VOL. VIII.—
H nils, THAI *
AND M OTHER
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By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS
An ad in one of our dailies amuses
me. It offers “used mules” for sale.
Personally I should never be willing
to buy a mule that had not been used -
and then I’d watch my step.
A colored girl was sweeping the
poich when a baseball bat fell and
i oiled noisily across the Hour. She
aught at it saying: “Whoa, dar, keep
n’ all dat great lamentation.”
Again scientists have made a discov
ery: Airtight containers for growing
flowers are better than porous clay
pots. The new containers must have
holes in the bottom and are now of
fered for sale; but many of us will go
•ight on making airtight containers
if old tin buckets and cans, which will
lo as well so far as usefulness goes.
When you see folks going around
with big dictionaries clasped in their
arms, or sitting studying those bulky
volumes, don’t jump to the conclusion
That they are yearning for a larger
ocabulary foi its own sake. Most
rrobably it is not learning, but the re
ward of learning that they’re after.
These contests that offer money prizes
.'or the longest lists of three-letter
words made from the letters found
r. slogans are surely an incentive to
study. When all the easy words are
isted one begins searching for ern
Izo, epi. fid, vap, xat, and others as
ittle used. And it is amazing how
nany can be found.
Even Afhough one does not win a
arize, the study is worth while. And
>vizes really are won. I have seen, one
Time, the husband of a woman who
was last week notified she had won
second prizQ—one hundred dollars—in
one of the contests- She lives in Ra
leigh, which is near enough to be en
couraging to us.
To your dictionaries, oh. word build
s rs.
One of my beliefs is that il a teach
er is not worth more than the salary
,aid, he or she is worth far less than
that salary; there is baldly such a
thing as striking an even balance. And
the teachers who are worth more tha 1
their salaiies are the ones who are go
ng to keep l ight on teaching as lone
as they are paid enough for necessi
ties, and very simple necessities at
that. The other kind will probably
i uit anyway as soon as they find job
that pay more. t
1 sincerely hope that teach i s -n.-
; lies will not have to be cut again;
!.td 1 resent people's saying that good
teachers will all leave the state if their
|ia y is reduced. Right here let me re
mark that in ail my years of being a
patron of oui schools 1 have never
had children taught better or more
conscientiously than were the two who
had for teachers Miss Mary Dunford
Miss Anabel Newton and Mrs. Helen
Whitley. And, unles I am mistaken
not on of them was paid more than
fit\- d'dlais a month. To he sure, they
were worth more, and I could mention
ethers who were likewise worth fat
more th in they received. Mi-.- Newton
—now Mrs. I. E. Bunn—ns the only
one of the three mentioned "h i ha
taught in Wukelon School since sal
aries went to their hie host mark. And
1 shall inner insult her bv believing
that she worked any harder for th.-
biggest check she ever received than
she did for the smallest. That is why I
hate to hear arguments that would
measure a teacher’s efforts by her
pay. A real teacher will do her best
■pjardless of salary; one who merely
teaches tor money will save herself
as much as possible no matter how
much she gets.
All of v.-hich does not imply that
alai ies should not be adequate
Egg Laying Contest
■ : a; ■ , Feb 16 (Special) An
egg-laying derby in which hens from
i United States and
•'ion u bn !-' will compete foi
bur i s will i ote of the features of
< a;. #*•*;:* V.'orld’s Fait A Cen
i i y .: f’rogiv.- Exposition.
('ham ion hens fr-un twenty-eight
,tat< f the Union, the Dominion of
Canada, and four nations abroad hav<
ah I. n entered This contest, th"
ii .. eyo> to !> held in connection;
wi'h a world’s fair is sponsored by the
National Poultry Council..
The egg-laving contest will last for.
ix months. The birds will be housed,
it the exhibit the first week in April.',
The actual egg counting will begin
May !, or ore month before the for-1
mai opening of the Exposition. It will
erd October 2lt. two days prior to the
closing of the Fair. ]
One hundred pointed arch houses ,
each divided into two pens will ac- i
commodate the 200 entries. In addi- h
ti'>r. thi’ty houses and pens near the 1
contest buildings will house specimen jj
flocks of unusual varieties of dom s- |
tic and wild, land and water fowl. i
It is planned to hatch out babyjj
chicks each week as long as they ,
a ,e salable. Thereafter he daily col- :
lection of fresh laid eggs will be pur-ji
<hased by Chicago hotels and house-J
wives. The sale of chicks and eggs
will help defray the expenses of the
Contest.
