V olume VII. I JUST ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER -BY CARL GOURCH It really was—to say the least extremely embarrassing. You see, it happened at about five o’clock last Sunday afternoon. I was sitting in the living room, twiddling my thumbs. Ah a thumb-twiddler, I really am an expert. Most folks go in for plain twiddling, but I put a lot of variations to my twiddling. For instance, sometimes, I'll twiddle real slowly, like this; lwid d1 e. Then, all of a sudden. I’ll speed up and go fast like this; -twiddle. Absolutely. I can twiddle forwards like this—twid dle, or 1 can do it backwards, like this—elddiwt. You ought to see me sometime. However, twiddling wasn’t what I intended to tell yob about. I was sitting in the living room when all of a sudden I had a notion that I’d like some oysters. So I grabbed up a galvanized bucket out on the back porch, threw it into the car and drove down to the docks, where the oyster-boats were tied up. I bought a quarter’s worth — put the bucket out on the running board. Then I'headed hack for home. Driving along main street, I got to thinking about something else nd forgot all about the oysters. T reckon maybe I was driving a lit tle too rapidly. Anyway, I suddenly heard an outrageous racket. Some thing like this—brwumperash—bing bang—clatter. I stopped the car and tuck my head out of the window to i c what had happened. The bucket had fallen off the run n'ng board. It and the oysters were scattered along the street for half a block. 1 drew the car up alongside the curb, got out and retrieved the bucket. Then I started gathering up the oysters. That’s where the embarrassment came in. Have you ever had a galvanized bucket in your hand on a Sunday af ti i neon and gone oystering on the principal business street of your town? I never had either. When T started out. Main street was in the midst of iD Sunday afternoon quiet. Hefore I hod picked up a dozen v- - ter T believe half the town was watching proceedings^ People, riding by in automobiles, looked out of their cars, saw me out in the middle* of the street gathering up oysters, and gasped. Some of them more than gasped: they made a loti of sarcastic and uncalled for com n nts. Quite a crowd gathered on the sidewalk and offered remarks which were intended to be encouraging but which were entirely out of place \.nd then some smart alecks speeded up their cars and headed straight for me. blowing their horns to beat all get-out. They kept me jumping from me side of the street to the other, {'d pick up an oyster and then T'd ump a jump. Sometimes I d have :o make two jumps to get one »yster. One guy, in an old Model-T ford, almost got me. T wish you '.ould have seen that jump.. He almost jint the oysters, too. When T get my mind set on any hing, though. I usually sr° through »iih it. I made up my mind that Td yet those oysters if it was the last hing T did. so T kept right on pick ,ig them up. Anil I got them. too. ill except those which were crushed icneath the tires of passing automo )iles. I got some of those too — I lot the juice spattered all over niy Kints. I was never so glad to get a thing jver with in all my life. Hereafter, then I get an inspiration like that on i Sunday afternoon I’m going to tick to my twiddling. That, at least, s a peeaeful occupation and one; vhioh can he pursued without caus- 1 rg a lot of excitement and fuss. CLUB HONOR ROLL At the meeting of the Woman’s Hub on Tuesday it was decided to v pare and hang in the club room P Honor Roll of all members whose ties are paid to date. This will not f prepared before Feb. Ist. filhr Brimimt irit Miss Palmer’s Father Dies Dr. R. W. Palmer, prominent phy | sician and well known citizen of Gulf, died at his home last Thursday of heart disease. lie was the father of Miss Mary j Lacy Palmer, teacher of Home Eco j nomics at \N akelon. Miss Palmer was J called home Wednesday by the illness of her father. The sympathy of our community is extended t<> our efficient and popular teacher and to the other members ot her family. DEATH OF MRS. FI LI.EU Sunday evening at seven o’clock, Mrs. Lula Fuller died at the home jof her brother, Kef. Bunn, about two (miles south of Zebulon. Mrs. Fuller j had been ill for six weeks, having j pneumonia at first which went into I other complications. The funeral ser vice was conducted at Hales Chapel j Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at ■ three o’clock by her pastor, Rev. Theo. ! B. Davis. A very large number of peo I pie gathered at the church to pay their j respect for Mrs. Fuller and express ■ their sympathy to the relatives. She leaves four brothers, one sister, and four daughters to grieve her de parture; Messrs. Ivan. Will, Ed. and Alva Bunn, brothers; Mrs. Henly Hin ton. sister; Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. Perriott, of Ga., Ms. Chamblee and Miss Elmorine Fuller, sisters, of Zebulon. Mrs. Fuller was raised i in this section, but a number of years ago, with her family moved to Way cross, Ga., where she lived till about a year ago. Since that time she has made her home with her relatives in : Johnston county. She was a good | Christian woman and will be missed bv those who knew heV. Our sym pathy goes >ut to the bereaved ones. Union Hope News Mi's. B. T. Batchelor and Miss ( rama Strickland are visiting Mrs. P. M. White of Roxboro, N. C., this week Mrs. G. B. Strickland and children were visitors at Mr. Bob Stallings iSunday. Mr. L. A. Ilagwood is improving after having a serious operation. We hope he will soon be able to come home. