WEBB THEATRE
VITAPHONE PICTURES SOON
— TONIGHT —
Pathe Presents — “SIN TOWN”
WITH
HI GH ALLEN AND ELINOR FAIR — ALSO
"DIAMOND MASTER” NO. !>.
COMEDY AND NEWS.
ADMISSION __ 10 and 23c.
— TUESDAY —
JOHNNIE HINES IN
“THE WRIGHT-IDEA”
His Greatest First National Picture.
Also a Metro-Goldwyn Technicolor Picture. A
Laugh Special.
NOTICE:—Our Vitaphone Pictures Will Be Running
Probably Next Week.
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LOCAL and*
•PERSONAL News
Messrs. Doras Willis and Ralph
Turner have opened a barber shop
in South Shelby.
Mr. J. Terris Lediord returned
last week from a motor trip to
Richmond. Va , on business.
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Martin
and children, of Greenville, S. C
spent a few days last week with
Mr. David A. Elliott.
Mr. and Mrs Mope Bryscn went
to Oastonla Saturday where they
Joined a party and spent tlie week
end at Magnolia gardens.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B Nix and Miss
Lucile Nix spent Saturday in Ashe
ville.
Misses Frankie Borders and Miss
Falls visited the Magnolia gardens
at Charleston. S C., o\er the week
end.
Come Shelby people in Char
lotte. Friday: Mr. end Mrs. Grady
Lovelace. Mr and Mrs. Paul Webb.
Mesdames Wyeth and Ralph Roy
ster. Pitt Beam, W. A Jordan,
Flank Hoey, Miss Elizabeth Mc
Braycr and Mrs. Baxter Putnam.
Miss Mary Frances McWhirter of
Bciling Springs junior college was
the week end guest of Miss Janie
Irvin.
Misses Janie and Ruth Irvin and
Blanche DePriest spent Easter with
Miss Carrie DePriest at New House.
Tire following party are enjoying
a motor trip to Charleston to see
the Magnolia Gardens: Mr. and
Mrs. Reid Misenheimer, Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Laughrldge and Claude
Webb.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Mc
Carter. jr., of Gastonia on Friday,
March 30, a dainty daughter. Dolor
es Lucile. Mrs. McCarter before
marriage was Miss Lucile Irvin.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mull and
Misses Petty and Margaret Atkinson
will return tomorrow from a visit
to the Magnolia Gardens in Char
leston, S. C.
Miss Alice Crayton of Boiling
Springs Junior college was the week
end guest of Miss Lillian MeEntire.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dempsey
moved last week to Camden, S. C.,
where Mr. Dempsey has headquar
ters for the present They expect to
move to Rock Hill soon where they
will be located permanently.
Mesdames J. C. Newton and C. M.
Peeler spent Friday with Mrs. Boyce
Whisnant at Polkville.
Mesdames J. C. Newton. Alger
Hamrick and George Moore were
Charlotte visitors Thursday.
The many friends of Rev. and
Mrs. Lawrence Roberts are glad to
have them back in Shelby. They
are living on East Suttle street.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Armour and
family and Mr. and Mrs. L. R.
Comevin and family spent Sun
| day on a delightful picnic at Ninety
Nine Island.
Mrs. J. S. McKnight and Miss
Dorothy McKnight attended the
musical contest at Gastonia Satur
day.
Miss Nora Pettit spen. the week
end in Gaffney.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mauney and
i little daughter. Patsy, spent the
: week-end in Charlotte.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Doggett and
daughters. Misses Mabel Wray and
Mary Leslie, Mr. C. R. Doggett and
j Mrs. Nelson Lattimore visited at
jTryon, S. C., Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Rierson, Mrs.
J. C. Bundy and C. C. Evans, of
; Charlotte, stopped over with Mr.
i and Mrs. W. D. Babington Satur
day and Sunday on their return
j from the Shrlners meeting at
i Rutherforcitcn. Fred Babington and
Mr. and Mrs. Landon McSwain, of
Charlotte, also spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Babington.
Mr. and Mrs. William Osborne
. have taken rooms with Mr. and
I Mrs. T. J. Babington on North
Morgan street and/will be there
j while the Osborne home is being
remodeled on E. Marion street
Miss Edna Grantham of Greens
boro spent the week-end with
Miss Dorothy McKnight.
■ Mr. and Mrs. Joe Austell and
Miss Virginia and Robert Austell of
I Greenville, S. C. spent Sunday with
' Mrs. S. F. Roberts.
