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Poplar Springs News Of Current Week ftenior Young People Elect Officers. Mrs. Humphries Ts Oper ated On. Poplar Springs. April 7.—The sen ior B, Y. P. U. of Poplar Springs church nominated the following of ficers for the second quarter: presi dent, James Debrew: vice president. Achie Queen; Bible readers leader, Aida Wilson, secretary, Omelia Wil son: treasurer Bemis Lemons, cor responding sec. Gladys Lemons, pianist, Lola Wesson, choister Alvie Jones, group captains as follows: No. 1 Packard Elliott, No. 2. Selma Lemons, No. 3. Moselle Wilson. No 4 Mrs. Bill Philbeek. Mr. and Mrs. R. B Patrick and Children. Louise and Theron, and Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Brooks and baby daughter spent Sunday with relatives in Gaffney, S C. We are sorry to note that Mr Lee DeBre’v is sick with flu. The many friends of Mrs. Cleaton Humphries will be sorry to know that she entered the Shelby hos pital Saturday night and was op erated on for appendicitis. She is doing as well as could be expected Mr. and Mrs. Claude Anthony and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Bridges spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Anthony and family. Tlie quartet from our church, who are Messrs. James Debrew, Al vin Jones. Cyrus Ledbetter and Clyde Wallace sang at the LaF’av ette street Methodist church th Shelby Sunday morning. They were accompanied at the piano by Mrs Dock Wesson. Little Mildred and j Hal Wesson also sang a duet. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Putnam and | Mr. Sidney Hamrick of Shelby spent Sunday With Mr. and Mrs. John! Hamrick and Mr. and Mrs. Wake! Hamrick. SikM Mr. and Mrs. Joe WessowS' and1 family spent Sunday afternoon with J Mr. and Mrs. Lander McSwain of Earl. Mr. Everett Blanton joined the fox hunters last Tuesday night and1 they enjoyed a real fox hunt. Mrs. P. P. Hawkins has been sick ; for the last few da vs but is im -! proving now, Mrs. Claude Brown is also sick with pneumonia. Her mother, Mrs. Russ is attending her. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Blant • and son. Forrest, visited Mr. and Mrs, Hassom Scruggs and children Tues Penders THE BETTER CHAIN — 2 STORES — N. LaFAYETTE STREET SOUTH WASHINGTON STREET D. P. COFFEE (The World’s Best Drink) rOl'ND 27C Golden Blend COFFEE :: poinds 50c SWIFT’S PREMIUM HAMS - Pound. SWIFT’S FRANKS LARGE SIZE — POUND Sugar Cured PICNICS POUND IOC PURE LARD - Pound . SPICE CAKE Pound 15c Tenpenny GINGER ALE i Pale Dry) 4 BOTTLES Sic CANADA DRY GINGER ALE - Bottle .. . . 15c Premium Soda CRACKERS 1 POUND BOX Evaporated PEACHES POUND EVAPORATED APPLES - Pound I Sc Libby’s or DelMonte PEACHES LARGE CAN' 19c LIBBY’S NO. 1 PEACHES 3 FOR 25c CHAPEL’S APPLE SAUCE — 3 Cans . Buffet Size FRUITS 4 CANS TOMATOES No. 2 Can * FOR SCOTT’S HOMINY - Large Can - 3 for . PINK SALMON CAN ,10c Colonial Fresh LIMA BEANS CAN 10c WEBSTER’S TINY GREEN LIMAS - 3 can* 2$C KEROSENE - Gallon 13c day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs Dock Wesson and children, Mrs. D I. Wesson and Mrs. Phillip Hopper of Zoar spent Sunday with Mrs. D. G. Glasco and Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Pruitt of Shelby. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Philbeck and son spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Philbeck and fam ily of Lattimore. Mrs. Clyde Wallace and children and Mrs. Eiserne Clary and child ren and Mrs. Martha Hamrick spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Dock Wesson Mr. and Mrs. Allen Jone. and Mr. and Mrs. I . E. Hamrick and daughter. Ruth, spent Saturday night with Mr. Alonzo Hamrick. Mt. Sinai News Of Current Week Quilling Party At Bridges Home. Air. And Mrs. Dewey RolMns Have New Son. (Special to The Star.