Around Our TOWN
Shelby SIDELIGHTS
l!y UENN DRUM
Springtime in Shelby is without doubt the most beautiful season of
the year. And that, of course, means that the town's famous court
square is never more beautiful than during the months of April and May,
Saturday and Sunday the wann
est days ot the year so far trans
formed the court square almost
overnight into numerous shades of
Springtime green. Just how many
types of tree, and for every type of
tree there is a different shade of
green, there are on the court
square we leave to those versed in
such, but it doesn't take an artis
tic eye to see the beauty in those
stately green trees with the gray
walls of the old court house and
the shrubbery, put out some years
back through the efforts of the
Woman's club, as a background.
AM) THAT REMINDS HOW
the distant pastures always
appear greener. Every week-end
scores and scores of Shelby peo
ple bundle into the family pe
trol buggies and motor to some
distant beauty spot. Meantime
scores and scores of tourists
and visitors to the city, park at
the curb and gaze at Shelby's
own court quare.
THIS IS THE SEASON OF THE
y ear in Shelby, it might be noted in
passing, that the uptown business
then and the housewives begin dig
ging their water jugs out of the
closet and pantry to start their
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SHOP
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pairing. Also Rebuilt And
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Bargain Prices. Call In
And Look Them Over.
West Marion Street, Third
Door From Western Union,
SHELBY, N. C.
Shelby Shoe Shop
Shoes Repaired By The
Goodyear Welt System
•With shoes the price they
are, it is not only economy
but good sense to have them
repaired as often as pos
sible.
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West Warren Street, At
The Railroad.
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PATTERSON
District Agent,
Shelby, N. C.
daily march to the court square tor
water from the artesian well.
It is also the season when
Judge Yanwart, the retired
Canadian jurist, blows in from
New Orleans, his winter home,
to spend the spring months
chatting with friends on a shady
bench on the court square. If
the former Canadian judge
were a verbose fellow he could
write a good testimonial for
Springtime Shelby.
SHELBY SHAVINGS: V I C
Wray, one of A. V.’s mx partners,
is reported to have first appeared
on Shelby streets with straw head
gear. With him, we presume, it was
business as well as pleasure—has to
get the boys started . . . . Theos
Hopper, who slings soda and wise
cracks about Suttie's drug store, is
considered by the young fellows
about town as having a warbling
voice that would bring shame to
Gene Austin and A1 Jolson if he
were inclined to sing in public as
he is in private • . • Wonder what
Shelby people will have _ to argue
about when the light rates are ad
justed to suit everybody? But has
anything ever been adjusted to the
satisfaction of ail concerned? . . . .
A husky colored girl walking down
Shelby's main business street, on a
Saturday afternoon, too, puffing a
cigarette. Sooner or later white
girls pulling their fags publicly will
not be an unusual sight, but as yet
they do their smoking privately.
They do smoke; just ask the boys
behind the Cigarette and cigar
stands at the local drug store.
That reminds of a story, Some
months or years back a couple of
local girls away at school decided
they wanted to smoke a cigar after
getting a whiff from a mellow per
fecto in the mouth of a portly gent
at a nearby table in an eating
house. Forthwith they proceeded to
a cigar counter for the purchase,
but they were not versed in cigars
and the man behind the counter
sold them a cigar of the nickel type,
which Buck Hardin terms an “El
Ropo.” So, naturally the few puffs
they took in the privacy of their
apartment failed to measure up to
the whiffs they caught of the per
fecto in the cafe.A free ad:
Spud cigarettes, we hear, are the
best sellers with the feminine smok
ers of Shelby. (That'll bring a howl
from some of the cigarette sales
men about town—but we believe in
smoking the brand we like, let the
ashes fall where they may, just so
they do not tumble on the rug at
home when the other 62 percent of
the family happens to be looking.)
A Star reader visited the print
ing office last week and wanted to
meet Gee McGee. Being informed
that McGee, the homespun philos
opher, was a syndicate writer ancf
lived in South Carolina instead of
Shelby, the visitor said, as he start
ed out: “I didn't think there was
any one about here with that much
sense'' . . . And it's also the season
in Shelby when fishing tackle is
being hauled frcm the closet as the
conversation turns to trips to
Bridgewater, Wrightsville, George
town, and elsewhere.
