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At Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
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aur custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect,
cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has
been published. This will be strictly adherred to.
WEDNESD’Y, JULY 1029.
TWINKLES
The Star wishes for every one of the paper’s 20,000
readers that it will be a bipr Fourth, but we also hope you’re
living Friday to tell about it.
The world’s outstanding optimist, if there could be
such an optimist., is the dub golfer who nowadays continues
to believe that some day he will be as good on the links as is
the chunky attorney from Atlanta, Robert Tyre Jones, jr.
Look for more newspaper announcements of weddings.
The new North Carolina law says that prospective brides
and grooms who announce tljeir wedding in the paper five
days before trying to secure license will not have to post the
three day notice of marriage with the register of deeds.
If you’re going for a trip on the Glorious Fourth, be
‘particular about your driving. Our gloomy guess is that
the big headlines in the papers Friday will tell of the high
way toll for the vacation day. And if you’re a careless
driver, your name may he under the headlines.
Speaking before North Carolina merchants at Hickory
recently David Ovens, manager of the Ivey company, told
them that e&ch merchant ought to spend at least three per
cent of his gross sales for advertising in the local newspa
pers. Mr. Owens has practised what he preaches and the
mammoth business he has built up should be afnple proof
that he is right.
WHERE THE BLAME LIES
^ PROMINENT educator in a recent address blamed the
parents of America for the disrespect of law' shown by
the young folks. That blame coincides with a belief long
held by The Star. Parents who cannot control their children
at home should stop and think it over twice before criticis
ing the school teachers and the officers of the law because
they cannot do for the children what their own parents could
not do when they were younger and easier to handle and
train.
RED BUCK JOE’S LAST
^ LANDMARK has moved off the front page of a North
Carolina newspaper—the landmark being the byline of
H. E. C. Bryant, who is referred to on the editorial pages
snd among his hundreds of reading acquaintances as “Red
Buck.” Back through the years to the day when most of
us began reading newspapers we have been accustomed to
leing Red Buck’s name to the political articles in The Char
lotte Observer from Washington. Last week the announce
ment came that Bryant was no longer serving The Observev
is Washington correspondent and supposedly he will give
pis full time to his work as staff writer for the New York
IVorld, 4
Speaking of Red Buck's departure from The Observer,
ind terming him the “last of Joe's boys,” Oscar Coffin, writ
ing his Greensboro News column, says:
“At Washington he has prospered, more through his
sative Scotch-Irish acumen and thrift, than any unusual
Srillance as a craftsman. His needs soon outgrew the small
Observer salary and he connected himself with the New
fork World, for which he for many years—perhaps he man
iges it still—managed the capital bureau. But always—
tnd we are confident it was because of his love for Joe Cald
vell and his dead chief’s paper—he devoted part of his time
■o the Observer. It may well be that for many years he has
«ot given the Observer enough of his time, for the paper’s
rross income today is probably as large as was that of the
tfew York World when Bryant first went with that metro
politan daily.
“But Red Buck, because he was of the Caldwell school,
tas been giving the Observer and its new idea something
ihey cannot buy on the open market. No doubt a more alert
md productive correspondent can be found to take his place;
lut the last of Joe’s boys is gone.
And whether or not he is replaced with something just
is good or even better, we grieve at the passing of the last
nember of a newspaper family who looked upon every fel
ow employe and subscriber as blood kin.”
VALENTINO DIED IN TIME
^ PECULIARLY interesting sentence, in a review by
Georg® Jean Nathan concerning the effect of the talkies
ipon the stage and general amusement life, which interests
is is: “Valentino died in time.” The sentence is suggestive
ir symbolical of the discourse upon the subject by the noted
theatrical critic and writer. Which is to say that the idoliz
hg of movie stars bv thousands of dreaming, imaginative
vie fans will end with the advent of the talkies unless
producers can manage to supplant many of the present
with actors and actresses whose voices are youthful
pvely as well as their figures and faces.
