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Around Our TOWN OR Shelby SIDELIGHTS By RENM DRUM. A TIP FOR SOME SHELBY MERCHANT Some Shelby merchant, ha* an excellent opportunity to win new friend* and patrons. Anyway, that's what the following contributor says: "What about using your column to do a favor for scores of Shelby people? Since the new regulation at the post office closing the stamp window at 1 o clock on Saturday afternoons I have seen scores of pec ple looking for stamp* late In the evening and on Sunday. Of course the business houses will soon get adjusted to the Saturday closing and will get their stamp* before 1 In the afternoon, but plenty of private cttlsons will not and some of the business people will forget It. There is no profit, I know, in selling stamps, but if all the people who were looking for stamps last Saturday afternoon coujd have been directed to one place of business, that place would have picked up many new customers Just because of the accommodation. How will it be tomorrow afternoon?" Now lt’a up to the merchants whether or not they will sell stamps as a Saturday afternoon "leader.” We’ve done out bit. • SETS THE PRICE FOR THE NEW CAR "X see,” says a Cleveland fanner who frequently chats It over with this corner, "that Henry Ford says he will soon put out a car at a price cheap enough for all to buy. Mebbe he will, but If Henry's telling the truth, and If he realizes the fix some of us folks are In, I'm expecting his new eights to go on the market two for a nickel, or one for a gallon of homemade molasses, or for a pound of cotton with a peck of corn thrown In.” \ CALLED WRONG MAN AS WAS EXPECTED This same farmer relishes an Irish Joke more than he does the Scotch ones and offers the following until another can be picked up; An Irishman, %ho worked in the mouaslte Industry in the old days (maybe In Shelb/Rnd maybe not), made a trip to New York with sev eral of his pals following a payday and several weeks of saving up. They stopped at a hotel and the Irishman, anxious to get going early and see some friends, left word at the desk to be called at an early hour. At a late hour In the night he and his friends turned in, a bit sotu>d as Irishmen will get when strongly tempted. Soon the Irishman was snor ing and his Joking friends slipped out, snitched a shoeshine's outfit", re turned to the room and blacked Pat s face. Early next morning came the call from the bellhop. Pat, only half awake, hopped out of bed. While dressing and rubbing his head he happened to look In a mirror and saw the black face shining back at him. He stared at it a minute and then started back to hU bed, grumbling. "Jest as Ol axpeeted, ne gorral they wlnt and called the wrong man.” MEMORIES: It was eight years ago, in July, that McBride Poston, now chief of the Shelby police department, resigned as a member of the Shelby lire department to become speed cop at Kings Mountain. How many years ago and what was the name of the Superior ccurt judge who called « Shelby lawer up to the bench and asked. “How come so many Cleveland county men attend court in their bare feet?" Wonder how many old-timers recall that back in 1895 the Darling ton <S. C.) Guards did their training at Cleveland Springs hotel, oper ated then by J. B. Wilkinson? The younger generation should be able to recall the Dokey initia tion and celebration In Shelby In 1924 when the merry-makers stormed the city hall, took out the fire truck, ran It full speed through the busi ness section with the bell ringing and the truck siren shrieking. The headache In some Instances lasted for days. SHELBY SHORTS: \ E. S. Whitaker, the state sanitary inspector now working In Shelby and Cleveland county, has a yoice almost identical with that ot Corn Cracker .... Answering our own query ot Wednesday: Bob Reynolds ran 534 votes behind Senator Overman in Cleveland county in 1926. Overman's vote was 3,725 and Reynolds’ 2,191 .... The star of the next production ot the Shelby Playmakers will be a brunette, but the fem inine leads in two previous performances were blondes ..... Huf;h McRae, head of a power firm In Eastern Carolina, admitted at a hear ing this week that despite his long connection with the firm he did nof know the meaning of a kilowatt hour. And. now that the S. P. U. ar gument la ended, we’ll break down and confess that we wouldn’t know one of the things it we bumped Into It on the court square.A card from John Hudson, at Tampa, say that on a recent fishing trip there his catch ran to 16, the largest, a bass, weighing 14 3-4 pounds ..... A small day’s churning at Charlie Washburn’s Sheiby Milk plant means 100 pounds of butter.Collards, unpopular In Cleveland county for years, Is now becoming a popular dish, according to