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— THE PRINCESS THEATRE — The Coolest Spot In Town I- TONIGHT — Here’s Another Paramount IJ. F. A. Production “THE PEAKS OF DESTINY” k t a picture you’ll enjoy. Also Fox News. — TOMORROW — Love and hate! Tears r.nd squeals! Mingled in the whirring wheels! “DEAD MAN S CURVE” With Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. Kit Guard and Sally Hlnne. Oh Bov! It’s a humdinger! Also Comedv and News. % NO EXTRA CHARGES! — SPECIAL NOTICE — Beginning Monday, July Kith, during the first 10 minutes after opening admission 10c to each — Thereafter regular admission, every day except Sat urday. Monday opening 1 P, M. and 7:15 P. M.; Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday Friday, 2 P. M. and 7:15 P. M. OCR REGULAR SUMMER 10 MINUTES REDUCTION. Paragon’s BARGAIN BASEMENT SATURDAY SPECIALS WOMEN’S COTTON HOSE 5c PAIR (Limit of 4 Pairs to Customer.) PRINTED PERCALS 10c YARD (Neat Small Designs.) MEN’S UNION SUITS 25c (Sizes 36 to 40.) WOMEN’S SILK DRESSES $2.95 (A Close-Out.) 36-INCH INDIAN HEAD 19c (Guaranteed Solid Colors.) CHILDREN’S 3-4 SOCKS 10c PAIR (Dark Brown Only) PLAIN VOILES 15c (A Rare Bargain) Children’s 50c Socks . 29c Boy’s Overalls . 79c Men’s Overalls . $1.00 Women’s Rayon Hose . 19c Women’s Coats _ . .. $4.95 The i ••• _ - • ; Paragon Dept. Store ITTLE —Remodelling—Mr. Lester Hern don, prominent Grover merchant Is remodelling his home there. —56 Years On Engine—Mr. I. M. Roberts,of Roswell, Georgia, the oldest engineer an the Southern in point of service, spent last week with hts brother, Mr. R. P. Roberts at Grover. Mr. Roberts has been in the employ for 56 years and an en gineer for 51 years. —Stroup's Condition—The condi tion of former county treasurer, Rush Stroup at noon was still seri ous. There seems to be a slight im provement in his general condition, but his pulse was much lower this morning and his night's rest was not so good. —Error Corrected—T h e Star greets^ Paul Wootton, and announces its regret that it should have been guilty of making it appear the pop ular merchant would sell $1.85 dresses for $9.75. The block in the ad should have read that $14.75 quality dresses were reduced during the July clearance sale to $9.75. The paper hopes this item will in a measure atone for the very annoy ing mistake. —A Shop Radio—B. W. Hawks, of Pendleton's this week had an idea. Hts friends say he gets one ev ery so often, and gets very busy. He proposed to rig up a sending and receiving radio set right there in the store, and communicate from one end of the building with the other. The result was*,a speaker be fore the microphone in the rear ol the establishment could be heard 30 feet away through a receiving set, over the same wave length and with the same far-away intonation as though he were in Kalamazoo or San Francisco. The result was in teresting —not to say a little start ling. Mrs. R. L. Stowe and daughter. Mrs. W. J. Pharr of Belmont, visit ed Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Dendy Wed nesday in Grover. FINK CHOPS HI NEW HOUSE Farmers Busy Laying by. Personal News. Master Fay Jenkins Celebrates Birthday. (Special to The Star,> New House, July 12.—The tann ers in this section are very bu.,y trying to get the crops laid by. The revival meeting begins at Sandy Plains the first Sunday in August. Rev. W A. Elam is goinx to assist Rev. G. P. Abernathy in the meeting. Miss Ethel Horn of Rock Hill, S. C. spent last week with Miss Ruth McClure. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Price visited Mrs. L, S. Jenkins Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M. FI. Hawkins went to Rutherfordton Sunday to see Mr. Hawkins' brother who is tick there. Mr and Mrs. O. W. Brooks and two of their sons. Messrs. Cleatus and Ladd, motored to Kannapolis Saturday and spent the week-end. Miss Gladys Petty spent Sunday with Miss Vernie Walker. Mr. and Mrs, Broxton Walker visited, their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jenkins Sunday. Mrs. Raleigh Fortune is sick at this writing. Mr. and Mrs, George Whitaker rnd family visited Mr. and Mrs. Dick Covington Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Broadus Greene and Misses Fern Morgan and Mary Leo Dreene visited Mrs. Greene's father, Mr. Taylor of Rutherfordton Sun lay. I Little Miss Eunice Wiggins and (little brother, Otho spent the latter | part of fast week with their grand ! parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Greene. | Mrs. Georgia Gold who has becm [ indisposed "for some time is report - j ed better.. j Little Moss Robbie Gold Stockton ! of Shelby is visiting her grand mother Mrs. Georgia Gold. Mr. and Mrs. Crayton Hawkins of Cliffside, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Doty. