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Many Freak Champions Were Unknown Places Get Fame As Bill Williams Pushed Peanut 1 |> * Pike's Peak With His Nom\ New York Hera Id-Ti ibunc Summer has brought. the annual entrants for freak championship Recently Bill Williams a Rio Hondo <Ter i paste re r completed his stunt, occupying; almost a month, of push ing a peanut with his nose along a 22-mile route leading to the summit Of Pike s peak. Last year lie pushed tlie peanut along seven miles of macadam neai Rio Hondo. He liked the taste of fame and proceeded on the Pikes Peak route this summer. He etm trivrd a device attachable to his nose, for protecting its epidermis He wore knee pads He succeeded in j his purpose of getting into tlie pub lic prints. Contest Open lor Wives. In Ponca City, Okla , Mayor Will A Brooks has issued a call lor roll ing-pin throwers in a contest to be held this summer to determine which wife in the community, is i most, proficient in that respect In Paris a New Yorker,.Dr. Rob- ; ert E Moore, lies gone into training for the 7.000 golf shots lie estimates he w ill require over n course to Ber lin The distance is ti74 miles as t lie crow flies. But there is a matter of hazards in the form of mountains. rivers;1woods and buildings that will extend the course considerably The rqa ration dance has lost Its appeal tt. has been overdone Also the "dance” Is no more than a shuffle and holds no thrills for the spectator. And the gabfest is out Its aspirants in last year's contests passed on so much tune and vocal effort bickering in rest periods that they talked themselves cut of achieving any rerord.pl note. Thus, the dubious glory ,of bring t lie world's most continuous talker re mains with Paristus, Berlin art,or. talked tor 45 hours before he ran short rf words. Champion Coffee Drinker. Albert Baker, of New York, finds life pleasant bemuse none has out done his feat of drinking 250 cups of coffee in four hours. Nor is his delight with himself any more en thusiastic than that of Harry O'Brien, of Paterson, who ran away with the peanut-rolling champion ship by urging them with a stick along a mile of streets. The annual fair at Gunnell. Iowa, holds no event so alluring as the husband-calling contest The title at the moment belongs to Mrs A. H. Dempster. Eleven wives last year participate^ yrdeltng, yoohoo lng, barking, stamping and clapping thetr hands Off in a far section of the lot ihe husbands waited. One woman Impatiently shrieked "Hay, you. c'mon over here " There was no response. Buy Mrs. Dempster neither shriek ed nor whistled. She merely cupped her hands and trilled beautifully like a mocking bird Her owu hus band did not answer But 19 hus bands tn the grandstand leaped from their seats and the Judges felt, that they could do nothing other than call her the winner Walks 41 Mites On Stilts. Joseph de Virgilih, of Cambridge, Mass., is s neighborhood hero. He has something to leave to poster ity On Aug 31, 1927 he walked on stilts the <2 miles from Boston (e Providence His legs were swollen, but the stilts suffered for more Disregarding union restrictions. Jim Brown, of Kansas City, laid 36 000 pavin': bricks in a day—n freight j ear holds 25.000 Thrt energized “Slim" Peterson, of Arkansas City, Kan . Into netien and he ran up a total of 50.000 while the cinema cameras took his picture. Totiy Glascoo broke both their hearts and their records by laying 69,000 blocks. If you are bothered with a servant problem get in touch with Ste'la Hucff. of Cross Keys, N. J. In one hour and 15 minutes she washed and hung out 133 pieces of laundry. Women who are reluctant to push baby carriages may be re- ! minded of Mrs Lillian Groom. a ' sturdy matron of London, England. | who trundled a perambulator to J Brighton, 52 miles away, in 12 hours ! and 20 minutes in April, 1923. Other Queer Championships. Arthur Allegmti's idea or show ing off was to roller skate from, But falo to New York in August 1927. in 56 hours. He "dined on soda water and used up three pairs of roller skates and six bottles of oil Arthur i Hoffman shackled himself to they steering wheel of his car in New York on December 21, 1927 and did not quit until he had driven toil', hours. Two youths in 1912 started walking backward from Salem N. C i to New York. There is no record oi how they w'ound up. whether they achieved their goal or backed into , the Atlantic. P. B. McCartney claims the street car transfer championship of the world. This Rochester gentleman has collected mere than 10.000 trans fers and boasts he can accommo date you for any street railway in the world. , J. H. Oyler played a course 35 miles long, taking l.u8i strokes be tween the Maidstone links and the ; Littlestone greens in England, He ! lost seventeen balls in two and a j half days. Record For Water Robbing. Squeek Sehrant. of the St. Paul A. C. claims to be the