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VOLUME IX.
fHIS, THAT
AND THE OTHER
By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS
From present indications it seems
that the chickweed and creeping
charley have survived last week’s
cold and the crop of these garden
favorites will be as abundant as
usual
It is almost pathetic to see what
freezing weather and high winds
can do for old sheets that have just
been washed and hung on the 1 line.
Do you, in bitter cold weather,
feel an added responsibility for
all the “critters” on the place
the chickens, cows, pigs and the
team of horses or mules? I do,
and I can’t sleep well at night un
less I feel that they, too, are fair
ly comfortable. I go around with a
ke*tle of boiling water, thawing
ice in drinking troughs. I slip
scratch feed into the oven to heal
before feeding it to the chickens —
and occasionally get it too hot so
that the eaters give squawks of
pained surprise in the midst of
greedy pecks.
In the back of m y mind is al
ways the memory of what a young
er brother once said to me when
we were children as together we
tried to make a better shelter for
a pet calf: “I reckon animals think
we are God.”
There was published last week ir
a newspaper, in would-be eloquen
language, an account of a certai:
North Carolina wife’s devotion t<
her husband, who, by the w r ay is
yet alive. He was said to be he
sun, her moon, her stars, which i
all right. But it was also stated
that for more than twenty-fivi
years she had “seen his face in
every flower she had grown and
tended.” Seems to me that was
carrying the things too far. What I
think of my husband is not for
publication in these columns —but
I don’t see his face in all my flow
ers. I grow flowers for their beau
ty.
If I had any reputation as a good
housekeeper, I should probably hate
to tell this. But “he that is dowr
need fear no fall”, and I may by
telling help some one else avoid
an unpleasant experience.
Several years ago, soon afte?
our house w r as finished, I put or
one floor one of those rugs tha
are made of something that imi
tates linoleum. (The woman who
washed mine a few times called it
“magnolium,” but the dealer had
another name for it). I had never
known the stuff would stick to the
floor, if given hard usage for a
long time without being taken up.
The stove sat on ours as did the
corner of a heavy desk and a num
ber of chairs. And when that rug
finally Sot so' worn that it looked
“worse than come out”, I tried to
tpVo it out and several sections
o' it refused to come. Talk about
s irking tight! That black tarry
stuf has done rro’-e damage to my
disposition than anything of that
type ever did before. I have scrap
ed and scrubbed and even chiseled
at it. I have tried soapsuds, am
monia and kerosene. Because* of
fire hazard at this season no gas
oline has been applied. The thing
that helped most was applications
M. boiling hot vinegar, rubbed in
ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY NINTH, 1934
Personal Mention
Mrs. D. M. Dizor came home last
week after a visit with her children
in Durham.
Mrs. C. E. Mizelle and daughter,
Dorothy, spent the week-end with
Mrs. M.zelle’s sister, in Smithfield
Mrs. C. L. Read was sick during
the first part of the w’eek. Dr. Read
is l much improved from his recent
illness.
Miss Sadie Fleming of Boonville'
and Miss Vera Stamey of Newton j
vere week-end guests of Miss
Fleming’s sister, Mrs. C. V. Wnit
ley.
S. A. Lee has accepted a position
with the Carolina Power and Light
Company and is engaged in taking j
an inventory of all property owned
n the state by this company.
f
Supt. E. H. Moser and Mrs. Mos
er moved last Saturday from the
Bunn home on Arrendall St. to the
house on Gannon Avenue last oc-'
cupied by Irby Gill and family. |
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Theo. B. Davis, Jr. and Misses
Evelyn and Marjorie Weathers took
dinner with the Misses Weathers'
uint Mrs. B. A. Henry of Selma,
'ast Sunday evening.
Mrs. A. S. Hinton will have,
•harge of the program at general 1
meeting of the W. M. S. of the
laptist church next Monday p. m. ,
Miss Velma Preslar will be a spe
•ial speaker for the day.
His friends here are interested
n the announcement, made recent-1
y of the engagement of Norman j
Meadows Screws to Miss Helen
Monk, of Goldsboro, Mr. Screws is ;
he mortician with Zebulon Supply'
Company and has made many
friends since coming to Zebulon.
