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Around OR Shelby By RENN DRUM. Our TOWN SIDELIGHTS SHELBY SHORTS The hottest weather of the yew and coal dealers booking orders for the. winter ahead. . . Numerous queries about a marriage that did NOTj take place last Sunday night. . . .Time gets by. The Spanish-Americ&r.' gathering in Charlotte this week reminds that vets of '98 are not much more numerous than were the Confederate vets just a few years ago. . . A well known Shelby physician had not had a suit dry cleaned in twoj vears until this week. Still he is one of the nattiest dressers In town. . j Pete Grigg, back from a selling trip in rural Virginia, found, he says, I that nearly every one there knows or knows of Clyde Hoey. They re-! member the Democratic speeches he made there in 1928. . . .That gold I rush story, nearby Shelby, mentioned in this corner some weeks agni may yet develop. . . .Ail modern girls do not play all the time. This! note from an observant man: “Mary Lillian Speck, just 14. planned the) meals, did the shopping and ran the house while her mother was in the hospital, in addition to giving recitation lessons to a class of girls a few rears younger.”. . . .A letter from Governor-to-be Ehrtnghaus in which! he spelled our name correctly. . . Don Harris, a Millside boy, had the ■ prize joke in last Sunday's Charlotte Observer. . . .Nearly everybody about! Shelby can tell you what happened in the Smith Reynolds death, and, they’re all guessing. . . .Shelby has ever so many barbershops and some 1 of them have been in business for near two score years, but not a one i has ever employed a manicurist. Most Shelby men still use their pocket knives. A few patronize manicurists when in the city. . . .The boys along Shelby streets call the new three-eent stamp "Panic Postage". . . _A Shelby auto dealer is reported to have cleaned up on the run-off primary. . .Talk of an uptown divorce. . . .That ‘irelet*’ on old gravestones In Sunset cemetery means that the person buried there was the widow of the person named after the "relct,” which is “relct," meaning left behind. . . One of the oldest tombstones in the cemetery still discernible is that of a Homesly buried in 1846. That was 86 years ago. . . .Among the other markers is one for a 17-year-old soldier In the Confederacy whoj died at Portsmouth. Another is that of a lieutenant colonel in the Con- j lederate army. . . .Down in the briers, just west of the main cemetery, | are a score or more of graves, many of them unmarked except for stones, and others marked with slabs on w’hich the lettering was worn away '•ears ago by the weather. OID YOU KNOW. THAT? Gastonia has a Hollywood. .And it’s a cemetery. New tires were purchased recently for the big pump truck in thet Shelby fire department. The first set in five vears and the old one? still look almost new Just rotted nut and dangerous. Babe Ruth once hit 125 home runs In an hour. If took place at Wrigley FTdld, Los Angeles, in 1927. The Babe stood a i the plate and several pitchers took turns at tossing >m to him until he bumped 125 over the palmgs. DOESN’T LIKE MO-BILL IDEA Shelby people, who have done some figuring on the proposed $50-btl! plan to relieve the depression may be interested In the following letter to The Star from James H Doug!?--, a ; t int ecretary of the United States Treasury: July 5, 1933 Dear Sir: .Tor the Secretary of the Treasury, receipt is acknowledged of your letter of June 14, 1932. relative to a plan for the issuance of fiat cur rency by the Federal Government. ‘Under the proposed plan the Government would apparently issue a form of flat currency in the amount of $50 to each man, woman and child in the country. If such currency were to circulate at anything approaching its normal face value it would do so because of the status given it by the Government’s fiat. The provision for affixing a 3-cent tamp to eagh dollar of such currency at the time of each transfer m which it were used would, I believe, be inoperative since it is not at all clear why individuals in using this currency should voluntarily assum= ny responsibility for its ultimate retirement, through the purchase of ostage stamps to be affixed to the currency. "It is my view' that improvement in existing conditions u not to be ought through the issuance of fiat currency by the Government. The upposed benefits to be derived by an attempt on the part of a govern ment to create funds through the issuance of fiat currency are illusorv The dangers of such a course are well illustrated by the experience of n number of European countries during the late war and early postwar period." Very truly yours. James H. Douglas, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. PROHIBITION TALK vr COUNTY FUNERAL This from a reader Have you not heard of an unusial incident which took place at a recent funeral in Cleveland county? One of the ministers officiating talked five or six minutes about the life of the man whose funeral was being preached and then talked considerably longer than that about the prohibition controversy. He expressed his shame at the action of the Democratic party and stated he felt very little better about the action of the Republican party. Some men may leave the church, he declared, because the prohibition question is talked from the pulpit, but if they do, the church will not be losing any Christians. I wonder how relatives of the deceased felt about the funeral oration?" Our answer: ask .them. A WOMAN’S LOOKS AND A MAN LOOKS A scissors snitch from Eugene Ashcraft's column in the Monroe Enquirer: "Mv old friend, W B. Bell, in the Union Republican states: 'It F an old saying that a woman is as old as she looks, and a man as old as he feels.’ “Thatts wrong. A woman is as old as she looks and a man is not ild so long as he looks.” TODAY’S JOKE?? A couple of men were discussing the most nonchalant people they had ever encountered. One told of several people he knew who seemed to care about nothing and worried not a bit. over bad breaks, The other hen told his story. ■Once," he said. "I was passing a farm home when the housewife an out in the yard and yelled to her husband in the barnyard. ” 'Henry, oh, Henry!’, she shouted ‘The baby’s et up all that Parte 3reen. What on earth’ll we do?’ “And Henry vry calmly answered. 'Wal, I reckon as how we’ll Just aave to knock them damb pertater bugs offen with a stick’." 5,000 HOMES RECEIVE THE STAR Every Other Day. That Mean* 20,000 in tense Readers. If you have something to sell, tell these 20,000 people about it in these columns. Their Voices Strike Popular Chord The Roswell Sister#—Vet.'. Martha and Connie In a popularity contest conducted by a New York newspaper the Boswell Sisters walked away with the first prize in the harmonizers' class, rolling up a total vote of 21.249, The contest, which began May 16th, closed July 4th and the nearest rivals for the honor won by the Chesterfield stars polled 7.59B votes. A ballot was published tn the newspaper daily for SO days, which gave the girls from New Orleans an average of practically 42S votes a day In the Greater New York area, covered by the newspapers circula tion. Interest. ‘'Wall Street Journal.) In a discussion of the cause of depressions, a brilliant mathemati cian, associated with a mid-western university, said that the amount of money owed as interest, ail over the world becomes in time an .'great that It cannot be paid. Illustrating his point, l.e said that one cent, loaned at 6 ptr cent com pound interest from the birth of I Christ to the present time, would i amount to a solid ball ci gold whose diameter would be 75 times the dis ;trance from the earth to the sun. I Many Fish Placed In State Streams om ?0 Million Liltlo Flahe*, SI* For Lath Ferson In Stale, Distributed. (Special to The Start Raleigh, July 13— Little fishes numbering 20.178.4J9, equal to six for every man, woman and child In the State, were distributed In North Carolina during the last fis cal year, ended June 30, 1932, from the State fish hatcheries, J. S Har gett. assistant director of the de partment. report* dto the board oi Conservation and Development m annual meeting at Morehead City Of tticse, 8 178,429 are classed as game fish, the remainder being Same and commercial fish. The past biennium has been tin most successful in hi'torv In pro jciuctlon of game tish. exceedins? bv 3 ion (Kin trip second nignest out put ot 17.538 121 of the preceding b’eh nivun. Officials point out that the production has been accomplished at a steadily declining cost, which reached the low of approximately two-thirds of a cent each for tin past year, as compared with one cent of the year before. This cost includes the entire cost of operation of the Division of Inland Fisheries and Is considered as economical a any similar operation on thf same scale in the country. Game fish output ol 3.668,330 wm achieved in ihe fiscal year 1930-31. the cast of operation of the division having been *36.655, which included cost of producing 10.000,000 stripes bass trock at the Weldon Stale and Federal cooperative station. The strictly game fish produced in the fiscal year 1931-32 was 4.510,099 ciurinR which year the expenditure' of the division were *26.389, in cluding also production of 2.000.000 striped bass. Cold water fish, the trouts, con stitute a larger part of the game fish hatched at the. State stations but an increase in output of warm water fish, such as bass, bream and perch, wiui noted during the bien nium The trouts can be artiftcally manipulated for hatching by strtp ipmg and fertilisation of eggs, while ithe entire output of warmer water ;fishes ta dependent upon natural production In brood ponds. Mr Har gett points out. More than 500 000 of the game fish distributed the past year were from | the Edenfon Federal hatchery, with which the Department of Conser j ration and Development cooperates. | These fish Rre furnished on appli cation of the state Department. West Smiling As Hog Prices Rise \'e« Boom Hits Livestock Industry. Western Farmer Sees Hope On lloruon. Chicago, July 13 A boom bn, come to the live stock Industry, with the rapid rise Iri ho," and cattle prices lor the la. I few weeks rau1. Ing the Western larmet to amile again and the nation tri general to tee! that beef and pork may be leading the way upward front the depression About three months ago the hog growing industry was in the dol drums The drove* of the shippers were marketed at $3 a hundred and under, and prediction* were made thin there would be further de clines. Today hog are selling up to 15 a hundred lot selected animals, the highest prices since Oct. 23. 