No’lh Cn'lina seems and even lint ter place to live after rending Berft a Braley’s tribute. For fear that our friend Phillip f!. Affleck, Shelby’s Washington booster, lever heard Braley’s toast it is here with reproduced: No’lh Ca’lina As Boon as you tret to No’th CuTi.v. The roads and the towns pet new ah, finah. The people walk with a brisker step And even your motor has more pep, The hookworm's banished, the coun try has A lot more energy, pep and jazz. The Livesl Northerner couldn’t de sign a Livelier State than No'ih fa’linn. The farms look fatter, the Hamlets ain’t Ouite ignorant of the sight of paint, They’re building roads, and they’re not content. With sand and clay, hut they use ce ment. And the schools look good, and the mills nre busy And each inhabitant owns a T.izzie Or a big twin'six <p- something fimi\ As soon as you get to No’th Ca’linh. This State’s not dreaming of days gone by. There’s a modern glint in each mor tal's eye. And the village belles and the village beaux On Gotham’s streets. You must give ’em credit, These folks are fully \ ware, you it. You meet the “Boostur" you lose the “Whir.ah,” As soon as you get to No’th Ca’hr.a —Berton Braley Some mistakes arc so incongriu p« that they are comic—ami, yes, '{no {>tar makes them sometime. At least we’ll admit it until some one proves why a barber is like a boiler-maker. Jim Austell’s on*ire line of Parisian bobbers, including Ambrose and Roscoe McWhirtei. should object to the comparsion. But nevertheless The h’tar ir.act such a blunder. In the last issue there was an item telling of the moving to Chimney Rock of a local barber, but when it appeared in the paper it w is “boiler-maker.” Anyway, some beams may be that tough. Gawge Abcrnothy seeing as how wo should get seegars from ail the ea i !’ dates here understands whv we did n»t publish his political communication io the colyum—altho it didn’t save any cigars, since mine teem to bj in circulation. So George comes back with another letter that shouldn’t hurt the feeling * of anyone, politician or otherwise, un less some of his description stumps local mental vocabularies: Dear Drum: I am greatly relieved. The last expostulation of befuddlery and perhaps excited ego, with a touch of over-inflatedhess, (as in bal loon tires and congress,) was written on the goad—no spur o' the moment and mailed w hile the author was under prodigiou. >nr:i tal Hire;;* and turmoil, like one i'rantiely trying to dislodge - an irate bee from Ihe interior of hi.; shirt. After the communication was on its way, I went hunting for a convenient, time, place person or thing, with which to disturb the phtertude of that part of nty ana tomy which er generally comes in contact with the chair when ( ne sits. Being goofv, as is becoming more obvious daily, it did not oc cur to me what an atrocious position the publi ation of that c i ime of literature v ml 1 have plac ed the c'olum in reli’ion to this season:; crop of candidates And too, I know the whole gang at the office love cigars, and if one likes cigars—well, cigars—candidates ‘cigars, handshakes—SEEGAUS. Synonnrimis, malodorus—-that is .he cigars. To dispense with over dative superficial, presumably intricate verbousnesK, which I try to make appear homogeneous and common in my balmy boons to the indul gently? paternal public, and state in half-past-seven-in the a. m. english. I am sorry I wrote what I did. I am glad it was not published. After that I feel as broadminded as these new spring hats make the women look. If any of the gentle readers are endowed with too much of the emotion that killed the legendary feline, that makes them wonder what that Sherloek-Homsley paper was about, why I advise them to take three lines per una from the following: Whiz Bang, True Stories, I the Causitive First Cause ( by Lord Lard y Lordy), The World Almineck, Gulivers Travels and Why Girls Leave Home, paste them up side clown on the wall, stand on your head and read them, then the next moonlit night about three o'clock next anuni, find a convenient hol low stump on some one’s roof and howl at the kina about your lost love, then you will have the c ssence of the mysterious paper. I remain wall-eyed as a young enlf and smilingly *:« a mule eat ing thistles. (IGA If we hail about 15 more King Lardners of Gawge's type this <■•! void of bosh wouldn't be so hard to till. Huge Bald Eagle Killed Near Rock Smoke from Mountain Fires I>r*\cs Out Birds. Congress Creates Wild Region in Park. The huge eagle noted u few days ago soaring above the Lake Lure section has been captured ,J. F. Leya who conducts a ranch on the South Fork river some distance east of Chimney Rock reports that his sup* erintendent, It. F. Parks shot this eagle injuring its wing so that the I ird lit in a tree. He-experts the eagle, which is of the Bald variety, to recover from the wound. It is black in color and larger than turkey, hay f ve-inch talons, and measures seven feet and six inches from tip to tip of wings. Smoke from the recent forest fires in Western Carolina has driven n >t inly