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RAMBLIN' BILL IS IN PHOJIX AGAIN Native Cleveland Man Now Living In Rich Man's Winter Time Playground. Editor of The Star: I am writing this from Phoenix, the capita! of the state and incid entally one of the largest cities in the state. It Is also one of the fast est growing cities In the U. S. Two years ago there were hardly forty thousand within the city limits. To day there are more than sixty thou sand and It Is planned to take in more city limits. Maricopa county, of which Phoenix, is the county seat has more than two hundred tnou sand population, in fact this county contains half the population of the entire state, of Arizona. For a number of years Los An geles, California, has advertised Phoenix and the state of Arizona as a suburb. In not the distant future Phoenix Is going to turn the tables and claim Loe Angeles as one of its suburban towns. Los Angeles is 493 miles away. Three hours by plane and twelve hours by automobile or train. This is no distance at all nowadays. Phoenix is the winter resort and playground for many eastern capi talists. It contains one of the larg est and most expensive hotels in the southwest, vis: “The Westward Ha” They claim that a suite of rooms at this hotel costa hram $100 to $200 per day. or what have you? I can not vilify this because X do not stop at this hostcrly and cannot boast of playing golf with Rocke feller, Ford, nor Morgan. They grow nearly everything that yon eaa mention In the Salt River Valley which 1# irrigated by the waters hum Roosevelt dam the old est irrigation project In the state and no doubt the largeet single ir rigation project in the country. The chief industries in the Salt River Valley, is oranges and grape fruit growing, limes, lettuce, dairy ing, cattle, sheep and all-round general faming poultry raising and baataloupas. Several crops of vari ous things are grown every year. The climate is mild In the winter and hotter than hadee during the summer months. The altitude is only twelve hundred feet. The soil Is a dark sandy loan and very rich requiring no fertilizer. The people In the city and sur rounding towns make their living in the business world, that s nine out of every ten of them and the tenth one Is a bootlegger. There are more bootleggers In Phoenix, Ari zona to the square inch than there are in New York City. And every family, almost manufactures their own home brew and think nothing of it If there la any business man or other In Phoenix that does not drink X have not met them. This is a broad statement and I'll admit I do not know all the population per sonally, but have never seen a Phoe nix man refuse a drink yet and I lived here far three years since 1*2$ and previous to this trip, The stuff they sell hare would make one man murder his mother in-law and the other fellow might want to hug and kiss me. You can not ten In advance Just how one of these drinks will act It has differ ent effects on different persona An old friend gave me a drink Satur day night and in twenty minutes I 'was at a public dance hall stepping off Jazs with a red headed 1 dy that weighed no less than two hun dred pounds. After the second drink I felt like going to church and the third drink made me go to bed. It’s terrible stuff and X have found that it's not the right tonic far a fellow like me who has been living next door to Mexico where they sell bonded stuff. *• M****** 4UQ W1IW> JWU UUU1U M banded stuff here end gave me *ba phone number of what he term ed the most reliable bootlegger In the state. He brought me a bottle that wae labelled “Johnny Walker* and had a stamp that looked like a government stamp and charged me eleven dollars for it. I decided later that It was manufactured right here in Phoenix from carbolic acid, to bacco fulce and denatured alcohol, and strychnine. I also found that the word “bonded” come from the bootlegger being out on band. People here seem to have more respect for a good bootlegger than they have for lawyers and doctors back home. If one Is caught and Jailed there are always two to take his place. Personally I would like to see every maker of poison In prison for life, but a good honest bootlegger who sells good stuff he ought to he given a medal However, those de savers of such medals are few and far between. I am planning to locate in P.ioe nix for the winter and will move my family here in the near future. I wae going to tel you all the bad points about an Insurance agent In my next article, but since I have de cided to follow that profession this winter. X will not divulge his secrets of trade. Prom time to time I will acquaint you with the various curiosities that I happen to observe in tills part o! the world. Many folks, I presume, think that I am very foolish for rambling over the world, fa a rolling stone gath m ne mow, even though it does get a heck of a good polish. I t&fe rot especially seeking the moss. 1 aad to chase the bugs awhile and having conquered them, decided hat I would continue to roam for a few more years, and I never rode a freight or burned a meal yet. Sincerely, RAMBLING BILL. 337 N. 2nd Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 19, 1929. Uncle Sam Biggest Employer In World Washington—Uncle Sam Is the greatest employer In the world. The new official register of the United States for 1929 shows 587.665 work ers arc now employed by the gov ernment through civil service. The register takes into considera tion only employes in the executive branch of the government and does 1 not Include hundreds of thousands ; of others In the legislative, judicial or military services. In the federal executive