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Waters vis ited Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Davis Sunday afternoon. Master Gene Davis son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Davis has been real sick but is better. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Walker of Lattimorc visited Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Whitner Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Bridges of Gastonia visited Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Wiggins during the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Troy Greene motor ed to Boone Sunday to see Mrs. Greene's sister. Miss Hattie Whis nant. Mr Edley and family visited Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Greene Sunday. There will be a B. Y. p. u. social at Mr. Otis Whitakers home Sat urday night, July 14th. A lovely birthday party of this week was given by Master Fay Jen kins, jr., Monday afternoon. July 9. Those attending the party were little Misses Robbie Gold Stockton, of Shelby, Katherine and Sarah Padget, Margaret and Maude Phil beck, Rachel Jenkins, Brunette and Marlen Beam, Jessie Davis, Betty and Edna DePriest and Masters Hugh McKee, Johnnie Lattimorc, Ben, jr. and Walter Lawson Jen kins. Radene Davis. At the conclu sion Mrs. Jenkins invited the guests into the dining room, with the birthday cake in the center of the table, the candles were blown out by the children. Favors were then distributed, the pink and whits color scheme was carried out. E R S O N A L Home Polks You Know On The Go Mr. Bedford Brown of Charlotte was a Shelby visitor Wednesday. Mr. C. E. Sain is Visiting in At lanta this week. Judge and Mrs. J. L. Webb spent Thursday in Rutherfordton. Mr. C C Blanton leaves today for a weeks stay at Wrightsville Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Yates DeVcnny of Lawndale were Shelby shoppers Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Porter Champion moved this week from Graham St., to S. LaFayette street. Mrs. Odus Pendleton is visiting her brother, Chas Cordell in Char lotte this w'eek. W. C. Roberts, of 99 Island is vis iting his grandmother, Mrs. S. F. Roberts this week. Mrs. Chas. R. Kimmrell of Dallas, Texas, visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roberts the first of the week. Miss Lucile Bridges and Mrs. Clyde Bridges returned Thursday from Boone summer school. Rev. J. P. Boyd of Morven, visit ed Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Ingram Wed nesday and Thurtday. Miss Kathleen Hord is spending this week at Cliffside with Mr. and Mrs. Julian Hord. Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb Putnam of Lockhart, S. C visited their aunt. Mrs. J. D. Eskridge this week Messrs. J. D. Eskridge and Har old Hamrick were business visitor.; in Asheville Saturday. Little Miss Emma Jo Beam spent the week in Charlotte with her aunts Misses Mattie and Mae McLaughlin. Mrs. J. C. Wood, Mrs. John Beam, and Miss Marie Beam spent Thuia day in Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nash moved into their new home on Cleveland Springs estate Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Blanton and Mr. and Mrs. Coel Blanton spent last week end in Charleston, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Blanton leSt yesterday for a motor trip to Wash ington, D. C. Mrs. D. B. Goforth proprietor of the Carolina house at Chimney Rock was a business visitor to Shel by this week. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Smith and son. Mack, jr., of Atlanta, visited Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Short Monday and Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hamrick and children of Asheville are visiting her mother. Mrs. A. R. Putnam on S. LaFayette street. Judge E W. Timberlake and sc>n. Prof. E. W. Timberlake jr.. of Wake Forest are spending week at Clev eland Springs hotel. Mr. Edwin Y Webb jr., returned yesterday from Castalia, where he visited Mrs. Webb and her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Pearce. Mrs. Bernard Steinback who ha; been spending five weeks with her mother. Mrs, Josh Beam left yes terday for her home in Henderson. Mesdames Louis Bailey, L. P. Hol land and L. F. McBrayer visited Mrs. J. Y. Irvin at her home east of town Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bennett, of Gilkey were Shelby shoppers ' Wednesday and dinner guests of Mr ! and Mrs. W. Y. Harrill. