MANUFACTURING concerns,
financial institutions,
RAILROADS. ETC.,
—USE THE—
BUDGET
SYSTEM
By means of a budget system all
expenses are determined upon a fixed
income.
A great many individuals are
adopting the budget plan—it is noth
ing more or less than a systematic con
trol of their expenses, which is a much
better means than drifting along in a
“HIT or MISS” fashion.
A simple method is to set aside
10rf or more of what you make and
figure to live on the balance, and often
then there may be some left to add to
your 10% fund.
Try the budget system for awhile;
it may be beneficial.
First National Bank
SHELBY, N. C
RESOURCES OVER FOUR
MILLION DOLLARS.
OLD DOC BIRD says
Praying With a Hoe Is
Likely to be Answered
With Potatoes.
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Nothing Takes the Place of Dry Clean
ing to Keep a Garment Looking New
and Fresh.
We will clean your entire wardrobe—
Dresses, Gloves, Suits, Coats, Wraps,
Etc.
Send your clothes here today.
Shelby Dry Cleaning
Company
WHY WORRY TO PREPARE
THANKSGIVING DINNER?
DINE AT
Cleveland
Springs Hotel
f'ull Holiday Menu.Price $1.00
Served From 12:30 to 2 O’Clock.
And From 6:30 to 8.
You will enjoy a visit to the big hostel
ry* The dinner is especially recom
mended.
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—Firemen To Meet—Members of
| the Shelby Fire department are re
quested to,meet at 0:30 a. m. at
c‘ty ^>11 to have a prcture made of
; the department.
—No Prayer Meeting—Rev. T. U.
■fob ns on, pastor of LaFayetto Meth
I odist church, announces that there
"ill be no prayer meeting services
at this church this evening, Wed
nesday, owing to the Thanksgiving
| st'l v'ice Thursday night at 7 o’clock.
Masonic Notice —A regular
1 meeting of Cleveland lodge 202 A.
I • anil A. M, will be held Friday
night at 7:30 o’clock in the Masonic
temple. All Masons are urged to
attend and visiting brothers are
i welcomed.
—Improving—Hugh Wray, pro.
niinent business man and superin
tendent of the First Baptist church
! Sunday school at Gastonia is re
covering from an operation for np
i iwndjcitis in the City Hospital ;.t
Gastonia last Saturday. Mr. Wray
is the son of Mr. Join S. Wray of
1 Shelby.
— red it Mr. Sherrill—Uninten
1 ■-•n.oiiy the credit line was left off
the Thanksgiving contribution
which appeared in Monday’s Star
a w.i- written by our noble towns
men Rev. C. F. Sherrill who con
tributes now and then to The Star.
Our subscribers are always glad
n i v! articles from the pen and
mind of our consecrated friend
| Mr. Sh \ rill.
—Ri ten By l‘et—Harry Gordon
McBrayer. jr., seven year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McBrayer,
a. Anderson, S. C., was recently
bitten by the pet dog of the fam
ily. The dog’s head was sent off
for anaylsis and it developed that
the animal had rabies. The child
is now taking the Pasteur treat
ment which requires three weeks
It swms to be improving.
—In Hospital—Mrs. F. II. Lack
ey. of Fall ton. has again entered
the hospital for treatment. She
was there about ten days ago and
went homo much improved, but
her condition has taken a sudden
turn for the worse and now she is
unite sick, her many friends will
be sorry to learn. Mrs. Lackey is
a (Laughter of ex-sheriff Vv\ D.
Lackey.
.—A Correction—Part of a “Lit
tle Siar” which appeared in Mon
day’s issue was left out through a
mis-reading of copy. It meant to
say that the ambulance had car
ried Mr. D. L. Troutman, well
known local painter to the hospi
tal for treatment arid taken home
Mr. W. P. McArthur who has been
a patient there for several weeks.
Mr. McArthur built many of the
bridges in the county for Austin
Bros, and now lives just west of
the Blanton Bros, farm on highway
No. 20.
Great numbers of street peddlers
ply their trade in Russia, there he
ir ' ’ tiiioo in Moscow alone.
French dolls are now made which
sing by means of a miniature phono
graph concealed in the body’.
