fhclbyM,
J Jidelights
by RemDrm.
PEKl’INli AT SHELBY
OF THK I.ONT; AGO .
Mrs. J. Frank Harris has in her possession a number of]
.j sbribv newspapers which to peruse is like pulling back!
P,f- mi rain of time and looking upon the old days of the red!
brick court house on the square and the town of that era. j
K I likely that a number of families have papers of
around the same date preserved in their homes, yet they
never fail to interest—interest tthe older folks because they
bnn£ back memories, and the younger generation because
sl pjvps them a basis of comparison.
rjiic nf the old issues is a special
hnr.,rr «jmon put- ont by The Star
editor, Clyde R. Hnev, in
,u]v |w tn addition to giving a
u’-orv of the county, its institu
t^n5 and progress, the special also
p'ibli->e- photographs of the lead
er?. of that town.
pertion Three Of the photographic
portrayal is of the old Star force—
*hr proprietor n person. John S.
4-,n on. Mi it oh Tiddy. I.- H. Hump
,„n p f Hoev and W. R. Hart
.m. r s f Hoev. incidentally,
5 one of those walrus mus
[arbf? so popular in that day. Other
section? of the paper carry photos
of such leaders of that, day as M,
0 Mar'in. Dr. Lester Self, D. M.
Baker W H Moss. M. N. Hamrick.
K V Campbell, H I. Washburn. S.
r (jidner. C. C Stamey, T. D. Falls,
W A. Gantt. W. D. Lackey. E. Y.
Webb, J ■). McMurry, A. H. Webb.
,1 H Hull. B Blanton. S. A. Wash
bum. Ralph L. Webb. L. I. Gtdney,
t P Austell. John R. Dover, Frank
Jenkins, J. Y. Elliott. H. F. Schenck,
Chu,- C and George Blanton, John
p Linehercer. W. H. Thompson, Z.
j Thompson ( looking just as his son
Pijlv looks today), A. P. Weathers.
O-lando Elam. Dr. H. D. Wilson, Dr.
p H Morrison, Thomas Ewers.
Fceh Miller. C. C. Roberts. J. M.
B'iioM. D D. Wilkins. T. B. Wash
bum Dr R C. Ellis, Walter Ram
■r<ir. ,! H. Quinn, Dr. V. J. Palmer.
J ? Martin. R. G Wells. O. D.
Pr'r*. r r Doggett. Dr. C. O.
Champion. George Stockton and
numerous others
Ahd. bov. what » town it must
h»-v* been three decades ago! On the
editorial page of the special Issue
the f Hi tor wrote*
?he!bv's climate Is equal to that
sun-lad Italy and her sce.ntc sur
-•'undinES 8re not surpassed even in
Alp-girt Switzerland. ...
RrVFRSF,?
Among the other old papers was
» cony of the Shelby Aurora, Re
ptib’ican paper of November 25.
lent The leading editorial para
graph read:
"The average Democrat even
will admit that the election of
Roosevelt means four more
rears of prosperity.’’
How well that statement of 30
wars arm eould be modernized to
read "The average Republican even
sill admit, that the election of
Roosevelt means prosperity."
SHELBY SHORTS
Nemar may. and likely will, do
everything he gays he Will do in
Shelby Friday, but if while blind
folded he can tell the time of day
hv Shelby's town clock, then he'll
be doing something no one else can
do with nr without a blindfold. . .
One of the smallest cashiers in
town this week is little Miss Phyllis
Vwes who is helping make the
eh a nee at the Penny store, manag
ed hv her daddy, while one of the
regular brunettes is vacationing. . •
A bokay to P H Randall of the
no£o>\s Motor firm who has been
awarded the honT of being the
bt;t pond mechanic in the two Caro
lina,- division of the Ford agencies.