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Burgin of ■ Lexington and Mrs. John Geiger of I Charlotte visited Mrs. J. C. Smith yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stevens of Greensboro, arrived today to be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Draper Wood at Cleveland Springs hotel. Masses Myrtle and Lottie Warren of Gastonia and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hoey jr.. of Canton will be week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hoey. Mr. Dwight Houser left Wednes day for New York city. Dr. E. A Houser is there attending clinics and his son went to spend a week with him. Mrs. FranK Harris ana aaugnter. 1 Miss Helen and son, Robert, of An derson, S. C„ visited Mr.^and Mis. J, F. Harris Wednesday and Thursday. •• Mrs. Mary L. Deale of Indiana polis, Ind., who has been visiting Mr. R P. Roberts and the Misses Hambright at their home in Grover, i left Monday for her home. Mesdames John Lyles, W. P. In gram and son. Prentics left yester day for Morven .where they will spend a week visiting friends and relatives, 1 Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Gordon of i near Hollis, spent last week in Hig.i Point visiting their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Durham Jones aiid other friends from their community. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Webb sr., and Mr. and Mrs. S. A. McMurry re turned Wednesday from an extend ed motor trip to Atlantic City. Bos ton, New York; and Niagara Falls. Miss Elizabeth Roberts and Louis Roberts accompanied Mrs. L. O. Hunter to Charlotte yesterday where she will visit friends and relatives for several days. Some Shelby people in Charlotte Wednesday were: Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lineberger, Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge Gardner and young son, Mr. and Mrs. Lee B. Weathers and Misses McNichols and E. Beverly. Misses Dorothy King. Elizabeth Reviere, Ruth Dellinger. Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Mason, Chas. Caveny and Mrs. R. Z. Riviere are attendin t the missionary conference at Lake Junaluska this week. Misses Frances Hord and Martha Frances McGill, of Kings Mountain and Mrs. J. D. Hodnett, of Lake Butler, Fla., are spending a few days with Mrs. W. H. Yeago an.d, Mrs. P. M. Washburn. • Rev. John W: Suttle and Miss. Elizabeth Suttle returned Wednes day from attending the Baptist world conference in Canada and also a visit to Mesdames Joe Cab anis and D. R. Sibley in Hartford, Conn. % COTTON MARKET (By ino. F. Clark & Co.} Cotton was quoted at noon today on New York exchange: July 21.53 r October 21.79, yester day’s close July 21.69; October 21.92 New York, July 13.—Mostly cloudy over south last night, maximum temperatures at Abilene 100. Fore cast, Tenessee, Carolinas, Georgia and Mississippi showers today and tomorrow. Arkansas, Oklahoma, East and west Texas fair. Moderate business in Worth St. British exports of cotton piece goods for June were 135,000,000 square yards less than May and 42,000,000 square yards less than June last year. Decline yesterday due mostly to a technical adjustment after the rapid rally following the acreage re port. Need of rain in west Texas is looming up daily as more of a bul lish factor while continued rains in east are unfavorable. Looks like the weevil may take a heavy toll east of the river later on. KILL IDIOT BY GAS ,S PLEA OF SCIENTIST Asheville,—“At the county home there is an idiot girl, who has been confined in a cell for most of the 17 years she has been there ” declared Dr. A. G. Barry, University of Wis consin criminologist, after a tour of four Buncombe county institutions with a group of 75 students from Asheville normal summer school. “May I suggest to the officials of Buncombe county." he continued, “that as a remedy for this bit of bar barism one would not expect to find outside of the dark ages, that the idiot girl be turned over to a physi cian instructed to give her a hypo dermic or lethal gas and release her from the misery Buncombe county has subjected her to for the past 17 years.” i BOV SWIMS HIGH ROCK LAKE AS STORM RAGES Lexington. — Tracy McMillan, Lexington "high school athlete and Boy Scout leader, has succeeded ;n | swimming High Rock lake at a point where it is several miles wide. He was accompanied part of the way by Nat Hunt, Davidson college football player, in a boat but a storm caused the separation of boat and swimmer. McMillan stuck to his task when rain prevented him seeing either shore until he pulled to land, after being in the water about an hour and a half. Judging by the higher fees, the physicians are trying to heel them selves these days.