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V».V M'M'i Around Our TOWN OR Shelby SIDELIGHTS By RENN DRUM. SHELBY ONCE USED ONLY HOME-MADE ICE This almost winterieas winter recalls to older Shelby fieopie incidents\ of other days which may round almost unbelievable to the younger giri-i •ration about town. Wonder how many of the yourtger folk, know that there tire mam people in the city who' remember when Shelby did not know what fa. -] tory ice was and there were several fish ponds and ice-houses toy; “home-made" ice in and ardlind the city? The weather records may not. show it, but winters havt changed con-! •iderably m three decades. In those days enough ice was frozen riatur-[ ally to furnish a summer supply One of the fish ponds and tec-houses was located just hack of flue present site of the Ideal servlet station, corner Washington and Marion ! streets. Another was the old McArthur pond and ice-house Ju.u aero * and to the left, of Plat Rock bridge, at the foot of‘the lull leading up ti j the present Beaumonde Terrace development. Will Carroll, one of the city's oldest native-born citizens, clearly re-i calls those days. He cut the ice and filled the old ice-house in the hol low behind the Ideal service station about :io or 31 years ago. Severn.' times each winter in those days, the old timers will tell you, it, wa cold enough to freeze over a good ice supply on the fish ponds. The ice j was then cut and stored in the specially prepared ice-houses and packed! with sawdust. Oftrn II lasted throughout the summer. A generation slightly younger well remembers the clay when the first factory ice came to town. .It. was brought in on freight trains and unloaded at the Marlon street crossing and stored .in an ice-house at. the former location of Host'.- bakery. The boys of the town uhey have' boys of their own'now>' had the time, of their lives when these train,-yj came m. They'd follow behind and pick up ihe chunks and then soil out to a hiding place to eat What days! .■ j ■ WAY BACK WHEN MINSTREL BURNED While we're stirring memories who remembers when the minstrel! show car burned up at the Seaboaid depot? It was Ihe Rabbit Foot Negro Minstrel. A colored employe tossed what he thought to be kerosene in the stove of the car while building a fire. It turned out to be gasoline and the car was destroyed. Two colored men were fatally burned, and up to that time it was the town’s major tragedy, everyone hurrying to rite Seaboard to see the blaze, the scene being made more pathetic by the agonized cries of the burned men. THIS PARSON ALWAYS HAD AN ANSWER Years ago. the story goes, there Inert m Cleveland county a bitter old man, generally known as a hardened sinner Time and time again the church people and ministers attempted to get him to church, par ticularly about camp-meeting or revival time But the old atnne.'s sharp tongue generally emerged victorious. Eventually there came to the county a minister who was gifted in repartee. One day he called upon the hard-boiled fellow and talked to him about going to church. The old fellow usually put perplexing questions to those who bothered him. If they could answer the questions, h* would go to church, if not, he W’ould not. After a time the old sinner said to the preacher 'Tell you what I'll do. If you'll answer me one question, 1 will come to your church "What Is the question?'’ queried the minister "Who^ was Gain's wife?’’ the old fellow replied. “My friend.” said the minister who wasn't stumped just as others had been stumped, "you will never bo able to embrace religion until you stop bothering yourself about other men’s Wives. The quick retort, so the story winds u|t. so impressed tile old fellow that he attended church the next. Sundky and the noxt. and so on Now you tell one . - _ I SHELBY SHORTS: There are fellows about Shelby, who could be named, who remem ber when quarts came in by express and the boys about the express of fice. becoming thirsty at times. would drop a quart or two. drop the leak ing package into a bucket and send it back as "damaged in shipment ” . That papa feeling will put a man on his feet. For instance, Dr. B. B Matthews, who waved a week', influenza aside and went back to doc toring other people's flu tiie day a daughter arrived In his family . . And again maybe he just came uptown for a package ot Ghandi but tons . . . From Capt. J. F. R.: "Enjoyed that article on "the man »n the soft, brown hat and the friendless black facing the hereafter." Thanks .... From a feminine reader: "I believe you just make up some of that hinting gossip about approaching blessed events and mar riages." She just couldn’t figure out one of them, and may we a*::, what’s the use of making cm up when both happen regularly here abouts? .Some people wonder why newspapers publish items about' triangle love affairs, sensational romances, divorces, etc., yet