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I THE RECORD is - Your Paper—Arc I ou its Friend? I VOLUME 1. NUMBER 39 V: ILL REWARD BEST SPELLER > State-Wide S’ jetting l To Be Held At Charlotte Here is a chance of a lifetime for spellers of North Carolina to get real money, as well as real fun, from the [ covers of the old spelling book. The Charlotte Observer will give $175.00 in cash rewards to the best spellers in the state, and many coun ty champion spellers will get free trips to Charlotte. The spelling bee is to be state-wide and the schools of Charlotte and in the one hundred counties have been invited by The Observer to partici pate. Each school will pick its best speller in a regular spelling bee. Then all school winners, city and county, are to meet at the county seat to se lect, in an old-fashioned spelling bee, the county champion. This lucky boy, or girl, may be among those who will come to Charlotte in May as the guest of the Observer. He or she will stop at the city’s best hotel, will be royally entertained and will enter the state-wide finals. Then the Observer is offering the following prizes at the all-territory finals in May; first, SIOO, second SSO, and third $25. In addition, the champion speller of North Carolina will be sent to Washington, D. C., in June to take part in the Second National Spelling Bee Contest. All expenses of both the winner and a chaperon will be paid by The Observer. In the evenb that the winner is a girl, her mother will act as chaperon, in case a boy, The Observer will provide a suitable chaperon. In Washington more than twenty spelling champions will com pete for $2,000 in gold and a gold medal. The first prize will be SI,OOO, second, $500; third $200; fourth, $150; fifth, $100; sixth SSO. A five day sight-seeing tour and other enter tainments are in store for the winner of No. -h Carolina. Schools in both city and county have been invited to join the bee and urged by The Observer to for ward their acceptances immediately to the Spelling Bee Editor. STATE HURT BY TAX CONFUSION With many taxpayers evidently confused by the changes in the Feder al law which in nowise effect that State income tax, Commissioner of Revenue R. A. Doughton, at Raleigh, received only $77,734.05 in income taxes during the month of February as compared with $107,365.67 in Feb ruary, 19925. On the other hand, with blanks not going out until the last of the month and with the tax rate decreased and the personal exemption allowances increased. United States Collector Gil liam Grissom collected twice as much last month as in the same month last year, the seemingly impossible feat being due to heavey collections of back taxes. In February 1925, the collector took in $370,060.82 while in the month just closed he collectted $604,783.33. Total collections by the State last month were $662,830.52, bring the total for the eight months of the cur rent fiscal year to $4,635,134.56. The bulk of the February collections, how ever, were for insurance tax«, a source not available last year. DEATH OF CLIFTON FERRY > | - - Clifton Ferry, the 17-y«ar-old son of U. R. Furry, whe liven near Pearces Store, died Tuesday morning of pneumonia. The funeral service was conducted at the Baptist church in Zebulon, Wednesday afternoon, by the pfeetor. The interment was in |he Zdbulon cemetery. The young nun was a epieadid fellow. He wa? a member of the Zebulon 'Baptist church. Hit* father hae for several years been a resident of the Zebulon com munity, being one of the best farm ers aad citizens. He moved to the Pearce store neighborhood early in the year. The Bank of Italy, in San Francis co, has resources of over $370,000,- 000, operates 94 branches, has over 663,000 depositors—said to be more than any bank in the nation, and ap proximately 13,000 Californians own stock in the institution. ThF'ZFRIJI ON ‘^IFOORD REPRESENTING FOUR COUNTIES—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH and IRANKUN THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY SMALL TOWN COMMUNITY PAPER IN NORTH C AROL VA. JUMPS INTO FI RN ACE IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT Plymouth, N. C. Brooding over domestic difficulties, Ronn'e Ivloore, young negro fireman of the local municipal light and ice plant offered himself as fuel to the flames. Com ing to his work yesterday morning, Moore tiecidcd that his troubles were jy>oi ? than ho could bear, so he cast himself headlong into the burning