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VOLUME IX. THIS, THAI AND THE OTHER By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS If you were not condemned to death and still could choose exact ly what you preferred for break-, fast what would you eat? I know a man, fairly well-to-do, whose favorite breakfast is fat back, fried crisp and brown, served with sliced tomatoes, hot biscuit, and coffee. And he has a friend who thinks nothing else is as good as salt herring and tomatoes oh r whidh to begin the day. An old man told me that for thirty years he did not once miss breakfasting on ham and eggs. And eggs, mind you, not or eggs. And I know of a Baptist minister who felt totally unfitted for life’s duties if lg| hadn’t eaten grits for breakfast. Back where I grew up stewed chicken for the morning meal was thought to be a tacit confession that the smokehouse was empty. I heard a few days ago of a party at a tobacco barn where a part of the crop was being cured. And, for once, I almost wished to be young again. For I, too, have known such parties and the fun they afford. I don’t know what the program is for such occasions in these days, but we used to have string music, singing, stunts and enough laughter to make it widely known that a good time was being had by all. Dit you ever set apples to cook by the fire at a tobacco barn? Or roast, potatoes in the ashes ? Or : peas? The peas are funny because thev neadfc always pop the pod open a> they cook. And do you know the flavor of real roasting ears—cooked in the ashes with a part of the shuck left on? Have you ever drunk coffee made in a smutty pot over the coals at a barn? It’s queer how such memo ries remain long after those of fat more important things are gone. In a conversation recently a young matron spoke of having cooked for eleven persons besides her family*on the day before. They were “barning” tobacco and the eleven were helping. And she had them for all three meals! That meant cooking and a lot of it. You can’t fill farm hands on dainty salads and wafers; you have to cook cabbage, potatoes, peas, corn —nearly everything you can find— and you have to get it ready on time. When I think of some women working like that trying to help make a living I get all out of pa tience with others who groan aloud over having to do a few extra tasks occasionally. And I am hoping hard that crops bring prices high enough to reward in some measure such labor. Although I know very little about \vhat it will all come to, and though 4 t is probable that no one else is absolutely sure, I have tried to feel .that the New Deal and NRA and j the rest of it are the very things , i needed to bring us and prosperity j j in at least speaking distance. Xlt is [useless to hope that all may ap- ! proach prosperity near enough for (embracing.) But the order to “Buy 1 New” is one that I cannot obey. I That is, unless they make another j ■proclamation telling us what may I H>e used instead of money. And j ■fven then, I might not have it. H f A mother boasted that her little ■ .irl—an only <hild —had never been ■sft alone for as much as ten min- Hftes. And the child was almost old I to start school. The moth- was quite proud of her care, hut i B thought it was dreadful for a to have had so IRtle privacy, i 9 wouldn’t surprise me tor that KtfJd to have a nervous breakihovn. must feel like a goldfish in a Rwi. |HkTreat occasions do riot make he- HHfts of cowards—they simply un- BVI them to the eyes of men. Si- RHuly and imperceptibly, as we Bfl'ke or sleep, we grow and wax or we grow and wax weak,, ' at last some crisis shows us 1 H -u we have become. —Bishop jj^iWtcott. sLhr 2rhulmt SU>rm*it Zebulon Girl Weds i In Washington Washington, D. C.—An impres sive and beautiful home wedding was solemnized on Saturday after noon, July 22, at 4:00 o’clock when Miss Mildred Helene Williams be came the bride of William Freder ick Blocker of Washington, D. C. Rev. E. Hez Sven, Cententen niSl Baptist Minister officiated'us ing the ring ceremony. Only a few friends were present. > ,i '.