[hink what would have happened.” Nathan writes, "to
entino's) flock of women admirers if the unsparing
lighting of the talkies had betrayed his imminent baldness
and the movietone his bootblack voice?” Think of that, as
Hie critic suggests, and you will have a summarized thought
as to what the talkies have done for the movies.
Nathan docs not believe that the talkies will have any
more effect upon the talking stage than did the silent
movies, and Nathan, despite the fact that he is too caustic
and frank in his criticism for some people, has a pretty
good weather eye for such.
.The things spoken of by the critic as illustrations may be
seen in the reaction of movie fans in Shelby. Many of them
are being disillusioned by their old favorites once the talkies
show up voices that do not have the appeal carried by the
stars in the silent pictures.
The person Nathan writes (except he uses another
word for “person”) “who once imagined that his favorite
movie actress were she to whisper to him T love you,’ would
sound like a melted mandolin, now hears his goddess speak
like a gum-chewing shopgirl. The worshipper of Mile. Y’s
seductive girlishness now beholds her. in the grim, hard
light of the talkies, to be a middle-aged woman with the
voice of a middle-aged woman.”
Concluding he sums up as follows: “They miss the
peculiar hypnosis ot (he silent pictures and they lack the
human pull of the stage. . . The day that sees men waiting
;:t the stage-door for an electric phonograph to come out
will sec the day that the talkies will triumph over the the
atre.”
We agree to a considerable extent. Imaginative illu
sion depends to a great amount upon something being left
to the imagination to conjure for itself. The fan of the
silent movies could imagine his own sweet, enchanting
sounds for the long embraces, now he hears in the talkies a
grating noise like the voice of his irritated landlady kicking
him out over his board bill. This, in ending, is no indictment
of the talkies; it is merely the expression of the belief that
Hollywood must soon place new names in the city directory
of the gilded dream town or movies will lose their appeal to
many.
Nobody’s Business
GEE McGEE—
(Exclusive In The Star in this section.)
Famous First Words.
"It's twins."
"Quit that.”
“Olmmr
"Move1 over."
"Who's that?"
"Hello."
"No.”
"Yes"
"It's bottled in bond."
"Open this door."
"Bang!”
"She got me."
“That's you. honey?"
"Ansoforth.”
What, I can't understand about,
our southern strikers who bear the
names of Smith and Jones and
Brown and Green and Johnson and
Thompson and Roberson is that
they permit people who bear the
names of Prinzt and Giroskl and
Dantzstx and Pirizl Izumski and
Valdvoskl and Damdogsky to come
in amongst them and wield an In
fluence that a native knows not
of. The Browns can get along
with the Greens better than they
can with the Redds.
Cotton Fetter.
New York,' June 28.—Spots sold
down to 18.45 when it became
known that Hoover had caught an
eel instead of a perch last Friday,
but as Sears and Roebuck have
rate to 14 per cent steadied July
at a new high for the day Boll
weevils have punctured several In
stalment accounts here of late
but as Sears Ac Roebusk have
promised the "ladies in waitlns"
that their car will have a com
pact-and-lip - stlck-and - cigarette
compartment as well as 4 wheels
and a rumble-seat, underwear eas
ed oft in sympathy with the weath
er which \yas considered hot for the
time of day. We still advise buying
on slumps and backward jerks.
Bad luck is right on my trail. I
failed to see the new moon clear
last week, and before I had time
to get my breath. 2 five-passenger
Fords rolled up in front of my
home loaded to the axles with mv
wife's kinfolks. And on top of
that, the fellow' that I endorsed a
note for last March committed sui
cide Tuesday night by calling old
man Joe Dowty a lie to his face.
If It ain’t one thing—it’s two oth
er things. It wouldn’t surprise me
a-tall to wake up some morning
with a pair of bow legs and chin
whiskers and mebbe the weeds.
Or, well. Things can’t come my
way all the time.
