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Local Citizens May Organize And Bid On Hotel Property Here (Continued from page one > the hope that the corporation would ' be able to fleet It* other financial obligations .me the property be thus saved to the stockholders, $60,000 Is Still Due. "The hotel did not operate at a profit and he interest on the in debtedness accumulated until on October 15, i029, the debts outstand ing aggregated approximately $135, 000. On that day the building and equipment acre destroyed'by fire. Fire insurance In the sum of $75 000 was carried. This has been col lected &nd (pplied on the Indebted ness thus leaving approximately $60,000 still due. The premium rate was. so high we could not pay for more’ This .uc ebtedness is due The First National Bank of Phllade! phia and <s tcured by a mortg^pe Default has been made in the pay ment and .ill of the property is now being advertised for sale, which sale is to be held in Shelby, January IB, 1930, at 12 o'clock.’’ STRANGE NEGRO DIES ON BASS SETTLE FARM A strange negro came to the home of Fred Orier on the Bass Suttle farm west of Shelby a few days ago and after a short stay be went off and returned. 8oon there after he took sick and died. Coro ner T. C. Eskridge and County Aud itor A. E. Cline went to the Orier home this morning and found the negro to be from Bishopvllle, S C What A Billion Means. (From The Rocky Mountain News.' It is Just as easy to say billion as million. The word lias been spoken frequently and fatr'llarly during the recent affairs In Wall street. And a public grown used to large figures hasn’t been so much impressed. For many days recen.lv the stock mar ket fluctuated by billions one way or the other. Charles Ransom, lumber man of Memphis, Term., turns the micro scope of practical Imagination on a billion dollars and dramatises It. Here Is how It figures out: If a billion had been accumulated 500 years before Christ, had not been allowed to draw interest and had been paid out at the rate of $1,000 a day every day since, up to and including November 21, 1020, there would still be $112,868,000 ieft. Cleveland Cloth Mill Personals (Special to The Star.) Mr. Sip Smith visited his parents in Newton last Sunday. Miss Esoltne Wilson has left for Greenville, 8. C. to spend the Christmas holidays. Miss Lorle Walker will arrive the last of the week to spend the Christmas holidays with her par ents. Miss Walker is a student of the G. W. C. of Greenville, 8. C. Mrs. Lawrence Pettigue and Mr*. Teech Beamon motored to Fallston Monday afternoon. Mrs. B. Teele visited Mrs. L Miller Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. Cashlon and | family will leave Sunday morning i for McAdenville to vlatt their par enta for the Christmas holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Finney and their daughter. Moselle, will leave Satur day to spend Christmas holidays in Virginia. Miss Sally Allison will leave Sat urday to spend the holidays In Gas tonia. Eleven pieces of silverware were found In the stomach of a Florida boy, says an Item. That would be if those were percolators. Christmas Wonting and a FINE NEW John M. Best Christmas Shoppers’ BEST FRIEND The Store that is headquarters for Gifts. We have in—* just arrived for the holiday season—a car of Living Room Suites. One of these suites would make HER happy indeed Christmas morning. Also we have of course— a large assortment of both DINING ROOM and BED ROOM SUITES. And in less expensive items, such things a8 Beautifully patterned FLOWERED FLOOR LAMPS. We suggest, too, a DESK, a SMOKING STAND, AN ORNAMENTAL CHAIR, A SEWING STAND, or a CON SOLE SET. And don't forget we sell the famous RCA Radio. And there is no more appreciable gift than this. ..— TERMS IF YOU DESIRE SUCH — John M. Best Furniture Company Store Open Evening# Until 9 O’Clock ’Til Christmas. Nagging Wives, Judges Declare \ Drive Many Husbands To Evil i Atlanta.