Reporter’s Holiday • \NTALLY on this sentimental date R. E. Blackwelder, A brad dot-and-dasher of the Shelby Don’t Write-Telegraph is compelled, by the exigencies of his job, to work ° )er the auspices of the boy Cupid, as he properly should, mch'i- Lie messenger-god, Mercury. In other words, the ^e-tern Union department of sweet sentiment has written lot of messages for unoriginal swains to send to their !weethearts. All you have to do, if you want to send a flaming song of passion over the wire to that blonde in snartanburg, is shut your eyes and choose Valentine mes irp No. 1. 2 or 3. Mr. Blackwelder then shoots the sugar words over the air, and she’s practically utterly yourn. M least, that's the theory of rawh making Western Union. We ]r t been keeping an eye on this ,nrt of thing for years, and it , uches us deeply to know that such ‘eat corporation should be so tn R.sted in our love affairs. This year, to our disappointment, the1 greetings are, to put it mildly. Ii0t so hot. W. U. poets have de fended to such guff as this: -Through all the years, come rain or shine, j i; always be your Valentine And lines like: At miles between us we can laugh. 0lir hearts entwined by telegraph We ought to help Mr. Black wel der out on this business—he’s been »ry nice about staying up night to end nut press stories. So we've con cocted a few Httle messages, right p; i of our own head, and we offei them without copyright to Mi riackwelder—or George Wray or Bob McDowell, W. D. Lackey, or ’J. L Austell. For instance: Won't you marry me semicolon My poor heart with love Is swollen And this one. w-e think, has a ly : c touch: Oh. my darling, dearest comma Won t you be my red hot momma Then we might say: My whole life Is out of joint 1 can't live without you exclamation point. Or, if you want to be nasty: The meanest gal I ever necked (jets this by W. U.—collect, Valentines to Hollywood should seed like this: Mae Western Union tell you I'm Crain upan' seeya sometime. The advertising department sug gests: ! Ah, punctuation it's no good It's colossal words we need for food. And. just to sign off in a burst of [ poetic splendor, here’s one that touches the heart: Pleate don’t keep me in the dark Won't you be mine O question mark? MIKl,BY SHORTS. In the article we earned several .vites back about the colored burial oriety, the unfortunate mistake of ghing the wrong man credit for or ganizing the league was unlntentlon ally made. Samuel Davis, who is president of the association, made a special trip into town just to ask us to correct the error. He wants it understood that it was he, not f local undertaker who started the cork. So w-e are hereby apologizing ior the slip, and are giving full nedit to Samuel Davis. A thousand pardons, Samuel. And what about the young mar* ' ho smashed a car windor with hie read a few nights ago . .. This telyum has never heard the full particulars but we wonder . . Mountain, Rutherfordton and »round by local sheiks dating up for ihe dance Friday night. . . . and ov the way, who Is the heftiest weight) man on the Shelby po lice force?. . . . Suggestion for a CWa project: banking the curves on the court square sidewalks, so that the youngsters can take them taster on skates. . . . Alvin fropst, the scoutmaster, owns the only red car we know of in Shelbv What! more rumor of an approach ■ng wedlock to come off sometime a ter in the spring. . . . What has happened to the street clean tng machine that the city used to j '■wploy? .... Looks like it is! 'mpossible to hold a fight program | here without some of file fighte'sj ahing to make an appearance. U is not only hurting the repufa tion of the promoters, but also the boxers themselves. . . . Tubby ho?an, the Oak Ridge cadet, in t0*n. . . . if it is possible to judge the return of prosperity by the number of new cars- on the streets, then the president’s new heal has accomplisher something —Pete. S<H THING AROUND. Rudisill will learn here that h: voice carries strangely loud in hotel lobbies . . . and that he was bustaken about the authorship of Shelby Shorts. . . . If Shelby mer ehants scanned your check more furiously than usual Saturday, it "because Everett Houser went to bat in a hurry to inforai C. of C ‘Corners that there were forgeries ln to'An' . It's become a common. h'-actire with state checks. . . CV'A I '■or'.ms here are paid off with Fed ' "fe checks, s gned by Alice Good-' j Kiog, assistant disbursing officer, j ■ Tom Dixon practised oratory as j * boy by building a platform ln the | food* and harranging the tree*-. ,r,n Clyde R Hoey used to starve on the bed and make political' speecnes to ms lamuy. . . wui r,w bank, rampant wet of Henderson ville, who never touched a drop