THE ZEBULON RECORD
They Know A
Good Place
i
On last Friday evening there were
1 a number of cars piled up in a wreck
on and just beyond the bridge across
Neuse River, between here and Ra
leigh. Traffic was considerably de
layed, since none could pass because
of the narrow space. Two traveling
men who had to wait for a while
- turned around and came back to Zeb-
I ulon to spend the night at Hotel Clay
■ ton. The moral of the story' is that
they passed several good boarding
places on the way to Zebulon.
j A hotel that draws folks that tar in
! such weather is a worthwhile ad. for
Ui town, as well a- for itself.
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. COMPANY NOW OFFERS
FERrfMI.IZER GUARANTEE
Norfolk, \ a. —Announcement w;..-
t made reecntlv by Oscar F. Smith
! president of the Smith-Douglas Com
. h uny. Norfolk. Va., that henceforth
. bis company will guarantee their brand
Jot Orange tobacco fertilizer to tobac-
Jco growers, causing widespread into r-
Jest in tobacco raising and fertilizer'
J circles. |
I ] A guarantee of any kind as t ■ re
! suits with fertilize: has been care
, fully avoided by fertilizer mix*tc it
. | is said. Guarantees have been limited
to chemical analysis, and a guarantee J
results was heretofore unhen -.1 id
in the historv of the fertilizer busi- i
’j-.ess. ' !
J "There has been lots of talk about’
1 ; helping the farmer,” Mr. Smith said
“but not enough action. We want to
'! help the farmers and we want th.
farmers helped, and we have found
. that one wav we can be of real help j
'to them is by making this guarautno. •
*i “The reason for this is, that the,
‘ tobacco grower will prosper only with
J high yield and high quality leaf.
* { "hor a long time all the gamble
in growing tobacco has been on the
farmer’s side. Now we are going to
J lake some of the gamble off his shoul
>! tiers, by enabling him to use a better
; fertilizer w ithout any (xtra risk t<
’ | himself.
“We are especially proud of being
1 able to do this, because we were the
' | first to sell direct to the farmer, we
Were the first to guarantee himi
;::gainst price decline, and now we are!
j the first to make it possible for him;
!ti us -a premium quality fertilize: J
will out risking any extra cost of ex- i
. pense to himself-”
The guai ’.ntee which ■ as announc-*
' ed reads:
“If, after using Orange tobacco fer-.
jti’izer and marketing yynir crop, you I
a:.' satisfied that Orange is not worth
the premium >ve chaigid you for it
above tin: cost of othes fertilizers, wo j
.v. ill cheerfully round that premium
; i to you in cash.” J
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! IVOBERGHS MAY GO
TO FRANCE TO LIVE;
It h.as been stated that Col. Find- i
j bugli and lis family ygo from j
the United States to Franc, to make} 1
-j hum**. The tragic ci ecu instances of!
their fitsl child’s death, the Threats to'
kidnap the second son. and the freq-■
uency <>i such crimes oi tnis country
are well calculated to k - their griet
1 ever before them. ‘
S'vumvs t-’ORIv
Even more unusual than the case
wh.. tl< ’ his te -1 hj <
is that of Margaret Sntcll, It), of St..
Paul, Minn. She tried to hold liei‘ ton-!*
down with a io.k hand!
• all wed the fork tv' ich was * 1 ■
inches long, and ha! > be renv»v
by surgical operation.
U'O TO RIDE TO F \ FOUR\TI()N 1
Toby Cook, even .ms old wilt j
ii<ii“ his ronios Iron: Chula, Ga., t< I
V- hinglon to -. i h'nosow.t inaugu I
la'. l. He sta cH on s.’i. 1”, riding t
one pony, while three <•.!■>• is .n‘e car-]
t ied along on trucks in order th ih
rider mav change in- ed every fiv.
miles of the 800 he h. to cover. 11 is
fatht r :md threw ne • r*> • i vani.- ar
going with the child, and they arc a
pa through Raleigh.
