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f rouni am anelby Sidelights - -By Renn Drum P HERE’S A TIP TO THE GIRLS of Shelby who may on certai' nights be “dateless.’ A report per ambulates about town that in oneof these display cases used by pho tographers there is the photo of a good looker. Not long since, as the | report goes, a love-lorn young i swain passed by and gave the pho I tos the once-over. Something aboa*. ; the particular picture mentioned above attracted the young fellow. Maybe ’twas the eyes, mouth, or some other charm. Anyway, to con tlnne the report, the young fellow ambled upstairs and inquired of the photographer just who she was. The photographer, eater going down to see which one, told him her name and address, and the telephone di | rectory helped him put in the call. That night, it is said, the young lady had a date. Of course, she had had dates before but the object of this story is to inform you thnt she had one that night. Moral: If you have a few empty nights during the week get your “picshur took’ and have the pho - togrnpher place one in his display window. It mav work, and it may not. Perhaps it’ll be according to the attraction. REMEMBER THE OLD DAYS when every congressman furnish ed nil the voter# in his district with free seed#? Those were the’ grand old days when politics required grandeloquent oratory as well ns subtle vote catching. Anyway, the Morganton News-Herald in the “20 years ago” column has the follow ; ing to say about one of the free seed dispenser# of that day: "Con gressman E. Y. Webb sends this note from Washington under date of January 22: ‘You will oblige me greatly by stating in your paper that all persons desiring free vege table seed can obtain same by writing’.’” The old freo-seed plan has been discarded, but as we remember it such was about the only farm relit f ■ congress ever gave. FROM THE POLITICAL NEWS it is understood that there may be a whole half dozen candidates for mayor next May. (Wonder if thats the reason they call 'em may-or just because the election is in May?). Anyway, the colyum has a platform it would line to see adopt ed by some of the six. The platform would read somewhat like this— modifications in order, of course, on up until May: 1. —Have T. W. Hamrick, George i Alexander, or Ed Morrison fix the court house clock so Shelby will not be going to dinner when the clock says somebody should be waking up and kicking the alarm off. 2. —Make the postoffice more of a public Institution by hanging sbme doors that the women and children can open. 8.—Put soft cushions on the '*• coflrt square benches, for there’s where most of the -•oiitudiu1* hang out while the voters are working. 4. —Hove some ordinance to pro tect the jay-walking pedestrian. All the traffic ordinances now take care of radiators and hub caps but what is mere man as compared with a flivver fender? 5. —And since this platform was written on February 1, one day be fore the ground hog came along and on the same day bill collec tors do come, have a law thnt would imprison any one carrying bills or the public streets. Take it from us either man men tioned among the likely six shoot ers at the mayor’s or.'ice could b« elected if he could guarantee the “dear public”, that winsome, fickle folk, sueh a platform would be car ried out. AND IN DEALING WITH POL Hies there’s another story the enl yum has been planning to tell foi some time. It seas related to us by Prank L, and Robert A. Hoyle, ami they’ve been familiar with Cleve I land county politices for some sev | . eral calendar*, and the story deals .with United States Senator Lee S ‘ Overman, he who had “Our Bob'1 .Reynolds as an opponent. There are those, ykno’w, who say 3j and complain that in recent elee .tions Senator Overman does not f .come down home and handshake the iolks and give them the usual line of taffy. For a long time we’ve * thought such complaints against . the handsomest man in the senate 1 were unjust. When a man goes into i any business, gives it his best ef forts for years and makes of it a success after devoting his life to it there usually comes a time when he 4 can take things easy with the good will of those he Tias worked with and for. Now Senator Overman is not taking things easy yet by a I long shot but just because he does not campaign like *‘he nster’’ is