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at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act o! Congress. March •. IBTV
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our custom to charge five cents per Une for reaoluttons of respect
cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice naa
been published. This will be strictly adhered to.
WEDNESD’Y, APR. 15, 1931
TWINKLES
The reason more doors are not opened to opportunity
is that those on the inside are not positive it is not a bill
collector knocking.
The way North Carolina’s legislature has been holding
on and wrangling it is difficult these days to get a Tar Heel
Democrat to say so much about the last Republican Congress.
Something to worry about in a lull when there’s nothing
else on the mind: The weather prophets are now predicting
a “scorching” summer.
A statician of some type finds that a Boston housekeep
er walks eight miles per day. Takes a lot of work to cook
beans up there.
Chicago’s new mayor—a Democrat, at that—has fired
3,000 city employes since taking office. Seems to be good
headwork; if the gangs cannot be handled, why keep such
an army on the payroll to do it?
This paragraph should be appropriate for the Raleigh
News ami Observer editorial page: Maybe the legislature
will adjourn in time for the representatives to get home and
do something about it before their property is sold for taxes.
In Madrid a school has been opened for politicians. If
those folks really desire to know something about? bull-fight
ing of that type, they should send their prospective political
toreadors to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a three week’s
course.
The chewing gum manufacturer who recently received
quite a bit of free advertising in announcing his intention
to buy up gobs of cotton should now start an advertising
campaign and advise all farm boys to boost t?he price of Cot
ton by chewing so many sticks of gum per day.
HEAR THESE CONCERTS
SHELBY PEOPLE who find some leisure time on their
hands next Saturday should not miss the opportunity of
hearing the district high school music contests at the Cen
tral school auditorium. Young musicians from five counties,
representing 11 high schools, will compete in instrumental
and vocal contests. -The occasion should be a treat for all
those fond of either type of amusement. And those unable
to attend the contests Bhould remember that there will be
several hundred visitors in town during the day and Shelby
has a reputation for hospitality to maintain.
A BEAUTY SPOT SOON
SHELBY HASN’T ANY SUCH beauty spot as Charleston’s
Magnolia Gardens, this week said to be at the height of
their sheer beauty, but in the county court square this sec
tion does have a place of beauty for which generations of the
past are to be thanked. Due to the differences in climate the
court square here will not reach the peak of its springtime
lovelines for several weeks. As Shelby’s court square bursts
forth every spring in varying shades of green, even the cas
ual observer appreciates how Shelby citizens of other days
treasured a sense of the beautiful and made it possible for
the present generation to have the beautiful plot shaded by
stately trees.
Several years ago Shelby women cooperating with the
county agents added flowers and shrubbery to the square.
As business conditions gradually improve, would it not be
the proper thing to do for the city and county to cooperate
in making the court square even more beautiful ? The foun
tains could be kept in operation, and more shrubbery and
flowers added. Everyone cannot visit the Charleston gar
dens to drink the radiant beauty of spring’s debut; and if
they could, why not have a spot of beauty at home ?
NO HARD TIMES THERE
SOME DAY WHEN YOU ARE inclined to believe that times
are hard everywhere and that no section has failed to
feel the general business depression, take a motor trip out of
Shelby by way of Polkville and the South Mountain Institute
to Dysartville community, just across from Rutherford coun
ty in McDowell. It is that same route which people of this
section believe should be paved from Shelby to Marion, thus
opening up one of the most fertile sections in Western North
Carolina. Dysartville is now on the State maintained route
100.
The Utopian conditions in the Dysartville section are
described by State Automobile Inspector Debro Wilkins, a
former sheriff Of Cleveland county.
Recently Mr. Wilkina, accompanied by Mr. A. W. Mo
Murry, stopped at a general store at Dysartville. In the
course of a conversation, the store-keeper wag casually ask
ed “Times pretty hard, I guess?” Back came the reply:
“Nossir; not here. Business is as good if not better than it
has been in 10 years. There is considerable trading going on
hereabouts. Everyone seems to have some money, and if
• here is a man in this section who owes n dollar that he can
not pay I do not know him.”
That from a small town’s leading merchant. Think it1
over.
Inquiry into the life of the community that knows no
hart times reveals that Dysartville is centered between two
fertile farm valleys. For years the residents of th*.t section
have practised what Governor Gardner in recent years has
urged all North Carolnia fanners to do. The Dysartville
section has lived at home. It is a section similar to com
munities in Catawba and Lincoln counties inhabited by the
Dutch. These sections produce everything possible to pro
duce for home consumption. Things that cannot be produc
ed and have to be purchased are paid for by products ot the
farm carried to town and sold.
More Dysartvilles will serve the farm problems now fac
ing certain sections of this State.
JU8TICE FOR A NEGRO
IT IS NOT DIFFICULT to find many people who will con
tend that incidents of miscarriage of justice are rare
exceptions which should be given little attention. We often
wonder if those who so contend do not at certain moments,
when they become truthful with themselves, have a decreas
ing respect for certain types of justice. For instance, the
type explained in the following Greensboro News editorial:
Recitation of an episode in the administration of
justice as reported from South Carolina may not be en
tirely without interest for those who are prone to rumi
nate upon the idiosyncrasies of the blind goddess.