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Meredith Hcnnessa of Charlotte
spent the week-end with his mother
Mrs. P. L. Henneesa.
Mr. and Mrs. TRnon Mitchell
| and son of Mt. Ht'l’ spent the
iweek-end with Up, »iad Mrs. Mit
chell.
Mesdamcs J. D. Ltneberger. J A
| Suttle accompanied Mr. J D. Ltnc
yjerger lo Asheville Thursday lor
I ihe day.
Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Holland and
Pegram spent the week-end with
| Mr and Mrs. Chas Wall at Lex
i ington.
Mrs. O C. Joseph who has been
visiting her daughter. Mrs. T. W.
Lattimore returned Sunday to Iter
| home at Spartanburg with Mr. and
| Mrs Lewis Porter who drove lor
■her in the alternoon
Mr. and Mrs. S A. McMurrv and
| Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Suttle visited
Miss Mamie Wright and Mis
FYances Suttle in Asher ille yester
day.
Mrs. W. K DuPre and little son,
Tommy, who have been spending
the winter in St. Petersburg. Fla
arrived today to visit Mr. and Mrs.
C R. Hoey a few days before re
turning to their home in New York
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Allen Rob
ertson and Mr. Tom Robertson of
New York will arrive Wednesday
for a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Hoev
Mr. and Mrs. John Fox, jr, ol
Teaneck. N. J. arrived yesterday ac
companied by Mr. and Mrs. Miller
of Brooklyn, N Y. and will spend a
week with Mr and Mrs J It
Dover.
Mr. and Mrs J D Lineberger
and family spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Sherrill in Char
lotte.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Love and
children, of Llneolnton and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Laney and son. of
Monroe visited their parents. Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Dover yesterday.
Misses Mary Neal Dayis. Betty;
Buttle. Ed McCurrv and Doc Hop
per spent Sunday at Morganton.
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Mr. and Mrs. Vonno Oudgcr ol
, Asheville were week-end guests of
[Judge and Mrs. E. Y. Webb. They
all spent Saturday in Charlotte.
Mesdames Lewis Forney, J. A
Suttle. Will Lineberger. Misses Sue
Andrews and Betty Suttle were
Charlotte visitors Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Silver and
daughter. Ruby and Ruth, spent
Sunday in Spindale with relatives.
Elizabeth Sweezy, 10 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
Sv.eezy is improving after a serious
operation for appendicitis.
New Tax Boosts
State’s Daily Gas
Bill To $6,780.00
One Cent A Gallon Tax On Gaso
line WIU Yield Income Of $5,
500,000 Yearly.
When lining station operators all
over the state moved up the price of
gasoline at midnight March 31 to
take care of the additional one cent
tax imposed by the legislature to
become effective April 1, they ad
ded $8,870 a day to the total sum
Tar Heels pay for their gas.
Based on estimates that each one
cent a gallon tax on gasoline will
yield $2,500,000 a year, the five
cent tax which became effective
today will return Just short of $35,
000 a day to the state treasury, or
a total of twelve and one-hall'
million dollars a year. With gaso
line selling at 1$ cents a gallon less
[the tax. the same course of calcu
j lation shows that North Carolinians
are spending between 55 and 60
millions a year for their motor
fuel.
This is approximately double the
amount spent In manning and
maintaining the entire public school
system of the state for one year.
The gasoline tax is the highest
tax collected by the state. At pres
ent price levels it amounts to ap
proximately 28 per cent—or a round
fifty-cent piece every time a mo
torist gets 10 gallons of gasoline
put into his tank. He pays $1.80
for the gas and $0.50 for the tax.
But kicks on the tax, high though
it is, are practically none. The rea
son: every cent of It goes into road
construction and maintenance, and
on & good road, as every motorist
knows, a gallon of gas will go much
further than on a poor road that
he actually gets more for his
money out of the tax-burdened gas
than he would were there no gas
tax and only mud roads.
Until this year, proceeds from the
gas tax, which was inaugurated at
1 cent a gallon in 1921, have gone to
building and maintaining state
roads only. Now that system is
nearing completion, and the pro
ceeds from the old 4-cent tax are
ample to provide for its mainten
ance and for retiring the $115,0000,
000 In bonds Issued to build the
state road system.
