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—SHELBY SIDELIGHTS— By lienr, Drum. It’s entirely a! mail business at th Shelby pOBtonitj. Postmaster Qj-inn told the Kiwan .ms recently thlt 12,0(10 pieces <t mail arc handle! daily at the Shelby .(office, thi Jundling being by 2b a a Ids—not a ,*i rjrle women being em ployed at the Shilby stamp emporium. There’s a lrt; ;if conjecture ir. that i amber--- 12,000. One wonders what percentage of th* mail is love letters, oil-mess letters, or bills. At the ef.it of the. month tb- betting would be two to one tha; lulls would equal tits others combined. Then a scientist. ■' mewhat cracktjd in the upper story, might figure out how much salivia u ..I daily in liefirig the stamps that go on 1?,000 pieces of mail. Any way, after b< irg informed as to the amount of nail handled at the heavy-door officl patrons of the mad i rvice shouldn't, raise such a how] when a leUejJgdis in the wrong bo:., non fnmy There are not imny folks who do not. make a mi3t4kt frr two in doing 12.. I noo jobs. Fact is ratistics say that out : of 12 attempts it most anything at* least mistakes are made. 1 The successor puzzle in Shelby to the cross-wora s the marriage p'uz- j It will only work with married couples. The puttie has to do with ; ti e magic figures 11852. Take any married person for ev ' ample: Add the year of his or her: b rth to their present age and a> that; add the year of his or her marring? together with the number of years! married. The answer will be 385?— | every time. Try ii on a friend. Let them do the addiig and ihen without looking at their figures tell them the am wi r. At first glimpte it seems to be aj complicated thing, but it isn’t, one* i you exercise yout brain on it. The i date of anybody '.t birth added to then ! age must always equal 1926, and like ! wise the date of rjarriage abided to the years married nust also equal 1926. AND twice 1926 is 3852. Some folks like their home town paper and stick to it through ihicT and thin; ethers do not. Nevertheless it war. not The Star, but a small town weekly contemporary, that re (lived the following letter not so ling ago: . "I hereby offer my rc-signashum as a subscriber to your paper, it .being a pahphlet of such small konsequen<< as not to benefit my family by tak ing it. What you need in your sheto is branes and some one to rusel up news, and rite edytcrials on live topicks. No menshun has bin made in your shete of me butcherin’ a polen china hoa weighing 309 pounds or the gapes m the chickens out this way. You jgnorr the fact that I hot a bran new ford car and that 1 traded my blin mule ano say nothing about Si Simpkins jersey calf breaking his two front legs fall ing in a well. 2 important weddin chiverees have been utterly ignored by your shete—a 3 column obitchuary notice writ by me on the death ot grandpa llenery was left outof your shete to say nothin of the alfabet: cal pome beginning ‘A is for And atm also for Ark,' writ by aunt Silbla. This is the reason why your shete is so unpopular here. If you don’t want edytorials from vhis place and ainV goin to put up no news in your shete we don’t want sed shete. “I thank you. j< ilunk Smith, Esqr. ’ * * * There are a lot of folks like Hank Smith. The court square philosopher, iden tity not to be made public, says that in bygone days folks taught their children to have more sense, but now adays, to keep up with the times, one must teach his dollars to have more CENTS. While various Shelby folks take their vacation regularly, some during one part of the summer and others at* intervals, Judge B. T. Falls county legislator, sticks to his desk and his law practice. “I guess I’m made up different, from other folks,” says ihe attorney,! “but vacations do not appeal to me. I can enjoy myself working better.” C.< ntinuing he referred to a famous character of literature who was kept in jail and whe freed he returned to jail and begged to be locked up again. Prison, his home for many years, had become a better home than he could find outside. Incongruous as it seems it is possi ble that such might happen. ('Not ..hat we ever doubted Judge Falls.) , Explorers in wild South American rc gions tell of tribe known as the “back ers.” For generations they have trann ported all their freight and othei heavy matter on their backs, and now it is said that when one of the men makes his way to or from a trihai center that if the bag on his back is empty he fills it up with stones fjr comfort on the return trip. It is noted in the legitimate news columns that Supt. I. C. Griffin has 