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Entered aa eecond class matter January 1. 1905. at tiie poaUifftce
at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3. 1879.
We wish to call your attention to the fact that It Is and has Been
ear custom to charge five cents per Une for resolutions of respect,
card* at thanks and obituary notices, after one death notlca has
boa published. This will be strictly adherred to.
FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1930
w TWINKLES
Wonder what those who low-rate the Darwin theory
fiava to say about these tree-sitting endurance contests?
The weather man appears to be doing as good a job of
. Establishing a record as did the Hunter brothers with theirs.
The big worry of summer, it seems, is not what one
tehould wear, but what one 6»n get by without wearing.
“Los Angeles Priest,’* informs a headline, “Makes
Hobby of Opening Safes, Picking Locks.” Maybe he hasn’t
butch of a knack at getting collection plates filled ?
America’s healthiest girl, a Florida miss, doesn’t smoke,
jdoesn t drink, doesn’t use rouge, and eats meat only once a
weak. And if she doesn’t have dates either we’re inclined to
beliave that the average flapper will wonder what the Flor
ida girl gets out of life.
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Josi»h W. Bailey, known to his college-day friends of
Bhalby as Will, is visiting the mountain section of the state
this week and several counties are expecting a visit from him.
Seems as how Cleveland did well enough by him since his
last trip here to deserve another call also.
A cheering Item: Ebeltoft, the Shelby philosopher, has
passed another milestone in life, his eighty-second, and he
still differt, serenely, with the average person “up in years.”
He does not believe the world is any nearer the dogs now
than it was a couple score years ago, and although robbed
on his birthday he doesn’t believe people are getting worse.
A New York Times special writer, down South to see if
there is anything to all the talk about the “New Soyth,” ex
presses the opinion that the South takes politics more seri
ously than any other section of the United States. The lady
is right. With North Carolina just through with one political
affair, a travelling man informs us that in the last two weeks
every town he has been in has been discussing' th^ next sena
torial race in the west—Overman, Morrison, Hoey ?
Seems as if a^ioodoo is pursuing office winners in
Cleveland county recently. The week after J. Clint Newton
*as nominated for county solicitor his automobile was stolen,
fcnd just a few weeks after being nominated for legislature
Henry Edwards was rushed to the hospital for an emergency
operation. But, just between Ye Twinkler, you and the gate
post—or-sh-hh-hh, on the mum, as you might say—the hoo
J*?*? *2* k*fp u* from having plenty of candidates next
time- Just wait and see.
AUTO RUINS FRONT PORCH.
be A SLY, editor of the Monroe Journal, is one of
those fellows who can look about him and philosophise
upon many things others of us overlook. And his philosophy
and observations always make interesting reading. He now
accuses the automobile of taking all the pleasure from the
front porch, which was so popular in bygone days. Here’s the
jeharge:
Tiorry for Judge Stack. Went by the other day and saw
him sitting on the fropt porch. Up and down the street not
a single horse and buggy in sight, nor a person walking.
Everybody flying by in cars or trucks and so fast that he
could not recognize nobody, much less speak to them. He
did not even know ye editor. Used to be that when the Judge
mounted his front porch for an afternoon rest it meant a
good time. Knew everybody who passed, they said howdy if
they didn’t stop awhile and talk. Old Dobbin strolled slowly by
the old man and the family in the old carry-all, were each
recognized and given a cheerio. Then the Judge could call
across the street to his neighbor and ask him if it was going
to rain before the next vehicle came along. Now he couldn't
be heard to the bottom step even if there was anyone to lis
ten. So he sits there like a thirsty man in a sea of salt
water; like a deaf man at a concert; as a dumb man in a con
vention; as a hermit in a metropolis. No more speaking
across the street, no more chats with passers-by, no more
recognition of friends out for a stroll or an evening’s ride; no
more nothin’ but noise and trucks and gas engines and reck*
less rushers on endless missions of nothingness. The automo
bile has another crime to answer for—it has destroyed the
pleasure of the front porch. We got no more need for front
porches.”