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Williams were visitors at Lloyd Brantley’s i Sunday night. Mr. M. T. Bachelor and Mr. Barlie Brantley have lost nearly all their meat. It was killed during the warm spell. Mr. tY. B. Murray is still going to: see the widow, Mrs. W. A. Brantley. Mrsi G W Atknson was a visitor at Mr W. B. Brantley’s Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Murray motored to Raleigh Tuesday evening. To our surprise Air. L. C. Strickland is building a tobacco barn. We hope j he will not add to his crops, but re duce to one-half. A large crowd attended Sunday school last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lemmie Massey of Pilot were visitors at Mrs. L. J. Mas sey’s Sunday. Whose prosperity has brought me to this; Having to chew old field twist .’ It's bitter, it's bad. And it makes me mad; But it isn t any use, It gets in my tooth. T spit, hut can’t see any juice. It makes me blue, sure I am hack ed; But it don't keep me from wanting a chew of manufaet. W. B. Murray. SHRUBBERY CONTRIBUTED The Continental Plant Co., of Kit troll has given the Wakefield Home Demonstration Club 11 handsome - hrubs for foundation planting around the club house. They have been set ut and are greatly appreciated. The * •'lection includes nandinas., ligus trum, junipers, and other .-.hrubs, Mrs. C. M. Rhodes brought them from KiDrell. OLDEST W. F. C. ALUMNI S Pres. Kitchin of Wake Forest Col lege has announced that the oldest liv ing alumnus of the college is Henry D. Fowler, a native of Wake Co., now living in Paducah, California. Col.! Fowler was a member of the class of 1857, and will be 100 years old in, February. j Zebulon, Wake County, N. C„ Friday, JAM x,n 22< 19,2 Local Store Catches Fire About 1:45 Sunday morning the lo cal fire siren sounded and those awak ered. rushed to the business section of the town, the location of the lire. C. E. Pippin, who roomed in the Rob ertson building, awoke from sleep, “smelling fire.” He rushed out of doors, yelling fire. Mr. Tharrington, the watchman, not far away heard the cry, and sent in the alarm. He then raced to the fire house, and speeded the fire truck to main street, and when the volunteer fire fighting force ar rived, he had everything in readiness to attack the fire. The building is of brick, with metal ceiling, and the fire was confined to the first floor who operated the store as the American Salvage Company, i The fire originated near the center of the building and spread towards both ends, burning counters, shelves and merchandise. Water and fire virtually ruined the whole stock. Outside the loss of counters and shelves the build ing was little damaged other than by what smoke and water did. Both Mr. Robertson, the owner, and the mer chant, were understood to have had 'sufficient insurance to cover their losses. The origin of the fire is un known. Hopkins Chapel • Among the many visitors at church Sunday was Mr. Garland Hendricks, | a minister from Wake Forest. Air. Raymond Perry of Raleigh ■pent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Perry. Mrs. Jim Minga and family have moved into the house with Air. P. J. Harris to stay this year. Miss Loren a Harris has recently snent some time with her uncle, W. J. Horton of Raleigh. Air. Colonel Bunn of Durham spent Mondav afternoon with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Bunn. Aliss Florence Dasriter, Airs. Gady, Messrs. Harold Tudor, Roy Williams, all of Durham, were guests at Mr. Bunn’s Alpndav rnoon. Mrs. Lena Bunn Mrs. Annie Perry • a jd Mrs. I!. H. Rhodes a short visit thm week-end. Airs. Rhodes was sick but is improving now. Mr. Bogui Bunn is living at Mrs. "arm Perry’s place now. Mr. Charlie Hodge ha recently ~ , reed to the old Rolling place. Prayer meeting will he at the church Friday evening at 7:0(1 o’clock. POT \ f\ MEETING '! Rotary club members were en tertained on AT on day night by the fol lowing program arranged by Aliss Buffalo of the V.'al Hon faculty; Dutch Dance —from Hansel and; Hretel. Barrie Davis, T. K. Watson.; Shelton Lewis. .Lack Gregory, Kirby Pearce. R. H. Brantley, Jean Flowers Dorothy Horton. Mary Alice Conn Virginia Bridges, Lizzie Lee Wheeler, |and Jackie Green. Tap Dance —Elizabeth Antone,Olive Lewis at the piano. Alusical Reading—Sister’s Best Fel low. Richard Hoyle. Rallet Dance. Virginia Rridges, Jocelyn House at the piano. FREAK OF WINTER Tell it to your grand children! Jan. 15. 