Barney Rackley, former Wake
Forest grid star, we hear may be
the new coach aat Boiling Springs
instead of Casey Morris, who, it is
understood, is considering several
offers for college berths, among
them being the Guilford college di
rectorship of athletics.Now
that a new skating rink has opened
in Shelby the modern expression
"faw down and go boom” may be
more popular here than ever be
fore.”
Selah, or s'long, as you will.
By the terms of her husband's
will, Mrs. E. M. Joslett of Detroit
will forfeit an annual income of
$12,500 if she remarries.
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New Studio Open
In The Woolworth Building Over West
ern Union Office.
Come in for a sitting. Expert work
manship and fine equipment to produce
the best of work at a reasonable cost.
M. B. Rodeffer
Studio Over Western Union.
COLLEGE GLEE CLUB
IT LATTIMORE12TH
Honors Won In Music Cnntcst.
Recitation And Declamation
Contest On. Personals.
(Special to The Star.)
j Liittimoro, April 9 The State
: College Glee club wilt appear at
■the auditorium Friday right April
12th.
This will be one of the outstand
ing events of the year and will
draw a large crowd
This entertainment, consists of
; radio quartet, orchestra, jodeling,
j and fashioned jigs.
I The result of the State inter
j High school debate for the triangle
| composed of Lattimore, Henrietta
| Caroleen and'Cliffside w as each
school won one and lost one.
I The debates were of a high order
and showed that the students had
1 given much thought in preparing
| their speeches.
The music department of the
I Lattimore high school was well
I represented in the district music
: contest at Gastonia Saturday, con
tending for places in the state wide,
contest w hich will be held at
i Greensboro April 18-19.
i The school was represented In
six events, soprano solo, baritone
I solo, girls' quartet, boys’ quartet,
i mixed chorus and mixed quartet.
I Of the six events entered the
j school brought back first place hau
lers in three, second in one and
■ third in another.
Winners for Lattimore in first
place, baritone solo: Tyree Greene,
male quartet, Lyman Martin, Yulan
j Washburn, Lowell McSwaln and
j Tyree Greene. Mixed chorus, sec
ond place. Soprano solo: Selma
Dav is.
I Miss Sarah Lattimore who has
j been ill at the home of her sister,
Mrs, I D. Harrill was able to be
I removed last week to her home
near Lawndale.
Mesdames L. C. Toms and M. B.
j Smith spent Sunday in Shelby.
They were guests at a dinner party
I given by Miss Ann Hamrick at the
; Isaac Shelby hotel.
Friends of Miss Margaret Latti
, more arc glad to know she is im
: proving alter several days illness,
j Miss Donnis Gold left Tuesday
! for N. C. C. W. after a week's vaca
tion at home. .
| Miss Lola Martin who teaches at
Belwood spent the week end at
: home.
| The elimination contest in reci
tation and declamation in the
j elementary grades is being carried
S on in the chapel program each
! morning. The final contest will be
| held Friday morning. Two gold
! medals w ill be given one in read
ing and one in declamation. The
medals are given by Mrs. L. C.
! Toms and Miss Candace Rayburn.
! Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hoopaugh and
, children spent Sunday afternoon
| with Mr. and Mrs. Nick Hall.
1 Misses Ruth Walker and Thelma
, McEntire spent the week-end with
! Miss Mildred Wilson of Shelby.
Misses Mary Ada Monroe and
Edna Earle Lackey spent Sunday
| with Misses Mattie and Lilly Craw
| ley of Lawndale.
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Walker visit
ed friends in Lawndale Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. Gilmer Callahan of Char
lotte was a week-end guest at the
home of his parcints, Mr. and Mrs.
C. W. Callahan.
Misses Carolyn and Martha
Greene of Forest City spent the
week-end with their cousins. Misses
Donnis and Jacelyn Magmess.
Mr. Alton Hamrick of Charlotte
came home Saturday to attend the
funeral of his grandmother. Mrs.
Pink Yarbough which was held at
Beaver Dam church.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hoyle and son
John, of Shelby were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Crowder Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Harriil and
Miss Candace Rayburn spent Sun
day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
Garmon Rayburn at Spindale.
