"olume VII.
P.-I. A. ;
REPORT FOR YEAR
Miss Southerland, P.-T. A. presi
mt reported the following achieve
ents as outstanding for the year
tat closing:
Welfare work. For thi sa dona
on by school children amounted to
18.65 worth of canned fruits, etc.
uch clothing has been given to
>edy children. Free lunches served
51. The school board gave help on
lis.
Grade Mothers have met regularly
id have held a study course.
Beginners’ Day was observed, 33 of
ixt year’s pupils being given physi
il examinations that defects may be
>rreeted before next Sept. A com
ittee was apopinted to follow up
lis work during the summer.
First Aid Room records show that
B 5 pupils have been treated during
ie term, in addition to many not
?corded.
A P.-T. A. Bookshelf has been fill
d with books that will prove helpful
3 parents, and arrangements madej
or them to be used during the sum
ler.
Two Mothers’ Meetings held at
oints distant from the school-house
or the benefit of those who could
lot attend regular P.-T. A. meetings.
Taken from secretary’s records.)
N. C. AUTOS
Raleigh.—Wake county citizens
)wned 11400 automobiles and 1825
:rucks on April Ist., as compared with
12135 automobiles and 1800 trucks on
April Ist., 1931. The average for each
of the 100 counties April Ist of this
year was 2,579 automobiles and 484
trucks, as compared with 2,986 auto
mobiles and 422 trucks on April Ist.,
1931.
North Carolinians had a total of
306.339 motor vehicles at the begin
ning of this month, including 257,898
automobiles and 48.441 trucks.
The report shows that 1,650 of the
automobiles and 770 of the trucks
licensed in the state are owned by
non-residents, while 656 motorcycle*
are in operation.
Guilford leals in automobiles with
18.660, which is a drop from 22.250
a year ago; Mecklenburg has 16.395,
as compared with 19,975 a year ago;
Forsyth has 11,400 and had 12,135 a
year ago; Buncombe’s automobiles
dropped from 11.475 a year ago to
9.955 now. Graham county has only
30 automobiles and Clay only 38.
earpsboro events
Miss Rochelle O’Neal of Corinth,
was the week-end guest of Misses
Rosa Hayes and Berta Mae Powell.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Jeffreys of
Wendell spent the week-end with Mr.
; nd Mrs. F. W. Mason.
We are glad to report the condi
tion of Mr. Arthur Lewis’ father
much improved.
Mrs. M. C. Crowder spent last Sat
urday afternoon with her brother,
Mr. H. S. Denton of Corinth.
Miss Virginia Williams of Roles
ville spent Monday afternoon with
Miss Aleene Mason.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey spent
Sunday with Air. and Mrs. F.ugene
Bailey.
Mr. Bennie Denton is spending the
v.eek with Mrs. M. G. Crowder.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Wakefield Home Demonstra
tion club will meet next Wednesday,
April 27. at 2:30. All members are
urged to attend. We hope for an
April shower of new members. There
will he an interesting discussion fol
lowed by a short program ,of which
a debate will be an important fea
ture. Mrs. C. M. Rhodes is in charge
of program.
GER VNIUMS
Tn my estimation there is no flower
the busy housewife can plant that
will give as much Teal joy with so
little attention as the geranium. Tn
the early spring dig and enrich a
sunny nook or corner in the yard or
garden nd plant this in different
co! roof geranniums. They require
so little attention and give so much
in return. Dig around them occasion
ally adding more rich dirt, give them
a real watering twice or three times
a week, then w r atch them grow and
bloom. Tn a very short time you have
a bed of flowers to be proud of. and
an abundance of blooms all summer
and until late fall.
Wrs W J. Roger®.
®hr£rlmlmt iteturd
Judge Harwood
Sent To Pen
Raleigh.—Judge John H. Harwood
of the Superior Court has been sen
tenced to a year in the penitentiary
for mutilating records of the Depart
ment of Revenue, and forging letters.
He confessed his crime before the
trial and said he acted in the hope
of shielding his daughter, Miss Lola
Harwood, who had embezzled money
from the state funds. She was sen
tenced to two years in the penitentiary
and both have begun to serve the
sentences. Judge Harwood has lost his
citizenship, and has been disbarred
from practicing his profession. He is
the first Superior Court judge ever
sentenced in N. C.
