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SOCIETY | J^JY>1 Rs. Itfc.VN DH1 i*t, Editor. ^Telephone The Star hie. 4-3 Each Moniiog a Jw 3- ©cluck • Mrs. Drum can be reached at her home, Phone 713, afternoon and nights j I_...... .■.^•jA.VA'AWe.VAVAV.V.V.W/.V.y.VW ' V Grim Weather Pfophel L*Vhfc ground hog restless In his den "Begins to turn and twist, and then i "VVe sit and wonder whether When he appears this sunny day t/uid sees himself and turns 10 say Which way will turn the weather. WUl it be bright anil springiiied, *ior si: weeks snow and frost betide! This ;a*t we hope not , rnthet Old weather prophet turn away, f (to not into your den the day We wish the fields, the flowers gay, The young things all to run and play. "The spring time bounty gather. Mrs. Irma Wallace Choral Practice With Mrs, Hoyle. . The members of the Cecelia Mu J club will meet again on Wedn«sdeJ o' this week for a choral practice, the meeting to be at 3 o'clock at the home of Mrs. George Hoyle Mrs. B oyster To Be Club Hostess, On Friday afternoon at her home on South Washington street Mrs. is. s, Royster will entertain the members of t.he 30th Century Gtib ' *i 3 o’clock » — Miss Scruggs | Dinner Hostess * Miss Octa Scruggs of Mooresboro > served a delicious thiee-eourae din* ’ ner Thursday evening. The invited t greats were: Misses Lucy Lattimore, § Louise Roberts. Robeita Royster * end Janet lulls. Misa Scruggs 'w'rs f a-ststed in serving and entertaining i by her niece Miss Julia Renfro , loffcrson P. T. A. Meeta This Evening. j. nils evening at 1 o'clock, in the i Jefferson school auditorium the | Parent-Teachers association of that f school will hold its regular monthly l meeting. An interesting program has r been arranged; Mr, O. B. Lewis and f Mrs. H. S. Plaster will furnish music { and Mrs. Harry Csmnife will give ’ several readings : Social Meeting Of * Afternoon Division ji The first afternoon division ol the "Woman's club will enjoy a social meeting at the club room on Thursday afternoon at 3:30 with Mrs. Charles Young. Mrs . H. E. Hichbourg and Mrs Graham Dellin ger acting as hostesses. Mrs. John McClurd and Mrs. Reid Young will herd a committee on entertainment. All members are cordially invited and urged to be present for this ' meeting. Small Bridge Party Friday. On Friday afternoon, at the home o£ Mrs. W. F. Mitchell, Mrs. Burton Mitchell, of Mount Holly, entertain er! a few friends, delightfully and in formally. at bridge. Three tables were a i ranged for play. Upon the arrival of the guests they found their , places at the tables anti a delicious ice course with coffee was served. Alter this bridge was plaved for an hour or so and at the close of the afternoon r dainty linen handker chief was given to Mrs. Robert Woods as winner of the high score prize. ( lub Meetings for Tuesday. Mrs. R. W, Morris wiii entertain the members or the Tuesday Aft ernoon club at her home on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. On Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 Mrs. Reas Hamrick will entertain the members of the Mothers' club »i her home in Beaumonde Terrace? There will be a regular meeting of the Daughters of the American Re volution at the club room on Tues day afternoon at 3:30 with Mrs. Lamar Gidney. Mrs. S. S Royster i and Mrs. Talmadge Gardner as host esses. Surprise Birthdav Dinner Sunday, On Sunday at the home o 1 Mr. and Mrs. John Honeycutt Mr., , Honeycutt and her brothers arid ; sisters gave a surprise birthday din ner for their mother, Mrs. Ida Thompson. Table decorations con sisted of primroses and the attrac tively decorated birthday' cake. A delicious dinner was enjoyed. Those present were: Mrs. J. w. Brackett and daughter, Miss Aus tine Brackett, of Belwood; Mrs. L. M. Petty and two children. Jack and Mary: Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Hines; Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Brooks, all ol Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Leon ard, of ThomasviUe; Mr. and Mr* Sam Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Callahan, and son, Fred. jr„ Mis: Mattie Adams and Mr. and Mr. Honeycutt with