Around Our TOWN:
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Shelby SIDELIGHTS!
By RENN DRUM.
SHELBY SHORTS:
Wonder if the long-missing Col Havmond Robbins ratne to Shelby
in his gold-prospecting before he was found at Whittier in the North
Carolina mountains, suffering with amnesia? Any number of outsiders
have been making on-the-mum trips to Shelby in recent months to ^
confer with local gold prospectors .... Mrs Paul Quinn heard about '
Dr. Edwards’ clock starting the day after the election and shook up i
a Big Ben at her home which had not tick-tocked in months. And it,
too, is running again. If , the thing keeps up Prank Hamrick, George
Alexander and these time-piece repairers will be making us put out for
a license .... By telephone comes this message ' That Northside bridge
club made up of boys hurls a challenge for a tournament at any and
all bridge clubs in town. And we don't mean mebbe ’ .... Torrey Ty
ner, who went to work after graduating at Shelby high last year, re
ceived a grade of “A” on his course in secretarial work and accounting
being taken with the International Correspondence school, and his work
was ao excellent that the school wrote Shelby high officials about it
.Harry Putnam, Shelby school boy, is a coming One-Eye Con
nelly in the gate-crashing business, says F. L. He makes every dance j
and football game in the country round about. Thumbs his trips and j
then manages to get in . . . The new Lutheran church will be one of j
the most striking edifices in town when completed . , , . And before ;
long it will be time for the Hoey and Webb contests and the annual
county-wide basketball tourney.Watch "Cricket ’ Weathers on
the Carolina cage quint this year. Last year he was just a sophomore
but he made All-Southern.
HERE THEY COME:
GOBS OF CONTRIBS
Seemingly this corner's contributors realize that getting out a
Monday’s colyum on Saturday is a tough task. Anyway, they were |
considerate enough to flood the week-end mail with their offerings, I
Among them are new contribs and old contribs. all giving initials and j
romance a big play. Well now introduce them and hand them the!
job of filling up from here down to the bottom of the page
The first one is signed ‘ Jay ’ and here 'tis:
' Some time ago you said irf your column wonder why the young!
boys did not go to Kings Mountain to see the young femmes any more.
Well I can answer that, they've all gone cuckoo over our neighboring
town of Cherryville, They report all kinds down there, blondes, brunettes
and red-headed ones.
“Speaking of femmes, who is the attractive brunette that works
at the dime store on Saturdays? And the blonde from high school
that is always seen with K. H. also ol high school? How many people
have ever seen the names of men painted or wrote, on the walls of the
old Seaboard freight building? These must have been written in their
boy-hood days which would have been a good many years back, as
most of them have married and some have children. I see more and
mors women and girls smoking now than ever. .Wonder if the women
will ever smoke as much as the men?
Shelby sure needs two more stop lights—one at the LaFayette and
Bum ter crossings and the other at the LaFayette and Graham cross
ings. And last of all, why not give us some more jumbled up names
lo ponder over. You don t need to know my name so I will sign it
JAY.
“P. S. I just heard Col. Hatcher sav those familiar words 'Dear Bov'
FROM W. M. E 'whoosat?* comes the following card, mailed at
Augusta: “Johnny J. Jones carnival played Augusta, Ga , last week
and because you and Sam talked so much about thr 'Arabian Nights’
1 peeped in the back of the tent. And. tut. tut ! I discovered the secret
—it’s all done, every bit of it, by electricity. "
Then a new correspondent, preferring to be called Hi School Re
porter,” writes: “Here's some dope on the seniors, since I'm one. Did
D and J have a spat? . . . Are S- and ‘Bob' not clicking any more?
She's the one the ’32 class gave as 'First Aid for All Boys' . . Pretty
good characters picked for the senior plays, among them R S. for
leading lady and L D. for leading man. Pretty good!"
ANT) HERE'S “SIS”
And this one from “'Sis": Would it surprise you to know that I
wear pants? Nope, on second thought I don’t believe It would <Howzat?>
. , . . Could that big wedding be M- and S-? . . . Sounds pretty good
for Shelby lasses when boys start playing bridge with each other an
Friday nights. Is it the weather? ... I think Shelby's All-American
girl is E. A. . . . East Shelby does not have all the dazzling dames.
