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Belwood Resident
Receives Injury
To Leg Recently
Mis. Hartman Entertains, Mrs.
Peeler Improves; Personal
Items.
BELWOOD. Dec. 23—Mrs. Theo- !
dore Hartman, was hostess to th;
members of the home circle ot
Knob Creek church Wednesday
afternoon at her home; after the
devotional, and business meeting
the members exchanged Christmas
gifts. The Rev. and Mrs.- H. I\
Fogleman were special guests
The hostess was asst ted in serv
ing and entertaining by Miss Lucy
Willis. The next meeting will be at
the hom# of Mrs. Roy Dayberry in
January.
Friends of Mrs. Jess Peeier wl'l
be glad to knour that she ;s improv
ing at the Shelby hospital
Miss Pearl Gantt has returned
home after spending awhile in
Norfolk, Va„ and Baltimore.
Mrs. W. W. Richard and children.
Ralph and Ruby were the dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs Flank Sam
of Lincolr.ton Sunday.
Bruce Fortenberry hac! the mis
fortune of getting his leg severely
hurt while working at the cottin
gin Saturday.
Thieves are very active in .lie
community. They entered the grain
house of Mrs. Alice Schroder and
took sacks of cotton seed meal and
a lot of wheat and seven sacks of
meal from the Peeler cotton gin
Mr. Webb and Agents
Go To Florida Meet
Pilot Life Club To Have Meeting
In Miami. Florida This Week;
100 To Attend.
Saying farewell to winter-like
surroundings for a few days to
bask in the sunshine of the semi
tropics, C. R. Webb and his family,
Forrest Hamrick and Carl Ray
Webb and wife will spend some
time at Miami, Florida attending
the Pilot Life Insurance company's
24th agency convention.
Mr. Webb, general agent of the
Pilot, Carl Ray Webb and Forrest
Hamrick arc special agents under
the Webb agency and won the trip
to Miami as members of the Pilot
dub. In addition, General Agent
Webb Is to be honored as winning
vice presidency of the McAlister
Clan, the highest honor agency or
ganization of the company. The
Webb agency also wrote the largest
amount of insurance during 1934
than any of the Pilot's other gen
eral agencies.
It is announced that upwards of
10fWepresentatives together with
gu/rts and Pilot officials will make
up the party, scheduled to hold
their convention in Miami, Decem
ber 27, 28,29.
Seaboard Puts On
“Orange Blossom’
Due to the exceptionally heavy
exodus of - northerners to Florida
this season, the "Orange Blossom
Special," leader of Seaboard Air
Line railway's famous fleet of air
ccnditioned trains, made its first
trip from New York and the east
on December 15th. The first trip
last year was on January 2nd.
The "Blossom" sets the high- .
est standards for equipment and '
excellence of service. Only the most |
modern Pullman equipment is in j
|! Its completcmcnt, and although all '
HI special services are available, there
i is no special service charge.
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Students Arrive
In Mooresboro
MOORESBORO, Dec. 24 —Col- ;
lege students who have arrived 1
here to spend the holidays with
their parents and relatives are: j
Misses Mildred Greene and June ;
Evelyn Blanton. Asheville Teachers
college and Miss Julia Scruggs j
Renfro. Boiling Springs junior col- 1
lege; Howard Rollins and James
Lucas, Wake Forest college; L. W
Greene and John Z. McBrayer,
Boiling Springs college; Wade
Bridges, Textile Institute, Spartan
burg.
The annual Christinas tree pro
gram will bi presented at historic
Sandy Run on Monday, Christmas
«ve.
WE
THANK
YOU
For your business during
the past year and wish you
Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year.
FREEMAN’S
SHOE SHOP
Odell Freeman, Jack
Worthy, Ford Bigger
staff, James Overcash
And Shine Boys
Daddy at 1 !
Henry Bert Mullint •
A proud father at It, i- Henry
Bert Mullins, above, of Fort
Worth, Tex. His wife, who is the
same age, presented him with a
fivc-and - one - half - pound baby
daughter. All three are reported
doing nicely.
Waits 45 Years
Get 10 Dollars
From Government
REIDSVILLK, Dec. 23—The U.
S. treasury has sent C. H. Denny a
$10 "Christmas gift" which', he
ould have had 45 years ago.
Denny, 45 years ago. was count
ing the day s receipts of his hard
ware store here when an oil lamp
threatened to explode. He carried
it from the store but burned a hole
In his clothes in the process. In a
pocket was a $10 bill that burned
except for two small corners.
A tew davs ago. he sent the
corners to the treasury with an ex
planation. This week he received a
mica new $10 bill.
Statesville Clerk
Embezzles $3,500
STATESVILLE, Dec. 23.—A check
ip by officials of the Peoples Loan
-nd Savings bank Saturday reveal
'd. it was reported, that the ac
ount of Charles D. Kestler, 40, for
he past 12 years a bookkeeper In
he bank, was out of balance ap
proximately $13,500 and Kestler was
■aid to have confessed that he em
jezzled $3,500 of that amount.
Kestler had been in the employ
if the bank since 1922. Becoming
uspicious of something wrong, bank
?lficials had the books audited to
fay and the $13,500 shortage for
he bookkeeper was revealed.
In his confession of misappro
urifting the money, Kestler stated
hat it had befn going on for some
ime.
Kestler is bonded for $20,000 and
i representative of the bonding
'ompany was here this afternoon,
rhe bank is fully covered by bond
nd insurance.
Auto License Sales
Much In Arrears
RALEIGH. Dec. 23.—OrSy 45.515j
airs of 1935 automobile license
ilat'-s, more than 13.000 behind sales
:£ 1934 plates to this date a year!
go, had been sold in North Caro
ns up to date.
