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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 41
YOUNG MEN
MAKE FAST TIME
IN LINCOLN CAR
But On Arrival Here, Ar
rested For Stealing Car
From Employers
Lincoln Car and Two Men
L Taken Back By
I*- Officers
A desire to make a visit to Zeb
ulon where they formerly worked on
Highway No. 90, which was under
construction by Blythe Brothers; of
Charlotte, caused two'young'men to
get in the toils of the law.
On Tuesday morning, »t is said,
that Clyde Irby phoned to a garage
man, in Charlotte, and represented
that he was one of the Blythes and
, said let Irby have the Lincoln car.
A few minutes later Irby and T. B.
Brane, were making preparation to
leave Charlotte, and Irby stated to
a friend that he dras fixing to leave
and perhaps would never be seen in
Charlotte again.
They soon were on the road making
headway for Zebulon.
Later in the day Blythe Brothers
went to the garage for the car, but
was told that Irby had gone off with
it.
Mr. Blythe soon had the wires—
both phone and telegraph—hot in pur
suit, and one sent to the Chief of
police of Zebulon, S. M. Dickens, and
he began to look around to see if
he could learn anything. The Chief
stationed himself at Highway No. 90
and Arendell streets here in Zebulon.
He had not been at the post more
than 10 minutes when the large Lin
coln car in question came along. The
Chief secured a car and began to
follow. At the Norfolk Southern
Station the Lincoln car had to stop
as a train was shifting, and the men
- in the Lincoln car began to make
an effort to turn the car around so
as to come back up Arendell street,
but the Chief stopped the car.
The Chief told the men he wanted
them. They immediately surrendered, j
A wire was sent to Charlotte, and
the answer was hold the men, and
officers would come for them.
Officers from Charlotte arrived
Wednesday about 2 p. m., and took
Irby and Brane, along with the Lin
coln car, baeK to Charlotte. It is I
stated that Irby had been in trouble 1
before, having taken a car only aßbut:
a week ago and went off with it. It j
is said that the men had prepared
themselves with gas, as they had
an extra drum of about 20 gallons
of gas in the car.
It is said that the men stated that
they made the trip from Charlotte
to Zebulon in about five hours.
FEDERAL TAXES ARE
HOLDING UP WELL
With over $5,000,000 federal in
come taxes collected in North Caro
lina during the month of March to
date, Collector Gilliam Grissom esti- ]
mated that about one-third of the
total income tax collections for this
fiscal year is in.
Collections last ye;r were approxi
mately $16,000,000, and the revenues
collector believes they will not fall
far below that figure this year, de
spite the cut in federal taxes.
Although only .one-fourth of the
total income -tax is required to be
paid by March 15, large numbers of
t taxpayers paid the full amount, Mr.
Grissom states. In fact, a larger*
percentage have paid the tax in full,
without bothering with installment
payments, than during any year in
the history of the Raleigh office, he
believes.
Total federal collections in North
Carolina last fiscal year were $167,- 1
000,000. Mr Grissom believes the to- j
tal will go to $19Q,000,000 during
the present year. The bulk of this
is the tobacco taxes.
ATTENTION, MR. MERCHANT
There is an ordinance that requires
all business houses to sweep off the
sidewalks each morning. Attention is
called to the fact that a great many
sweep their store and leave all the
trash on the sidewalks. All trash
should be swept out of the back door,
and if not convenient to do this,
sweep it off the sidewalk and into
the gutter. The trash man will fol
low and take it away.
REPRESENTING FOUR COUNTIES—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH and FRANKLIN
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY SMALL TOWN COMMUNITY PAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA.
DR. OWEN IS
DOING GREAT
WORK IN CITY
Two Services Each Day, AH
Attended By Large
Congregations
Many Have Professed In
Christ, And Many Have
Joined Church
Have you been to hear Dr. Owen
at the Baptist church yet? If not,
you have missed a great deal. It is
likely this community has never had
the opportunity of hearing such
forcefl Gospel message as Dr.
