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A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! VIII.— KIHAi w AND THE OTHER By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS It is rather astonishing to me to hear so many people say that Christ inas belongs to children. Os course it Toes, but it belongs to old folks, too, and to the middle aged ones, and to youn g people. Christmas belongs to | everybody, and those who do not feel L.he thrill and the sweetness it brings missed something very precious. True, it means different things to dif ferent ages, but it is still Christmas. When I was a child a neighbor of urs was much given to quoting a verse that seemed to express his idea f the holiday season. It was this: Christmas comes but oncet a year; Drink egg-nog an’ ’simmon beer; I git drunk then, I don’t keer. And that seems to be what a great umber of men do at Christmas. Their •lea of celebrating a holy day. Another memory of Christmas is ( connected with “Aunt Lazarine,” an • Id colored woman who lived on our farm. Like all the rest, she tried to -ay “Christmas Gif’” first when se -aw anyone during the week beginning ! December 25. This time, however, I beat her to it. To my dismay she replied: “O.well, honey, Chris’mus gif i ain’t nothin’ but er kiss. Come on an git it.” It wouldn’t have been bad foi I me, if the family had not overheard. And our famil y could never resist teasing each other. To everyone who remembered usj this Christmas in any way, I should like to write a personal, private mes sage of thanks. Each card is appre ciated and has already been read sev eral times; each gift brought forth gratitude that I could not wholly ex press. And for all I am wishing the best that life can give. There are others to whom my heart goes out at this season and to whom I vv oul d ; if it were possible, speak words of sympathy. They are those whose family circle has been broken during the year, and those whose fam ilies are too widely scattered to be together for Christmas. Nothing can quite take the place of being with ou r own: but time and life death are often relentless and must ‘ have their wey. i Age has many penalties as well as privileges, and memory 'belongs to both. When one has lived long, there is so much to be remembered, and so much that cannot be forgotten. We have to learn to guard against “re-, calling other days remorsefully"— times when we were children; times whe n our own children were small; times when we had more for ourselves and for others; times when and this is the time when it is best to tell j memory, kindly, but firmly, that we are really too busy todav to spend another minute with her, as much as we’d love to. For the New Year is j coming and we must make ready. We 1 may not like Markham, “laugh and; lift hands to the ypars ahead”; but we are going to put on a brave front, and, if we are scared, we’re go ing to hide it just as long as possible j Besides, who knows? The New Yeai j, may be kind and generous. At any' rate, it’s coming, so we shall not go ■ to meet it with dragging feet, but as one who greets a friend. Smile, then , when 1933 taps on the door. THE CHILD CRIMINAL PROBLEM'' The ever-busy but never-satisfied | reformers, after getting a lot of laws passed forbidding children to work ' and extending the amount of leisure that they have are now worried be- J cause crime is on the increase among . this class. What did they expect? Can you pass laws which make honest labor a crime, which take the care of chil dren away from parents and give it to the police, anrf which turn the chil- . dren out in the streets with no place to go and nothing to do. and then ex- ’ pect that they will grow up ideal citizens ? Certainly nobody would defend th« ■ overworking of children, but results j have shown that far more harm re- ' suits from idleness than from work- 1 ing. Satan is still an efficient manager 1 work for idle hands to do. and he can be depended on to find The Almighty has decreed that this shall be a world in which the way not only to salvation but also to world ly peace, comfort and health, shall lie in “the sweat of thy brow.” Taking i work and the chance to work away 1 from human beings, whether young < or old, without offering something to < take their place, is suicidal.—Path- I finder. ' Cthr Brlmixm Memtit Carey Pearce Shoots Wife | Carey Pearce who lives near Pet j Horton’s about 2Vi miles west ol Zebulon, is said to have decided to I help along his Christmas joy by im | bibing quite freely of Little River li j quor, or a kindred drink. Now Carey | is a pretty good fellow, and his friends ; say he only gets drunk occasionally. ,; But on this occaion, Christmas day .I it is reported that he got “besides 1 1 himself” His celebration involved his j wife. A colored man came in and help ,’ jed to sothe his troubled spirits. Re , ports say that in a final splurge Carey 1 1 got hold of his shot gun, his wife ran , : for the door calling for help, latch j ing the door behind her. Carey fol ! I lowed, the door gave way, and he emp j tied the gun’s contents at his flee ing wife, at a thirty yard aim. The I shot scattered, but some took effect in : i her shoulder and other parts of her 1 [ body. She was carried to the hospital 1 and expects to be home with her two children soon if complications don’t i j occur. Deputy Massey went to arrest Carey ! Sunday night, but he vva s in bed a : sleep, so the officers did not disturb j him. Monday morning he was arrest led and carried to Raleigh where he j awaits the outcome of his wife’s | injuries. Bridges Child Badly Burned Mr. and Mrs R. H. Bridgets went :to Sanford on Monday to visit Mr. Bridget s’ mother. During their ab- j sence their little daughter, Ruby, went down into the basement to see to the, , furnace fire. Her father had banked I the fire