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American Rival to Monte Carlo # $ * i- * * Legalized Gambling and Six Weeks’ Residence for Divorce Brings Rush from All Parts of the West to Reno, Where Faro, Roulette, and Chuck a-Luck Revives Scenes of Frontier Days. Gov Fred Balzar I A Scene in the &ANKCLU&, Reno Gambling Resort r ii— Reno's Main Street. Mayor E.E. Roberts i he city of Rono, Nevada wake* up to the realise- . tion that the rest of the United State* have gone wild with interest over the fact that boy* and girls can now legally wage a bit of change on the turn of a wheel, the fall of a couple of dice, or tbe flip of a card. Scenes reminiscent of days of the Old West were plentiful » ’ hours after Governor Fred A. Balxar signed a bill legalizing gambling. The games ware given an official aspect by the presence of Mayor E. E. Roberts, a picturesque figure of the .old Nevada days. Another enactment in the State's law making six weeks* residence in the State only essential for divorce bids fair to bring a further boom to the wild free Sagebrush State. • Reno,.New—Back to the good old days—This is the slogan in the wild tree Sagebrush State. A few hours after Gov. Fred B. Balzar had signed a bill dealing a death blow to modern reformers and making gambling legal,' aged Neva dans sighed happily, as they listen ed to the hum of the chuck-a-lttck machine. “Just like, the good old days,” they murmured, as they watched the faro dealer rake in and WHERE BUSINESS ISA PLEASURE •they say you can’t mix business and—NOT SO! • —We consider it a pleas ure to do business with our shareholders and they consider it a pleas ure to do business with us. So There You Are It’s Fifty-Fifty We invite others to come in and join us now by taking out as many shares as you can pos sibly carry — they are only 25c per share per week and you may have as many as you wish. Come and Start Your Shares Now At The CLEVELAND BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION J. L. SUTTLE, Sec.-Treas, pay out bets in the $50 limit games, and cast eyes alight with memory of other days at the sign: "The Game Never Closes.* The presence of Mayor E. E. Rob erts, a picturesque survivor of the “Old West,” made everything offi cial. It was no new story to him, for he is a Nevadan—a Nevadan of the wide open days of old. Reno, that happy Mecca for dis solution of galling matrimonial j chains, is going to be a regular lit tle Monte Carlo, with a bank to break and everything. There’s something else nice that's going to happen in Nevada also. When the bands of matrimonial bltss turn into bonds, heretofore it was necessary to spend three months here to get a divorce—not any more. This is another bill that has just been passed by the Nevada legisla ture. It provides that if you want a divorce all you have to do is buy a ticket to Nevada and live six weeks in the state. Not necessarily here. Carson City, Elko, Carlin or any where in the state will do equally well. The boom in the state at the re turn to the old days will be com pletely eclipsed when the six weeks' law goes into effect. Only six weeks’ residence in the state—in Reno, within sight of the; courthouse, or out in the sagebrush i with the rabbits and the prairie dogs—and the things is done. In a short time when competition1 for unloosing the bonds of matri-1 mony become too keen, perhaps Ne-1 vada will again come to the rescue and make a residence of six days only an essential factor in the law’ of the state. Meanwhile, despite the time-worn statements from those who deal with Juvenile crime and insist on telling us that nine-tenth, of the wayward boys and nine-j tenths of the wayward girls come1 from homes broken by divorce—the I motto in Nevada is—"Life is short; I let us be men\v.” This new competitor in the New! World to Monte Carlo or the Old, | has all tire pleasures which give a i thrill ot the heart of man, when! his winnings at the faro table can j afford to pay for them. One thing is lacking as yet, but as the ban-! ishment of so-called reform is only in its initial stage, that, too, wili come in time, a haven where lovers can forget, similar- to the SuicWe club of the Riviera. Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS By RENN DRUM. For the history books: Pink was the given name of the first man child bora to Shelby after Jimmy Love, the harness maker, .squared off a circle of land and gave it to the baby county of Cleveland as a site for the county seat. Pink who? Well, that's another matter. Some folks say Pink Alexander was the first person bora in the new: county-seat town; others ’low as how it was Pink Jackson. Just which .Pink was Shelby’s first-born may never be definitely known, for, y’see, both pinks were born the same night. What a pity It is that some afficient midwife did not set down the hours of the arrival of the two Pinks. But, as we said at the outset, the given name of the first person born in Shelby was Pink. No one can gainsay that. Just as a matter of information: Who is the oldest automobile driver to Shelby? This colyum knows one 70-year-old gentleman who pilots hk own car about town daily. Know anyone older? “Town Rounder: Say, bo, some of your readers must be pie-eyed and poor observers. Any number of young squirts have been entered as Shel by’s most handsome men. Let me tell you this: Hizzoner Mayor Sim A. McMurry is Shelby's handsomest man. I’ll put him up against any man in the state. —BVD." And that eliminates former Mayor W. N. Dorsey as one of the judges we’d figured on to help decide this good-looking-man contest. Here's something else we’d like to know: Who owned the first bath tub in Shelby? That ought tc establish family prestige even more than coming over on the Mayflower. (On the “mum" to readers: Why’n heck don't you answer some of these question? Just sit out there and read and never say a word back. That’s no way to carry on a conversation.) A mite of a boy was in Steve’s drug store last week and some of the drugstore cowboys were questioning him, hoping to have some fun “How many sisters have you, son?” they queried. "Two married and one living,” the unperturbed youth rcnlled Now, go on and worry that one out for yourself. About a half century ago an eight-year-old Cleveland county farm boy rode a straight-eared mule into Shelby one day to see the sights He hitched his mule over near the present location of Central Methodist church, right by the office and residence of Dr. Williams. The door to the physician’s office stood open and the curious, eager-eyed farm lad walk ed In. Dr Williams at that time owned the only skeleton In Shelby and It stood Just Inside his office door. The unsophisticated country boy gave one peep, saw the skeleton, gave one shriek and leaped out the door. The first thing he noticed was that his mule had Jerked loose from the hitching post and was gone. Glanctng across the court square he saw the mule grazing among the bushes on the square on the southwestern corner. The square in those days was covered with bushes of every kind. The frightened youth, hurrying to get away from the skeleton and hur rying, likewise, to get his pencil-fall, broke a speed record going across the square Just before he reached the court house he ran headlong into a big thorn bush. Such was his fright that he tore loose and kept going. In about ten steps he realized that he had tom the lost shred of his pants off in the thorn bush. He had to have that mule however, or walk home, and he kept travelling. To this day that country lad for 50 years ago remembers how he felt as clad only In his shlrttail he slid across that mule's back. And he still remembers the skeleton. The boy’s name. Incidentally, was Debro D. Wilkins. In luter years he became sheriff of Cleveland county and Is now state automobile in To make life easier on the hard-working farmer one big fertilizer company Is eliminating the best known test for strength farm boys ever knew. In bygone rainy days when husky farm lad.? gathered about :U country store, sawmill, or cotton gin, the conversation sopn got iround to'physical prowess. At first to settle the arguments the boys might wrestle Indian style or •brttches-hold." but sooner or Inter the left moved around to a fertilizer sack. The fellow Who could shoulder s> 200-pound guano bag and carry it the longest distance was usually an outstanding character in every neighborhood. Hundreds of eminently successful men of today can clearly recall how they struggled in the dim and distant past to get a guano sack on their backs Now the days of that favorite test seem to be numbered. In the last issue of The Star is an ad of the Chilean Nitrate of Soda firm telling of the qualities of the new 100-pound bag, "the bag without a backache." That's what progress will do for you. Shelby shorts: Beg pardon, two Shelby bankers smoke cigarettes. . . . The new music teacher. Mr Lewis, at Shelby high must be a go getter. He has the school band going at full blast. Lend 'em an ear at the next baseball game .... A close observer says that so far brunettes dominate the beautiful girts entered In the Miss Shelby contest. But he adds that the two blondes entered are plenty able to hold their own . F M , we hear, has ambitions to become a ventrlloqlst . .... If the Rey nolds company had postponed that new