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r Around Our Town Shelby Sidelights ===== With Kenn Drum - CURTAIN SHELBY PEOPLE, observation would have, are facing a Harder problem during the holi day period tHari they dip when try-j lng to decide what to give for Christmas. They're wondering what to do with their fireworks now that city officials haven’t placed a ban on shooting them. Apparently "taint no fun" doing something when it isn't forbidden. THOSE WHO TAILED TO GET all the bargains they were looking for prior to Christmas might note that the “January Clearance Sales," the “Pre-Inventory Sales." and the “After-Inventory Sales” are now going full blast, or are about ready to shove off. That's one thing the Hebrew “ merchants taught our tradesmen who descended from the early stock—-never run up on a season when you can t think up an ap propriate sale cf some variety, ONE YOUNG MARRIED MAN in Shelby who hasn't been out at night since the burglar scare de veloped a month or more back has a grievance against the Woman's club. His view is that the Woman's ciub must have had a meeting and started the burglar scare Just to keep husbands horns at night. FVENTUAV^, PERHAPS. Shelby’s electrical display in the business section at night will re semble that of a city. The latest addition, if you haven't noticed, is a movie 6cr$en advertising board atop the comer or the Union Trust and Gardner buildings. There at night may be seen the “ads’’ ol various Shelby firms Hashing on and off tile screen as at a movio house, ,« v, GOVERNOR MAX TOLD SEV cral state papers where to get off this week when he informed them that he would do his own talking and would have no ‘'spokesman'’ when he settled down in the ex - ecutive mansion at Raleigh. Be that as it may, our opinion is that if the governor needs any talking done about agricultural matters when he gets to Raleigh, he couldn't find a more loquacious •’spokesman" than Dave, his col ored tenant, who considers it a bad year wrfen he doesn't bring in the county’s first cotton bloom, and tails to make 35 bales of cotton with his family of five. CERTAIN BOOTLEGGERS IN this section are said to keep books on their trade just as if they were in the hardware or grocery busi ness. Being so business-like per haps they, too, will put on a clear ancMfttttfe ■ W » -v# m fS. ANOTHER CONSOLING thought as you finger the stubs in your check book and the vacancy left by Christmas in your purse is that the new auto tags must be purchased by Monday. THIS DEPARTMENT’S IDEA is that the logjtl Jaifcs who have charge of the big farewell banquet for Governor-elect Gardner here tomorrow flight should steer all dis- i cusions a Way from talk about j schools. Somebody might ask about. . Shelby’s schools. AFTER BEING GIVEN AN ES-1 thmatgLOf hpw many Christmas; arrelhngg crtdgjthf. clerks at the Shelby office handled just before Christmas we would guess. If we ever heard of a postal clerk com mititng suicide on Christmas day, that somebody sent the poor fellow a Christmas card. m- « ■? ..... ONE OTHER INDICATION that another Christmas has come and gone is that cigars seem as; plentiful about Shelby this week as durfhg the election week But gen erally speaking, they’re better cigars than the political puffs. EXECUTOR’S NOTICE. Ilftsing qualified as executors of, the will of T H. Bridges, late of Cleveland county, North Carolina ! this ts to notify all persons hav ing claims against the estate of the raid deceased to present them to _ *vthe undersigned on or before the j ]ld day ot December. 1829, or thr. Ice will be pleaded in ,bar of recovery. All persons tndebt Jo the said estate will ptease immediate payment. JOHN L. BRIDGES. GEO. O. BRIDGES, Execu tors of T. H. Bridges, Dee d. MIXISTRATOR'S NOTICE. tog this day qualified as avi ator of the estate of Pinkney deceased, this is to notify nil having claims against the tate to present same to me t on or before the 14th December, 1929, or this no De pleaded in bar oi an,v thereof. All pe.-sons ow said estate will make im settlement to the under 14th day of December. S, Administrator Estate little, deeeaaed. WITH SOUTHERN BEAUTIES Lela May, above, heads the com pany of Southern Beauties, who are presenting a high class pro gram al ithis week at the Lyric theatre starting tonight. INSANE ARMY OFFICER KILLS TWO POLICEMEN Mexico City, Dec. 26.—Two po licemen were killed and nine per sons including three women, were dangerously injured tonight in a four-hour battle with an insane army captain, Antonio Revna Her nandez. Hernandez barricaded himself in a friend's house ahd turned a ma chine gtm and two pistols on the police who tried to capture him. After a battle w hich lasted most of the afternoon, Hernandez was knocked down by a stream of water from a fire hose thrust through the Window. He was suffering from a number of wounds when captured. Hernandez fired more tnan soo shots with liis pistola and machine gun before he was captured. Only after he had been seriously wounded did police succeed In breaking into the barricaded house and thrusting the lire hose through. Two of the policemen who led the attack v,ere killed and three of their comrades were wounded. The three women injured were neighbors who came within range of the fire. -"f"’1”' ... -- SPENCE* WOMAN BADLY BURNED WHILE COOKING Spencer. Dec. 23.