Messrs. Tyree Green and Dufaye
Bridges were dinner guests of Mr.
Charles Wilson Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bate Morehead of
Avondale were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Morehead Sunday after
noon.
Miss Mary Lovelace of Bolling
Springs was the guest of Miss Mary
Elizabeth Willis Saturday.
Prof, and Mrs. Lawton visited Mr.
Herbert Blanton at the Shelby hos
pital Sunday.
Miss Ethel Rheinhardt of Polk
ville was the guest Tuesday night
of Miss Alice Poteet.
Mrs. Pratt.
From Tiie Chapel Hill Weekly.
Mrs. Joseph Hyde Pratt is dead,
and Chapel Hill loses a woman
whose line qualities of mind and
heart made the village proud to call
her its own.
She came here as a bride 30 years
ago, and from then onward she
grew steadily in the affection of
everybody who came within the
range of her acquaintance. So
friendly she was, so generous and
gracious, that from the very first
she never seemed a stranger. And
tiie welcome given her was all the
more warm because her natural
adaptability, in tiie social sense,
was accompanied by a keen and
constant interest in community af
fairs. No case of misfortune failed
to enlist her sympathy and aid, no
good cause failed for what of her
support,
In The Motor
And
Business World
Whippet Sales Show
Increase Over 1928
Although Whippet sales from
month to month in 1028 set new
high record (or Willis-Overland,
sales at these ' nir and six cylinder
products in the first quarter of the
current year show an increase of 83
per cent over the same period ot
1928 John N. Willy 8/ president, said
this week at Toledo, This unusual
high sales volume is attributed to
the immediate wide public accep
tance of the new cars which bring
to the low price field a new stand
ard of style and performance usual
ly found only in the higher priced
cars.
With this marked Increased In
Whippet sales In the first quarter
ever any similar period in Wtllys
Overland history, executives point
out that the company’s car build
uig schedules for the present year,
which call for a record output, is
fully justified.
Small Wheels Help
Car’s Appearance
One of, the first master strokes of
Chrysler’s engineering staff, which
met with instant public approval
and which today is one of the con
tributing reasons for Chrysler’s con -
sistently increasing popularity. Is
the small diameter wheel, says
George Thompson, local dealer.
"Less than five years ago,’’ con
tinued Mr, Thompson, "Walter P.
Chrysler placed on the market the
first car to bear his name. It. was
low, it was fast, it was handsome
and it proved to be just what the
motorwi.se public had been waiting
for: It was only a matter of a few
weeks before the name Chrysler
was known in every town of any
size throughout the United States,
As has been said, one of the fea
tures of this newly designed auto
mobile, which turned the automo
bile industry topsy-turvy almost
overnight, was its lower center of
gravity. Many persons argued that
its road clearance could not be
sufficient. Many manufacturers
went so far as to declare it wasn’t
practical: that it was merely a
passing fad and wouldn’t last.
Chevrolet Breaks
Production Records
Detroit.—All monthly production
records in the history of the Chev
rolet Motor company were broken in
March, when the company produc
ed 147,274 cars and trucks. A fac
tory statement explained that this
figure was considerably in excess of
preliminary production schedules
and was made necessary to more
fully acommodatc an increasing de
mand for the new car Chevrolet
six.
This March record compares with
133,657 units for March of last
year and with 121.249 for February
of this year. It exceeded by nearly
7,000 units the best previous month
in the history of the company,
which was May, 1928, when output
totalled 140.775 units.
The March performance enabled
the company to exceed all records
for the first quarter of the year,
with a total of 354,701 units as com
pared with 342,184 for the first three
months of 1928.
In preparation for what promises
to be the biggest Spring business on
record, the manufacturing division
is operating on the heaviest sche
dule ever undertaken by the com
pany Tlie company's sixteen giant
factories are speeding toward ca
pacity operation with all the haste
consistent with precision manufac
turing, it was announced. Officials
predict that the record activity
planned for April will result in an
other monthly record and for the
second consecutive month establish
a new mark.
Crowds Witness New
Frigidaire Control
Crowds of both men and women
Tuesday witnessed operation of
Frigidaire’s cold control, the latest
perfection in the electrical refriger
ation field, when the national cold
control demonstration of Frigidaire
corporation was opened at the local
show room, 115 S Washington St.