I would like to know where Is
Trotsky, and what Is the meaning
of farm relief, and how Mr. Cool
idge Is getting along In the insur
ance business, and whether Nica
ragua went, Democratic or Republi
can, and why the old rooster cackles
when a hen lays, and what has be
come of the monkey-gland special
ists. and who the new tariff law
ts going to help, and why in the
thunder a man pays the instal
ment agent before lie settles with
his grocer?
flat rock, s. C„ june the 28, 1929.
deer mr. editor:
pies print this peace Ir. yo e
paper and tell the fo%:s that I am
now taking orders for water mi1
lions and canty lopes lor sail ne;;t
month and the price of same is
15c for 1 of them and 25c for the
other, and 1 can’t sell them no
cheaper, anner count of the high
cost of plowing ansoforth. and i
will allso have some frying chick
ens to sell with my other pro
duce such as rosen years and
beef, and they can rite or foam
me when they want me to fetch
them what they want, and be sure
to say that all my terms is cash,
and cod and pay as you go and
no checks. if this costs anny
thlng, plese charge it.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
The bureau of fisheries reports
an unusually large run of sardines
this season. That will certainly
be good news to the members t f
the various legislatures over *he
paying 6 cents for a box lor din
ner, no crackers throwed in, they
will possibly be able to get same
with crackers for ’ cents.
Florida is a state possessed of
much fore-sight. We firmly be
lieve that they knew before the
election that they had that Medi
terranean fly. and they went Re
publican so's that they could get the
government to re-imburse them for
all losses sustained to date, and
furnish enough cash to destroy tii?
said pests for all time to come.
Congress never before did any
thing for the farmers of a southern
state.
The most enticing expression 1
ever heard sounds like this: “Oniy
1 dollar down.” It looks like any
body ought to be able to scrape
up a dollar, and after it is scrap
ed, trouble starts. Weekly pay
ments became “weakly” payments
in a week. The first time the in
stallment collector comes, he's res
pected. the second time, he's bare
ly welcome, the third time, he’s a
dam-pest, the fourth time, he’s a
crook and a liar to boot, and the
whole family wishes he was deac’
and that they had never bought
anything in their lives except a
sack of flour and a hunk of bac n.
But everybody's doing it right oh.,
including some people who actual
ly pay their grocery bills.
KINSTON DOCTOR STATE'S
FIRST SURGEON-A VIATOR
Kinston.—While Mrs. A1 Stewart,
wife of a well known airm. n. is
recuperating from an operation
here, her husband will be putting
the finishing touches to the aero
nautical education of Dr. Albert
Parrott, the surgeon engaged to per
form the operation during the next
few days.
Dr. Parrott will be North Caro
lina's first flying surgeon. He has
made many flights with Stewar;.
including one from Wichita, Kan. ;
to Kinston. He has purchased a;
plane and will be ready to operate
it by the time It is delivered, as- j
cording to Stewart. John Parroit,
a son of the doctor, is trainmg tin-;
d«r the aviator and will serve as j
relief pilot to his father.
Premier Mussolini has banned
bathing beauty contests in Italy a •
of “grave consequences to the moral
order " It's the eye strain that boi ti
ers folks in America.
(Special to The Star.)
Mr. and Mrs. Chess Smith and
family of Shelby spent Saturday
afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Mack
Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Jefferies ancf
children of Lincolnton .'.pent Satur
day with Mr. and Mrs. Jefferies’
parents, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Nor
man.
Mrs. Frank Sain and children |j
Carl and Madeline spent a few days !
last week with Mr. and Mrs. Mu- :
Swain of Rutherford.
Misses Annie and Elva Richard!
visited Mrs. Jess Peeler Thursday j
afternoon.
Miss Nannie Lou Goodman spot;' 1
Saturday night with her cousi.to
Misses Pearl and Mayo Gantt.
Mr. Howard Devenney has -ac
cepted a position in Newberry. S. C.
