Tom Mix Returns To Movie World Hollywood, Cal.—To the tune of the small galloping hoofs and in the dazzling dress in which Tom Mis left the movies for the circus more than three years ago the star of Western stars is coming back again. He and Tony, his educated horse, like many others went out when the 1 (alkies came In, but Universal hasj signed him for a series of six pic-; tures to stall production in the fall ! Though he is getting along a bit j now he’s 53, probably lie will be as much of a daredevil as of old. Many of his bones have been broken In Mich stunts as leaping a pony off an embankment through the doors of a moving freight car. He scorned doubles. t Reports state his circus contract, under which he is now appearing m New York state, bring him 115,* 006 » week. And he's unusually fitted foi talkies according to one wag, who upon hearing that Mix recently had some wires replaced in a shoulder broken in a stunt years before, re marked: "Well, if he cornea back nobody can say he isn't wired for sound" Dr. D. M. Morrison OPTOMETRIST Office Days: Every Wednesday And Friday. Wentworth Bldf. Shelby, N. C Ryes Scientifically Examined. Glasses Fitted, Lenses Dupli cated, Broken Frames Repaired. SPECIAL LOW ROUND TRIP FARES JULY 3, 1931 SHELBY TO Washington __ S13.0U 'Baltimore... $14.00 ♦'Baltimore...$15.00 Richmond .. $ 9,75 Portsmouth .. $10.75 Old Point .. $10.75 Virginia Beach .......... $11.75 ♦'Via Norfolk and Boat. ’♦Via All Rail. Tickets Limited July *. For Information call on Tlcke' Agent* H. E. Pleasants D. P. A. Raleigh, N. C. SEABOARD FOR THAT WEEK END TRIP Round Trip Tickets FARE and ONE FIFTH Between all Stations. On Sale: FRIDAY. SAT URDAY and SUNDAY Morning. Return Limit: TUESDAY Midnight. Take a train ride and visit your Friends.* •SAFER THAN STAYING AT HOME” Ask The Ticket Agent. Southern Railway System Drunkards Ballad The following ballad was written j by I. R. Self In 11850. while in school In upper Cleveland. It has been pre served by Mrs. S. L. Wcllmon anci is published by request Poor drunkard, poor drunkard take warning by me, The fruits of transgression uehoid l now see My soul Is tormented my body is confined, My friends and dear childien are left weeping behind. Pure intoxication my ruin has been. My dearest companion I've, barbar ously slain. In yonder cold graveyard he] body doth lie To which I am condemned and soon must die A solemn death warning to drunk ards I leave, Whilst this poor body lies rold in the ! grave. Remember John Adkins, his death and reform. l*st hell overtake you and ven geance comes on Farewell my dear children wherever you be. You are young and tender, and dear to me, I leave you exposed to nature's wide field. And all the sad dangers of this wick _ ed world. When sorrows around you. and sick ness comes on. You will call for your mother but now she is gone; Your father in a rage struck her on the head. She bled, groaned and languished, but now she is dead My soul is melted with sorrow, my eyes are overflown, My dear little children 1 bid you adieu .— I hope your dear neighbors your guardians will be . Kind heavens, kind heavens will guide you for me. My soul to sorrow I humbly resign With saints in bright glory 1 hope to shine; To tell the wonders of the Jesus 1 love To pardon poor drunkards and sor row- adieu. DR. S. F. PARKER — PHYSICIAN - Office Phones 64 and No. 2 j Residence Phone 12D-J ScXECUTBIVS NOTICK. Notice is Hereby given that i nave this rtav qualified as executrix of the will of Charles 1. Bskndge late of Cleveland county. N. C.. and all persons having claims against esld estate are hereby notified to present them to me properly proven for payment on or before June ill, 1933 or this notice will ire pleaded In tor of thetr recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment to the undersigned. Tills June 13th, 1931. t SI,A PORTER RSKHIDtiE Execu trix of the will of Charles L. Esk ridge. Dec d ft. t Ryburn, D. t. Newton, Attvs fit June 15c ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE. Having tills day qualified as adminis trators of Mrs estate of J. C Runyans, deceased, late of Cleveland county. North Carolina, this la to notify all persons hav ing claims against said esiate to present them properly verified to the undersign ed, or ttleir attorney, at Shelby. N. C . on or before the 30th day of May. 1933. or this notice will be pleaded In bar of then recovery. All persons