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Mrs. S. G. Flowers was hurt in
jn automobile collision on Sunday
ifternoon when a car in winch she
was riding with her husband and
children was wrecked. A driver en
tered the highway from a side-road
causing the accident. Mr. Flowers,
Miss Martha Bailey Flowers and
S. G. Jr., escaped injury. The youn
ger daughter, Jean, w f as slightly in
jured. Mrs. Flowers was taken to a
Wilson Hospital, suffering from
concussion of the brain, but it is
not thought that she is seriously
hurt.
T. G. Dean of Wendell, and Rev.
Jesse McCarter pastor at Inwood,
were in Zebulon on Tuesday.
Because of the absence of Pastor
Ildham Rev. Theo. B. Davis went
• o Wendell on Monday p. m. to con
luet the funeral service for Mrs. J.
C. Stutts.
Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Medlin and
children, Edith Lee and A. V. Jr.,
left on Wednesday morning for
Florida, where they will spend a
month or more.
and allowed to dry. That made a
good many of the edges curl up so
that they might be pried loose.
One thing is sure: The next rug
of that kind that goes in my house
is going to have enough papers un
der it to keep it from coming in
contact with the floor; and it is
going to be lifted at intervals to
let me be certain that it is behaving
as it should. Meanwhile, if you
know how to remove the stuff,
please tell me.
NOTICE
COTTON FARMERS, READ!
The sign up campaign for cot
ton reduction acreage closes the
fifteenth, next Thursday. Farmers
desiring to take advantage of this
liberal offer of the bovernment, will
have to act quickly.
In order to be able to take care
of the rush that is likely to take
place as the end of the sign up
period draws near, two men have i
been secured to help farmers fill i
, out their contracts. Oven D. Mas- j
sey and C. S. Chamblee will be at
the Massey LumeC Co.’s office till
the fifteenth of February to assist i
the farmers. If you expect to sign
up, you had better see one of them
right away before the time limit
expires.
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i Cotton Sign-Up
j Forging Ahead
The cotton sign-up campaign in
North Carolina is going over the
| top, according to reports received
! in the office of Charles A. Shef
field of State College, State direc
tor of the campaign.
He said that several of the coun
ties have already signed 75 per
cent of the growers and that many
Jot'iera are approaching this figure.
. The county agents in the 67 cot
ton growing counties were asked
•to rush the campaign through as
rapidly as possible in order that a
I sufficient number of contracts
would be signed by Wednesday for
the secretary of agriculture to a
dopt the plan for this year,
j The agents have been signing
t contracts much faster than they
i have had time to give them final
j approval before sending them into
! Mr. Sheffield’s office. However, a
bout 2,000 approved contracts have
| already been reported to Wash
j ington, he said.
I The improved contracts cover be
j tween 35,000 and 40,000 acres with
jan average annual production ol
j about 20,000 bales. Under the con
; tiact, about 15,000 of these acres
are to be retired from production
and the poundage cut by 12,000
bales.
The object of the sign-up has
been to place most of the State’s
1,500,000 cotton acres under con-
Lract ai d limit the 1934 acreage to
869,000 acres.
| For this reduction, the rental
and parity payments should amount
to $5,000,000 or more. In addition,
the growers are expected to get
some $17,000,000 through increase !
prices attributed to the activities
of the adjustment program.
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Four Ranks Robbed
On Friday of last week there
I were three daylight bank robberies
, reported in this country—one in
• Mass., one in New Jersey, one in
( Texas. About SIBO,OOO loss was re
ported as a total.
Bad Influences
Young women in Tsian # China.
! who have had their hair bobbed
and curled in accordance with the
i Western fashion, have been ordered
; arrested by the Chinese governor
> of the province, who has also had
: the heads of these young women
i closely shaved as an “example” to
. others, who might be inclined to
{cut their hair.
Recorder’s Court j
The Recorder’s Court on Wednes-!
day was not so long as usual. Judge
Rhodes finished up the cases ready i
for trial in time to get home and do j
his evening chores. A number of |
cases were carried over to the next \
term of court.
Among those disposed of were:
R. J. Whitley, charged with driv
ing a car while under the influence
of liquor. He plead not guilty, but
the cou6‘t judged otherwise and
fined him SSO and costs and denied
him the right to drive a car for
three months. He appealed to the
higher court.
