Southern California
A Playground And A
Money-Making Field
Resorts And Coatly Homes Vie With
Oil Fields. Citrus Farms, And
The Movirv,
(By RENN DRUM.)
Lot Angeles ft he natives call it
Eo« Angle-ees, not Loe Anjel-ces,
we say It in the East) Is in itself
one of the moat enchanting, un
usual cities In the country, but the
suburbs and adjacent settings of
the city really make of it the Tans
of America and more,
The clt.y proper spreads o\cr the
coastal plain about 12 miles from
the whitecaps of the Pacific to the
foot of the coastal mountains and
then about halfway up the moun
tains, If you Include Will Rogers’
Beverly Hills and other suburban
developments to the east.
In that spread-out more varied
array of everything than may 1*
found within the limits of any
other city lies the romantic lure
which draws thousands of new clti
ens there each year. And out, in the
suburbs are the attractions which
help keep these thousands there to
tell the folks at home about it and
bring out new groups without end.
Catalina And Hollywood.
Hollywood, the home of (hr
movies and the movies stars, and
Catalina Island, Wrtglcy’s little
kingdom in the Pacific, arc tne
outstanding side attractions of the
Southern California city, although
Long Beach Is really the play
ground of Ins Angeles, nnd rasa
dena is the most attractive spot for
the select set..
Catalina Island. owned bv the
chewing gum manufacturer undci
United States possession rights, is
something like 30 miles from the
mainland out in the raclflc. The
trip out by steamer—a steamer car
rying hundreds each trip—takes two
hours or more and the landlubber
loses sight of land either direction
while going, and may lose more r
inclined to revolt at the swaying;
waves of the Pacific. Tire trip oni
by steamer is combined with a ride
on the glass bottom boats, once you
get out, and a personal inspeeti-vn
of the island for the price of $3.
The sight-seeing trip on the glass
bottom boats is easily the outstand
ing feature of Catalina. In long,
covered boats, resembling elongatid
yachts the sight-seers are seated m
two row's on each side of the glass
bottom opening, through which may
be seen the freakish yet beautiful
gardens in the bottom of the Paoi
ftcJmoss-covered rocks, gay colored
fish, imder-sca trees with their
branches, due to the waves, sway
ing as if from an abovc-walor
breeze. Coming in to the Island bay,
» the port, is the most commanding
sight of all. On the mountainside
to the left of the bay Is the magni
ficent winter home of Wm. Wr g
ley, owner of the Island, with Hs
stately, beautiful grounds. On the
mountain on the 'eft side overlook
ing the bay are the homes of Zanc
Orey, the novelist, and of P. K
Wrigiey. On other sections of the
island are the residences of the ir.ic
Gene Stratton Porter and other
celebrities.
The Catalina beach is the Amei
ican Deauville. There the elite of
America bathes on the snug little
beach hidden between the hills of
the island.
The Aviary.
Just west of the port and beacu
are the parks, the training ground
of the Chicago Cubs, the goU
courses, and the aviary. The lattci
MRS.
BOYD ELAM
Ts in charge of our Ladies
Ready-to-Wear Department
this week, while Miss Mun
dy and Mrs. Gray are in
Hew York, and she is mak
ing a clean sweep of those
summer dresses. One morn
ing this week she sold fif
teen of those $19.50 dresses
at $5.00 in short order—
and the way those $12.50
dresses went at $3.95 was1
a sight—and they are still
going—Beautiful Dresses
selling way less than cost
to us—
COME TODAY
OR
TOMORROW
—and buy several of these
dresses. You can’t afford
to miss them.
—AND
We are selling all Wash
Dresses at ONE-HALF,
THE
PARAGON
DEPARTMENT
STORE
is one of the mm popular spots
on the island. There one sees,
thanks to Mr: Wrigley, nearly every
attractive bird and fowl known I,o
man—parrots, doves, love birds, and
the spit-tongue Arizona crow which
can beat the parrots talking fot
Polly's crackers. In one large en
closed atrip of ground, centering
about a fountain, ts the most beau
tiful collection of utrds In the world,
alt colors, and all sizes—b'ack and
white swans, peacocks with theli
gay plumage, and the most senti
mental, touching bird of nil—the
bleeding-heart dove.
No traveler to the West Co.vt
should pass up Wrtgley's play
ground.
Hollywood's I.lire.
Hollywood, like the old gray mare,
Isn't what is used to be. Other sub
urbs liRve rivalled It. although
none, of course, will ever have the
lure and the romance of tho mo.de
city. A beautiful >rray of handsome
residences, ahrubbiry filled parks,
beautiful lawns. But the lure of
HoHywood Is ensconced In the peo
ple who live tn those magnificent
homea—the personalities known on
the screen, and the personalities
one hopes to see horse-back riding
along the bridle trails, emerging or
entering those homes. Despite I s
rivals on the West Coast. Holly
wood will always be Hollywood.