There is a brunette and a red-head out west of the square who are
ohboyobboyohboy! Consult G. L. about the brunette and C. M . H. W
or W. B. about the red-head ... Do you know Shelby's Mutt and
Jeff? . . . Folks are getting me mixed with Shelby's real Sis.’ who is
M. L, and a friend of mine, but. I’M a brand new one. What about D
wnd 4-? And R. D. s latest is R. G-Regards to brother Sam.'
» * • *
This one from D. J.t
‘Strolling down the hall at Shelby hi you see couples lined up
along the walls, besides the trophy cases, the radiators, and in the cor
ners Among them may be found: C. M. and T. H., J. K. and H. P .
C. W. and M. P., H. P, and E. W.. J. M and R D, B H and C S. O C
and M B, and a new one—M S and N C . . . And B B and M L D . . .
Who is the boy who wears the Gaffney road out every Sunday night?
Who was the Romeo who walked six miles one night recently? In
the cold of the night and from his first date.''
CAL AND SAL
• Cal and Sal” are writing again: Guess times are pretty bad when
gals can’t get real men to date and date up with a dummy, or is he a
dummy? Remember the man in Belk-Stevens window? That’s the guy.
and two Shelby girls dated him. Maybe they know if he’s human after
all . . . But a sign that times are picking up with Roosevelt for we hear
that one girl got a whole box of dates, and was she sad? .... Bv the
way about that good-looking blonde (male) that works in the store
facing the square from the south, he must be afraid some woman in
tends to make him a lesser half. We haven’t seen him since we asked
His name_but he oughta come out of the kinks-his roommate is as
aood looking a* he is—and bashful, omeoml. not at all.
Now just look how much the contribs have helped
To plug the remainder we ll relate one that was related to Okay '
Mitchell Greensboro News sport editor. It should at least interest N. C.
c W femmes about Shelby. They have short social hour dances at the
college and the girls do the breaking At a recent dance one of the
!“rl Students ‘ broke ' one of the professors, and while dancing asked.
"Aren't you glad I got you away from the old heifer?” The professor ?
, ;„lv in a meek voice was. - She's not such a good dancer. He had
been dancing with his wife The girl student didn't find out until the
next day who the professor's partner was.
5000 HOMES RECEIVE THE STAR
Every Other Day. That Means 20,000 intense
Readers. If you have something to sell, tell
*hese 20,000 People about it in these columns.
Elected for a Lark
Running for Lieutenant Ciovernor
of Washington on the Democratic
ticket "for a lark,” Victor Aloyeius
Meyers (above), jazz band leader,
was probably the most, surprised
man in the country when he was
swept into office on the Democratic
tidal wave. He ran on a platform
of "chorus girls on street cars, har
mony in high chairs, and silk hats
for traffic officers.” He attributes
his success in politics to taking a
cold shower every morning.
Plant Sweet Peas
For Early Flowers
Spencer Variety Is Best. How To
Prepare Soil And Sow To (lei
Best Bloom.
iBv F.xlrnsion Department!
Flowers from fall planted sweet
peas make a valuable addition to
the farm flower garden and will add
to the beauty of the homestead.
During November is a good time to
get the seed planted and the sum
mer-flowering Spencer type is the
best for this fall planting
Glenn O. Randall, floriculturist at
State college, believes that every
farm home can use a few sweet
peas to advantage and he suggests
that the house-wife select ail open
sunny place for the seeding.
"Keep in mind." he says, "that
extra care in selecting and prepar
ing the soil will pay good returns.
The sweet pea 1s a deep-rooting
plant and the preparation of the
seed bed must be deep and thor
ough. This increases the available
fertility and the area from which
moisture and nourishment may be
secured. Dig a trench about 1C
inches wide and two feet deep for
each row’ of peas ”
Where the subsoil is unsuitable
Mr. Randall suggests that this be
removed and replaced with good
soil or mixed with a generous
amount of manure. A good dusting
of air-slaked lime applied while
working the soil will be beneficial
Lime corrects the acid condition
and makes additional plant food
available Mix half-decayed manure
with the top soil and use bone
meal or acid phosphate at the rate
of one-fourth to one-half a pound
for each running yard of trench.
The trench should then he filled
more than level full to allow for
settling during the winter months.
Sow the seed two inches deep and
two inches apart When the plants
have started growth and before
they begin.to stool, thin them to a
stand of three to four inches aparL
If these suggestions are followed.
