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i ■ « ■ is is is is as is i 88J «:« stiii ttx: :::: kk: aa: ;«:i *«> Around Our TOWK fc)K SLelby SIDELIGHTS By RENN DRUM. TRODDING ALONG BROADWAYS GLARE i Tht‘ old Hne—"You can take a ooy out or the country but you can | take the country out oi the boy”—still holds good. Sonic of the besi I btorie* to be heard In Shelby are related in those confidential chat; $ 3etwe*n friends over bridge and luncheon tables when they relate ern , jarrasslng little episodes of their last trips to New York. Chances are | no matter how sophisticated some of the folks about town seem to ap f jear. that every Shelby visitor U) the big city has at some time or anotht * 166,1 a ^it embarrassed and chagrined in some manner or another. There are any number of excellent yarns in that collection, the ma : »°rity of which would be too risky (for our own safety) to relate here *mong them might be Included the eventful incident when a young 3helby barrister and merchant and their fraus were served vlchy at an * sating place on the Eastside. UnUl that .time they had never used oi tnown of any beverage to be used for a “chaser” other than water oi tingerale. Anyway, they fifially managed to get everything straightened |»ut. Then there was a certain business man who dated up for a pleasant svening and found that the cabaret cover charge • and the price the icantily-attired hat check girl placed on his hat required his hist dime 3e, too, solved the predicament somehow Then there's the story of the wo local young ladies out on a lark along Broadway who decided" tc get a thrill In one of those taxi dance halls. How did they feel and wer< their faces red when some of the tired business men thought them host esses and began giving them a dime per dance, or dance tickets pur* J ihased from the cashier? But let’s halt the chatter here. tfriiat business men, buyers and sight seers do, and have done to them, on their trips to New York is supposed o be removed, remote and mum in connection with their sedate habits ind flawless reputations back, home—even that exciting evening when * couple young Shelby cut-ups attempted to play rouintt* on the tele phone dial in a swanky New York hostelry . SHELBY SHORTS: Tt’d be surprising u> Know now many of these flash' Smiling fellows *bout town have store teeth . The Gene Schencks also brought an tlligator home with them from Florida, but It will not be re-stocked in * the Lineberger-Thompson lake . . Some snow- still to be seen in spots about the city .... Another of the "Miss Shelby" contest girls is now ’ Mr's an^_two havt>the flu, showing that even pulchritude is vulner ible to calaimt? _ Atorrection: The Community Playefs production, -cheduled for tonight, hak been postponed . . its now ex-Govenur ; Gardner . . . While they m still out of town it may be safe to publish his note: “There is a certfthi young black-haired, brown-eyed school eacher in town who calls everything in your column ‘Just so much Junk, ! but you should see her hunting \or the paper three times a week 'after *'*“ hide It—and when she think.') no one is watching she turns to the eolyum the first tiling . Dollar to a doughnut we know her * Since Grady Cole. The Chariotil Newt, newscaster, has taken note of his corner in comes a notejgh/ch might have received more attention tmd it been addressed to him. It reads: "Won't you please ask Grady to go back to his old hours and do his broadcasting at 12:30 for the benefit of us working people. The hour he goes on now is just about the time we have to return to our work and we miss hearing him. What's more we believe there are mo)e working people nnd people who would like to be working listening to him than any other class." Now it's up 10 Grady and the program manager at WBT . *. . Troy McKinney is , tiie youngest county accountan(|in North Carolina . . Shelby doctors1 * DO NOT reoommend bootleg for the flu. Hope that doesn't cause some of the racketeer; to put us on the spot .... One of the best collection.; >f antiques in Shelby is that assembled by Mrs. 6. M. Mull, and one of the most beautifully furnished homes in Shelby is that of the J. D. Lmebergers America is Mill on it but -Santa Claus seems to have gone off the gold standard. Mighty few S5 goid piecese' were scattered about 8hejby as Christmas presents . . What, what? A feminine voice telephones in to know if we know the identity of the Shelby doctor re ferred to by “Sam" as having decorated the left hand of a certain school •teacher. Sorry, we don't know, but can only guess along with the other . . . And did you notice that easy to-look-at Chesterfield gtrl on the ■ same page with this corner in the last issue. And. by the way. isn't it nice to have that cut in price for cigs? Some w ill quit smoking "Horse- j heads,” and some will not . Doing some figuring after reading tlie thief's eolyum. “Nosing Under the Nose": If Governor Gardner lives 32 more years, which we hope he will, or until 1985. his auto tag number will be No. 10, following the custom of moving an ex governors number back one each year. Until yesterday ills car lag was No. 1, now it's No. 1. in 193$ it will be No. .3 and so on The 1933 stork seems to like the family name of Bumganlner, The first New Year baby