North Carolina Newspapers

Seventy Two Killed In State In November Raleigh.-—Seventy two persons rrt> death in automobile accidents North Carolina, during Novi mb according to thn bureau of vi‘ statistics of the state board of health issued here. Suicide contributed the ne.v. Sare est. number of violent deaths, 32 persons taking their ow.i itves dur ing the month. Homieidr3 came next with 24 fatalities Wouldn't Miss Fid. “My husband is away much of the time I want a parrot tor com pany. Does this one use rough lan guage?" "Lady, with this bird in the house you'd never miss your husband.” COTTON BOt GIIT ON CALL Oft FINED PItICS * ROWLAND H. OUTZ, ( HOTEL CHARLES SHELBY. N. C. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmumu'.-t. t. Mo tliers! to reduce your fam ily “Colds-Tax”— use the Vick Plan for Better “Coil trol-of-Colds” i n your Home. F-tf Old at 40? Beware Kidney Acidity Jf you f'el old Mild run-dew n from Oeulnn l/i> Ntghla, Backache. l.'k Tame, Siiffueaa, Nervouvneas. Circles under Eyas. Headaches, Burning and Xuadder Weakness, caused bv Kid boy Acidity, I want you to quit auf ferlnjr riirht now. Coma In and get what X think ia tlie greatest med icineX havo ever found. It often,! fives big; improvement In i\ lion raj* Just ask me for Oyatex fSlaa-tei), i It a only 7T.e and I guarantee it to cnlekly combat these conditions and I satisfy completely, or return empty! pack age and get your money buck. SIHTI.E S DRUG STOKE. CHRISTMAS FARES To All Points on the SEABOARD Also AH points in the Southeast Southwest and Western Destinations, Tickets on sale Dec. 16 to 25. RETURN LIMIT JAN. 6. To Points North o f i Washington. Tickets o n Sale Dec. 22 to 24. RETURN LIMIT JAN. 5. For Information See Ticket Agent. H. E. PLEASANTS. D.P.A Raleigh, N. C. Phone 2700 or 270 505 Odd Fellows Building SEABOARD Air Line Railway CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY FAKES soltheiTnrailway SYSTEM Announces Greatly Reduced Round Trip Fares for the XMAS HOLIDAYS ONE FARE PLUS 1-3 FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP Round trip fares from Shel by, N. C. to some of the principal points. Washington. vTcTI $20.71! Richmond. Va._$16.14 Norfolk, Va. $19.28 Charlottesville, Va. $15.31 Lynchburg. Va._$12.42 Winston-Salem, N. C. $6.5" Raleigh, N. C. _§10.88 Durham, N. C. __$9.71 Greensboro, N. C._$7.06 High Point. N. C._$6.34 Asheville, N. C._$4.52 Charlotte. N. C. .... .$2.55 Atlanta, Ga. ..$10.91 Birmingham, Ala. $18.94 Round trip tickets on ale to , all points in Southeastern Stat es, Dec. 16th to 25th Inclusive, final limit midnight Jan. 6 1932 : Ask Ticket Agents about ' XMAS HOLIDAY tickets to points In the East, North, South west and West, on same basis oi fare. For further Information and sleeping car reservations call on Southern RaUway agents or ad dress t R. H. GRAHAM, Division Passenger Agent, Southern Railway Passenger St*. Charlotte. V C. A Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS liy HKNN DltliM. ■ SPOOKS OP SLAIN (PEOPLE LINGER ON? I Are you superstitious, ami do you believe in gliosu and mysterious signs? A news story this week from Mauch Chunk, Pa., about the "death : hand" that kept re-appcarlng reminds that there Is a similar omen .of j i superstition near Shelby to trouble those who believe In the superne- i tural. A., you motor into Rutherford ton—as most people In tills section know-and make the turn front Highway 20 Into a Rutherfordton buri ness street, you puss by the wall of an old brick building. On that wall i., a dim yet discernible white spot which when studied closely resembles the outline of a woman's body. The building was once used, many tear.-, ago, a a Jail. On the side of the building where the outlined figure may be seen, as the story Is told, a woman was hanged. Before the noose tightened about her neck she again declared her innocence of murder and vowed that a reminder of her wpuld linger on through the years to haunt those who took her life and their children and chil dren's children. At last account the spooky spot ort the wall was still there. Figure It out to your own liking. But getting back to the Pennsylvania story; Sixty-seven years ago n man was led lo the gallows In the Jail there. He kept repeating that he was innocent of the crime. And as he was being taken along the corridor he reached down and slapped his hand on the dust-covered floor and then slapped a dusty handprint high on the wall of the cor ridor. "That is the handprint of an innocent man,’’ he shrieked. "It can never be washed away.” It never was. It was still there last week despite the passing of many years and tjte