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Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS By RENN DRUM. ,w. *v* •‘TIIKOIG1I RAIN, wind. «1pcI and snow—the air mail toes on and on," Thai slogan, famous since the •nrly day,* of an mail when I,indy carried 011c of the Western route, contains gobs of color, romantic im pulses. and the basis determination of modern pioneering Yet it. was not until this week that people of this section met the daring and au dacity of that slogan face to face in the person of smiling Dick Mer rill. There's something about the car rying of the night air mail—the loneliness of the speeding ship roar ing through the darkness .of the night above—that grips the imagin ation Dick Merrill's unexpected drop-in visit to Shelby : a visit that hurtled him Into die Caterpillar club, aw organization of dare dev il-.. and almost hurtled him into » twit. It; vHl cause many Clevelaivl ; eour'y boys, youths with life and r . —irhifc before them, to'long tor the day 'hen they m»v drive a plane through ihe night with ti e •vr mv’. V-: Iho;-* more seasoned | hr cfhryfipt' so anxious a.ny-jnore j i>;»d ":* kick.' who heard re >>.' iiiiotf toil modestly. of. • nr narrow, e-eapt will, leave such .ioti \) the steel n'cryes of ndvrn 1 urm. v . ,ih, Shell is the history pi 9the ages. in Shelby Wednesday morning after two days and tughhs withbU' deep and olif night in which he rode for hour; in the. face of a lurk ing hidden death, and then a leap Into he knew not what - Merrill Quick Relief for Coughing Spells Famous Prescription Stops Them Almost Instantly The amazing success of this pre scription called* Thoxine is due to its quick double action: it. immedi ately soothes the Irritation and goes directly to the internal cause not reached by ordinary medicines. The , very first swallow usually stop;; even , the most, obstinate cough Thoxine is pleasant fasting and sate for the whole fanulv. Your money will be refunded If it does not give better and quicker relief for coughs or sore throat than any thing you have ever tried, JPut up ready for use in 35c, 60c, and $ lot) bottles. 3old by Suttle's and all other good drug store <adv > SAME PRICE BAKING POWDER It's double acting U*e K C for fine texture and Urge volume in your bakings. MltUOMSOF POUNDS USED «Y OUR GOVERNMENT The»e Hotel* Offer >u0*rmr %•«ommorUtiont for Your Next V»*»l t» WASHINGTON, 1). C. MARTINIQUE iMh St. at H Northwest —Id** for Motorist* ;} Single with hath W.W» to St.m Double with hath S.YOO to S6.m Hamilton Hotel ^ 11th at K Street—In the Hear, or the CM? "!uc»« with hath S.H.Wfl to SS tt* Double with hath t.vihl to $* m« ' Mug I* with bath M»9t to hiS.jib CAIRO HOTEL Qii» St. at |Mh— 'Va'bins*o>«‘» I *|It.»t i>enbt« with bath *U»» to $'«*»* ."v.-. ,v.-. Avv eww ve*j plucked his blue knit cup from a, 'tousled head and moaned, not be-, cause he had steeped Into the jaws'! of death and out again, not because' of the pain in his injured ankle, but ! because he lost his ship. ;j To the aviator his ship is as prec - ious and dear as that of a steam! to the sea- faring captain. The leg-! end of the sea is that the captain) goes down with his ship. The leg-, end and code of the air is near as' strict. Not until the last ray of hope1 lias winged away, not until the chances art 99 to one against land ing in one piece, will the aviator leave his controls. j Two things Merritt said over and over during his stay in Shelby: "Golly. 1 hated to leave the old ship, mid "Whalta night! Wliatta night!” Ailtii' tils'ncive.s , stopped jingling and twitching from that 1,500-foot fall like a rock, a fail that came near ripping his clothes from his bodv and to twirling him into in- ■ sensibility, he seemed to forget the j expedience except for his ruined ship. Next to his. strip, the air mail pilot thinks of iris mail. The mail |must go on and on—through ram rwind, sleet and r-noV, and, Ocea lonallv death, 'flic first move he mud! m reaching Shelby was lo rc i ijoi’f to headquarters that his mail [was safe. That he did before having j ids injured ankle treated, and bc i tore eating. ..The air min! never sends a pilot oh it he thinks it is too dangerous ahead. Merrill might have remained in Charlotte Tuesday night and sent his mail on by train as did two other pilots. Just as if never tends them on when it looks too danger ous ahead, the air mail never says | not go; if the bays, are willing to take the chance, it's their business. ; Merrill took the chance. | Late Tuesday night af Charlotte i the weather man told Merrill that ! had weather was ahead of. him Other pilots about the field told of "a low ceiling 1 iaviation’s term for foggy, blind weather), and "soupy" conditions on ahead. The weather is tire aviator's greatest enemy. "It may clear up a bit between here ] and