In bis life, sent such a hot message to rates Webb that we are afraid to deliver it. . . .In spite of the fact ;hat Lee Weather’s first Job was secretary to Congressman Webb * ho was nominated by a member of >ur own family. . . . What Cleve land county health officer will be onely for three weeks? . . . There's it least one copy of “Ulysees,” snce banned as smutty in the U. S., ,n Shelby, which will be enjoyed by Hhas. Keel if he can get it out of :he postoffice. ... It isn’t hard to aelieve that a very pretty gal in the ;ourt house could have been a luchess If she hadn’t preferred cot ton to gasoline. . . Best index to prosperity we know 1? the Slat. Eve Post: their advertising goes up and down like a barometer. , .. Worst Informed publication on foreign af fairs is Time, which is a joke to European correspondents and dip lomatic attaches. Remember their borer on the ambassadorship to Moscow? . . . And the McKnights will tell you their Cuban news is fictional. Dr. Wolfe brought 60 actors from Germany with his Passion Play in 1926, but moot of them deserted within a year because they couldn't endure American food. . . Six men who have played the Christushave gone crazy, and the current actor says he will quit soon. . . . The Le gion lost almost $100 on the show here, and did you know there al most wasn’t any performance on Thursday night? . . . The Housers are friends of Peggy Wood’s, the introduction having been made by a pet racoon they took to New York some years ago. ... The Hoey and Wray boys—just enough for a foot ball team. . . . Since you’ve been so curious about it, the fellow who ex pected to see President Roosevelt at the Birthday ball here was Wess Horton, who’s trying hard to get on the CWA. : . . Bob Hord, inciden tally, is pulling his family tree up by the roots. . . Oh, yes, we knew the story behind the story at Eton. , . . . Hatcher Hughes of Cleveland county, who sprang into fame by winning the Pulitzer prize with ‘Hell Bent for Heaven,” hasn’t had a successful play since and is still teaching playwrighting at Columbia Dorton denies he was worried but he made it one of the most inter esting we ever had. , . He has a [ farm in Connecticut where he un successfully tried to raise chick-• ens. . . . With a name like Hatcher! j George Denny, another Car olina playmaker, started in N. Y. acting a bit part in Paul Green's "In Abraham's Bo6om” and is now manager of Town Hall and going. great guns.Thomas Wolfe of j Asheville, who wrote "Look Home- j ward Angel” was teaching at N. Y.: U. when last we heard.Doc j Dorton denies h ewas worried, but: if more CWA money hadn’t beenf grtiiiLeu uy cuiigre&a, wuuiuxi c vui county fair have been left up in j the air with the work half done?} . . . They say the Doc counts every' nail that goes Into that Job. Shelby's handful of prize-fighters are on the spot, not knowing wheth er to string with the Red Men ci the Armory and neither place get ting a crowd. . . . We'd suggest holding the prize fights Thursday nights.At two bits a throw, you don’t have to wait until pay day. . . . And why doesn't somebody gamble on bringing in some outside names to give the racket a boost1! . . . . Our bet is a couple of heavy-' weight wrestlers would draw. . Recommended: that Shelby clerks learn to say something besUlea "Hurry back.” We decline to hurry , . . Our greatest disappointment. t that we weren't in Shelby when Ceph Blanton’s coons got loose and scampered all over town. ... In the, home of a Shelby official who’s been in the public print and eye a great deal recently there is a room on the floor of which. In the grain of the 21-year-old wood, is the pei [ect head of a woman. We could be bribed to tell the peculiar thing you have to do to see this lady. . . And going the rounds is the yarn of the wife who gave her husband a sur prise birthday party and the exotic thing he did while blindfolded. . . Ask Pitt Beam.Joe, of Jim's Place, is a Creole, in case you won dered, and knows how to cook N’Yaleans dishes.Observer and News fighting for Shelby circuit’, tion. . . . Forrest Eskridge owns the log cabin In which the ftrst Esk ridge settled when he came here from Virginia. . . . And is the ree<uv author of a short history of row Dixon and Cleveland county. . . Jack Cash, who had fun with .he preachers in a recent issue of the Mercury, was delighted when n mid-western parson preached a sermon about him and called bin’ a Fundamentalist. E. C S. Bari Community News In Brief Son Born To Mr. And Mr*. Mill* Camp; Min Banyan Recovered. Min Earle At Home. (Special to The Star.) Earl, Feb. 14.