North Carolina Newspapers

—SHELBY SIDELIGHTS— _By Renn Drum. _ With the summer processing «n:l Ebeltoft’s thermometer showing a daily batting of 90 or more, summer baseball for Shelby seems to bo mere ly a heat wave dream. Ben Subtle can usually be roiintod upon to start the famed pastime kick ing but with double-headers eVct.v duy in the real estate game Ben his little time left for baseball. And so *is the greatest joy of E. H. Griffin, our station master, kayeed until the high school loam gets going again nex«. spring. Give Griffin a good place to park bis crutches on the sidelines and two teams that curt stand razzing and the jovial director of the Shelby bus traffic is in paia dise. Tfs said that his voice won several games for the Shelby high during l..~ pa*t season. North Carolina is a boosting state. No one doubts, and Shelby naturally gev.s its heckling frequently for pro claiming that the U. 81 census says it was the state’s fastest growing town from 1020 to 1025. Apparently hundreds of ou.aiders take tbe bom,ting straight—that is 'judging by visitors carrying auto tags of other states—but there are those who cannot see why any state should have that which they do not have. It's well to gin. both sides of noth ing, so peruse what the Columbia (8. C.) Record has to any of Nc th Carolina: (Remembering as you read that Columbia, a state capital gl ow, almost as fust as Shelby, MON TANA)— ip “So far we have noted North Carolina 'hasn’t yet claimed that if was the original Garden of Eden, but the Old North State is so busy cheek • ing up its territory and fake citizen ship list that it probably has not got around to the recent claims of Alisa Anne Elizabeth Parks, now pupil iu Wellesley College, that. Michel Ney, Duke of Eichingen, and Marsha! of Prance, was shot in the Luxembourg garden December 7, 1815, but ditdjn 184(5 as a poor school teacher in North Carolina. “To our certain knowledge Noit'i Carolina has claimed about all the historical characters in history sum the days when its original settlers sweetened their Corn licker with p ar j rosin. It not only claims Marshall Ney, but the Dauphin of France, An drew Jackson, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, .lames Knox Pol a and the long lost Charley Ross. “Moreover, it gave Thomas Jef ferson all the big stuff for his de claration of lndepedenee.. These are only a few of the outstanding h<og ruphfcul#;lar3 the Old North State at tempts to take over. It’s scenic assets include practically everything worth While south of the north pole ar.p north of the south pole, to let n tel! the Story. “In the meantime, the nation laughs long and heartily, suggests that the Tar Heel story teller have another drink of the ldnek bottle and let it go at thnt. In other words have a camel—also a North Carolina pro duct.1' Yes, some people still argue with sign posts. But there’s one sign out on Wert Warren street in Shelby that offers a got)}] rebuttal. It’s there that the detour west of Highway 20 begins and there nr ■ so many motorists that just know the road is all right that it has been haul to halt raved over he restricted route.* Sk>, Resident Engineer B. M. Gra ham erected a sign rending: “Detour, Highway 20. Don’t argue with this sign, it’s telling the truth.’’ How much does Shelby spend for cigarettes daily? Such a discussion originated over the week-end on die streets, where certain stores and business houses were reported to be selling from ^ >0 to $200 worth of cigarettes weekly. One estimate was that She'by smokes $200 worth of cigarettes daily. Some modern Shyloek Holmes might chase the proper amount down. Anyway, it’s a far cry from the day when only a few fellows smoked and hundreds of worried mothers poinltd them out as horrid examples to their sons. MORAL: Warn the children not to :* succeed in life and maybe they li •• make good—mebbe. Isn’t it almost lime for thc> fvor.cn suckers to show up around Shelbj ? 