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Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS By RENN DRUM An observant reader of the colyum in a communication reports an unusual event he says should not be overlooked in recording the news ol the day. Last week, as he tells it, he saw a iwo-year-old boy holding to his mother's skirt as they walked down a Shelby street. Belleve-it-or-not, he war. not an exceptionally tall lad for his two years, but, instead, his mother is a fashionable lady—she has taken to long skirts again in obtd leaicr to the masters of style. • • • And while the oddities are In or-» der It U noted that the Cleveland county grand jury In reporting the absence of "bed bugs and other ob noxious pests” at the edlinty home declared that there was nothing “unsanitary" in conditions there. This department ordinarily writes It wrong as do the majority of tuo.se Using the term, but. If you care to delve into the matter, there is no aueh word as "unsanitary;” it is "insanitary." The Boy* May Drive By. In heaven you will not see any young bare-legged girls , smoking cigarettes. We said heaven, di !n‘t vr"1—Snow Hill Square Deal. ABOUT THE COUNTY COURT house here, where the chief amuse ment of officials is that of ♦easing each other. Clerk of Court ‘Lon Hamrick is repeatedly razzech about hi s fondnes. for ham and chicken. Last week in superior court a Hamrick was the defendant 1ft a meat-stealing ease and 1! was s smoke house belonging to a Ham rick froth which he was accused of taking juicy hams and middling Court attendants immediately be gan to tease the Hamrick who was clerk of court, but his explana.am In reply soon ended the by-play: 'A Hamrick.” he said, ‘‘either has his ham. or has to have It.” Must Take ( are Of The Folks. Some weeks back The Star pub lished a list of Shelby men whose lives are heavily jnsured. Among the half dozen or so whose lives arv insured for $50,000 or more was the. name of H Clay Cox. Shelby's mas ter punster and chairman of the Republican party tor the section. A day or two later a friend of Cox met him on the -street and made some remark about his life being insured for $50,000. The friend, by the way. was a Democrat. “Well, I admit that is a rather stiff insurance policy for a man of my circumstances to carry," Ccx said, “but. another way you look at It, I have a wife and a large fam ily which I must provide for. in ease something happens, and when I think how many Democrats I must come in contact with in my work I IT'S RIPPING GOOD NEWS The dumbbells are not all dead yet; a new furniture clerk in a nearby town, when told by a prospective lady customer that she wanted somethin}; nice in oil for her dining room, re plied : “Certainly Ma’am, would you like a landscape or a box of sardines ?” Another bit of good news is the records of Sinclair gas and oil. There is no other gas or oil that has es tablished a reputation of such calibre for consistent superiority. You must use these products to be able to enjoy their advantages. Cleveland Oil Co. Distributors reckon I'm doing the thing by my folks." Thus ended another lion. only fair conversa Shclb.v Shaving*. A Star leader who inspects Rob ert Ripley's bclteve-it-or-not car t oohs In’the daily papers asks that it be reported to Brother Ripley that a motorist in climbing Mt, Mitchell in his car must cross the i .nne bridge twice while going up. And if you're a doubter, drive up end see .... Coal dealers ought to do something about this announce ment in a Shelby drug store of a Rutherfordton dance in which it is stated that, “the hottest dance or chestra in the country" will per form for the evening, and part of the morning, too .... A story whis pered about the alleys in Shelby ever the week-end had it that a cer tain young married lady on Hallo we'en night dolled herself up in one of her husband's suits (he was out of town.),- tucked her boyish bob under one of his hats, Joined In the Hallowe'en gaily around tire court square and had a dale with anoth er young lady said to have been an acquaintance of her husband—the husband may still be out of town . . . . . Hornbuckle, the boxer sent Lo prison here last week for killing a man. is said to have been one of the two handsomest men ever tried in a local