their two daugh ters, Marjorie and Patsy. Mrs. Abernelhy Honored At Party On Friday afternoon at hoi home on w. Marlon street Mrs B. L Smith was hostess at an informal party ia compliment to her mother, Mrs. Juba Aberncthy, ol Rutherford: college, who is her guest. An inter esting program had been arranged for the occasion, consisting of (wo humorous readings given by Miss Carobel I .ever; a clever original poem of mnnicences of her curly days, read by Mrs, Mary McBrayer; and a short talk on her early exper iences at school by Mrs. Eliza Rob erts. A Bible contest was a part of the entertainment, and Mrs, J T. Gardner was the prize winer in this contest Mrs. Smith was assisted by Her son, Benjamin, jr.. in serving a salad course with coffee. Those enjoying this hospitality were: Mias Level, Mir. Roberts. Mrs. Mary McBrayer, Mrs. Esther Mc Brayer, Mrs. J. T. Gardner, Mrs. J. F. Whisnant. Mrs. W. R. Newton. Mrs. W. H. Tliompson, Mrs. Clyde Hoey. Mrs. J. W. Ingle. Mrs. C. F. Sherrill, Mrs. A. P Weathers, Mrs. Eliza Ward, Mrs. Flora Clark, Mrs. Henry Wiseman, of Danville, Va„ Mi's. Higgins and Mrs, Abernethy, 15 U. S. Cities Are Really In Million Class New York.—Literal Uncle Stun says there now are five cities hi the United States with a population in excess of one million, against three in 1920; but a more poetic license reveals that actually there are 16 municipalities in the magic million class Whateve,- Uncle Sam's 1630 cen sus takers may say, the citizens of those municipalities always talk ui terms of "greater city” millions. Whether the 1940 census count actually will show at least 12 cities with more than a million depends .on how these cities and their sub I urbs solve the problems of union, Already several municipalities are trying to do something about it through legislative action, annexa tion, rewording of charters. Paradox At Boston. The paradox of a metropolitan community listed by Uncle Sam at approximately a third of its actual strength is presented by Boston, Boston proper has 781,188 citl mis bv the 1636 census, but 1,955, 168 persons were counted in the closely packed network of 43 cities •nd towns separated as a rule by arbitrary and artificial boundaries. Two bills have been introduced in (t he Massachusetts legislature, m ; eluding one by Mayor Curley, lor unification "in degree;" establish ing a municipal corporation in which the smaller towns would have oral autonomy. Where are these 15 potential nhl 1 lion souled cornua unities? | The government lists New York icily. Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, j and Los Angeles, the latter two hev i ng climbed in the bond wagon since 1920. But New York actually has four jorouglis — Manhattan, Brooklyr, Queens and the Bronx, each with more than a million population The Bronx and Queens likewise crossed the million mark since 182t . Considering the boroughs separ ately, Brooklyn, which has out grown Father Manhattan, is second city in the land with 2,560,401 pop ulation. Another eastern metropolis on the horizon may some day see the com bination of the network of New Jer sey (immunities opposite Nev York City into a center of more than 2. 000,000. Civic organizations have sponsored the idea and a tentative name—Essex—-has bee n sun nested by proponents Cleveland On Verge Cleveland trembles on the verge of its first million, but-the meiro ixilltan population is far over the mark; the same applies to St. Louis, Baltimore. Boston, Pittsburgh and Ban Francisco The metropolitau count of St. Louis Is 1.293.049 against a strict census count of 821,960 for the city proper. Shorts to extend the city’s boun daries. the latest of which failed at an election last November. have been hampered by the unique stat su of St. Louis, which is a part of the state yet not a part of any county. A recently adopted consti tutional, amendment authorizes an nexation of outlying urban districts without state election and this may solve the problem. In 1929 a metropolitau plan move ment which would hare given Pitts burgh a population of nearly 1,500, 000 was defeated in a listless elec tion. The city proper had (.69 817 in 1930. Baltunores 