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England Deluged Of Late Days By American Slang Language M|H Of Slang Contest Decide 8a. Origin Of fehun • Talked. Literary Digest. American slang predominates in England. This awful conclusion is reached by Judges of a slang con test set by the Manchester Guard ian. Competitors were asked to pro duce the “six most expressive slang phrases” in current usage, and with the awarding of the prize goes a conviction that England is losing or forgetting some of its folk speech. “The vigorous slang of our ancestors, whose inventive genius necessitated the production of die TORTURING PAINS > Lady Tails How She Waa Usable To Find Any th* (a Relieve Then Until 9m Took CardnL f. Va^-In telling how-she , tine benefited bjr taking Cartful, Mn. FerBe Yelkey. oI thia place, aaya: "M OQt time. Z bad a tbit aertous agefl which left me weak. At times. Z would tatter aucb intense patne •gross mg back and to my aide that X could hardly stand It "l endured thia <mr and time the pains "I was to despair because nothing helped me. X tried several reme dies. but I continued to suffer. hgr. X read about Cartful, mao told bow theg bad strong and wall after taking X hare often been thankful for _j dag, for after I bad taken Oar dut for awhile. X felt like a different T» did not eem posrible, but 1 _ the old. torturing pains, and X rasHy felt well. X can t—»«- mwimMiKt Cartful. for X know bow much X Improved after i took It Bines then. I bare taken a tonic, and X have always been Nnsftted. it la a wonderful help.” AH good drugglsta sell Cartful, rltfoi IF YOUR EYES GIVE ANY TROUBLE See JR. ROBT. L. WILSON At P»al Webb & Son’s Drug Store. DR. H. C. DIXON DENTIST Office Orer ^oolworth’e. TELEPHONE 1*5 £S -BILLJARDS CMtndCigur asm iw*. cowr Mi V. Whnb Sb. REAL ESTATE itad Town Proportv. Ww A. Broadway Royster Bldg., Shelby, N. C. Oflke Phone 775. Phone 471. Announcement Dr* F. Bobo Scruggs WLsh e* to announce that he has 1 located in Shelby for gener r! al practice of medicine. Offices on Marion St. Office Hours 9:30 a. m. to ii 12 Noon, 2 to 4:30 p. m. Office Telephone 545 — Residence, Hotel Charles. —1BUUARDS — Shelby Cigar & Billiard Parlor. Webb Bros.’ Building, Cor ner South LaFayette St. & Graham St. Robinson & Long's Old Stand. CARL PUTNAM & JIM ELLIOTT, Props. a .. i Mon ary alter dictionary, Is being forgotten' so the Guardian observes ‘and our language having been purilted ol Its own seven devils, lias had the unfortunate resultant emp tiness lUJed by seven even more ter rible devils from overseas.” Even in admitting this, a bit of envy seems to creep in, especially over the doubtful paternity of some phrases. Perhaps If the origin of each and every one could be traced, the bal ance of debit and credit would be even: "From the Msts submitted by our readers, at any rate, it is clear that American slang predominates. In credible os It may seem, no one quoted any of the good old slang phrases, perhaps because they are no longer known. Not merely that, but It would seem that people have even forgotten that once there was a war. The phrases so familiar from 1914 to 1919, ‘Getting the wind up,’ 'a Blighty,* and even, that strange phrase which goes back perhaps to the mists of antiquity ‘Going west,’ were never mentioned. ‘Windy* in deed got a mention, as did the time-honored ‘Kick the bucket’ and ‘Off the deep end,' and one com petitor remembered ‘fed up.’ which perhaps has passed out of the stage of slang and become ordinary speech. ‘‘On the other hand, there were ft variety of Americanisms culled for the most part, one suspects, from a cloea study of film cap tions. Many of these are familiar, COMMISSIONER’S LAND. SALE OF Under and by virtue of a decree or the superior court of Cleveland county, N. C.. the undersigned com missioner will sell at the court house door in Shelby, N. C„ at pub lic auction, for cash, to the high est bidder, nt 12 o’clock M.. on Saturday. April «, 1929. the following described real estate: Tract No. 1.