>« «■" The bride and bride-groom enter ed together. The bride was beau tifully attired in navy blue crepe combined with, white and caried accessories 'to match. Her cos tume was completed with a should er corsage of sweetheart roses, blue delphinium and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Blocker is the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Thom as Williams of Zebulon. She is popular...amo<ig the younger set. Mr. Blocker is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Blocker, of Wvalusing, Penn., and holds a position with the District National Bank in Washington, D. G. Mr. Blocker re ceived his education at Rider Col lege in Trenton, N. o', and in the National University of Washing ton, D. C. Welfare Canning Mrs. A. A. Pippin has requested s he Record to announce that until further notice community canning for welfare work will be done at her home on each Tuesday and Fri day. The object of this special work is to provide hot lunches for undernourished children daring the next term ot school. Donations of corn, butterheaijs, gjid to matoes are solicited, and all who will do so are asked to help with *Te actual work of canning. Tin cans will be furnished by the county Community Picnic ■'"> On Thursday of last week fami lies living in the section nearest he ice-plant held a most enjoyable picnic on the bank of the river vhere undergrowth has been clear ed away, leaving a park-like space well adapted for such gatherings! There were said to be about 150 resent and all were served plenty >f picnic food. Mrs. George Yan ’ey was chief supervisor while M. W. Page, local agent for the Srnith- Douglas fertilizers, furnished the barbecued pig. Probably the 'piece de resistance” on the menu ; /as the poor pig. Incidentally, all | families present bought fertilizer ’ from Mr. Page this year. (The editor and his wife deeply! regretted that it was impossible j for them to accept the invitation so j graciously extended them.) Barren Corn Has High Feed Value s Barren corn stalksshould be re moved from the fields while still ! green to obtain the greatest possi ble feed value. , . E. C. Blair, extension agronomist 'at State College, says that, “In | 1933 as in every dry year, many North Carolina eoKi fields will i make a very,low yield, and such j fields always contain a high per- j centage of barren stalks. “In ordfcr to get the greatest possible amount of feed value, the barren stalks should be cut from the field while still green. They may be either fed green, or cured in the shock. “When cut at this stage, the corn stalks and leaves will cure in to a bright green roughage of high er feeding value and greater palat ability than the mature stover will be later on.” Analysis shows that the green c ured stalks contain three per cent digestible protein against two per cent for ordinary corn Stover, and the percentage of carbohydrates nnd fats is als® higher. * Another advantage in taking out barren stalks at this time is that Duitful stalks will not have to compete with barren corn for mois ture during the remainder of the j growing season. • “The finer the teeth the oftener ■nd wider the grin.” ZEBULON, NOIJTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18,1933 WAYS OF FATE One ship drives east and one drives west 4 G r • • X While.the selfsame breezes blow; v* It’s the set of the sails and not the sales W\ J: • ‘ • •. . : . "•! : I That bids them where to so. . ...• • ■ . /•• • A * Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate As we voyage along through life; It’s the set of the soul that decides the goal, And not the storm or strife. Club To Meet I . Next Wednesday, August. 23, is the time for the regular meeting i ’of the. Home Demonstration Club Ut Vy.akefield. Mrs. Mclnness is plaining a demonstration on the use i ijj' pr,egsnre cookers. Mrs. Then. (B. Davis, in charge of the local program, requests all members to be prepared to hand in their favor ite menus for serving meals to guests in their homes. Any one of the three meals may be chosen, and having the menus written and sign ed will be greatly appreciated. Student Shoots Two Teachers In Halo, Floyd County. Ky., on i Tuesday of last week, Barchdalo | Cook, 17-year-old boy was reprov- 1 ed by his teacher, a young man of 24. and was threatened with a I whipping. The teacher, and his father, a; teacher in the lower grades of the : same school, both stated that Cook drew a knife and declared he would not take a whipping. He was or dered to go home and not return. However, he did return bringing a shotgun. The teachers dismiss ed school, fearing harm for the other pupils, and later started home themselves. Barchdale