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VOLUME 2, NUMBER 5
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PROGRESS STORY
Says Norfolk South
ern Getting In
Better Shape
With New Locomo
tives And Laying
Heavier Track
Vass, July 10.—Last week two of
the Norfolk Southern Railroad offi
cials were in the Sandhills and they
told a story of progress and of ex
pectation. F. P. Pelter, General Man
ager, said the road had bought more
than a dozen big new locomotives, and
is putting down heavier track and
extensive ballast, and getting in much
better shape for traffic. Superinten
dent J. S. Cox spoke of the business
that is originating in this county and
his expectation of much more. A
thousand cars of sand mont*rty out of
Moore county is no bad business, but'
along with that is going a lot of other
new stuff that has been developing j
recently, the advance shipments of
building stone included. The road
will handle some 3,000 cars of freight
for the new dam that is to be built
over on the Yadkin by the Carolina
Power and Light Company, and
with it more freight will be moved |
by reason of the expansion over in
Montgomery that building the new
dam will stimulate. The peach sea
son is about to open, and the Norfolk
Southern will handle hundreds of cars \
of fruit in the next six weeks. Its
brick and tile traffic is picking up
marvelously. Mr. Cox said that the I
business of the road between Colin 1
and Norwood is coming to be about j
the most favorable of any section of 1
the line, and that here between the
Cape Fear and the Yadkin rivers the j
Norfolk Southern is looking for in
dustrial expansion that will hardly be
surpassed anywhere in the State.
The Norfolk Southern has had its
hard lines and has come through only
by the hardest kind of work. But
it is coming, and it is gratifying to
know that Moore county is doing as
much to contribute to the road’s pros- |
perity as any section on its lines, for j
the road is also doing a lot to keep
things moving here. In all the North
ern and Western quarters of the coun
ty the Norfolk Southern is the main
stay of transportation in the county,
and that being the case, it is a vital
factor in community existence. That
things are coming the road’s way in
the county means that it will earn
more money and be encouraged to put
forth more vigorous effort to develop
that part of the county which it now
serves. The Norfolk Southern is a
highly valuable asset to Moore county,
and that it is growing more able to
carry on its work and is getting a ,
steadily increasing patronage are both
matters for general satisfaction in all
the county. Nothing could be more
phophetic of the substantial growth
and development of the parts of the
county served by this road.
TOWNSHIP SUNDAY SCHOOL
MEETS AT SAMARIA
The Township Sunday School Con
vention will meet with the Samaria
church on next Sunday afternoon, July
18th, at 2 p. m. We are planning for
this to be a meeting of much help
to the Sunday school workers who
attend.
Program
Song Service —For everybody.
Scripture reading.
Prayer.
Remarks—By chairman.
Sunday school reports.
Appointment of committee.
Quartett —By Dr. J. B. Wright and
others, of Raleigh.
Sunday school and its objects —by
Rev. Theo. B. Davis, of Zebulon.
Song—Tne Sunday School Teacher
and His Opportunities, by Dr.
J. B. Wright.
Song.
Election of Officers. v
Report of Committee on time and
place of next meeting.
Adjourn.
Three American companies recently
opened factories in the Canary Islands
for the making of articles for the
hand-embroidered work of the natives.
The Zebulon Record
REPRESENTING FOUR COUNTIES—WAKE. JOHNSTON, NASH and FRANKLIN
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY SMALL TOWN COMMUNITY PAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA.
REVIVAL ON AT
M. E. CHURCH
With Growing Inter
est and Increasing
Attendance
The revival is on at the Methodist
church h*>re with growing interest and
increasing attendance. Rev. J. A.
Russell is preaching the old time gos
pel with power und the congregations
are delighted with his messages. A
feature of the meetings is the splendid
! music led by Mr. D. L. Maness. A
great interest in Bible reading is be
, mg stimulated, at each evening ser
i vice a report is made by those pres
| ent as to the number of chapters of
| tne Bible read each day. The first
I report on Tuesday evening showed
one hundred and twelve chapters had
been read on that day. The attend
ance is such that the indications are
j that the church will not hold the
| crowds at night by the end of the
week. The ten o’clock service in the
! morning is well attended and a fine
spiritual meeting is enjoyed. The pub-
I lie is cordially invited to all services.