fact that It had been white washed over time and time aguin. It always came back. But it Isn’t there now, or wasn't at last report, The jailer got tired of showing the handprint to curious people and last week he took a knife find cut out the plaster where the handprint was and put new planter in the excava tion. But among the superstitious Dutch people of Pennsylvania there are those who believe the handprint will come back on the new plaster. \\T will just wait and see—these spook yarns being related to deter mine if there is as much reader interest in spooky mystery stories as the sale of the mystery magalnzes indicate. SIIELBY SHOUTS: Just below Shelby, in the Zoar-Sharon section, lives a lady who has a fan that Is 200 years old. How much will be antique-hunters give lor the tip? .... Gideon Pjpice, the man who maintains the beautiful flower garden at Lattlmsre^a real show-place when the flowers bloom in the spring—has 30,000 tulips In the ground this year, more than ever before .... Calendars haven’t been coming in so fast this year, had you noticed? .... Congratulations are offered C. A. Morrison and Son, Shel by contractors, who do not seem to be bothered by the depression. Their latest Job is building a postoffice at Elizabethtown, Tenn. That's where Hoover made his famous Southern speech, y’know .... So-called bot tled-ln-bond Isn’t selling so well about Shelby this year. Hard times have taken business back to the South Mountain boys .... A young Shelby man who once played that lie was a mute while on a date with a new girl now has a ret of false teeth that fits over Tils regular molars And what a face? .... Had you noticed that It has rained every Thurs day in December? . And maybe the sweet young things who have matrimonal ambitions will appreciate the reminder that 1932 is Lean Year- Give It a thought; maybe you'll not be spry enough to do much leaping time another one comes along.' WAY BACK WHEN HE-MEN SPANKED THEIR WIVES A copy of another interesting old newspaper has been loaned this corner by Fix'd Baber. It Is an issue of The Kings Mountain Reformer oi Sept. 17, 1890. J. W. Brown was proprietor and H. P. Allison, editor. Among other things the old paper reminds that times have, been hard before Cotton was selling for around seven and eight cents, but the mills were closing down In Kings Mountain or running part time. There were three political parties in the county then. D. J. Hamrick was chairman of the Populists, J. B. Fortune of the Republicans, and J T. Gardner of the Democrats. An item reproduced from The Cleveland Star informed that the en terprising Stamey brothers of Fallston had secured liermisslon from the county commissioners and were stringing a telephone line from Shelby to their place of business Telephones in the mral sections were scarce ir. those days. And an item from The Aurora proves that customs have changed with the passing of 35 years. A Shelby man was arrested for spanking his wife with a fire shovel, but the good soul forgave him and he was not tried. The good old days. What? HERE'S ONE. YOU TANGLE SOLVERS E. R. Gamble, The Stars Kings Mountain correspondent, says: "The readers ot your column seem to be pretty good at solving puzzles and problems. I have one. a real one, I wish they d help me work out. Under my house is a 30-foot dry well. The only entrance to it is a small hole a foot or to square. The family cat fell into the well some time ago. is still alive and can't get out. How am I going to get’her out without moving the house?" He has already tried sending down a box with, food in it, but the cat will not get in the bOx. --. THEY STILL UNTANGLE i THEM—AND HOW! A pied name doesn't stay pied very long in Shelby. The leading experts in untangling the tangletype teasers in this corner are now going about it In a systematic manner. Three evenings each week, so we'-.c been informed, they get the city directory or the telephone directory and the dictionary and then pick up The Star and go to work unjumbling the jumbled names. Once they work out a surname they use the direc tory to find given names that might fit the tangled letters remaining Ralph Short, one of the spry messengers at the Western Union of fice, chimed in first with Wednesday's teasers. Mrs. Roger Laughrldg i was another who straightened the names out. The last name in the list of five, however, proved a stumbling block to many. Several calls came in giving the correct solutions for the four other names but ad mitted the last one wouldn't worn with anyone they knew. The reason was, we supper.'’, that they did not know,Dr. B. B. Matthews given name ;«»: “Brunson