—Lying in No. 8 •rownshlp, Cleveland county, N. C on both sides of the public road leading from Lawndale, N. c , to Polkvllle, N, C., and being bound on the north by the Lucas lands, on the east by the lands of R E. Shuford, on the soutty by the lands of Mrs. R. H. Bridges, on the west B. Champion and J. A. Pow ell, and being described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a stone, corner of Mrs. K. H. Bridget and L. B. Champion, and running thence N. 2’i e. with R. E. Shufords line 39 7-10 poles to a stone at a pine, thence N. 05 W. ® t'5 poles to a stone, thence N. 4 *■ *7.79 Poles to a stake, thence N, 24% W. 30 poles to a stone on north edga of public road, thence If. 10 W. It poles to a stone at oak, thence N. 34% W. 95 poles to a stone, thence N. 35% W. 10% poles to a small P, o., thence S. 68% w. poles to a stone; formerly a poet oak. thence N. 73', w. 27 poles to a atone; thence N. 84% w. 14 3-5 poles to a stone, thence S. 21 W. 35% poles to a atone, thence 8. 79% B. 69% poles to a stone, thenoe 8. 50% W. 30 poles to a stone. mence s. e. 34 3-5 poles to a •take, thence 8. 30 E. 37.20 poles to » stake, thence 8. 34H E. 35.20 poles to a stake on north edge of public road, thence with north edge of public road N. 54 V* E. 77 links to a stake, thence a 2<4 E. 67 poles to the beginning, containing 131 acres more or less—Less 35 acres of land allotted as dower to Laura E. Champion, widow, on the south western portion of said lands, plat of which may be seen upon applica tion to the undersigned. Also less 8 acres and 106 square rods convey ed to L. B. Champion along the west edge of said tract, deed for which is In book 3-U page 213, of registry of Cleveland county. Tract No. 2—Beginning at a stake on south edge of the Casar-Lawn dale road. P. C. Mauney's comer, and runs thence with said road N. 25 W. 21 poles to a stake, thence N. 10 E. 10m poles to a stake in the center of Knob Creek, thence with the center of said Knob creek about 8. 60 E. 05 poles, thence about south 20 8. 113 poles to a stake In said creek, thence leaving said creek N. 12 E. 07 poles to a pine stump, thence 8. 72 E. S poles to a stone, thence S. 12 W. 97 poles to a stake In the creek, thence with the meanders of said creek 8. 60 W. 45 poles to a stake in center of said creek, thence leaving said creek and crossing said road N. 70 W, 112 poles to a black gum. P. C. Maueny's comer, thence N. 18 E. 31 poles to the beginning, containing 137 acres. Tract No. 3—Being: an ot iota Nos. 20 and 21 and part of lot No. 52, lying In the town of Lawndale, N. C. and being the property de scribed in a deed of record in the registry of Cleveland county, N. C., in book KKK page 629, and as shown on plat in said office in book one of pi its, page 51 and described as follows: Lot No. 20—Fronting 44 feet on the north side of Champion street with a depth ol 139 feet on the west line and 124 feet on the east line, and the back line of said lot being 43 feet. Lot No. 21—Fronting 46 feet on the north side of Champion street with a depth of 112 feet on the east line and the back line of said lot being 42 feet in length. Also that part of lot No 52 front ing 85 feet on the east side of Brown street said lot beginning on a stake in edge of Brown street and naming thence N 77E. 100 feet, thence N. H degree W. with line of Robert Jones, 78 feet to corner of Robert Jones, thence N. 84 * W. 89 feet to a stake on the east edge of Brown street, thence with the edge of said street 85 feet to the beginning. This Mtftch 2, 1929 LAURA E. CHAMPION, Comr. I Rybum & Hoey, Newton <Ss Newton, Attorneys. and some even doubtfully of Amer ican origin, like ‘tightwad,’ ‘lounge lizard,’ ‘bone-head,’ ’tea hound,’ and ‘hitting tlie hay’ (undoubtedly ex pressive). ‘Snow again, baby, I get your drift,' was submitted by a number of competitors, while a ma jority regrctably favored ‘slobber ed a biblul,’ but only one men tioned ‘wangle,’ ’scrounge,’ and ‘blotto.’ “On the other hand, some of the phrases approach the incompre hensible. If ‘sptt-and-rub’ might suggest a celluloid collar, and If one might hazard a guess that ‘Joining the 'cellos’ Is a refinement on ‘crossing the river.’ It is a little difficult to guess in a moment that ■get your diaphragm buzzin’ means •fall to and eat,’ that ‘throw a gage to the Hobbles’ means ‘be sentimental,’ that 'move your dogs’ means "move your legs,’ that ’he shakes a mean hoof Is a compli ment to a male partner's dancing, and that ‘soup and fish’ means a ‘dinner Jacket’ rather than a lounge suit.” In the opinion of the Judges ’’very few competitors gave six phrases which could fairly be called ex pressive,” but the prize went to the following collection: A pain In the nock. To get away with tt. To let In on the groupd floor. Bata in,the belfry. To bump off. To spill the beans. Some American Journal might of fer a prize lor a determination of what was American and what Eng lish in the list That America speaks another sort of English from certain North Country sections of the motherland may be seen from the two following lists that entered the contest. Explain them who can: It’s all owing to they bretings up. Tha knows no weeler. Put that dur in foie, my lad (meaning close the door). Tha’re a coddythumpian ( mean ing in the Huddersfield district one who takes all and gives nothing*. Tim weights may be right. But we will have them sheep weighed again. Tha great sammy ouen, tha'r fit for nowt only a good hiding. Yer alius slobbering abart sum mat. He was slopped up to the wide. Don’t sluther about, wench. Why don’t yer purr a Jerk in it, surrey? Docs the old girl still chew the cud at yer? i ft I can wangle the iron I’ll do It on him. Some further comment* are in teresting: "A schoolboy’s list showed that some English slang still fights a last-ditch battle in places from which slang might be supposed to be carefully barred. Off your rocker. A screw loose. An upper story to let. Bats in your belfry A bee In your bonnet. Up the pole. "Most of our competitors obliged by giving translations of their pet phrases, otherwise one would have never suspected that ‘a covered wagon' meant ‘an elderly rotund female who apes the youthful flap per,' or that * a wooden kimono’ meant a coffin, or that ‘corduroy patch’ means a match (though the sender did not specify what sort of match). "But no explanation was given of ‘lamp that /bozo,' at which, of course, one might make a guess, or all to the cream-puff,’ or ‘quit stall ing on the low-corners,’ or ‘he sure knows his onions,’ or the moequito’s which, for all one knows, may be equivalent to *the snake’s hips.’ ” Gas Forces Woman To Sleep In Chair “Night* i sat up la a chair, I had stomach gas so bad. I took Adlerika and nothing I eat hurt* me now. I sleep line.”—Mrs. Glenn Butler. Even the FIRST spoonful of Ad levlka relieves gas on the stomach and removes astonishing amounts or old waste matter from the sys tem. Makes you enjoy your meals and sleep better. No matter what you have tried for your stomach and bowels. Adlerika will surprise you. Paul Webb Pharmacy. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. North Carolina. Cleveland County. Notice Is hereby given that we, C. E. Isler and W. E. Vickery have this day dissolved the partnership of Isler St Vickery, plumbing and heating dealers of Shelby, N. C., under tifc terms of which the said W. E. Vickery lyis taken over the entire stock of goods on hand and accounts receivable and further notice Is hereby given that the said W E. Vickery is to. and has, assumed all outstanding obliga tions against the said firm. The said C. E. Isler is not to, and Will not, be responsible after this date for. any contracts or obliga tions made or contracted by the said W. E. Vickery. Further notice Is hereby given that all debts due the firm of Isler ft Vlckerv are to be paid to the said W. E. Vickery. This the 7th day of March. 