you'll see those same folks scrambling for front seats in the court house here when they try such cases. One of that nature was ivied this week ard there wasn’t any more peeping room than on the streets of what-ever* town-lt-was when Lady Oodiva rode horse-back down street . . . Until recently this corner never knew that Mrs. Huss Cline and Mrs. Ben But tle once taught at Piedmont, Lawndale, and one succeeded the oth> r .Dr. Pitt Beam, "Shorty" Long, Stough Wrav, "Lefty” Robinson] and Bill McMurry can talk 24 hours on a stretch, without eating, about] bird dogs and hunting .... And Rme Doggett, the Blantons, Sheriff Allen and that gang can wag tongues just as long about foxhounds ard fox-hunting .... All manner of shady rumors about how much some people may gel out of it if tire S. P, V. sale goes over. When Gabriel toots his trumpet there are some skeptical enough to insinuate that some other fellow got by the pearly gate by easing a ten-spot in St. Peter’s hand. Which doesn’t mean that we've not been about the ropes long enough to know that everything isn’t on the up-and-up ‘•Pop" iSupt.) Grfifin down at Chapel Hill wondering ii Shelby high will send another championship baseball club down there this spring. He used to get so much kick out of seeing Shelby boys pounds out two baggers and win games that Wars would creep into his eyes What budding romance is now pretty much the talk of the town? 8 American Flier* Stranded In China Shanghai, China, Jan. 31#—Five American and five Canadian avia tors who came to China expecting to be given jobs at $1,000 a month piloting Chinese military airplanes found themselves stranded here to day. Poultry School To Be Held In Rutherford forest City, Jan. 21.—Dr. B O'. Kaupp noted poultry expert, ol Spartanburg, S. C., will arrive-here next Monday to make all prelimi nary arrangements lor the county wide poultry school, which will be I 1 held in Forest City on January :>6 to 29. The sessions will be held daily, beginning at 7 o'clock each evening and closing about 9 The first session will be held Tuesday evening Bunch Of Mature Oats Is Exhibited Forest City —Jesse Jones, ot near Bostic, exhibited a bunch of green oats here a few days ago which grew from seed raised last summer. The weather has been so mild that the oats are almost matured. The latest addition to the va rious flowers that are blooming throughout the county are some violets grown by Mrs. Dora Wilkie, of Forest Citv Sport Shots ¥ * Brilliant Cage Sextet Here ¥ ¥ In College ¥ ¥ Some Kicker II they maintain their re markable record for anothrr week or SO. a girls athletic team over at Shelby Hiffh will be in position to step uo and make a claim for championship honors oi some type. Reference is to I he shclby sextet of eager*. To (laic the Shelby girls have played eight games and have won just that many. Their victories we!te turned in over one college team of co-eds and some of the best high school outfits in this section. To night they have their perfect rec ord at stake again as they take on the Forest City fair tossers in game at the iocal tin can. The girls game will be the curtain rais er of a double bill in which the Shelby boys meet the Forest City five'In the second contest The girls tvho compose the team are not only a shifty sextet in shuffling a basketball about the floor and swishing it through the net. but they also pack along plenty of pulchritude. The com bination helps add to the crowds as Shelby gets more bashetball mindrd than in several years. Down at Wake Forest college two Cleveland county boys are on the fresh basketball quint. They a.e Milky Gold, former Shelby high star, at forward, and Bob Forney, of Lawndale, at center. The Wake fresh lost a game the other night to the State ftosh by a record low score of nine to 3. Gold and For ney played the entire game and between them managed to slip tn only one foul point. Football fans hereabouts with a few years on them still talk of the days when Runt Faueette, Dirk Curley, John Hudson and others performed at State college. Therefore, they were interested In a little AP item out of Raleigh recently claiming a football record for "Runt.” During his four years at State. 