L KINGS' MOUNTAIN NEWS
MRS.v¥fc K. CROOK, Reporter.
ItrniH Of New it Will He Appreciated — Telephone 177 —
iMUK Jean Warp is visiting her
ant, Mrs. Paul Monty, of Char
IWM.
; Rev. I. S. McElroy, Jr., Mrs. Mc
elroy and Children are visiting
e?ir parents, Dr. and Mrs. Mc
roy.
ki Mm and Mrr.. Bright Rattcrce
:companied by Mr. and Mrs.
S. Rattcree > motored to Bon
Harken Wednesday.
Miss Pearl Fulton was a Char
Lte visitor Wednesday.'
Miss Martha Patterson is visit
ig Miss Ruth Patterson, of Rock
till, S. C.
Miss Lucille Parker, of Grover,
plaited relatives last week. 1
i Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Aderholt
Rad as guests last week, Mr. and
|Wrg. Iaifayctte Aderholdt, of
ligaington.
Mrs. C. H. Hardin and daugh-1
P, Louise, has returned to Shelby
tier a visit to her mother, Mrs.
innie Hilling
Mrs. Curtis Falls had as guests:
ist week, Miss Etta Curtis, of
iiling Springs, and Mrs. E. W.
lardson and little daughter, of
tUrinburg.
Mr. Charles Williams has return
from a visit to his wife in New
fork city.
Mr. Olin Ader has returned home
fter attending summer school at
hike University.
Mr*. W. T. Weir is visiting her
irents in Darlington, S. C.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. King. Mrs.
B. Willeford and Mrs. J. C.
Ihfhols and children left Wednes
iy for Morehead City on a pleas
|nt journey.
New Buicks On
Display Here Now
Many New Features Added, Im
pressive Of Speed, Safety,
Etc. New Color
Schemes
J. Lawrence Lackey, local
Buick dealer is showing the new
model Buicks which have just been
sent out from the factory. They
are attracting much attention by
their beauty, style and luxury. It
is low swung, several inches near
er the ground than any previous
model. Particular attention is
given to the interior finish, rival
ing the well appointed drawing
nom for taste and comfort.
New color schemes are good and
contrasting notes in interiors of the
closed models carry a range that
.should appeal to the most fastidi
ous. The seats take different
shades from the side walls and
< 'iling lining. Combinations of
Loco colors have been worked out
with a view to accentuating the
new styled, low contour of the car.
All Buicks for are wider
and roomier than their predeces
sors and all have later roof and
body line's that add to the grace of
the machine.
fhrwk absorbers, permanently at
tached with reference to the co-or
0'nation of springs and body, are
on" feature of standard equipment
on the new cars. Arm rests, in
terior lights, cigar lighters, every
modern automobile convenience
necessary to the constant driver,
have been incorporated in the
Buick.
BOILING SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL
Located in the heart of the Piedmont Section of North
Catalina. The only Baptist school in this section and the
anly high school under the direction of The .Hirptist State
Convention in Norlh Carolina. The school lh a member of
the Southern Aaanciation of Schools and Colleges.
Thorough Literary instructi< n and special instruction in
Husk and Household Arts is offered at a reasonable co«t.
For Catalog and information apply to—
PROF. J. D. HUGGINS, Principal,
OOILING SPRINGS, N. C.
Pasteurized Milk
IS INSURANCE AGAINST
Typhiod
Pasteurized Milk is I’URK Milk, free from di
seasci'at the nime time it contains all the nutritive
qualities of the original product.
Now that numerous casts of typhoid are re
ported in the county, take no chances with raw
milk. Any doctor will give you that advice.
We serve PASTEURIZED Mlt.K ONLY.
Shelby Milk Plant
-PHONE 125
MAKES MOTORS EAGER!
When you fill Up your tank with
Sinclair Gasoline—you are filling your
car with “life.” Your car is eager to
, —cju:ck on the get-away—powerful
ora the hills. You car gives you its best
sen icc when you give your car the best
^gasoline— Sinclair POWER - FULL
Gasoline.
Sinclair Gasoline
c7he Grade that makes the Grade
CLEVELAND OIL CO.
[ Distributors 4a-Shelby, N. C.