'steal population count is 300,87$, but a* the city'* physical boundaries have remained unchanged h rarinot count its full 1 023,201. Uncle Sam Ready For Eventualities Should War Come Thro Are Tlcn-t |v Mm And Munitions In Country. The general staff of :-the®i;iny; “de veloped to a liigh degree of effte-; ieney as a result of the world war experience, is prepared to carry on warfare at a moment’s notice, says flex Collier, special writer for the North American News Alliance. Conditions today, under plans oi i the general staff, are in sharp eon-1 .rast to those existing at the time Of Americas entry in the war, asj detailed by Gan. Pershing in ins war story now' appearing in the Greensboro Daily News. Oen. Pershing relates his aston ishment at learning that “so little j had been done tin making plans for wari when there were so many tilings that might have been done long before.’’ mid condemns the "leek of foresight on the part of the general staff" in failing to take advance art ion. Today the war department has a staff organization that lias been re ferred to by officials as “a model |of efficiency, alert to its grace re sponsibilities and prepared to cope [with any emergency,’’ The national defense act impos es on the general staff the import ant duty of preparing plans for the mobilisation of men and material in time of war or other national emergency, Tf there should be an other wwr, the formulation of defi nite plans for general staff will not have to await raising a combatant force and for equipping it Those plans already are in ex Uleuee. They l ave been niudn so ’elastic that they can meet any exi gency. The framework of any army , composed of regulars, national guardsmen and reserves already is ! established. It would l)e possible to send into the field almost overnight a force of nearly half a million men. fairly well equipped, officials declare, flans for the organization, of addt tlona forces arc comprehensive. The corps area system, establish ed since the world war. creates a mechanism for prompt mobilization of forces General Rummerall, in his final report to the war depart ment, lminted out that “jack of territorial organization was one of the most serious deficiencies in our military administration during the world war ” “The then existing territorial de partments.” Oen. Summerall said, "had not been organized with a view to serving as the operating agencies for carrying out a general mobilization Time was not avail able for creating an effective terri torial organisation, and the urgency of the situation made it necessary to centralize the administration of moWltbation. training and supply 'in the war department. '•The vast number of separate , agencies depending directly on the war department produced an ex tremely complicated and clumsy system of administration. The re sulting complex structure of the war department, with its many differ ent agencies charged with various aspects of the military problem, was difficult to co-ordinate and con flicting instructions were frequent ly issued to subordinate authorities j far. removed from contact with the local situation, the war department lacked an intimate knowledge of lo cal conditions which Is required for | proper action on matters of detail. "Tile corps areas constitute the great operating agencies for the mo bilization ol the army of the Unit ed States and the peacetime ad j ministration and training of all components, and their equipment and supply.” The war department maintains a special war reserve of cprtain essen tial supplies peculiar to war deeds, sufficient to equip troops until the manufacture of such materials can get. under way. The plans of the general staff in elude not only means for mobiliz ing and supplying the nation’s arm ed forces, but detailed information cs to possible facilities for trans porting them to the scene of com 'bat and for maintaining them in (any given locality. In short our government lias laid careful plans lor a war—any war— ; that does not exist and that does not even appear in prospect. This does not mean that America i has planned a militaristic policy of [aggression, but it does mean that ' thorough-going steps have been taken to insure the defense of the I nation from any possible invasion | by others Water Shortage On In New York Area New York.