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Nobody’s Business By GEE McGEE Uanrty In The Dentist's Chair 1 hope you is a good tooth dtn -t 'cause I needs good work as about to lose all of my teeths t (jon't want no mo of dem pulled ■ a; old missus told me to have deni fixed and save dem to chaw oath. I is already had too many milled out, but dem what is gone uni t show none except when 1 ■•awns very wide like. ’ Doctor, I is tliinkisg ot invest iig myself in 2 gold teeths at de front, but I wants-de gold plastered over dem, and not a solid gold tooth With my rail tooth pulled out anc de gold one stuck in its place. How much you say? Twenty dollars wic dis depression on? Shucks, I 1' satterfled with mv plain ones u gold is dat high.'* You say 5 of dem is decayed? 1 >nl glad de.v is dat way instid ol being rotten. I is afeared of roi irn teeth, as dey is what causes Yeethache You say whut? Who evei heard of it costing ten dollars tc plug a few- little teeths and dis de pression is on? I can't pay dat much, so 1 might as well go. Fix dem for 4 dollars and I will pay ’you 7s rents down and ballance along. What for you ax me if dat hurt? A boring a hole thru a feller s head hurl? Doctor, please go slow and don t run dat little brace and bit sc fast, Ouch, Mr Tooth Dentist: you is killing me. Lawdy, I wish I had staved: away fum here. Here I is paying a white genterman 4 dollar.1 to kill me. Ouch! What do you think I is. Doctor, a mule?” Wait a minute, Doctor, till ! empties my mouf. Yu axing me ii dat chissel hurts me: Why cant you it a fish if it hurts when you if taking'out his insides. Dis is my fust and last trip to a tooth dentist Sides dat, some of dem works wid out pain, so dey says, but, mcbbt! dev means dey works without any paying being done, but I is a cash patient; dat> me, except I pays by rif week in cash.” Doctor stop running dat little whirly-gig so fast in my mouf. Does vou think yu is cleaning out a grate wid a fire poker? I don’t lack much getting out of dis cheer and going home. I didn’t come way down here to get killed for 4 dollars. Look at d« blood, and you is mashed my i ung nearly off and I wont be nc service to de quire next Sunday wid my tung mint—You say you is ihru? Well, I is too. Heres yo 75 ■rents and I will send de balance fast as X gits it, if I lives to get over de work you say you is done. Mussy on me: my mouf feels like it had been used to store iron wedges and hot ashes in. Good-bye, but man voi i is rough.” News From Flat Rock hob flynn has not yet returned back from the last bonnus martch on Washington and his wife is afear fd that he did not gel his bonnus. as he is staying off so long, and if he did get it, she is a-feared that he has spent same by now, he was m the war but never did get out of his first camp. miss jennie veeve smith. our •rholl principle, in company with her twin sister, miss sallie veeve, were the dinner guesses of the all nite caffay in the county seat last uesday and she says they served a mee piste lunch for c35. 'he city counsel drug off main street, friday and it was much ap preciated by the voters, as it had ?ot verry bumpy and full of ginna nests. this made it rough on otter mobeeis ansoforth. they used the ' haingang sorape which is camped ' tftc green has sold his pair of 'r'utches, as he found he was well enough to walk without them the "est day after he got his insurance monney for being cripped in a " reck, which was 65$. but the'doc '■°r 8°t 10$ and his lawyer got 25$. '* eot 2® for his crutches, so he rome out all right in the end. he drug stoar is serving hot sody waiter and chockerlate drinks and making a killing out of same, he ■°k in c.80 yesterday from a quart tnilk which cost him only clO. if r don t cut his prices, he is sure h»ve competition, folks can t, and idly by and see him get rich. np millnerry stoar is talkin about r',!'nng in soft drinks, that, will hurt mm bad. .• ■'* members of rehober church ^eir pasture a pounding the O' • night and he was supprised. ' rver. miss zekie Clark had tip him off. but he did not believe 'hr congregation is 6 month. nd with his .salary, they filled ^o'ry with an kinds of food : r' " tie counted it tip and it ' r] of conic, to nearly :<$ it it had 11 bought out of a grocer '■me changes have took place "" the new month arrived. the ,M”' ca“l> '‘•'tipped 1st,oars with the ‘ tote, and the maggistrate 3eams Mill Dots Of Personal Items People Sick With Hu. Mm? Kam illes Moving:. Miss Bridges Entertains. 