court. The other Adonis was sent to the roads some years back for stealing an automobile . . . Society gossip has it that feminine teachers in Shclb.v this year arc | discovering, to their grief <?), that I Shelby isn't, the matrimonial mar | ket.lt Held the reputation of being when they applied lo the school board, and all because, no doub,. too many teachers came here before them and practically eliminated the lupply of eligible* . . . Wonder if George Gcttys, Ellenboros cotton picking champion, couldn't yo-vo better than Shelby’s champion yo j oer could pick cotton.The winning advertising slogan of las! week was that ‘‘Make summe r spend the winter in' your home" used bv a local firm in advertising a heat I « Not If Up Knew It. A naval dignitary had a beautiful daughter. A young officer, with no resources but his pay. fell in 'love with her and asked the old gentle man for her hand. Tlie father at one taxed hint vitli the fact that he had only his pay. hardly enough to keep him in white cloves and burnish his brass but tons “Well. sir. what you say is true, hut when you married you were only a midshipman, with even a ;maller salary than mine. How did you get along?" asked the officer, believing he had made the most diplomatic of defences. But the crafty old sea-dog thundered' '•! lived on my father-in-iaw for the first 10 years, but I'll be hanged if •ou are going to do it!" wi nave hum T h e d f or d ’ a Black-Draught for years in our family. I can highly recom mend it for many ailments. We take it for cold* and for con stipation. T have four children, and 1 give it to them. When my little girl geta bilious. give Black-Draugh t, and day or i When she ail right two. in or "Sometimes hare indigestion from improper headache. have lift take Black-Draught. always feel fresh and have after more energy have E. taken it Mm Reich, 2215 East First Street Austin, Texas. Try Star A4v< MARRIAGES FALL OFF IN THE STATE Marriages And Divorces In Slate Drop In 1928 From Total Percentage In 1927. North Carolina suffered a 3:7 per rent decrease in the total numner of marriages in 1928 from total of lf'27, according to a report on mar riages and divorces for the United States, released by the department or commerce at Washington. The report showed that 21,373 couples were united in the state in 1928, and 22,204 were married in 1927. In North Carolina there were 7.3 marriages for every 1,000 popu lation in 1928 and in 1927 a 7.7 ratio was shown, representing a decrease of .4 per cent. The report indicated further that there were in North Carolina in 1928 13.3 marriages for every divorce. Nevada had the greatest increase in the number of marriages, hav ‘.ng a percentage of 73.8 and Flor ida suffered the greatest decrease ot all the states, with a decrea-w jf '.5 0 per cent. In 1928 North Carolina courts gave divorce decrees to 1,509 cou ples; in 1927, the numher was 1,612 representing a decrease In divorces of two per cent. The total number of annulments in the state was 29 both In 1927 and 1928. Vermont led the list hi the per centage of increase of divorces, with a rate of 54.1, and the District of Columbia had the record in the percentage of decrease of divorces in 1928, with a percentage of 30.8. In the entire United States *nere were 1X82,497 marriages in 1928 as compared to 1,201,053 in 1927. Those figures represent a decrease of 18, 556 marriages, or 1.5 per cent. Dur ing the year 1928 there were 195,939 divorces granted in the United States, as against 192,037 in 192 f, or a two per cent increase. There were 4,226 marriages annulled in the United States in 1928. as comnarcd with 4,255 in 1927. Star Advertising Pays Young People Meet At Mt. Sinai Nov. 8 The B. Y. P. U. district meeting of group one will hold its quarterly meeting at Mt. Sinai November 8, Trlday night before the second Sun day. at 7:30. The program follows: Devotional—Miss Libby McCurry Greetings, by the pastor Rev. Rush Fadgett. Response, Miss Lola Mar tin. Special music. Talks. The B. Y. P. U. general organiza tion, Mrs. L. H. Ledford. What Daily Bible Readings mean to our lives. Miss Sue Davis. Special music. Playet, “Farmer Brown's Conver sation to the Doctrine of Steward ship.” Adjournment. Spindale Has Tax Of Only Ten Cents Forest City.