VOL. VIII.—
THIS, THAT
AND THE OTHER
By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS
Doesn’t it seem a pity that we can’t
'.vash up the dishes before a meal is
s : ved, instead <*f having to wait un
t:! it is over and we are full and tir
j ed?
This year’s graduation class at
Wakelon holds a special place in my
affections. Some of them I have
t own practically all their lives. In
addition to this I have tried to teach
•st of them while acting as substi
tute for teachers who were sick, or
i 'Sent for some other reason. For an
entiie month I had tjie class in sev
nth grade. During that time they
were patient with me and we got on
•gether very nicely. Mrs. Bunn plan
i ed the work at home and at school
ti e children and 1 did our united best
So carry out her plans. Probably those
girls and boys do not remember those
iays as cleanly as I do. Largely be
ause of them I shall have a kind of
stepmotherly feeling all during this
ommencement. I shall regret the ab
sence of those who have dropped out
if the class and shall wish that 1
could know those who havU entered it
since its seventh grade days. I shall
listen with deep pleasure to the class
day exercises and shall probably be
come a bit weepy when the diplomas
are handed out.
And always I shall keep for them
an abiding place in my memory and
wish for them the best that life can
h"ld. Among them are some of the
best students I have over known.
If I were a legislator, which T
shall never be. I should most certainly
introduce one bill which would proba
bly make me a number of enemies
And that bill would be one t**~comnel
all owners of dogs to have them in
oculated, or vaccinated, or whatevei
it is called, against rabies. Usually
pronounced ray-beez and hy
drophobia, a disease not confined to
dogs, bu{ aff|ting lV'cstock, cats,
many wild animals, and most serious
of all, human beings.
It is always hal'd for the owner of
a dog to realize that his pet has this
disease, and by the time he is con
vinced it is often too late. I have been
told that in England rabies has been
entirely eradicated by the process oi
vadci'S'tion parried out
for a period of time, and that this
could be done in our country in less
than ten years—lF we wmnted safety
badly enough.
It is not a case of loving dogs less
hat, of loving folks more. And if you
have had the experience, as I have
had. of losing a neighbor, the head ot
a large family, because of a bite from
a rabid dog, you would probably feel
strongly that measures should be tak
en.
Os course there’s the Pasteur treat
ment and it has saved many lives, but
[ have also seen trouble thereby. A
cousin’s husband died of paralysis
caused by it. It is not infallible in its
results, as this proves. And it is ex
pensive. A neighbor told me three
years ago of having to have treat
ments given to six of her children, be
cause of their own dog. And it cost
them more than many families could
save in a year, to say nothing of the
anxiety and suffering, all of which
might have been avoided by anti ut
bies treatment on the dog instead of
people.
The dozens of dogs that trot aim
lessly along our streets and roads, o'
search busilv for entrance to our
chicken yards, may be harmless; but
they are a potential source of horn
ble agony. They may at any time con
tact hydrophobia and transmit it to
the most carefully trained house dog
My own mind is firmly made up: I!
we are not able to have a dog vaccin
ated. we are not able to keep him: the
risk is more than I am willing to as
sume. - *
The Hanover (Germany) chemist
w ho mummified his wife’s dead body
and kept it in his home for the past
10 months has been taken to an asy
lum
The world’s larsrest corporation is
the American Telephone and Tele
graph Company which has more thar
700.000 stockholders.
During the past 1 years J. A. Bias
sill of Oh uter. X. J., has won 240
pri/.es in ladio, magazine and news
paper contests.
Zebulon IRrrurb
Wakelon School
Commencement
The commencement sermon of Wake
lon high school was preached last
Sunday morning in the school audi
torium by Rev. M. D. L. Preslar, of
Wingate. Those who heard it. say it
was one of the best ever preached
here. It was peculiarly fitting to the
senior class. His’text was: Phil. 2:5
“Let this mind be in you which was
also in Christ Jesus."