'Special To The Star.) Beams Mill, Jan. 5,—Regular preaching service will be held Sat urday at 2:00 o'clock p. m. and Sun day morning at 11:00 o'clock Sun day school at ten. Beams Mill school started Monday alter a two weeks Christinas vaca tion. The presents that were to be given before Christmas were given Monday. Miss Aletha and Mr Chivous | Hoyle spent the Christmas holidays ! with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. A Hoyle. Master Bonnie McSwaui ol Pat i terson Springs spent part of last ! week with Master James McSwain. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bridges and children. Bobbie and Joanne, and Mr. Yates Wright spent Christmas with their grandmother, Mrs. W. K Chapman of Chadwick Station, Charlotte. Born to Mr. and Mrs Doyle Hen drick recently, a dainty daughter. Mr. Lem Seism and family of Kings Mountain spent last Monday with Mrs. J. Y. Elliott and family Mr, Bill McSwain spent several days last wpek with Mr. Harlan Mc Swain of Cherryville. Mrs, Everett Wright and daugh ter. Evelyn, spent part of last week j with her mother of near Lawndale. | Mr. and Mrs. Julius Riley are i spending awhile with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Riley. Mr. Alvin Costner of Cherryville visited Mr. Julias Costner Sunday. Miss Mattie Willlas has returned from a visit with Miss Cora Wright of Kings Mountain. . Miss Pauline Greenway of near Waco spent last week with her sis ter. Mrs. Rush Hoyle and Mr. Hoyle. Mr. J P. Bridges and Mr. C. S. Hendrick spent Saturday night with Mr. Hershell Spangler of Dou ble Shoals. Mr. and Mrs. Furman Wright and family are recovering front the flu. Mr. Jim Wright’s family is real sick now with the flu. 'Mrs. Sarah Ledford and Mrs. Marsh Hendrick are better. Little Miss Virginia Seism is having trouble with her ear. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bridges and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bridges visited Mr. and Mrs. Asbury Bridges and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Wright of the Lily Mill village Sunday. Mr. Abe. McSwain and sons, Wal ter and Hillard, of Waco visited Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Wright Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Lem Spangler are spending awhile with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Norman of Polk ville. Mrs. Ida Costner had the misfor tune of losing a very fine mule re cently. Moving seems to be on the boom in our community. Mr. Rufus Si# der's family have moved near Kings Mountain. Mr .and Mrs. Vertis 1 Williams are moving into the house vacated by them. Mr. Stricklands family of Buffalo are moving into the house vacated by Mr. Williams. • Mr. Evans Costners family have moved to Cherryville. Mr. and Mrs. Yates Costner have moved into the house with Mrs. Ida Costner. Miss Elizabeth Bridges entertain ed with a party Saturday night for her week-end guest. Miss Ethel Nor man of Polkville. Games, contests and progressive conversation were enjoyed throughout the evening. Radio and piano music were fur nished throughout the evening. At the close fruits and candies were served. Miss Bridges was assisted in entertaining by Miss Irene Costner. Those present were: Misses Ethel Norman. Zara. Ruth and Kathleen Boggs, A. V. and Irene Costner; Messrs. Newell Wright. Clarence and O. C. Dixon, Muriel Wright. Stonewall Williams, L J Spangler anH .Tamp* Costner. Great Rural Need I* Subject Of Essay* Raleigh. Jan. 4.—"Rural North Carolina's Greatest Need” has been selected as the subject for the sixth annual essay contest of the* North Carolina Cotton Growers Coopera tive association, M G Mann, sec retary-treasurer, announced today. "This subject,” said Mr. Mann in making the announcement, "means more than any subject that has yet been discussed. It will get the young people to think about the past and present conditions in North Carolina and to suggest rem edies that will make rural life more attractive" > He also announced that first prize will be a college scholarship and that second, third and fourth prizes of $25, $15 and $10 will be awarded. ' During a four-months period end ling December 1. Madison Farmers a cooperative in Madisot. county paid to its farmer members $1.023 53 | for poultry and egg, alone in ad idttion to handling othe, orpin produce moved aero, t the hat over the post offi.s and jhon smith moved into 2 rooms of his mother- in-law and I saved his rent and .left stoker lef* town ehftre'v. ve: r i ' iilie mik" Clark cony spolKleut l Mr Yarborough Ha* Operation. Me Entire Family Move* To Rutherford. 