Cook fol lowed them, they stated, and level ed his gun at the older man, who grabbed it and tried to take it from the boy, while the younger teacher was knocked down by a rock thrown by a younger brother of Cook. While he was on the ground he was shot and the boy with the gun then is said to have turned and fired upon the older man. Several hours later both men were taken to a hospital, but no hope was held for the life of either. i Services Changed At Bethany Church . I Preaching services at the Betha-' nyßaptist church have been chang- §d from the first Sunday morning, and third Sunday night to the se- I cond Sunday morning and fourth j Sunday night. This change was] made at the request of the pastor, j Rev. L. R. Evans, who has accept | ed a call to the Knightdale church. Mr. Evans will preach in Knight- I dale on the f irst and third Sundays and at Beihany and Corinth (in Nash County) on the second and fourth Sundays. These, along with .several afternoon churches, have joined together in forming a field. MrT'Evans will move to Knightdale within the next few ‘days. , * | Starting with 500 red raspberry j jdaats three years_ago,_l)on .Cal houn of Avery County has inereas- 1 ed his plantings tor 5,900 vines and | r.ajft they are paying him well. • 1 Y. W. A. Meets • The Y. W. A. of the Zebulon Bap j tist Church held its regular month ly meeting, Tuesday night, August 15th, with Mrs. Willard Gill and Mrs. Walace Temple, at the home I of the latter. Our program, with Margaret Bar row in charge, was “Travel On The i Continent.” This was very inter esting and the following countries were studied. * - « • Roumania Mary Barrow Hungary Margaret Lewis Jugoslavia Marie Watson Spain Ruby Dawson Russia Helen Mullen Song—“ Jesus Calls Us.” Y. W. A. Our business consisted of elect ing new officers for the Y. W. A. and also for our Sunday School Class. We were very glad to have so many of our new members pres ent and some of them wei-e elected for the various offices. The hostesses served delicious refreshments to the twenty mem bers that were present. Mrs. Jerman Sworn In Office Mrs. Palmer Jerman was sworn in as Assistant Collector of Inter nal Revenue in Raleigh Tuesday. C. H. Robertson is collector. Mrs. Jer man succeeds W. T. Delmai as as sistant collector. Mr. Deimar be comes (ashier of the collector’s of fice which position he formerly held. Jr. 0. U. A. M. ‘ ■■ : Prepares For Annual Meet I Hickory, August 15.—Members of (he Junior Order in every county in North Carolina are now prepar ing to attend the annual session of the state council which convenes, litre Tuesday, August 22nd. for a ' two-day session. Lewis P. Hamlin. | of Brevard, as state councilor will ■ preside over the sessions. Members of the local council have prepared an excellent program of! entertainment for several hundred , visitors expected here for the con vention. Among the notables expected to attend the session are: Gurney P. Hood, State bank commissioner; Dr. Charles E. Brewer, president of Meredith College; Charles Aber nethy, congressman; and national council officers. ‘Election of officers will be one of the outstanding matters of busi ness to confront the session. Miss Helen Gottfried of Bun ! combe county has trained her pure bred Jersey bull to work in harness, j The animal hauls a cart over the j farm and does practically all the v/ork with the road drag. Relief Wages Cut i Announcement ,has been made ■ by Harry L. Hopkins, director of federal relief, that relief workers engaged in.canning and communi ty gardening are classed as farm | laborers and are to be paid at pre vailing local rates. This statement [was made by Mrs. Thomas O’Ber ry on Monday. The present shale j. for farm workers is about seventy | five cents a day, or about one dol i lar when no meals are furnished. | Workers on other relief projects are to receive 30 cents an hour. Cotton Payments To Be Made There has been in Washington serious discussion as to whether farmers who owe crop loans to the< government should be paid cash at this time for the cotton plowed up , under federal contracts. The I question is said to have been raised by the director of the budget bu reau. But Henry Morgenthau has just tuled that fanners who plowed up ] from 25 to 50 per cent of their cot j ton may be paid in full without de , ductions for amounts they owe the , government for seeds