Most ol the movie. are made in
studios nearby Hollywood, or up in
Ios Angeles. Telling just how they
are made would be to risk ones
throat at the hands of Incensed
movie patrons.
On to the west of Hollywood, nice
in the hills, is Beverly Hills, whe-e
Will Rogers, the cowboy comedian,
lives and from his beautiful home
up the winding roid among the
hills he may look down upon the
polo fiojd. Hollywood. Los Ange rs
and the waters of the Pacific—the
grandest view on the coast.
Long Kcar-h And Pasadena.
long Beach made rich by tvo
treats of nature—the oil wells, and
a line bathing beach—Is the play
ground not only of Los Angeles and
Southern California, but also of ice
west and midwest. There may be
seen those who have “made theirs”
and haVe sough, out their ides'
spot to enjoy the remaining day.5.
and also thousands who find many
methods of “making theirs.”
They tell an amusing story of.
Long Beach which properly de
scribes Long Beach. More Iuwans it
is said are there than natives of any
other state - rich, retired Iowan
farmers. And once you see the |
farms of Iowa you can understand
such a statement—but that is
another story. These Iowa farmers,
despite the lure of the beautiful
bathing beaches Rnd the shady
COMMISSIONER’S SAI.E.
By virtue of an order of the su
perior court, in special proceedin'?
entitled “Nora Leister and W. B.
Martin, executors, et al. vs. Qazzie
Martin, et al." I will sell to the
highest bidder at the court house
door in Shelby, on Monday, Aug
ust 19. 1929, at 12 o'clock or within
legal hours, the following real es
tate and personal property, to wit:
First lot: One house and lot in
the town of Moorcsboro on the cast
side of Gillespie street, beginning at
an iron stake in Dr. E. W. Gibbs'
line and running thence with said
line S. 33 W. <va. 1 1-4 > 120 feet to
an iron stake in street and in the
Berry Green old line: thence with
said old line N. 84 W. 174 feet to an
iron stake in west edge of Gillespie
street, W. W. Green's corner: thence
along Gillespie's street N. 34 1-4 E.
120 feet to an iron stake about three
feet from west edge of said street:
thence a new ltne S. 54 E. 174 feet to
the beginning, containing 20880
square feet more or less. Magnetic
bearings as found July. 1915.
Second Lot: Same being that lot
deeded W. A. Martin by A. B. C.
DePriest and recorded in book 2-/.,
page 82 of the office of the register
for Cleveland county, North Caro
lina, Beginning at a stake on orth
edge of Church street at corner of
brick building used for .storing bur
gles and runs thence N. 34 1-4 E
along with west edge of brick wall
191 fret, to a stake on south edge of
M. elby-Rutherfordton road; thence
N. 66 3-4 W. 49 feet with street to
a stake, Martin and Brothers cor
ner; thence S. 34 1-4 W. 191 feet
with Martin's line to a stake on edge
of street; thence S. 55 3-4 E. vi
feet to the beginning, containing
9359 square feet. Same being lot
No. 2 in deed made by S. S. Roy
ster and wife and D. B McBrayer
and wife and registered January 31
1910. in book 2-V, page 193.
Also the following personal prop
erty:
5 shares of the capital stock o!
Farmers and Merchants bank of
Moorcsboro, N. C.
1 share of the capital stock of
Mooresboro Cotton Oil mill.
One $50.00 Liberty bond of J n it -
ed States government.
Terms of sale: One-third cash
day of sale, balance December 1
1929.
Deferred payment to bear 6 per
cent Interest. Title reserved until
full purchase money Is paid.
This the 18th day of July, 1929
Y. L. McCARDWELL.
.JIB? —Commissioner,
4
walks, brought with them from the
farm their fondness of horseshoe
pitching. Right In the most beauti
ful parks, wherever they chance to,
they may be seen twirling their
shoes. Some years tack, as the story
goes, the Long Beach city fathers
passed an ordinance against pitch
ing horseshoes in the parks. The
next night a delegation from the
Iowa society in Long Beach appear
ed before the council.
“Lookahere,” they said to the city
fathers of the famous beach city,
"If you do not mjirk that horseshoe
pitching regulation off your bookc
tomorrow, we’ll take Just 52 million
dollars out of your banks and trust
companies and move back home.'1
They're still pitching horseshoes
If you doubt, it, go src.