DK VI H RESI' FT OF
FOXING 80l i
Ernie Schaaf. prize-fighter, 2d , .
old, died on Feb. 14 as a result of hurts
sustained in a fight thn day- before
His opponent, Primo Carnera, has been
arrested, charged with manslaughter.
Schaaf fought Id round-, then tell un
conscious from a slight blow, whicl
caused many to think i • \ a- sham
ming. He suffered a cranial humor
rhage. An operation was resorted F
in an effort to save his life.
Cult Sacrifice
Mother Slain
Out in the mountains oi Kentut k\
j seven members of a family are in jail
charged with the murder of their aged
mother, and a son-in-law is held as a
material witness. The murder came a
the culmination of frenzy following
fasting, and mystic rites which be
long to some cult. The persons arrest
ed claim that they were divinely com
manded to offer a human sacrifice and
that the mother was chosen. One ol
the sons is said to have strangled her
and preparations were being made t<
burn the body when officers arrived
on the scene, summoned by frightened
neighbors. One of those arrested told
officcis that the mother was a willing
sacrifice, hoping her death might help
cure her son in an insane asylum.
COMING TO WAKEFON
WHAT’S COMING TO WAKEFON?
FUN AT WAKEI.ON!
ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA Fcbrimrj ‘.7, *»:«
WANTED
Everyone in Fit'.U- Rivet Township
r. - -ted in 'fax Relief and delaying
foreclosures on Real Estate to be at
Wak !• i School Building. Tuesday
ieht, Fel-iuary 2.3 rd, at 7:30.
There will be a short farm meeting
with a talk by Mr. Arey from State-
College and immediately following
that meeting the other matters will
be taken up for consideration.
C. H. Chaniblee,
D. D. Chamblee,
R. E. Pippin.
, \S TANK DEALS DKSIRI (HON
The explosion of a hue tank wreck
ed a large portion of Neunkircheti, a
town in Germany, and killed nearly
200 neopie, injuring hundreds of oth- ■
ers. The tank was 270 feet high and i
150 feet in diameter, and its explo-!
sion vas heard 150 miles away. Tele-1
phone linos weie broken and debris
was thrown across railroad tracks so '
that trains could not reach the town.
Ml 'TINKERS KII.FEI) |
Like h story of old-fashioned piracy ]
jis that of the Dutch cruiser Dr Zeven 1
| Frovicien. whose eiew mutinied last j
week, seized the vessel and departed >
while her master ashore. For five!
d..v> they kept the ship. Pursued by!
'war vessels and airplanes, they re-.
I u-ed to .-ui > end :, and an airplam
, di-ipc-d a bomb which killed thi\
I Europeans and fifteen Javanese na
! lives. Fire started in the ouiser amt
i some sailors went into the lifeboats ,
wiiile other- -igraled surrender. Tin !
!i,e did little damage. The mutiny is
• aid to have b caused by cuts ir
II iii pa , of ihe crew.
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VNNOI N(’EM ENT
The Civics and Liteiatui’e Depart-,
-r.nt of the Woman’s Club will meet;
at the clubhouse next Tuesday, Feb.
21, a 3:30 p. m. Th. topic- for the .1
Uinoon is The Executive Depart m 1
of the State, with Mrs. C. V. Whitley
in charge of the program. Mrs. -J. G. j
Kemp will direct the music for the'
meeting. i
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Attempted
Assassination
;
j President-elect Roosevelt narrowly
; escaped an a-s-issin’s bullet in Miami,
i Fla., o-i Wednesday of this week. He
had just completed a short address
■when Guiseppi Zingara, an Italian
fired at him. Roosevelt was unhurt
but Mayor Cermak of Chicago, was
I seriously wounded, and four other
were also hurt. Six shots were fired.