Wednesday evening was Society
; N'ight. Henry Hoyle i resided and ex
j tended greeting. The two societies
were represented in the declamation
contest by Geo. Wm. Honeycutt and
Vermon Starnes. Geo. William won
the decision.
In the recitation contest Alberta
-Johnson won over Marie Finch. The
I subject: ‘‘Resolved: That the 18th
j Amendment should be repealed,” was
discussed by Iris Massey and Bobby
Horton, affirmative, and Mary !.. Den
ton and Du' wood Jones, negative. The
affirmative won, though both side.-
,did unusually well,
j The whole perfoimance by these
young people was good. They spoke t<:
, a house filled with attentive listeners
It was one of the best society nights
; ir. the history of the school.
On Thursday evening the senioi
! class held its class exercises. These
were very interesting to the many
parents and friends gathered to heai
the varied literary talents expressed
in original ways.
The graduating class this year con
sists of 41 young men and women
This is one of the largest and best
classes Wakelon has graduated in c
| quarter of a century. Below we giv<
a list of their names:
Vera Maebelle Alford, Betty Helen
Bunn, Thomas Henry Carter. Oleta
i Belle Chamblee, Onnie Robert Cock
rell, Jr.. Bettie Jane Corbett, Ella
(" i David, Amos Council Dawson
.Jr.. Willard Massey Denton, Janet
Elizabeth Eaton, Creola Lovis Edit in*
I.enora Christeen Fowler, Leslie Moor -
Garner, EVrly Harold Green, Effie
Ailene Hagwood, Lois Esther Hag
wood. Bettie Hulda Hales, Clevelani
Corbett Hicks, George Worth Hinton
H. A. Hodges, Jr., Sophia Agnes Hood
Thomas Alson Hopkins, Erdis Leara
Hopkins. Miriam Ruth Horton, Star
key Henry Hoyle. Jr., o ames Sterling
Mitchell, Jr., Lucille Oakley, Erselk
I Olivee Pearce, Leona Mae Pearce, Er
i ma Clarice Perry, Elva Ruth Phillips
.Viable Augusta Puryear, Ilettie Kath
leen Robertson, Mary Louise Robert
son, Ruby Joy Stallings, Etta Elaine
Strickland, Percy Livingstone White
Jr.. Dorothy Evelyn Williams, William
j Claude Winstead, Robe. Edd Horton.
Today at 10:30, the people from
j many miles will come in their cars
and carts and on foot, bringing bas-1
kefs and boxes. They come to hear Dr
jJ. M. Parrott deliver the annual com
i mencement address and see the gradu
-1 ates receive their diplomas. We car
almost report before it happens this
! eventful day. The address will be of a
high intellectual order, coming fromi
one ot the best known surgeons and
| citizens of the State. Then the dinnei j
i will be spread under the trees, while,
j hundreds of folks will howdy to one (
I another and lighten the burden ot a
j table reaching hundreds of teet away
Then at 8:00 o’clock this evening
| the auditorium will be packed again
jto overflowing with an appreciative
audience to hear the final perfoimance
j “The College Hobo,” given by the
I senior class.
And so the curtain will be drawn
j over another year’s work in the school
I that as the years go by becomes dear
er to the passing generations as one|
! passes out and another enters.
i
Wait Hall In
Wake Forest Burns
Ninety-eight-vear-old Wail Hall, the
administration building at Wake For
est College was completely destroyed
by fire last Friday morning about 3
o’clock. It caught near the centre ol
| he building from some unknown cause
; and soon the old 'dry heart wood-work
was a mass of flames. By the help of
‘ Raleigh and Louisburg fire depart
ments the local fire department was
| able to confine the fire to Wait Hall
l No one was injured, though stu
dents occupied both wings of the build
ing. Many lost their personal posses
sions and all the office equipment and
room furnishings were destroyed
J Plans will be adopted soon to replace
the loss with a modern building, which
will be ready for occupancy by the op
*caing of the frill session.
ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA
Heavy Demand
For Chilean Soda
I
According to local fertilizer dealers
deliveries of C hilean soda are ex
ceeding ail expectations. Trade re
ports indicate that deliveries to date
are more than double the total foi
1932. Ports had ample stocks the first
of the year, but these stocks have been
so reduced that several cargoes of
soda are now on their way from Chile
to take care of May and June require
ments.
Dealers explain the heavy Chilean
nitrate movement on the ground that
farmers generally have lost interest in
the synthetic nitrogen materials which'
have recently appeared on the market
and are returning to the natural pro
duct they have used successfully foi
so many years. ‘'This year above all |
others.” reports one observer, “fertil
izer investment- are being made on
ithe basis of lowest ri-k and maximum
j economy. Prices on Chilean soda are
by far the lowest on record”, lie ad
vises. “and it is only natural that
farmers are finding it an attractive
and profitable investment.”
! With some degree of inflation as
sured. the outlook is for rather i..ate
rially higher cotton prices in the fall
i Dealers generally, therefore, are look
ing for the heaviest soda side-dressing
business in several years.
Beer Briefs
Will Rogers says the way to make
3.2 effective is to rub out the* decimal
point. From reports this mathematical
problem has been solved by a number
of our citizens.
Ami this from old Virginny:
Hail, Carolina, the Old North Stat.e!
Where the pretzels gambol soon and
late;
Where the flowers bloom ’neath skies
of blue,
[And the national drink is three point
two.
I —Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
Cigar Madk> Him Drunk, Man Said
Porterville, Cal., May (s.—lt may oi
may not have been 3.2 per cent beei
that caused it. but, according to police
Ervin Given, 21. undeniably was in
toxicated.
Given admitted he had been “on his
back,” but insisted that it was caused
by a big. black cigar he bad been
smoking.
Anyway, Police Judge Scott sen- f
tented Given to 10 days in jail.
O, “black cigar,” what crimes havt
been committed in thy name!
Can You Imagine?
If his story is true, John L. Dean
either got hold of some super-power
ed brew or olse he just couldn’t take
it.
Police picked him up yesterday ini
Union Depot and also in a highly-de
veloped stage of intoxication. John
said hq had been drinking beer, just
one bottle of the legal 3.2 per cent
beverage. '%
Three hours after he was lodged in
jail the spell of the brew was still up
on him, and police began to think he,
had imbibed something a bit stronger j
Dean, who is white ami 25, said he '
came from Cumberland County. He is j
the first man to tell local police he got |
drunk on 3.2 beer.
He will be given the opportunity!
of repeating it to the judge.—News j
and Observer.
Y. W. A.
i
The Y. W. A. of the Zebulon Baptist
church, held its regular monthly meet
ing, Tuesday night, Mtay 9th, at the
home of Ruby Dawson.
As the members entered, they were i
presntd with a red or white rose, since
this was a Mothers’ Day program, by I
Elizabeth Cook.
The following program, with Krdine
Gill in charge, was rendered);
Song—“ Mother” Y. W. A
Scripture Dorothy Jones,
Prayer Mrs. Outlaw
“A Little Parable For Mothers
Helen Mullen
Poem—“My Mother” Beulah Conn
Talk on Mothers’ Day Mrs. Herring
Roses for Mother Ernestine Privett
Kong—“ Tell Mother I’ll Me There
Y. W. A
We decided at the close of the pro
gram that each member would take a
towel to Erdine Gill to send to the
Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem.
After the business was completed
the hostess served refreshments.
May 12, 1933
The Automobile
Accident Racket
•
The New York “Herald Tribunt
Magazine” recent'y carried an aston
ishing article on fake automobile ac
cidents. According to the article, these
cost the American public direotl;,
some $14,000,000 a year—and to thi
must be added such indirect costs ac
! (dice efforts to prevent them, cost of
litigation, etc.
The technique of this particulai
“racket « the depression" is simple
The “victim” stands on a strtfct cor
iter until a car approaches. Then hi
apparently steps into its path and is
knocked down. A- a matter of fact
he is simply brushed by the car and
possibly he is not touched at all. A
doctor who is in the racket appear
and takes charge of the “patient.’
