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« hk ***• :::k *aia4 "am Around Our TOWN OK Shelby SIDELIGHTS By RENN DRU M. aa^ Ki»m ««:b «j«b SMOKING HIM NOH A Shelby pastor, scouts inform, was talking a lew financial matters over with his congregation Sunday. He said, among other things, that he knew a local man who spends $80 per year, approximately, for to bacco, but gives only two dollars each year to the church. *HEEBY IDEA SELLS " ELL IN GERMANY Not long since Dr. Ben Kendall, now practising medicine in Shelby. • as in Germany with a merchant marine steamship line. Over there las all good citizens dot he subscribed to The Star. A German busines-s man of his acquaintance read the paper regularly, and his reading in cluded the ads (merchants, please note). Something about the firm t ame of A. V. Wray <fe Six Sons Caught the eye of the German. Before Dr. Ben left, the German <13 years ago today we called him a Hun) old the Shelby physician that he was going into business with his four ons and had decided upon a name similar to that of A. V. and his half dozen. >Ut'CESS IS SUCCESS WHERE E'ER YOU GO At a certain Shelby store—they do it In every store—the customers all ays ask who made the butter. At this particular store when they are informed it's “Mrs. Putnam’s butter,” a sale is immediately made Other stores have similar housewives who make butter for them, and customers, too, who snap up the choice butter. There's good philosophy in it. Every woman cannot be the mother oi a president, a millionaire, or an artistic genius. Nor can every man be president, a millionaire, or an outstanding artist. Yet there's somfi lling about making good in yosir own particular work, be it important or not so essential—hoeing your own little row in perfect style—that brings a glow of success and a tingle of elation. Hie household arts, despite the present-day teaching of home economics, etc., do not seem to. be appreciated as much as in the old days. In bygone years the woman who made the best butter, baked the best cukes, and maintained M the cleanest household was an important personage hi the community She is as yet to a certain extent, but there’s a pessimistic belief that the qualities are not admired as they once were—and should be. Yet, it being human nature for everyone to be fond of praise that encourages, inspires and rewards, wouldn't it be a fine thing if these farm women v, hose butter is prized so highly could stand in Shelby stores and get the first-hand thrill oi hearing their product demanded? You remember that old story about making the best mouse-trap— but this should be enough philosophy for one day. Someone might ask i s our plan of ending the depression. / HERE'S SHELBY’S i. IIAMPION WALKER O. Turner, who lives on South LaFayette street in South Shelby, is the. city's champion walker. He walks for a living. For eleven years Mr. Turner has been walking along and inspect g two power lines that lead into Shelby, on? from Henrietta and the other from Blacksburg. He walks one line today and the other tomor iow. Early in the morning he rides to Blacksburg and begins his 10 ^ mile hike back to Shelby. The next morning he rides to Henrietta and , * arts on his 14-miie hoofing expedition back to Shelby. In a ■week’s me he walks approximately 82 miles. He has been doing it, as stated t bove, for II years and he missed his first day this week "due to a cold. Generally, he manages to get back in home by dinner-time. In a year’s time he walks about 4.264 miles. In the 11 years his * total runs up to 46,904 miles. And he has found walking good for the 1 calth. as shown by his one missing day in over a decade, and he in _*nds to keep hoofing along those trails fop a number of years yet. He ever said what he. thinks about or occupies his mind with on those ally walks. We wonder? KALAMAZOO HELPS (OTTON FARMERS You've often, heard of Kalamazoo. Frequently the name is heard * hen someone says that so-and-so came from a far-off point, Kalama zoo or Borneo. There is a Kalamazoo. It’s a city in Michigan, and, believe it or not, the people up there are interested in the plight of the cotton farm er, A letter from the Hammond Machinery Builders to The Star this week was written on stationery made of cotton, Down at the bottom of die page was the slogan: “We Are Doing Qui Bit to Help the Cotton Situation.” Thanks. Michigan. And turn about is fait plav: we've been a'buying ■ our flivvers for years. SHEETS WORTH MORE THAN COTTON NOW If anybody hasn’t' beard that cotton mil worth much nowadays,’ while the cotton subject is up, here’s proof: "Mud” Poston. Grady Metcalf, Jim Harris and some of the boys v. ere out near Boiling Springs tuning in on a few’ ’possum hounds the other night and they heard the story. Guy Eaves, who lives iu that sec tor, was with them. A few nights back, he told them, he went ’possum 1 unting and forgot to lock up his outbuildings at home. When he re turned he found that thieves had entered one building, where he hud v . is cotton stored, poured the cotton off the five .sheets, left the cotton . n the floor, and carried off the sheets Howzat? SHELBY SHORTS: Evans E. McB, formerly in the clothing business, teds us that we had one detail wrong about that train wreck years ago near Shelby. It was the wreck, you remember, in which a carload of booze was smash ed and the spectators used snuff boxes to keep all the trickling mountain dew from wasting. We said the train was coming to Shelby from Mar ’* i0n; it was going the othei^way .... Several fellows about Shelby, some at them dignified old codgers, are worried, we hear, over a report that they'll make talking pictures of everything that goes on at the Tulane Georgia football game at Athens Saturday. Even the little side-play, ' etc., etc., up in the stands. Nothing to it. but if the picture were made, just think how much Claude Webb and Jim Reynolds could get not to .how it In Shelby ... . "You certainly know very little about Shelby In the old days,” writes another reader. "They didn’t have to have a train wreck as an excuse to pitch a whoopee party in those day." Who said they did—eve nin this day and time? .... There was a court case icre last week in which the defendant was convicted that some spec iitors are said to have offered two-to-one that there’d be an acquittal. Tearing various opinions about various things one often wonders how . t'S possible to get 12 men to agree on anything . ... 14 years ago, vhen they were younger, slimmer and gayer than they are now, you nought a lot of them. So today, after celebrating with the ones who •ame back and have taken on weight and a few gray hairs since Nov meber 11, 1918. it might make you feel better to stroll by the court >ousc and read over the names of those who never came back. - COURSE, of course That colyum,” pope up an alleged reader, "is different from Mc Intyre. Winchell, and Broun, and, frankly, Gee McGee has you beat.” Sure it’s different. Orld McIntyre is a regular fashion-plate, Walter Winched Is a handsome buck, Helwood Broun Is fat, and Gee McGee is witty. We're neither. What d’y’want for a nickel? And where’s the jit? Lincoln Native Is Made Chief Surgeon Famous Orthopaedic Surgeon, Na tter of I Jnrolnton, Appointed To Important Post. Albany, N. Y., Nov. 10.—The ap pointment of Dr. Michael Hoke, a native of Llncolnton, N. C., as sur geon In chief of the Georgia Warm Springs foundation was announced today by Governor Roosevelt. The appointment Is effective Dec. 1. In annunclng the appointment the governor said: "This enables the Georgia Warm Springs foundation to carry out Its original twofold purpose; first, of conducting the work at Warm Springs, and, secondly, of establish lng an extension and information service throughout the country. "Dr. Leroy W. Hubbard, who has been surgeon in chief at Warm Springs from the beginning, as sumes charge of this important ex tension service and will visit vari ous parts of the coming winter. "Dr. Hubbard has had ’ong ex perience In this field, because be fore going to Warm Springs he was In charge of all orthopaedic work of the New York state department of health.” Dr. Hoke la a past president of the American Orthopedic associa tion and a resident at Atlanta, Ga. He has been active in the organiza tion of the Scottish Rite hospital for crippled children as well s»S sim ilar organisations. Nobody's j Business By GEE McGEE i Lexington. N. C., Nov. 3rd. 1033. j Mike Clark, RFD, Care Gee McGee, Anderson, S. C. Dear Friand Mike I enjoy your poetry. You. Hen ry Brown" effort was fine. Wont you please write 4 or, 5 verses on the •‘Mocking Bird” and have it printed in your column at an early date? Please do. I am a school teacher and I read some of your pieces to my pupils and they like you too. Your friend, Sarah K. deer miss Sarah k:— yore letter received anu