Snooks" MrEntire, the up
countv girl who is quite an athlete
herself, is one of the most regular
femme attendants at baseball games
tn Shelby. . . and usually with a
bov friend . . a rumor wafted back
from the gathering Young Demo
erats has it that Max Gardner may
be a candidate for the United States
Senate in the next election, but so
_ar it is only speculation. . .Capt
O R 1 Bussey to most of you) Lat
r,m®rp- of f he United States Army,
15 now located ai Big Springs, Glen
™irn. California, being sent there
rnrr Indianapolis wdth a contin
n* Indiana boys to the con
5enation ramps. In a letter he
miortns that they are 40 miles from
raiimad and right under the
arow of t.hf snow-capped Mount
thT'S thP slscier mountain, and
., \ ' a rpsult they are cool day
Dll 7^' ^ trout aro
iful and all are enjoying it.
hunting all the rage
7m f>< *!and c°unty. . Shelby
, r , ’ ?°od citizen when Rev
‘'y'',Jp for Newport
t'«iranr»* , E'en ^u'el!ers have
mlh lr j* " W,,h June, the
cau,.ri, ll'des. snatched from the
th Ju* here- ^ is noted
ladvl, T W' Hamrick Jewelry
diamond. Til 7" VMy SpeCtaI
<A him lhe low Price of (3.50
lv.r)" \Prrba^ to some of the
»n* thr nuestion just
m°nth lat' “ouldnt be so bad
I and more economical at- that) . . i
1 •
j Local talkie houses will continue to
] get the crowds with such cinemas
1 as "Adorable" and "Melody Cruise.”
j SAVOIR-FAIRE
| Stories about Harry Woodson's]
j poise are quite numerous, but this
Is the best we’ve heard recently.
Some years ago Harry owned a
stripped-down auto of the collegiate
type. One. week-end he decided to
drive to Blowing Rock, and he did.
' It rained upon him en route and
'due to the open-ventilation type of
'car he was considerably bedraggled
upon arrival. Nevertheless he strode
into the Mayview Manor, then in
its swankiest days and started to
j register. Perhaps Harry’s rain
soaked apparel gave th* hoity-toity
clerk the idea that Harry might not
realize just what an exclusive hotel
he was stopping at.
"You know.” the clerk said. "The
lowest price room' we have is *12
per day.”
“Mv Gosh!” came the surprised
ejaculation. "What's wn-ong with
your rooms that you don't get a
more decent price than that? Do
they leak?”
Within another minute or two
Harry had all the clerks and all the
bellhops helping with his baggage
and curtsying at every turn. It
wasn't until some time later that
they learned Harry wasn't quite a
multi-millionaire and not accus
] tomed to stopping at cheap *12 per
jday dumps.
A ROMANTIC TALE
Debro D. Wilkins, Shelby's new
chief of police, tells this one and
if you're skeptical, talk to him. We
don’t talk back to police chiefs.
"Years ago," Chief Wilkins said.
"And just how many years ago is
none of your business. Ernest Hoey
and myself then about the age of
20 each, decided to go in business
together. We did and we moved to
Hickory to open up. One evening
we were sitting on our boarding
house porch when a, very attractive
young lady came down the street.
I had heard that she was a teacher
but I did not remember the name.
As she passed Ernest kept looking
| at her. Finally he said to me:
'That’s the best-looking girl I ever
1 saw.' He kept watching her and
a minute later said: 'I’m going to
marry that girl.’ I told him that
he was Just talking, that he had
never seen her before and didn’t
even know her name. He refused
to listen at me. Some months pas
sed by and I left Hickory. A few
years later T ran into Ernest again,
here in Shelby or somewhere, and
he told me that he was married.
When I met his wife imagine my
surprise when she turned out to be
the good-looking girl we saw go
down the street that .day in
Hickory. He meant what he said.
And if you don't believe it's true,
go ask him.”
And back in The Star shop the
foreman of the plant will okay the
I entire story.
SMART FELLOWS
Some weeks ago The Star record
ed the fact that young Talmage
Lee, of Fallston, was the only mem
ber of the graduating class at Wake
Forest this year to receive a "sum
ma cum laude” diploma. In fact,
according to news dispatches only
four graduates of the several
thousand have established such a
record there.