GREENSBORO’S TAX CONTROVERSY.
PAPER has little business going out of its own territory
to discuss tax problems, for nearly every paper has that
same problem at home, but there is an interesting angle, to
us, in a tax matter that has bobbed up ip Greensboro.
Recently city officials in the Guilford metropolis cut the
city tax rate, but about the same time the water rate was
boosted considerably. From several sources came the cry
“and so that’s the nigger in the woodpile.’* Several commun-'
ications have been written to the Greensboro papers and
judging by the discussion of the matter ft is of considerable
interest there. It intrigues us because we have wondered
heretofore if it would not be more just to all concerned to take
some of the municipal tax burden, in Greensboro or any other
city, and shift it to consumers of water. Of course, that won
der, bred of curiosity rather than of any great amount of
study and thought, may bring on a howl. But here’s the
basis of the curiosity: living in any city or town are numer
ous citizens w’ho do not own their homes or any other real
estate. As a result they pay no tax other than personal prop
erty tax and therefore contribute nothing to the revenue
which make light and water plants and other modern con
veniences possible. Many of those who do not own their
homes and property might be classed as transient or semi
transient householders; they live in a community, enjoy its
paved streets, lights, fire-fighting protection, school privi
leges, and many other things, yet what do they contribute in
return? Prospective advocacy of any buch measure likely
w^juld bring the retort that in boosting the water rate the
property owner must pay more as well as the non-property
owner. That is true, but the property owner, in such an in
stance as the Greensboro case, pays less property tax
NO WORRY FOR SPURTING.
INFORMATION trickles in that the Republicans of this sec
1 tion not only plan a strong fight to keep Congressman
Jonas in Washington to represent this district, but that they,
also, hope to elect a Republican solicitor. The Star is in
clined to believe that the Republicans will have more of a
task keeping Jonas in Congress than they anticipate, due to
the unpopularity of Republican prosperity, but we are cer
tain that Solicitor Spurgeon Spurling should not lose any
sleep over the probability of being defeated by the Republi
can candidate for solicitor, Mr. Patton, of Morganton.
At least, from what we hear, Mr. Spurling has no oc
casion to worry about his vote in Cleveland county, and that
likely, goes for the entire district. The present solicitor is a
native of Cleveland, but for several years prior to his candi
dacy for office he has adopted Caldwell county for his home
and when he announced this section was not so well ac
quainted with him other than the knowledge that he was of
Cleveland county stock. That year Cleveland gave him a ty
pical Cleveland county Democratic majority. This year he
has every reason to anticipate an even better majority, for
since he has been solicitor he has made many friends back
in his native county in addition to creating many admirers
by his ability as a prosecutor. His adopted county of Cald
well will, in all probability, hand him a similar flattering
vote, and Catawba with the candidate for Superior court
judge should be found in the Democratic column all the way
around this fall. The three “C” counties—Caldwell, Cleve
land and Catawba—should be enough within themselves to
assure Mr. Spurling that there is nothing to worry about.
And the Lenoir man’s vote will not be confined to those
counties.
Eskridge News
VOL. 3
JULY 38. 1930
NO. 20
Skies of the Model A Ford con
tinue to compare very favorably
with the combined sales of all
other cars. During the month of
June, 31 new cars were sold In
Cleveland county, of this number
IS were Model A Ford cars or 58
percent of the total of all new
cars registered during the moqgh
She: Anybody would think 1
was nothing but a cook in this
household.
He: Not after eating a meal
here.
We delivered Mr. Chas. M. Car
son, Shelby. N. C his second
Model A Ford car. Mr. Carson’s
last purchase was a New Model
A Fordor Sedan.
The economy, comfort and de
pendability of the Model A Ford
Car enable It to comprise over
50 percent of all the new cars
registered in Cleveland county
every month.
We delivered Mrs. Evelyn
Hoyle, 8helby, N. C. her second
Model A Tudor Sedsn.
"Joe hu a glass eye.'*
"Did he tell you that?”