'Special to The Star.' Zion. Jan 5. Rev D. G. Wash burn filled hl.s appointments Satur day and Sunday delivering . a new years sermon from Mark the first chapter “Preparing the Way." Mr. Tyson Yarborough is in the Shelby hospital where he under went an operation for appendicitis Mr. and Mrs. John Glascoe of the Beaver Dam community were din ner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs J L Spangler. Mr. and Mrs. B. E Gold of Al exander, visited Mr. Golds mother Mrs. F. P. Gold Wednesday. Miss Texie Blanton of Kannapo lis has returned to her home after visiting her sister Mrs Charlie Yar borough for the past week. Mr. Allen Wilson returned to Wake Forest Sunday Miss Vernte Cabaniss, A. V. Irvin James Wilson and James Cornwall to Boiling Springs college. Mr. Hal Cornwell to the University of N. C., Miss Pearl Cornwell to Mars Hill Miss Nelena Jones ol Lattimore spent several days last week the guest ot miss Hester uaoaruss Mr and Mrs. Malcolm Cabaniss and sister Miss Mary Ellen of Clo i ver. S. C.. visited Mrs Ellen Wilson several days last 'week. Mr. E. A. Rudasill of Shelby vis ited \lr and Mrs Bobbie Rudasill Sunday. Mr. J. F. Lutz, has been confined to his home for (ne past week with influenza. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Lattimore of Lattimore. were the week end guests of Mrs. Charles Cabaniss and fam ily. Mr. Clyde Whitesides of Ruther fordton was the week end guest of Mr. A. V. Irvin. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Simmons of Kannapolis spent a few days this | week in the community visiting rel atives. Mr. Robert MeEntire and family ! are moving to Rutherford county near Rutherfordton. Miss Bryte Glascoe of the Beaver Dam community was the week end guest of her cousin Mis* Thelma Spangler. : Mrs. Austell Returns From Florida Churrh Services. Holiday Visitors. Special to The Star t Earl. -Jan. 3. —Miss Mary Fergu son of Winnsboro, S. C. was the at tractive guest of Miss Mary Tur ner last week. Mr. Fred Nichols spent part of last w'eek visiting his sister, Mrs G. E. Ross and Mr. Ross at Con cord. Tittle Miss Polly Anna Camp of Shelby visited her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. P R Camp over the week-end Mr A. G. Duncan of Cliff,side was a caller at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sepaugh Monday. Mrs. Wilbur Proctor and children visitecL relatives at Orangeburg. S C. last week. Mr. and Mrs Mills Camp spent the week-end with Mrs. Camp’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sarr ders near Gaffney, S. C. Miss urace s>arran returned to her school at Walnut Grove, S. C, Sunday after spending the holi days with her parents, Mr and Mrs. W, C. Sarratt. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Nichols of Lattimore and Mr. and Mrs. Au brey Nichols of Gastonia visited Mr. and Mrs R L. Nichols Sun day. Mrs. Prank Hopper and daugh ter, Peggy Joyce, and Mrs. Will Patterson of Patterson Springs were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Wilson Tuesday. Misses Prances and Helen Gra ham entertained a number of friends at their home here Friday night. Games were played and fruit and candy were served. Mr. and Mrs. Prank Hopper and daughter, Peggy Joyce, of Patter son Springs visited Mr. and Mrs. D J Wilson Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bonders and children of Ninety Nine Islands. S C, were guests of Mrs. Dave Moss Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Randall, ol Forest City, and Mrs. Jim Drennon of Rock Hill, S. C. visited relatives in the village Monday. Mrs. O F. Austell returned home Sunday from Tallahassee. Pla , where she visitr>el her son Mr Hey ward Austell last week. Among those confined to their home with "flu" this week are Mrs B Austell. Mrs. R. ,L. Hause and Ray Nichols, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Nichols. There will be Sunday school Sun day at ’the usual hour. 10 o'clock ■iid ['• “M'huvt at 11 o’clock by tic pa tor, Re. J L Jenkins \ (Oar readers raw (el an answer lo The Cleveland Star Washington Bureau 1322. New York avenue. N j tV. Washington, D C. Write sooi name and address on one aide ot [the pa pci state your question clear jiy and enclose 3 cent sin stamps tor j reply postage Do not write legal medical or religions questions.) Q How much American capital is invested in Nicarauga? A. Direct investments were esti mated by the U. S. Department of Commerce to be thirteen million dollars, as of December 31, 1-930 Q Can the President delegate his pardoning power, to any other offic ial of the government? A. No, but he relies upon the ad vice of