The Cleveland Star
SHELBY, N. C. *
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B ERNES! HOEV ___—.... Secretary and Foreman
RENN DRUM -----New. Edit*
Entered aa second class matter January 1 1905 at the postoffice
at Shelby North Carolina, under the Act of Congress March 3. 1879
We wish to call your attention to the fact that It la and has oeen
our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of rer -ct
cards of thanks and obituary notices, arter one death notice has
beta published. This will be strictly adherred to.
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1930
TW1NKI.ES
Here’s a tip for merchants about advertising: Even
Aladdin’s lamp had to be rubbed.
The Gastonia Gazette: “What would the Charlotte Ob
server Open Forum do without Corn Cracker, J. C. Elliott,
Mary Stewart, J. E. L. Winecoff, Henry Denny and one or
two more?” Now why bring that up?
Lucky Hank. The Greensboro News upon hearing that
Henry Ford made a profit of 81 million dollars last year re
marked that “Mr. Ford neither grows cotton nor plays the
stock market.”
Bate B. Gardner, of Gastonia, a brother of Governor O.
Max Gardner, is breaking into politics for himself for the
first time as a candidate for county commissioner in Gaston
county. Of his candidacy the Gazette says, “If he works as
hard for himself as he usually does for the other Democratic
candidates, he will go in at a walk.”
Only recently the “Around Our Town” column in The
Star contended that this section still considered a racket to
mean a noise, but after hearing of several chicken stealing
gangs working in this and the Charlotte area it is our opin
ion that there must be a well organized chicken stealing
racket being carried on in the state.
YES, IT ALL DEPENDS
THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH broadcasting at the lino
mike: “The Cleveland Star chides some of the Republi
cans for saying that the president should not be blamed
for ‘hard times’ but at the same time claiming things would
have been worse under a Democratic president. Brother, the
Republicans simply mean that a Republican president
should never be blamed for what goes wrong but should have
all the credit for what goes right.”
Some how or another, friend, we had almost reached that
conclusion ourselves.
EDITRESS GREETS SPRING
QNE CAN ALWAYS depend upon the ladies to ste. out in
high style in the Springtime. Reference is made to Miss
Beatrice Cobb and the outstanding newspaper, The Morgan
ton News-Herald, which she pubishes. Last week’s issue of
the News-Herald was published on a new and modem flat
bed Goss press, the size of the paper was increased from
seven to eight columns, and in every particular the News
Herald ranks on par now with the leading weeklies and small
dailies of this section of the South. Morganton and Burke
county have every reason to feel proud of their constantly
improving newspaper.
TAKE IN THE CONCERT
QNE OF THE BEST BANDS in the land, to use a term of
the bygone days of the Alexander’s Ragtime Band per
iod, will give a concert in Shelby Tuesday night at the Cen
tral high school auditorium. It is the University of North
Carolina band and it appears here under the auspices of
Prof. Sinclair’s high school musicians. That Sinclair group
of young musicians is one of Shelby’s best and most unap
preciated assets. Shelby and Cleveland county people should
turn out Tuesday night not only to boost the young music
ians, but also because they will have the opportunity t>f hear
ing a program equal to any band music on the air these days.
OPEN FORUM WRITERS.
BIG PERCENTAGE of the people who are habitual
writers of to-the-editor leters right often, if not watch
ed closely, make some very extreme statements, and that is
one of the chief reasons The Star does not wax enthusiastic
fn encouraging such letters at campaign time. We have no
particular criticism to make of those who write letters boost
nig their candidates, although The Star has a ruling that poli
tica boosting must go as paid advertising just as does the
boosting a merchant gives his goods, but we cannot see the
point in permitting open letter writers to make disparaging
remarks about those who do not agree with him.
A letter appearing recently in The Charlotte Observer may
•erve as an illustration. A former North Carolinian now liv
ing in South Carolina writing to the open forum declared
himself for Mr. Simmons and against Mr. Bailey. But he
did not confine his writing to that declaration, adding some
criticism without foundation in fact or truth of Governor
Gardner and Clyde Hoey, presumably because the writer
thinks the North Carolina Governor and Mr. Hoey are not
for Senator Simmons. Insofar as is known Governor Gard
ner is not adding his influence to either side of the senatorial
fight as he considers it a party affair. Mr. Hoey has de
clared himself on the Bailey side but explained that he was
first of all a Democrat and this fall would be for the nominee
regardless. Yet this open forum writer has this to say "I am
certainly and decidedly surprised at the stand taken by Gov
•rnor 0. Max Gardner and the Hon. Clyde R. Hoey on this
very live subject (the senatorial race.) W'. cn did t1 ey tom
Republican?.It hurts me ’now to think that they are
preaching, so to speak, the Catholic doctrines.”