4kV n dull day when there is no - l»e\WB Story about Charlie Ross .And state st as dull when thereisn’t some thing new nbou, the suit against 'be Shelby Methodist Protestnnt church. «V*h 30 some candidates it was that every home and domicile nd county would have been ly canvassed by this time, but Hugh Logan in carrying the necessary equipment ru i judges learned that there were several suctions of the county that had not be«n ‘‘worked” by any candi ' nB^hv|| odd. •And as a-notation the colyum would j boost the advertising space sold by the Cleveland Star. Most any candi dale would like to talk personally to some 20,000 'Cleveland county vote r;:. D6n’t-you think so? And ihat’s just how many people read The Star three times each week. P. S. There are one or two issues of The Star before .Tune 5. and th« advertising rate is moderate. t i i i The annual gin-swapping period is i fast approaching Hhe.'by. June-brides-rceeptions— gifts. Now,, perhaps you tret us. Here’s another punch in the ribs | of Shelby’s Chamber of Commerce: j Over 400 people passed through Shelby in one day last week en route ! to the 1 eetion to the westward ANl) NOT a ONE OF THE 400 KNEW THAT HE WAS 1* A S S IN G THROUGH SI J El. BY unless he hap pened to see the name of the town on a stray envelope floating about the streets. k’s this way: Of course it vvoud not be proper to distribute Shelby ad vertising matter among guclts of realty d< veloprhent of another section, but there is a legitimate way of t ill ing the world what it’s all about. How many of those 400 folks do you suppose would have noticed a nice highway sign out at the tows’s en trance informing them that they were entering Carolina's fastest growing town? And such an introduction would get many of them to looking —-kindu excite their curiosity to te what such u town would look like. As it was we suppose several hun dred of them journeyed back home with a kind of hazy memory as to the name of the hustling, bustling little city ceiucred about one of the most j beautiful parks in Carolina. Yes, Shelby needs to be introduced on the highways. Some of the did proverbs arc dead. Among the buried ones being that 1 about the best mousetrap and the path beaten to the maker’s door. | Even fame must be advertised j these days. I '---—“— / Loose Screws May Cause Big Things t 1 VI? * I Ljy wi, «». A great engine Stopped, and a thou sand hands were thrown out of work. The machinist took the engine down, and found that a little screw had worked loose. We were grinding corn with a pow er grinder back on the farm. Sud denly the sparks began to fly, and the' grinder slowed down with a jerk, breaking several eastings. A little screw hfid loosened,’ and gotten into the burrs. My car was skimming along ns tiro it would work forever without re pairs, when one day it began to slow up, and backfire, and misbehave gen erally. At the garage they found, that a screw had worked loose in the j timer. I Little things become the makers of j great mischief when they get loose, j This miracle of a human body is to me *the most vital machine in the j world. Yet, how easily it gets out of | order. A little germ gets started in the lung tiss ue and death results. The j athlete starts’on nis mile tun, and is] seen to stop and lie down at the road- j side. Examination shows that a little muscle in the c-ilf of his leg has be- , conic overstretched and drawn into a I knot. A screw loose in his muscles, j A person begins to worry about life, i about investments, about crops. Soon that little loose screw gets into the : soul’s motive: and the mental peace j is upset. A slight bugged to th ■ heart, and warmed by the heart blood loosens some vital part of the soul’s machin ery and soon the beautiful creation called the soul is useless and helples Not so long ago a man came unto my congregation, and the young peo ple began to giggle. It does not take much to make boys and girls giggle ifi church. After the service was ended, I asked a young man about thi' stranger, ard he said, “He’s got a rcrlw loose in his head.” Later l learned that ,he man had been brih liant hi his youth. Sickness came up on him and impaired some gland that control:, the supply of blood to the brain. It made him seem queer. Loose screws in thinking, toasts screws in personal ideals, ure respon sible, for the great sins that destroy the beauty of life. The Master said, “Beware of the little foxes that destroy the