birds, but great numbers of wild animals from their habitat, and this is probably the reason this eag'e strayed away from the primitive growth among the inaccessible moun : tains. I taring the past week congress passed an act creating of this wild i region, the Croat Smoky Nat'ori l I Park, which is assurance that in fu ture there will be no more wide spread disastrous forest fires in this i region, and that it will be speedily op ined with splendid government high ways, so that all parts of the moun tains may be roached by automob;'e. This has caused a tremendous demand for lands adjacent to the park area I and there is a rush almost equal to the opening of lands in Oklahoma 25 years ago. I t i How Dear. How dear to my heart i$ the old , Silver dollar, when Some kind incml'i r | presents it to view; the Liberty head without necktie or collar, and all the Strange thing? which to u$ Seem So new. The wide Spreading eagle, the arrowS below it, the Star? and the words with the Strange thingS they tell; the coin of our fatherS. we are glad we know it, for S omc time or other 'twill come in right well; .he Spread Ragle Dollar the Star-Spangl ed dollar, the old Silver dollar we all love So well. exc Memorial Services at Salem. Memorial services will be held at Salem church Sunday, May 30th. >11 day services. In the morning prcach j ing by Rev. D. P. Waters and addrets I «s by Mr. Charlie Burrus and Mr. I. I A. Anthony. Singing convention in the I jfterhoon Everybody invited. Toluca News Note Of People On The Go (Special to The Star) TIk re was a large crow! at the: memorial at St. Peters last Sunday. The graves were all bealtifully decor ated with flowers. I'he young people met at Carpenter's Grove Baptist church last Sunoay n'ghl and organized a B. Y. P. U. Thirty young people joined-the union. Mr. Alvin Propst was elected presi •ent Miss Helen Fa lies, vice-presi dent; Miss Helen Falls, vice-presi .ui 1 the other officers that are need ed to make a B. Y. P. U. propci ly function were elected. The young people will meet each Sunday nighr, at eight o’clock. All young people that can are invited to come and je>ti . Born to Mr. and Mrs. Neely Smith ibe 15th, a dainty daughter, Dorothy Lee. " ■" Lester Boyles, Ellas Hartman and others went to Bridgewater last week R big fishing trip. They brought hack some nice ones*. Miss Maie Edwards spent Saturday night and Sunday with her uncle and aunt Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Edwards. Mt Fletcher Sain spent Saturday night with his cousin Mr. Fiemvter Huss. Miss Ima Carpenter spent last Fri day night with Mrs. F. A. Boyles, Little Ruth Boyles returned home with her.ami spent Saturday night. Miss Lena Hasting was a dinner guest with Misses Mary and Lucy Sain last Sunday. Mrs. .John Hasting visited Mrs. Dan Sain last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Boyles and fam ily visited Mr. S, A. Sain last Sunday. Mr. D. M. Mull and family visit?d Ml. and Mrs. A. A. Sain last Sunday. Mr. Mull has returned from Broad Dow saritorium where he has been taking treatment, he is much im proved. It Delayed The Play “Othello” was being played by col ored home talent. At the place wite' Othello ask’s Desdemona where l>~e handkerchief is which he had given her the Moor approached Desdetnona and cried: *‘Dcs-da-mona, wha’ is flat han'k'chief ?” No answer. Louder: "Do-De-Dos-da-mona, wha’ is dot han’k'chief ?” Still no answer. Still louder: “De-De-Des-la-moivi, 1 command you’ to feive n:e dal han'k - chief!” [ Just then an old Negro woman at os? in the rear of the room and exclaim ed: “Now, look heah Nathan, .vipa ye* nose on you’ sleeve and let cat play go on!” Americanism: Wondering why somebody don’t do something about something. THE NEW FICTION New supply of new fiction; books by the best writ ers, entertainment and instruction for summer reading. Come in and look over the supply and make your se lections before this new stock is picked over. Also just receiv ed a supply of very attractive and high grade stationery. Everything for the office. SHELBY OFFICE SUPPLY & BOOK COMPANY _ Union Trust Building BOB STANLEY AND HIS VACATION i - --- — By Mrs. A. V. Washburn It was midday of’the last of July. Stanley trudged patiently behind the plow. Up and down the long lows of waving, green corn he went with persistent regularity. The sun beamed down with a withe r ing heat. Sweat trickled down the | sales of the faithful old farm-horse’ J but the boy eared not for the blazing heat, nor the perspiration that dripped from his sunburned face, j Forgotten, was the summer with It’s [ long hoc days of toil in the fields. For gotten, were his sun-burned face ar.d ! I listored hands. As he ran his ploy out o fthe last | icw at the edge of the field, he smiled with satisfaction as he beheld the gieat field of tasseling corn. “Had i never had better,” he thought happi’y. This was the dv to which he ban been looking for weeks~the laying i by time; for back of that lay soon .hing dear to the heart of every boy —a fishing trip. It had been planned