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Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS By RENN DRUM Suppose today's Raleigh News and Observer had published in a ; prominent place an advertisement, or testimonial signed by Governor! Max Gardner in which Governor Gardner spoke of the fine qualities of j Camel cigarettes, would there not be a howl about the governor commer- 1 cializing himself just as the heroes and heroines of this and that and the : eelebreties of the other are receiving for their testimonlalsboosting Luck unas ana unesty.s.' Sure, there would be just such a howl. And ordinarily this colyum joins in (despite the fact that we may have a kind of smothered ambi :icai to be famous enough to write i testimonial for our favorite fag ) First of all, if Governor Gardner should write such a testimonial, we would expect W. O. Saunders, the Elizabeth City critic, to come along | md write: "Oh, yes, Governor, we | recall that you own a bit of R. J. R. ! stock, and that's why you're boost ing the cigarettes." But in addition to that the governor would receive one critical barrage after another for commercializing the great honor which lias come to him. (It is just an honor, for all of our governors spend about three or four times what they make while in office, and have to do it to keep up the neces sary front.) But, thanks to Fouls Graves of The Chapel Hill Weekly, we find that Governor Gardner, if he cared to write a testimonial for a cigar ette, would have historical support in so doing. For, in truth, some of his predecessors wrote front page testimonials for Apple Brandy many years ago. In 1879 there appeared upon the front page of The Raleigh Obser ver, ancestor of The News and Ob server, an advertisement boosting Bynum's Apple Brandy, and the advertisement contained two testi monials, one by the Governor of North Carolina, Zeb B. Vance, and the other by a future governor of the state, Thos. J. Jarvis, an uncle, if we remember aright, of the Woodson boys of Shelby. Recalling the advertisement Edi tor Graves says that if such should by chance, or otherwise, happen to The News and Observer today, even \will be happier and wealthier if you give ijyoune scholars can with their lunch : We are Candy Headquarters SUTTLE DRUG STORE Hollingsworth Candies A Specialty. ,f it wore tricked uito the remotest I rorner of the paper, “Mr. Daniels I would die of shook before he had finished the grape-fruit course in I the break fast-room out in Haycs Barton." But it was different then. Graves continues, for “good old ap ple brandy was not only openly ad mitted in good society; it was held in extraordinary esteem." As a matter of historic interest, and to support Governor Gardner 1 if he should ever care to testify in the advertisements for his favorite '• smoke, we reproduce the testimonial 1 letter of Governor T. J. Jarvis; Greenville, N. C. March 21, 1878. To All Whom This May Concern: I have personally and intimately known R. A. Bynum, of the county of Pitt, since 1864, when, • as a wounded soldier, 1 was cared for by him at his home. His word may be implicitly relied upon in all things. He is incapable of knowingly mis representing anything or deceiving anybody. He is the maker of the best article of Apple Brandy X have ever seen or tasted. Those wishing to get an elegant article of pure brandy will be sure to do so by ap plying to him. Thomas J. Jarvis. Editor Graves recalls that Gover nor Jarvis later became a prohibi tionist, but notes that he certainly knew how to describe the fine quali ties of the apple beverage in those days. For that matter, and with no in tent to disparage North Carolina's highest office (unless you consider Senator Salmons’ pension just that), we wonder how many men have occupied the executive man sion who never in their lives be came acquainted by experience w ith FOR ALDERMAN. I hereby announce myself a can didate for alderman in ward two in the city election of May 6, and it is my hope if elected to serve the in terests of the entire city to the best of my ability, realizing that a town after all is nothing more than the citizens and should be operated for their best interests as citizens and taxpayers. Any support on that basis will be appreciated. J. F. JENKINS. FOR SCHOOL BOARD. I hereby announce myself a can didate for the school board in ward four In the city election to be held May 6. L. P. HOLLAND. Have Your Eyes Examined Regularly DRS. H. D. & R. L. WILSON OPTOMETRISTS Office Over Paul Webb & Son’s Drug Store. ft . ■■ ^ QUEEN CITY COACH LINES FOR, ASHEVILLE, CHARLOTTE, WILMINGTON FAYETTEVILLE. FOR ASHEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—0:45 a. m.; 1:45 p. m.; 3:45 p. m.; 8:45 p. m. FOR CHARLOTTE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—7:5Q a. m.; 10:50 a. m.; 12:50 p. m.; 2:50 p. m.; 4:50 p. m.; 6:50 p. m.; 9:50 p. m. FOR WILMINGTON AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—10:50 a. m.; 2:50 p. ni. 