Owen has been giving at these meet
ings. He is a scholarly man, hav
ing travelled extensively, in addition
to a broad university training. He
has held meetings in 41 States in the
Union, spent 10 years in China, been
Educational Evangelist with the Bap
tist Home Mission work of the South
for 7 years, and held important pas
torates in North C-uolina Missouri,
and Mississippi. Those who bo far
have failed to hear him should by
all means attend the few remaining
services at the Baptist church.
Good congregations have been pres
ent at both the day and evening ser
vices. On Monday night, we under
stand, there were 36 or 40 profes
sions. On Wednesday night there
were 12 or 15 additions to the church
and several more last night. We are
sorry more of our business men have
not attended these meetings. Had they
done so, we are sure our town in
every way would have been much
more blessed. Rev. S. W. Oldham,
pastor of the Wendell Baptist church,
is leading the music and this is an
important part of the services. Mrs.'
E. M. Hall, Mrs. Arnold, Miss Daw- j
son and others have added much to
the meetings by special music.
There will be services till Sunday
each day at 3 o’clock in the after
noon and again at 7:30 in the even
ing. We hope our people will make
a sacrifice to attend the remaining
services, if that is necessary. It will
really be worth it from every con-1
sideration. The pastor will admin-1
ister the ordinance of baptism at the i
service on Sunday night. The sub
ject of the sermon for this last ser
vice will be ‘“A Sermon for Every
body” preached by the pastor. Dr.
Owen begins a meeting at Wendell
that night.
FLU EPIDEMIC ABATING
The epidemic of flu, seems to be
abaiting considerably in our commu
nity. We are thankful that no deaths
have occurred. The whooping cough j
has also about spent its force and [
we are hopeful now that spring seems j
to be here to have good health for j
everybody.
A PLEASANT CALLER
Mrs. Bettie Tant, of Franklinton, i
was a pleasant caller at our office I
last Wednesday. Mrs. Tant before j
her marriage was Miss Bettie Jones.
About the year 1884, when the Edi
tor was a small boy, he lived in
Franklin county, near Julius Timber
lake’s store. The Jones’ lived near
by, and at that time we were young
children together. We were glad to
renew our old acquaintance again.
Many old friends of ours—in oiir
young boyhood—live in Franklin
county, and we would be glad to shake
their hands once more. Mrs. Tant
is visiting in Zebulon.
AT METHODIST CHURCH
Regular preaching services will be
held at the Bebulo M. E. church next
Sunday morning and evening. At the
morning service Mrs. E. M. Hall will
sing “The Palms." A short sermon
to the children will precede the morn
ing sermon by the pastor. All mem
bers are urged to attend these ser
vices. Strangers cordially invited to
worship with us. •
E. M. Hall, Pastor.
Mrs. J. D. Drake died at Raleigh,
last Thursday, and the remains were
carried to Rocky Mount for funeral
service and th e interment took place
at the Drake cemetery near- Nash
ville on Saturday last.
The wages of sin is death. No
1 chance there to strike for higher pay.
ZEBULON, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1926.
WILL COMPETE
AS ORATORS
ON APRIL 30TH
National Intercollegiate Or
atorical Contest On
Constitution
Seven Southern States In
Regional Contest Meet
On May 17th
Raleigh has been designated as
the place for both the State finals
and the Southern regional contest' es
the National Intercollegiate Oratori
cal Contest on the Constitution con
ducted under the auspices of the
Better America Federation.
Duke University, Lenior-Rhyne
College and North Carolina State
College will participate in tfce State
contest, which will be held at Ral
eigh on Friday, April 30, and the
winners from seven Southern states
will go to Raleigh for the regional
contest on Monday, May 17.
Professor C. C. Cunningluftn chair
man of the Department of English
and Professor of Public Speaking at
the North Carolina State College has
been named as supervisor for both
contests by Randolph Leigh, of Wash
ington, D. C. the national director.
