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Other Newspapers Discuss Affairs” Of Shelby A;id Publicity Thereof ■ JSL Anfent the iptttlBffHuvov Hor sey ami The StfBHrajfreply The Greensboro NeWswIWSents: A gentlemanly alcalde lias Shel by. What could be more nearly perfect in courtesy than this com munication he lately addressed to the eftifQr of the Shelby Star: Sir: If it is pot asking: too much, I would'lilte you to print the at tached fetter relating to the legal aspects of the salary of the mayor so prominently displayed in yeur issue of Wednesday, June 29, 11*27. Futhermore, I would appreciate it very much indeed if you would see fit to let us run the affairs -f the city to the best of our ability* nnd to the good interests of i concerned as ^nearly as possible without speculative comment You ip lemon run t he Star, and we wilrthy tb run the city as the cit izens who voted for us intended we should. Please publish this letter also. Very respectfully yours, Who could have the hear, to deal harshly with request and stiff gpstkm Jfo considerately phrased ? The recipient has not and did not. What it was necesary to do to the mayor he did, but much in 11n spirit in which parental chastising was Wont to be administered, with assurances that it was going to httrt the spanker more than the spankee, The brother of the Star, it is true, did his duty firmly and did a thorough job of it; there was indeed no escaping jt. He inform ed the mayor of a circumstance the latter apparently had overloolu-d entirely—that city affairs are peo ple’s affairs; every transaction is cr should he of public record, tin; people require thgir newspapers-tV furrfisIfejiffMiuttpn ^aiuJ in fur Iff. tive comment qti ill public' afhiiYs. because the taxpayer has not time to be present at ull gatherings and look over all records; this is what the newspaper is for. His Honor was further instructed that it is quite a long way to Italy, and that the scheme of things in this coun try provides for no Mussolini*, of any degree. The paper recites that it has in fact made no “specula tive comment" on the present Shel by administration, but the mover is advised that upon occasion when the public welfare seems, in the •minion of 'ho editor,, which will he the deciding; authority, to ven der it advisable, there will be spec ulative comment,jtt will publish all the news of (tlty-ibutrinesa > jw> long its the source o'fwewa ia $WjV-losed, and if the source is tftfef i? itlllbe1 the-paper’s tH»mes^ how come. Mr. I’atfe Harks The Kingg Mduptnin.. HcrnUj ■*S*: 'f They’ve got ttie fun started oyer in Shejby. I mighty near wish I was cenough by to get into the frotte . ' NM®$*ticles coming nut of, the county seat town indicate shat the new" town council and mnyot^ got together nnd decided to raise the rviyor’s salary fnm a1 nit $1,500 to $.1,000 but figured a round and got i! down to $2,400. When the Cleveland Star tri'd to get into the j merits of the case for news arti cle it was a little hard to re. ;>♦ t’ U 'he enterprising editor did get the hip break and printed d. One set of lawyers didn’t be-j lieve that the law would allow the i raise and Another thought ■ * woulu i and here they went—at.d art ; till i piling. Of course the lawyers dif- , fVrcd. The laws are most all writ- I ten by lowers and always have two 1 sides to iheni. That’s their buss-1 ness. Then tha mayor came burl; at the newsnaper and invited it to lay : off the. work of the town .'atl’.’rs and let them run the town like the folks who elected them expected them to do it or words to that e(- ! feet. Then The Star comes I nek , and informs ihe outfit that bigger! men than mayors have tried to j suppress newspapers and that it will proceed to print the news w’- ther he likes it or not. 1 came mighty near standing' ep straight to give a yell for an edi tor with enough‘grit to not let anybody put a blind bridle on his newspaper. Personally I don't know any of the men in the squab ble except the editor. 1 have* met the mayor a time or two and had a line impression of him. But I am glad they are making the fur fly this early in the game. That means that they will all eome to a better understanding of each other and that they will soon lx> straightened out and eating at d chatting together on the court ■■"one. And all of them will be older and wiser. They will ill! be 'd friends directly and Shelby %l! move along as if nothing had occurred. The Hfhayor . will come .o the full realization that public of fice cannot be conducted success fully without the confidence of hi:* constituency and that the only way to get the confidence of the people is to he open and above hoard with all the transactions of