and crop pro-1 ! duction loans. A similar policy will ! !be followed in relation to wheat I I crops. Loans upon crops to federal j and banks are not included in this action. Farmers who can are ex pected to lift a part of the loan, but are not required. It is estimated that cotton far-1 mers <ihe government $40,0(10,- j 000 and that wheat farmers owe j $65,000,000. About $110,000,000 jis scheduled to bo distribiPed to i j cotton farmers and $90,000,000 to | j wheat farmers. ! New Cuban President Gerardo Machado, president of j | Cuba, has been deposed and Dr. 1 Carlos M. de Cespedes has been in- 1 augurated provisional president! Machado fled to Bahama in ar ! aeroplane. A number of his follow- ; l ers have been killed. He had ruled ! ■ Cuba for sometime in a dictatorial | and brutal vav, killing a number] >f students, professors and teach ers who did not support his wicked rule. So Tar the U. S. has not had to j intervene, but has sen 4 battle ships to Cuba to protect pre perty and citizens of this country. It is be lieved hat there will be no further serious disturbances. A fish ; pofrid covering .several # 1 ' acres has been built by H . Holden of the Courtney community in Yad- I kin < ountv without one penny cost. Greta iogs from the farm were ; used for the dam and all work was j done by the family. Fugleman’s Farewell In a gloomy cell in State’s prison —with just one hour to live—Clay Fogleman—who died in the electric chair for a crime he swore he did j not commit—wrote: “August 4, 9:30 a. m. —One hour before my death. I am going to die for something I didn’t do. They made a mistake and don’t know it. I want to say that I have had a hard time in my life. I got started wrong and I have done many wrong things. I hope my death will cause boys to be careful, and avoid deal ings in whiskey and violating' the law when they are young. When a person makes a bad name for hitn self, people do not believe him. That’s why I have got to die now.” Much has been said—column af ter column has been written —about the Fogleman case. Was he* guilty, or innocent? Who knows? Few care, or dare, to enter the portals of the Great Unknown with a lie on their lips. Yet, Fogleman, dying, protesting his innocence, may have expected a last-minute commutation. Who knows? However these things may be. Clay Fogleman, at the brink of eternity, penning a farewell mes sage. left a sermon more arresting, more impressive—certainly more realistic—than any minister could preach.—Greensboro Record. 1 Boy Exonerated Purvis Dillard, who shot his fa ther when he was beating his m >th j er, has been exonerated by Coroner i Waring. Dillard was shot sevo.r; ’ ; day ago and died later. He wa beatirtjj h.s wife unmercifully when the ten year old boy shot hira with I a shot gun. Dillard lived nea: Wake Forest. j Four Poisoned Malvern, Ark.. August 15. A j small roadster, carrying six per sons, four of them dead, careened off the highway near here today 1 and crashed into a fence. Passing motorists ran to the scene. A man ian away. A man and a woman j "ere found sitting in the seat, both .dead. In the tumble seat were three, I children, two of them dead. The man seen running away was i caught. He was a lawyer from Akron, O. The dead man and woman I were Allen Cooley and w ife also of | Akron. 'I he children were th<'ir.;. ■ Fearing thnt Cooley, who had stol en some papers for Shank, the law-1 yer, would “talk”, Shank fed them potted ham sprinkled with arsenic. | | One child refused to eat the ham, [telling the mother that Shank had Put something on it. That is why it ! lived to tell the tale. Minerals For Dairy Animals I What minerals, in addition to | ■‘**l? ">hou'd b«- fed dairy an ma ? i Calcium and phosphorous are th• | ‘ -vo mai i requirement.-. Ur ier or circumstances, h wever. I these minerals are found iri suffi | c ent quantity in the balanced ra- I tion. During the early part of the lactation period a good ■ r. 1 uci c will draw on the mineral re , rrve stored in the bones and it I therefore advisable to add two j pounds of a mineral mixture <">m | posed of finely ground limestone 1 and steamed bone meal to each 100 i pounds of the concentrate ration. is will help restore the minerals i’aken from the bone. Brutally Beaten By Six Men 1 Laurenburg, N. C.