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THE RECORD is Your Paper—Are You its Friend? VOLUME I. NO. 13 590 ENROLLED AT WAKELON SCHOOL Formal Opening Last Monday Morning At 9 O’clock The formal opening of Wakelon School took place in the school audi torium Monday morning at 9 o’clock. Interesting and impressive exercises were held before a packed audience of pupils, parents, and friends of the school. The exercises began with the singing of “America,” after which the prayer was led by Rev. Mr. Hall. Rev. Mr. Davis introduced Dr. W. N. John son, who made a most interesting talk, urging both children and grown up to put God first in everything Rev. A. A. Pippin was called upon, who responded with an earnest and eloquent plea to all present to pull together in making our schools, our churches, and all of our institutions what they might be. Mrs. J. J. Whit lock, president of the Parent-Teacher extended a hearty welcome to the old Association, in a charming manner, teachers returning and to the new teachers coming for the first time into the life of our community. She called upon the parents and friends of the school to help the teachers in every way they can in their great work of teaching the youth of the community. A very interesting feature of the ex ercises were a quartette and two en cores sung by Dr. Barbee and three of his ten brothers. Mr. Johnson spoke for a few min utes of the bright prospects for a suc cessful session and appealed to all the parents and pupils to co-operate with ! the teachers in their efforts to help j the school to realize its possibilities. He introduced the teachers to the au- j dience, each standing as his or her name was called. Four hundred and fifty pupils have \ been enrolled in the elementary school and 140 in the high school. PRAYERS FOR RAIN IN SOUTH CAROLINA SUNDAY Providential intercession to bring to i an end the protracted drought of this ; summer was sought Sunday by the! people of South Carolna under a pro-1 clamation of Governor Thomas G. Mc- Leod setting the day aside “for fasting and prayer” for rain. The proclamation was issued, the Governor said, as a result of requests he has received, including a resolution adopted by an organization of a Co lumbia church. This is the second time since he became Governor that Jjie present chief executive of South Carolina has designated a day of fasting and pray er for divine aid. In 1923 he called | upon the people of the state to unite ! on a specified Sunday in supplication i for relief from the menace of the cot ton boll weevil. BABE RUTH FINALLAY GETS REINSTATEMENT ' ; i Babe Ruth, champion home run, was reinstated Sunday by Manager j Miller Huggins, of the New York j Yankees, and probably was in the line ; up Monday when the Hvgmen opened a series in Boston. ; Ruth, who has been taking a forced ( vacation since he was suspended in ; St. Lords, August 29, was within hear- < ing distance when Manager Huggins called for him. < “Well, Hug,” Ruth exclaimed, “I’m , here.” ; ] “Yes,” Huggins replied, “so I see., ( I have decided to accept your apology s and to lift the suspension. You will j not play today’s game but you can ac-! <■ company them to Boston. The $5,000 r fine stands." ' ( “All right, Hug, I'll be there,” smil- ; t ed the Babe. j i m i ! c DEATH OF MRS. Z. R. HOCUTT i Mrs. Z. R. Hocutt died Wednesday I morning at 5 o’clock and her funeral was preached at Antioch church Thursday evening. Mrs. Hocutt was t about 75 years old. Ony two children '■ survive her, Miss Ella Hocutt and \\. f O. Hocutt. i d THE ZEBULON RECORD FAIRMONT HAS , CROWDED WEEK t For Several Days It Looked Like Circus es in the Town i R. W. McFarland, writing from . Fairmont, N. C., has the following to say about the tobacco market last 5 week: . The tobacco markets of this belt > have been “struttin’ their stuff” this . week. At Fairmont Monday and Fri . day it looked like Barnum & Bailey, . j with a little bit of Ringling Bros, cir . cus had come to tow r n. It was prob . | ably the biggest week that Fairmont . i has ever had and the prices on many r \ grades of tobacco looked like the ( | prices of 1919. Notwithstanding the | great volume of business done with [ j only “double” sales in operation, yet • i there w'as no confusion and everything ; moved along systematically. Every . j body was in a good humor with every • j body and all the buyers seeming anx | | ious for tobacco, it was no trouble to ( j sell with each set of buyers from r j three hundred to three hundred and ’ , fifty baskets per hour so as to keep off any possible “block,” and they did keep it off. We saw' a lot of tobacco belonging to a Mr. Sellers of this county which brought, respectively, > S6B, SO(S, S6O, $lB, etc., per hundred | pounds. Mr. Sellers was kind enough to show us his sale bill and it totalled 1 1,628 pounds and brought him an average of for the whole of over forty . I one dollars per hundred pounds. He I stated that it was his fourth curing : j and represented two-thirds of three j and one-half acres. We saw on sale j I another lot tobacco, one basket ofi j which brought $72 per hundred i | pounds. This was wrappers. Tobacco j : with a tinge of green is not bringing | as much money as it did a short while ! i ago, but all ripe and colory tobaccos j are higher than at any time during the season. It was estimated that j sales here were between four hundred 1 thousand and five hundred thousand j i pounds last Friday. Using the lower i I figures and adding them to the offi- j I cial figures, issued Thursday night, it! j will make the total sales on this mar-1 j ket for this week 1,576,746 pounds: j I average for the whole, scraps includ-; ed, $21.05. Total sales for the season iso far 5,594,602 pounds; average fori the whole, scrap included, $19.71. ; j Sixty per cent of the crop has been j sold. ONE DEAD-FOUR HURT IN CRASH Second Fatal Acci dent on Wake Forest Road in a Week i Eddie Cook, Wake Forest negro, j < ! was instantly killed and four others ! i were seriously injured when a Ford j 1 driven by Cook crashed into another I Ford parked on the side of the Wake s Forest road about nine miles from Raleigh shortly before midnight last i Saturday. j 1 The injured are: Walter F. Adams i and Ivan Griffin, white men, of Ral- j s c gh, Route 1, and Ruth Clark and t Shelly Clark, negroes of Wake For- .t est. The death of Cook marked the sec- s ond fatality on the Wake Forest-Ral- ; C eigh highway within one week, Ashley Roberts, young white man being kill- j ed in a collision on the highway just | a week ago. Adams parked his Ford with two j of its wheels on the concrete pave- ; ment when he gave out of gasoline, j Cleveland Bridgers and Claud Rob- bins, v ho were in the car, left to go , y after gasoline. Adams’ car was stand-1 j | ing without any lights when the ac- j f cident occurred, according to wit- ! nesses. RECORDER’S COURT Recorder’s court for the September ! b term was held in the City Ball room i u last Saturday. It was a busy day ii» for the Recorder and many cases were !: REPRESENTING FOUR COUNTIES—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH and FRANKLIN ZEBULON, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 KLANSMEN TO [ MEET IN RALEIGH t September 24 and 25 Date for Dignitaries to Attend Klorero 1 Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of the > ] Realm of North Carolina will gather t in Raleigh on September 24 and 25 for j the third annual klorero, or conven t tion of the secret organization, it has 5 ! been announced by C. C. Mcllwain, - Grand Klaliff and chief of staff of the . ’ klan in North Carolina. - | Klan dignitaries from all parts of - the country will go to Raleigh for the t j occasion, chief among which will be ■ r Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans ‘ I and Mrs. Robbie Gill Comer, of Little i i Rock, Arkansas head of the women’s i organization of the klan. Others will t be Judge Henry A. Grady, Grand Dra ; gon of North Carolina; George Mc - Carron, Grand Dragon of Missouri; - James Esdale, Grand Dragon of Ala - bama; the yet unidentified Grand Dra > gon of South Carolina; and Dr. W. A. i Hamlett, ed tor of the Kourier Mag- I azine.. > Around 125 North Carolina klans I , are expected to be present for the i ; meeting. ; “It will be the largest gathering ,i of klansmen ever assembled in the I Stale,” Mr. Mcllwain declared, i The feature of the klorero so far I as the general public is concerned i will be the parade of klansmen on - ! Fayettevi'le Street on Friday even -1 ing, September 25. Mr. Mcllwain de : j dared that this will be the largest : ; klan parade ever held