—New York, which even in the winter uses 900,000,000 gallons I of water a day, is facing a serious [shortage, Mayor Walker was in i formed. The present shortage is 121,400 .million gallons, said'Chief Engineer William D. Brush- enough to last , 120 days. The situation has not [been so serious before in the- 23 [years of bis experience. There has been very little show this year in the district whence New j York’s waov supply cornea and the j reservoirs, which should be nearly , full at this season, are far from it. The mayor asked the citterns not ,to waste water. ‘Bad’ John Wright, Said To Have Killed 36, Is Dead; A Character In Trail Of The Lonesome Pine Knds « Vuerr ol Mountain. Fighter Served 1 one Sheriff, Pound, Va. —"Bad" John H’riftl, H'!. died January 3ft at his home near I'ouml. For years lie ivas a lending figure in moun tain feuds in this section and it is definitely known that nine persons were killed by hint. Kc ports credit him with killing 3C. He is survived by .. large num ber of relatives. John W Wright, better known at i “Bad .John Wriurlu, lived his active i ’He in a day when only a tough! man could survive if ? c went hunt - itig for his fellow min:. And “Bad 1 John” was tough in ili. se days. As a deputy shert'f he is reputed to have killed 25 to 30 men "ho tried to take his life rather than surrender. iso more picttirtsqu. l.gn.i than Wright ever roamed the Cumberland mountains and followed its trails through towering forests and the purple bloom of the rhododendrons. [It was from his life that John frog, ! jr„ topic the character of. “Devil iJtidd" Tolliver in “The Trail of the Lonesome, Pine.' wright whose enormous statute ialso had given him another nick ! F-lkhoiii,” was a ruard at the Wi-.e j county. Va., Jail when Fox knew j him. Toe novelist and the feariess jmc.mtanieor became fast friends . ami Wright';; experiences as drawn ; out bv Fox furnished much of the |color for the novel. In addition *.» modeling '“Devil Judd' after the of ficer. Fox Is said'to have named the book after a tall piire on a hillside 6! theCumberland;? near Wright's home not far from Pound. Va. As a voting man Wright had pate ticipated rn the famous Wright Half feud in which a large number of men were killed. Whether he act ually -lew any of the Halls in help ing fight his own relatives' battles always t< matter of conjecture. When the feud was raging the par ticipants were too busy to talk, and Wjlgbt in later years never discuss - ed it publicly. In fact, he would never say how many lives he took after he joined the forces of law and order. He re garded the slayings, however, as no black mark against his character. Officers of the law took their lives in their hands when they went into the mountains to get a ftian. The outcome usually depended upon which had the quicker eye and hand. Wright would sometimes tell or iu i dividual expet tenccs but with tils ' dry mountain humor, that never , k f'. hint, he evaded a direct answer a-; to the number of notches on hit igun. "How many men have you killed, Build With Brick I DELIVERIES FROM PLANT TO JOB \Vh 'i iu need of FACE Oil COMMON BK1CK write us, or phone 76ra, Ml. Holly, N. C, With our fleet of trucks, we can make quick deliveries to jobs, saving freight and double handling, thereby putting brick to jobs in much better condition. FOR SERVICE AND QUALITY SEE KENDRICK BRICK & TILE CO. MOUNT HOLLY, N. C. COACH or BtJStNCM COW* p.o. >. •**•* It challenges the performance of any six, regardlesB of price. It introduces Super Six smoothness to the lowest price dare It looks like a far more expenrive car. It is higher, wider and roomier than many cars that sett for hundreds of dollars more. It is the Value Sensation in a year of sensational values. - i l iK'le John?” he was asked year , v- fter lie had retired to his little ; (r bin in Letcher county. “Don't just remember ' “I've heard you killed thirty out-! laws during your hey dev," the visf-j 1.or persisted. “Is