—Naming wires were re- | minded by the Georgia supreme { court that “it te better to dwell tn \ the corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman and to a wide house," In affirming the Judg ment of the Fulton superior court, granting a complete divorce to Ed gar F. Rom from Mr*. Cora M. Bos* Robs had complained that his wife's nagging caused him to live in i fear room of his home, doing his own cooking and making oh own bed lor two years. In addition to citing the Proverbs, the high judiciary quoted the fol lowing from a decision written by Justice Hill several years ago: “From the days of Socrates and Anttppe awn and women have known what u> meant by nagging, although philology cannot define U or legal chemistry resolve It Into Its element*. Humor cannot soften It or wit divert It. Prayers avail nothing and threats are Idle. Soil words but Increase Its velocity and harah ones Us violence. Darkness has for It no terrors and long houri of night draw no drapery of the ! couch around it The chamber when love and peace should dwell be*: cornea an Inferno driving the poor man to the saloon, the rich man to J 1.1s club, and l>oth into the ai ms of j the harlot It takes the sparkle out I of thF*wine of life and turns at | night into ashes the fruits of the t labor of the day.” Hospital Charges For Middle Class People Chapel Hill Weekly. The high cost of hospital treat ment Is a matter of constantly In creasing concern. One Is always seeing alluslcns to it In the news papers, and no half dozen people can gather together that one of them does not have a melancholy tale to tell, out of his own experi ence, of a surplus wiped out, or of forced borrowings, to meet hos pital bill*. “Will Hospitalisation Become Monopoly of Rich and Poor?” Is the headline ov<r an editorial in the Raleigh Times. The text for the subsequent comments Is a recent case reported from Newark, New Jersey. A child in t poor negro family swallowed a pin. At the hospital seven X-ray photographs were tak en before the pin was located In the bronchial tubes near the lungs. The doctors, deciding that an operation was not possible, sought to get the pin out with pincers. A long silver tube was Inserted In the throat with an electric light bulb less than an eighth of an Inch in diameter near the end. Tht7Ugh the Inside of this waa run a second tube bearing the pincers. A flaoroscope had to be used to enable the doctors to watch the movement of the pincers through^the chest wall, and it could be operated only 17 seconds without burning tne cniia. rour times me 17 seconds were not enough. The fifth attempt, was successful. The child stayed in the hospital five months. For ah this expensive service—for the X-ray photographs, for the mgrslng, for the medical at tention, for the maintenance—the hospital received nothing because the patient's family (bad nothing. "Had this been a child of the middle class,” says the Times, "the costs would have Included doctor’s fees, special nurses, and so on, suf ficient to mortgage the family In come for years. Had she been a daughter of the rich a fortune would have teen involved. The Idea of general hospitalisation Is, of course, a fine Ideal toward which to work. But, es In many other phases •of our civilization, one of its great problems is how to avoid grinding as between millstones that portion of the population which will not consent to be considered the ob jects of charity and yet Is not able to pay the high fees mecessary to be demanded If charity is to be served—as it must be.” A few weecs ago we told In these columns of an inquiry being made by the committee on the cost of medical care. This body was form ed at the instance of the American Medical association and it is com posed of somi of the most eminent physicians and laymen In the country. They have set about col lecting all tir.c available data on the subject under the Investigation, and, when this has been done, they hope to mate cuggesttons for reliev ing the burden upon persons of moderate means who must have , hospital serv.ee. As It la a jw the cost of serving j charity patients has to be borne by I pay patients, and that is why the pay pattapt? have to pay so much. John Smith, merchant or teacher or lawyer, goes to the hospital to have his appendix or his gallstones re moved, end when he settles what purports to be his own bill he is also settling the bill of Thomas Jones who was operated on free of charge. But why should this addi tional levy be laid upon John Smith any more than upon other cltlsens who have not had to go to the hos pital at all? Why shouldn't they, as well as he. pay for the operation of the poverty-stricken Jones? The obvious soluti.n of the problem,, then, would seem to be far the the commun'ty as a whole, not merely those who go to the hospi tal, to bear the cost erf the service to charity patients. The trouble is that legislature and boards of com sloners and the town councils will not appropriate enough money, or anything like enough, to meet this cost. We await curiously the sugges tions of the committee on the cost of medical care. It Is difficult to see how they can recommend anything else than greeter outlays from pub lic funds (wh:ch means higher tax ation) and greater benefaction from the rich. Vie think it doubtful, how ever, If the