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NEXT WEEK «r-we will receive our Uiird so’.id carload of I MASCOT RANGES for 0iis fall end winter—54 ranges lo the car or 162 ranges in three cars. That’s the way The Para gon Bells Mascot Ranges. Sooner or later you’ll buy a Mascot, so why not now. Wont you come in this week and see this Wonderful range, or ask 1* some one who uses a Mascot. BUY A MASCOT NOW. A CLEAN SWEEP— I We arc reducing our Branch Store stock to a minimum this week. Every item has been cut to the hone—To get the low prices we aVe offer ing, you must buy this Week at our Branch Store next door to Kendall Medicine Co. AT OUR MAIN STORE —we are all fixed up for .Christmas. We are show ing such lovely things suitable for gifts—and ioo you’ll find just what you want in furniture, fieautiful displays a 11 rtady for your inspection —Drop in to see. THE TPARAGONS MAIN STORE JOn The Square’ £ FOR IlETT^it FURNI TURE AND FURNISH INGS AND PRICES— GO TO * THE PARAGON STORES Shelby, N. C. CHRISTMAS GIFTS We arc showing so many beautiful things thh year Suitable for Christmas -gifts. Of course furni ture makes the best gifts always, but (his year we are showing lovely things in smaller item , such as Lamp;., Pillows, Lamp Shades, Magazine Racks, Waste Baskets, Card Tables, Mirrors, Smoking Stands, Stools, Smoking Sets, Hat Boxes, Bags, Suit Cases, Trunks, and a large dia play of pictures, cords, ’etc. Drop by—see ‘what we are showing. All on display now at The Paragon’s Main Store, 6n The’Square, Prices most reasonable. THE PARAGON FURNITURE COMPANY ‘On The Square’ - m The movies - Get set for forty minutes of real excitement; the Dempsey-Tunney fight pictures are showing at 'he Webb theatre today and tomorrow. The Chicago battle of September is to oe reproduced with all its thrills at the local show house—from the first round to the last, with all the kick and pep in between. The pic ture shows the big fight round by round, up and through the final tenth. The famous seventh, in which Dempsey floored Tunney for the disputed count, will be shown in slow motion You will see it all- the crowds, the big arena, and get as much kick as if you were in the big stadium. The picture takes forty minutes to show, and there are other features j on the program. A big crowd circulated before the J ; Princess theatre lobby all day today, j viewing the life-like ffgures of Jes se James, and members of the James gang. The show was staged as a pre liminary to the Jesse James picture "The Black Flag" on at the theatre today. The immortal bandit is going over big all ever the country. This picture is popular as everything Is connected with the career of the cel j ebrated killer. Tomorrow brings a picture -an I other “Trilby"—of love and romance, j set in the famous Latin quarter of l Paris. “The Secret Studio" is the I name of the piece, with Olive Bor j den starring. It is a splendid pic ture of life in the Bohemia of the gay French capital. 4 The St. Louis Stock company brings a presentation for Wednes day. Civic Clubs To Aid State’s Ex-Convicts The first organized effort in the state to aid men released from pris on to find jobs has been undertaken by 50 civic clubs. Pardon Commis sioner Edwin Bridges anounced in reporting on the response to his re cent appeal for the cooperation of civic organizations in such an under taking. Special committees have been des ignated by each of the 50 clubs lo cated in as many counties, to func tion as a prisoners' service agency with the objective of finding satis factory employment for every man released from prison who may be in need of assistance. Commissioner Bridges released to day the liames of the co-operating clubs and the committee chairmen. Additional efforts will be made to give publicity to the organization through the publication of a booklet to be placed in the hands of every man paroled or released from prison upon the expiration of his term con I taining the name and business ad dress of the members of the com mittee. Among the organizations listed is the Shelby Rotary club with C. B. McBrayef tut head of the commit tee for the work. This Fellow Champ Of Accident Guys E; P. Lindgren, Sioux Falls trav eling man. has the right to claim the melancholy title of world's champion accident victim. It began when he was 11 days old. He fell from his cradle and broke his left arm. I At the age of four he fell off a horse and broke his right arm. Then at six while trying to drive a stake wtth a hatchet, he cut his left foot to the bone. A year later a bull ftor cr. him so badly he was nearly killed one arm, four ribs, a collar bone and both leas being broken. I Then lie had a few years of immu nity. In his early teens he Joined a circus. One of his tasks was to dive out over three elephants into a net. Once he fell while doing this >and broke his much-fractured left leg again. His prize accident came in 190G. while he was a brakeman