n-> . / justification for givfng him a howl. !The main reason for the howl, we presume, is that the younger gen eration doesn’t remember so muon > of tie old-time overman cam paigns, but ask the older folks an<i ’ they will tell you that Overman, the dignified, white-haired junior . senator, was out bally-hooing for Democracy when those now coming pf voting age were Infants in arms, or maybe were net gt all. ■SP And that brings as down to the Hoyle story. Buck in the days wher. the old tabernacle, one of Shelby's biggest buildings, was still stand ing one of the 'rip-snortingest” political speeches ever made in Shelby was delivered in the taber | nacle by none other than Overmai . It was right ac the close of the “red shirt” days when predecessors of political lights today had to get out aud scrap for what they re ceived. As the story goes the tab ernacle was packed and jammed— they attended political speeches like circuses in those days—and the day was warm to say the least. Overman, as was the custom of pol iticians of the day wore, a long frock coat, high wing collar, and the long—very long—stiff adjusta ble cuffs. As the speech progress ed and the speaker warmed up he yanked out a flowing linen hand kerchief and niopp..'* his brow while the vast crowd stirred to bis I talk. Things got warmer and the dignified old fellow of the present day stripped the frock coat and slung it into a corner of the stage. A few minutes later the white vest followed, then came the high coU Inr—and, well—pals of the junior senator in Washington today could hardly believe that picture and those who complain that he does not campaign any more might say it is all bunk, but as we stated at the outset the Hoyles told the story and you’ll he finding several of the older fellows about town who will support it. In those days cam paigning was a real he-man’s job as compared with present day tac tics and don’t forget that Over | man campaigned like that for yearn back in the day when political as pirants of this day were fondling stone bruises and getting lickings for slipping off. to the old swim ming hole. Give every man his dues. The lodges will get theirs or give some i body the air. I AFTER the star publisii ied the information that births lead j deaths three to one in this county it is supposed that the undertakers | derided they’d get out and look up , some business. Anyway, five min utes after a car turned turtle in ! town recently the Col yum noticed j an undertaker join the crowd at tracted to the scene. WHY NOT RUN TY COBB AND : Tris Speaker for president and j vice president on the Democratic ticket and then take the best base ball player on Casey Morris’ High school team this spring and run him for mayor? IF EVERYBODY WHO BE lieves in the groundhog’s little shadow dodging stunt this morning reads this eolyum then we have at (least 777 more renders than we thought. Gardner Is Right On Secret Ballot Winston-Salem Journal. Some months ago O. Max Gard ner, who is regarded as the next governor of North Carolina, came up in emphatic expression for the ! adoption of the • Australian Ballot j j law in this state. That this was no | ’ mere incidental gust of sentiment | designed to catch the fancy of the people is now well proven by Mr. | Gardner’s letter to Representative i Falls in which he reiterates most { forcibly his interest in the enact ment of the secret ballot bill which has been offered in the I,eg isiature. Mr. Gardner’s letter is all the more weighty since he seeks the indulgence of the Legis lature to advocate only one meas ure. the Australian Ballot Law. “I have favored the Australian ballot for years,” says Mr. Gard ner, “and sincerely trust to see it adopted into the operation of our election machinery in North Car olina. The arguments, reasons and demands for the secret ballots are so obvious that I shall not repeat them, but there is ut least one de mand for this legislation we ought to heed, and that is what appears to be the unified voice of North Carolina’s womanhood. I have never seen a woman who did not complain at the cramped, congest ed and crowded conditions sur rounding the selection of tickets and the casting of ballots in the average North Carolina ballot box." Mr. Gardner is a recognised leader in his party. In his cham pionship of the Australian ballot he rises beyond party