Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS % RENN DRUM IN THE NEWS COLUMN OF THE STAR WE NOTE THAT 230 young boys and girls of Cleveland county will this month receive their high school diplomas, and, somehow or another, we hope every one of the 230 will feel that their diploma, representing a grind all the wav from the multiplication table through geometry, w ill feet- us important and worthwhile as did the one the proprietor of this eolyiim received, and with that the memory drops back to the period when (hi- country was getting tangled up in tire greatest of wars to date. I he wish is bom of the knowl edge that a high school diploma never seems of half as much value in life as it seems to the bearer. In the fall of 1917 this colyum pulled on a long pair of trousers.; snatched off a telephone receiver j Mid nervously asked the one and' only girl, at that time, about at- 1 tending the final exercises with a j GRADUATE. She agreed, and Nero never anticipated a night ! WEAK AND THIN Virginia Lady Wa* Just Drag* ging Around. Health Im proved Steadily After She Took Cardui. Bristol, Va.—“I was just about down in bed and so weak I was past going.” writes Mrs. Jennie Goodman, of 718 Portsmouth Avenue, this city. Mrs. Goodmen says her family was very uneasy about her condition, as she seemed so weak and thin. "I ached all over,” she explains, "and my back and sides hurt most of the time. “I dragged around, and did not see a day of good health. "I went to call on one of my neighbors, and she remarked about my looking so bad. She told me to get a bottle of Cardui and take it. Next Saturday night, my husband brought it home to me. "Before I had taken Cardui a week, I was feeling much better. I continued taking it for awhile, as my health kept on improving. "I gained in weight, and soon was feeling like a new person. Since then I have taken Cardui several times, and it has always done mo good. I can recommend it to others.” Cardui has been in use so long that its merit has been proved by the experience of several genera tions of women. A purely vegetable, medicinal tonic. For sale by all druggists. NC-2C4 cijual to that one when he visioned his fiddling while Home burned. Eventually the rather swell-head ed graduate and his girl readied j the school building. Then came the exercises, and the sheepskin of sheepkins. But. when the exercises drew to a close the GIRL had al ready left for home in company with one of the boy friends who failed to pass his final examina tions. (Since that time, by the wav, he has amounted to something.) But that bit of byplay brought the first intimation that a high school diploma isn't all it is cracked up to be. Nevertheless, we were of the opinion that all a high school graduate had to do was to march out, catch the world by its tail, give it a few twirls, and tell John Dee Rockefeller to keep his mouth clos ed until some one spoke to him. So. that night, foiled in a love affair (and a love affair at 14 is serious business at the time) we stole out of the kitchen door and left home, From that, day until this we've been paying for our own meals and our own clothes, and the flashing of our high school diploma upon every prospective employer has brought nothing better than a cynical smile. During that period we have washed dishes, swabbed decks of coastwise steamers, hunt ed West .Virginia moonshiners with "revenoo" olficers, written insur ance, did the •one-two-three-Four" for Uncle Sain, slept in box cars and on park benches with men of the type Jim Tully writes about, have interviewed senators, gover nors and a couple of presidents, but in it all we’ve failed to find a single, blooming person who gave half of a rap about seeing our high school diploma. Some several years ago while gazing at a Christmas free through a lighted window from a snowy street, hundreds of miles from what was home and broke, we struck a match to that sheepskin, which once seemed so dear, anil never j lpt\e wc regretted it. But, for the benefit of the -30 boys and girls who graduate hereabouts, we'll say that we wouldn't take anything in terms of money for what that high school diploma lias meant to us. j And the feeling that goes with get- j ting it O-oo-o-ooh! Unless we err; everyone of the 330 youngsters will; remember May, 1929, as long as j they live. And here’s luck to 'em j ANOTHER GOOD BOOST FOR the Building and Loan “business is j that headline ur Monday’s Star— ] "127 Residences Erected Here in j Period of Nine Months." AFTER READING CASHIER Forrest Eskridge's history ot bank-j ing m Shelby the colyum is of the; opinion that the town's most his toric building must be that little! wooden building just west of The j Star office in which Newton &; Newton, attorney.