And it was this week that we
learned that two of the four were
Cleveland boys. The olher was
Forrest G. Hamrick, now of New
York city, and a brother of Miss
Annie Hamrick. He finished in 1902
and another member of his class
attained the same honorable dis
tinction.
Loot Tells Story
Of Negro’s Crime
Charlotte. July 12.—A negro com
mitted a robbery here Monday, but
a short time later the loot provid
ed both for the robber's escape and
I its return to its owner.
The loot was a radio with short -
! wave adapter. As the robber pre
j seated it for sale at a radio shop
he “chuned it up” to give the
prospective purchaser an idea of its
quality. The reception was perfect.
It was the local police, broadcasting
news of the robbery and description
of the loot.
Catching his breath, the negro
1 fled. ,
“Around Town’s”
Mail Pouch
RlTTHERFORDTON'S OLD
JAILS; THIS 'N THAT.
Dear Square Rounder:
In the little town of Ruthenord
ton. you know' where it is, don’t
you? there are a couple of old jails
Did you know that? Well we do.
Now these old jails have made his
tory—yes history. In one of these
it. was that Randolph Abbott Shot
well was confined by the Ruther
| ford county’s tyrant. Judge Logan
; It was there that Shelby 's own J.
,B. Fortune sat begging for water
| as the windlass of the well squeak
led. The jailer only grinned and
'said: "Get out and git yer water."
I And the Fortune boys, yep they
were all in there for being members
of the famous white robed K.K.K.'s
decided that that was the best thing
for them to do. so they had their
brave and fighting mother to bring
down a pie. She did and a. fork
with which to eat thRt, pie Now
for several reasons she cooked this
fork with and in the pte. Ha, the
jailer with all his smartness was
outwitted by this Cherry Mountain
woman who once defied Yankee
soldiers to take her horse. The boys
cut a hole through that old brick
wall and left. But before so do
ing they whtte washed the bottoms
of their feet and walked upon the
walls and down the hole in the
wall. When Mr. Jailer came in
the next morning the boys who did
not care to escape said: "You see,
don't you?” The jailer did see.
but he. never rounded up the boys.
They had plenty of friends, who
did not mind helping them put up
a nice -little fight. Moreover, the
boys went to Texas.
I At the other old Jail it was that
the man was said to have hanged
himself, or perhaps it was a woman,
from a window. Now it is said that
the print of that person's body can
be seen upon the brick of the wall
to this day. It can not. The man
who lives in the old jail has let a
protecting vine grow over the wall
to keep the curious away. Before
he Stopped it droves and droves
kept him in misery. And they say
in the town that it is all stuff any
way, which we do not doubt. Do
I THIS AN’ THAT
This Square Rounder is well
known tn the neighboring towns
A few weeks ago we were In Ruth
erfordfon and learned that he was
as well known almost as Hon. Clyde
R. One man declared that he read
Rounding The Square at every op
portunity. and w anted to meet the
man whose likeness adornes the
top section. "It's his wonderful
style”, he said to us. . .And the girl
who won second place in the beauty
; contest up there w ould have won
first place had she worn another!
color of dress, so 'tis said. . . And
they claim in Rutherfordton that
| they are less, the people, "stuekup"
[than are Shelby and Forest City. To
he. . . Just what Shelby youngster
broke ’bout, three dates (appoint
ments to you) with one Mooresboro,
high girl in order to visit her pal??
Too, what two Shelby boys attended |
a party in M. several weeks agone?
