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L 01. PIS, THAT f AND THE Oil Ipj Pi By MRS. THRO. B. DAVIS It! ' And now for February! What a I month for houst -keepers—or home- I inakers, if you prefer the up-to-date I litle. In the first plat", this is about I the time when all the clothes in the I family have outlived their first I Strength and begin to show the weak , L’i -s of age. And buttons seem to shed ■TI: in garments like leaves from the I i.f This means that every dav —or ( I every night there’s some mending to 'lie done, ii the children are to go to jf/ihool and the older folks to work ■ tio ring p; 'rentable. The chief ques- Ilio;. of interest are: Would a darn I ■ better heie, or a straight-out Patch ? Is this sweater really worth fixing one mor l time? Can the collar of this .1 (shirt be turned to hide the worn places, i 1 : should it be cut down to make I Y blouse? Is the back part of this l Cress strong enough to use to make //an apron? What on • arth is the way ! I to mend knitted underwear so it will -tretch and not pucker tan I cut nothe linii g foi that coat by th*- pieces of the old one.’ Talk about te abilitation and reconstruction! Wh\ . v s. do so, if you wish, and a lot of us women-folks will seem to listen politely while we patch. But our minds won't be on what you say. This is also the season when, in this section, sweet potatoes become dangerous - externally. They have dried out and become so sugary that they are liable to explode while bak ing. And they always pick the time when you open the oven door to see if they are don I '. The potato that has the sweetest disposition will take care -1 ful aim and burst right m your face, if I possible. Failing that, your arm is se cond choice. And the heat as well as l stickiness a potato has capacities e- I (j ual to those of molasses candy. Still, those explosive sweats that grow | I down here are so much better than the dry kinds I used to know that th're’s no comparison. My father raised Nansemonds years ago.' and they were almost as mealy as Irish potatoes, They nearly chok'd the eater, unless made slippery by an excessiv e use of butter. Since dieticians have told us that j the yellow color of sweet potatoes , denotes some vitamine content that 1 is very necessary to health, we can I enjoy them and feel scientific at the same time. Mv first pansy of the season open ed a f e w days ago. It seems a bit surprised at itself and looks as it it hardly knows whether to be proud or ashamed of being so early. Mrs. McTnness had us fill out ques tionnaires at the club meeting last week. That’s a favorite indoor sport I these days. This one wanted t<> know whether we were hurried and con fused, how much time we spend in the kitchen, what work we like most uid what we dislike most, whether we are enthusiastic, and wheth'T people enjoy coining to our homes, besides a good many more questions. 1 don t know what they mean to do about it. 1 nor ■ ven who “they” are; hut 1 tried to answer honestly. Perhaps some commission is compiling statistics, and our answers will go as infinitesi mal fractions of a per cent. Announcement The Garden Department of the I Woman’s will hold no depart mental meeting this month, since this division has charge of the program for the general meeting. Mrs. W. C. Campen will lead the discussion of Preparation of Garden Soil. The gen eral meeting will be held on Feb. 28 at the clubhouse. lOn Monday evening, Jan. 30th, the Wakefield Baptist Fidelis Class held its regular monthly meeting at the home of Louise Kimball. Practically the entire time was devoted to Y. W.| A. work. The program being in charge of Miss Pressler of Wakelon faculty, r ’['he talk which she gave on “Home I Missions” was worthy of everyone’s 1 praise. ■ . 1 ! Geraldine Massey was appointed ! 