-, and C. A Mor- | rison i:n, STIRRIER 4 0ST LESS TO OPERATE rent. One which thiiln out the heat—keeps in the cold. The hermetically scaled mecha nism remains just as it always has been—sealed away from dust and difficulties permanently oiled, quiet, unseen, untouched—one of the miracles of modern science. The General Electric, too, was the first to provide an easily accessible temperature rontrol which tpeedi tip the freezing of ice cubes when the user desires. Because of mass production econ omics, prices now start at only $215 at the factory. There are six sires. See them at our display rooms—examine them thoroughly —let us explain our plan of eon* ▼eniently spaced time payments. Listen in on the General Electric Hour, broadcast every Saturday evening, 8 to 9 Eastern Standard Time, over the N.B.G network of 42 stations. GENERAL |p ELECTRIC ALL'STEGL REFRIGERATOR Hord & Ranson outh LaFayette Street. — Phone 720. SHELBY, N. C. OPEN EVENINGS Dack, but. according to the latest' information. Kid llornbuckle, Shfl sy s own prizefighter, hasn't as yet j ;omc back to the home town A STAR HEADLINE OF UE rnnt date informs: "Democrats Done in Dixie.' That was a fairly good news story last November the seventh. SOME ONE STARTED AN Ali gnment uptown recently as to Just who is the oldest, living citizen of Shelby. This department strings along with "Uncle Doe" ' D. B. E.1 Buttle or Mr. O. C. Sarratt. The correct information would be appre ciated and may prove of news in terest. This chatter is even proving a bit boresome to us, so. let's cut it olf here for the day. SIMMS REMAINS l 1W0 AMONG SENATE DEMOCRATS Man Condemned By Smlthitcs Is Still Powerful In Party Polities. Washington—Not only does Sen ator Simmons retain his commit tees by formal action of the senate upon recommendation of the Demo cratic leaders in that body, but he also remains on the unofficial Dem ocratic steering committee, a group of elder statesmen who formulate and direct party policy with refer ence to legislation in the upper chamber. The steering committee Is named by the Democratic mem bership and requires no parlia mentary sanction or approval at the hands of the opposition control of the senate. Membership on the senate steer ing committee is of particular im portance at this juncture in the affairs of the party. November's re sult left the Democracy in a state of disruption and drift. In the Smith campaign, the candidate and those directing his fight found its expedient, as im-y imiugm. w counter to cherished party princi ples. After the election, the party was completely at sea. It still has a long way to go to rehabilitate itself. In a sense, the Democratic steer ing committee of the senate is the party’s national governing board. It lays the foundation for the formal enunciation of policies in elections presently to come along. It is almost ironical that Na tional Chairman Raskob should, as he did in New York days ago, publicly announce that the future policies of the party nationally would be developed by Democrats in congress, while at the same time, almost, the party leaders in the senate were choosing Senator Sim mons mice more for service on the committee which will have most to do with formulating Democratic doctrine. In the campaign last year, when Raskob was the national di recting power, Simmons was lead ing his followers in North Carolina in revolt. Today, even Raskob ad mits that the revolting senator will have more to do with charting the party's course hereafter than either he or the national committee. Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, Democratic floor leader, is by vir tue of that post chairman of the steering committee. For twenty years Senator Simmons has served as a member. He probably will stay on the committee so long as he re mains in the senate. Certainly. If there ever was a time when objec tion might have been raised to the continuance of the North Caro linian as a member, that time was at the recent meeting at which the committee was chosen. No voice was heard in protest, and, so far as known, there was not even private dicussion ahead of the meeting as to what course be followed in the case of the senator who did not support the party's nominee for president. The fact (hat Simmons’ status as j a Democrat has not been challenged by his party colleagues in con gress was long ago discounted, cer tainly by the best-posted observers in Washington, For a time, an ef fort was made to make, it appear that Senator Harrison of Mississip pi proposed to set in motion ma chinery to discipline Senator Sim mons. Stories along that line got into print. Few experienced cor respondents attached importance to the report. Their judgment is com pletely vindicated. At the moment it is of more prac tical importance to figure what the Democratic steering committee wiil do, rather than to discuss the com position of the committee. To for mulate and put through a program which will have the preponderant support of Democratic members is ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Having this day qualified as ad ministrator of the estate of Martha Canipe, deceased, late of Cleveland county, N. C., this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to me prop erly proven on or before the 16th day of April, 1930 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery there of. All persons owing the said es tate will make immediate settle ment to the undersigned. This April 16, 1929. HOSE BEAVER. Administra tor of Martha Canipe, deceas ed- - - - - - v v - , pci. already proving to be a difficult I ask On the two big measures, farm relief and the tariff, there is lack of party solidarity. In the senate, most Democrats will oppose the debenture feature of the farm bill, but a group of half a dozen or more will support it. When the tariff is taken up. no more is pre pared to forecast ttie extent of in dependent Democratic voting. Nell Battle Lewis Fells About Strike (Nell