contents noticed, i will be glad to rite a few stanzers of poetry for you. as you seem to love a good poam. i got 22 letters about “henry brown” and the epltaff i authored for his sweet heart to which you refer; i am bet ter on dead foliks than 1 am on live birds of the air, but i will do my best, as followers; the marking bird i hear a noise up in the three, it’s a marking bird a-whistling to me. he is telling the world about, hi: joy, as he’s hunting wirms for his little boy. oh, marking bird, deer marking bird, i heard you first cn martch the third, ana it wom oe long un juu sing :ome more. and makes us think of the beau tiful shore. ere love yors tunes and crave yore voice, and when you come we all rejoice, you ketch our bugs and gnats and bees, so you can holler just ah you plese. oh, marking bird, sweet marking bird, i want to hear yore every word, so blld yore nest in the big oak tree and keep on a-spilling yore music for me. composed and rule by. yores trulie. mike Clark, rid. When ton and I Were Young. Sallie. I am far from "making lun” of anything that is religious, but I often think of those paryer-meet ings that used to be held on every other Thursday night in the school house near our home. I always at tended, for 2 reasons, viz: Sallie Brown was generally there and 1 generally walked home with Sallie Brown. Sallie was pretty good at "hist ing" tunes, but she knew only two or three real prayer-meeting hymns She was awful fine with “Shall We Gather at the River” and "Meet Me There”, I usually sung bass—which brother Bob said, sounded very much like our old dog, “Tolly” a fixing to growl. As I had a pretty keen voice, I (of cuorse> rung a little auto now and then. I didn't get Sallie after all. She fell in love with a section boss and they moved off after they got mar ried—on my account, I think. I raised my hat to Mrs, Sallie once while enroute to the nostoffire one Sat unlay afternoon for tne mall. tWe got our mail every Saturday, and It consisted of the Atlanta Con I stttutlon—Most of the family learn-11 ed to read from talit paper). So her !| old man got a job on the other end of his railroad and took her there. We had one old fellow at our prayer-meetings that particularly impressed mo. He could pray loud er and harder and longer than any other man I ever heard. Hts voice would not only oscillate; It would deviate, reverberate and satiate. One minute he would be praying In E-flat and then he would sudden ly hop onto A-Minor. He never failed to pray for George Washing ton and Thomas Jefferson, and 9 people out of 10 present would be prayed to sleep before he got to any body In his own neighborhood. Our prayer-meeting got broke up one night right In the middle of the sentence prayers. Harmon Duck) had crawled up Into the loft of the school house to hide a plug of to bacco he had slipped out of Bro. Wilkin's pocket while he was kneel ing down over a bench, and he fell out and landed on the back of the long-winded brother just as lie had begun to moan and pour forth a few “Aniens." Harmon’s daddy whipped him right then and there, and after that nobody had the heart to wind up the gathering. Our bi-monthly prayer-meetings always started right after the Au gust protracted meetings had clos ed at Union Grove—where nearly everybody got reconsecrated tVe would all begin to back-slide as Christmas aproached. and I don't recall now that we kept our piety long enough to ever reneh January with our gatherings, but usually got. started again just as soon as we could be saved again. But they did lots of good fmeaning those prayer meetings' In our community. Boys Offered Free Course In Marine Instruction to Be Mailed to Boy* Who Wish to Learn About L’. S. Merchant Marine. In order to interest the boys and young men of America in the ad vantages offered by the United States Merchant marine as- a career boys between the ages of 10 and 21 years and residents of this state, who send in their application to the American Nautical academy, Wash ington, D. C.. national training school for merchant marine officers will be given a course in nautical instruction in their own home by mail. There is no tution charge for any of the courses offered by the aca demy. The Instruction includes, in so far as it Is possible to teach them by mail, the following subjects: General characteristics of ships; dally routine and duties in connec tion with life on board ship; use of life