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SOCIETY News MISS MAlTME ROBERTS—Soeial Editor—Phone 256. News Items Telephoned Mi's Roberts Will Be Appreciated. Dance Friday. A script dance v !o hr given Pri day night in the Thompson building here with the music to be furnish ed by the Tar Heel Night Hawks, Silxcr Tea. A stiver tea will be given by the Ciardrn division ot the Woman's club at the home of Mrs. Graham Dellinger on West Warren street, Friday afternoon from 4 to 0 o'clock The members of each divi sion of Hie Womans club are in vited to call. Visitors Entertained. Mrs. C. It Hoey and bouse guests, Mesdames W. K. DuPre and T. A. Robertson, jr, of New York, Mrs, Chas. Hoey and Miss Isabel Hoey ■were entertained at lunch Tuesday by Mrs. Jake Alexander at her home in Forest City. Mrs. Hoey and guests, Mrs. Du Pre, Tommy DuPre, Mr and Mrs. T. A. Robertson, jr.. Mr. T. A. Rob ertson, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hoey and Miss Isabel Hoey will be din ner guess of Mr. and Mrs. Bate Gardner in Gastonia this evening. Children Of Confederacy. Misses Minna and Elizabeth Lc Orand were delightful hostesses to the members of the Children of Confederacy last evening, entertain ing at. the club room, which was arranged with vases and baskets of spring flowers. Miss Thelma, Young, the leader, presided. Two humorous readings were given by Misses Elizabeth Riviere and Elizabeth Austell, after which a short busi ness meeting was held. The host esses were asslsed by Miss Ruth Laughrldge In serving delicious ice cream and cake. About twenty members were present. Social Calendar For Week. Thursday 3:30 p. m —The South Washington Bridge club will meet with Mrs. Willis McMurry, at her home on R I.uFayctte street; Thursday 3 30 p in 'Mu' after noon division No 2 of the Worn* ah’s club w ill meet, at .tlie club room Mrs, F, n Sanders, chairman. of ho: teas committee Thursday fl p. m The evening division of the woman's (lull will hold their, regular meeting, at the (•.ltd) room. Friday 3.30 p m The Tuesday afternoon Bridge chib will meet with Mr Ben Hu!tie at tier home on West Marion street. American Homes Department 1 lull. The American homes department of the Woman's club held their reg ular monthly meeting at the club room. Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Cepli Blanton acted as chairman, B was decided lo give the Kiwanis elnb dinner some time next month. Twenty one members were present. Miss Mildred Thomp son. tile home economic;; teacher witli her senior class liad charge of the program, demonstrating, "ap petizers,” The following recipes were demonstrated and served: "Sardine ranope 3 boned sar dines, I talile spoon, fried minced chow-chow, 1-2 table .spoon lemon Juice, stiff niayoiiaise to form n smooth paste. Mix ingredients and spread on brown bread, decorate with hard boded eggs, white, cream ed cheese balls a)id garnish with parsley. "Mayonaise salad dressing,"—1 table spoon sifted flour, 2 table spoons sugar, 2 tablespoons vinegar. 2 tablespoons Wesson cooking oil, 1 teaspoon of salt, small amount of mustard, 1 rup of hot or cold water, cook until thick and set aside to cool. When cool beat 1 egg into this, then l 1-2 cups of Wesson oil. ‘"Tomato canopc. '—6 fried rounds of bread, 6 slices of tomatoes, 1-2 packago of Phil, cheese, 2 table spoons of chopped parsley, spread bread with cream cheese, 1 slice of tomato on this, sprinkle with salt and pepper, season with mayonaise and garnish with cheese balls, roll ed in chopped parsley. “Riding Across America On A Dime”; League Tried It Clothes Changed One Hollywood Wallflower Into A Popular Flapper. (By TED LEAGUE.) As mentioned In the last install ment, I am supposed to tell you about my trip across the North American continent on a dime in this installment, but first I must tell all of you about a unique ex perience I had In Los Angeles. As most of you know, Los An geles Is the play ground of America. There are more theatres, play houses, dance-lialls. etc., than any other city of it's size in the United States. It has grown in popula tion from 660,000 in 1920 to almost 1.500,000 today. People from all parts of the world flock to Los An geles and Hollywood, mainly for the latter reason. Hollywood. What a world of grief in that word. While in Hollywood, it was a habit of mine to go