service 63,904 are employed in the District of Columbia and 523,761 in the field. Of the total number 82,501 are women. The post office department has the greatest number of employes with 314,795 under fcivil service, while the treasury department ranks sec ond with 53,094 and the navy and war departments rank third and fourth, respectively, with 50,575 and 47,267. In ten departments In Washing ton, mow women are employed than men but in the field service men predominate. Protection Wanted. Mrs. Mose Johnson, whose mar ital party was anything but smooth, walked Into an Insurance office and inquired, “Does you all hab any of dat fire assurance heah?” “We do," a clerk replied. ' What do you want insured?” "Mah husband.” was the reply. “Then you don’t want fire Insur ance,” smiled the clerk as he reach ed for another application form "What you want is a life insurance policy.” “No Ah don’t!” Mrs. Johnson ex claimed. “Ah wants fire assurance. Dat nigger's been fired fo’ times in the last two weeks. NOTICE OF SERVICE OF SUM MONS BY PUBLICATION, AND WARRANT OF ATTACHMENT. North Carolina, County of Cleveland. In the superior court, Hunt and Hewitt, plaintiffs, vs. Coran C. Wright and D. D. Wright, defend ants, and Chancey Dalton, garn ishee. The defendants above named will take notice that a summons in the above entitled action was issued on the 20th day of November, 1928, against said defendants by the clerk of the superior court of Cleve land county. North Carolina, claim ing the sum of $484.08, with inter est from October 15, 1927 at the rate of six per cent, representing the balance due on note executed by the defendants to the plaintiff;, and dated May 1, 1927, which summons Is returnable on the 31st day of December, 1929, at the office of the clerk of superior court for Cleveland county. The defendants will also take notice that a warrant of at tachment was Issued by said clerk of the superior court on the 21st day of November, 1929, which war rant is returnable on the 31st day of Decembe -, 1929, at the time and place named for the return of the summons, when and where the de fendants are required to appear and Answer or demur to the complaint, or the roller demanded will be granted. This the 21st day of November, 1929, A. M. HAMRICK, Clerk Superior Court. Newton dr Newton. Attys. Run-Down "About seven years ago. I wo all rundown, worn-oat . and never Mt good,” f eeye Mr*. Harry Can trell, of Cape Girardeau, Mo. "A chair would be ■ay time then ay work. "Iwuntind when I would. aria* in the morning. In stead of being rested, 1 felt ter rible. "At last, moth* or told me to take Cardui, and X did. After the first bottle. I Five Rutherford Football Boys Hurt, Negress Killed In Crash Negress Killed And Five Youths Injured, Some Believed Fatally. Rutherfordton.—Five members of the Central high school football squad are in a hospital here re viving treatment for injuries, :nd Harriet Smith, a negress, is dead, an i result of an automobile wreck ivhich occurred two miles west of Rutherfordton on highway number JO early Friday night. Returning From Game. The boys are Robert Scruggs, Jennings Yelton, Aubrey Clay, Cwynn Twitty and Billy Jones, rhey were returning from Header ionville, where they played football, vhen the sedan in which they were iding struck and then collided with i large truck approaching from the >pposite direction. The sedan and truck were dam igcd, and the buggy was demolish ;d. John Weston, a negro riding in the buggy, escaped uninjured, but his companion, Harriet Smith, whose age was given at 08, was Will ed, and the mule's leg was breken. Slick Highway. The truck was driven by Grady Jones, accompanied by Grady Ycl ton, Robert Scruggs, son of P, Scruggs, of Rutherfordton, was driv ing the sedan. The wreck was attributed partly to the fact that the negro had no light on his buggy. It was raining at the time, the highway was slick, and when young Scruggs attempted to put on brakes, the car skidded and he lost control of the machine, it was said. An X-ray examination was made at the hospital to determine the ex tent of the injuries received oy the five boys. It was feared that several of them were hurt so seriously that they might not recover. Star Advertising Pays Veterans Notice This Announcement Headquarters of the veterans bu reau of foreign wars issues a bul letin warning all ex service men who have not yet applied for their ad justed compensation certificates fiat the time limits for such applica tions is January 1. Twice in the past congress has extended the limit, but the V. F. W. doubts that this will be done again. There are still more than a mil lion World War veterans who have not applied for their certificates. The average certificate is worth about $1,000 giving the veterans a paid-up 20-year endowment insur ance policy. Ex-service men who wish to take advantage of this op portunity and have not yet done so have only about six weeks left in which to act. No Argument, ‘■Josh, the way you stare at the limbs of these shameless hussies, one would think you had never seen legs before." ‘‘Jess what I been thinkin’ my self, Maria,” agreed Joeh, ft . QUEEN CITY COACH LINES [j FOR, ASHEVILLE, CHARLOTTE, WILMINGTON P1 A YFTTFVIf f P1 FOR ASHEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—9:45 a. m.; 1:45 p. m.; 3:45 m.; 8:45 p. m. FOR CHARLOTTE AND INTERMEDIATE »' POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—7:50 a. m.; 10:50 ft. at.; 12:50 p. m.; 2:50 p. m.; 4:50 p. m.; 6:50 p. m.; 9:50 p. m. FOR WILMINGTON AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—10:50 a. m.; 2:50 p. ns. 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