Severe bruises are found —in some in
stances these were prepared bqfori
hand. The driver of t.he car is usually
in on the racket himself, and he ad
mits that he was at fault. The in
surance company settles, and the prin
cipals split the proceeds. In a ease
which was recently successfully prose
cuted it was shown where a singli
i looked doctor had collected thousand*
of dollars through a long series oi
j faked accidents which he had arrangei
in collaboration with a taxi drive*
and others.
In the long run, the public pays foi
this racket in higher insurance rates
court costs, etc. The only way u
dampen the ardor of the acji<’< nt
racketeer is to scrutinize evo'y acci-
{ dent with utmost care, and when ev:
deuce of collusion is found, to prose
cute to the full extent of th" law. Ev
ery honest, citizen should back up in
surance companies and constitute*
authorities in their fight against lak
id claims.
Birthday Party
Misses Erma and Willie Etta Perry
gavq their sister. Lucille, a surprise
party Saturday night in honor of her
lfith birthday. Several games were
played. Piano and guitar music and
also dancing were enjoyed by all. Re
freshments included cakes, pickles an*
candies.
Those calling during thei evening
were: Misses Bonnie Belle Bunn
Christine, Olivia and Kathleen Duke
Lucilhi Gay, Sadie and Jane Hopkins
Geraldine Minga, Loree and Leona
Pearce, Lola and Vera Ray, Pauline
Perry and Myrtle Jackson; Mrs. Ruth
Horton and Mrs. Gladys Duke; Miessrs.
Hoyle, Rovle, Noble, Bert.is and Gra
ham Bunn. Henry Brarman, - Vernon ,
Brantley, Oris, Russell. Presley and |
Sam Gay, Jr., Proctor and Willie B
Hopkins, Elwood Jackson, Johnnie
Pearce, Bonnie and David Perry, Ro- j
bert Perry, Daylon Pulley, Waylon
Perry, Grady Ray, Early (alter, Bax -j
ter Richards, Leon Stallings, Robert
Timberlie and Billy Yeargin.
The guests departed at 11 o’clock !
declaring they had enjoyed the party.)
Birthday Party
Last Sunday, May 7th, quite a num
ber or relative) and friends of Mr. J
R. Chamblee gathered at his home to
celebrate his 00th birthday. It wa:
quite a reunion, since some of the
brothers and sisters had not met in
some time.
While the ladies spread the table
out on the lawn, the men around the
sixties tried their skill in jumping
They proved to be quite active in
spite of their age.
Dinner was served to about 80
guests. Everyone seemed to enjoy it
fine.
During the afternoon and livening
a number of other friends called, ev
erybody wishing Mr. Chamblee many
more birthdays.
Youthful Murderer
Henry Murch, 10, of New York, is
on trial, charged with stabbing tc
ideath a playmate, William Bender, 12
last January.
It is asserted that Murch told thi
; younger boy that he planned to tie
up a peanut vender and steal his
wares, and that he offered to demon
strate his method to the Bender chili!
and another boy ageil 10. The youngei
child was first tied and released, whe:
Murch tied up and gagged the 12-year
old playmate with whom he is said ti
, have quarreled frequently. After hav
| ing rendered the boy completely help
less, he is charged with having driven
la knife into his chest.
Woman’s dub’s
Flower Show
Th.* Zebulon Flower Show, sponsor
ed by the Woman’s Club, was held in
i the clubhouse on Wednesday of thi
I week. The auditorium was arranged
ias a garden surrounded by a white
icket fence twined with running
roses uni with potted plants placed
against the fence. Cut flowers were
displayed on tables ranged on threi
sides of the room. In the center was a
bird bath, its based massed with green
cry, -weet william and poppies, while
lit- bowl contained water lilies in dis
j ferent colors.
The display of blossoms was supe-j
rior to that, of last year, and those
i who missed seeing the flower show
i have something to regret.
Prizes were awarded as follows:
Sweet peas: First, Mrs. J!. C. Dan
iel; Second. Mrs. T. B. Davis.