1 to arrange for a study class for our 1 ! V. W. A. girls in the near future. Sev-1 i era ] committees were appointed by I the President, and plans were made I for a more efficient and helpful years work than every before. We were delighted to have Mrs i Keith and Mrs. Clifton Pippin visit us at this meeting. We welcome visitors at all meet- I ings. The hostess served jello with . whipped cream and cake. Six Widows of Presidents There are widows of Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft, i Wilson and Coolidge. i Os them all, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Roosevelt have remained perhaps !l most in the public eye. I Mrs. Roosevelt attended the Hoover I notification ceremonies in Wash li ington last August and later rntro- I duettd the President to a vast cam- I naign audience in Madison Square I Q ar den. Mrs. Wilson puts in an ap- Wtft Zgbulott Uncord Middlesex Man Kills Grand Quid J. P. I hamblee Shoots Son-In-Law Middlesex, Jan. 30.—Early this morning J. P. Chamblee shot at his son - in _ law, Otis Whitley, severely wounding him and killing his little granddaughter Margtidet Whitley,7, daughter of the wounded man. Whitley was seriously hut probably not fatal ly wounded, being shot in the neck and shoulder. It is said the trouble started over a dog owned by a son of Chamblee. I The dog had bitten the little son of Otis Whitley, who told the younger j Chamblee to keep the dog tied up , adding that if the animal came back ! to his home he would kill him. When the older Chamblee was in. formed of the affair he became en raged, procured his shotgun and rushed over to Otis Whitley’s house taking the offending dog with him. Mrs. Whitley met him at the dem and asked him to take the dog away Then Whitley and th little girl came out. Chamblee accord ng to the char ges leveled his gun and fired. Chamblee was placed in jail at Nashville without bond. A brother of ( hamblee was recently burned ti death in his home near Zebulon.— News and Observer. Frederick Corbett Is Par tv Host On last Friday afternoon from 2:00 till 4:00 o’clock Master Frederick Cor bett was host at a party in honor of his sixth birthday. Games were played, and refresh ments of peanuts, candy, ice-cream I and cake were served. The birthday ] cake was angel’s food, and bore six candles. Guests were: Mary Gordon and Beth | Massey, Margaret and John Kemp Watson, Mary Alice and Wi]bur Conn, Jean and Marguerite Brantley, Re becca Horton, Billy Brooks, S. G. Flow, ers, Jr., Shelton Lewis, Eizabeth Bak er and James Debnam. Hotel Will Be Sold The Washington Duke Hotel in Dur ham will be sold on March 11, to sat isfy the plaintiff in an equity suit. This structure is known as “the SI,. 800,000 hotel.,, Gardner Cabinet Possibility Former Governor Max Gardner is, I being mentioned as possible choice for the cabinet of President Roosevelt It is thought that he may he offered either the position of head of the Navy ! or war department. The former gov ernor has made for himself a nation al reputation by his economy mea sures in this state. Changes Slade I In Store Bicig The Caviness stor occupied by Antones Dry Good’s and Debnam’s j Hardware Store is re: el on the inside. The v ■ • . urtit l u viding the stores is •' t<> <>u‘ and replaced with a 1 ,c. wall. Als , part of the foundation which has giv. l on way through decay is being re- j paired. Roosevelt 51 President-elect Roosevelt celebrated) his 51st birthday last Monday at his cottage at Warm Springs, Ga. Mrs. < Roosevelt went down from New York with several of her husband s special friends in honor of the day. G. H. Conn Files Damage Suit Damages Asked For Death Os T. M. Conn In a suit filed on January 30, Euna Mae Conn and G. H. Conn, adminis trators of T. M. Conn, deceased, are asking for 840,000 damages against J. V. Beaman of Nash County. Conn, the complaint alleges, died from injuries received in an auto crash in Washington, D. C. in July, 1932 and that the wreck was the result of I the careless driving of Beaman. Conn ! was on an automobile trip with Bea. man to Baltimore from Spring Hope when the fatal accident occurred. i — pearance at most Democratic party occasions of importance. Mrs. Taft remained active in the I Capital’s social life until the death of the late Chief Justice in 1930. Mrs. Harrison lives quietlv in New York T'ty. , , Only one former first lady, the widow of President Cleveland, re married. In 1913 she became Mrs.j Thomas Jex Preston, Jr. She lives,, with her husband, professor of ar chaeology at Princeton’University, in ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLIN A 1 riday, Feb. J, 1933. Recorder's Coar* Judge Rhodes and his office force did a pretty good day’s work this week - in the Recorder’s court. Th • follow - ing cases were disposed of. while a number were continued: Leland Horton was sent up to the Superior court. He and Mr. King are ■ accused of raiding the home of a • Mis. i’.