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Faimers* And Merchants* Tobacco Edition VOLUME IX, fHIS, THAT AND IHE OTHER I By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS j t % There’s a worm hich is named papilio polyxenes, and he himself is even worse than his name. He is the caterpillar of a buttrfly and hrs clearly marked stripes of green sc metimes blocked off at intervals the rest of the body being light colored. His favorite food in our garden is parsley and snapdragons. Every one of my young plants was eaten last week before I knew this pest had arrived. Arsenate of lead kills these worms; but when you find them eating your plants there is really more satisfaction in kill ing them by hand —with a stick. There is one type of drinking man that arouses my pity, and I have known quite a number who belong to it. They acknowledge that drunkenness is an evil .that spend ing money for liquor is wasting it and works hardship on thier fami lies; but they simply don’t have will power strong enough to resist the temptation. The Volstead amend ment has been a benefit to them and a boon to their dependents, and I feel at times that to make it easier for them to buy intoxicants would be like snatching a crutch from a cripple. But there is another drinker w! I uzzles me. He loudly declares to all who will listen that he has the right to spend his money as he pleases, that getting drunk is a matter between him and the gods he serves, that all who differ from him are narrow-minded cranks, if not downright hypocrites—and ’hen he gets mad, if folks talk about his drinking. To me such conduct seems about as reasonable as if I should decide that I want a bright red dress, should buy it and wear it, and ti'ien should resent afiy one’s saying that Mrs. Theo. Davis was wearing a bright red dress. Is there in it some fine point of logic that my feminine mind has missed ? If you want that comparatively new shrub called nandina, and are willing to wait, you can raise it from seed. It belongs to the bam boo family, is an evergreen having clusters of white flowers in the spring, followed by scarlet berries that hang on all winter. An eight inch plant will cost you fifty cent - from most florists. I planted some seeds from Mrs. C. V. Whitley’s nandinas ami they came up last 'spring. So did a good many seed that fell around the parent shrubs. Mrs. Whitley gave me some of the volunteer seedlings and I jes“tr * them v ith the ones I had planted, and t y all grew. There have been casuaitie.- due to their being work ed out by those who did not know what they were; but I now have eighteen nandinas some of them . ix i;. d es tall, at no cost except the time spent on th I I learned this summer at <- ier ’ wav than I have been using to put [ up tomato juice and pulp. Here it | is: Don’t bother to peel the toma [ toes, but merely wash them clean. I cut them up and put them on to I boil until they are soft enough to Ibe mashed through a colande 'll - ftwili remove the skins, cores, and a ftiart of the seed. If you want clear jftiice, strain it from the pulp ami ■-,ln the two separately; otherwise, ft ut it up as it comes through the ftolander. You will find that by t.h<- ■ime you are ready to use it most ftf the pulp is at the bottom of the War, leaving the juice thin and clear ftt the top where it can be poured ■ff to drink if desired. ft A little girl told me last week liat she is now so large she “can 4, down step that don’t have ban l ßes to’ ein. M l ■ Don’t tell the other man what to ft until you can do it yourself. Free Attraction Monday Night On Monday night, August 28 at j eight o’clock, the Tobacco Board of Trade will sponsor a free attrac tion, concert or show, in the Town Hall in Wendell. The head liner for the event will be a speech by Lon nie M. Knott, Jr., native Wendell boy who won honors last year as national oratorical champion of the United States. Other Wendell peo ple will also be on the program and comedians from out of town are expected to enliven the occasion. Wendell has never had a general opportunity of hearing Lonnie Knott since he made his phenome nal record. This will give his friends and neighbors an opportuni ty to hear the lad who has stirred many audiences with his fluent flow of words. Phil Whitley, who is handling the event, states that he is also trying to get Lawson Knott, another ora torical champion, and Miss Frances Roberts, who was voted the most beautiful girl at The Women’s Col lege of the University of North Carolina and who represented this ! state in the Rhododendron Festi-I val at Asheville, also to appear i with Lonnie and tell of her experi ences at the Festival. He is also endeavoring to get Jakie May, who i struck out Babe Ruth twice in last year’s World’s Series to appear for • a few words telling of his most in teresting experience in hig time baseball. All in all it should be a good show. There is no admission and everyone is cordially invited to at-! rend, especially farmers of the surrounding Wendell community. The people of Zebulon are very cordially invited to this evening’s entertainment. Relief Work In N. C. In July Raleigh, N’. C. Aug. 23.