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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. <J. MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mail, per year .....___kuxi By Gamer, per year _________.... gxuu THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. LJSK B. WEATHERS ................_ President and Hanoi & ERNEST HOEV .......................... Secretary end foreman RENN DRUM ................ News Editor L. E DA1L ...................................Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January l. 1905, at the postomce •t Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act ot Congress, March 5. 1979. We wish to call your attention to the lact that it is and naa oeen our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. I MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931 TWINKLES Young Herbert Hoover, suffering with incipient tuber culosis, spent about six months in the mountains near Ashe ville and left there weighing about 40 pounds more than when he arrived. That is a real boost for the health-giving climate of Western North Carolina. It may, however, be an ironical boost to mahy Tar Heels who make a habit of travel ling to some distant State to recuperate and regain their health. THE NEW HIGHWAY HOARD GOVERNOR GARDNER'S new highway board, as announc ed by him yesterday, will, we believe, meet with hearty approval. All members thereof are well known State figures and are considered men of ability. E. B. Jeffress, the new chairman, has for years been a good roads advocate, not of the extremist type, but an advocate just the same. As pres ident of a newspaper, Tne Greensboro News, which right fully believes in divorcing public business from politics as much as possible, it is not likely that political pull and maneuvering will have as much influence with the road sys tem of the State, under the chairmanship of Jeffress, as might come about under the leadership of u man more of the professional politician type. Will Neal, of Marion, who represents this Section—al though under the new* plan there is to be no sectional repre sentation—-is a man of recognized ability. All in all it seems ss if the Governor put his fingers on a capable-group to carry out the revamped highway policies. IS AS IT SHOULD HE THE PASSAGE of the bill placing the solicitor of the Cleve land county recorder's court on a salary basis was a worthwhile move which will meet with the approval, The Star believes, of a m^jor portion of the citizens of the coun ty. A big percentage of taxpayers and citizens have for years felt that all public offices should be on a salary basis instead of a fee plan. It is difficult to know just how much an officers is getting when he is on a fee basis; when he is on a salary every taxpayer knows just how much the officer is being paid. The fee system is one of the worst evils of an antiquated form of county government that, thank good ness, is rapidly disappearing. While a deputy in the clerk’s offices, adds another em ployee to the county’s pay-roll, the fees will approximate the salaries of both the solicitor and the deputy. A deputy in the clerk’s office should speed up the work and safeguard the proper recording of important legal papers, pertaining not only to the recorder’s court, but those matters concerning the Superior court. WHEN JAKE GETS GOING JAKE NEWELL, the Mecklenburg Republican who has such a smooth flow of oratory and the willingness to wage battle with anyone, has announced that will be a candidate for the United States Senate in 1932. That means Jake will oppose his fellow townsman, Senator Morrison, if the Re publican party endorses his candidacy. Therein lies pros pects of interesting happenings. The Republican party in North Carolina has its family spats just as does the Demo cratic party, although the latter has been receiving more at tention in recent years. (hie wonders what the Jonas-Setzer faction of the Re publican party in North Carolina will think of the Newell announcement. There have been occasions when Jake and Cliff Newell and Mike Whitener and others of the old line j Republican organization have differed and differed vehem ently with the more recent group of leaders including fcharlie Jonas and his close allies. The Jonas outfit, admittedly, has been more successful at the steering wheel of the G. O. P. machine than any other in recent years, but once the Newells and Whitener get their dander up they can make trouble for ^any organization. The present Republican leaders may not relish the thought of Newell as the party’s senatorial hope, but if they say so, they may open up a party fight which no organization would relish. And that makes the future look a bit brighter for the Democrats who have been fussing among themselves over much things as Raskob, Cannon, Smith, Jo Daniels, and ad valorem cows that have gone dry. HOW WILL IT GO OVER? NOW THAT THE SO-CALLED "luxury” tax measure has been adopted to support the schools one is inclined to wonder how it will work out in reality since the theoretical stage has been passed. Naturally, the promised relief in land taxes which is i promised under the plan