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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mail, per year ... $2.50 By Carrier, per yaar ....Q,- $3.00 LEE B. WEATHERS . President and Editor S. ERNEST HOET-.- Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM ......News Editor L. E. DAIL __..._ Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the post office at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act Of Congress, March 3, 1879. We wish to call your attention to the fact that it is and has been our custom to charge five cents per lass lor resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. WEDNESD’Y, OCT. 21, 1931 <•••«• •mmmm « . . ————■ i m TWINKLES Now that post office officials have informed that we may expect the addition to the Shelby post office next spring or summer, what of the highway link between Shelby and Marion? With the frost on the pumpkins these mornings, isn’t it possible.that some who were howling for cool weather just af few weeks ago are already complaining about the cold? That’s human nature; when we have it, we wish for some thing else. In the west, says Thomas J. Walsh, the Montana states man, the masses when thinking of the next Democratic pres idential candidate think of but one—Franklin D. Roosevelt. Despite the frequent ballyhoo for the others, it is that way over most of America, i t The death of Judge Van Wart, the retired Canadian jurist, who”for many years made Shelby his home for a por tion of each year, came as a blow to many of the older men afcout the city who learned to know him and appreciate his k|en intelligence and charming personality. THE GENIUS OF HIS TIME Tt) BEST SUMMARIZE the career of Thomas A. Edison, the greatest inventive genius of his time and perhaps ol all time, would be the placing side by side of a compre hensive* picture of the world four score years ago and the world today. He contributed more than any man to what we know as modern civilization; he brought light to the world and many other useful conveniences that we now con sider necessities. To be more specific than that would re quire a book for the telling, and history will do that—in fact, lias already done much of it. * To the majority of those now living, the people still somewhat distant from the exit at the shady side of life, Edison had become a legend even before his death. To those nit yet l^eyond middle age Edison is best recalled, from senool (fay memories, as the youth in a black cap who as a newsboy published a newspaper on a train, added numerous inventions to the telegraph system of his day, and then turn ed his inventive powers to the phonograph and the incan discent light. With the super achievements of a great many years behind us, we are inclined to look backward for epochal steps in the progress of mankind. Which is to say that Edison’s great inventions were handed the world so many years ago that the modern generation is moved to as sociate hup with a bygone era, despite the fact that right oh until a short time before his recent death he continued to add other inventions to those of his jfounger days. That, perhaps, is because what we consider his major achieve ments were accomplished years ago. , I he Edison of his imaginative people, as said above, goes back to the 15-year-old news but who published his own paper on the train upon which he worked. Shortly there after he became an expert telegrapher and then, as the years passed, turned his genius to improving the telegraph equip ment of the day. He is still remembered as a young man when at the age of 24 he helped work out the first successful typewriter. And he was a comparatively young man when at 29 he invented the carbon telephone transmitter and the m|crophone which made modern radio possible. At 30, when most men are just getting started in life, he came along with his greatest invention to that date-—the phonograph. Two years later he brought light to the world with his most astounding invention, the incandescent light. It is difficult for those of us of this day, accustomed as we are to consid er the electric light and phonograph as an accepted part of the times, to realize that only Sunday died the man who stunned the world in 1877 and 1879 with his almost unbe lievable inventions. Such was the span of his life. Remem bering Edison more because of the phonograph and the in candescent light, we tend to overlook the fact those two in ventions were just two, although the outstanding, of 1,150 patents given him for new conveniences given mankind. It can be said, without likelihood of dispute, that he was the remarkable man of his era, and when history has permitted many we consider big men today to slide into oblivion. Edison will be ranked among the great of all eras. JOHN R. DOVER, A BUILDER I’D IS REGRETTABLE, if not distressing, how often mere ; words fail.to express the sentiment, particularly as one gropes about in the attempt to pay fitting tribute to the ca reer of a man who embodied within him outstanding charac teristics and traits. From a farm home in the foothills, John R.lDover rose to become a textile leader in the Carolinas. At the time of his death, Sundat-, he had come to be recognized asfone. of the most observant and one of the shrewdest and mdst progressive textile leaders in the foremost Southern in dustry." That, in brief, covers his life and its success in a business and material way. But there was far more than th|t to John ’ ■. Those other qualities, those other deeds bv wbieh b* eatly aided in the advance of his section. are more difficult to express. From just one farm lad among hundreds, he fought his way upward in a determined manner until