Pasadena is a Hollywood on tt
larger scale. There families who
have had their millions for years
have their homes, and each home
Is an estate. Outstanding amoinr
these are the Busch Rnd Hunting
ton estates. The walks and drive
ways of the estate of Busch, the
late multi-millionaire brewer, are
beyond description. modelled ns
they are from a dream park pic
tured in one of the fairy stories so
popular with the children. Tin
Huntington estate, built by the one
time king of the laliroad builder*
has upon it the most beautiful and
most expensive art gallery and li
brary in the west. There the tourist
»t certain hours of the day may see
the original ‘'Blue Boy" painting.
Near Pasadena, too, is the Rose
Bowt, where the annual flower fes
tival is held and where Georgia
Tech last year won the- national
football crown—a flowery garden
within 15 minutes drive of the sea
and within 30 minutes of the tower
ing Mt. Wilson to the east.
Venice, another of the Los An
geles suburbs or adjoining cities, ia |
the Coney Island of the west wheis
Mr. Average Man. by the thousands,
goes bathing and playing with h:.s
girl.
niuirr a icni|>ir.
No visitor of course leaves Los
Angeles without visiting Sister
Aimee McPherson's temple, which,
despite your opinion of Sister
Atmee, Is undoubtedly one of the
most complete religious worship
plants in the world. Also of recent
years the curious tourist is anxious
to see Elysian park, that beautiful
wooded slope, where Hickman
dumped his child victim. In Los
Angeles is the municipal park anil
the gigantic coliseum and stadium
where the great football conflicts of
the west are fought and where a
big number of the national con
ventions arc held. To the north
west of the city Is the Hollywood
Bowl, a mammoth open-air thea
tre where the “symphonies under
the stars,’’ kndfen the world over,
are held.
In the outlying section of Los
Angeles Is the , “monkey farm'
where the monkeys and gorillis
u;ed in the movies are bred and
trained.
A Freak Farm.
Eight or ten miles out Is “the
lion farm.” the only one of Its type
in the world, operated by a daring,
big-game hunter—a Frenchman
There may be seen Nurnl, Queen.*,
and the scores of Other great pad
ded kings of beasts used in the
wild animal movie scenss One
hundred and sixty-five lions are
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Christmas presents, to take
trips, to send your boy or
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of you when you arc old
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—Save a certain amount of
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BANK & TRUST
CO.
Shelby, N. C.
Old Greta Green No
Longer Loves7 Mecca
Law Prohibits Marriage There Ot
Runaway English Couples,
llaven Of Romance.
Gretna Green, fur-famed ineee.i
of runaway couples, Just across Hit- j
Scotland border from England, nine,
miles from Carlisle, is going to conu
under the hand or reform. A new
law is to make the easy Scottish
marriage law coniform to that of the
remainder of Great Britain.
Perhaps It the course of t'uc love,
starting at this famous altar, had
always run smooth. the Oreen
might have gone on its way for cen
turies to come. But many romances
have crushed—abuses have been
practiced, trouble l as come from
lack of marriage records, some oi
the marriages have been difficult tc
prove. It was becoming too easy to
get rid of a bride taken on at Gret
na Green—and so the „ >veminent
has at last come to the rescue, sa>'
thcro, ranging in age from five davs
to 18 years, and they have lar’c,
roomy, open-air playgrounds Just vs
they would have in the jungles.
The Frenchman's Jlon farm mon
opoly (much because the average
man doesn't care for that method
of making money> i* a paying
proposition. Two of his Hons, Nunri,
and another have made him $70,
000 In 10 years In movie acting.
Others make smaller sums each
year, while not a season passes but
what he sells the lions to circuses
and zoos.
Los Angeles in all of its inviting
details and sidelights Is too much
to take up. There one sees the air!
filled with big passenger planes and
the ground covered with speeding
electric cars. Time Is too valuable
and prosperity too rushing in that
section to be wasted by slow travel.
Up The Coast.
The tourist may drive along the
Pacific from Los Angeles to San
Francisco—a distance of several
hundred miles. A beautiful drive
through acres and acres and more
acres of apricot, fig and walnut
trees, orange and lemon groves,
lima bean farms, vineyards and oil
wells. This drive, a treat In itself,
takes the traveller through Santa
Monica, Santa Barbara, and Palo
Alto, home of President Hoover,
who lives near, or upon, the beau
tiful Stanford university campus.
(The next installment of the
western tour will describe historic,
San Francisco the Barbary Coast,
the Golden Gates... the far-famed
bay, the longest bridgr In the world,
and the Tosemlte National park. In
cluding Ha Mariposa grove of big
trees, through the trunks of which
one may drive an automobile.)
CROPS
ARE LOOKING
MIGHTY GOOD
IN
CLEVELAND
COUNTY
—We hear it on all sides—
what Cleveland will
this year, and mos'
folks we hear say
make sixty to sixty live
thousand bales of cotton;
that the corn crop is good,
& every other crop is good.