Turkey Day Grid
Results Guessed
Thankful Tommy, a member
ef The Star staff during the
ht.’idqy season, picks the fol
lowing winners with their
scores in tomorrow’s football
•gome-:
CAROLINA 12. Virginia 7.
M AKE FOREST 21. State 12.
DI KE II, Davidson 10.
ROANOKE Hi, Lenoir Rhyne
VLABAMA 14, Georgia 0.
OA. TECH 14, Auburn 7.
FURMAN 30, Clemson 0.
!hurch Query
For newspapers
“Do You Believe In God?” One
of Questions to be Asked
Through Newspapers.
New York.—American churches
are to use daily newspapers to find
out how many persons in this coun
try believe in God.
The question “l>t- you believe in
God?" and eleven others will make
I? a questionnaire to be submit to.',
to newspaper readers all over the
country by the church advertising
department of the International
Advertising Association early in
December, it is announced.
The questionnaire will ask:
“Do you believe in God?
“Do you believe in immortality?
“Do you believe in prayer as a
means of personal relationship with
God?
"Do you believe that Jesus was
divine as no other man was divine?
“Do you regard the Bible as in
spired in a sense that no other lit
(rature could be said to be in
spired ?
“Are you an active member of
any church?”
“Do you regularly attend any re
ligious services?
“Would you be willing to have
your family grow gp fn a commu
nity in which there is no church?
“Do you regularly have ‘family
worship’ in your home?
“Were you brought up in a re
ligious home?
“Do you send your children to
any school of religious instruction?
“Do you think religion in some
form is a necessary element of life
for the individual and the commun
ity?”
ERSONAL
Home folks you know
on the go.
s
Mr. Rod Johnston of Asheville
I was a Shelby visitor on Monday.
Mrs. 0. Turner had as her
guests for the week-end Mrs. T. !
Misses Mary Harris and Milli
: cent Blanton spent Monday in For
i est City with friends.
Mrs. J. C. Smith and Mrs. S. E.
Hoey were Charlotte visitor Tues
day.
Mrs. 0. G. Falls and Mrs. Fulton
of Kings Mountain, were Shelby
; shoppers on Monday.
Miss Elizabeth Roberts spent
(the week-end in Charlotte with
Miss Laura Burton Miller.
Miss Henley, of Lenoir, spent !
Sunday here with Miss Gertrude
Samuels.
I Mrs. J. I). Hord, of Kings Moun
tain, was a Shelby visitor on Mon-;
day..
| Miss Whitesides, of Kings Moun- j
tain, was the guest of Mrs. Archie
i Archer on Sunday.
All of the out of town teachers
will spend the Thanksgiving ho'.i
j days at their respective homes.
Miss Maggie Black will spend
Thanksgiving in Charlotte with her
brother, Rev. William Black.
Mrs. R. T. II art ness and son,
Robert, of Sanford visited Mrs.
Hartness’ daughter, Mrs. Gordau
Dudley, the past week.
Miss Irma Bowman, of Spartan
burg, S. C., spent the week-end :
here with Mr. and Mrs. J. T% Bow-]
man.
Mrs. T. G. Stone, Mrs. Harry |
Long and Miss Robbie Biggerstaff, j
of Forest City, were Shelby shop-!
pers on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Griffin and!
Mr. J. M. Earney, of Charlotte,!
were guests of Mrs. James Alexan
der’s on Sunday.
Miss Fmma Frick leaves today :
for Baltimore where she will spend
the Thanksgiving and Christmas j
holidays with her brother and sis- j
ter, Mr. and Mrs. George Frick. !
Mr. and Mrs. Flay Hoey and Mr
and Mrs. S. E. Hoey spent last Sur
day in Spartanburg, S. C., where'
they visited Miss Virginia Hoey, I
daughter and sister.
Miss Adeline Bostick will spend
Thanksgiving holidays in Green- j
ville, S. C. with Mrs. Remington 1
Chewning and will attend the
Clemson-Furman football game.!
She will return Sunday evening.