bouys: first aid; signals (inter national and Morse code); the com pass, log and lead; ground tackle and deck seamanship; the duties of lookouts; the watch in port and at sea; cordage; boats, types, nomen- | clature, gear; and duties of a boat- j keeper. Examinations will be held at stat ed intervals and students receiving j a certain grade are eligible to com- < pete for the annual awards offered ■ by the academy. Students who pass j their first examination are enroll*- j ed on the records of the academy j as “Aprentice Nautical Cadets” and j may wear the uniform and insignia of the academy. Cadets who com- j plete the course with a passing! grade are awarded an academy cer- i tificatc. Appeals To Citizens To Prevent Fire Loss Raleigh. Nov. 10.—Governor O, Max Gardner today appealed to ev- j ery citizen of North Carolina to use j the utmost care in handling fire to ; aid in preventing forest fires. Due to the drought which exist? | in this state and with the natural j falling of leaves and drying of: grass, the governor said, "we face i a serious forest fire threat. “I am appealing to every citizen j of the state to use the utmost cau- j tion in handling fire so that dan- j gerous and costly forest fires may i be avoided.” The governor informally discus sed the forest fire situation with the council of state and represen tatives of the state department of conservation and development to day. Charles FARRELL Madge EVANS “Heartbreak” Monday and Tuesday CAROLINA Sale Prices That Talk! At EFIRD'S Thursday, Friday and Saturday Come To This Sale and Save! NEW FALL SILKS AND WOOLENS — FLAT CREPES — Heavy quality 39-inch Flat Crepe in all Fall shades, very' special at, yard ____ the new 97c — RAYON CREPE - Heavy quality Rayon Flat Crepe in light and dark shades for Fall and Winter, 39 i nch^s wide, at „.. _ __ _ >_ 49c _ TWEEDS — One special group of all wood Coatings and Tweeds in 'assorted patterns and Q £* colors, 54 inches wide, at __ «/DC MILL DAMAGED PART WOOL BLANKETS We have cleaned out from a Carolina part wool blanket nmnuVeturer all their slightly mill damag ed blankets including all sizes up to 72x84 to go on sale at about half price 1 Friday morning, per pair - v 1 • I %s PART WOOL BLANKETS 70x80 North Carolina part wool d» “i QC Plaid Blankets, pair __—-- «P 1 *%/0 72x84 North Carolina part wool blankets, solid col ors. rose, blue, green, at d* 1 Q C about half price—pair .—JL««/0 72x84 extra heavy part all wool blankets, original $4.95 value 2 FOR______$5.00 $2.65 SHEETS 49c 81x90 seamless good bed 81x90 Row#n Carolina made sheets ^ 81x99 Rowan seamless PILLOW CASES 42x36"pillow Q eases . ....« w v* 42x36 Rowan 1 O pillow eases IOC 42x36 percale 1 Q 30c pillow cases IOC - SWEATERS - Children’s Novelty Knit sheets 49c sheets Misses novelty Sweaters _ - Ladies' Wool Sweaters _... . Sweaters, for ----- HOSE SPECIAL On sale, one big special group of Ladies’ Full Fash ioned Silk Hose in chiffon and service weights, in all the new Fall shades. Val ues up to $1.00 pair, your choice as long as the lot lasts Full Fashioned Nebel’s finest quality all silk chiffon and service weight hose in all the new est Fall shades, with nar row heels, QC 2 Pairs for $1.00 Silk Hok pair NEW FALL SILK HOSIERY Silk Hose New Fall shades in ladies’ full fashioned silk hose, with narrow heels. Chiffon and semi-service weights special, per pair 65c Rayon Hose Ladies’ all over rayon 'hose originally 25c val- 1 ue, now, pair . 1\IC Indies’ Primrose ali hose in the est colors, per pair__ rayor season’s new 22c Watch With Each Boy*’ Suit Suits $39i $4'95 Boys’ S-piece suits, made of fancy mix tures i n new Fall patterns. Greys, browns and blues. A sturdy and prac tical suit for school wear at $3.95 Men’# $2.50 and $3 Dress Oxford# -— Special Value at Shoes For The Family * Misses’ patent leather, solid soles, plain to blueher shoe-;__ leather 95c Boys’ tan elk leather cap toe, rubber sole blueher shoe__ no mark 95c Misses, black calf, plain toe Qt blueher, no mark rubber sole Children's brown calf plain toe blueher shoe - 95 c Boys’ black tough leather blueher shoe __ 95c DAILY SPECIALS Men’s Socks One big special lot of men’s dress socks in solid colors and fan cy patterns, ^.Oc RUGS 5c 1 lot RUGS, last, Each _ o f Linoleum While they 5c UNION SUITS Boys’ ribbed Union Suits, all O Q., sizes, now .. JOt EFIRD’S DEPT. STORE SHELBY, N. C.
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