IF
We make that many bales
of cotton and the price is
good, Cleveland county will
certainly make
WHOOPEE
THIS YEAR
Make plans now for next
year, save enough out of
this year’s earnings to pay
for fertilizer next year, to
run on next year, etc. Get
a year ahead instead of a
year behind. Crops are not
always good. Prepare now
for the future.
CLEVELAND
BANK & TRUST
CO.
i
me new i oi k limes.
Gretna Green's popularity dales
back to 1754. when Lord Chancellor
Hardwick's marriage act was past
ed in England, which provided:
"Any person solemn icing matri
mony in any other place than a
church or public chapel, without
banns or other license, shall, on
conviction, be adjudged guilty of
felony, and Jdc transported for four
teen years, and all such marriages
shall be void.
Flights To Scotland Start.
Then the sudden flights to Scot
land began, for here across the bor
der all that was necessary was to
repeat the words, "This is my wife"
and "This is my husband," before
some one—anybody, it seems—ar.d
the marriage was sealed. The some
body or anybody was not, as is pop
ularly supposed, the blacksmith
for there is no record of any black
smith marrying any of these run
aways, but usually the innkeeper o"
even the tollkeeper at Sark Bar;
when the pursuit by the father of
the bride made the utmost haslc
necessary and there was no waiting
to travel the extra half mile to ar
five nt the famous Gretna Green.
The first Gretna Green “parson”
was Joseph Paisley, who began his
exciting life of linking up runaway
couples in the year 1753. He was nr
parson, but in early life a farmer
and an expert fisherman, as Solw \v
Firth nearby abounded with salmon
and other fish.
He wras the reputed “blacksmith’’
who scaled thesj marriage chalnt
hut, his title came from his reputa
tion of speed in this precarious job,
and the saying thereabouts which
became common, “Strike the iron
when it's hot, Joseph.”
For sixty years he was Gretna'.
“parson,’’ and he planned to leave
the “business” to whomever should
win the hand of his granddaughter.
He died in January. 1811, aged 82.
and was buried in the churchyard
there.
These canny Scotsmen recogniz
ed what a fortune could be made hy
these Gretna marriages In 1842, be
tween a Saturday morning and the
Sunday evening following, i.o l^ss
than forty-five mnaway coup’es
were united; and upon one sing'?
night, later, the number wa; sixty
one. So profitable old the business
become that one Murray decided
to establish it upon a sound found
ation and build the Sark Bar Irr.
on the English side of the river.
It was the custom at Gretna when
the tee was forthcoming to "get ar
much ns you ran." Thirty or for1/
pounds was often given, and Paisley
once got £300 for uniting three
couples.
Many a treacherous scheme has
been perpetrated at Gretna in the
name of romance, repenting at leis
ure has often followed marrying in
haste. There is the story of the girl
whose lover was frowned upon by
her father and not allowed to come
to the house; they planned to meet
at Gretna, sending messages through
a cousin to the lover whose name
happened to be the same.
The girl arrives at Gretna and is
hastily married to the supposed
bridegroom, who is muffled up to
hide his identity; She discovers, too
late, that she is married to the
wrong man—to the scheming cous
in, who, discovering that the girl is
quite a catch financially, decides to
take the true lover’s place in the
escapade There is a duel, of course,
but, unlike a proper love talc, the
villain is not the one to be slain;
the unhappy bride dies of a broken
heart and nobody knows what be
came of the bridegroom.
Then there was the Ear! of West
moreland, who. in 1782, loved the
daughter of Child, the famous Lon
don banker; but the banker, think
ing that it was his guineas as much
as the derghtor which had captured
the heart of the lover, tcld him
plainly; "Your blood- my lord, r
'Trod, but money is better," and re
fused to Rive his consent to the
match The young couple eloped and.
Charles Ferdinand Bourbon, prince
of the two Sicilies and Capua, broth
cr and heir-presumptive to Freder
ick II, king of Naples, was one cl
the most romantic figures to gran
the altar at Gretna. Miss Penelope
Smyth, of Exeter, was the cause oi
his detour. Being impecunious him
self. her fortune of 20,000 pound*
added not a little to her fame as a
beauty. They had already been mar
ried in Italy, but this v.as declared
illegal, he being a prince of the Moot
royal. Then they fled to Spain to
seek refuge with his sister, the
Queen Regent at Madrid, but she
would not countenance them, cube:
Then thev sought Paris, then Eng
land, and at, last the refuge o!
Gretna Green. Later they resorted
to a regular license, banns and an
other marriage at St. George's Han
over square, London
Whole libraries could probably be
taken up with records ot Gretna
Green, with all the preliminary his
tories of the thousands of runaway
couples. and all the histories of how
they "lived happily ever afterward
or didn't.
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