before leaving, and when she J opened the door to stir the cq#ib. the flame flared out, burning her face very painfully. The doctor who ban daged the burns stated, however, that the injury is superficial and it is hopea that no scars will be left. _______ * ANNOUNCEMENT The Garden Department of the Wo-; I man’s Club will meet with Mrs. C. H. Chamblee on Tuesday, January 10 at 10:00 A. M. Members are urged to j attend and others of the club who are interested, are invited. Fire At Manteo A fire at Manteo on Christmas dayj destroyed two buildings that housed | six business establishments and caused j a loss estimated at $35,000. The fire which raged for two and one half hours was thought to have originated when an oil stove in a restaurant exploded, the courthouse and jail were damaged and a steel storm warning tower own id by the government melted and col lapsed. Warmest C 1 r’st* a Last Sunday was said to be the ' warmest Ch|istma.4 Day known in the 45 years the Weather Bureau in Raleigh has recorded temperatures. The mecury rose to 73 degrees. By contrast with the unusual cold of the preceding ten days, the warmth of ; Sunday was more noticeable. EARTHQUAKE ON WEST COAST - : On the night of December 20 the I western area of the United States was shaken by the strongest earthquake since 1925. The shocks began at 10:10 p. m. and lasted more than an hour. It seeme,) that the center of the disturbance was in Nevada. Win dows were broken, but no serious nor extensive damage is known to have been done. California is said to have felt the eathquake, but the shocks were light. Motorists in Utah were inconvenienced by the trembling of the earth, and said it seemed as if their cars were being pushed over. SOME PAID; SOME DID NOT Os the nations owing money to the United States, and due to pay inter est last week, England led in paying. Italy paid her quota and so did Czecho-Slovakia. France defaulted as did other smaller countries, and j pai,) nothing. It is now said that Fiance is trying to arrange for fur- ' ther discussion of the debt and many j promise to pay if assured that the debt will be revised downward. Raleigh Curch Third Largest Statistics sent in by associations in the state show that the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Raleigh is, in point, of membership, the third Baptist. Church in the state, and has the lar-! gest Sunday School of any North Carolina Church of its denomination J ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA December 30, 1932. To Our Subscribers: For a year now we have been sending the RE CORD to many of our readers who have not paid. We have tried to give them the best paper possible at the price charged by all country weeklies $1.50 per year. Interest, taxes, insurance, bills are now due and, the RECORD must meet these or suspend publica tion, unless our subscribers pay up. That part of our paper giving the news has been published this year at a loss even if our subscribers pay up. If they do not, we cannot continue the paper. Now here is our inducement to get you to pay up your subscription: For the next 30 days, to ail who will bring us SI.OO, we will credit them with $1.50 on their subscription account. If you bring us $2.00, and owe for 1932, then we will mark your subscription paid up to 1934. Now is the time to save SI.OO and help us in atdifficult place. If you are not a subscriber, then this offer is open to you— One year for SI.OO. Look at your label, if it is dated “Jan. 32”, that means you owe one years subscrip tion And remember you can pay your subscrip tion with almost anything at the local market price. Bring us wood, hay, corn, meat, lard, chickens, eggs, and we will allow you full credit on your subscription Good Pageant At Wakefield The Chritsmas Pageant at Wake field was presented in the church at 7:30 p.m., directed by S. 11. Hoyle. The spirit of Christmas took those present back to the Bethlehem Inn and the time when Christ was born The conclusion of the program was the bringing of gifts to the King from various departments of the Sunday School. The performance was ex cellent and was appreciated by the audience that filled the house. Balancing The Books f Hntß. • o\>V awt \ \ 1 /o* csws fm -tw \ \ - j> \\\\\fJßyi ( GOO* Vitjjt WSHt ‘H* \ \ _' ■» V Bit Cat; Got Term Because he broke with his teeth the tail of a poor unsuspecting kitty, Leo Hamiton, Raleigh man, must serve ninety days on the county roads. Leo pleaded guilty last week, say ing he was tanked up on booze and knew nothing of his actions. judge N. A. Sinclair decided Wed nesday that Leo should be severely punished, giving him the maximum sentence for cruelty to dumb animals. It was reported that the cat died of its wound.—Raleigh Times Program Given At Hephzibah On Sunday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock a Christmas program was given at Hephzibah Church under the direction of Mrs. Dewey Martin and Mrs. Oris Horton. A large crowd attended and were much pleased with the exer cises. Those taking part were the children and young people of the church. The rendition of their parts showed their own interest and the careful training of the directors. Seen And Heard Did yau see them ? Well, if you didn’t, you missed something well worth pausing to admire. And it would have added to your Christmas joy, too. It was Christmas eve. Seeing a number of men loafing on the street corner, we went over and asked them if they did not want to make some money. One said the pay was too lit ; tie, another that he had something else ; to do,and so on. So we decided that no ; one wanted to move that pile of wood enough to work on Christmas eve. After a half hour or so, a little black | shining faced negro stuck his head I in at the door and said, “ Mister, don’t ; you want that pile of wood moved,” I j told him that