Latter Comet From
Old Resident Here
The following letter, received in
Shelby by Mr». Frank L. Hoyle,
from her brother, Mr. B. B. W»lker.
written from Houghton, La., tells of
the death there of Mrs. Etna Bled
eoe, widow of Rev. David W, Wray,
which occurred on the fifteenth of
November, the day the letter was j
written.
All those mentioned in the com
munication are well known in this
section of North Carolina, where j
they have many relative* an6 j
friends.
Haugnton, jua., hoy. in, ’xas
In 1867 Rev. David W. Wray, his
wife, a slater of Dr. Hunter, of
South Carolina, and their first born,
Samuel l>., three years old, left
Shelby for Texas. They left beh'nd
Jim and John Wsay, brothers, the
latter who will be remembered ai
treasurer of Cleveland county, end
others of the Wray family who were
among the builders of Cleveland
county.
After the death of Mrs. Wray,
who left two eons, Samuel and Will,
tha latter born In Texas, In 1878.
Rev. Mr. Wray In his ministerial
work, located and married the sec
ond time a very accomplished lady
of Shereveport, La., the daughter of
tha Baptists minister. Rev. ATray
died. October 33, 1897, in Bossier
parish. Tha two sons Sam and Will
Wray, who live 80 miles north of
Fort Worth, In Durant, Oklahoma,
drove through and attended the
lunersl.
These men are large land holders,
and have engaged in farming and
cattle raising. Mr, Sam Wray told
me one year he sold one men, (a
Texan) 24,000 bushels of corn at ten
cents per bushel. In addition t.v this
he has eight married children liv
ing arouhd Durant. These gentle
men would be glad to hear irom
some member of the Wray lami’y.
with information of kin, of which
they have no knowledge other tnan
Uncle Jim, John and Aunt Kate, but
who she married they have no
knowledge.
I could recall one for his inioi mo
tion that was beautiful, and that
was Miss Lou Wray, but when tie
inquired who her father was I had
forgotten. When I return to Slielbv
few are the people I knew in my
childhood. When I walk the streets
of Shreveport, where I once knew
everyone, I now seldom see anyone
I know. And thus time passes.
E. E. WALKER.
Improving.
"Did Ood, make you, dad?'
"Certainly, sonny.”
‘Did he make me toot”
"Of course, little man. Why?”
“Well, he’s doing better right
along.*
BRINGING HOME
THE TURKEY
is a good thing if you don't
“bring homo*’ tho wrong
turkey; a young lady sten
ographer who had written
a letter to her young man
during business hours sent
the wrong letter to a busi
ness firm which stated
they were shipping them
a carload of love and kisses
instead of the axle grease
that they ordered.
It’s a case of “bringing
home the turkey” when you
use Sinclair gas and Opa
line oil for superior satis
faction. Judge these pro
ducts by the quality and
purity that makes their
performance possible. We
suggest that you use these
products exclusively and
you will thank us for the
suggestion.
Cleveland
Oil Co.
Distributors
Sharkey Visits Holy Cross Shrine
With his Afflicted Daughter !
The Shrine in Malden, Mass., is still drawing thousands to the grave of
Father Fatriek Power, where mlraeulous cures are reported daily. Jack
Sharkey, well-known figure of the pugilistic world, visited the grave a
few days ago with his four-year-old daughter, who was born blind in one
eye. The heavyweight is shown above embracing his daughter while he
hopes that she may be cured.
InMrnatlaad Ntwtrsal
Shelby Highs Closed
Season With A Win
Over Kings Mountain
Hal Farris, Closing; High School
Career, Scores Three Touchdowns
In 40 To 0 Victory.
The present football season
was not such a glorious year for
the orange-Jerseyed Shelby high
eleven, but In their final game
of the schedule Friday the
Morrismen reached their peak
In a blase of glory by playing a
remarkably, sensational contest
to win from Kings Mountain, in
the county’s annual grid classic,
by a 40 to 0 score.
Playing on the eleven which
fought like ^championship team to
make one last stab for glory before
home town fans were a half dozen
or so youngsters ending the.? ca
reer in Shelby football togs and
head and shoulders above the lot
was Hal Parris, acting-captain and
fullback, who gave one of the most
brilliant backfteld exhibitions ever
staged here by a Shelby high ba’l
toter to score three of the six
touchdowns, featured In the »<:ora
and to otherwise make himself ob
noxious to the Chrlstenbury eleven.
Whole Team Flashy.
