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Nobody’s
Business
By GEE McGEE
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A Wind-Storm Hits Flat Rock
leer mr. editor:
i seat myself to rite up the iilUe
wind storm we had in flat rock the
other day. it come from the west
and bio wed towards the east Red
It slipped up on nearly everyboddy
as it was not verry cloudy.
the first thing t noticed about
the wind was when it blowed my
pipe out of my mouth and drove
the stem of same thru the weather
boarding in the cow shed from the
way my hat started off, i don't sup
pose it has ever lit yet it went
light straight up out of sight.
it blowed my wife out of the kit*
r.ien into the ■ setting-room and
then picked her up and blowed her
back Into the pantry where she
ought to of benn. .as it was time to
commence supper, it was a funny
hind of ding: it picked up 4 of my
roatlisland red pullets and made
each one of them lay 2 eggs apiece.
It seems that the hardest puffs of
wind happened down near the
barn, as it blowed the hair off of
my little boss and twisted her neck
so’s it woulddent bend down low
enuff to drink watter ansoforth
one of the freaks of this storm was
—it blowed 13 eggs out from under
* setting hen and left them in the
pig troff and newer ruffled a
leather on the would-be mother and
she didn't know anny difference
till she flew off to scratch fo.'
"orms.
rar, jones. my nabor who borries
nearly everything we have and for
gets to return them, says it blowed
the taste out of his mouth and bent
the fender on his ford, i told him
i wished it had blowed my 3 hoes
and 2 plowstocks back where he
got them last year and he got mad
a whirl-wind came down the chim
u’ey and sucked the fire-dogs up
thru same and hung them in a tree
r.o yards away, but it didn’t put out
the fire.
one ol my best dogs was trying
o run with his face to the wind
aud it shut him up like an accor
dion and he wassent as thick as a
pie plate when i found him, and 2
of my other dogs were running
with the w'ind, and it stretched
them out and made them about 3
dogs long, and it will be sdme white
Pefoar they can become norms!
cogs again, it blowed 3 key-holes
out of the doors .in my house and
mashed my old cow as flat as a
flitter against the crib wall. ii
strained her milk for the time be
ii'g.' that’s all.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
A i-Man. Spare That Tree
In the public’s mind, generally
speaking, it matters not how much
and how often cotton mills, busi
ness houses and other enterprises
rut wages, but Just talk about cut
ting wages and salaries of state or
•ounty or city employees and IV
ten at the howls and hisses.
For every dime that has been
taken from the Income of politi
cally employed men and women a
dollar has been taken from the
common laborer, the operative and
the worker. Less than 2 percent of
the men and women employed and
paid by the taxpayers, directly and
Indirectly, have had their pay c'lt
to any appreciable extent and not
over 1 per cent of such employees
have lost their Jobs. But look
what's happened to buslnesa; about
30 percent of such employees have
lost their places, which meant
bread and meat.
If Mr. Jones Is receiving *300.00
per month for his 8-hours-a-day
job, it does not necessarily mean
that he wont work as hard and re
main just as honorable at *250.00
per month. Very few industries en
joy reducing the wages of their
operatives: in fact, they rarely ever
do so until their ows income is not
sufficient to keep the wheels turn
ing round. A state or city is not
able to pay any better salaries
than a cotton mill if the money to
do bo can not be had by fair tax
rates.
Under normal conditions, when
stores and shops and garages and
farms and dairies and undertaking
parlors are making expenses and a
little dab of money, it is nothing
but right that the masses be mak
ing a good living, plus a dollar or
so a week for a rainy day. But
when mills are cloeed down, banks
busted, land being sold for taxes,
millions of people out of jobs, good
people living on corn bread and
water, fine boys and girls without
sufficient food and clothing, what
do you expect? Do you expect tax
payers to keep the “favored few"
lolling around in the lap of lux
ury? That’s politics.
No man ia any more in favor of
paying high wages—if possible to
i do so and keep a-going—than this
scribe. I can prove that. But why
ruin the whole country in order to
keep up a bad policy and please
the sentimental? My idea is—pay
good men and women all they aie
worth if you are able to do so, but
if you aint the next best person
I who will work for what you can
; spare.