in the State. * | The klansmen and klanswonien will ’ i march with visitors down the street, I he sa d. > j The meeting place of the klan con ' I vention was not announced but the ; ! women’s organization will meet in j the klavern of Raleigh Klan No. 1. The fr formation booth during the j convention will be in the lobby of the Sir Walter Hotel. The following klans or their mem i bers will have part in the program: j Raleigh* Salisbury, Rocky Mount, I Gatesville, Asheville, Hertford, Golds j boro, Greenville, Mocksville, Kinston, j Durham, Henderson, Greensboro, and j Wallace. The Klorero will he opened by Judge i Grady on the night of September 24 at e g’nt o’clock, Judge Grady will be j assisted in the opening exercises by ; the Grand Officers. An address of welcome will be made by a Raleigh j klansman and the response will be | made by the Grand Kludd of Salis- j ■ bury. Judge Grady will deliver an : address at 9:45 o’clock. The Friday morning session will be devoted to business and the reading ! of papers on various klan subjects. At the Friday afternoon session, I the K-Duo Degree will be explained - by Grand Dragon McCarron, of Mis- j souri. Grand Dragon Esdale, of Ala- j bama, will speak on extension work in ! : organized realms. The Grand Drag- j j on of South Carolina will speak on the relationship of local organizations to i the realm office. Mrs. Comer will de j liver an address at the afternoon ses i sion. The parade will precede the Friday nigth meeting at which addresses will be made by Imperial Wizard Evans and Dr. Hamlett. At the night ses sion also the Raleigh klan will give an oxemplificuton of the K-Uno De gree. Commission will be presented at this [ session to the Klan Giants by Judge Grady." AN ENJOYABLE SUPPER Last Thursday evening Mr. E. C.) Daniel surprised the firemen and town commissioners when he gave them a chicken supper at the river, j There were about twenty-five present 1 ond there was twenty-five chickens, it j is said. Every one declared a nice time and plenty to eat. TOBACCO PRICES BETTER It was reported to this paper yes- < terday that tobacco prices on the Zeb- I u!on market had improved somewhat in the last two days. Good tobacco is\ \ selling well, but poor tobacco find-» I very little encouragement. < HANDLE MILLION I POUNDS POULTRY j Division of Markets i Saves 15,000 Farm ers $50,000 e The Division of Markets of the r State Department of Agriculture dur r ing the past year handled nearly 1,- 000,000 pounds of live poultry, for s approximately 15,000 farmers, at a 1( direct savings of around $50,000, it is e stated at the department. The work was done through co-op s eration with farm and home agents e j and vocational agricultural teachers. e Indications favor an even better year s during the next twelve months. e For more than three years, it was s pointed out by V. W. Lewis, livestock |] representative of the division, th Di _ vision of Markets has been helping the I farmers to dispose of poultry in car j; ! lot*. “The poultry industry,” he L _ said, “is now attracting greater at tention than ever before, as the farm- L< ers are aware that they can sell poul •_ try and eggs in large quantities in stead of waiting for some huckster s to drive by or have to ‘peddle’ them e out in driblets. “Beginning this fall and extending g through the spring months live poul e try cars will be operated again in a | large number of the counties of the | State to serve poultry producers.” :: REVIVAL AT FIRST ; BAPTIST CHURCH II | ’ Dr. Waller Johnson * Preaching Powerful n ! ( ; Sermons Each Day e I The Chr.stian people of Zebulon and I - surrounding community have an un- 1 : j usual opportunity for the next ten , ! days of hearing one of the most con- j -1 secrated and intellectual preachers in , j the State. Dr. Walter N. Johnson be- I I I gan a series of meetings last Sunday at the First Baptist church and will . : continue perhaps through next week. j [ j There are two services each day—at > I 10 o'clock in the morning and 7:30 at •! n ght. The singing is from the old- j ‘ time hymns especially, songs that i | everybody knows and the congrega- ; . j tions are taking a great interest in ; . j them. The people are urged to attend as j many of these services as possible. I I They should try to make a sacrifice ■: to do so, for