Mrs. Rhodes Dies
Mrs. Rebecca Rhodes died at the
home of her niece, Mrs. Mac Todd’s,
Sunday afternoon. The funeral was
conducted at ITephzibah church Tues
day afternoon by her pastor, Rev.
| Theo. B. Davis. She was over 85
years old.—
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Blue Mold Appears
A number of local farmers say
that signs of the much dreaded
mold have appeared on their tobacco
plants. In some sections of Eastern
Carolina the plants have been damag
ed as much as 65 per cent. Some
farmers are trying spray solution,
but so far no certain preventative
has been found.
FORMER WARELDON
PUPILS HONORED
j The clipping below, from The Dunn
Dispatch, will be of interest to the
friends of the young people mention
ed. Both are former pupils of Wake
lon. Miss Robertson graduated here
two years ago. Edward Chamblee is
a son of Kenny Chamblee, his mother
being now' Mrs. Lew'is of Raleigh. The
family moved from Zebulon not long
after the death of the father.
Buie’s Creek. —Ed Chamblee, Ral
eigh, recently voted the ideal Camp
bell College student by the Freshman
class was Sunday evening formally
installed incoming B. S. U. president,
succeeding Ruth Snipes, Burgaw'.
Y*oung Chamblee has been an out
standing member of the Glee Club
literary society and tennis club for
the last two years, and has been bu
siness manager of the school paper
this year.
Pauline Robertson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Robertson, of
Wendell, was last week elected Camp
bell’s May Queen.
ZINNIA
Airs. C. V. Whitley speaks of the
Zinnia as a good choice for the busy
woman who wishes color and bloom.
And no plant is easier to grow or
blooms more freely. They have every
color except the blue shades, and many
of the improved varieties are almost
jas handsome as dahlias, at a small
1 frction of the cost in time and care.
OLD FASHIONED FLOWERS
As a farm woman, whose duties
range from the cellar to the garret,
T find that the easiest flowers to
grow and the ones most adapted to
our soil and climate are: Cannas,
Phlox, Iris, Hollyhock, and Lathyrus
or what is more widely known as the
Everlasting Sweet Pea. These peren
nials are easily cultivated and need
very little attention.
The easiest grown and most at
tractive annual is the Petunia, Nas
turtiums furnish a never failing dis
play of brilliant bloom all through
the season and are scarcely any trouble
at all. Cosmos, Zinnias, and Mari
golds w'ill grow practically anywhere
with the slightest attention. Trie
busiest woman can l ave a bed of vio
lets and daffodils and a few sunflow'-
ors stuck around.
The-" are just a few of the com
mon flowers that are within the reach
of all and certainly, every home is
more beautiful with them whether its
a mansion or a 1< g cabin
Mrs. W. A. Richardson,
Wendell, N. C.
The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco w'ill pay
more than §2,000,600 into the coffers
of the State of North Carolina as a
result of the earnings for 1931. This
income taxes of the State.
Lots of people make a specialty
r.-mriri'T ■>» - ”t' : ?m.
Zebulon, Wake County, N. C., Friday, April 22, 1932
Kotarians
And Gardens
In the meeting of the Kotarians
Monday evening a movement was
started to put all the vacant lots in
Zebulon in cultivation for the benefit
of those who have no land for gar
den purposes. Dr. L. AI. Massey was
appointed to represent the Kotarians.
Al. o. Sexton the town authorities and
Theo. B. Davis the community at
large. This committee asks that ail
who have vacant lots which they
would be willing to be used for this
purpose to report to Mr. Davis at the
Record office, or either of the other
members.
Those who do not have land for a
garden and desire it, will please let
the committee know their needs.
It is hoped that every family in
Zebulon will have a garden this year.
Later in the year the Woman’s Club;
will put on a canning campaign and j
assist those growing fruits and vege- j
tables to save them for winter use. j
So, let’s get busy and put every body j
to work and not have a vacant piece
of tillable land in Zebulon.
Those agreeing to plant a garden
and not having seed, will be furnished
seed by the business men of the
town. So if you have a lot you will
donate to those not havnig a garden
plot, or if you need a garden and have
nowhere to plant it, let the committee
know’ at once.
DETECTIVE DIES
William Burns, 72 years old, found-,
er of the Burns Detective Agency,!
died at his home in Florida on April
14. He was the victim of a heart
attack. Nationally known, he had
realized the ambition of his boyhood,
having given up business to enter
the field of crime detection. He was
for many years an employe of th®
government.
A GOOD SPORT
Selma, Ala., has the distinction of
having the only woman sports writer
!i n the south. Aliss Eunice Apperson,
j for four years a reporter in that city,
{has been assigned to cover the Selma
baseball club this season. The club
is sid to be enthusiastic over her
work. She is 22 years old.