ail-wet chain-, pion having bobbed in the water 1.843 times in one hour on March 24, 1928. T. Mi Jones, of London, avers, he is something of an all-wet champion 'himself,, having imbibed ti7 slriiis of beer for breakfast. The: Miss America crown is no inrentUe to Ina Leslie, 17 years old. ot fair. Angeles Fhf finds her hap piness in her record for milking cows at the annual fair. In .September, 10211. Bud Re> nokls oi Columbus, Ohio, play-al Hie piano for 105 hours. He faint; I half way along, but was revived and continued,. When he finished his fingers Were in bandages At-Aid erslipl, Ftigfand, in 1013. Tom.. Bur rows swung n pair ol Indian rlub; 1(14'hours and became insane, George Smith, of Utica, raised himself on lus toes 20.000 turns Mrs N'err Frrsc, 50 years old. of. Mtddlebui'K, Pa., on November 22. Hi 18 rolled a barrel for eight miles Mine. Vordier, in Parts, made 2.000 sandwiches in nine hours. The Spirit of Franklin, a kite crewed ov two St, Paul youths, Paul Berg and Isidore Logan, tallied 2,856 whirls, loops and swervo, Sylvia Mosk , wit. 12 years old. of the same city, bounded a golf ball 2,710 times and thus attained thr* public notice. Al vin Bunde and Theodore Syvesster.. also of St Paul, essayed a stayuig awake contest. Syversten's eyes closed after 72 hours. Gastronomic Feats. For all-around gastronomic team, the crown ought to set safely on Bailie Ropes brow Or it would have, had she not succumbed at: n tier arduous championship enter prise Bailie was a dusky lass of Kansas City. Mo. who. in 1910, had heard of the alimentary rapacities of ostriches and goats and an nounced that sh" could pack In far more hardware than an ostrich or a goflt. W-hcn the autopsy was performed thr medical examiner listed 1.551 items, including 453 nails. 42 screws, nine bolts, five spoons, n nail file, five thimbles, fill buttons. 105 safety pins, 115 hairpins, 136 common pins. 52' carpH tacks, 57 needles, 85 pebblrs and n four-foot string of beads The East Side still recalls the "hot-dog" contest in a Second Ave nue saloon on November 29. 1923. when Vnl Manges swooned after the 44th frankfurter, and John Hinstn. uncoiling a new supply nibbled away placidly to Vila 53rd before calling it a meal John Dammaii, at Tied Wing, Minn, on December 14 1 1927, won the soup-sipping title by splashing through three and a half quarts Two competitors were dis qualified. Wine Drinker Won In 1811. In 1814. two Britons set out to determine whether the water drinker or wine sipper was th" more enduring. The water man al most drowned The wine drinker. ! won But he didn't know it un'il two days later Martin McKee, of Springfield. Ill . n miner, ate 25 large pickles before quitting with {he eonip'alnt that lie was choking on the warts There is still another champion ship class composed of the "never haves.” In New Jersey is a man wh > has been repairing cycles 40 yr.ys and has never ridden on one A Cabin boy-on the Be re ngaria win iias made 200 crossings, has never returned to his home in London, which is two hours from the pier. Never Have Champions. In Kails City. Nob. the Leechmnn brothel's have an undisputed claim to the all around "never hav' crown One is 72 years old. the othc" is 73. They insist thev, never have read a daily paper, have not eaten a meal cooked by a woman for SO years, have never used a tele phone and have not been to Omaha because one day when thov got five miles from home they lost th*ir. way and have been too timid since to venture even that distaVice from the farm. John Haas, of Apollo, r.i . never saw a circus, and C Hassenniillev of New Albany. Ind. never went to a oall name Knocking wood while he says It L. C. Boynton of Browmvood. Tex, boasts that in his long life he never has called a doc tor. Adjusted Compensation. Goldsboro News J. M Caldwell, editor of the For ward Observation Post of the Am erican legion, calls attention of The News to the fact that the time limit for filing application for ad justed compensation certificates em pires January 1. 1930 Therefore the extreme importance and ncccs-; mtv for prompt action on the part j of various ex-service men who have not vet filed applications and on the part of thP Legion in bringing | this matter to their attention and in assisting fuch veterans in proper lv filing their .applications. Appli cation blanks may be secured from 'any postmaster or from the service officer of any Legion post. Unless applications are filed before .Jan uary 1. 1930, these then will certain ly be out of luck as tins is truly "the li st call for supper." 