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Around Our Town OR Shelby Sidelights By Renn Drum *Rt. THKsK SIGNS TELLING uf n Tl HI' HAPPENINGS? Rambling here and there in the search of news, oddities, freaks, unusual events, etc., this colyum has often stumbled upon eerie things «mch convince that many people do possess a psychic power—an un usual spiritual foresight whereby they are warned in some manner of fvpnts yet to happen. For example there is the story', heard only re cently. ot how the relatives of Pete Eaker, local railroad man killed in a ireck some years ago, were convinced that they had been warned in ucvfncc that a calamity was near. Early in the morning, it is said, several pictures hanging on the wall ui a room in the home of Eaker s mother fell to the floor. The mother, one believing that humans are endowed with something of a subcon scious nature whvh permits them to partly herald events which have never happened, stated to those around her that something would hap pen during the day to some member of the family. By 1 o’clock that jiternoon she received the message informing of her son s death. Upon another occasion a member of the same family heard a brother-in-law call her during the night. The next day she was called home where the brother-in <ew was found to be fatally til. He became sick about the -sme hour she heard him in her dream or in her psychic subconscious thought. There are those of course, who say such ideas are based upon sup erstition, but there are just as many more who can relate similar inci ccnts in them own lives. An assemblage of such psychic events would make an interesting story—a story, however, that might be perturbing ic many. Ho» many have experienced similar psychic marvels? SHELBY SHORTS A to6& of bokays to Mr. and Mrs. J. M Walker, of Laitimoic, who yesterday celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary. That's a matri monial positive against the Reno negative . . . And flowers, too, to young Ed Post, the first boy in years to be valedictorian of a graduating class at Shelby high. Any youngster who can stack up a scholastic iverage better than 97 is bound to be going places. And a ditto in the congrats to the nine other boys and girls with him in the First Ten . . Then a pat to Graham Anthony, the Shelby boy who went to the East and became president of the big Veeder-Root 4irm. His company’s fin ancial report shows that in the bumbiz year of 1932 his activity eli minated all the firm's bank indebtedness and brought the ratio of assets against liabilities from nine to one to 19 to 1. He was, of course, re elected president ... Will Harris, one of the 14-karat wags about town, says: "I wanta run for mayor mighty bad but you kndw none of my friends will shove me in along with the others being shoved’’ .... It’s Miss Thelma Martin at the Piedmont cafe and not, Miss Thelma Moss. Pardon the fumble .... Boyce Dellinger, down in Columbia today being .incd up, is the llrst local man to land a job in the New Deal. Boyce »as county campaign manager for Senator Reynolds, and perhaps that shows "Our Bob” doesn’t forget the friends who saw him through . . . . The already famous pageant, ’’Heaven Bound,” produced and presented by a remarkable group of colored people in Shelby, has been asked to participate in the World’s Fair at Chicago. Now’, aint dat sumpin?*. . . . And Vergil Weathers, Fred Webb and Bill Goodson landed in the "Flam ing Five.” Name some new honors Shelby and Cleveland folks might take a crack at ... An anonymous telephone call: "Tell Mr. Julius Smith he was wrong about that big snow on April 20; it was in 1904 and not 1903. ’ ... A groundhog was killed in Cleveland county this week, if that means anything .... We Imagine Cleveland county checker players chuckled this week when a North Carolina checker team beat a South Carolina team in Charlotte, 102 to 152. The reason tor the chuckle would be that some of that South Carolina gang, the Shillinglaws, Jacksons, etc., have been licking the local checker wizards . . . What do you know •bout the county jail being empty? Utopia must be just around the corner shooting craps or working a jigsaw with old man Prosperity. Prosperity is an old man because just think how many years he's been hiding behind the corner) .... Incidentally, these jigsaws are