But the hard-driving blonde back,
giving Shelby high his best on his
last day. was not by himself in
giving thrills to a crowd that shlv
vered In the chilling rain to watch
the contest. ''Purp'* Barret;, low
charging halfback who alterna ed
with Farris in ripping the .-tings
Mountain line to shreds and then
ripping on through for touchdowns,
was at his best form of tho sen. on
And for the first time this year “O
See" Connor, the kid brother of
Max. one of Shelby's great half
backs, sent fans scurrying down the
sidelines as did his brother of oid
by shaking clear of the line and
hula-hulaing beautifully for thirty
yards through a broken field to
make a touchdown possible on the
next play. Johnny Hendrick gener
al led the eleven with fine Judgment
and Rippy tossed or caught passes
resulting In three of the touch
downs. In fact a new passing com
bination, or one reversed, Farris to
Rippy had Kings Mountain at the
short end of a 19-0 score at the half,
But it was up In the line, a line
that was alternately hot and cool
this year, that the best'football ex
hibition was given. Brown, btv red
headed tackle and guard, kepi fans
watching him more than they did
the backs as he tossed Kings Moun
tain backs for losses, recovered
fumbles, carried the ball himself on
fake plays, and did everything a
Stood linesman should do as K.ielby
hasn’t seen it done in some several
years. Starring with Brown In he
forward wall were Logan, cen-;r,
who gave a fine account of him
self while the regular ball snapper,
Capt. Hubert Wilson, stood on the
sidelines Injured: and Max Put
nam, rangy tackle, who seemed to
be just finding himself at the nrt of.
stopping opposing plays. Out on a
wing berth '‘Shorty" McSwaln, one
of the best ends turned out by Mor
ris, was singing his swan song in
characteristic McSwaln fashion end
late in the game a wet field was the
oply thng which kept him from
carrying the ball 3S yards on a fake
play for a touchdown. But licking
stars, oth:r than Parris and Brown
whose play kept a crowd atafedUa
the game out in bitter weather, isn’t
fair, for the entire team played as
it hasn't played this year, and >u a
Veteran Returns to
Columbia Quintet
Eddie Obey, one of the veterans of
last season, has reported for basket
ball at Columbia University. Obey
is shown as he appeared in action
on the university campus. 1
fashion that would have change^
many of the season's scores. Yet it
was a young and inexperienced
team and in the final game it had
absorbed just enough footba'l to
really b^gin playing.
Kings Mountain threatened to
score only once and that threat was
short-lived as Shelby intercepted a
pass after a speedy little Kings
Mountain back returned a kick for
30 yards. Shelby's first touchdown
came from a long, high pass Rippv
to Farris. Farris then threw one to
Rippy for the second touchdown
and repeated the same fomul* for
the third'. Barrett dived and slid
through the heart of the line lor the
fourth, and Farris, plunging tike a
battering ram. dived through the
line for the fifth and sixth.
Our Gambling BUI.
Gastonia Gazette.
The amazing statement that $4 -
000,000.000 changes hands annually
in the United States through com
mercialized gambling is made lrt the
current North American Review ly
Howard McLellan.
McLellan itemizes the nation's
gambling bUl as follows:
Baseball pools, *500,000,000: policy
games (lotteries based on dally to
tals of bank clearings, etc.> *300,000,
0000; race track betting, *1,000,000
000; handbook betting on races,
*800,000.000; cards, dice, and similar
games of chance, *1,000,000,00",
bucket shops *500.000,000.
It to impossible far the average
man to estimate the accuracy of
these figures of course. But if th.-y
represent anything like the truth—
and McLellan asserts that they are
an under-estimate, if anything—our
gambling problem is a far greater
one than most of us have supposed
|
! Five sons and a daughter of
1 Major J. T, Halliman of Lewisham.
I Eng., are practicing physicians.
Senator Assails
Plants In South
Wheeler Says Mill Workers, At Pres
ent Waffs, Cannot Contribute
to Any Prosperity.
Raleigh.—The textile industry
‘'which has been at forded the
highest tariff protection, nrovlded
lower agerage conditions for the
workers employed in It than in any
single important industry of -iml
lar proportions in this country'1
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Mon
tana declared in a statement re
ceived here of resons for athomugh
nnd immediate investigation of the
textile field.
The statement of Mr. Wheeler,
who led the fight In the senate foi
an Investigation of the textile in
dustry on the United States wes
sent to Milton A. Abernathy, pres'
dent of the Democratic cluo of
North Carolina State college.
Textile workers, Mr. Wheeler
said, can not with their standard
of wages, contribute anything to
promote their prosperity or com
munity well being.
Conditions Worse.
“Notwithstanding the passage of
the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill in
1922, giving an Increase in the tar
iff schedules on textiles, the fact is
that since that time conditions have
grown steadily worse” the state
ment continued, “Reductions have
been made in the wages of employ
es, and in many Instances the em
ployes have been called upon to
double and triple the amount of
work.
