SHELBY, N. C.
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THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC.
& ERNES! HOE*
RENN DRUM
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A. D. JAMES
Entered as second class matter January i. 1903 at the postofftce
At 8heiuy North Carolina under the Act of Congress March I. 1879
We wish to call your attention to the (act that It la and has oeen
our custom to charge five cents per line (or resolutions ot respect,
cards ol thanks arid obituary notices, alter one Heath notice has
been published. This will be strictly adherred to.
It ia now high time to mail New Year cards to those
whom you forgot on the Christmas card list but who did not
forget you.
Fifteen or twenty years ago the community respected
young man who purchased a home; nowadays the young man
who doesn’t own a car is of very little importance. Perhaps
that’s why we hear some talk of hard times.
FRIDAY, DEC. 27, 1929,
TWINKLES
Only 363 more days in which to do your Christmas shop
ping, and juct that many more days in which father may re
plenish the family purse for the next last-minute rush on the
bargain counter*.
Before this reaches the public eye, being written some
what in advance, the Democratic rival for Senator Simmons
may have been named, but. if not, our guess is that he will
be none other than J. W. Bailey. And just who this prospec
tive candidate may bo matters vary li'tle, for those who arc
for the senator will veto for the senator regardless. It all
depends upon how many are against Simmons and how many
arc- for him, not who will contest his seat.
CLEVELAND NOW FURNISHING COTTON
PICKERS FOR CHEROKEE
nrwo WEEKS ago, due to bad weather and a late crop,
Cleveland county farmers were importing, or hiring, im
ported cotton pickers from Eastern Carolina, Georgia, and
Alabama. Along came more bad weather and as the days
slipped by the school children in the majority of the county
schools were out for the holidays and ready to aid in gath
ering in the crop. As a result the labor market was flooded
with cotton pickers—negroes, old and young—-and, according
to press reports, Shelby is now a place wherein farmers of
other counties are seeking pickers. W. H. Poter, a Cherokee
farmer, South Carolina, .according to The Gaffney Ledger,
secured 40 cotton pickers in Shelby last week and advises
other cotton planters of his section that more pickers may
be secured here. When the colored pickers were first im
ported into this county there were those who declared that
the county would rue the day that they came as many of
them would soon be without work and would be depending
upon charity or would be in trouble that would land them
upon the chain gang or in the county jail. Cherokee with a
cotton crop as late or later than crop in this county is taking
away some of them and it is to be hoped that the others
will save enough from their labors to enable them to return
to the sections from which the/ came. Next year, and the
first of Jhat year is just a few days ahead, the fanners of
Cleveland county should determine to raise enough food and
feedStuffs to supply their own wants in addition to producing
North Carolina’s greatest cotton crop. They do not need
any imported labor for that. I
FOR THOSE WHOSE LOT WAS BETTERED,
WE THANK YOU.
S ATURDAY, Monday, Tuesday and even Tuesday night a
^ big-hearted Santa Claus found his way up and down side
streets in Shelby, stopping at this home and that, leaving
here shoes, coal, underwear, medicine, flour and other wants,
and at this home coats, school books, stockings, and other
r.oeds. He was the Santa sent forth by The Star’s Christmas
Shocking fund to which scores of Shelby people contributed.
The fund could have and. perhaps, should have, been larger.
But as it was more than a half hundred homes were made
happv; approximately 2C0 people were made to realize that,
despite the depths to which poverty and unfortunate circum
stances had pitched them, it w»? Christmas.
Just how much jov The Star’s annual fund brought to
unfortunate Shelby horr.ss it is impossible to relate. We wish
that every contributor could know ju:t what his or her con
tribution helped to do.
A few incidents of how the fund helped should not be
amiss. In Shelby this week there was a home which just
a few years back was a happy gathering place for a happy
family. A year or so hack the husband and father lost his job.
He drifted from this to that with his pay check decreasing
with each change, and finally he v;as without work. He left
Shelby seeking work elsewhere, a place to start all over again
where he might get a foothold and bring his family. But
work was hard to find. Back home, here in Shelby, the wolf
was at the door. A bright young girl and her youthful
^brother who had been making excellent marks in school fac
ed the day when they could not go to school at all because
they did not have the necessary books and were without j
clothes. At home their baby sister was also without clothes,
and a refined mother, who had never known duties other
than rearing and caring for her children and her household,
faced the problem of supporting a family of four. At a local
mill with full hours she could not. earn more than $9 per
week. On that meagre sum she found it a task to provide
enough food and fuel to keep her youngsters fed and warm.
There waa little chance for Santa to visit her home. She felt
like telling—and perhaps did—her eager-eyed, expectant
children that there would be no Santa for them this year.
Then one afternoon, the day beforo Christmas, The Star’s
Santa, carrying necessities provided by contributors to the
Empty Stocking fund, knocked at her door and left food,
.fuel, cloth ins ancl a check with which the mother might pur
chase school books and other needs. This case was discovered
when an investigator for the fund found the little girl crying
because mother was begging so hard in her prayers for
Santa to visit them. Santa did visit them, and who of those
who helped him call could for a minute begrudge that which
they gave to make his call possible?