-rry in Hopkins Chapel com- I munity and taking about 8250, in good , money. Russel Graham, colored, got sixty . days on the roads for dr.ving a cai without proper license, but the court suspended the sentence on condition that Graham pay tire court costs. ; Clarence Jackson seems to have tried to get b v the law in the same way . and got the same award 'Torn :h --• court. 1 Roy Cornelius was also found driv ■ ing a car with improper license, and . not being able to give bond, left his ■ car as security. Rov has not ye* ap peared in court, and the court ordered ■ the car sold. Paul Bunn seems to have had a number of charges against him. Ihi I court fined liiiii 850.09 for carrying ■ a concealed weapon; the charge ol seduction was continued. Carry Wright and Alex Jackson I were caught “red handed' making “good ole bkker" and Judge Rhodes sent them up to help build and re pair state roads for three months each. Willie Barham worshipped the wrong way and disturbed public wor ship so had to pay 819 and the costs ,!for his conduct. B. B. Richardson, who has been sued I by his wife for non-support, had his case sent to the j'ohnston county court since the local court did not have jurisdiction over his case. ! Kerney Faison and his wife seem ed to have had some words that led to blows one way or both, but they were in court to settle their differ ences as a good husband and w ife ' I should do. The court let him off by 1 j the payment of the costs. Dave Baker was let off with 12 i months suspended sentence and costs I for disorderly conduct on condition he behave himsolt for that period ol time. P. T. A. To Celebrate Its Founder’s Day At the regular meeting of the P T. A„ Feb. 11th. the program will consist of the annual Founder s Day Celebration. Again this year the I T. A. Birthday cake, having thirty, six candles will be cut—and eaten. All Grade-Mothers and Grade-Fathers together with all Past Officers are mged to be present to take part in the lighting of the candles. The Study Class composed of Grade Mi thers and any others who w ish to attend, will meet at 2:15 I'.M. Millions for Medicines People in the United States spend each year about 8700,000,000 for drugs and medic c-. which is an average of j about 55.00 erson. This does not, include anv doctor’s fees or hospital, bills. 1 Fayetteville To ! Try Scrip Flan The experiment which Fayetteville | is trying, that of a redeemable scrip. ' will be watched with interest. The ! city will issue 85,000 in scrip and have i printed two-cent stamps to the same I amount. When a dollar of scrip is is_ sued to a cred'tor he must buy one of ' the two cent stamps and attach it to the scrip before passing it. Each per son who passes the scrip must do thej same. When fifty two-cent stamps have been attached the city treasury which lias benefitted a dollar by the sale of the stamps, will redeem the scrip. The idea is to increase the cir. culating medium and to relieve the city treasury at the same time. It is clear that the receiver of the scrip must pay a high premium, but a man who can get a dollar in no other way should be perfectly willing to get one by paying two cents for it. The scheme is in effect both a sales tax and a labor tax. The employee of the city who works for a doliar a day, if paid in this scrip, must actually work for 98 cents a day. The plan has worked in central states, but this is the first trial of it in North Carolina. —Dunn Pis_ patch. * ! Princeton, N. J. This is only the second time since the death of George Washington that the United States has been without a living ex-President. For a few moments between the death of Gro wer Cleveland and the retirement of Theodore 'Roosevelt, there was no former President —a situation com- I parable to the present since Herbert Hoover retires March 4. (Group Meeting I Is Held Here T! ;■ n eting of I'i liict No. 5 of tlv Raleigh A -ocia' -.u was held with the !,■ :! P :C 1 ( ’ ~•!• 1 :<t •- 'day. While it all of tin •ix churchy in the group > ere rep-e ■< uted. the att ml ance was good. Mrs. T. Allen, leader of the <lis , , i. " i .