vines." The Growing Dairy Industry Astfcvillc Tig-.es In a number of western counties there is the beginning of a dairying industry that will some day drastic ally reduce the amount of money sent out of the State every year for dairy products. A creamery has recently been established at Franklin, county neat of Macon. Sylvia is shipping every month 2,000 pounds of butter fal and on Saturday there was n meef ing of Sylvn’s business men to devise means tor an expansion rff the dairy ing industry of Jackson county, it wns pointed out that there is great need in Jackson county for herds of pure-bred stock and the bankers and other business men present gave special attention to the problem of aiding the farmers to purchase thor oughbreds. With interest of this kind in the dairying possibilities of Jack son county, added to >.he county’s rich natural resources in grass land, cli mate and water, it should not be long before a creamery is established at Bylva. ' Headlines deceive you. As a mat ter of fact, over 73 -per cent of the ladies never kill a husband. One-Crop Farmer Has His Trouble When (he Cotton Crop Fails He Is In j Had Fix. Suggestion As To U< medy Gastonia Gazette Whi n the cotter, crop fails the one- j crop farmer is in a hail fix. Last1 year gave ample evidence of that I fact. Load alter loail of hay and j other food am! feed crops going out of . Gastonia all winter and spring ur lushed evidence' of the plight of tee i one-crop farmer. At the risk of he- | ing tiresome we are pfingint aga,n | the item from The Manufacturer lie- | cord which has been printed one-- :n ' The Gazette this spring: ‘‘A Texas newspaper carries fi stoiy i which should be read ’o.v etjery man in. the South, whether'he be r. farmer, u banker, a merchant',' a manat acurrr or a professional man, for, the stiiry is one that vitally concerns the en tire SoUvh and every man and woman in it. It is this: “A meeting of farmer:' and busi ness men had been called to discuss the present cotton crisis and the dan ger of further h sses from another big cotton crop. ‘•About 200 farmers were present. After several addresses had been ] made, a banker asked for all farmers j present who had corn of their own I production in their cribs to rise. Twelve rose. After they had taken their scats, he asked all farmers who had meat of their own raising in th-.ir smokehouses to rise. Thy same twelve I men rose. After they 'had • taken their sweats, he asked all to rise who had money in the bank which they did no. borrow. The same twelve men rose. Wherever a! farmer raises his own foodstuff and feedstuff and makes cotton his surplus crop, he generally succeeds. Wherever a farmer fails to raise his corn and hogs, his chickens and eggs, and fails to keen a cow, -uvl centers all of his, attention on ectt n raising, he generally grows poorer and poorer and his family become more and more victims of poverty ini! sickness. Savannah Cl&ishs To Have Oldest Lodge SclontcnV Ledge Establi^hc <1 I7:M Said To Have L<mgesi Confipu eus Existence of Any Savannah, Ga—Siolomon’r, Ledge No. 1, located here, claims the dis tinction of being the oldest coiuir.uou.; Masonic lodge in the United Stale/. It was founded on February iO. tT.'iU. according to the records of the Grand Lodge of England. The record of cite membership of the lodge on August lit, 1756, shows ten Master Masons, nine Fellowcra/tsmen and seventeen Entered Apprentices. An extract from the old 'minutes, recently returned to the lodge from the Copgrestionat Library,.reads a:; fellows: Some' Rules, Etc. “That uyery Member shall pay a Quarter's L«h|kj Mr*ey '"hen ye Qurr tre commjyicos, <£ yc Mon ‘V to psrd for ovWV Quarterly Feast shirll be paid ye Lorlbe Nigh. before sud. Feast. And all savings to any Mem ber by his being absent any Lodge night shall he allowed him a* '< Commencement of ye next Quarter to wards ye defraying his next Quar terly Expenses . . . “No persons shall be made a Tirol on a public Lodge Night, but any Person after being duly elated sh: H be made (afirop) at any other o venient Time & when the Mrltr thinks proper." PLIES TO GREENSBORO ON BUSINESS LRIJAN 0 Greensboro, May 27.