—Mrs. Sam H. Gordan, well known Spencer wom an, was severely burned and scald ed at her home in Spencer last night while cooking a ham for Christmas. In some unaccountable mafh-' ner the boiler was overturned from the top of a hot stove and Mrs. Gordon sustained burns*over the face, neck and right arm. Her left arm had already been acci dentally broken and was in a sling. She is now entirely helpless but it is thought will recover NOTICE OK SALE OK LAND, j Under and by virtue of the au thority conferred by deed of trust by Y W, Blanton and wife, Hessie Blanton, to me First National Bank oi Durham, N. C , trustee, dated the Kith day of December, 1927, and recorded in book 150, page 49, Cleveland county registry, the Plrst National Bank ot Dur ham. N. C„ trustee, will on January 26 1929, at 12 o'clock .il at the court house door in Cleve land county, sell at public auction for cash to the highest bidder the following described property: Being the western portion ot lot No. 23 of the B. F. Curtis property as shown by plat ot property which is recorded in office of register of deeds for Cleveland county, N. C. in book of plats 1, page 57, refer ence to which is made for a more full and complete description of said property: Beginning at a stakj on me north edge of Elm street, 100 feet1 south 83 degs. 30 mins, west of in- | tersection of Park View street with 1 Elm street; thence v.ith the north edge of Elm street south 83 degs. 20 tnlns. west 61 feet to a stone on! w est edge of Oak street; thence i north 3 degs. east ”6 feet to a stake; j corner of lot No. 2!; thence with , line of lot No. 21 north 87 degs. 6 nilns. east 61 feet to center of gar age; ' thence tlirough center , of septic tank south 3 degs. 23 mins,, west 70 feet to the place of begin-! ning. The aforesaid property is the 1 same as that conveyed to Y. w i Blanton by deed of record in of fice of register of deeds for Cleve- 1 land county, N. C. in book 3, W. page *61. This sale is made on account of j default in the payment of the in-! debtcdness secured by the said j deed of trif^t. This the 19th day of December, ; 1928. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DURHAM, North Carolina, I Trustee. ; W. S. Lockhart and Newton and (Newton, Attys. ‘‘Don’t Ever Play Football” A1 (T N T.) Ussman, N. Y. U. football captain, as he appears in his bed in New York hospital suffering from an injury to his spine. One side of his body is paralyzed and friends say his mind is far from normal following injuries he rc5Teivedm Car negie ’Tech game at Pittsburgh. On arrival in New York the giant tackle told a sports writer, wearily, "don’t ever play foot ball ; it’s too costly.” 'to'ernUJMtMl Ntwyl) t . Quillen On Preachers i.... - Monroe Journal, At the little town of Fountain Inn, 8. C., there is published one of the most unique little newspapers we have ever seen. Its editor and publisher is Robert Quillen, a man known all over the country for his writings in the newspapers. He, is the author of “Aunt Het” and “Willie Willis,” bits of worldly wis dom put in the mouths of a prac tical housewife and a little boy. He writes many other syndicated ar ticles and editorials which are pub lished in many newspapers. His Fountain Inn newspaper is filled with his own highly entertaining writings and country correspond ence. Every now and then he sets his community by the ears a bit with some ot his own ideas which run counter to those of the lbcal ity. But there is no venom in what he says and we Judgo that the people of his locality both love and respect him* The other day he had an editorial entitled "God Doesn’t Call Three Men to Eat a Cherry." It is about preachers. It says: Last night I talked with a Bap tist preacher who is tired of his job. He needs a rest from religion. He told me of another man—an old warhorse—who expressed what every preacher must at times feei. "I get tired of the same old bunch," said he. "I train up young sters to put life in the church, and just when they begin to be a help they go off to college. Then I have nothing on *my hands—nothing to work with and talk to and think about but the same old hide-bound c"owd.’' I can understand that. The Me thodists understand it and move their preachers at intervals. But Baptist preachers liiove themselves, unless they, are fired, and just as present you couldn't move one with dynamite. Any one of them would move to get a bigger salary, of course; but the big-salary jobs are held by good politicians who know how to keep on the good side of their folks: and the others must stay where they are If they can. If you hear a preacher say he could quit his