BUSINESS
IMPROVING
RAPIDLY
Since January, business
in our section has iniprov- ;
ed, and for tfre last thirty
days business has improv-,,
ed rapidly. There’s a dif- 1
ferenee every day now :
people are feeling better, j
they are turning loose some
of their cash, they have
about landed and come to
their senses.
Of course, we are all go- j
ing to live at home this j
year—make a garden, raise
a hog and some chickens. I
mi'k a cow, grow plenty of
corn and feed, and make
good safe, sound invest
ments.
, Over a year ago we an
nounced that we were go
ing out of b#uness, but aft
er January 1st, 1930, we
found that we had a lot of
merchandise left over from
our department store. We
didn’t want to give it away.
We didn’t have to. So we
just stayed on in business,
working off this stuff. We
fixed up our present quar
ters, bought a lot of nice
furniture—then some more
—and just kept on doing
business. But the other
iay, a couple of fellows
came along and bought all
our dry goods, shoes, no
tions, men’s clothing and
furnishings . . and we were
sure glad to get rid of the
stuff. We had almost worn
it Out showing it, but, by
i George, she’s gone now and
we are,going to carry out
our plans, which were an
nounced over a year ago.
QUIT—
Now business is better,
and getting better every
day. We can give our at
tention to other interests.
But, folks, we have a big
job before us yet. Begin
ning Saturday morning, j
March 21st, at sun up, we ^
are offering our entire $25,- i
000.00 stock of furniture, 1
home furnishings, etc., at
prices never offered by us
or anybody else in Cleve
land County—for 9 days,
ending April 1st. Then we
are going to move to our
Bargain Place, next door
to Kendall Medicine Com- .
pany, west Warren street,
and work off what is left
over from this 9-day sa'e, if
anything is left. We are
going to set out to collect
$20,000.00 which is owing
! to us.
So throw out your chest,
come to this sale, make a
good, safe, sound invest
ment in our furniture and
if yo'» owe us an account,
get ready to pay us and
we’ll thank you.
We appreciate the fine'
business you good people
have given us for the last
13 or 15 years, and your
continued support and co
operation will be ippreciat
ed.
Thank you,
THE PARAGON
FURNITURE CO.
Shelby, N. C.
Bobby Gets “Shot lor Screen
Bobby Jonei>, wuo Rt»ve up bis.
amateur standing in golf so
that he could show everybody,
via the silver screen route, the
correct way to hit the golf ball.
is pictured as he made his initial
bow before the camera and mi
crophone at Los Angeles, in one
of a series of short subjects
which are calculated to capture
the interest of non-players.
Around Our TOWN
Shelby SIDELIGHTS
By KBNN UKl M.
Our scouts and undercover agents bring in. the information that all
about Shelby the er-r-uh plump ladies are going to rush the Webb
theatre today and tomorrow to see Marie Dressier in “Reducing.* They’re
anxious, we dare to suspect, to see how it’s done.
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Shelby Shorts:. You never see Rush Hamrick unless he's walking m
if he were going to a fire. But Mai Spangler even trots along the street
at times. Had you noticed it? .... A bashful young fellow nominates
Mrs. Aaron Quinn in the beauty contest .... Farmers hereabouts who
spray their orchard trees will tell you that the longest work they come
in contact with is “paradlchlorobenzene.” It’s a chemical used for borers
or. peach trees . . Go ahead and spell it after you pronounce it
Ex-service men about Shelby are having a good break in getting their
bonus money at the present time. Homes and building lots and ma
terial are cheaper than they have been In years, or will be for years to
come ... and quite a number of the former doughboys and gobs are
taking advantage of that break . . . A tip to the Cleveland County club:
An old-time spelling match at the court house would go over big . . , . .
Remember Forrest McGill, the cotton coop representative who left Shel
by to enter the real estate business in Orlando, Florida, and then mar
ried the mayor’s daughter?
The news item the other day about the roomer who ran away with
his landlord’s wife, automobile and money reminds of the following pop
ular rhyme of bygone days: %
"Bonnie and I took a roomer
* To get a few dollars, you see;
Bonnie and I took a roomer—
O! Bring back my Bonnie to me!”
WHEN SHELBY WHOOPEED!
