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THE FOUR-COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN.
VOLUME 1(1
Oxford Singing Class to be Here
to Give Concert Next Saturday
The singing class of the Oxford
Orphanage will give their program
in the Wakelon Auditorium on
Saturday night of this week. All
who have attended the entertain
ments given by these classes in the
past know what to expect in the
choice of material and its presen
tation by the children who are in
variably trained to perfection after
having been chosen because of spe
cial fitness for the part.
Aside from the pleasure of the
entertainment there is the added
satisfaction of knowing that the
proceeds will be used to help care
for orphan children. Admission will
be 15 and 25 cents.
The class will be in Zebulon from
Saturday morning until Monday
morning. M. T. Debnam is chair
man of the hospitality committee.
See him if you want to help en- 1
tertain the children and have not
had any assigned to your home, i
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Read This!
On next Wednesday at eight p.!
m. the Seventh grade of Wakelon i
School will present “Sunny of Sun- 1
nyside” in the auditorium. Admis-;
sion will be ten cents and twenty
cents.
This play wil afford entertain
ment and amusement. Os course
the attendance will be large. The
seventh grade play never fails to j
draw a crowd.
Move Sewing Room |
The sewing room which has been i
in operation several days each
week in the Woman’s Club build-1
ing has been moved to a space in i
Wiggs warehouse and is being op- j
erated there as funds are avail-!
able. At present no woman is per- i
mitted to work more than two days
a week and different groups are
assigned different days.
Arrests Made
Deputy Sheriff Guy Massey and
Chief of Police George Tharring
ton on last Saturday arrested two
Negro men, Henry Brown and Will
Haywood, who were driving to
wards Raleigh carrying a number!
of suits of clothes stolen from S. G.,
Flowers’ store the night before
and two suitcases stolen from the
same store several weeks ago. At
the time the suitcases were stolen
thieves also took 25 dresses ten
shirts, some neckties and other;
articles.
The Negroes arrested were tak
en to Raleigh where detectives of
th city have found evidence linking
them with robberies in Clayton.
Announce Winners
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Among the prize winners in a j
recent word-buildi%' contest put on j
by the Smith Douglas Fertilizer;
Co. of Norfolk were the following J
from this section of North Caro-,
lina: Lois Inez Morris, Apex; Ezra
• Kennedy, Mt. Olive; Marie Morgan,
Bailey; Melba Allene Barefoot,
Benson. The first two named won
fifty dollars each, the last two
twenty-five each.
More than 20,000 boys and girls
entered th‘- contest, building words
from the letters in the name of the
•ompany — Smith-Dougla*.
ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL TWELFTH, 1935
; I Lonnie Upchurch
Begins Sentence
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Lonnie M. Upchurch, New Hill
11 garageman convicted last year of
to murder his wife by
blowing up a car in which she was
| sitting with dynamite, and who
j ' ave notice of appeal, has decided
,not to carry his case to the supreme
! court. He was taken to central pris
on Monday to begin his 15-year
term.
Although seriously injured in
the accident, and despite some very
damning circumstantial evidence,
Mrs. Upchurch belived in her hus
band’s innocence and aided him in
his defense.
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Senate in Hard
, Sales Tax Fight
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Eleven o’clock today—Friday—
has been set as the time for a vote
I in the senate on the sales tax item
I in the revenue bill. There is a very
j powerful group in the senate de
termined to abolish the sales tax,
I to reduce it to two percent or less
or failing in either of those at
tempts, to restore the exemptions
on basic food articles. Meantime,
prospects for an early adjourn
, ment have gone glimmering.
Hardy Hill Bill
| May Yet Survive
,
( If there is anything in the old
i philosophy that perseverance and
determination wins, the Hill *li
j quor control bill still has a chance.
Buffeted about from one committee
to another, almost reaching a vote
on the floor, then being withdrawn
the developing situation with re
spect to the revenue bill makes it
entirely possible that the Hill bill
may yet be adopted as a revenue
measure.
