Around Our Town
- Shelby Sidelights -
—a.::i=rr=: ^Vith Renn Drum -rrrrr
Mr. Andrews, veteran citizen of Shelby, calls atten
tion to the tact that a news article in this and other papers
some time hark erred when it referred to his grandfather.
Jimmy Love, the man who gave the land on which Shelby is
located, as a harness-maker. Mr. Love was a farmer and
never in the harries • business, his grandson states. Where
with correction is made vet it seems to us that the late Mr.
Love was at least a town-maker, and. after trying for two
hours to g'i a parking place uptown on Saturday, we are in
clined to say city-maker.
A RIGHT INTERESTING LTT
tle story about an A1 Smith sup
pcxter in Shelby L> going the rounds
It seems as if a local Democrat
who is well know n throughout the
entire town, purchased a big billy
goat some weeks back. About the
place of business where the Demo
crat makes his headquarters several
humorous Republicans work, and
not long after the goat came in
they, in teasing Inc Smith supporter,
dubbed the goat "A1 Smith.” Near
the same place stands the old
white ice cream wagon Tony Force! -
!i drove about Shelby before he re
turned to sunny Italy and the
cloudy Mussolini. One night re
cently the goa:. as curious goats
will do, climbed n to the white ice
cream Wagon. Showing another
typical goat characteristic "Al
Smith" was unable to get out. The
Republican workers coming in nest
morning noticed the goat's predi
cament, and immediately one of
them with some skill as a sign
painter picked up a brush and paint
pot and painted on the white wagon
•—‘’Al Smith in the White House."
The Smith supporter and goat
owner hasn't hurt himself laughing
about it as yet, so the report goes.
WHEN CAMERON MORRISON
appeared here last week to make
one of his Democratic campaign
speeches the Shelby High school
band was called into use in "round
ing up” a crowd. As it happens
Clay Cox. jr„ sen of H. Cay Cox,
county Republican chairman, toots
one of the tens in the band, and
frequently he stopped to catch up
with ..his wind. . During cue of, the
intervals a bystander asked him why
ha steppeo blowing so often and the
youngster replied:
“You see this i- a Democratic af
fair and my wind gives out quicker
than it would if we were piaying
for a Republican speaker." '
“You sea this is a Democratic af
fair- and my wind gives cut quicker
than it would if-we were playing
for a Republican speaker."
All of which indicates that the
coming Republican generation in
this coumy will likely have another
Cox for a chairmen.
ONE SCHOOL CHILD WRITING
in The Star’s contest as to why
every voter in Gardner's home coun
ty should vote for him gave as one
reason: “He was ...a good football
player.”
The reason has the ear-marks of
v school child, but laugh all you will
that one reasoh v ill have some in
fluence with young folks and the
football fans. A man who can
play any game anti play it square
is dependable lor most anything
else.
THE SHELBY METHODIST
who doesn't want ahy of his church
dues to go to Bishop Mcuscn and
the Christian Advocate perhaps be
lieves that. their contributions
should come from the Republican
party.
THE FIRST WAGER ON THE
county cotton ticp made recently
1 was an even-money bet that more
than 40,000 bales will be produced.
The fellow vehb thinks the crop will
i fall below' that figure should be
j able to place some more money
■ judging by the" majority of the pre
1 dictions heard
THE WORLD. THAT PART OF
it in the north and cast, is improv
ing on its geography. Although
Shelby has at least three citizens
mentioned frequently in -national
political dispatches the town n, yr.t
hasn’t been refer' :d to as "Sheibv,
£. C>'
Gardner Putting
In A Full V/cc":
JfQti- O. Max r;,. Hp- nsm-ecrs
tic candidate for itwernrr i- r
* ating the entire week. m &ts «••• -V
isaiin speaking oiicr each r - ar
his whirlwind tou-vof. the &t. -
La t night lie spoke to a Uvr
Rv mocha m rrdh- i.n" ' •«• the
rain: .dd on tor prc:.he
fpoke .n Monr .e vhese ho b‘i~ed a
''-Dornoerat'x ic-’-vai. for 'Sweet'
Union." rexi-dn for report
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Tiain Not Fashion
Knocks Out Straws
Shelby Mm Nut "So Hot" In
lowing Fa.hicn Dictates
On Headgear.