Last Sunday a mother and three children walked into a
local church. The children were clean, their clothing was
clean but none too new and not of the latest style. Before
the little group, for which the reverent mother had patched,
scrubbed and ironed so that they might attend church serv
ices, left the church a kindly person learned that the father
had been sick for months and that the mother had informed
the youngsters that it would be impossible for Santa Claus
to call at their home this year. Poor, disillusioned, misty
eyed tots! But Santa did go to see them. Thanks to a group
of women in the church and one who made the case clear
to The Star’s Christmas fund committee Santa called at that
home and left necessities along with a packed stocking of
goodies for each child. Can any of you begrudge for a min
ute the part you played in making this possible?
This same Santa called upon 50 to 60 homes in and
about Shelby, making it Christmas time for approximately
200 peoni'v
For the tots whose stockings were not found empty
Christmas morn, for weary, overburdened mothers, and for
sick fathers, The Star thanks one and all who made it pos
sible. May life be the brighter for you.
Nobody’s
Business
GEE McGEE—.
Hoover Prosperity Continued.
Here's hoping that Mr. Hoover's
plan to maintain (?) prosperity
(??) will pan out. The towns and
the cities and the counties and the
states that are not already bonded
to the limit of the law, should call
special meetings of legislatures and
have all the bonds issued that can
possibly be sold, loaned, or hypothe
cated. It won't be any trouble to
spend the money thus raised. And
we’ll be employed!
This arrangement Is entirely sat
isfactory to me. But as I am not
kin to any politician or office-hold*
er on highway commissioner, I guess
I will have to starve. ... as I won’t
be able to get a job. It takes just
oodles and oodles of jobs to get the
relatives and friends fixed, and
there ain't many things the common
every-day man can do, except haul
sand and dig ditches.at a
dollar a day.
f Mr. Ford has already promised to
raise the wages of all his employ
ees. He's going at it wrong. He
ought to see that the wages of the
guys who buy his cars are raised.
The nut turners and hole borers and
fender makers are being paid a liv
ing wage as it is. But Mr. Ford is
fair in connection his promises: he
explained that his factories are
closed down now taking stock and
wiping up the machinery, ,but as
soon as bustrtess justifies it. he will
finish ''rubbing" and go back to
work. Then the high salaries will
start.
The tamers will be directed also
to get busy. They should take this
dull time to build bams and paint
houses and erect fences. You "see,
a farmer can vote a few thousand
dollars worth of bonds on his farm,
and by this method, he can keep all
of his tenants as busy as a bee at
fancy wages till times get better.
He can make his hens lay faster and
his cows give more milk and his
dogs catch more r a units and his pig
root deeper than ever. Tf the coun
try Is saved, according to the re
publicans, we musl. cooperate till
the farm relief board disbands.
Tlte garages should put In new
machinery and work longer on the
cars of their customers. Extra help
must be hired at all filling stations.
How Is the time to build bigger and
better movie and talkie houses.
Folks should shave ar.d shine often
cr. Hotel patrons should order por
terhouse steaks instead of soup. In
stallment agents must call on their
slaves 3 times a week, and not twice
as at present.
Citizens of the united States: Put
your shoulders to the wheel. Help
Mr. Hoover with his wave of pros
perity. Mr. Mellon has promised to
reduce the Income tax rate. That
will help him and Mr. Rockefeller
and the like. Local taxes shall be
raised so’s enough money can be
paid in by the folks who are able to
pay, as the other half can’t pay any
at all. And while all of this Is go
ing on. the price of cotton and cot
ton-seed and other farm produce
will continue to decline In sympathy
with stocks. (I respectfully ask that
Mr. Hoover Democrats not read this
article. I dont want to make them
feel any worse !
Preelou* Stones.
I know It ain't nice to write about
being sick, ’cause what you have
sometimes la a family secret. But
we have no family secrets at our
bouse. Everybody knows all about
us„ and most of our neighbors have
conversed with the “skeleton in the
closet " There ain’t much use to
> * «*»
"put cn” nohow. Vou can’t tool
anybody any more.
But going back to "precious
stones," every man has a choice.
South Africa with her diamonds
and India with her rubles make
millions -of folks happy every year.
But the favorite setting for a phy
sician or surgeon is a kidney stone
or a gall stone. It costs a right
smart to mine any kind of precious
stone, but a good doctor will dig
one out of your kidney for less than
3 hundred dollars, exclusive of the
hospital bill and the luxury tax.
I am convalescing today. I have
had a mighty hard time during the
past few days, and sitting up is
even now quite painful. A few
nights ago, I was tuning in on
“Amos n' Andy" when lightning
struck me in the small of my back
or somebody plunged a knife right
betwixt my spinal collum and ver
tebrea. I suspended all further radio
operations and succumbed to pain.
I thought I had suffered in the
past with my many illnesses and
accidents, but everything up to
now had been picnlcks.
The doctor arrived in due course.