—Mr. and Mrs. Mills Clamp announce the arrival of an 1 1-2 pound son. Node Eugene, on Friday Feb. 9th. Mother and baby ire doing nicely Miss Thelma Earle, teacher at Clarmont, spent the week end here with home folks. Mrs. Sue Phillips returned to her tome in Charlotte Saturday after (pending several days here with her sister, Mrs. E. H. Sepaugh. Mrs. John 8anders of near Hick Dry Grove, 8. C.. is visiting her laughter, Mrs. Mills Camp, and Mr. Camp. Mrs. George Bridges of Orover Is tere at. the bedside of her daugh ter. Mrs. M. A. Francis who Is sick nrlth flu. Miss Grace Runyan went to Gas onla Tuesday for an examination at the Orthopaedic hospital. Friends of Miss Queen Runyan will be glad to learn that she is ible to be out again after having jeen confined to her home here for the past several weeks. Miss Run van will return to her work at Lln :olnton' Saturday. Those attending the funeral of little Richard Moss at Grover Sun iay were: Mrs. Alice Moss and son, Ftufus, Mrs. D. J. Moss, Misses Wll )um, Elva and Hilda Moss and rom Moss. Miss Mary Sue Austell returned borne Friday night after spending ,ast week with relatives at Green ville. 8. C. Mrs. L. M. Cline of Greenville, S 3. attended the funeral of Mrs. Elva Borders here. Friday. Fallston News Of Current Week Mr. And Mrs. Bingham Announce Birth Of Son: H. S. Cline 111; Lackey At Meeting. (Special to The Star.) Fallston, Feb. 14.—Mr. and Mrs Settys Bingham announce the birth of a baby boy Thursday. Both mother and baby are getting along nicely. Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Scott, and Rev. W. A. Elam of Shelby were the dinner guests Sunday of Mr ind Mrs. Clem Hoyle. Miss Viola Wright who is nurs ing In the Rutherford hospital spent the week-end with her par snts, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wright. The following were the dinner ruests of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Sweesy Wednesday: Mrs. Molly Lucas and laughter, Mary. Mrs. Dewey Whte nant. of Shelby and Mrs. Grier Martin and children, Marlyn and W. A. Walter McSwain of near Wacc spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Cline Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Melton ol Glen Alpine and Miss Alice Scotl were the dinner guests Sunday ol Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stamey and temily. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Costner and familv of Double Shoals were th« Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J r. Royster and children. Mr. and Mrs. R C. Moore ol Rutherford cnuntv spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Clar pnc« T ee Hoyle and family Ben Boggs of Seattle. Washing ton Is spending some time with hi* *ousln, Max Boggs. Miss Sara Cole of Canton spent the week-end with Miss Alice Falls. Mr. and Mrs Evan Stamey and ion. Fvan. 1r.. of Shelby. Carl Lee rf Lawndale. G. L. Cornwell of near Lawndale and Clarence Stamey were the Sundav afternoon guesta >f Mr and Mrs Claude Stamey. Mr and Mrs. Ferman Sellars spent the week-end with relatives in the Beams Mill communitv. H S Cline continue seriously 11 at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. John Hoyle and family spent Sundav afternoon with Vfr. and Mrs Bill Fortenburv of Shelby. Mr. and Mrs Warren Martin re turned home Saturday after spend ing several we»ks with her narents. Mr and Mrs. A M Hoyle of Beams Mill. Dr. and Mrs W J Lackey left Sundav to attend p medical meet ng In Charlottesville Va. They ex Dect to return sometime during the iatter part of this week. Misses Edna and Viola Wright ioent Saturday night with Mr and Mrs. Ray Wilson of near North Brook. Misses Johnnie Fortdnbury spent 3aturday night with Mrs. Alice Eskridge. Many people from he-s attended ;he singing at Lawndale Sundav. Jol"”' Alrrv 1 ••■•d" Victim "r* Winston-Salemh. FeV * ■practical joker-’ a’mos> >d ‘ ' [o death here yesterday. TV ’ic tlm appeared at a local -drug ‘-ore and bought two dozen bich’<*r!de o' mercury tablets. As he started c [he (^rii" clerk casually inquired to their intended use. “I’ve had a terrible headache all Shelby Man Brings Long Lost Mother Home With Him i _ !Return* Friday Afternoon: DO Year Old Mother Make* Trip From Alabama. I J. W. Thurkill returned from Ala ibama last Friday, bringing with him his 80 year old mother whom he had thought dead for years. Thurkill, through a chance ex change of letters, located his moth er and sisters, all of whom he had lost track of, and several days ago, left with his children to visit them. His mother, who will be 80 years old November 10. Insisted upon re turned with him. Despite her ad vanced age, Mrs. Thurkill enjoyed the trip thoroughly, and according to Thurkill, wasn’t the least bit tired upon its completion. Thurkill's father died when the Shelby man was only two years old, and while in Alabama. Thurkill visited the old log cabin in which his father was born. He also saw the other five living children for the first time In 35 years. Mrs. Thurkill plans to live with her son the remainder of her life. ! Upper Cleveland News Of Interest MhiIm Epidemic Die* Out. Mrs. John Whlsnant Improving Aft er Lone lines*. i Special to The Star.) Casar, R-l, Feb. 13.