Indebted to said es tate will please make Immediate payment This the 30th dav of Mav, 19.U. B H. RUNYANS and CRAIG RUN YAN'S Administrators ot the Kt> tate of J C Runyans. Peyton McSwam. Ally. «t June i EXECt'TORR NOTICE. This U to notify an parsons holding claims against, the estate of Z. R Walker deceased, to tile same, duly verified with Willie Walter, executor before June <5 1933. or this notice w ill be pleaded m bar of recovery. All persons indebted to the said Z. R. Walker, deceased, will likewise make set tlement with Willie Walker, executor, at his rsidence in Lattimore, Star route. North Carolina. w in IE wai.ker. Executor of z r Walker, deceased O Nt. Mull, Atty. lor Executor 6t June 8p ADMINISTRATOR!) NOTICE. Having qualified as administrators ot the e.Htate of J. B Rhyne, deceased, laie of Cltveiend county. North Carolina. tins is to notify ail persons having claims agalnn thv. estate of said decea.sed to e\ Mbit them to the undersigned on or be fore the 28ih dav of May. '1933. or thlv nof.ee will be pleaded in bar of their re covtry Al! persons Indebted to said es late will please make immediate settle menfc. This May 28th, 1931. J R RHYNE and C A RHYNE An mmistrators. Box 6 Bast Oasloma N C . of Estate of J. B Rhyne deceased (it June It TRUSTEE S SAI.E, By virtue of the power vested in me as ; trustee m that certain deed of trust, ex j t outed by Will M. Blanton and wife. Guz ! Me Blanton, and recorded in book 16j I bage 231, of the office of the register of deeds lor Cleveland county. N c.. and default having been made m the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured, and demand having been made on me to eve vut the trust, I will sell to the highest bidder at the court house door in Shelby N. C . on Monday. July 11. 1931, at f» o'clock M or within legal hour*, ail o. (he toUow ing real estate, to wit: »*«« » of the ir.ct of Uid on £• ,vrall“on r3 leet to an iron stake thence west a new line too (e.t to an iron staaa tn old lute; thence south 53 i-j to an iron stake T L McSwams north west corner in old line; thence east witn MeSwatn's line 100 feet to me beitnnm* Terms of sale: Cash. * * This the 15th day of June 1931 OEO. A HOYLE Trustee as Juoa .u Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS Hv ItKNN DKL'M. VA VdV WHEN CLAUDE HUSH WAS FOND OK IIOT DAYS Claude Webb, the theatre man. walked into the Piedmont cafe one! of the hot days last week, drank a couple glasses of ice water, seated j himself on a counter stool and mopped his brow "Hot as the dickens, isn’t it?” someone asked. "Sure is," the theatre man replied. "But hr not as fond of hot days a: I was 30 years ago and more." Then he reminisced back to bygone days that older Shelby folks clear ly remember, but days that sound like fairy stories to the younger folks or the younger set, as they say it in the society columns. I can remember back in the period from 1898 to 1900 when nothing! pleased me better than a hot day. and the hotter the better,” he said. ’T was running the Beck fountain on the court square and selling Ice-cold lithia water for one cent per glass. Incidentally, I thought I was doing big business! In the mornings business was not so rushing, but in the ahertioons 1 usually had all, the trade l could wait on over there on the northeast corner of the square. “You see, there were no soda fountains in Shelby like there are now The only one In town, by the way, was at the Paul Webb drug store—the only drug store I know of in a modern city nowadays that does not have a fountain. The fountain then was a tall, heavy affair that reached to the celling and it was one of the few places in town where you could get something cold to drink except at my fountain. I had a big lead coil through which fhe water circulated or stood and In the center of the coll I kept 50 pounds of ice. About mid-afternoon on hot days the folks who drank that cold water at one cent per glars seemed to enjoy It more than the modern youngster do a costly soda. "I cart remember how I always looked forward to 4 o’clock. That's when I did inyTiiggesTTTuslness of the-day. Why? VVellTat 4 o’clock Mr Charlie Blanton would close the front doors of the bank and start walking across the court square. As he walked along he would call every one in sight on the square and tel! them, ‘Come on, boys, let's go get some cold water to drink. By the time he would get to the fountain he would have 15 to 