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VOLUME I. NO. 16
TOBACCO PRICES
GETTING BETTER
Reports Show That
Prices Running
f Much Better
The whole tobacco crop and prices
have not gone to the “bow-wows,”
nor is it being “hogged” by the big
companies. It is said by one who
visited the Eastern Carolina markets
last week, was frank to admit that
there was much inferior tobacco in
this section which was rushed to the
market and held the general average
down to sl6 to sl7 per hundred, but
when the better grades came in
there was a strong upward tendency.
The party said that this very thing
is apt to happen anywhere the low
grades rule and predominate the mar
kets.
Ths same person saw tobacco on
the Rocky Mount market last week
sell all the way from $3.00 to SBO.OO
per hundred. He stated that prices
are fully up to the levels of last year.
Asked as to what we may expect
on the market, the rest of the season,
he said that the prices on our mark
et range higher than on the South
Carolina markets. He said that he
noticed that the medium, good and
better grades were snapped up by
the buyers on some of the markets
with a relish.
“THE FLAPPER GRANDMOTHER”
See “The Flapper Grandmother” at
the Wakelon auditorium Friday night,
October 2, at Bo’ clock. Don’t miss
this opportunity to sec a two dollar
musical comedy for fifty cents. This
sho wis not only spectacular and
spontaneous but full of screams in
the form of incontrollable laughter.
You can’t afford to miss see ng Mr.
Shamburger as Lilly, a high-toned
“yellow-gal” wearing a super-vamp
costume with ear-rings to match. As
for the cast of characters it is dif
ficult to tell who is the star; the
grandmother and her grand-daught
ers are a show within themselves.
This play is directed by M ss Beu
lah Ferguson, of the Wayne P. Sew
ell Lyceum and Producing Co., of
Atlanta, Ga. “The Microbe of Love,”
which was presented in Zebulon last
year, was another Sewell production
and the “Flapper Grandmother” will
repeat its success.
Reserved seats on sale at Zebulon
Drug Company.
APEX LOOKS FOR A
SUCCESSFUL FAIR
With the greater Western Wake
Fair a week off and with “Red”
Kearns, working in high gear, indi
cations point to the biggest event
ever staged in Apex when the ex
h bits are in place October 9.
Randolph Benton, president of the
fair has promised to have one of the
state’s ablest speakers on hand to
furnish the oratorical fire works at
11:30 a. m. October 9.
The address of welcome will be
delivered at 10 a. m. October 9, by
Mayor E. G. Sinclair. The opening
of the exhibit hall will be at 12:30.
At 2 p. m. prizes for live stock will
be awarded. At 3:30 p. m. there will
be a high school football game and',
at 8 p. m. the State College band
will give a concert.
The following day, Saturday, there
will be climbing of a greasy pole,
three legged race, bag race, etc. At
noon Saturday the prizes for. exhib
its will be awarded.
A large attendance is anticipated.
AMERICAN NATIONAL
RED CROSS CHAIRMAN
Mrs. W. K. Phillips has agreed to
act as roll-call chairman for the
town of Zebulon, for American Nati
onal Red Cross. From Armistice Day
to Thanksgiving Day every year the
members are supposed to pay their
dues and also the organization to
receive all the new members that
will join. We hope that every one
in Zebulon will become a member of
the Red Cross.
John Adams negotiated a treaty
with Holland in 1781.
The Zebulon Record
REGISTER FOR
ROAD ELECTION
Books Open for All
To Register for
New Roads
Registration for the good roads
election to be held October 20 is
picking up. The registration books
! will be open in the 43 precincts each
! of the three remaining Saturdays,
and the steering committee is anx
ious to get a representative vote of
the county.
The election will involve the loan
lof sufficient funds to hardsurface
I the remainder of the State’s highways
in Wake county which is route 50
; from Cary to the Chatham county
| line, route 21 from Raleigh to the
j Harnett county line, and connecting
| link between routes 90 and 91. Un
der the contract the loan is not to
I exceed $1,300,000 and will be repaid
from the State’s revenues. If no
j souther road bonds are issued by the
State or if the revenue is not in
I creased by gasoline sales taxes or
otherwise, the loan will be repaid
within thirteen years. Wake county
j will bear only the interest on this
amount.
Registration may be made at any
j time the registar is present, Mr.
Barnes pointed out, and although the
registrar is required by law’ only to
be at the polls on Saturday many of
them keep the registration books at
the r homes or places of business and
will register voters any time during
the w’eek.
An even larger registration is ex
pected next Saturday, and the steer
ing committee w r ill make a special
effort from now until time for the
election to get Wake county voters
to register and vote.
The registrar in Zebulon will reg
ister you any time.