U. S. LEADS IN EXPORT TRADE
Secretary Lamont says that the
United States led the world last year
in export trade. He stated that only
. seven staos had exports valued at
! i C ss than a million dollars, while
I thirty exported goods to the value of
ten million or more.
Windsor, Ont.:—Frank Winters is
i 72 years old.
He visited tie city clerk s office
yesterday to transact two matters of
business.
First, he registered the birth of a
! nine pound boy, bis fourth child.
Second, he petitioned for an old age
pension.
NATURE UNNATURAL
Dowm near Aberdeen the early
peach trees are said to be blooming
this year ahead of the late ones, which
is a reversal of the usual rule. No
one knows why the late ones bloom
first, and still less why the order
should he reversed this year.. Pros-
I pects for the crop* are good in the
1 peach section.
building wrecked
State officials in Columbus, Ohio,
investigating various theories of an
explosion that wrecked the new state
I office building on April 14, killing 8
people or more. It is thought pos- (
sihle that an accumulation of sewer
gas in a subcellar may have been the
\ cause of the explosion.
MOTTLED ENAMEL
A new disease of teeth has appear
ed in North Carolina down in Bertie
i countv. Normal teeth present a trans
lucent or glassy appearance as con
I'acted with the dull chalky white of
mottled enamel. Sometimes the teeth
are yellow or brown or streaked with
j these colors. It mar- one’s appearance,
and the teeth are soft and hard to
bold fillings. The cause is not known,
: but is supposed to come from the
j drinking water used in early life, es
pecially water containing a high con
tent of fluorine.
Job was a pati“nt man. but there
i:« no record of V ever having nut
!• tooth-cutting baby t r > sleep.
Wakelon
StilOui NtJWe
'
V/akeion high school %\fii cc.t •.::*
Society Night on April 22 at S o’clock.
Tiie societies will open their pro
gram by singing the School Song and
Ici songs. The program will be as
follows:
1. Piano solo, Jocelyn House; 2.
Recitations, Mary Barrow and Cur
ie r:a Godfrey; 3. Declamations, Wil
liam Jones and Bobby Horton; 4.
Query for Debate: Resolved that
Chain Stores Are Detrimental To
Teh Best Interest of The American
Public.
Affirmative: F.rsell Pierce and 11.
A. Hodge.
Negative: Elva Phililps and Wil
lard Denton.
Each society furnishes one debater
end one Declaimed
April 29th Mrs. Barbee’s Music
I Class will give a recital. This pro-,
1 gram promises to be one of the best
|we have had in years.
On May Ist, Sunday morning, at
II o’clock. Dr. Hilly, President of
j Atlantic Christian College, will deliver
♦he annual Sermon in Wakelon audi
torium.
On May 2nd., Monday, at 2 o’clock
the 7th grade children will be award
ed Diplomas. Following this exer
cise the High School girls will offer
dances and a May Pole exercise on
1 the campus in front of the building.
This promises to be one of the out
standing features of Commencement.
| Marie Watson of the Senior Class
has been chosen May Queen. Thais
! Pearl Medlin, Maid of Honor. Each
grade in the high school will have two
j attendants for the May Queen. The
Bth grade has selected Elaine Robert-
I son and Mary Frances Cockrell; the
9th. grade, Janie Cawthorne and Cur
i lena Godfrey; the 10th. grade, Janet
1 Eaton and Betty Hales; the 11th,
! grade, Olive Lewis and Lila Cahoon.
On Monday night at 8 o’clock the
j Seniors will offer their Class Day Ex
ercises. Aluch preparation under the
direction of Airs. Wilson and Miss
’! Pitts has been made for the Senior
! Class Day Exercise. We expect this
1 to be an evening of splendid enter
tainment of interest to the communi
ty.
On Tuesday morning. May 3rd., at
10:30 o’clock the Commencement Ex
1j oi rises of the Wakelon school will
take place in the auditorium. Forty
five seniors expect to receive Diplo
mas. Honorable Allan J. Maxwell,
' State Commissioner of Revenue, will
; deliver the Annual Address. Mr.
Maxwell is a clear thinker and a
'forceful speaker. We expect a record
crowd to hear him.