seldom have we had an opportunity to hear a man of God , 1 with such heart-searching messages, j ' So far he has discussed such subjects j j as Life, Holiness, Sin, Into the Gar- I j den and the Will of God. Other sub-1 jects we are told will be as interest- ! J ing and vital to the Christian as these. They are not only helpful to the church member, but make a pecu liar appeal to the man outside the 1 church. Dr. Johnson is giving his time to j this work of teaching and preaching ' the great dostrines of the fundamen tals of old-time religion. He works in North Carolina, South Carolina, ' Georgia and Tennessee, speaking at j 1 ; Bible Institutes, Pastors’ Conferences 1 : and in churches. He is giving Zebu- ' j lon two weeks’ of his services, a thing 1 ' 'he has not done anywhere else. We ‘ i hope our people will appreciate this I special occasion to hear and be helped * ;by the meetings. The great need of ; ' j our indifferent church people is just! * ! the messages Dr. Johnson is giving at I * the Baptist church each morning and f ' night. GOOD GAME OF BALL I A Raleigh team and the Zebulon < ! aggregation battled to twelve-inning c gamO- Monday and neither one made a l score. (j The game was called on account c of darkness. Both teams played good ball. r Perry, pitcher for Raleigh, was in i I great form and fanned twenty-two <] batters, while Brown, of Zebulon,, F struck out sixteen men. j a PRICE: One Year, $1.50; Single Copies, sc. I TELLSTEACHERS TO AIR PARENTS > Dr. Bulla Thinks Co operation Needed to Prevent Diseases ? j Urging the co-operation of teach " ers and parents in preventing an un ‘ j necessary outbreak of communicabh ’ | diseases in schools, Dr. A. C 1 j Bulla, county health officer, has is 5 sued the following statement: “School days are here and witl ‘ them comes an increase of the com s municable diseases. Measles, whoop • j ing cough, diphtheria, and scarle r j fever are the ones which require thi j most attention and cause more day: ' to be missed from school than all th< : others comb ned. However, colds, in ■ fluenza, and pneumonia are also re ' monsiblc for the loss of many schoo • days. “ “Too many people look upon com ■ | municable diseases as something ■ necessary for school children to have ' And while it is true that a large per • ; centage of school children in the up per grades have had most of the com 1 man diseases, often referred to as ‘children’s disease,’ it is never a sac ' i that ;11 children have had or mils' • 1 have these d senses. There is a pos 1 sibiiity that whooping cought, meas ■ les, and chickenpox will attack some li'iie in childhood a large percentagi of children, but this is not true of thi ' , ny other children's diseases. “Vaccines and preventive measures - r.re precaution; which can be applicc L; to immunize children suscpetihle t< diphtheria, scarlet fever, small pox typhoid fever and some extent meas 1 ‘s and whooping cough. I “Quarantine is not an effective measure against all common diseases j its effectiveness depends to a great extent on the knowledge of the par | ents attempting to keep it. If at j parents could, as simple as it, imagine 'ho n-any ways communicable diseases -•an be carried from a sick person to i susceptible one, then quarantine would be kept much more effectively. “Quarantine to be beneficial must | be observed in a manner to prevent ! secondary cases. At this season of the year it behooves everybody to put forth every effort to prevent diseases | occurring in the schools. This can only he done by the intelligent co operation of the teachers and parents. “All vaccines of proven value should be used to prevent diseases. Vacci ! nation against smallpox is required in J the city schools, and ch ldren who ; show a positive Schick test to diph theria should be immunized by taking three doses of the toxin antitoxin at seven day intervals.” ELEVEN HELD IN JAIL BECAUSE OF KILLING I Eleven negroes were in jail at Hen : derson Thursday of last week as ac cessories in connection with the find ng of a negro named Ed. Davis in the woods near Elmwood cemetery, ; west of Henderson last Tuesday as ! t.ernoon. The negro hsd apparently j been murdered and it is said that [ damaging evidence has been obtained in the case. Some of the men held :n jail are witnesses, others accused of being