for days :tnd days. W hen the crops were layod by, *»o. with James Newby, Harry Sands and Dan Stobel were to go to San'y < reek for a week’s vacation where they would fish and hunt to their heart’s content. Bob hurried to the barn where he watered and fed the tired horse, then proceeded to the house. As he neared the porch a little curly headed girl of four years ran down I he steps to meet him. “II’lo, Bob” she greeted him affectionately as he I swung her to his shoulder. “Daddy wite today” she continued as he put her down and washed his face and bands at the kitchen sink. Bob looked inquiringly at his moth < r. “Yes,” she assented. “Father sent a letter. Tie is improving now and expects to come home within the next few days.” “Oh! how glad I am” Bob died joyfully. Mother’s eyese were shining. “It will be nice to have father homy -’gain," she said with tears standing in her eyes. The little family gathered arour] . he table for the noonday meal. A bright cheerful group they were as Dob talked excitedly of his proposed vacation. “My! it's gelling dark” lie sudden ly observed as theirs cars caught a tumbling sound of thunder. “A good rain will settle the ground end help the corn very much” he con tinued. '‘Why, vos,' Mrs. Stanley rcplice. i ‘A nice rain coining an i father get tiny better—everything nice is ha; - ! i eninjc at once,” she laughed plcas j i lltly. And the rain did come. A heavy ; downpour fell for several hours. In | i.'ced, Bob grew restless. | “We-are to meet at Mr. Tony’s : t. six o’clock to start for Sandy Creek. | I must be going mother,” he said j again and again. But Mrs. Stanley was firm, lie must wait until the storm ceased Finally, the clouds rolled away and the sun came out. Joyfully Bob kiss I ed his mother and hugged little My jorie as he smarted to join his com rades. “1 ha\e thirty minutes” he said. “I think I can make it all right, good bvehe called as lie raced away. Mrs. Stanley gazed after him af fectionately. “He has had a hard summer” she thought regretfully. “I am so glad he can have a few days of rest and fun/’ In early spring Mr. Stanley had fallen from a wagon loaded with hay and had hroken his leg. It failed to heal as it should and he had .visited several hospitals seeking relief, leav ing the heavy farm-work upon the shoulders of his fourteen year old son. “How happy we shall be, littie Majoric, when daddy comes home,” Mrs. Stanley said as she lovingly snatched her baby in her arms. Fob rushed along as fast as be could travel. It had rained even more than he thought. As he c u across fields to save distance, he mired over his shoe tops, so he had to take to the road again. As he reached the railroad he start ed down the track. It was some near >-r this way. It was now 20 minutes ’till six and he was a mile and a half from his destination. Mr. Tony, who was going to Carey on a business trip had promised to carry the boys as far us their camp provided they met there promptly at six, Otherwise he could not wait. TFirking of this Bob renewed his t f forts and ran stumbling along the Hack, his wet shoes■ slipping on the ties. I As hi; neared the trestle over the I river e deafening roar greeted his cars. The river was a seething lrumr. of foam and odd pieces of plank and rotten logs that had been gathered up hy the surging waters. Bob gusped in amazement. He had never known the river to be so high. The muddy water was lapping the ties. A jam of logs and hoards was knock ing angrily at the beams as thev struggled to keep pace with the roar ing, plunging waters. Doubtless, there had been a cloud burst at some point up stream. “Did he dare cross'1’ ‘Oh. ves, h« must.” He could cross r.o where else and his watch showed him in the gathering dusk that only ten minutes remained in which to reach the home of Mr. Tony, at least a mile away. Not fully realizing his danger ho plunged on the leeling bridge. The tiir bid waters licked greedily at his feet and shook the steel structure of the trestle. As he stumbled on a whirling mass of logs and trash crashed against1 the bridge wi*h such force that Boh! was shaken to his knees. Not wish- i ing to risk being plunged into the midst of the surging stream, he crept the remainder of the way oil his hands and knees. When he had safely reached the ' ether side he (|ui kly sped up the hank and started inward Mr. Tony’s, j But a sudden thought brought him up | with a jerk—“The train! the 6:1'» Ira n. Wfitild the trestle Hid ?” “Oh. of course it will,” he thougnci stubbornly. "If 1 waste another min ute I shall miss my trip." A vision of the green, cool forests with : parklir.g streams, where he ..ould fish, swim, or just idly h 11 upon the velvet grass, flashed through his mind. He wa nted this, oh! so much. But another mental picture was be - j fore his eyes—a weak bridge, an an-j pry stream, a dashing locomotive-—■ he refused to think longer of this nr.