Orphan Endowment of $30,000,000Grows
From “Tithing” Given by Boy With $1.15
THE Inspiration behind the en
dowment of a home, school
and university tor orphans at Sand
Springs. Okla., for nearly *30,
000,000, by the late Charles Page
has been found In San Francisco.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, major
In San Francisco in the Salvation
Army, Is credited with having in
spired Charlie Page in 1887, when
he walked along the watertront of
Seattle. Wash., with only *1.15 in
his pocket.
The story, as recently told, 6ays
that Mrs. Harris, then the only
one in Seattle to wear the now
typical Salvation Army bonnet, ap
proached Page and urged him to
'•tithe" the Lord. He asked her
what "tithing" meant, and when
it was explained, he threw into
her tambourine 15 cents.
Prospers
From that time on, according to
biographers of Page, everyone of
his enterprises prospered.
••I snllt with the 'Big Fellow,'
and He made geology,” Page is re
ported to have said In explaining
his fortune in striking oil and
founding his fortune.
Page married a Tulsa girl after
many wanderings, built a home in
the country and began to adopt
orphan children to add to his fam
ily of one daughter. He and his
wife could not take Into their
home the hundreds that he sought
to benefit, so he built a huge
building nearby to house them.
Page 'wanted fresh milk, and
the cattle which he bought to pro
vide for them turned into a priie
winning herd. Everything he sim
ilarly touched not only benefited
the children, but brought more
wealth to him—fresh vegetables,
ho.me-canned fruits, orchards and
vineyards—even the merry-go
round which started the finest
zoological garden In the south
west. v.1
Never once did the faith In
Elizabeth Harris, Salvation
rmy captain in Seattle in 1K87 !
when she inspired Charles I’iikc,
Is shown to the left. Major Har
ris, now in San Francisco, is
shown to the right. Ilolmv is a
sketch of Charles Page, million
aire of Tulsa, Okla., whose gift
Miss Harris inspired.
rpired by his experience in Seattle
desert hint. From among the or
phans he adopted and cared for
have come some fine successful •
examples.
Kept the Faith
Mrs. Harris <h*<s not claim to
have been Page's inspiration. Her
sincerity in her faith and her work
prevents her from seeking credit, I
but all facts gathered substantiate j
that she was the only worker of
her kind in Seattle at the time
Page found his new faith. And
she does remember emphatically
that her early work laid stress or.
“tithing” as a means of titering
the benefits of faith.
One cannot deny Page's work,"
nor his sincerity In crediting bis
inspiration to service. Neither cat;
one deny 40 years of effort by Mrs.
Hanty, now Senior Sergeant
i !a'jo! ill. f;.ii ' • i> l
CurpL, vfrtp. v. 'i !. i :•<„ I:t> '
■■j'.I Ht-sriir, j»i
t:,» ArKi; v.ot. in FcutU.* <n Ma>
BLIND, HE FINDS IN MOP SPRINGS
WORK, CHEER AND FORTUNE
rpHE thousands ot mop sticks in
use in the United States every
day are monuments to a blind
man. Henry J McFerren of Tiffin.
Ohio McFerren makes a large
percentage of the springs used on
these mop sticks, operating the
complicated automatic spring coll
ing machines without aid
He began making doorspringe
on a machine contrived from an
old clothes wringer eight years
ago. McFerren had his sight and
good Job with an express company
then. He made and sold springs
as a sideline.
Blinded July 4th
On July 4. 1924. he was blinded
by the explosion of a small can
non which ho was loading when a
ball from a Roman candle dropped
Into the gunpowder.
The state blind commission
offered to teach McFerren to make
brooms and to weave baskets. His.
family expected him to spend the
rest ot his days In his big rocking
chair. They were afraid that the
blind man would alip out of his
shop and start the spring wind
ing machine, so they hid his shoes.
l>ost Shop In Fire
After overcoming these' ob
stacles, McFerren lost his shop in!
a Are. * He built a larger one and
tried to buy automatic coiling ma
chines. The manufacturer refused
to sell his machines to a blind
man. Not until the Inspector of
the Ohio Blind. Commlsslbn had
seen McFerren making springs on
his home-made machines and bad
Henry J. McFerren, blind, cerates an involved spring machine.
approved tho order for automatic
machinery did the manufacturer
ship McFerren’s equipment.