L. S. Harris, director of the mo
tor vehicle bureru, said the plates
were "going mighty slowly" and re
iterated his warning that every au
tomobile must have new plates on
January 1.
At Charleston, a magistrate’s Jury
of six men struck another blow at
South Carolina’s blue laws when it
returned a verdict of not guilty n
the case of 16 competitors in a
walkathon contest. (
r RURAL MAIL BOX BEAUTIFICATION CONTEST WINNERS J
Winning entries in the Rural Mail Box Beautification campaign conducted by the Carolina Motor Club
are shown above. Struthcrs Burt, of Southern Pines, is chairman of the Motor Club’s State Committee on
Highway Beautification in North Carolina, and Mrs. James R. Cain, of Columbia, is head of the South
Carolina group.
1—North Carolina first price winner, mail box belonging to B. B. Britt, R-l, Garner. N. C., before and
after improvement views. 2—Mrs. J. J. McBane, R-2, Graham, N. C., second place', 3^— Miss Mary M.
Moore, daughter of J. D. Moore, R-2, Clinton, N. C., third place; 4—Lula Williams, R-l, Autryville, N. C.,
fourth place.
7—South Carolina first prize winner. J. E. Groce. Lyman. S. C.; 5—Mrs. S. L. CoMsrop, R-l, Fort Mill.
S. C, second place; 6— Mrs. P. P. Hurst, Chesterfield, S. C„ third place.
There were no entries in the group mail box beautification congest and the South Carolina entrants did
not furnish pictures of their boxes before they were improved.
Use 185 Men In 4
New PWA Projects
NORTH WILKESBORO, Dec. 23.
—Approximately 185 men are being
2iven employment on four public
works projects in Wilkes county, it
was leerned here Saturday from R.
L Wooten, director of the national
re-employment office. These em
ployes, on the average, are getting
30 hours of work per week and were
selected from the files of application
[or work by unemployment in Wilk
es county.
The four projects are North
Wilkesboro water works, grading and
structures on five miles of highway
number 16 between Miller Creek
and Jefferson, construction of the
North Wilkesboro postoffice build
ing, and the Reddies River bridge
on the western boundary of this
city.
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‘'Brethren and sisters: This morn
ing, I am going to attempt to de
scribe the indescribable. I am go
ing to speak about the unspeakable.
I am going to explain the unex
plainable and unscrew the un
scrutable,”
*oo ooo(K>oo»«wwfi aaoc
Creeling
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A Merry Christmas
AND
A Happy New Year
of hyo'u
during 1934 and wish for you and your
during the coming year, Health, weaitn
and Happiness.
• THE MANAGEMENT AND
EMPLOYEES
Rogers Motors
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New Text Books
Adopted In N. C.
RALEIGH, Dec. 23.—The state
board of education has adopted a
multiple list of supplementary text
books for use in the public schools
in social sciences, manual arts and
health subjects.
Clyde A. Erwin, superintendent
of public instruction, estimated that
the new pi ices on the supplemental
books will represent a saving of
about 13 per cent below the pres
ent prices for such books.
The superintendent would not es
timate the saving to be had due to
the adoption yesterday of basal
texts In science, geography, and
home economics for use in the high
schools for five years beginning
with the 1935-36 session.
The list of supplementary texts
adopted covered six typewritten;
pages.
Tests have shown that the aver
second, or nearly 60 miles an hour,
age flame speed for a normal spark
plug explosion is about 70 feet a
Four-H club members of Caldwell
county completed 176 projects in
1934 and obtained excellent results
from their work according, to re
port books filed with the county
agent.
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Ecuador Minister
J I 7
Antonio C. Conultt
This is Antonio C. Consoles, of
New York City, who has been ap
pointed minister to Ecuador by
President Roosevelt. Gonzalea
succeeds Rov T. Davis.
SUIT FILED AGAINST
GASTON EXPRESS ROBBER
GASTONIA. Dec. 23—Suit has
seen filed here by the Railway Ex
jress company against Harry Saw
der, alias Harry Beavers, for at
tachment of $2,200 in cash express
money orders and travelers checks
obtained in a hold up of the ex
press office here several weeks ago.
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WE WILL BE
' m
OPEN
for all
CHRISTMAS
DANCES
Eat, Drink and
Smoke with—
Stanley's
SODA SHOP ,
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Season's Greetings
And
AND BEST WISHES FOR YOUR
HAPPINESS and PROSPERITY
. . . In Sincere Appreciation of your
Good Will in the Past
.... and Anticipation of its Contin
uance for the Coming Year.
The Employees of
Bello Stevens Co.
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Give Santa
A Return Ticket
Save up for next year’* Chriatmas chop
ping! Just deposit a few dollars each week
(or month) in a special savings account at
tnia bank. We pay interest, compounded
aemi-annually.
UNION TRUST CO.
. SHELBY, N. C.
FEDERAL 2c TAX ON CHECKS COMES
OFF JAN. 1, 1935.
7or Greater Results In Selling-Try Star Adv.
Christmas in the Eighties
A Wish for Christmas
A WARM fire and a creaking board. Lights and
music and song. Jest and story. Cheerful voices
and wide-eyed children. Bright thoughts. Ro
* mance. Security and a contented heart. This is
our Christmas wish for you, and to it we add the
hope that 1935 will bring you opportunity to
achieve and enjoy in no small measure.
FEDERAL 2c TAX ON CHECKS COMES OFF JAN 1, 1935.
First National Bank