1 STAR MS Bowman, 10, Regarded As Van guard Of Youthful Energetic Railroad Rudders New York When Robert J Bow - man was rlrcterl operating head of the Pere Marquette Railway a few day- iigo. .1. ,T Beimel, ehief operat ing, officer of the Van Hweringcn organisation, .said to him: "Tilts i« your railroad Now take it and run it." Mr, Bowman, just turn Ins 4;1 adds another chapter to the ra 1 road epic of the poor hoy who climbed to the top. While this re cital is becoming commonplace, he alsd. in the opinion of experi enced railroaders, is in the torfl most of a new legion of young, daring railroad builders who wail shake up l he railroad world mo,-e and more as time goes on However they may bo characterized, thrv are described as the opposite type to I conor !•’ Lorre, lamed for Ids whiskers, his adherence to vener able railroad traditions, his aloof ness and his uncompromising atti tude ' toward labor. The newcomers are smooth-shaven approachable and adaptable and have a wav of running through some of the block signals of the elder statesmanship Cleaned I'p Erie. When Mr, Bernet gave Mr Bow man has curt and casual instruc tions, he doubtless had in mini what he had clone with the Erie As assistant vice president, of this road, one of the Van* Sweringcn lines, he brought it in iwo vein s to the point of paying dividends on preferred stocks, alter n lapse oi 20 years.- \Ylitlr it is true that he was Mr. Burnet's assistant in this enterprise, he assumed the rough work of cleaning up the lob and the results are already in view for the most casual observer Three years ago, this witter used to see switch engines with a bonnet and bustle In the Erie yards, look ing as if they had been taken right out of Gody’s Lady Book. ; inquiring recently as to what had become of them, he was informed that ’this young fellow Bowman has cleaned ’em all out;’ Mr. Bowman was born in Post oral Ohio, and lived laler at- Findly. Ohio H1& first job was with the | Nirkel Plate, in 1907, as a freight j clerk, at Mortimer, Ohio. He picked | up an earful of Morse, which he i Immediately cashed by becoming I telegraph operator, and it. was the | telegraph key which unlocked th” door to his railway career. IP proved that he was adaptable as a trap drummer and was always be . ing called upon "swing man" In various emergencies If was tin adaptability. say his friends, which THERE'S A I*AIR OF I S that "'ill probably agree that this Mr. Henpeck was about half right ; after he had been married about a year and the matrimonial bark had not sailed smooth ly. he asked the clerk who had issued t h e license whether it was a marriage or a dog license, because he had led a dog's life ever since. If you want to be certain to secure the best there is in gas and oil it is impera tive to specify SINCLAIR j and OPALINE. Why take ] chances when your drivipg j satisfaction and the condi-j tion of your motor depend J upon the quality and purity | oft he products used. | Cleveland Oil Co. Distributors shoved him along rapidly in the remaining yrars. Hr soon became j an agent and in 1914 was as j signed to the superintendent's of fice at Fort Wayne. where he remained four years. Renew His Locomotives. When Mr. Bemet became presi dent of the Nickel Plate, he found that the still young Mr. Bowman had absorbed almost everything there was to be known about, rad roading aiid lie was attached to Mr Bernet's office until 1927. In tins year the Erie was hrouglv into the Van Sweringesn By stem and badly needed some expert re habilitating. .Bowman was given the job He shook the old road up until its. bones rattled, but he be gan to shake out dividends Mr Bowman was elerted vice president in charge of the operat ing department of the Pete Mar qurlic upon tiie retirement of Frank It, Alfred Mr. Alfred, who had been president of the Peri? Bemet took over the presidency of the Chesa peake and Ohio and the Hocking Valley, Bringing these Van Svvo ingen roads together under one management was part of the plan of assembling them in a foiirtn Eastern trunk line system which the Interstate Commerce Commis sion Is now considering. This would extend the Pere Marquette lines to the Atlantic Seaboard at the Port of Hampton Roads and give it a sea connection with the vast re sources of raw materials and man ufactured goods of Michigan and Canada. Works Hard. This, if the plan goes through, the still youthful Mr. Bowman will have a little empire of his own to play with Playing, however, is not one of his special aptitudes. He is an indefatigable worker, but with an easy-going mastery of in Metropolitan Group At State University Chapel HU1.