Battle lew is In News Observer). Especially during the last three administrations the record of the governors ot North Carolina In dealing with mob violence in the state has been good. Most of the mobs which they have had to quell have been bent only lynching, gen erally some negro. The admirable Blckett, was the first governor to meet a mob face to face and dis spers it, which lie did in the case of one which was attempting to lynch n negro held In the Wake county jail. Governor Gardner came into of fice with this good record to up hold Early in his administration he is put to tlie test by having to deal with the mob that wrecked the supply store of the strikers at Gas tonia. His proclamation denouncing it is what the state expected, and immediate investigation or the vio lence and prosecution of its per petrators, which lie lias promised, were equally expected of him. This investigation lias begun Responsibility for maintenance of order in the Gaston strike area now rests peculiarly with the gov ernor, not only because the Gaston authorities apparently arc unable or unwilling to maintain it but because with unfortunate precipi tance at the outbreak of the strtkr he ordered state troops to the seen* of action. These troops were v necessary and singularly ineffectua except to increase bad feeling, am their hurried dispatch to Gastonli placed the governor In a ligh which, I trust, is false. It immediately suggested hi ; sympathy with the mill-owner , a suggestion which, although it may have been groundless, was cspeciul , ly unfortunate since the governor himself is a mill-mvner and hence, in his private capacity, a member of the warring groups. His position, admittedly, Is dif ficult: Yet it is needless to call at tention to the fact that though lie might own a thousand mills he would be for that reason no less the governor of all the people and properly no more the instrument ot any group. He came into office with unusual popular goodwill which the state, equally with him. is anxious to maintain. Many ot Ills friend watch his attitude toward the tins-' tiinia situation with the deepest, in terest, and look to him to redeem his initial blunder by using all lire weight of Ins office to secure Justice for the strikers and the conviction of their lawless foes. When tire supply of its product runs ahead of the demand a cor poration establishes the five-day week on account of its keen inter est in its employees' welfare.—Ohio State Journal. FOR ALDERMAN I hereby announce myself a can didate for alderman in Ward 4 in the city election to be held May 6. Z. J. THOMPSON. NOTICE. North Carolina. Cleveland County In Superior Court. W. A. Beam. Executor of the Es tate of J, E. Beam, deceased, vs. Eugenia Beam, widow: Claude Beam; Mamie Daniels and hus band. F. It. Daniels; W, A. Beam and wife. Helen Beam; Ethel Mc j ctee and husband. Sproles Me tier; O. R Beam; and Lots Stnin i back and husband, Banned Stain back. The defendants. Mamie Daniels and husband. F. ft Daniels; Ethel McGee and husband, Sproles Mc Gee, will take notice that an ac tion. entitled as above has beer i commenced In the superior court ol Cleveland county. North Carolina Said action being brought by the executor of till' (’.state of .1 F. Be*111 to ell certain timber from the lands ol said .1 V. Hearn for the purpose of providing funds to pay the In debtedness against said estate. And the said defendants, above named. will further take notice that, they are required to-appear before the clerk'superior at his of fice m Shelby, N O. on or before the 27th day of May, 1929 and an swer or demur to the petition of the plaintiff or the relief asked lor therein will be granted This the 2atd day of April, 1929 A M, HAMRICK, Clerk Superior Court. Peyton McSwaln, Atty. CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION State Of North Carolina, Department Of State, To all to whom these presents may come—Greeting: Whereas, it appears to ray satis faction, bv duly authenticated rec ord of the proceedings for the vol untary dissolution thereof by the unanimous consent, of all the stock holders. deposited in toy office, that the Paragon Furniture com pany, a corporation of this state, whose principal office Is situated at No. S. LnPalette street, in the City of Shelby. County of Cleveland.] State of North Carolina tM. A. Spangler being the agent therein and in charge thereof, upon whom process may be served), has com piled with the requirements of Chapter 22, Consolidated Statutes, entitled "Corporations," preliminary to the issuing of this certificate of dissolution • Now therefore, X, J. A Hartness, secretary of state of tlie State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the said corporation did, on the 22nd day of April. 1929, tile in my office a duly executed and attested consent in writing to the dissolution of said corporation, ex ecuted and attested consent in writing to the dissolution of said corporation, executed by all the stockholders thereof, which said consent and the record ot ttie pro ceedings aforesaid are now on ftle in my said office as provided by law. In tcMimoney whereof. I have hereto set. my hand and affixed my official seal at Raleigh, this 22nd day of April, A, D. 1929, J A HARTNESS, Secretary of State.t • Official Sealt 4t-24c For Mayor. 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