—-Traveling ip an airplane, Paul Garrett, of Now Yo.tjc, a financier, left here thtr. morn ing for the metropolis. He came here on business, making trrjdhy A plane he chartered for the purpose, having a few hours of lai iru t,s to ;<t ‘end to. He is the first man io com mute i n n hus.ines'- t.rjn In ; ahfPlane. between New York and * Cu'efchkmr/b; He came here to talk to his nephew, B. B. Vinson, and to W. F. Hope, a vice-president in .he Greensboro Bark and Trust comoany. Whan he b ft here Shortly before noon lie exported to be in New York for supper. BOY BORN WITHIN WALLS OF FR!SON Raleigh. May 28.—A hoy was born within the Walls of the state prison here today. Kllen Carpenter, white woman sen tenced from Macon county for dis orderly conduct last week is >ho mother. Superintendent Pott said the child would he turned over to the welfare department as soon a.--, pos sible The mother has a year’s sen tence to serve. Coming To The Webb Theatre Thursday And Friday. GOOD USED CARS Ford Coupe, Chevrolet Coupe, Hup mobile Touring. CHAS. E. LAMBETH MOTOR CO. —-Shelby Branch— Dodge Brothers Dealers Sell Good Ubead Cars. SAVE MONEY You uve le a gallon on gasoline and more on repairs, oils ami accessories. Stop any day find try our expert motor car service. We are out of the high rent district. SOUTH SHELBY OARAGE j. 15. WILLIAMS, Proprietor. TV\El.TY-TWO YEARS IN THE SERVICE. —SATISFACTION GUARANTEED— —No Trip Too Long — No Trip Too Short.— —MOVING A SPECIALTY— I HONE YOUR WANTS TO 100 IF YOU DESIRE QUICK SERVICE. —RATES REASONABLE— THANKING THE PUBLIC FOR FAST PATRONAGE. i I hC L l 10 TRANSFER mUSI -SCHEDULES INTER-CAROLINA MOTOR BUS CO. Shelby to Charlotte—7, 9, 11, 1, 3, 5, 7:30.—Charlotte to Shelby —8. 10, 12, 2, 4, G. Kings Mountain to Charlotte—7:30, 9:30, 11:30, 1130, 3:30, 0:30, 8.30. Direct connection made in Kings Mountain for Spartanburg and Greenville in the morning—One hour layover in afternoons. Bessemer City to Charlotte—7:45, 9:45, 41:45, 1:45, 3s46, 5:45, 8:45, ■Gagtojpia to.Gharlotte, leaves every hour on the hour, from 7 A. Kl. to 8 P. M.' Connection made there for Rock Bill, S. C.; Spartanburg,\ Greenville, Cramerton, Lincolnton and ‘Cherryville, York arid Clover, S. C. Caatonia jjto Shelby—On the odd hours, making connections for RvjltherigxdtJgn, Hendersonville, Asheville and Statesville Gastonia to Cherryville—8:30, 12:10, 4:10, 8:10. Cherryville to Gastonia—7:15, 10, 2, G P. M. Charlotte to Rock Hill—8, 10:30, 4:15. Rock Hill to Charlotte—10:30, 1:30, 4:15. Buss- leaves Spartanburg C:!5 P. M. Connections at Kings Mountain, Charlotte. Telephones: Charlotte 2G71, Gastonia 1051. Shelby 450 Shelby to Rutherford ton— 8 A. M, and 1 P. M. Rutherfordton to Shelby—9:40 A. M. ft 2:15 P. M. Shelby to Asheville—10:00 A. M. 12, 2, 4, 6 P. M. Asheville to Shelbv- -8, 9 ft 11 A. M. ft 2, 4, P. M. Shelby—7:20 A. M., 10 A. M„ 1 P. M„ 4:30 P. M. I.incotnton—8:30. A. M„ 11 A. M„ 3:00 P. M. 6:30 P. M. Schedules Subject to Change. L. E. RIJDISILL . Democratic Candidate For Solicitor. Born in Catawba ‘County, 1882, and reared in Lincoln County; son of Confederate veteran. Graduate of Lenoir Collage, University of N. C. and 'Colum bia University, New York City Law training, University of N. C. and Golumbia University. Instructor in 'High “Schools. Newton and LincoJnton, one year each. Professor of English, Lenoir College, one year. Prac tised law at Lincoln ton and Morganton 8 years. City At torney, Morganton, 2 years. Volunteer Private in U. S. Army in 1918. Resident and Practicing Attar-; ney of Lincolnton, since 1926. IF NOMINATED AND ELECTED.: J £'il! not engage in Private Practice. *' ifv/ill- have no Partnership for any purpose. yvill not act as Private Counsel for any person, Firm or Corporation, The Salary Of The Office f* Sufficiertt. I shall not Prosecute because of Personal Hatred.; . I shall not refuse to Prosecute because of Fear, Favor or* ' Reward. ' ’ I shall strive to bring the truth to light whether it helps, the State or the Defendant. , TOUR SUPPORT WILL BE APPHECIATED.: STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS. ■ I To the Democratic Veters of 16th Judicial District There recently appeared in the pa-' pers of the-16th judicial district a po