1929. C. E. ISLER. W. E VICKERY. [Henry B. Edwards. Atty. USe BUYER ID HIS PORTIBHI IUIW1UU Writer Talks Frankly In His Story About "Hooch" Over America. "The Saturday Evening Post” has many million readers. It is doubtful how many of them liave read the serial "Hooch,” by Charles Francis Coo, writes Wm. Hale Herrick in The New York Herald-Tribune. It is the story of the relations between bootleggers and a venal police cap tain. That the crash of the sin ister alliance is true to fact is fully and vividly illustrated by the recent shooting of seven in Chicago; only In the story the policeman shares in the holocaust of his criminal pals. But the moet significant and im portant point of the whole etory is brought out at the end in the issue of February 2. Barr, a retired police captain who had resisted the lure of criminal gain, is visited by a neigh bor. Carter, on the morning the pa pers recorded the sawed-off shotgun slaughter. Carter is outraged by the gang murders and police venality. Barr seems little Impressed. Then Carter brings out a flask of whisky Barr quietly says: “Carter, you’re a pretty good sort of fellow—a good, steady, home man, running your own business ... all told, a pretty good sort of an average, dependable American. Of course, it’s none of my business, but as far as American law is concerned you are Just as much of a criminal to sit there and shake that whisky in my face as you would be If It was a pistol.” Carter laughed cynically. “That, of course, is ridiculous,” he said . . There’s nothing criminal in having a little drink around. The crime starts with these bootleggers and bribed police officials. They’re the ones that cause the trouble.” Barr laughed, and there was genuine mirth in his voice. Barr then asks why Carter thinks these men were murdered, and Car ter makes the obvious answer—a fight over the division of the spoils among men so drunk with power and money as to stop at nothing. "’Just a minute,’ Bar interrupted In a friendly way. ‘Not quite so fast, Carter. Let’s get at the facta a lit tle more ... I know there's corrup tion In the police force. Plenty of it, I know why these fellows kill one another, too. There's only one reason for it. "Talk all you like about crimi nals and the way they fight over the spoils. All that don’t mean a thing. What are the spoils? The crux of the sltuatJfih is right in that bottle you hold In your hand. Car ter. There'd be no bribery, there'd be no corruption, there’d be no mur ders, If fellows like you bought no whisky! “1 don’t want to moralize. But the only thing these men fight over and steal about is the money you pay for whisky. It’s your dollar that bribes and murders. You stop paying it and they’ll stop fighting. You atop buying liquor and they’ll stop bribing and taking bribes! Any way you look at it. Carter, that's the only source of all these rum killings. To save my soul, I can't see where these bribed Officials are any more criminal than you are. And when I say you. Carter. I mean every man in America who buys a bottle of booze.” Honor ta this writer, Charles Francis Coe., He makes Barr state vividly the basic fact that is ignored by all who saddle these crimes on the eighteenth amendment and by many who write and talk in favor of prohibition. A day or two ago the papers re corded the twenty-year sentence of a “fence.” The parallel is pretty close between the thief and the fence, on the one hand, and the booae seller and the booze buyer on the other. All four are crimi nals. NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND Under and by virtue of the au thority conferred by deed of trust by H. C. Ponder and wife, Kath leen Pander, to the First National Bank of Durham, N. C., Trustee, dated April 1st. 1928, and recorded In Book No. 150. page 181. Cleve land county registry, the First Na tional Bank of Durham, North Carolina, will on April 20th. 1929, At 12:00 O'clock M. at the Court House in Cleveland county, sell at public auction for cash to the highest bidder the fol lowing described property: Beginning on a stake on the East side of Second street, Northwest comer of Lot No. 84, and runs North 84 1-2 East 150 feet to a stake in Beam’s line; thence with his line North 3 1-2 West 100 feet to a stake; thence South 84 1-2 West 150 feet to a stake on East side of Second street; thence South 5 1-2 East 100 feet to the beginning. Being Lots No6. 90, 91, 92 and 93. shown by plat recorded In Book of Plats No. 1 at page 62 in the of fice of Register of Deeds of Cleve land county. North Carolina, ref erence to which plats is hereby made for further identification and description of said lots. This sale is made on account of default in the payment of the in debtedness secured by the said deed of trust. This 6th day of March. 