The 1-cent boost was added to
aid the counties in maintaining
their roads, heretofore kept up sole
ly from revenue from ao valorem
taxc;- To the $2.5000.000 slated to
lx; realized from the lxx»t, half a
million will be added from other
highway revenues. giving a total ot
$3,000 000 lor comity road maln
tenanee, or hi other words, $3,000 -
000 reduction in the much com
plained ol ad valorem tax rates
Land Purchased
For National Park
Lenoir Nev ..-Topic
Seventeen thousand acres of land
has been purchased and the deeds
filed in Swain county by Mark
Squires, chairman of the North
Carolina park commission, it wax
learned from Mr Squires. The park
was purchased for *85,000 of the
Rockefeller Foundation land.
To date, Mr Squires said, a total
01 $25,000 acres has been purchas
ed for the Great Smoky Mountain
national park This recent trans
action is located on th>' Forneys1
creek w atershed in Swain county. |
Deeds were filed at Bryson City by
Mr Squires and others on Tues
day.
i The national park will be equally
divided between North Carolina
and Tennessee, with about 234,000
acres of land in each state. A hem - i
tug from the supreme court is ex
pected at which time the Suncrrst
Lumber company case will be given
a decision. For four woks the hear
ing has been carried on and possi
bilities are that the decision will
be handed down soon, Mr Squires
stated.
MACON MAN KAFI.S DFAD
IN FIGIIT WITH nROTHF.lt
Macon. Oa. April 7.—Frank II
Smith, 41, loll dead here late today
in the course of a tt.,t. fight with his !
brother, Harry Smith, 38, a life- !
Icny companion and co-worker
Harry Smith placed his brother ,
body in an automobile and drove !
home, lie then called the sheriff
and surrendered
EYESIGHT
Eye Health
Eves quickly feel the effects ot jnv wrong con
dition, either within or without the bodv, and
give a timely warning.
It you are having difficulty ut reading or doing
clone work, or if you are afflicted with headaches
or blurred vision, you should heed this warning
and have your eyes attended to.
Examination by an eve specialist will locate the
trouble and indicate the treatment which should
be given. Usually it is within the eye itaelf and
is not of a serious nature. In such cases the
remedy is to use corrective lenses to assist the rye
in overcoming the defect.
We specialize in Eye Refraction, which « the
examination and correction of defective vision
hy means of glasses. You are invited to call and
consult us about your eyes and to make an
appointment for examination if you wish.
T. W. Hamrick Co.
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Do You Know
That 200 Majestic Radio Sets are in the hands
of users in and around Shelby?
That the average number of listeners to each
set every night is 7. This will make 1400 Cleveland
County people who listen to the Majestic every
night.
IN 10 MONTHS
Majestic have made and sold over 700,000
Radio sets valued at factory cost at $43,699,239, ac
cording to figures of the Wall Street Journal.
When the public is treated to a square deal they
buy. The Majestic is the Radio in which you get
your money’s worth.
A comparison will show you where the dif
ference is.
Pendleton’s Music
Store
SHOWN IN KINGS MOUNTAIN AT
MILLER ELECTRIC CO.
What does your
SAVINGS ACCOUNT
do for YOU?
GIVES YOU
CASH IN THE
BANK
INSTANTLY
AVAILABLE
YOUR Savings Account, while
earning interest as an extra safe
investment, is always available as
instant cash for sudden opportun
ity or chance adversity. Build
vour savings account with regu
lar deposits for there is comfort
and satisfaction in a cash reserve,
that is steadily growing, earning
and always available.
FIRST
NATIONAL
BANK
SHELBY, N. C.
RESOURCES FIVE MILLION
DOLLARS.
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the PRINCESS theatre
HOME OF TALKING AND SOUND
PICTURES.
Tonight & Tuesday
Douglas Mat-Lean returns to the screen in tjiis
thrilling comedy smash which made an enormous hit in
Charlotte a few weeks ago. You can't help but be
pleased with the work of this popular star in
this sound and talking comedy drama which was writ
ten especially for him. This is one of Paramount’s
Greatest Talking Comedies.
The management of the Princess wishes to take
this opportunity to inform you that Special Speakers
have been designed for this Theatre and that they have
been properly installed, thus producing a perfect clear
and distinct lone with all pictures. It was due to the
size of the theatre that the speaking instruments first
installed did not give saisfactory reults.
The Princess also offers selected News
Reels, Novelties and Comedies with each
change of program.
For the Coolest Place in Town These
Hot Days, Visit the Princess.
Hours: 1 to 5, 7 to 11 Mondays; 2 to 5, 7 to 11 Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays; 11 to 11 Continuous
ly Saturdays.
ADMISSION 10c and 30c BOTH
MATINEE AND NIGHT.