their business. MOSAIC DISK ASK IS NEW PERIL FOR TOBACCO FARMERS (TVy International News Service,) Rhleigh,— North Carolina's tot baceo crop—the largest in the ctjuiitry—-thi^jyear is imperiled fiy n new menage. The Mosaic dfyi cash. which; if spreading ovtf the Wo<4 flflmO wdb c|inse 11,000,000 llaKmgo tjdilhe crop In North. Oaro-i abfricvtBNr^I •export* estimated today. ,* The State department of ngt*L culture is now studfHrig some'me* j ihod for the extermination of the I ihsjra: e. Very little is known of the cause of the disease, which first appears in dark green spots on the leaves, which later becomes ele vated and make holes, it was Raid/ j The early tobacco markets of [North Carolina do not open Until I August. LOW ROUND TRIP RATES To ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., and \ NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. » ' kV • Via "Seaboard air line railway Round Trip Fare Shelby To Atlantic City $22.50; to Niagara Falls $32.35. Tickets will be on sate one day each week from June 21st to October 6th. and are limited 17 days from dute of sale. Stop overs allowed on return trip at Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Call on nearest Seaboard Ticket Agent for dates o? sale and other information or apply to H. A. HARRIS, Agent JOHNT . WEST. D. P. A. Shelby, N. C. Raleigh, N. 1 -SCHEDULES Intcr-C*rolma Motor Bus Company Shelby to Charlotte—7, 9. 11, 12, 1, 3, 5. 1, 9—Charlotte ,o Shelby—3. 10, 12, 2. 4. C Kings Mountain to Charlotte—7:30, 9:30, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 5;30, 7:30. Direct connection made in Kings Mt’n. for Spartanburg and Greenville at 42 o’clock—One hour layover on all other schedules. Bessemer City to Charlotte—745. 11:45, 12:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45. jGastonig to Charlotte, leaves every hour on the hone Ci 8 p. m. : Connection made thorp for Rock Hill, 8-Soaetanburg, Greenville, Cramerton, Lincolnton and -CncreyvU), York and Cloter 49 C. Gastonia to Shelby—On the odd hours, making connection* for ftutherfordfcnn. Hendersonville. Asheville and Statesville. Gastonia'to CheriryviHe— 3:30, 12:10, 4:10, 3:10, Gherryrille to Gastonia—7:15, 10, 2. 6 p. m. Charlptte to Rock Hill—8. 10:30, 4:15. Bus leave* Snartanbui-g 6:15 p. in. Connection at Kings ChanlotU 2671; Gastonia 1051; Shelby 450; Shelby to Rutherfordlbn—R a. m. and 1 p. in, Rutherfordton to ' Shelby—9t4<K*jrrt;. add 2:15 n. m. ‘' Shelby tcMsheVillc—7, 10:00 a. m„ 12., 2, 4, 6, P. M. Asho to Shelbc—8. 9 and 11 ». m. and 2, 4 p m. * ’Shelby to LiPeolnton—7, 9:15 a. m., 12:30, 3, 5:15 p. m„ ^Lincolnton Shelby8, 10:30 a. m., 1:30, 4, 6, p. m. Schedules Subject to Change. Gossip ofStaffCemspa'dafy at Work! Centers d1 (By R. T. Bulkeley, IKS Staff , Corfespondent.) . Hartford, Conn.—.The ,Wnr of the* rosea Is on. West* (lawn and Hartford wage it annually. Tour ists nearing either town find them selves urged to visit “New Eng land's finest rose gardens.’’ Hart fords display in Elizabeth park was long noted. New Haven’s, against the erotic background of East Rock, is a new comer. Both cities have spent thousands of dol lars in the displays that start in June and run well into August. Connecticut’s state insurance de partment has found an insurance company whose policy holders grow happy as the company’s Business in force decreases. They are waft ing for the distribution of a saf ety fund of one million dollars, which will occur when the amount of insurance in force is equal to 1 they fund. Back in 1880 the company start ed the fund by taxing every policy holder ten dollars which was put •into a trust fund. The fund was ended in IMP, litigntiott«S'ttHowed,. and the stl|e courts <fflcr<l$ the entire aioM^'y distributed when the insurance in force should be reduc ed to the amount of the fund. The company involved, inciden tally, has ceased writing all poli cies now and puts an assessment against policy holders of old days who remain loyal, to meet expen ses. Those policy holders who sur vive are the one who will share the million dollars. There are 200 | fewer persons to share now than a year ago. Washington street, once a street of.fine old mansions, is falling,j aimy, nrcdtriing ( to- old-timer*,j while, to the . new. generation of! the street j« being improv «tt.j’.Fto^!W«*hiflfft'on Street Is he; iMpiruidb*idyerinto a ^tre<*t of of,-, ffeiut .fcnjsiriess1' as (he needs qjf coufity aiifl, state inVreahe. A two-; Shillioh-dwl,ar county coWt houjj'e Is jbelujjF^rinctod b,h tyftshington Street t$\be j»h architectural affair *■' ninlf, wjfh’i. tlie stato' capitol at the end of tlte^stVoG^ Wauty. Even tually wtitfrie office building is U* go os tWaMiingtoh