—At a meeting of the mayor and board of al dermen of the town of Spindale. Mie tax rate for that munici pality was lowered ten cents on the hundred dollar valuation. York Yells Out For Pied Piper York, S. C.—York county wants a Fied Piper, with a lute and a flute end a gay too-toot, and whatever other accessories may be held es sential to ridding this town of rats. Big rats, little rats, but all sharp toothed rats, have been making life a misery for house-wives and store keepers here of late. One merchant trapped over 100; others report a catch of several a night. But the rodents’ raids go on. Damage is estimated in hundreds of dollars. The city council is likely to have the matter placed before it at its next meeting, it is understood. 1 INDY’S EXPLORATION HAVE LITTLE VALUE University, Va.—Dr. James C. Bardin, professor of Spanish in the University of Virginia and student t.f the Mayan civilizations, said .n a talk here that the airplane ex plorations of Colonel Lindbergh of Maya ruins, have no scientific val ue. In pointing out what he said was the need of “debunking" much that has been done and said in the name of American archeology. Dr. Bardin told of several trips he made to the Yucatan to study Mayan languages. He described his explorations at Tu luum, Cobia. and other ruined cities photographed by Colonel Lindbergh which he said were represented a3 having been previously undiscover ed by the white man or not visit'd by him in generations. That a former Jail-bird has i. 1 pathy for imprisoned creatureT'wal illustrated by-er^t. Louts burglar a * few nights ago. He took $160 from the home of Sam Zummo and be-« fore leaving released the pet canary from its cage. — Dr. Charlie H. Harrill — — Dentist — Office in Judge Webb Bldg. Over Stephenson Drug Co. Office Phone 530, Residence 630 SHELBY, N. C. rRUCKINfi CAREFUL MOVING Yes! We move baggage and other personal belongings aa ' carefully as you would trans fer them yourself if you could. There’s-little chance of break age when our conscientious moving men get on the job. We employ n o “baggage smashers!” For safety’s sake pall us when there’s moving , to be done. S. M. MORRISON We asked an even thousand motorists a single question "WHAT DO YOU EXPECT A GASOLINE TO DO?" * . . A thousand different replies—but they all boiled down to these six composite requirements: "To start quicker" "To reduce knocking" "To give quicker pick-up" "To lessen gear shifting" "To supply* the greatest possible "To possess high-test qualities af amount of smoother power" no advance in price7 AND THEN ,WE PRODUCED THE NEW-PROCESSED "STANDARD" GASOLINE., an ideal all’round gasoline 1 * % *\v-. ‘ BLAST FURNACES—so hot they would wither yourhand in on instant —heat the raw stock before it passes into these huge towers to be literally wrung clean of its pure, crystal-clear high-test gasoline. More efficient." A fuel designed deliberately to give a wider, more flexible performance range. The best . popular-priced gasoline on the market. To make it, our experts installed a new cracking process. In itself the very latest word in refining methods. In all, it took almost a year of patient experimentation and work—countless laboratory and road tests—before a single drop of the new-processed "Standard” was put, on sale.* The laboratory tests were excellent. But the road tests are truly amazing. We knew it was a good gasoline. But we didn’t know how good. And now v/e want YOU to find out for yourself its superiority.! Test it on gny one or all counts against any other ^"non-premium" gasoline on the market. Regardless of weather conditions, of roads, trcfffic, long or short trips, we want you to try it. We know you will find this a truly, remarkable "smoother" gasoline. On sale today. Everywhere at the "Standard" pumps. No advance in price.! CAREFUUY SEALED for your proteclion/'Stondard" lank care can not bo oponod nor their cargoes tampered with while in transit. \ TRAINLOADS OF SUPER POWER leave the "Stand* ard" refineries every hour. Although "Standard" refineries cover 2,950 acres "Standard"popularity keeps these great plants running day and night. fcfc STANDARD GASOLINE «w NEW-PROCESSED HIGH-TEST -— — - ■ ■■ .. r-tr t:"r ■ ;■ ,r ■ 1 y,T " —-—
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