I Rent is not as low as it should
i be, electric lights and gas rates are
'high, but food is so cheap that it’a
a sin. We have let the "Jones” get
us in a mess. It is time for some
body to think. And I aint mad
fiuther. just disgusted—because a
sensible man told me tonlghtr—*Ti
y6u cut the salaries of our public
employees, they will leave you and
get Jobs elsewhere.” Id like to know
where the "elsewhere” is. Why
folks, "Elsewhere” is more broke
than we are.
Capture Still Within
Lincolnton Limits
i Lincolnton, March 3.—A still of
| ten-gallon capacity was captured by
I local police officers cast Saturday
afternoon In a home at Excel mill,
which is located within the city
limits.
Although the still was fired up
ready to make a run, the operator
evidently got wind of the officers’
making the visit and left for parts
Unknown.
This is the second small still cap
tured within the city limits during
the past six months.
New House News \
Of Current Week
Sererai People Hate Pneamonia. j
Study ( ourse to Start March
7 At Sandy Plain*.
(Special to The Star.*
New House, March. 3.—The peo
i pie in this section are ail busy plow
ing the soil for crop? and making
gardens.
Study course week w.ill be observ
ed at Sandy Plains Baptist church
in all the different B. Y P. U un
ions, beginning Monday night Mar.
7. The pastor, Rev. W. A. El&m will
be present each nlghht.
Mr. Loyd Lovelace who make his j
hcune with Mr. and Mrs. Audleyi
Crowder has been seriously sick with
double pneumonia. Is slightly Im
proved.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hawkins spent
| Saturday night with his parents
| near Mooresboro.
Mrs. Ed Walker is in bed with a j
, deep cold and is not improving,
i Master Flay Oreene, son of Mr. i
and Mrs. Troy Oreene Is very sick 1
at present with pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. Broadus Qreene and
daughter, Feme Morgan, spent the
day Sunday with relatives at Ruth
erf ordton.
Mr. Lee R. Gordon who has been
sick for some time is tn a very ser
ious condition at this time.
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Brooks and
son, Ladd, have moved to near
Mooresboro to mate their home
with Mrs. Brooks’ parents, Mr. and
Mrs. dim Holland. Mr. and Mrs. Will
Mauney have moved to where the
Brooks did live.
Mrs. S. C. Brooks visited her
mother Mrs. Luther Padgett Sun
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Martin and
family of near Lattimore were the
spend-the-day guests of Mr. and
Mrs. A. B. Walker Sunday.
'Miss Gladys Greene has been In
disposed for the past two weeks but
is better.
Miss Frances Walker and brother,
Aubry, were Mooresboro visitors
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Williams vis
ited Mr. Williams’ father near Bel
wood Sunday afternoon.
Miss Zellie Wiggins of near Ellen
boro is visltjng Mr. and Mrs. Troy
Wiggins.
Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Bridges and
family and Mr. Max Padgett spent
| Sunday at Grover with Rev. and
'Mrs. Rush Padgett.
A number o4 people from this sec
tion attended the play at Polfcville
Saturday night.
Mr. S. P. Stewart and children of
Gastonia were visitors in this sec
tion Sunday.
Singing Convention
At Patterson Grove
There will be singing at Pater
son Grove church by the Union
Singers convention on Sunday, Mar.
13th, beginning at 1 o’clock prompt
ly. Patterson Grove is two miles
northeast of Kings Mountain. Mr.
J. C. Bridges, director says he ex
pects singers from Gastonia, Hick
ory, Cherryville, Shelby, Patterson
Springs, Earl, Dover Mill, Spindale
and other places In North Carolina
as well as points in South Carolipj*.
He asks that everybody attend and
bring their song books
Footwear fashions
on parade—
at Miller-Jones
i
We present e gala array of shoes em
bodying the smartest footwear themes of
Spring 1932. These styles add charm to
your costume and also give you long, com
fortable wear.
Pumps, straps or ties in sixes from 3 to
9 in widths from AA to C.
Come in and see them todayl They are
.fast winning the approval of discriminating
women!
Hosiery to harmonize
AH tli* new shades in full
fashioned pore silk, hot*
in Chiffon or Sondes
weights.