the Attorney General wiho has a special attorney in charge of pardons to assist him Q. Give the value of a U. S pen ny dated 1826? A. Prom one to five cents. Q, In what year did James J. Jeffries retire as heavyweight box ing champion'’ A. 1905 Q Where on the earths surface is the maximum speed of rotation attained? A. At the equator on either side of which the speed decreased until it becomes zero. Q. State the population of Ha waii? A. 368.336 Q, Is Deer singular or plural'’ A It is both. Q. Where was Mary Garden born and where did she receive her early musical training? A. She was born at Aberdeen Scotland. February 20 1877. and was brought to the United States at the age of six. She received her early musical training in Chicago. Q. What is the average weekly attendance at motion pictures In the United States? A. In 1931 it was approximately 75 000,000. Q. Can dry cell electric batteries be recharged? A No, bui when partially run down they can be temporarily re vitalized by drilling a series of small holes in the top and pouring in a solution of sal-ammoniac, vine gar or diluted sulphuric acid The cell should lie allowed to stand idle for several hours before using after which more acid should be added. The holes may be pluggnd with seal mg wax or soft soap Q Is the University of CAlitornia at Los Angeles associated with the University of California at Berke ley? A It Is the" southern branch of the State University at Berkeley Q How many civil service an nuitants were there on the rolls o( the pension office at the close of the fiscal year 1931? Give the de tails of the annuities they received'’ A On June 30, 1931. there were 22,560 annuitants receiving a total of $21,563,026.50 an average year ly annuity of $759.40. During the year the credits*to the fund amount ed to $58,276,512.15, of which $29, 698.262 54 represented deductions from compensation of employees! $7,332,320 46 Interest on investments $245,929.15 miscellaneous receipts and $21,000,000 appropriated by congress Q Whirl is the source ot the quo tation: "Nature g comet rizetli and observeth order in all things?" A. Sir Thomas Browne's Gard en of Cyrus," chapter 3. Q Which country shunted on two continents^,has rii area of about 282,000 square miles? A Turkey. Plucky Man Goes Back To His Oven Memphis. Term.—Jack Doty, the 28 year-old victim of boras whose miraculous recovery has been the talk of the medical profession was back in his electric "oven” today Critically burned in an automo bile accident May 2, 1931. Doty wav (old hr hnd little chance to !tvr "You think. I'm a dead soldier.' hr mumbled to physician* I II sht>w you " He crawled into a contraption strapped over Ills bed It was simp ed tike an oven Klrctrtr lights played on Ills scorched back and right leg to keep Ills body at an even temperature Skin-grafting operations apparently made him "as good ns new is*o month, ago he crawled out of Ins oven The day after Christmas he was forced to return to his oven it was revealed today Friend said a small spot on his back where skin grafting was not sneer sful necessitated Ins return to bed.' He may have to remain in the oven abort l a month. Pleasant Hill Events Of Week Spirit <H Visiting During Christmas Season. Church Hoik Resumed < Special to The Stai • . Pleasant Mill, Jan. It There was ja tine crowd nt Sunday school and •church sen lees yesterday We had gotten behind with our Sunday '.school work on account ot so much line} weather and bad roads There was’ n general visiting sun - lit among relatives and Irlcnd.s rim i iiiK the Christmas holiday it ll\' iwi-at hci m as bad I l^osJ^onl id. , (he I'oinnuinii \ visiting Tune aeic Mr. Max Francis and children nl Charlotte visited his parents and i other relatives Mr. George RoberLs (.it Clvarlott< spent the holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs Herahal Allen and children of Mars Hill visited Mr j and Mrs. H .1. Dillingham during I he holidays. Mr. and Mi's Weldon Gantt and children of Fort Mills, s c. visited their parents. Mr. and Mrs Amos | Gantt Monday Mr, Roland Gantt, a student at Mars Hill will go back to School this week after spending the holidays with his parents. Miss Helen Roberts will return to Limestone college at Gaffney to day after spending Christmas with her parents Mi and Mrs F Q Robert* Mis* Mamie Kendrick who bus > been spending the holiday with her parent* Mi mui Mrs .1 V- Kind > rick will ntmn to Asheville Nor- i maMlu ninth Mr uni Mrs Tom H, Lowery, -hmP : fil.mll> Vi: Ill'll Ml mid Mrs Jew Duns 111:11 Oh Hue v Saturday Mr Hover of