Stfoet though it» locution* has not yet been decid ed, Meanwhile the ,State police are using two’ mansions as heacjquar- ] tors', and other-departments afp pushing gradually along the street where once only the wealthy in surance magnates lived. The only real air field for miles around has been proving of bene fit to Hartford though the Ford tour fliers would not come her'’. Hn't*’ord pets mail from Boston and New York and it gets orders for airplane motors. It has ade quate space in which to test planeo end it has plenty of equipment, in cluding machine shops, hangars, and quarters erected by thq state on the* field for use by the National I Guard flying unit of Connecticut. Hertford expects still greater [! things to cog\e to it out of fir ’ transportation as titiie goes on and is said to be ready to accept what ever may come. [I Hartford ts pbtnftfng a memorial |! to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ilart t j ford lays claim to the author of 11 Unde Tom’s CaHin and wajSts the t world to know it. The memorial | will be shown before the end of the t summer if plans go right. | Memorials to Mark Twain, ! Charles Dudley Warner, and other [ famous writers who once lived here nre irt order next, according to civic leaders, who refuses to j “let the dead past bury its dead.” Do You I,imp? There is an old Buddhist legend that tells of a certain beautiful i royal horse that was found to be' ■ lame. He had a most curious an 1 ! awkward motion in one of his leg?. j When King Soma, the owner of j the horse, heard of this lameness, t he sent skilled horse surgeons to I 1 the royal stables to examine the f animal and report. They reported j that the horse was sound in wind [ and limb. He was not truly lame, ! but he limped. They could not tel! ; why. | Then King Santa dispatched a j sage to the stables, The* Wise man returned and said: “Sir, I have dis covered why your horse limps,”: ‘Why?’ ‘He has a companion who limps.’ "Who is that?’ ‘His groom who walks lame. The horse has iml-; tated hint.’ ‘Get another groom,’, I raid the king. This was done, and it (was not long before the horse' walked fair and straight and ev enly. Now, whenever I notice a boy! whose speech is coarse and whose bearing is unmanly and who has \ caught these poor tricks of manner J • from his so-culled friends, I say! to myself. “He limps and I knowj why he limps.”—F. J. Gould. V!ew Precarious Flights Interest Daring Pilots Seeking Big Prizes (Ry J. I,. Meddoff, IKS Staff'. Correspondent.) New York.—The daring Irons-j Atlantic and trars-Pacific flight;, still poignantly fresh in the minds1 of a marveling public, seemed un- ’ mlstakably today to have been the forerunners of imv.mierahle future non-stop and other long distanced air journeys of adventurous pilo*- t lured by prize offers. At least a dozen precarious flights are in the making now with avowed candidates tuning up mo tors and preparing for the at-! tempts to gain glory and cash. J he latest proposal came from in Ontario brewery which offered #25,000 for the first non-stop flight from London. Ont.. to Lon don, England, an estimated air dis tance of 3,500 miles. Despite the trans-Pacific flight of Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert Hegenherger, Amcr'- 1 can flyers today are concerning themselves largely with the prize j attempt to follow the b'nzed trail | from San Francisco to Honolulu. Contest Still Interests This contest was ai noiineed by James D. Dole, pineapple magnate, before the army officers under took successfully to span the Pa cific from the mainland to1 Hawaii. Dole offered $35,000 to the first aviator to accomplish the flight after August 12. when the contest opens, and $10,000 to the-. second. More ihan 3 aviators have entered including Clarence Chamberlin, "•'lo minted the monoplane Coluni bi{v from New York to Germany with Charles A. .Levine us passen ger, . The Dallas-to-Hong Kong flight is expected to bring forth niirn '• in aspirants. For oom-pletion of this journey by air in 144 hours Hying time, with stons nf^missibb' nr San Francisco, Honolulu and Manila, an award of $25,000 h;is been offered by William E. Easter wood, jr., of Dallas. Several avia tor;: already have entered, includ ing Lieutenants Ben Stern and Jess U indhani of Memphis, Tern. An attempt may be made short ly to negotiate a round-trip flight br.ween England and America,, ac cording to word from Great Brig Rin. Captain F., I’, Courtney, prom nteni, British piilijtary aviatoy wlm plveady has flout), from.. Ersecle i'ic.!|tsjia,fap to| Galshgt. Ip* inland, was repopt^d preparing ,ljisL Dpvpicr' \Val synphmc fotyup. effprt;#o fl£ irom England ,.,tp New Yorlynnd back, .approximately. 