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Around Our TOWN Olt Shelby SIDELIGHTS ity RENN DRLM. \ND SO SHE MKT »HE PREACHER S WIFE They’re telling it about, town and the •‘they" are people who go to Jhurch, so well pass it along with that background for veracity: It was the first Sunday that the new preacher occupied the pulpit it Central Methodist church. After seeing the preacher himself the Udies of the congregation are always Interested in seeing the wife, and the younger folks, in case the person has sons and daughters* are eager to meet other member of the family. Anyway, one lady came in and took her seat. Without looking around, she said to the lady sitting next to her: “If you know the preacher's wife. I wish you'd point her out o me when she comes in. I'm anxious to see her." For a moment the udy to whom the request was addressed said nothing. Then the lady who made the request turned around and-looked at the other woman— md the other woman smiled and whispered. "I’m the new preacher's wife.1* ' Now, if It isn t so. you 11 have to argue u out with some people who ire regular church-goers. TRADE ALLEYS IN ANOTHER HEYDAY A few years back (was it a dream?) when things were prosperous md a lot of people .were inclined to pity the fellow who had to ride in j, flivver everybody parked on main street in Shelby and traded at the jest stores along the Main Drag and used cash money for their trading But years before that, when Cleveland was not such a big cotton county jnd .the people not in the monazite business had to sell cotton bark, jerbs and other little market-able articles for their spending money, Shelby’s best known thoroughfare was Trade Aliev. What memories .hat should bring back for some of the plder folks. Trade Alley and Boneyard.” Court week and horse trading. In fact, in the old days, so we're told, you could get a trade on anything along Trade Alley, and nearly everybody in town and all who came to town were after trading something or another. In those days the purchase of a blue work-shirt was a more serious transaction than>the purchase of a couple of suits j ih the boom days, and a quarter was a lot of spending money for a boy I to have for the Christmas season. Those were the days when every-! body, including the hoity-toity townspeople had a Sunday suit and Sun day shoes. Then came the war boom and people who never burned a lamp except on evenings when the newspaper came in order to cut down the kerosene bill started burning gasoline every day and night. Some few got rich, others made more money than they ever thought existed, and everybody got the idea that they'd sooner or later be rich. It was then that Trade Alley lost its activity. Trade Alley, y’know. is the first street west of LaFayette street, running north and south. On it today are a few livery stables and blacksmith shops that have hung on by their teeth after the horse-and-bugg.v era gave away to the motor car. Then came Harding •normalcy” and on Its heels Hoover ••prosper ity” and Trade Alley and the trade alleys are coming back. If you don’t believe it, take a stroll down one of the alleys leading off the main streets of Shelby. The most active alley Just now. it seems is the one that runs west from South LaFayette street between the Chocolate shop and Eflrd's. Along that alley one day this week, believe it or not, they were trading everything from pocket knives and banjo to plug horses. On it one could purchase a mess of turnip greens, fresh pork, chestnuts, shotguns, lumber, turkeys, chickens, second-hand fur niture, mules, third-hand automobiles, farms, radios, phonograph, and a multitude of other things. Trade Alley, once a colorful section of town, Is in for another hey day. Men who have been trading in big items and trading successfully in recent years, because they Were endowed with that born talent for horse-trading, are again trading horses and lesser things, They're look ing for dimes and dollars now instead of corner lots that will bring in thousands overnight. But don’t get the blues about it. Those old Trade Alley days that are returning were happy days. And, it may be good for the mentality. Horse-trading, and all trading done On the horse-trading basis, takes the kinks out of the brain—or sends you scooting out highway 20 east, to