The meetings will continue through
to W e dnesday of next week.
SUBMITS REPORTS
OF CASES TRIED
One hundred and nine persons were
convicted by juries and 2.37 pleaded
guilty to violation of the Federal pro
hibition, narcotic and morality laws
in the Eastern District of North Car
olina during the fiscal year which
ended June 30, 1926, according to the
j report forwarded Washington from
the office of the United States Dis
trict Attorney.
These offenders were fined $31,-
227 and sentenced to jail, prison or
reformatory terms totalling more
than 50 years.
The report shows 563 criminal
cases of all sorts started in the Fed
eral courts of Eastern North Caro
lina and 597 cases terminated during ,
the fiscal year, which means that the |
courts more than kept pace with the
docket.
Os the cases terminated. 118 were!
terminated by jury convictions, 981
by acquittals, 96 by nolle prosses, and
285 by pleas of guilty.
Os the cases terminated, four were
internal revenue cases, 40 postal cases
25 commerce cases, 509 prohibition,
narcotic or morality cases, three in
surance cases and four banking cases.
Total fines assessed in Eastern
North Carolina were $34,435.69;
total fines collected were $29,810.01.
The following sentences were re
ported to the Attorney General:
For violation National prohibition
law: nine years, three months and
five days in United States peniten
tiary; 26 years in Jail; three years
in reformatory. Total 37 years,
three months and five days.
For violation National narcotic
laws: six years and three days in
United States penitentiary; seven
months in jail. Total six years, seven
months and three days.
For violation white slave laws: six
years in United States penitentiary.
For violation postal laws: 15 years
and two days in United States peni
tentiary; one year and eight months
in jail; four years in national
Training School. S
For larceny from interstate com
merce: one year in reformatory.
Miscellaneous: One year in United (
States penitentiary.
Sentences imposed during the
year in cases that terminated during
previous years: One year and two
months in jail.
Grand total of sentences imposed: j
75 years, eight months and 10 days.
THE WAKEFIELD SUNDAY
SCHOOL GIVES PICNIC
Those who attended the Wakefield
Sunday school picnic had a nice time
last week at Pullins Park. The Sun
day school furnished the truck and
cars for all that did not have ways
of their own to go. Everybody car
ried picnic baskets, well filled With
all the good things to satisfy the in
nerman. Fruit and lemonade was
served, and everybody left declaring
they had a very nice time.
Greece is placing a tax on every
kind of trade or profession.
ZEBULON, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1926
TOWER AT
■ STATE COLLEGE
Has Nothing On The
Summer School
Held There
Which Grows Larger
With Each Pass
ing Summer
The memorial tower at State Col-
I lege, Raleigh, that grows higher and
higher with each passing year has
nothing on the summer school at I
State School which grows larger and j
larger with each passing summer.
I,ast summer 750 summer students ■
looked upon a shaft that had hardly .
more than begun to rise up from j
its base. This summer there are 910 j
summer school students to look upon |
the sizable looking shaft that has
I been built by the funds of loyal alum-1
j ni in the interim.
The basis of the summer school
at State College is the six weeks
[ term with definite instruction in sub-i
i ject matter and in professional!
courses, both for college credit and
I for certificate credit. The majority
I of those who come for the six weeks
course in school work are men and
women engaged in secondary school
work.
The enrollment for the six weeks
term is steadily increasing, and the
col'ege authorities are anxious to
build up the summer school patronage
j among thoughtful and mature men ;
! and women. Os the 153 teachers en
| rolled this summer, 67 are women
j who are taking courses in education,
English, modern languages and the
sciences.
In addition to the six weeks term,
there are short courses for special
groups. Recently 180 farm women
from a half hundred North Carolina
counties spent a week at State Col
lege. They studied poultry raising,
! gardening, clothing, house furnishing,
| arts and crafts.