19 new teachers for the Shelby school faculty this year. According to pre-1 cedent 11 cf the 19 will be marrieJ ! before three years pass aWay. Flo, Ziegfiekl may pick better show gir(* tlmn Supt. Griffin, but when it comes to picking teachers that make goo<l wives Shelby's hope-tolbe lesser hal ves demonstrate that they'll take Griffin’s picks over ZiegfieldS eveiy time. Or, at least, niost of the time Some of ’em don't get married. Per haps they “don wanna." The colyum intends to journey up to the office of Hon. Clyde Hisey and ask him a question or so. Just to see if he has charged his mind after be ing married several years. Or, just what he meant anyhow. Twc aty-nim years ago when Mr. i;•'*>' edited Th< Star there appeared a lirief dim saying 0 i- a census ot Shilby rcvealeii that there were “42 widows in the town, MOST ANY OF WHOM COULD MARRY IF THEY SO DESIRED.” Divorces were few and far between in those days and it is to be wonderea at if Mr. Hoey meant that the 42 merry ledjes had enough of marries life during the first trial. But then Mr. Hoey probably wasn’t married himself in those days and he could have been one of the fellows waiting on the desires of (Some one among the 42. There’s a sad case about Shelby, Anyway, it seems so. A little girl walks into the office and holds out a bar of oap in hefj trembling hand and in her plaintive drawl queries: “Mister, won’t you buy a cake of soap? .Please buy it. You see my mother is a widow and has five children and we need the money. She hasnk a very high-powered ap peal in its delivery and no doubt is often refused, but there is a note of| pleading sincerity in her voice hint ing of a real want and dire need back of the plea. Many Shelby folks more than likply have heard the little story and helped out by buying the soap. However, it does seem that Shelby, “thp hospitable town,” should have i a better way of taking care of het unfortunates. If the cause of the little girl is a worthy one it should be taken up by proper authorities. It’s nothing to boast of to have the little gill plodding about the streets with her soap and plaintive plea while scores of dollars are being spent for luxuries and pleasures ot life. Shelby isn’t that kihd of town if it just knew about all the unfor tunate-. The K. of P. From The Greensboro Record. The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Py thias. in its recent session, appropriat-j ed $50,000 to extension work. The fraternal orders are finding the going hard in competition with the luncheoti clubs, and they are trying to develop more recruits among the young. Feed ’em after they have fed the order. Auto Problem Is One Of Accidents Henry Ford Has Created The i’rohleu. —Can He Sanest The Solution Connecticut with it* population Yi 1,500,000 and 249,500 curs registered (or one for every six persons) 1s prop, ably representative of every locality simitar in area and occupancy. Sere . years ago there were 1.087 accidents among 00,000 car* registered, and la- , year there were 22,600 accidents among the 240,500 car* registered. Th, percentage of accidents to cars 1r creased from 2.2 in 1918 to 9 in 1926! The increase i* evidently due to cov gestion of streets and road ways with cars. Motor road crossings and crowdings are infinit'Jv more danger - ous than railway crossings and ter minals. Every 12 feet cf space in a eity street ig# mb “or terminal. A most arresting item is the com parison ofdenth rates pel 100,000 pop ulation frbm 1910 to 1025. In l!Ut: diphtheria killed eight times as many persons a* were killed by automobiles, in 1926 automobiles killed three time., as many,'as diphtheria. In like man ner typhoid killed five times the num ber .hat automobiles killed, but it was reversed in 1926 when automobiles killed nice times as many as typhoid, the automobile record is climbing. As if to prove that congestion I - the causa'of so many of the accidents a graphic table reveals that the lar er numbers of accidents occur on Sat urdays apd Sundays of the week and in July, August, September and Oov tober of (he year, at which times it is cotnmon knowledge that the use of cars is at the greatest peak. More convincing, however, is it that 5 and 6 o’clock in the afternoon, the "rusu hours” of the day lead all the rest of the hour* in deadliness and destruc tion. It is only between 2 and G in the morning ithat comparative safety i. met. Accidents then are negligible About one-fifth of all accidents hap pen in the ’rush hours” as against the other twenty-two hours. Deadly con gestion. The record here in North Carolina is no different to that of Connecticut’, except it is worse. Many ’vmedics have beei) suggested, many have ben. tried, butiso long as we have automo biles we will have accidents and while we cannof^top the accidents the nex^ best thing we can do is to prote»t ourselves as best we Cdn through ae cident insurance;' Mr. C. ft. Webb, general agent for the Pilot life Insurance Cb., has three special mrt with him Hiis week, make a special drive for aciidnt insurance policies. ’ >*r '' When pv° people who are married believe i* each other they don’t be lieve in Jvorce. ---(—i—— ' NKfiilO MOTHER ERECTS MEMORIAL TO SONS (' donibin.