Mr. Randall says any housewife
should get an excellent bloom next
’ll!' .
Reunion Of Children
Of Dr. V. J. Palmer
There was a reunion on Sunday
November 13th of the descendants
of Dr. V. J. Palmer family at the
home of Joe Gold. Mrs W. M. Gold
a sister of Dr: Palmer and J. J. Pal
mer a brother of the well known
doctor were present, together with
the following: Mr. and Mrs. O O
Paltner and children. Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Palmer and children. Mr. and
Mrs. J J. Palmer and children, Mr.
and Mrs. L. C. Palmer and children.
Mr. and Mrs. R V Toms and chil
dren. Mr and Mrs. J H. Toms and
children, Mr and Mis. John Toms
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Toms. Mr and
Mrs. O. O. Toms. Mr and Mrs. Joe
Jones. Mr. and Mrs. J. H Palmer.
Mr and Mrs Will McBrayer. Mr and
Mrs. Tom Gold. Mr. and Mis. A. P.
Spake, Mrs. B. H Palmer, Miss Su
san Lattimore. Miss Katie May
Toms. Mr and Mrs. Will Gold. Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Cabaniss. Mr
and Mrs. Malcomb Cabaniss and
other relatives.
Heaven Bound Show*
In Cherokee County
• (Gaffney Ledger!
Announcement has been made
that "Heaven Bound a religious
pageant presented by the colored
school teachers of Cleveland county.
North Carolina, will be given at the
Bethel Baptist church here next
Tuesday night. Seeats will be reserv
ed for white people, the announce
ment said. The play Was presented
here several times last year to large
audiences.
A, V -
Ike’s Tale
•.v w w V,
Deer Star Reeders:
As «tiz predicted lire big election
cum off on Tuesday November 8 and
all the Democrats ser hit wur the
biggest one they wur ever at -sum
of 'em air a hollering yit over hit.
but the mast of 'em got solver enuf
tu git out tu preachin on Sunday.
Pour years ran make a grate
change m the at fairs of men; but
| the sun shines rite on and hit still
j rains on the unjust and the whiskev
■ drinking church members as of old
Thars an old saving about the
| bottom rail gettin on top Well that
I is what happened tut her day. and
woe. unto postmasters and others
! who hold office under a changeable
i Federal government, fur the grate
! day of wrath cum last Tuesday an
who of 'em will be able to stand
Well, as 1 remember 4 rears ago.
the same fellers as is a hollering so
big now. rum back home from the
election, and hid in the chimney
corner and barn lofts: and blamed
rif sum of >nr didn't stay hid away
till attter Thanksgiving wur. plum
'over--didn't have nothin tu be
thankful fur they lowed.
Now hits tuthler crowd who air
hid in the lofts and all sort of out
of the wav places, and taint no use
to look fur ’em. fur every time they
hear a noise they dig down deeper
scared hits sum Democrat after 'em.
Casar and Fallston is.two places
that's got more sense than tu git all
excited over little things like an el
ection—our motto here at Casar is
"a republican is as a democrat and
a democrat can't be headed Durn
| the wdiole gang.”
I want tu (to on the stand long
enuf tu testify that Fa list on tv a
safe place tu go tu either rite be
fore or rite atter an election. or
i most anv other time including
| Xmas. The proof is. I wuz down
thar last Saturday and though hit
wu7, broad daylite I walked all over
mister Stamey company's store. I
never got knoekrd dow n but twice—
and hit weren't the way 1 voted
caused that.
The first time wuz on account of
a bill I had been owing for six or
eight years and when Talmadgr
IjCc tried to collect hit I got sorter
sassv. when he reached over the
table and give me a pop that dou
bled me up fur a few moments
when I recovered X crossed over to
the grocery side, whar they keep a
lot of baccer and other good stuff.