-I r\ Ue wa ■ conducted by Rev. S. W. Oldham of Wend'll, leading from the first chap ter of Acts, Mrs. It. H. Herring, of Zebulon Church, spoke some words of welcome. Miss Alva Lawrence of Rai ds .- I - i| M 'S on Study in a mo l lot.’resting and practical talk. Mrs. L. L. Morgan, also of Raleigh, followed with a fine address on Stew, hardship and Personal Service, i A pleasing feature ol the program was the sing ng of two songs by a trio of Sunbeams from the Hephzibah Pand Norma Liles. Doris and Melba Shearon, with Miss Pattie I.e' at the I piano. j Mrs. Upchurch, of Raleigh, presi dent of the Greensboro Division, spok'' briefly of the State meeting, to be held at Winst on Salem the last of F’ hru aiy. and ■ xpressed her pleasure at at tending the meeting here. The next meeting of this group will be h• |< 1 in Wendell, the program to be announced later. An unusual feature of the meeting .mi Sunday is the fact that two of th" speakers and two of the sing l is are grand-daughters of Wakefield resi. dents, past or pre.-ent. Mrs. Morgan’s • grand- p irents were Rev. and Mrs. Cop | (’edge; Miss Lawerenc’s were Mr. and Mr . T en Honeycutt; while the (Sheamn children’s grandparents are (still living in Wakefield. Home Demonstration Club Zebulon,Jan. 25—The Wakefield Horn*’ Demonstration Club held the monthly meeting today in the club house. Officers for the year were e lected as follows: Pres., Mrs. S. H. Hoyle; Vic-Pres., Mrs. Louis Liles; Sec., Mrs. Percy Pace; Treas., Mrs. Theo. B. Davis. The lecture for the afternoon by Mrs. J. S. Melnness, was on the Man agement of Time, with special ref erence to housekeepers. Members were advised to arrange a personal sch'dule for daily use. A demonstration of the use of dif ferent preparations for cleaning win. dows was also given by Mrs. Mc- Inness. It was decided that the C lub will collect books for the nucleus of a library for the neighborhood use, and arrange for books to be borrowed from the Olivia Rainey Library. Mrs. Alvin Bridges was elected librarian. Donations of books were asked for, and will be received at the Clubhouse Mon day. Magazines will also be grate fully received for distribution. Despite the rain there were thir teen members present. ( i Storm on Coast The worst storm of recent years .wept the Atlantic coast from the) i New England States to the coast ol (the Carolinas, doing extensive dam age to property and shipping. The first talking picture was made by an American, but he used Russian actors. Trustees of the Carnegie Institution [of ’A'-shington authorize appropria tion of more than 81,500,000 for scien tific research in 1933. Cold water is better for scrubbing floors than warm. It will not sink in to the floors and rot them. Never clean matting with soap. Use cold water and ammonia. Always put cold water in saucepans, pots and baking tins immediately after using if you want them to clean easier. lodine will cover up scratches on* walnut or fumed oak furniture. Florida Doesn’t Stand Alone As long as the average man con siders politics a game and the win ning of an office an opportunity to get all he can on', o" *' < ounty, State or National Government for himself :nd his own district, whether the money spent is being squandered or used foi a necessary improvement or service, we cannot hope for much im provement in the tax crisis that faces! the Nation today. In the majority of cases there is no ideal of public ser vice and if a man happens to be e. lected to office with any high ideals! of service, he is usually disposed of or made powerless by the polit cians Fortunately the people are becoming awake to the seriousness of the sit uation and are beginning to demand | a change. Some improvements in thej conditions in our state have already) been made. The two officials in thr administrations of this county most guilty of the charge of nepotism were tossed out of office by the voters last June. Others, who are not conforming, to the best ideals of public service! should take a lesson from this and mend their ways—Delray Beach News l'o’ Man’s Blues i Fo I low M;;n> Os I .- l)m> I ins Apply o •» ** >|> old larder is mighty empty. My old britches are gittin’ thin. My old hat is runuin' up to err). But all dis ain't no sin Let de old rags dangle. Let de old hat run to sei-d. I'se not wearing rfem Red Cross britches, I’so not eating dat Red Cross feed! K. W. It. i.