20 people with him, and the drinks were always on him Right often I filled the glasses several times. So important were those vistt-i that it is easy for me to see him coming across the court square now. picking up his crowd for the afternoon treat, ‘Those were the days when there were never too many hot ejays to l suit me.” And with that the xpeuker strolled back lo his theatre to see how i the talkie star of that.particular day was drawing the crowds. Wonder if the gang about the court square fountain in 1900 would t\0t have called anyone crazy Who would have predicted that within 30 [years the proprietor of the fountain would be opefating.'a -show in which words came from the screen? A FEW PICKUPS; A FEW FUMBI.ES In days gone by Mooresboro was once known as "Lickskillet. So in forms Dr. L. V, Lee. That was back in the days When they call Belwood Black Rock and Forest City Burnt Chimney. Harry S. Cohen, senior member of the Cohen-brothers firm of Shel by, came from Manchester, England. - - There's something that clicks about the name of the orchestra that plays for the dances at the Cleveland Springs pavilion—"Shelby Boy Friends," Down In Spartanburg they'll never forget how a sun-burned, left handed kid from Shelby strolled out on the Tryon Country club gull course July 4, 1930, and walked off with the annual golf championship tournament of the club without exerting himself. In speaking of the tournament to be held there this year. The Spartanburg Herald says editorially; "Last season several Spartanburg golfers made excellent showings m the tourney and might have come home with the works ex cept for a rather rude interruption by Fred Webb, the Shelby genius.” If you were not a church yesterday, were the fish biting? INSURANCE NO GOOD WHEN YOU'RE DEAD "Too many people,' writes in a reader. J'drive an automobile this fashion—when the 'Go' sign is on they go without looking because they know they're right, and when they come to a grade crossing they speed right on without looking because the watchman is supposed to do the watching; I've tried to tell many people how dangerous it is to drive in that manner, but 1 cannot seem to put my argument over. Recently 1 i ran upon the-following, which if you'll publish, expresses my idea better than I can: Here lies the body of Jonathan Ray, He died defending his right-of-way, Jonathan was right, as he sped along. But he's just as dead as If he'd been wrong SOME SHOW IT ONE WAV; OTHERS ANOTHER The announcement from Prank Grist, well know in Shelby where he wins employed la his boyhood days, that he will oppose Cameron Mor rison for the United Slates senate has attracted considerable newspaper comment. This from The Roxboro Courier: "Mr. Grist says he is running to see if it is true that a poor man ha no chance for a high office in North Carolina The ignorance ot some folks is amazing "* THE BEST (RACK WE'VE HEARD TODAY; TRY IT Shelby ex-service men, particularly those who have heard Ward Threatt, the Charlotte punster, speak, will enjoy this one: Threatt was speaking to a luncheon club at Concord last week It. the course of his talk he said he was so ugly that his wife went with him everywhere to keep from kissing him goodbye. That should cause some reflection among Shelby wives who general ly go along because ot the heedless fear that some other hussy will do the bussing (That ought to bring in an armload of cigars from bubble who like to go places by themselves occasionally). Shelb.v Shorts: J. A Wilson, who lives on the Cleveland Spring. load, seldom ever misses a night at the movies, arid he walks in two mile, to do it Shelby, we hear, is soon to have a dramatic organization that may put the Carolina Playmakers to shame , And here com s an avalanche of brickbats and rollin’ pins . . Archie Galloway, for mer advertising manager of a Shelby department store, is now ad man for a Faimville, Va., newspaper . . . For the first time m years Ebel toft hasn't a single cal; and he's lonely about , it Another nur.e. Miss 8, B has been nominated for the Miss Shelby contest. No wonder so many Shelby men do not seem to dread a short spell of sickness. That makes three nurses in the contest~and it is not over The dealer of two well known automobiles in Shelby are now all square with each other. A few weeks ago thieves broke in one agency's garage and stole a spank-fired (where'll heck did that word come from?) new car, last week they broke in the rival agency's garage and stole another new one All set whose deal? Jay Dee EH has an admirable plan on foot lor honoring Vie memory of one ot Shelby s mast popular citizens who ; died some time ago S long IDE STIR EM OTHER DM.50 PE8 M Presidential Puzzle For 1932 Baffles Political Forecasters 2 col 24—PRESIDENTIAL inside) . Washington.