) Following the women’s short cours e
| were the teachers of vocational agri- j
j culture in the Farm Life schools of the
State, who came for two weeks of :
technical and professional instruction, j
On July 1 and 2, the science con
ference was held in connection with
the summer school. More than 200
people were in attendance.
The largest short course group to
attend State College were the farm !
club boys and girls who were 400
strong last week. They were given
instruction in special courses relating
particularly to farm work.
There are three distinct fields in
which State College is called upon
for teachers—teachers of the indus
trial arts, teachers of science and
athletic coaches. Three definite courses
are being given with this in mind.
Altogether it seems to be quite a
busy place at State College, and there
will be few days during the summer
that there will not be enthusiastic
students to gather inspiration from
the gray marble shaft that is going
up to commemorate what Ctate Col
lege did in the World War.
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE ,
-_A protective tariff maintains a par
ity between workmen here and abroad,
and helps pay legitimate federal ex
penses. But a tariff-for-revenue is
a deadly proposition. America has a
“protective tariff” for its workmen,
farmers and industries. England has
a “tariff-for-revenue” which cripples
its industries and workmen.
W. M. S. MEETING
On Monday afternoon the Woman’s
Missionary Society held its regular
monthly meeting at the Baptist church i
The program, which was in charge of |
Mrs. Theo. B. Davis, was on the sub- j
ject of Africa, with special emphasis :
placed on Nigeria. Those taking part j
on the program were Mrs. Needham
Pitts, Mrs. W. K. Phillips, Mrs. A. C.
Dawson and Miss Vivian Dawson.
After the program a social hour was
held, and refreshments, consisting of
iced tea with cheese straws and rai-'
sin and pimento sandwiches, were
served by Mrs. Dawson, the hostess
for the afternoon. She was assisted
in serving by Misses Crystal Davis
and Vivian and Erma Dawson.
! ITALY, JAPAN
! USE COTTON
Forcing To Front As
Consumers Os The
American Cotton
Three Hundred Per
Cent Increase Os
The Exports
Italy and Japan are rapidly forcing
| their way to the front as consumers
'of American cotton, according to a
i study just completed by the Bureau
]of Railway Economics into the rela
i tionship of transportation costs to
| cotton prices and made public last
I week.
| Cotton exports to Japan have in- i
! creased nearly three hundred per cent |
I during the past five years compare-el :
| with those from 1906 to 1911, while I
I there was an increase of nearly twen-j
| ty-two per cent for Italy. Exports I
to Great Britain during the past five-.
years showed a decrease of more than |
i forty-three per cent compared with
those for the period from 1906 to 1911,1
| *
while cotton exports to Germany has
shown a decrease of thirty-eight per !
cent and to France, a decrease of
twenty-four per cent. On the basis
of the number of bales of cotton ex- ,
ported from the United States, how- j
ever, Great Britan, Germany, and
France are still in the lead in the !
order named.
The study further shows that the
; freight rates do not retard the move
i ment of cotton into either domestic
or foreign markets, and that freight
rates represent relatively a small pro
portion of the price even on long
hauls. Freight rates constitute a
small factor in price determination and
do not cause the fluctuations in the j
price of cotton, that take place almost
constantly.
A summarization of the study in
dicates:
1. That there are marked fluctua- !
tions in the prices paid producers for
cotton, which occur from week to week
j month to month, anil season to season.
2 That the fluctuations are not uni
form at points in th e same general
! territory.
3 That the fluctuations exceed the
! freight rotes even to the most distant
consuming centers.
4. That freight rates do not cause
the fluctuations in price.
5 That freight rates are a small
factor in price determination, and do
not retard the freedom of movement
of cotton into either domestic or for
eign markets.
6. That the freight rate is relatively '
a small proportion of the price, even .
on long-distance hauls.