to the Pallas de Danse ballroom every Wednes day night "Just to keep in practice" as you might say. One Wednesday evening about eight thirty, I saunt ered in looking them over as usual and trying to pick out a girl to dance with I noticed one girl in par ticular, dressed in the following manner: Black coat suit, very long, high top shoes, hair done up in a ball on the back of her neck, small black hat that sat right on top of her head, black cotton hose and liorn rimmed spectacles. "Surely." I thought, “this girl must be from the backwoods sure enough.” Just then I ran upon a trietid of mine and we were talkng things o\er and he dared me to dance with this "freak." I approached her, mo in troduction was necessary) and ask ed for the next dance. She agreed with a nod of her head. I tried to start a “respectable" conversation, failed, and tried again, but for the life of me I couldn't get her started talking. The dance began, and she was a wonder. I have never seen any woman that could step on my feet In more places in such a short space of time before in my life, but kept trying to make the grade. The dance ended, thank good ness, and I escorted her to a seat, and walked away with a feeling that everyone In the place was laughing at me. But I hadn't taken the dare and it was other with. I thought no more of her until about 10:30 p. m. when I felt a tug at my aleeve and who should I ltnd but my first partner, the "hooger” as 1 called her. Her name, as 1 found out. was Miss Edith Switzer from some town in North Dakota. Well, when she tugged at my ■leeve I couldn't imagine what she ■wanted with me but politely asked what I could do tor her. She asked why I hadn't danced with her any more. Said she had been standing over In that corner all evening and no on© but mo asked her to dance and she wanted to know if I would dance with her again! Boy. what a nerve. I thought. Nevertheless, I tried again and mad© a somewhat better showing this time. When ihe dance was over, she asked If T would talk with her a few minutes and I agreed to do so. Terc is the conversation, as I remember it: "What ts the matter with me?” She asked. "I have been down here to this place three evenings in suc cession and no one but you has danced with me. I am telling you this because t believe you will be perfectly frank with me and tell me what to do. I want to be popu lar: I want to have boy friends as I did buek home in North Dakota. They all thought lots of me there and I want to be that way here, but somehow there is something wrong and X want you to tell me what it is. Won't you, please? 1 may never see you again, but I will appreciate it if you will do this for me" "Miss, you certainly have attract ed my attention by your remark able request, and as you say I will probably never see you again after tonight. However, even if i do wo should still be friends after what I am going to tell you It you will do as I say, get what I want you to, and do as I tell you to. you should be one of the mast, popular girls in this enormous city of Las Angeles." "Can you spend a little money on yourself?” "Yes. I have saved a little money | while I have been teaching school and I will glady spend all of it in order to make myself popular.'* "Well, the first thing you do. have your hair bobbed in the very la Lest style. Have it dyed red if you like, but have it bobbed neverthe less. Throw away those ugly glasses j you wear, get you some nice dresses, j something cool, and up-to-date, get some nice sheer silk hose, some stylish shoes or oxfords ns you like Get a facial and a permanent wave. j Tut some rouge on and fix your- j self up a little. Of course, don't go : to extremes, but pick out one of j these popular girls up here in the ball room for instance, and dress , as near like her as you possibly i can.” We talked on for a long while, getting more interested in eachoth- | er all the while. But to make a' long story short. I went up there ; again the next Wednesday r,.gilt and the very first girl to catch my 1 eyes was a flaming red head, dress ed fit to kill and looking like a mil lion dollars Right away' I started looking loi -.oiiieoiie to introduce nii- couldn't find anyone that knew her. am! approached her asking for a dance. Why, how do you do, Mr teague, I'm certainly glad to <-n you Where have you been keep ing