I hl>ix: First, Mrs. ( . V. Whitley;
! Second, Mrs. Jethro Stell.
Larkspur: Mi's. W. N. Pitts.
Mixed Flowers: First. Mrs. ('. V
Whitley; Second, Mrs. Charles E
i Flowers.
Greatest variety grown in one gar
jden: First. Mrs. Jethro Stell; Second
Mrs. T. B. Davis.
Peonies: First. Mrs. !>. M. Dizoi':
Second, Mrs. R. H. Herring.
Verbena, one color: First. Mrs. Jeth
ro Stell: Second, Mrs. Finch.
Verbena, mixed: First, Mrs. T. B
I Davis; Second, Mrs. Jethro Stell.
Climbing Roses: First, Mrs. j’ethi'i;
j Stell; Second. Mrs. Jethro Stell.
Pink Roses: First, Mrs. G. S. Bar-1
bee; Second. Mrs. M. B. Chamblee.
Yellow Roses: First, Mrs. Lestei
Green; Second, Mrs. W. C. Campen.
Red R -es: First, Mrs. ('has. E
j Flowers; Second. Mrs. ('. V. Whitley
Climbing White Roses: First, Mrs
i Jethro Stell; Second. Mrs. R. H. Her
-1 .
! ring.
White Rose: First, Mrs. R. M. Pri
ivett: Second, Mrs. Jethro Stell.
I Poppies, Shirley: First, Mrs. Jeth
j ro Stell; Second, Mrs. T. P>. Davis.
Double Poppies: Mrs. A. A. Pippin
California Poppies: First, Mi's. Mer-1
ritt Massey; Second, Mrs. C. V. Whit
ley.
Pansies: First, Mrs. W. N. Pitts;
Second, Mrs. T. B. Davis.
Calliopsis: Mrs. Mahlon Temples.
Flowering Shrub: First, Mrs. A. A
| Pippin; Second. Mrs. A. A. Pippin.
Iris: First, Mrs. C. FL Chamblee;
Second, Mrs. F. H. McGuire.
Pinks: First, Mil's. T. B. Davis;
Second, name mislaid.
Sweet William: Mrs. Sam Finch.
Potted Plants: First, Mrs. R. M
Privett; Second. Mrs. Lester Green.
If sufficient interest is manifested ,
the Woman’s Club will sponsor a chry-j
sunthemum and dahlia show next fall j
Zebulon-Wakefield !
Commencement!
The commencement of the local co
lored school will begin Sunday after
noon, May 14, with the sermon to the
graduates at 2:00 o’clock, by Dr. G
C. Shaw, principal of the Mary Potter
school. Oxford.
On Monday evening, at 8:00 o’clock
a program will be given by the pri
mary grades. Wednesday evening thi
grammar grades will give a program ,
The commencement exeercises prop
el will take place on Friday afternoon
at 2:00 o’clock. The first graduating
class of the high school will be given
diplomas. Seventh grade pupils will:
receive certificates. Rev. G. A. Fisher
rector of St. Ambrose Episcopal church
Raleigh, will deliver the address. At
8:00 o’clock an operetta will be given
by the music department of the school
Exhibits of work done during thi
year in t.he various rooms will be on
display at all times during commence
ment. The public is invited to all the
exercises.
Mosers Honor
Senior Class
Thursday afternoon, May 4, Prof.
E. H. Moser, assisted by Mrs. Moser,
entertained the Senior Class of Wake
lon high school with a weiner anil
marshmallow roast at “Pearces
I! vr'lS.”
This was a new place to most of
the seniors who spent quite a while
wandering. Os course the fun earni
while roasting the weiners and marsh
mallows as well as ourselves. Every
one seemed to enjoy this event very
r-' V . Mi -er always expresses
his love for the senior class in u like
manner.—B. H.
| YE FLAPDOODLE
B> Th
SH ISHBII Mi ll
f.ittl ■ Jack Horne
Sat in a corner
Eating a political pie
And with great skill
He sneaked thru a bill
Anil said
“I ain't so dumb!”