—Total relief expenditures in North Caro- I lira during July were $585,085, ac-j cording to a statement made public today by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, ad ministrator. This sum represents a decrease of approximately 37 per] 1 per cent as compared with the $1)28,468 sperVdui%g June. Only $03,000 of July’s expendi-1 tures, or less than nine per cent, | were provided by the city and; } county governments involved, the | remaining $522,388 coming fr<rm i the Federal government. The expenditures for July repre-1 sent a decrease of approximately 56 pe cent as compared with the •xt enditure* for March which was ! ‘he high month of the winter. The' total outlay for March was $1,323,- 346. The per family expenditure for North Carolina iti July was $!).!)0, ;Us compared with sl* 00 during ; June. The total amount of expenditures , for July in Wake, Johnston, Nash and Franklin counties is as follows; Wake. S3O' 551.52; Johnston, $6,- 378.55; Nash. $2,01)5.03; and Fiar.k lit., $2,303.54. Appreciative Letter Mr. Theo. B. Davis, Editor, Zebulon Record, Zebulon, N. ( . Dear Kir; I am sincerely grateful to you, for the marked copy of The Record under date July 28. The space and j i cation which you gave the an-1 nouncement of the newly accredited! Negro High School at Zebulon eon-! vinces me that you and the fair minded citizens of Zebulon have been largely responsible for this! development. I trust that the work j of the school will continue to merit! your favorable attitudes and kind ’ statements. 1 With every good wish, I am Yours very respectfully, 1 H. L. Trigg. I Inspector Colored H. S. 1 < I Divine Love always tias met and I always will meet every i need,—Mary Baker Eddy. t i ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. AUGUST 25. 1933. County Relief Work Declared A Failure Lumberton, Aug. 18.—“ It is our ! unanimous belief that relief work ! as done during the past year has been a failure and that the results i accomplished have not been com mensurate with the cost,” declared ' the Robeson county grand jujy in I a report to Judge N. A. Sinclair in | superior court here today. “Every dollar spent by our coun ty. State and national governments must be paid by taxation in one form or aother,” the report went I on,“ and we strongly recommend ! that our board of county commis sioners elect to discontinue partici pation in R. F. C. work and to confine the county’s relief activities to necessary hospitalization and . direct relief, and that these activ ; ities be carried on through our ; county welfare officer and other regular emplyes of the county un ; der direction of our board of coun ty commissioners.” Court went into a night session in the trial of Carlie Clark, charg ed with killing his wife August 2. A jury today convicted Lee Gaston Jones, Indian, of slaying Bob Jones, Indian. July 22, the verdict being seeod degree murder.—News and Observer. Fix Salaries For Teachers i At last word has come from Ra- 1 loigh that teachers’ salaries have : been fixed for the coming term. 1 They will range from $45.00 to $!)0.00 a month, with a maximum i of $2,800 per year for prineipal-su : perintendents of city schools. This is a drastic reduction, and,! j coupled with the tact that many teachers who have been teaching | for nine months of the year will' ] now be employed for only eight j months, should mean a great sav- 1 ing to the state so far as dollars are involved. It is to be hoped that board for teachers will al-" be low- i er iu price than formerly. Wilted Cherry Leaves. Poisonous The wilted leaves of wild cherry trees have been found to be poison ous to cattle. Charles Ross, general counsel of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, declares that he haR had to settle with own ers of two cows for their death, caused by reaching through the pasture fence—and eating withered leaves from wild cherry branches which had been cut out and thrown aside by road maintenance forces. SHIP OF STATE Perhaps more true now than when written years ago are these lines by the poet Longfellow: “Thou, too, sail on, 0 ship of State! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o’er our fears, Are all with thee. Are all with thee.” Dropping from poetry to dull prose we might add that this wonderful ship of State sails on only through human instrumentality. Human hands must hold the rudder true and human hands must set the sail to the gale. The ship itself is built by the people, it is the people. “God save the State!” A Correction 1 i We wish to call attention to an j j error in the name of Mr. Pippin, ■ | appearing in the advertisement of] the Zebulon Supply Company. Mr.! Pippin’s initials are A. A. ami he is A. A. Pippin, Jr., the son of one| of the most beloved and useful | ministers in all this section and has i the same name. i Valdosta Proof Proof comes from Valdosta that R. F. C. workers are not getting overheated with too much work! these hot, summer days. A work er with the R. F. C. was arrested j for vagrancy. The policeman could not tell he was working. The col ored man explained it tothe judge in the typical darky manner: “Whyi Jedge, I jest piddles ’round for de i guverment.”