Greensboigi and if I make | Greensboro, 1 think it will be all i right on to Richmond.'' Then they gave the ship the gun and she roar ed down tile held, lifted as a bird and soared into the night Those about the airport never heard of him until 9 o'clock the next day. They shook their heads. They knew the night and the weather. The night mail had claimed her victims, and would claim more. Telegraph wires clicked. The plane was long overdue in Greensboro. Other hours passed. No word, no sight of the plane. Morning came and with it the story of the wreckage in the Cleveland county cotton field, arid a jump which ranks along with rec ord jumps. Before lie left Shelby, Merrill called the "chief in Richmond and informed him. I ll be there in time tomorrow to fly the niRht mail back rtiursday. ' A thrill that would have been .sufficient for most men for a lifetime was to him just part of the game. That was all Such is the game a great, thrilling game for those who have steel nerves, for youth which desires a sport and a vocation in which the Grim Reaper plays a steady, relentless hand on the other -ode of the table But to vouth life isn’t much fun without taking chances, and as on** generation of youth grows old and more cautious another takes its place. And so it I wilt be until the end of time, Merrill's visit to Cleveland county - Just a "little unexpected call** as lie told a friend over the telephone without mentioning his escape—-gave tins section its greatest air thrill since that, other young air mail pitot winged his way across the sea. Next. Chairman (at teachers' meedne,l: Orcicr. please ." - Atsent Minded Professor: Plgi sandwich. ADMINISTRATOR S NOTICT.. Having Qualified *s administrator "I ■ the estate o[ Sarah ft Bridges. deceased, late of Cleveland county, North Carolina, thts is to notity ell persons having claims against the estate of said de ceased to exhibit them to the undersign ed on or betore the 10th day of October i»31. or this notice snll be pleaded in bar of their recovery All persons Indebted to the said estate will please make immed iate payment This ihe 7th dav of October. 1930 w. HRintiES. Administrator of the Estate of Sarah S. Bridges, de i eased B'nnm E, Weathers. Attr. at Oct Hlc •At* OR .PERSONA!, rROPEBTT I’nder and bv virtu* of the power of sale contained in a certain chattel mon Sage, dated the Ilth day of April 1929 executed by J A Dye us and J. Hoyt Dveus to E L Beam to secure an indebtedness therein named said chattel mortgage be ing of record in the office of the register of deeds for Cleveland county, North Carolina, in book 1M at page KW.and de fault having bwn made |i\ the payment of the Indebtedness, the undersigned will offer for Bale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, on November 2# 193° at 2 p at. in trone of The Choco late Shop. Shelby, N. C , the following <ie scribed personal properly, to writ; Ail the stuck in trade, fixtures and all articles contained in the Chocolate Shop Shrlb N C on this <tf»ie„ Thu the JlJit oj Octobe> sr>;n Is. B.'AM . * K'tMLau Dover And Ora News Of Interest Surprise Birthday For Mrs. ( anipc.. Conner Faintly Move*. Personal*. 'Special to The Star.* Dover-Oia, Nov. 13.— Misses Faye Pritchard and Eva Edwards spent Saturday night with Miss Vera Connor. Mr. arid Mrs. L. D Corn of Red Springs spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hicks. Mr. Hershal Green spent the week-end with his parents. Mr. and IVJrs. J. F. Green of Boiling Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Yates Devenney of Lawndale were the Sunday after noon guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Pritchard. Mrs. Juan Blanton has returned home from the Ruthcrfordton hospital where she has been for the past week. Everyone wishes her a speedy recovery. Mr, and Mrs. J. E Kimbrell spent Sunday in Columbia, S C. Miss Nancy Chapman is sick; at this wi'iting. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Connor have moved to East. Shelby. They will be greatly missed in this community. Mr. and Mrs. Ezelle Gantt were visitors in West Shelby during the week-end. Miss Mary Sue Bailey is able to. be up again after being sick for stome time. The neighbors of Mrs. O F. Ca nipe surprised her with a birthday dinner Sunday. Mrs. Quinton Shytle of West Shelby is spending some time with her mother. Mrs. J. E. Kimbrell. Mr. B. E." Price spent Sunday in Lawrence. S C. Mr. and Mrs. Yates Champion and daughter and Mr, and Mrs Clyde Bridges were the guests of Urges Mind Tests Before Marriage Mucator Decries Haphazard Mating Ah Social Meanacr. Cites Live stock Raising Atlantic City—Only through abandonment of the "present hap hazard mating of humans” can the levil of man's intelligence be rais ed, Dr, Frank P. Graves, state com missioner of education of New York declared