With the aid of one hoy McFcr- j
ren can turn out 50,000 to 75,000
springs dally, operating the ma
chines about half time and spend
ing the rest of his time selling in
the states east of the Mississippi
and north of the Ohio river
McFerren can direct his driver
over hundreds of miles of high
way In this section of the country
ar.d knows the geography of
scores of towns In which he sells
His income is larger now than It
wa3 when he had his sight. He is
married and has two little girls
The End of Byrd's Eventful Flight
%-Witrt their huge I'okker monoplane halt buried in the water* ot the English channel after a forced
landing. Commander Richard E. Byrd and his companions or tho third trans-Atlantic flight were lucky
to escape with their lives. *• The America is shown below where it skidded out from the rocky beaak
••t iVer-Sur-Mer, France, after a long flight with ini penetrable fog. Above are the four met Who
paddled to safety in a collapsible boat after the wreck. - l<uit_to right they are Lieutenant Ucorad)
I .Novlile, Qpmmnader Bjrd, B^rtjAcosta and Breut EakneiV ' "* ”
I
Pigmentation of Man
Attributed to Diet
imre than one investigator holds
the view that the pigmentation of
the races Is due to feeding. It Is j
pointed out that In the animal I
world color Is often determined by
food, and it Is contended that by
chemical process the same results
are shown In the different human
races. According to this theory,
then, the original man was black,
since his chief diet must have been j
vegetarian. Fruit and vegetables
contain mangnnnfes thnt ally
themselves with Iron, constituting
"a dark brown combination.” It
Is said that negroes who add meat
nnd milk to their vegetables are
never as dark as those negroes
who eat only vegetables.
Indians are- red. It appears, be
cause they have absorbed for gen
erations hemoglobin, the red sub
stance In the blood of animals
killed for food.
Mongols are yellow by reason of
the fact thnt they are descended
front dark, fruit-eating races who
penetrated Into the plains of Asia,
became shepherds, and lived to a
great extent on milk, which con
tains chlorine and has a bleaching
effect.
The Caucasians were another
braneh who became still whiter by
adding salt to their dietary. Com
mon salt Is a strong chloride and a
powerful Agent In bleaching the
skin. The effect can be seen. It Is
declared. In the case of negro chil
dren who have been reared on a
“white” dietary. They are never
so black ns their kindred who havt
not abandoned vegetarianism.
Western Kansas Town
Only a Memory Today
There was one Rome that fell
and left not even a ruin to tell of
Its past glory. In 1867 Rome was
the only town In western Kansas,
and Its glory was that of a pioneer
railroad community. The first
house was a tent; then Buffalo
Bill (W. P. Cody) built a handsome
stone store where he did business
for a time. lVlthin a week there
were 500 Inhabitants and soon (his
number quadrupled—business men,
soldiers, railroad graders, gamblers,
hunters and outlaws. The stores
did a tremendous business and
saloons and gaming places were
ablaze with activity at all hours.
Then the railroad hullt an embank
ment that cut Rome off from the
fort. Hays City began to grow un
der the patronage thus thrown to
Its stores, and a cholern epidemic
soon drove out the last Inhabitants
of Rome. By 1876 the town was
gone and today the traveler sees
nothing but sunflowers where once
was the metropolis of western Kan
sas.—Detroit News.
Dust as a Shield
The British royal commission on
mines has made some interesting
experiments on explosions of mix
tures of coal dust and air. It has
demonstrated that such mixtures
are eminently explosive, and also
t» at the explosions can be mlti
guted, or confined in area, by
means of stone dust, which is not
explosive.
A coal dust area was placed be
tween a dustless region and one
spread with stone dust, after which
an erploslon was produced in the
coal dust by firing a cannon. The
results appeared to demonstrate
that the effects of an explosion may
be transmitted to a considerable
distance over a dustless zone by the
coal dust driven before the air
blast, but that the stone dust has
a restraining effect.—Washington
Star.