yourself for the past week?" Well, you could strike rue pink, 1! If wasn't my North Dakota "Iloo : < r again, but,oil what a difference a few clothes will make, I didn't recognize tier at nil. She agreed to dance with mo and her dancing had improved wonderfully. It seems Im passible that anyone could make such a difference in themselves in a mere week, but there it was be fore my very eves, and I couldn't dispute what I saw. Each .dance was followed bv an other one until I asked- if l could take her home that evening. She agreed, I called a taxi, and when ! we got home 1 tried to kiss her good night, but this was one dame ; l hiit f couldn't "make” so easy. One dance after another and I | was almost ready to ask her to j marry me one night but before tak i ing the fatal step, she seemed to warm up somewhat, and let me kiss i her Just once That was enough j My argument was that if a girl was to be popular she would have to kiss the boys once in awhile, to [say the least. She seemed worn over ! to my side and the tun started. Frankly, T don't believe that gill 1 had ever been kissed before. California To Shelby. To go on with my trip from Los i Angeles to Shelby, with only twen !ty-four cents to start with, Jerry ! with his Studebaker roadster and ,$14.50. and 3.500 miles to go. Of | course, we Intended to go as far as we could, find work of some kind, and go a little further. We left Los Angeles on Thursday night at 0:15, my trunk in the back containing several suits of clothes, shirts, scarfs, a dress suit, a Tuxe do. Mid several things of value nnd other things with nothing less than sentiment attached to them. Things I that. 1 had bought in various coun ! tries. Curios, etc. We got to San Bernardino, California Rbout mid night, just on the edge of the Mo jave desert, i Pronounced .MohaveL Stopped there for a cup of coffee and was Just ready to get going again when a young girl, about eighteen. I imagine, asked me how tar we were going, we toia ner ana : slip said she was going to Kansas 'City, Missouri. She got in and stayed with us for three days and nights. Lots of fun and excitement for the three of us and we went into the city of Needles. Arizona. | just across the state line. She walk* j cd ncross the bridge to prevent the Estate officers from arresting us for white slavery. Arrived in Kingman, Arizona, had a blowout. money practically all gone, and no spare tire. Mary offered to get a tire if we would spend the night there. We did. She got the tire someway and we started out again, headed for Prescott, Arizona where I had friends, I thought. Arrived in this town and found that my friend had re-enlisted in the Navy and | w as not. there. Another disappoint j ment, but since we couldn't find | work of any kind I took out a suit 'or clothes, sold them, bought, gaso line and eats and away we went, headed for Phoenix, Arizona. Got there and Jerry wired his mother for money. Said he was sorry he started and wanted to come back home but was broke. He didn't get money but got a reprimand instead. Sold another suit, and got to Lords burg, New Mexico. Sold the horn i off the car there, bought more gaso line and started out again. Picked j up two boys on the road headed ifor Wichita Falls, Texas, and they didn't have any money cither and were actually hungry, but fairly w ell dressed. We Went back to Lordsburg, one of them went into a grocery store, bought a bag full of goods and said lie had left his pocket book in the car. He got in the car and away we went. He got out on the next rornrr, and wc drove on. waited for him a little way out and he didn't show up. Wc had a feast and headed for Las Cruses. N. M Just before arriving in Las Cruses, the sheriff stopped us, wanted to know where the rest of the party was, and we feigned innocence Mary didn't know any thing at all about any other parties being with us, but the car with the license number fitted the descrip tion exactly. They held the two of us. Jerry and myself, for the night. I gave Maty what money I had and j told her to get a room and watt; for us. After talking with the sher- ! iff in Lordsburg and getting the! details of the "crime'’ lie turned! us loose. Mary was not to be found j anywhere, apparently tired waiting! for us and had gone on with some | one else. Well, just another mouth 1 less to feed, we thought, but