causing man; people to worry about their mentality. Only recently a school leather, an editor and the editor's wife, once a school teacher, spent nearly an hour putting one together and the directions said that one of normal mentality should turn the trick in 34 minutes . . . Orchids Would go also to the South Shelby "Home Makers ’ who are serving soup to undernourished school children ... A good book for am evening's enu'rtainment: Isabelle Patterson's "Never Ask the End." (As if Mc Intyre who must have a crush on her, hasn't mentioned it three times! A tip.from a reader: “Can it be that your mysterious contributor, P L . ts a young attorney?" Well, we wonder ... A couple of contribs, w he81-' have had brickbats tossed at 'em. Duck ’em if you can, that’s just an every-day part of a regular columnist's job .... Proud shop The Star scooped every afternoon paper in this territory with the •ton' about the bomb sent Roosevelt, the sentence given Zangara and no repeal vote by congress. Thanks to the UP . . . Shelby theatre man ners are still receiving congrats for bringing "Animal Kingdom” and Sirange Interlude’' to town, and as for us we don’t intend to miss that " Ui Rogers picture, "State Fair" . . From a connoisseur of pulchritude * ho has been eyeing beautiful girls and teachers at Shelby high for soars comes the observation: "There are more good-looking high school ilrls ln town this year than ever before.” Now take a bow. girls, even if '■ wi’t sophisticated to blush these days. "HI SHOULDN’T SHE IN PUBLIC? Notmg that the women and girls, even Jiggs' Maggie, are wearing P°r*is, a Shelby man says: "Well, I don’t care how soon my spouse Marts wearing ’em' uptown; figuratively speaking she's been wearing the Pants m oyr family since a few minutes after we shook off the wedding party nee." And how many men, if they were truthful, can say Amen to that? i ni>^VSES, YELLOW l'ER' afflicts ALTOS Cf'n'ri ation heard on the First National corner: Rob. where's.your car, haven’t seen you riding in it lately"? 0 BUI, it s home afflicted with yellow jaundice.’’ ' e.ion jaundice, you dimwit, is a disease contracted from the old WlQ* tags of 19321 MfrJl'No? • 'though this corner told you just a few months ago, we bet that J1’ le* ln the audience (Whoopee! Is there anybody out there?! re ,‘“,'b*r " hal. the initials Z J. stand for in the name of the new can ,f'*lr l0: ftaydr . . And chances are that all you know . eout the name 11 fi S. A McMurry is that they call him ”Sim 'On ask some 'r r not’ putting you wise this time). Only ^■hington or three flags were flying on Shelby streets Wednesday, ^birthday, and two cltu.ens were heard to ask what the ’’c.f out for anyway? That's tame for you . . . Incidentally, can wu an.- . ‘ r. a,j . luato iciiiic IU1 J c/vr . . . *..-w—. Shotgun Max Washburn’s question: How old would Wash ■i!U" *- en had he lived until * Wednesday ? All the itinerant Mrtfj ■”11 are not girls selling little doo dads for the ladies. One 1‘iwrr vesterday lr>i 'hr gents . . . was selling beads for And we’ll benu. the femmes and iazoi 44 Around Town’s Mail Pouch «* Pardon, M'sieur, I think that w" have met before, Ye6, I know we have. Yes, I see that you remember too. It was back in those days when l learned first to know the feel oi things material. You used to sit and envy me when I smelled of my new-split leather, brass-toed bro gans which were such a luxurj that my parents had to wait for me to go to sleep before these new and wonderful articles of apparel could be removed without taising a howl of disapproval You were jealous even of those. Sir. you should have seen me thirty years later when Florsheim and Nettleton decorated those feet. You would have croaked with envy. Yes, you used to tag along when we took the chickens to market in the spring hoping that they would not bring enough to buy our sum mer clothing. Sometimes, you had your wish and my mother would have to cut down her allowance, and I would have to leave off any shoes for Sunday. Then, I think you were disappointed because a cold snap didn’t come around to add to the disappointment. When we gained possession of as much as fifty dol lars a year -in cash, you grumbled and thought that was too much for peasant folk like us. You forced me to wear home spun yarn in winter. It was very warm and all that, but it