1032. will go down in history as the greatest weather hoax ever perpe trated in history. Los Angeles had a snow storm, the first in 54 years. Lake Placid. N. Y., had a rain squall which swept clear the famous bob sled course of snow; a levee broke under the impact of “spring rains” in The south Mississippi; a coast guard destroyer and a freighter collided off the Connecticut coast in a “November fog” so thick that you could not see the bow from the bridge, and not a ! : fe was lost; and. to complete this wonder of the age. grass is green and dandelions sprouting all along the At-j lantic seaboard, in a spring like tem perature. BIRDS STARVE Ocraeoke, N. C. The assistant state game warden reported that many birds on Ocraeoke island are starving and too weak to fly. Scarcity of wa- 1 ter grasses, the bird’s principal food, was blamed for the situation. The general meeting of the Wo mans club will he held on next Tues day. All members are urged to at tend. Among Our Readers In last week’s issue we may have ■ eemed to give undue space to the early report of a certain tobacco ■ ompany. We did riot reali .< this till :e saw it in print. Our excuse is that .1 made such an impression on our minds in comparison with what our farmers made. I And we really don’t think Gannon Avenue the only st' eet in town, de spite last week’s evidence to the con trary. And Mr. Fred Mangum positively was not ill in the interests of any I subscription contest. He has had pneumonia and pleurisy. | The following notice heads the edi torial page of a certain North Caro lina weekly; NOTIC E TO GENERAL PUBLIC This newspaper charges regular ad vertising rates for cards of thanks, resolutions, notices, Obituaries, etc., and will not accept any thing less than 35 cents cash with copy unless you have regular monthly accounts , with us. We do not mean to be hard on any \ one, hut small items of this nature force us to demand the cash with copy. All such received by us in the future without the cash, or stamps j will not be published. Most newspapers make a charge for such service; even religious papers usually do. The Record has never | made any charge for obituaries, even though the space used by some, at rocular advertising rates, would cost | several dollars. Wo shall try to con tinue giving this free service to the pub’ic. However, we suggest that you ! S( .nd in your subscription and thqn ' use our columns freely to express your thoughts of appreciation and i sympathy to the general public. You know when a fellow is trying a new and diffii ’oh a nat on his back does a lot of good. So. we are sure our readers will pardon us, foi giving the following “pats” from let ters received: i “Your paper has been a great ser vice to me in the sale of my chickens and I enjoy reading it very much. Mrs. J. TL Alullins. “Think 1 read every item in it (of course from a critic’s viewpoint) and I must say it was good from beginning to end” L. L. Deary, Alorehead City. “An exile from Zebulon wishes to extend greetings, good will, and hopes for well deserved success to the new editor and “The Old Home Town Pa per" Mrs. Helen P. Whitley. Siler Cit.v. “We have just seen in the papers that you have bought out your local paper and will continue same along with your church work. We feel sure that you and Mrs. Davis will put your lives and souls into this enterprise and that your publication will he a little different and of a higher tone than most of our local papers. This is to let you know that we are thinking of you and trusting that you are going to find a lot of joy in doing this sort of work.’ F. B. Hamrick. Bursar, Meredith College. We thank these good friends, and promise to use the paper for the best interests of our readers and to strive to make each issue better as experi ence and knowledge and earnest effort will make a newspaper having a per sonality' and character all its own. CONE’S ARMY! Rev. Jas. R. Cox of Pittsburg led 10.000 unemployed men in an orderly march to the national capital last week. He presented a petition to the president, and was received quite dif ferently from that of the communists who invaded Washington at the open ing of Congress. 25.000 people gather ed in Pittsburg to see them off. WOOLWORTH bi a s TOWELS The T. AV. Woolworth Co. has place,] ' an order for *500.000 in bath towels j with the Cannon Mills. This was one of the largest orders ever placed. At Concord and Kannapolis are the larg est towel mills in the world. I GENEVA DELEGATES The United States delegation to the Geneva disarmament conference are leaving our shores to begin their dif ficult task. This group of 31 will probably he abroad for 8 or 9 months. Secretary Stimson is their leader.. $200,000 Damages Asked of Railroad Raleigh, Jan. 14. The fathers of j John C. Caddell, Jr., and Robert H. te irner, Jr., Wake Forest high school, : 'tilths, today filed suits aggregating. 8200,000 against the receivers for the Seaboard Airline railway for the deaths of their sons. The two boys were killed when a Seaboard freight train struck a] school bus in Wake Forest September; 8. 