11)31. and *2.20 above the low on May 38 Hence I hr live stock markets Rre holding the attention of the busi ness world, and leaders in all in dustries are watching the phenome nal recovery with growing hope. In the face of many adverse lactors land depressing news, live stock (prices keep forgeing ahead. When prices were lowest early In [the Spring no one apparently want led cal tie, hogs or sheep. Farmer were broke, or so nearly so thai they were almost, panicky In trying to »«U their live stock to pay rent, mortgages and other expenses. It was said to be one of the beat dean-outs that the Industry has known In years Packers had then cellars full of chilled and frozen meat* and com plained about their inability to find buyers. For weeks they ref>\,‘-'d v buy, except an occasional load o, steers, hogs or lambs The bust ness depression. It was said, had left the majority of the consumers unable to buy meats Packer*’ fooler* Are Empty. Suddenly It was discovered that the liquidation front the farms had run Its course. Now the packers' coolers are virtually empty, and they are forced to pay the highest prices in years. Fancy heavy steers ate costing them $9 a hundred and yearlings $8.Ml. Heifers likewise cost *8 and calves $7. The past week's average of all steers was around »7 80, the top level since November. 1931. This fs a net, advance over a year Rgn. On the other hand. It. Is nearly *3 below the average of five years ago Sheep and lambs also advanced The week's average was the highest since the middle of April. Very Bad Bug Year Thi* Man Declare* Springfield, Til , - This is the most prolific bug year in r decade, ,say* A. J, Surratt, Federal agricultural statistician, He warm the residents of filinotn cities that tat lice have spread front country toad to city streets to infest the eyes ears, head and clothing of the townspeople* One Matton resident said he drove through a cloud of oat lice so thick they covered his windshield and he had to stop anti brush them oft. Oat, lice do no particular damage to crops, Mr. Surratt said today but they are oply one pest enjoying a boom year. Chinch bugs and Hes sian fly. nemesis of small grains and corn ate flourishing Blazing Hen Sets Off Big Barn Fire Johnson Cltj, Tenn.. July 12. —Gentry Hal's two sons, four and sis years old. set fire to an old hen’s feathers to keep her from setting and then excite* ment started. Ahlaxe and squawking, she made for the barn. The barn a horse and a bin of wheat burned at a loss of 95,000. Seeking to aid firemen, a vol unteer grabbed a hose and acci dentally turned It on Fire Chief Paul Splnnenweber. The stream slrurk the chief in the left eye, critically injuring It. Old Hickory Stick For F. D. Roosevelt Hickory. —Governor Roosevelt Is going to have a "hickory stick” (or his campaign that was carried in the campaign of Andrew Jackson the seventh president. Frank L. Clinard, pioneer Hick ory resident, owns a black cane studded with ivory. It has been in ills posseion more than forty years having been handed down by his father. 1 am going to send the cane in Governor Roosevelt,'’ Mr. Clinard said today. "I want this fine old relic of the days of 'Andy' Jackson to served the man who may shortly grace the executive mansion and demonstrate a leadership and ini tiative of the 'Old Hickory' type." They Are Going Back To Horse And Buggy MarshaUvllle, Ga.. July 12.—Boun tiful crops of feed for llva stock and low price* for farm products— all of which discourages ths buying of gasoline—are restoring the horse and buggy to highways in this c.inity. Try Star Want Ads. That’s why more and more Smokers are changing to Chesterfield every day TVTHEN you arc smoking a lot of ’ * cigarettes every day, you natural ly want a mild cigarette, and smokers try Chesterfields and find out that they are milder and taste better. Then smokers tell other smokers— "one smoker telling another”—that they find that although they smoke a great many Chesterfields during the day, they never tire of them; and that they have found out that Chesterfield is a milder cigarette, that it is a cigarette that tastes better, that it is a cigarette with a moat ' pleasing aroma. Some time ago, in a Chesterfield ad* verti8ement, there was a statement, “A $90,000,000 Reason,” and this means that the larger part of $90,000,000 is invested in the right kind of ripe, mild Domestic and Turkish tobaccos to make sure that Chesterfields are milder and taste better. May we ask you to try them? @ 194.’, iiGGITT A Mvtt* ToBACtO COr • "Music that satisfies. ” Every night but Sunday, Columbia Coast-to-Coast Net work. 10 o ’clock Eastern Daylight Time. eia
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