1919-19*2, “Runt" missed kicking only one extra point after touchdown, and1 that, ironically enough, was in his final game. Collier's k, to start a story soon by Gene Tunney about Gene Tun ney. The former champion, who tins turned society man, will talk rather frankly, it is said, about his lighting days. Among other things, he may tell why he decided to keep riding his bicycle when Dempsey was trying to catch up with him ir. their two fights. Davidson college's search lor new coaches is being closely watched by athletic fans of this section. Pre vailing sentiment here—-although that may matter very little to the Presbyterian officials—favors Bill Fetzer, who was head coach at Davidson, State and Carolina in bygone days. Any number of sport fans will tell you that Fetzer has never had an equal m the North Carolina couching game. Yet athle tic trustees in the state appear to be hyped on the idea ol dashing off to Indiana or somewhere and bringing in coaches few people ever heard of. Fetzer at Davidson with some output of North Caro lina colleges - Dick. Gurley , Casey Morris or Walter Fraley—as his as sistants would do North Carolina athletics good. The home-state boys go to a college and play their heads off for the old school, then, at the end of their playing careers, they are brushed aside to give 'ome scrub back or tackle from Kalama zoo a coaching job. Gradually these old players are becoming alumni and eventually, if the present prac tice keeps up they may stop send ing their checks in to help get goad teams and good coaches, if a North Carolina boy is expected to play as good on the football field as a Geor gia boy or an Illinois boy. why can t he be expected to be the other's equal as a coach? New Pastor Elected In Rutherford County Forest City, Jan. 21.—Rev. Char les T. Plybon. of the Baptist Theo logical seminary, Louisville. Ky„ has been elected pastor of the Alexander and Florence Baptist churches to succeed Rev. C. C Matheny, who resigned to accept the pastorate of the Indian Bap tist church, of Greenville, S. C. Rev. Mr. Matheny left today to re sume his new duties. Mr. Plybon will move his family to Alexander about the middle of February. He graduated from the Baptist seminary January 9. Prior to entering the seminary1 he held pastorates at Durham and Wash ington, N C i Fast Grover Team Defeats Shelby 24-18 ■Special to The Star.) Grover, Jan. 21.—The fasi Grover f tehletics defeated the fruit Shel 1 by’s quint with the wore of 24-13 Shelby failed to pcore in lust haii w hlle Blalock n p< tints for'Gvov G rover H< tradon, rf PI nkelton, rf K- leter, if Blalock, If . Ri indu.ll, c . Cr tsp, c . Re 6’, r« Pli tkelton, lg Mi [lllnax, g Sh tlbv Poc non. rf Col ten, rf Pos, ton. If Hai ris, c • Rlppy. c Cai nnitr., rg Redl Brown, lg pilled up 10 T. 24 - - 10 .0 .... 3 ....... f) _____ 0 18 - .....- 0 fi .. 3 . . . 0 ... 4 •:. 3 Gaffney 1 eachers rake Thud Cut In I heir Salary Check Galt Yury Ledger. Bfv unanimous vote the teachers emuibyed in the Gaffney schools decKlkti Tuesday night to continue Working the nevt five months, in clude t»r the present month, on a basis of two-thirds pay per month with the understanding that the difference, or such proportion of the <*( rferenee due as can be, will be pai tf to them when and if state aid is received. This was an alternate proposal submit led by the trustees of school district < No 10 to a plan for oper ating t he schools only three moiiths longer at full pay. 26 Killed During Dec. On Highways Raleigl i.—Though the report car ries the Christmas oh-be-joyfuls. the Deee mber monthly report of the state hhi It way patrol shows only 26 killed, 11 D injured, 98 drunken driv ers, and 19 drunk on the highways. "Only" m used gingerly, for 26, a double 1'f, is a big number to kill in one month. Since the annual total hae been running up to a much hi# (her total than 12 times that num ber, and since December is a murderous month, the record will be account led good. Chairmen Jeffress, of the state highway commission, has indicated that his i jdministration is to dedi cate itself to safer travel on the highway, and while the roads were being corn bed with patrolmen, they picked uji quite a bit of revenue, gathering:, a total from fines and costs of VI 3,050.81. Other recoveries of money brought the revenue total to $18,287.30. Defends Hawaiians Asserting font "the old-type Ha waiian* are a grand people" and “that it is th t lower class, produc ed by Intern farriage, that causes trouble,” Miss Helen Judd, daugh ter of Governor Judd of Hawaii, now a studei it at Mills College, Oakland, Ca,l., stoutly defends the natives of tlie “Island Paradise.” Commenting on the Massie case. Miss Judd »aid she had lived in tbc islands all hei> life and has never had cause for fear. Her great-great grandfather a las one of the first Hawaiian miss Iona ties and the fam ily has live d there ever since. Chicago babies born in 1932 will each ewe $230 at birth. About then only way out c tf debt is grow up and become c allege football play j ers. THisTet s 4 tin or real estate Unber and by V irlue of the authority contained In that certain deed of trust, executed by A. ’C. Bridges and wife. Myr tle Bridges at al, to the undersigned trus tee. said deed cl' trust being dated Feb ruary 21, 1928, a ad recorded in the office of the register of deeds for Cleveland county, N C., in book No, 149 at page 189. securing *h indebtedness to the Shelby and Cleveland County Building and Loan assocha tlon. and default haying been made tp Jl.c payment of said in