AUTOS USED
ON THE FARM
North Carolina First
Among the Other
States
Automobiles owned on farms in the
I South Atlantic seaboard states num
ber 367,526, according to automotive
statistics issued at Chicago by the
American Research Foundation.
| North Carolina ranks first among
j the states in this, section in the num
ber of farmer-owned automobiles, the
figures show, with 89,293 cars. Vir
ginia is second with 73,677. Then
comes Georgia with 69,159, South
Carolina with 52,179, Maryland with
51,413, and Flordia with 31,805.
Total automobiles owned on all
farms in the Unted States number
3,821,085 of which 3,454,159 are
passenger cars and 367,926 are motor
trucks. In the proportion of auto
mobiles to farm population, it is
shown, the average is one farm car
to every 8.1 farm people in America.
Farmers, according to statistics,
are the greatest buyers of automo
bile equipment. They purchased 9,-
250,000 tires and 10,000,000 last year.
Mail order houses supplied a big per
cent of these. Montgomery Ward &
Company, largest retail tire dealers
in the w’orld, sell close to 3,000,000
tires a year. Other items of auto
moble equipment bought by farmers
last year were: 1,250,000 storage bat
-1 teries; 8,000,000 spark plugs; 7,500,-
000 feet of brake lining; 45,700,000
gallons of oil; and 18,000,000 piston
rings.
Use of automobiles on the farm is
increasing rap dy. It is estimated
that farmers will buy 1,119.500 auto
mobiles in 1925 at a cost of $864,769,-
245.
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BIRTH ANNOU NC EM ENT
Mr. and Mrs. M. Wallace Cham
■ bice announce the birth of a son,
M. W. Jr., Tuesday, September 22,
j Park View hospital, Rocky Mount.
REPRESENTING FOUR COUNTIES—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH and FRANKLIN
ZEBULON, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1925
CLINGS HELD
FOR CRIPPLES
H. L. Stanton Talks
To Raleigh Kiwa
nis Club
How the Kiwanis Club of Raleigh
i might participate in the work of re
habilitating civilian cripples, especi
ally underprivileged children, was ex
| plained to Raleigh club today at its
| regular weekly luncheon by H. L.
Stanton, in charge of this work for
! the state department of education.
' Mr. Stanton told of several incidents
where hopeless cripples had been
trained for a life of usefulness and
explained how several clubs were
giving substantial aid in this work.
He stated that nearly all of the lead
ing othoped.e surgeons of the state
had volunteered their services for
cause and that much of the expense
had been donated by various organi
zations.
i Members of the Raleigh club ex
; pressed themselves as being very fav-
I orably impressed with the opportun
i ity offered in this work and referred
I the matter to the board of directors
| to report a plan whereby the Raleigh
j club might support one or more beds
| in local hosp tals for such cases as
1 needed this care.
KEEPS THE HOME
FIRES BURNING
Radio has become almost a house
hold requisite. Nothing has done
more to promote the home-loving in
stinct than the ever growing po)w
larity of fh ; s great pleasure-giving
and educational invention.
From this one may fa : rly reason
that wherever the installing of radio
sets is on the increase thee home
loving instinct is certainly not on the
wane. And, since the broadcast pro
gram is essentially a thing to be
enjoyed b ythe family circle, it is to
the family circle the radio will cater.
Seldom has the human demand for
novel entertainment found so admir
able a combination. As the call for
more radio service grows, so also
grows the attraction of the home.
And as the attraction of the home
becomes stronger, so the call for
better broadcast programs becomes
more insistent.
Eveerything tends to make the
rad’o influence a wellspring of good.
So excellent a caterer to all that
jis most desirable in promiting true
human happiness certainly deserves
the very best of the public to whom
it ministers.
j AMERICAN BANKERS
ELECT OFFICERS
At'antic City, N. J., Sept.3o.—The
American Bankers’ Association today
elected Oscar Wells, of Birmingham,
Ala., as its new president and adopt
ed resolutions urging perpetuation of
the Federal Reserve system through
the renewal of its charters on an in
determinate or 99-years basis, with
the recommendation that proposed
amendments to the Federal Reserve
system act be considered separately.
The association also w' nt on record
as favoring eliminat’on of the fed
eral estate and gift taxes and of in
heritance taxes by states on intang
ible personal property of non-resi
dents.
Rear Admiral 11. H. Christy, in
charge of rescue work, has lost hope
that any of the men in the wrecked
submarine S-51 are alive in their
tomb at the bottom of the Atlantic.
AT CHURCH SUNDAY
Sunday school will open at 10
o’clock promptly, and close at 11
o’clock.
Dr. Chas. E. Maddry, Secretary of
Missions, will preach. Those who
really want to hear a great preacher
give a great message should not fail
to be present.
The pastor will preach at 7:30 in j
the evening on the subject, The W: v j
Home. He will use the black board
and colored crayons to illustrate his :
sermon.
Everybody is invited to these ser
vices.