Mrs Irma Wallace, demonstration agent .... What it some mischievous school boy takes his little hatchet and cuts down the George Wash ington tree, planted yesterday eve on the high school campus? LOST WINTER , ISN’T ALL One wise-cracking reader suggests that the young folks remember as muc^i about the present year as possible because she believes It will go down In history as the year of the Loet Winter. It'll be no struggle to remember, ma'am, because It will be* remem bered by a good many people as the year In which more than wlr.'cr was lost v PROVING THAT THERE ARE READERS They are not made for that reason, but a few bobbies *in this de partment quickly bring proof that some people read it. One item, pub lished recently, was a 100 percent mistake, several people have informed. The Reuben Campbell who left Shelby for the Spanish-American war was not Ed Campbell, the merchant, although the latter was in the service; and the Lawrence Hoffman was not L. O. Hoffman; and no “James Jenkins” went with the Shelby company—“Cap’n J. Fraiik" Jenkins went with an Eastern Carolina outfit. And G. S. and a half doeen others called attention to the bridge “between Tampa and San Francisco where the fishes jump.” Just an error of a few thousand miles there, as it should have been St. Peters burg instead of 'Frisco. Fish Fights Latest » Fad Along Beaches Miami, Fla.—Fish fights between filled battlers worth $1,000 a pound and as pugnacious as panthers or an 18-day diet are new wrinkles 4n the sports menu of this resort. Siamese fighting fish whirl: weigh scarcely an ounce each out fight like gamecocks or bulldogs are responsible for the fad Fish fanciers started breeding the spe cies as an experiment and the little fellows’ popularity is increasing rapidly. Their name is Betta CambojS* and theh colors range troro b»*i — liant orange through the reds to bright blues and purple. They light by instinct and a meeting of two males always is an occasion lor a duel. They catch as catch can and hang on until one dies. The best lighters bring Irom $35 to *50 each. Daily lights were an attrac tion at a recent lish exhibit. The lish have powerful jaws and sharp teeth and will attack anything that moves. ---- rive Orange units have been organised recently in Granville county. It is planned to organize eight such units when a county ; Orange will be built from these 1 I Victims of FatalHoax Police of Boston are Reeking the author of the fake cablegram which is believed to have indirectly caused the death of Miss Eliiabeth Cook (left), of Brookline, Mass. The cable, announcing the “death’ of George Tucker Arnold (right). Miss Cook’s fiance, was received by the girl in Naples, Italy. She at once started for home, but died at sea between Naples and Gibraltar. Arnold, a member of an old Virginia family, now employed in Boston, has applied to Senator Glass ol Virginia for cooperation of the State Department in the Investigator of the fatal hoax. No Legal Reduction In.Cotton, But Voluntary Cut Is Assured Atlanta. 0a. Frb. 15—There wllij be no reduction of cotton acreage by law this year, but if history re-; peats Itself there still may be a j substantial decrease In acreage and | production and an attractive ad- ] vance in price. Record of the department of ag ricultural and the New Orleans of cotton exchange for the last 40 years show that 13 "bumper” crops of cotton have been producted: two just before or at the beginning of a depression, and only two in nor mal times. The records also show that ev ery large crop produced during a pe riod of depression was followed by a sharp reduction in acreage, a com paratively small crop and a large advance in price. Some ol the big LOOK THE GREATEST OFFER OF ALL TIME! 9 PIECES FOR YOUR BEDROOM FOR ONLY $V^^.50 And One Year To Pay HERE’S WHAT YOU GET: 3-PIECE BEDROOM 3'JiTE Consisting of 4-poster lied, Hollywood (or French) Vanity and Chest of Drawers. 1 COIL SPRING 50-LB. COTTON MATTRESS 2 LARGE FEATHER PILLOWS 1 BEDSPREAD 1 9x12 CONGOLEUM RUG Convenient Purchasing Terms Can Be Ar ranged And You May Have One Year To Pay The Balance. “OIR VOLUME OF BUSINESS ENABLES US TO SELL FOR LESS/’ Kester-Groome Furniture Co. See This Outfit Displayed in Our Window crops were followed by a series of small ones %nd very nigh prices. Biggest Drop in 1921. The greatest drop in production after a bumper crop was 40.8 per cent In 1921, following the 13,000, 000 bale crop of 1920. Iij 1920 the average price received by producers was 13.9 cents, and a high of 22 75 cents was reached in 1921. although the average for the year was 16.2 cents. But the average price paid producers gradually soared to 23.8 cents In 1922 and reached 31 cents In 1923. the highest figure recorded by the department of agriculture except the 35.6 reached in 1919 fol lowing the war. Try Star Want Ads Estate Is Valued At $135,164,110 Thomas fortune Ryan Left Second Largest Fortune in Ilistory Of N. Y. Bureau New York. Feb. 16.