Mr. Neal (of the leg:-
lative Neals) pulled the well-known
sheep’s clothing over my eyes, you:
eyes, the legislature’s eyes and th •
I ‘ayes’ have it, when he was the instiga
tor of a bill permitting ho-- racin'
fo’ profit in tilt' ole N’o’th State. B;t
Mr. Taylor ,of Mtecklenburg. tried t
automatically fleece us as well a
the sheep, when he recommended that
his county be excluded from chaptc
120 of public laws of 1929. The Dili
troduced, rushed through the housi
under suspension rtf rules without
members knowing what they \ve:*>
passing. After leaving the House, t
was immediately taken up by Senati
Kirkpatrick of Mecklenburg, using
the same tactics. However, our old
friend (at times we are inclined to
j wonder) John Hinsdale found oIC
i the purport of the bill and on his
motion, the bill was recalled by the
Senate and then killed. Incidentally
Chapter 120 of public laws of 1929
is the workmen’s compensation ar’
Nice people, pass a bill without asking
what it is. loot’s all go home. Have
you heard about our lawyer friend
who has been hearing someone steal
ing his coal all winter? No? Weil
here’s the lowdown. At about that time
of night, when people are supposed
to retire. Mr. House, the lawyer, heard
a noise, not unlike someone making a
raid on his coal pile. Now if Mr. House
the lawyer, was afraid to go forth, Mr.
House, the man, was not. So—-Mr.
House, the man rallied his nerves
and gun, anil sallied forth into the
darkness. Gun in hand, heart in mouth
feet iu shoes (bedroom slippers it you
I please) legs in pants, etc., he breath
lessly crept stealthily on, on toward
the sounds which could now be dis
tinctly heard from the region of the
coal pile. As Mr. House came nearer
the coal shed, soft gurgling sounds
not unlike a strangling man could be
heard. “What ho." thought Mr House
“Is someone being murdered within
the bounds of my estate? Is my coal
pile about, to be made the scene of
one of North Carolina’s most dastard
ly crimes?” Even though these thots
assailed his mind, House, the man
went on, as House, the lawyer Crept
back in spirit to guard his wife and
children. Approaching the coal house
from the rear. Mr. House suddenly
raised majestically to his full five
feet an<i some odd inches anil said
in that “do or die” voice. “Hands up!
in the name of the lawyer!”—No word
came from the blackness, but a slight
movement could be heard. —“Hands
up!” again shouted M'r. House, as he
flashed on a flash light. As the rays
of the torch smote the night, cutting
the darkness as a knite cuts buttei
after having been brought to a tepid
temperature, a whine fell upon Bro
ther House’s ear—«and there—beneath
the blinding beams of the elctrie lan
tern, were several brand new puppies
baskingly happily under this strange
light that, had come so suddenly in
to their newly acquired lives, as their
mother looked proudly into the eyes
of House, the lawyer, proving beyond
a doubt that she was in no way guilty
of a misdemeanor. And that she did
not believe in birth control. It wasn t
told to me gents. I only heard.
And speaking of newly borns, did you
hear about the three months old baby
chewing up the insides of a watch?
That’s what I’d call “gumming up the
works"! 1 have had my say, sc
as we of old Spain would say. Acidosis
Senor!
MIDDLESEX COM M ENCKM ENT
Evedybody is invited to attend the
commencement exercises at Middlesex
high school auditorium. The program
is as follows:
Baccalaureate Sermon, Sunday eve
ning. May 14, eight o’clock.
Class Day Exercises, “Gypsies for a
Day,” May 17, 8 o’clock.
Graduation Exercises, Friday eve
ning,May 19, 8 o’clock.
Those graduating are: Sadie Barber
Mildred Murray. Rochelle Strickland
Lillian Lewis. Lina Hardison, Louise
Dickens. Eula Pearle Strickland. Joe
Daniels, Frank Kemp and Hermit Hag
wood.
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