that correct?" The old man yubbed his chin.! Now. t don't know." he returned Hardly think I killed thirty. But T took a lot ol fellows to board in jail and starved 'em to death. The people might be countin' them." Whatever tire actual number he i dled it was greatly exceeded by the number he rounded up and put in jail. He was a noted pistol shot and quick on the draw. His marks-1 manship was described by J. I’ ■ Harrs, a former judge of Pikevilk ■ Ky. who was prosecutor when' 'Bari John" was a Pike county lav. oificer. “He seldom, if ever missed," .said the aged jurist. “Why, John could ; : hoot- a coon out. of a tree and riddle ; it with bullets before its body hit, the ground." Judge Marrs avowed | he had witnessed the feat. That giim determination that! made him feared by lawbreakers j served him in good stead when i time came to prosecute them. “No attorney ever shook the tea*, timony of that officer." Judge I Marrs said. “And after he had might ! u well dismiss him from the stal'd [because he never got John to cluing his testimony on i-ross-exarainat on.” i John Pox poitraycd 'Tkvll Judd" Tolliver as turning to religion in . i., j Intel* years, and put into his mouth1 the words, “Well, I've always laid out my enemies. The Lord’s been on | my side an’ I gets a better Christian it-very year.” It was a true proplm\y [tor m the summer ot 1928, long alt er tire book was famous, “Bad John" was converted, and was baptised1 in ;Role Camp Creek while hundreds of relatives and friends looked on Wright spent his declining years ift a little cabin near Pound, a meccii tor visitors who liked to sit in front of the door with him on sunny days and try to draw him out l<: tell of his early life. He >vas not ceita n of his exact age but believed he was born in 1843. Some of his friend; insisted iie was at least ten years older than that. He had little more than the cab in and enough to meet his simple ! v ants, yet as a young man he sold for $10 an acre property near ■Jenkins, Ky.. that later was wor t.» millions because coal was discover ed under the hills. He was born In Letcher cauiitoh.Ky.. near the Vir ginia bordef, the son of Joel. Wright,, a pioneer. j Although the most active quarter of a criit :;y of hh*. life was that in .- hich he. hact served n.s a law of ficer, Wright had had early exper ience in fighting Trior to his ftuid ist days he had fought in the Civil I •war. He entered the war In the : Confederate army, he raid, but was I captured and af ter a term in mili tary prison at old Tort Smith was released on his promise not to .go below the Ohio river. Later he went :nto the Union army as a substitute lor a youth who had been drafted nd who under Union military reg ulations then prevailing was able to hire a man to take his place^ In his later years Wright drew a pen sion as a Union veteran. Wright's wanderings took,him in to Virginia. West Virginia, Tenues* tee. Georgia. Indiana and other ,'tates surround::) Kentucky, and one of the most vivid accounts of an encounter with * man he wa seeking to arrest was told about an experience in Tennessee. He had trailed the man to a village in the eastern part of that state where the latter had established a shoe repoir ,• hop. Wright walked past the win dow', according to the story, mid was recognized. The fugitive, knowing the otfic er s lightning speed oh the draw, li’.cd quickly through the doorway : 1 iking Wright in the body. Then. :.i xious to finish him, rushed from • he door t0 fi*e again. But Wright's itol barked as he lay on the :sound and the cobbler pitched l' ’'ward dead. Wright never entire ly recovered from the ball that lodged in him and in his old ;ge mid it had left him stiff. Everybody believed that “Bad *Tohn” carried a pistol at all times, even sleeping with it. He may have When he was on duty, but Judge Marrs said he knew Wright did not t arry a weapon at all times. ■‘John came to my house during a t curt session,” the judge said "On* < f his enemies who wanted to kid ■ m came into town, and John dl in't knows he v,-as there, but I saw him heading tor my house and I i shed back by a short cut to warn John. "John risked me