limits and becomes the leader of that great majority ol' North Carolina citi zen* who demand a decent and re spectable election system. Mr. Gardner’s letter is a good omen for the attainment of this demand. Aged Man Talks As Appendix Is Operated On Raleigh News & Observer. Despite his more than three score and ten years of age, David Adams, Willow Springs farmer, was resting well last night at Rex hospital following an unusual op eration for acute appendicitis at 4 I o’clock in the afternoon. The operation was performed without administering general anaesthetic, but under local anaesthetic and Mr. Adams w:vi entirely conscious during the time the surgeon was performing the operation. Mr. Adams, who is 74 years of age, made an automobile trip of 80 miles to Raleigh to undergo the operation. Because of his ad vanced age, a genera) anaesthe*’'’ was deemed inadvisable. Dr. T. E. Wilkerson, who performed the op eration. administered a local an aesthetic in the region to be op erated on and within a few min utes! the operation had been com pleted. While the surgeon was performing the operation, Mr. Adams was in a happy frame of mind and conversed unconcerned ly with physicians and nurses in attendance. As he was carried back to his room in the hospital, he continued to converse and declar ed that, he had felt no pain or ill effects while the operation was being performed. Last night he was cheerful and was resting comfortably. While the operation was being performed. Dr. Janies W. Judd and Dr. C. R. Young. Mr. Adams, personal physicians, were in attendance. Mr. Adams aV onp time was! connected with tfie city of Raleigh as cotton weigher and is now en gaged in farming in the Willow Springs section. He is well known throughout the county. Lower Cleveland News Of Interest (Special to The Star) Shelby, R-2.—Our farmersjmve taken advantage of the fine weath er of the past few weeks and have done much of their spring plow ing. They haev also been busy cutting wood and keeping fire:; during the extremely cold days which we have had recently. Despite the unfavorable weath er of Friday night many of the people from this section were in Shelby for the Hoey contest. Mr. C. V. Harrill is at home to spend some viine with bis father Mr. W. L. Harrill who has been seriously ill for the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pliil beck and Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo of Mooresboro vistied Mrs. Docia Rollins Sunday. ! Mr. Howard Putnam of Detroit | is spending some time with His | parents Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Put nam. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hawkins and Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Putnam visited Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haw kins of Shelby recently. Misses Oveda, Etha and fcdna Putnam and Mr. Hythe Putnam were visitors in Shelby Sunday. Mrs. Davie Hamrick and son J. D., also a number of other rela tives from Shelby spent Sunday nt ■ the home of Mr. and Mrs. 1,. C. Putnam. Mr. ard Mrs. Eular Weaver of Gaffney were callers in the com munity Sunday afternoon. Mr. L. A. Putnam and Mr. Taft Putnam attended a singing in Shelby Sunday night. Census Figures For U. S. A. Given Washington.— Computations by the government’s censup experts indicate that the population of con tinental United States oil Julv 1, 1927 will be 118,628,000. This is an increase of 1.492.000 over the estimate for July 1, 1926 and an increase of 12,917,000 over : the figures for January 1, 1920, i when the last actual census was | taken. The new estimate, announced by j the census bureau, is based, among other things, on available data re | gardirg births, deaths, immigra tion and emigration. Estimate* i for each of the states were made I hv distributin'1- the total estimated increase in the same proportion* as the actual increase between the two censuses of 1910 and 1920 was distributed. Those states ’-’';r-h showed a decrease bet-wee*1 1910 and 1920 or between 1920 and, 1925, however, were not credited with having made any increase since. No figures were announced for geographical divisions smaller than the states. The population of North Caro lina is given at 2,897,000 aR in crease of 337,877 over the actual census figures ef 1920. J. C. Flannerv’s baby was res cued from bia burning farmhouse near St. Paul when a dog carried the child to safety. Arrested for bigamy at Coven try, Eng., Henry McLeer admitted the charge, but pleaded that his first wife was "a sorry' cook.