For undiluted tommyrot, can you beat that? There is
not a sensihlo person in North Carolina who does not know
that Gardner and Hoey are far from being Republicans, and;
never will be; and, furthermore, that neither of the two ever j
has or ever will preach Catholic doctrines. Such charges, of
course, are so absurd that no attention should be paid them,
yet we wonder if newspapers generally should not be a bit
more particular about publishing general broadsides of ab
surd, ridiculous and sinister insinuations?
CLEAN THEM ALL OUT.
THIS PAPER HOLDS no brief for Mr. Raskob’s financial
support to organizations which are fighting prohibition,
and neither does it have any criticism to make of the attack
of Senator Simmons and Josephus Daniels upon the Raskob
policy—unless, as the case may be, the yell for Raskob’s
scalp is being staged with the hope of bringing in a new and
useless issue for the primary campaign in this state. Mr.
Raskob has nothing to do with North Carolina’s candidates
for the senate or any other office and what he thinks about
any of our candidates should not be the basis of our selec
tion of our officials. Our officials, in the senate and else
where, should be picked on their ability and willingness to
serve their state, and that’s the gauge sensible voters will
use instead of some far-flung issue. However, that is not
what we started out to say. One thing we do admire about
Mr. Raskob is his frankness. He is wet and does not mind
coming out in the open and saying so. Do you suppose all
the high officials in Washington and elsewhere are as frank?
Arthur Brisbane does not think so despite the fact that a big
percentage of our congressmen and leaders vote dry. Bris
bane says: “Many a pair of congressional kidneys, if they
could talk, would say to their owners, ‘Please drink as you
vote, you are working us to death.’’
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Around Our TOWN
Shelby SIDELIGHTS
By RENN DRUM.
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New guesses In this department's
population guessing contest follows:
Name Shelby County
J. Frank Harris. 9,872 43,040
Vemie Elmore . 9,897 41,330
Margaret King.10,011 39,011
Dickson Willis, (Vale
R-3) .9,843 45,167
Mrs. D. W. Hamrick .12,115 48,370
Ruth Elmore.9,187 39,163
John P. Mull. 9,654 43,894
A M. Hamrick.11.471 38,500
A. F. Newton .10,121 39,450
Wm. McCord .9,895 36.758
Frank Hoyle jr. ......10,854 44,840
It was originally announced thal,
the contest would end on Tuesday,
April 13, but since it will be some
time until the actual census figures
will be announced the close of the
contest has been extended through
Saturday April 26
Get your guesses in. Two theatre
tickets, to the Webb theatre, for the
best guess on the Shelby population
and two theatre tickets, to the Car
olina theatre, for the best guess on
the county population.
For Springtime Blues
Don't worry if your job is small
And your rewards are few ;
Remember that the mighty oak
Was once a nut like you.
Listen, Doughboys
Once and anon this cclyum, fol
lowing the motto of the Boy Scouts
attempts to do Its good turn In with
a lot of nonsense and foolishness
This, then, is one of those occasions.
How many veterans of the World
war in Cleveland county have had
their discluu'ges registered at “he
olflce of the county register of
deeds? If you haven't done so, do
you realize how important it is?
In the years to come it may be
that you (talking to any and all ex
service men) may lose your dis
charge papers. Suppose something
should happen to your health or
some incident should come up mak
ing it necessary for you to prove
beyond a doubt that you served to
the war and was honorably dis
charged, how would you prove it!
The government, y’know, goes in for
a lot of red tape and your word that
you served In the army will not go
over. If you have your discharge
registered at the register s office the
records will show it throughout the
years to come even though you may
lose ycur discharge papers or thev
should be burned, lost or destroyed.
Register them right away.
Thanks are tendered Buck Archer
a vet. for calling attention to the
matter. He says that very few dis
charges have ever been registered
here.
That Stnog Gal.
.he knows the very latest style,
No dance she'll ever miss.
She talks of movies all the while
Hlr tipetng lokks lyk thlss’t
At writing shorthand she’s a wow
The fastest I’ve seen yet.