Zingara was arrested and protected
Ifrom those who would have lynched
ihim. He -aid 1’ ■ bought th gun that
;day with the purpose of killing the
! president-elect; that he made, ten
years ago, an attempt to kill the king
jnf Italy; that he hated all kings and
-'dents, hut would not try to harm
laborers, lie blamed the dense rowi
for his failure to hit hi- mark. A wo
man standing by him saw him raise
the gun and tried to stop him, but
could not. It is thought that this saved
' o- of Roosevelt He expected lo -
n-'vc for New York on Thursday.
Ur.-. Roosevelt : s said to nave take ; 1
calmly the news of the attempt.-!
ussaa-.-ination, and to have remarked
that it was the sort of thing that one
--itrexpect.
MORE POWER TO HIM
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Hooverized
Depressionized
And Oxized
"Uncle Gu. ” Weaver, well known
and respected cloned farmer, has been
‘Hi >ves!zed,” but wi'l not give up.
He lias recently purchased a steer to
re, with this year. He ras given up
a- team ar.d land a> his creditors
■ N": ! ; . ing been the owner of thirty
six acres of land, a house and lot in
Zebu! n and a pair f mules which he ■
psiid six hundi.-d dollars for in daysi
of prosperity. !
“Uncle Gus" sa> - F.e was married
; . ; :.v : .. itg-'. an i .- arU-d out farm-1
v Itn an ox, livi tg in hopes of hav
■•••g ii'-aF.i ta farm with and a home of
J.: m.-R. After many years of hard j
I ui: his ambition was reached, only'
I to be thrown in day *>i’ j
After raising a family of six chil-j
dron and a* the age of <>l he has start-.
. 2 u 7 again, iust as he did forty j
ca.'s ago. with noth’ tg but an ox.
Hatch Chicks Now
7: Vdon an 1 rho surrounding com- 1
;,.mnit y - indeed foi lunate in having (
coiiv--nier.ee of a well managed
I "it' hi-'i v. namely. Zebulon Communi
ty Hatehorv. Mr. (). D- Massey has
■•is i.: <■. tang flocks Wt.ll selected and
' ni..- d. Tha huby chicks he has for
sale are the best and the prices are
: ivv reasonable.
! Poultry raisers have found it to
their advantage to buy chic-k- from
:-!>:■ l/;.-::1 dealer, ratl.'-r than have!
pi i ..piip.ied iii. ’)'! -, do not take a
.t; -i having them over-heated or
.chilled, t iie community is also fortun- 1
ate in having custom iiatching for the [
;pc it’t i v raise' that wants his own!
! eg;-,.- hatched. He i- protected by the]
most i igid sanitary precautions usedj
in hatcheries. In planning a farm pro-J
gram, a well managed flock of chick
ens, be it large or small, has an im
! • ortant- place on your farm. During
i this time oi depression when price-s
1 l all other farm commodities have
I dropped to the bottom, poultry and
eggs have shown a profit at the end
| of the year. The old slogan: “Cow
I Hog and Hen,” is the surest policy
’for the farmer to follow,
i Hogs, hens and hominy—with a good
’milk cow thrown in, will provide
‘against the worst times and prices,
for these are home pioduets that any
farmer may have. ,
If you have not had any egg- hatch
ed. flow i- th. very best time Take,
some mxt week and get those early
fryers on the way.
Water cannot rise higher than its j
source, neither can human reason.— |
( üb'r-dg .
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“ ' ■ \ <))•!!,L FFOKIST
fe • -o Mr-. TT. F. Tunneli
1 , i!. b•< ' i : - :* mail way to ]
' f:ni< rd lie. i. n- to the Zebulon.
:■ •i• ■ I m.i -:nitii . She is in I
in in - to furnish designs of!
. ii'. i id recpiired Some of the most j |
beautiful we have seen were made by i
.i 11... Tumi- IF Her piii- s are reason
able, and we hope the Zebulon people j |
will patronize her when in need of;,
flowers for any occasion.
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COMING ID V. Alx EFON
\\ II YUS ( ()MIN(. K) W VKFFON ?
FUN \T WAKEFON!