on a freight train. Running along the top of a moving train, he stepped on a rotten . footboard and fell to the track. Thirty-seven cars passed over him. but none hurt him until the eftboose came along when his cloth ing caught in the wheels and lie was dragged for three miles. His left arm was cut off. nine toes were sev ered. his skull w as fractured and his left side was crushed But he lived. It was 1925 before another serious accident occurred. Then, riding in a passenger coach, he tripped in the aisle and broke a vertebrae in his spine, gettinc temporary paralysis. Recovering he went for an auto ride The auto went over a 45-foot bank into a river and he was nearly drowned. This year he again tripped in a Pullman aisle, wrenching his spine and sprained both ankles. Then he got scarlet fever and spent six weeks in the hospital. During his convales cnce he got inflammatory rheuma tism and did not walk for 19 weeks. This was followed by the explosion of a gas stove In a tent in a tourist camp. Lindgren was enveloped in flames, and only prompt attention by friends saved him from being burned to death. Despite his many accidents he is cheerful. “You have to taste the bitter part of life to enjoy the sweet." he says. Life’a Added Problema Life is becoming more nmllieiniil leal every day. We are now urged to count our blessings before eat ing, and our calories while eating, our change after eating, and our sheep while going lo sleep.—Kan sas City Star. • , 1 Want To Be An Aviator? Well, Just Go Through A Few Of These Tests By Lawrence A gee, Jr. I i In Birmingliam News) If you think you’d like to be an aviator—or an aviatrix—don't think - you haven't got a tough job on your hands. I've just been through the j test, and I might say, it got me “up in the air." It was at Roberts Field that the boys gave me the third degree. They ; made me spin like a top, oscillate 1 like a pendulum, rotate like a cir- j cular saw and go through nose dives i and tail spins, and all I had beneath me was a wobbling chair. And when they got through with me I | might as well have been 48,000 feet i in the clouds for all I knew. How- j ever, I was glad when I awoke to | find that only three feet separated me from the floor. My head reeled, my eyes jerked I felt like I was falling, the walls ! moved about, the floor was where the ceiling should have been, win dows, trees and office furniture passed in line before my optical orbs like a train passing a picket fence Instead of my doing the real falling and the objects remaining station ary. the order was just the reverse. I was stationary and the objects were moving about. Like Bird With 100 Eyes I saw everything all at once like a Bird with 100 eyes. I have seen stars, falling metors and all but the milky way. I have been dizzy and lost by equilibrium but in this test I saw more queer antics in con tradiction to Isaac Newton’s law of gravity in 20 seconds than I have ever experienced in all my life. “Have you ever had rheumatism?" I was asked by the examining phy sician. ‘‘No, sir. Nor gout nor lumbago either,” I informed my interrogator ‘‘Is your heart weak? Have you ever had any heart trouble?” the physician next inquired of me. "Only once, when I ran into a big grizzly bear in the Great Smokj Mountains,’! answered seriously, ”1 think my heart is functioning nor mally now though,” I said. “Well, you won’t run into any bears into the clouds but you may hit some air pockets and if your heart action is not normal, you'll be in a bad fix,” the physician ad vised. I Well, sir, they subjected me to all sorts of mental, physical and all other kinds of tests known to medi cal science and then tossed in a few extra ones for full measure. You know in Uncle S^im s aviation ine up you are either fit or unfit. There i is no happy medium in his vernacu lar. Ancestry Traced The physician probed, gouged and bored into my personal affairs. I was asked hundreds of questions and told to relate my life fTom the cradle era to the present. I was asked if I was ill much when a baby in swaddling clothes (what a com pliment to one’s memory), if I gave my parents much trouble, when my teeth began to appear, if I remained indoors much or liked outdoors bet ter, if I entered into school athle ics. if I passed or ‘‘flunked’’ often, if my studies were difficult to me. if I liked to play with my boyhood chums, if I liked to be with girls, if I had ever had any kind .of ill ness, et cetera, ad infinitum. After that was all over with, I was next subjected to the turning chair. This is the most interesting and exciting of all the tests. This test is termed the vestibular test, or the cquilibrum test. The ny stangmus, past-pointing and falling are tested. The turning chair is equipped with a head rest which holds the head 30 degrees forward !» foot rest and a stop pedal. Well. X leaned my head 30 decrees forward so that the tragus of my ear was on a horizontal line with