debtedness, I w>ll'( on Monday. February 23, 1933 et 13 o'clock noon, or within legal hours at the court hotne door in Shelby. N. c sell to the highest bidder for cash ai public auction l.liat certain lot of land lying and beutu; In No * township, Cleveland county N. C., and bounded es follows: Being lot No. Ad of the W. N. Dodd property, plat .si: which is recorded in plat book No. I at page 3 in the ofllee of the reglater »of deeds, Cleveland coun ty, N. C. Frontlsig 80 feet on the south of Broad street and extending line running back 300 feet tt> a 10 foot alley; thence with said alley 60 feet to the corner of lot No. 13; theisc* with line of lot No' n to Broad stneet 307.8 feet to a stake In the edge of Broitd street; thence east with Broad street ,10 feet to the begin ning. said lot being that same lot con veyed to A. T. Bridges et al by J. h. Nolan Co , Inc t This January J). 1C32 P MULL Trust*® 4t Jan r_. I j Shelby High Outfits In Action This Eve J Local Boys And Girls Take On Fast Forest City Capers Tonight. A fast basketball double i header, in whirh there is con siderable rivalry, will be staged in the Mielby high tin can to night with the two Forest City cage teams meeting the Shelby teams. The opening game will be be j tween tlie Forest City girls, who I have a strong outfit, and the Shel 'by sextet which has not lost a game | this season. The visiting girls are j determined to break; the winning string of the Shelby girls and the ! local girls, in turn, are anxious to I maintain their unblemished run of wins. It promises to be one of the ! best games of the year. This game I will start at 7:30. Seek Revenge The boys game should be a nip and-tuck affair as the two quints, judging by their records, are pret ty evenly matched. The Shelby cag ers. still smarting under a one-point defeat by Lattimore, hope to regis ter another game in the win col umn. Singers To Meet At Forest City Sunday Forest City. Jan. 21.-—A singing convention will be held at Bethel Baptist church Sunday at 2 o’clock Wade Humphries, of Gaffney. S. C. will be present and assist in the convention. A number of quartets are also expected. A school of 500 porpoises was dis covered cavorting in the Connecti cut river. With things as they are, they probably didn’t want to get into deep water. Boys And Girls Of Polkville Victors | Undefeated Girls Reach Their j Twelfth VMtory. Bovs Roll I'p 17 to 13 Win. By overwhelming the cage teams of Boiling Springs junior college in a decisive double-header last Wed nesday the aggressive Polkville stars have added force to their reputation of being two of the strongest teams in Cleveland county. The contests, waged on the Boiling Springs court marked the 12th win for the unde feated girls sextet, and the eighth victory for the boys quint, who have lost three and tied one of the remainder of their games this sea son. Snapping Into action in then us ual manner, the Polkville girls out played their opponents from the start. The final whistle found them leading by a score of 30-14. Close guarding on the part of the Boiling Springs girls kept the Polkville for wards greatly restricted. Gold reg istered high score with 14, Whis nant came next with 10; and Cap tain Greene with 6. For Boiling Springs, Bridges led with 7. The Polkville guards. Mode and Hunt, with Mauney, Beam and White al ternating .exhibited skilful team work throughout the game. Despite the one-sided score, the game prov ed to be an interesting contest marked by unusual playing on both sides. In a stiff tilt with the Boiling Springs quint, the Polkville boys charged through with a 17-13 vic tory. At first. the junior college stars seemed to have the upper hand and the half ended with Polk ville trailing by a 7-4 score The second half found them monopoliz ing the ball with 13 additional points to prove it. Displaying un usual teamwork they broke through the strong defense of the Boiling Springs quint and more than aton ed for their former inertia. E. Blan ton and Covington were outstand ing players for Polkville. Blanton led with a score of 8, Covington followed With 5 and G. Blanton and Greene each contributed two points Beam, Grigg, Palmer and Cham pion flashed into an effective sort of defense work. Cornwell led the scoring for the opposition with six points to his credit. The game on the whole was a spirited contest. It Pay* To Advertise Combined Ages Of Family Total 417 Lexington.—There js at least one family in North Carolina that doesn t worry about health for thr combined ages of Two brothers anc; three sisters total 417 years. All are in good health and acti-, although their average age is 83 - years. Four live fn Davidson coun ty and one in Rowan. The facts were revealed when D Michael, 83, subscribed to a news paper here for his 50th successive year. His brother is W. R. 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