—Thomas For-i tune Ryan, ttie capitalist who 20 years before Ills death retired as an officer or director in more than 30 corporations, left an estate valued at $135,164,110.54, the second largest In the history nf the transfer tax bureau here. The valuation, as of the date of his death, November 22 1928, was given in a transfer tax appraisal to day At the time of Mr. Ryan's death, the valuations ranged from $100,000,000 to $500,000,000 and he was rated one of the nation's great est hall tior.rn financiers. Valuable Studs Included in the huge total were Mr. Ryan's white shirt •studs, valued at $14,150. They were the only pari of the fortune left to Mr. Ryan's son. Allen A. Ryan, from whom he was estranged for many years. The disagreement between them was reported was to have teen due, in part at least to Allan's activities in the corner of Stutz motor stock in 1920. Mr. Ryan's personal effects were valued at $2,122,268 75, Including $728,738 worth of Jewelry. A pearl necklace and clasp were valued at j $546,339. The bulk of the estate was left) to Mr. Ryan's widow Mrs. Mary T. i Ryan, of “Oak Ridge," the Ryan estate of Shipman, Va., and two other sons, Clenderuiin J Ryan an other of New York. In all, 41 beneficiaries shared in he estate, the gross valuation of which was *141,824,494 43 of which securities valued at *136,343,750.08 made up the largest total. How A Dollar Bill Wander* All About Kinston.—A dollar can get into a lot of places in a week, the Rotary club here has discovered. It placed a *1 bill in circulation last Monday and kept up with Its journeyings around town. A note was attached to it, asking persons who received it to spend it immediately and notify a member of the club of its where abouts. Scores possessed the bill during the six days the note was at tached. The Salvation army had the bill twice during the week. A single bank had it at least twice. Drug gists, hardware dealers, clothier; and others reported having received it. ' For 24 hours in the middle of tin week the dollar was out of circula tion. 4\ cobbl»r ignored the note ana kept it in his pocket until almost the last hour for paying his month ly light bill, when he turned It over to the water and light department An officials deposited it immedi ately in order for it lo go back in circulation Just A Few Of Our Bargains 8 Pounds LARD------ 64c Tub LARD, Pound_-___ 7Jc SUGAR, Pound__ 5c SOAP and POWDER, 2 for _ 5c GARDEN SEED, Package_ 5c SHOES AT COST AND UNDER. We handle what you need at prices that you will appreciate. — OLIVER PLOW SPECIALS — We have some genuine Oliver Plows we will close out at a bargain. Also other farm tools cheap. — FERTILIZER CHEAP — Special prices on Car Load Guano and Sulphate of Amonia. It will pay you to buy from . . . | HUNT & HEWITT | " LATTIMORE, N. C. % * # TVt Special Mm 16 Fisher Bodies are exclusive to Chevrolet in the lowest price field All that is new, smart and desirable in fine modem coach aw/i—is represented by the phrase Body by Fisher. And today, the only car of lowest price to offer Fisher coachwork. is the new six-cylinder Chevrolet, , Examine this car carefully and you’ll discover one evidence after another of Fisher’s master craftsman ship—the same long, clean, ultra-modern streamlines you’ve admired so much on custom cars; gracefully sloping front pillars, with ctjwl and windshield frame con structed in one smooth piece. Step inside and yen’ll get many pleasant surprises, for Chevrolet interiors are complete with modern comfort-features and con veniences: a finger-touch adjustable driver’s seat; an interior sun \ isor; broad "lounge-type” seats; and a wide expanse of vision for jfT! occupants. Notice how easily Chevrolet doors are opened by the new automatic door ejector. See how obviously solid and substantial is the Fisher composite wood-and-steel construction, how mas sive and well-fitted are Chevrolet doors. Slam them hard, and instead of a metallic noise, you get the welcome solid sound which tells you," This is the finest of coachw ork.” The truth is—Chevrolet and Fisher have achieved in these bodies the best-looking, best-built, most completely equipped line ever to appear in the lowest price field. PRICED AS 5®Y Lo. b. Flint, LOW AS TC 0 Michigan Special equipment extra. Low delivered prices and easy G.M.A.C. terms. Chevrolet Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan. Division of General Motors. NEW CHEVROLET SIX THE GREAT AMERICAN V*A LUE FOR 1932 SEE YOUR DEALER BELOW D. H. CLINE, Inc. 4
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