used to scratch the very devil out of my legs for a week or two. You would never consent for us to eat eggs before or after Easter. You said that that one old white stick of chewing gum that looked like a tallow candle was enough for me in the way of such a luxury. If you have come back to take Beach Nut away from me, you may do it, but you will never drive me back to the old tallow. I shall have my real gum or I wont’, have any. At Christmas time you were most obnoxious company. You objected to everything which wasn’t much, but I enjoyed it anyhow. Well, here you are back again after I kicked you I out of my life for awhile by the use of credit with which my fellow men became very liberal for several years. Pay day is here and here you are back with your old grin when I feci the worst. You don’t care whether I pay or not. You are not here to help me retrench. You are back because you like to see mis ery. Yes, I recognize you Old Man Poverty, and dad gum your old hide, I shall try to make myself so content with doing the best I can that you will take yourself off be cause the atmosphere- is uncongen ial whether I eat regularly or not. Signed: TARHEEL. Fallston, Feb. 23, Dear Town Rounder: You may print this if you wish. You are also at liberty to change or leave out parts of it. That last note from Lattimore was surely someone who was afraid to come back, and was jealous of the others. Thanks for your effi cient service. Sure, certain newspaper men may come to Lattimore if they wish. Wc are not Jealous of men who are not distinguished looking. We bane purty good looking fel lows. # We know a certain young man who went to the Shelby hospital for a slight operation and lost his heart "too boot.” But — Nurse D. is enough to make even a dummy's heart skip a flop and cut a flip Sure, and we have seen her. Heard an old timer say the other day that if the old clan of Elliotts had been living when Wake Brid ges wrote up the famous Moores boro Episode they would have come down and beat his daylights out. We don’t doubt it. Don’t—Mr. Bridges—don’t throw any more "bull” bats at Lattimore i or I will tell why Mooresboro beat j Lattimore once in baseball. Faith and I believe I am justified al ready. I’ll do it. It was the same principle that won the battle ot Kings Mountain in the old days, such a hillside over there that all the balls went over our boy’s head C. THE IRISH TWINS Lattimore. TO OCR DEAR HI’SBAND AND FATHER. When we saw you in Che casket Lying so still and quiet You seemed to be an Angel, Daddy. With snowy wings ni white. We loved you Oh, so dearly: You were so kind and good Why you had to leave us We have not understood. The family circle nas been broken; And time can never mend But we can put our trust in Jesus. And on Him we can depend. The flowers, we laid on your grave May wither and decay; But the love we had for your, Daddy Will never fade away. Mrs. C A Hoyle and Children. adv. Card of Thanks. We wish to express our apprecia tion of the thoughtful kindness, sympathy and consideration shown us during our bereavement in the loss of our son. Herbert S. Lathin house. Mi and Mrs R H Laihinhous and Family. Legislator Thinks Present Plan Of Electing County Heads Wrong Prudurej Inefficiency AtM Waste. Keep Capable Men On Job (Star News Bureau.) Burlington, Feb. 34.—"Manifestly productive of inefficiency and waste.” is the present system of electing county officials biennially, W. E. Easterling, of Raleigh, direc tor of local government, told the members of the Burltngton Rotary club at a dinner meeting here Pointing out that the board of county commissioners is the body vested with the power and charged with the duty of administering the fiscal affairs of the county, Mr. Easterling said it is not uncommon that a county will name an entirely new board every two years, induct it into office in December and 'make it responsible for fiscal oper ations of the county l’or the last seven months of the fiscal year upon a budget adopted by the pre ceding board. “It is no reflection upon the in- j telligence of these new members that they make mistakes, for they have entered Upon a task with which they are for the most parti unfamiliar and their prlncial I means of acquainting themselves with their duties are time and ex perience. After seven months in of fice they are required