72-YEAR-OLD
IS SUICIDE
William G. Upchurch,
of Raleigh Takes
Own Life.
11l health, which he had been suf
fering for the past six years, was
the probable motive for William G.
Upchurch, an elderly white man, tak
ing his life Friday night at his home
at 200 Firwood Avenue, Raleigh.
Mr. Upchurch, who was 72 years
of afe, had been suffering from high
blood pressure for several years
which caused '.lim to be out of em
ployment. Hi and his wife had been
living with then children in the Ral
eigh Cotton Mill section of the city.
His ill health was given as a prob
able cause of his taking his life.
At the time, Mr. Upchurch was
laying across the bed in h s room
while his wife was reading an account
of a funeral in the evening paper.
He remarked to Mrs. Upchurch that
he wished her to give the bed on
which he was lying to one of his
children. As soon as lie had s:.id
this he shot himse'" through the
head wth a .32 ca : 'or U. S. pistol,
which he had evidently secretly con
cealed in the bed for that purpose,
the bullet entering his head above
his right ear and coming out the
other side of his head and lodging in
the pillow. Friday morning he had
carried the pistol to a ne ghbor to
have it cleaned and oiled and had
brought it hack with him later in the
day, so it is thought he had been
planning the .act for some time al
though ho had never remarked to
anyone his intention of taking his
life. Mr. and Mrs. Upchurch were
alone in the room at the time. One
of his daughters and his son-in-lav
were sitting on the porch when they
heard the shot fired and rushed at
once into the room.
Mr. Upchurch is suivved by his
wife and five children.
COLE NOW ON TRIAL
Rockingham, Sept. 30.—Trial of W.
B. Cole, rich slayer of W./W. Ormar.d,
started in earnest here this afternoon
when the State began the presenta
tion of evidence on which it will ask
Cole’s death by electrlcution and de
fense laid the groundwork for a plea
of insanity in the cross examination
of the two witnesses for the State
who took the stand. The trial start
ed at 4:20 o’clock, after the selection
of a jury from a special venire of
200 citizens of Union county.
Monroe, Sept. 30.—The juriors
which will determine the fate of W.
B. Cole in the trial at Rockingham
are mostly farmers and mostly Bap
tists. Several of them are very sub
stantial farmers.
YOUTH MORE SINNED
AGAINST THAN SINNING
Clarksburg, W. Va., Sept. 28.—1 n
their present day “misbehaviour” the
young generation of America are
“more sinned against than sinning”
by those who “explot” their tendency,
in the opinion of Dr. Deets Pickett,
research secretary of the board of
temperance, prohibition and public
morals, the Methodist Episcopal.
In ?n address prepared for the
West Virginia’s conference of the
church Monday, Dr. Pickett declared
the young people of the nation are
being “exploted for profit or as a
means of overturning the tradition
and customs of the country.”
“The erotic dances,” he said, “are
evolved by baldheaded dancing mast
ers. The erotic plays are written
and produced by men of maturity;
salacious novels and magazines are
not the product of youth even though
they are produced for youth.”
At one time dur.ng the strike in
the metallurgical and construction
filed.s of Belgium this year 76,000
of the 85,000 employes in 199 plants
were out.
First minister of the United States
to Great Britan was Thomas P.nck
ney.
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WALTER MAIN’S
CIRCUS COMING
Will Be in Zebulon on
October 19th,
It is Said
Arrangements were made today
i for the appearance of the Walter L.
Main shows in Zebulon, Monday Oc
tober 19. The announcement of the
coming of this famous tented orga
nization, now in its 46th year, is at
tracting a great deal of interest
among the lovers of the dear old
“white tops.”
“During the almost half a cen
tury the Walter L. Main Shows has
been on the road,” said L. C. Gillette,
the general contracting agent, “it has
grown and prospered until today the
equipment and paraphernalia has set
a standard by which many other or
ganizations are patterned. Walter
L. Main, early in his career as a
; ihowman, adopted a platform of
honesty and square dealing with the
public. This together with a policy
of decency and cleanliness has en
abled him to reach the zenith in his
lied.”
A special Ira n of double length
ailroad cars will bring the big show
here. The ’paraphernalia and equip
ment represent an expenditure of
more than three quarters of a mil
lion dollar :. There are upwards of
500 men and women and 200 horses
with the show; almost ten acres of
tents; a herd of elephants, a caravan
of camels from the great desert. The
menagerie will be fully up to the
llgh standard of excellency main
j ained by W; ltcr L. Main in other
1 years. The performance this season
' wi 1 see scores of added European
features and novelties. The champ
ion riders, acrobats, acrialists, gym
nats and equilibrists of Continental
Europe and America will be seen.