Reports from 103 cotton shipping
points show- that for the 1925-26 sea- ,
son, there was a spread in the price
of middling cotton ranging from $3.26
per hundred pounds at Duke, Okla
homa, to SIO,OO at Forest City, Ar
kansas. In the great majority of
cases, the ssiead in price over the
three reasons was in excess of ten
times the freight rate to Fall River,
Massachusetts which has remained
practically stationary. For the 1926-
26 season alone, the spread was un
usually more than four times the total
freight rate.
The study further shows that at
many points there was a fluctuation
in prices from week to week with j
variation in prices on the same day at j
different points in the same producing
territory.
SAYS IT IN PLAIN ENGLISH
Former Secretary of State Chas. E.
Huges asks the government to fol
low a hands-off policy in regard to
oil, unless Congress, by amending
anti-trust laws, will allow voluntary
co-operation between private oil pro- |
ducers if steps to limit output appears
essential.
He declares the nation “does not.
face sudden failure of oil,” arid that 1
the industry, if left to its own de- j
vices, will work out the problem in
best interests of producer and con- j
sumer, by scientific research and use
of modern inventions.
After being a problem for Iraq dur
ing the past year, the nearly 20,000 ,
Christian refuges are now finding
work on farms and textile factories.
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AT THE BAPTIST
CHURCHSUNDAY
' Special Service Will
Be Held For The
Members
Sunday school will be at the usual
j time, 10 o’clock.
A special service will be held at 11 J
o’clock for members of the church. I
Every member of the church is asked
!to be present. While others will be
welcomed, yet they might prefer at
tending revival services at the M. E.
church. But every member, young
and old, of the Baptist church, is J
asked to remain for the service. The !
Service will be given largely to the
consideration of the subject: The Re
j hit ion of the Pastor and the People.
There will be no evening service on
I account of the revival services at the
Methodist church. The congregation
| is asked to attend these services and
I co-operate in every way to help make
! the meetings a great blessing to our
, town and community.
KAYS 15,000 COME
TO RALEIGH DAILY
For the purpose of determining the !
, number of ou l of town cars in Ral
eigh on the average shopping day,
largely from Raleigh, adjacent trade
J territory, a special committee of the
; Chamber of Commerce with V. O. j
Parker rs chairman, made the count
at noon on Tuesday of last week on i
the business district and reported 530 j
out. of town cars and 723 local cars. !
A committee of 10 made the count ]
of automobiles parked on the streets \
in the business section as bound on !
the north by Edenton Street, on the
east by Blount, on the south by Davie j
and on the west by Dawson.
Mr. Parker, in submitting his re- j
port, had the following to say:
“We estimate that the cars parked \
' at this hour represent not over one- J
| third of the total number during the i
day. This makes us average 3,759!
cars parked during the business j
hours of the day. We estimate only j
half of the cars that come to Raleigh
are parked on the streets of the busi
ness district. The other half would I
I be in the garages or parked outside
of the business district, or at the
homes of friends. This would make
j a total of 7,518 cars coming into
Raleigh each day. We believe that
each car would average bringing two
j occupants, which would make some
thing over 15,000 people who come
to Raleigh every day during the
business year.
“We selected Tuesday because we
wanted to get a day that could not
be regarded as an unusually busy
day. In fact, we regard Tuesday as
probably the least active of the week
uqd selected it for this reason that
we did not wish our figures to appear
excessive.
“With 15,000 people coming into ,
Raleigh every day for the purpose of ,
trading we believe that business will
certainly be maintained in a satis
factory manner and that Raleigh has
every reason to be hopeful as to the
outlook for a good year.” (
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FORDS SEEM TO BE “EASY
COME AND EASY GO”
I
According to a report sent out by
the Theft Bureau of the Department
of Revenue, at Raleigh, 120 stolen
automobiles were recovered during
the month of June and restored to ,
their owners. Seventy-two cars have
been taken in the same month and
have not been located again.
Seventy-five of the cars traced !
down were Fords, and sixty-one of | i
those not returned are of the same i
origin.
It is a law now that all stolen cars
be reported to the headquarters of j i
the Department of Revenue and all j:
cars recovered arc also ordered re- ;
ported. Such information ir request- J i
ed to be marked, “Attention, Mr. j
Harris.” By complying with this law j <
the citizenry protect themselves as ]
well as their neighbors.