19:11. Robert Shearon, driver of the bus, was badly injured but survived' the accident. He and Caddell and Gar ner were the only occupants at the time of the accidents. Two suits were filed in Wake Su perior court each asking damages ot SIOO,OOO. The Raleigh Times. HEI’HZIBAH W. M. S. tvn i>Tfit 'T'u.p MEETING The Woman’s Missionary Society, of Hephzibah Baptist church met on Friday afternoon of last week with , Mesdames H. A. Hinnant and J. P. Buchanan, at the home of the latter. There were about twenty members and some visitors present. Airs. J. P. Winston had charge of an unusueffy good program. In addition to the rou ' tine business. Mrs. Hinnant was ap 1' pointed by the W. M. S. to lead thf* *j G. A. during this year, while Mrs. .Dewey Martin was appointed to lead .the R. A.’s and Mrs. R. L. Scarbov^ 1 ( was chosen as Counselor for the Y. W. ‘| A. .Miss Alma Young, already in charge of the Sunbeam Band, was | promised wider cooperation The hos tesses served ice cream and cake dur ing the social hour. FORMER CONVICT TRLSTEE Philadelphia -In 1923 Henry G. ' Brocl was sent to prison for 10 years. I A careening auto killed three people, and crashed into a pole at a danger ous st root crossing. Though a woman was at the wheel, Brock assumed all i responsibility. After serving 3 years, he was pardoned. He became interest i 1 ed in pr on reform, and lately Gov ernor Pinchot appointed him a mem ber of the State prison trustees. He is a wealthy banker. 10.175 D! KE PATIENTS In the slightly more than 17 months; ■ . j nce it s op< niug, Duke hospital has 1 lj treated 10,175 patients. j This hospital has been approved for j the training of internes and residents; ij by tlx Ameri> ail Medical Association i land the American College of Sur • j r.eons. The school of medicine has also been da -died as Grade A by j the authorities. The school of medi , | cine now has 1 18 students, 18 of whom j are in the senior class. Duke wild grant its first medical degrees next June. I l NIVERSrn LI Bit ARLAN TO RESIGN Dr. Louis R. Wilson, librarian at I State University, will on Sept. 1, take the posit m '*f dean of the library j school of the University of Chicago. His salary will be $12,000 a year, w ith leave for research work during a part or all of the winter months. His loss will be a severe blow to the Uni versity, since he is considered one of the nation’s foremost librarians. SMOKING New regulation- at N. C. C. W., the State college for women, at Green-- i boro, permit the girls to smoke in their rooms only. They may not virit to smoke, noi may a girl smoke' ui her room if her room-mate object President Foust, personally is on I posed to young women smoking. KILLS OWN CHILD Tames Stenhouse of Millcrsburg, Ohio, ha- confessed to chloroforming bis* two-year-old son two years ago. The child had an incurable brain trouble and was a hopeless idiot. The grand jury has submitted the father for a brain test, instead "f a*murder indict inent. TAX SUIT DEFERRED The Wake Count;. Commissioners have postponed the time for filing uit for the collection oi 1929 de linquent taxes from January 15th to February 15th. DEATH OF A. D. WARD A. D. Ward, a prominent citizen and attorney of New Bern, N. C., died last Thursday night, from a .heart attack., M M BEK 32 Highway Robbery ; Attempted Wed Early last Wednesday morning ■ about six o’clock Carroll Joyner who ( lives out about two miles east of Zebulon on highway No. 90 went out to make preparations for killing some hogs. Just as he passed a tobacco barn, a negro stepped around the cor ner with a drawn revolver and or cdored Mr. Joyner to raise his hands, ! which naturally he did as quickly as possible. The fellow asked Mr. Joyner i if he had any money. He replied that lhe did not, but the negro thoroughly | searched him to satisfy hi itself. He ithen left in the direction of Raleigh. The attempted robbery was report ed sheriff Massey who gave pursuit, overtaking the negro about half-way between Zebulon and Wendell. When » ’arrested, it was found that he had 'two ugly lookine revolvers on his per- I son, one a Smith and Wesson and the 'other a Victor. He was riding on a farm wagon. Mi. Alassev handcuffed him and brought him to Zebulon and lockr'd him up in the town jail. When wg talked with the hoy, for ho s iid lie was only nineteen years of . age, he is aid his home was in Durham and that he had boon over near the Nash County line. According to his , -story, he left Durham yesterday. j Woman’s club meeting y' The literary and music department of the Zebulon Woman’s Club met at i hte club house uesday afternoon. - Members answered to the roll call -iv. ith names of towns in North Caro . lina. Minutes of the last meeting were read by Airs. Irby Gill in the ab sence- of the secretary, Airs. Avon ; Privett. The following program was (enjoyed by all present: I Contrast of the works of Corra Tiar as and Joseph Hergcsheimer by Airs. ' J H. Fowler. Life and works of Charles Wakefield Ceelman by Mrs. 'iS. G. Williams. Vocal >!o- “At Dawn • intr” and “Innesfail” by Mrs. J. F. Coltrane, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. J. G. Kemp. I*. I A.