job today and get another tomorrow, he is lying’ or fooling himself. necenwy tt Dupusi i»c,iuia ui this section died and the church had applications trom over three hundred jobless preachers; The woods is full of them. The country is over-supplied. And still the seminaries turn them out by the score and beg for funds to in crease their output It would far better to close up jhpp for ten year,, and quit mak ing p:eachers until tne present stuck is exnuufctetl. No wender preachers work on in spite of low salaries, neglect, indif ference and discourtesy. They don’t know how to make a living in any other way. They have families to support. And they must take what they can get. If they raise a howl, there are hundreds of other men eager to step into their shoes. f Find a Baptist preacher who ha* a. good house to five in and a sal ary sufficient to support a family and an automobile, and you have found a man who couldn't be jar red loose with dynamite. Treat him mean; try to pick a quarrel with him; let him know he rsn’t popular—even cut his salary; and his only reaction will be to take a firmer hold and brace himself to hang on. You can t blame them. Men put j up w ith a great deal when jobs are i scarce. And these who have a good thing nurse it as a v oman nurses j liar first-born. k - i The situation is shameful and robs the pulpit of half its influence, but the Christian people are not at fault. The fault lies with the preachers themselves. They have over-crowded their field. There is but one sane solution. Let every Jobless preacher who can make a living at some other task quit the pulpit and forget he is a Dreacher. He needn't be afraid of offend ing God. God didn’t call him to preach. It is an insult to God to suppose He had so little intelligence as to call a thousand preachers to fill five hundred pulpits. If God calls a man to do a cer tain work. He gives him the work to do. That's common sense— whether or not it's good theology. G. P. C. may mean Go Preach Christ. But more probably it means Go Pick Cotton. It may be true that preachers have overcrowded their field, but it is not more true of them than of many other callings. We are told that there are tob many cotton mills and many of them fail. We are told that there are too many lawyers, too many editors, too many of this and that. We are told that there are too many fanners because tpo much surplus is produced. Too many stores. There are getting to be too many school teachers, too many stenographers, too many clerks. Too many filling stations. And there are said to be three or four million and perhaps five mil lion people in the country without jobs but willing to work. In answer to all these statements the implica tion is that more people ought to don overalls and go to work at manual labor—pick cottqn, as Mr. Quillen says. But the national sec retary of labor is calling upon con gress to make the immigration laws more strict, especially as regards Mexico, for 80,000 Mexicans, un skilled laborers, are said to be com ing into the country yearly. What's to be done about It all? Mr. Hoover has asked the gover nors of the several states for co operation with the federal govern ment 10 lay by great reserve funds to be used in dull times to construct public, improvements in order to keep something for jobless men to do. The other day it was announc ea mat, a macnuie u»u uceu in vented which would enable one man to set type by wire in a thousand newspaper offices at the same time. This is but an example of what is going on in increasing the produc tive power of one person by the tise of machines. Labor saving in ventions have been a bqon to man kind and no sensible man would wish to halt their invention. But they continue to pile up the problem of unemployment. That is what Mr. Quillen's overproduc tion of preachers means. It means that as jobs become scarcer in one field they must be provided in others. And for this we have no so* cial machinery. The problem is both social and economic. Econo mic in that machine; can t be kept running unless peopi. can buy their products and they can’t buy them unless they have profitable em ployment. It is social in that the very lives and happiness of the masses are endangered by lack of adequate employment. The very rapidity of the changes make them more‘difficult. Dis placements anjl changes running through long periods of tune can be adjusted. But rapid ones cannot be so absorbed. The discovery of the power of gasoline has played havoc witn the pace of the world. The changes following upon its heels have made a new world. And by the time we begin to get used to living in such a world, up come other changes. We have found ways of indefinitely increasing production of things in .every line of human want*, but we have not yet discovered how to avoid the hardships and use the new produc tion to the greatest advantage. Modem production might be lik ened to a powerful locomotive run ning upon an endless track. As long as nothing