at the time of his death his genius had given employment to hundreds. But, in the last analysis, he contributed even more than that in life’s never-ending game of give-and-take. From boyhood into manhood and on into the riper years of life he carried with him the strict code of morals instilled by religious and law-abiding parents. Somehow’, it is our opinion, the best epitaph that could be written for him is not that he built big textile plants and thus helped build a thriving industrial re gion upon the ashes and backwash that remained to harass a broken south after the war and Reconstruction. Instead, it should be his epitaph that wherever he built a mill, he, al so, built a church or fostered the beginning of a Sunday school class. At every one of the mill villages that sprung up from his brain and energy, he not only encouraged the building of a church, at least one, of which is named in his honor, but he himself took an active hand in the religious work. He taught their Sunday schools and their Bible class es, he stood near their pulpits to speak in his interesting, graphic style when ministers were absent, and, what’s more, he gave those who worked with and under him an ever no bler example by practising what he preached. He was not just an industrial leader, a truly big business man who cast his lot in a small city, but he was a builder of communities in the highest sense of the phrase. Brusque, at times gruff, a trait more often than not found in men whose minds are eternally thinking and doing, he was, nevertheless, tender-hearted, sympathetic and char itable. It is not the privilegB of the general public to know just how many unfortunates he has given a boost in life and thus brightened the pathway ahead. He was one who act ed and said very little about it; he sought not the limelight and praise, yet he did more for the humble and dejected than many who have bowed repeatedly before homage accorded them for the charity that sprung from big hearts. There was nothing of sham or of the spectacular about him. He was the same today as yesterday, and the same again to morrow. Everyone of his numerous fine qualities, nearing perfection in later life, came from years of effort and study; he was still ns much of a student in his last year of life as in his boyhood. A rarity among business men, he ’possessed a charming, yet frank and direct-to-the-point style of oratory that cannot be excelled among lay speakers and not often among barristers and others. He never spoke publicly un less he had something to say, a message to bring; but some of his gripping talks before Bible classes, luncheon clubs and other meetings have revealed a cultured, well-read mind, a quick-thinking brain with a remarkable sense of humor, an almost uncanny foresight, and a knack for drawing sane, de pendable deductions from a maze of contradictions and cam ouflage in the most perplexing of problems. Because of his comprehensive activities in the commun ity he will be greatly missed. A section could not spare many men of his type at one time, for one reason because a generation is seldom fortunate enough to have produced more than a few* of the type. As an advisor and friend, lie will be missed by people in all walks of life. His death, need less to say, is a heavy blow to his business associates, but, being the man he was, he will be missed more in his home and among members of his family. His first and foremost thoughts ■were of his wife and children. He was, in every sense of the word, a home man, and at the conclusion of his daily tasks he found his greatest solace by his own fireside. Not many wives and children have had the good fortune to have such a man as father and husband. Knowing their fondness for him, engendered not only by inheritance from his own disposition but' also, because of his great love for them, the members of his family have the sincere sympathy of the entire section. It must be some alleviation to them, in their grief, to know that he was so admired that the peo ple who knew him offer their sympathy in choked voices and with tears in their eyes. PUT YOUR CAR IN GOOD HEALTH FOR WINTER DRIVING— CHANGE OIL — CHANGE LUBRICATION Hare it done according to Ford specifications and it’s bound to be right. ROGERS MOTORS SERVICE DEPARTMENT We Fill Any Doctor's PRESCRIPTIONS SUTTLE’S For A Registered Drugetet FHONE r« v n uuu i 16TH IN CIRCULATION IN NORTH CAROLINA The Star is 16th in circulation of all the newspapers in North Carolina. It exceeds the circulation of 160 weekly newspapers and exceeds the circulation of 20 of the 35 daily newspapers. No other form of advertising is more economical or effective. For Greater Results In Sellinir Trv Star AHv Pleasant Grove Week-End News Mr. Hanirlrk Get* Leg Broken * Second Time. Two Com Shuck ing* Enjoyed. (Special to The Star, Pleasant Grove, Oct. 20.—Ttje farmers of this community are busy getting their corn in the crib. There were two corn shuckings last week. Mr. Nim Williams gave a corn shucking Tuesday night, arid Mrs. Daisy Wright gave one Wednesday night. A big crowd attended both shucklngs and got it all chucked out about 9 o'clock. A good supper was served after each shucking. Mr. and Mrs. W. A, Shulord and sons, Robert and Ray spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Holler of near Morganton. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hendrick spent Sunday evening with Mr. -and Mrs. Kim Williams. Mrs. W. H. Norman visited her daughter Mrs. Guy Wright and Mr. Wright of Fallston. Mr. and Mrs. Onley Wright spent Saturday night with Mr! and Mrs. 4' Grady Hoyle. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hamrick and family visited Mr and Mrs. Grady Smith of the St. Paul section, Sun day. Miss Velva Hamrick who is at tending the college at Boiling Springs is spending a few days with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ham rick. Mrs. Vono Shuford has been on the sick list for the last week. Mrs. Everette Wright spent Tues i day afternoon with Mrs. W. H. Nov- j man. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bridges and j family and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brid-j ges and son Bobby attended the! birthday dinner at Mrs. Oliie Brid-! ges’ given in' honor of Mrs Ollie { Bridges of near Lattimore. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Wilson and I daughter Annie Pearl and Jack of j the Zion community visited Mr. and. Mis. Pressley Costner Sunday ev- j enlng. Mr. and Mrs. Plato Costner and j son James and Miss Uray Hendrick spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Hendrick. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Greenway and family, Mi'. Julius Costner and daughter L. Irene spent Sunday with Mr' and Mrs. John Greenway of Mulls Chapel. Miss Vernle Mae Wright spent Sunday with her cousin Miss Izene Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hamrick oi Fallston spent Sunday with Mrs. Thompson Hamrick. Mr. and Mrs. Apguscta Hoyle and family s|>ent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Caleb HOyle. Mr. and Mrs. Yates Costner and daughter, Corene spent Sunday ev ening with Mr. and Mrs. Pressley Costner. A Mr. J. D. Hamrick who was a patient at the Shelby hospital with a broken leg a few months ago had it broken again at the corn shuck ing at Mr. Kim Williams’ by falling in a gulley. He is at home but has to stay Ui bed for about six weeks. Not So Tough Now i • ~ ' Boston. — Erne... Jen il . who works all week and think* football on Sunday Is just a la.k, refuses to wear headgear or other protectcive clothes. He was tdken to a hospital with a broken neck yesterday after a game against the Dungarees. Today he is out on the street with a neck collar. He says he isn t tough. He just doesn’t like hospi tals. Singing Convention At Missionary Church (Special to The Star.) Beginning at 1 o'clock of Sunday Oct. 25, there will We a singing con vent ion at the Missionary Metho dist church in West Shelby. We are expecting quartets from Forest City. Patterson Springs, Hickory. Gaffney and other churches. Mr. George Horn will perform at the piano. Mr. Ivey Shepherd will have active charge cf the congregational singing. We extend the public a cordial invitation. HORACE .SISK, Director Rival Records. Muriel—I've been engaged to one man seven times. Mona—That’s nothing! I’ve been engaged to seven men at one time. Rural Progress "Have you made any improve ments at our farm?” Mr. Hawbuck was asked. ‘'Yes,'' he answered. "We've re christened the old barn. We call i‘ a garage now and make the sum mer boarders pay rent for It.” Comfortable Heat With Beauty and-Economy Revolutionary construction means they will outlast any heater made ANCHOR Cabinet Heaters FOR sixty-three years Anchor has produced quality heaters. Tiie demand for Cabinet Heaters that would give more satisfactory per formance found Anchor ready with the answer —proven after more than sixty years’ experi ence in building heaters lined with vitrified tile. This pig, heavy, one-piece boiler plate steel heating element, with its vitrified tile lining, has proven a durability heretofore thought im possible in cabinet heaters. Anchor's justly famous Hot Blast Heat In tensifier turns smoke and gas given off by burning coal into heat. This represents an added heat value of more than fifty per cent. Cabinets designed by the country’s fore most desij^iers of fine furniture make Anchor Heaters the last word in modern beauty. The cabinets are finished in vitreous po^elain enamel, grained in warm brown mahogany. In justice to yourself you cannot decide on, any heater until ypu have seen the .Anchors. Come in an^l let us help you choose the size best suited to your needs. TUDOR H«« i.l)„cr wealing capacity than mj other heater made. Heat* from U.lOa to 1&.M0 cubic feet ot • pace. Guaranteed oecralie Bre por and State area. Brown mahogany eitreoua porcelain enamel finish. TIE *1 XSHIXK America's outstanding Cabinet Heater value. Heats fr *n» four to sis or more rooms, (.uarantced fire pot. ' ‘s'ble lire door. Beautiful t.treous porcelain enamel fetish In warm brown it’s bogatJT. A trub remarks b’s hearer. * TIR BRIIXIA.YT Scaitt tonally priced auarantMd heater with eutttclen i capacity tor three to four room*. Hfifth1 4* inches; width 26j inchee; depth 31 inches- Guaranteed ftre pot. Vielble lire door. Brown mahog any vitreoue parte lain enamel flnleh. Easy Terms A small down payment *111 deliver to your home the Anchor Gobi* hot Heater you nelect. 7 he balance can be paid in email weekly or vzionthly payments while you are enjoying tho comforts of June temperature. Come in at once and make your selection. We will er range the term* »a *utt you. THE POINTER BAB,Y GRAND Something entirely new in a heating appliance. Come to Kester-Groome’s for a demonstration. But/ at Low Price Time T*. See our assortments of Hot Illasi and Small Cabinet Heaters. Vou will find a heater to make any size room comfortable, at a record low price on Nationally advertised makes. Prices range from— i $16.50 to $33 A small down payment will deliver any Kester I Groome heater to your home. The balance to be paid in small weekly payments. Kester-Groome Furniture Co. “OUR VOLUME OF BUSINES ENABLES US TO SELL FOR LESS” Opposite First Baptist Church Shelby, N. C.
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