—Delray (Fla.) News.' WORDS OF APPRECIATION How ever we may try, words faili to express our appreciation to you, j I friends, for what you have done, , for us during our recent loss of son and brother. Our heart are ' sadly burdened, and it is with a 1 feeling of deepest loss that we try j to bow to the will of our Father who alone knows best. You have j helped us more than you know, giv j ing you) time, love and sympathy jto Waylon and the family during , i his illness and death. God bless' i you, friends. May He, iri His kind- j ' ness fill each heart with His love 1 and strength—even as we w'ould could we bless you as you so richly deserve. M. A. Alford and Family. » " New Legion Leader i Tom C. Daniels, of New Bern, ( has been elected commander of the state branch of the American Ire gion, which convened at Wilming j ton last week. Mrs. W. R. Absher. | j of North Wilkesboro, was chosen j president of the auxiliary. The 1 1934 convention is to be held in Greensbor Epidemic Os Encephalitis St. Louis reports an epidemic of “sleeping ■ ickness ” sixteen deaths having already occurred. The fed eral health service has sent physi- ; cians to study conditions and ren der aid. One of the dead was from Mars Hill, N. C.—Mrs. James E. Ritherford, who died at Warren burg, Mo. An Appreciated Communication j ! Dear Mr. Davis: 1 Enclosed please find two dollars i for which I wish the Zebulon Re | cord sent to me for one year. Yours truly, Alexander F. Anderson, 2367 Park Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Editor’s Note): Now this is what we call a lovely letter. A new cash subscription unsolicited. And since The Record is only $1.50 a year, we will add a few more , months to Mr. Andi/ son’s sub | scr iption. We thank him. Subscriber, now is a mighty good time to send us a dollar or two on subscription. We need it and feel sure you will not forget The Re cord when some cash comes rolling ! in. J And, also, readei. if you are not a subscriber, send us your subscrip tion. If ydu do not have the price just now, then pay at a later time. We want you to read The Record. Red Cross Distributes Distribution of cotton cloth and 1 garments by the Wake County] chapter of the Red Cross was be gun on Thursday of this week. It will be continued on each Tues-' ] day and Thursday until the supply j bas given out, according to the | chairman of the ciothing commit tee, Mrs. Louis Mahler. No cloth nor ready made clothing will be given away without requisition from a reliable charitable agency ! nor without inevstigation. All gar- j merits and ali material were made from government owned cotton. Crossing Accident Seven men from Deep Run com- Imunity in Lenior Coun'y. were kill ied t' Monday, near Lumberton.] I when the truck on which they were ! riding wa- torn to ] ieces <>n a rail road (Tossing at the edge of town. ‘ Five other- men were injured all but ore of them being expected to] recover. They were aP on th» ,: r way to sell tobacco on th( Fairmont ' market. The dtiver said he did rrot! know of the railroad a- d thought the train whistle was that of a factory. The bodies of the dead j were horribly mangled. The driver of the truck has been placed under ; ; arrest anj ordered to appear at an! inquest. It s tu i burning the other fellow if you don’t get burnt doing it. ' In Memory Os Waylon Alford It cannot be that earth is men’s only abiding place. God, in His un failing mercy and love, has pre pared in all its beauty and glory, Heaven—a home of the soul. We cannot realize as we face the vast unknown with some loved ones that God is waiting to welcome that departing one unto a city of celestial light and love. We fee! sad, because they are lost to us, but while we wonder, our hearts filled w r ith grief, that loved one is wrapped in the splendor of the Heavenly Father. How we would like to make the cross easier to bear for the loved ones of Waylon. God some times plucks our sweetest, fairest flow ers, hut always He transplants that flower to a garden of rare and ex quisite beauty, when the soul finds rest. Although Waylon was only sev enteen we believe he recognized the wonder of God’s love, and steer ed the ship of his life under the direction and guidance of the pilot, Jesus. To his loved ones he would no doubt, whisper the words of comfort that we so vainly try to give, and would remind us that up there—beckoning him home—lives Raymond. United again in heaven, i they wait for the great reunion when the ones who are left behind j may leave their burden and go to i them in the regions above. Loved ones, take heart and wait. Remember, God knows best, and | while your Hearts are wrung with ; grief and sorrow. His heart too bleeds for you. Thev die to live. | The work Waylon began here wiil be continued up there. He is there and eternal life a l ides in h in for ever. —A Friend. Kinston Furnishes Another Curiosity -V Levitt, Kinston reporter hus given his town national fame for the many