ihe external canthus of my cyo. That's an awful fix to be in but they informed me that’s the way I was, anyhow. I was next asked to fix my eyes on a distant point, picture the ob ject in my mind and then close my eyes, then they would whirl me around and something funny would happen. I did, they did and it did. Whirled in Chair I was whirled around in that chair to the right 10 times in ex actly 20 seconds. This is done in order to note whether or not spon taneous nystagmus is present. Now, stygmus is a rapid involuntary ocu lar oscillation of the eyeballs. It may be congenital, associated with ocular troubles or of nervous origin, or so they told me. After being turned 10 times in 20 seconds the supervising physician stepped on the stop pedal and the chair halted instantly, I’ll say it did. It nearly jarred by grandmother’s preserves. He clicked his stop watch at the same time and I was told to open my eyes and pick out the same object which I had previ ously selected. I opened my eyes, but I could not any more pick out that whitewashed tree than I could sw’im the English Channel. Those trees passed before my eyes like the parade of the wooden soldiers. They all looked alike. The army regulations say “There should occur a horizontal nystagmus to the left of 16 seconds' duration.” And there was. Then the trees became slower until finally they were motionless. Then the chair was turned to the left 10 times in exactly 20 seconds and there occured a horizontal nys tagmus to the right. When they finished whirling me in this cliuir my brain was adled Since I have never been drunk, this test fully explains why a drunken person can't walk a straight line and sees everything in double portions. That was the nystagmus test. Next came the past-pointing test. I closed my eyes While sitting in the chair facing the supervising physi cian. I touched his finger held in front of me, raised my right arm to a perpendicular position, lowered my arm and attempted to find his finger. I did. Then my left arm was tried. Then the pointing test was repeat ed after I was turned to the right 10 times in 10 seconds. During the last turn the stop pedal was released and the chair was locked as it came into position, nearly throwing me for a down. Again I repeated the at tempt to find the physician's finger, but my, oh my, how I past-pointed Of all the high, wide and wild swings I made at his finger! I struck first to the left and then to the right, as thouggh I was slapping at right, as though I was slappin.r at down In a perpendicular swing to save* me. I would start down and then swing off to the right or left. Think it's pretty easy? Try it once. Falling Test Next > The third step is falling. Now here is a test in which I had 10 be .trapped to the chair. My head was placed on a head rest. The chair nclined 90 degrees forward and was .hen turned to the right five times n 10 seconds and it felt like it was rotating 10 times that fast. The ■hair \vas stopped but I felt I was still going, nowhere in particular rnd everywhere in general, just hurling through space. I opened my ?yes and felt like I was falling to ,he right. If I had not neen .trapped to the chair I would have executed a backward somersault over .lie back of the chair. The exam ner told me that all examiners do .his in the attempt to right them ;elves, thinging they are upside lown. Then the chair was turned o the left in the same manner and ./hen I opened my eyes I felt like ( was falling to the left when the ;hair was stopped. Next I was subjected to various and sundry eye tests. This included visual acuity, depth perception at six meters, Maddow rod screen test at six meters, the Maddox rod screen test at 33 cm., prism divergence, ingle, of convergence, retinal sensi tivity, central color vision, field of vision for form and color, refrac tion, opthalmoscopic examination, test of the ear, voice, nasophorynx, inspection of the eyes.and accomo dation. I was tested for normal visual fields, normal color vision, ability to judge distance, oscular muscle balance and lachrymation. I was told that a certain amount f accommodation is necessary, otherwise the flier can read neither his map nor instrument board. This test consists of small letters on a round piece of cardboard which slide away from the eye at a right angle. I had to see how far away I could read these small letters. Will Continue Reporting Before the applicant is started on nis examination, he is given a dis appointment to ascertain his reac tion. If he gets peeved or shows signs of being easily wrought up over petty things, he is not capable of handling the responsibility of a plane high up in the clouds. After I had gone through various chair tests, eye tests, ear and throat tests, spun around, read letters from the size of pn amoeba's eye to about the size or a quarter. I decided I would get all my air views from the tops of skyscrapers and save the flowers. I gathered my "remains” and limped back to the office to carve this story on "How to Be An Aviator” or "Why Mother s Sons Get Gray?” Linney May Get In Race For Governor Western North Carolina Republican Leader Refuses to State His Position in Race. Bocne.