implicated, and at least one is believed to have been an eye-wit ness to the killing, which is thought by the officers to have occurred last I Saturday afternoon or night a week ago. The negro was missing from his home on Sunday, and officers were | notified. A search was started and 1 the body was found in a dumb of j bushes near where a crap game is j said to have been in progress. SIXTH BIRTHDAY PARTY Master Le'and Weathers entertain 'd a number of his little friends Tues day afternoon from 1 to 6 in honor of his sixth birthday. After playing a number of out- 1 door games, watermelon and ice cream was served. These present were Masters Fred erick Strickland, William Bunn. Hubert and Clarence Watson, Mere dith Weathers, Misses Lorraine and Ruby Bridgers anil . 1 ss Willa Nort* n assisted in entertaining the children. THE RECORD Will Print Your Community News RALEIGH SAILOR 3:' FALLS TO DEATH - J. E. Allen, of Destoy i er Raleigh, Brutally Attacked in N. Y. i- A dispatch from New York, Sept 6, i- says: Sight seeing in New York for le the first time in his life, and but 12 C. hours after he had left the United s- States Navy destroyer Raleigh, J. E. Allen, a sailor, of Raleigh, North :h Carolina, was lured to a Herlem roof n-1 Saturday morning, brutally attacked p- and in the course of a terrific strug et gle to save his valuables, either was le pushed or fell to his death in a court ,-s yard seven stories bchnv. le Indignant at the attack upon the i- sailor before his fleet had been in s- New York harbor twenty-four hours, -)1 j Vice Admiral J. S. McKean ordered ■ a navy board of inquiry to investi i- | gate the sailor's death. They are co g 1 operating with detectives of the west e. i 135th street station, r- The Raleigh, which arrived with i- th<* largest representation of the fleet i- since the war, anchored Saturday ts morning in the Hudson river at the :t foot of 116th street. The sailors from ;t it and the other vessels are at New 5- 1 York to take part in the American ?-1 Legion convention which opens Thurs ?- day. ■e Allen, who was thirty-two years ie old and regard 'd as one of the quiei ■ t men oT the Raleigh’s crew, was •s granted “liberty” at 1 o’clock Satur d I day afternoon and came ashore with o a party of sailors. lie left them at the k, lending, saying that he wanted to s- take his time and see the sights of New York, having never been there -e before. s. Where he went then, and how he it | came to wander into the negro belt r-; in Harlem both the naval board and 11 I the detectives are trying to learn. e ! John Campbell, who lives on the top s 1 floor of 30 West 136th street, teie o | phoned Detectives Winterhalter and c Stapleton that there was a struggle r. 1 u.k ng place on the roof, t j By the time they arrived, they t | found bloodstains over the entire roof, f and a crimson dollar bill that lay t crumpled in one corner. By the aid s of flashlights, they could see the body n of Allen lying in the court yard be - ’ow. Clothes lines and telephone wires i. had been shattered by the falling tl body. 1 PRAYERS HAVE j! BEEN ANSWERED I Opening of Ne w Church Auditorium At WendeS! Last Sunday was a great day for the members of the Wendell Metho dist church, because their prayers . have been answered and their hopes realized in the opening of their new church auditorium for public worship. For almost two years the services J have been held in the Sunday school department. The installation of hand | seme pews and the pulpit furniture ! were the gift of? Ir. R. 3. Whitley, |of the bo:.rd of stewards. The beau ‘ tiful system of indirect 1 gating wan 1 provided by a free-will offering of ‘ the members. A new piano has been added, the gift of the Young Men’s I Bible Class. Excellent music, includ j ing a vocal solo by Mrs. E. M. Hall, of Zebulon, sermon by the pastor, I and dedicatory services of special , gifts were features of the opening f program. NO SIGNS OF BREAK IN HARD COAL STRIKE Su pension of anthracite mining en tered upon its second week Sunday | without indication -if any effort being d - to biir.g mine owner and mine worker together. Operator.- have not sonified thr-i•- intention of holding a conference so Jar as can be learned. Labor Day was observed as usu .1 through 1 ut the idle coni fields in torthc ~-te: n Pennsylvania. I