—The measles epidemic has died out, but many people have bad colds. Mrs. John Whlsnant Is slightly Improving aft er a long Illness with pneumon'a Mrs. Dulla Whlsnant Is Improving also. Miss Dayberry. the trained nurse who stayed with them return ed to her home. Buford Richards of Lawndale spent Wednesday night with O. W Self. Mrs. Evle Padgette and son Rush of CUffside, spent Friday night, with Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Whlsnant and Saturday night with Mrs. 8al lie Whlsnant Mrs. Lonnie Price Is able to be out after being sick with sore throat. Mr. and Mrs. John 8. Hunt spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Shut! Lane of Lawndale. Misses Marie Hunt and Winnie Whlsnant spent Thursday with Misses Olin and Wilma London of Hollis R-l. Mrs. A. C. Brackett of Casar. vis Ited her mother Mrs. Druella Whls nant Sunday afternoon. Miss Nell Padgette of Cllffslde spent the week end with Misses Winnie and Pauline Whlsnant. Mrs. Leona Hunt and son Hoyt spent several days with her aunt Mrs. Ben Gamble of First Broad community. "lint Hill New* Of Week l*«. Charlie Padgett Preaches. Birth Announced. Qnfltlng Party Enjoyed. « <8pecial to The Star.) i Flint Hill, Feb. 13_Saturday | and Sunday were our regular preaching days. Rev. Charlie Pad gett brought a very inspiring mes sage. Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Blanton spent : Wednesday night with Mr. and (Mrs. George Brooks near Star town. [Mrs. Brooks and son, Winford, re sumed home with them and spent | a few days. i Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. H (Scruggs on February 1, a fine son. Mrs. Cynthia Lovelace of Pat terson has been spending awhile with her sister, Mrs. John Ham rick. [ Mrs. Bert Hamrick had an old jtime quilting Friday afternoon. .Those present were Misses Slssle and Lillie Blanton, Mrs. Alvin Blan ton, Edna, Gertie and Bertha Ham jrick, Mrs. Monroe Green, Mrs Henry Pearson. Miss Lillian Cfhil !ders. Miss Beatrice Blanton, Mrs. i Luther Ayers. After the quilting, re freshments were served. Those spending the day with Mr and Mrs. W. E. Bridges last Sat urday were Mrs. Vel Weaver and daughter, Darcus, Mrs. Lois Ledbet ter and children. i Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harrill visited I Mr. and Mrs. Jap Pearson Sunday Mrs. Bert Hamrick and daugh iter. Vernie, were the spend the day (guests Monday of Mr. and Mrs. John Hamrick. Mr. and Mrs Durion Putnam and | family spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. D. Blanton. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Bridges j spent a few days last week with I Mr. and Mrs. Joe Anthony of Pop jular Springs. Mr. W. E. Bridges spent Sunday (night With Mr and Mrs. Clarence ' Martin at Walls community. day, and John told me If I’d take | on* of these every hour I’d get cer I f»;n relief.” replied the customer, i Trembling and pale, the phnrma ! i*t informed the customer of the M'uv4 o' hi purchase. And the unidentified joker was saved pos sible charges of murder. % * ! Points Where Riots Flamed in Paris An aerial view of a section of Paris, showing the various points at which rioting broke out in crisis that caused fall of Daladier Cabinet. Seine River (1): Pont d« la Concorde (8); Place de la Concorde (3); Champs Klysees (4); Tuitleries Cardens (6); American Embassy (fl); Hotel Crillon (7); Ministry of Marine (H); Rue Royals. (9); Avenue ds L’Opera (10). and Chamber of Deputies (11) Smith To Request Extension Of Time On Cotton Options South Carolina Senator Will Auk Hoad line Bo Sot At July SI Instead Of Juno SI. Washington, Feb IS.—Chairman Smith of the senate agriculture committee said yesterday he plan* ned to Introduce a Joint resolution authorizing Secretary Wallace to extend the time for exercising cot ton pool options from July 31, 1934 to June 31, 1936. This would allow farmers who accepted options on government cotton as part payment for plow ing under their growing crop last summer an additional year In which to realize on their holdings: Smith said the "prospects for compe cotton reduction, togeth er with the Increased world demand promises a much higher price than now obtained and farmers who hold options are entitled to every par ticle of any possible advance." Smith pointed out the recent rise In cotton market prices and that extension of the time limit on