—Representing almost every state in the United States and the foreign countries of Spain, Armenia. Persia. Siam, China. Venezuela. Italy. Cuba and others, the present student body of the University of North Carolina ap pears to be the most cosmopolitan group that li.as ever assembled here. Not only do they come from dif ferent countries but from all walks of life. Some have come as repre sentatives of foreign governments, some on grants from beneficiary funds, and others have crossed the continent depending entirely on self-he'p as a means of support. Dr. Raf Martinez-Ponte, from Caracas in Venezuela. South Arner-; ica, is here on a grant from the . j Rockefeller foundation, which is ■ numerable complexities and a pen chant for cutting through red tape, and getting things done. He is particularly successful in his per- j sonal relationships and maintains easy and amicable relations with labor. lake the New York finan- j cters from small towns who re-' eently have climbed to the top in the banking world, he fits, nicely into the metropolitan pic-[ ture, but likes to talk of the day r,' when, they used to paint advertise- | means of liver pills on the barns around Fostona and when the cir- 1 cus posters on the barn by the mill ■ stream yielded a thrill comparable : to picking up a new railroad. It is a competent, assured and masterful younger generation which ! is picking up the reins of industry j and finance. The York Hie We also carry SAFES and INDEXING [noderate price: HERPS a guaranteed file for letters ox cap size papers. Spot welded throughout, with drawers slid ing on coaster rollers. It will not wear out, nor come apart, nor bind. It’s “built like a sky scraper. Dy Shaw-Walker —a quality file at a moderate price. Come In and see it. ilDuili Llw STAR PUB CO. Shelby, N. C. WHEAT FERTILIZER Tobacco vilie, N. C. August 28, 1929 The American Agricultural Chemical Company, Greensboro, N. C. Gentlemen: When I began, three years ago, using "AA QUALITY” BASIC LIME PHOS PHATE I was averaging about ten bush els of wheat per acre. By continued use of BASIC LIME PHOSPHATE I have gotten my yield up to better than twenty five bushels per acre. This year I grew an exceptionally good crop of wheat and would like you to see what a wonderful crop of clover followed this wheat. W. P. SPRINKLE TO AVOID M MM 11 ms. MAKE SURE THAT TUB ' AA QUALITY" SFAl IS ON THE BACK OF EACH BAG. 1 cooperating with the Venezuelan government in public health work In the colleges in Venezuela there are no special courses in sanitary engineering. It was for this reason that he came to study American methods. Dr. Martinez-Ponte holds a doc tor's degree in physical and mathe matical science, the highest degree in engineering that can be secured in his country. He comes here from the Universidad Central where he won his doctor's degree. William Barnett has registered at the university from Shanghai China. Barnett is an American by birth. He is the son of Eugene Barnett, missionary to China and a prominent university alumnus. There are many other interesting students enrolled. John Waters, a sophomore, spent his summer work ing on a freighter in order to learn "the shapes of all the capes in most of the seven seas." George Brown of New’ York city .a nephew of Lew Brown, the song writer and musi cian, is here. RELIEF that is REFRESHING "We have used Thedford’s Black-Draught for years in our family. I can highly recom mend it for many ailments. We take it for colds and for con stipation. "I have four children, and I give it to them. When mv little girl gets bilious. or complains oi neaaacne, I give her a treatment of Black-Draught, and she is all right in a day or two. "Sometimes when I have indigestion from improner eating, I have headache. Then I take Black-Draught I always feel fresh and have more energy after I have taken it”—Mrs. E. Reich, 12215 East First Street, Austin, Texas. f Thgrfford, j BUaWAKHT CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, BILIOUSNESS WOMEN oho need a tonic iboolC take CARDUL In use over 50 years. Mauney Has Large Cotton On McMurry Farm-A 95 Boiler ■ Mr. S. M. Mauney, who farms the A. W. McMurry land, was in Shelby yesterday with a cotton stalk on which were 95 good-sized bolls. The stalk was of a good sturdy size and the bolls well-scat tered and not in any freak forma tion. “I have others this size and per haps larger," he said. "I did not look for the biggest one when I got this. I just pulled up a big one." Executor’s Notice. i r Having qualified as executors oj the estate of J. M. Blanton. de« ceased, late of Cleveland county, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons havin'; claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them,to the undersigned at Shelby, N. C., on or before September 6 1930 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said es* tate will please make immediati settlement. This September 4,*1929. HUDSON BLANTON. THURMAN BLANTON. Executors of the estate of J. M. Blanton, deceased. Jno. P. Mully, Atty. THE food wasted in many a home WOULD BUY A General Electiuc HAT pint of milk which you A wouldn’t think of giving the chil dren, the half-bottle of cream that's ever so faintly sour, the bowl of apple sauce that doesn’t smell quite sweet, the end of a leg of lamb ... the count less left-overs that would make per fectly good dishes if you could only be sure they were safely fresh, Aou can he sure. 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