sorry i to lose her companionship, never- j theless. Arrived in El Paso, Texas. The j only thing X had left of my curias) was my ruit. case and my trunk.! Everything lmd gone for gasoline! and eats, but we had had a good! time and some wonderful rxpori- j enees. to say the least, but the trip; was Just beginning. newspaper. When we got to El Paso. Jerry' took his car to a garage, stored it j and borrowed ten bucks from the j man tn charge and promised to pay | it back when he got the car out again. That was fair, we thought, t And then we started looking fori work I found employment on a! newspaper as ' advertising solicitor'' j at 20 cent commission on all cash sales. I made two dollars and twen- j ty cents the first day, on a special 1 edition The bass told me that it j that was' thr best I could do hr. would get someone else. He did One thlivj after another and pretty son our finances were low : attain.- Jetty couldn’t or wouldn't' -try to find work. Then T stumbled j upon a job with the Southern Pac I die railroad as a timekeeper and J not Jerry on as a laborer. The job | was "way out on a desert'' and When we got there we decided that wc had almost rather starve than | be' so hot all the time. However. | since we must eat or starve wc de ■ tided to work awhile and do the | best we could. 110 degrees in the j shade and no shade to be found. Wo stayed two weeks only and j asked for our time, fie gave it to us m the form of a check, payable i only at the home office In El Paso, [and that was three hundred and ! sixty miles away and we had no money at all. Mv trunk was there j also and we had to get that: through Somehow. What were we j to do? Well, the editor tells me that I've i taken up so much space in his good : newspaper that I w ill have to wait i until next edition to finish this i yarn. So be It. Divorce Evil Is Real Menace Now | _:__ Toronto.—The Church of Eng land in Canada through the house S of bishops issued to the clerk this pronouncement: “The breaking up of families by divorce and the increase of the grounds and of facilities for di vorce. do constitute a moral peril We dare not look upon this thing with light hearted unconcern or pass it by with a flippant cynical jest. History tells us that it is not an evidence, as some are urging., or progress working out toward sell development and greater freedom of the Individual. The New Testa ment tells that it is not according to the nimd of Christ. It must be looked upon ns nothing short of a menace threatening the stability of our modem civilization." ! Mike Borders Named | As A Road Delegate ! Raleigh—Gov, Gardner Monday I named the following as delegates to the 17th annual convention of : Hie United States good roads as sociation and the Hth annual cen | vention of the Bankhead national | highway association which meets I in Memphis April 29 to May 2. Mike L. Borders. Shelby; Walter S. Dilling, Kings Mountain; Nat C. ‘Harris, Rutherfordton; Kay Dixon, i Gastonia; L. T. Hartsell. sr. Con Icord: Hayden Clement, Salisbury; T, J. Gold. High Point; Thomas Turner, High Point. Penny Column POSITION WANTED: YOUNG man employed at present. d»sircs change to firm where chance for promotion depends upon ability; Integrity and willingness to do things without being old. Chance to start at bottom with moderate salary will be appreciated Age 27; height 6 feet. Good general appear ance. Best of references. Write to D. II. care this paper. 3t 24p MULES ONE CAR of mules at Hackett Blanton’s stable. Brought from Ken tucky by W. W. Bow man. lt-24c Memorial I)av To Be Observed fourth Sunday In May. K. V. P. 1'. Meeting. The farmers are appreciating these nice showers of rain. A good many have begun planting cotton and corn. Memorial Day will be observed af Poplar Springs Baptist, church. It will be an all day affair. Sunday school at., f 30 After the .Sunday hour the children will give an ex orcise followed by a sermon by our pastor, -Twelve o'clock dinner on the grounds, in the afternoon we are expecting Dr. Davis from Boil ing Springs junior college, singing etc. This is our program as plan ned now; there may be • nine changes made. The W. M U met ye: terday: im mediately after Sunday cIukiI with Mrs A. T. Hamrick, our president presiding. A very interesting pro gram was carried out. The subject being, "Faithful to the