*’ ®¥ STILL S® TUI! i(: Charlotte News. Nothing' to it! TTie hats don’t show it. Kt.ees and straight lines are still with us. Applesauce! So say a beauty doctor, a mil liner, amodiste and half a dozen flappers of Charli to, when shown a dispatch from Chicago minting the beauty doctors, of Illinois in convention in the City of Two-Gun Men. as pronouncing the doom of bobbed hair and short skirts in 1027. Propaganda. That’s what they say. Irate spinsters, ugly beauty doctors, ex-beauties of 1905, mug .wump reformers, “the Army of, fhc Vn-en joyed”—these have been trying to write “Finis” on I ic story of the r lapper, since ; that lady leaped full-grown from the brow of Rebellion hack in the pre-histovic days of 1918. To date j they succeeded in expunging the the hare knee from the repertoire : of that Rabelaisian Damsel. But1 there the line of battle is drawn and the female under thirty re fuses to budge an inch. Bobbed hair, far from convert ing the coiffure into a nv”i or comic valentine, has converted Wo man from something that looked I’ke r sanling with a porcupine atop it into something approximat ing the human animal. say the champions here. What’s more, it saves vime. It’s much easier to get up in the morning and stick in a comb and go on down to the of fice. Eliminates 5 o’clock rising. If the damsels are going sud denly to abandon bobbed-hair, then she’s going to look like the sweet, voting thir.g of 1900, with n hat five sizes too small perched atop a mountain of hair. Char lotte hat shops are purchasing small hats to fit the bobbed head. As for dresses, they’re still tc vcaling the skimpy. Bettor lines indeed! The girls prefer their own. And gentlemen like ’eifiS.natural. Scout Canvass Is To Be This Friday Committees Will Attempt to liaise Sum Then To Put Scouting Over In Shelby Do you want your boy to be a Boy Scout ? The opportunity to give an an swer will be presented Friday aft ernoon wher: committees from the Kiwanis club and other civic or ganizations will conduct a canvass of uptown Shelby seeking to raise $500 for the Scout fund. The canvassing committee includes I. C. Griffin, chairman; John Mc Knight. Odus Mull. Oliver An thony, and R. T. LeGrand, treas urer. Mill Men Meet At a meeting held Tuesday, at which time practically all the Shelby textile plants' were offi dally represented, th.se plants agreed to give $500 to scout work in Shelby provided the other $500 could be raised in uptown Shelby, and as it now stands “the future of scouting here is up to the busi ness section.” Since the recently revived pro posal ,0 put scouting over richt in Shelby practically every minis ter and civic leader has endorsed the plan and when the 51.000 is raised it is hoped to have a remit troop for every church and for every plant in Shelby. A bey must be between 12 and 18 years of age to be a member and 22 boys may bedong to a troop. An unusual interest is being shown in the scout campaign end leaders who have long desiri n'! ore scout troops here are elated over the prospects for two or three times as many troops on ever be fore and a representation in the Piedmont council equal to that of neighboring towns and cities. “Shelby owes it to her young boys” is the motto of the cam paign. Bar Association Meet On In May Pinehurst, (INS.) Preparations already are under way here for t! . annual convention of the North Carolina Bar association at Pine hurst May 5-7. Ex-governor Charles S. Whitman tl OR^TTnA0r MARK 99 EMPIRE \--jA ,1s' ®Lm THEYLAST LONGER COST NO MORE . GENUINE, FELT STUPID, DOLL Mississippi Lady Says She Toot Black-Draught for These Symptoms and Was “Greatly Relieved." Starkvillc, Miss.