to pass upon and adopt a fiscal program for the next fiscal year and before a whole year's experience is acquired, they are before the voters seeking re election to office,” Mr. Easterling said. The complexities of county ad ministration arc such that average persons of ability are unable to fa miliarize themselves with the re quirements of the office in two years, during which they are unable to show worth-while achiev ements, the result being that there is little incentive for persons of ability to seek such offices, Mr Easterling said, pointing out that this State has established a local government agency which assists advises, and offers guidance to coun ty officials “Perhaps,” said Mr Easterling, "the Ideal solution of this problem is that we first elecr capable men to office and then keep them in of fice.” A provision of the county government laws of electing com missioners lor six years with one new one elected each two years, has not been tried, Mr. Easterling said, adding that such a continuation of administrative policy would tend toward greater efficiency and econ omy in county government. Mr. Easterling traced interesting ly the development of county gov ernment from England, saying new reforms will be needed in this eco nomic dilemma. Germany Runs Shy Choice Mannequins Not Enough Well-Built Girl* To Supply Demand There For Firms. Berlin.—(U.P.)—Odd though it may seem, Germany is suffering from an acute dearth of fashion models as a result of the World war. The demand for pretty, well-built girls, who are suited to be dress makers’ models, exceeds the sup ply. “There are more applicants for mannequins’ jobs than ever,” writes the Berlin ‘ Vorwaerts,” “but their chests are too narrow, their should er blades protrude too far, or their carriage is poor owing to weak phy sique. Hardships during childhood and during the war years are re sponsible.” When the Guild of Berlin Man nequins recently “exhibited’’ mod els, 30 dressmaking and clothing concerns immediately announced their readiness to employ one or more suitable girls. In return for a registration fee of 30 cts. the pros pective models are given a course of instruction by the Guild and arc taught how to wear fashionable garments in the presence of critical customers. Prisoner Judged Self Too Harshly Boston.—(UP.)—James M. Dow ney. 23, judges himself too harshly Asked by Judge Harold P. Williams to dispose of his own case when hr was arraigned for stealing $11 worth of groceries, Downey said: "Well, your honor, I wouldn't want to go unpunished for this break. I think six months would be i enough. The judge cut the sentence in half. Use Iis Laxative made from plants Thedford'a Huci-Dimir * ! made from pilots that grow in ths ground, like the garden vegetables you oat at every meal NATUR* ha* put la to these plants ah act!'* medlrlne that stimulates the bowel* to act — just as Nature put the ma terials that sustain your body into the vegetable foods you eat. In rtlaok-Draught you have a until rat laxative, free from synthetic dross Its use does not make von have to depen • on cathartic chemical drug* to grt - bowels to act dally. ATrttr vnn •• ff+t. RlfV'fc-fivti'Ufrli* $11 Me form of YRUP. for CKU-nuu ' Black And Yellow To Be Color For 1934 Auto Plates Raleigh, Feb. 84.—North Car olina* 1954 automobile license tag* will be about three fourth* the sice of the preaent plates and will be yellow and Mark. A. J. Maxwell, commis sioner of revenue, said this week. Mr. Maxwell said final details concerning the tags had ifttt been worked out but that in the interest of economy the yellow and black colors would be used on smaller and lighter steel plates. As the tags will be placed in plain envelopes when sold over the counter at license plate sta tions Irhtead of in the patent ed pocket envelopes now used, additional money will be saved in that way. L. 8. Harris, director of the motor vehicle bureau, said it was figured that the changes would result in savings of about $14,900 to $15,000 annually In the cost of making and4 hand ling license' plates. Miss Lee, Lawndale, Inter-Society Debater Miss Edith Lee, daughter or Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Lee of Lawndale has been elected as inter-society de bater by the Nikanthian society of High Point college. This Is the an nual debate between the