will be welcomedd—provided the burden does not become more obnoxious in its new form.1 Too many people, we fear, have the id^a that they are to be relieved entirely of school taxes. InstGad they are going to pay it a few pennies and nickels at a time where they have been paying it in a lump sum. Taxes for schools have not been abolished; they’ve merely been shifted. It remains to be seen if the new method is more pleasing than the old. And the troube about it is that no taxation has ever been * KwiiWEM^otANAa^r > harm about 'SWIMMIMfe TBOA -ftAt pleasant in any form. The Hickory Record, which terms-, the “luxury” tax a “nuisance" tax, fears that it will not be long before the peo ple will tire of it. Says The Record: The people of North Carolina are to be given the excruciating joy of paying a “nuisance tax” levy. The Hinsdale measure, described as a so-called sales tax on “luxuries,” having been agreed upon as a provision of the revenue bill, everyone may not settle back and await the resultant confusion and nuisances. In the first place, the regular army of state em ployes will be augmented by the addition of a bevy of official state snoopers whose business it will be to add to the worries of the "business houses that handle any of the goods on the “luxury” list. The cost of checking and collecting this tax will therefore prove to be a con siderable percentage of the amount collected. It will cost those who have stocks of “luxury” goods for sale a considerable additional amount to adjust their bookkeeping systems so as to separate their sales and be in position to make a proper accounting to the “snoop ers.” The patience of every person in the state will be tested every time he digs more deeply into his pocket to get the extra pennies which will be tacked on to the various items on this “luxury” list. Even as a war measure, such a system of- taxation was resented by the people, and it will prove much more of a nuistfnee in times of peace. The relief it gives to the advalorem levies will be found to be almost wholly imaginary, in the last analysis, we predict. Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— My Finish. When I "grad-u-rated" In the eighth grade at a country school house, we closed the school with a big charade, then called ‘'exhibi tion” too There has never %een anything (to my way of thinking) that equalled that entertainment. I was In it, and so was my girl. I remember that fine play we pulled off. It was entitled—“Mln ervy at the Quilting." She was Min ervy and I was her fellow. The first girl I ever hugged was Mtnervy at the quilting, and I had to hug her a little bit. as the book said I must, but I barely touched her diaphram In that so-called loving embrace, however, it got me started. I rattled my words off just like they were put down in the book. T had my voice pitched to one tone and there I held it, and I dlddent skip a “to” or. forget a ‘the.’* or miss a “that.” I uttered my part verbatim, ad litteratlm, dum tacit clamat. Minervy looked great in her red calico dress with a long sash tied around her fat waist, and a pink ribbon held her ball of hair In place. She knew her part, too, and as nearly everybody there were as ignorant as we were, they enjoyed it ' Somebody threw Minervy a big bunch of Johnny quills just as we finished, and a good friend of mine pitched a big sunflower to me and it almost knocked me a-spraUlng. We had some fine music mixed up In that programme. A girl from ’way off somewhere, possibly 10 miles from the school house, played that organ, and .believe, him Ber ger, she knew her ivories. That was the first organ most of us hud ever seen. And we had 2 fiddle and I banjo and a git-tar. I got slightly hurt when one of the boys began to slide the curtain back. The plow-line he was to pull it with got hung around my left ankle and it jerked me off the stage and I bumped into a big old buggy um brella some thoughtful patron had fetched into the church to keep the hr>v« from outtlne it all to I'iiv-r. Another accident took place that night. Just as I was leading Mtn ervy away from the old ash-hopper, the swinging lamp fell down and left us in the dark. I will never forget that tableu they pulled for Minervy. She was down on her knees praying, and when they lit the tableu (a sort of a Roman cannon), she looked like an angel with that long, red hair streaming down her back and her freckles glistening in the purple rays. That play was talked of for months. Minervy and I got the big head so bad, we woulddent have much to do with the younguns that were not In that play. We thought once of ’“going on the stage,” but instead of doing that—we went on back to chopping corn and cottone Man, that play had Hamlet and Egg-let backed off tire meershaum. It Was Paint-lip Week. I am willing to adrnl* that I am stingy, but I claim to be charitable. If a beggar asks me for a dollar and convinces me that he will starve un less I donate the said dollar, I im mediately give him a dime. Well, to make a short story long-1 er, an automobile painter came to j see me the oilier day and said that his wife was sick and his grandma was Indisposed and 8 of his children were hungry