Important Meeting
For The Farmers
Mr. Kiniery from the dairy exten
, sion deparment of State College xvil
be at YVakelon School. Tuesday. Feb
21, 7:30 p. m. This me. ting shc.uic
Ibe of interest to all the farmers and
business men of the community- Mr
'Anderson the county agent will be at
this meeting and we are hoping hi
will be able to tell us somehing defi
! uite at that time in regard to seed
and fertilizer loans for this year.
P. IF Massev.
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THREATS MADE TO KIDNAP
LINDBERG’S SECOND SON
Two young men, Joe Bryant, 19
and Norman Harvey, 28, have been
] arrested in Roanoke, Va., charged
' with having threatened to kidnap the
j second son of Col. and Mrs. Chailes
: Findbei'gh One of the men cashed a
IniaikciT check which had been deposit
ed as ordered in the letter trom the
! writer of th* notes demanding money.
! Federal authorities have taken charge
jof the case, and Harvey’s wife is
thought to be implicated in the mat
DR. SHORE DEAD
1 Dr. C. A. Shore, for more than 25
years director of the State Faborra
tory of Hygiene, died last Thursday
in Rex Hospital after a short illness
from mesenteric thrombosis. He was
native of Winston-Salem, and had
won many honors in his sphere <>t
work. Research work in hydrophobia
won him fame in Europe as well as
'in America. His work in purification
!of drinking water and in preparing
anti-toxins for use in the state have
been of untold good to North Carolina.
ANNOUNCEMENT I
- The Home Demonstration Club will
] meet in the clubhouse at Wakefield j
I next Wednesday p. m., Feb. 22. All j
I members are requested to be present.]
“Male Cow” Causes
Climb Says Reporter
Rocky Cross, Fob. 16. —(’. A. Brant
ley’s “male cmw” is getting “manish’
lat< ly. A few nights ago Brantley
went down to the pasture to get him.
and found that the- bull was lighting
stumps and tearing up the earth in
general, not to mention the way he
was romping on some scrub pines
After several attempts to pacify the
j bull enough so that a halter might In
put ori him, Mr. Brantley gave up, and
ci Hod t > his assistant • Mr. I’< rc,\
'(lump) Strickland. Evidently Mr
] Percy (Demp) Strickland was very
poor help, for when Demp enerod the
pasture, the bull went for Demp, and
Demp for a tree. Even the squirrels
would envy the speed in which Bro.
Strickland shinnied up that tree. Ac
cording to the owner ot the bull, “Bil
lie I)e Bull” just felt good and want
<! U> hive some fun, but personally
we hope that when we are called on
to render assistance, that the hull U
not feeling had.
Incidentally, the “male cow” is a
fine Jersey and is in line for some
Ihr ribbons at the next fair, (after
rope has been put on him.) If you
need any trees shinnied up, or l ull
bulldozed, call on Demp, be can shinm.
un a tree fa*er than anyone I ha
ever seen, and I ain’t so had my.-ell i
(E. I>. 8., Correspondent.
YE FLAPDOODLE
Lty The
SWASIIHI ( kI.KK
I want to begin this bit of concen
tiated idio-peregrination among the
good people of our fair city (includ
ing those who have gone bankrupt
and also the few running for post
master) 1 want to make a correction
in last week's Flapdoodle—The lady
seen riding toward Middlesex was nor
riding toward Middlesex, but toward
CoTinth. —She’s considered a good bu
‘inoss woman too. And a triend
of mine was telling me about a frienc
of his who had blood hound feet —
“Blood hound fuel?” 1 questioned,
“Sure,” lie replied, “They’re strong
smellers.” Oh yes—Who is the
young lady that Dame Rumor says is
to he married soon ? - Incidentally she
was seen riding around in a yellow
loadster from Greenville, on Sunday
lost Still, most of the houses or
tasv street are for rent And all
well that ends solvent And Colonel
John Hill v.j-s seen in the fair city of
Wendell Sunday afternoon —Er, busi
ness John? And they’ve added
to the !as ! line of act two, of those old
“melh i‘d ram me is” “Don’t sell the oh’
homestead pap give the darn thing
away” Still I think that good
credit could be defined as a hank ac
count —And any woman who ask
ten thousand dollars for her husbanc.