here. Addressing the concluding .ses sion of the seventy-sixth annual convention of the New Jersey State Teachers’ association, Dr. Graves, formerly dean of the University of Pennsylvania, insisted that univer sal opportunity in education must be given if the, idea of a 'natural aristocracy of intellect” is to be off set. Discussing "the function of lead ership,” Dr. Graves said that the real compensation received by the public school teachers of the nation lay In the fact that they knew that within their class rooms of today were the national leaders of tomor row “Twenty-five years from now.” he: said, "we will see some of the boys, and maybe girls, now tn our class rooms guflding the. political, busi ness. industrial and educational destinies of our country,” "If we are to increase the varie ties of leadership, and that essen tially is the task of the educator," he continued, "we must open to all [classes the possibility of leadership through universalizing opportunt ' ties for education i "Development of a more intellec |Mr, and Mrs. Clyde Bridges were the guests of Mr, and Mrs. G. T Greenways. ^ HTKT * Grandmother’s BREAD At the New Low Price PULLMAN 21-oz. Wrapped Loaf SNOWDRIFT tfe. Bucket 89c SUGAR lb. 5c Campbell's Beans 3 cans 23c WINTER CEREALS AT NEW LOW PRICES CREAM OF WHEAT.Pkg. 23c WHEATENA ... ........_Pkg. 23c MELLO WHEAT .Pkg. 19c A&P OATS ......... .Large Pkg. 19c MBBT'S SAUERKRAUT r 10c ■ i Si i m .-.. TOMATOES 3 25c 8 o'clock Coffee lb. 25c STTN8W BET PRUNES 2 ;t„ 27c Pillsbury 2 pkgs. 25c N. B. C. COMBINATION SALE 1 VANILLA WAFFERS 1 FIG NEWTON 1 BUTTER THIN Sunnyfield PANCAKE or BUCKWHEAT 3 pkgs. 25c Sultana Maple Blended SYRUP S« <K. GHIPSO Rzlr 23c Hake# or Crutilet A. & P. Produce Specials GRAPES, 2 LBS 'ELERY'-Ur** Stalk — 2 for .. LETTUCE, Head GRAPEFRUIT, 4 For _ . 15c 15c 10c 25c A. & P. Market Specials PORK rirs NATIVE STEAKS Loin, Round . 19c 28c NECK BONES. Pound Select OYSTERS Quart___ 12ic 80c OTHER A & P NEWS ON PAGE FOUR <£« Atlantic s. Pacific TEA ca Knew .Nature. I Sambo sat on tn< sunny side oi < ti e tree, the perspiration runnyns c’ov n his face Bay, why don't you all seat yo-self on the shady side.’ lii.s friend asked inn. "That's all you know bout na ture’ replied Sarr-bo "By and by ; sun's going to be on that side/ ancf then Ah won't ha'o to move.' i tual race must be brought about: [ Exercise of a little thought will ‘ vastly improve the human race and raise the level of its intelligence. "The greatest care is exercised in the breeding of live stock. Is it not vastly more important that the hu man race be improved. We permit, in instances, the union of the tuber cular, epileptics, the weak-minded, and even Shots. This should be pro hibited.’’ We Think We Have The Best HARDWARE STORE IN SHELBY CLEVELAND HARDWARE CO. WE ACCEPT MONEY ON CERTIFICATE OF IN VESTMENT AND PAY 6 PER CENT INTEREST. PAYABLE OR COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY. We Loan Money On Good Endorsement Or 1st Mortgage, Payable In Weely Or Monthly Payments. of Capital largest amount loaned to any one person. Two and one-half years without a loss.” OFFICERS Fred W. Blanton, Pres. & Treas. Carl S. Thompson, Vice-Pros, W. C. Ward, Vice-President. P. S. Lewis, Secretary D. S. Blois, Assistant Treas. DIRECTORS ('. P. Rogers, Ch’m V F. P. Bacon T Fred VV. Blanton ( Dr. Ben Gold 'I J. L. Lackey \ [, C. Metcalf . K. McKee S. Thompson A. Rippv V. C. Ward M. & J. Finance Corporation OF SHELBY, N. C. Branch Offices Columbus And Tryon. SHELBY OFFICE AT THOMPSON COMPANY PRE-THANKSGIVING Values For The Home BED ROOM SUITES Constructed of handsome walnut veneer; consisting of fdur poster bed, Hollywood vanity and chest of /drawers. $69.50 — Terms: $3.50 Down And A Little Each Week — LIVING ROOM SUITES 3-piece Jacquard Velour Living Room suites, of coil construction; covered all over, with assorted patterns; reversible cushions. $69.50 Terms; $3.50 Down And A Little Each Week. HOOSIER KITCHEN CABINETS With 59 Time and Step Saving Features for any kitch en. Gray, Green, White and Ivory finishes. Y o u r choice to match your other kitchen furniture .. . $39.75, $49.75, $59.75 $62.75 , With each Cabinet sold, we will give you a choice of 31 piece China Set or a 20-piece Cutlery Set. Only $1.00 Down And The Balance In Small Weekly Payments. Floor and Table Lamps A complete new assortment of floor and table lamps. There is here a lamp for every home and for every lighting pur pose. Beautiful as well as serviceable. Priced— $8.00 to $13.50 $1 Down and Small Weekly Payments. — CONGOLEUM RUGS — They make happy floors for any home. In the newest patterns for fall. Size 9x12. $12.50 $1 Down, Small Weekly Payments Kester-Groome Furniture Co. North LaFayette Street Shelby, N. C.
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