—“I have beet a user of Black-Draught for about Mrs. C. E. Bun •Draught first for constipation,” continues Mrs. Bun tin. “I would feel dull, stupid, and have severe headaches, even fever ish. I had an uneasy, tight feeling in my stomach. “I read quite a bit about Black Draught. I began using it and soon my bowels acted regularly and I was greatly relieved. I used it every once in a while for about eighteen years. ‘‘About two years ago I found I was haying indigestion, a tight amothering in my chest, then severe pain, especially after eating sweets. [ commenced taking just a pinch of Black-Draught after meals and by doing this I could eat about any thing. ‘‘I gave Black-Draught to my chil dren for colds and headaches. I can certainly recommend it.” Thedford’s Black-Draught is rec ommended by thousands of others for the relief of indigestion, bilious ness and simple ailments due to constipation. Safe, easy to take. Costs only 1 cent a dose. NC-171 black-draug Purcltj Vegetable American Power From Pennies Through Life Insurance The pennies you loss the newsboy are so insig nificant and their purchasing power so small you never think twice whether or not you should buy a paper. But through the accumulation of pennies and other revenues, newspapers maintain great plants, employ thousands, and build million-dollar industries. The money policyholders invest in Life Insur ance merges into a vast sum that does two things: 1 Provides the money for the specific purposes for which it is desired by the policyholder. 2—Provides a large share of the capital on which the country runs. One-fifth of all mortgages, and large holdings in government and railroad bonds and public utilities are out of the funds in vested in Life Insurance premiums. Security Life & Trust Co. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. MOORE & LEVERETT, GENERAL AGENTS — SHELBY, N. C. LTt^iC^,der,not on,y is ^vesting his mone so that it wlH be of greater service to h mself an his family but to the whole public as well.”—H. I Sandford) of Now York, Who is president of the American Bar association, will be the principal speaker at the three-day convention, according t" present plans. Senator Botah, of Idtiho, also will be invited to address the meetmg, it wa’s announced. The program which has not been completely arranged, is expected to be announced within the next few days, it was said. flood Reason An American was prowling around a Scottish graveyard. ifjs eyes caught an epitaph. ‘Lord, «h(, was thin.” Sav sexton, what d’ye make of that? he asked. That’s all right sir; the sculptor went over r.ear the edge of the stone and didna leave room for the “e”. _THE M. P. COLEY AGENCY SHENANDOAH LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY' M P Co!ev, Pres, — W. R. Cas; (evens, Vice-Pres. -PHONE 200 ^^g^^YEllOV/ PENCIL thu RED BAND T EAGLEPENC/L CO. NEWYORX.VSA Gasoline rusts money. An 1-tnrarH‘rJy set car haretoi wastes gasoline. That’s just like throwing m:;ney away. And besides— Any car works better, besides giving greater mileage, when the carburetor is nro-ieriy adjusted. If you’ll drive in when convenient, and let us look at year carburetor, we may be able to save you some gasoline expense. It is ju t one of the many little things we like to do to helo you get greater joy out of your cor— and more mileage out of your gasoline money. Yours for More Mileage, JORDAN-CHEVROLET COMPANY S. I.aF:iyet'ie Street. Shelby, N. C. PHONE 235. -SCHEDULES Inter-Carolina Motor Bus Company Shelby to Charlotte—T. ?. :i, T, f, Z, 7:33— Charlotte t<. Shelby—8, 10, 12, 2, 4, (. Kings Mountain to Cl’.arlotte—7:80 9:80, 11.80, 1:80, 3:30, 0:30, 8:30. Direel connection made in Kings Mountain for Spartanburg and Greenville in the morning—One hour lay over in the afternoons. Bessemer City to Charlotte—7:45, 11:45. 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 8:45. Gastonia to Charlotte, leaves every hour on the hour, from 7 a. ni. to 8 p. m. Connection made there for Rock Hill, P. C.; Spartanburg. Gre«nvill«, Cramerton, Lincolnton anti Cherryville, York and Clover S C. Gastonia to Shelby—On the odd hours, making connections for Kutherfordton, Hendersonville, Asheville and Statesville. Gastonia to Cherryville—8:30, 12:10, 4:10, 3:10. Cherryville to Gastonia—7:15, 10, 2, G p. m. Charlotte to Rock Hill—8, 10:30, 4:15. Bus leaves Spartanburg 6:15 p. m. Connection at King* Mountain, Charlotte* Telephones: Charlotte 2071; Gastonia 1051; Shelby 450; Shelby to Rutherfordton—8 a. m. and 1 p. m. Rutherford ton to feitelby—9:40 a. m. and 2:15 p. m. Shelby to Asheville—10.•Cu a. ,A„ 12. 2, 4. G, p. m. Ashe vilie to Shelby— 8, 9 and 11 o. m. and 2, 4 p m. Shelby—7:20 a. hi.; 10:00 a. m.; 1 p. m.; 4:30 p. m. Lincolnton—8:80 a. m.; 11 a. in.; 3:00 p. m.; C:30 p. m. Schedules Subject to Change. 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