"A preliminary investigation by
the committee on manufactures
shows that child labor for children
of 14 and over is not uncommon in
the southern cotton mills because
the wages paid the average adult
will not support the family in de
cency without the child’s wages.
While night work for children un
der 16 has been officially abolished,
workers of 16 are permitted to work
11 and 12 hours at night.
“It has been suggestecUthat one
of the reasons for this condition has
been over capitalization as in Mie
case of Jenckes Spinning company.
Another reason would seem to be
the fact that many of the ’ extile
manufacturers make their r.a'es
through selling agencies, or com
mission houses, and that these agen
cies sell the goods regargdless of
price in order to make the commis
sions. and that in many instances
friends or relatives of the board of
directlors are In control of the com
mission houses or selling agencies.
Average Wage.
“The average weekly earnings ot
the workers in the cotton mill:, as
compiled by the United States bu
reau of labor statistics are: Alabama
$10.19; Connecticut $18.40; Georgia
$11.73; Maine $13.81; Massachusetts
$16.47; New Hampshire $18.14. New,
York $18.44; North Carolina $12.23;
Rhode Island $18.93; "-South Caro
lina $9.56 and Virginia $11.23.
“These conditions should not be
permitted to exist in a country that ;
boasts of the greatest civilization
the world has ever seen and of the
greatest prosperity.”
Wife And Her Lover
Held In Man’s Death
Confession Wm Made, However,
Before Wounded Man Died.
Wife Also Implicated.
Ctlicago.—Mrs. William O'Brien
and Samuel H. Dorr today faced
charges of slaying the woman's nus*
band who died from wounds vnich
Dorr confessed he inflicted Wednes
day in an ambush in the O’Brien
home.
All Wednesday, Mrs. O’Brien in
sisted she shot her husband. Later
when confronted by her fathe-, she
changed her story and blamed Dorr.
Without knowing O’Brien had
died. Dorr, an insurance agent who
Is married and owns the apartment
in which he and the O’Briens liv
ed. confessed he ambushed O Brlen.
Police said they believe Mrs.
O’Brlend and Doer had plotted to
kill their respective mates to obtaiu
money from insurance policies, writ
ten by Dorr.
14-CHANCE QUERY (INS)
Edgerton, Minn.—A ring lo.«j "i
years, was restored to Mrs. V/leker
ard because she said the right thing
at the right time. While a tenant
occupying the farm formerly rent
anted by Mrs. Wiekerard was visiting
at her home she asked: “Did any
one ever find a ring on your place?
I lost one there about six years ago,”
Thereupon the visitor pulled tn*
ring from his pocket and told that
he had found it two years ago but
never knew its owner.
A Perfect Mother.'
From Contact.
We have heard mothers dxioH"d
from time immemorial We nave*
loved and praised our own mothers.
We have recalled their never-end
ing- love and devotion When we were
little tots and dwell with them un
der the same roof.
Contrast your own definition of
“a perfect mother.” with the one we
quote: ‘‘A perfect mother doesn't
let her cigarette ashes get mto . ,u
baby's eyes.”
Truly, indeed, the 'old order
cjrwigcth. * • - - -
Quick Blowing.
Prom The Wall Street Journal.
An electric light bulb looto like
a very delicate and refined piece of
work, not to be produced except
with great care and skill. Tho
Gowning Glass Works’ engineers
have, however, solved the problem
of combining speed and accuracy.
The largest of the glass-blowing ma
chines developed by them can blow
from 240 to S00 bulbs a minute, de
pending upon the size. Thus 360.
000 bulbs cr more could be produced
in a 24-hour stretch, using the huge
quantity of 40 to 45 tons of glM*
Compressed air is puffed through
a strip of plastic glass at proper in
tervals. Were it not for machines
capable of this large output man
ufacturers would have difficulty in
meeting the country’s needs of ./ell
over 300,000,000 bulbs annually.
Norris Bowers of Hedgevllle, W.
Va.. was shot and slightly wounded
while using his gun as a dub to kill
a squirrel. |
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Men’s Heels _,1_40c
Ladies’ Half Soles 75c
Heels, Rubber or Leather
25c '
Children’s according to
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Located West Side Victor
Hotel, East Graham St.
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
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t
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$1-89 $2-95
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Dean
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$8.50 to $11 Values
— $4.95 —
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$4.95
up
O'Coats I
ON THE
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$14.95 $17.95
$22.45
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89c up
LUGGAGE
OUTING
PAJAMAS
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WOOL PANTS
2.79
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