Returns to Prison
After 16 Years
J. C. Walker, convicted of mur
i der and sentenced to 30 years in
prison, escaped 16 years ago and is
’ said to have settled down, married
and joined the church.
On last Sunday he returned to
; the prison and asked that he might
I serve the rest of the sentence and
get it off his mind. As Governor
Ehringhaus commented, this is an
unusual case.
Setting Tobacco
Tobacco plants hereabouts look
fine but as yet none has been set
!in the fields. Around Lumberton
, and Chadbourn the setting began !
| ten days or more ago.
Want Back Pay for
State Employees
j Representative Thompson of this
county is co-author of a bill pro
viding for recovery by state em
ployees of salary cuts imposed by
the budget commission last year.
[HIS, THAT
m THE OTHER
By Mrs. THEO. B. DAVIS
Why do folks “announce the en
gagement and approaching mar
riage” of a member of the family”
Seems that if the engagement were
bona-fide, the approaching mar
raige might be understood.
It sounds like a “widow woman”
ora ‘ tooth dentist”.
Last week some one mailed me
from Raleigh a picture of the Dion
ne babies, marked “Sour Grapes”.
And I had already denied envying
the parents. The office force were
delighted and I should, perhaps, feel
flattered at being thought to have
such abundant maternal instincts.
But I can’t seem to work up
much enthusiasm over quintuplets,
quadruplets, or even triplets. As
scientific studies they may be
highly important, and as human be
ing are even more so.
■ - But to me brinpflng into the
world at one time such a number
of lives has a strong likeness to
the fecundity of the lower animals.
“If this be treason, make the most
of it.”
The colored girl who helps me
knew that at the shop we had been
working hard over some catalogs
for dog shows. When she passed
my chair and saw me reading in
The Atlantic Monthly an article
with the title “Free Inquiry or
Dogma?” she said, “That’s one of
the books y’all been printin’, ain’t
it?” I told her it was not and she
said, “Well. I knew you had been
workin’ on dog books an’ I saw
somethin’ there about a dog ma,
so I thought it was one from the
shop.”
Now, if I had seen that in some
other paper, I’d have thought it
was made-up.
These betwixt and betw-een times
when w-e are tired of canned vege
tables and the fresh ones are found
only at the stores are when pota
to salad comes to our rescue most
effectively. It is fine for either din
ner or supper and may be made
hours before needed and be all the
better for the waiting. It can be
varied in many ways, from the
simplest of all —sliced boiled pota
toes and sliced onion with may
onnaise or French dressing—to an
elaborate mixture of practically ev
erything eatable in the pantry. In
fact, my daughter’s husband has
accused her and me of putting ev-,
erything but the kitchen sink into
the salad. But it didn’t go into the
sink.
You can make a substantial dish
by allowing at least one boiled egg
per person, one good-sized cucum
ber pickle to four, a spring onion
and a cupful of ehopped j boiled po
tatoes apiece and enough mayon
naise to make the mixture moist,
but not wet. Some cooks prefer
to use a boiled dressing. ,
For variety’s sake add black wal-1
nut kernels. Another time leave j
out most of the onion and put in (
srme celery. Be stylish once in aj
while and serve the salad on let- 1
u~e —making them eat the lettuce, l
‘o>. Or try mixing in some chop-1
ped parsley or pimiento peppers. !
Baccalareate Sei mon to be Given
April 28 by Dr. Few of Raleigh
Rev.H. W. Norris
Died on Monday
Rev. Henry W. Norris of Holly
Springs died at his home on Mon
day of this week at the age of
88. For several years the oldest
iving alumnus of Duke University
(formerly Trinity College). Mr.
Norris was a Baptist minister,
serving several churches in Wake
County. He also served one term
as state senator and two years as
Superintendent of Wake County
Schools. He is survived by his wife,
four children and 11 grandchildren.
Rurial services were conducted on
I Wednesday by Rev. C. H. Norris,
assisted by Rev. S. W. Oldham.