Imediately following the Graduat
! ing exercises, according to a long time
custom, the Annual Picnic Dinner
will be served on the grounds. Com
mencement Exercises will close on
Tuesday evening with an Operetta
1 offered by the Seniors. Every mem
ber of the Senior Class is taking part
|in this operetta. We expect it to be
a musical offering worthy of the pa
itronage of the entire community. The
Musical Critics in our school pro
nounce this the best operetta that
Wakelon has attempted in many years
NEGRO KILLS THREE
Lamar Faison, negro farmer of the
KnTghtdale section on last Friday shot
to death his wife, her mother and l%r
sister, and then went to Raleigh and
gave himself up. It is said that do
mestic troubles were the cause of the
killings. Hundreds of people attend
:ed the triple funeral near Bethany
.church last Sunday.
HATTER.* S LIGHT MUST MOVE
At Cape Hatteras is the tallest;
lighthouse in America, built in 1870, i
on the most dangerous coast of North j
Carolina. For years the ocean has
worn away the land until now the
waves break on a beach less than 100
i feet from the base of the lighthouse.
It had been thought that the building
might stand for ten years more, but
th< recent storm cut away so much
land that it may be necessary to re
build the structure farther back from (
; the water in a few years.
PAGEANT A SUCCESS
The original pageant given by the
seventh grade of Wakelon last Friday
night reflected great credit upon the
pupils and those who trained them.
Many complimentary remarks were
heard from those who attended the
; resentation.
WOMAN’S CLUB i
The Literary Department of the 1
buion Woman's club held its regular j
iu. ting at the club house Tuesday)
i rnoon. Members answered to the'
oil call with names of colleges in
b'.rth Carolina. Favorite poems of
th" club members were named, read,
or uiscussed.
The special vocal music rendered
by Mrs. E. Al. Hall of Lillington.
Alesdames Peyton Brown, Barret Wil
son. O. S. Slaunwhite, accompanied
at the piano by Mrs. Howard were
especially enjoyed by all. The music:
consisted of six quartets by Alesdames
Hall, Brown, Wilson and Slaunwhite
and three vocal numbers by Mrs.
Feyton Brown.
A reception honoring Mrs. M. F.
Grote a former president of the club
immediately followed the program.
Composing the receiving line were
Mrs. Charles Flowers, president of
the club, Mrs. M. F. Grote. Mesdames |
E. AI. Hall. Peyton Brown. Barret
Wilson, O. S. Slaunwhite, Howard
Turner and W. E. Spencer all of Ral
eigh.
The club room was attractively
decorated with cut flowers, dogwood
and potted plants. Red and yellow
tapers burned on the lace covered
table where Mrs. T. B. Davis and
Airs. Clarence Chamblee presided at
the punch bowl. Sandwiches were
served by Mrs. G. S. Williams and
Mrs. Foster Finch.
Prisoners Escape
Five prisoners slid 90 feet down a
rope made of sheets and blankets, and
escaped from the hospital of the State
Prison in Raleigh on April 9. They
were all white men. Five others in the
hospital did not try to escape, but
gave no aalrm. Four who escaped
were in prison for breaking and en
tering. All five are still at large.
FRONTIER SPIRIT RETURNING
Mark Sullivan political writer, says
that the most significant development
of the depression is the return to in
dividualism. He claims that America
is turning straight back toward our
earliest pioneer conception of society
and property and individual self-suf
ficiency. and that state ownership will
not be tolerated. He thinks the re
duction in cost of government and
in taxes will prevent forcible resist- j
ance f the tax collector in the
j present “tax rebellion" But he says
forcible resistance will be practic'd,
| if necessary.
Union Hope News j
We are glad to note that our Sun
day School is good and we hope it will
be better when the weather gets
warm.
Our everyday school has been good
i this year. Mr. Howard Bunn and wife
are our teachers, and they are good
ones. School closes in two more weeks.
Mr. L. F. Brantley was a visitor
in Middlesex Monday.
Mr. Luther Gay, Mr. George Bry
! nn t an,) Air. Dorsey Strickland at*
tended B. Y. P. U. at Samaria Sunday
night. ;
Friends of Mr and Mrs. W. 11.,
Brantley are glad they have decided
not to stay separate any longer, and
wish them happiness.
Air. Albert Williams and Miss ITzel
la Inscoe of Rocky Cross were recent- ‘
ly married.
LEES CH APE I - N EWS
Aliss Agnes Strickland of Stony J
j Hill section spent the week-end with
I her sister. Airs. Johnnie Kemp.
Rev. A. A. Pippin spent Saturday
night with Mr. and Air-. A. D. Driver
Monday was fisherman’s luck with
, Keneth Barnes, \dron Parker and
Charlie Overman of Middlesex. They
caught 25 lbs. of perch at Taylor’s
Mill.