5,500; miles f JVAdinit* Jlsyjnir Pervaded Variytis Miven tp ... fejft.Wf?1 WtfX f# :lr/> New York,—l*fid gullibility ot womankind—and the profits of a lighthearted philanderer apipunting t»> more than a ^tti^ter'df°trm i I ii Oh dollars—were exposed in general sessions court Wednesday by; a bogus English “Irtfd” who' mast qucraded under the tithe of “Lprd Beaverbftiok.’ ;l; ■ , Dressed in what,has come to’ be doreribed as the “height of fash ion,’ Robert Whitman told of his success with the 47 women he is accused of having married. Although he differs radically in appearance from the real Lord Beaverbrook, owner of London newspaper, the prisoner confessed to having persuaded his various “wives” to part with property and jewelry amounting to S250.000. “And yet I never robbed a wo man in my life.’ said Whitman, answering charges of grand lar ceny. “I simply could not resist the temptation to.keep whatever money and jewelry women entrusted me with." Dapper, dressed for a garden party rather than fbr a hearing1 in •' 'usty New York police court, Whitman answered bithely the questions put to him by unfeeling states attorneys. At the ago Of 50, he has Im personated the ascetic English nobleman whose name he took, and is alleged to have married more than a score of women for the pui - pose of gain. The specific charge which bi ought “Lord Beaverbrook’ into court Wednesday was that of swindling Mrs. Rose Borken out of 3125,000 in jewelry two years ago. Mrs. Borken, described by the al leged swindler as the ‘simples' of his victims, preferred charges against the prisoner and brought about his arrest. The prisoner explained away the ehafges brought by Mrs. Borken, who alleged that he disappeared with her jewelry, by insisting that h> had intended to have the gems cleaned. A short time after he disappear ed with ’ Mrs. Borkens jewelry, he was arrested in St, Louis on a charge of swindling a woman out of $75,000. Released in $10,000 bail. Whit man is alleged to have “jumped” his bond and to have defrauded a woman in Washington out of $60, 000. Once again, his bail was fixed at $10,000 and onee again “Lord Beaverbrook” disappeared. Some weeks later, when the police of half a dozen cities were looking for him “‘Lord Beaverbrook” was arrested in Philadelphia by an amateur de tective who had followed him from Atlantic City. When finally confronted with the law, he admitted that he had begun his philandering career 10 years ago. “I had a charming wife, lovely laughters and an income of $100,-. (00 a year," said Whitman. “My j wife divorced me, and my troubles ( >egan. “Sinec then, 1 have traveled all >ver the world—mingled with the lijgh and low. 1 have found women1 in high position easier to fool and: mislead than those of the middle classes. The bogus nobleman faces long prison terms for violation of pa- j role and for alleged larceny. After his hearing. Whitman said that he Was through with women forever, that he would make not hut many millions, and that if he only were able to turn the, clock biicK 10 years he would be I “a big man after all.” Humor Keeps Down His Divorce Cases Ohio Judge Uses Sense Of Humor To Keep Married Couples Floating on Sea. (By International News Service.) Cleveland, ,0.—Judge Thomas M. Kennedy, of the Cuyahoga i minty common pleas court, likes to preside in divorce cases. And he. likes them particularly when young people are involved. Many young couples find their matrimonial ships on the rocks when a little diplomatic guidance would bring them through safely, he points out. And what these young peple need, according to Judge Kennedy, is not a lot of ad vice and preaching, but a little prodding of the sense of humor. And he conducts his court in ac cordant with this theory. He “kids” ‘the lawyers, the contest ants, ami the witnesses. The spec tators say it’s better than a vaude ville show. Usually he terminates ° '’nse with a little talk, similar to this: “I won’t grant this divorce to day—infaet, I’ll fee! sorry to grant it at all. I like you both and would hate to separate you. Remember, marrldge is A give arid take prop sition. Each side must have pa tience. Now, young fellow—buy your wife a box of candy and. take her to>h good' show, i • When'you get home tonight talk things over-and see if yQUj.can’t forget this. Come back next week and tell ine your decision; That’s, $11, Next fAse.” “It’s the best way to handle;di vorce c^ses,” Judge ( Kennedy de cla res. , ( ' ' _£ „ , Patys.JS Cept*To Erase Dept And Relieve His Mind Ashev^e.