committee's proposals will have any considerable effect upon the act'on of appropriating bodies. After all. people know now. Just as they will know after some committee tells them, that, If enough public money is exjfended upon the contraction and malnten 1 ance of hospitals, this will take care of the charity cases. For the individual, probably the only answer Ilea in health insur ance. Some have adopted this pre caution, but many more have not ! Paying Insurance premiums is un pleasant. It Involves the sacrifice of luxuries and comfort* upon which every normal man sets a high value. But anybody if apt to have to go to the hospital some day—and when that day comes it will be very agree able to pass on the bill to some bloated insurance company in Pliil adelphia or New York or Hartford. At Lutheran Church. Marion street school building. Rev. N. D. Yount, pastor. Sunday school at 10 o’clock. A Christmas pageant at the Sunday school hour. Morning worship 11 o’clock. Sub ject “Announcing the King/' Luther league 6 o’clock. Subject "How Christmas Sets the Whole World Singing. Evening worship 7 o’clock, sub ject “Can People do as they please?' ; The new Soviet postmark slogan is “Think before you kiss.” Con sidering the popularity of whiskers over there, that not only seems ad visable but necessary. The stock market sometimes is bitter to the last drop. Last Call! THE MORRISON REMOVAL SALE, SELLING JEWELRY AT COST AND BELOW WILL BE ON BUT A FEW DAYS LONGER. Wise buyers are taking advantage of this sale to buy fine jewelry for Christmas gifts. There is no more appropriate gift than JEWELRY. And you can buy beau tiful items here for HALF. Morrison’s Jewelry Store Warren St., next door Haines Shoe Store. Holiday Trade Near Peak; Open Nights (Continued from page one ) people from far and near have found out. ‘r.at practically every thing they want can be supplied from theee stores at a reasonable price. Saturday, Monday, then comes Christmas eve and on the eve of Christmas the stores will be open until mldnlf it Then on Christmas day. the storet will be closed as usual, but 4hev will re-open the day after Christmas and begin making preparations lor stock taking and the new year. Cotton Market Cotton wu quoted at noon today on New York exchange: Jan. 16 80, March 17.11. May 17.34, July 17.55, Dec. 16.80. Yesterday's dose; Jan. 10.91, March 17,21. May 17 44, July 17.65, Dec. 10 90 Print cloths In Worth street yes teday about 100,000 pieces late de liveries. hard to get. Sheetings quiet to be thirteen four to thirteen five Look for trading market awaiting eonie new Incentive. CLEVENBURG. The bee silly la a busy fellow, according to a science bulletin. One of these days someone will tell us that a congressman Is busy. Forty Two Mile Chase, Liquor Cat Elmer Robbins end Vernon Cor bin of Splndale were chased O miles early this morning and ap prehended by Officers Prank Sta nley, Tom Sweeny and Marshall Moore near Forest City. They start ed their chase at 4 o’clock this morning near Peeler's store on No. 18 north and followed It through Shelby. Robbins, the owner and driver, waa at the wheel and Cor bin was In the rumble seat with ten gallons of whiskey for the holidays. Both were fined In recorder’s court this morning and fined 4400 each with a suspended sentence ot six months. SMI-LAX’S FAME SPREADING : Hundreds f Weak, Rundown, Underweight Men, Women and ’ Children Amazed at Remarkab!e Results Obtained From SMI I LAX TONIC! 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Bowels start acting normally, entirely re lieving that nervous, uneasy feel ing in the bowels. SMI-LAX TON IC TONES UP THE ENt$RE SYSTEM; GIVES YOU NEW STRENGTH AND VITALITY, and makes you FEEL LIKE YOUR SELF AGAIN. { AT ALL WELL STOCKED DRUG STORES ONLY .... $1.00 S Demand GENUINE SMI-LAX TONIC. There U Absolutely No Substitute. GIFTS FOR ALL _ and— Gifts That Will Please May We Suggest LADIES’ FITTED CASES— LADIES’ FITTED HAT BOXES-* LADIES’ PURSES— LADIES’ MESH BAGS— TOILET SETS— MANICURE SETS— PERFUME SETS— CUTEX SETS— COMPACT SETS— ATOMIZERS— DuBARRY TRAVELUXE— BATH POWDER BATH SALTS— STATIONERY KODAKS— CONGRESS CARDS— (Single and Double) BRIDGE SETS—* '|? 'I • CHRISTMAS CIGARS-* CHRISTMAS CIGARETTES** , LIGHTERS— LIGHTER SETS—* l ' ' • 3 BILL FOLDS— ($1.50 to $8.00.)' GLADSTONE BAGS— MEN’S TRAVEL SETS— MEN’S SHAVING SETS— GOLD LINE CUP SETS— SHEAFFER GIFT SETS— FOUNTAIN PENS & PENCILS— ($1.00 to $18.00.) DESK SETS— .($3.00 to $15.00.) CHRISTMAS CANDY IN BEAUTIFUL GIFT BOX ES AND PACKAGES. Stephenson Drug Co. PHONE NO. 2 —* — SHELBY, N. C.
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