Trust.' On account of memorials etc , our next meeting will be held immediately after Sunday school, the first Sun day in May. Hope more of our members willbe present. Those on our sick list arc Mes dames A. M Hamrick and Oillet Hamrick. We hope for them a speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs Carl Roberts visit ed their parents Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Junes and attended B Y. P. U. at Poplar Springs Sun day evening. The children of Mr John Ham rick gave him a birthday dinner Sunday, lie being 79 years of age. Mr. arid Mrs. Dock White of Rutherford, county spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, OHM. Hamrick. Mrs. Handers Wilson’ of near Far! visited her parents, Mr. .and Mrs. Joe Wesson hist week. Mr. and Mrs. Dock Wesson and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Humphries and fam ily of near Lattimore. Miss Kate Allen spent the Week end at home. Miss Allen enter tained flic young people of the community Saturday night by giv ing a party. Miss. Jessie Shelian principal of Shanghai school spent last Tues day night with Mr. and Mrs. Thur man Hamrick and family and Miss Essie Harrill. Our B. Y. p. u. is still progressing nicely. The following officers were elected to serve during the quarter, Mrs, Crce Hamrick, president; Aivie Jones. vice president; Connie Jones, quiz leader; Martha Ham rick, secretary and treasurer: Lola Wesson, corresponding secretary and organist; Irvin Noggle, choris ter. Group captain No. 1. Miss Selma Lemons; group captain No. 2. Miss Myrtle Harrill; group cap tain No. 3, Mr. Major Philbeck; group captain No. 4, Mr. James De brew. We have forty on roll and meet every Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Visitors are always wel come We had a largo crowd las' night. Were invited to go over to; Flint Hill church next Sunday i , night. April 28, and give a program over there, as they are interested in organizing a union. We will meet at the church at 7 o'clock and leave immediately to give our program over there at 7:30. The members have invited our pastor to go with us. Hope he can go and see what ! tine work we are doing. Although we have plenty of room for im provement, we make mistakes every Sunday night, but hope to [gain by them. Among Mrs. A. M. Hamrick's visitors Sunday outside of all her children, were, Mr and Mrs. Pink [MeMurry, Mr. Jesse MeMurry, Mr and Mrs Avery MeMurry. Mrs. Tom Moore. Mr. and Mrs. I) • !>. Wilkins,, all of Shelby, Mr, and Mrs. .Jarvis Hamrick and children, Misses Lola Wesson and pearl Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. IX D. Dodd. Mr. find Mrs. Baxter Putnam of Shelby Mr. Voss Queen. Mr. and Mrs. Plato Bridges and Miss Jessie Shelia n. Miss Louise Patrick spent the 1 week-end at home. At The Theatres I ‘ The Lion .and the Mouse." sport- j (: ored by the Shelby Woman's club, proved highly popular at the Princess last night. It is on for the linnl shotting tonight. This is an extraordinary good picture, a theme old and ever new—presented as a j special, with all the wealth of de tail that builds up screen interest. Meantime interest centres on the special coining tomorrow and Fri day-"Wolf Song." This is a sound ! picture. Peppy Miss Lupe Velez and Gary Cooper share star's honors. It is a Paramount, and the song hits are wonders. And you get them ; in full measure in the synchroniz ed music scores. It is a love drama of intensity and beauty. “Weary River" is the Vftaphone I feature at the Webb for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It is one of the best of the talkies, with a num ber of enticing music numbers. Richard Bait holiness, always pop ular, is the star, with Betty Cornp ■on playing the female lead. There will be special short Vitaphone numbers, such as were shown the first of the week, accompanying the main at iradical. Much praise is being given the first of tlie Webb Vitaphone num bers—"On Trial," which will be sltbwn ter the last time today. The Vitaphone so added to the drama of this j icture, that it proved to be j one of the best ever seen in Shel- , by. and audiences are saying so. Mr. Coolidge lias given up his policy of economy and will buy a used car,—Florence, (Ala.) Herald Glowing reports from Oklahoma : and Louisiana indicate a bumper impeach crop.