* Mount Sinai. April 6—'The fol lowing ladles were entertained at a quilting party at the home of Mrs. J. C. Bridges on last Tues day afternoon: Mesdames J. M. Hunt: Gordon Ellis, Durham Bul ges, Torencc Bridges. Yates Pit* nam, Matt Stockton, Lebron Rog - ers, Ruben McSwaln, L. C. Putnam, C. T„ M. R. and R. O. Ellis. Afr»r the guests arrived they were kept very busy for sometime quilling after which Mrs. Bridges served some refreshments consisting of fruits. Mr. and Mrs. Dewty Rollins arc announcing the birth of a baby boy, Clyde, on March 30. Mother and baby arc doing nicely. Mr. Guy Putnam who has spent the past nine years in the TJ. 6 army is spending sometime with home folks here. Mr. and Mrs. Cteatus McSwain and childien of Sie j-.uttimore-Be<» ver Dam section vis’tcc. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. McSwain Sunday aft • ernoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bridges. Mr. i Elmo Bridges and Mrs. Gordon Ellis and children were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Brainarci Westmoreland of Blacksburg, S. C Saturday night. Miss Nora Ellis spent severs! days last week with relatives in the Beaver Dam-Pleasant Ridge community. Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Hamrick i and Miss Selma Hamrick of Poplar ! Springs spent Sunday with M • i and Mrs. W. L. Hamll. Mr. Harrill’; ; condition is improving some, w< j are glad to hear. Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Eilis and Mis? ' N< 11 Ellis visited Mrs Jim Hum i phries near Swainsvilie Sunday i Mr. and Mrs. John Hawkins, Mr j and Mrs. D. R. McSwain and Mrs IL. C. Putnam spent Friday after I noon at the bedside of Mrs Rcx | anna Hamrick near Baltimore. Mrs. Mary McSwam of the Dou jble Springs community is spending i sometime with Mr. and Mrs. D ■ Ruben McSwain. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hawkins I and Bobby, were dinner guests oi | Mr. and Mrs. J. If. Hawkins Sun day. Miss Cecelia Padgett of Beaver ' Dam is the attractive house gues' I of Miss Nora Ellis this week. Misses Norine and 3una Rollins jjudson Barnes and Harold Coggins ail of Gaffney, S. C. were caller in this section Sunday . Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Ellis a. d children spent Sundav guests of Mr. 'and Mrs. T. L. McSwain in Swain - ville. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Putnam a no daughter, Rebecca, oi Shelby, vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Yates Putnam Sunday night. Mr. E. R. Ellis of Shelby spent several days last week with his sor, Mr. C. T. Ellis and family Messrs. Robert and Buford Pad [ sett from near Beaver Dam we 3 ! callers in this vicinity Monday aft i ernoon. Mr. ana Mrs. J. A. Hunt Of She1 by were spend-the-ciay guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Putnam Sun day. Mr. and Mis. I Y Putnam and Mr Guy Putnam attencied the ploy “Heaven Bound” at tlie Shelby court house Friday night For lazy liver, stomach and kidneys, biliousness, indi gestion, constipation, head* ache, colds and fever. 10* and 35* at dealers. EXECUTOR’# NOTICE Hav'ng this day qualified a*. crecutOi of the estate of Louisa M. McSwatn, tale of Cleveland county, North Carolina, UW Is to notify all persons having claims agalnai the si*d estate Xc present them to me properly proven on or belo-e the 31st dav--.pt March, 1933. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of any recover? there of. All persons owning the said •«ra;e will please make immediate settlement tr the undersigned. This Me^th 31, 1*32. E. O. WHITAilEK, Lattlmore, Ex ecutor Louisa M McSwain. daeea* <■ «1 Aar Id IS IB IB IB IB km* ::::: ste» ::::: ■ aavaiBiB ib ta s-SKi k<k: KKt kk: KKi *:k n Around Our TOWN OR Shelby SIDELIGHTS By RENN OKI M. DO VOl KNOW? How many windows tii^re air in the Shelby court house? The new name of the st4»*e thal ua* once Piggly wigRly? How many hello girls work in the Shelby telephone exchange? The location of the nearest family burying plot other than Sunset cemetery? ■ , The names of the two Scotch mining prospectors alio have been delving In and about Shelby for several years? Who was mayor just before A. P. Weathers? Who named the city cemetery Sunset—and why ’ What the L in Robert L. Ryburn stands for? Who was Shelby's first Shriner? What Shelby person—or how many has been marri'd three times? How fast the largest