I waited till I seed thar weren't no
body looking then I laid in a supply
of Brown s Mule tu dc me and Sal
till atter new veart. Somehow I
missed my pocket with the last plug
and hit come down on the floor
with a pop. Sloan Elliott and Yates
William both hit me at one time—
both democrats too. remember—and
I fell i namong a pile of fatback
meat. Sum of ’em run out tu git Dr
Lackey, but before he got in the
meat smelled so good that I revived
—hit had been over a month since
I'd seen any meat and the effect
wuz wonderful. In the meantime
Ellis Hoyle cum in: Sal likes Ellis
the best of any feller in thar. fur
when he wuz a boy here close tu
Casar they courted rite smart—but
I want Mister Stamey Co., tu find
hit out or tie might turn Ellis off
I like him tu fur he ts one feller
that sticks tu you till you die. Sum
of his enemies, as don't like him
; sez that he will do more fur you
! atter you are dead than he will
while you live.
So tuther day when be seed how
things wu7- he run tu git his big
black ear tu take me home in. But
he wur too slow fur Lem Williams
rum by in a carryall started up tu
Casar so I got in nnd rid with Lem
Well we all hope powful things will
be dun in the next four years—but
if thar haint nothing done, plese
don't be too hard on me an Sal, fur
we voted jist like they told us tu—
and wood a vote dtuther wav It
they wood a raised the bid IKE
Three Act Comedy
Drama Tuesday At
Boiling Springs
The three act comedy drama a
George M. Cohan production, entit
led. “A Prince There Was” promis
es to be one of the most enjoyable
attractions ever presented at Boil
ing Springs Junior college. It will be
given in the college auditorium bv
the school talent on Tuesday even
ing November 22nd beginning at P
o'clock
The comedy is a story of a rich
young man. who finding himself
bored with life, goes to try the
seamy side of life in a cheap board
ing house where he finds love and
happiness. The sentiment of the
plot is constantly offset by shrewd
satire and keen wit The most popu
lar part is that taken by two youna
detectives who live at Mrs. Proutv's
boarding house on SKird street. New
York. The part of the prince is well
taken by Callie Davis who is sup
ported by Mildegard Barnes., The
two detectives. Shorty and Gladys
are taken by Pless Hennessy and
Margaret Autrey, while Rachel
Huggins, playing Constance is an
important and outstanding role
Six Edgecombe farmers sold 130
fat hogs in a cooperative shipment
for $790.18 The hogs weighed 28.
085 pounds.
Husband’s Avenger
Mrs. Rose Gonzales. of Yorker'
j N, Y.;'who. for nearly two yeai
trailed the slayers of lier husbam!
Manuel Gonzales. and finally catio*
the arrest of two men, whom sh<
accuses of the crime. Mr* Gonzalr
'olloweri the men, Julio Pare? an
Bernardino Aria» from New Nor
to Spain and bank avraip to Yew
York. Roth aroused deny know!
•dire of the crime.
South Carolina Gets
Electric Power Cut
Columbia. S C, Nov 21 The I
South Carolina Railroad romans
ston announced today the Duk'’i
Power and the Southern Public
Utilities companies has made a
compromise offer on rate reductions
that would save consumers in Up
state approximately $400 000 a year
The announcement was made
latter a conference here between th°
I commissioners and officials of the
[ (>ow*r companies.
I. A rate reduction by the companie
jin. North Carolina was agreed upon
! last week. Officials estimated re
! duet ions proposed in both states
i would amount to *1 357,000 a vrar
New President Will Take Qualities
Of Youth To White House In March
NEW PRE81
Roosevelt Will Bf Utile Molt' tiian
M Yrarv Ol \sr When
Inaugurated.
Washington p i a nk < in Delano
Roosevelt will bring lo tin Whitt
House, as iind president of the
United States, something ol tin- at
mivphrre and nut look of youth
It is to be discerned in his voter
and 111. buoyant teinjieiidlien; Ins
smiling appruwlii lo most ol the
problems of li)e his eagerness to
have a pail in the active, Mimic:
cunent ot life mid ot public srrv
ice -an eagerness lluu 01 errodr
even flu handicap ot infantile par
alv.ds alien it (ell upon him in mid
i aieer
Mr. Roosevelt ivill not be the
youngest innn lo lie enfrusted with
the presidency That honpr goes: to
Ills dtstmgul hed filth cousin Then
dot e Roosevelt, who a ns -V.’ a lien he
was inducted into /tiffin’ at tie
death ol President McKinley
Franklin Roosevelt .w-MJ^be little
more than entered on his shd year
alien In ii, inaugurated F.le/rn d
the :ui iiirn a ho have precr-iad him
in that lugh office Tyler. Polk
Fillmore Pierce. Grant, Garfield,
Arthur Cleveland. Theodore Rouse
veil, Taft and Coohdge were a
vomig oi vmingiT when they f<h>k
Office
Yet this Demon a He Roosevelt
despite his physical handicap.1 lias
youthful qualifies that will stand
him in good stead in the task he
faee •
Through his two adminisu alioh
as governor'of New York no word ■
ever come from the executive man
sion ot the arduous labors he lifts
endured On the contnm lie leach
ed out eagerly to deal personally
with every phase of state activity.