This is the second annual con
test conducted by the Better Ameri
ca Federation among the colleges and
universities of America for the pur
pose of increasing interest in and
respect for the Constitution of the
United States. The contests are fi
nanced and conducted by the Federa
tion as a contribution toward better
and more intelligent citizenship as a
means of turning college thought and
enthusiasm toward the great and
unending business of government un
j der which America has risen to the
primacy among the nations of the
earth. Every oration in the contest |
deals either with the Constitution it- i
self or with the relation toward the
Constitution of certain great Amer
icans, sucK as Washington, Marshall,
Franklin, Madison, Webster and Lin- j
coin. The entire United States is
| divided into seven major regions; a
■ champion orator for each of these,
districts is chosen by State and reg-1
ional contests; and these seven reg
ional champions meet in a national
contest, which will be held this year <
in Los Angles, California. Prizes j
ranging from S3OO to $2,000 are to .
be awarded to the participants in the
national contest. Last year the con- 1
test was won by Wight E. Bakke, of j
Northwestern University, 111.
The Better America Federation
also conducts similar contests among
high schools of the United States.
The 1925 high school contest was
won by Gilbert Sessions, of Birming
ham, Alabama.
GOOD SALES ON MULES
M. C. Chamblee £ Sons, of Zeb
ulon, the well known dealers in mules
and horses, have had the best season :
this year they have ever had in Zeb- j
ulon. It is said that they have sold J
something like four cars pf mule
this season. They have been adver
tising in the Record very extensively
and this shows what advertising will
do.
In a joking way we were told the ,
other day that they would have to I
stop their ads “because they could
not keep mules on hand.”
• GARBAGE TRUCK
The town has purchased a truck
for the purpose of moving the gar
bage from the residences. Keep all
your trash and other refuse in your
can, so the -truck can get to it con
veniently and without delay. This
garbage truck is at your service and
when you want refuse moved phone
Dr. E. C. Daniel or S. M. Dickens, at
Mrs. Davis’ boarding house, and the
matter will be attended to.
The truck will make regular week
ly rounds when not otherwise called
for.
GUILFORD GLEE CLUB
TO TOUR IN THE EAST
Guilford College, March 20— The
Guilford Glee Club has finished a
strenuous Season of practice and is
ready to leave Monday for its itiner
ary through Eastern North Carolina.
This schedule will take in Roanoke
Rapids, Spring Hope, Hertford, Eden
ton, Woodland and Star.
INCOME TAX
SHOWS THE
STATE RICHER
One And One-half Million
Dollars More In 1926
Than In 1925
An Increase Os About 40
Per Cent Over The
Year 1925
North Carolina is richer by more
than one and one-third million dol
lars- in income tax .collection than
figures for collections for 1926 and
1926 show.
From January 1 to March 19, the
period during which the major por
tion of the income taxes come in, the
collections for 1925 were $3,085,748.-
62. For same period this year, the
collections totalled $4,430,428.42, the
lead’ this year being, in exact fig
ures, $1,344,679.80. In terms of per
centage, it is an increase of about
40 per cent.
Collections so far, in fact, exceed
by more than a half million dollars
the income collections for the entire
lections of income tax collections for
that year were $3,757,000,00.
fiscal year ending Jun 30, 1925. Col-
And this years collections are not
all in. The figure above for 1926
was at the time the books of the
Department of Revenue were closed
for the day. Before the office was
actually closed, approximately SIOO,-
000 additional was ready to be enter
ed on the books. A considerable
of the reports of the deputies of the
department, bearing collections made
by the mare yet to come in.
The number of returns is running
about the same around 27,000 to date
for last year. But the number has
been materially larger, it was stated
Friday at the department.
When the taxes on these extensions
l come in, that will further swell the
j total.
The increase is largely accounted
j for by the increased rates. But
j not antirely it is said by Department
of Revenue officials. The increase
in collections is about 40 per cent,
I and in the rates have, on an average
| hardly boosted more than one-third.
The income tax on corporations
was raised three to four per
cent, or exactly one-third. Tne
minimum individual increase was
from 1 per cent to 1 1-4 per cent,
while the maximum has been increas
ed from 3 per cent applicable on
taxible income over SIO,OOO to 5 per
cent, applicable on taxable income
over $15,000.