the options would not only enable fanners to hold for an even bet ter market but would prevent the "dumping” of options at a time "Carte Blanche” “Fill In your own amount,’' in, In effect, what the management of the Boston Braves said to "Rabbit” Maranvillo, 42-year-old shortstop, in giving him a blank contract “Rabbit” signed, and President Emil Fuchs declared he probably would have offered $1,500 more that **»• modest shortston demanded when the market waa going up. ‘‘The distressed condition of these farmers will be hnmensely relieved by this increased prlca of cotton," Smith said. “The administration. I am sure, will welcome any sug gestion that can add to their re lief in any practical way.” Dogwood Festival To Express Life Annual Event To Be Non-Stork Oor» ration; To Ro Hold la April At Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, Frb. IS.—Incorpora tion of the Dogwood Festival Into a non-stork corporation to give ex pression to the life of the people through music, drama, dnnclng, games, exhibitions and other ac tivities considered germane to the people has been effected, According to announcement, from the office of Secretary of State, Stacey W. Wade in Raleigh The new corporation will hold Its second annual festival In Chapel Hill Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 13, 14 and 18. Exhibitions of folk arts and crafts will be on dis play Friday nnd Sunday. The chief day of the festival, Saturday, April 14, will be featured by those games, folk plays, dances, contests, musi cal performances which It Is the purpose of the festival to perpetu ate. Growers of early truck crop* tn Brunswick county hsve pooled their orders for Irish potatoes and snap bean seed and hsve arranged for a trucking company to trans port their produce to market this spring. Use Colloidal Phosphate High Quality — Low Cost -— Source Of Phosphoric Acid Guaranteed Analysis— TOTAL PHOSPHORIC ACID.. 20% BONE PHOSPHATE OF LIME . 50% Below is an exact copy of a letter received by D. A. Beam Company from Mr. E. F. McKinney:: Shelbv. N. C. September 15, 1933 I purchased three tons of Colloidal Phosphate in the spring. I thought it would be of interest to Cleveland county fanners fo know that I received good results from Colloidal Phosphate. 1 could have actually saved $400.00 on my fertilizer by using Colloidal in the mixture for my entire crop instead of 16'< acid phosphate; besides my crop is better fruited where I used the Colloidal Phos phate. ' e. f. McKinney Get Your Colloidal Phosphate from the following dealers in Cleveland County: O. E. FORD CO., Shelby, N. C. CLAUDE C. FALLS, Fallston, N. C. VICTOR GIN CO., Kings Mountain, N. C. J. L. HERNDON, Grover, N. C. D. A. BEAM CO., Shelby, N. C. Gopher Swallows Defeated Rattler Sarasota, FI*. PVb. 13.—There u an old tradition In Florida that a gopher snake can lick a rattlesnake. Ray Richardson, real estate bro ker, and John Martin, cattleman, now not only vouch for that but add that the gopher snake can eat up the rattlesnake and feel pretty good about it. And further, they flght for an audience. Richardson and Martin were out looking over cattle land. To be ex act they were In township SO ot Sars-srtta county. In a little gully, with not more than an Inch of water in It. they report they saw a large gopher snake, his eyes fixed upon the op posite end of the gully. looking there they saw another large gopher snake in deadly com bat with a diamondback rattler. The rattler would raise his head and alnk his fangs Into the gopher snake's neck. The gopher snake would ooll around the upraised por tion of the rattler and squeese and writhe. Then they would break and clinch again. Richardson and Martin aay they watched the fight for M minutes. Then the rattler, plainly tiring struck only to have his head land In the gopher snak's open mouth Slowly the gopher drew several inches of the rattler within him Then he dragged his adversary out of the mud and when Martin and Richardson left was in the process of swallowing him with every evi dence of emjoyment. The second gopher enake never interfered for a moment In the fight—nor did he seem to demand as much as a taste of the apolle of victory, Forsyth fanners report more winter plowing done to date than In many previous years. Many growers have carefully terraced their lands. WATCH FOR EFIRD’S Two-Page Circular THURSDAY SALE Friday - Saturday And Every Day Next Week l4dlM' Bedroom support . tie Men’* Dram Oxford* ..... IlM Children’s School Shoe* .... Me Ladle*' Sport Oxfords .... 81-95 (.•dies' Dress Slippers .... (Ml I.*dies' Novelty Shoes .... (Ml Boys' and Girl*' Shoes ... *1-98 (.•dies’ Pumps and Tlss .. 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