l ike his cousin. Franklin Roose
velt will bring io the White House
[also an atmosphrre of family life It
, iihn nut known '.since the days ot
tint! other Roosevelt
| 111 ow n ! hlldreii air grown limp
and women rearing families of their
'own except for the two youngest
| lads who an- well in their teens
i rite White Mouse Itself is an old
' story both to the new president turd
| to Mrs Roosevelt They knew it
! long ago when she, herself a Rtlose
tell, wa- favored among nieces ol
I the late President Rows'yell and
i later when they earne to Washing
ton to live fot nearly eight years
j during the Wilson administration,
j franklin ROoseve.lt s office as as
' -c-tanl natal Secretary was then just
aeros. the narrow strip of West P\
; endive avenue in the old Wai
State Natal budding, perhaps 200
vard* front the room where he js
I now to sit as president
It ean hardly tie doubled Iha
Mi Roosevelt hr those days was ob
sojvingly conscious that he was him
self. a humble factor In a careful
process of integration of confljcOTig
party interests and personalities
w ith wha h President Wilson began
his term
Pot Mr Wilson built Into hi
cabinet and Tittle Cabinet slate
not .only a relict lion of the broad
outlines '>f his own political philn
sophv and economic conceptions:
but an intei relationship ol factions
and groups within tire Democratic
majorities m house and serrate de
signed to facilitate a parly legisla
five program.'
The success fd his effort was at
tested b\ the legislative product of
; those first Wilson years before the
World wht intervened lo divert the
course of .peace Imre development
Young Roosevelt saw all that A
state legislator and member of the
"little cabinet..'.' he was an apt stu
dent of practical politics His own
primary and election campaigns this
year won him a repufatlon for ppl
ttleal adroitness and understanding
among political observers And as
president-elect and president he will
l>e called upon to exercise those
dualities to the highest degree.
The first test will cotne In sclec
i ion ol his cabinet. To aid him as
hi' silts the personal and political
I qualiiifatibns of those to whom he
' uihv otter port (olios, Franklin
I Itoo'inell will have intimate mem
• dries of his first official years In
! Washington just 20 years ago.
I Union Organizer
Dies In Texas
W l ant Who Organixed Farmers
Union Dies In Texas, Age
fill Year*.
i G W f'linl known to many of the
older people in Cleveland county,
where he organised the Farmers’
! Union, died Sunday evening Novem
, her lath »t his home in Unden,
! Texas, according to a clipping from
I a Texas paper sent in by B G. Logan
.of Kings Mountain to The Star.
Mr Fapt was a native of South
• Carolina but moved to Texas with
Ins parents when he was a baby.
For many yearn he was an organizer
ol farmers’ unions, covering many
states. He worked for the union in
Cleveland county and fs remembered
here by many of the older people.
Ai one time he served as Texas state
president of the Union, during
which time lie was twice elected to
the legislature from Casa county.
Funeral services were held at the
Friendship cemetery, a few miles
jsoiith of Linden, Monday afternoon,
j He is survived by his wife and eight
| children H H. Pant and R. W. Fnnt
; Pittsburg C D. and E. W Fant,
j Linden; M F. of Jefferson. T. C.
i Fan! and Mrs Eula Ellison, Dallas;
Mrs W 8. Belyeu, Phoenix. All*. He
| also is survived by five brothers and
i two sisters of Cass comity.
mm
elter
As smokers become more experienced, they demand
milder cigarettes. Chesterfields are milder. Their roild
is just as much a feature as the beauty of their
package,
'I he tobaccos are mild to begin with. Patient ageing
and curing make them milder still. And Chesterfields
contain just the right amount of Turkish — not ton
much — carefully blended and cross-blended with ripe,
sweet Domestic tobaccos.
Chesterfields are milder. They taste belter. That’s
why "They Satisfy.”