and his mofcher-ln-law had the side pleurisy, and that he must have work or else He had looked over my old 19 and-26 model back-fire, and saw that her fenders were rusting and her chassis was corroding and her body was deteriorating, and her top was leaking, and offered his very, very efficient service at only 25 cents per hour and guaranteed to finish the job in 5 hours, so I let him have the old huzzy, and off he drove—to the painfehop bent, meaning a shade tree behind the kitchen. The reason 1 thought he was a painter was—he looked like one, and had on a painter’s overalls, and I noticed some little paint specks all about his face and finger nails, ev>.rt he alw said he wax one Tn he pointed out 3 nearby smoke stacks that he had painted. And l{ observed that he had a putty knife i poking out of one of his pockets,! and that is always a sign that a man is a painter. This painter drove my car back in 4 days. It painted. I think he daubed the paint on the body withi a pine-top, and he evidently used ai whisk-broom to paint the fenders,! and I am sure he used a squirt gun: to ruin the balance of the car. I am ashamed to go through town with I my “Installment plan" unless it is plumb dark. And that wassent the worst i thing: he practicaly wore my auto- j mobile out while he was painting it. In f afct—it looks very much like he was riding around in the car while he was painting it. You see, while hitting 'em up at about 75 m p. li., he would make a few swipes with his paint brush and the paint would flow to the point wherever the wind blew it. Talking about having a thing “gommed up" my machine is the limit. The next time I hire a transient auto painter, L’m going to shoot him first, and then see that the rest of his family starves forthwith. “Women Lawyers Multiplying.' In preparation, no doubt, for sub tracting and dividing. — Boston Transcript. Card of Thanks. i We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for the kind ness shown us during the long ill ness and death of our dear aunt Leah Campbell and our dear little daughter and sister, Grace. Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Moore and Children. TO FIX PROCTOR-WILSON GRAVE YARD IN NO. 10 The Proctor-Wilson grave yard In No. 10 township will be- cleaned off oil the second Friday morning in May. Mr. Ed Richards will have his team there and haul sand from the highway. All who have friends and relatives buried in this cemetery are asked to be present with tools. SALE OF 1 ALL ABLE I ARM PROPER.!'V. Under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon us in a deed of trust ex ecuted by C. L. Bridges and Wife, Nora M. Bridges ou the 8th day of February 1926 and recorded In bool. 131, page 632. we will on Saturday the 16th day of May. 1031. 13 o’clock noon at the court house door In Cleveland county. Shelby. N. C . sell at public auction for cash to the highest bid der the following land to-wlt: All that piece, parcel or tract ef land situate, lying and being in No. 7 town ship, county of Cleveland, ’state of North Carolina, and adjoining the lands of Berryman McSwain on the N. lands of Ed Blanton on the E. lands of W. N. Dorsey on the 8. and lands of D. A. C. McSwain and Ella J. Jones on the W. and being more particularly described and defined as follows: Beginning at a poplar on N. bank of Dtlt's branch, and runs thence N. & 1-2 E. 10,75 chains to a stone on N. edge of road; thence N. 63 1-2 E. 4.95 chains to a stone on N. edge of road; thence N. 86 1-2 E. 13 50 chains to a stake In S. edge of road: thence N. 41 8-8 E. 75 links to a stake In road; thence 8. 57 E. 7.43 chains to a stake In road; thence 8. 43 E. 4.50 chains to a stake In road; thence S. 61 E. 4.50 chains to a stake In road; thence 8. 61 E. 11.64 chains to an Iron stake In Reuben McSwatn's line In 8 edge of road over culvert; thence N. 86 \7. 12.12 chains to an Iron stake on head of branch; thence down_ the branch as It meanders 14.90 chains to a maple on N. bank of branch; thence down the branch as It meanders general average being as folows: 8. 5 1-2 IV. 30 links; 6 68 1-2 IV J:76 chains N. 77 IV. 2.65 chains S. 5 W 1.73 chains 8. 86 \V. J.25 chains to the place of beginning, containing 29.62 acres, more or less. Reference Is hereby made to that certain deed from D. A. C. Mc Swain and wife, to C. L. Bridges and wife Nora M. Bridges, dated Feb. 27. 1923 and recorded In book LLL. at page 281 of the Cleveland county registry. This sale is made by reason of the failure of C. L. Bridges and wile, Nora M Bridges to pay off and discharge the in debtedness secured by said deed of trust A deposit of 10 percent will be required from the purchaser at the sale. This the 1st day of April, 1931. F1R8T NATIONAL BANK OF DURHAM, Trustee, Durham, N. C Chas. A. Burrus, Atty, 4t Apr 20e i Dr. D. M. Morrison OPTOMETRIST Office Days: Every Wednesday And Friday. Wool worth Bid*. Shelby, N. V. 1 Eyes Scientifically Examined, Glasses Fitted, Lenses Dupli cated, Broken Frames Repaired. .' I — CALL 694 — i We buy Chickens and Eggs We Sell Dressed Chickens And LARRO FEEDS Cleveland Produce Co. Back of Chocolate Shop SHELBY. N. 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