The demonstration will continue
through Saturday and the display
— NOTICE —
T, Hugh K. McSvvain. a
painter, contractor, offer
for sale high grade Paint
and Varnish and Kayser &
Allman (Wall Paper.) All
work guaranteed to be first
class. Phone 127-R.
Hugh K. McSwain,
314 Blanton St.,
Shelby, N. C.
rootn v ill remain open until It
o'clock every night to care for an
j ticipated crowds, tt was announced
by Mr Arrv. local Frlgidaire dealer
Similar demonstrations arc brine
held throughout the country te
acquaint the public with this ex
clusive Frigldalro feature, which for
the tirst time gives tire housewife
complete control over the freezing
chamber of her refrigerator, the
dealer explained.
Tempting frozen desserts, hereto
fore impossible to make in a house
hold refrigerator, were prepared and
frozen in comparatively short time
I by domestic science experts and
served to the visitors Demonstra
tors explained the simplicity of the
| nevydev ice, which i now a pert of
| at! household l rmidalres and en
; a bliss t lie I 'rigidaite owner to raise
! aiid lower the..temperature- in the
i freezing compartment without
' greatly affecting flic temperature in
I the feed storage cabinet,
Iteeipes for 11 a new desserts,
. made possible through the invent -
mti of cold control, were distributed
along with other favors and book
j lets of interest to the housewife and
| hestess
Hudson Company’s
Sales Volume Goes
To New High Peak
During the first two weeks of
March, the Hudson Motor Car
company retailed 17.li.S3 cars. This
is the creates!, retail sales volume
in. the company's history, for any
similar period. . The increase
j amounts to 5,000 cars.
"This means that at. a time
when shipments usually exceed re
tail sales, by considerable margin,
Hudson-Essex retail deliveries for
the first, halt of March amount to
70 per cent of actual shipment s
"For tlie single week ending
March 1(1, reported sales totalled 90
percent, of •actual, shipments, where
as retail sales for the same week
of 1928 totalled (57 per cent of ship
ments.
"The company now has 914 new
dealers.' reports Courtney Johnson,
general sales, manager.
TRUSTEES SM I OK KK.Vh ES
TATE.
Under the power of sale con
tained in a certain deed of trust
executed bv touts P Ponder, single,
to Union Trust company of Mary
land and Insured Mortgage Bond
corporation of North Carolina, Inc.,
as trustees, which deed of trust. Is
ot record in office of the registry of
Cleveland county. N. C., in book 153,
page 75, said deed of trust having
been given to secure notes therein
described, and ttie said Louis P.
Ponder not having paid said notes
according to the terms of same, and
the holder of same having request
ed foreclosure of said deed of trust,
the undersigned trustees will offer
for sale for cash at public auction
to the highest bidder at the court
house door in Shelby, N. C., at 12
ni. May 4, 1929, the following de
scribed lot or parcel of land, situ
ated just east of the city of Shelby,
N. C., and being lot No 9 in block
B of Cleveland Heights, developed
by Gardner and Mull, plat of same
being of record in the aforesnid of
fice m plat book 2. page 2E
Begining at a stake In cast edge
of state highway No. 20. or the
Asheville - Charlotte - Wilmington
highway at a point which is locat
ed 172 feet from J. A. Wilsom-Sam
uel Green old line, and runs thence
N. 43 deg. 39 min. E. 204 feet to a
stake in the line of lot No. 22;
thence with the lines of lots Nos.
22 and 23, S. 43 deg. 36 min. E. 60
feet to a stake, comer of lot No.
8 in line of lot No. 23; thence with
the line of lot No. 8 S. 46 deg. 30
min. W. 197 ft. to a stake Ui the east
edge of state highway No. 20, the
same being corner of lot No. 8;
thence with the cast edge of said
highway No. 20, 50 feet to the be
gining.
UNION TRUST COMPANY OF
MARYLAND.
INSURED MORTGAGE BOND
CORPORATION OF N. C„ Inc.
Trustees.
Newton Newton, Attys.
A SERIOUS CHANGE
Kentucky Lady Was Seriously
111 for Months But Was
Finally Relieved By
Cardui.