—Shoe and Leath er Reporter. Mr. G. B Shaw has been and heard himself on the “Movietone", and is believed to have been favor ably impressed.—Punch. Demonstration Clubs ! To Meet In Iredell Statesville—The home demon stration clubs of Iredell county will be hostess to a district meeting of j home demonstration clubs of this I district, including twelve counties— I Rowan, Anson, Caldwell, Stanly,! Gaston, Cleveland. Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Cabarrus, Davidson. Cat awba and Iredell—at the farme \s I and farm women’s picnic to be held ] at the state farm, on Thursday, July 19. The Olin club. Mrs. H. A. Gill president, will be hostess to Cleve land county clubs. Mrs. Irma Wal lace, of Shelby, is home demonstra : tion agent in Cleveland county. SPURS OF ANGERED ROOSTER GASH BABE Kinston,—The 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Johnson is suffering from wounds on the head, arms and body inflicted by a roos ter, The fowl’s spurs narrowly miss ed the infant's eyes and ears. The attack occurred at Sandhill, where the parents were visiting. Per sons who heard the baby's cries .drove the rooster off after it had sunk its spurs into the victim.’s flesh j.seven or eight times. Mr. Johnson is deaf and dunu 1 and Mrs. Johnson is deaf. B. D. ROBINSON DIES AT HOME IN CAROLEEN Rutherfordton. July 12— Ben D. ' Robertson, 80. of Caroleen, and a distant relative of Senator Jo? T. Robinson of Arkansas, democratic j candidate for vice president of the 1 United States died last night at the home of his son, J. E. Robertson at Caroleen. i Funeral services, were held at Caroleen Methodist church Thurs ’ day and interment followed in the i Sunshine church cemetery. CONTEST ON FOR TRIP TO NEW YORK IN FALL A contest is being conducted by ,the Wright-Baker stores in the two j Carolinas whereby the store mana ger who open up the mast new ac counts during July and August will be given a free trip to New' York to assist in doing the fall buying for this chain of stores, according to Mr W. E. Koon, manager of the local Wright-Baker store. Dr. L. G. Ellis who has been vis iting his parents on South Washing ton street left today to return to his work at Pittsburgh, Pa. We’ve heard of dancing, swimming running, eating and sitting mara thons, but as yet no one has suggest ed anything like a working mara thon,—Atchfson Globe. Try Star Job Printing CAN ALL YOU CAN THIS SHOULD BE A GREAT CAN NING SEASON. The fruit crop is good and the prospect for vegetable crop is excellent. No fruits or vege tables should be wasted. You will en joy using it and the surplus will bring you a handsome profit. We are well prepared to help you with a complete line of Can Sealers, Sealer Parts, Canning Outfits, Solder, Solder Flux, Capping Steels, Tipping Irons, Can Labels, Cap Hole and Sani tary Cans all sizes. SOLID CAR LOAD MASON JARS We have just received a solid car of Mason’s Jars, Screw Top and Glass Top, Jelly Glasses, Extra Tops, Rub bers, Etc., and are in position to make you attractive prices on any of the above. See us before you buy. Campbell Department Store Shelby, N. C. Lawndale, N. C “THE COSSACKS" last showing today This big Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer spe cial packed the house last night, and pleased ’em all. The verdict was, a great show, by a great cast. See it by all means. Renee Adoree, Ernest Torrence and John Gilbert Starring. — TOMORROW — IN ALSO COMEDY AND THE EVER POPULAR FABLES. — COMING MONDAY — Return engagement of the most popu* lar picture ever shown at The Webb— “BEN HUR” AT POPULAR PRICE—25 CENTS WEBB THEATRE Womens Wear Arriving Weekly — New Colors — New Styles - And the largest Selection in Our History— COOL SUMMER FROCKS Some dresses are smart and some dresses are in expensive, but the dress es we are offering are both smart and inex pensive. And so many styles to select from. These are dresses that can be put on now and worn with smart and fashionable assuredness through the rest of the summer. — CHARGE IT — SPARKLING NEW MILLINERY It is our belief that these Hats we are offer ing now are the best val ues we have ever offer ed. . Milans, Felts and in fact most any Hat you can think of and the prices are reasonable too. — CHARGE IT — -Men’s Wear Men like these lig'ht weight summer suits we are now-offering. You cannot blame them, they are so stylish and are made from the best of materials. The prices—you will like as well as the suits.. Wright-Baker Co. 107 N. LaFayette Street
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