President’s Train
Hits Stalled Car
President Roosevelt’s' special
train bearing the chief executive
back to Washington was delayed
somewhat on Monday night when
it struck an automobile on a cross
street in Wilson. Tne car was said
to have been stolen from a local
physician. By some the incident
was thought to have been part of
an attempt to injure the president
and secret service men are making
investigations.
Church Dedicated
At Chapel Hill
North Carolina Methodists are)
rejoicing that the debt of their
new church at the University of
the State has been paid in full
and the handsome building was
dedicated with appropriate and im
pressive exercises on last Sunday
morning. Plans for the building of
the church were made in 1920 and
were carried out at a cost of $231 - j
000.
New Discovery
In Medicine
A Chinese doctor, educated in
this country and now employed by
a great chemical company is said
to have discovered a medicine far
more powerful than digitalis in the
treatment of heart disease. Dr.
Chun is said to have combined an
cient Chinese remedies with mod- j
em chemical methods and to have
made the new drug from oleander j
nuts. It is called thevetin.
Not So Cold as 1915
Those residents of this commun
ity who were here 20 years ago
will doubtless recall the April
snowstorm of 1915. Not merely a
flurry, but an honest-to-goodness I
snow, it covered the ground to a
depth of several inches. Dismayed
gardeners saw their early peas
covered all but the tips while rad
ishes, lettuce and such small plants
"/ere completely snowed under.
Memory says that there was not
much fruit around here that year,
but fine crops of watermelons and
tomatoes were raised, not having
been planted when the snow came. !
NUMBER 40
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Breaking away from the custom
of other commencements here by
having the baccalaureate sermon
on Sunday night instead of Sunday
morning, it was announced to-day
that Dr. Few, pastor of the Eden
ton Street Methodist Church in
Raleigh would deliver the annual
message to the seniors. The ser
vice will be held at 8:00 o’clock,
April 28.
The commencement - climax will
be reached Friday morning, May 3,
at 10:30 A. M v/hen the gradua
tion address will be given. After
the exercises are completed there
will be the annual picnic dinner.
The Senior Class play will be given
on Friday night.
Attention Mothers!
Do you have a picture of your
child (entered in the Popularity
contest) that you would let us dis
play during the contest? If so,
please send it to the Zebulon Drug
Store to be displayed with those
already sent in.
Voting started the Ist of April
and the end of the first week found
little Miss Mary Fisher Finch in
the lead with Master George Riggs
by Massey running a close second.
Wonder who will be in the lead
this week!!!
Go down and give your favorite
a good start in the race. Watch
next week’s paper for a complete
list of prizes and the names of mer
chants who have so generously do
nated them.
Adolf Ochs Dead
Adolf Ochs, publisher of the
New York Times andone of the
greatest newspaper men in the
world died Sunday at New York.
Wakelon Wins
The Wakelon High School base
ball team added to its laurels on
Tuesday of this week by defeating
Red Oak High at Spring Hope.
This was a conference game and
necessitated a play-off at Spring
Hope yesterday afternoon. The
game from the first was a pitchers’
duel between Skinner of Red Oak
and Greene of Wakelon. How-ever,
Wakelon held the upper hand and
bunched several hits ir the sixth
inning to win the game. Wednesday
at Wendell Wakelon defeated the
boys of the neighboring town by
a score of 6-0. Lefty Duke, Wake
lon pitcher, held the Wendell team
to a angle hit.
For Flower Lovers
Members of the Garden Depart
ment of the Woman’s Club and oth
ers who love flowers are always
interested in seeing gardens be
ides thir own. They are invited to
visit on next Sunday afternoon the
flower gardens of the following
ladies:
M sdames Chas. E. Flowers, E.
H. Moser, Lela Horton, C. V. Whit
ley, Pittman Stell, J. M. Whitley
of Zebulon; Mesdames A. A. Pippin
and S. H. Hoyle of Wakfield and
Mrs. Joe Tippett at Rocky Branch.
Netherland India has eliminated
automobile license fees.