— An unusual war mem 1 tin! is; hemfr creet<*d in Columbia. It is n modern brick business building: in a crtion of less prominence than ; the h'-uliuK highway, the erector beiin* I a negro woman and ihe structure bc infr in memory of her two sons who' Wire 'killed in France during: f'j World War. The woman is Mntildn" Griffin, and the . building wi'l1 cost $7,000. It is half-way completed now. The two sons were Sergeant Samuel H. Griffin and Clifton Griffin. A plate is to be a part of ihe cor nerstone, beating a statement from General Pershing, reading as follows: ■'United States Army. In memory of Sergeant Samuel II. Griffin, Sup ply company, 811th Pioneer Infantry who died November 1-1, 1018. Ht bravely laid down his life for tbs cause of his country. His name will ever remain fresh 1 tv the hearts <1. his friends and comrades. The rccoA of his honorable service will be pre served in the chives of the Ameri can Expeditionary Forces. John' J. Pershing, commander-in-chief.” The bwMding is being erected with money received by the mother of the soldiers from the government ■ as war insurance. Notwithstanding nature does things about right, there ore a few moles that aeem to have been misplaced. 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OAKLAND-PONTIAC *«■ w«r«u AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT WEEK August Twenty-Third to Twenty-Eighth Inclusive I he Automobile Accident rolicy rays:— For any accident occurring while riding in, operat ing, getting into or out of, being struck by, being thrown from, adjusting or cranking, or by the burning or explosion of an automobile. $2,500.00 in the event you are killed. $2,500.00 in the event you lose two limbs. $2,500.00 in the event you lose an eye and limb. $2,500.00 in the event you are permanently paralyzed. $2,500.00 in the event you are blinded. $1,250.00 in the event you lose one limb. $833.00 in the event ypu lose an eye. $625.00 in the event you lose a thumb and index finger of either hand, $50.00 per week for ten weeks if the attention of a graduate nurse is required or you are confined in a hospital. $25.00 per week for the entire period of disability due to an accident. $12.50 per week for partial disability for 26 weeks. :$16^.00 identification expense.w w w w _~ Annual premium to men or women between the ages of 15 and 65, $10.00. The week of August 23rd has been set aside by the Pilot Life Insurance Company as AUTOMO BILE ACCIDENT^EEK arid, during that week, the Company’s representatives in Shelby are going to do everything vjithin their power to bring to the attention of the pjblic the seriousness of the auto mobile accident hazard and the method by which it is possible to offs astrous financial lbss which such accidents. in a measure at least, the dis comes as a result of North Caroling is becoming noted not only for its good roads butalso for the number of automo bile accidents occurring upon those same roads. CALL 610 arjd let us explain how you can pro tect yourself whdi your accident occurs. CARLi WEBB) General Agent l*t Forget To Call 610. ‘The Telephone Number Which Spells Safety. yy ROBERT D. CROWDER, well known citizen of Shelby says—but read his letter:— Mr. C. R. Webb, I ' Dear Sir: — i I learn with a great deal of interest of the Automobile Accident Week which the Pilot * is putting on through your agency beginning August 23rd and I just want to wish for you and your company a most successful cam paign. Some time ago I took out a policy with your Accident and Health Department .and I cannot too highly recommend the Com pany for its handling of the claim arising from my recent illness. (Signed) ROBERT D. CROWDER. THESE MEN ARE CARL R J. GUY MAUNEY - CHA5. B. AUSTELL - CARL B. WILSON ire insurance fERE TO GIVE YOU PERMANENT SERVICE — lEBB, General >. G. PHILBECK - BRANT P. SMITH - MARVIN BLANTON, SPECIAL AGENTS. Company, Greensboro, North Car.
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