The rain and windstorm made it
a. dull shopping day ter Shelby
merchants, but in cne respect it
aided them—which is to say that
Shelby men who had been clinging
on to their straw hots, although the
season is over according to fashion,
had to discard ti.e straws, tempor
arily at least, to hit the driving
; rain.
Perhaps felt hats will sell better
now.
In ether towns and cities there is
a custom of destroying all straw
hats vein after September 15 <some
; set the date September 12 >, but
Shelby with some scotch blood in
it <according to the clothiers* hangs
cn to the straws as long as the
straws themselves will hang on.
Eut new that the storm came
local merchants win in all probab
: iiity be advertising the fall felts
next weak end by another Sunday
Shelby men m>.v be fitted up in
new fall headgear.
Mcral (if there be any*: Its a
very ill wind that doesn't have a
little puff of good in it for some
one, even a clothier.
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C. M. Tcrng Clamed By Death
After S-'rcke In July. Well
Known Here.
Forest city.—Clarence M. Young,
president .of the I arraers Bank. and
Trust company of this place, died
at his home here Monday afternoon
at 2 o'clock. Mr. Young was stricken
with paralysis July 1. but was well
on the-way to ■recovery when he was
stricken With a second stroke which
caused his deatn Mr. Young was
elected president of the Farmers
Bank to take the place of J. H.
Bank to take the piace of Mr.
ignation to take effect July 10 to
take over the executive management
of the Chimney Rock Mountains, |
Inc.
He was the son of Mrs. Julia
Young and the L .e J. M. Yeung of
this city. He was a nephew of the
late Er. G. M. Young and is well
known in this section of the state.
• Mr. Yottng married Mrs. Ethel
Taylor Ripley, of Worcester, Mass.,
in 1917 and they haveone child. Mr.
Young started in the saw mill busi
ness in this county and at one time
owned a cotton gin in Polk county.
He left here in 1912 and became as-, j
seriated with Dr. T. B. Lovelace in
the lumber business at Round Oak.
Ga. They have been in business
;mce that time ar.d Mr, Young had
lately completed operation of the S
Lovdace-Stowers Lumber company 1
at Red Level. Aia Fcr several :
years Mr. Yeung was manager of
the Johns' Car-ro.l Lumber company ;
of Iliutsbcro and Union Springs,
Ala.
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0. L. Watts, Former
Shelby Man Dies
The many friends in Cleveland
county regret to tear of the death i
of Mr O. L. Wans who lived here j
at one time and travelled this ter
ritory for a whi’erale house for a
quarter of a century ’nr more. Mr. !
Watts married Miss Haiti? Miller |
who is alto related here. She sur
vivpn 'with two ea.ltiren. a son' and
dat'^fcter, Mr v, att®. v.t.s one of.
"t5 ? ' pi met"a’ own rs at the old j
> •_ :nal bank, was owner of j
r v to he rotten business in .
t ate and at-the time interest
t.tex io plant Mr. Watts was
V; *iv n by bi-th and a courtly
rent kmsiv.
7ivc Marriages
So Far in Mcn’h
Five Cle- ela'.’d county couple':,
four white end one colored, have i
secured marriage license this month, ■
according to the nf-rriage mart rec-1
ord in the office of. Register Andy i
Newton.
The white couples' were: Ferry.,.
Lowe Davis 'end Rcnn -THHe Reid,!
I Th ef Kings Mountain.; Rckert C j
Allen end Add:" M. Cac'cntrr, fcsfi |
ei the county; Paul Bridges t :vJ ’
Veins Cc iri both of the corn y;
end Ki'- . L. \V;l:ra er.1 Made .)
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! Gardner Compares
A1 To Clyde Hoey
"Nexf Governor, Says Tarty Mem
bers Pay Too Much Heed
To Technicalities.
Gastonia Gazette
j That a man i'kc Clyde Hoey.
raised from a poc- orphan bey to
a position of nip,jest regard and
trust in the eyes of the people of
North Carolina. ;t ould support A!
Smith with all 1 is heart and
voice, is nothing remarkable, ac
cording to O. Max Gardner, fellow
townsman and life-long friend, of
one of Smith's en.ef defenders in
this state. In ar interview, just
before his great speech at the
Gaston court lipuse Mr. Gardner
explained Mr. Hoey's stand for
Smith by saying that Hoey and
Smith have had lives and experi
ences so nearly t> atched and so
nearly alike in character, that their
sympathies are naturally in the
same direction.