- IMoney To Loan On Real Estate Thi look' good, as it means that farm land still has some value. I do not know the exact value the Federal Land Bank will put in farm land, but it will be according to lo cution, improvements etc. The rate of intrest will be s x percent and loans will run from five to forty years. The conditions of the loans are as follows: To provide for the purchase of land to ■ il :' r .„j k. uiiui al purposes; , To provide for the purchase of stock land implements on mortgaged land: To liquidate indebtedness of owner id land mortgaged prior to Jan. Ist, 1922 Th Bank will of coin • require first mortgage. If you an interested see me in the Zebuloi Record Office. . D. D. Chamblee i Wolf Head Club The Wolf Head < lub held its week ly meeting last Friday night, Jan. 29. Charles Flowers, presided over the meeting which was held in the club house. After a short budness meet ing, the members named tho capi. | tats of the states by memory. The members were then entertained by an interest ng talk by the guest speaker F. I). Finch, on “My Adventures In The Air Corps”. The club was delighted to have young Dave Finch as a guest at the meeting. Sprite Barbee Strickland Horton Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Horton an nounce the marriage of their daugh ter, Neva Lafayette, to Paul Strick land of Zebulon, on Saturday, January 28, 1933, in Dillon, South Carolina, at 1:30 P. M. Witnesses were: Miss Mary Horton' Strickland, C. R. Combs and Douglas Finch. Transportation was furnished by Mr. Combs, prominent citizen of Zebulon, who reports that it took three! hours to drive the distance of 150 j miles from here to Dillon, and six hours to return. Swallows False Teeth Edward Fort, down at his wintei home in Florida, swallowed his dental! plate and went from Florida t" Tern-' pie University Hospital, Philadelphia for an operation to remove the teeth trom his throat whei'e they were lod. ged He is said to he recovering. I Entire Tamily J Attending School Mother, Father And Children All Present Zebulon, Feb. 1st —To some it may still seem odd to hear of a colored person’s really wanting to go to school and to most people it extra, ordinary to hear of a whole negro family seeking education. But such a family is to be found out at Rosinburg near Zebulon. Every morning of the school week this family—father, mo ther and six children —mav be seen I trudging to school. The father, L. A. Todd, went to school three months when he was nine. Tiring of the slow methods used in the school, he withdrew and learned from the “white boys” for whom he worked. Now, at fifty-one, he is be ginning again. He learned enough from his white friends to enable him to pass the eighth grade entrance ex aminations. If given the chance. Todd plans to enter Shaw University in four years and study for the ministry The mother, Geneva Todd, quit school at the age of fifteen to marry L. A. At the age of twenty.nine, after bringing six children into the world she is beginning school again in the sixth grade, that she may be of srvice I I her husband when he enters the min istry, eight years from now. She, too, yearns for higher education, and plans to take advantage of extension courses from Shaw when she finishes high school. She rises at five in the morn ing in order to get the six youngsters up, fed and ready for school. She says: (“The schoolin’ is harder than it used to be, but L. A. helps me with what j I don’t understand, Lueva helps me some, too, and I think I’m gettin’ a long right well.” Lueva. oldest child, is thirteen and is in the s.xth grade with her mother When they enter the classroom the.\ I are no longer mother and daughter but class mates like the rest of the thirty-four pupils in the grade. V f r e ••’ T; ; f IL !Lhi UUUuLL I Tii ' \s|! 11l « !, I I It ! . ill. ' Ii nil lhe ’.t'-i i g d: -- coverv tn.it the old | i-e; ‘Many a .-dip ’tv. c the c.ip and lhe lip" should be changed to, “Then many as! > ’twixt the tongue and the If you doubt my word, try to say ui - /questionably’ five time.- without pausing for breath Why not cad Fail Antiine ’Little Caesar’.’ i And that -n’t Popeya of comic str fame perambulating about our street! and boulevards Just Waylon Rich .iidson home on leave from the Not. folk Navy Yard —And I strenuously * object to the mothei who tin atei.- i ed her child with, “If you don't i ? good you’ll lx 1 like the Swashbuckb when you gro.v up” And friends ; (? ? ? ?) of mine are substituting ■ “Let’s go Swashie” for “Let’s g > crazy” And one of our good cit._ i zens made thi • nark that an ‘her ■ our versatile members of our c.tv’s population had never been known hurry He’ mistaken, let the ‘spoken ,’ be doing line real hard work, and ! you’ll si e him hurry to stop when the noon whistle blows And have ■ vou noticed how James H. Holloway, prominent citizen ol Raleigh and ti • chief cause of ‘Holloway’s Hits’ can make 85000 sound like t million an l $5,000,000 sound like mere ‘chicken feed’. It’s done with mirrows or he m ght have ii up his sleeve One can i, tell at a glance And this ‘fresh’, ‘wrapped in celoj hane’, etc., has gone ; so far that storks are delivering we low slip, ol pai er with babies now that read, ‘Look For Ihe Date (hi The Can’! We might use that phrase coined by lovers somewhere i’t the ‘long long ago’, to some advai - ! tage. You know, at the bottom <>t eac column place a line that reads ‘Take All Mistakes For Love’ Which takes me back to the good old days when father was teaching me wooden Oh yes, he gave me instruction in it about every other day. (1 often v.ondet if he taught me enough about peach free limbs) —And a politician, who is of some importance (if we are to be lieve him) w’hen recently asked why he invariably laughed at a joke, no matter how many times he had heard it, replied, “Laugh at his jokes? Why not? You’ll never get i.is vole by be!’ - ing him you’ve heard it Why no why, art these University professors ; scientists, poets, novelists, columnists ! soapjbox orators, ?ia.s-biiens, think they-yvere’s, students, and even sen sible folks worrying their pretty heads trying to figure out the ten most beautiful words in the English lan j guage No lit.atter how beautiful they are, you can’t soft-soap the Shei . iff when he comes around for you I already delinquent taxes While the jllou.se (mad variety) is in session land handling silly Dills introduced by even sillier representatives, why not in- I troduce a bill to make hitch-hikers * buy a license before allowing them to ‘thumb’ their way along the highways? Why not put the represenativi out i delivering Red Gross Flour, thi lobby lists m viio Corp ration < m ai-- ior (Continued on page 2) Next is Waylon, oldest son. eleven. He leads the fourth grade of the Ze_ bulon-Wakefield School with a long space between himself and the near est competitor. His mother’s constant fear is that he will surpass her in his grades. Caleb, nine, is in the third grade. Caleb doesn’t cater to the school’s highest standards and is just anothei pupil. But this does not bother Caleb. “I’se gwine he a preacher like pappy,” says Caleb, “and let de Lawd look after my eddication.” Zadie, seven, longs to grow big e nough to marry. Her paper doll dis play is the envy of the second grade. Between the pages of all her books nestle countless dozens of ebony pick, aninnies. A man, a home and babies is Zadie’s ambition. “Oh, school? It’s all right; but I’m just going so I’ll know more’n my husband.” And we’ll have to take the last two together. Vera and L. A., Jr. are twins Six years old, bright-eyed with two rows of gleaming ivory across the lower parts of their faces as they smile. Vera wears red bows on her plaited pig-tails, but L. A. Jr., scorns all feminine frippery. Constantly smiling, these infants tend to brighten the room of the Primer class in the school. When school is out each day the family hurries home to do the work before dark comes on. After supper they gather around the solitary oil lamp and study until all the lessons are learned. Beginning with the twins the whole crowd tackles that assign ment; then Zadie’s, then Caleb’s, then Waylon’s, then Lueva’s and the um ber's. As the lessons are completed the students go to bed, until finally only the father is left to work on his tomorrow’s math or to write that theme for English class. NUMBER :V)
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