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The Zebulon Record VOLUME IX. IMS, THAT AND THE OTHER « By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS Not having known cypress trees in iny youth, I have never become intimately acquainted with them, and it seems to me that they should te evergreen. I am always surprised when they shed their leaves in the fall. Nor can I quite forgive them for loafing half the year in mud and water with their naked knees sticking out. A few hours after that terrible explosion in the oil mill at Hertford on January 13, 1 was walking on the main street of the town. The last mangled body had just been discovered. A messenger boy in uniform passed, walking rapidly. He called excitedly to some one near by: “Boy! Won’t this make one fine story to wire in!” He must have a real newspaper man’s point of view. One day last week I saw seven men and one small boy standing in a group, and there was only one of them who did not have both hands in his pockets. He had only one hand pocketed and was making gestures with the other hand as he talked. And they all looked oc cupied and satisfied. "Mother”, said my son-in-law’s small nephew, “I know that God made man first, and then made woman. But who invented ladies?” There is in my mind a prejudice against the indiscriminate use of the word “lady.” It reminds me of a time when 1 asked about the wife of a certain Negro man, and was told by the Negro girl whom I had questioned that his wife was not in town. I began to say that I thought the woman I wanted to find was the wife, when the girl interrupted with “0, yes, he do live with that lady, but she not his wife. The lady where he married, she lef’ him some time ago, an’ now she livin’ with another gen’leman.” It is always cheering to learn that one’s own view's are held by others far more important. For that reason I am feeling “mightily holp up”, having road several ar ticles on the advantages of living in small towns. George Beasley, Jr., claims that Monroe is a little too large for the ideal small tow'n. The editor of the Dunn Dispatch thinks Dunn too large, since no man can hope to know all of its 5,000 people. One of the prominent citizens of Carthage is quoted in the Moore County News as prefer ring that his town remain small and friendly. Those are my ideas, expressed for me, and I thank the gentlemen who did it. — Confesses Murder Luther Peden, 20-year-old white youth of Selma, has confessed that on Monday night he killed James Sanders, Negro taxi driver of Sel ma. He claims that he committed the crime in a drunken rage while in an argument over liquor. Peden has been arrested and is in jail at Smithfield. ZEBULON. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26TH, 1931 Message From Bruce Brantley An old Zebulon boy who has been living in Durham for some time, but f°r several months has been in the State Sanatorium at, Sanatori um, sends a message to the editor. He says for us to put something real funny in the next Record. He reads it regularly. The editor ap preciates this personal word, and j hopes Bruce will soon be well again | and back with his family. An 0-Be-Joyful Combination A few days ago a fanner from over in Nash county started to Zeb ulon after provisions. A 17-year-old colored boy in the neighborhood came along with him to see the sights of the city. While waiting for the farmer to finish his pur chases, he went out to see what he could see and find what he could find. He found it—in Zebulon, too. Walking w’as too slow and the sights too great to be footing it; so he became both chauffeur and pas senger on his benefactor’s car. Around one corner he went and at the next he made connection with a wagon, but managed to disentangle and go on his wabbly way till he met the obstruction the policeman put in his way. The officer put him in the lock-up till some one bonded him out till next Recorder’s court. Solve this one: How can a 17- year-old negro boy come to Zebulon and in so short a time find enough liquor to get drunk on? Some smart boy, I reckon. To Give Recital February First Mrs. G. S. Barbee present^ : Jocelyn House, Mary Barrow arid i Margaret Lewis of the class of ’34 j assisted by Lorraine Budges, Elaine Robertson and Ruth Massey of the class of 1935, in Piano F u’te | Recital. 1 The program for the evening is as follows: Song: Lullaby Thurliew Liewrance Class of 1934-35 Solo: Revolutionary Air . Chopin Jocelyn House i Duo: For-get-me-not Rowe { Lorane Briges, Ruth Massey Solo: To A Wild Rose, MacDonald Mary Barrow Duet: Charge of the Uhlans, Bohm Elaine Robertson, Lorraine Bridges. Duo: Humoresque , A Dvorak Mary Barrow, Jocelyn House Solo: Warbling at Eve: Richards Margaret Lewis Reading: Up In The Garret. Eld | ridge Mary Barrow i Solo: Poet and Peasant Souppe Jocelyn House Trio: Gypsy Rondo J. Haydon Margaret Lewis, Mary Barrow, Jocelyn House Dramatic Club Meets Monday On Monday night, January 29, at 7:30, the Zebulon Community Dramatic Club will hold its second meeting in the Woman’s Club Building. At this meeting Miss Cabell Gampen will direct the read ing of the play, The Trysting Place, by Booth Tarkington. All those in terested ara invited to be present. A Word To Record Subscribers With 1934 The Record subscrip tion price was put on a strictly cash in advance basis. We regretted hav ing to drop a number of our read ers’ names from our mailing list. Many had not paid their subscrip tion in' years. To induce them to again l>eeoine subscribers, we are, for a limited time, offering The Record a year for 51.00., Send us a dollar ami we will send you the paper one full year. In revising our mailing list, the names of some paid-up subscribers were omitted through copying. We have cheeked our records and as nearly as possible corrected such mistakes. But it is possible there are other errors. We shall appreci ate any one showing them to us, and we shall gladly adjust any mis ; take or complaint. | Send us .Si.oo and let us give you 1 a weekly news letter through 1934, from this section. THE PUBLISHERS. Mark Wall Beaten By Unknown Men On last Saturday afternoon as Mark Wall was walking between Phillip White’s and the Blue Par rott filling station, a car with four young men passed him. After going a short distance, the car backed to Wall, th e men jumped out and with oaths, attacked him. He was beaten badly about the head and face. One eye is .vet closed. He got away from them and ran to the filling station. When