-; palling scene. “He would stay.” Somebody’s little child would be on the train and per haps someone’s mother.” That set tled it. He would wait. Only ten minutes now and the train would 1 e due. He must move up the teacK. From here he could not warn the en gineer. That terrible curve plunge 1 right on to the trestle. What was that? A creak. A groan. A bewild ering deafening chash. “Oh! the bridge had given way be neath the rush of the whirling, mad dened stream. A black chasm yawned where the trestle had been a moment before. Another shriek from behind startled j him. A whistle. Ah! the train. The 1 train! “Was he too late? Had he tarried j too long?” Snatching his hat in his j hand he dashed up the track. Around the curve he sped. There the gleam ing headlight shone just ahead. Could he he seen ? He panted himself in the center of ; the track and frantically waved bin 1 battered old hat. “Why doesn't the? train slow up? Am 1 too late?” ho asked himself anxiously. “Toot, toot. Ah, now he had been discovered”. Boh scrambled off the , truck at the train dashed by. With car wheels creaking and groaning the train slowed up and came to a stand- I still a few feet of tly dark hole where the bridge had 'disappeared. Passengt rs anil crew quickly alight ed to inquire the reason of the sud den stop, When the engineer quick ly pointed to th“ rolling bridgeless Waters below. Their faces paled wail terror as they thought of the horfil’y , death they had so narrowly escaped, j “Our rescurer," the fireman cried near. Several of the passengers start ed to him with outstretching arms, i Inn Boh noticed only ene. “Daddy oh,! Dad!” he cried as a tall fellow folded him in his arms. “We didn’t expect you today” he tried. And then with comforting arms around him, he found himself sobbing ltd his story. “But" he said, “ I gained so much more than I lost. ‘The best daddy in "all the world” and he wept unasham ! ed. “And" sair a prosperous looking gentleman who lighted from the rear car, “As president of this road, let me offer you a month’s vacation any where you like, at the expense of the company. And may I make this suggestion? that you spend at least a part of your vacation with me In New York. 1 have a boy just about I your age who %would be delighted to meet the boy who saved his father's ! life.” Bob’s eyes were shining. Women embraced him, men praised him and the children crowded close around. Wher he and dad reached home early (he next morning. Bob said as his mother ran to meet them, “It really does seem that everything nice is coming at once.” THEATRES i The Webb theatre presents today Hick Hatton in a Western thri'ler “Unsure Justice..’ In a fight against terrific odds he wins out. This picture is action from start to finish. Also a good comedy extra, laugh, we’ll say •you will laugh. Thursday Webb presents Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Gist) in “The Beautiful City.” Our Dick look ing out of the Ghetto through the eyes of love. See him give all for a i brother—the way big brothers do—liv ing a role that eweeps on to the heights of sacrifice. Fulling—fighting as he goes to his knees, then up again, slashing, smashing—out of the black gutter of the Ghetto into the sunshine aid love. A good comedy also. Another Queen “What do you know about the y.gi of Elizabeth?” asked the leather, tak ing the history class unaware. “She’i; be 19 next month” answered the boy. Then the class roared. Poor John Widow—“If poor John had only 1 made a will there would not be all this difficulty about the property.” i Visitor—"Bother me? They almost, worry me to death. 1 sometimes a!- j H ost wLh that John hadn't died” Mavriage Between Two Large Giants Annan (Drumfries-shire, England.> —The world’s tallest woman, Miss Kaatje Vandyk, who is twenty years of age, weighs 400 lbs., wears size 12 shoes and whose height is 7 ft. 11 :n., has just married Jan Van Albert, who is 8 ft., Sin tall. He can light a cig arette at a street lamp. He weighs 450 lbs. and wears size 14 shoes— World Wide. Adaptabilty “A wise man will change bis opin ion occasionally.” “Whether he changes his opinion 1 r hot. ” answer Senator Sorpbum, “he will know when to change his line '4 talk.” A Mistake He came home one evening and found his wife sewing a tiny garment. “My dear! My dear!” he cried. “Don’t be silly,” she replied. “This my new dinner gown.” There is some prospect of peace, though Mussolini*/ digestive troubles may not prove serious^ I OR roWNSIIUM QNSTABhK I hereby" announce myself a candi d.'.'ie for Constable in Number Nine Town- bin. subject to the.action of i^e Democratic Primary to he held Jure rih. Vou'r vote and jnfmence will be greatly appreciated, and if 1 am eleci , i I will strive to diligently perform all duty devolving upon me by virtue of redd office. R. li. FORTENBERRY THE GHEIT IMSZETT1 THE INDIAN HERBOLOGIST. RIVIERES DRUG STORE, Opening THURSDAY (Tomorrow.) WHERE SAVINGS ARE GREATEST SHELBY. N. C. Style That’s New &Clever Developed In Lizard and Patent /lK Women who seek the ultra in sh moderate price arc tindm" tins smart likingf. 1 )evclo;>i d in jr.t.M.ii with the trimming and covered military hern. 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