two literary societies, the Astemesian and Nik anthian, and will be given Friday night before Easter. Miss Lee 4s sec Cabinet Possibility John B. Cohen, publisher, of Atlan ta, Ga., who is being prominently mentioned for the portfolio of Sec retary of the Navy in the cabinet of President-elect Franklin D Roosevelt. Cohen, long a pillar of Democratic strength in the South, in a veteran of the Spanish-Ameri ran War. He has been a member of the Democratic National Committee since 1924 retary of the sophomore class. chair man of the program committee for her oia-i* and member of the High Point college choir, going to differ- j ent counties and state to render : musical program* With all Una ex tra work. Miss Lee i« making high grades in her regular college course. ^ \\ms Mill Dots Of Personal Item? ( airman MrSwaln and Mia* Roar DrVon Marrird. Birthday Otnnor for Mr* Hoyle. 'Special to Tlte Star t Beam Mill, Feb 23 - A marriage of much lnteroat to tlie people of this community and other commun it tea was that of Mr Coleman Mc Swain and Mias Roar OoVon which took place at Ciaffnei 3. C., Sunday afternoon They were accompanied by Messrs Cullen and Harlan Mc Swaln. Ttie bride is a pretty bru nette and attractive daughter of Mr and Mrs. Char He iW'on of South Shelby. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Amr.l McSwaln but has made his home with hi;; grandmoth er Mrs. Sarah Ledford since a child. Friends and relatives of Mrs. J. P. Hoyle surprised her Sunday with a birthday dinner celebrating her 5«t.h birthday, A bountiful dinner was spread In picnic style A large crowd was present and all reported a nice time Everyone wished Mrs. Hoyle many more happy birthdays. Mr. and Mrs. Buford Spurltng and daughters of Lawndale spent Thura day with Mr. and Mrs Zim Wil liam*. Music was furnished tn the home of Mr. and Mrs J. W. Wright Mon day night, by Messrs. Charles Alex ander, Ben Wright and Burgin Whitaker. It was enjoyed by every one present. Mrs. Ids Costner »s spending sev eral days with her daughter Mre. Esper CfK>k oX Ross Oroya. Mr and Mrs, Dwight Costner ere ! spending this week with Mr. end 666 IJQtJH* - TABI.mi — MAI V* I'herk* CoMs ftrsi HnirtitchM « Nrtiritlgi* in W mlnnU. MtUrft In 8 diva. ♦>f»6 SALVE for Head Colds Most Speedy Remedies Known Mrs. Thurman of near Atlanta, Oa Mrs. Reid Royster, Mrs. Orler Martin and Miss Martha 8ua Roys ter of Fallston visited Mrs. A. M. Hoyle Sunday afternoon. Mr. an dMrs. Plato Ledford and children spent Friday with Mha. Ledford’s mother Mrs Rowe of Hickory. Mrs. Rowe, who has been sick Is Retting aldcig as well aa could be expected. Mr. and Mrs. Lec.k Divine of Bel wood. spent the week end with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Billy Devine. Miss Bell Beam of Lawndale and Mrs. Edna Hoysbrook of Concord, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Zlm Williams. Mrs. Frank Williams of Elisabeth community spent Sun day afternoon with Mra. Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Hoyle and children Billy end Betty, are spend ing several days this week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pressley Cost ner. Mt. and Mrs. Morris Wf Ilia me vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Webb Barnett ef S. Shelby Sunday. Mirror Diipellcd Grief Of A Bird Boon vine, tnd.—(tLP.)—Chief sear the death of US companion was dis pelled for one of two love birds at the office of Attorney Oeneret Philip Luts, Jr., hsrs when a minus was placed In the cage. The bird's reflection supplies the missing seas'* panlonahip. iucij utmiu* i i ii 11' Good style is never extreme, you took around the people who dress in good taste, see that there's never anything rtflashy*'* about what they wear. dome to think of it... it’s very mud) the Mime with cigarettes. No cigarette should ever be "strong.” That means that they should never be too rich or over-seasoned—'not harsh or "bitcy.” The taste of a Chesterfield is just as near right as we know how to make it. Not tasteless or flat, not too highly flavored for steady smoking, but with just the right kinds of tobaccos blended the one right way to satisfy. Chesterfields are mild. They taste better. 4) Ilc-uiivi * UiUj io*w_uj Co. sterfield t/t& cigarette t&atd milder 7" ct/jareffe t/tat tastes better
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