furnace. As soon as he began to burn, however, he repented of the (decision and began scrambling to get out. Though horribly burned, he managed to get out. The Roanoke river near-by offered an inviting prospect to one who was so hot, so the would-be suicide ran and jumped into the river. One of the workmen employed at an industrial plant on the river saw that the man was in difficulty, so went to his rescue and brought him to safety. The fire man is being treated by a local phy sician, who holds out some hope of his recovery. The fact that another man had been paying marked attention to his wife, who was not averse to it, was said to have been the trouble which led to the attempted suicide. ENTERTAINMENT AND RECITATION These are always matters of con cern to our homes not only to the children, but to the parents as well. And such i sno little problem in the small town. Zebulon has as many and as average good of amusements as towns of its size elsewhere. But we should seek to give our people things of this kind that have an educational value and not too much of sameness about them like the usual moving picture show. We are glad to note that lately our high schol has had something special almost each week to enter tain both parents and children. Os these were the Wake Forest Glee Club, The Fashion Show and the Mar inettes. All were clean, entertaining and elevation. Why not have the Woman’s Club and the Betterment Association, or the schol put on a paid-admission en tertainment each week at Wakelon. It can be done without much trouble or expense. Let the proceeds go to play-ground equipment, public school music, library and many other needs of our high school. In this way, the whole community would be appealed to and benefited. This might elimi nate the movie down town, but would that be bad for any one but the movie man, when we give our people enough entertainment and recreation of even a higher order and at the same time keep most of the money at home to further benefit our community. If our high school had a moving picture machine, so as to put on one night in the week, good educational plays, we bel’eve it would be much better than the sort some of our peo ple pay to sec almost every night in the week. By making a reasonable charge, the expense could be taken care of with a possible profit. Let us make Wakelon our recreation cen ter and see that our children have the right sort of entertainment in the right proportion. This can be done properl yand profitably if our people will give their reasonable co-opera tion. NEW ELECTRIC DEVICE PICKB UP NAILS, TACKS AND BOLTS IN PATH OF AUTOMOBILIBT Ponctorej! may become no more than evil memories if a new appli cation of the electro-magnet comes into widespread use. - The keepers of the famous Yel lowstone Trail have recently ap plied the electro-mag net to road deeoihg with conspicuous socaese on a five-mile stretch and plan larger operations for the coming season. From the rear of a motor-truck efcye Che report to th# North and South Carolina Public Utility Infor asation Bureau, a large circular elec tro-magnet wan hung to come about four inches over the surface of the road. Current for the magnet was supplied by storage battriea on the truck. From the five miles of rad cov ered more than 150 pounds of nails, bolts, wire and scrap metal was gath ered by the magnet. All of this was a menace to tires and most of it, ac cording to report, was covered by dust and invisible. ZEBULON, N. C-, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, I 26 I\o a* 11 >I? AT h L\, ivi. ksialUJli ii I P A MTiqT UTIITRrTT IJ,i JLvJ I vl’ JLkoil General Supt. Anti- Saloon League Visits Zebulon 'Those who attended the morning service at the Baptist church last Sunday had an unusual intellectual treat in hearing Dr. Francis Scott Mcßride, General Superintendent of Anti-Saloon League of America. His address was along the line of prohi bition generally, i.e L id special em phasis on the efforts of ex-brewers, boot-leggers and drunkards to re establish the liquor business through the proposed law legalizing the sale of beer and so-called light wines. He emphasized the duty of every officer of the law from the president down to the constable, according to his oath to support the constitution and laws of our land. Os course he meant to include all officers of city and town government. The address was well delivered and well received. We are sorry that all the people of Zebulon