is profiteering And now the leg
islature has had a bill brought befort
them to put a boll on all cats so that
the birds can hear them coming—It’s
bad enough having to put the cat out
every night now, without having t(
(tie a bell on them in the morning
j Maybe the Senator who introduced the
j bill'\ras referring to catty humans—
land the birds were the ones who rui
j about telling people seciets But
’I was dumbfounded when the young
lady of near Wendell demanded to
I set out and love a telegraph pole in
j lieu of a man, when she saw the moon
1 rising last Sunday evening A
• telegraph pole wasn’t handy, so the
young lady was offered a sign board
(she refused) And “Little Gae
", sar” Antone again takes that choice
hit of pastry, when he was being
[shown off by Romeo Davis ((that lit
! tie black-eyed boy with the long eye
clashes, Oh Deah) Davis had been in
'isUueting Antone for sometime about
* j bow he was to act, finally finishing the
instruction, the finished product was
'put before the audience —“Here,” said
Master Barrie, "I have a robot, all I
1 1 have to do is mash a button and he 1.
Isay .vh<f 1 want him to. I’ll now mash
jthe button.” Upon mashing the button
the robot solemnly said, “What 1 want
him to” — —Oh boy, Ob boy, Oh.
.boy, did you see those two Don Juans
: ' out again last Tuesday night—Man
, they were dressed to a " 1 . and I m
''not referring to Fords —Not to he con
* ti nt with shining as to clot hes and th"
coiT"Si inaptitude that lovers have
they were in a brand new I’ontiac, now
I wouldn’t give the names of the gents
for the world, but everyone knows that
'Mi. Bunn is the only man in town whi
has a new Pontiac, and that Sprite
Barbee always runs around with Elmo
jy’ot only are our younger mem
bers of the city stepping out, hut so
an som< ol the elders What we’re
wondering Will we be like them
~ ben we grow ; nto our second child
! 1 1 '.*od But then eveiy dog lias his
; day, and I sup; <sp the married
! r fin Semen (?) thi lk that their day is
almo : here Now. wh: I I would
j ]i]; . to know is Who drooped that
I hrndker-. ki-f *’h- * ' :
I think that I have a faint
isuspicion but 1 can’t he sure, anyway,
•the young lady jump-. 1 out "f a car
and re. i in and out vin tjuD-kly
[ the handkerchief hit - an “H in the
i coiner and lipstick all o the •■• iter
P.ite. the sain. ■ young young ladv
j wa: eu bidding a young man good
night in a very affectionate maiiiei
—At lea- t 1 think it was good night
|i; v -about hat time The lady
, i have in mind eats and sleep:- o i that
1 ;ieet ojiidi runs parallel with Syca
jiiiore, a may he Sycamore for all I
11:n,iv. the “Sweet young thing"
[ju . mentioned, isn’t the only one the
fold Swashbuckler saw last week
A little blond, very blond, was also
j telling her bo.v-friend good night while
jin his fond embrace ——And another
blond was two-timing her deah lover
while he wav “away to school”
And a •ertain brunette was seen with
u sailor one night last week before
he returned to his navy——And an
odic:- ladv ((was she the same?) was
, seen leaving the bus station in Ra
leigh with a sailor (the same?) on
that bad night of last week when
sleet froze on the windshield so fast
that lovers couldn’t love and drive at
the same time- —And one of our
young business men went over “Smith-
Old way” for the week-end And
one of mu High-School-High-Lights
was out trying to borrow a dollar be
fore a basketball game Try as I
might, I couldn’t find whether he
wanted to take his girl, somebody
: rise's girl, or just bet on the game—
If we know our tear-making-veg
etables that young fellow is certainly
tied up within the red tape of a fair
lady’s charms And the gent who
drive.- that Chevie cabriolet, and hauls
young ladies to and from school, he
isn’t so bad at the art of lovemaking
’ it we are to believe our eyes And
who is the fellow who is going to beat
up a certain young fellow if he goes to
see his sister again—Nope, he doesn’t
live in town, so don’t begin casting
a suspicious eye toward your neigh
bor’s parlor By the way, who is
the young man who is seen over in
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