Miller-Jones Co. a
A. G. SIDES, Manager
100 S. La Fayette Street. Shelby, N. C.
Yearns Mill Dots
Of Personal Items
Mr*. Ledford Deed. Yount People
Are Organised, low* People
Visitors.
(Special to The Star.)
Beams Mill. Mar. 3.—The young
people of the Pleasant Drove Bap
tist church met last Sunday night
and reorganised B. Y. P. U. Last
summer there was a B Y P. U. and
It, finally died during the winter
months.
The officers fleeted are as fol
lows: President, Mrs. Bonnie Elliott
Wee president, Mr Marvin White
sides; secretary. Miss A. V. Cost
ner; treasurer, Miss Mareona Hoyle;
Bible quis leader, Mrs. Paul Brid
ges: corresponding secretary, Mr*.
Martin Whitesides: chorister, Mr.
Kester Hamrick; pianist, ML* Eli
zabeth Bridges. Everybody invited to
attend every Sunday night at 7
o’clock.
Mr. C P. Gardner of Florida and
Mrs Mary Gardner of Kings Moun
tain spent Wednesday with Mr. and
Mrs. B. T. Oardner.
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Elliott and
family of Llncotnton, Mr and Mrs
Dathia Elliott and family of 3ka
ron and Mr. and Mrs Sylvaaua
Green spent Sunday evening with
Mrs J. Y. Elliott.
Mr and Mrs, J. . Calhoun of
Sioux City. Iowa, arrived last Sun
day nifht to visit their mother Mrs.
C. A Hoyle. Mr. and Mrs L. C.
Dalton and children of Norltna. are
also spending awhile with Mrs.
Hoyle.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Bridges and
faintly and Mrs. Bridges' mother
Mrs W. H. Norman spent Sunday
evening with Mr. and Mrs. Phate
Lackey of May.
Mrs. Clemmie Ledford died at the
hospital Sunday night at 10 o'clock.
She was then carried to the home
of her mother. Mrs. Bowman of
Lawndale
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Turner and
daughter, Genevieve and Mr. and
Mrs. Wesley Turner spent Sunday
with Mrs. Carrie Hoyle and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wright
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs
Charlie McSwaln and family of
near Gherryvllle.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bridges and son.
Bobble, spent Sunday evgnlng with
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Seism of icings
Mountain.
Mr. and Mr*. W E. Wright and
family of Shelby vtilted Mr. and
Mrs. John Wright Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Shuford and
sons, Robert and Ray, apent Sat
urday night with relatives at Mor
ganton
Mr. Yatea Paxton of Morganton,
spent Saturday with Mr Cullen Mc
Swala.
Mr. and Mrs. Durham Camp and
daughter, Peggy and Mr. and Mi*.
M. O. Self of near Patterson
Springs spent Sunday with Mr and
Mrs. J. B. Wright and family.
Phoenix Mill Store
Robbed at Kings Mt.
Merchandise Valued At MM To
MM Is Stolen. Johnson R
Arrested.
(By K. It. GAMBLE)
Kings Mountain. Mar. 1—Rob
bers entered the Phoenix Mill atorr
In Bast Kings Mountain sometime
during Saturday night and stole
merchandise valued at from MOO to
MOO. Merchandise taken Included
about (loo worth of jewelry and
about (300 worth of dry goods and
notions Entrance *u made by re-'
moving a window pane in the rear
of the store.
Paul Johnson who lives at t'»e
Cora Mill In East Kings Mounts ;i
was arrested when a quantity of
the dry goods was found In oi
about his home Other arrests *>>•
exacted within a faw day. .
According to the o «nars of ■ the.
store practically »U of tkl dry*
t<>oris ware recovered hut none ci
the ]«*elry.
At A
CRYSTAt GAZER—SPIRITUALIST
EFFICIENCY EXPERT—
He’ll dunk your face In learn of faurirter- -
March
7-8
Carol!
Meeting the Test
' 4 Life Insurance, the great stabilizer of human welfare, carries on • *
rysACB OF MIND, with which to face the present end
JL plan for the future, never has meant more than it means
today. These are trying times. It is difficult to believe
that anyone has escaped the effects of'a world-wide de
flation of values, contraction of enterprise, social change.
That life insurance companies, during the past year,
have been able to show an increase of insurance in force is
indeed a tribute to the high purpose which these -institu
tions serve. It indicates a growing national consciousness
of this reliable form of financial protection.