: In the city of Raleigh nineteen
cars disappeared; thirteen of these ,
came to light.
Rayon is losing its popularity in
I Germany. An elaborate exhibit of th«
artificial silk at the recent Leipzig
fair attracted little attention.
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CAMP A SUCCESS
AT HOLLOW ROCK
Y. W. Auxiliaries
Enjoy Delightful
Outing
About Forty Girls
Registered During
The Five Days
The Young Women's and Girl’s
Auxi'iariee of the Central, Raleigh
[ and Mt. Zion Associations enjoyed a
j most delightful outing at Camp Hol
low Rock, the Durham Y. W. C. A.
camp, seven miles west of Durham,
July Ito 5. About forty girls reg
istered during the five days of medi
tation, study and recreation.
The camp was in charge of Mrs.
Alvin S. Bridges, Wakefield, Young
People’s Leader of the W. M. U. of
the Central Association. There were
classes in Bible study led by Mrs.
Br.dges, i*i. - ion t-iucL !*•.{ , Mi s
Nellie Page, of Morrisville, student
|of the W. M. U. Training School at
Louisvi'le, and Mrs. W. M. Upchurch
of Durham, Basketry with Miss Win
ona Pago, of Spruce Spine, leader, and
swimming under the direction of .Miss
Mary Scanlon, of Durham. Miss
Mary Misenfeimer, of Meredith Col
lege added to the camp fire services
jat night with clever stunts.
Among the extra attractions of the
J camp was a page nt, presented by the
Yaquina Club, of Business Girls, of
the Durham Y. W. C. A portraying
I the work of the club. Dr. L. E. M.
Freeman, of Meredith College, ad
dressed the girls on "How to Build a
Life,” giving them the three methods;
recognize handicaps, overcome obstac
les and persevere to the end. Given as
it w; s on a cliff overlooking the the
stream if impressed the eirls. Anoth
j it helpful address was given at the
I Sunday Vesper service by Rev. C. S.
! Green, pastor of the Watts Street
Baptist Church of Durham. Taking
John 16: 18 as a basis for his re
marks he urged the young Christians
to put Christ first in their every en
deavor to say with Stanley Jones,
M's:-iorary to India "Without ClTrist
not on step over the* threshold with
Christ anywhere. Morning devotions
were very beautiful and impressive
held in a quiet, secluded spot by the
Hollow Rocks as well as the Mission
study classes by the spring, a fav-
orite spot with the campers.
Under the inspiration received from
so many days of study end devotion
the pirls of the Central Association
reorganized with the following offi
cers: Margaret Harrison, Wake For
est, President; Grace Young, Raleigh,
Vice-President; Ella Joyner, Wake
field, Secretary; Lillian Davi3, Wake
Forest, Treasurer. Plans are being
made to put the work on a firmer
footing another year, and the girls
set as their aim a missionary organi
zation for girls in every church.
BALANCED EDUCATION
Eighty-two boys in the graduating
class of the Jefferson H:gh School
in Portland, earned $64,383.50 during
their iiighschool course, the average
for the class of 93 being $692.50. One
boy, Neil Bodey, earned $3,280. The
girls earned an average of $71.06,
with 48 girls collecting $8,454.60; and
Alma Lorenz earned SSOO.
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THINKS COUNTY WELL PAID
FOR HIGHWAY GIFT
Wake county commissioners believe
they have been well paid for the gift
of $41,000 in the construction of the
paved highway to Milburnie.
The donation has netted the county
two handsome bridges that cost about
$02,000, which will ultimately mean
a savings of probably a large amount,
stated Commissioner Wiggs.
These bridges are over Crabtree
Creek and Neuse River. They have
replaced old structures which in
the course of a few years w'ould have
needed successors. It would have cost
about the same amount if not more
to replace the old ones.
The erection of the new bridge over
Crabtree Creek removes a landmark
in the destruction of the covered
bridge. It will be torn down in the
near future.