"Clyde Hoey and At Smith
were both born into poor families
and had their fathers to die at an
early age, they struggled hard in
their early careers to achieve an
education, 4 and both have proved
by their positions in public office,
the confidence intrusted to them
by the public." declared Mr. Gard
ner. whose admiration for Mr. Hoey
is unbounded.
Mr. Gardner ‘aid that Mr Hoey's
speech in favor of Smith had re
ceived more favoratle publicity than
any other public utterance made in
the south Mr. Hoey. he said,
would be in Virginia all next week,
where he has been called to rally
the support of ail Democrats to the
cause of the party. The state Dem
ocratic committee of Virginia, with
headquarters In Richmond, recent
ly placed an order for 75.000 copies
of the speech for distribution
throughout the state.
"Entirely too much stress is be
ing placed on toe religious issues
and the prohibition question in the
present campaign," said Mr Gard
ner.
When asked whether he thought
that the Democrats or the Repub
licans were stirring up these two
questions, Mr. Gardner said, that
in his opinion, members of both
parties were responsible. Discon
tented party members, he said,
were raising technicalities upon
every hand, and leaving the fun
damental problems on the outside.
Cooperative eariot loadings of
poultry are held in Randolph coun
ty from once to twice each month
by the county farm agent and the
sales are bringing in an average of
about $2,000 per cai.
DEMOCRATIC
SPEAKINGS
Then' will he Democratic speakings at the follow in.tr
times and places, on the dates named, where .the issues of the
campaign will be discussed:—
EASTSIDE SCHOOL HOUSE—-Tuesday night, Sept. 18. at
7:30 o’clock, by Peyton McSwain.
DOVER MILL SCHOOL HOUSE- Thursday night, Sept. 20.
at 7 (30 o'clock, by D. Z. Newton. Horace Kennedy, C. C.
McBrayer and Irvin Allen.
KINGS MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL— F.idjiy night. Sept.
21. at 7:30 o’clock, by Congressman A. L.jBulwihkle.
BEAMS MILL SCHOOL HOUSE—Friday"night. Sept. 21.
at 7:30 o'clock, by W. S. Beam and IT. B. Edwards.
DOUBLE SHOALS SCHOOL HOUSE—Friday night. Sept.
21. at 7:30 o’clock, by P. C. Gardner. A. R. Bennett, B. E.
Weathers and R. L. Weathers.
SOUTH SHELBY SCHOOL HOUSE—Friday night. Sept. 21.
at 7 :30 o'clock, by C. B. McBrayer. B. T. Falls and Irvin
Allen.
CASAR HIGH SCHOOL—Saturday night. Sept. 22, at 7:30
o’clock, by Peyton McSwain and James S. Cline.
BOILING SPRINGS SCHOOL HOUSE—Saturday night.
Sept. 22, at 7:30 o'clock, by Judge John P. Mull, A. M.
Hamrick and A. R. Bennett.
HOLLY SPRINGS SCHOOL HOUSE—Saturday night. Sept.
22 at 7:30 o’clock, by W. S. Beam. A. E. Cline and J. F.
Roberts.
SHARON SCHOOL HOUSE—Saturday night. Sept. 22, at
7:30 o'clock, by J. R. Davis. M. R. Weathers and IT. G.
Moore.
BEL WOOD HIGH SCHOOL—Saturday night, Sept. 22. at
7:30 o’clock, by J. C. Newton, Prof. Chappel, Irvin Allen
and Ivey Willis.
LAWNDALE SCHOOL HOUSE—Saturday night. Sept. 22,
at 7 :30 o’clock, by D. Z. Newton, A. F. Newton and M. H.
Austell.
POLKVILLE SCHOOL HOUSE—Saturday night. Sept 22,
7:30, by B. T. Falls.
SHELBY COURT HOUSE—Saturday afternoon. Sept, 22,
at 3:00 o’clock by Dr. Delia Dixon Carroll.
The above meetings are open to the public Every loyal
Democrat in the respective precincts will without fail attend
these meetings. LADIES ARE ESPECIALLY INVITED
AND URGED TO ATTEND.
The meeting at the Court House at 3 o’clock is specially
for ladies, but is not exclusive and the public generally is in
vited to attend. The ladies will organize for an aggressive
campaign at this meeting.