Unsavory
The governor of Arkansas was
visiting the state penitentiary. A
colored woman Inmate who was
rooking In the prison kitchen de
sired an Interview with him. which
he granted. She asked for a par
d<w. The governor asked her:
"WT.stl.s the matter, nuntle—
haven't you n nice home here?”
"Yes, sir," she replied; “hut I
wants out."
“Pon’t they feed you well here?"
"Yes, sir. I gets good victuals;
dnt's not hit."
"Well, what makes you dissatis
fied?"
"It's dis way, guvner; I’s got Jus’
dls one 'jection to dis place, and
dot's de reputation It’s got outoveh
de state.”—Exchange.
Country of Centenarians
Spain Is tlie land of centenarians.
The latest official census states
that 354 personst 00 men and 258
women) have readied the age of
one hundred: 75 men and 204 wom
en are more than one hundred
years old. and n number have
readied one hundred and ten years.
There are 22,150 men and 30,204
women more than eighty years old.
It will lie seen that women are
longer lived than men. Even
Madrid, which has the reputation
of being unhealthy, hus 24 women
and 11 men who are more than one
hundred years old.
Brandet and Hit Enemiet
That distinguished Danish dread
nought. George Brandes, was a
bonny fighter, and could slip a little
proof of his prowess Into the most
unlikely places. When he first vis
ited London In 1870 there wns a
pleasant touch In the account of his
sightseeing.
“Here, ns everywhere, I sought
out the Zoological gardens, where I
lingered longest near the hippo
potami. Their clumsiness was al
most captivating. They reminded
me of some of mv enemies at
home.”—Manchester Guardian.
Supplying the Larder
Lincoln used to tell a story about
a school teacher who said to his pu
pils one day:
“If each child will (wing an egg
to school tomorrow 1 will show
you how Christopher Columbus
made the egg stand on end. Those
who cannot bring an egg kindly
bring a piece of bam."
The entire city of Toledo, Spain,
is to be offcially made a national
monument, to jfrevent destruction
of beautiful and historic old build
—MASONIC TEMPLE BUILDING—
SHELBY, N. C.
Every Day In Every
Way at This Store
125th Anniversary]
You Can Wash
These F/ocks ol
Summer Fabrics
There's al
ways * fresh,
cool frock
ready when
your summer
frocks can be
washed.
$3.98
Big Value!
These new
<v;?sare delight*
fid — md em
otionally low
•t iced I
j 25th Anniversary
Swimming Suits
For Men Who Like
"V The Water
\ Well-fitting,
I elastic suits
' that males
swimming real
sport — plain
or striped
tops.
For Boys
Too
Suits that
will stand
— many, many
swims.
I
Men’s cotton suits,
9He to $1.19'
Men’s Wool Suits,
SI.98 to $3.49
Bay’s Cotton Suits,
19c to $1.49
Boy’s Wool Suits
$1.49 to $2.98
On Warm Days
Small Boys aid Girls
Like Half Socks
No vacation is com
plete without a few new
pairs of socks—especially
;when the price is so Jowl
19c to 43c
Sport Oxford
Smart Tri a
A strsrt, sensible Oxford for
vacation hikes. The square toe
is very new and yK
the lines on
the vamp
make your g|
foot look
smaller. /
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Men’s Shirts
Fancy Broadcloth
In patterns that are exclu
sive to our stores. Cut extra
full; collar
attached and
n eckband
with sepa- ^
rate collar ’
to match.
$1.93
‘4-for-1” Hose
Our Own ISiuad
A fuli m<;rceriied lisle sock.
Heavy
weight
Steongly
made. I-ow
priced at-»
4 Pair*
$1.00
Tropica! Suiti
Full of Style
Of genuine
Palm Beach cloth,
•ingle or double
•tripes in grey,
tan, brown and
blue. Sizes 35 to
*$9,90 £
1 r i m •
dressy md
serviceable.
Light and
dark cassi
mercs, silk
lined, leath
er lip.
49c 69c
98c
*
Sharpen Old Blades
With the Moredge Stroppy
For Moredge or Gillette Blades
earn its small cost many times oytt.
Very easy to operate. Full instructions
■with each stropper. Low priced—
’ “For a Batter Shave With Th«
Better Blade” try . fJ,.
our own Morodgo g for
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