J. Cagle and children, Madeline, I
Sherard and T. James, jr., of |
Gaffney, S. C. and Miss Janelle
Pennigton, of Cramerton, who
came to attend the weding of their
sister, Miss Daisy Willard Pen
nington to Mr. Baxter Van Pelt.
Messrs. Ward Arey and W. G. j
Arey spent Tuesday in Charlotte. j
They announced when they return
ed that the trip was made in con
nection with their oil enterprises,
and that two new oil trucks had!
been arranged to be added to the j
local routes.
Miss Mary Gross Hatch, a Con
verse student from Thomasville,
Ga., will be the attractive guest of
Mrs. Eugene Burgess for the
Thanksgiving holidays.
Mr. Charles Eskridge, with his
mother, Mrs. A. W. Eskridge, left
Shelby Tu*sday night for a visit
to New York city, Mrs. Eskridge
has two sons living in the metro
polis, brothers of Mr. Eskridge of
Shelby, and it is to tr.ese that the
visit is planned. The New York
members of the family are J. L. and
Guy W. Eskridge, both successful
business men of the metropolitan
area.
Mr. C. C. Mize of the Webb
theatre was a visitor in Greenville,
S. C., Sunday.
More than 11,000 camels are em
ployed for transportation pur
poses in Australia.
SALE OF CAR.
By virtue of the »-ower of sale
contained in a certain conditional
sale contract executed by Ben
Panther. August 23rd, 1926. the
undersigned will offer for sale, at
public auction, to the highest bid
der, for cash, at the court house
door, at Shelby, North Carolina, on
December the 13, at 12 M., 1926,
one Ford touring car, Model 1926,
motor No. 13,108,291.
This November 22nd, 1926.
CHAS. L. ESKRIDGE, Mortgagee.
3t-24.
Newspaper Man’s
Joke Has Tragic
End In New York
New York.—A practical* joke!
that resulted in the death of its
originator seemed to have run its j
grim course when the man on
whom it was pleaded guilty to j
first-degree manslaughter, laying ;
himself open to a sentence, to be ]
imposed later, of from ten to twen- j
ty years imprisonment.
When Gerald Dwyer and Joseph j
Ruffner were both eopyreaders on
a Washington, D. C., newspaper, J
Ruffner conceived the joke thatj
was to end tragically. He told his |
wife to make an appointment withj
Dwyer by telephone, planning !
later to invite Dwyer to their
home to enjoy his embarrassment,
at discovering the companion of
his romantic adventure to be his
friend’s wife.
The wife followed instruction,
but her meeting with Dwyer re- ;
suited in an intimacy which caus
ed her to leave her husband. Later
both men obtained positions inj
New York and Mrs. Rufner re- |
turned to her husband. The two
men met and in an argument;
Dwyer shot Ruffner.
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Thanksgiving Day
At The WEBB
CONSTANCE TALMADGE IN
“The Duchess Of
Buffalo”
With a BEN TURPIN comedy.
“THE DUCHESS OF BUFFALO”
is light comedy, the best picture CON
STANCE TALMADGE ever made.
Together with the BEN TURPIN laugh,
this is spirited line entertainment for
Thanksgiving.
Another Big
One Friday
NORMA SHEARER IN
“UPSTAGE”
A Mcnta Bell production of Back
ctage on the Vaudeville Stage.
Also NEWS REEL and COMEDY.
WEBB THEATRE
Blanton- Wright Clothing
Company
Did You See All The Well Dressed Men On The
Street In Shelby Yesterday?
Of course they bought their Suits at our store. We are fitting them up every day,
both Men and Young Men. Have you got yours?
Our Suits consist of the newest in Brown, Blue and Grey—all Models and Sizes.
Priced at $25.00 to $39.50
Other Suits, Good Makes, At
$15.00 to $19.50
Men’s Overcoats, heavy weight, to close out, SPECIAL.$15.00
TOP COATS, New Patterns ... . $19.50 to $29.50
Young Men’s Oxfords—Made with heavy sole and leather heel. Both Black and
taa.$5.00, $6.00 and $6.50.
Men’s Union Suits, made by Wilson Bros., medium and heavy weight $1.50,
$2.00 and $2.50.
Blanton-Wright Clothing Company
“SHELBY’S BEST MEN’S STORE.”