Lawrenceburg, Ky —“At a time In
my life, when my health was under -
' going a serious change,” says Mrs.
J. C. Ray, who lives near here, "I
found Cardui to be of the greatest
benefit to me. I was seriously Ul
for about two months, and for sev
eral months I was not well. My
nerves were all unstrung. I could
not bear the least noise around me.
I could not sleep.
‘‘My head ached until it seemed
as if it would burst. My feet and
limbs swelled dreadfully. X felt
tired all the time. When I was up.
I dragged around the house, but
most of the time I spent on the bed.
‘‘I got Cardui and began taking it
regularly. Very soon I could see
that it was helping me. I began to
sleep better and eat more. The
awful nervousness got better.
‘‘When I had finished the first
bottle, I was much better than I
had been for many weeks. I was
so encouraged that I kept right on.
Before very long I was doing all
my housework and was feeling quite
well.”
Thousands of other women have
been helped by Cardui after long
suffering from weakness and ner
vousness. NC-198
Mt. Sinai News
Of Recent Interest
Shelby, IVJ me farmers air
very busy plowing, hauling fertilizer
ami getting ready for the planting
! srason.
A number of-the singers' from Mt
| Sinai attended the singing c'oyven
; turn at Beat er Dam chureh Sun
day nlternoon.
j Miss Ural Hollins, a member of
| the teacher training class of Shelby,
is doing practice teaching In (he
Broad Hirer school.
Mr (’live Harrill. who toadies at
Polka die was at home during the
week-end.
Mr, Andrew Hunt was at. home
from Shelby to spend Sunday,
Misses Essie and Ruih’ Hunt spent
| the week-end with Miss Dorcas
Walker, at tier home near Untti
| more.
Mr. and Mrs Monroe Gladden of
Boiling Springs were visitors at the
i home of Mt amt Mrs. ltrggte
Weaver Sunday.
.1 P McKinnon, till of Enterprise,
Ala refused a medal for rescuing
!tu persons m the recent, ilovxi tn
Alabama, because, lie already had
one for rescue work m. the Dayton
Ohio, Hood in 19111.
FELIX STRIPLING,
Popular Juvenile
Man With
MILT TOLBERT
PLAYERS
Appearing in Shelby
ALL NEXT WEEK.
SI I S Ft'Tt ItK FOR FARM
WOMFN IN NORTH CAROLINA
Raleigh.—Mrs, Jane ti jMrKlm
iiion, assistant director of extenx on
jin. charge of home demonstration
I work at. North Carolina .State col
lege believes that farm women and
girls have something to look, ahead
to in home demonstration work.
"That farm women an 1 girls may
have something to.look ahead to in
home demonstration Work we have
fa definite plan of progressive ad
! vancement which has been in opera*
11 ion now for seven years," Mrs. Mc
| Kimmon said.
"Our plan outlines the progressive
steps tn each project, whether it be
'loud and nutrition, clothing, house
j hold management or what-not. The
plan aims to give a farm woman
| or girl « knowledge of approved
practices'in home-making subjects
and the scientific reason lying back
of the adoption of these practices.”
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ages, sheds, farm buildings — comes with
natural red or green slate surfacing. May be
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Shingles give protection, long service, and
a handsome, colorful roof.
4. PAROID Roofing — for farm buildings,
bams, sheds, garages, warehouses and in
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gray surface.
lias been in use for over a quarter century
— a significant record of performance.
Ask us to recommend the proper Bird roof for your indi
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manufacturers of Ncponsrt Black Building Paper, Bird's
Insulating Blanket and Ncponset Board.
Re are headquarters for Bird’s roofings,
building popart and wall board.
Z. J. THOMPSON
Phone 107 N. Washington St.
(\e;»r Seaboard Depot)
'Never a car to compare
with this new Buick in
power, smoothness and
Mr. J. M., San Angelo, Texas .
(name upon request)
reliability.”
This owner’s letter—and thousands of others equally en
thusiastic—explains why more than 130,000 motorists
have bought the new Buick after getting behind the
wheel and getting the facts!
Drive a Buick! Compare it with any other car! Then you'll
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Sport Cars- - $1 525 to $1 550
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DEALER SHELBY, N. C.
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