Camel wrapper contest a few weeks, we are positive that we would have won the prize, Our summary of tire Improved qualities brought about by the cellophane wrapper would have been: “The new luxury stamp Imposed bv the legislature will not stick on the cellophane wrapper” ..... Every week-end now, and oc casionally In between, a covey of Shelby automobiles may be seen trek king towards Bridgewater ... Ralph Gardner, the governor’s son home cn a vacation from prep school, looks huskier than ever. Wonder where he'll be playing football next fall ... A comely young brunette pops up with the Information that those plump women who went to see Marie Dressier in “Reducing” to get a few tips on taking off poundage were really sunning away from the best tip of all "The working end of a broom, regularly applied." she says, “will do more than anything else to main tain that girlish figure.' Did you know—that the caretaker of Sunset cemetery works with more men under him than any other man in Shelby? Go on over to the cemetery, count the tombstones and figure it out for yourself. Boiling Springs College On Accredited List Of Schools \ Plant Has a Value of $113,000. Hus Enrolled :i,000 and 700 Grad uates Since 1007. jBy It. L. BOLTON.) A letter to Dr. Wall, president of Bolling Springs Junior college, from Dr. Thurman Kltchin. president ol Wake Forest college, states that the following junior colleges in North Carolina are recognized as being on the accredited list at Wake Forest: Boiling Springs. Campbell. Daven port, Loutsburg, Mam Hill, Mitchell, Peace, Plneland, St. Marys, Weaver. Wingate. M a high school. Boiling Springs j was organised in 1007. From 1007,; until the present, about 3,000 stu dents have been enrolled. Seven hundred have gone forth as grad uates. Scores of its graduates have entered the teaching profession. A former .superintendent of education of Cleveland county. J. Y. -Irvin, said that there was a time in the history of Cleveland county, when best prepared teachers came from Boiling Springs high school, more than one-half of the rural teachers at a certain period of the count?'* educational history, came from Bolling Springs. Scores of Bolling Springs grad uates have gone through senior col leges. and many through theologi cal seminaries. One young wom an. a graduate of the school. Is a missionary In Korea, serving under the Presbyterian board. One young man. a graduate, is serving as a missionary In Cuba. As a Junior college, Bolling Springs, has functioned a little more than two years. Seven graduates have enrolled in Wake Forest, since it became tv junior eolege. AD seven are making creditable records, one of them being the outstanding de bater at Wake Forest, AH of the seven art taking an active part in the college life at Wake Forest. About 80 percent' of the students at Boiling Springs, during Its his tory, have come from Cleveland county, a number of its graduates are active In the business life of Shelby The special effort at the present time. In this emergency ap peal, is to put new spirit and life into this school, which has done so much for Cleveland county and this section. If you have not made a con tribution, send it in at once, as this special effort closes within s few days. Nine students In the present en rollment are from Shelby. Five of the school's graduates are In the em ployment of the First National bank of Shelby. The plant at Boiling Springs Is worth *143,000. The endowment Is *9.000. Total liabilities are $34,883.M. Bills collectible. $11,790.37. Senator J. Ham Lewis predicts four political parties In 1933. No. no. Jim. we really haven’t enough graft for the two we now have — Hubbard tore.) Enterprise. I’ve ridden the in white water —says Chesterfield © 19JI, iicoiTT & Myers Tobacco Co. . * » you’ll find me swapping stories at the club” It’s no easy matter to pilot a bucking log through white-tipped rapids. It’s even harder to pry a Chesterfield smoker loose from his choice. A man wants taste in his cigarette and in Chesterfield he gets it... The better taste of milder and better tobaccos —nothing else! Nothing else is needed .. thanks to the ’cross-blend,” which brings out the aroma and flavor of the tobaccos themselves! rOR NINETEEN years, out Research Department has kept intimate touch with everynew development of Science that could be applied to the manufacture of cigarettes. During this period there has been no development of tested value or importance to the smoker which we have not incorporated into the making of Chesterfield cigarettes. Liggett & Mym Tobacco Co. * Greater mildness . .. better tastel
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