-- The New Yorker. Secretary Mellon says that the I'm Alone was sunk tinder the tariff act. The ultimate consumer will know liow she felt.—The New York er, -A REAL DANCE - Music By The TAR HEEL NIGHT HAWKS At The THOMPSON BUILDING FRIDAY NIGHT. ‘9 TIL-” SCRIPT $2 TO THE VOTERS OF SHELBY Agreeable to promise I submit herewith financial report and my final statement: The annual deficit as of May 21 sf, 1927, meaning of course difference between assets and liabilities, was $lu5,-2r9.*>4. On May 21, 15)28 it was 892.679.87. and on March 81, 1929 it was $10,898.06. (The credit for this is largely due the Board of Aldermen and Clerk.) These figures are at the office for public inspection. Will leave it to the public to say what has been done during this administration. While 1 have announced for re-election, I will again repeat that I will not buy, beg or even ask for votes. My reason for this attitude is that I cannot see every voter personally, and since 1 cannot see them all 1 do not think it fair to see just a few. Neither will I run free cars with banners. If I am worthy of the office for two more years I feel that I will get the ne cessary votes to be elected without any effort on my part, otherwise i don’t want it. 1 feel that one who devotes his whole time to the office of mayor, from twelve to eighteen hours per day, as I have done, has enough trouble after he is elected and should not be expected to go to the trouble or expense to be elected. I will appreciate everyone voting, for me who is not a violator of the law as they always expect favors from me. While 1 do not expect all the votes, the more 1 get the more obligations I will feel that I am under to serve the town. W. N. DORSEY Enos Beam Writes Open Letter ■ As Candidate To Shelby Voters To the voters in tlie city of Shelby. I desire to submit ray. platform 'or the consideration of the voters n connection with my candidacy "or mayor: 1—As to my stand with refer cncc to lights and water: I do not favor granting city employees or ifflcials the free use of lights and water at (he expense of the tax payers. I believe and advocate t lie eduction of lights and water bills consistent' with the lowest possible cost to the users, believing that the city should only levy a sufficient tax to: pay for actual operating ex penses and improvements and not attempt to derive any; excessive or burdensome profit from the peo ple. 2. —It is not my desire or aim to arbitrarily adopt a policy of "hire and fire," but it is' my v.isli to co operate with oilier city officials to the end that good city government may be harmoniously maintained, in other words, I believe that it would ,be my duty, if elected mayor. to ascertain the will of the majot Ity and endeavor to act in accord ance therewith. This would not. necessarily take away my power cf appointment, or removal, but would simply mean that one man government would not be permittc? to prevail, 3.—Regarding extra automobile expenses, I believe that Item can be reduced considerably, I do advocate good police protection, and thinlc that, two efficient motorcycle of ficers should be on the force for duty, as well as regular patrol of ficers which will slightly increase the force but will be in the interest* of the people at large. 4 —In the event of election as mayor. I pledge the people my en tire time and whole-hearted service and will endeavor to perform my duties fairly, honestly and impar* tially, economically and will not favor any particular group, but will consider myself mayor of all the people and demean myself accord ingly. ENOS L. BEAM. (adv.) LITTON’S DOLLAR DAY’S SENSATION A WELL-CONDITIONED, READY TO-RUN, Chevrolet Touring Car For $1 No strings to the offer; no catcK— just a plain, honest-to-goodness bar gain, such as you’ve never seen offered before. The car will be sold at the Lit ton headquarters, oh Morgan Street, 3 O’Clock Friday Afternoon Also we will offer BARGAIN PRICES on a number of the finest RE CONDITIONED CARS we have ever sold. The list includes: 1—1929 Model Victory Sport Road ster. 1—1928 Model Dodge Senior Se dan. 1—1928 Model Standard Six Dodge Sedan. 1—1928 Model Fast Four Dodge Sedan. 1— 1928 Model Studebaker Sedan, (Dictator.) 2— 1926 Model Chrysler Coaches^ 1— 1927 Model Dodge Sport Tour ing. 2— 1926 Model Graham Brothers 12 Ton Trucks, Litton Motor Co. Morgan Street. Sheiby, N. C.