if I had a pistol, I rave him mine and just ns he pn‘ it in his pocket with his right hand the door burst open and his enemy • iyne in with life right hand in his jk eket. "That outlaw never spoke.” the ,'iidge continued, “but he extended, iris left hand to shake with John. ■ chn was cool and calculating and they grasped left hands with their if?ht hands in their pockets, Pretty con the outlaw' who had a pretty (.rod record himself withdrew his left hand, turned and walked out He was afraid to risk beating John to the draw.” Attend Live at Home Meet. More than 500 farm folks attend ed the live-at-home and farm out look meetings recently held in Per iiuimans county. Bootleg Prices Suffering From Hard Times Now — | Raleigh News and Observer. ! Business depression generally has [reduced the price and to a nottce i' able extent the consumption of li quor in the Carolina.? and Virginia, accrding to a survey of the United Press. The downward revision in prices is noted in all classes of liquor, the native distilled corn and rye bev erages and bonded and imported liquors coming from the coast. There is a tendency toward increas ed sales in smUlled quantities. Sherwood Anderson, noted novel ist and publisher of two weekly newspapers at Marion, Va., told the United Press that depression not only lias reduced the cost of liquor to the purchaser but ha* lessened materially the demand for it. Traffic Is Off. 1 A similar report conies from pro hibition officers at Asheville who state the running of red liquor into that city from southern porta has practically ceased, because runners cannot obtain their price of about $60 per case or $5 per quart from retail sellers. Formerly this brand of liquor brought from $8 to $10 a quart from the consumer. Northwestern North Carolina ap pears to be the haven for low-pric ed liquor. At Elizabeth City, white com or “chained lightning" brings from 3a to 50 cents a pint, good corn $1 per pint and rye $2 or $3 per gallon and $9 or $10 lor a five gallon jug. Prices before the depres sion were $1 and $1.50 a pint, $3 a gallon and $25 to $30 the Jug. Imported Scotch liquors, former ly selling for $6 per quart at Char leston, S. C., are down to $4. Local ' moonshine" also has dropped. Find Decrease Here. In Raleigh, half-gallon Jars of corn liquor sdfd a year ago for $♦ at retail. Now the price has drop ped to between $2 and $3. Pints sell from $1 upward. Norfolk. Va., reports a general price drop. Scotch, at retail, is down from $lito $18 per quart to $5 and S8. A case of 12 quarts is now $60 and $75, whereas It sold for about $120 18 months ago. All liquor prices, including native Virginia “Mountain Dew” and im ported North Carolina “hootch" are now lower in southwest Virginia. Bland county corn brings $3 a gal lion in five gallon lots. The North Carolina product ha*, droplet from $8 to $3 In similar .quantities). Charred keg com liquor Is down to $4 per gallon delivered in Colum bia, 8. C. Champagne has droppca from $100 to ISO a case, Scotch Cc and Bacardi rum from $85 to $4(, per case and gin from $80 to $40. Merchants Meet Tuesday Evening There will be a meting of th Cleveland Mutual Business Protec tive association Tuesday evening al 8 o’clock in the Campbell depart ment store. A full attendance of tlv membership Is urged to be present. Nash Leading In Egg*. Nash county poultry flocks an leading the state In egg laying ar t profits per bird according to recen' tabulations by the poultry extens'.ct office at State college. Lyric The Little Theatre With Big Productions TODAY AND TUESDAY James Kirkwood And Mary O’Brien In “Black Water* »» A mystery story with a thrill in every move. Newsreel and Serial. — lOe and 25c —• FRIDAY AND SATURDAY KEN HACKLET’S OKLAHOMA COWBOYS IN PERSON Shelby Dry Cleaning Co. Has Moved FROM NORTH WASHINGTON STREET TO More Ideal and Centrally Located Quarter* in the Weathers Building, Formerly Occupied By Smith Tin Shop, Opposite Eskridge Garage ON West Marion St. NEXT TO BOST BAKERY Telephone 113 Shelby Dry Cleaning Co. [ J. C. BOWLING, Proprietor - CASH AND CARRY AND DELIVERY SERVICE -
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