Mrs. A. L. Fulghum and Aliss Ruth
Lewis of Middlesex spent Wednesday :
with Mrs. A. D. Driver.
Airs. S. W. Liggins has been on the
:siek li®t this week.
Airs. Willard Licrgin ’ id a quilting
party Wednesdav.
Mr. Bradlev Roberts of Wendell
the week-end gue-1 of her father
p Mr. W. T. Green.
Air. and Mrs. Ralnh Lewis and Mr.
and Mr«. Lindlev Lewi- were guests
at Mr. A. D. Driver’s Sunday.
Misses Ola Driven and Arkie Stal
ling- snent Alonday night with their
aunt. Mr*. Wilev Parish.
Mr. Gillian Lewi - wa« a Saturday'
visitor of bis HcTor Mrs .T. D Pri'-er |
~in her 1.)
Wakefield Philathea
Class Meets
The Phiiathea Class of the Wake
fold Baptist church entertained on
W ednesday night at the home of Mrs.
Ciarence Chamblee, in honor of Mrs.
J. C. Wilson of the Wakelon faculty.
Mrs. Wilson has most acceptably
taught the class on two Sundays a
month during the school year, and all
members regret that she is to be away
for some time.
The program in charge of Mesdames
S. H. Hoyle and W, A. Joyner showed
up knowledge—or ignorance—of the
Bible, in addition to a number of mirth
provoking stunts and contests. Re
freshments of icecream and cake were
served.
HOPKINS PHfipFL
Among the visitors we welcomed
at church Sunday was Dr. Russel
Perry of Durham. We were glad to
see each one present and we hope
every one will come to Sunday school
Sunday.
All W. M. Society members are
urged to come to Sunday school Sun
day and remain after Sunday school
for a short meeting.
Miss Libby Bunn was a visitor at
! Mrs. B. 'E. Denton’s of Zebulon last
i week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Perry and chil
dren, David, Bonnie and Pauline, also
Mr. Billey Hopkins, were visitors to
Henderson last Sunday.
We are sorry to learn of Mr. Bry
ant Stallings’ illness. We hope he
; will soon be well again.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bunn, Miss Lib
by Bunn, Miss Dessie Pearl Perry and
Mrs. F. M. Pearce were Raleigh visi
tors Tuesday.
Other Raleigh visitors were T. H.
! Ray, David Ray, Charlie Hodge, and
Clark Brannan.
VIOLETS
Flowers, beautiful spring flowers,
blooming everywhere! What could be
prettier or more helpful to a farmer’s
wife—the mother of ten or a dozen
! healthy boys and girls after break
last and before beginning the rest of
the day’s work than a walk among
her flowers while the dew is still on
them and the sun, young, is shining
j bright and warm? Then are the lit
j tie purple violets with their smiling
| faces upturned and the dew resem
! bling tears of thankfulness that they
are live and have a work of cheer to
j do for those who pass by.
O, I love them! Especially do I like
them bordering a bed of hyacinths,
crocus, tulips, daffodil and jonqui'.
All these are easily grown, and if a
busy wife can find time to plant them
once, she will have them each spring,
and the violet will make her think of
I a new spring bonnet.
“For little Miss Violet, blooming
and sweet,
, Has her Easter bonnet all trimmed
and complete;
I The brim is rich purple with hair
lines of black.
It flares at the front and fits close
at the back;
r phere’s a bowknot of yellow and
strings of peagreen,
A prettier bonnet has never been
seen.
JAPANESE QUINCE
One of the best shrubs for a busy
I home maker to plant to beautify the
' home ground is the old fashioned
Japanese Quince-Cydonia Japoniea.
This shrub does surprisingly well
with almost no care at all and is a
tbrng of dazzling beauty with very
little nursing. It is more resistant
|to disease than many shrubs and will
grow in any kind of soil. It can be
used for hedge planting and kept
pruned in any desired shape, or used
a- specimen plants, pruned or not.
The plant- - are very easy to secure,
at the sprouts th t come up around
them will live whether they have
r its or n<Cuttings can he rooted
by keeping them in damp soil through
the winter. The scarlet flowers be
gin to app< r very early in the
spring, lanuary this year, and from
then until Jtane there arc from a
mattered few to a complete blanket
! of them giving a brilliant glow to the
bush. Glossy dark green foliage cov
ers the plant through the summer.
ATrc Clarence Chamblee