the car came up, it was stop ped by citizens. The four young men were rrested and carried to the town jail in Zebulon. Later they were removed to the county jail at Raleigh. Later two of them gave bond, the others are still in jail, it is reported. It seems that Mark did not know the men, nor did they know him. They were from the Wendell com munity. The only possible explana- i tier for their unprovoked attack is I said to have been that they were 1 too drunk to know what they were doing. And so another black chap ter in liquor’s history is written and the conduct of young men oth erwise who were probably gentle men is explained. Carl Goerch At Wakelon : Carl Goerch delighted his au-; dience at Wakelon on Tuesday night. The small admission fee charged, all of which went to the I local P. T. A. could seldom have broUj'-Zht so much entertainment.' Born in New' York, Mr. Goerch is now devoting his time and talent to helping North Carolinians know and appreciate their state. His in formal address was along this line. Before the speaker was intro duced by Supt. E. H. Moser, Wake lon’s band rendered several selec ions, directed by Mr. Gerow; Mr. Gerow gave a trumpet solo ac'.rii pariied by Miss Buffaloe at th • pi ano; Ruby Bridgers gave a iq> lance; a quartet composed of M< s , dames J. K. and E. H. Moser, Dr. Barbee and Dr. Massev -ang, accompanied at the piano bv Mrs. Barbee. Mr. Burris: “Do you like lamb’s Tales?” Chester Smith: “No sir, but I am crazy about beef stew.” City Manager For Wendell i Partly as an experiment the com | missioners of Wendell have decided to try the plan of having a city | manager administer the govern ment of the town. He will report to the board and be subject to their orders. IT. V. Andrews, local citizen, has been chosen for the position and has assumed duties. The experiment wall be watched with interest by other towns of about the same size as Wendell, j Demonstration Club Meets The Home Demonstration Club of Wakefield met on Wednesday af ternoon for the first time since the November meeting. Officers were elected for the year as follows: President, Mrs. S. 11. Hoyle; secre tary, Mrs. Percy Pace; assistant secretary, Mrs. A. S. Bridges; treasurer, Mrs D. S. Joyner; libra rian, Mrs. A. S. Bridges; assistant Librarian, Mrs. J. A. Kemp; lead ers. Mrs. Mahlon Temple, Mrs. K. P. Leonard. Hereafter officers will be elected in November. M rs. Mcluness announced that six meetings of this year will have programs based on Household Man agement. She discussed Household Accounts, showing a chart which illustiated the spending habits of sixteen families which had kept ac counts of spendings for food, cloth ing, etc. Emphasis was laid on proportion ate budgets for all family expenses, the need for this being probably evidenced by the fact that of the families listed on the chart, the one which spent least for food spent most on bills for medical care. Wise Appointments Governor Ehringhaus has receiv , ed universal endorsement on his se 'ectiori of Dr. W r . L. Poteat and Dr. ' William Hanft as associates of Commissioner Winborne on the Utilities Commission. He is said to have forgotten politics in his ap pointments. We rather think that it was pretty good politics to select the man who, as chairman of the United Dry Forces, buried a hun dred politicians under a deluge of votes. We do not mcaa to say that the Governor was playing politics. ; He selected men who are unques ; tionably qualified. But he could not : have done better if his only con ! corn had been politics. If we were i in politics today we would rather * have the support of Dr. Poteat and ; Dr. Hanft than a cow pen full of local politicians who guessed wrong i last November 7.—Charity and j Children. Send In Poems Please send in your poem as soon as possible, if you want it printed in our special poetry edi i tion. Do not send one that is too lo:?g. or we may not have space for it; be sure not to send one that has been published before; let us know whether you want your name printed with your poem. * Finally be sure to go over it carefully before sending it to us, that you may be certain it is just as you want it to appear in print. | YE FLAPDOODLE By The Swashbuckler Mae West has exploded some the ory this week. She states that the loveliest distance between two points is a curved line. And now Mae takes the seat to the rear when the two gents step forward. Their bid for the medal of honor for the most brilliant and startling attempt at something, comes as a package wrapped in cel lophane. I rise to mention the two gents, who, whiM in an inebriated state, were trying gleefully to put a brassier on one of the city’s fire plugs. Not only does that, in my humble estimation, take the cake, but it also takes the whole dam pastry shop. My! I question you about the lit tle lady who “treated” James O’- Neal of Wendell “dirty” last Sun day night? After asking the ad vice of another girl as to whether she should write him and ask his forgiveness, she managed, on note paper, to tear the confession from her heaving bosom. “James, I done y’ wrong.” Will someone please page Frankie and Johnnie. This time it is Dorothy and Jimmie, or is it? Martha Bailey Flowers, Jr., in forms me that she does not like anyone who has been in the Navy. Why gel, how can you say that about the only navy Uncle Sam’s got ? Don’t step on your own toes, young lady, you know Leslie is waiting to be shipped to Norfolk for a cruise. Ah ha! Me proud beauty. i Lib Cook informs me that she was in the car that trailed the car mentioned last week where! Grand ma had such a long tongue. I be lieve that Dizzy was present too, however, he and. Lib were not dat ing each other. Some one, 1 regret that I have forgotten his name, informed me that Carl Goerch’s lecture was bet ter than a dime novel. Well! He might have at least made it a joke book. Eh, Carl? What I want to know is, how many of the Wakelon band were tooting a tune last Tuesday night, and how many were just tooting? Blow the saliva out of your horn, dear. Fine Fish Catch A few days ago, one of the cold est we have had, Berry Williams went down to Hilliard’s Pond (Tay lar’s Mill) fishing. And did they bite! Well, since the fish were not hungry enough to get out of their warm bed, that is most of them, he only caught 165. Not much luck, you say. Well, the first day it is too cold to work, just go down and try yours. NUMBER 31.
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