He asked me the usual number of
foolish questions. Then he took his
little telefoam out of his satchel and
began to listen at my anatomy in
different places. He shook his head
and said "stone” and I said "where”
and he said "kidney” and I said
how many and he said one, meb
be two, possibly three, likely four,
could be five, and sometimes a
doaen or more. He sent me to the
hospital. I was x-rayed and found
to be properly diagnosed.
Shortly thereafter, that covey of
"precious stones” got active. Judg
ing from the pah* experienced, each
of these stones was star-shaped, in
the rough, and was darting about
like honey bees on “A Morning in
May.” I could feel the impediments
jumping from one kidney to the
ether, then hopping over on my
liver and doing the shimmy, and
from there—they skipped over to
my heart and Turkey in the Straw
cd" till I thought I would die. They
wound up 3 hours later by embed
ding themselves in my gall bladder
. . . . where cocaine put them and
me to sleep.
I know now what “down yonder”
is going to be like. There won’t be
any iire and brimstone. The old
bad man will simjlly slip a few
stones into the kidneys of his an
gels, and that will be all that he
need do to make his followers real
ise that his place is indeed one of
torment. I lingered along for sev
eral days and moaned and groaned.
No position in bed, out of bed, or
anywhere else was comfortable.
Therefore, my advice is ... .if you
have a few stones in your kidneys,
keep your will ready and prepare
for another world where precious
stones are worn in crowns and not
in physical organs of the body.
Very few folks could have survived
what I went through. Thank you.
Learned Something.
Guide—“We are passing through
a rural hamlet."
Sweet Young Thing—"Oh, I al
ways thought a hamlet was a little
pig.”
Dad Knew.
Freddie: Dad, what is an organ?
Dad (He knows): What musicians
get paid for Dlaying on, the doctors
for cutting out.
V
2 McNeely Vi Price
GREATEST
CLEARANCE
SALE
Starts Saturday Morning Dec. 28 at 9 o’clock
i
Coats V2 Price
65 of the season’s very newest plain
and fur trimmed coats, for Dress and
Sport wear, in all sizes to go on-sale at
1-2 price. We are just now having
Winter Coat weather, so come in and
get a good looking coat.
1-4 Off JEWELRY & BAGS 1-4 Off
All Costume Jewelry, Mesh Bags and
Leather Hand Bags 1-4 off of regular
price.
— VERY SPECIAL —
Ten Dozen pairs of Bloomers and step
ins at ...89c
These are of the very best makes, Car
ters and Munsing.
— MILLINERY —
200 Hats worth up to $12.50 to close
out at only.$2.95
— RAINCOATS 1-3 OFF —
All brand new Raincoats to close out
at 1-3 OFF.
— ONE TABLE —
Of Madeira and Mosaic Tea Napkins,
Towels and Bridge Sets to close out at
1-3 Off of Regular Price.
— VERY SPECIAL $1.95 —
4 dozen U. S. Rubber Co., and Ball
Brand Galoshes worth up to $3.95 to
close out at...$1.95
These are just what you need for this
bad, snowy weather.
— EXTRA SPECIAL —
200 pairs full fashioned pure thread
Silk Hose, regular $1.95 values, at the
special price of $1.00 per pair on Open
ing day.
— BATH ROBES —
Just a few beautiful Bath Robes left to
close outNat 1-3 OFF.
DRESSES
We have a beautiful selection of Silk,
Wool and Velvet Dresses to close out
during this sale.
We have Street dresses, Sport Dresses,
Afternoon and Evening Dresses, all of
these are made by New York’s best
manufacturers.
£ Off SILK UNDERWEAR 1 Off
All Silk Night Gowns, Pajamas,
Bloomers, Stepins, Combination Suits
and Vests at off of regular price.
—PAJAMAS—
One lot of Pajamas that came in too
late for the Christmas trade, $ 1 QC
Extra special for .. ^
— LUGGAGE 1-4 OFF —
All Hat Boxes, Fitted Cases and Week
End Cases at 1-4 OFF.
— EXTRA SPECIAL —
5 Dozen Hand Made Pillow Cases that
are beautifuband are regular $1.95
values for $1.00 on Opening Day.
— SHAWLS 1-4 OFF —
Just a few beautiful wool Shawls left
to close or* at 1-4 OFF.
— FABRIC GLOVES $1.00 —
One lot of Fabric Gloves worth uo to
$1.95 for...$1.00
— KID GLOVES $2 95 —
All kid gloves worth up to $4.50 for
$2.95.
— BRASSIERES —
One lot of Brassieres worth up to $1.25
at .. 75c
— UMBRELLAS 1-4 OFF—
All Umbrellas to close out at 1-4 OFF
Regular Price. *
In order to make room for our new Spring Merchandise we are putting on one
of the greatest value-giving sales in the history of our business and you will find
nothing in our store but the very best merchandise that money can buy. When you
buy at a McNeely Sale you don’t have to g 'ess at style or quality for we never offer
anything to the buying public buy THE BEST.
NOTHING CHARGED AND A SMALL CHARGE FOR ALTERATION AT
SALE PRICE.
J. C. McNEEL Y CO.