There will be two performances at
2 and 8 p. m., the doors opening an
hour earl er to pennt a visit to the
zoological collection or to enjoy a
concert by the military band. An
immense street parade will be seen
on the downtown streets at noon on
show day.
WANT TO BUILD
NEW HOME
Cotton Co-ops. Plan
ning Own Build
ing Soon
The North Carolina Cotton Grow
ers Co-operative Association is plan
ning toward the erection of its own
office building in Raleigh, according
to announcement of U. B. Blalock,
general manager of the association in
a talk before the Raleigh Rotary Club
Monday reviewing the history of the
co-operative movement in North
Carolina.
Mr. Blalock merely gave a hint as
to the projected plans of the assoca
tion and after the meeting he would
not elaborate.
“Both Texas and Oklahoma Co-op
eratives have bu It their own office
buildings,” he declared. “Cotton co
operatives are permanent organiza
tions. They have demonstrated their
value and their right to live, we are
working toward the establishment of
our own home.”
| NEED NEW QUARTERS FOR
ZEBULON POST OFFICE
The Chamber of Commerce, as
well as other organizations in our
town should put forth an effort to
have new quarters for our postoffiee.
The building now occupied is
in; dequate for the purpose. Call f
meeting of all the citizens in town
and let us send a petition to Wash
ir.gcon and also one to our con
gressman and Senator Simmons. We
need new quarters and need them
badly.
For electrif cation of rural districts
Soviet Russia recently ordered $6,003,-
OCOworth of equipemnt.
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WAKE SCHOOL
PRINCIPALS MEET
Discuss Daily Sched
ule and Curricula
For Schools
The high school principals of Wake
county met in Superintendent John
C. Lockhart’s office at Raleigh Mon
day morning at ten o’clock for a con
! f erence conducted by J. Henry High
! smith, State High School Supervisor,
assisted by L. L. Lohr, Assistant
i High School Supervisor.
The main topics discussed including
j the daily schedule, classification and
promotion of students high school
organization, the principal’s work in
the rural high school, extra class
room activities, requirements for ac
crediting high schools. Proposed cur
ricula or small high schools to be
come effective for the session 1926-
’27 were also discussed.
Miss Susan Fulgum spoke to the
I principals about the standardization
of elementary schools. Wake < unty
i has five standard elementary schools:
j Cary, Wendell, Wakelon, Apex, and
i Garner.
Charles M. Heck, of State College,
j discussed the teaching of Science and
; plans were made to give an exten
sion course for the Science teachers
of Wake county. The proposed date
j for the organization of this work is
October 24th.
Principals who attended the con
iference are:
Miss Gladys Thoroughgood, of
Knightdale; B. 11. Johns >n, of Wake
lon; M. B. Dry, of Cary; W. E. Flem
ing, of Fuquay Springs; G. M. Beav
ers, of Green Level; W. C. Stowd. of
Wendell; Randolph Benton, of Apex;
i\ H. Barbee, of 01.ve Chapel; A. T.
Holleman, of New Hill; E. L. Weh
renburg, of Mill Brook; C. 11. Pinner,
of Wake Forest, and 11. C. Grifrin, of
the Blind Institute.
EASTERN WAKE COUNTY
FAIR BEGINS TODAY
Ihe Eastern Wake county Fair be
gins today. The committees in charge
rounded out their plans and have
made the final arrangements for
handling the largest crowd of visi
tors that have ever been to Wendell.
Much interest has been shown by
out of town and various committees
as well as local people. We have
had reports from several of the work
ers who slate that the numb- r and
size of exhibits to be on display wi ! l
be much more than anticipated.
Wh.le this fair is to be held in
Wendell it is not a Wendell fair. We
hope to have our town rrell represen
ted and also hope the other towns
and communities will feel free to
carry their goods. The fair is for
Wendell, Zebulon, Knightdale, Eagle
Rock and all the surrounding com
munities. Being held under the Wake
county name does not bar our neigh
bors in the edge of other adjoining
counties.
The baby show to be held in the
vacant store on main street will be
one of the features of the fair to at
tract much interest, especially to
mothers, Mrs. W. M. Strickland,
whose •*s a trained nurse
before her T.iJf. •' will be in charge
of this part ne fair and
promises V p 'l* information that
■will be of r value to the mothers.
If there a who do not fully
underste*‘ J his part of the fair we
would like to refer them to Mrs.
Strickland.
Dr. W. M. Strickland wi'l be in
charge of the dog show and urges all
who are Interested in dogs to be on
han dat that part of the fair. Others
features of the fair are fully taken
care of and information may be re
ceived by getting in touch with the
committee in charge.
PRAYER MEETING SERVICES
The First Baptist church has re
sumed the c prayer meeting services
every Wednesd-y evening ac 7:33
o’clock.
Oakland, Cal., Sept. SO.—A light
earthquake shock was felt here at
7:30 a. m. No damage wa