Last week Sam Bailey, negro, tipped off four mem
bers of the Palmetto legislature that he knew where a
bottle of “bonded” whisky which might be obtained for
$C. Four gullible lawmakers contributed to the pot and
sent Sam on his way to secure that with which they
hoped to quench their thirst. When Sam failed to re
turn, however the legislators reported their deficit to
the police and 'its creator was immediately brought to
the bar of justice.
The outcome of the transaction, or rather its taiiure
to materialize as furomised, was that Sam received an
alternate sentence of paying a $400 fine or spending
four months in jail. The names of the legislators were
not even mentioned in court, although it cannot be that
the negro was convicted on anonymous testimony or that
South Carolina authorities are stocked with exclusive
protection for legislators who take time off from their
lawmaking duties to violate the prohibition or other laws
during their sojourn at Columbia.
And so it runs. A negro who gave a quartet of leg
islators the medicine which their gullibility deserved
goes to the roads, while those whose eagerness to break
the statute were responsible for his plight shielded from
the public eye, return to their lawmaking with little or
no thought of the dangers which their hypocrisy breeds.
Granting that justice is blind, a woman’s intuition should
cause her td Mte herhps in disavowal of the cardinal #
principles for which she is at least supposed to stand.
Around Our TOWN
Shelby SIDELIGHTS
By KENN UKUM.
“Nine times sat of t«n people who have no sense of humor have no
sense at air ,
That's the observation of "Corn Cracker" (M. L. White), veteran
school teacher and newspaper contributor, who is one of the best known
characters In the counties of Cleveland and Rutherford. The "Corn
Cracker" observation was made In connection with reminiscences of -the
days when one of his pupils was none other than Hatcher Hughes, the
Cleveland county boy who now lives In New York and Is a nationally
known playwright.
••Corn cracker,” according to the best Information available, was
Hughes’ first school teacher, and the veteran instructor remembers that
young Hughes was one of the first to chuckle when a joke was related.
In the weeks to come "Corn Cracker” plans to write for The Star his
memories of the day when one of the county’s most famous sons was a
farm boy In this county and pupil In his school .
In so far as this coljrum Is able to determine only one Shelby resld-,
ence is insured against airplane damage. The residence Is that of Everett
(Jack) Houser In the Cleveland Springs Estates.
Back In the days when Shelby had an airport the planes zoomed
down for their landing right over the Houser house. There are numerous
telephone wires thereabouts and the ex-newspaperman had an Idea that
some day one of the planes might stick a nose Into the wires and take
a dive Into his house. And the bet Is dollars to doughnuts that not a
single Insurance man In Shelby could tell him off-hand, when he sought
it, the insurance rate on residences against damage by airplanes. /
Throagh the never ceasing efforts of this department's private de
tectives we are Informed that Joe Whlsnant. the barrister, was the first
man to take an unintentional bath In the lake on the No. 3 fairway of
the Cleveland Springs golf course. The tumble is reported to have been
accidental, but one wonders If Joe didn't feel about In the bottom of the
pond for some of those *67 golf balls knocked there In recent weeks by
Shelby golfers and wbuld-be golfers?
report has It that one Shelby's earliest bathtubs was con
structed of wood with a galvanised lining In the residence of the late
John D. Llneberger.
THOSE WEftE THE DATS!
through Ml old newspaper recently Mr Stough Hopper ran
upon an advertisement of the Clipper bicycle* which were so famous
three decades aga The ad brought back memories. One of them was
of the bicycle race held at the South Washington street park, located
near the present resldenoe of Dr. Gold Among the bike riders \tn that
particular contest 33 years ago were the following youngsters: Ab Esk
ridge.; Paul Webb. Koesle McBrayer and Joe Bridges.
Barly to the race Mr. Hopper recalls that Paul Wdbb saw that he
eras being outdistanced, turned his bike and ran it out Into the spec
tstora Joe Buttle sold Clipper bicycles to those days at a stand near
th* present locatten of the store operated by A. V Wray and the half
doaen young Wrays.
“Uaele Andie" KudasiU. whose memory goes back as far as any of
them, wanders how many present day eittsens of Shelby remember the
greased goose races. The feathers were pulled from the neck of a genre.
the neck greased, and the goose fastened to a post The goose, wesryfer.
prize of the first horseback rider who could vide by at full speed and pull
the goose from the post by the greased peck.
Springtime gets in their blood early these days. Only recently a lit
tle 10-year-old Shelby miss, well known throughout the city, had a regu
lar date and was taken to the talkies by her boy friend. Her mother
dropped by the show house a few minutes later and took a seat a short
distance behind the youthful couple. Their party was not Interrupted
until the show was over when they were invited to ride home in her
mother’s car. The Invitation was accepted.
Odds are that the young lady will be the belle of the town less than
a decade from now'.