could not hear the liquor question discussed by a man who has made a life time study of it from both a local and national standpoint. INSTITUTIONS OFFER FIVE SCHOLARSHIPS Four non-transferable scholarships to the summer school session this summer at the George Peabody Col lege for Teachers have been offered to teachers in North Carolina by that institution, according to an an nouncment made by A. T. Allen, the State Superintendent of Public In struction, Raleigh. The Colorado School of Mines has also notified Mr. Allen that it will give a scholarship to some North Carolina student, who must be recommended by Mr. Allen. The Peabody scholarships, which have a value of $25 each, will be giv en upon the recommendation of Mr. Allen. Applications for the scholarships at the Nashville institution must be filed there at Mr. Allen's office before May 1. The State Superintendent stated that he would be glad to sup ply any teacher with application blanks upon request. GEORGIA LEADER IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Traffic toll week ending Sunday night was 38 killed and 296 injured, showing a decided contrast with the preceding week, which claimed 64 dead. These figures were revealed in a survey conducted by The Asso ciated Press in 11 Southern states. The deaths and injuries reported in the survey were caused by automo biles, railway trains, trolly cars and motorcycles. Georgia led the death column with 10, the same number sheyieldel last week. Florida was a close Becond with nine dead. Two states, Arkan sas and Tennessee, reported no deaths Florida led in the column of in juries with 61, Georgia following with 45 and Virginia third with 40. There were no outstanding acci dents recorded during the week, the toll being run up in the ordinary course of traffic. A tabulation by states follows: State Dead Injured Virginia * 3 40 North Carolina 2 3 Georgia , 10 45 South Carolina , 3 5 Florida 9 61 Alabama . 3 21 Miiwierippi 3 14 Louisiana 4 42 Arkansas 0 22 Tennessee 0 82 Kentucky l 11 Tata Is 38 296 Ten cent street-car fares are in force in eighty-three of the 288 cities in-the United States of over 25,000 population, according to a survey by J. A. Millon, assistant statistician of the American Electric Railway As sociation. This is an increase in the use of the ten-cent faro, of 33.8 per cent compared with the situation in June, 1924, when sixty-two cities per mitted a ten-cent fare. A five-cent rate is in effect i nonly ten twons. t'iiNE EXi'Li.V'. .ON TRAPS 68 Half The Men Saved In Explosion of W. Va„ Mine Eccles, W. Ya v March 8. One man is kno\\n to have been killed, 31 miners were entombed, and 37 others were rescued alive following the ex plosion in mine numbers five and six of the Crab Orchard Improvement Company near here, according to a chack made late Monday night by officials. Many of those brought out by rescue workers were badly burned and were suffering from the effects of poison gas. The one body, recovered from No. 6, was that of a negro loader. Two of the No. 6 crew of forty were re ported missing. Thirty-seven were taken out of this mine by the res cues. The entire night shift of 29 in mine No. 5 were entombed. Wreckage in the shaft of No. 5 continued to hinder rescue men. Some crews were working through No. 6 hoping to gain entrance to the con necting mine. The rescue work was being direct ed by R. M. Lambie, chief of the state department of mines. The force of the blast in No. 5, spreading to No. 6, caused experienc ed miners to believe there was little chance for the entombed men. Somewhere in the flame-swepe tun nels is Slim Russel, veteran miner, who was the last man to be rescued from the same workings in April, 1914, when an explosion took a toll of 184 lives. After that disaster Slim was hailed as the luckiest miner in Raleigh county. But Monday night, fate had overtaken him, and, while his buddies gave him up as dead, his wife, recalling his sensational escape 12 years ago, believed Slim would come through safe and sound. OPPORTUNITY FOR WORLD SERVICE Imagination, broad vision, and abil ity to co-ordinate progressive ideas along practical lines are necessary to work out any movement for* the bene fit of mankind. Through the David Starr Jordan Peace Plan won a $25,000 prize, a program is outlined for a progressive approach among the school children of the country, toward the viewpoint that international differences should be settled through peaceful means, rather