She speeds the typewriter, and how
Hlr sppellin iz alzl wettsl
Each day she talks to "Sweetie Joe”
For hours on the phone.
At last I had to let her go
nou i Typ mle owmaScfi %,
Scratch Over These.
Remember when the town’s
first picture show was located
next door to the present Oepsr
Palmer grocery?
Remember when banana trees
gr-w on each side of the foun
ts n at the old Cleveland Springs
hotel?
Remejpber when a deer roam
ed about the old Cleveland
i Springs hotel park?
CVir Muitrtv • ,
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memory ticklers to the colyum’s
memory course.
SHELBY SHORTS: Tears and
tcmporarily-cracked hearts for some
and pay for others—the city school
board has named the new school
ma'arms for next year . . . There
could be but likely will not be tw§
Sams from North Carolina in the
next Congress. Dr. Sams, of Mar
shall, y’kow, is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination in this dis
trict oposing Major Bulwinkle and
Lawyer Jones, while by the papers
we see that A. P. Sams is a eandi
i elate in the Fifth ccngressional dis
trict opposing Major Bulwinkle and
Shelby’s favorite radio performers,
and say what you please one hears
more talk about the two black boys
and their fun-making than about
Simmons and Bailey and their poli
tical pow-wowing . : . . Bridge
water bass had a big week-end feast
with at least fifty Shelby angle: s
tossing them dainty mcrsels. . .
Two new Shelby businesses seem to
be making good despite the hard
j times liulabaloo. This free ad re
| fers to Boyce Dellinger's very mod
ern grocery and the Carpenter
Hamrick drug store ... A can
didate for a political office passed
out the hint that he would appre
ciate seeing his name in this colyum
—if we could hear a hot pun on him
we’d spring it and make no charge,
otherwise he may pay for his ad.
A Naughty Fellow.
Some time back a local man -id
vertised that he lost a hundred dol
lars (and It wasn't by playing the
stock market, either). Later he ad
vertised that he wculd give half of
the hundred bucks to the person win
found it and would ask no questions
If the other fifty bucks were return
ed. Some days later received a let
ter reading as follows:
| “Dear sir:
“Noticed your generous offer In
The Star. But I believe I'll Just keep
it all and answer no questienss”
Drop That Fruit Jar
Our Prohibition Poll Note: A local
doctor says that the stuff in Jamai
ca ginger which is causing that
muchly-balked "Jake” paralysis is
also found In some .bootleg cawn lik
ker.
SHOO! Censors
If the postal censers would per
mit us to tell all the Jokes H. Clay
Cox, Hill Hudson. Clyde Short, Char
lie Coble, Charlie Williams and oth
er Shelby trailing salesmen tell us.
boy. we'd hove the readers—and
how!
Today’s Scoop.
The Initials “L. B.” in the name oi
Pastor Hayes, of Central Methodist
church, stand for “Leonidas Brax
ton”—If you didn’t know already.
Old Time T'ddlert
at Hidlebran School
An old time fiddlers convention
will be held in Lower Fork township
of Burks county at the Gao. Htlde
bran school auditorium Saturday,
April 19th beginning at 7: SO o'clock.
Musicians and all others art invited.
Below u the list of premiums.
Best tiddler $9; second beet tiddler
$2; beet guitar player 93.50: second
bast guitar p’ayer $1; best banjr
picker 92.50; second best banjo pick
er $1: best group players 92; second
best $1.
T«*v Sisr Want* Ad*
No Monkey Business.
An Irishma ngot a position on the
railroad as flagman at one of the
principal crossings. One day came
the Pan-American about 20 min
utes late. The Irishman held out
his red flag and stopped the ex
press. The engineer jumped off very
much angered and asked the Irish
man why he had stopped the train
when he knew they were 20 min
utes late. The Irishman replied
"That's Just what I wanted to know
where have you fellows been for the
last 20 minutes?”
a museum to house the old relics.
A net profit of $275.80 for his la
bor with 25 hogs fed according to
the Shay method is reported by W.
M Koonts of Davidson county. The
25 animals weighed 6,240 pounds and
sold for $10.25 a hundred in Salis
bury.
Report of the Condition of
THE UNION TRUST COMPANY
At Shelby, North Carolina to The
Corporation Commission at the
Close of Business on the 27th day
of March, 1930.