I _
Shelby Shorts: Perhaps you hadn’t noticed it, but Cleveland county’s
display of wealth is less than a hall mile distant from the county's dis
play of poverty . On one side of the highway, the fair grounds; on the
other, the poor house . ... . There is no more pathetic sight than that of
the stooped men and gray-haired women sitting on the long porch at the
home, gazing with weary eyes, at the sinking sun—and Waiting. Tire
past a series of tough breaks and misfortunes. The future a dismal
blank—and, What a cheering thought! many newspapermen wind up their
flutter on earth rocking out of life on porches of that type .... What
dreary lines . .. . know any fresh jokes? . . . . . One young lady considers
this corner’s Miss Shelby contest "positively silly” She hasn’t been enter
ed .„ .... . Have there been seven consecutive rainy Saturdays or eight?
That topic is under controversy in Shelby , .f . . And what about next
Saturday?
Those folks who, when asked how they are feeling, have a habit of
saying “Oh, Just so-so” could say the same thing in the words of the
South Carolina colored man whose reply was "Somewhar 'twixt ’Oh,
Lord,’ and ‘Thank God.’.”
Contest Wins
At Lattmore
Winners in Reading and Declaim
Inf Contest in Various Grades
Beats PolkvUle.
(Special to The Star.)
Lattimore, April 14.—In the vcad
ers and declamation contest Friday
evening, the elementary reader win
ning first place was Jocelyn Mag
ness from the seventh grade, with.
Martha McBrayer of the 6th grade,
taking second place. The elementary
declaimer taking first place was
Dietz Washburn from the fourth
grade, with Winifred Jones from the
fifth grade taking second place. The
high school reader winning first
place was Miss Faith Davis with
Miss Elaine Horne coming second.
The high school declaimer winning
first place was Mr. Aston Adams
with Mr. John Albert McBrayer
coming second. All of those win
ning first places in this contest will
bo awarded a gold medal at com
mencement.
The Woman's club met on Thurs
day afternoon in the home econo
mics department. After business
| transactions, salads were demon
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strated. After the meeting there ad
journed the ladies visited Mr. Gid
eon Price’s flower garden, which was
thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Wins Over Polkville.
The Lattimore base ball team won'
a game over the Polkville team last
week 11 to 2. While Hendricks was
holding the ‘ Polkville sluggers to
four hits his teammates were knock
ing the offerings of the Polkville
pitcher all over the lot. Green was
sent to the showers in the fourth
and Gold, who followed him was less
effective.
he entire Lattimore team played
good ball, Hendricks with three hits
and Cabiness with two led the hit
ting.
Mrs. O. E. Acree and daughter,
Eleanor, of Atlanta, Ga„ spent the
week end with Mr. and Mrs. C, E.
Jones. Mrs. Acree’s friends will, be
pleased to know that her oldest
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turbances of their children
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stomach, soothes the pains,
prevents violent paroxysms,
tends to regulate the bowels
and in the end may avoid
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digestive disorders due to up-|
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for children 60e at all drug
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LAST MONTH IN WHICH TO PAY
COUNTY TAXES
Every piece of property on which county taxes are
not paid by May 1st will be advertised for sale the first
week in June.
I am compelled under the taw to collect all county
taxes by May let or sell the property and I have no
other discretion in the matter
I. M. ALLEN, Sheriff Cleveland
County.
daughter, Aileen won a trip to
Washington, D. C, this week; in con
nection with the American lied
Cross. k * *
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. JoneS1 had as
guests lor the day Sunday their
friends Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Under
hill and Miss Cora Byrd of the fac
ulty of the school for the deaf at
Morganton,
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jolley and
children and Mr. Billie Harril vis
ited friends and relatives near Cliff
side, Sunday.
Miss Margaret Reynolds had as
guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Bryan of Greenwood, S. C., and
Misses Janie Fuller and Mildred
Kemp of Edgefield, S. C.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator of the
estate of B. T. Brooks, deceased, this Is to
notify all persons having claims against
the estate ot said deceased to exhibit
them duly verified to the undersigned at
Shelby, N. C.. on or before the 31st day
of March, 1932. or this notice will , be
pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per
sons indebted to said estate will please
make Immediate payment.
This 31st day of March, 1931.
Z. J. THOMPSON. Administrator of
B. T Brooks, Deceased.
Joseph C. Whlsnant. Atty. »t Apr lc
DR. A. PITT BEAM
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year.
SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.
As executors of the will of rtufUs P.
Frauds, deceased, we will offer fur aa.e
at the home place in Earl, N. C„ at 10
a. m. Monday, April 20th. 1931, at public
auction for cash, all the articles of per
son*! property belonging to the estate of
Rufus P, Francis deceased. Bald articles
of personal property consisting of house
hold and kitchen furniture, farming tools,
some live stock, chickens, cotton seeds,
some corn, buggy, wagon &nd various
other articles of personal property.
This the 10th day of April, 1831.
M. A. FRANCIS. F. L. WILKINS,
Executors of the will of Rufus P.
Francis, deceased.
Newton & Newton, Attys.
4t Apr 10c
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