1929. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DURHAM, North Caro lina. Trustee, w. s. Lockhart, Attorney. Durham, N. C. SAYS BEING FIFTY ISN’T BAB AT ALL ■v It Is Such A Nice Change From Ileing Young, Declare* Dorothy Canfield. New York.—"One of the many things which nobody—especially the poets—ever tells you about being middle-aged is that it is such a nice change from being young. Hon estly, I mean it. Why not admit it?” With this bright outlook as a text, Dorothy * Canfield, beloved American novelist who was born in Lawrence, Kas., fifty years ago, tells her public in the American Magazine that “I am Fifty and it Doesn’t Hurt a Bit." It Is her chief argument that each new age Is a relief from the last and that changes come Just at the time per sons get tired of doing the things that belonged to their former sta tions In life. "When you are too old to play with dolls and spin tops," continu es Miss Canfield, "weren't you. Just between ourselves, getting a little tired of dolls and tops? I was. A decree from on high permitting me to remain always at the doll-play ing age would not have been receiv ed with any Joy on my part as I approached adolescence. And yet no child ever more passionately loved play than I. But being human, I could have enough even of a good thing. I’d had all I really craved of hide-and-seek and tag. Now I wanted to see what It would be like to go to parties and have beaux. “Before the days of dentists and oculists, hygiene and well-balanced diet, the period between 20 and 30 —a time ol superabundant physical vigor—was the only one that was comparatively pleasant. Before that period, you were a dependent. After It, if you were a man, you had a toothache; failing eyes made you lag behind the rest of the tribe in hunting; rheumatism stiffened your sword arm; and you began to suf fer internally from unspeakably bad food. If a woman, you were pretty well worn out with much badly cared-for children; not to speak of having lost many of your teeth, much of your hatr and Just about all your interest in life from lack of physical vitality. WEBB & WEBB — REAL ESTATE — Farms and City Property See GEO. P. or E. L. WEBB UNION TRUST BLDG. arfELBT — Telephone 454-J — — FLOWERS Corsages, Bouquets and i Funeral Designs a Special 1 ty. Complete line of Cut ' Flowers. SHELBY FLOWER SHOP — PHONE 580 — “Say It With Flowers”— The Gift Supreme. Peyton McSwain Attorney-at-Law Civil and Criminal Practice In AH Courts Office: Union Trust Co. Building . -- T. W. Ebeltoft Grocer and Book Phone — 82 Seller "Now, ol course, a reasonable amount ol physical vitality is rather necessary for the enjoyment of life. Nobody in my youth gave me any idea that in middle-age X could still be quite natural playing tennis, rid ing horseback, skating and moun tain climbing. It is true that I don’t engage in sports'as ferociously as I did when I was 20 and for a good reason. I don’t need to and don't care to. At 20 1 was like nearly everybody else of that age, frightfully uncertain most of the time, of deserving to be in the world at all, and frightfully anxious to prove my worth to myself in the only way youth knows—by beating somebody else at something. Like most of my contemporaries, I was not really enjoying what I did, but uneasily seeking in everything an opportunity to justify myself to my self. "Here are the pleasures of mid dle age which .nobody breathes a word to you beforehand: The de liciousness of outgrowing that neu ralgia of youthful pain at being surpassed In anything. The serenity of pleasure taken in other people’s accomplishments unspoiled by the aching comparison of them with our own. “The steady, continued change in human personalities explains, per haps, why middle-aged people do not noticeably fear death more than they ever did—in fact in most cases, vastly less. And as to the alarm about dullness and loneliness and misery of old age, experience has taught us, whether we will or no, something which takes the edge from that fear. Having arrived at an age which seemed to me at twenty as forlorn as 80 does to me now and perceiving that a change of tastes and desires has gone along with a change in age, I cannot help guessing that if X continue to yield myself naturally to the rhythm of the years. I shall find the inner time-table making as close and ac curate connection for me then as now.’’ Miss Canfield, in private life is Mrs. John Redwood Fisher, of Ar lington. Vermont. DR. H. D. WILSON Optometrist. Eyes Glasses Examined Fitted Dependable Eye Examina tion and Quality Glasses. Office Over Paul Webb’s. M EASTER EXCURSION To WASHINGTON, D. C. Via SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM FRIDAY. MAR. 29. 1929. Round-Trip Fare From: Shelby, N. C-$13.00 Rutherfordton, N. C. $13.00 Marion, N. C._$12.75 Morganton, N. C. — $12.50 Hickory, N. C.-$12.00 Newton. N. C.-$12.00 Statesville, N. C._$11.50 Tickets on sale March 29th, final limit good to reach original starting point prior to midnight, April 3rd. Tickets good going and returning on all regular" trains date of sale and within final limit except (Crescent Limited) Tickets good in pullman sleeping cars upon payment of proper charges. Easter time in Washing ton offers many attrac tions and this is a wonder ful time to visit our Na tion’s Capital. Cherry Blossom Time Potomac Park. For detail information and reservations call on any Southern Railway Agent or address, R. H. GRAHAM, Division Passenger Agent, Charlotte, N C. 1 QUEEN CITY COACH LINES FOR. ASHEVILLE, CHARLOTTE, WILMINGTON FAYETTEVILLE. FOR ASHEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—9:45 a. m ; 11:45 a. m.; 1:45 p. m.; 3:45 p. m.; 5:45 p. m.: 8:45 p. m. FOR CHARLOTTE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—7:50 a. m.; 10:50 a. m.; 12:50 p. m.; 2:50 p. ra.; 4:50 p. m.; 6:50 p. m.; 8:50 p. m. FOR WILMINGTON AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—10:50 a. m.; 2:50 p. m. FOR FAYETTEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—7:50 a. m.; 10:50 a.m.; 2:50 p m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION — PHONE 450 QUEEN CITY COACH COMPANY SJ) ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICK Having qualified as administra tor of the estate of John H. Gar ver. deceased. late of Cleveland county, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to undersigned at Lawndale. N. C„ on or before March 18, 1930, on his notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay ment. This March 18. 1929. A. A. GARVER, Administrator of John H. Garver. Jno. P. Mull, Atty. ADMINISTRATOR S NOTICE Having qualified as administra tor of the estate of Bert H. Ham rick, deceased, late of Cleveland county, North Carolina, this Is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Boiling Springs. N. C„ on or before the 15th day of March, 1930, j or this notice will be pleaded in bar ' of their recovery. All persons in- j debted to said estate will please j make immediate payment. This 15th dav of March. 1929, W. C. HAMRICK, Admr. Quinn, Hamrick & Harris, Attys. THE PERSON WHO HAS NOTHING Is Usually The One Who Does AH The Damage. Your Only Safe guard is Insurance With CHAS. A. HOEY Try Star Want# Ads. rr -^ Get More Poultry Ready Car Will Be At SEABOARD DEPOT, Shelby, Next Wednesday, March 27. PRICES: Heavy Hens, lb.. 27c Leghorn Hens, lb.. 27c Chickens, lb..27c Cocks, lb. 14c Turkeys, lb.30c Colored Broilers, lb.40c Leghorn Broilers, lb.37c ALVIN HARDIN, County Agent. MAUNEY AUTO SUPPLY CO. CAN SAVE YOU MONEY ON Batteries Radiators Brake Linings Piston Rings Pistons Fan Belts Tools Tops Side Curtains Radio Supplies GET OUR PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY. — PHONE 518 The Most Persistent Thief OF YOUR PROFITS IS HIGH INTEREST RATE THE EASIEST WAY TO SAVE Is Through LOW INTEREST RATES. We Lend On Acceptable First Farm Mortgages At Lowest Rate Of Interest 5 TO 35 YEARS 51% Nothing Complicated About It. Let Us Tell You. Shelby National Farm Loan Association HENRY B. EDWARDS, Sec-Treat. 21 Royster Bldg. Phone No. 673.
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