Bertis Bailey, colored, was also
charged with driving a car while
under the ifluence of liquor. The
court, fined him SSO and costs and
took his privilege of driving a car
away from him for one year.
Bernice Perry was found guilty
of illegal possession of liquor and
was sent to the state roads for 60
days.
Harvey Lee Hodge, colored, was
found guilty of carrying a conceal
weapon (a pistol) and was sen
tenced to the roads for thirty days.
Henderson Hodge was charged
with knocking a negro down who
was working under him in the CWA
He was found guilty of simple as
sault and fined $2.50 and costs.
Thomas Ivy, colored, had some
difference with a member of his
family and was charged with as
sault on a female. It seems this
family affair was adjusted between
the parties involved and Judge
Rhodes suspended the sentence with
payment of the costs.
George Long, colored, carried his
razor along with him in case
well, presumably to shave if his
heard got too long. But the judge
saw it differently and sent George
to work on the state highways, for
thirty days.
Dept. Meeting
The Garden Department of the
Woman’s Club met in the home of
Mrs. W. C. Campen on Tuesday
ifternoon.
Mrs. Lelu B. Horton gave a spec
ially helpful talk on the cultivation
of peonies and their arrangement
She suggested planting tall bearded
ris with peonies, since the two will
bloom at the same time and each
enchances the beauty of the other.
1 Mrs. E C. Daniel gave a prac
t.ical talk on growing sweet peas,
speaking, from her own experience.
Ii may bp remembered that Mrs.
Daniel won first place with sweet
peas at the last flower show spon
sored by the club.
The cold weather of last week
caused heavy losses in the gardens
of club members, some of whom
feel discouraged; but no one is will
ing to give up. There was a gen
eral discussion of plants adapted
for outdoor planting in this sec
tion.
During a pleasant social hour the
hostess served refreshments.
Youthful Couple
An exchange from the western
part of the state reports the mar
riage on Jan. 26 of a local couple
the bride being only fourteen while
the young husband is sexteen. The
the husband is sixteen. The account
of the marriage states that the
contracting parties have “pleasing
personalities and lovable disposi
tions.”
NUMBER 32.
YE FLAPDOODLE
By The
Swashbuckler
Now I don’t know, but I’ve been
told, that a certain Wakelon girl
was good as gold—at necking.
Especially in Mrs. Wilson’s class
room during play practice. They
also inform me that the little lady
has a bad case of Grip. Oh deah!
That’s what I call a Gripping
scene. In Grip’s grip, or sumthin’.
Who compose the couple who were
seen sporting a colored chaffeur.
Ah, James, open the doah foah the
lady.
You’ll pardon my going out of
bounds* but the cutest, or punkest
•equest was made by Kirby Henry
of Selma. While at dinner he be
came confused as to the meat he
wanted and asked for the drum
stick of a fish.
For the berfefit of those who wish
to be on the inside of everything,
the Great Lover is still loving.
Lib Cook brings to mind those
famous words: “Remember the El
mo.”
I understand that weather doesn't
get too cold, nor the rain too wet,
nor the sky to dark, nor the moon
too blue, nor the gal too big, nor
the boy too rough for public neck
ing back of the school building.
After all, most fellows don’t
have a chance nowadays. If they
want to neck, they’re too rough,
and if they don’t, they’re sissies.
In that case, there is no such
thing as a happy medium.
Have you ever noticed that Nor
man Screws’ profile resembles the
death mask of King Tut.
Sam Lee says the only difference
is, that they buried King Tut.
Another big swindle is under
weigh. That of selling all the pa
rents of school children band in
stuments. After the newness wears
off, the child discards the horn and
the parent discards the dough. Os
course, there are exceptions to all
rules, even this one.
They tell me that Jimmie Gerow
has written a really passable min
strel. And that the tooting tutor
toots two tooting good tqnes on
his tooter in the course of action.
A certain young man upon ob
serving Helen Mullen trotting up
the street remarked to me, “She
surely does run like a girl* doesn’t
she?"
The raisin joke in the Prison
Nsws raised a lot of talk, but what
I want to know is: hojv many of
us woul& have seen the raiein T