fire truck In the city department will run’ We're asking you ODD ITEMS OF THE DAT Unusual items, those featured tid-bits called "boxes h? the news paper craft, interest us more than the large headlines. I;, a wee'-, be lieve it or not. we haven’t read a word about the Lindbergh baby or the carrying-on of congress. But we did read— —'That a man in good health down near Henderson had his grave dug In order to help the unemployment situation. How many Shelby people would volunteer to do the same thing? —Irony for you in another item: M. Marcel, the man who Invented the "marcel wave,” Is bald. — A tip-top Idea from Ohio: Place a tax on all proposed plans for ending the depression. —Thp smallest baby ever born lives In Kansas City, weighs one pound, and is five days old today, if still living. —Prohibition agents are making a speakeasy directory of New York City. Perhaps to keep strangers in town from asking the cops too many questions. —At Greenville, 8. C.. a man was sentenced to one hour in jail on a booze charge because he had spent 90 days in the jug while awaiting trial. —A team of mules ran away at Vale, near this county, the. other day. Sounds as if the ' good old days were really returning —Bees danoe, informs a scientific item, on returning to their hive: after a successful honey-gathering trip. —A farmer was buried near Macon, Georgia, this week under a tombstone on which he had written the epitaph: “This poor fellow talked too much." If all were that honest? SHELBY SHORTS. Between us: John Ehringhaus, the candidate for governor, whr speaks in Shelby Monday night, is really 10 or 15 years older than he looks. Reserve the orchestra seats for the girls . . . . A sign of spring one of the girls named in the Miss Shelby contest and one ol the boys a drug clerk, listed In the handsome male list are getting to be just like that .... What well known young courting couple of the city has pfft' .... Small pipes are now the rage for women who smoke—and who’l smoke the first one in Shelby .... Seeing Bill Hogue on the street re minds that ere long now will be the best time to visit Cherry Mountalr with everything a bloom .... Dr. S S. Royster thinks general buslnes: will improve only when all nations get on a silver basis with cheapsj money .... And the first straw hat of the season-when will it step out and on whose dome? .... “Love-In-A-Mist.” the Community Play ers comedy at Central school tonight, should be worth seeing ..... * guess: the Lindbergh baby will be returned or definitely located withii: a week. This is written on Thursday .... A new flower garden tha: should be attractive: the rock-wall plot on the elevated lot at the Harrj Cohen home .... Who is the new “big shot" of the boo.-e traffic about Shelby? .... Some Shelby business firm could get much favorable publicity and win a lot of friends by staging an elimination tournament to decide the champion bridge-playing team in Shelby. The tourney could be held at the Cleveland Springs club house with the ladies of the club being repaid by concession rights to sell refreshments to the play ers .... It was a hard winter on the coal dealers but the summer, il they sell ice, too, may give them a chance to' even up . . Ralph Hoey off on an airplane trip .... Summer is here: William, Eeam, one of D. A.’s sons, caught a June bug yesterday. The first of the season . . . Who’ll take Ebeltoft's place as the first person to vote on primary and election days? .... “Lefty" Robinson, an old timer In the game, be lieves a baseball team in Shelby would be a good thing this year. Many would attend who would be going elsewhere in prosperous times and the contests would afford relaxation and momentary forgetfulness . . . How many nurses have graduated at the Shelby hospital?.A big season of the year is near at hand out over the county—commencement time in the schools .... And a tip to Shelby merchants: Have all your new spring bonnets and dresses on display tomorrow; the teachers will be in town for the last county-wide teachers meeting of the year. 1 -- A TIMELY TIP FOR THE FARMER Tliis one for the farmers who lake enough time off from their spring work to read this cornert A state health officer in Virginia relates in The Sur'ey the story of a farmer who was delivering vegetables to a public saritarium. A pa tent saluted him. v “You're a farmer, ain't yuh?’ The farmer allowed that he was. “I used to be a farmer once," said the guest of the sio^c. “Did youh?” “Yes. Say. stranger, did you ever try bein’ crazy?" The farmer never had. and started to move on, “Well, you oughta try it,” was the ex-farmer's par ing shot. "It beats farmin' all hollow.” Oh, well, Abyssma! 16TH IN CIRCULATION IN NORTH CAROLINA The Star is 16th in circulation of all the newspapers in North Carolina. It exceeds the circulation of 160 weekly newspapers and exceeds the circulation of 20 of the 35 daily newspapers. No other form of advertising is more economical or effective. 5,000 HOMES RECEIVE^ TH E STAR Every Other Day. That Means 20,000 intense Readers. If you have something to sell, tell these 20,000 Peoole about it »*• rnli'^n* Upper Cleveland News Of Interest Karmen Are Busy in Kicld*. Mrs. Vlhisnant Improving From Pneumonia. ■Special to The Star > Uasar. R-l. April The farmers have been plowing all week since the weather has been beautiful. The garden truck Is looking very' well. There are several on the sick list at this writing: Mrs. Sal He Whl.v nant la improving slowly utter hav ing an attack of pneumonia, Her daughter Mrs. J. F. Weaver lias hfcd a nervous breakdown. The; have a trained nurse, Miss Sadie Beverly of Shelby Mr. and Mrs Zero Mull are very 111 with the flu tit this writing, also Mrs P M Whisnant. Born to Mr, and Mrs Zemmy Ledford a daughter. Mother and baby are doing fine Mr. 8. J. Devoutly spent the day Monday In Uutbertoi dton on busi ness. Miss Madge Gantt. is spending this week with L. I) and Lillie tfhnl of Shelby. Mr. Clack Buttle of Marion spent Tuesday night with Mr. P. M. Whisnant Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Whisnant attended the lattcr'a uncle funeral Friday, Mr James Dig',) who was buried at Palm Tree church near Lawndale. at the conference snowed, she said, thHt the work of u,t organization had gone forward in ail its phase in spite of tlw depression. Revival Meeting At Roberts Tabernacle A revival meeting will begin at Roberta Tabernacle Colored Metho i dlsl. eliurcli on Sunday. Dr. R. . D, Garrett of Norfolk, Va., will be the evangelist. Dr Garrett Is nationally known as a great preacher and ' evangelist gospel singer. Rev. E. L. Johnson, D. D., will have charge of the singing and al tar work. Ten dally cottage prayer meetings will be held by personal workers. Special service for the, young folks from 7 to 7:30 each evening. Prom 7.30 to 8 p. m. prayer meeting. From 8 to 8:15 go - pel singing by the gospel team. The public is Invited to attend all of these services. Rev. E L. John son, pastor. MILLER JONES STORES I( YHESE prices will "make history!" Never, in our yearsvdktc giving, hnve \\r offered so many good looking, lung wearing shoes at these exceptionally Si loss prices. Just look what a little money will boy! You need'no longer wmr shabby |i shoes when you can have a new pair at worthwhile saving*. Never Before Such Values I~I ERE’S an unboned of oppor tunity for you to buy good substantial shoes at $1.39! A mul titude of different styles are offered | at this low price and you’re sure to find a pair to fiM your needs. See Our Windows Neat Styles Greatly Reduced T HEY were made ro seM for a . higher price and they are Popular Heel MgM$ M'wjji much morel TV boi+t-m ! qualify aasiwes you many roonfhs of comfortable wear for oolv Buy Now ^ Save Money / UNDREDS of. pairs of beautifully styled shoes have Pumps, Straps, Ties I been grouped together for quick • selling at $1.99—the lowest price conceivable for such quality. CHIFFON Strict!ii First Quality - Full Fashioned^ Sdk to.the Top Miller-dones Co. 106 South LaFavette Street A. G. SIDES, Mail Orders Filled P*-imptb\ SHELBY, N, C. Manager Add Jar Ex .;*.
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