—Frank A. Linney, Republi can leader in Western North Caro liy.rv, declined Thursday to confirm or deny the report that he will be the Republican candidate for gover nor in the next election. “It is too early to discuss candida cies," Mr. Linney said in answer to the question and would not amplify that statement in the least. The report that Mr. Linney will be candidate has persisted ever since he made an address in Winston-Saicm recently before the state tobacco growers. The g.st of that address was that the state and federal de partments of agriculture should be reorganized with a view to obtain ing markets for farm products, and to paying less attention to produc tion Many political observers saw in that address Mr. Linney's open ing gun in the campaign tor gover nor, but he himself will not say whether he is to be a candidate or not. Mr. Linney was a candidate for governor on the Republican ticket in 1916. At that time, one of the main planks in his platform was a state wide tax for schools, as opposed to the present system of part local and part state taxes. . Mr. Linney would not say what would be his platform if he should decide to be a candidate at the next election. Open Sesame It we observe, soon we are to able to perceive; If we perceive •non we are able to understand; uud If we understand, soon we are able to sympathize: and If we truly •vinputItize, all the doors of nature and human nature stand open to ug.—Woman’s Uoiue Companion. Two Hundred Per Cent Increase Business Credited to Activities of Saint Nichols Washington—Postmasters at the 50,000 postoffices throughout the country will wish their working quarters had rubber walls before the Christmas rush is over. The business of assisting Santa Claus on his speedy trip around the world on Christmas Eve will aver age approximately 200 per cent above the normal business in the postal department, Harry S. New, postmaster general, declares. When others are thinking of fire crackers and Independence day proclamations back in July the pos tal department was beginning to think of Christmas trees, Christ mas packages and mountains of mail. For three months the department has been laying plans, interviewing extra clerks and making every ef fort to see that Santa's gifts reach their destinations in time to go into Yule stockings. The departments estimates that approximately $9,000,000 will be dis bursed to provide additional service to handle the big increase in mail matter deposited in tribute to the spirit of St. Nicholas. Letters to Santa Claus already have been received jn some cities. Where circumstances warrant these letters are referred to charitable or ganizations, and if there seems to be any liklihood that Santa may overlook the writers these brganiza tions take steps to call them to his attention. For some years the department has conducted an educational cam paign to get the public to mail Christmas packages early. The cam paign has borne fruit in many sec tions, and the rush is being dis tributed over a longer period of time, but Santa's business still is extremely expensive business be cause of the rush. Last year's figures shows $2,356, 672 was paid put ' for additional clerks, $2,2000,000 for additional rail road transportation. $1,622,575 for additional city letter carriers, $925, 000 for overtime and travel allow- ; ance for railway postal clerks, $398,- j 600 for hiring additional motor vehi- | cles and $335,000 for the transpor- j tation of foreign mails. r (Stanly News-Herald) In these days when farming is rapidly becoming a business, when men arc farming for the love of the game, rather than as a necessity and because they could not do any thing else as was once the case, when the farmer is not only keep ing up with other branches of in dustry and endeavor, but is actually taking the lead in progress, anything which one of them accomplishes out of everybody, more especially to the other farmers. In this connection, the record made during the past crop year by Mr. H. J. Whitley, of Oakboro I Route 2, makes interesting read ing, and should be a source of sti IT COMES CLEAN It certainly is a pleasure to use Sinclair Power Full Gasoline. In addition to the power and mileage Jit give* you, it is an unusually clean gasoline to ujse. Vou do not find residue or water clogging the car buretor and causing carbon deposits. You find only the elements of Service in Sinclair Gasoline. It’s power-full, this Sinclair Gasoline. It keeps your engine running smoothly. No missing in the firing of your cylinders. There’s power, mileage— and perfect operation in Sinclair Gasoline. Sinclair Gasoline c7he Grade that makes the Grade CLEVELAND OR CO. Distributors-Shelby, N. C. f /HEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARB BUILT. BUICK RTLL BUILD THEM over that bad road DRIVE a Buick for 1928 over the stretch of bad road you know best . . . Notice how Buick’s Cantilever Springs smooth away those aggravating ruts and bumps . . . Observe how Buick’s Lovejoy Hydraulic Shock Absorbers, front and rear, absorb road shocks and eliminate jolts and jars . . . You cannot know Buick’s marvelous new riding com fort until you have tested it yourself. A car awaits you in our showroom. SEDANS #119) to 01993 V , SPORT MODELS 195 to f1525* COUPES 5H95 to JflSSO “i*- fwnwwof tax to to odd-a Tim G. M. A. C. financm* plan, tk, mo,, d„„,bU. u aroJstUI BUICK>I928 J. LAWRENCE LACKEY Dealer - Shelby, N. C. When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them mulation to other farmers to strive to go him one. Here's what he did. On nine acres of land he gathered eleven big bales of cotton. We say big bales advisedly, for the weight of the bale shows that they were big, the total weight of the eleven bales having been 5,440 pounds. The bales tipped the scales at the following figures: 552, 508. 404, 450. 465, 519, 518, 471, 492, 479, 492. Total 5,440 pounds. Divide that by nine and you get 644 and a fraction pounds, the amount per acre averaged. “Lespedeza is what did it,” Mr. Whitley told us when we asked him how he produced such results. "I had seeded the field »in Japan Clov er two or three years ago. When 1 planted my crop last spring I used 300 pounds of high grade fertilizer per acre. 100 pounds of nitrate of soda and put a light scattering of stable manure on the thin spots,” he explained. Mr. Whitley further stated that he felt sure that the boll weevil cut the field short at least 1,500 pounds of lint and that he was satisfied he plowed under 500 pounds when he sowed the field down in small grain this fall. But. however, one may view this accomplishment, it leaks to us like mightly good farming. “Farmers can make money farming in this county,” Mr. Whitley said, “if they will only work, and use then hr , a bit.” 1 Able To Foretell Sex Before Birtl Budapest, Nov.—An old bare footed wanderer who claims to b able to predict the sex of the com ing generation and even to regulat the sex of an expected . child” uy few simple instructions to the moth er, has appeared in the conutats o Baranya and Bacs, and as the old man's prophecies have proved cor rect in ninety-nine cases out of hundred he has speedily become persona grata in the farms and vii lages. The visitors who mentioned th birth dates of the other members o his family was instantly and cor rectly informed by the old mai which of these were male and tv hie! female. All attempts to induce thi old man to reveal his secret havi failed. Were it known, he says, .sue) a simple rule of life would be laugh ed at. and he himself dismissed a a charlatan. In the near future Chicago gun men probably will be acquitted o murder if they can prove that thi victim, dropped his "haitches.” Cincinnati Enquirer. A NATION-W.ZZ INSTITUTION ** where savin Beautiful Is Moderately Priced Here fashion lias decreed silk hosier)—with short skirts —and the wise woman has discovered that this is the place to buy them ! Colors Smart for Fall A selection of shades to blend with Fall apparel. Our medium weight pure silk hose has a short lisle top—ideal for general near. A clear, sheer weight is lovely for dress-up t;aies. $1.49 Loch Lomond Flannel Scarfs i These all-wool Loch Lo jnond scarfs in lively Tac uuard patterns; low priced $1.49 Men’s Neckwear Fc* Christmas Of course you will want to give him new ties. We want you to see our Neck wear Display. So many new and unusual color and pat 'ern-effects. Well made— •juality ties—every one. At, 49c to 98c Bath Towels In Fancy Jacquard Patterns These handsome towels ,».'e jacquard center an4 fancy jacquard border,^ 69c Wash Goths To' Match, 15q$r7 Luncheon Setft All Linen-Boxed A gift suggestion—choice! ml ievcr»l colors. ) 52^9 Warm Underwear For Playtime Hours Out-of-doors It'* comfort able— indoor* or outt Styl*i for girls of *11 ages. Ilany Styles Waist style union suits —- a and others for larger girls. 49 c Infants’ Dresses Stamped In Dainty Design The tiny baby on your list ■will look her prettiest in on* of t n e * <* h a n 4 broidered ' d fosses. s 69c Rayon Vests Extra Fine Quality Tailored vests in bodice .top style have ^straps of self jin a t e r i a 1. 'Flesh only. Vests of ifine rayon for 49c f Vests of super - qual ity rayon for hiuc to 98 Men’s Hose For Chrntm** Pure thread *ilk sockn black and plain color*— 49c Charming Embroidered Gifts Don’t Take Long to Make L A table scar£, a buffet set or luncheon nset for your friend who entertains of.*’1 V—pillow cases and fancy towels—a score j of attractive suggestions for Chrisunas ’ gifts are in oar Penimaid Art Needle work line. - 19c to 98c
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