I did but he could not |do it by himself He said wait, he j coul ( j get some help, and away he | ran, ami was soon back with three more boys, all smaller than lie. And they went at that wood pile like Turks! They did not ask how much I would pay them, nor even look to see how | big a pile it was. And who were these work eaters?; I asked my son. “Why,” s«id he, ; don’t you know them? They are Uncle; | Henry’s hoys.” Now we all remember' | Uncle Henry who used to work at the depot. Let me introduce this team , ' no two teams or a double team, to you. this is Gerah; and that one Vaminej Here is Cecil and this little fellow is i Edsel, If you need a boy, or boys, to I do a piece of work at lightning speed ; just call on Uncle Henry’s boys. Now it was Christmas and they wanted some change mighty badly . Perhaps j | they would not work quite so hard j on some other day, but anyhow, I | think it would be woi-th trying, VE FLAPDOODLE By Th. SH ASHIH l K I,Kit | Hey! Hey! Everybody! . ... I’ve ■ I just returned from a call on Mrs. Sant A. Clause . . . Our call was cut short I when Sants returned ... He came ij back before we were expecting him. , . i j Yes sir* he’d forgotten his sleigh . . . . i You want to know what I said when he walked in? . . .My dear, What could I sleigh? And these young fellows who run around during the Yuletkle kissing females under mistletoe .... From the looks of some j gents who have been sworn into the j hornorable order of “Ball and Chain” ! 1 take it that they must have smacked j the gel who stood under the poison j ivey .... Maybe I’m wrong ... In fact, I know lam . . Ivey is some thing that grows on elelphants, and onterprizing people make piano keys and such from it I’m reliably j infawmed that a governess is what j the governor’s wife is called .... Do you have head aches? ... Do you see I spots before your eyes ? . . . Well, /don’t worry, those aren’t spots, they’re j periods I use to separate my thuts . . . I Oh yes 1 do have thots occasionaly | Yes, occasionally . . . Most of the time I run around in a fog tho . . . Speak j ing of fogs . . . They tell me that fogs I are terribly dense . . . But you ought to see them jump, some of turn n jump for ten or even twelve feet . . . j I knew all you people would like to know w'hat these collitch pepple thot about our fair metropolis, so I. per ; sonally interviewed them for you . . 1 (of course, unbeknowingly to them) . . The first interview I had was with ! Mr. John K. Barrow, Jr. . . . Said Mr. Barrow, “The town is dead.” . . Second M iss Doris Horton, “The town is dead’” i Third, Miss Bev Isaacs, “The town |is putrid” . . Miss Earvene Massey i “It’s worse than that” . . .Miss Ann ! Kemp . . . But then we won’t go into I that. . . Now 1 want to ask the citizens j of this city this question ... Is this i Zebulon, or the county morgue? . . . ! 1 thot that this city stacked up pretty | well against a hick town like Greens boro or Raleigh, but then I might be | wrong ... I can’t keep up with these j youngsters like I used to ... . Have jto .get me a cane pretty soon .... j Maybe it’s these college students who I are dead . . . No, that doesn’t sound ! right . . How does this sound? “Maybe they’re alive” . . . Hey I’odner, ! (>inch them and see if I’m awake . . . i Was in a night club the other night and did they have a good orchestra! I That is, if loudncs denotes go ulness . . Reminded me of a friend of mine who handled foreign goods and ran a night club in his spare time . . . Now I hung around there quite a bit and in the course of my stay, I noticed that at times the orchestra played soft (at times) and at other times so loud that you had to steam t the blimp sitting by your side in ordei that she might be able to hear what you said, whether she understood you or not . . . Now right after one of these pieces had been played, I went up to George and bellows in that part of the anatomy known as the ear and says, “Why does that orchestra of yours play some pieces so loud?” .... “Oh that?” he comes back, “Why I when the bouncers wish to extrude someone, the orchestra acts as a blind so that the shouts of the victim will not he heard.” .... One thing 1 liked about George’s bouncers tho, They always asked you which was your favorite ear . . . And then tossed you out on the other . . . Mighty nice gentlemen and very polite too . Why they even handed me my hat be fore extricating me from a bill I for got about until after I hail eaten a very hearty meal .... Yes, George and I were very good friends . . . And those two gents as got stuck in the terra (less) firma over the railroad tracks . . . They were mud from port to starb’r and stem to stern . . . When last seen, they were looking for a boot black . . . What about the little lady who couldn’t start her car without a push by the RECORD office force but then she did look so . . . well You know .. . Sorta . . Well any way, we helped her get her car started and she seemed thankful . . . Boy them eyes .... And at last I’ve discover ed how you can look a gift hoss in the mouth, . . . All you have to do is make him gargle Listerine for a couple '■l days . . . I’m asking you, “Have you (l en that pop bottle cap basket out in front of Medlin’s Case?” .... If you’ve never seen one, drop bv some time and look it over . . . And that bionjj whse hair is trying (is trying) so diligently to change into some other shade, sitting in tfce “Mint” puffing at a cigarette from the way she puffed it, I rather think it was more for show than for enjoyment . hunny how people think they’re “dare devilish when all they nee ( | is a good spanking ... Os course when the femme I m referring to reads this she will be highly indignant, but thats quite natural, and no balloon (Continued on page 2.) NUMBER 28
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