litical advertisement of one of the candidates for solicitor of the 16tn judicial district with the name of the mayor of the city of Hickerf ugned thereto in his official Aide. I have no grievance against - ^:,e mayor cr any one else who does net sec fit to support me as that is a pri ilego he has as an American citizen. But when the mayor signs on a dot ted line preputed by the < andidate, I do not think that he should be so thoughtless. "He certainly has the privilege and the right co support any candidate gnd he is to be commended for taking a stand for one of the candidate; in the race, which every voter should do, but when he attempts; to deliver the democratic vote of the district otcr to his man he ip certainly covering a whole lot of territory. The mayor is certainly exceeding the ’powers granted to him in the city Charter when he undertake.4; to de liver the Democratic voters of Hick ory for he must know that a lot of his Democratic friends are my frien ls ■!bo. So far as the mayor’s part is con cerned i have -ex-mayors of the city of Hickory and prominent busiie ss men who are standing by me in -hi? race •but 3 would not embarrass them to ask them to sign on a dotted line and attempt to deliver the vote in bulk to me. This is a serious matter and no candidate should attempt to belittle the race of his opponent, but each ore should feel and. consider that we are all of us friendly foes in the race rod each one of us worthy of the others s,.eel. Let us not go at this thing in the snirk of envy and malice, let us net mm one of the cL*didates Esek and the other Sitnah as Isaac named the wells which the Philistines coveted, let there be no enmicy and no strife and no satirical reference by means <.f comical pictures, but let there be peace and harmony, prevailing in this contest. Let there be no strife in this race among the different herdsmen ol the various candidates. It does seem that when the mayor signed on the dotted line and did not s'top by saying that he was support-t:;* his candidate which would have been mere in keeping with fairness trt the other candidates, but when he Wei:' further and undertook by the stroke of his pen to deliver the solid Demo cratic vote to his candidate then he was just a little cruel to the othei-3 and manifesting to some extern, the spirit ol' Abimelech the king of the Philistines. He who can wish others well hfcs a spring of joy within his own breast. I yield to no one in love and loyKltjf c0 the good old county, of Catawba and all this talk about it being Ca tawba’s lime has nothing\to do with this race unless Catawba has the right man for the place, then if she hn3 not let us take the man from Linco'n, Cleveland, Burke or Caldwell as the case might be. and who ever he be let us Democrats all place our shoulders to the wheel ad roll up a good*, old time record breaking majority for the man who is nominated, whethe* it be the mayor’s candidate or some of the others. VOTE FOR— D. L. •"HICKORY, N. C . ' ff Russell FOR SOLICITOR JOE MORPHY WILL COME TO CLEVELAND WITH THE LARGEST VOTE. MRS. J. H. HARRELSQN ENDORSES HIM FOR SOLICITOR. \ To The Voters Of Cleveland County: I feel that I should let $ny friends and those of my late husba.id, J. H. Harreison, know some thing about Joe Murphy. He is one lawyer who never abuses a witness, is always courteous and yet is still an exceedingly effective cross-ex aminei. He is the most promising orator among | the young men of Catawba and adjoining coun ties, his speechhes always being.logical, pleasing and effective, yet never abusive or vulgar. Yes, be is a lawyer of ability, energy, integrity and ex perience; has a great sense of humor and is al ways a gentleman. Joe Murphy, who has always supported the candidates of Cleveland, the Old Home County of my late husband as well as mine; he has al ways worked and voted for the Webbs, Gardner, Hoey and Carpenter; and he will come to Cleve land County with the largest vote of any candi date for solicitor. Her voters, I am confident, wlU show that they appreciate the unselfish ser vices heretofore rendered Cleveland by Cataw 3*>ung Democratic War Horse, Joseph L. Murphy. Sincerely yours, MRS. J. H. HA^RELSON. \