the poor house. SHELBY SHORTS: Rev. Rush Padgett, former pastor of the Second Baptist,, church, is the only minister we remember having seen in Shelby who wore a bow tie .... George Wray has eaten more peanuts for his age than any per son in the city. Always has some in his pocket .... Henry Massey, the hardware man, eats a block or two of chocolate every night before ns goes In ... . One Shelby woman always has her pet cat perched on the back of the car seat when she motors uptown. And several others are never seen out In their cars without their pet dogs .... We've seed numerous Shelby women smoke, some few in public, but we've never seen one using those long cigarette-holders the ritzy society dames are shown holding in the big night club ads .... "What does Ballyhoo pay you for the free ads given it?” asks F. M., a cynical reader. Nothing but more laughs to the line than we've ever had .... The time is here again when the folks who come to town can be seen in the rear of groc ery stores making a lunch of cheese and crackers. And it's hard to beat .Jesse Washburn. In from High Point with his wife (formerly Miss Edna Jordan, a school teacher, who was among the most popular several years ago) and their daughter, Margaret, Is wearing a mustache , ... . If some of the dry cleaning plants have barrels to lend, a lot of us fellows will have our suits cleaned and pressed while the price-cutting war is on ... . Those new model Bulcks and Chevrolets being proudly exhibited by Laurence Lackey and Huss Cline ait' nitty affairs | WHY NOTICE THAT . THEY DO SO? i Last week a young iiuij, signing her name a- Fluffy, started writ ing questioning little verses to the editor of The Charlotte News. Among other things she asked why men looked at her feet when she walked down street-walked down street. The stylo must hare made a hit with someone in fehelby, for look wlmt we received In the mall today Why do women cross their lei . Cross their legs. Cross their legs? Why do women cross their legs'1 It's just as easy not to IYA SEENLM | PIE!) N \Mfc EXPERT8 IN THIS HI RC. Tangling up u name so lluit It will be difficult for tin* aliTaov ex pert tangledtype wizards of Shelby to untangle b, something else. The three presented Monday were not difficult enough to be interest tug. thatwhat a dozen or more people have said Walter Fanning and some of the other star carrier# had them unJumbled In a short time as (ltd J. U Hainbrtglu, Addle Canipe, and numerous others The Inter national council at the Key club, which will argue and settle any thing from safety matches to the Manchurian melee, figured them out iri a couple ot split flashes and suggested that the next list be published without the least hint as to who they might be. it anyone happened to fait asleep before solving them, here they are; LIUEVIROEZER—Zoliie Riviere. ILU8UJLFTTUS Julius Suitk« , BARHUGYOURARMY - Mary Yarbrough Unjumble these; SEE-R-JIGS-BEDS SAM-U-BE-SOT WISE-MA-U-R-TEACHER Figure out tlielr business for yourself, but you can see all tiller- men uptown somewhere practically every day In the week - perhaps in a store, at the court house, at- the bakery, in the city hall, around the pewtoffiee, watching the stock market,, in a bank, or somewhere. Vn Apple A l)av. • J-rorn T. P. Flashes.) Profitable distribution permitting, there should be enough apples to keep the doctors away this year. The commercial crop is estimated at $113,000,000 bushels, an increase of 16 per cent over 1930. Washington, New York and Virginia lead in oro ductlon with estimated crops of 8. 500.000, 4 350,000 and 3,780.000 bush els respectively. She Laughs Herself To Death Over Movie Los Angeles—In (he midst of laughter over the antics of Joe f Brown, film comedian, who wa‘ making a personal appearance in a theatre here last night, Mrs. Mary D. Armstead, 53, fainted from t heart attack and died before aid could reach her, Bank Serves Coffee To Scared Patrons Fergus Falls. Minn.