Mrs. Claude Willis and children |
o' Rock Dale visited Mrs. Will j
Richard Monday.
Little Miss Maggie Mere Cha.i-:
man is improving nicely
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gur^j and
children of Kale spent Sunday wito
Mrs. Guess’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. G. Richard.
Miss Male Edwards spent Sundry
afternoon with Miss Johnnie Fo.-i
tenberry.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Veal, Oi ,
Shelby, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Willis, . f
Toluca. Mr. and Mr:., Mack Willis.1
and children of Llncolnton. spen' i
Sunday afternoon with Mr. apd
Mrs. Will Willis.
Mr. and Mrs. Glee Dedmon and
children and Miss Mary Lizzie Wav
lick spent Sunday afternoon wiMi
Mr and Mrs. C. G. Richard.
Miss Margaret Ford of Shelby
spenc the week-end with her cousin
Miss Madeline Porter.
Mrs. Minnie Ellio*; visited her m -
ters. Mesdamex El*za Mull and
Sarah Warlick. Sunday,
Mr. and Mrs. John Lute of Lenoir
were callers in the community Sun
day
Miss Florence Day berry was the
dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Dayberry Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Thnd Ford and
children of Shelby rpent Sundry
with Mr. and Mrs W R. Porter.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Richard and
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dayberry and
children and Miss Florence Dav
berry spent Sundav afternoon wi ll
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Goodman.
Misses Annie and Monta Lula
Richard and Mr. Plato Mead attend
ed the singing convention at Mulls
Chapel Sunday afternoon.
Miss Effie Wellmon visited M^s.
Leo McMurry Sunday afternoon.
Messrs. Quincy Hartman. John
Queen and T. P. Deal and Misses
Elva Richard and Pansy Queen at
tended the singing convention at
Connelly Springs church Sunday.
Messrs. Andy McNeely of Double
Shoal and William McNeely and sen
Tommy of Cherryville visited Mr
and Mrs. Dock McNeely Sundav
afternoon.
Mrs. Dock McNeely is quite ill at
this writing. We wish her a speedy
recovery.
Mrs. Sarah Warlick is improving
some, we are glad to note.
SOMETHING BRAND
NEW
Here’s a brand new one
that was sprung on us Mon
day: An eight year olo
boy ran up to us excitedly
and said: “Oh Mr. if tht
Pecks had four children
would they have a bushel
of kids?” What say you?
Here’s one we'cl like to
“spring” on you, an intro
duction to SINCLAIR gas
and OPALINE oil. There’s
proof available that you’ll
find this acquaintance a
source of saving and satis
faction. The quality of thesj
products eliminates a 1 1
guesswork.
Cleveland
Oil Co.
Distributors
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CONDENSED STATEMENT OF
Union Trust Co.
SHELBY, N. C.
Including Branch Offices at Lattimore, Lawndale and
Fallston, at the Close of Business, June 29, 1929.
RESOURCES OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts_$927,610.61
Ovcrdrafs_ _____ 1,493.88
Bonds and Stocks_ 13,400.00
Heal Estate___ 7,438.03
Fixtures _ 8,449.95
Cash on hand and due from
other hanks__90,061.73
TOT A1
$1,055,051.20
LIABILITIES
Capital_$100,000.00
Surplus_ 100.000.00
Undivided Profits_ 2,232.71
Reserved for Taxes___ 1,500.00
Reserved for Interest__ 37,195.07
Dividend Unpaid__ 3,000.00
Bills Payable_ 10,000.00
Notes Re-discounted_00,000.00
Due to Other Banks_ 47,441.31
Deposits____... 693,685.08
TOTAL___$1,055,054.20
THE CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS OF THE
UNION TRUST CO.
Will be pleased with the above report, which reflects growth
and encouraging progress. On the basis of the Strength and
Growth of this Bank we solicit your business.
UNION TRUST CO.
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“IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH.”
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