Resource*.
Loans and discounts „ 1,236.300.89
Overdrafts - *_ 304.18
United States bonds__ 30,671.88
All other stocks and
bonds _ __ 7,100.00
Banking house -- 31,988.56
Furniture and fixtures- 24,674.19
Cash In vault and amounts
due from approved de
pository banks __ 419,403.95
Checks for clearing and
transit items __ 3,704.93'
Due from banks (not ap
proved depositories) _12,591.05
Cash items (Items held over
24 hours) . _ 103.47
Other real estate - -. 33,302.88
Total .
(1,800.143.98
Liabilities.
Capital stock paid In — 150 000.00
Surplus fund *_ 150,000.00
Undivided profits (net
amount) _ ___ 23,675.91
Reserved for interest -_ 30,501.07 |
Reserved for depreciation 28.902.28
Demrnd deposits due banks 8,398.18
Other deposits subject
to check.. 668,808 31
Other deposits secured by a
pledge of assets or deposi
tory bond - _ 59,879.47
Cashiers checks outstand
ing _ _ 7,422.05
Certified checks outstand- I
ing _ . 148.06
Dividend checks outstand
ing . 21.00
Time certificates of deposit
(Due on or after 30
days) __-_ 542.083.52
Saving deposits (due on or
after 30 days) _ 52,236.68
Uninvested Trust de
posits _ __ 78,069.43
Total..$1,800,145.98
State of North Carolina,
County of Cleveland, ss:
Forrest Eskridge, cashier, Wm.
Lineberger director, and J. T. Bow
man, director of the Union Trust
Co., each personally appealed be
fore me this day and, being duly
sworn, each for himself, says that
the foregoing report is true to the
best of his knowledge end belief.
FORREST ESKRIDGE, Cashier
Wm. LINEBERGER, Director,
J. T. BOWMAN, Director.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this the 8th day of April, 1930.
FRANK L. HOYLE, JR.,
Notary Public.
(My commission expires June 6,
1930.)
Holidays and j<
joyou'
season* would be robbed c
most of their sweetness i
we couldn’t see and feel the
effervescent joy with which
the children greet them.
Eastertime is like the rest—
» gala time for youngsters.
Seek no farther thar
Nunnally’s wide variety c
Easter candies for gifts am'
favors that fully express the
spirit of the day and season.
Springtime itself has beer,
captured in our fascinating
array for Easter, 1930.
CTWVFT AND
D. MG CO.
- Phone 65 -
qfr Ward’s
WASH SUITS
GENUINE
FRUIT of the LOOM
FABRICS
Just 200 to Sell I
And thrifty Mothers will lose no
time in availing themselves of this
opportunity to supply their young
sons for the entire Spring and
Summer! Think of it! Real Fruit
of the Loom Fabrics—all guaran
teed fast color—newest Spring
styles—full cut, perfect fitting and
smart looking. Most unusuai val
ues at $1.00. All sires. 3 to 8 years.
Sleeveless
SUN SUITS
Included Also!
Cut to give little tots the full benefit
of the sun’s healthful rays while they
are at play. Smartly cut styles made
for Ward’s exclusively, of quality
broadcloths. Colors are guaranteed fast
Ready in all sizes—2 to 6 years.
Montgomery Ward & Co
106 SOUTH LaFAYETTE STREET
As established in Continent-wide
tests, by 5,000 New Essex Challengers
All motordom saw the amazing results of Challenger
Week.
The New Essex Challenger set outstanding marks in
every locality. It climbed hills seldom attempted by any
car. It set new marks for acceleration. It established
economy results never before associated with such per
formance. It made inter-city reliability and endurance
runs that take place with the industry’s great marks.
These feats were established —
not by just a few hand-picked
specially tuned cars —but 5,000
Essex Challengers in all parts of
the country, many of them
owner-driven. The results speak
for what any, and every New
Essex Challenger can do.
Wc continue our invitation to
Ride—Ride—Ride! Know from
personal experience what this
brilliant New Essex Challenger
can do. Then no lesser car can
satisfy.
‘735
/. o. b. Detroit
factor?
For the Coupe
Seven othei model*
as attractively priced.
With color choice at
no extra coat
BEAM MOTOR CO.
PAUL H. BEAM
WftshWurn Bide*.
OWNERS
N. Morgan St.
J. RALPH BEAM
Shelby, N. C
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