—Geographical shifts of political strength are increasing difficulties of party leaders in solv ing the 1932 presidential puzzle. Both electoral college and na tional p4rty conventions are affect ed by the congressional reappor tionment involving 27 representa tives in 32 states and the corre sponding vote changes in nominat ing an delecting the next president Prospects that internal quarrels over redistricting may force a large number of representatives to run at large in important states further cloud the political horizon. In these states prohibition and rumbles of insurgency forecast added compli cations. If the national committees de cide that the next conventoni dele gations shall be chosen on the basis of the recent apportionment, Penn sylvania, Missouri, Massachusetts. New York and Minnesota may bring new influences to the nominating assemblies. Pennsylvania, dropping from 36 to 34 representatives, is deadlocked over redistricting. Failure to reach an agreement before the next elec tion would forpe all 34 to campaign the entire state. Likewise, it prob ably would mean election at large of delegates to the party conven tions. In Republican ranks it is con ceded Governor Pinchot, should he run on an Independent progressive platform, would have more chance of taking a • Pinchot” Pennsylvania 1 delegation to the Republican con vention if the delegates were elect ed at large thnn if they ran in eon ' gr-'sstonal districts. New York's redistricting resolu tion. passed by the Republican leg islature without Governot Roose ; veit's approval, must stand court examination. If declared invalid, , the alternative of passing a bill or ' running representatives at large would remain, . Fuel For the Fire. "Dear Mr. Editor,” wrote a would | be contributor. "Will you please j r ead the enclosed poem carefully . and return It to me with your can j did criticism as soon as possible, as I have other irons in the fire.” •'My dear sir," was the reply. “Re move the irons and insert the poem." Not In Public. He: When you married me you! promised to obey me. She: Yes. only because I didn t j want to cause a row' with you while1 the minister was there. Try This Sometime. "Hullo .Brown .are you going to use your step-ladder this after noon?” "Yes, I'm afraid I - am." "Splendid! Then you won't mind lending me your lawnmower. ’ Hard Times And The Lancaster News. We are indebted to Rockwell Smith, a real estate man of Van Nuys, Cal., for the collection of cer tain facts about financial depres sions in the past, Which should be valuable in predicting the tuture Mr. Smith went through a file ol newspapers back to the 1850's and finds these facts: There was a business depresslor in 1857 lasting 12 months. There was a business depression in 1869 lasting eight months. There was a business depression in 1873 lasting 30 months. There was a business depression, in 1884 lasting 22 months. There was a business depression in 1887 lasting 10 months. There was a business depression in 1893 lasting 25 months. There was a business depression fin 1903 lasting 25 months. There was a business depression In 1907 lasting nearly 12 months. There was a business depression in 1914 lrsttng eight months. There w as a business . depression in 1921 lasting 14 months. The important thing about thar^ past panics, however. is./that every | one of them has been folowed by flush times, and tire longer the de pression lasted, the longer And more active the "boom.” The present depression ha s now lasted nearly 20 months. We can hardly say that the "boom" which will surely follow it has begun, but it is clearly on its way. And when it comes—oh. boy! What — QUEEN CITY COACH LINES — 1 FOR, ASHEVILLE, CHARLOTTE, WILMINGTON, j ! pa YETTEVILLE i FOR ASHEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE ! POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—9:45 a. m.; 3:45 p. m.; 8:45 p. m 'I FOR CHARLOTTE AND INTERMEDIATE ! POINTS; I LEAVE SHELBY:—7:10 a. m.; 11:10 a. m.; 1:40 p : ni.: 4:40 p. m.; 9:40 p. m. 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