—Depositors demanding their money from a lo cal bunk Friday received coffee and doughnuts with it Officers, who said the. institution j was In good eondnion, said they were serving refreshmentes to i make the brief stay of their cuk 10triers mojre pleasant. Withdrawals began after two [other banks here closed in the last two days. \dvise* Banks Not To Pay Dividends Raleigh, Dec, 4*—Gurney P. Hotel stale commissioner of bunks, in a formal abatement frtday night, rec ommended that all North Carolina bunks pay no dividends this year In order to charge kxsses suffered ancf to depreciate inflated values. Expressing the opinion the bank ing sltuatloik in the state wad slow ly improving. Hood declaimed ''.safe ty for depositors should be the first consideration Of all officers, dlres1 tors und stockholders." New fork's loundlitiKs Wehare Bulletin. New York City's mui idling hos pital used to keep a cradle outside the front, door to receive unwanted babies. This is not done any longer. Activity of psp-natal clinics, and no dal workers who reach the unmar ried mother before her baby Is born and aid both, and the strict law In regard to abandoning babies, are said to be the reasons. And to the credit of New Yorkers be it said, the supply of foundlings does not begin to meet the demand for babies wanted for adoption. One Way To Reduce j Dr. Cutter -I have a patient who lost 25 pounds of flesh in one day. Dr, Suwver—Ah. a very interest ing tase of malnutrition, indeed! Dr. Cutter—No, I cut off his leg. Runaway Girl Can Go Back Home Now New 1 ork.—Helen Kuprowaki, 16 and modern, who ran away bn aukr she dldn”t like living with an old-fashioned father, ran *o home now. Her father la dead. ..Helen left home In Jane. ISM. shortly before her mother fare birth to her sixth rhlld. She waa unheard from until this week, when her mother received a letter whirh said: "I am happy and working and I love yon. Father doesn’t un derstand me. He Is old-fashion ed and has the ideas of the old country. I will never return un less father leaves or dies.” Thr father, jobleaa for months, three of his children in an institution, read it and said: “Don't worry, mama. Helen will he home for Christina# sure. I have a feeling she will be." Everybody Satisfied. A banker greatly disliked because of his tyrannical disposition had a stroke of apoplexy and died. A few days after the funeral two of hi* fellow citizens met on the street. ‘Have you heard of Mr. Blanks death," asked the first man. “Why, yes." responded the aee ond man, “what was the complaint.’ “No complaint at all," aswwtrM the first man." everybody wa« sat isfied’ We Hope You Haven't. An Englishman, according to pop* ular legend, get* three laughs from a Joke—first, when the Joke is toM; second, when it is explained to him, and third, when he understands it The Frenchman gets only the find two—he never sees the point, The German gets one—he wont emit for an explanation. And the Amer ican gets none at all, because he’s heard the Joke before. “HOW GOOD ARE THEY?” SMOKERS WANT TO KNOW —THAT'S WHAT ABOUT CIGARETTES SMOKERS, nowadays,aren’t taking things for granted. They’re shopping around ... ask* ing questions. Old man habit has been discarded ... for gotten. “How good is it?” ... that*s what they want to'know about any cigarette they smoke. "TTOW good is it?” Brother, you put your n finger right on it! You want a cigarette that’s milder. You want a cigarette that tastes better. You want a pure cigarette. And above all, you want cigarettes that satisfy. Now when you say that, you're talking Ches* .erfield’s language—none other! IT STARTS with fine tobacco. Chesterfield buyers are experts in the art of judging quality leaf. They can spot the finest tobacco in any country... and they won’t take anything else. You’ll find the same painstaking care ... the same skillful handling . . . in the curing, the blending, and the cross-blending. Blended and cross-blended . . . that’s Ches terfield! And what a difference it makes in the way it smokes and tastes! FROM field to package, Chesterfields are pro tected by the strictest purity standards; the most modern sanitary manufacturing methods. They’re rolled in the finest, whitest paper... that burns without taste or odor. Wrapped in a clean, attractive package... neat, fresh • looking; moisture-tight... but easy to open. And delivered as fast as they’re made... from , 3 big factories... to every cigarette counter in the land. . . . ' THAT’Sthe story ofwhy Chesterfields satisfy. That’s the reason they’re milder... that’s why they taste better. Light up... and answer your own question!
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