B. T. FALLS, CHAIRMAN
COUNTY DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The Wray Store Is The
Modern Phoenix
Risen Larger Finer And
Better Than Ever, From Its
Ashes
The fire was tragic, and the loss heavy, but it made a
new WRAYS. Just as the earthquake built a new
Frisco, and the Baltimore fire built a new business city,
so the great central business block of Shelby, which in
cludes the new Wrays, is built back as a new and mod
ern Structure.
Thus there is always a compensating element in
mic^crturr. V/e have destruction, and then new deter
mination end new life.
We are rax idly "el'ing the store into a state of per
fection. i he new greds are being unpacked, the store
force working literally ni^ht s^d day to get the new
things on display.
Very soon now our entire great, stock will be avail
able to the public.
It is a beautiful store; we take great pride in it; and
we are encouraged greatly by the fact that the public
has come back to us in the spirit of old.
You will be very welcome in the new establishment.
A. V. Wray And Six Sons
NEXT DOOR TO FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Strange Skull Is
Found In Maryland
Peculiar Bone Formation Sent To
Museum. Great Holes
For Eyes.
Washington.—A young man
in Maryland recently sent the
department of mammology at
the National Museum a strange
bone formation, which appeared
to be the skull of some very re
markable animal.
It certainly did look like a skull.
Great holes appeared to be eyes
and a couple of places at eacn end
were almost certainly ears. The
bone structure that appeared to be
the nose was huge, but it appeared
to be the front erd of a remarkable
head. No wonder It excited the
finder with the belief that he had
made a discovery of enormous im
portance.
As a matter of fact, it wa* the
pelvis of an ordinary horse. The
acetabuli had been mistaken for
ears, the obturator foramen for
eyes, and so on.
Perfectly natural mistake for
anyone who didn't know what a
horse looked like with its flesh off,
but the mammalogy experts, who
know all those things, are let in
for a great many explanations
through correspondence by the
fact that the American people
don't know their bones.
The Museum, of course, is Amer
ica's greatest boneyard. But it
specializes on bones out of the or
dinary, and the trouble Is that bone
tinders arc forever finding bones
which appear to b< extraordinary,
bn*, are really very ordinary in
deed.
One man, for instance, forwarded
the skeleton of a dog, minus legs
and with the skull peculiarly beait
What species of f;sh, he demanded,
was this?
Bones of calves and cows and
other domestic animals arrive fre
quently, and occasionally the skull
of a seal picked up on the beach, or
remains of some wild animal—
deer, bear, squirrel or something
like that.
Broken skulls arc more likely to
perplex bone finders than anything
else. Skulls of sheep also often be
come mysteries.
A year ago someone sent In a
cat's broken skull, picked up in
Arizona. A large section was miss
ing. The sender was sure that this
was a remarkable discovery, so
when the museum wrote back that
it was only a cat’s skull after all. {
he was very sore.
"Who ever heard." he demanded,
“of a cat with horns and hoofs?"
Further Inquiry developed that j
he had found the hoof of a horse
nearby and was convinced that the :
relics came from the same animal, i
He still thinks so, for bone finders
are often very difficult to convince, j
The museum has more than once
received a complete dog skeleton'
from a finder who hadn't the 1
slightest idea what it was.
Shelby & Lawndale
Marriage Falls.
Cincinnati, Ohio,—A companion
; ate marriage was acknowledged a
failure here when Mrs. Ruth Eld
rtdge, 20, a check girl at the Hill
crest, Country club applied for di
vorce from Elmer Eldridge, 32, nur
seryman, address unknown.
$15 Alimony.
New York.—The granting of a
$15 weekly award for the support of
Miss Martha Butler, 55, of Phila
delphia, a third ccusin of Mrs. Ida
A. Flagler, was recommended in a
report to the supreme court by I.
Maurice Wormstr, referee.
Nurse* Needed.
Washington.—At least 20 nurses
and money to ca*ry on rehabilita
tion work is urgently needed in the
Florida hurricane, said a message
received by the Red Cross from
Senator Robinson. Democratic vice
presidential nominee.
Fully 10,000 cash customers can
be taken care of at Riddick Field,
North Carolina State college, Ra
leigh, this year. Graduate Manager
Tal Stafford Is also erecting a
modern press box to take care of
20 working report! rs with type
writers and about 200 visitors and
notables. The press section will be
on the west side of the field, at the
top of the concrete stands. It will
be covered.
PAYCASH
•AY LESS
RO BILLS
rp DISTJIESS
“quality—always at a saving"
SHELBY, N. C.
X HELPFUE
STORE,
PAY LESS,
CEI MORE l
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