stops tt all is well. To keep up the production the product must be consumed. It can not be consumed tf the consumers which it takes the Jobs from find nothing else to employ themselves with. We arc hampered- in looking at this condition bv old ideas which were correct in fo-mer times and undir diffiuent conditions. Why don’t the preacher desert an over crowded field and go pick cotton? He can’t make a living picking cotton. Or if he does there gpll be so much cotton that all cotton pick ers will suffer. But the world is short of clothes, you may say. So it is, but the short-clothes people have no jobs which make them able to buy more clothes. If there were always more jobs than work ers wages would be high, produc tion would increase, and everybody would have more than he has now, But where are the jobs coming from? What forms of labor can be found whereby surplus energy can be turned into wages? That, as we sec it. Is the problem of the pres ent and the future. Where will men be found to answer tt? HUMCO-CLEVELAND COTTON IS GINNED AT ELLENBORO Four hundred bushels of Humco Cleveland cotton seed were ginned at lllenboro in Rutherford county this fail on special gin days to keep the variety pure for next year’s planting. This variety of which the teacher of agriculture introduced 150 bushels of seed more than a year ago has proved itself satisfac tory to local growers, and has been kept pure since it was brought into the community. It will be much better to get hit by a pretty one. TRUSTEE’S SALE. Pursuant to the authority con tained In a certain deed of trust given by Alma Webber and wife, Hettie Webber to secure an in debtedness to Marvin Blanton, de fault having been made in the pay ment of said indebtedness, the un dersigned trustee will on January 21, 1929 at the court house door in the town of Shelby sell at public auction to the highest bidedr for cash the following described real estate: Situated In the southeast por tion of the town of Shelby, North Carolina, being a portion of that lot deeded by B. F. Curtis by H. F. Young and A. V. Wr~ • and others, and being lot No. 14 of a subdivi , sion thereof as shown by map made by A. M. Lovelace In June 1923, and recorded In book No. 1 of plats at page 62 In the office of the regis ter of deeds of Cleveland county. N. C. reference to which map is hereby made for full description by metes and bounds. HORACE KENNEDY, Trustee. ... Insure Your Happi ness for this glad season, and all sea sons to come By taking out Life Insurance. Holiday Greetings. FLAY H. HOEY General Agent Colonial Life Insur ance Company STOMAMSPELLS Oklahoma Lady Give* Inter esting Account of Loaf Use of Black-Draofhfe U Her Home. Sageeyah. Okla.—“I hare taken Black-Draught ever since I was » child, and can recommend It aa a splendid medicine for family use,'* says Mrs. Cora Maberry. of this place. "My mother used it, In ' bringing up her family, and after I had a home of my own, I con tinued to use it, as I thought it was especially good to give the chil dren. "My children did not mind taking Black-Draught, and so when they got upset with stomach spells, or were constipated, I gave them Black-Draught tea. "If I found that they were tak ing cold, I was quick to start giving them Black-Draught, as it helped them to throw off the Impurities which caused the trouble. “My children are all grown now and have homes of their own. but I still keep Black-Draught In the bouse and use It myself when I wake up In the morning feeling dull and ‘headaehey*. and have a bad taste In my mouth. "Black-Draught is a simple rem edy for constipation, and I prefer It to others because It is purely vegetable. I always feel better af ter I have taken a course of it." In use over S7 years, NC-ta: ALL WINTER COATS AND DRESSES GREATLY REDUCED Vs OFF ON ALL WINTER COATS ! We have a few of our very best Coats left. We haven’t every size but if you can get a fit you will get a real bargain. Blacks and tans trimmed in fine furs to match. OFF ON DRESSES You will find in our stock some very beautiful Winter Dresses, some you can wear until late spring. It will pay you to see this won derful lot of Dresses and select several. MILLINERY — ALL WINTER HATS AT. i PRICE — WE INYITE your charge account WRIGHT-BAKER CO. 107 N. LaFayette St. — Shelby, N. C. ECONOMY RULES REPRESENTATIVE LOW PRICES1 Aunt Jemima Pancake FLOUR pkg 14c A. & P. PURE MAPLE SYRUP, U-oz. Can. 29c BEANS Quaker - Maid Oven Baked 3 Cans* 25c Quaker Maid CATSUP, Largs Bottle . 19c Campbell's Tomato SOUP 3 cans 25c GRITS or MEAL, 2 Pounds . 7c —-HOUSEHOLD NEEDS Clean Sweep BROOMS, Each .. 35c GOLD DUST, Small Package.. 5c 2-IN-l POLISH, Can . ..10c CHIPSO 3 12-oz. Packages...25c OLD DUTCH CLEANSER . 7 he RED CIRCLE COFFEE lb..... . 41c Ivory Soap Sma11 Size 7 %c Whitehouse Evaporated Milk,3 large cans . 29c WESSON OIL Pint Can . . 25c SNOWDRIFT A Perfect Shortening 77c P.n,b- $1.37 4 lb. Pail S, Atuntic » Pacific »
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