Rtack.sbtirg i. vi : King ln;i daughter, Mr: .) (■ Low ery and Mr lottery lid,'- week Mi and Mrs w .1 Francis and son. Jack, wire visitors in the com munity New Yem day Mr Wells Lfwery acrotn|iatiled them home to spend the lUUllt Mi and Mrs R H Francis are ui»nik to Charlotte today to spend the rest id the week with their sons. Me is W .1 and Max Prtncls Mrs .tames Ktpp.v of near Karl visited her diuiuhtei Mis Clyde Kendrick riming the holidays Bachelor Girls Fine Class Now, Quillen Thinks I I l*iiImr11<> Philosopher H riles About Thmi In Ills Paper Only in llir Routh does Ihr old maid” tWlM uliy more, because the wonts are ncvn u:-cd whore .spin stem of unmlmn age have become bachelor girls Hurt hip iirlrl In as high rcgald as hip bachelor men. Bui inking tilings its ihoy hip Robert QuIIIpii. In that hcwspiiper at Fountain Inn which hr publishes weekly for his own amusement and the entertainment of his friends, grows philosophical about them, and 4|Mtfcc* a piece for hi* paper thus The emancipation of women was worth while, if only for the change It. made in “old maids " Oldsters can remember when the unmarried woman of 30 was a erea tore to bo shunned bv every man who would preserve his respect for the sex She was too timidly conscious ol being a female Slip ..trembled on the point' of flight if a man sat too near. She paled or flushed pain fully if anybody said "legs ’ She i prudish prissy and precise and hr was a pain tn the neck. Or else she wits hard and bitter, die baled thr world and especially hr male part that bad paused her ip She envied everybody. She hindered everybody. Her only ilnisurr was the vicarious thrill she >btallied by discussing .In salacious let ip I i he sins of other people. Sh# imis an intolerant, unforgiving, un* nrreilul gossip, soured on human ity. Freedom has changed all that. The spinster o| 30 jodav is a sophisticated and tolerant woman of be world. 81ie knows the married life of her friends and she neither •nvles nor covets It. She knows she us Intellectually uiperlor to most of her mala ac liuUivLancos and she doesn’t desire anyone of them as a boss. Her provtui ability to make a liv ing has saved her from an infer iority eomplex. Hard experience has made her compassionate. Oontarfc with the world has made her wise. Pity for less fortunate women ha* made her gentle. She is that finest of all mortal real uses a good and kind and wise woman. Hhe understands, rhere is no false modesty about hen. -me i.ikc.n ior gnturea. **n* listens when men come t*> her A lt 11 the story of their sorrow*. She pities sod forgives end all of her lodgments tire merciful, There is no other like bar sweep* lie while-haired women made wise md tolerant by year* of anffertn* Mid service. There air exceptions, ri oowMa Freedom has made them tough and robbed them of faith and eaK-re ipect. But the exoeptions serve to me ;ihast*e the rule, and the rule Is a friendly. easy-going, comradely woman who causes one to wonder why some man hasn't long stnoa I ragged her to his lair. VICKS COUGH DROP ... All you’ve hoped for in . Cough Drop—medicated with I ingredients of a I The Tobacco Clop may this Tea but that can' I a flee l G li c s I e r f i c I <1 — w h y ? Produrtion of loharrot utuhlr for ri^nrrttrt or "roll your own,” II. S. crop (average, 5 year*, 1927*31) . 1,091,265,750 lb*. U. S, crop (Govt, estimate, 1952) . . . 751,601,000 lbs. Estimated shortage, 1932 crop . . . 339,664,750 lbs. The manufacturer of good ciga rettes does not depend on any one vcar'serop. He knows that to keep up the (piality of his brand, he has to carry on hand at all times a large stock of the right kinds of tobacco from several years’ crops. The domestic tobaccos are kept in large hogsheads, each contain ing about 1000 pounds, and are allowed to age for two full years -yin other words, nature’s method of curing the tobaccos. Something like ageing wine. Liggett & Myers has about four and a half miles of warehouses used for storing leaf tobacco, to make sure that its product* are uniform and are as good as ran be made. To do tins requires a great deal of money — for example, there is invested in the domestic and Turk ish tobaccos for Chesterfield Ciga rettes over $75,000,000. Smokers ran be assured, regard less of the crop conditions, that Chesterfield vvill be absolutely uni form— the same yesterday, today, at all times. The cigarette that's milder—the cigarette that tastes heller! I * 3 » c « * r now 1 r «5u Mu ps I <hia< t <» Co. ^ 1 »!* , \ \ jfflsSpgga % X
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