A few backward glances from our prize contributor, T. W. H.:
Remember when Grover Cleveland was elected in 1884, the first
Democratic president since the Civil war? Did Shelby celebrate and
how? The celebration ran day and night for 48 hours .Bands played,
banners waved, canons boomed every 30 minutes and there were num
erous torchlight processions. The younger crowd may think the Armis
tice celebration was something to be remembered. It was. but neverthe
less it was only a drop in the bucket to the Cleveland celebration. If
anyone doubts it. just a k Charlie Webb, Charlie Doggett, Davis Bablng
toii, or Will Carroll. By the way, who was Cleveland’s Republican op
ponent?
The boys of that day had a small cannon, made, I think, by Davis
and Tom Babington in their father s foundry. Anyway, the boys of the
town were celebrating one moonlight night on the court square. In the
crowd was a young man Beatty Murry, a crippled job printer who
weighed about 200 pounds. He was feeling hilariously good and after
the boys lit the fu e to fire the cannon, he walked up to It and said: "I
have heard that if you die happy you go to Heaven and I am as happy
now as I could be.’’ Then he deliberately sat down on the cannon. They
managed to grab him and pull him off just in time to save his life.
The passing of the New York World reminds that a present day
Shelby man then an eight-year-old street urchin and newsboy was fav
ored by that paper when it first came Into existence. The World took a
prominent part in the 1883-84 election and this boy maintained a sale oi
several hundred copies of The World for several weeks during the
Cleveland campaign He was so successful that The World wrote him
and asked him to go to New York and join their circulation staff. He
stuck to Shelby, never desiring to go any farther away than the ole
swimmin’ hole.
Remember when the colored people voted In Shelby? In days gone
by when the voting population did not exceed 200 the seventy-five negrc
voters usually held the balance of power. The candidate who was the
most liberal with quarts and quarters usually won. I remember a ho1
municipal election when much excitement prevailed. On the Sunday aft
ernoon before the election the candidates set up campaign headquarters
on each side of town with several workers In charge. They then gath
ered together all the negroes who could vote and gave them plenty of li
quor, then locked the negroes Into a building until 4 o’clock Mondaj
morning. They were then awakened from their stupor, given hot coffee
and ham sandwiches and at sunup marched to the polling place double
file to vote as the workers handed out tickets.
• • • • *
Remember when Shelby was one big, congenial family with nearly
everybody related? As It Is now the Hamricks, Blantons, Greens, and Mc
Swains are related and inter-related to almost every family tn the coun
ty. They must have heen the first settlers In this section. It would be
very interesting to hear Mrs. Mary McBrayer relate-' the connections be
tween hundreds ol Cleveland county families.
More anon.
Sam Gault stopped H. Clay Cox, Republican chairman, on the street
the other day and said- “While out driving I happened to note that we
had to enlarge our county home, and that reminded me that your Mr
Hoover promised to abolish and banish poor houses long before now."
Morrison, Bailey
Make_T>dd Pair”
Washington, D. C —Sana lor Ctam
eron Morrison and Joalah W. Bailey,
who will double-team it together as
North Carolina's two representatives
In the upper chamber at the next
session of congress, are an oddly-as
lorted pair.
Senator Morrison is toga-clad
already, by appointment of Gover
nor O. Max oardner to succeed the
late Senator Lee S. Overman. He
will serve only until the 1933 election
—unless*, of course, he runs then and
wins.
Senator Bailey defeated the vet
eran Senator Furntfold M. Simmons
in last year's Democratic primaries
and triumphed easily In November
over Representative George U.
Pritchard, the Republican senator
ial nominee, and takes his seat In
the TOnd congress in December.
In the ordinary course of events
Washington consequently would not
have had Its Introduction to Sena
tor Bailey so early, but he made a
special trip here some time ago to
oppoce (unsuccessfully) the senate’s
confirmation of Prank R. McNlnch
as a member of the new federal
power commission, on which he was
chosen by President Hoover to serve
as one of the two legally required
Democrats.
Senator Morrison took McNlneh's
part.
This clearly brought out the con
trast between them.
Senator Bailey Is hard boiled. Sen
ator Morrison Is of the benevolent
type.
The statement that Senator
Bailey Is hard boiled should by no
means be Interpreted as Implying
that there Is anything rough-hewn
about him. Emphatically to the
contrary, he Is hard boiled like pol
ished steel. In appearance and man
ner, he Is ultra-aristocratic—the
scornful, haughty aristocrat.