“No; It just came out in the
conversation.”
Jim: And she refused to mar
ry you even after you told her
about your rich uncle?”
Joe: Did she? She’s my aunt
now.
Mr. F. E. Lipford, Cleveland
Cloth Mill, Shelby. N. C. pur
chased his third Model A Ford
from us. Mr. Llpford's last pur
chase was a New Model A Tudor
Sedan.
You have missed a very start
ling discovery of real pleasure in
motoring if you have not driven
one of the New Model A Ford
Cars. We will gladly furnish the
car and the opportunity if you
will tell when and where to
meet you.
! Mr. Ethiel Allen, R-6, Shelby,
N. C. is the proud owner of a
New Model A Ford Sport Coupe.
"And you say that women's
minds are cleaner than mens?
Why?"
"Because they change them
oftener.”
Mother: Dear, your friend
didn’t brm^ you back until
mighty late.
Daughter: I’m sorry, did the
noise disturb you?
Mother: No, It was the silence.
We delivered the City of Shel
by, N. C., a New Model A Ford
Phaeton which will be used by
the City Police force. A very wise
selection in deciding on tire
Model A Ford as it affords the
enonomy, the speed and the de
pendability required for police
duty.
We also delivered the Cleve
land county board of education
4 of the New Model AA 157 inch
wheelbase trucks to be used as
school buses. The board of edu
cation and the superintendent
have reduced the cost of trans
porting pupils to and from the
rural schools to the point where
Cleveland county has the lowest
cost per pupil for transportation
of any county in the state. They
intend to keep this record.
Our last delivery before this is
printed was to Miss Marie Eng
land, Shelby, N. C. Miss England
decided on a N?w Model A Tudor
Sedan.
We are ^waiting for you to call
for a demonstration of the New
Model A Ford. Of course there
will be no obligation on your
part.
CHAS. L. ESKRIDGE
In Shelby and suburbs you can get THE
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Waltons Mar Fish on Faster Mon
day. Dates of Seasons
Given *
Raleigh—A shorter closed season
which will permit fishermen to in
dulge in their favorite sport on
Easter Monday and uniform closed
seasons of fishing to make possible
a more effective protection of fish
during the spawning period are im
portant features of changes recent
ly made by the Board of Conserva
tion and Development at its semi
annual meeting at Morehead City.
Under the new regulations, the
closed season on fishing will not be
gin until May 1 Instead of April ?0
as has been the law previously. Tills
closed season applies to all species
of game fish except the trouts of
Western North Carolina whose
spawning season comes during a
different period of the year. The
period of the year in which these
types of fish are protected extends
from September 1 to April 13 of the
following year.
The general closed season will ex
tend from May 1 to June 10. giving
a 40-day protected period In the
future in the place of 50 days here
tofore.
Another new regulation also pro
hibits the taking of fresh water fish
in commercial waters during the
time that the season is closed in
inland waters.
Seining will continue under the
ban in inland waters following ac
tion of the board in denying re
quests that special permits be
granted for this privilege in certain
counties of the State. The board
took the viewpoint that as a whole
sale method of taking fish, seining
is unfair to the great masses of
fishermen whose opportunity for
sport would be spoiled when waters
are depleted by those who would
exercise the privilege if seining were
permitted.
Collections from anglers’ licenses
this season are said by officials to
be well ahead of last year, having
reached approximately $30,000. The
State law requires that every per
son who fishes in any other except
his home dbunty must* take out a
.State license. However, the license
requirement has been extended to
include all fishermen in 28 coun
ties. Fishermen, it is said, 6hould
ascertain if their county is among
these.
WHO IS
this MAN?
r
WE works with a clear mind and
conscience. He knows no master
other than himself. In prosper
ous times, he can take full advan
tage of his opportunities. In times
of depression, he is relatively un
affected. He is ever armed
against business or private ad
versity. HE IS THE MAN with
a cash reserve; the man who has
made regular, and easy, savings
deposits, at this bank.
The First National Bank
SHELBY, N. C.
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