than through war. The Walter Hines Page School of International Relations, which is be ing developed by America’s leading scholars and statesmen, is an inten sive effort to co-ordinate and centra lize those facts which are essential to a just solution, and without war, of international problems or differ ences. The Jordan Plan is one method of appealing to high moral standards in the relation of neighbors. The Page School deals intensively with those facts and problems which surround the life of our neighbor and which facts it is essential for the other fel low to know, if he wants to have peaceful relations. Men and women trained on ques tions involving international relations are more important in our diplomatic service, so far as the well-being of our country is concerned, than are trained men in any line of business endeavor, because business cannot ex ist profitably without Bound world conditions. “Red” Grange may play spectac ular football, for a few years; but how insignificant is such an achieve ment, compared with the work of a trained man in the Bubject of inter national relations, who could enter the game of life between nations and help make this world a better place for all of u« tive in. Opportunity, romance, achievement and reward center around the Page School, and the Jordan Plan will help furnish incentive to the growing gen eration, to take advantage of the opportunities which the Page, School offer's. -The Manufacturer. 9 When Miami, Florida, wanted n $1,500,000 harbor, and Congress d'd not get it quickly trough, the city ad vanced the cash, and the work is going on. It is one of the busiest seaports oa the Atlantic. LOWER ’ HIT K Vl MS SOt Gil r ON *KG ETA.‘ILLS The North Ciioiina Corporation i Commissi » for . ;<k>d Tuesday to i the Intel Cum mem* Commission a eono'iu I ag.’imu, rates on fresh | vegetal.V- fiom all points of nig a ii Easiern North fu-vlina to orih upon the relat nnship of vegetables shipped in p.obliges less than bar rels at the per barrel r.ite. In some instances the titles on vegetables that are shipped in barrels, will be at tacked as unreasonable and discrim inatory, but the main basis of the complaint is that from shipping points in this state the rates- on pack ages less than barrels are not in line with the per barrel rates, and | upon investigation it has been found that much the larger part of the volume of movement is in packages less than barrels. Based upon decisions of the com mission in other related cases, it is anticipated the commission will in this case require that rates on all packages less than barrels shall be made with relation to the per barrel rates, which should result in ma terial reduction in package rates from points within this state. An effort will also be made in this proceeding minimum rating on highly perishable vegetables, adjusting the minimum quantity to the quantity which exper ience has demonstrated can safely be carried in good condition in a re frigerated or ventilated car. < The Corporation Commission is fil ing this complaint based upon rep resentations made to it by the Fed erated Fruit and Vegetable Grow ers, Wilmington Traffic Association, Wilmington Co-operative Truck Growers’ Association and Eastern Carolina Wholesale Dealers and Com mission will have the active co-opera tion and assistance of the traffic of ficials of these organizations in pros ecuting this complaint. FEDERAL WAREHOUSE ACT TO COVER FIELD SEEDS Regulations covering the extension of the Federal warehouse act to field seeds such as timothy, clover, red top, and alfalfa stored in public ware houses, are being prepared by the U. S. Department of Agriculture as a result of requests from red top grow ers in Illinois, alfalfa growers in Dakota, and other field seed growers in Utah and Idaho. Investigations by the department indicate that extension of the law to field seeds would be practicable. Following preparation of the regula tions, the department plans to sub mit tenative drafts to various inter ested parties to gain the views of producers and the trade before put ting the regulations into effect. ANOTHER PRODUCE CONCERN ESTABLISHES BRANCH HOUSE IN NORTH CAROLINA It will be of great interest to the poultry producers of this State to know that another produce firm has opened a house in North Carolina this one in Raleigh located directly op posite the City Market on the corner of Parham and Blake Streets. This Company will be known under the name