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 "• j) that 'elegant article' described by Qoveronr Jarvis. So. unless we are shown to be wrong, we arc ready to enter in the record books that K. A. Bynum, of the comity of Pitt, was the fat Iter of testimonial advertising, and we are of the opinion that the present, day users of "reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet" should give North Caro lina proper credit for this newly discovered "first," that of seeing the value of an advertising boost from cclebretics. THE CiENlAI. JACK YATES, who recently brought a bride with him back to 'Shelby, also brought along a game, now the rage in Missouri, which has Shelby people taking onto it with a vim. The re lation of the details of the game, the correct name of which we have not been infor ned, sounds as if the game may not be interesting, but try it once in the family circle, or r '.her have all the family com pete together, and you will readily realize why it is such a rage. The game is this: Take your hat (a gent’s hat for milady's hat of these modern days ts too small for anything except wear), place it on the floor, then step back seven foot-lengths. Then pick up a deck of cards, rook, bridge or other playing cards, and see how many cards you can toss into the hat at that dis tance. The known record, we believe, where the game is played is 30 cards. Hereabouts the record is 24, but the average score, which is the number of cards successfully toss ed into the hat, is below 10. In Missouri It is such a favorite family game that the best scores are being published in the news papers, OVER AT THE SHELBY HIGH school, we learn, there are any number of boys who will tell you that “the Rood old days" and the customs thereof in school are not so hot ns the old folk say. Therein is an inside story, which we dare to relate. This year school officials intro duced here the detention system, which means that students failing in some work during the day or not behaving are forced to stay in each afternoon 50 minutes or so. And each day over at the city school there is a regular detention hall with the teachers taking day about keeping the unruly youngsters in. With the baseball season on, and the Shelby team making a scrap ping bid for the state title, being detained in the afternoon while the games were on began to bore the boys. They began to pine for the “good old days,” reminisced about by their parents, days when teach ers used switches and paddles in stead of detention halls. So, one day one or the boys suggested to the principal that he be given a lick ing instead of the 50 minutes. "Glad to do it for you,” came back the principal. "Any time any of you boys want five licks instead of fifty minutes, just say so.” That boys took his, and as boys will do he journeyed Out upon the school campus and told his friends “it didn’t hurt much.” Then the friends began trying it, but now they’ve stopped, the decision being that they'd rather take the 50 min utes and miss a few ball games than those five licks from a man who doesn’t vary even a fraction of an inch from the same place each of the five times with his lithe lit tle paddle. In fact, one of the boys, as the inside story goes, rolled about the grass on the school campus for some time trying to cool off before he felt like informing the others that it would be best to return to the detention plan. So, we say that the boys have learned that everything connected with the good old days, dad tells about, is not what is cracked up to be. Transplanted Cigars. From The Wall Street Journal. A New York insurance broker, with offices in the down town dis trict, recently made a trip to Cali fornia. During his stay in San Fran cisco the broker purchased a cou ple of cigars whose brand he had hitherto not sampled. He was so satisfied that he decided to buy a few boxes to give to his friends. Asking the proprietor the amount of his stock of this brand, he was informed that at present there were only two boxes left in stock, but extra ones could be shipped on to him. “That's fine,1’ answered the broker, “I’ll take six boxes. And you can forward them to my office 57 Maiden Lane, New York.” “Say, Mister,” said the cigar store owner, “you needn't buy the cigars here. They’re made in 62 Maiden Lane.” Lips that touch liquor have to be diplomatic.—Dallas News. 666 Is a Pre> criptlon for Colds, Gripp \ Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. It fa the most speedy remedy known Star Advertising Pays Memorial Day At Sulphur Springs Rev. W. K. Ware, of Rutherfordton, Officiating. Memorial day will be observed at Sulphur Springs Methodist church next Friday, May the 10th., Preaching In the morning at eleven o’clock by I>r. W. R. Ware of Rutherfordton. Dinner will be on the ground, picnic style. The third quarterly conference will be held in the afternoon by Rev. W\ A. Newell. All the officials of the Shelby circuit are expected to be present. Everyone has a cordial invitation to come and be with us for th memorial service, and remain for the quarterly conference. It. E. FOR HIS, Pastor. See Ultra-Violet Rays As Cause Of Notthern Lights Washington—Periodic eruptions of great quantities of ultra-violet light from the sun were advanced in a theory to account for the oc currence of magnetic storms, pop ularly known as the ‘‘northern lights." These storms occur at times where there is an unusual display of the lights, causing them to spread far down into temperate latitudes, to cripple radio commu nication, paralyze telegraph lines and make compass needles .dance. The rays were described as trav eling ninety-two million miles to the earth in eight minutes. They | were pictured as shooting forward like lava from a volcano and wing ing at incredible speed to grip the entire world at the same Instant, Dr. H. B. Maris and Dr. E, O. Hulburt of the naval research lab oratory presented the findings in a paper before the National Acad emy of Sciences. What causes the eruption of such energy from the sun is not known. Scientists do know that magnetic storms occur in a number varying in an 11-year cycle. During a maximum year in this period there are roughly 80 storms: in a minimum year, between 10 and 20. Why there should be an 11-year cycle of sun activity likewise is not known _1 Dr. Maris and Dr. Hulburt