—J. F. Sims ran a groc ery twelve years ago. At that time he Tired and fifed many grocery boys. One of those boys, how a' dfbVnineht' young Asheville business than, called dn him rec* entiji:'' “I am going to jbin the church, Mr. Sims, and I have something I want to get off my mind first,” the young business man said. “Twelve years ago when I worked for you I stole seventy-five cents. I also drank some soda water and ate some fruit that you never knew about. I figure that I owe you $1.50. Here it is. I am deeply sorry.” Mr. Sims refused to take any money for the soda water and fruit. He sail! the young man was welcome to that. He did accept r>ip 75 cents on the young mans in sistence that it would relieve his conscience. Mr. Sims related the story to newspaper men with a broad smile of satisfaction. “Just print that for the benefit of the cynics,” he said. AH men are honest at I heart.” , Those Who fail Gastonia Gazette. ^ The Nation’s Business recently published figures showing the con nection between business failure and failure to advertise. In Troy, N. Y., for instance, 100 per cent of the failures were busi nesses that did not advertise; in Chicago, 98 per cent; in Detroit, St. Louis, Portland. Ore., 94 per cent. Only three cities showed per centages lower than 75 per cent. The Tampa Tribune remarks, to the point: "When w« know that from 75 to 100 per cent of the business fail ures are among the non-advertis ers, It appears the utmost folly for a business to attempt to succeed without advertising. Sound business judgment and ! experience have long ago demon strated that instead of ‘can’t af ford to advertise,’ the phrase should rend, ‘can’t afford not to advertise.’ LOST EUOY DRFTS FROM CANADA TO SCOTLAND (By International NVws Service.' Glasgow, Scotland.—-After being lost for two years, a fourteen feet high buoy, which became unmoor ed and drifted from Canadian water s, has been found in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. The buoy is of the familiar gas type, and despite its long journey the light was still found to be burning. The buoy has been claimed by the Canadian Government, and will be sent back to Canada after an over haul. Boy, He Puffs His Smokes Quite Fast Kinston.—(INS)—Call tin,' Temperance Union! Thomas Alvarez, a Mexi can here, smokes 100 “coffin nails’* a day, and that’s straight dope. hince he has taken to smok ing ready-made fags, Alvarez’ tobacco bill runs from $0:80 to $1 a day. “f have always smoked 100 | a day more or less,” Alvarez said. Alvarez may be the coun try’s champion smoker. lv< he doesn’t lay claim to it. Some of the neon'e on t' other side of the Rio flrnne, he 1 says, are inveterate wooers „. Lady N:c--tine. Some farmers who treated their Irish potato seed before planting this spring report an if’.erwr.rc • in $ '!<!•>.f a: lea.-.! l'< pit cent, Card Of Thanks We whit to thank an<l neighbors for'the e!nst!n* trillion ami kindness t, the sickness arid (hath band and father. Mis. W. T. (Til, Family. nur J •m and The county aser.ts - ;hh v ColIeKO extension ,e-v; jiri"' thousands of dollar Carolina this sprino !i\ . .t..j.( the surplus poultry . ^Modern smokers praise the integrity of Camels THIS is the age of frankness and plain-speaking, and it rates Camel first among cigarettes. For Camel is that land of a smoke, ^apsel is all quality, and no false front or show.' Capvd? are nppde of die choic est Turkish and Domestic tobaccos grown—no substitutes. And the finest blending ever given a cigarette. It is Camel character that has won the smokers of today —such honesty of taste and fragrance as never was known in a cigarette before. You’ll find all dreams of smoking pleasure realized in this modern, quality cigarette. "Have a Canteir WfiKKgggGMeST'C RcyncJJ* Stf&cca / C.' £L-M*. ' - 1 * V5CONbBNS!3l?i$¥>-TEkfiNr ■'OP>; OF SHELBY Including Branch Off ices^tjJL^attimoye|, Lawndale and Fall* ston, At the Close of Business, June 30th, 1927. RESOURCES NEARLY NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts_S71fi,f>SC.lS Overdrafts _______ 7$) .93 Bonds and Stock - J'.O.-i 00.00 Real Estate _______5,000.00 Fixtures ___5,00,').CO Cash on Hand and Due From Other Banks_87,510.80 TOTAL __________ .8345 303.91 LIABILITIES Capital __ $100,000.00 Surplus ____T__ ___65,000.00 Cadivided Profits ________ r»,5 M.o!) Ifo.erved for Taxes_ 1,000.00 It< served for Interest_ _27.f>:»tU>* Bill Pavablo__ NONE DEPOSITS _ OloJO-LCi TOTAL____.!j;815.:,00.01 The Customers And Friends Of The Union Trust Co* Will be pleased with the above report, which reflects growth and encouraging progress. On the basis of the Strength and Growth of this Bank we solicit your business. Union Trust Co. SHELBY - LATTiMORE - LAWNDALE - FALLSTON -BANKING — INSURANCE — TRUSTS “IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH.”
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