BUS COMPANY AGAIN
INCREASES ITS RATES
The Carolina Coach Company, an
organization controlling the principal
bus lines running out of Raleigh, an
nounced another boost in the rates
of travel between Raleigh and Greens
boro, the new scale of tariff having
gone into effect Monday. A general
readjustment on the mileage basis,
according to the State Corporation
Commission, was the reason for the
increase in the rates.
The new rate from Raleigh to
Durham is sl, while the rate from
Raleigh to Greensboro, which was
formerly $2.50 has been increased to
$3. The new rate to Greensboro in
cidentally, costs seven /cents more to
travel by bus than the fare exacted
by the trains.
Officials filed the petition for the
increase in rates with the State Cor
poration Commission, which tempor
arily approved the petition, pending
the hearing of any complaints that
mi|ht arise from the suggested in
crease.
The rates on the Raleigh-Fayette
ville line, which is operated by the
same company, were given a boost
some weeks ago, especially in Har
nett county, where each of the towns
through which the lines operate has
to pay more. However, the rate
south from Raleigh to points in
Wake county was reduced slightly.
Rates from Raleigh to Wilson and
Rocky Mount remain unchanged.
TO BE TRIED IN APRIL
The two boys, Jenkins and Carpen
ter, who burglarized a number of
stores in Zebulon some time ago, will
be tried in Wake Superior Court in
April.
COL. JOHN C.
COOLIDGE LAID to
REST SATURDAY
Buried In The Little Com
munity Cemetery At
Plymouth, Va.
Father Os President Now
Rests In Grave By
Side Os His Kin
Plymouth, Vt., March 20.- Colonel
John C. Coolidge, father of the Pres
ident was laid at rest today. In the
little community cemetery here on a
bleak hillside deep in snow, they bur
ied him among those of his kin who
had passed before him. The Presi
dent and Mrs. Coolidge, their son,
John, representatives of the nation
and state and a few relatives and life
long friends stood in the snow at the
graveside.
At the white farmhouse where
Coloneel Coolidge lived for many
years and where Calvin Coolidge
passed his boyhood, the brief burial
service of the Episcopal church was
read by Rev. John White, of Sher
burne, pastor of the Union meeting
house in Plymouth, where the Col
onel worshipped. Six national
guardsmen acted as body bearers at
the house and cemtery. There was
no eulogy and no music. The ex
pressed desire of the first citizen of
Plymouth that his funeral should be
without ostentation was respected.
The service was held in the tiny par
lor of the farm house, with folding
doors opening to a sitting room as
tiny. The dark grey casket, banked
with flowers, stood but a few feet
from spot where the Colone stood one
early morning to administer to his son
the oath of office as President.
THE DEATH OF TWO SISTERS
A little over a week ago Rev. Mr. I
Davis, pastor of the Baptist church ;
wa ; called upon to conduct the fun-1
oral of Mrs. Ddane near Corinth j
church in Johnston county. Again he I
was asked to conduct another fun-j
eral at the same p'ace last Monday.
This time it was a sister of Mrs.
Doane, Mrs. Mary Price. Both died
of pneumonia, and were sisters of
the Eatman brothers who live in
Zebulon. Each leave two children, a
boy and girl between the ages of 11
and 17. Their fathers are also dead.
SPANISH PAPERS INSPIRE
STUDENT INTEREST AT N. C.
Greensboro, March 19.—Interest in
the Spanish classes at North Caro
lina college has been made more
keen through the encouragement of
students to engage in contests being
directed through the Spanish maga
zine, “La Prensa,” and the Ameri
can Association of Teachers of Span
ish, according to those who have in
charge of the teaching of that lan
guage. Especially is this additional
interest felt in the advanced classes,
it is said.
Six students have been recently en
gaged in preparing papers for the
competition, which for college student
closes the first of next month. Miss
Eva B. Boyd, of Washington, is sub
mitting a paper on “The Cultural val
ise of Spanish.”