Life insurance is, in a real sense, an investment m peace
of mind, with interest payable in future comfort. It paves
the way to education; to replacement of earning pewer
cut off by death; to establishment of credit; to liquidation
of indebtedness; to estate creation—to* these and other a'
family* or business objectives. ^" ■
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Metropolitan Life Insurance policyholders, representing
about one-fifth of the populations of United ■States and ‘
Canada, should derive deep satisfaction from the accean- /
panying statements of their Company. It must hearten
them to realize how sound their life insurance protection
continues to be. /
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Financial Report to Policyholders
for Year* Ending December 31,1931
(la attarimat* milk tk* Aaaaml Rtfrt fiM milk Ik*
f/tm )’*rt Stmt* latarant* Dtfartmaml.)
Assets.. $3,590,115,453.72
(Lmrgtr Ska* may *lk*r fiaaatial hutitatiaa la Ik* marU)
Liabilities
Statutory Reserve.$3,005,300,878.00
Reserve lor Dividends
payable in 1932 upon
Industrial Policies . . . $47,443,434.90
Ordinary Policies ... $2,404,429.49
Accident and Health Policies 2,530,599.99
Total Dividends . 7" 102,400,743.49
All Other Liabilities . . . 175,13$,774.51
Unassigned Funds .... 227,270,237.
note:- $3,590,115,453.
On tk* hash of market values at of December 31,
ipji of stocks and of bonds not subject to amorti
sation, the Total Assets are S3,571,6/fi, 093. 34
and the Unassigned Funds $208,833,676.04.
SIS
Income in 1931. $997,*93,871.37
Increase in Assets during 1931 . 388,893,833.59
Paid-for life Insurance Issued,
Revived and Increased in 1931 3,438,199,381.88
(ExcimJiug /htmu »• Grnf PttitUt)
Total Bonuses and Dividends to
Policyholders from 1893 to and
including 1933. 733,377,188.89
Life Insurance Outstanding
Ordinary Insurance.$9,848,994,131.80
Industrial Insurance (premiums
payable weekly or monthly). 6,833,317,171.99
Group Insurance . . . . r . 2,776,833,647.88
Total Insurance Outstanding . . $19,447,343,949.88
(Lmrgtr than any ttkrr lift imtmrtuci company im tin mtrU)
'Policies in Force 0*aUOmg
Gnuf CtrtifitMn) , . 44,538,819
(M*rt tin* may ethtr lift tiMmw ttmfamy)
Accident and Health Insurance Outstanding
Principal Sum Benefit .... $1,519,468,538.88
Weekly Indemnity . . . . 14,969,413.99
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Some Noteworthy Daily Average*
of the Company *s Business
, During 1931
Number of Claim* Paid
2,177 par day
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Non bar of Ufa Insurance
Policies broad and Retired
11,797 par day
Amount of Ufa Insurance
Issued, Revived and Increased
$11,321,799 par day
Payment* to PoUcyboldcrs
and Addition to Reserve
$2,22fc,2M per day
Increase in Asset*
$724,492 per day
Growth in Ten-Year Periods ‘
' *’> • * $ t l i
Life Insurance Outstanding Assets
Policies in Force Life Insurance st End ,
at Ead of Year at End of Year ofYear
1171 .. . 11, 299 . . $14,9*9,382 . . .$1,182,7*4.78
1*81 . . 194,473 . . . 27,328,383 ... 1,973,847.*•
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1*91 . .2,381,444 . . 391,717,743 . . t3.i2t.*l.21
1*1 . .4,234,3*2 . .1,*74,477,2*4 . . 74.771,791.94
mi . 12,**7,13* . . 2,399,*71,*87 . . 308,883,477.34
1921 . 2B,*19,844 . .7,888,787,839 . 1018,383,81184
1931 . 44,328,81* . 19,447,343,949 . 3,99*,118,481.72
This Company is a mutual organization. It has no stock and no stockholders.
All of its assets are held for the benefit of its Policyholders.
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY • NEW YORK
FREDERICK H. ECKER, Pr—iOmnt
UMOY A. LINCOLN. Vic* I*r**i4**t mnd