Wit and Wisdom might find out
for you. . .if you want to know'. .
jOh, yes. boys, we heard several talk
j ing about, your column t'other day
I. . . .now don't get the head grow
! ing disease. Say how much ice
[ cream did Wild Bill sell the day the
llicense bureau opened??? And the
: boys of the county are now going
| to (he cotton mills for jobs and
(getting them, too, so F:D.R. muatj
be getting us over the H.R.H. period,
: Which boys fell for the brunette
[ who played with Barbara Stanwyck
(is that, right?) in. “Ladles They
Talk About”? Oh, yes. yes, to see
Barbara on the screen it looks as
if she could and would make a man
kneel at. her feet, eh??? Weil .out
in Hollywood she kneels and obey*
her hubby. Frank Fay, <tf we re
member hightly that is his handle!
| who does as he pleases. They *ay
that she quits In the middle of a
picture in order that she mav be
with Fay at hi* regular lunch period
Furthemore, she stands at street
; corners for hours waiting for her
| red-headed Fay, who has forgotten
that he told her to meet him there.
. . .Now what about that??
MOTHER, I LOVE YOU
Again the Colonel gets space In
this terrible pounding of the keys.
Have you heard about, how he got
out of working his mother’s garden
in the awful heat of a mid summer
day? If so. skip this.
Col. Hatcher Webb was one called
into the house by his mother, who
informed him that her garden need
ed his attention
The Colonel was in a dilemma,
but there is a head on his should
ers. so that thing was brought Into
use. "Mother.” said he, "you know
I love you. don’t you?”
"Yes, Hatcher Dear.”
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In Shelby.
i
•'And you know that I would not
strike you In the face?"
•Yes"
“Well I love old mother earth
end I’m not going to strike her In
the face either!"
—WAKE BRIDGES.
7ioii Unity
BATCHJF NEWS
Randolph Martin on Trip to West.
Bible School Will Begin
Monday.
• Special to The Star.t)
i Zion, July 11.—Mrs. Cl. H Sim
mons is visiting her sister Mrs. Bart
Smith of Columbia. S, C. this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Roberts of
Shelby visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. T. P Cabariss Sunday.
Miss Frances Champion of Galf
ney. S. C., is visiting her cousin
Miss Margaret Martin.
Mrs. Biddle Hanes and children
Harold and Grace of South Moun
tain institute la visiting relatives in
the community.
Mr. Randolph Martin left Satur
day for Illinois and other place* out
west. While away he plans to visit
the World's fair at Chicago.
Miss Jessie Pearl Irvin has re
turned from a week’s visit to her
schoolmate Miss Ema Brown of
Lenoir.
Miss Elaine Wells of Shelby is
visiting her cousin Ml6s Mary Fran
ces Irvin this week
Mr D. B. Simmons and family of
Kannapolis, was a visitor In the
community Sunday.
Mrs. Robert Husley is vlsltlnp
her son Mr. A. J. Husley of Earl
this week.
Mr, and Mrs. Foster Jones of
Lattlmore were dinner guests of
Mrs. C, O. Poston Sunday.
Messrs Hugh Lee Irvin and Mat
thew Simmons has gone to Whit?
Lake with the agriculture boys of
Lattlmore.
Miss Helen Cabantss pf Ross
Orove was the dinner guest Sun
day of Misses Hester and Ruth Cab
antss.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W Irvin. Mr. and
Mrs. R. M Poston and G. T. Caban
tss attended church servtces at Zoar
Sunday.
We will begin a Bible school at
the church next Monday morning at.
9:30. J. W. Irvin will teach the
book of Acts and will continue for
the week.
Mrs. B B. Cabaniss Is very sick.
I Miss Mary Lucas of Shelby and
Miss Georgia Caban Is* spent pari
of last w-eek visiting Mrs. Charles
Cabanls* and family.
Mias Louise Blanton was *he
guest Sunday of Miss Mary Sue
Blanton of Double Springs.
Misses Nelena and Mable Jones of
Ijiltlmore were the dinner gueala
Sunday of Miss Lyda Poston.
The Servant Question.
"How many times have t told
vou that you must no# answer me
back. Norah?" said Mrs. Houae
krep.
“Sure mum. an' Ol ain't an
swerin' yer back." said Norah.
Oi'm answerin’ yer face." —• New
York Times.
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