ar rived at their theory indirectly by studying the behavior ot comets scattered through the years 1848 to 1927. uiHU-viuicir ugiu, wiey lounu. in absorbed in part by dark comets moving in space, making them vis ible on earth. Records show that magnetic storms generally occur red preceding the sighting of com ets. The scientists concluded that the same energy’ which lights up the comets also causes the storms. Hurtling from the sun through space, the light registers its first effect cat the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere, 100 miles above the ground. At this height, in an even blan ket around the world, stretches a layer of particles. This layer forms the “mirror” by which it is thought radio waves are reflected and spread i over the earth. The theory Is that the ultra-violet eruption, striking the mirror, sets up heavy winds, which ruin the even layer and, like a glassy lake stirred into waves, breaks up the reflecting surface. Radio communication then,] however, is impassible. Telegraph lines are paralyzed by electric currents induced in the wires by the light. The electric force is so great tliat compass needles are deflected in spite of the earth's great magnetic fields Disturbances causing the Northern Lights are created. Scientists have found that milk contains some of the chemical ele ments used in making fireworks. Maybe that's why the youngsters occasionally act the way they do — Marshall County (Minn.) Banner. “Biddie” Boasts An Extra Leg And Feet York, S. C.—A poultry freak exhibited by W. N. Ferguson, ^eli known farmer of the Fil bert commnnity, was a Ply niouth Rock “biddie” which had three legs and four feet. The third leg, a rather short one, had grown oil to one of the other two, while on each of its normal legs were attached two feet. J. A. Carroll, carrier on Fil bert No. 1, who brought the freak to the county seat Tues day. found that the oddity at tracted the curiosity and in terest of numbers of people. The chick lived only about twenty-four hours after it was born. But even with the Michigan law repealed, we will still have in stances of persons, the quality of bootleg being what it is, who give life-for-a-pint. — Greenville Pied mont. Dr. D. M. Morrison OPTOMETRIST. Eyes Examined, Glasses Fitted And Repaired. Located In Webb Building. Down Stairs Next To Ilancs Shoe Store. Telephone 585. Shelby, N. C. SPECIAL EXCURSION SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929. FROM SHELBY, N. C. TO Atlanta, («a.__ $0.50 Birmingham, Ala. $S.50 Chattanooga, Tcnn. _ $S.50 Limit Atlanta four days Birmingham and Chatta nooga six days. Tickets good on all regu lar trains except Crescent Limited. Round-trip fares from other Southern Railways | Stations. j For detail information * and reservations call on i Southern Railway Agents. R. H. GRAHAM, Division Passenger Agent, Charlotte, N. C. "Business Brain” Latest Of Mechanical Marvels Nrw York A mechanical device known as Uie • Business Brain," which will simultaneously do the work of a cash register book-keep ing and adding machines and, from another part ol the building, make n complete record of a sale at the time it is made, is about to make its bow in American industry Formation was announced today by an investment banking group headed by Mendes. Bell .V Whitney, Inc , of the Hofgaard-Remington corporation, to own nnd control the machine and its system, which are covered by world-wide patents. Remington Arms company owns a substantial interest in the new cor poratton ami will manufacture tlir machines at. Bridgeport, Conn. The machine Is the Invention of a young Norwegian. Holt Hofgmtrd. whose father, superintendent, of an institution tor the deaf, dumb, and blind in Norway, devised a system of instruction by touch alone which was studied by Helen Keller. Hof gnurd will have n substantial inter est In the irew company. Experts say the Hof guard ma chine functions with absolute ac curacy. As the operator writes out the Invoice of a sale, for instance, the machine- through its central "brains" which may be located in some other part of the building — An Afttidolajo)" LONELINESS / I 'o you modern women, y -*■ telephone service in your home means freedom from the pangs of loneliness. For it Sands ready to bridge the gulf between you and your friends in town, or those in distant places. And what of the sense of security afforded by the telephone? What a comfort it is to know' that in case of emergencies you are within inStant touch of the various proteftive agencies —the police, hospitals, doQors, fire department. Have you ever reckoned the coSt of tele-~ phone service compared to rhe comforts and conveniences it returns to you ? SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY {Ino9rpormtt4) will calculate and record the prices, which are simultaneously added and figure the discounts. WERE ON THE LOOKOUT for ideas that will adapt them selves to circumstances. A school board was examining an appli cant for teaching and was asked whether he believed the earth was flat or round? ‘'Some peo ple thing one way and some thiBk the other; I'll teach round or flat Just as the Board prefers" said he. We re trying to teach you that Sinclair gas and Opaltno oil Is the best tonic for any sluggish car. Its guaranteed pep and pow er has gained for It an anviable record. Say what wo may—the proof of the pudding la In the eating. Try these products Up on our recommendation. Cleveland Oil Co. Distributors * . CRITICAL EYES ARE JUDGING YOUR APPEARANCE EVERYWHERE Blankets Cleaned the Safe Way i l PHONES 112 - 113 Shelby Dry Cleaning Company
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