of the CAROLINA POULTRY & EGG COMPANY and is ready to buy poultry and eggs from the farm ers the year round paying cash. This new firm will handle at whole sale and retail, poultry of all kinds as well as other farm products. They will establish a milk feeding station to supply the retail trade. The Carolina Poultryy St Em Com-! pany will small or large ship ments at all times by express «r otherwise. The firna is reedy for business and solicit the trade e€ our poulty pro ducers. i ■■■- MR. B. C. CARTER RETURNS FROM KALHUGH HOSPITAL Mr. E. C. Carter, who has been a patient at Mary Elizabeth heep/tal, • Raleigh, for some ten days, has 1 returned to his home, about twe miles ' vest of Zebulon. Some over two weeks ago Mr. Carter suffered the loss of a hand while cutting eera stalks. His hand wes caught In the machine, and cut to pieces. The hand was amputated just above the wrist.: While Mr. Carter suffered intensely, ; he was cheerful ail along dur.ag his slay at the ho: pital. It is hoped he will continue to get along nieely. 'iv!UL: One Year, $1.50; Singh. Copies, sc. TH E RECORD WAI Prirt Your Cnr - ~Mv News Uuoltifcß OF UHTTfUi? I - * n Lsz 2a# IV L., I s P |Mrs. Mary Mitchell Passes Away 5 n Raleigh Mrs. Mary A. Mitchell, of Raleigh, mother of the G. W. Mitchell, of the Record, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. N. Pool, at 1413 Mordecai Dri <*, Tuesday night at 11 o’clock. Mrs. Mitchell, in her early woman hood identified herself with the Rnn t’st faith, and at the time of her death was a member of the Baptist Ti.bernaclc church of Raleigh. She was the daughter of Josiah and Nancy King, who died many years ago. Mrs. Mitchell was nearly 80 years of age and had been partially para lyzed for over a year. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. E. N. Pool, of Ral eigh; G. W. Mitchell, of Zebulon; Mrs. Fletcher Austin, of Clayton, Route 1; R". H. Mitchell, of Raleigh; Mrs. J. M. Whitley, of Garner; Mr. C. E. Mitchell, of Raleigh, and Miss Mamie Mitchell, of Raleigh, and a host of grandchildren and great-grand child ren. The funeral was. held from the Baptist Tabernacle church, Raleigh, Thursday evening, attended by a large concourse of friends. The interment was in Oakwood cemetery. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION THANKS HELPERS The Ways and Means committee of the Athletie Association desires to thank all who helped in the recent ef fort to make money for the girls’ basketball suits. Especially to Mr. Corbett for the use of his building, and to Mr. Medlin, who gave the coal, also to Messrs. Lewis, Kilpatrick, and Kemp, who lent the tables, chairs and dishes, the committee wishes to ex press its hearty appreciation. PLAY AT KNIGHTDALE The Glad Girls Bible Class, of the Baptist church will give a play, “Saf ety First,” a face comedy in three acts by Sheldon Darner Friday eve ning, March 12, at 8:00 p. m. in the school auditorium. This play will be given under the direction of Miss De Ford teacher of expression in Knight dale school and promises to be one of unusual interest. PLAY AT ROLESVILLE A play, “Safety First” will be given in the Rolesville school house Wednesday evening, March 17, at 8 I p. m., under the auspices of the Knightdale Baptist church. The cast includes three young men, a funny policeman, a terrible Turk, two young ladies, a society matron, a Turkish maid, and Mary Ann O’ Finnety, Irish cook, the antics of the terror-stricken husband, the police man, the dandy, and the Irish cook. We will start the audience smiling at 8 o’clock and wil send them home with aching sides from the tornado of fun. DOMESTIC MARKET MOST IMPORTANT “Smash the tariff" advocates argue that duties on imported goods do not help the farmer because his surplus products are exported. They forget the fact that the domestic market ia far more important to the farmer than the export field und takes $lO worth of his products for every dol lar's worth that is exported. President Coolidge expressed kie idea at tfc« annual convention of the Araor.can Farm Bureau Federation at Chicago, when he said: “Prosperity in our industries is of more value to the farmer than th» whole export market for foodstuffs. Protection has contributed in our country to making employment plen tiful with the highest wages and standards of living in the world, that is of inestimable benefit to b uh our agricultural anil industrial popular
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