—Early Sun day morning six men went to the home of Douglas Monroe and took 'him from his bed, carried him about | ten miles and threatened to drown, I him. Tb-'y took him into the woods,: | beat him severely and left him by j the side of the road. He was carried ] | to a Hamlet hospital where he is ! in a critical condition. The six men j I j.e i.i .la 1. it is said the motive: j i«>r the attack was bad blood be- j ■'ll the men. N UMBER 9. ] VE FLAPDOODLE By The Swashbuckler i Small-town people may be coun t'yfied, but it only took one to march a big-timer to jail after the wise-guy had failed to get away with Robert Joe Whitley’s auto— It all goes to show that everyone who is wise usually wonders who is wise. Hoop rolling is again becoming the vogue for male kids, it you doubt my word, ask anyone who saw ‘Barber-shop’ Corbett out rolling that little nigger’s hoop last week At least that is one way to divert one’s mind from the ever p'esent subject of the depression. Even though this is about the third week that the stords have closed Wednesday afternoons, quite a few people have walked down the street expecting to buy some thing only to find the places of business closed. The Swashbuck ler included. 1 don’t mean to go out of town for scandal, but I will pause long enough to ask who thi* young lady could be who arrived at the last dance to find that she was in such an inebriated state that her legs failed to remain in that semi-stiff position necessary for ambling around the floor. Walk? She couldn’t even crawl out of the car, much less get to the dance l! any _of you have a speck of goodness in your systems, you will enjoy the following truth (which appeals to the miik of hu man kindness—if it hasn’t curdled or clabbered) to the,utmost. This human interest story is about ‘Fee dah’, the fiddlin’ fiea. To begin , with, Feedah was not of the ordi nary variety, but an enormous flea which came from a Virgin • Island beach. She weighed nearly two ounces stripped for action. I had never seen her until one day, as I lay upon the aforementioned beach picking my mandolin while twenty dusky mqidens cast wor -1 s hipful glances upon my Adonis like form, and sang love songs to me. Ah—those were the days,beau tiful women, beautiful weather, beatiful music (by special permis | sion the copyright owners) and so on. But now- to get back to the I a slight movementbiorep’.olyetaoin I While gently strumming, I let my roaming glance glance rest for a moment upon the sand be i side me. Closer scrutiny revealed [ a flea of monstrous proportions I < as fleas go). Furthering iny in | vestigation, 1 also noted that it was dancing. The novelty of the affair so attracted my interest that I took her with me. Bari; aboard ship I placed F’eedah, so named be | cause that was the piece I was playing when she was discovered, upon the radio while I prepared for supper. When next I noticed the little rascal, she had escaped I from her cage and was dancing merrily to a hot fox trot that was coming in over the radio. Turning the dial experimentally from one station to another, I noted that Fee dah liked best the violin music, and would e'-en stop dancing to incline hei head in ;< listening attitude when difficult and intricate notes were sounded. In jest, someone suggested that I buy her a violin. The suggestion struck me as being so novel, that I had a Long Beach jeweler construct a violin and bow for F’eedah. Receiving the gift, F’eedah immediately recognized it a* one of the instruments which produced the music of which she was so fond. (Editor’s note: Prob ably Fedaah’s womanly intuition ; told her it was a violin) In less than a week F’eedah was playing both classical and popular num bers v ith the greatest of ease. By putting special amplifiers on the tiny instrument, audiences of thous ands ci uld be pleasantly entertain ed f< r an evening. The only trou ble was, that we had to put re ducing glasses on Fedah so that the notes would appear small e nough for her to play upon her tiny violin. Then—there came the end to which many great acts must come. F’eedah feel in love with a flea on a passing dog one day and eloped. They were happily mar ' t ied and I understand that blessed events were enumerable. When last I saw Feedah, she was old and l broken with the cares and strug gles of married life, but woman like, she was still glad that she gave up her career for her lover.
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