ATTENDED CONFERENCE OF
PASTORS AND LAYMEN
Dr. Owen, who is assisting in a
meeting at the Baptist church, and
the pastor, Rev. Theo. B. Davis, at
tended a conference of pastors and
laymen of the Raleigh Association at
Salem church near Apex last Wed
nesday. Some of the most important
leaders of the denomination were
present and the meeting was well
attended.
GROWING COMMUNITIES
HAVE GOOD SERVICE
W. S. Vivian, of Chicago, says:
“Communities cannot grow nor can j
individuals prosper where the public
utility which supplies the people with
an essential service is not a strong
one.”
To prove this statement just try
living in a town or city with a poor
or inadequate electric light plant, tel
ephone, street railway, gas or water
system. You would move away from
such a place.
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STATE TEACHERS
i CLOSE MEETING
AT RALEIGH
'
Endorsed Eight-Months
School Term For North
Carolina
Officers Elected For Ensu
ing Term, Know The
Ropes of Education
Raleigh, March 21.—“ This one
thing we do,” became the slogan of
the North Carolina Education As
scciation yesterday.
Th; one thing is an eight months’
school term for every North Car
olina school child, and to that task
the representatives of the teachers
of a thousand communities dedica
ted their lives, their highest resolves
and their npblest impulses at the
concluding session of the 42nd an
nual convention yesterday.
Dr. Edgar Knight, professor of
education at the university of North
Carolina, was elected president, and
T. Wingate Andrews, of High Point,
was elected vice-president, but their
election was but a formality. They
have served their apprenticeship and
know the ropes of the educational
ladders that leads to leadership.
“We want the issue stated plain
ly and without equivocation,” said
Roland H. Latham, who comes from
the biggest city in North Carolina
none other than Winston-Salem. “Let
there be no doubt about what we
stand for, and that in an eight month
school term for every child. We can
; take care of the details aftsr we get
to the goal.”
STATE AGAIN LEADING
IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY
North Carolina led the nation dur
ing February in the total active spin
dle hours and the average operation
! per spindle in place, according to the
I monthly report on the spinning in
j dustry just issued by the Bureau
| of the Census.
I Massachusetts led in the number
j of spindles in place and in the num
ber of sp ndles active at some time
during the month. North Carolina
was second in both these totals.
Good conditions in the industry
were shown by the report. Based on
an activity of 8.78 hours per day,
the average number of spindles oper
ated during February wa3 38,950-
599, or at 102.8 per cent capacity
on a single shift basis. This percent
age compares with 98.7 for January.
99.5 for December, 96 for November
89.4 for October, 83.8 for September,
and 100.5 for February, 1925. The
average number of active spindle
hours per spindle in place for the
month was 214, but the average in
North Carolina was 305, the best in
the country.
During the month there were 6,-
063.200 spindles in place in North
Carolina, 5,816,274 of which were ac
tive during the month. The total
number of active spindle hours dur
ing the month in North Carolina
was 1,766,643,667.
DR. MORGAN ON
VAC ATION AI, EDUCATION
Dr. Morgan, of New York, in a talk
for vocational training at Raleigh a
few days ago, said that 75 per
cent of persons who are put in our
jails and penitentiaries are illitarates,
or have little education. He also
said that 90 per cent have no trade
or purpose in life. Dr. Morgan ad
vocates more gu.dance in our schools,
and insists that the children be bet
ter prepared for life in our schools.
IS INSTANTLY KILLED
AS SODATOL EXPLODES
Mount Olive, March 20—This morn
ing about 10 o’clock in a field about
one-haif mile from Calypso, three
miles south of here, Frank Koren
gay, a young white man about 26
years of age, was instantly killed
when several sticks of sodatol that
he had in a bucket exploded.
Nebraska man operated on himself
to save a surgeon’s fee and died. The
j man who is his own lawyer may have
a fool for a client, but there are no
words sufficiently comprehensive to
describe the particular folly of the 4
misguided wretch who does a major
operation on himself.
Rocky Mount has now a $430,000
power plant. Last week Mayor L.
L. Gravely turned the button that
put the machinery in motion.