in Hickory was jorn to a Bumgardner family and the second in Shelby was born to a family by the same name. It took a little tune, however, for the stork to wing his way from Hickory to Shelby and the result was that a No. 3 township boy, Quince Johnson, slipped in ahead of Nancy Carolyn Bum - gardner and became Master 1933 The Shelby and Cleveland County Buildlhg-gnd Loan association ask. in an ad, "Who Fooled This Panic"? That’s what we’d like to know . Already one January wedding and two more rumored before the bill collectors come around again. The new year seems to be doing better. b\ the sweet young thing than did * the leap year which faded out lasv Saturday Now tell us what gossip you know BRASS TACKS Some time ago this corner, in one ot those curious moods, wondered where the expression "get down to brass lack " came from and how it originates. Jay Dee Ell. who never forgets anything, was reading an almanac during a recent siege of the flu and he ran up on this answer to the query: The phrase ‘brass tacks goes back to the days ol the dry-gpods counter, when the ribbon or fabric salesman used the end of his out stretched right arm as the measurement of a yard,. This method was re ferred to as "smelling a vuro. ' The store is that a Pennsylvania Dutchman awoke to the met that a long-nosed clerk, with a short arm was an asset to the dry-'goods counter. This led to the nailing of a yardstick on the countei. so that a customer might see each inch of a quarter, half or yard ol material. The yardstick proved cumbersome and m time wax replaced by a row brass tacks nailed to the counter, measuring a yard and fraetions thereof. It was divided at six inch intervals. After this method was adopted, any clerk caught trying to ''smell a yard" was halted in no uncertain terms and told to "get down to brass tacks. HAS ALMANAC . 100 YEARS OL11 Leland F. Crowdei. of Lawndale route 1. ha.- in hit possession a number of interesting old documents among them an almanac ol !033. one hundred years ago The almanac is the "Beers Carolina^ and Georgia Almauac, pub lished by S. Babcock and Co., of Charleston, S. C.. in the 57th year ot Independence, and it has been handed down through the generations of the Crowder family. Ii contains some very interesting historical infor mation. Andrew Jackson was then president of the United States. Fed eral officers in North Carolina were Henry Potter, judge; T. P Deve reux, attorney; Beverly Daniel, marshal and W. H. Haywood, clerk. .\1 Stokes was governor of North Carolina and a drew a salary of $2,000 per year. Wm. Hill, secretary of state, was paid $800 per year and fees. The judges ot the supreme court were Um u .uh—e - »e i ■ nee ttttamm. drawing $2,a00 per year, while the Superior court Judges were paid SSt'i for each term of court they held. North Carolina's two United States senators were W P Mnngum and Bedford Brown. GO TO IT Several readers have asked that the' puzzling pieu names be pub ^shed again. To please them here 1* the name of a young lady whose office looks out ti|x>n the court square ROY-REN-MAY-SEER-VEK -ii. J 1 Fl'Ul1"1. ■!!!!! Sharon Community i i News Of Week-End , Several People Sick. Kpwortb Leii* i Kile Meets. Personal Mention. ' Special to The Starj Sharon. Jan. 5.—A large per cent of the people were present at Sun- ; . day school Sunday There were sev- ! era! absent on account'of sickness. | Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smith and George Lewis were dinner guests of Mr. L. A. Smith and family last Frlda>. ’ Miss Ruth Smith was the guest) Sunday at the home1 of Mr C. F._ Morehead Misses .Johnnie Helen Morehead Spent part of last week with Mr, and Mrs. Coel Blanton Mr. and Mr/. W. B. Dodd and j daughter Rebecca spent awhile Sun day alternoon with Mi Sam Smith and family of Lake Lure. Miss Opal Smith returned to her home having spent while with her aunt Mrs. W. B. r«-?d. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hardin and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hardin. The Epworth league held their regular monthly council and busi ness meeting Tuesday night. A good report was turned in by each chair man of the different departmer Only five were absent and ?e\ r visitors were there. . , Those on our sick list tin are: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Allen ... children. Mrs. Grove: Hamrick Mrs. Baxter Wilkie Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bowen part ot last week with Mr .1 ' Blalock and family. I, Longer Wheelbase • New “Aer-Stream” Styling More Powerful Six-Cylinder Engine • Larger. Lower Fisher Bodies • Fisher 4No- Draft Ventilation Safety Plate Glass in Windshield • Cushion-Bal anced Engine for Smoothest Operation • Improved Free Wheeling • Syncro-Mesh Shift with Silent Second • The “Starterator”—for Simplified Starting Even Greater Economy . . . and many other important improvements that make the New Chevrolet the Great American Value for 1933. • AT A NEW SCALE QF LOW PRICES SPORT ROADSTER $485 COUPE $495 COACN $515 PHAETON $515 - $EBAN $565 SPORT COUPE $535 - CABRIOLET $5(5 Ai! prices i. o. b. Flint, Michigan. Special equipment extra. Low detiveted r' easy C M. A. C. termst~ Chevrolet Motor Coin pa m Detror Michi
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