Senator Morrison is aristocratic,
too, but he Is of the gentle old aris
tocratic pattern—kindly to everyone,
his inferiors especially maybe.
According to Senator Bailey’s Mo
Nlnch Is not a Democrat at all, but
a Hoovercrat; Which being the case
the senator was frank to Imply that
he could see mighty little good In
him whatever.
Senator Morrison agreed that Mc
Nlnch is what he called "a sorry
Democrat," but the very fact that
he had to make this admission Im
mediately set him to looking for re
deeming features In the latter, and
he found them—In particular that
McNinch is an excellent churchman,
in fact an elder, well known for his
piety; also a pleasant neighbor and
a delightful companion.
Senator Bailey is handsome, but
cold of visage. His voice Is hard and
resolute; his manner assured. He Is
a fine figure of a man, lithe and
erect. He suggests a fencer, with a
keen-pointed rapier In his hand,
jabbing It (the weapon) through an
adversary’s vitals.
Senator Morrison also Is hand
some, but with the handsomeness of
a multlmllllanalre-ite philanthrop
ist of some sort, thinking up ways
of making the human race better
and happier.
Each, In his own particular spe
ciality, Is, If anything, somewhat
exaggerated.
Ella Mill News
Of Current Week
(Special to The Star )
Ella Mill. Mar. 19.—Mr. Cicero
Johnson of Spindale and Miss Mary
Johnson of Forest City visited their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland John
son Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Breeden and
family of Chesnee, S. C„ spent Sun
day with Mrs. Laura Gossett.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dellinger and
daughter. Lizzie Nora, and Miss
Edna Ellis visited Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Ellis near Patterson.
The little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. James of the Ora Mill spent
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. H.
C. Hopper.
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Davis, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Anthony and son, A.
V. visited Mr. and Mrs. Edgar's folks
near Boiling Springs.
Mr and Mrs. Nathan Camp of
Earl spent Friday night with Mr
and Mrs. Forest Grayson.
Mrs. Garnie Smart and wto chil
dren. Richard and Marie spent the
week-end at 8plndale with Mrs. C.
W. Towery.
Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Towery and
Mrs. G. G. Davis visited Mr. and
Mrs. S. G. Glover Friday.
Mr. Rollin Moffitt spent Tuesday
night at Spindale. ■
We have on our sick list this week
Messrs. Roland Johnson, William
Towery, Miss Onell Gossett, Mrs.
O. B. McCurry and Mrs. Latham
Painter and little Oscar Bowens. Jr.
who is very sick with double pneu
monia.
Mrs. Mae Sisk and two children
of Forest City visited at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Anthony Sun
day.
Mr. Warburg, New York banker,
says business revival needs the help
of psychologists and not economists.
Perhaps a few buyologtsts would
help.—Brunswick Pilot.
The Russian workman, forced to
iult a Job he like* and work where
, he bosses need him must rej'><ce in
‘he fact that he is no longer slave
| of a czar.—Brooklyn Eagle.
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OVER YEAR AGO
We Planned To Discontinue
Business-Our Plans are Working out
Last week we sold our entire stock of Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing,
Notions, Furnishings, Etc., to an out-of-town concern. This stock has
been moved out of our way.
_IT’S GONE
BUT...
We Have A
$25,000.00
Stock
—OF
New Up - To - Date Furniture, House
Furnishings, Rugs, Ranges, Stoves,
Novelties, Curtain Draperies, Etc.,
WHICH WE ARE GOING TO PLACE
On Sale Saturday Morning
MARCH 21
At Un heard Of Prices
THIS SALE WILL CONTINE TILL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1ST
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THIS SALE WILL CONTINUE TILL
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1ST
BUYING DAYS
A $25,000.00 STOCK OF
FURNITURE AND HOME
FURNISHINGS
ALL MUST GO
After April 1, our office and what stock
is left will be moved to our Bargain
Place, next door to Kendall Medicine
Company. It is our wish not to move a
single puece of furniture to our Bargain
Place, and if prices mean anything to
you, our floors will be cleared during
the 9-Day Sale.
WE ARE NOT GOING TO MOVE
MUCH OF THIS FURNITURE —
WE ARE GOING TO PUT ON A
9-DAY SALE
AND GIVE PRICES YOU HAVE
NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE —
Every Item Must Go and Will Go.
YOU KNOW OUR STOCKS —
SO COME SATURDAY, MAR. 2!
AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS
in 9
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