Burns." The names Jumbled and unjumble folio” : MEW-CAT-PULL: Will Metcalf. AL-ETOP-YER-RHR: Ralph Royster VERNON-THAY-LIO: Oliver Anthony. ICE-REP-TBR: Bert Price. SON-RUNS-WH.AT-TURN-BMB: limnsca Jft.iv Molthews. Tune in on these and take the static ot:;: ROY- AVERT-WAR-BLVr-C 3AM-SUD-v’At J-L.AND NO-JOK-AND-HELL-DIOS-tIEP HURRIE-BAR-CLUS In that group you might ftnd a prcfets’onal man in the city, a bust- j ness man, or perhaps fellows who will sell you anything from gas to ] ride on up to insurance for your wife she hr; pens to step, on the gas ! on a curve. One of the jumbles is the name of a veteran b’4tsiness mac; who is perhaps better known by hU initials. "But vhy give it ell r.wa'yt1 (Develop your own bruin power or go nevt*, as the ease-may be. f . A Letter 1 o The Onr of till' most inlrrrstinj letters ever written (7 the “Around Our Town” column came In today. It centers about the first and mostly highly re spected contributor the column ever had—one of the whitest men Shelby has ever known. It speaks for itself, : nd does not, we believe the average reader will agree, say too much. Here it goes: Dear Renn: You've had a lot of things to *av' about various folks in town recently and I thought you might be inter ested In this note about a man I believe has jnore cold nerve thoy any Individual in Cleveland cour.f.v, especially since I know he's a friend of yours as well as of mine. That Is T. VV. Hamrick. Skinny to be exact. He is In a shape thpt would have long since made the most of us curl up and quit but f there Is any quitting about him nc one has found it out. I've known for years he’s hod nerve. So much in fpet, that otic time I seriously doubted* his judg ment. And thl.; particular instant1 occurred several years ago, a con siderable number wrhen I think about it. An extremely foolish girl had finally deckled she would take an awful long chance and I put the matter of the next move, the secur ing of a diamond ring, up to Skio ny. * To make matters worse I wasn't even working and had maybe a whole dime. Column Htu to go on with the story. Aft er the entire situation had been thoroughly explained T. W. sug gested maybe r selection had bet ter be made and one was. Not un til then was the matter of paying lor it brought up. There • was no question of a down payment for I had none, so I rather hopefully suggested a note or something of that kind (I was and am woefully ignorant of high finances). But Skinny immediately and to my vat;* surprise not only handed me the ring encased in the customary box but rather casually remarked “We won't bother about a note. That’s a lot of trouble. We’ll just, run it on open account," And there was neither intercs tnor carrying chary" charge. I'm sure you. as well as every reader of The Star, will join me in wishing'Skinny, if not a merry, a very comfortable and pleasant Christmas, a satisfactory Christ mas, the sort of Christmas he is entitled to. “UNSIGNED. ' IVE A YEAR*/ SUBSCRIPTION TO THE STAR BILIOUS “I have used Black [ Draught. . . and have | not found anything that could take its place. I take Black Draught for bilious ness. When I get bili ous. I have a nervous headache and a ner vous. trembling feeling that unfits me for my work. After I take a few doses of Black Dr aught, I get all right. When I begin to get bilidus, I feel tired and run-down, and then the headache and trembling. But Black-Draught re lieves all this."—h. o. Rtmiria, Homervllte, Go. For indigestion, con stipation, biliousness, Thed fords BLACK DRAUGHT fwoUKV who 1 like Caium, ne-0 is tonic chouliTJ Uged over 60 year* . Belwood News Of Current Week Wariick Club Holds Interesting .Meeting. Mrs. Couch in Hos pital. Personals. » i Special to The Star.' Belv.ood, Dec. 17.—The Wariick club held their regular monthly meeting at the home o! Mrs Theo dore Wariick Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, 14 members were pres ent.. The following officers were elected for the coming year: Mrs. Decatur Wariick, president; Mrs. S. A. Peeler, vice president; Mrs. Lloyd Boggs, secretary; Mrs. B. P. Peeler, reporter; Mrs. George Mar tin mill Mrs. B. T. Wariick, leaders. Mrs. H. D Hoyle, garden leader; Mrs. J. P Boggs, landscape leader; Mrs. L. W. Brackette and Mrs. O. V. Wariick, community lenders. Mrs Irma Wallace discussed three very interesting Christmas menus. In cluding dried apple fruit cake. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. O. V. Wariick on January 8. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. McMurry and Mr. and Mrs. lee McMurry and children were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Brackett oh Sunday. Messrs. S. A. and B P. Peeler spent several days the past week in Atlanta, Ga., on business, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Smith and son Mr. Howard, of Shelby, and Mrs. Noah Hubbard, spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Mack Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde . Dixon and children visited her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Houser of near Vale Sunday afternoon. Miss Madeline Porter spent sev eral days the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Thad Ford of Shelby. Mr. Jake Fortenberry of Lawn dale. was the dinner truest of his brother, Mr. andeMrs. Bruce Forten 'berry Sunday. Mr. Mack Willis and sons of Lin coln ton and Mr. and Mrs. Hcrshel Elliott and children of Ban-Oak community spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Will Wtllis. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Costner of Beams Mill spent Friday with her parents,, Mr. and Mrs. Mack Smith. Mr. C. E. Royster Jr., of Flay pent the week end with his cous in B. P. Peeler Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stamcy of Polkville. spent Sunday afternoon STOP NIGHT COUGHING Odinary couch remedies do not reach the conditions which cause night' cougKttfg'teUt ThoxtriV, a doc tor’s famotw prescription does. It stops the cdUgh within a few min utes and goes direct to the intern al cause, preventing further trou ble Taken before retiring Thokine ob solutely prevents night, coughing. It gives the same speedy relief for sore throat too.-Safe for the whole family—guaranteed no dope. Mon ey back if no* satisfied. 35r. Suttle’s Drug Store and all other good Drug stores. ndvt. with Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Peeler. Mr. Rohe: t Stanley and brother, Master Blanche, were the dinner guests of Messrs Harry and Buddy Peeler, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stanley and children of near Fullston were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hoyle Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hartman and children of the PleRsaut Hill community, .spent last. Tuesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Will Wil lis. Misses Pearl Gantt Is spending several days this week with her sister Mrs. Lawrence Miller of Vale. Miss Elva Richard ni Morganton. spent 'several days the past week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. C G, Richards. Mrs. T. P. Deal who has been unite j siek for sometime, is improving nicely. Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Turner and j son Master Buddy, visited Mr. and Mrs. Lee Carpenter of near Casar Friday. Mrs. M. L. Willis and children oi Lincolnton R-l. visited her mother Mrs. S. L, Gantt Friday afternoon. Misses Annette and Mary Sue Fortenberry spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Ruth Richards, r Mrs. Alvin Murry and children oi near Monroe spent sev eral days the past week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Richard. Mrs. A. A. Lackey and son Mas- \ ter Austin Jr,, of Fallston, spent i Monday with Mrs. B. P. Peeler. Messrs Luther Houser and Sain Sain motored to Mars Hill college Friday^ Mr. Sain entered the decla- j mat ion contest. Mr. Zero Couch was carried to [ the Shelby hospital last week where! he was given a blood transfusion. , Bandits Use Style Of James Brothers Kouchdale. Ind.—A gang using the - ame tactics employed by m. James boys came into this town 01 900 inhabitants early Wednesda; and fobbed the Roachdale bank o' $4,500 in cash and negotiable securi ties. t To guard against outside mter ruption, the gang cut telephone an* telegraph cables. A switch in the local power plant also \ as pulled making it possible for Uie robbery to be committed in dnrkne . The robbers used three or four clones of nitrogyclcrine In blasting . en the bank vault. Having looted the bank the rob ber band departed, leaving no chic* for xmas v The Wise Man CHOOSES RADIO More Than A Gift A Daily Companion Pendleton’s Music Store SERVICE — SERVICE * SEE WHAT The Paragon Furniture Co. Is Offering In Christmas Gifts «mmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmamrmmm mummmmmhi Before You Buy A Store Full Of Common Sense Life Long Gifts At 50 Cents On The Dollar And Less PICTURES - MIRRORS - SMOKING STANDS - NOVELTIES - TA BLES - DESKS - FLOOR AND TABLE LAMPS - ODD CHAIRS - SUIT ES OF FURNITURE - BLANKETS - RANGES - KITCHEN CABINETS AND MANY OTHER ITEMS. COME AND SEE — WE’VE GOT JUST WHAT YOU WANT AND THINK OF BUYING IT AT 50 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR OR LESS. The Paragon Furniture Co. SHELBY, N. C.