striking things that he has reported from that quarter. Any kind of animal or plant be havior reported from Kinston need •>ot surprise you. But the queerness has even passed to men ami women, or at least to one husband and wife. Let it he reported that a bank rupt has been discovered trying to i protect himself by deeding his propeity to hi.s wife, and that is like a dog biting a man—it" not news. But there at Kinston a bank rupt and his wife have consented ■ ; .iy dollar for d< liar of liabili ties thiough the wife’s turning over j her own property to ; ay her hus-' j band’s debts. Pity that it should : be so unusual, yet it is. Tied wif ’ is one worth having. Mr. and Mrs. I Bruce Stark are the happy couple T <• h n in’a : ‘ i ••yidiia) ~.r | family integri’y. Ah b- i| *rt *Bem, and three cheers for ” . Str.vk Von may he -u e <hu* • 1 r w u’ ’ not have been one of )he m"n who consent to a-si-t in do Lauding creditors by a fak" Iran-- fer of her husband's holding- t< her on the eve of bankruptcy. May • r example helo preserve fie in tegrity of other women who arc tempted to concur in that effectual though somewhat respectable meth od of tealing.—Dunn Dispatch. Some Tobacco Stalk A stalk of tobacco was brought into The Record office a few days ago that we believe beats Kinston ; products! We measured if and found it to be H¥z feet high, and it showed no sign of buttoning. It had already produced 75 leaves and if left growing would have ere long overtaken Jack’s beanstalk. It was grown by Alf. Tippett of the Hales Chapel community. Some one gave Mr. Tip; ett the seed. We under hand that there were stalks in his field having as high as 92 leaves. Mr. Walter Page says there were , 1 Tty of stalks taller than this one and some of them had nearly a hun dred leaves on them. NUMBER 10. VE FLAPDOODLE By The Swashbuckler To top the top of all topping things, a certain young gent in our tair city comes through with the information that the Prince of Wales real name was Jonah. I’m not certain but I think he’s the -ar.ie one, who, upon hearing the sentence. “Roosevelt: The dawn of a new era,” wanted to know who Rosie was Imagine my embar rassment to find myself stranded with Pete Gill. Frank Wiggs, Claud Winstead and Bra. Carlyle in Pete’s old Franklin. There wasn’t anything wrong with the Franklin, we were merely out of gas. Pete had Frank down at the rear end of the gas tank. “Blow Frank.” said Pete, a id Frank would puff. So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the hous,.- down. ! neve: knew the truth in that old sc-e n I grade reader un til Monday night when Frank was industriously blowing up the Frank lin. After some minutes of blowing Chiei Engineer Fe e decided we, that is, the car, was out of gas. So, as the drama goes, we sot awhile and discussed the matter. Well j well, if it ain’t our old pal, buddy, ! and shipmate so-an-so with fiat j good-looking little “Swee’thirg”. | “How ’bout some gas ole boy, old , pal, old soak, old screw, old thin , ?” | “I’d rather push you me lad,” re plied aur hero. So, we were pus ,ed into town arid on to bed. Exciting? I thought I’d d-i-i i-e. Why we ac tually ran twenty-five miles ?.n hour at one time. People h ive been trying to get me to write up 1 a summary of my life with Ro se velt. But our lives were so loosely j connected, and we’ve spent so much . time apart, that I’d hardly call him I v. 'jo--- friend. A, a matter of fact i the only close friend I have is a i Scotchman. Did you notice Hol loway's Hits last week? Ds good , dope usually, hut he slipped up on”* j the old blue eagle. He started off ! with him as “the Cock of the Barn Yard” and ended up with the poor j old critter mothering the largest brood ever known. After all, roos ters have beer, known to charge to hens, why not eagles? 1 knew my mind was young and tender, but I did not know that it was so tender until yesterday. I had my I hand lying up on the edge of a how case filing away at a linger nail. After some hour and a ha’f of filing, imagine how I felt, upon discovering that I’d filed away the entire corner of the case and never touched my nail!— Oh yes, that black spot on th< end of iny fingee. That’s where I put it in a light socket to see if the current was on. It was. —Have you seen Mrs. Long’s dog? It looks not unlike a weiner on four match sticks with la horse hair for a tail and an alli gator pear for a head. And yet, she calls it a dog. And someone had the audacity to ask me if I knew what the word shudder meant. Os course I do. Here’s a entence, you remember that old song so popular a few years ago, “Just Me and My Shudder,” and that more recent one, “Shudder Off To Buffalo” “There’s a Rainbow ’Round My Shudder" And the little kid of the street who, when asked what kind of gum he was chewing replied, “Blubber Gum.” If you’ve ever chewed any you’ll know what he meant. Well it appears that that’s all for this week in spite of the fact that I've s-en quite a few things, but moat of them won’t do to print. So I’ll roll up my folding typewriter rff to bed.
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